Once again, in case there was an error and you did not recieve your replies to your generous reviews, here they are.
Keeroshu: Yes you are doing well. Well, you were always a good writer. Yea, this is my sadistic way of torturing the hero. He'll get the reward though, don't worry. I think in the second or third to last chapter I'll throw in the "big finale." Do, I think Daxter was born like Homer, with that extra inch of fluid surrounding his brain. So he can get smacked around all he wants and never get brain damage. The guy should learn how not to antagonize women, I mean that's asking to die. I can't wait to see what the group fan-fic is going to be. I hope they don't drag your writing down, but then again, you know what you're doing. I don't think you would choose people that would make you look like an idiot. The Channeler thing goes two ways: the quicker you reply, the surer you can be of your spot. I now have three takers. I'm going to start posting at the end of every chapter so everyone knows who is what.
Red Mage 04: Yea, good ol' Churchill. I figured it was about time I brought the two of them together again, because I had laid off of that for a couple of chapters. Well… Gol won't be leaving for a while. Did I really refer to Margaret as Benedict? See, that is what makes me a bad writer, and what makes you a good one. Hopefully I'll return to updating Saturday (crosses fingers). I must admit, I never thought Daxter could try a god's patience, but then I forgot one crucial fact: it's Daxter. Oh. That's what you meant with the reference to Tarath and Kor. Thanks for the heads up on that. I'm sure that without me, your works would be even better, and that you would have thought up all the nonsensical crap I spew out, only they would actually make sense. I will try to update ASAP. And I doubt very seriously that I have been much help to you, but I appreciate the compliment nonetheless. By the way, the music you sent me did not work, but I have a program called Limewire that I use to download music, which fortunately does not affect me with any viruses, SPAM, etc. I used it to find the name and I downloaded the music by finding the name. So yes, I heard the music, and I like all of it.
Silver-WindScar: From the name, I'm going to guess that you watch Inuyasha. Great show. I actually got a couple of ideas from him, and see if you can guess which character I actually based on him. Thank you for the shot of confidence, but I can surely do better. And I know that you are a better writer even if you don't publish. You should read Surge, it takes a different take on Jak and Daxter, sometime after the third game. Thanks for the thumbs up. Star Wars? Not at all. Actually, George Lucas showed up at my house the day after I posted that and took me to court for plagiarism or something like that. Frankly, I have no idea where he's getting that idea from. Yes, I did really get the idea from Star Wars, but that is by far the biggest source of influence you will ever see. I plan on doing the rest of the book without drawing too much on anything. Yes! Two thumbs up! (Throws a party and gets high off of the sugar).
Disclaimer: I do not own Jak and Co. nor do I own any inserts that are based on real people. I do however own a copy of each of the games. (Daffy Duck) Mine! Mine! All Mine! Mwahahahahahahahaha!
Gol's Citadel and A Few Old Places
"Jak!" Keira squealed as her fingers slipped and she almost fell off of his back. Jak spun around and grabbed her wrist, the powers of his glove letting him keep a firm grip on her with only one finger. As he hoisted her back up onto his shoulder, Jak snapped his thumb and ring fingers together, turning the adhesive powers of his right hand off. He reactivated it and resumed climbing Gol's Citadel. It was harder than one would think due to the numerous windows that made it possible for him to be sighted and constant Lurker patrols circled the Citadel. Jak finally made it to the top of the tower and climbed inside a window, sighing with the exhaustion of scaling a five hundred foot tower in twenty minutes. He sat down before immediately springing up. It had just fully hit him where they were: Gol's Citadel. Jak groaned a she realized that he would no longer be able to rest, no longer be allowed to have any fun. From here on end, he would have to give it his all every second. He hoped very much that he and Keira had been correct in assuming that Gol would keep his hostages at the top of the Citadel, since it was the furthest away from the main entrance.
Jak grabbed Keira and pulled her into the shadows as footsteps approached. Seconds later, a Lurker Scout went walking by the window. Jak waited for it to pass before emerging from the shadows again. He needed to find a place where he and Keira would be alone for a few minutes to work out a strategy. He saw a small door and darted through it. It turned out to be a closet. Jak summoned a small ball of fire so they could see what they were doing. He saw Keira fiddling with something on her belt. She pulled off the device and handed it to him. Jak held the metal circle with a glass face in his hands before seeing a button on the top. As he pressed down on it, the glass lit up. It was now purple with colored dots everywhere. The one in the center was white, and then there was a red one, a yellow one, a green one, a brown one, a grey one, a blue one and four black ones.
"Those dots represent the Sages. Red is for Santar, yellow is for Potentia, green is for my dad, blue is for Zeorro, brown is for Alecis and grey is for Tarea." Jak pointed at the four black dots. "Each of them represents either Gol, Maia, Gravis or Benedict." Jak nodded to show he understood before pushing the button on the top. Immediately the sizes of the dots changed and all except the white one in the center, which Jak assumed was him. To his dismay, Samos would have to be the last one to be rescued, considering he was the one that was the farthest away. He pointed this out to Keira, who pouted for a second. Jak secretly loved it when she did that but focused his mind on the task at hand.
"All right, I guess we'll go after Santar first. According to this, he should be across the hallway in a chamber." Surprised that he would be able to rescue one Sage so quickly, Jak opened the door and looked around. He saw nothing around so he quickly went back inside and picked Keira up on his back, pinning her legs to the sides of his chest so she wouldn't lose her balance. He sprinted to the door and opened it. Inside was a Warp Gate. Keira compared the signal to the Warp Gate: wherever Santar might be, the entrance to that place was on the other side of that Warp Gate. Jak turned around before going through and drew an imaginary line across the entrance to the Warp Gate.
"Jak, you had better not be implying you want me to stay here." Jak nodded and hastily put a hand over her mouth before she could retaliate. He walked over to the Gate and flipped it off. He then pointed to her and turned it back on. Keira understood what he was saying: if the Warp Gate was turned off, he would be trapped. However, if she stayed on this side, she could ensure that it would remain open.
"Oh all right. Hurry back though," Keira said as Jak gave her a thumbs up and flipped through the War Gate. He looked around and let out a gasp: they were back in the Red Eco Temple. He had never been to this particular section, but he knew this had to be the place: he was inside a volcano, and there was only one volcano on this continent.
Lava rivers flowed everywhere, with sections of rock floating around on the surface. Jak took a running start and jumped over a gap. A piece of rock fell from the ceiling and Jak threw himself forward to avoid it. It impacted with a crash and as Jak rolled to straighten himself out, he saw fissures appear in the rock. He leapt up and landed on another rock. This one was not floating so Jak took his time to look around. Already he was feeling the heat begin to affect him. A shaky looking bridge over a bubbling pit of lava. Jak walked on it, slowly at first, but quickly sped up as he felt it begin to wobble. As it collapsed when he was near the end, Jak extended his arm and shot out the grappling hook. He immediately stopped falling straight down and swung forward. Unfortunately for him, the swing ended in his hitting the wall. Jak rubbed his nose with one hand as he reeled himself in.
When he pulled himself up, Jak saw that he had two ways that he could go. He chose the left way and saw a horrible sight: an eyeball with bat wings. It swiveled around so that it was facing him with the pupil and shot a Red Eco beam at him. Jak leapt over it and slashed at it with Yellow Eco. His attack parted the second beam of Eco the eye had sent at him and sliced it cleanly in half. As it died, Jak took another running leap onto a rock stand. As it began to sink, Jak saw a hole in the wall and fired his grappling hook at it. He reeled himself up and rolled into the tunnel. As he walked though, Jak summoned a couple of balls of fire, both to shed some light on the area and to be ready to attack. Jak felt none of the uncertainty that normally plagued him in the Temples. Perhaps it was because he had been here, or that he was more powerful and better equipped. Jak neither knew nor cared about why he didn't feel so nervous, all he cared about was the fact that he didn't.
Jak emerged in another cavern, one very similar looking to the last one. He was reassured that he was not going in circles, however, by the fact that there was a Warp gate missing. He leapt down and instantly was knocked forward by an enemy from behind. Jak rolled his body along to avoid getting trampled and got to his feet. His enemy was very off-putting: it was a giant black ball with fiery feet and two yellow horns sticking out of the head. Two glowing eyes, like charcoal, were set in the face. It lowered its head so the horns were facing straight and charged again. Jak simply sidestepped it and levitated it so that it flew into the lava. As it came into contact with the molten rock, the fire on its feet turned bright blue and it walked on the lava. It turned around and charged once more. Jak did a double back flip and on the second time around planted his feet in the beast's face. Said ball of metal went flying back and impacted the lava again. This time, Jak sent a scythe of Yellow Eco at it and cleaved it in half. What happened next was surprising: it exploded with a deafening bang. The entire cavern vibrated and Jak had to dodge some stalactites that fell from the ceiling.
There was suddenly a rumbling and Jak felt the temperature begin to increase drastically. The reason for such a phenomenon quickly became apparent, as the lava had begun to rise. Jak looked around for something to latch on to, but he was in the middle of the cavern, far enough from every wall that he couldn't reach them. Suddenly, pieces of rock rose out of the lava and formed stairs. Jak leapt to the first one and it began to shake. Jak immediately leapt up and looked down just in time to see the piece of rock fall down into the lava. He latched onto the next piece and reeled himself up. He pulled himself up and then took off again. Each piece of rock he landed on immediately collapsed, preventing him from catching his breath. After reaching the last one in the spiral like pattern the platforms had set themselves in, Jak kneeled down to the ground in exhaustion, though to an outsider it appeared as if he were thanking the Precursors for solid land. As he sat down, Jak pulled out a small bag of nuts. The person who had given them to him in The City of the Sky said that he should only eat one at a time. Jak popped one in his mouth and found that it tasted like a pistachio. Unlike a pistachio, it left Jak feeling as full as if he had eaten a hearty meal.
"Hey Jak, lemme get something," Daxter said. Jak put the special nuts back in his backpack and gave Daxter a Cucco cutlet. As the Ottsel devoured the poultry, Jak saw a number of creatures similar to the one he had just killed charging him. He did notice that they were smaller, which would make disposing of them easier. He summoned an Eco Blade and made any that close enough to him regret it by slicing them to pieces. He leapt up to avoid a series of explosions and cut up another dozen as landed. Thankfully, these detonations did not cause another eruption. Speaking of which, Jak was curios as to why the lava that had been rising had not overflowed and come streaming toward him. Jak walked to the hole that he had come up out of and saw that a Precursor metal grate had slammed shut so the lava was held back.
Jak went back to the cavern he had just exited and took a running leap over a lava river. He landed and rolled on the other side. As he took a step, flames suddenly shot out of a hole in the wall. Jak dropped to his knees as one of his legs was singed with second-degree burns. He hastily turned on his Green Eco Box and watched as the skin went back to the normal tan that it usually was. He stood back up and watched as the flames shot out again. He ran past and made it to the other side without getting deep-fried. Jak stood up and got hit in the chest by a Red Eco beam. The eyeball that had fired it soared in from the ceiling and Jak killed it with a small beam of Yellow Eco about the diameter of his finger. Jak came to a wooden log after about five minutes of walking. He poked it and it bobbed up and down in the lava. Jak put his feet on it and began to walk backwards. The log began to move forward and it was in this way Jak carried himself across the lake of lava, ignoring Daxter's accusations that he was insane, crazy, idiotic and a host of other things. A sudden blast caught his attention and Jak looked over to the other side of the lake and saw a miniature volcano. Something told Jak that that was his new objective.
Jak shot his grappling hook onto the ceiling and swung forward. He fired his other hook and detached the first. As he swung, Jak got the hand of switching hands to travel hazardous distances quickly. He thought of all the Blue Eco he would save if he used these more often. Jak swung upwards one final time and peered inside the volcano. It was not spewing lava, as Jak had originally thought, but Yellow Eco. Jak dived straight down and impacted the floor like a spider as he spread his limbs. He was in yet another cavern, and Jak spotted something purple in the distance. He quickly got out of sight and activated his Eco Search Mode on his goggles. He got a reading of Dark Eco so small that it couldn't possibly be anyone dangerous. He was getting an enormous Red Eco reading on the other hand. Jak assumed that the source of Red Eco could be none other than Santar, Sage of Red Eco. Jak jumped from platform to platform until he reached the Red Sage. Questions as to why the Sage didn't simply break through the bars of his containment soon became obvious; the bars on his cages were covered in Dark Eco. The Sage was lying on his back, but Jak couldn't tell if his eyes were open or closed, since he was wearing goggles over them.
A nearby machine was glowing brightly. Jak put his foot through it and a Power Cell popped out. Jak scooped it up and stored it in his pocket. The bars around the Red Sage stopped glowing and Jak sliced through them with an Eco Saber with relative ease. It appeared that Santar was unconscious, so Daxter did one of the oldest tricks in the book. He held the Sage's nostrils together.
Santar sat up, spluttering. He caught sight of the elf and animal in front of him and smiled feebly. Jak handed him a restorative bean and the Sage took it gratefully. After he ingested it, he stood up, tall and string. Jak could see how this guy was the Red Eco Sage; he carried himself a certain way. He was… confident, that was the word Jak was looking for, Santar was confident. He was a short and stocky man, yet in no way did he look physically unfit. His entire body practically screamed of powerful physical force. His orange skin was covered in what looked a metal barrel. Two red pipes connected from his stomach to his back, but as to what purpose they served, Jak had no idea. There were four or five switches on Santar's chest, giving Jak the impression that there was more to this suit than met the eye. The Sage's forearms were covered in gauntlets that had one pipe each across the wrists. On top of the metal plate that covered the scalp of the Red Sage was a piece of glass that served some kind of purpose, though as to what it actually was Jak had no idea.
"You've finally come to rescue me!" Santar said. He had a deep rolling voice that sounded like it could be benevolent or belligerent depending on his mood. "Do you know how long I've been in here? Heh! What are your names?" Daxter spoke up as he jumped off of Jak's shoulder.
"I'm Daxter! He's Jak," Daxter said, motioning to the Channeler with his head. "He's with me." Santar rolled his eyes: Samos had been right about the rodent after all.
"Good job, Daxter! You're a real hero!" Santar to boost the small one's already larger than life ego. Daxter's chest puffed out but pulled himself back down to Weyard at Santar's next words. "You've got to stop Gol from launching the robot! I'd use my Eco power to help you, but I have been drained. It will take me some time to recharge my Econetic energies, so I'll just have to follow your lead."
"Oh, oh that is just perfect!" Daxter said as they hopped through the Warp Gate to Gol and Maia's Citadel. They hit the ground and Keira helped them up.
"Hello Santar," she said bowing. Santar chuckled.
"Don't bow to me. It makes me feel awkward." Santar said. "Am I the first to be rescued?"
"Yes. Our next target is Alecis, but she's down a couple of floor."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute. Alecis is a woman?" Daxter exclaimed before a perverted look came over his face. Keira rolled his eyes as they snuck out of the room. They found a contraption similar to the one in the hotel and rode it down two floors until Alecis' reading became strong enough that they could safely assume that that was where she was being kept. As the doors opened, a Lurker Scout walked in. There was a comical moment when everyone froze, not sure what to do. This lasted only a split second before Santar grabbed the Lurker and snapped its neck with one hand. As the corpse fell to the ground, Santar summoned flames so string that within seconds the carcass was reduced to ash. This all lasted about five seconds, and Jak, Daxter and Keira stared at Santar who looked at them questioningly.
"What? Oh, I'm not a Sage for nothing." He said as he chuckled. The two followed them until he stopped. "So, where is Alecis?"
"Oh," Keira said, getting flustered. "She should be three doors on the left." Lo and behold, when they opened said door, they found another Warp Gate.
"You go Jak. I wont be much help in my weakened state, so I'll just guard the Warp Gate with Keira. But before you go, take this," Santar added, tossing a hilt of an Eco Saber at Jak. Jak caught it and activated it; thinking that it was fitting that Santar should carry a red Eco Saber.
Jak jumped through the portal and looked around in awe. He had absolutely no idea where he was, but he was in astonishment of wherever he was. He recognized it as a library; he had been in Samos' often enough, looking up things for schoolwork. But he had never thought that there could be a library made out of metal, with light blue disks instead of books. The entire hall was magnificently crafted, with statues of elves lining the walkway. Jak walked around, spinning in a circle so as to see more of this place. He knew he was on a rescue mission, but that didn't mean he couldn't take in the sights of a new area.
Suddenly a battle cry made Jak spin around. One of the stone statues had come to life and was attacking Jak with a Green Eco Blade. Jak hastily summoned an Eco Blade of his own and cut the statue in half. Unfortunately, that only alerted others to his presence. Two female looking statues holding Blue Eco Sabers attacked him from behind. Jak let them swing at him but made sure they missed. One of them stretched out her hand and blue lightning came streaming out. Jak was so stunned by this new power that he couldn't move. After Jak got over the attack, he found that his muscles were paralyzed. He saw the two statues coming in to slice him and he concentrated on the Blade in his hand. It shot off as a Grenade and detonated on impact with the two statues reducing them to rubble. Jak waited about thirty seconds before he was able to move again.
Three seconds later, three more statues came charging Jak, a male and female both with a Red Eco Saber and a female with a Yellow Eco Blade. Jak went into a Makashi stance: pointing his front foot straight ahead, while the rear one was placed perpendicular. He leaned back so that sixty percent of his weight was on his rear leg. He held his front Eco Blade away from his body at a diagonal angle towards the ground, while his rear and second Eco Blade was held away from his body at an upward diagonal angle.
All three attacked at once, but due to the powerful defensive capabilities of the Makashi style, Jak was able to deflect a large amount of the blows while avoiding the few he missed. After getting all three statues in a lock, Jak twisted his Blades up so that everyone had their arms up and their chests exposed. He quickly dropped to his knee and spun rapidly so that he cut the three of them down with no trouble.
Due to the noise that Jak was making, more and more statues were activating. No less than a dozen came running at Jak. Jak swung his two swords around, sending streaks of Yellow Eco at them. Sven of the statues died in this way. Jak threw both his Blades as spears and the Eco shattered two more statues. Jak hurriedly used the dispersing Eco as shards and imbedded sent them flying at one of the statues. As the shards passed right through, the statue fell to the floor, little more than dust now. Jak gathered the shards in his hands and summoned a pair of Yellow Eco Blades just in time to block an incoming attack. Jak parried and blocked both statues, each with only one arm. He ducked down and the statue's Blades clashed, giving Jak a golden opportunity to imbed the pair.
As they slumped over Jak walked up to a door. As he got close, a thin Dark Eco shield surrounded it. Jak heard a commotion on one of the balconies upstairs and used Red Eco to enhance his jumping ability before leaping up. As he landed, five more statues came running at him, each armed with a different type of Blade. All of them fired streaks of Eco at Jak, who jumped over them and a Yellow Grenade and a Red Grenade at the quintet. As they all exploded, Jak looked around for something to shut down the force field around the door. A complicated and glittering console caught his eye, and Jak slashed at it. As it detonated, sending sparks flying up into the air, Jak fell down to the ground, grappling himself to safety at the last second to avoid hitting his head. The force field on the door was now gone, so Jak strolled through, keeping his guard up in case there was anything else that intended to do him harm.
As Jak went down the narrow corridor, his battle senses began going haywire. About a second after he adopted his fighting stance a guys with a Blue Eco Blade so long that it look as though it were a staff came at him. Jak blocked all of the incoming attacks and sliced the statue right down the middle. As one sculpture fell, another came in eager to catch the Channeler off guard. Jak didn't even bother using a Blade on this guy; he simply threw a Red Grenade at him.
The statue fell to the ground, minus one head, as Jak finished sprinting down the corridor, ignoring all the effigies activating and coming for him. As he neared the end, Jak turned around and sheared a piece of the ceiling down to the ground, plugging up the entrance and preventing the others from following him.
Jak entered another hallway, but this one was pitch black. Eco Sabers began lighting up everywhere and Jak summoned a Green Eco Shield to protect himself from the long distance attacks. Jak tossed up a Red Eco Flare and in the thirty seconds that it was lit up demolished the forces attacking him.
As Jak put away his Eco Blade, the ground collapsed and he extended both of his gloves. He activated both grappling hooks and as the clasps dug in the wall he was suspended. Jak looked down and couldn't see anything out of the ordinary. Jak released the grapplers on his gloves and dropped down into the next room that looked remarkably like the first. There were four statues in this room, one in each corner. They were each a different color, and Jak supposed that they represented Green, Blue, Yellow, and Red Eco, respectively.
The green robot attacked first and Jak was grateful that he didn't have to fight all four at once. He ran straight at it, hoping to take it out quickly with a direct attack. As he neared the robot, it extended it hands and Green Lightning shot out. Jak crumpled as the agonizing attack ripped through his body. As he struggled to break through the electricity, Jak could feel his heart and lungs slowing down: it was getting harder to breathe. He extended his hand as he fell to the ground as though to plead with the emotionless robot to stop and it paused. Jak instantly shot a beam of Yellow Eco at it and blew the head off. He turned away and began to walk toward another robot when a second blast of electricity caught him off guard. When the robot was done, Jak was on the floor whimpering. He saw a bright light through his closed eyes and dodged to the left while summoning an Eco Blade. He held it up and tried to keep the Blade up under the powerful barrage of lightning sent at him. He kicked the robot in the chest and sheared its limbs off before piercing it right where the heart would be on an elf. Apparently the body structure was similar, because it at once stopped twitching.
Jak turned around and saw that a circle on the floor had one of its quarters lit up. A blue robot began charging Jak. Jak noticed that although this robot was a bit thinner than the green one, it was much faster. Jak jumped over the robot and it blasted him with Blue Lightning in midair. Jak's body was once again frozen as he hit the wall. He regained control of his body just in time to erect a Green Eco Shield to protect himself from another blast. He backed off and had another blast fired at him. Jak noticed that it was extremely narrow and easy to avoid as he spun on the spot. He pirouetted once more and summoned an Eco Blade before running in. The power of his Blade was such that the Blue Lightning rebounded off and struck the robot. It instantly froze and Jak impaled it through the heart as he had done to the other one.
As another circle on the floor lit up, Jak saw the yellow robot move. As he ran around the robot it shot a blast of Yellow Lightning. Although Jak expected it by now, he didn't expect it to be such a wide attack, thinking that it would be narrow like the others. It caught him right I the chest and Daxter leapt off his chest right before it hit. Jak fell to his knees thrashing around as his skin began to peel away. His eyes rolled back in his skull as he prayed to the Precursors to let this agony stop, whether by death or divine intervention. Apparently, the Ancients chose the latter in the form of a certain Ottsel. Daxter covered the eyes of the robot and it stopped the assault on Jak. Said Channeler healed himself with Green Eco before running up to the robot and kicking it in the chest, fury giving him the strength to dent the chest carapace. Jak summoned a Yellow Eco Blade but the android punched him into the red cyborg.
Said automaton shot a blast of Red Lightning at Jak. Jak tossed Daxter up into the air so he wouldn't be injured and reflected the Red Lightning at the red robot. The Lightning rebounded and the sheer heat of it began to melt the robot. As the slag dripped to the floor Jak sensed that the other robot was ready to reenter the fight. He waited until he heard the attack streaking through the air before leaping out of the way. The Yellow Lightning proved to be too much for the red android to handle and it shut down. As the red portion of the circle lit up, Jak fired a beam of Yellow Eco at the third robot, obliterating it completely at the cost of all his Eco.
As the final section of the floor lit up, a cage with a woman in it emerged. She was not as youthful as Daxter had hoped she would be, meaning she looked as though she were in her mid twenties. Small wrinkles were on her forehead, a mark that gave Jak the impression that Alecis furrowed her brow a lot. Her yellow hair was tied behind her head in a ponytail and she looked much bigger than Keira overall, being Jak's height and slightly wider than him. Her pale complexion gave her the appearance of being away from the sun for a while. She was dressed in all green clothes, with a leather belt across her waist and another one across her chest, from her shoulder to the opposite hip. On the belt were two Eco Sabers and on the chest were three small devices. Jak smashed the machine making the bars glow purple and slashed through the bars with a Red Eco Scythe. Alecis' eyes opened as she sat up. Jak stuck his hand out and helped pull her up.
"Sheesh, thought you guys would never free me," she said in a musical voice as she grinned, letting them know she wasn't angry.
"Hey baby, it was me that did all the work," Daxter piped up. Jak rolled his eyes (as did Alecis) as they made their way over to the Warp Gate.
"Tarea, it is good to see you," Santar said as they hopped out.
"Santar," she responded, nodding her head as he did the same. "So, are we the only ones alive?"
"No, we are merely the first to be freed. This charming young lady has made a device that scans the tower for powerful Eco signals, letting them us where we need to go first."
"So… where now?"
"Uh hang on," Keira said as she fiddled with her Sage Scanner. "It looks like… ten feet straight down."
"Well then, let me do the honors," Alecis said before activating both of her Eco Sabers. She stuck them in the ground and walked around in a circle so that they all fell down one floor. There was a crash as seven Generals were smashed by the ceiling falling them. Jak waved goodbye to the two Sages and tossed the Eco Blade back to Santar. He locked eyes with Keira and sent a thought promising her he would come back before he hopped through the gate that would lead him to Potentia.
As he expected, Jak popped out in a section of the Yellow Eco Temple he had never seen. He saw that the walls in here were the kind he could climb, so Jak activated the adhesive functions on his gloves and began climbing up the wall. He pulled himself and turned his gloves' special function off. There was a Yellow Eco Vent in the center of the room. Jak went over to it and was blasted back by a Yellow Eco beam. Jak ran forward and jumped over the blast that he knew was coming. A second beam hit him but not before Jak saw the enemy: one of those machines that looked at him before firing. Jak reached out with his right hand and summoned the Eco from the Vent that way while he Channeled Blue Eco and crushed the head of the robot.
Jak continued charging up and summoned an Eco Blade after his Eco Box became full. Jak dropped down through a hole in the floor and immediately dodged three Yellow Eco beams aimed at him by more statues. A forth beam hit him in the back and Jak staggered forward. He crashed into a wall and the two closest statues in the corners aimed at him. Jak leapt up at the last possible second and the two statues killed each other. Jak reflected two more beams at him with his forearm armor and destroyed the last of the statues. A door materialized as the last one exploded and Jak entered the next room, hoping that Gol hadn't placed Potentia too far inside the temple.
As soon as Jak entered, three werewolves charged at him. Jak used his Eco Blade to cut them down quickly. He reflected for a second on how much easier this temple was now that he was so much stronger and had access to more advanced Channeling abilities than he had three and a half months ago. A replica of the sun was on the ceiling and a beam of artificial sunlight was streaming in through the window. Jak reflected it off his armor and a deep chime went off somewhere in the bowels of the dungeon. A coffin appeared in the center of the room. It opened and a mummy slowly stepped out. Its burning red eye settled on Jak, who was frozen with terror. It slowly walked towards him, and Jak didn't move: his mind was paralyzed with fear. It reached out and groaned as it grabbed Jak by the throat. Jak gasped for breath as he grabbed the hand that seemed to be sucking the very life out of him. Jak struggled vainly against the death grip around his windpipe, which only caused the mummy to squeeze tighter. Jak finally began thinking again: he was going to die. He summoned a massive beam of Yellow Eco out of his chest and the mummy was hurled back. Jak ran forward and threw fire at it, hoping that the heat would cause the bandages surrounding the unseen body to burst into flames. He sighed in relief when that was exactly what happened. Jak looked around in this room but there was no way out. He was suddenly seized by the most curious idea. Jak walked over to the open coffin and stepped inside. It slammed shut and began sinking down. Jak held his breath for as long as he could, since he knew that there wasn't a lot in this coffin to begin with.
Finally, just when Jak's lungs felt like they were about to burst, the door opened. Jak fell out, gasping for breath, gulping down air like he had never breathed properly before. He looked around in this new room and saw that he was in a desert like room: there was sand everywhere. Green goop began literally to rain down from the ceiling. As the blobs straightened out and began moving toward him, Jak stepped back, recognizing the goop as the potential deadly foe that had nearly killed him the last time he was in this Legateeish place…
Jak entered the room and saw a greenish blob about his size on the floor. It slithered towards him and Jak leapt back; his experience in this dungeon had taught him that everything wanted to kill him. Jak activated his Red Eco Box and kicked it as hard as he could. His foot sank into the gooey flesh and Jak experienced a sharp burning pain. A yellow light caught Jak's eye; a Yellow Eco Vent had sprung to life; all he needed to do was get to it. Jak tried to take a step, but his left foot was anchored to the ground; immobilized by the odd living goop. He fell off and tried to crawl, thoughts of escaping from this horrible place giving him strength. The burning sensation in his foot spread, and as Jak looked down, he saw the ooze was spreading itself all over his body. As panic fogged his thoughts, Jak took Daxter out of his backpack and threw him as far as he could; while he might be dead, the monster would not get his best friend. He continued crawling frantically as the slime spread, but just as he got to the Vent, it had swallowed him up completely. Jak held his breath as he struggled against the monster holding him. Daxter looked on in horror as his best friend was digested right in front of him. The monster glowed yellow as the Eco washed over it, but far from hurting it, the monster's flesh became hard, encasing Jak forever in an impenetrable cocoon of death…
Jak flew up and charged up the remainder of his Yellow and Red Eco. He gathered all of it into a ball and flew down. As he reached the ground, Jak constructed a Green Eco Shield and made the ball of Yellow Eco explode by slamming it into the ground.
The result was similar to that of a nuclear explosion.
Jak lowered the shield and looked around. He had done quite a job of killing the enemies, but now that he thought about it, he might have overdone it, considering the walls were gone. Panting and a numbness in his right arm made him look at his friend, who was so white that Jak could tell even past the fur.
"You are…" Daxter panted, "COMPLETELY INSANE!" he screeched. Jak winced as his ears began to ring. Jak spotted a purple glow in the distance and took off for it, looking like a streak of blue and white. A metal suit of armor dropped down from the ceiling and growled as it swung a gigantic axe. Jak glared at it and picked it up in the air with Blue Eco. He ripped it apart piece by piece and let the dismantled parts fall to the ground. Jak destroyed the third machine and pocketed the Power Cell. He took a good look at Potentia, who looked yellow. He was dressed in a thick wool shirt-like garment and wore metal gauntlets like Santar, minus the red glowing rings. In his right hand, Potentia held a weapon that looked very similar to the one Boggy Billie had back in Boggy Swamp while an Eco Saber hilt was hooked up to the left side of his belt. A metal helmet covered his eyes like a helmet, with a glass circle on the top. His beard was down to his chest and had a loop in it halfway through.
The Yellow Sage finally spoke, and Jak's immediate impression was that he was a direct relative to the marsh-dwelling elf. "Whoo-whee! Now who would'a thought I'd live to see the day when I had to be rescued by a boy and his muskrat?" Jak began shaking with stifled laughter as Daxter glared understandably at the Sage. His protest (and most likely, insult) was cut off by Potentia's next words; "I'm gonna give Gol and Maia a little payback for these embarrassments! Then we'll see about cookin' up some muskrat stew." Daxter gulped and made his way back into Jak's backpack. The three of them went through the Warp Gate and linked up with the others.
"Hey, Santar ol' buddy. How're ya doin'? And Alecis, did ya'll lose weight?"
"Still the same old Potentia I see." Santar said in his deep voice as Alecis smiled.
"So Keira, where to now?" Santar asked.
"Let's see. According to this, Zeorro is one floor down and on the other side of the Citadel."
"Well then, let's get at work!" Potentia said as he leveled his weapon and blew a hole in the floor. Jak and Keira rolled their eyes and fell through the floor as it crumbled. Jak hastily turned on his Blue Eco Box and began beating the Lurkers who had come to see what had made the commotion. Thankfully, the place was so big that they hadn't been detected anywhere else. Jak reached the Warp Gate and turned around, asking if anyone other than Keira would come with him.
"Sorry Jak. We can't come with you. Potentia and I will need all the power we can regenerate to overcome Gol and Maia." Jak sighed but didn't argue: there was too much truth in that statement to disregard it.
"Hey! What about the chick!" Daxter asked.
"I wouldn't be much help. I'm not a Channeler. But I can give you these," Alecis said as handed her two Eco Sabers to Jak. Jak took them, he might actually use them this time around.
Jak emerged in an unexplored section of the Blue Eco Temple, just as he expected. He drew the two Eco Sabers and activated them, thinking that he might as well be prepared. The blue and green lights reflected off the water that surrounded the small island of Precursor metal he was standing on. Jak leapt over the now yellow water to another platform, well aware of what landing in the water while it was glowing like that would do to him. Jak climbed up a ladder and entered another room.
This one had a small mountain of Precursor metal in the center. Jak began to climb it and ducked when a small purple comet came streaking towards him. He looked up and saw a odd animal. It looked like an elf without ears, with thick brown hair covering its body. Its lower right arm was made out of a cylinder made out of Precursor Metal. It lit up and Jak ducked as another Dark Eco Grenade came streaking his way. He leaped into the air and slammed the beast into the side of the mountain with his Blue Eco powers, but not before it had gotten one last shot off. Jak launched it back at the source and the beast was blown apart by its own attack.
Jak reached the top of the mountain and dived down the hole inside it. He landed in a pool of water. He held his breath and dived down, looking for a tunnel. Jak saw a blue light shimmering at the bottom and took off for it. Jak summoned Green Eco Shield to both protect him from the electrical barrages and to give himself a steady supply of oxygen. Jak reached the glistening circle at the bottom of the lake and tentatively put his hand through it and felt that sensation when he was underwater and stuck his hand above the surface. Jak dropped down and his body dried as he emerged from the ceiling. Jak looked up at the circle he had just come out of and saw that it looked just like a mirror. Another ape-like beast attacked him from out of nowhere. Jak grappled himself around the room and eventually the beast had to reload his arm. Jak launched himself down and tackled the beast. He punched it in the jaw and then snapped its neck, effectively killing it.
A barrel caught Jak's eye as he was getting up off the beast. He picked it up and saw that it was full of Red and Yellow Eco. After recharging his Eco Boxes, Jak picked it up and tossed it at a feeble looking door. As he expected, the keg exploded and left a gaping hole in the wall. Jak poked his head inside and saw a long slide. Jak slid down the slide, hoping that he was getting closer to finding Zeorro. Jak 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 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. It suddenly sprang back up, launching Jak up through another portal. Jak landed hard on the floor and looked up at a purple glow. There was the cage of Zeorro, Sage of Blue Eco. Jak pocketed the Power Cell he had just collected along with the one that the machine spat out when he destroyed it.
"Good work, fellows! Old Samos was right about you! That insidious mechanical creation Gol and Maia are fabricating must not be allowed to wreak its terrible havoc! When we get to the suitable setting, I will try and inhibit the defensive door by eliciting a pathouette of energy between myself and the entrance!" A stunned silence met this pronouncement.
Jak eyed the Blue Sage with some caution. He seemed harmless, but very prone to excitement. He was wearing a pair of tan pants, with his lower legs covered with straps of Yakow leather. He wore a blue shirt over his pale blue skin with a brown X on the center. His right hand had a barrel-like gauntlet that Jak was sure swerved some kind of purpose. A four-foot tall metal staff with a blue glass sphere on the top was clutched in Zeorro's left hand. He had a monocle on his left eye and a metal hat with glass tubes sticking out of it at random angles. His mustache was six inches long on each side and stuck straight out sideways.
Zeorro dragged Jak and Daxter through the Warp gate and they once again rendezvoused with the other three Sages and Keira.
"Santar, Alecis, Potentia! It is spectacular to observe each and every one of you yet again when we are currently emancipated."
"Still Zeorro," all three of them said simultaneously.
"Okay baby, where now?" Daxter asked before hiding from Potentia, who was eyeing him hungrily.
"Down eight floors and twenty meters to the right, muskrat." Keira said, which efficiently shut Daxter up.
"Well then, take hold of my arm," Zeorro exclaimed. Jak grabbed his arm, then Keira grabbed Jak's arm, then Alecis, then Santar, and finally Potentia. Zeorro closed his eyes and concentrated. Jak suddenly felt as though his body was being forced through a tight rubber tube. When the pressure released, Jak stood up shakily and saw Keira do the same. He looked around and saw a massive door. The signal for Tarea was coming from the other side, and that was where the Precursor Robot was being held. Jak spotted a Warp Gate and checked with Keira: this one would lead to Samos. Jak hopped through what he hoped was the last Warp gate: he wanted to rescue Samos so they could stop Gol and Maia once and for all.
Jak emerged in the Green Eco Temple and ran right past an odd-looking creature. It had four stumpy legs that it scuttled around on. A small squat body was connected to an equally squat head that had only one red eye. A single horn was sticking out of the top of its head. Jak fired a small Yellow Eco ball behind him at it and its head was blown clear off. Jak took a look at his surroundings: he was in a dim place with moss that glowed faintly, giving the entire place a eerie glow. Three more creatures charged him with their heads bent down. Jak waited for them to get close and stabbed them both right through the head with his two Eco Sabers. They wailed a horrible screeching for a second before dying.
Jak took a right at a fork in the road and arrived in a room full of odd creatures. Jak found it odd that the farther he journeyed into this place, the weirder looking his enemies got. These particular foes had two legs attached to size ninety-seven width double Z feet and a head with three red eyes. Upon seeing Jak, all of these creatures somehow breathed fire at him through nonexistent mouths. Jak didn't really stop to ponder this particular singularity, as he was quite busy dodging the blasts. Jak absorbed the fire and rebounded it on the creatures before slapping himself: surely these creatures would not be susceptible to their own attacks. To his surprise, the attacks did indeed hurt the enemies. Jak charged up a fireball and extended it so that it resembled a tornado. He aimed it each and every one of the organisms until they were all eradicated.
Jak continued on his not quite so merry little way as he traveled deeper into the Temple, uneasiness stabbing him from every direction. A scuttling sound made Jak spin around just in time to see a giant crab-like beast charge him. It had eight short scurrying legs and eight red eyes. It bowled Jak over and just walked over him, its legs indenting his skin and causing a few bones to get bruised. Jak stood up and healed himself with Green Eco. As it charged again, Jak leapt over it and fired a Yellow Eco grenade at it. The Grenade bounced off and went ricocheting back toward Jak. Jak did a back flip as he called the Grenade back to him and turned it into a Blade. He landed on the back of the crab and began hammering away at the thing's exoskeleton, which, despite his best efforts, refused point-blank to crack. Jak jumped off the creatures back and recalled his Blade, opting instead to send streams of fire at it. The crab pulled its head inside the shell as well as its eight legs. The fire did absolutely nothing to the beast and Jak began to feel his adrenaline pumping again. Although he spent a large portion of his life fighting, Jak did not usually lose his cool. It was only at times like this, when he needed to work out a completely new strategy and was being pushed to his limits that his blood really got pumping, that his adrenaline entered the blood stream. It was the times like these that Jak loved to a degree: he didn't let his body distract him from the task at hand, nor did he let the desire to always be in this state rule him: he kept it in check.
Jak grabbed his two Eco Sabers and threw them right at the beast's eyes. His aim was true and they sank right in all the way to the hilt. The crustacean let out a roar and ran around in circles, blinded, as it died. Jak grabbed his Eco Sabers and put them back on his belt. After looking around and determining that there were no more immediate threats, Jak took off his backpack and found a hero.
"Light meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato and mustard. Keira really does know how to make a great sandwich among other things," Jak thought as he munched on his meal, giving a small portion to Daxter.
After that hearty meal, Jak stood up and once again started on his quest to find the Sage of Green Eco. Seeing a purple glow, Jak took off once more, hoping that he had found Samos at last. Sure enough, there he was.
"Hey Jak, lets just leave him here," Daxter whispered. But not quietly enough, it would seem.
"DAXTER! YOU HAD BETTER GET OVER HERE AND FREE ME FROM THIS INFERNAL CAGE!" As Jak covered his ears, he thought the Sage might have burst a blood vessel with that last outburst.
Jak found the small machine powering Samos' cage's Dark Eco shield. As the light faded from the bars, Jak sliced through the bars of Samos' cage, finally freeing the wizened Sage from the confines of his imprisonment.
"Good work, boys! You're real heroes now!" Jak and Daxter's jaws dropped open: never before had they heard Samos praise Jak and Daxter together. They shook their heads as one and with an enormous effort pulled themselves back to the present to pay attention to what Samos was saying. "I'll combine my power with the other Sage's and together we'll open the shield door surrounding the Precursor Robot!" Daxter clapped his hands together and rubbed them together with an evil grin on his face. Samos and the others hopped through the Warp gate and emerged at the door guarding the Precursor Robot.
At the sight of her father, Keira had pulled him into a bone-crushing hug. Jak tossed Alecis her Eco Sabers back before Keira pulled Jak into a hug as well. Jak felt three of ribs begin to crack before Keira released him.
"After you guys open the shield, what are you going to do about the robot?" Samos rolled his eyes as he, Zeorro, Santar and Potentia charged up and unleashed a beam of energy that was twenty feet in diameter each at the energy field surrounding the Precursor Robot. The shield held up to the barrage for a few seconds but then caved in. The Sages stopped immediately so as to conserve their energy. Samos then turned to the three teenagers as he leaned on his staff heavily; the last attack had taken up an enormous amount of energy, but he still had about one quarter of his full power to work with.
Keira pulled the beacon off of her belt and activated it, a sign for everyone they had stationed at the City of the Sky to attack the Citadel.
Jak ran inside at the sight of a cage. Inside was Tarea, the final Sage. She was about Keira's size, with a blue tunic, red pants, black hair that reached down to her shoulders and purple eyes. She had a belt like Alecis', although this one had only one Eco Saber and a myriad of small inventions and gadgets. Jak had a feeling that Keira and Tarea would become very fast friends.
Jak could now see the Precursor Robot for himself and even through the trepidation he felt on what he had to do, he could still appreciate the technology, even if it had been tainted by Gol. The entire thing was the goldish orange color of the Precursors and was mostly intact. The left leg was complete save for the foot, the missing appendage had been replaced by a greenish-brown clumsy looking metal. The bottom was covered in spikes that looked as they might be made out of the bone that he had seen on Misty Island the third time he had gone. The biggest one was in the center of the bottom, with three one each side getting progressively smaller and one above it only a tad smaller than the center one, like grotesque toes. All of them were curved up and vicious looking.
The right leg was made completely out of Precursor metal, but did not look as if it was made out of one piece, like the left one did. Below the thigh the leg became triple-jointed, with a bend at the knee and then again about halfway through the shin. The foot looked similar to the Lurker-made one on the left, making Jak think Gol had found most of two legs, but had decided to make them both deformed instead of one good looking at the other off-key.
The left arm was attached up to only the elbow; below that was a giant storage tank connected to a pipe that looked suspiciously like the one Jak had seen on the end of the odd weapon the Yellow Sage and Boggy Billie both used. All of the additions were made out of the same dirty metal as the foot of the left leg. On both of the arms', the shoulder piece was protected by a shoulder pad made of the Lurker metal. It was curved inward so that it fit around the shape of the robot's arm and had three of the bone spikes on it curing up, with the largest in the middle.
The armor on the body was peeled away, leaving a lot of delicate circuitry revealed. In the center of the chest was the Green Eco Generator that the Lurkers had stolen about four months ago. Surrounding it was about eight small pieces of machinery, but Jak was unable to distinguish what they were exactly.
The right arm had the shoulder pad like the left, but this arm was in one piece. The armor plating of the underside of the wrist was missing, but other than that the artifact was in marvelous condition. Above the hand was a curious accessory: a heap of mocking metal with three long poles sticking out. At the end was a thick piece of glass, as well as another one at the beginning of the poles. Two tubes connected this apparatus to the rest of the normal arm. Each of the tips of the three fingers had small things that Jak couldn't make out connected to them, but Jak had a feeling that they couldn't be anything good for him.
The face was a circle a long snout going straight down. The right eye was missing and the Blue Eco Cannon that Samos said had been stolen from Zeorro was welded in the eyes place with the Lurker metal surrounding it so it didn't fall out. What looked like a giant death ray was positioned behind the head, with a long spine made of the imitation metal and spikes going down the back. Jak stopped looking intently at the Precursor Robot and listened to what Samos was saying to Daxter.
"Nothing, Daxter," Samos said as he breathed heavily, "we opened the shield. None of us have enough power to destroy the robot now. It's up to you two to figure out how to destroy it!
"Oh great…" Daxter whined. "This is, this just perfect. I get to help the guy who turned me into a fur-ball," he said as he gestured to Jak, "destroy the only nutcase who can turn me back!" Daxter finished this pronouncement by motioning to said Dark Sage. He froze and did a double take. He screamed and ran into Jak's hair, burying himself within the long locks of hair sticking straight up. Everyone else assumed a fighting position. Jak looked at Keira and moved his head, telling her to leave.
"I'm not going anywhere Jak!" Keira protested. Jak turned around fully and grabbed her. He took off and flew out of the window. He landed at the edge of the Citadel and pointed to the outside, saying that she needed to help the attack on the Citadel. Since she was not a Channeler, she would be of little help. Keira glared at Jak before realizing what he was thinking. Keira sighed and muttered, "fine." As she began to walk away she suddenly turned around and grabbed Jak. She pulled him into a fierce embrace and held him tightly. Jak put his arms around her back and they hugged for a few seconds. Unfortunately the situation would not allow for more than that and so they regretfully pulled away.
"Jak. I have something for you." Keira said as Jak began to leave. He turned back and Keira pulled another Eco Belt out of her backpack. He stared at it disbelievingly for a second before looking up at her. "I like to keep busy. And Jak," Jak turned around yet again. Keira leaned in as she gave him another hug. "You better come back alive, or I'll have to kill you." Jak smirked and pointed at himself as if to say, its me. Keira chuckled before setting off for the rest of the group. Jak watched her go before strapping on his newly filled Eco Belt and taking off for the chamber where he had left everyone. He suddenly felt a dark power rise up and began flying faster, trying to get there before it was too late…
Okay, so I'm updating a week late, sue me. (Sees lawyers appear from thin air and raises garlic and a cross to ward them off). Anyway, I hope I described the Precursor Robot decently, as well as chronicle Jak's journey. If anyone wants a picture of the Precursor Robot, just let me know and I'll email it to you, but it won't look exactly the same, since I added and changed a few things. See you all next weekend.
My Top Five Favorite Fanfictions. (They are listed alphabetically, not by preference.)
1. Surge by Amathist Fwirrel
2. The Jak and Daxter Prank War by animedragongirl
3. The Sage's Legacy by Light-Eco-Sage
4. There was Light and Darkness by Keeroshu
5. War of the Ancients by Red Mage 04
Quote of the week- Family Guy
Lois: So we'll solve this problem.
Peter:Wait? You mean together?
Lois: Yes. Because together we can do anything: face any foe; overcome any obstacle.
Peter: Yeah, climb any mountain, rent any video, dial any phone! And not just our phone, Lois! Other people's phones! Decent phones! God-fearing phones! Phones that everybody else gave up on but we knew better because we were a team!
(Silence for a few seconds)
Brian (Looking up from his newspaper): What the hell are you talking about?