Chapter 6
By shadows/of/flame
Light-eco-sage - I am so sorry, Jak and Keira do not get back together, but before you run away in disgust, I have a JakxKeira underway dedicated to you. So hold tight, and when this is finished I'll post it straight away.
Anyway, a lot of OOC in this chappie. Enjoy!
Fighting for Haven City
'I am sorry master... She has a new gun I couldn't tamper with...'
Erol laughed as he saw the pathetic state Jak was in as he was dragged into the throne room of the Palace.
"Will you EVER die?" Jak hissed, spitting on the ground by Erols feet to prove his point.
Erol started to laugh his head off.
"It looks like you are the Elf In Distress this time Jak. No one is going to waltz in here, kill me and all my Krimzon Guards, and rescue you because..." Erol laughed rather evilly in Jaks ear, "They are ALL in the same predicament as you are!"
Jak was startled. All of his saving the world thing, for it to crumple in front of of him?
"You cannot sink lower than this." Jak spat as he was led to the cells - dragged more than led - where all the other Underground people were that had been captured, and stripped of all of their weapons.
But they had all forgotten about one crucial thing - or person - Keira, the Undergrounds fallen heroine.
"We are doomed to the stretchy machine!" Samos screamed as Jak was thrown into the dirtiest cell they had - apart from Torns. "Jak was OUR LAST HOPEEE!"
'Waiting here to await certain death... what a great life we lead.' Torn grumbled to himself as he sat in a corner of the cell, thinking.
He wished Keira was there to help them...
"Keira..." he murmured. "Keira! She could..."
"Kill us all! We can't rely on HER to save us!" Jak yelled, hitting his fists against the wall. "Shes useless to us! She abandoned us all! Pretty much in our time of need!"
Erol, who was looking around the cells and heard what they were sayng, wasn't tooparticuarly worried about Keiras absence, even though he probably should have been.
"If she ever turns up here, she'll be a pushover! Dead in just so many seconds!" He crowed, seeing the expression of pure horror that passed his prisoners faces.
Erol ordered the metal heads to find Keira, and kill her on sight, but, as before, he didn't think she would become a threat to his upcoming rule of the city.
0o0o0
Keira took the shopkeepers word, but went to the hideout anyway to see if anything could be done.
The hideout was in flames.
Keira searched through the charred rubble as delicately as she could, but found nothing but a few bits of charred wood, a melted bar off one of the bunk beds, and the occasional bit of roof.
She wondered what she could do. She had exactly no idea what Erol was planning, or where he was even. But, Keira knew it probably had something to do with taking over the city, or even worse, the world.
0o0o0
Erol dragged Ashelin out of her grungy little cell, and taped her to a chair by the cities intercity intercom system.
"Tell the WHOLE of Haven City you are abdicating, and give the whole rule of the city and its government to me! Or else Jak dies, all your friends die, and I will raze Haven City to the ground!"
Ashelin didn't really have much choice, and she shakily grabbed the microphone and turned it on.
"Brave Haven City inhabitants..."
Everyone in the town stopped whatever they were doing to listen. Governer Ashelin never led them astray.
"This is Ashelin, your Governer. I am hereby..." there Ashelin took a deep breath, trying not to cry.
"I am hereby... abdicating my role as leader of this... wonderful city... and I am handing all control over to Commander Erol. This will come into effect pretty much straight away... That is all."
At the same time, everyone in the city gasped in disbelief.
Ashelin was abdicating?
And giving complete rule to EROL?
"So thats what Erols up to... and the others are being held hostage in the palace. It looks like I am going to have to break in there and stop him myself..." Keira grumbled under her breath.
The outlook was rather grim, even to Keira herself.
Torn thought she was useless, Jak envied and hated her, and Ashelin loathed her.
She didn't have any REAL friends.
But that was enough for Keira - she joined the Underground to prove her worth, after all.
"Chilli pepper!"
It was Sig. He was running straight towards her, the Peacemaker in hand.
"Need some help to storm the palace?"
Keira nodded happily, and explained the plan quickly to Sig.
"Everyone thinks you're dead!" Keira exclaimed.
"And they think you're dead too." Sig countered. "So, in the words of your plan, we could really use Daxter to get in and disable the alarms. But hes locked up, and hes no use to us there. We'll have to make do with what we have. Forward Dough Girl!"
Sig hijacked a hover to take them to the palace, and Keira jumped, narrowly getting inside the vehicle, and falling in clumsily head first.
"FOCUS!" Sig yelled as a hoard of Krimzon Guards headed straight for them, blocking their way to the palace.
Keira pulled out the Dragon Fang, and killed some of the more dangerous ones - the ones with rifles.
Since Erol had been in so much of a hurry to get rid of Keira, he had forgotten to arm his army properly, and most of them were without weapons, much to the Undergrounders advantage.
"Can we reach the Palace via the sewers?" Keira asked Sig.
Sig shook his head. "Sorry chillipepper. The Palace was ambushed long ago, and the Leaders son was kidnapped, and taken out of the city somehow via the sewers. After that, the poor fella blocked all entrance to the Palace via the sewers."
Keira sighed rather loudly. "So we just waltz in the front doors?"
Sig grinned. "I never said this would be easy. Its the only way in."
The two allies made sure their guns were fully loaded before blasting down the doors.
"Alert! Alert! Criminal activity by the front entrance on floor one! What should we do Sir?" The newly elected Krimzon Guard captain asked Erol.
Erol chuckled.
"Kill them both."
"Shit!" Keira swore as a bullet clipped her shoulder. She machine gunnedthree Krimzon Guards to death Dragon Fang styles. Sig had no time to congratulate her - it seemed all of the Krimzon Guards in Haven City were after them!
Keira needed to reload, but if she did, she risked getting shot.
She would have to take the risk.
Quickly, Keira grabbed a belt of ammo from her belt, and emptied her empty ammo pellets onto the floor. She then reloaded as quickly and efficiently as she could, but Keira was hit by a bullet in her right forearm.
That was enough to piss her off, and she went wild.
Sig chuckled as the smoke cleared.
There was not a single LIVE Krimzon Guard to be seen.
The next troop of Krimzon Guards were coming down the stairs to the first floor to join in the fight, but stopped as they saw all the dead officers.
"RETREAT!"
Sig grinned.
"Alls well so far chillipepper. Lets keep it that way, and leave before more come!"
Keira nodded her agreement, and the pair took the elevator to the throne room.
Erol was there, as expected, witha hundredor more Krimzon Guards at his command.
"Ah... Keira... Sig... take a seat. We can... chat."
"No!" Keira growled.
The two Undergrounders felt guns pointed at their temples.
"Sit!"
Keira sat, followed by Sig.
"Ah... Keira... It seems you came here to rescue your friends and Torn... your boyfriend."
Keiras eyes narrowed.
"He is NOT! MY! BOYFRIEND!"
Erol chuckled dryly.
"Admit it. You love him!"
Keira shook her head.
"We have never had any imtimate moments. He doesn't love me at all!"
"You do love him - you admitted it yourself."
Theone hundredor so Krimzon Guards started to snigger.
"I..."
She paused. After all they had gone through together, after all the things he had said about her...
"I...I love Torn."
Cliffie. Its 10:52. Night.