Chapter 1 - Transmission Interrupted

While Jak is cruising through the desert, somewhat close to Haven City, a mysterious package falls from the sky and nails Daxter right in the head, knocking him off the Dune Buggy and sending him flying through the sand behind Jak. Jak stops after a while noticing it's been quiet, he turns around and sees Daxter's legs, arms, and tail sticking out from under a black box. He walks over and picks it up, smirking at Daxter been smashed. Daxter jumps up, and yells at Jak for not helping him sooner. Jak sits back in his Dune Buggy with Daxter back on his shoulder as he tries to open the black box, which won't open. Dax grabs it and says a witty remark like, "Watch a real master at work." He tries to open it, biting it, and hitting it against the ground, after a few tries, he gives it back to Jak. Suddenly, cracks appear in it as a bright dark-co-ish purple light shines out. The black shell dississipates into the air, a transmitter is now sitting in Jak's hand. Jak and Dax take it to Vin's Brain in the nearby Haven City. Vin finally re-activates the transmitter, which had a pre recorded message. A console screen begins to static as a loading scene shortly appears. A girl, long, purple-ish hair with a strange mark on the left side of her face, appears on the screen, the backround is flashing red, there are huge fires blazing behind her, rubble scattered across the ground. She is dressed in a light blue robe.

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LOG ENTRY 456,782-AX

--Jak, wherever you are, we need your help.

SECURITY BREACH DETECTED IN SEC. G

--We were wrong, Jak, the war is far from over...

SHEILDS DOWN IN ALL SECTORS

TRESSPASSERS DETECTED IN SECTOR 56G

--They've created something. An abomination. Akar-sera. These things have no feelings, they just live to kill anything that moves. I'm sending this message to warn you. Five great Dark Maker ships are headed your way, enough to destroy an entire solar system. We don't have extreme static -ime. They're after me, Jak. They want more static -co crystals, a lot of them. We need static -our static, then the screen shakes and cancels out

SIGNAL LOST

OVERRIDE PROTOCOL

LAUNCH SEQUENCE STARTING

PROGRAM OVER

Jak slams his fists into the computer console the second the screen statics and cancels, "Work damnit!" Vin looks worried and yells at Jak, "Jak! Stop hitting my precious computers!" "What happened? Why did the message end all of a sudden like that?" "Well, by my calculations, a huge warship shot down the ship." Daxter jumps onto the console twitches, "With that hot chick on board?!?!?! Are they insane!?!??!" Jak walks over towards the door, "Come on Dax, let's go." "But, Jak! The girl!" "Let's GO Dax!" Daxter grumbles and runs after Jak. It's quiet for a while, Jak and Daxter return to the desert and begin cruising towards the area where the black box originally fell, then Daxter breaks in, there isn't a quiet moment longer then 5 minutes with him here. "Oooooh, so that's why we left! We're gonna find more of those black boxes, aren't we!?" "I'm hoping." Jak steps out of the dune buggy, looking around for anything, he doesn't find anything but a few leaper pups. After Jak had almost given up hope, Daxter comes running with 3 pieces of black parts. "Look at these Jak! They look just like that box!" Jak grabs Daxter and picks him up, "Daxter! You did it!" "Ha! Don't try and take the credit Jak, You know without me you wouldn't have even come out here!" Jak smirks and rolls his eyes like usual, "Come on, let's take these to Vin." A couple minutes later, Jak and Dax are already walking through the entrance of Vin's terminal room. "Hey, Vin, we're back, and we have some more part things that look like the one we brought back before." Van's hologram appears over a console across the room, "Oh great, back to break more of my computers!?" Jak walks over to him, putting the black parts onto the computer, "No, w-" "WE!???! WE?!!? IF FOUND THEM!" Daxter jumps onto the console, "Don't listen to him Vin, he's delusional, I found those parts all on my own!" Vin ignores him, like everyone else, and examines the black parts, "Hmm, these are very interesting, I'll decode them, I'll message you when I'm done." Jak begins to turn around, "Thanks," He continues walking as Daxter runs after him. Daxter paces around on the ground as Jak sits on his hover board outside Vin's terminal. "Ah come on! How much longer is this gonna take him!?! I wanna see that chick again! Come on Jak, don't tell me your not anxious to see her again! I saw how you were staring at that screen!" Jak smacks Daxter over the head, "Hey! I was just trying the liven' this up!" The transmitter that's always on Jak somewhere suddenly pops out and Vin's hologram appears, "Jak, come to the terminal, I've decoded one of them." Jak packs away his hover board and walks in with Dax. Vin explains that the black parts are apparently parts to the main message, and are the reason of the static, and should clear it up some, as well as add onto the message. "Are you ready?" Daxter jumps up, "Of course we're ready! Turn it on already!!!!!" The same message plays through, but some parts are added on.

--They've created something. An abomination. Akar-sera. These things have no feelings, they just live to kill anything that moves. I'm sending this message to warn you. Five great Dark Maker ships are headed your way, enough to destroy an entire solar system. We don't have anything to defend ourselves with, our defenses are dying, we're running out of time! They're after us, Jak. They want more static -co crystals, a lot of them. We need static -our static, then the screen shakes and cancels out

Dax twitches, "That's it!??!?! There's no more!??!" Jak pushes Dax off the console, "Vin, was there a trace signal? Anything linking the message to the source?" Vin shakes his holographic head, "No, but I might find something in the other 2 pieces." Jak nods, "Good, contacts us when you done with them both." Vin nods and continues working on the remaining 2 pieces" Jak and Dax walk out of the door, and as soon as they do, a huge ship crashes into the ground and skids into the wall that's supporting the passageway, the ground shakes as the force of the impact sends shockwaves through the ground. Pieces of the wall above them fall and smash into the ground, Jak jumps down onto the ship and leaps off, looking at it from the side. Daxter hops off and walks towards it as a piece of rock falls and lands on Dax. The side door on the ship slowly opens, as the girl from the black transmitter steps out of the door, collapsing as soon as she steps out.

To Be Continued In Chapter 2 - Mysterious Acquaintances

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