"what - what exactly happened to him? your father?" she pulled herself up slowly, Jak holding on to her shoulder so she didn't sway. she stared at the ground a moment, silent as she thought..

"he was killed. the rush of metalheads who led me to escape killed him. as far as I know, I am the only survivor of that villege. and there are very few others. Metal heads can be tamed and once all of them were when I was tiny." she sighed sadly "but something happened.. when Mar made his city he tried to keep the metalheads out. he designed a weapon to distroy them because he feared their power despite how docile they were to us. the metalheads didn't trust us anymore and went on a spree to distroy us. hoping that it would teach Mar a lesson. it did not. he had already built up his city by bringing in the elves as inhabitants. he did not want to risk his new life to save his old. so he holed away all of our knoledge into his city and left what he could not bring. they still lie outside of the city, gaurded by the metalheads who keep the elves away from it so that they will not unlock the weapon Mar created." she leaned heavily against the bedpost, now looking up at the metallic cieling "they are far more intelligent than you give them credit for Jak. they are in self defence. the city of Haven braught this apon itself when they believed in Mar's words of hatred. and now they pay the price for it."Jak stared at the ground a moment, silent as she spoke her troublesome words..

"and yet both of us, who seemed not to have anything to do with this fight are braught into it." she smiled at him.

"no.. we have everything to do with it. especially you Jak. my fathers teachings to me have branched back a a thousand scores of precursers who dedicated thier lives to knoledge and learning. and if any of that has taught me something, it has taught me that life in time has its way of stringing everything together."

"everything is set up!" Tara spoke softly into her walkie-talkie, Sig had shown her how to put together the bombs and she had set them up inconspicuously by each of the walls of the forrtress where they were to open from the inside into the entrances Torn had pointed out..

"good. Im in position. detonate on my mark." torn turned on his zoomer and shot it off at a krimzon gaurd.. the alarm set off and Tara immidiatly pushed the detonator, three multiple explosions adding to the chaos the gaurd had already assumed since they didn't know who had killed the gaurd.. through the confusion Torn snuck into the forrtress. the alarm rings ebbed away as he went through the narrow tunnell between the outside entrance and the inner entrance he needed to get past in order to actually enter the fortress. he entered the code and closed the door rapidly before it was completely open as a troop of gaurds rushed past to get to an exit and help with the search. then proceeding to walk out.. heading for the dungeon where the dark warrior program was held out..

Jak was now the one who looked out of his cell longingly.. his friend now soundly sleeping now that he had made sure she didn't have a concussion.. his vacant expression tensed immidiatly as a group of gaurds burst through one door and out the other.. Erol was among them and Jak growled lowly as he passed but he couldn't help wondering where they all were going.. his answer was soon found as Torn appeared out of nowhere.. leaping down from one of the massive crates that loomed overhead.. he scanned over the cell doors swiftly before coming to jaks. he got on the hovering thing used to get to the bottomless pits cells and stuck one of vins inventions in the card slot which automatically found the code and opened the door.

"grab the girl and lets go. Im pretty sure Erol wont take long to figure out the explosions out there are just distractions." Jak jumped up, taking Shamiras hand as she groggily came into consiousness with his rough touch.

"wha? whats going on Jak?" she rubbed her eyes softly, her unwavering innocence clear in her eyes as she made the childish gesture to wake herself up..

"our rescue. I told you Dax would come through" torn scowled at them as he waited impatiently for them to get off the hover thing..

"make your rejoicing later, we need to get out of here before erol comes back to grab all of us and Im not getting my ass caught because you two are starry-eyed at a simple plan." Jak stepped off pulling the semi-consious Shamira behind him and he let go of her hand, turning straight-faced at her..

"Mira, get awake fast. Torns not going to wait for you but I need you to follow him out. he may not like you but he'll bring you to safty." as he turned down another way torn grabbed him by the shoulder and twisted him around to face him.

"what the hell do you think your doing? Im risking my ass here and your going sightseeing?!" Jak shook him off and answered curtly with a bit of a snap to his words..

"they arent going to keep my morph gun and clothes near the holding area. I need to get it before I go. take Mira and get her back to krews." Torn scowled darkly.

"fine. but if you get caught again because of your stupid decisions, dont expect me to come to your rescue again."

Nik: YAY! I have more reviewers! I feel happy now. sorry this took so long.. once again procrastinating and calling it wrighters block. come to think of it I probably should have been hemming my songstress lenne costume right now...