-1Meowen: Time for another one-shot, and I hope this one will be just so good as the latest one.

Muse: Who's next for the oneshot?

Meowen: Erol, of course.

Muse: Hrrrm, before that: Huge Jak 3-spoiler in this one, play the game and come back the same!

Meowen: And... How could we write this?... a warning for minor torture. Or bigger, I don't know. Well, what kinda wimps are we? We write it, may the precursors have mercy!

Another freak

(Pre-Jak 2)

The sunshine warmed the ground beneath Erol's feet, and he smiled happily, strolling through the grass. Finally, after to hearing so many explorers from his family tell about this place, Erol himself walked over the Earth the Precursors had created for so long ago.

Unfortunately the luck didn't last long.

'' Erol, Come now! Time to leave!'' Alice shouted and waved her hands to him. Erol just smirked teasefully towards his sister, and ran further in among the rows of plants, out to the high grass at the other side.

'' Hey! Earth to brother, Earth to brother!'' Alice ran laughing after him.

But the smile just hid her nervousity over the risk that they would be discovered when they played in the high grass. It was so silly, Erol's and her parents had done more in their lives than anyone else, yet they were not allowed to stay and enjoy the result of all work...

She stopped on the edge of a small plain. There he was!

Erol giggled to himself, trying to catch a butterfly that sat on his brow. The sight made Alice snicker to herself; He looked so innocent, so happy, so-

'' Malic! I h-have one here!''

The stumbling movements from a man nearby suddenly surprised Alice, and she tripped backwards down in a ditch. Curling up to the smallest possible size, Alice hoped the man hadn't seen her.

No, but he had discovered something that was much worse, and now he approached to a paralysed Erol.

'' C-come here boy, I will not hurt you! Just obey, please'' the man mumbled with a nervous gaze nailed at the boy.

In next second another, alot more plump man arrived from the other direction. Erol barely had time to spin around, before the man pressed him down against the ground. Alice crawled panicking up from the trench to look after what happened.

What she saw made her blood freeze: two men who held her beloved little brother in a strong grip, pressing him down in a dirty bag. The girl wanted to help her brother, but it felt like her feet were rooted to the ground.

'' HELP! SISTER!'' Erol's screams filled the air. Rewardless, it just made the fatty smile broader.

'' What a little rascal... Well, he's going to be perfect for our experiments...''

The man raised a heavy brick he held in his hand, aimed at Erol's red-haired head and allowed the stone to fall. The boy's horror-strucked crying stopped with a loud thump, but it seemed like ages before he became limp in their arms.

'' Ve-very very well done, sir'' the other man stuttered, and put the body down into the sack. He tossed it over his narrow shoulder, and stood up The girl stared horrified when their silhouettes faded out of her sight, until they weren't discernible more.

When Alice understood it was too late, she ran away crying out low whinings in sorrow

.

Erol slowly came awake. His head ached, and he reached up a hand to it. When he looked at it, the whole paw was red. Some kind of barrels surrounded him, and he started to shake uncontrollable.

''Moooom...'' His small mewls echoed empty through the room.

''Alice...Dad...Rescue me...'' A big tear wet the corner of his eye. The cementwalls seemed like they would fall over him any second.

Then an enormous door in the corner opened. He turned quickly around and ran against it. His parents were here to rescue him!

'' Look, Sir Praxis! He comes on his own accord! He seems to like you!''

'' Happy fool. You see Vin, everybody who talks doesn't has to be intelligent!'' Too late understood Erol whom they talked about, and then had the nervous man already grabbed him and carried away with him.

They strapped him to a metallic chair in the room next to the one he had woke up in, and went away against the control table in the corner. Erol mewled low, when he heard the men's discussion.

'' Yes Baron, oh yes, it's white Eco we use for the transmutation'' said the fat man he knew as Malic.

'' Hmph. You should at least be praying this might work; I haven't sacrificed Eco only for fools who do nothing! I want results! We're running short on brave and foolish men in this war. We need to take every way we can to create new soldiers! ''

'' It is t-true, sir'' stuttered the thin man called Vin, Erol guessed he was Malic's assistant or something.'' The calculations mean that this little guy has an IQ about just as much as we have...Let's do the experiment now, sir''.

'' We're gonna do this little mouse to a man!'' Malic smirked, but stopped suddenly, leaning backwards to laugh out loudly to his own pathetic joke.

I'm not an animal! Treat me like the equal I am! Erol thought angrily.

Directly after he saw how Malic pulled down the lever, smirking evily.

And then Erol just saw dazzling lightnings from the Eco, and he shrieked in pain. It was not really the Eco that hurt, but what it caused his body to. He felt how the locks pressed against his wrists and ankles, when they grew in frightening pace. He bowed his back when his spine became longer, yes, whole his skeleton grew rapidly to two times its normal size, and Erol screamed in fury.

Suddenly, the lockers couldn't resist the pressure anymore, and with an ear splitting rasping sound they broke. Erol slipped down to the floor to escape the Eco, but a computer voice informed it was already too late.

White Eco injection cycle complete. Bio readings succesfully changed and secured.

He finally opened his eyes- and winced. His velvet soft fur was gone. His claws, his tail, everything he always had taken for granted and thought should be there every morning, it was…

'' Come here your little rascal, now let's get some clothes worthy a commander of the Krimzon Guards!'' Malic dragged him violently up at his feet, and pulled in Erol's arm. The redhead gasped when he saw how far down it was to the floor, but Malic just took out a gun and aimed it at the younger man.

'' Stupid imbecile! Now get up and walk, we SAW that you did it earlier today! You pity little rat is chosen, be glad for it!''

Erol obeyed, scared of the gun the man aimed at him, and stumbled clumsy after the scientist.

'' What a little wimp, scared as a mouse in searchlights!'' muttered Malic, and opened a metal door to another room.

'' M-Malic, wouldn't you too be freaking jumpy if you-''

'' Shut up Vin, we've the sissy here to take care of!'' with those final words, Malic pushed Erol, into the room where the KG kept their uniforms.

'' Hmmm, he doesn't look too bad in that uniform!'' Praxis examinated particularly his new commander.

Erol was too afraid to even mewl. Besides, he couldn't do that special sound the Precursors had used when they were sad. His human vocal chords weren't made for such kind of sounds.

He felt uncomfortable in this uniform. It itched against his sore skin and restrained all his moves. When he was a Precursor, he just used to have a pair of pants.

'' Now when you're my right hand commander'', the baron begun, '' it's a few thing I want you to know. First: This little white Eco-pumping is a secret, it stays between us, else you're a dead man lost to your own foolishness!''

Erol didn't listen. He walked in deep thoughts, pitch-black thoughts, through the corridors of the KG fortress. He hated his own family; they had betrayed him and left him here at this place, and now when he looked closer at it, it didn't seem to be as beautiful as he had believed. Here was evil, lots of evil. And Hora Quans. He was scared to death every time the radio reported that the shield wall was about to break down.

And he promised, that when his family returned, he would wring their pathetic necks.

Yes, that was what flashed through the dying cyborg's head as he laid in the sand of Wasteland, defeated and broken. He had tried to join the darkmakers in order to get his revenge, but everything had failed only because of a Dark Eco-freak and his smartmouthed rat. Rat? No, he was the one thing Cyber-Errol always had wished to become again ever since that day in the lab when he was turned into a human, the most horrible moment in his life.

But in same second he was about to shut his eyes and die, he heard small footsteps over the sand, and slowly he looked up.

In front of him stood the Precursor king himself. His father, the mightiest of beings in the world. from two and a half feet's height, he stared down at Erol. In same second their gazes met, a glimpse of recognization sparkled to life.

'' My son'' The Precursor began to speak with an unhappy father's voice, '' what have you done to yourself?''

Erol buried down his head in the sand again.

'' I... I don't know, father. Does it matter to you?''

The ottsel-leader stared at the giant robot in front of him, before he let out a sad laugh.

'' Of course it matters to me, Erol. To me - and to your sister''.

The cyborg lifted weakly his head as he heard his sister be mentioned. In front of him stood a young ottselwomen with small marks of sorrow in her face, and she seemed to have grown more mature during these years.

'' Al...Alice?'' Erol whispered as she gently bowed down and stroke his steel-blue cheek.

'' Please brother, become one of us again-''

'' HOW?'' Erol's yell echoed through the Wasteland, but when Alice didn't flinch at his sudden outburst, he shook his head sadly.

'' You've become more stubborn, haven't you? If you haven't noticed it, dear sister, I'm a robot whom's system is near a failure. I can never become one of you again''.

The ottsel-king shook his head, and bowed down.

'' You just have to wish, my son, wish you was a Precursor again''.

The cyborg's face expression suddenly changed.

'' It's worth to try at least, now when Dad has suggested so'' he mumbled and leaned his forehead against the ground.

'' I wish I was a Precursor'' he whispered. '' I wish so highly I was with my family again''.

In same second as he mumbled the last word, he felt how he began to shrink; His metal body seemed to transform into normal bones and muscles, and his family could see the changes his face went through. After a long while the former cyborg slowly sat up, and opened his eyes. He stared a his furry little body, at his bony little paws, and at last he turned his head a little to see his own tail. He had missed this life so much...

He felt a broad paw on his shoulder, and turned back to follow his father against the space ship.

'' Time to go my children, Mom's waiting'' he told them.