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The First Temple

Jak looked around in the Temple. Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined the inside would be anything like this. He had stepped into a humongous room; he could not even see the ceiling. "Wow, Jak. Look at this. Did you ever think it would be this cool?" Jak stood still and shook his head, too much in awe of this beauty the Precursors had created to do anything else. He took a step, and instantly, Vents of Blue Eco erupted everywhere. Jak grinned; he had used all of his Blue Eco when he had run away from the Lurker Ram. Jak stepped into the Vent and charged up his Box. He walked aimlessly around, looking for some kind of hint about where the location of the Switch was. He saw a sign indicating the way to the Switch. As he made his way towards the entrance to the hallway, he turned his guard on. He found it excessively hard to believe that the Precursors had built this marvelous temple and not included any booby traps. As he made his way into the hall, the door leading to it slammed shut, and Jak saw a lever. He walked over to it and read the sign above it.

"Pull this lever to activate the Eco Vents in this hallway. But be cautious, the price for power is indeed high."

Jak looked at Daxter, asking with his eyes if he should pull the lever. "No Jak, let's not use the power of Eco to turn the Switch back on faster," he said. "Pull it." Jak shrugged and pulled the lever. As he did, the floor suddenly gushed out liquid Blue Eco. Jak felt the power seep into his body and started running, never running low on Eco. After a while, a strange rumbling in the distance caught his ear. He turned around, looking for the origin of the sound. To his horror, he saw a huge sphere of Precursor metal rolling towards him. Daxter saw it as well. His eyes widened, and then he proceeded to show that he could scream at a volume usually associated with a creature much larger. "Run Jak! Run like hell!" He screamed. Jak didn't need telling twice, he turned around and started running as fast as his legs would carry him, trying to ignore the rising panic inside him as he heard the ball of metal get closer to him. After ten minutes, the ball had gained on him and Jak was starting to despair; the end of the tunnel was nowhere in sight, and no matter how fast he ran, the ball seemed to go that much faster.

Jak continued running as fast as he could, desperately trying to outrun the ball of metal following him. As he ran, he began looking for any clues to help him stop the trap and avoiding a first hand lesson on what a marshmallow feels like when its run over by a steamroller. He spotted a sign up ahead in the ever-turning hallway. He put down his goggles and took a picture so he could read it as he ran. "Do not be focused on the past, for you are the present, and the present is always moving, while the past remains still. Although the present must learn from the past, it must look to the future as well, or it is doomed." Jak thought about what this meant, but kept running. He started to slow down a little, running out of energy.

"Move it Jak! Stop trying to figure that sign out already. You are the present, and the present needs to move faster." Suddenly, it all clicked for Jak.

"That's it," he thought. "I am the present, but then is the ball the past. But if the boulder is staying still, why is it getting closer. Unless the room is the present, and if that's true, then the ball is staying still and the room is moving me. And in order to be rescued, I have to look to the future, I have to look ahead of me." He looked ahead for some kind of clue as to how to disable the trap and not get killed. He saw nothing on the walls, but started to notice indentations on the floor. Jak turned around and backpedaled watching the indentations interlock with the ball. "So that's it. This is one hell of a trap the Precursors set up here. By flipping that lever, I made a giant ball of metal crash down. The ball spins the room around, but stays still. I focus on the ball so much, I don't notice the truth. In order to stop the trap, I have to re-flip that lever, but I'm too busy avoiding the ball to do that. Luckily, I'm not alone." He continued running waiting for the lever to come around. When it did, he threw Daxter onto it and made a pulling motion with his hand. Daxter nodded and started trying with all of his three pounds of muscle to move the lever.

Jak started to grow hopeful; if Daxter flipped the lever, it might stop the trap. "Jak, I can't move it." The small bubble of hope that had gathered in his chest burst; he was now trapped in a never-ending hallway. He grabbed Daxter off the wall and looked up, desperate for rest. He saw a hole in the ceiling. Jak's brain froze for a moment and he did a double take. He looked again and, sure enough, there was a hole there. Jak looked down to see if there was anyway for him to jump through the hole. On his second pass around, he spotted a circular platform imbedded in the ground with a blue lightning bolt symbol in the center. Jak's heart leaped for joy, it was a Precursor Launch Pad. On his third time, as he stepped on it, he focused all of his energy and prayed he had enough power left in his body to make the leap. He crouched down and jumped. With his natural agility enhanced by Blue Eco and the Launch Pad, he shot one hundred feet into the air, went through the hole, and came out the other side into a small room. His legs gave out and he collapsed and sat down. As he rubbed his legs with Green Eco, he ate about half of the food left in his backpack. After about ten minutes of rest, he looked around and saw a door. Jak went to it, much more apprehensively this time. He emerged into another large room, but this one was nowhere as big as the first one; he could see the ceiling and all four walls this time.

Jak was standing on a ledge, the only other ledge this high was one with a door, which was where Jak assumed he wanted to go. This room had water on the bottom that periodically turned yellow; Jak guessed that was when he didn't want to be in it. There was a platform with a button in the middle of the water right below Jak, and another off in the distance. There was a moving platform from the low ledge in front of Jak that led to a raised ledge to his left that had a red-hot pipe going across. The other moving platforms was going between it and another ledge on Jak's right. There was another red-hot pipe sticking out of the wall after the aforementioned ledge, with a long moving platform underneath it. This walkway seemed to go to another ledge. After that, Jak couldn't see anything. He jumped down to the nearest ledge on the water and stepped on the button. The water flashed yellow again and little ledges raised themselves from the ledge Jak was standing on to the one off in the distance. Jak put his foot down gingerly and a faint ticking sound began. After five ticks, the platform Jak was on started to sink. Jak jumped to the next one and in this way managed to make it to the other platform. Jak saw that this bit of floor also had a button. Jak pressed this one and heard some gears falling into place. He looked up at the door that had been closed and saw it open. Jak charged up Blue Eco and leapt as hard as he could towards the first platform. He landed about five feet away and started swimming. Just as he pulled himself out, he felt electricity course through him. He gritted his teeth and pulled himself up and out of the water, making a mental note not to land in there again. He jumped onto the moving platform and onto the ledge. Jumping over the pipe, Jak could feel how hot it was and hoped he could make it through without getting burned. He got onto the other moving platform, and made his way to the moving walkway. He ran across, timing his jumps so he wouldn't get his legs burned off and made it to the other side. He saw two moving platforms spinning in a circle. He jumped on one and it took him to the door that he had opened before.

He walked through the door into a little hallway. There was a pool in the middle and a piece of metal that stuck out on the other side. "Watch out buddy. Don't forget what happened the last time you stepped in water." Jak nodded and backed up a few feet. He took a running start and rolled. At the end of the roll, he pushed both his legs forward and went flying over the seven-foot gap. He landed neatly with a somersault and gave Daxter that clearly said "so there." Daxter stuck his tongue out at Jak, who rolled his eyes. They both grinned and ventured through the next door. He entered a relatively small room that had two levitating platforms in front of him, and another door about fifteen feet away. Jak stood on one of the platforms and the other one started circling the one Jak was on. Jak stepped onto the moving platform and it stopped moving. The other one, however, started circling the one Jak was on. Jak used this method to get to the other door, which he opened by Channeling Blue Eco into it.

The next hallway contained about twenty or so red-hot pipes. Jak carefully made his way through the hallway, avoiding all of the pipes. As he made his way out, he felt a searing pain go across his left foot. Looking down, Jak saw he had stepped on a pipe carefully imbedded into the ground. Jak quickly healed with Green Eco before the wound became serious, and steeped into the next room. There were two more platforms like the previous room right in front of him again, and what looked like a Power Cell inside a red cylinder off in the distance. Jak rode the platforms over to the Power Cell and tried to break the glass. Since he wasn't strong enough, he activated his Red Eco Box and delivered a sidekick to the glass. All that he achieved was a pain in his foot. Jak turned off his Red Eco Box and triggered his Yellow Eco one. He lets a moderately powerful blast of energy go three inches from the glass and turned off the Eco Box. When the dust cleared, Jak saw he hadn't made any progress in breaking the glass. Disappointed, he sat down and to his left saw a stitch. Ignoring Daxter's laughter, he stepped on it and turned around. In a flash of red light, the Power Cell was sucked up a pipe and transferred out into the open about one hundred feet away. Jak looked for a pathway quickly; his ears had once again picked up a faint ticking sound. Platforms that were moving periodically in and out of the wall seemed to be his only route, so Jak took it. After about a minute of perfect timing and jumping, Jak reached the Power Cell and watched Daxter break dance as he put it in his side pouch. Jak went back to the unbreakable glass and wished he could bring a piece of it back to the village so Keira could study it. Jak shook his head to clear it and went to a tower made out of the pipes. Jak noticed blue spots and hoped that they were cool. He put his hand lightly up to a blue spot and felt it; to his surprise, it felt pleasantly warm. Jak climbed the twenty-foot tower and went down a staircase. At the bottom was a pool with moving platforms around a circular platform on the middle. Jak's heart leapt, on the center platform was the twentieth Power Cell. Jak jumped onto one of the platforms and it started to vibrate. Jak quickly jumped off as the platform turned sideways, which would have sent him falling into the pool below. Jak grabbed the last Power Cell he would need for the heat shield and made his way to the next room.

As soon as he entered, three spinning blades came at his Jak stood calmly, ignoring Daxter shriek that made his ears ring, and used some Yellow Eco to send an energy blast that made them melt. After that, Jak looked around. There was a whirlpool in the center of the room and two hallways. Jak looked at Daxter, who pointed silently to the left; his last scream had left his throat hurting. Jak made his way down a hallway much like the one from before with the water on the bottom and a piece of metal jutting out from the other side. Jak once again did a rolling jump, landing with plenty of room to spare. Jak stepped into another room that had a Power Cell on a raised platform in the distance and a button on the floor. As usual, electrified water filled the gap between the Power Cell and Jak. Jak smashed the switch down, and jumped forward as soon as he saw a platform come up out of the water. Jak jumped to another, but as he was making the final jump, the platforms started to go down. Jak quickly used Blue Eco to just barely make the jump. He clung desperately to the ledge and pulled himself slowly up. He collected the Power Cell and pushed the button. Jak went much faster this time around and made it back to the beginning with about half a second to spare. He was about to go back to the room with the whirlpool in the center when he noticed a hallway leading down. Jak started down it, but suddenly, he slipped and started to slide down.

Jak desperately to stand up but kept slipping. Eventually, he resolved to stay on the slide and tried his best not to hit anything. He steered to the left to avoid a pipe, and leaned so that he wouldn't drift as the hallway turned. Jak kept dodging the pipes, he steered right, then left, all the while trying not to run into the walls. Jak made a sharp turn to the right as the passageway narrowed and pipes started lining up the left wall. Jak gritted his teeth as he got close to the pipes and felt the heat come off of them. He jumped three times over the pipes that were stretched across the floor and landed in a really tall chamber with a Power Cell waiting for him on a platform three feet away. As Jak grabbed the Power Cell, the platform he was on sank, just like a giant button. The door that had led to the slide he had just came out of slammed shut. Jak heard an alarm blaring, and a gushing sound caught his attention. He looked down and saw Dark Eco rising. Jak's eyes widened in horror as Daxter found his voice once more.

"Run Jak. I don't want to turn into old log-in-the-head." Jak did not need to be told twice. He leapt to the other side of the chamber and charged up at a Blue Eco Vent. He ran to his right and jumped on a Launch Pad, propelling himself a hundred feet in the air and landing on a platform. Jak ran across the walkway, jumping over the gaps and the Dark Eco crates that were littered everywhere. After two hundred feet or so, Jak did a long jump over a pipe and squatted down. He jumped ten feet into the air and grabbed the ledge above him. Looking down, he saw that the Dark Eco was still rising, so he continued, running as fast as his legs would carry him. He jumped over another pipe and saw three of those platforms that would slide into the wall. He waited and timed his jumps, all the while the knowledge that the Dark Eco was getting closer doing nothing to calm him down. He charged up against another Blue Eco Vent and launched himself again. To his surprise, he landed on another Launcher Pad that was on the wall. His reflexes kicked in, and he jumped again. The last pad sent him through a hole in the ceiling, and as the floor sealed under him, ensuring the Dark Eco would remain in that chamber, he spotted another Power Cell inside a door. As he took it out, the door opened. Jak looked around and saw that he was in the room with the slide that had brought him to that accursed room in the first place. Jak took his time, now that there was no immediate danger, to sit down and have some food with Daxter.

After a well-deserved meal, Jak went back to the original room, the one with a whirlpool in the middle. Jak decided he might as well see what was down this corridor, there was no way in Legatee he was going back towards the other room. He swam through a pool that thankfully was not in danger of electrocuting him and emerged to find himself in yet another room. This one appeared to be simple. There was a far section of the room that was glowing, and separating the two rooms was another pool of Dark Eco. The only way across was a walkway that was moving under a glowing pipe. Jak made his way across the pipe and saw the source of the glow. Thirteen dull platforms were floating in a pool of electrified water. Across the water was a closed door. Jak jumped onto a platform, and was surprised to see it glow blue. Jak jumped along seven more platforms, each of them turning blue when he landed on them. He arrived at the door and waited for it to open. It didn't, so Jak Channeled Blue Eco into the door. It had no effect whatsoever. Jak then noticed that only seven of the thirteen spirals were glowing, the same number as the tiles he had stepped on. Jak figured the puzzle out and turned around. He landed on each of the other eight platforms and turned around. The door was now open, much to Jak's satisfaction. "Way to go Jak. Those old Precursors' weren't smart enough to outsmart you." Jak flashed Daxter a grin and jumped to the door. As he did so, he landed on a glowing platform. The platform went dull and the door closed. Jak leapt into the air and landed on the platform that was now dull. It went back on. Jak charged up with Blue Eco and made a desperate leap for the door. Although his hands gripped the edge, his feet landed deep enough in the water to make his legs go numb. The numbness quickly spread, and Jak quickly pulled himself up. After catching his breath, he recharged with Green Eco and collected the Power Cell. He looked around and saw an elevator and six towers about as tall as he was. At the top was a small blue ball. Jak tentatively Channeled Blue Eco into the ball and it began spinning. Jak quickly did the same for the other five, barely reaching the last one with the small amount of Eco he had remaining. The elevator rose up, and Jak sat down; the day's adventures were beginning to take their toll on his body.

When the elevator stopped, Jak found himself in a chamber even bigger than the one at the very beginning of the temple. He saw a Blue Eco Vent and gladly recharged his box and his body. He saw a Precursor Launcher Pad and took it. As he bounded forward, he looked down to see where he could land. To his horror, he had jumped into a bottomless pit, with only another Launcher Pad hovering nearby. Jak struggled to make his way to land on the Pad. Luckily, he did. Jak continued in this way for about three minutes before reaching solid ground again. He looked around and spotted a small piece of Precursor metal with the Blue Eco symbol engraved on it. Jak Channeled a small amount of Blue Eco into it and it rose up, revealing another path. Jak inwardly groaned, he had been hoping to reach the end of the temple, but he had no idea how much longer it would take to get to the end and reach the Blue Eco Switch.

Jak made his way down the hallway, where a blue light awaited him. Jak sped up, eagerly awaiting to see what would give off such a light. He went through a doorway to reveal a beautiful chamber with a strange statue at the other side of the room. Jak made his way carefully across the room, on guard for any booby traps. Thankfully, there appeared to be none, and he arrived before the statue that had been giving off the blue light he had seen before. The statue was in the shape of a skull, with two Power Cells in his eyes, and a ball of Blue Eco in his mouth. As he neared it, the eyes lit up, and the voice from his dreams emanated from the statue. "Who awakens the Oracle? Wait, one of you has the light within. From before time, I have watched, and waited, for the true hero to return. As a reward for surviving my sanctuary, I will give you three gifts. I will give you two Power Cells, the answer to one question, and I will bestow upon you new Eco Powers. Now, step into this circle, and you will be rewarded with new abilities." Jak nodded and took a step forward into a circle that was right in front of him that was glowing bright blue. Suddenly, the two eyes of the Oracle glowed and two beams of Blue Eco shot out. They hit Jak right in the chest and he was lifted off the ground a couple of inches. Jak hugged his chest and closed his eyes, as this stung like Legatee. Daxter hopped off of Jak and watched in a mixture of horror and fascination. Suddenly, the stings passed away, and a wonderful feeling of content passed over Jak. "I grant you a power associated with the energy of Blue Eco. While you are Channeling Blue Eco, this power will allow you to make objects levitate. Now for the matter of the question. I have looked into your heat. You wish to make the girl called Keira happy. To do this, you know you must help your village and turn on the Blue Eco Switch that is hidden in this Temple. It is beyond this room. In the next room, you will face the Switch's guardian, whom I am forbidden to give you information about. To help you, I shall recharge you Eco Boxes." A beam of Blue Eco shot out of the Oracles mouth again, and came to rest on the Blue Eco Box. It was accompanied by a blast of Green Eco from the Oracle's left eye, Red Eco from its right eye, and a blast of Yellow Eco flowed out of the hole above the Oracle's mouth. Each beam landed on their respective Box, and the Green Eco also healed the cuts and burns on his body. "Now, take my Power Cells and go, quickly. I sense a great evil drawing near, an evil of which you already know of. There is no more time for questions, you must leave."

Jak nodded and bowed to the Oracle. He reached up and took the two Power Cells out of the Oracle's eyes and the entire statue went dark. A door behind the Oracle opened up and Jak went through. His eyes widened in surprise. When the Oracle said that the switch had a guardian, Jak had been expecting an elf, or something of that nature. He had not, however, been prepared to fight a seven foot tall Petra Flytrap. Jak stared in awe for a second before he grinned and adopted a fighter's stance. He ran at the plant, preparing to engage it, when suddenly an explosion from behind him threw him off his feet. "What the hell was that? Sheesh, I thought that ugly Oracle thingy said that it would power down." Jak turned around to see the source of the blast. Less than an inch away from his face was the face of the leader of the Lurker Tribe, the man he had seen that night almost a week ago on Misty Island. Jak stared in horror into the man's eyes and saw the madness within. The man let out a long laugh at the sight in Jak's eyes, he loved seeing that look. The look of terror as his prey stared into his eyes. "Oh my god. Damn, you look uglier than a pile of Yakow crap, but that doesn't mean you have to smell worse than it does too. Who the hell are you anyway," Daxter asked, holding his nose and turning away from the ghastly stench that came out of the man's mouth.

"Congratulations, you stupid fur ball. When Dark Eco reigns everywhere, you will be the first to be tortured. As for who I am, it really is none of your concern. Ah, the Channeler. If I am not mistaken, you took out fifty-two of my Lurkers on Misty Island a couple of days ago." The man diverted his attention to the plant behind Jak. "That pitiful pant is this Temple's excuse for a guardian? I'd hate for you to be denied of a true fight. Let me make it a bit more interesting." The man's eyes bulged and he stretched his arm out. A stream of dark liquid flowed through the air and forced its way into the plant through its mouth, its roots, and even its eyes. The plant roared and shrieked in pain as the Dark Eco infiltrated its body and mutated it. It became twenty feet tall and its vines became a dark greenish gray and spouted two-inch thorns everywhere. Its face swelled and its eyes became pure black, and its mouth expanded and showed several rows of razor sharp teeth. To top it off, its face turned a sickly shade of purple and it let out a deafening roar that seemed to shake the entire cavern. "Well now, I'll just take these and be on my way." The old man made his way to five disks whose diameter was about equal with Jak's height. He put his hand on the disks and they vanished in a puff of purple smoke. Before vanishing, the mysterious necromancer turned around and waved to Jak. "Have fun." He vanished, leaving Jak alone with this bigger, and significantly more powerful version of the Precursor Blue Eco Temple's Guardian.

"C'mon Jak, you and me will show this thing whose boss." Jak nodded and prepared for the fight of his life. The plant let out an earsplitting screech and lashed out. Jak quickly jumped int the air, turning on his Yellow Eco Box as he did so. He landed about twelve feet or so from the head and quickly let off six quick light blasts. They seemed to have no effect on the plant whatsoever. Jak frowned, he hadn't expected those blasts to exactly destroy it, but he expected a scratch at the very least. Jak started to do what he should have done at the beginning; he took in his surroundings. He saw a few barrels lining the walls, a door beyond the now even further mutated plant, and a humongous structure suspended from the ceiling. The plant let out another roar and sent its vines at Jak. He leapt up and flipped on his Red Eco Box. As he started to descend, he angled his body so that his fist connected with the plant's head. The monster let out a shriek of pain as it went flying backwards into the wall. Jak smiled as he prepared to strike again, but then the plant wrapped him up and started squeezing his body. Jak struggled and by activating his Red Eco Box, was able to jump away. As he landed, he collapsed; the thorns on the vines had dug into his skin and he was losing blood. Jak fell to the ground as he prepared for a gruesome death.

"Hang on buddy, I'll save ya." Daxter scampered off of Jak's shoulder and tuned on his Green Eco Box. Jak smiled weakly as a wonderful feeling of numbness flowed over his body, then he stood up strong. The plant was confused; not a second ago its prey had been dying, and now it was restored to full fitness? The plant screeched in fury, causing Jak to cover his ears. The Dark Eco Plant took this opportunity to take a deep breath and let out a torrent of flames aimed right at Jak. Jak, although he was unable to use his legs, was well capable of jumping ten feet backwards to avoid it. Jak began circling the plant, trying to discover any weaknesses in its body. To his dismay, the plant seemed impenetrable. He tried to get closer to the head of the plant, planning to blow it off with a Yellow Eco blast. Jak realized that he would have to distract the plant to have any hope at destroying it. Jak ran as far away from the plant as the room would allow and pried Daxter's body off of his shoulder. He set Daxter on the floor and pointed at him, then at the plant.

"You want ME to fight THAT? Are you insane?" Jak shook his head and made circling motions with his finger. "You want me to distract it? And what, might I ask will that accomplish?" As a response, Jak pointed to his Yellow Eco Box. Understanding suddenly lit up in Daxter's eyes and he nodded. "All right, I'll do it. When we get back to the village, you have to convince Lauren to giver me mouth-to-mouth." Jak mentally questioned his friends motives and nodded. Daxter started running around the plant in an attempt to distract it.

"Man, I hope this works," Jak thought as he began Channeling all of his power into his hands, preparing to dump all of his energy into one big attack. About ten seconds before his Box ran out of Eco, he heard a scream. Looking over at the plant, Jak saw it had captured Daxter and was preparing to devour his friend. Without a second thought, Jak leapt over to the plant and tried desperately to get to its mouth before it ate his friend. As he saw it about to devour his formally buck-toothed friend, he leapt with a strength he did not know he possessed. He grabbed Daxter from the monster's grip and let his blast off less than an inch away from the monster's head. He leapt back and put the frozen rodent into his backpack. He looked over at the plant, sure that it was destroyed and retched back when he saw it didn't even have a scratch. Even worse, the blast of energy he had hurled at the plant was now aimed right at him; the plant had somehow caught it in its mouth. It looked over at him and Jak quickly activated his Blue Eco Box and shot into the air just as the blast was shot back at him. Another explosion behind him caused him to turn around. The beam of energy had hit the barrel and now Jak saw that it was full of some kind of flammable liquid. Jak grinned; now he might have a way to conquer his adversary. Jak Channeled Red Eco into his body and tried to lift one of the barrels. As much as he tried, all the barrel did was absorb his Eco as soon as he touched it. Puzzled, Jak let go of the barrel, trying to think of a way to get the contents onto the plant.

"Warrior, use the power that I bestowed unto you," a voice rang in his head. Jak shook his head; it was the voice of the Oracle.

"But how? How do I know how to use this power?"

"When you Channel my Eco, and clear your mind, you will know."

"That's really helpful," Jak thought bitterly. "Ok, here goes nothing." Jak closed his eyes and Channeled Blue Eco. He cleared his mind and felt a calling. He raised his left arm and opened his eyes. To his amazement, he saw the barrel of flammable liquid floating in midair. It was glowing with a faint, light blue aura. Jak moved his hand a little, and the barrel moved to the left. Jak smiled and turned around. Jak turned around and made a throwing motion with his body, like he was throwing a Kappa ball. The barrel flew at the plant; the sheer force of the impact alone sending the entire plant back ten feet. Jak saw the contents splash on the plant and he sent his last blast of Yellow Eco at it. The plant let out a horrible death shriek as it felt an inferno rise up around it. After five minutes, it was nothing more than a pile of ashes. Jak walked past the plant confidently. As he entered what he hoped was the last room, he saw a tub that contained a huge Blue Eco Orb in the center. Jak guessed that this was the switch and tried to push a hovering piece above it down. He then tried using Red Eco, and as a last resort, used his new power to move things with Blue Eco. Nothing worked. Jak then saw eight slots for Power Cells. Sighing, Jak started filling them in, ignoring Daxter's protests. Jak groaned mentally, now they were back down to eighteen. Jak put the last one in, and still nothing happened. Jak looked on the top of the structure and saw a ninth slot. Jak groaned again, now they would need three more Power Cells in order to power the heat shield for the Zoomer. The top half of the Switch fell and a great light erupted all over the room. A floor panel flipped and revealed a teleporter gate and a sack with the number two hundred on it. Daxter ran over to the sack and peered inside.

"Holy crap. Jak, there's two hundred Precursor Orbs in here!" Jak ran over to the sack in disbelief and saw Daxter was correct; if the number on the sack was any indication, there were two hundred Power Cells. Suddenly, Jak's communicator went off.

Keira's light bubbly voice came over the speaker. "Wow, I guess you guys did it. Blue Eco Vents have activated all over the world." Jak smiled at her tone, she sounded happy. "With this power, we might actually survive the Lurker attack." Daxter chose this point to talk; he hadn't spoken in ten minutes, and that was his limit.

"Hold up, honey. How did you know we, or rather, I turned the switch on?"

"Because it turns out that there's a Blue Eco Vent right by my garage. When can you guys get back, the Lurkers are all here, so they are probably going to attack tomorrow."

"There's a gate here sweet cheeks, we'll be back in a few."

"Daxter, stop calling me those kinds of names. I'll see you guys in a few minutes."

Jak turned his communicator off and walked over to the sack of Precursor Orbs. Holstering it up onto his shoulder, he jumped into the teleporter, back to his village, his home, his Keira.

Hey, sorry it took so long to update, I have finals. Well, here's chapter seven, so read, review, and please submit and thoughts, good or bad, to me and I will gladly take them into consideration.