Chapter 2! Hooray! I just wrote this JUST NOW so be nice. Oh, and the forgotten disclaimers from chapter one: Jak II is (c) Naughty Dog, yadda yadda, of course, the challenge is Farae Slayer's etc, anything else is mine, but you all know that. Disclaimers! Puh! ND won't sue me! And I did NOT just knock on wood!
Anyway, voila:
"Josh? Josh? Wake up!" Katie's voice…Katie!
Josh opened his eyes to see his little sister kneeling over him. "What happened? Did I hit my head or something?"
"I dunno, but if you're hallucinatin' or somethin', it's really contagious."
Josh, unsure of what she meant, had to allow himself a chuckle. Whenever Katie had a question, he had an answer, so she had a bigger vocabulary than most six years olds. How many first graders know the word 'hallucinate'? "What do you mean?" He sat up, letting his eyes adjust to the light. "What the-"
"See? See what I mean? I don't think this is a hallucination! Lookit! This is Haben City! We are in our PS2!"
And it was Haven City. Thoroughly confused, Josh got onto his feet. They were somewhere in the slums. Rubbing his head, he wondered aloud, "How did this HAPPEN?" A citizen glanced at him in confusion as he walked by. Oh man, why didn't I just settle for an x-box? Or maybe a nice little Gamecube...
"That's not all! Look!" Katie grabbed her ears. They were long and pointy. "I can actually see my ears witout a mirror! Ha ha!" The idea of seeing one's ears without a mirror was too good; she instantly forgot her previously worried state.
"That's cool, but, uh, how'd we get here, and more importantly, HOW do we get BACK HOME?" When overly excited, Josh liked to over-enunciate his words, a fact that got him teased more than once.
Katie was having too much fun. "Oh, puh! Think abowdit! We are in Haben City! We can ride a zoomer! We can shoot stuff! We can go see Jak!"
"Yeah, but still…I don't think we can just go up to him and say, 'Oh, hey Jak. Yeah. We're in a video game. We know you.' We'd get thrown in an insane asylum! Man, this is like one of those fan fictions…" (Zing!)
"What's an asylum?"
"It's a-WATCH OUT!"
"A wha-?"
Josh roughly yanked Katie out of the way of a speeding zoomer in the wrong hover zone.
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"Damn traffic!" Klia yelled to the mass of cars overhead. "See ya, suckers!" She turned her head to look behind her at the hovercars that were previously in front of her. Waving at the disgruntled drivers, she stuck her tongue out and smiled. She faced forward just in time to see a little girl in her path. "Ack!"
"It's a-WATCH OUT!"
"A wha-?"
Klia tried to swerve, but luckily an older boy snatched the girl out of the way.
"Phew." Klia wiped her brow in exaggerated relief. Her relief was short lived, however, because in her little rear-view mirror she saw a Krimzon Guard speeder pull down from the traffic, the driver looking right at her. He clearly wasn't happy. "Oh SH-"
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Josh hung onto Katie even after the zoomer had past. Apparantly unaware of how close she'd come to…well, you know…Katie tried to push him away. "What the heck? Crazy head!" She shook her fist after the zoomer. When the KG cruiser lowered and began a chase, she smiled proudly. "That'll teach her!"
What a weirdo! Josh thought. Hmm. Her hair was bright pink. I'll have to watch out for her.
Ha HA! I did it! I put a reference to the game consoles! Anyway, the ruler decided not to work, so deal with the dashes instead.
