Author's Note (When isn't there an A/N in this story?): Thanks for your reviews! I got quite a response from the last chapter and it wasn't one of my best chapters. I'm flatted by so many reviews for this story (as a whole). It's my second story that has reached a hundred plus. I know some people get that and more on a weekly to daily basis but I'm just happy that you guys stuck it out and read all this stuff. So thanks!

Now all that fluffy emotive stuff is off my chest its time for action!

Enjoy!

The creature snapped his bright purple eyes open to find an orange light head straight towards him. The creature had enough sense to move out of the way with one huge flap of his tentacle like wings.

Rygar growled, his teeth grinding so hard that is was almost audible, "Stay still!"

Another orange beam was shot out towards the intended target but was again dodged.

"NO!" Rygar roared

"Not going like you planned?" a sniggering voice said behind him

Rygar turned his head to find the two ex-Krimzon soldiers a few feet behind him. His hard stare was fixed on Torn.

"I worked too long and hard for this to fail! Men! Attack them" Rygar barked his orders

The members of the Inner Circle approached the two soldiers, blocking the path between them and Rygar. Torn and Ashelin composed themselves in fighting stances as the traditional garbed men came in for the attack.

"Trust Rygar to sic his cronies on us" Ashelin said in disgust

Torn gave a scowl , "I wish I had my dagger"

They sprang into action as the first punches were thrown. With practice ease from combat training and spur fights long ago they lunched a volley of blows that were skilled, precise and deadly.

Above Keira was hovering in one place trying to come up with another plan. A plan to steal the circular artifact back to complete the process.

"So tell me again why we just barged in and forced The Sphere on Jak?" Daxter asked, "I mean if we had a regroup like you originally wanted then Rygar wouldn't have The Sphere right now!"

Keira sighed now knowing why she never hanged around the Ottsel much. She admired Jak for putting up with his complaining, whining, skepticisms, inappropriate comments, selfishness, stupidities at times... need she go on?

"Because someone isn't helping me in making any plans" she glared at Daxter

"Hey! You're the babe with the brains! Not me!" Daxter shook his head in protest trying to claim his innocence

Keira groaned taking the would be compliment as Daxter's pathetic excuse.

"What?" Daxter blinked, "It's true"

Keira decided it was pointless to argue so she turned her frustration on the man who had the ball in his court. She saw the brawl below as Rygar was persistent in his attack to secure Jak. It wouldn't be long before Jak was actually caught in the beam, she had to get the synthesized weapon away from the obsessed and crazed man... but how?

On the ground Rygar kept shooting at the winged creature trying to entrap it in the special energy from the scepter. The creature didn't attack or do anything but dodged his attacks. On any other day Rygar would have kept his cool and decided to go for another strategy to ensnare the beast and on any other day he would have laughed at the foolish attempts of his surrounding foes to free Jak from the power but this wasn't just any other day.

His patience, his time, his energy and his sanity were spent. He had prepared for this moment for a long time and tried to knock out anything that might get in his way, including these 'friends' but it seems in all his planning he under estimated them a bit. They were quick off the rebound and were stupid enough to challenge the impossible. That's why Rygar didn't sit back and think up a better way to get Jak under his control in the current situation because he knew that if he didn't get the creature under his command all would be lost. It was a race against time before the two soldiers beat his men down, before the girl and the rat figure out a way to properly stop him.

He can't let that happen. He can't let all his hopes and dreams fall.

He can't fail.

Rygar kept shooting and shooting, his sharp and practice aim was thwarted over and over as the creature seemed to move faster than the eye could track. Rygar's face grew into a scowl as it slowly twisted into a mask of rage as desperation seeped into his demeanor.

Finally the creature stopped dodging and was still. Rygar gave a yell before firing his scepter-sphere weapon at it. The orange beam shot forth and at the speed of light head for its target but the creature didn't move. Instead, in a silent gesture a bubble appeared around it. The Light Eco shield, tainted with Dark Eco, absorbed the attack with a red hue before recovering then disappearing.

"NO!" Rygar roared, "You will be under my control!"

"No one controls me, especially discussing and filthy earth bound creature like you!" the creature's voice was so thunderous and demonic that it caught the attention of everyone

"OK" Daxter said a bit confused in the hover vehicle, "I'm guessing Jak isn't back to normal"

Keira rolled her eyes and couldn't help but mutter under her breath, "Thanks Captain Obvious"

The being that was saturated in Eco power had regained himself. The absorption from The Sphere that the girl had done had disorientated him for a little bit but he was back and he wasn't going to let his guard down again. This evil human kind was weak but they didn't go down without a fight. They knew his weakness and was going to milk it for all its worth and that was unacceptable.

Below Rygar's men stopped fighting and bowed down to the power and authority of the skies. Torn and Ashelin stopped their fight and approached Rygar.

"Looks like you've bitten off more than you can chew" Torn smirked

Rygar clenched his teeth as his knuckles turned white from grip as his rage boiled within him. He looked up at the warped creature fiercely. Everything that had fell into place until now. Until this moment. The creature would not obey, he would not accept its fate and lay down for him. It unknowingly held the defiance, stubbornness and pride that Jak held. The creature would fight him, like Jak would have, until its strength was spent.

In this Rygar knew he was failing. Just because of this one hitch, just because the creature had to be like Jak in this way. In a sense Jak was still there thwarting his plans, laughing at him, scorning him for his futile efforts. Rygar wasn't in control anymore and couldn't grasp the lost control and the creature was laughing at him with quiet and blind eyes. The prey had become the predator. Rygar was losing and he hated to lose because losing meant failure. All his dreams and hopes were snuffed out just because the stupid Eco creature had to defy him and ruin everything! That meant his plans were failing.

Failure wasn't an option.

Suddenly the scepter's orange light suddenly brightened as if it was reacting to Rygar's emotional rage. The orange light soon turned to a red hue. Both connected artifacts whirred, as if powering up, to a high pitch frequency as Rygar stood there with utter hate and anger for everyone and everything. Especially for the floating creature.

The creature looked down on the man's pitiful attempt to control him. Humans can get so emotional, so quickly.

"Here comes the temper tantrum" Torn said flatly as Ashelin looked on and decided to keep her mouth shut.

As if hearing this Rygar turned to the two soldiers, his face literally red and twisted with rage. He was breathing hard as if he just fought a huge Metal Head. He raised the scepter and pointed it right at Torn. Torn merely looked at the enraged man with skepticism but he readied himself for action. Instead of Rygar shooting at him, like he'd expected, the old man suddenly spun around shot the airborne creature.

"DODGE THIS! YOU FOUL IDIOTIC WORM!" Rygar screamed in absolute rage

Until now the beam was short and narrow but after the emotive power boost it had widened significantly and was long and continuous. With a huge blast that forced Rygar to step back a bit, a huge red beam blasted forth from the end of the scepter-sphere, almost turning night to day, as it roared straight at the Eco creature. First time in his short existence the creature stared at the beam with wide-eyes, full of fear. There was no escaping and all the creature could do was put a shield around itself. The bubble appeared in time before the beam hit like a brick wall. The creature poured all its focus and energy in keeping the shield up as it turned to angry red colour. The force was like an asteroid entering the earth's atmosphere and the creature was shocked and surprise by the power that the artefact had released.

Keira had just missed the actual beam since she was quite a distance away in the first place but the force around the beam knocked the prototype hovercraft away sending the two spinning off in the distance. Keira fought with the controls and manage to land the ship on its belly as it crash landed and scraped across the concrete and metal ground in a roaring screech and a shower of sparks.

"Oh!" Daxter complained, "How are we going to see what going to happen next now?"

Back within the beam the creature couldn't hold its shield, he was running out of Eco energy to keep such an attack at bay and it was slowly seeping in

Behind Rygar Torn glared and ran in lifting his arm for a punch. He had to stop Rygar. If he had a choice between Rygar and Jak he'd choose the lesser evil and that was Jak. He rather fight Jak in his own mentality rather than fight him at Rygar's will.

Torn came in for the punch but a hand stopped him. It was one of Rygar's men. Torn yanked his arm away and growled accepting the challenge. The rest of the men were standing back up and facing them determined as their leader for the world to be theirs. Ashelin approached Torn's side in quiet support before Torn gave a smirk.

"If that's how you want it..."

Once again both sides engaged in battle. Ashelin flipped about throwing acrobatic kicks and hits to the men who dared to fight her as Torn did the good old fashion fist fight.

Rygar was oblivious to the commotion behind him, his mind was focused on one thing and one thing alone. His anger and rage powered the artefact relentlessly as the beam broke down the creature's defenses.

"KNOW THIS JAK!" Rygar roared his deep voice twisted with anger, "I DO NOT FAIL!"

The creature, within all its concentration to hold the shield up, heard what the insane man words. All were poured out in blubbering rage but one word remained echoing within his mind.

Jak...

The tainted shield shattered at the force as it reached its limitations. The red beam engulfed the creature as if he was in a blazing sandstorm. Immense pain entered its Eco being as his mind was overwhelmed with the power. Rygar knew he hit the creature but continued. Mentally willing it to suffer the consequence of defying him, to teach it that he was someone not to mess with and a force not to be reckoned with. Even if he was just a mere 'discussing and filthy earth bound creature'.

The creature screeched in pain feeling it could be torn apart in seconds but never did. The rage and hate was amplified by the scepter-sphere. No one knew why the artefact did this or how it was done, that knowledge was long lost with the Ancient Precursors long ago.

Then suddenly Rygar felt extremely tired. The beam disappeared, leaving the area in darkness once more, as the artifact died down and resumed its normal orange twinge.

Rygar puffed, his anger and rage and fear of failure quelled within him as he fell to his knees. The artefact was gripped loosely as he faced the ground in his kneeled position. His men noticed this and stopped the fighting to aid their leader. Torn and Ashelin stopped as well as they noticed the old Krimzon soldier was on his knees.

Did he succeed?

"Sir?" one man asked for an indication on what was happening to their leader

Suddenly a low grumbled was heard from him, then it grew louder and louder as it erupted into a long full hearted laugh. Not a cheerful laugh but a twisted insane laugh that held a sick sense of humour.

"He's cracked" Torn muttered

"Nothing..." Rygar's voice boomed, "Nothing... nothing can stop me..."

The man staggered back up before turning to the two rival soldiers. He didn't notice his men back away cowering, aware of his new authority.

"I have acquired the absolute power" Rygar's voice was deathly low as madness twinge in his eyes, "And it took everything I had but it... it was worth it..."

Rygar straightened as realization of his work flared his soul. It pumped adrenalin in his blood as his heart beat faster in excitement. The old man composed himself to his proud and ego induced posture as he re-gripped the scepter-sphere.

"Now you will witness the greatest power that has ever been wielded..." Rygar continued, "First hand"

The two soldiers knew what was about to come and they knew that they had no fighting chance against it. Rygar raised his orange scepter-sphere and it flashed for a second. Rygar grinned but it held no humour.

Only insanity.

"Now my creature!" Rygar ordered, "Destroy them! I want to see their charred remains before me! There is nothing like the smell of burnt flesh of your enemies..."

With the final word said there was a horrific screech that echoed within the air behind Rygar. It was so monstrous and alien that it was impossible to believe that a human throat can utter such a terrible noise. But it did. It held the horrors of what was to come.

To be continued...

Wow, Rygar was so determined to get Jak (a.k.a the creature) under his control he lost his sanity in the midst of it! Talk about fear and determination... With a force like that how can anything come good out of this? This is becoming more hopeless and more impossible by the chapter! Lets hope our favourate characters can save the world or face a terrible, terrible death.

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