A/N: Glad you liked the last chapter. You learn more about Roxie in his chapter. Daxter sort of freaks out here, but gets over it quickly. I got a bit of writer's block so that is why the chapter took so long. I don't own anything for Jak2, so here is the chapter! Please give a review.
Chapter 3
"You can't be the cute little kid who would not punch anyone even if her little life depended on it!" Daxter said while pointing up to the older Roxie.
Roxie folded her arms and gave an annoyed sigh. "It is me, Dax!" she pleaded. "Every day at noon I change into an older me. I can talk and can do everything an average teen elf can do at this age. Do you believe me?"
There was a long silence as Daxter just stared up at Roxie. She looked down to him with those big green eyes.
"You're crazy!" Daxter finally said while running away as fast as his little legs could take him. Roxie watched him go and rolled her eyes one more time. He could not run that fast and she let him run his heart out before sprinting to him.
"Come on!" she yelled to him while pulling up right beside her fuzzy friend. "I'm not that crazy! I might have problems, but they are not big."
Daxter had a look of panic on his face as he looked over to her running beside him. "Problems?!" he yelled. "You call giving visions to people and turning from a cute little girl to a hot teen having little problems?!"
Roxie had to make Daxter stop so he would calm down. She wanted a friend. If he just calmed down and listened to her maybe he would befriend her again. She picked up speed and ran in front of him and stopped so he would bump into her.
Daxter just kept running and ran right through her legs. He ran around the corner and Roxie knew it was her job to get to him before a Krimson Guard did. She jumped up and stole a two-seat zoomer. A sly smile was on her face as she slammed down on the gas and flew around the corner.
Daxter did not see her coming behind him. She leaned out of her zoomer and picked him up by his tail. "Hey!" he yelled to her. "I only got one of those!" She set him beside her on the zoomer and flew up to be with all the other zoomers in the air.
"Calm down, Daxter!" she said to him. "When I got shot that day at school something happened to me. To save my brain from going haywire they had to hurt my voice box so in my brain would not have to compute everything to words and it would save that part of my brain."
He looked over to her from panting. "Is that why you could not talk in small form?" he asked while trying to get his heart rate down. It was beating so fast he thought it would explode right then and there.
"They said I would gain my voice a year afterwards and my brain would be okay," Roxie said while getting stuck in traffic. "I did not gain it back but I got something other than that. I could share memory of my life to other people and talk to people in their heads."
Daxter nodded while slowly beginning to figure out everything. "I saw the vision of that kid and the whole school burning down. And you talked to me in my thoughts. But that does not explain why you grow ten years in a second."
Roxie gave a weak smile to her friend. "I so badly wanted my voice back...so...I...I tried to gain it back by getting my hands on green ego. The stuff I got my hands on, though, was it but had some other toxic stuff in it. It only lasts for five hours in the day, but it kept coming back after that."
"So you're saying that every day at noon you turn into your older self and you are healthy and well?" he asked. Roxie nodded. "And it only lasts till five?" She nodded again. Then there was a long silence.
"I think that is awesome!" Daxter then said. "You can be a kid and a teen in the same day. Don't you like it?"
"My parents would freak if they found out!" Roxie said over dramatically to her friend. "It is okay and everything...but..." she faded off and her face saddened.
"Your parents have no idea that you change into this everyday?" Daxter asked while pointing to Roxie with confusion. She just nodded. "Okay," he concluded, "Your parents would freak." He crossed his arms in front of him and waited for her to say something. She was a bit strange, but for some reason Daxter liked her that way.
"Let's get off this thing," Roxie said to him while not even bothering to lowering the zoomer. She lifted her leg over and jumped off while doing a flip in the air. Daxter hopped up in his seat and jumped off in a very clumsy way.
"Park it next time, punk!" a guy on a zoomer behind the one they just got off yelled down to Roxie while shaking his balled fist into the air in anger.
She turned around and looked at the guy coldly and said, "I don't see a sigh to park it, so shut it and leave it up to whomever."
"Want me to bring this subject up with a Krimson Guard?" the guy asked while he saw Roxie walk off.
Roxie turned around again with a bit of frustration and asked, "Are you such a wimp that you have to call on a guard to defend you?" Daxter tried to keep down a snicker, but was failing. The guy saw him laugh and got madder.
"At least get it out of the way!" he snapped to Roxie while glaring down at Daxter.
"Don't wet your pants, tough guy," Roxie said while taking out a blue see-through dice with a different elf symbol on each side. (a/n: It is just like our dice just that it is in the elf language and not English.) Daxter eyed the dice in her hand and wondered what she was doing. Maybe she was crazy.
"What are you going to do?" the guy asked with a mocking laugh at her. "Knock me out with the little dice?"
"Watch," was her simple answer. She tossed the dice up with her gloved hand and caught it after twirling around a few times. Both Daxter and the guy looked bored but Roxie was smiling. She finally caught the dice with her fingerless glove and there was a tiny beeping sound when it touched her skin.
She then quickly threw her blue dice to the abandoned zoomer in front of the guy's zoomer, and right when it collided with the zoomer there was a huge explosion, and the thing blew away and hit the side of a building. There was a screech of metal as the zoomer and a metal roof scraped together and sparks flew into the air.
Everyone's eyes were on Roxie now to see what else she had in store for the poor guy on the zoomer. She had been shielding her eyes with an arm and now she held out her palm to the blown up zoomer. In just a few seconds the blue dice re built itself and was in the palm of Roxie's gloved hand.
The dramatic silence in the town came crashing down when a Krimson Guard came up and asked in a rough voice, "What is going on?"
Roxie hid her dice behind her back and gave a warning glare up to the guy on the zoomer. "I...uh...I kicked the zoomer away and it blew up by mistake. She was just asking if I was okay," the guy said without meeting anyone's eyes. He then took off with his zoomer and everyone went back to his or her normal days.
"That was great," Daxter said while zipping up Roxie's leg and stopping at her shoulder. She was not used to have him on her shoulder and tried to shrug him off, but he made sure to stay on her shoulder.
Roxie shrugged her shoulders and only one went up because of the new weight on the shoulder Daxter was resting on. She did not like him there, but if that was the way he traveled she had to get used to it. Plus, she had been noticing that she was a ton faster than he was when walking.
"It was easy," Roxie said while taking out her blue dice. She rested it in the palm of her gloved hand and explained to the fuzzy creature on her shoulder how it worked. "Normal dice right now, right? But when it touches skin the thing goes haywire inside." She threw it into the air and caught it in her fingerless gloved hand. All this time Daxter's eyes were on the dice.
Roxie dropped the dice on the ground and stepped away before it exploded loudly. They got a few stares from the elves walking around the town, but the two were not concerned on them at the time.
"Now watch," she said to Daxter and held out her palm of her gloved hand to the dice. It quickly rebuilt itself in seconds. It was like an invisible hand grabbed the dice and brought it back to the palm of Roxie's hand. "This glove controls the dice and what they do. When I'm doing this it rebuilds and after that it finds its way back to my hand. Easy controls for the thing."
"Where did you get it?" Daxter asked as switched to Roxie's other shoulder as she slipped the dice back into one of her tattered pant pockets.
"Stole it from my dad's boss," Roxie said. "He has tons of gizmos and gadgets all around his hideout. Found it one day when I went with my dad. I snuck in when I was in this form the next day and stole some. Got hurt by trying to find out how to use them." She said this with a laugh of remembering almost getting blown up by her new prize. (a/n: if you did not figure out yet her dad works with the underground and she stole the dice from Torn.)
Roxie walked on with Daxter on her shoulder and they were both alone with their thoughts. Daxter was dwelling on Jak most of the time while Roxie was thinking more on the lines of food. Very suddenly the street was cleared of people. Little zoomers flew above the two and it was real quiet as Roxie kept walking.
Daxter jumped off Roxie's shoulder and sniffed the air for no reason. "Smell anything funny?" he asked while quickly running to catch up with Roxie's long strides. He stayed close to her legs because things were getting weird suddenly.
Roxie sniffed the air and shook her head. "I smell nothing, but I don't hear anything as well." She slowed her pace and scanned around her with her worried green eyes.
"I smell laser dust," Daxter said with a worry in his voice. "That means guns. Lots of them because it is strong in my nose." He looked up to Roxie, but she was too busy looking around the area to glance to him. He already knew she was worried, though.
"It is quiet," Roxie said while stopping in her tracks and snapping her head around to see if anyone was following them. No one was on the road and nothing in the air. "Too quiet."
"And that will soon stop if someone does not talk," came a cold voice from ahead. Roxie zipped around with Daxter and saw Erol there walking towards them with a steady pace of confidence. His pistol clanked quietly on the side of his leg and his hand was ready to pull it out at anytime.
"What do you want now, fruit head?" Daxter asked while bringing up the whole fruit stand thing from around only two hours back. This did not do anything to Erol. He stopped around three yards away from the teen and her furry friend on the ground beside her leg.
Erol did not even glance at Daxter and said, "It is either going to prison and being forced for information there, telling me everything I want to know here, or dieing from one of the guns surrounding you." He gave a slight nod and from rooftops and behind things around 20 Krimson Guards stepped out reveling some laser guns.
The ominous touch creped up Roxie's skin as she looked around her. She gave a worried glance down to Daxter and he just looked mad. He pushed himself away from Roxie and came to the middle of Erol and his friend. You could not miss the anger in his eyes.
"What did you do to Jak?" he demanded to Erol with as much power in his voice as he could muster. With the many Krimson Guards around fear was making its way into Daxter even though the cockiness would always be there.
Erol laughed as he looked down at Daxter with his cold brown eyes. The laugh echoed around and it gave Roxie chills. "The rat wants to see Jak?" He walked up to Daxter and got onto one knee to get to his eye level. Daxter did not dare back away. They were so close Erol could almost feel Daxter's fur while Daxter could smell the breath of the enemy.
"How cute," Erol muttered deathly to Daxter and it looked like they were battling it out with lasers in their eyes. It was test of confidence as they both locked eyes. First one to back down would lose.
Roxie folded her arms in front of her while giving a sigh. "Some times you act like such a baby, Erol," she said while grabbing Daxter away and giving Erol a cold glare. "Bug off!" she snapped to him as he got up and stood up straight and tall even though he was a bit short.
Erol rolled his eyes and went down to busyness with the girl. "You know where the little girl is. Tell us now where she is and I might be kind."
Daxter snorted while rolling his eyes. "The kindest thing you ever done was shooting your foot. That was the most funniest too. That gives you two points in one action. Welcome to the game."
"Shut it, rat!" Erol yelled at him while glaring down at Daxter. "Now just tell me where the girl is."
"You might want to run everything by me again," Roxie said with pretend confusion. "Because I don't speak stupid. If my ears were just a bit longer maybe I could understand you."
Something like a growl was heard from Erol as he pushed his anger down inside of him. He saw as Roxie tried to make her ears longer by pulling on them. "I'm not letting you buy time, girl," he said to Roxie. "The little girl is a friend with the kid who plans to take over Haven City. Baron Praxis says get the information and kill anyone in the way. So if you will not tell all hell will break loose!"
"What do we do?!" Daxter whispered to Roxie while still looking at Erol. He could see in the girl's eyes that the wheels in her head were spinning quickly. He hoped she was quick thinking or they would end up dead.
"I need time!" Roxie whispered down to Daxter through clenched teeth. If she could wait some stupid towns person would fly in with a zoomer and she and Daxter would be out of there, but she had no idea how long that would take. Her plan could fail miserably if there was a blockade anywhere near.
"Time is not on our side right now, Roxie!" Daxter whispered quickly with a bit of panic on his face. He was starting to get real jumpy next to her and kept looking back from his friend to foe.
"I could tell you everything you wanted to know about this girl," Roxie said slowly. She saw the evil smile on Erol's face when she said this. He put his hands behind his back and he waited for her to go on.
"BUT," she said loudly while looking up to see a Krimson Guard zoomer coming above her. It would have to do and she did get plenty of ammo in that cruiser, and it was small, so turns would be easy and speed was in seconds. "Telling a guy like you where she is not on my to do list. Call me later!"
Roxie jumped up and hit the guy on the small red zoomer under the chin. He fell off to the hard ground with a thump. He was knocked out cold. Erol swore loudly while pulling out his pistol and shooting at the zoomer Roxie was now on. "Shoot her, you idiots!" he yelled to the other Krimson Guards.
"Don't think so!" Daxter said from right below Erol. He looked down with a bit of shock on his face. "Shoot me!" Daxter yelled while spreading his arms into the air. Some of the Krimson Guards looked over to Daxter and began to fire.
There were two problems there. One, Daxter was right next to their leader, Erol. Two, the Krimson Guards could not aim if their lives depended on it. Daxter jumped out of the way and was picked up by Roxie on the smoking zoomer. Erol duck-rolled out of the way of lasers and quickly got up.
"I'll catch up with them on a zoomer," Erol shouted to his team. "Try to set up blockades to stop her." He skillfully jumped up on a Krimson Guard zoomer just like the one Roxie was on and shoved his pistol back into place.
He looked down and saw that no one was doing anything still. "Grr. GO NOW!" he yelled and they finally jumped into action on setting up blockades for the girl. The girl was going to pay for what she had done to his image. He flew around a corner and made a mental note to start racing for zoomers. It could come in handy.
"Erol!" someone called from Erol's communicator. He snapped it off his belt and realized it was the Baron.
"Great," he muttered sarcastically. "What do you need, sir?" he asked and tried to keep the annoyed tone out of his voice.
"Do you have the girl yet?" Baron Praxis asked with demand in his stern voice. Erol knew he was mad from just his voice. "A Krimson Guard said you failed the first time because of giant rat throwing fruit at you. Would you like to explain?"
"I'm going to kill that guard for that," Erol said to himself then answered, "I got another girl who knows where the little girl is. You will have your answers for this kid by to night."
"I better," the Baron spat out. "Or I'm cutting you, Erol. Don't disappoint me!"
Erol had a bit of worry in his eyes as he hung up on the communicator. The look vanished soon as he spotted Roxie's zoomer ahead. They were good as dead now.
A/N: Sorry for long chapter. People like long chapters and I hope I'm right about what I just said. If you don't tell me and I can cut it short a bit. Please give a review! Thanks!