Chapter 2: (No name, can't think of one)

Disclaimer: I don't own Outlaw Star

"What the hell do you think your doing!" Jim shouted.

"Saving your ass kid!" replied Jak as he continued to run with Jim on his shoulder.

"I'm not a kid!" shouted Jim, even on the threat of death by an apparent Oniyama Class gun-copter; he didn't like to be called a kid by any standard.

"Right now I think that point's pretty moot, don't you?" asked Jak

Jim was rendered speechless. Until he noticed that Aisha and Suzuka were running right along side of him.

"Jim, WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING!" yelled the enraged C'tarl C'tarl. She couldn't believe that someone as smart as him could do something so stupid. The last thing she wanted to happen to him was that he would die and that she wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

Jak could sense that Jim was feeling pretty low at the moment. But now wasn't the time to be helping Jim get cheered up.

"Alright, we don't have time to reminisce over things in the past. Right now what I need you two to do is to split up. Get to Gene and Melfina, and then meet us when we hit to highway." Said Jak

"What do you mean we?" asked Aisha

"I'm going to take Jim with me, I can't explain right now, but I need you to trust me, please." Said Jak

Suzuka could hear to tone of his voice, and managed to get a good look into his amber eyes. She could tell he was telling the truth.

"Alright, but if you don't return him safely then the 9 circles of hell won't be able to stop us from killing you." Said Suzuka

"I give you my word that I will return him safely." promised Jak, "and you might want to take this."

He used his free hand to pull something out of his coat before tossing it to his left to Aisha.

"What is this thing?" asked the now confused cat girl. It was a like Jim's small computer, but had an outline of the roads on Heiphong 3. It looked like one huge GPS map with different options.

"It's a tracer. You'll be able to follow our movements with it. Now, I suggest that we separate here, unless you plan on making that jump." said Jak. He pointed forward to a huge gap in the buildings they had been running on. They had only spent roughly a minute or so running so they weren't very far from where they had begun, but right in front of them was a gigantic gap, that an average C'tarl C'tarl would be lucky to get across.

"What the fuck are you thinking!" screamed Jim. Though he had a feeling that he could trust this guy, but why the hell was he carrying him closer and closer to a gap that huge.

"We need to get off of these buildings and onto something fast. My bike is in the garage a few buildings ahead so were taking the fastest route."

"You can't possibly believe that you're going to make that jump?" yelled Suzuka.

"Watch me." Was the only reply that Jak gave before Aisha and Suzuka split away from Jak and Jim, leaving the two of them running from a huge machine gunship.

Jak continued to run as fast as his legs would allow him, until he came up to the gap. The second his foot hit the very edge of the building he was on, his leg bent and he jump.

In all of his years in life Jim could never describe what had happened to him that night as pure flying. The very second that Jak's foot left the roof everything seemed to get smaller. Jim couldn't tell how high in the air he was in order to make the gap, but he knew it was an unbelievable one. He could feel the wind rush past him at an amazing pace and his hair was flowing backward wildly. He could see the "gun-copter" as its gun trajectory changed in order to follow them. It never hit them. For just as soon as their flight had begun, it ended.

Jak landed on the other roof with enough force to break a normal human's legs. But the only thing that broke was the concrete he landed on. Giving it a rather nicely shaped crater, but neither of them were able to admire.

Almost the same second they landed Jak was on the run again. The only one who suffered was Jim, though he only had the wind knocked out of him when they landed after having part of Jak's shoulder driven into him.

They continued to run for a few more moments before they entered what looked like an above-ground parking garage.

Jak let Jim down off of his shoulder and stared the teen right in the face; the only difference in their height was few inches. There was one important difference with Jak at the moment, his sunglasses had fallen off. Jim was staring right into a pair of amber eyes. This was one of the freakiest things he had ever seen.

"Sorry about having to carry you like that, but I didn't think that you would be able to outrun something like that." said Jak, jerking his thumb toward the craft still hovering outside. "Since he can't see us right now then we should be safe for now."

"Who was that guy?" asked Jim.

"Come on. I don't have time to go into details but basically it goes like this: he's a merc that's been on my ass ever since he got the info on my bounty. He managed to spot me on Blue Heaven a few months ago and started chasing me. The dumb son of a bitch was stupid enough to fire a gun at me." said Jak as he motioned Jim to follow him through the parking garage.

"Okay, so where is this bike you were talking about?" asked Jim.

"Right there." replied Jak

Jim looked over to see some old looking "Harley-Davidson" style bike there. It had the appearance of a classic motorcycle, but it was much different. The handle bars were lowered causing the rider to have to lean over; it had a larger gas tank and four exhaust pipes. The engine and the bike itself were bigger than the ones that were originally built back before the turn of the 21st century.

"Is that an Ikagaru (a\n: name doesn't exist)?"asked Jim hopefully.

"Yeah, it is. You've got an eye for machines." said Jak. "Okay, put this on and get on."

Jak handed Jim the helmet that was resting on the handlebar of the motorcycle. After a few moments of getting ready, Jak and Jim were speeding out of the garage and right into the danger of the gun-ship.

A\N: I sincerely apologize for this chapter being so short, but after updating this and my final story, I'm going to take a hiatus and take a break from Fan fiction for a while in order to regain my inspiration. Sorry you have to hear this but things should be better when I get back.