A/N: Welcome back! Thank you for giving me those reviews you guys, you rule! And if you didn't, that's ok; just do it for this chapter will ya? It makes me so happy when I see a new review next to my story. Well I'll shut up and let you read Chapter 2: "But the plants didn't respond…"
The morning sun began to rise over Haven City, touching all things both alive and dead, awakening the asleep and reminding the awake to stay awake and do something. Though some ignored the sun's wake up call, one ottsel didn't. Daxter's eyes blinked open out of his deep slumber. He looked around at his apartment, seeing that Jak was still asleep. Daxter rose and scuffled over to the fridge.
"Let's see what do we got here, oh, oh, oh, we got some pizza left!" Daxter excitedly exclaimed jumping up and down. He took a cold slice from the fridge and a paper plate and went out onto his mini porch. He sat down in a small white chair and watched the sun rise over the buildings. Dax ignored its majesty and ate his pizza wildly. When he finished he tossed his plate out and walked over to Jak's bed.
"Come on Jak, its morning, wake up! It's not like you to sleep this long," Daxter shouted as he jumped on top of Jak like he did every morning when he was asleep to long. But Jak seemed to ignore Dax.
"Fine, you wanna sleep? Fine, FINE. Sleep all day and see what I care. Uh, Jak, you can wake up any minute now, ok Jak you're scaring me now. Joke's over, you hear me, joke's OVER!" Daxter told him beginning to worry. He hopped off Jak and watched as his mouth began to move.
"Eco…eco…eco," Jak mumbled as if in a trance.
"Eco? Ok, you're freakin' me out now; ok I'm going to find Samos ok? Maybe he'll know what's wrong with you," Daxter told him as he went to the sink, "Ok there's a glass of water, drink it please, and I'll be right back."
Jak's only response was, "Eco…oh…Eco."
Daxter went to his drawer in his dresser and pulled out his pair of pants. He slipped them on and scurried out the door into the apartment's hallway. A hefty man came walking down the hall.
"Hey Daxter, you gotta pay your bills ya know," he told him.
"I know Joe, but that's Jak's job," he told him back and he went into the elevator. He hit the level 1 button and the elevator shot him down there. He ran out of the elevator and into the zoomer garage. He hopped on his zoomer and started it up. As soon as the engine responded he went right outside into the street. After going a few feet he slowed his speeder down with a halt. In front of him was a huge line of zoomers on both levels, and scattered around the city were signs that read, 'All day hero figurine sale'.
"DAMN IT!" Daxter screamed.
Torn looked at his room in the Freedom HQ. It's finished, yes it's finished. His walls were lined with posters with Ashelin's picture on them, even an old poster saying, 'I want you for the Krimson Guard' with Ashelin pointing. On the top of his dresser was a whole collection of Ashelin figures and bobble heads. He had Ashelin sheets on his bed and his windows had Ashelin laces. Talk about obsessed.
"I hope that guy at the figurine sale didn't mind me taking all the Ashelin stuff," Torn said quietly, admiring his new huge collection of Ashelin stuff. Suddenly his wireless communicator came to life. He took it out of his pocket and hit a button.
"Hey Torn this is Ashelin," a female voice said over the comm, "We need to talk about the rebuilding of the city, mind if I stop by your place? It's under the main room at HQ right?"
Torn took a nervous look around at his room and spoke back into his comm. "Uh, yeah, come on over, just give me a few minutes."
"Ok Torn, see you in a few," Ashelin told him and she shut off her communicator.
Torn hit the off button on his comm and began to strip the room of all Ashelin merchandise. In a minute or so the room looked quite bare. As soon as Torn had time to rest, a knock was heard at the door.
"Come in," Torn said coldly.
A female with red hair and small pieces of armor on stepped inside.
"Ah, Torn, nice to see you," she told him.
"Likewise, well come on in, take a seat at the table, and we can talk," Torn told her pointing towards the table in the middle of the room.
She walked over to it slowly and took a seat.
"So can I get you anything? I got Bud's Light, Mountain Dew…"
"Water's fine."
"Alright."
Torn gathered a few tall glasses from the cabinet and walked over to the sink. He carefully poured water into each one and set them on the table.
"Thanks," Ashelin said to him as she took her glass.
"No problem," Torn responded in his gruff voice.
Ashelin began to talk to Torn about the rebuilding of the city, some plans she had, and some people who could help, but all Torn could do is stare at Ashelin's beauty. Her words became nothing, and Torn began to drift into a dream like stare.
"Hey Torn, you listening to me?" Ashelin told him a bit loudly.
"Oh, yeah, yeah, uh say that again," Torn mumbled as he abruptly exited his trance.
"I said, wanna go see Samos's plans for the city," Ashelin told him again, getting slightly annoyed.
"Uh yeah, ok, could we take the hellcat?" Torn asked coming back to his senses.
"Sure, it's parked outside, come on," she responded as she walked out the door.
Torn followed after her in a quick step. Once they got outside, Ashelin took the seat to the right, leaving the driving seat open.
"What, you're letting me drive?" Torn asked taking the seat on the left.
"Sure, why not," she told him giving him a wink.
Torn gave a small smile and started the engines. The hellcat lifted into the sky and started off towards Samos's hut.
"Samos! Samos! Samos! Samos! Samos! Samos!" Daxter screamed as he ran into Samos's new hut.
"What is it you little precursor menace?" Samos told him irritated.
"Hey! Just because I am a precursor doesn't mean I wanna be called one!" Daxter shot back.
"I'm trying to discuss some matters with Ashelin and Torn and you just run in here crying, 'Samos! Samos!' Now if you want to say something, please, save it for later," Samos said turning his attention back to Torn and Ashelin.
"But this is important! Look," Daxter said as he pulled something out of his pocket, "I went to the figurine sale and bought one bobble head for each of us! See this one is me, oh and Samos, here's yours, ooh and Torn I got this one for you, and sorry Ashelin baby, they were all sold out of yours, but the guy gave the description of the guy who bought them all and he looks just like…"
Torn put his hand over Daxter's mouth, "Some guy you know but we don't."
"Bleck! When was the last time you washed your hands? Also something's wrong with Jak, he wouldn't get up this morning and he kept mumbling, 'Eco…eco', you know what's wrong with him Samos?" Daxter said wiping Torn's hand away.
"Hmm, that's a coincidence, I fear something's going on with our world," Samos said scratching his chin.
"Like?" Ashelin asked.
"Well I went out to Haven forest this morning to meditate and talk with the plants about the outcome of our city, and something very peculiar happened. I sent them messages but the plants didn't respond. Than one did, a small whisper, he said, 'Something… wrong… eco being…' than he wilted. So did all the plants, until Haven forest became Haven big patch of dirt," Samos told them in a depressed tone.
"Being what? Being what?" Daxter yelled.
"Drained, you idiot, drained! And I fear the same is happening to Jak, I suggest we…" Samos started but his voice faded out, his knees began to grow weak and he fell down to the ground.
Torn rushed over to Samos and checked his pulse.
"He's alive but he's unconscious, you better take us to Jak, Daxter. He's probably worse," Torn said dropping Samos's arm, "Ashelin, get Samos to the med center, and see what you can do."
Ashelin nodded and picked up Samos. She put him in the back trunk. She sat in the right seat and Torn came to the left.
"Hey! Where do I sit?" Daxter exclaimed.
Ashelin pointed to the back of the hellcat.
"What! I'm not sitting with that green old fart!"
A few seconds later.
"I can't believe I'm sitting with this old green fart! Move your ass over and let me sit."
Soon the hellcat landed in front of Jak and Daxter's apartment. Once the engines died down Daxter wildly pushed open the trunk door.
"I'm never, EVER, doing that again! Well come on you slowpoke we gotta get to Jak!" Daxter exclaimed as he ran inside the zoomer garage. Torn hurried after him while Ashelin took off for the med center. After a walk, elevator ride, and a run in with Joe, they got to Jak and Daxter's apartment door.
"Welcome to, my humble home," Daxter said smoothly as he swung the door open to reveal, a room filled with pictures of Tess and his artist's painting of his butt.
"You ever consider redecorating?" Torn asked looking around at the shocking display.
"You should see Jak's personal room, now our bedroom is right over here," Daxter told him pointing to the door.
Both Torn and Daxter entered and saw Jak lying on his bed, looking worse than ever. Torn rushed over and checked his pulse.
"Damn, Jak's much worse than Samos, this isn't good Dax, Jak's going critical."
"My liege, almost all the eco on the planet is within our containment void, ultimate power is almost, yours," a tall, menacing metal head with a clear voice told a figure in a dark black robe.
"Finally! And with all the precursors off the planet, total conquest will be easier than ever!" the man exclaimed.
"Uh, not quite, ours scanners indicate three precursors are left, two male, one female."
"What! How can this be! The precursors left to help the rest of the universe! And if one male and the female mate, THERE COULD BE A WHOLE NEW PRECURSOR RACE!!!!" he shouted into the catacombs which echoed to the land, "Destroy them all!"
"But my liege, we couldn't possibly…"
"Do it, or I'll destroy the rest of the metal heads," he said menacingly.
"You make a good point, ok I'll send myself and our best warriors to travel to the surface and kill them," the metal head responded nervously.
"Good, now get me a mountain dew while you're at it."
The metal head grumbled as he walked away.
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