Chapter Six
He knew his Light Jak wouldn't last long, because the Dark was taking over. He moved the Metal Head away from Keira and put her a safe distance away. He began to walk back to try and take care of the Metal Heads while they were still vulnerable, but it was to late. He was thinking if he had not used his Light Jak powers in time Keira would have died, how Veger had killed Daxter, how the city had kicked him out. The Dark thoughts consumed him and his Light Jak power wore off only to be replaced by Dark Jak.
Keira looked up and saw that the Metal Head was not going to stab her, in fact it wasn't there. She looked around and saw the Metal Heads. She saw something else too. She wasn't sure what it was, until she realized. "Jak!" she screamed. She had no clue how she had gotten away. She could hear loud explosions, screeches, and Jak yelling as he killed the Metal Heads. She ran as fast as she could towards him then slowed down and stopped. Jak used his razor sharp claws to rip the Metal Heads apart, and his Dark strike attack on them. There was dust everywhere. Keira stood there watching the battle. Then all of the sudden she heard a very loud explosion then and eerie silence. Keira began to run again to Jak. She got to where the battle had occurred, there were many Metal Head bodies everywhere. She looked around, but didn't see Jak. "Jak, Jak?" she yelled, but there was no answer. She kept walking through and saw a hand under a large Metal Head body. Keira screamed "Jak!" she ran over to the Metal Head body and pushed it off of him. He was unconscious.
Jak opened his eyes. Everything was spinning. He saw about eight Keira saying "Jak are you awake, are you ok?" Jak sat up knowing that the disorientation would subside. "Yeah, what happened?" said Jak. Keira looked at him funny and said "Don't you remember?" Jak looked at her and said "No, all I remember is getting you away from the Metal Head, then I just woke up here". Keira said "You turned into Dark Jak, and killed all of those Metal Heads. You saved my life…" She tried to give Jak a hug but she could tell it hurt.
Jak then fell out of consciousness again. Keira screamed "Wake up Jak, wake up". Jak's communicator went off and Ashelin began to speak. "Jak, we still got a problem, the Dark Maker's ship launched two smaller ones before you blew it up…" before Ashelin could continue what she was say Keira said "Ashelin, Jak needs help". "Keira, what are you doing there?" said Ashelin. "Never mind that now, send a Hellcat quick!" Keira said in tears. Ashelin said "Ok, Torn is on the way, I'll have a medical team standing by when you get here. Ashelin out" The communicator turned off. A minute later Torn flew over head. He landed near where Keira and Jak were.
"Keira are you alright?" he asked as he stepped out of the Hellcat and ran over to her. Keira said "I'm fine, we have to get Jak to a hospital!" Torn picked Jak up and put him in the Hellcat. Torn then looked around quick and said "Where's Daxter?" Keira pointed at Daxter's body and said "He's dead, Veger killed him…" Torn then said "Get in the Hellcat now!" he ran over to Daxter body. He then took a small control pad from his pocket and pressed a button. The Hellcat's auto pilot turned on. The engines fired up and flew over to where Torn was. He picked up Daxter's body and put him in the Hellcat. Torn then jumped in himself, disengaged the auto pilot and took off. As the Hellcat rose in the air shots started to go off. Torn got on his communicator and said "Were under attack! We need reinforcements!" Ashelin came over the comm. and said "I can't spare anything at the moment, sorry." "So am I." said Torn. "Hang on Keira; this isn't going to be fun."
Two large missiles were launched straight at them. "Hang On!" Torn hit the accelerator and flew the Hellcat through the Port. He weaved in and out of ships trying to lose the missiles but he couldn't lose them. Keira then yelled "Eject the spare parts. Maybe they will hit the missiles." Torn looked at her and said "What do we have to lose, if we die we wont need them anyway." Torn started pressing buttons and a hatch in the back of the Hellcat opened up and the spare parts flew out. They heard a loud explosion. "That was easier then I thought!" said Torn. Keira looked behind them and said "I wouldn't be too sure of that. Two enemy fighters were on our tail now."
"Can't these guys ever leave me alone?" said Torn. Keira climb in back and use the turret. She nodded and climbed into the turret. She had never done this before. She had never even fought in the war in all of the years it had gone on until now. She began to open fire. She missed by a lot. She heard Torn yell "Use the targeting sensors!" She saw that behind her was a small eyepiece. She put it on. It was like she had a little target display in her brain. She began to fire again, but only grazed one of them, not enough to disable them. Then the enemy fighters opened fire on them. Torn was weaving in and out of buildings trying to lose them. Keira got an idea. She pointed the turret up. "Keira what are you doing? They are behind us, not over us!" said Torn. She didn't reply, and started to fire at a building. It collapsed and fell on one of the fighters.
"Good work Keira! I got an Idea to shake this last one, I'm going to stop for a split second, he will pass by us. Be ready!" yelled Torn. Keira nodded and said "OK". The Hellcat stopped hard. Keira had no time to be distracted by it. The fighter passed in front of them and she shot it. The fighter exploded and Torn flew through the explosion at high speed. "Good shot Keira. Come back up front we will be landing in a minute". Keira got out of the turret and climbed into the front.
No more then a minute later Torn landed the Hellcat near the hospital. Medical Teams were standing. "What is his condition?' one of them asked. Keira said "I'm not sure he has many cuts and broken bones". They checked him and said "We have to get him into surgery now!" They ran off with Jak into the hospital. Keira began to follow but Torn said "Keira they have a lot to do, they don't need you in the way, right now we need you back in the HQ. We'll check on him later." Keira wanted to protest, but she knew he was right.
Jak opened his eyes. At first everything was black. He tried to move but he was restrained by something. Someone was in the room with him, standing in the corner. Jak struggled to talk and got out "Keira?" "Try not to move, you have taken quite a beating" Keira said. She moved from where she was standing to his bed. "Where am I?" he asked. "You're in the hospital" she said. He tried to get up again and said "I have to get to the mountains". Keira pushed him back down and said "That can wait, get some rest. Ashelin needs my help so I have to go but I'll be back later."