Miss.Ecofreak: I am back! Finally it's time to reintruduce my favourite OC! But first, let's answer some reviews.
Answer to Thee Slushee: if you don't like cliffhangers, sorry about that, even more sad is it that I got a writers block right afterwards (as much as I hate WBs, they're even worse if it happens at such a time) But here comes the next chappy
Answer to Star Earo: where did you get those leapers? I really wonder if flut-fluts appear in JakX
Zakura: I doupt so
Miss.Ecofreak: you're so negative. Anyway, the show must go on!
CHAPTER 11
SHARPSHOOTER
Daxter
The metalheads weren't much bigger than the ones we usually fought.
Then again, usually we had weapons.
"Okay Jak, it's been nice knowing you" I said. "But not you" I said to the whimpering crocadog.
Suddenly we heard a flut-flut cry, at first I thought it was one of ours, but it came from farther away.
"What was that?" Tetra asked.
"Could it be Spot?" Shara asked.
Suddenly five gunshots were fired and the metalheads fell over instantly.
I had only seen one person do that before, and that one person now came down a hill, riding Spot the flut-flut.
"Anyone called for a superhero?" he asked.
Tanya didn't seem to know what to say, she just stared at the newcomer in surprise.
"Cornelius! You're alive!" Shara said, she jumped of the back of an equally surprised Phoenix and ran towards her old friend.
"Of course I am. You didn't think a bunch of overgrown metalheads was going to get me did you?" Cornelius asked (Miss.Ecofreak: yeah right! If the wastelanders hadn't saved you, you would be metal meat!)
"What have you been running around in the desert for? Wouldn't it be a lot easier to return to the city?" I asked.
"Maybe. I just felt like exploring out here a bit first" Cornelius said grinning.
That guy reminded me so much of Jak it was scary.
"Well you've been exploring more than enough. Why can't you just come back to the farm with us? I'm sure Charles will be thrilled to see you" Tanya said.
"Maybe, but first of all I think I should introduce me to your new friend" Cornelius said, he jumped of the flut-flut and walked towards us.
"You must be Jak, I've hard so much about you. My name is Cornelius (as you might have noticed)"
"I assumed that" Jak said. "So you must be the little brother of my late rival".
"That and the nephew of baron Praxis. Most families have one black sheep, my family has one white sheep and the rest black or very dark grey" Cornelius said with a smirk. "But you must believe me when I say I'm not like any of them. I'm far better than Erol in zoomer-racing ("And zoomer-crashing" Tanya added) and better at shooting as you just witnessed" Cornelius said.
"And a killer at bragging" I muttered.
"Trust me Dax, you can give him one heck of a competition at that" Tanya said and flew over to Cornelius and landed on his goggles. "I've been missing this perch for some time".
"Great, now that we all know each other, let's get back before more metalheads arrive" Tetra said.
But just as Cornelius had gotten up on his flut-flut again we heard a cry.
"That was Blossom!" Shara said.
"How on earth can you hear the difference between one flut-flut or another?" I asked.
"I would like to know that as well" Cornelius said.
"Never mind that, we have to go now!" Shara said and Phoenix didn't waste time, he ran straight for his home.
Shara had told us earlier that Phoenix was the leader of the herd, it seemed apparent now as he ran to protect his adopted family (I call it adopted, since Phoenix was born in the wild)
As we came back to the camp we could see what made the flut-fluts cry.
The ranch was under attack, the attackers had driven the flut-fluts into a corner and one was holding Charles so he couldn't stop them.
"Oh great, it's those guys again" Jak said.
At first I didn't see what he meant, but then I noticed it was the same guys who had kidnapped Jak earlier, those who managed to get away from Dark Jak.
"Nobody messes with the flut-fluts and gets away with it. Hey you!" Cornelius yelled to the bad guys.
Some of the people turned around.
"There they are" one said.
"Then let's just do what we came for and get this over with" said the other.
Two other people wearing exaggerated armours came towards us holding a fighting bird on a metal-leach.
"Spike. What do they want with him?" Shara asked.
"Nothing good that's for sure" Tanya said.
"Hey! Don't do that! He's dangerous!" Charles yelled.
"Of course he is, that's why we need him" the first guy said and pulled out a needle.
"What's in that needle?" I asked.
"I have a bad feeling about this" Jak said.
The guy put the needle in Spike's neck and I didn't have to be a bird expert to say that hurt.
Spike cried angrily and the guys holding him quickly released him and ran for cower.
And for a good reason it turned out, Spike changed.
His feathers turned black and purple, while purple sparks flew across his body.
The chain around his neck fell just like… well, exactly the same way that the chains which baron Praxis had used to secure Jak in his prison fell of.
Spike turned at us, his eyes were no longer green and angry, they were pitch black.
"Holy crap" Cornelius said.
"Now you see what was in that shoot?" Jak asked.
"That must be why Spike has been acting so weird lately" Tanya said. "The baron must have used him as a test animal for the dark warrior program."
And then Spike charged at us.
Miss.Ecofreak: ops I did it again (and I quoted Britney! Argh! Something's gotta be wrong!)
Zakura: come on Slushee, let's kill her.
Miss.Ecofreak: er... no! If you do that you'll never see the next chapter! Zakura! Get down! (Runs away)
Zakura: feel free to review.