Thought and Suspension

When they found where the noise was coming from, they saw doctors and nurses trying to grab something black that was trying to escape from them. It was like watching a dogcatcher trying to catch a dog. When they got a better view of what everyone was trying to catch, they saw the man they rescued from the desert. Jak looked at Daxter, then Keira, he ran into the crowd and tried to help. People were bumping into him, hurting his injuries, making him angry.

"Grab him!"

"Stop him!"

"Tranquilize him!"

The creature had cat-like reflexes to avoid the doctors. Jak was getting pissed off with people hurting his arm. He grabbed the creature's cape and pulled down as hard as he could, making him and the creature fall onto their backs.

"Hold him down!" A doctor said, pushing his way through the crowd, a needle in hand.

Jak stood and did his best to help hold him down. As he struggled to brake free of the doctor's grasp, with his eagle-like claws scratched at the doctors' coats, but strangely, he only ripped their shirts and refused to wound them.

When the doctor with the needle finally injected him, his struggling slowed and his strength was diminishing, after a couple of minutes of more struggling, another doctor, needle in hand as well, injected him as well since he hadn't fallen asleep from the first dosage. A couple of minutes after the second needle was applied, he finally fell asleep.

Everyone was relieved. A nurse walked up with a stretcher and two doctors picked him up and put him on the stretcher.

"Is anyone hurt?" One of the doctors called out. No was the response he received from everyone.

"What the hell was that all about?" Jak asked one of the doctors.

"I don't know, ask Jenny." The doctor said, pointing to the nurse that had cared for the girl and the creature's injuries.

Jenny walked up to Jak, "I just walked into the room and I didn't see him on the bed. I called a doctor to help me find him and we found him crouched behind the bed, hiding. When he saw me, he backed up against the wall like he was frightened for his life and jumped over us, knocking us down. He looked back at us then ran out the door."

"That's very unusual for someone to act that way." Keira said, looking at the sleeping entity on the stretcher, its wings hanging over each side of it.

Jenny folded his wings on top of him so they wouldn't drag on the ground and just as she started to roll the stretcher down the hall, a white rat with a collar, similar to the creature's, pokedits head out of the jacket.

"Eep! A rat!" Cried Jenny as she let go of the stretcher and fell on her butt.

The rat was frightened andquickly went back into the pocket at the sound of her scream. Daxter jumped onto the stretcher and stuck his right hand into the pocket."Ouch!" He said and quickly pulled his hand back, "Itbit me!" The rat stuck its head out of the pocket again, this time looking at Daxter and chattering it's teeth.

Jenny got off the floor and laughed at the sight. "It's protecting the pocket!"

"Daxter, leave it alone." Jak said.

"But it bit me!" Daxter protested as helifted his pinky finger to show his friend it was bleeding.

Jenny grabbed the stretcher once more and started to wheel it down the hall to the room, carefully watching the little white rat as it's nose and whiskers twitchedoutside the pocket to make sure no one laid hand on it. Jak, Daxter, and Keira followed.

Trying to change the subject, Jak said in thought "Ifthe creaturewas trying to get away, why would he avoid harming the doctors when they were trying to calm him down? He was slashing them with his claws but he just ripped their coats instead of injuring them."

"You said he was exiled from Haven and Spargus, why?" Keira asked Jenny.

"I don't know. Try asking some other people around the city, I wasn't here nineteen years ago." Jenny said.

They reached the room and walked inside.

"Sig might know something, he was a spy for Spargus. We could go ask him." Jak said as he helped Jenny put the creature on the bed.

"Come on Dax, we've go to go." Jak said.

They left the hospital and went to the front gate. Kleiver and Sig were working on the Slam Dozer while torn was fixing the jet board.

"Sig, we need to ask you something." Jak said as he walked up to the car.

Sig came out from underneath the car, "What do you need to ask me?" He stood up.

"Were you here nineteen years ago?" Jak asked.

"Yeah." Sig replied

"There was someone who was exiled from here nineteen years ago. Do you know who he is or why he was exiled?" Jak questioned, hoping for an answer.

"I know of him but I don't know him personally and I have no clue why he was exiled." Sig said.

"I know him." Kleiver said, looking at them from under the hood of the car, "Nice kid, not all there though."

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Author's notes: oooh! suspension! yes, I am making this up as I go. I don't know if Sig really was in Spargus 19 years ago. and of course, the only character I own are the doctors, nurses, Sandi, Jenny, and 'the creature' which in the next chapter will get a name. I have updated this chapter, adding things like the rat biting Daxter part and I took out the part about Daxter flirting. I thought about it andAir of Mystery is right, Daxter wouldn't flirt with other woman when he's got Tess. sorry about that! Apparently I wasn't thinking when I wrote this as well as tired beyond belief.