Chapter 4: Outside the Walls
They were outside the city walls, at last! Now all that they saw were some uninhabited mountains, but they were in for a surprise.
"PULL OVER!" screamed Zach.
"What?" replied Jarl.
Unfortunately, he should have listened to Zach as they were shot down by some Metal Heads.
They all awoke about 6 hours later in a beat-down castle, and a fairly short man with brown hair that covered his eyes, a red shirt, and a blue vest greeted them.
"Welcome strangers, this is Dead Haven, and I am the grand protector, Fane. We are grateful for the eco you supplied us with, it drove away the Metal Heads for a few hours." Said this new character, Fane.
"Dead Haven? What is this place?" asked Zach.
"Allow me to explain. Haven City was much bigger about 15 years ago, and then Baron Praxis blew up this part of the city because there was too many Metal heads. Only about 50 out of 350 survived, and they were in such bad condition that they couldn't make the journey to Spargus. Instead, they set up a small civilization here and populated it. 15 years later, we have a total of 289 citizens. That number will change to 292 if you three can prove yourselves here.
At this point, Vexx gets up with a pistol in his hand.
"Just what are you getting at?" said Vexx.
"Nothing much, we just want you to go to the uninhabited ruins of this place and kill 5 giant mutated Metal Heads." Said Fane.
"And if we refuse?" asked Jarl, who had also woken up.
"Then you get thrown into one if our low-security prisons. And trust me, you don't even want to KNOW what kind of crap goes on in those places!" said Fane.
"Fine, we'll do it! But this better be worth it!" said Zach. They then rode away in a small zoomer with their armor and guns equipped.
"This place gives me the creeps! Do you think we should just go back to Haven?" asked a scared Vexx.
"Have you been smoking dark eco, Vexx? We can't go back to Baron Praxis! Number one, he would kill us. Number two, if he didn't kill us, we'd die of starvation! At least here we can prove ourselves as worthy soldiers and befriend the army. Then maybe we could attack the Baron with an army of 150 something people!" replied Jarl.
"I guess you're right, I don't really feel comfortable in either place though." Said Vexx. They then landed in a small field full of debris and scrap metal. There was a fallen billboard that said "Vote Dark-Mar for re-election." And a poster that had an ad for the upcoming film "The Making of Jak II".
"So, this is where the Metal Heads are?" asked Zach.
"Apparently so. I just wonder where they are." Replied Jarl.
Just as they said that, a GIANT MUTATED METAL HEAD came out! It was just like one of those big Wasteland Metal heads from Jak 3, except with GIANT arms sticking out of his back!
They shot with their pistols and Electro-Breakers, (that's what I call the guns the KG use in Jak II.) but they seemed immune to them. The giant metal head sent them flying into an abandoned school.
"It's hopeless! Let's just give up and fly back to haven!" said Vexx.
"Not yet! I had a feeling I'd need this one day…" said Jarl.
He was referring to a golden bazooka he got when he became the fourth in command of the KG. It had an enemy seeking missile that came out of it, and could blow ANYTHING into a million pieces! He pulled the trigger, and an atomic explosion killed not only the MH that they were fighting, but 3 others! Their body parts flew all over the place and they even got part of the Metal head body. It was a sensor that alarmed them when they were in danger, and shout of an electric beam. Jarl stored this with the rest of his guns.
"Well, that's four. Where's the other one?" asked Zach.
"Hmm, let's go look." Said Jarl.
They then searched through out the, err, "deadest" part of Dead Haven, and found only one. It was actually only normal size, but hard to destroy. Jarl got out his knife, but the MH deflected it, causing it to barely miss Zach's head. Jarl then got out his golden Bazooka. It was out of ammo, but was so heavy that it could easily knock a Metal head out. And it did. A stone slab with Precursor writings on it fell out of the Metal head.
"What does it say?" asked Zach.
"I don't know" replied Jarl. "Let's take it back to Fane and see what he says."
And so they did.