"One of the baron's mining operations is under attack by the metal heads." Torn sauntered past his desk as he paced, running a hand almost worriedly along the surface of his desk, picking up dust from the corners where he didn't touch it. Dax jumped up and down, trying to get a better view before Nik picked him up and held him up so he could stay at eye level with the two as they argued...
"That's not our problem." Torn leaned on his desk with his right hand as his left pointed accusingly at Jak once he reached the opposite end, Dax just watched his hand swoop past them, nearly hitting him as if the two of them weren't there..
"It IS our problem when the foreman's one of the undergrounds best informants." Dax and Jak were too stubborn to notice but Nik watched Torns expression seemed to take on an exhausted look… How long has he been without sleep? she thought to herself as he continued. "His name is Vin, and he's just valuable enough to save. Find the warp gate at the power station and use it to travel to the strip mine so you can rescue Vin's pathetic hide." Dax finally made himself noticeable and Nik dropped him on the ground at his thickheaded anger..
"Hey! Tattooed Wonder! How come we get all the crappy missions!" Dax jumped up on the desk and Torn leaned down to him as he came closer, forcing Dax backward with each word.
"Because, I … Don't … Like … You!" Dax backed up immediately as he lay sprawled on his back when Torn flicked him backwards off the desk and leaned over him with a scowl.
"fair enough…" Torn continued from where he was.
"Whatever deal the Baron made with the metal heads, the city's eco is almost gone. And his time is running out. If we don't get the kid back on the throne soon, There may not be a city left to defend." Jak turned to leave and Dax jumped on his shoulder, eager to leave Torn alone to brood. Nik hung behind a moment however and put a hand on Torns shoulder, craning her head a little in an attempt to look at him in the eye.
"Don't overexert yourself Torn. You're crucial to the resistance. Get some rest sometime and don't delve too much in all that wine you've got under the desk." Torn turned his face up in an expression that said plainly 'how'd you know about that?' Nik just smiled in return and turned and ran out at Jak called for her.
"Come on Jak, try to keep up!" Nik rushed forward as the metal heads popped out of the sand like daisies and the eerie silence of the mine was broken with her shots and connecting hits as she took out the tiny creatures and grabbed the little things that fell out of their foreheads. She seemed to know the exact way to find Vin so Jak didn't even bother to look like he knew what he was doing. He just followed her and blasted as many metal heads as he could along the way. As they came to a metal door, Jak pressed the red button and it slid open, revealing a room similar to the one where the warp gate was. All three jumped to the side as a Huge guy jumped out of nowhere and Jak jumped into the fray, not thinking of asking any questions. As she covered her eyes with a hand exasperatedly, she yelled into the room where Vin was shooting blindly outward.
"Aggghhh! Stay back!" Dax yelled at Nik as Jak was locked in fighting with the armored guy.
"Do something Nik! This guys crazy!" Nik yelled into it over the gunfire and Jaks fight.
"Hey! Are you Vin? We're here to help. Torn sent us!" Vin jumped skittishly, continuing to shoot out of the door and Nik yelled something incoherent at Jak to either kill the guy or quiet down. "S-stay back!"
"Look, if we were here to kill you, you wouldn't be talking right now!" Vin fell exhaustedly over the computer with a sort of puppyish look.
"Oh, friendlies? Oh thank goodness! We.. So.. Whe.. Where's the army?" Dax answered the question pretty blatantly.
"uh.. We're it." Vin seemed flabbergasted.. "What? Just you three? What do they think I'm worth!" he scratched his head with the barrel of his gun nervously before he turned to the huge guy.
"You hear that Pat? They're friendlies! You can stop fighting now." Jak nearly growled as he was tossed on his ass like he was nothing as the dude stopped moving and looked like a statue. Jak rubbed his head with a frown and looked at Vin.
"I'm beginning to wonder myself! If you want you can stay here and be metal meat. But we're leaving before those monsters come back.." Vin didn't seem to protest and the wastelander guy didn't say anything, just followed Vin through the portal as they went back
Nik: Short I know, and Pat has been breathing fire down my neck (no wonder why I have that massive neck-ache..) in order to get me to update but theres another chapter coming in pair with this one so its not so bad right? Damn, I think I may have shot my average number of posts.. I hope this evens out the chapter after next...