Jak II Chronicles

by Neo Yi

Yes, a Jak II fanfic adaptation, but do more then merely adapt it. But enhance it. The First in my Blue Curtain Trilogy. Special Director's Cut editiom. ALL CHAPTERS ARE NOW REVISED Finally.

29. Invasion

Jak II Chronicles
Part 3: The Future Awaits…
Chapter 29: Invasion

KG Ship
Month 3: Marcina, Day 20 (Spring Time)
Year: 299 TOMH (Time of the Metal Heads)

"Christof."
"Gah-?" Jak woke up. There, next to him was Old Samos who gently nudged the boy's shoulder.
"We're here…the Metal Head nest." Samos softly whispered. Jak yawned and nodded.
"Come on, Christof, time to eat." Samos pointed towards the door with his staff, "Everyone knows breakfast is good for you." Samos started to walk off.
"Samos…"
"Yes, Christof?" He asked.
"…I'm…I'm sorry. I'm not used to it…yet." Jak muttered as if he was ashamed.
"Use to what?"
"What you're calling me." Then Jak went where everyone else was, except Ashelin who was nowhere to be found.

"Jak, did you have a good-night's sleep?" Kiera tried so hard to force a smile.
"We got bacon!" Daxter grinned, "Which Brutter seems to enjoy." Brutter was seen gobbling up the latest batch of bacons. Jak eyed him.
"Right, vegetarian. Won't eat anything with a face." Daxter sighed.
"Okay, I've manage to order up a way to get inside the Metal Head nest." Torn spoke, eyeing the map he had, it seemed to be a rather old one, "I discussed it over with the Queen. We just need Ashelin in here and we can--"
"No." Jak harshly, yet calmly spoke.
"What?" Torn looked up at Jak, feeling a bit insulted and shocked.
"No one is going." Jak muttered, "No one is going to die anymore. No one."
"But Jak-" Kiera started to protest.
"NO!" Jak was stern, "All of you will stay here, I'm going to put an end to the Metal Head nest, and then I'm going for the leader."
"Jak, you do realize this is crazy." Daxter scoffed, "One Precursians, a million Metal Heads!"
"I can do it." Jak spoke, "I don't want anyone to die anymore."
"Christof, people dying is a natural part of life." Old Samos interrupted, "To suddenly ask for no more death is an impossibility. In reality, you are causing death to the Metal Heads." Jak, suddenly defeated, stopped and stared at them all.
"I know the people you've known have died." Tess stood up, "We've had our terrible causes. I lost my sister to Metal Heads when I was just a little girl."
"You did?" Daxter gasped, "Oh, you poor girl. When we have some alone time, why don't you tell Orange Lightning all about it?"
"NO.ONE.IS.GOING.BUT.ME.PERIOD." Jak spoke through gritted teeth.
"Now, Christof-" Alexandros stood up, but Jak cut her off.
"I gave an order, I expect it carried out." Jak muttered, and then he left to go back to his room, skipping breakfast.

The Wasteland to the Metal Head nest wasn't far behind, just a few more miles. Once in, Jak would infiltrate it at night and no one would or could argue back. For some reason, the Queen kept silent over this matter for the time being. Jak spent all day in his room, talking to himself, packing his weapons and first aid kits, and studying the map Torn had on the map of the Metal Head nest. It was possible the royal family drew this up quite a long time ago. No one spoke with him; no body even begged him to eat something. How much change can this boy go through? He was only 18.

As night approached, Jak, ready and willing, was about to leave the ship as it started to head for the sandy land.
"We can't get close or otherwise the Metal Heads will know." Torn suggested, "So, you might have to swim there."
"No problem." Jak kept a stern, concern, warrior-like face. Everyone else's looks were mainly one of concern. Jak was acting so rashly. The ship stopped about midway to land and Jak manage to swim all the way over to the other side.
"By the precursors, that kid can paddle." Torn watched from afar (as did the others).
"He was the captain of his Swim Team." Old Samos proudly spoke.

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Metal Head Nest/Wasteland
Month 3: Marcina, Day 20 (Spring Time)
Year: 299 TOMH (Time of the Metal Heads)

Upon reaching land, Jak wrapped his hands around his hair to pull off the excess water.
"BLAH!"
"Huh?" Jak gasped. He dug through his bag where he heard the sound and fished out a wet Daxter.
"DAXTER!" Jak shouted, grabbing the poor ottsel by his tail.
"We stick together…remember?" Daxter weakly smiled, "…I hate water." Jak sighed and grinned.
"You're stubborn." Jak dropped the creature. Daxter eyed Jak in an unbelievable manner.
"I'M stubborn, what about YOU?" He cried.
The two traveled for a while. The sky grew dark and ominous. Lack of stars didn't help as the entire place was cloudy. Cliffs and canyons adore the land with very little grass or trees. Even the atmosphere had a foul stench of blood and destruction. Jak had the map scanned by Puar and using her, he was trying to find Mar's gun.
"Okay, so we just go use the gun, blow up the nest, and go back, right?" Daxter asked, panicking, "…Right!"
"Be quiet, Daxter." Jak muttered, "We don't need Metal Heads gunning down after us."
"Yea, of course." Daxter nodded, "Good idea-OOF!" He crashed into a lone rock and his voice echoed throughout. Jak, Puar, and Daxter all stood frozen as Daxter's echo continued. As soon as deadly silence filled the area once more, Jak eyed Daxter with a glare while the young ottsel nervously smiled. The deadly silence broke down and the three soon saw glowing golden orbs from atop the cliffs. They were completely surrounded by Metal Heads. Jak, who had the Precursor Stone on his back by a specially made knapsack he spent all day making, was the Metal Head's primary target.
"Maybe I should have stayed on the ship." Daxter softly muttered.

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"Ashelin, can I come in?" Silence.
"Damn it, Ashelin, I just wanna talk." Again, silence.
"You've been in there all day. This is even worse then Jak." Nothing.
"That's it, I'm coming in." Torn manage to open the door and saw Ashelin on the edge of her bed, staring at the wooden floor. Torn sat next to her.
"I wish I was…" Ashelin softly spoke, "…I wish I was there to witness my father's death. He always told me he'd die as an old man in bed…his children and his grandchildren, his wife, and his other family members with him until he passed on. He told me this before he was corrupted."
"Ashelin-" Torn started.
"He was corrupt…but I loved him." Ashelin mumbled, "Always." Torn cleared his throat, catching his breath, then he slowly and gently placed an arm around Ashelin.
"We need you." He started, "The city needs you. The Kingdom needs you…I need you." Ashelin eyed Torn with wide eyes. Torn quickly looked away, clearing his throat.
"Look, Jak went off by himself to destroy the Metal Head nest." Torn spoke.
"He what?" Ashelin gasped, "That's suicide! He's the future of this kingdom!"
"I know! I know!" Torn replied, "I know that, but he's doing something about it. He's not happy that Praxis died, he's not happy the kid is kidnapped, he's not happy his kingdom is in ruins, but he's doing something about it!" Once again, Ashelin gave silence.
"We both have to do something!" Torn spoke loudly, "We can't let Jak fight the Metal Heads himself, we have to rescue the kid, we have to save the kingdom, but we need you!" Ashelin kept silent still.
"…Please." Ashelin stared deeply at Torn and slowly stood up. Torn stood up as well.
"Did you say…"please?"
"Don't rub it in." Torn mumbled. Ashelin smiled a little.
"Well, you seem a bit okay now." Torn grinned.
"You're just…stupid." Ashelin shook her head, almost laughing.
"That's what you said to me the first time we met." Torn groaned. Ashelin eyed Torn and noticed the blushes on his cheeks which Torn had trouble hiding.
"Okay…let's do something." Ashelin softly spoke as Torn placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Good to have you back." Torn grinned some more and started to leave the cabin.
"Torn?"
"What?" Ashelin threw herself and hugged the former KG leader. Torn, in return, slowly hugged her back. A moment that lasted until Kiera popped in.
"Guys! Come look! I know how we can help Jak!" Kiera's happy expression turned a bit embarrassing, "Oh…did I disturb something?"
"No." Both quickly ended their hug.

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With his new Peacemaker, Jak made quite easy work with the smaller or medium sized Metal Heads. The bigger ones took a bit more time. Jak had prepared himself with plenty of ammo, so that was the least of his worry. His worry rose from the fact that he had to take care of the Precursor Stone from falling into the wrong hands…or claws, in this case. Daxter and Puar kept close to Jak, not being able to do much.
"If Ani were here, she'd have bitten some of these Metal Heads by now." Puar gasped as Jak ran and shot.
"Oh, suuuuuuure, rely on the crocadog." Daxter scoffed, "What am I?"
As Jak ran, he started to climb over the cliffs, not entirely sure where he was going. Puar removed the map by the time the Metal Heads came. As Jak climbed his way up, the Metal Heads (with their claws) quickly caught up. Jak, with one hand on the cliff rocks, another on his gun, tried to shoot them off, but he was at a huge disadvantage. Daxter eyed some giant rocks on the top and started to climb up.
"Daxter, where're you going?" Puar cried.
"Got an idea!" He shouted. Once he reached the top, Daxter used what little strength he had to push the giant boulders which in turn knocked the Metal Heads out. Puar, realizing this, joined in, taking out her metal arms.
Once the majority of the bigger Metal Heads were down for the count, Jak climbed his way up to the top. Grabbing Daxter and Puar, he slid down the other side and quickly ran off. He just ran with Puar on one hand, Daxter on another. It was only a matter of time before he stopped to catch his breath. Jak fell down and landed on his knees, then his bottom fell down to the cold earth.
"You okay, Jak?" Daxter asked.
"I'm…fine." Jak's left hand was clutching onto something so he wouldn't collapse all the way to the ground. It was then that he realized what he was clutching onto felt different then the rocks and cliff he recently touched a while ago. Jak slowly reverted his head and saw it was a rusty hunk of metal. Jak gasped, and then stared up as the metal did.
"What?" Daxter asked, "It's just metal, they're everywhere!" Jak started to walk back and noticed the metal growing as he did so. His two companions followed until he stopped. All three stared and gasped.
"Bloody…Hell…" Jak muttered, "We found it…Mar's gun."
"LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT THING!" Daxter pointed. Jak promptly grabbed his mouth to shush him up.
"Come on." Jak ordered. The three, once near the gun again, took the elevator ride which surprisingly worked after all these years. As he went up, Puar started to ring.
"Oh, a phone call." Puar then opened up and there stood the holographic Ashelin.
"Ashelin!" Jak gasped.
"Jak."
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, Torn snap me back to reality." Ashelin smiled slightly, "Where are you and what were you thinking, going off alone?"
"I'm at Mar's gun, taking the elevator up there." Jak answered.
"Are you serious?" Ashelin gasped.
"Yep." Jak smiled. Ashelin remained silent, and then she spoke up.
"There isn't much hope now. With the shield wall destroyed, it's just a matter of time before the Metal Heads overwhelm us." Ashelin spoke, "It's not just the city they'll take over, it'll be this entire kingdom and eventually the entire world."
"I know." Jak nodded, "That's why I'm going to do something."
"…You should just go through the rift back to your own time, Jak, and get away from this horrible place." Ashelin softly spoke.
"I see your point. Come on, Jak." Daxter gestured.
"What?" Jak gasped.
"Jak, you're better off then living here." Ashelin slowly mumbled, "You have another home to go to." Jak manage to reach the top and immediately saw the place where he'd had to place the Precursor Stone in.
"No."
"What?"
"This place is worth fighting for!" Jak took the stone and pushed it in the gun. The gun started to whirl, "Ashelin?"
"...Good luck." Then she hung up. The gun started to charge.
"Precursor Stone. Gun. Nest!"
"Light 'er up, padre!" Daxter shouted.
"HA! HA! HA! Eat this!" and the gun let off a piercing explosion, the mother of all explosion, as it rip through the hard, rocky surface, destroying it and creating a giant hole.
"That ought to wake 'em up!" Daxter cried out, shocked at the gun's sheer power.
"Let's go take care of business!" Jak grinned.
"What? You mean, go in there? Ahh, I'm right behind you!" He hid behind Jak's back as the blond headed precursian dived in, Precursor Stone back on his back and his gun out and loaded.

As they headed inside, things only grew worse. The Metal Heads were fully aware that their nest was in a vulnerable position. If Jak destroyed it, the future lives of Metal Heads were over, so they swarmed in on Jak.
"Oh-No!" Daxter screamed. The Metal Heads covered every inch of the ground of the circular shape Metal Head Nest. They swarmed every inch until not one part of the ground could be seen. As Jak shot, more just seem to come from nowhere.
"Okay, Jak…we're doomed…nice knowing ya, pal." Daxter gulped.
"We have to do something!" Jak cried, shooting. His hand started to tremble. These were more Metal Heads he's ever seen in his entire life. This was it, this would be over. The Metal Heads started to crawl up his legs and he tried so hard to fight them off, but more just came.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELPPPP!" Daxter cried.
"WOOF! WOOF!"
"Wha-?" Jak gasped. He looked up and saw a tall, rather large wooden platform above him. It flew around some more to better reveal itself.
"JAK!" Jak eyed the thing. The platform was flying because of the giant white balloons on top. The voice he heard was-
"KIERA!" Jak shouted.
"Hang on!" Kiera cried, "Lower!"
Jak also eyed four Lurkers on board: Brutter, Kami, Akai, and Rena. And of course Ani. Kiera seem to have kept a distant between herself and the Lurkers.
As the platform came down, Jak quickly grabbed Kami's hand and was lured off. Jak shook off the Metal Heads and smiled that big smile. Ani quickly leaped onto Jak and licked his face.
"Brutter, Kami, Rena, Akai!" Jak gasped once he pulled Ani away.
"Jak, you're okay." Kiera ran towards Jak and gave him a hug.
"How? Where? When?" Jak pointed to the balloon lift they were on.
"Brutter call his Lurker friends to help!" Brutter came in, "Used Pecker as carrier to deliver message for help! They is coming with balloon to help you!"
"Yep, and boy, do we have a surprise for the Metal Head Nest!" Rena smiled, "Look what Kiera made." Rena pointed to a giant cloth which Kiera removed to reveal bombs!
"A few of these babies down below and good-bye, Metal Head Nest!" Kiera winked. Jak laughed heartily. So, all of them activated their own bombs and dropped them below.
"Hey, Jak, is there something wrong with that Kiera girl? Rena asked as the bombs started to drop, "She seems to avoid us Lurkers."
"It's a long story." Jak sighed, "Don't feel offended, she has a good reason." Rena just nodded.
As the bombs fell down to the ground, the Metal Heads got note of what they were and started to scamper like crazy. The bombs exploded in mere seconds, destroying the entire Metal Head Nest until it was nothing but a burning hole on the ground. The lift then flew far off.
"Wow." Jak gasped as the balloon flew up. The sun was starting to rise. He was up in the air where he could see the sky better. He never saw anything more beautiful then this.
"The ship is close by." Kiera smiled.
"I thought I told you guys not to come." Jak sighed, grinning, crossing his arms.
"Oh, please, just because your prince doesn't mean we still can't treat you like the Jak we all know and love." Kiera mumbled, "Besides, the Queen said we could go and we all know her ranks higher then yours."
"Oh, I see." Jak half closed his eyes.
"She's pretty mad at you." Kiera smiled.
"I can handle her." Jak sighed.
And the Lurker balloon took them back.

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KG Ship
Month 3: Marcina, Day 21 (Spring Time)
Year: 299 TOMH (Time of the Metal Heads)

"You…are a rash boy. RASH!" cried Alexandros. Silence befell as everyone looked on at the Queen's face, covered red from anger, as Jak slightly cringed and smiled as he kept getting scolded at and even smacked at with a rolled up map, "But you did good." Everyone's looks, even Jak, was of shock at the Queen's sudden calmness.
"I've learned from marrying your grandfather the risks are involved when being ruler. Not everything is laws and proper orders, sometimes; you must act before thinking to get the job done." Alexnadros smiled.
"Well, I guess everything is a-okay!" Daxter grinned.
"Not yet, we still have to save the city from the Metal Heads." Jak spoke, "Is the ship heading back to Haven City?"
"Yes, but we have no idea what to do, no plan." Ashelin spoke, "If we give the stone to Metal Kor, we get the kid back, but the future as we know it will be lost in a wave of darkness. If we don't…well, you'll cease to exist, Jak."
"How far until we reach the city?" Jak asked.
"In about two days by afternoon…just hours before we have to make the final decisions to metal Kor." Torn calculated.
"That gives plenty of time to think." Jak then left, "Two days is fine."

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KG Ship
Month 4: Ado,Day 2 (Spring Time)
Year: 299 TOMH (Time of the Metal Heads)

The two days have passed by in a breeze and the ship was miles away from the city. Everyone eyed Jak who spent outside on the edge of the ship, eyeing the city, barely flinching. He spent hours looking and by sunset, everyone was outside, staring at him. Metal Kor could be seen growling every so often, impatient and excited.
"Jak?" Ashelin softly spoke from slightly afar, "What's your decisions?" Jak still kept his eyes on the city, his hands behind his back, clenched together like he was a sophisticated gentleman, and then spoke.
"He won't get the Stone…he won't harm the kid…he won't destroy and alter this world." Jak spoke sternly, "I will take the stone with me and I will go over to him…I'm going to trick him."
"How?" Kiera popped in.
"By making it seem like I will give the stone to him." Jak still had his back turned, "The Metal Heads tricked us, we must trick them back. When I give the signal, we'll fight."
"Impossible!" Young Samos leaped, "A small group of us cannot possibly fight against ALL those Metal Heads!"
"If we fight, everyone in Haven will." Jak spoke, "I know, I have faith in my people."Everyone was silent, neither spoke a word. Jak eyed the city, mainly the palace where Metal Kor stood. Taking a deep breath, Jak turned around and faced his friends and family.
"I'll understand if you don't want to join me or you hate my plan." Jak continued, "I'll give you a choice to runaway or form your own plan and move on, but I'm going with mines." Jak extended his hand. Nobody moved, then Daxter climbed to Jak's arm and placed a hand over Jak's.
"I'm in!"
"Me, too!" Puar took out her hand. Ani followed (she barked to be lifted).
"Count me in." Ashelin placed her hand on.
"Kid, you've grown." Torn placed his, "But your commanding personality is still here." Soon, more hands came in.
"You can count on me, Jak!" came Kiera.
"I is doing my best for you, always!" cried Brutter.
"Let us lend our magic powers." came both Samos.
"Ain't gonna be no battle without me!" Sig placed his hand.
"Ooh, Onin said she is in and…well, I guess I can show you what this ol' Monkaw is made of." Pecker chimed in.
Soon, everyone's hand was on top of each other, Jak felt relieved and warm inside.
"Then let's do it, let's SAVE HAVEN AND THE WORLD!"
A cheer arose…the final battle was at hand…
To Be Continued…

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Author's Notes (12/16/05): I took out the Sandover part with Jak's uncle in this one, other then that, very minor changes