A/N: AHHHH! I HATE braces!! My teeth don't hurt anymore. They are now tearing up the inside of my mouth and it is all bloody and stuff. I will not bore you with my scares, though. I don't own any of the Jak2 stuff. Please R&R. Sorry if I don't answer your review. I'm in a great hurry right now and can only answer one.
WRTD: Thanks for the advice. The whole cold thing has been working, but my parents don't want me to drink up all their cold soda, so I have to deal with nothing cold for a few hours. I'm glad you liked the chapter and the whole proper act at the end. Typing this chapter will get my head away from braces and stuff. Thanks for the review.
Chapter 5
"So did you have a good day today, Roxie?" Vox asked his daughter at the dinner table. He sat at the end with his wife at the other. Roxie was on one side on a stool so she could reach up to the wooden table. Daxter had to deal with a normal chair with books stacked up on top of each other to reach the table.
Roxie looked up at Daxter and she flashed him a tiny smile on her cute little face. She had turned back from her teen mode and she was back into her little body again, but Daxter noticed little about the attitude of the girl. She was the same sly teen from before; just that she could not talk and was in a smaller body.
Daxter had seen the whole transformation of Roxie. It was simple really. All he saw was a flash of bright white light from Roxie and when the light died down there was the little cuteness standing there.
"It was kind of boring," Daxter said while stuffing his face with food. He was always hungry and Meg was a great cook. Roxie and him helped a little on the food, but Daxter got more in the way. They forgave him for the knocked over flour and the too much salt on the vegetables.
"What exactly did you do?" Vox asked with coldness in his voice. Daxter glanced over to him and swallowed hard on his food. Roxie shrugged and bit into more of her honey bread.
"We just walked around the city and stuff," Daxter said while holding eye contact with Roxie for a few seconds. "Don't worry, bub, I know Kung Fu and I can protect your daughter at all times." He got up on the table and did a little kick that by mistake kicked Vox's drink.
Vox stopped his cup from tipping over before the water fell out while glaring up at Daxter dangerously. Daxter gave a sheepish grin and sat back down in his chair. Roxie was trying so hard not to laugh. Vox cooled down when he saw the smile on his daughter's face.
"Eat your vegetables before your honey bread, dear," Meg said quietly to Roxie while pointing to the green stick on her plate that had a huge pile of salt on top. Roxie looked over to her green stick with as great look of disgust.
"They taste better with that much salt," Daxter pointed out and shoved a mouthful of meat into his mouth. He saw Roxie look up to him with a mean look, but he pretended to not see it. "Jak always loved to put that much salt on those," he said but it came out as, "ak ways oved to put at uch alt on ose."
"We have a rule not to talk with your mouthful," Vox said dryly to Daxter. Daxter looked over to him with an annoyed glare and rolled his eyes. The dad was getting on his nerves. He looked fine at first, but with all the questions he was getting kind of creepy.
"So where did you come from Daxter?" Meg asked with a bit of cheer to her voice.
"A place called Sandover Village," Daxter answered after swallowing.
"How did you get here?" Vox asked with a suspicious tone.
Daxter hesitated then finally said, "I got teleported here. No big deal. Me and my pal did it all the time. Did you know that if you hold your nose and jump in backwards..."
"We have not gotten a portal to the country in forever," Vox snapped and Roxie glanced up from her vegetables to her friend. Meg looked over to Daxter with a look of worry in her eyes that were so much like Roxie's.
"I'm guessing you have not been teleporting in a long time, bub," Daxter said with a bit of frustration and anger in his voice, "Because I swear Jak and I went through a portal and ended up here. You can say all you want about teleporting but I know for sure what was going on."
There was a long silence that fell over the table. Daxter said nothing and just ate his food while thinking hard. If Vox was right and there really was no portals leading here then what did Jak and him fly through? He had no idea where they ended up still. Well, he was in Haven City. He had heard Erol and Roxie talk about the city. But he had never heard of Haven City.
Suddenly Daxter did not feel like eating. He fiddled with his fork till it was time to clear the table. He helped wash the dishes with little words. Roxie quickly went to her room and Daxter followed behind her with silence. She was a little worried about him.
Roxie put her fingers up to Daxter's forehead that were shaped as a V and he heard the words bounce around in his head, "I got to tell you what I saw when I got knocked out back there with the whole fight with Erol."
"Shoot," Daxter muttered while crossing his arms in front of him. He had a bit of frustration to his voice and Roxie wondered if this was the right time to show him her vision.
She went ahead anyways and put her whole hand on his forehead and they both closed their eyes. The vision was of Jak and the frustration quickly flew away from Daxter as he watched in his head what Jak was doing.
As always the vision had no sound, but it did not really matter. Daxter saw Jak crouched up in a ball in the corner of a tiny metal room. One side of the tiny cramped room was some thick metal bars and his cell was among many. Beside his cell were others just like his, but they were empty or had the remains of a dead elf left in them because of some lazy janitor who had to pick up the dead bodies.
Jak looked a bit frightened and scared. His big blue eyes flashed terror as the bars to his cell flew up and two Krimson Guards came in. Jak was pulled up from where he was on the floor and almost dragged out of his cell. They pushed and pulled the protesting Jak to a chair in the middle of the big room.
After a long time of struggling Jak had no more energy left in his poor body and finally let the two Krimson Guards push him into the chair. They strapped him to the chair by his wrists and then walked away to leave Jak alone with their leader.
It was Baron Praxis. Daxter saw his lips move so that he was talking to Jak. He then gave an evil smile and pushed a few buttons on the control panel next to the chair Jak was in. Then the vision was done.
They both opened their eyes and a long silence filled Roxie's little room. Roxie then put her fingers to Daxter's head and said into his mind, "That is the reason why I really want to save Jak. I can't just sit around here and let him get tortured by that Baron!"
"It can't be that easy," Daxter said while thinking hard. "Erol is still around with his Krimson Guards. If he finds you then we are as good as dead. You got to change your whole teen form from top to bottom."
Roxie cocked her head to the side and put her fingers back to his forehead again. "What is wrong with what I look like then?!"
Daxter looked at her blankly and said, "I don't want to mean but, the long hair is way out of style and the clothes got to change right away. We just got to get something that fits your figure."
"What is wrong with my figure?!?!" Roxie screamed in Daxter's head and he pulled away with a wince. She gave him a mean look and was totally ticked off at him.
"Sheesh!" he said while rubbing his head in pain. He quickly made a mental note to never piss her off when she was in little form. "Nothing is wrong with you," he said to calm her down. "Really your quite hot. Just that the clothes you wear is a bit old. You got to get something new."
Roxie had to put her fingers back onto Daxter's forehead. He hesitated a bit in fright that she might yell again in his head, but he knew she had to talk some how so he let her go ahead. She hated not being able to talk. Having to touch a forehead every time she wanted to say something was tiring.
"So I need a new hair do, new clothes, and new everything?" she asked in Daxter's head and he nodded. "I want a hat!" he said with excitement to her voice. Daxter just laughed at her actions.
"Just pick a freakin' outfit and get your butt out of there," Daxter said while leaning against the leg of a table next to the dressing room that Roxie was in. "I don't think when we rescue Jak he will dwelling on what you are wearing."
"Okay, Dax, I'm ready!" Roxie said and she flew the door open and jumped out with her new outfit on. Daxter just stared and said nothing as he jaw hit the floor.
She wore a white shirt under a black shirt that had little holes in it so you could see the white one under it. It showed her small bare midriff. She had on some purple jean shorts and a thick black belt rested on one side of her hip and the other was loose and held a little pack that held a few odd and ends in it. Her black boots came up to her knees. (They are the ones that vampire girl wears in the movie Underworld.) She still had on her gloves and a pair of purple tinted goggles rested around her neck.
"Say something," Roxie said flatly. Guys could be guys.
Daxter finally snapped back into reality and cleared his head. This was his friend not some girl being a model for him. They were here for Jak.
"You look really good," Daxter said while jumping up to her shoulder. "And I love the new do. Goes very good with your new outfit." He ruffled her short hair that was all spiky and was way different than her long hair.
"Oh my gosh!" Roxie gasped and pointed ahead with an index finger to a hat stand. "That hat is mine!" She rushed to the stand and Daxter had to hang on tight so he would not fall off her shoulder. She quickly took a hat and paid the person who worked at the stand.
"Happy now?" Daxter asked flatly as Roxie gave a huge smile and put the three cornered hat on her head. (It looks like the hat Jack Sparrow has in POTC.)
"Let's head to the palace now," Roxie said while fixing her hat on in the right place. "The hat is perfect. I love it, Daxter."
"Yeah, yeah, warm fuzzies all around," Daxter muttered while rolling his eyes. Sometimes Roxie could really act like a kid while in teen form. "Let's just get there before we run into any Krimson Guards. Are you sure the ventilation shaft will work?"
"It will be perfect, Dax," Roxie said with a wave of her gloved hand. "Oh no."
"Great," Daxter said sarcastically and looking up ahead to see Erol coming towards them. "The world's freak is coming our way again."
"What do I do?!" Roxie almost freaked out right then and there on the spot. "What do you do?!"
"Calm down, kid!" Daxter hissed into her ear. "Act normal for once and look like you have never seen him before." He quickly jumped to the ground and got onto his four paws like he was some animal, even though he really was. "And for me," he said up to her. "I'll just look like your average pet." He took off his gloves and cap and shoved them into her belt right before Erol spotted them.
He walked up to them and eyed both with a bit of confusion. He stopped when he came up to her in the crowd and said, "We have a rule to have all pets on a leash in this part of Haven City." He pulled out a collar and rope and handed them to Roxie.
"Uh..." Roxie muttered before taking them, "Thanks."
"Have we met before?" Erol said and Roxie knew for sure she was busted. "Maybe if I know your name I could remember." Daxter rolled his eyes from where he was on the ground trying to look like a pet. He was not that great at flirting.
"I don't know you," Roxie said a bit clueless to what Erol was doing. She glanced down to Daxter who was rubbing against her legs like he was some cat. "What the heck is he doing?" she thought and tried to kick Daxter away.
"Maybe you will know me by my racing," Erol said and flashed Roxie a smile. "I'm in third class racing and this is my first year doing it."
Roxie now caught on to what he was doing and almost burned him to a crisp. This guy was really starting to get on her nerves. "So the picture of you all around the city is really you?"
"Yeah," he said with a laugh. "They could not make enough of me."
"I just thought they messed up because I had always thought the guy was ugly," Roxie said like she was clueless on who he really was. She saw the anger burn in his eyes and he tried to cover it up.
"Yeah," he said nervously and tried to kick Daxter away from going around his own legs. "They sort of did mess up on that picture. I can just get the Baron to make me another one to put around the city. You know that I'm the head leader of the Krimson Guards?" he asked while getting closer to Roxie.
"Somebody help!" Roxie screamed in her head. That was when Daxter struck with his teeth.
"OUCH!" Erol yelled loudly and he jumped away from Roxie and Daxter while clutching his ankle that was bleeding a little. "Your pet bit me!" he said while pointing down to Daxter who was twisting around Roxie's legs with a sly smile on his face.
Roxie tried hard to keep down a laugh and started to pet Daxter. "He does not like strangers." She picked up Daxter like he really was a pet and started to run down the street. "I got to go. See you later," she said back to Erol with an evil smile on her face. When he was out of earshot she muttered, "Let's hope not!"
Daxter jumped back onto her shoulder as she dumped the leash on the ground. He quickly put back on his gloves and cap. "It took a while for you to catch on, but you were perfect," Daxter said to her. "Next time don't kick me so hard."
"Sorry," she said with a weak smile. "You came just in time, though. He deserved that bite you gave him." They both laughed and came to the huge building that held Jak in it. It loomed up before them and went way above the other buildings around them.
"We are going to have to go in that?" Daxter asked with still looking up.
"I told you before, Daxter," Roxie said while taking out a wrench and coming up to a ventilation shaft. She took out all the bolts and slid the cover off. She let Daxter go in first and followed right behind him.
It was dark and musty in the shaft. Daxter sneezed and a mist of dust rose from the bottom on the shaft. Roxie coughed on it and it only brought up more. They kept going for around three minutes and just kept crawling straight.
"You would think they would put some security system in here," Daxter said with his cocky voice as always.
BOOM! The sound came from far away and it echoed around the tiny chamber. The two suddenly became alert and both looked up with dread.
"You had to ask," Roxie muttered to him as they saw the stream of air come right at them from ahead. "Brace yourself!" she yelled and clung desperately to the sides of the shaft.
Daxter yelled and was hit full blast by the air. He slammed into Roxie's face and this sent the two rolling through the shaft back to where they came from. After a long tumble they fell out in a heap of arms and legs.
"That was painful," Roxie muttered while getting up and brushing herself off.
"Let's go through the shaft, Daxter," Daxter mimicked Roxie and trying to sound like her. "It will be fine, Daxter," he went on while walking around Roxie. "We will get to Jak in seconds, Daxter. Well, where the heck are we now?!"
Roxie winced when she heard Daxter yell. He looked up at her with anger and waited for the teen to say something. He was done. He had gotten his point across to her.
"Okay," Roxie started with a deep sigh, "That did not work, but I know a map shop that will have everything we need to get into the palace. I can make things better by going there."
"Fine," Daxter said while jumping to her shoulder. "Plus, I can't stay mad at you for forever."
A/N: Not that long of chapter, but I had fun writing it. Please send a review! Next chapter should be out real soon!