Miss.Ecofreak: finally! We're back!
Zakura: it didn't take that long though
Miss.Ecofreak: oh stop nagging.
Answer to Thee Slushee: of course I wouldn't kill Shara, do I look like a dark maker to you?
Zakura: well... according to your nickname you almost are
Miss.Ecofreak: no. I'm a dark precursor, not a dark maker
Zakura: it's the same thing!
Miss.Ecofreak: no it's not. it's a five letter difference
Answer to Babyblues15: sorry. All ends there
Zakura: and she claims she's not evil?
MIss.Ecofreak: nah, I'm kidding. It'll be this chapter and one more. So go on reading:)
CHAPTER 13
NEW SURPRISES
Daxter
You don't have to be a genius to figure out we were in trouble, I decided the ground was no safe spot so I returned to Cornelius' again (Jak's shoulder didn't seem entirely safe either especially as he was still standing close to Spike)
"Listen lunatic. First of all I didn't kill the baron, although I really wanted to" Jak said.
"That's what they all say. But either way you are going to pay for all the pain you have caused this city" Ronny said (Ms.E: now that I'm writing it that name really doesn't suit a bad guy. Zakura: he sounds like a certain red-haired wizard)
"Jak didn't cause half as much pain as your stupid brother did!" Shara yelled speaking up for the first time since the stranger appeared.
"Shut up kid! I don't want to harm you but you might give me no choice" Ronny said.
Shara looked away again; I saw tears running down her face.
What was wrong with her? She almost seemed to hate this guy even more than she hated the baron.
"You're a freak do you know that?" Ronny said to Jak. "You and that insane bird. Ever thought about ending all this suffering? Cause I could make it happen", he took a gun out of his pocket and aimed it at Jak.
"NO!" Shara yelled and threw herself in front of Jak just as Ronny fired the gun.
Flut-fluts cried, Cornelius grabbed a hold Phoenix, Tiny Blue, Lucy and Spot to prevent them all for rushing over to Shara who was now bleeding from her arm.
Then Jak said something I never expected him to say.
"Kate!" he said, bending down to the girl.
Even Ronny looked startled.
"Great job lunatic" Cornelius snarled. "You almost killed your own daughter there, only because you really had it in for her half-brother".
"What? Half-brother? He and…? Did I miss something here?" I said.
"It's true" Shara/Kate said. "You were born from my mother Maria. I wanted to tell you but I just didn't know how".
Jak didn't seem to know just what to say, but he did look at her like she was an old friend he hadn't seen for years, something which she apparently was.
"I-I never planned on doing that" Ronny said and dropped his gun as he backed of. "It was you I was after. But she had to interfere".
"Drop it will you?" Cornelius said he had his own gun pointed at Ronny. "I don't care if you're family and I never miss".
"That boy is a monster! You can't let him run freely" Ronny said. "He killed your own brother did you know that?"
"Actually Errol killed himself" Tanya said. "He crashed into some barrels of dark eco, simply because… he was nuts".
"A real loon" I said.
"Totally wacko" Cornelius said.
"Cornelius, wait" Kate said, with some help from Jak and Tetra she managed to sit up. "Don't kill him. There's no need".
"No need? What are we supposed to do with him then?" Cornelius asked.
"We could call the Freedom League and have him put in jail, laws have changed since the baron you know" Kate said.
"Laws suck" Cornelius muttered but he put his gun away. "But you better not do any funny stuff, you hear that? Daxter? Go get that gun".
"Why me?" I asked.
"Well why not? Fetch it ottsel" Cornelius said.
I jumped down and picked up the gun that Ronny had dropped to the ground, and then I went back and gave it to Jak (I didn't feel like giving Cornelius any more weapons right now).
"Charles! Can you call the FL for us? And make sure to tell them to get an ambulance-zoomer for Kate" Cornelius yelled.
Charles ran into the house (not caring to ask where Cornelius appeared from), all of Ronny's helpers had fled as Spike turned into Dark Spike.
"Is your arm ok?" Cornelius asked, turning to Kate.
"I think so, the bullet hardly penetrated the skin on my shoulder" she answered.
"Let me se if I got this right. You and Jak are half siblings right? And you got the same mother?" I asked.
"Correct. Give him some treats" Tetra said rolling her eyes.
"But… does that mean you're a descendant of Mar as well?" I asked.
"Wow, we've got ourselves a genius on our hands".
"Shut up rat-girl I wasn't talking to you" I said to Tetra.
Kate giggled a bit.
"You're absolutely right Daxter. Which is why I had to hide my identity under the baron's rule" she said. "He knew me very well though, seeing he was my uncle. But still by changing my name I managed to escape… almost".
"Until you got caught in the prison right?" I said. "Sorry about that".
"It's okay. After all you were just trying to save my dear little brother" Kate said as Jak looked away for a second.
Clearly he wasn't very used to be called "little brother" and after what I knew, Kate was in fact younger than him.
"Did you know all this?" I asked Cornelius.
"Of course. Kate and I have been friends since she was five and I were four, and for a long time I was the only one who did know" Cornelius answered.
"Oh, this is all really nice with this family reunion and all but I'm afraid the tables have turned".
We all turned around at once and saw Ronny holding one of Charles' daughters in one arm and a knife in the other.
"Hey! Let go of her!" Cornelius said and pulled out his gun again.
"Or what? You're going to shot me? What if you hit your dear cousin here?" Ronny asked. "Or do you care as much for her as you did for your own brother?"
Cornelius glared at the man, but put his gun away.
"Good boy. Now give me back my gun so I can do what I came here for" Ronny said, smirking.
I looked at Jak nervously.
"Sorry old man, you're not getting it" he said coldly.
"But Jak! What about…" Kate wasn't able to say more because Jak covered her mouth with his hand while looking at something behind Ronny.
"How heroic. I should have known you would rather save your own life than saving someone else" Ronny snarled. "Why don't you listen to my dear daughter? She's right in most cases."
"Why don't you try to throw that knife at me instead? You're not getting your gun back" Jak said.
Ronny glared at him. "I don't think so. Cornelius! You better convince him to give the gun back or I'll…"
Suddenly Spike flew at Ronny from behind, knocking the girl out of his hands.
Charles' wife came running along with her husband and pulled her daughter away.
"That bird gets all mean and nasty when you piss him up" Jak said. "So don't piss him up. Word to be wise".
"That was a good one. Remind me to use that one day" I said.
"You're really full of surprises you know that?" a new voice said.
Torn had just arrived, along with four Freedom League guards who had their guns pointing at Ronny, not that it was needed, he was caught under Spike anyway.
"Oh no. Please don't tell me they made you the new commander?" Cornelius said.
"Well hello to you too" Torn said. "Now if someone will please remove that bird so we can take this convict to prison?"
Jak pulled Spike away.
"What took you so long?" he asked Torn.
"We had other things to do as well, don't think that only because you saved the city we can stop caring for all the other citizens" Torn said.
"We got lost and didn't know how to find our way" one of the guards said.
Torn glared at him as the rest of us started laughing (including the guards)
"I'm just glad that's over" Kate said. "Now perhaps we can finally get some peace and quiet".
Torn looked at her for a second.
"Peace and quiet? Maybe in a hundred years or two, when the metalheads go extinct and people learn that dark eco is not a toy" he looked at Jak and Spike as he said the last line.
Miss.Ecofreak: that's it for the action-sequences, I have one more chapter I want to write and then I'll jump of a cliff and die
Zakura: what is this? Sarcasm-day?
Miss.Ecofreak: not really... Please review and you'll get ... a new chapter. See ya