A/N: I'm SO sorry that I'm not putting Jak in this chapter! I said taht I would put him in this chapter, butthe idea was not good and this one is better. When I was at my dad's work I got a good idea for a Jak chapter and that one will be for the next chapter. Sorry that it took me such a long time to finish the chapter. I've had some writer's block.And here is the chapter!I don't own anything from Jak2. Please R&R.

Chapter 15

"Please don't tell more of those freaky, flying Metal Heads are around here," Daxter said with worry as the two elves climbed to a patch of earth a few feet above the water. A strong wooden bridge led to another patch of land.

"I don't understand it," Merlander said to them with a bit of confusion on his face. "Why did they want you and not us?"

"Because I'm special," Roxie said with a proud smile on her face.

"No kidding," Daxter muttered while rolling his eyes. She gave a glare and he smiled down at her innocently. The three stopped in the middle of the bridge, butMerlander was still confused.

"But those kinds of Metal Heads never attack like that," he said in deep thought. "They only attack when you're not looking or hurt. They are really shy and never go after a group of people. That is why I did not know how to kill them at first and was so surprised."

"You did not look all that surprised," Roxie stated while folding her arms in front of her.

Merlander just shrugged his shoulders and said nothing at all. He turned to the railing of the bridge then stopped as if he had turned into ice. He winced while holding onto his side where the claws of the Metal Head dug into.

"Are you okay?!" Roxie asked him with panic in her voice. She rushed over to him and put a hand on his shoulder as he grimaced with pain. Merlander then stopped wincing and looked a bit confused. He stood straight up again with wonder in his eyes.

"What was that about?" Daxter asked with a touch of anger in his voice.

"I...I don't know," Merlander said. "My side hurt suddenly, then it was gone in two seconds." He pulled his shirt up to see the scare from the Metal Head. All three were blown away when it was not there and with no sign a Metal Head clawed him there. "That's odd," was all Merlander could say.

"I could swear that Metal Head clawed you right there," Roxie said while pointing to his side.

"Me too," Merlander said with bewilderment. "But I guess it is okay now because I feel just fine."

"Are you sure?" Daxter asked Merlander while narrowing his eyes at him.

"Yeah," Merlander answered while giving Daxter a warning glare. "Let's just go before anymore of those Metal Heads show up."

"Okay," Roxie said. "So where do we go from here?"

"Down," Merlander said. "Just follow me."

"You mean we got to go underwater?" Daxter asked him. "Are you sure there are no underwater Metal Heads in this water?" After that near death experience with those Metal Heads back at the Pumping Station, Daxter hated those kind and did not want to see them again in a long time.

"It is called Black Water," Merlander said. "Let's hurry." Merlander jumped off the bridge with Roxie right behind him. Daxter hesitated a bit and weighted his options. He finally made up his mind and gave a sigh. He jumped off the bridge and prepared himself for the cold blast of water.

Daxter splashed into the ice,cold water and opened his eyes to see where the other two where. Merlander grabbed Roxie's wrist and they were swimming deeper down to the bottom. Daxter quickly flew down in the water and stopped next to Roxie and Merlander andhoveredwhile hewaited for them to make the next move.

Merlander brushed a bit of sand from the bottom of the water and uncovered a round metal door. He pushed a button on it and the door opened for them and some big bubbles escaped from the open latch. Merlander and Roxie went though with Daxter right on their tails and Merlander closed the door behind them.

Right after Merlander closed the door latch tight, the water in the round tube they were now in started to be sucked into little holes at the bottom. Soon air filled their lungs and Roxie gasped for it. Merlander had done this so many times he was used to it, and Daxter was half otter so it was no big deal.

The room they were now in was round and small. It had just enough space for Roxie and Merlander to stand next to each other and for Daxter to sit on one of their shoulders. Water dripped from the ceiling and echoed around the tiny chamber. Roxie shivered in the cold while Merlander typed a few things on a keypad built into the wall of the tube.

"Hang on," he said and the keypad went back into the wall. The floor under their feet started to drop and Roxie gave a short gasp of surprise. After a few seconds the floor under them stopped and it started to move sideways. Then it stopped again and started to go back up again a long ways.

"We call it Black Water because you have to go down into water that is black," Merlander explained as the platform under them started to go up. "But we really live in the middle of a mountain."

"Cool!" Daxter exclaimed. "How did you guys find it in the first place?" He shook the water off him like a dog would when wet. The others gave him mean glares when the water sprinkled into their faces. Daxter ignored them.

"Simon just said it was there for a long time," Merlander said. "I did not dwell on it, though, so I never asked him again or looked much into it."

"And who is Simon?" Roxie asked while pushing her hat up out of her face. She then took it off to air it out.

"He is the leader of Black Water," Merlander explained. "I'll introduce you to him once we get there."

"Okay," Roxie said and the platform stopped. A door opened in front of them and Merlander lead them into a big hallway with five doors leading to other places. "Do you know where to go?" she asked Merlander.

"Sure he does!" came a voice next to Roxie. "He is here all the time!" Roxie jumped in surprise and looked to her side to see whom the voice belonged to and how he had sunken up on her. But no one was there.

"So you should not worry," came the voice but on her other side. Roxie looked to that side and only saw a flash of blue with a few sparks.

"Whoa!" Daxter yelled as he saw a form running circles around Roxie. "What is that thing?!" he asked Merlander.

"Ha, ha!" the form zipping around Roxie with tremendous speed laughed, "Nice hat!" The form grabbed Roxie's hat off her head and kept going around in circles and making Daxter and Roxie very dizzy and confused.

"Flash!" Merlander scolded. "Stop before you make them throw up on you!"

Bam! Just like that, the form stopped in front of Roxie. He was just a little kid that looked to be around nine or ten years old. He had short blond hair and a sly smile on his face with big blue eyes that sparkled with mischief. (A/N: He looks very much like Dash from the movie, The Incredibles, but his eyes are slightly different and his name is different too.)

"Give me my hat back!" Roxie demanded to the kid and grabbed her hat off his head and pushed it down on her own head. The kid giggled and started to jump up and down like he had too much sugar and was too hyper to stand still.

"Who is this?" the kid asked in a rush. "Is she Roxie? Or is she some person you picked up on the street and she has no home and has to stay here? Will you tell me? Or am I going to have to force it out of you? Come on! Tell me!"

"Whoa, calm down!" Daxter said while holding onto his head with one paw as he tried to figure out what those rush of words meant. The kid talked so fast no one could understand him. "Slower next time."

"This is Roxie and Daxter," Merlander introducedthem to the kid. "And this is Flash. He tells us that when he was a bit younger he was picked on in his class because his dad was poor. One day he was in Dead Town and fell into some water that was really blue eco mixed with other chemicals. So now he has blue eco in him all the time."

"Yeah," Daxter said with a bit of frustration in his voice, "I could guess that much, but why is he so hyper?"

"Flash has to be moving all the time," Merlander explained. "Blue eco makes your heart go a bit faster and your whole body has to be moving fast or you might die. But long ago you could only have it for short period of times. Flash has it every second of his life and he can't slow down or it might be bad for him."

"Okay," Roxie said slowly while looking down at Flash. "I guess it is kind of what I have with this whole eco stuff."

"It is totally WICKED!" Flash said while starting to run around the hallway and leaving blue flashes behind him. Roxie and Daxter gave each other looks and just watched as the kid ran around.

"A big ball of lightning is what he is," Merlander said with a smile. "Flash, where is Simon? I need to introduce Roxie to him."

Flash suddenly showed up next to Merlander and said quickly, "He is with Rose because she is crying again for some reason or other in that room." He pointed to a door that had a sign on it saying "Bunks". "But I would not go in there if I was you," he added and then in the blink of an eye he ran up to the door and waited for the rest to follow.

"Who is Rose?" Roxie asked while tilting her head to the side, and by mistakesheknocked the side of her hat on Daxter. Daxter gave her a glare and yanked the hat off her head and took off with it. She made a reach for him but did not seem to be able to grab him.

"She is another who has eco in her," Merlander said as he watched Daxter run up his side and sat on his shoulder with Roxie's hat on his tiny head.Daxter winked at Flash and gave Roxie a sly smile.Flash giggled and just watched Daxter the whole time with wonder in his big eyes. "But Rose has Red eco in her all the time."

"So everything she does is triple her strength," Flash took over. He tried to speak a bit slowly for the two to understand, but he was so used to letting it all go and not trying to hold back. "So her strength is stronger, her body is stronger, her voice is stronger, and not to mention, her poop is stronger." As he said this, he wrinkled up his nose in disgust.

Daxter laughed out loud and said, "Only a kid would blab that to the world." Roxie just wrinkled her nose too and Merlander shook his head.

"Her crying is not that loud," Merlander said and opened the door. Right away a wail pierced everyone's ears and made all four wince in pain. Daxter pulled his furry ears down as Roxie plugged hers with her fingers. Merlander and Flash did the same and they walked in.

"You call this not being that loud?" Daxter yelled over to Merlander.

"Okay," he said. "Maybe I was wrong."

"How come we could not hear it through the wall?" Roxie asked him.

"Everything is sound proof here," Merlander answered. Roxie and Daxter just nodded and gave another wince. They walked to a bunk with a man holding onto a baby who was making all the noise. She was so cute with a little bit of orange hair and red eyes that glowed just like Roxie's and Flash's.

"Simon!" Merlander yelled to get the guy's attention. The guy looked to be in his late 20's with short brown hair and blue eyes. He did not seem to know they were even in the same room he was in. "Simon!" Merlander yelled again and waved a hand over his face.

"Whoa!" the guy said in surprise. "I did not hear you come in. I have ear plugs." Merlander just nodded and gave him a weak smile. "Make the girl stop, Merlander," Simon said while handing the baby over to him. "You always seem to make her happy."

"Fine," Merlander said while rolling his eyes. "ROSE!" he shouted above her. Rose started to wind down when she heard Merlander. "Shhh!" he told her as her yelling came to a stop. "Quiet," he whispered to her. She nodded and gave sniff.

"Poopie!" she cried in delight while clapping her little hands together.

"Aww!" Roxie said as she saw Rose. "What is she saying?"

"Hit the deck!" Flash ordered as he backed away and held onto his nose. Simon did the same with Merlander. Daxter did not understand but still did the same as they did. Roxie just stood there confused as Merlander shoved Rose into her hands.

BOOM!

"Oh!" Merlander said. "That was a big one!"

"Gross!" Flash said while fanning the air in front of him with a hand.

Roxie stood with Rose in her hands and petrified look on her face as she stared at the baby. "No kidding," she managed to get out of her mouth. "I think my nose just died and went to hell."

Flash laughed a little but no one could know for sure what it was because when he held his nose everything sounded funny. "We warned you," he said while hopping up to her like a kid on a sugar high.

Rose just smiled and clapped her hands again. She just liked seeing everyone suffer when she pooped in her diaper. Too bad everyone else was not amused by it. Merlander took Rose away from Roxie and Daxter switched back to Roxie's shoulder and gave her hat back.

"That was fun," Simon said. "Let's clean this girl up before we all die from the smell."

A/N: I'll have to finish everything in the next chapter. AND IFINALLY GOT JAK3!!!! It is so cool! But I've only gotten to play it for around an hour and got to only 18. So be nice andplease give a review!