This is not Goodbye
By Ash Ketchup
Chapter 4
Jak and Keira turned around. Standing there was Daxter.
"Oh, Dax." Jak said. "What's going on?"
Daxter hopped onto Jak and climbed up onto his shoulder. He propped his elbows up on Jaks head and announced,
"Jak, you aren't going to change time without me!"
Jak grinned and nodded his head.
"You can come then, Dax. I wouldn't leave without you."
Keira smiled at the two, and silently led them over to the Rift Rider. She took the cover off it and pressed a few buttons on it.
"Now listen closely..." She explained.
"You know how to work this?" Daxter asked Jak, once Keira had left.
"Of course. I was the fool who brought us to this time in the first place." Jak grinned.
Daxter gulped - there was nothing he hated more, apart from maybe Krew or the Metal Heads, than riding through time. He remembered what happened last time. He didn't want to remember, though.
"Jak, let's just get this over with." Daxter whined, clinging to his shoulder.
"Ok, Dax. Let's go!"
Jak hit the switch again and they lifted up into the air. Daxter's grip became more death-like on Jak's shoulder, and he winced. With a 'pop' they vanished. Keira watched from behind the screen as they were gone. She sighed to herself.
No thank you, no 'do you want to come with us?' no nothing...
"Keira..."
With a soft thump, the Rift Rider landed in the area where the car had blown up. It wasn't there yet. Jak looked around.
"Remember the rewind button, Dax." Jak said, unstrapping the seatbelt. "We'll probably need it."
"Sure thing, buddy." Daxter said.
Daxter watched Jak climb up onto the side of the machine. But he caught his foot and fell over the side. So much for a graceful entrance. Daxter heard a thump, and Jak's groans.
"Are you OK!" Daxter screamed over the side.
Jak rolled over onto his back. He felt the dampness of the puddle he had rolled into seep through his clothes.
"I think I broke something..." Jak groaned. "And you don't have to scream in my face."
Daxter grinned sheepishly. He hopped over to the 'rewind' button, and pressed it.
TAKE 2
"OK, Dax. Remember the rewind button." Jak said.
Daxter nodded and looked over the edge. Jak hopped over and landed... safely. He ran over to a tower and started to climb up it. But he didn't see how weak it was.
"DAAAAAAXTERRRRR!" Jak yelled. "REWIND!"
Daxterr tapped his foot on the button just as Jak was about to be crushed by falling debris.
TAKE 78
Jak jumped over the side of the Rift Rider and looked around. He saw a person, Veger presumably, walking around on a ledge, holding a button in his hands. Everytime he pressed it, a large fireball shot out of a canon and over the side of the barrier. Jak focused his energy, and two large, silver-blue wings shot out of his back. His whole body turned that colour. He jumped into the air, and flew up. Veger saw him coming... but he didn't know what it was - for he had never seen Jak in his light form before. He aimed a bullet from his pistol and shot it. Jak reflected it, and landed by Veger.
"What ARE you?" Veger hissed.
Jak growled and put his arms around Veger's neck.
"Your... worst... nightmare."
Veger yelled as Jak struck him, and knocked him down. He put a foot on Veger's chest.
"Why did you do it?" Jak insisted. "Tell me... or I'll break your neck."
Veger struggled under Jak's foot. He writhed and wriggled, to try and escape, but it was no good.
"I took Mar... from Damas... to use his eco awareness for my experiment. Now let me go."
Jak hissed. He wondered... Veger had made his life miserable, separated him from his real father, KILLED his father... and he wanted mercy?
"Wrong answer." Jak said.
He jerked his foot forward, breaking Veger's neck. He went still.
Jak looked down at Daxter, who was sitting patiently in the Rift Rider. Then, the barrier he had been watching from the corner of his eye vanished, and Jak and Damas came through on the Ram 'Rod.
Damas got out, and walked over to the entrance to the Precursors. Jak, with Daxter on his shoulder, followed.
"What is that?" Damas asked.
Jak peered over the edge too.
"It seems like... I think it's the secret entrance to the Precursors."
Jak flew down, past the two - and Daxter - to where Daxter was snoozing in the Rift Rider.
"Took ya long enough." Daxter moaned. "I thought I saw Veger. Where is he?"
"Dead." Jak replied.
The Rift Rider landed with the same thump as usual. Jak and Daxter hopped off, and walked back into the main area of Keira's house. She was curled up on the couch, sleeping. When they opened the door she woke up.
"Hey, you're back." She said, wiping the sleepiness from her eyes.
"We did it, sugar." Daxter said, jumping off Jak's shoulder and onto the arm of the couch. "And we killed Veger."
Keira widened her eyes.
"You... what?" She asked.
"Veger... is... dead." Daxter said, purposly spacing out his words. "Jak... broke... his... neck."
Keira nodded. She understood what Daxter had said, she knew and she wasn't stupid!
"I know... but guys, I gotta tell you something."
Jak and Daxter said down. When Keira had something important to say, it was usually important, and should be listened to immediately.
"Ashelin... ever since you guys came back from the Precursors, she's been really depressed. Can you imagine why?"
"No... why?" Daxter asked.
Keira fumed. Was Daxter really that brain dead?
"Cos you killed Veger you moron! They had been secretly, VERY secretly seeing each other! She confessed to me when I went to see her!"
Have I left you wondering? And I though Ashelin and Jak were kinda together? I'm surprising even myself! Aaaaah!
