That thought kept running its course through my mind. Home… Spargus… I missed it a lot. Maybe now that Vin was working on a way for me to get my ass back to my own time, I could just get out of here without anymore problems. I hoped that Erol was out of my life now, so he wouldn't be bugging me much… That last kiss was pretty gross. I mean, the guy had his tongue in my mouth! Ok, I just made myself want to gag… better get off that subject.
The four of us had gone back to the hideout. Dad and Daxter were both exhausted since they'd been running around all day, so they'd decided to take a nap before anything else happened. Me, on the other hand, I was far from tired. I was still in my cheery mood and full of energy. When boredom had taken its toll on me, I'd challenged Uncle Torn to a card game. Him not being one to turn away from a challenge accepted, of course. We were both tied now, three to three from six games. Dawn was watching us play, occasionally looking over our shoulders to see who had a better hand, and trying to predict who would win. Well, I had to keep busy SOME how, right? RIGHT?
Our little tournament continued on until Aunt Ashelin had to spoil my winning streak. Crap. Well, I guess she had good reason because she looked worried over something.
"What is it, Ashe?" Uncle Torn asked. She leaned on the table, still panting slightly.
"A fleet of metal heads was spotted in the forest," she said quickly.
"So? There's metal heads everywhere anymore," Uncle Torn said. Aunt Ashelin shook her head.
"Not these metal heads, Torn. These guys are twice as dangerous as the ones we're used to!" she explained, "I've already lost three of my best men to them." Gee, I wonder whom that leaves… Dad, me, dad, me… Here it comes… Unlce torn looked at dad.
"Jak's too out of it for this type of thing…" he said. Well, that leaves one person doesn't it, dear Uncle? He looked at me. I KNEW it! "Can you handle it Jakie?" I inwardly scoffed. What do you think I'm here for, Uncle? My health? No, I'm here to kick some ass!
"That's what I'm here for," was my simple reply.
For some reason, the more I thought about metal heads in the forest, the madder I got. Probably because they were raiding my secret place, thinking that they were going to infiltrate the city or something equally as stupid. Well, not as long as I'm around, they won't! Time to kick a little metal head ass! I stopped the zoomer by the forest entrance and jumped off with Dawn on my shoulder as always. When I entered the forest, I grabbed my gun, kept it ready for anything, and quickly pointed it at anything that moved. I kept thinking this would be a piece of cake, since I was overly confident in my fighting abilities. Until I ran into the first one. I only had one comment when I saw it.
"Oh… my… God…"
When I came to my senses, I instantly started shooting like hell at it. But all that seemed to do was piss it off. Bad move, Jakie… VERY bad move. I started running from the huge thing as fast as I could, but it gained up quickly. Ok, so now what the hell was I going to do! My blaster was definitely not strong enough to handle a thing THAT gigantic! I ran and ran until I had nowhere else to run. Well, this is it, I guess. Jakie Freya Mar: Killed by an oversized metal head. Oh joy. Then, as if from nowhere, a strong blast shot as if out of nowhere, and the metal head fall on the ground in front of me…