Well, here I am… lying on that dreaded table in the middle of the room. It had been a while since my capture. Too long for my tastes. I estimated around two months. The Baron was doing the same thing to me as he did to my father. He was injecting me with dark eco, hoping that I'd become some kind of dark warrior. Well, he can just piss off, because if dad didn't cave in to the Baron's eco, then neither would I! Even though after every treatment I could hardly move, I wasn't going to allow myself to become one of his 'failed experiments'. And the one question that still had me baffled was why the hell hadn't anyone come to my rescue yet? Uh… I feel like I've been hit by a truck and trampled over by a wasteland metal head.
Anyhow, I'd just gotten another eco treatment, courtesy of Baron Praxis. My limbs felt numb, I could hardly keep my eyes open, and all I could think about was how I was going to kill that fucker. I wonder if dad felt the same way when he was in my position…he probably did. But all that mattered very little when I opened my eyes and saw… dad? Was I seeing things? I let my vision clear itself for a moment. Maybe I wasn't…
"Dad?" I whispered.
"Jakie," he answered, "I'm sorry." Heh. What's he sorry about? It's my fault I'm here in the first place. I felt him free my wrists and ankles and pick me up off the table.
"What the hell took you so long…" I muttered.
"We had trouble getting inside the palace," he answered. My feet touched the floor, and her slung my arm around his shoulders. I felt something jump up on my shoulder. I thought it was dawn at first, but then realized it was too heavy to be my ottsel.
"So, uh… you alright there, Jakie?" Daxter. I nodded slightly, still a bit worn out from all the eco that had been forced into my body.
"Come on. Torn's outside waiting for us with a zoomer," Jak said quietly.
To be honest, I have no clue how we got out of there. I was far too exhausted to keep track of where we were going. All I know is we got outside, where Uncle Torn was waiting for us with a zoomer.
"Jakie!" Dawn exclaimed happily, and then jumped on my shoulder.
"Nice to see you too…" I uttered. Well, it's nice to know that I was missed.
"Well done, Jak," Torn complimented. Heh, nice to see you too, Uncle. Well, at least he acknowledged my presence… Dad put me in the back and climbed into the front seat along with Daxter. Dawn curled up next to me, but that's all I really remember before conking out right then and there.
By the time I woke up, I was back at the Underground hideout. My entire body was in terrible pain, and everything was dark. Or is that because I have my eyes closed? Yep… it is. I struggled to open them, but it was like trying to move a tone of bricks. And for some reason, it felt like something was compressing my chest… When I finally did get my eyes open, everything was in a blur. Well, someone doesn't want my eyes to work properly. I let them adjust for a while and looked down to see what was making it so difficult to breathe and saw something orange and fuzzy. Dawn. I smiled weakly and closed my eyes again. I have to admit, Dawn had always been a good friend to me. Ever since we were kids, we had been nearly inseparable. She'd always been a loyal companion, although she was sometimes very annoying and would sometimes strike a nerve with me. But still, we grew up together, and as far as I could tell, we were going to die together.
Another ten or fifteen minutes passed, and my hearing began to come back. Only… it was much sharper than I remember it. Wow, maybe that dark eco had some positive effects as well! I could hear dad and Uncle Torn talking about something in the other room. Something that had to do with eco… I only caught bits and pieces of their conversation, since they were in another room, and they had lowered their voices.
"…Very bad… the same amount… dark eco…two months… almost two years," I heard Uncle Torn say.
"So then… almost as much… body… as me," dad responded.
"Right… now she's…just as much…danger…"
"We have to do something…"
"We
can't afford… another fighter… one as good as her… Baron
Praxis." That's when I decided to stop listening. Not only was it
getting a little boring, but also I didn't want to hear about
Praxis at the moment. I was in too much pain to be pissed at him.
I
just wanted to sleep… and that's what I did.