Alright quick disclaimer, I don't own Jak, Daxter, or any of the characters in this story that are in the game

Ok this is one of my first Fan Fics so don't be surprised if it's not that good.

Chapter 1

The Rival Emerges

It was just like any day. We were patrolling the one part of Haven that we had taken full control of, guarding the power source at the old house. I was the leader of this platoon, the only spider leg hora-quan here. Nobody came out of the city to this part because they knew we were here so it was always fairly boring. The apes would spar; the stingers would rest underground, the storm heads would see who could throw a dark eco bomb farthest. I would walk around and knock some heads to keep the other dumber, instinct driven hora-quan in line.

I was at the top of the falling apart tower in the middle of the ruins, scanning the area for anything interesting. I was about ready to give up and take a nap when the small gate leading into the city opened. Now I knew for a fact that the only way through that gate is if you have a security pass to open it. As far as I knew only high ranking Krimzon Guards were given these so I began to turn off the safety on my blaster and ready myself for battle. To my surprise there was not one Krimzon Guard to come out of the gate but a normal looking citizen with a strange orange creature on his shoulder. I didn't like the feel of this. No Haven citizen and his pet in their right minds would ever come into our territory alone no matter what kind of weapon they had. I watched as the stingers I had stationed near the gate appeared from under the ground. They began to scurry towards the strangers, tails ready. The elf pulled out a gun from a holster on his back and fired one wide range shot killing all the stingers on impact. He made his way toward where I had stationed a few apes. His gun changed into a rife with a laser aimer. I had never seen anyone with skills like this, not even an elite Krimzon Guard. He jumped into the air and spun to land a kick in the face of one ape as the orange thing desperately tried to hang on and quickly fired three shots at another approaching ape. The one he had already kicked rose and the elf fired one point blank shot right in the ape's face. This commotion had caught the attention of a storm head that began lobbing bombs at this new threat. The elf dodged the bombs and lunged at the storm head, landed a drop kick and jumped off of the stunned storm and fired two shots through his chest.

I had had enough of this guy and his little rat and jumped from my perch on top of the tower to another lower broken down building. I jumped a few more times until I landed in front of the elf, "Who are you?" I asked him.

"You can talk?" the confused little orange thing asked me.

"No shit Sherlock," I answered "I'm not a simple shock troop like the rest of those incompetent fucks this guy took out.

"Really? Then you should actually provide some challenge," the elf said.

"Uh, Jak, maybe I should sit this one out." The orange thing said with the annoying voice that he had.

"Go ahead Dax, this is gonna get messy," the elf named Jak said confidently.

The rat ran off and the elf cocked his gun. I slowly raised my blaster and then quickly fired a single shot at his head. As I expected he dodged the blast and shot once at my chest. I leaped into the air towards him and landed just as he moved out of the way.

"Quick on your feet I see?" I said slyly

"Of course," He replied as he lunged toward me.

I began to turn and caught him in a headlock as I spun around, building momentum and threw him into a wall. I ran at him fearlessly because he had dropped his gun when I spun him around. I began to throw my fist towards his head; he quickly ducked causing my fist to hit solid rock. It hurt but I didn't care, when he had dodged my punch he had crawled under me and jumped onto my back and wrapped his arms around my neck. Being twice his size I grabbed his arms, and pulled him off my back throwing him on the ground. I pinned down his arms with my own and his legs with my two front ones.

"Now who's got the upper hand, hmm?" I asked him mockingly.

He roared with frustration as I overpowered him but as he did this I noticed a change in him. His skin began to go pale along with his hair; his eyes became an unnatural pitch black two horns grew from his forehead, and he grew black claws from his fingers. Before I knew it he threw me off of him and onto my back. I stumbled to my feet and he began to run at me. I saw my only way out was to shoot the structure above and between us causing it to fall and make a temporary separation from me and him. I began to climb up the wall to my perch. He could not climb so he didn't follow me and I guess he decided to go find his companion and head back to the city. All that night I couldn't help but wonder how he could do what he did. I knew that I had to beat him but I also knew that I couldn't in my current form. I thought that I had once heard about a ritual that could allow one powerful hora-quan to absorb other hora-quan increasing the original's power substantially. I decided that I would ask Metal Kor about this when I went back to the nest to get replacements for the few soldiers that… thing had slaughtered.

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