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Red Mage 04- Thank you for the shout out for luck, I will need it to do good on this chapter. I'm also happy that you were able to tell what all of the mutants looked like, and I'll have them show up again. Update War of the Ancients really soon, because I want to see Keira get her Light Eco Powers.

Disclaimer: I own nothing of Jak and Daxter except a copy of ach of the games. If I owned the franchise, I would have made this the game, which would have caused Naughty Dog to go bankrupt from not selling a single copy of the original game.

Battles for Weyard

Jak took a small kit out of his backpack and unfolded it, showing a pack that fit snugly against his back and still gave room for his backpack. Keira said she had picked it up while out shopping: it was a gigantic Eco conserver. Apparently, there was a mechanical genius in The City of The Sky who had the same idea as Keira, except he had infinitely more time on his hands. After assembling the Eco Containment Backpack and hooking it up to his Eco Boxes, Jak sat on the disk heading for the Silos and mentally prepared himself for the difficult, nay, nearly impossible, battle that he knew lay ahead. To be perfectly honest, he had never thought this was going to be an issue. He had always imagined himself defeating Gol and Maia before the activated the Precursor Robot. But then again, he of all people should know that the Precursors rarely allow things to happen as one would imagine. Jak sighed and closed his eyes, seeing as he wouldn't be at the Silos for a minute or two, and the thing was so small to the Precursor Robot that there was very little chance of Gol and Maia noticing him before he got closer.

A small shift in weight on his shoulders made him remember Daxter. His friend that had followed him through pretty much every aspect of this adventure. Oh sure, the little guy was a bit annoying at times, who wasn't. But even though Daxter seemed to be more irritating than the normal person, he was still a loyal person. There were plenty of opportunities when Daxter could have turned his back on Jak: the Lurker attack on Sandover; the journey through Boggy Swamp; climbing Snowy Mountain; escaping from the Lurker Fort; the traverse through Spider Caves; the Lava Tube. Precursors, Daxter could hate Jak, and have every right to. Jak dwelled on this for a second and realized that if Daxter hated him, he would feel slightly better. After all, it was Jak's own fault in the first place that Daxter had been mutated into the fuzzy rodent he was now. Jak's brow furrowed as he thought back to that fateful day, now four and a half months ago…

The boat landed with a small thud on the shores of the forbidden island. Daxter went toppling forward and Jak chuckled as he helped his friend up and out of the water. Daxter shook himself off and dried his skin off, but his clothes remained slightly damp. He looked around and shuddered, having second thoughts about coming to this place. "Hey! Uh, Jak? Old Green Stuff told us not to come here," he had said…
But Jak hadn't listened to him. His thirst for adventure had made him continue, and that was where they had first heard of Gol's mad scheme. And then on their way back to the village, Jak had disagreed with Daxter over which way they had come and because of him, they had wound up by that pool again. Even so, it might not have been Jak's fault if he hadn't fought that Lurker and thrown that bomb…
The Lurker charged again and Jak's instincts told him to throw the metal. Jak hurled the cylinder with all his might and the instant it made contact with the Lurker it exploded, sending Jak flying back into Daxter, who toppled over the edge and fell screaming into the vat of dark ooze. Jak turned around and stared desperately into the liquid, praying for some sign that his friend was still alive. His prayers were answered as Daxter's voice was heard emanating from an orange blob that was shot out of the ooze. It shot passed Jak, who breathed a sigh of relief. He turned around, expecting to see his friend. He was instead greeted by a very wrong image. A two-foot tall fuzzy rodent was dusting himself off and standing up…
"Yes, it is my fault that my friend is like this," Jak thought as he focused on his journey. Although Keira had helped him infinitely with her amazing gadgets, the most helpful of which being the Eco Box Belt he now wore, his goggles, and figuring out everything about his gloves, Jak doubted he would have made it this far without Daxter. Admittedly, he was quite small, but that hadn't stopped him from helping Jak out of that sticky situation during his second brawl with Escuro…
The demon threw a punch at Jak with its left arm. Jak dodged to the outside of the creature, who smirked. It extended a sword from its wrist and made a slicing motion through the air. Jak was caught unprepared for this and paid for it dearly. As he slumped to the ground, clutching at the three-inch deep graze along his torso, the demon hit him with a sidekick in his ribs, breaking three of them. Jak hit the ground, his head spinning and his body aching. His hand weakly and slowly traveled to his Green Eco Box. The demon saw his movement and stomped on his arm, reducing the bones in it to resemble something from Pickup-Sticks. Jak's eyes bugged and he started thrashing around on the ground, his mouth open in a silent scream of pain and anguish. Suddenly the monster above him left out a roar and Jak prepared to die; there was no way he could block whatever the monster was planning next. He couldn't even move half his body without feeling terrible pdain.

"Jak! Hurry up; I don't think I can keep this thing distracted any longer." Daxter cried out. Jak looked up from the ground and saw his adversary making frantic attempts to remove Daxter's teeth from its arm…

Yes, Daxter had been a good help to have in that fight. And he had helped him and the others destroy the dirigible. But the most important thing he had done was to, quite simply, be there. He had never once deserted Jak. The feeling that Daxter was always with him had often given Jak the determination to get the both of them out of whatever mess they had gotten into. Jak had struggled so hard during his first fight against Benedict because he had felt alone against the darkness that had threatened to overwhelm him. But this time, he had felt up to fighting Gravis because he knew Daxter was with him.

The platform got closer to the Silos. Jak saw the Precursor Robot stop in front of it and its fake eye begin to glow. He also noticed that the weather was acting peculiarly. The closer he got to the Silos, the worse the weather seemed to get. Thick rolling dark storm clouds were gathering, and thunder began to rumble as lightning flashed in the background. The curious thing was that rain wasn't falling. It was if the Silos were responsible for the atmosphere. He closed his eyes and this time thought of Keira. If Daxter was the ship that kept him above water in the storm, Keira was the sail that kept him pointing in the right direction. Without her, Jak would not have even survived the first Temple. And he had now grown closer to her. Even though he couldn't talk, she always seemed to know what he thinking and did her best to stop him from becoming like Benedict. Truthfully, Jak knew he had come dangerously close to following the poor guy during the first attack on Sandover. He had killed the Lurkers responsible for hurting his friends. But that hadn't been enough. Full of rage, he had seriously begun considering killing the next thing that got his attention. He walked back to the hut with every intention of ripping the corpses of the Lurker brutally apart. And then he had seen her. Her beautiful face with those pure eyes had calmed his soul and immediately he became concerned for her. He liked her just as much as Benedict, but in a different way. Benedict desired her, Jak desired her happiness.

Jak thought back to all the times he and Keira had been alone. Not once had they managed to kiss. Jak was constantly wondering if he would be her first kiss, or had she already kissed someone already. Surely it wouldn't be the latter: Keira would tell him if she was seeing someone, Jak had no doubt of that. What did worry him was that he would screw it up. There was a saying that the first kiss was always unforgettable and that worried Jak. On the plus side, he might be her first and only. That would be great. But what if she remembered him because he was a horrible kisser? Or worse, what if it affected their friendship? If they got together and then split up, would their friendship be able to stand it? All of a sudden, an image rose from the shadows of Jak's mind, the corner where he thought about Keira. He could see her cute face in front of his, eyes closed expectantly. He could see them get closer as her lowered his mouth to hers. He could smell her scent, sweet and spicy at the same time. And then they shared their first kiss. Jak allowed himself a silly grin as the image replayed itself and with an enormous effort, he shook the thought away: he had more important things to worry about now. Namely, the two Sages that he had to stop before they opened the Dark Eco Silos and destroyed the world.

Jak opened his eyes and saw that the Robot had paused in its laser firing and had spotted him. He tensed his body, but surprisingly, the Robot moved aside so he could stand on the Dark Eco Silo. He glared at the left eye of the Robot, knowing that Gol and Maia could see him. Jak noticed that the appearance of the robot had altered greatly. The large gun on the left arm had been removed and slung across the back, while a normal hand had taken its place. In addition, the attachment on the left hand had vanished. A blast of insane laughter burst from the Robot before it became comprehensible words.

"Why do you follow us? I will be impossible for you to defeat us!" Jak heard Gol's voice emanate from the Robot as clearly as if he had been standing an inch away.

"You know buddy, I can smell you from here. Their called Tic-Tacs, and there not that expensive!" Daxter called back. Jak smiled at his friends words.

"Insolent rodent!" Maia screamed. Daxter stuck his tongue out, an act that seemed to infuriate her even more. Jak stopped grinning and adopted a fighting stance: he sensed that the joking was over and now it was time to get down to business.

The two stared at each other, both the Channeler and the Precursor awaiting that slight sign, the instinctive 'ding,' that would start the battle of the century.

As luck would have it, a bolt of lighting struck near by, and as the thunder swept over the Silo, Jak launched himself at the Robot as fast as he could. The Robot showed that it was far speedier than an automaton of its size should be, and lashed out with both of its forearms in an attempt to turn Jak into a pancake. However, the elf was not going to be taken down by such a simple move, and he vaulted up and performed a back flip, before coming down with both Blades out. But Gol proved swift at the control's, and brought an armored forearm up to block the blows.

Both of Jak's Eco Blades were deflected by the armored arm, with absolutely nothing to show for all the power that had been behind them. The Robot then brought his other arm into the mix, lashing out with it with enough force that a small gale picked up as Jak just managed to get out of the way.

"Jeez Jak, could ya get any closer to dying?" Daxter screeched as he barely held on to Jak's hair, causing a few pairs to part from his scalp. The Robot attacked again and Jak fired a ball of Eco at the Green Eco Generator. As he expected, the Robot brought its arms up to cover the chest. He aimed a Red Grenade at the face of the Precursor Robot, aiming for where he thought Gol was sitting. The Channeled Red Eco struck the massive machine, but it did little more than generally piss Gol off.

Jak heard a snarl come over the loudspeakers before Yellow Eco crackled over the right hand. As the Robot unleashed it upon Jak, the elf moved like a blur to get out of the blast range of the attack, which hit the Silo's top dead on. Jak threw the Yellow Eco Blade in his left hand, and chucked another Eco Grenade straight at the chest, trying to damage the center of the Robot. A giant arm swatted the two Channeled attacks away with its left hand.

While Gol was busy guarding the belly of the Robot, Jak turned his Blue Eco Box off and dropped down. He extended the grappling hook and attached himself to the fake foot of the Robot. He activated the adhesive function of his gloves and began climbing up its back. Gol spun the Robot around, looking for his foe.

"Where did he go brother?" Maia asked from within the cockpit.

"I don't know sister," the male Dark Sage replied before damage screens started flashing.

"What's going on?"

"It's him. He's on the back," Gol said softly before he whirled around with enough speed to kick up a small wind around the Robot. Jak held on with his Eco Blade imbedded on the back. Eventually he went flying off and received a blow to his entire body, courtesy of a gigantic foot. Jak went flying back and accidentally attached himself to the foot of the Robot again. He reeled himself up and began flying up the body. Jak rushed up the arm and dug both of his weapons into the unarmored joint. He continued flying, but the metal of the Robot was so strong that the Blades made little more than nicks. The Robot brought his other hand to the wound to crush the Channeler. Fortunately, said elf was able to get clear before he was turned into a two dimensional object.

The Channeler dodged a barrage of small, thin beams that were coming from the eight odd turrets surrounding the Green Eco Generator. The eight of them fired at the same place and met in a dot. An enormous beam emitted from it and Jak dropped down to avoid it. After about three minutes later, and several groans from the Silo, Jak decided to go back on the offensive again, lashing out with energy balls and beams, throwing everything he had at this enemy, knowing full well what the price of failure would be. Gol retaliated furiously, trying desperately to kill this bastard that had stolen Samos' affection away from him.

However, as yet another bomb hit home upon the chest of the Robot and damaged some delicate circuitry, Gol decided to play one of his trump cards. An enormous ball of Dark Eco suddenly expanded, forcing Jak away if he desired to continue to be unmutated, or alive for that matter, as being mutated required being alive.

Jak hovered in the air as the ball of Eco vanished and the tow adversaries circled each other. Lightning crackled in the sky once again, and the battle chose that moment to resume.

Jak summoned two Eco Blades as the distance closed. Gol cocked the Robot's arms back and brought his fists in with all the strength he had at his disposal, kicking up a small wind with the force behind them. Jak evaded this attack and then expertly dodged additional blows with a mid-flight twist followed by a dive that put him right underneath the arm and scored a minor hit on the right arm with his Eco Blade on the unarmored section.

The Robot aimed a kick at Jak, who dodged to the right, rolling out of the way as the enormous contraption attempted to once more end his existence. Fortunately, the only thing that the Robot wound up hitting was an afterimage Jak seemed to leave in his wake, so great was his speed. Jak heard a grumble of aggravation as Gol turned the Robot around and caught a Yellow Eco Grenade right in the eye. Jak ran is and narrowly avoided a beam from the right eye.

A thundering roar of thunder split the as the Robot smacked Jak, who learned what a Wumpbee felt like after being smacked. He pried himself off the ground, where the Robot had smacked. He looked up and saw that Gol had aimed the cannon strapped to his back and a massive blast of flames came streaming out. Jak shot up and out of the forest before he was slowly roasted. He shot up like a blur and got behind the Robot. Before Gol could maneuver the Robot around, Jak thrust both of his weapons up to their hilts into his back before turning them into Grenades and detonating them. Gol then did something Jak would have thought impossible: a back flip. As he went flying back, he was stunned that the Robot was able to do such acrobatics, but then again, he should have expected it, considering that this was but a demonstration of the power of the Ancients.

Jak sped back toward the Robot and received quite a shock when it launched the massive Dark Eco attack at him again. Jak activated a shield and plowed straight through the attack, aiming for the Blue Eco Cannon. As one of the hands reached for him, Jak dodged the Eco Sabers attached to his fingers and landed back on the Silo, where he glared at Gol, who returned the favor, although it remained unseen.

The head looked down and the right eye began to glow. Jak took off as the Blue Eco Cannon fired at him. Now that he was in the air it would be much harder for Gol to hit him. Jak barrel rolled to the right, trying to get closer to the Robot. What he was going to do once he got there was beyond him. He had absolutely no idea how to kill this thing. He got closer and closer when suddenly a trio of Eco Sabers came whizzing at him. He leaned back and did a split while curling his right arm into his chest to stay in once piece. The three Eco Sabers spun around before going towards the Robot. For one wild second Jak was expecting them to cut into it but came to his senses when he saw them attach themselves to one of the fingers on the Robot's right hand.

"You'll never defeat me!" Gol shouted as he fired at Jak again. Jak dodged two of the Eco Sabers and grabbed the third as he combined his two Eco Blades and threw it like a spear. His attack did absolutely no damage, but it did stop the laser for a few seconds. Jak rushed in and made a stabbing motion when the Saber he was clutching jerked him back to the right hand. Once he got over the shock, Jak let go of it, realizing that getting sliced up by the Sabers would not be conducive to his health. As he let go, Jak fired a grappling hook and attached himself to the right elbow. He reeled himself in and began running up the Robot's arm, assured that he wouldn't be attacked out of fear for damaging the Robot.

"Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!" a voice screamed. Jak looked down and saw Daxter falling towards the forest below. Without a second thought Jak leapt off the arm and plummeted straight down and sped for his friend.

"C'mon," Jak thought as he willed himself to go faster. He caught Daxter and took off for the Silos again, knowing that he was about halfway out of Blue Eco. As he landed on the Silos again the laser cannon opened up fire again. Jak took the skies again and went in at a zigzag pattern. He landed on the Robot right in front of the eye and savored triumph for a split second before he realized how stupid he had been.

With a massive blast of energy, the Precursor Robot nailed Jak right in the chest. Jak expected to feel it tear through his body at any second but nothing happened. Jak opened his eyes and saw that his body was absorbing the beam and Channeling it. As he rushed in and prepared to stab the eye, Gol did something Jak should have expected, but didn't. Gol brought the head back before slamming it into Jak's body.

Jak went sailing back towards the Silo and impacted with an echoing thud. He looked up and saw that the Precursor metals covering the seam between the shutters were being blasted away. Jak Channeled Blue Eco into his body and concentrated with every particle of his brain on crushing the Blue Eco Cannon. Gol and Maia continued to fire the beam; unaware (or not caring) that Jak was destroying the Cannon.

With a massive display of energy, Jak ripped the Blue Eco Cannon out of the eye socket of the Robot and crushed it in midair.

"What in the name of all that is holy?" Daxter asked, having no idea what his friend had done.

"You'll pay for that Jak!" Gol shouted. Jak thoroughly ignored him as he summoned two Blades and prepared to rush back into the fight.

"Launch the Eco Detonator!" Maia yelled.

A disk of Precursor metal was launched from the thing they had installed behind the head. Jak recognized it as one of the disks that Gol had stolen from the Blue Eco Temple that one day. It hovered about ten feet above the Silo and began spinning rapidly. Small bolts of electricity began flying everywhere and Jak back flipped off the side of the Silo. He activated the adhesive feature on his gloves and climbed back up after hearing an explosion. As he looked up Jak reflected on the fact that he was lucky to have moved. Shrapnel was littered everywhere. Jak understood why Maia had called it the Eco Detonator. As he began to run towards the Robot, Jak suddenly tripped. He looked down and saw that the Silos had been opened a hair: just enough to get your toe stuck in. He gulped: he now had to stop them from completely opening the Silos. Jak remembered Samos had told him that the Silos were only dangerous when fully open. If they were closed even a little bit, they would hold the Dark Eco inside.

A bright glow made Jak turn around. The chest of the Precursor Robot lit up and Jak tensed, remembering what was on it. As it fired a massive ball of Green Eco, Jak tried to Channel it into himself using the Econetic magnets in his gloves. It was too powerful, however, to be discouraged, and flew right into the crack in the Silo and sank into the Dark Eco. Gol began firing more balls, about a dozen more in all. Of these, Jak managed to deflect and absorb one, but that was it. Jak looked into the Dark eco, which was docile as the sea on Sentinel Beach. Suddenly a ball of Dark Eco shot out and landed on the floor with a sickening plop. It began to vibrate and make growling noises. Jak blew it to pieces, certain that whatever it was, it could not be anything good.

Eleven more balls shot out of the air and landed on the Silo. Some of them never got the chance, since Jak blasted about five out of the air. Three more met their doom as they landed and began to shake. The other three hardened as Jak fired Eco at them. Unfortunately, it didn't do any good. The balls of Dark Eco burst open and the creatures inside were revealed.

They were by far the ugliest things Jak had yet to see in this lifetime. The creatures inside seemed to have been created inside out, with their skin pattern looking disgustedly like bones. They had four legs on a bone waist. All of the legs were bent so that the creatures were perhaps half of their total height. Even so, they still had a good two feet or so on Jak. An exterior spine covered in pale blue flesh traveled up another three feet from the waist, ending in a dark brown chest that looked like leather covered with a bone chest carapace. On each side of the chest was a shiny blue mask with glowing red eyes. One's eyes were squinted so it looked happy, the other looked sad. Two arms with gigantic biceps and foot long claws connected to more pale blue skin. Sticking out of the top of each head was a long spike that looked like vertebrae. A long neck of eight inches was under a third mask, this one's eyes narrowed in anger. Two long horns curved back and then up and forward.

As one of them flexed it fingers, it met death by being chopped in half and thrown off the Silo. Jak rushed another one, whose happy face breathed a blast of fire. Jak dodged to the right, right into the claws of another. As the one that had almost impaled him charged, Jak leapt over it and kicked it in the back of the head. As it staggered forward, Jak saw the first Dark Beast breath another blast of fire. Jak back flipped so that he the second Dark Beast was between him and the first one. As he landed and added his own inferno to the mix, the second beast shrieked as its skin bubbled and it became nothing more than a puddle on the floor. The first Dark Beast charged Jak again. Jak blocked its lightning quick blows with his forearm armor and fired a Yellow Eco Beam at it. It caused the beast to go back, but then the sad face lit up and unleashed a stronger Yellow Eco Beam at Jak.

Jak was thrown off the Silo by the attack and grabbed the edge with his glove. He climbed back up, but the Dark Beast was nowhere to be seen. Jak looked over the edge of the Silo and saw it crawling down, looking for him. He landed on it and began fighting with it. As the two exchanged blows, Jak had to admire its flexibility. By digging its legs into the side of the Silo, the Dark Beast could dodge and move around while attacking. Jak backed up to use fire when suddenly the angry face lit up. A spray of Dark Eco came out like a sprinkler. Jak thought of a few words that he would never say (if he could) around Keira as some of it ate away the left side of his pants all the way to the knee. He hissed as the Eco stung his skin and zoomed in. A nauseating crack split the air as Jak sank his foot through the beasts face and down its throat. As it let out a death wail, Jak pulled his foot out and watched it fall to the ground. He wiped off the blood and flew back up to the Silo.

Jak saw the Robot clinging to the Silo and for a second thought he had managed to defeat it. The he saw that it was using the Eco Sabers on its right hand to open the Silos a little more. Jak picked up a piece of shrapnel and threw it at the Precursor Robot with Blue Eco, accelerating it so fast that it actually cut through the hilt of three of the Sabers and deactivated them. The head looked up and it flew back. Jak saw it raise its right hand and prepared for anything. The contraption above the arm glowed a mixture of red and yellow, but it wasn't orange.

Gol opened fire with the right arm and a blast of Red and Yellow Eco came streaming out. Jak recognized it instantly as a technique he had used once before against a certain dragon.

The dragon let out a massive blast of Yellow Eco and fire. Jak stretched out his hands and caught the attacks, concentrating hard to Channel them back so that they would recharge all the energy he had used up and then some. He gathered all of his energy once again, but this time combined both his Yellow and Red Eco powers into only one ball. As he poured more and more energy into it, the energy became harder to contain. When he was done emptying all his power, it was taking every ounce of determination he had not to let it explode. He flew up to the dragon and landed right on the nose of the main mouth. Predictably, it opened up the second one to blow him away and Jak quickly threw his ball of energy inside the beast.

A massive sphere of brightness burst outwards, a light so utterly and completely powerful that it seared Jak's vision, even though his eyes were closed. The blast also had the effect of disintegrating the majority of Jak's clothing, so that he was left with only the cloth under his armor, and a very showing pair of shorts that ended about five inches past his waist. The Channeler landed on the hard floor, beaten and exhausted, but alive…

As Jak backed away from the fireballs, in no way eager to get hit by a more powerful version of his most powerful attack, the ball of combined Red and Yellow Eco suddenly detonated, sending him lurching away before he realized that they contained splash damage. The rings of Eco traveled swiftly over the one hundred foot diameter Silo. As he jumped over them Jak figured that although Gol's fireballs were bigger than the one he had used, they were not as dense, which explained the fact that he wasn't blinded. Jak leapt over three before getting hit by one. The heat washed over him and for a second he thought he might simply burst into flames. Jak got up just in time to dodge another blast. He heard heavy panting coming from his shoulder and looked at Daxter. Even in this situation, Jak was tempted to laugh at his friend: his arm and face hair had been singed off. Fortunately, the skin was still pale, so Jak knew his friend was not seriously injured.

Jak dodged a barrage of fireballs sent by Gol, narrowly being burnt to death. It didn't help that the device fired the Yellow and Red Eco Balls about one every second, nor did it help that the balls were about the size of Jak's torso. Jak leapt into the air after Gol fired another Eco Bomb and landed on the right arm. He looked over at the Silo and saw that it was about a quarter of the way open. He would have to alter his strategy; his current one would not let him win. As he saw the Green Eco Generator charging up, Jak threw a volley of Yellow Eco Grenades at it, destroying it and causing it to fall off the chest of the Robot. Jak sighed, knowing that at least now he wouldn't have to fight an army of Dark Beasts. He then turned his mind to the matter at hand: finding a way to destroy the right arm attachment. As he dodged another score of fireballs, Jak Channeled some Green Eco into his body as well as Daxter's face and arms to grow the lost hair back.

Another few blasts later, Jak found his head impacting the Silos, half his shirt scorched off. He needed to find a new tactic: he was running out of Blue Eco. Another blast came at him and Jak rolled out of the way. Although he knew he had to get back on the offensive, he had no idea how to do such a thing. He looked back and saw that the Silo was opening more: there was now room for Jak's entire foot to fit through the crack. Jak summoned a Yellow Eco Blade and kept pumping Eco into it, causing it to swell. As Gol launched another ball, Jak used his Blade as a baseball bat. The Red and Yellow Eco Grenade was launched back like a comet right at the eye. Jak's aim was true and it caused a minor explosion to go off in the face. A blue liquid started streaming down the robot, giving off the impression that it was crying. Jak recognized it as Blue Eco and went zooming at it. He jumped in midair over a hand that was trying to crush him and stuck his hand out. A thin stream of Blue Eco went into his right glove. Jak grinned as his Blue Eco Box's level rose. He landed on the shoulder of the arm and switched off his Blue Eco Box.

"Jak! Are you crazy?" Daxter screamed as he held onto Jak's shoulder for dear life. Jak ignored him and ran down the right arm of the Precursor Robot, dodging the Eco Sabers that still came whizzing through the air at him. He took a giant leap upwards and grabbed a Saber. As it began to pull him back Jak fired a grappling hook at the arm and latched on. As he reeled himself in, Jak brought the Eco Saber with him and slashed at one of the tubes connecting the Red and Yellow Eco Launcher and the arm. To his dismay, it did not sever as he had planned, but rather a small incision appeared in the covering of the tube.

Jak cursed mentally again as the Eco Saber was jerked out of his grip and dragged him back. He quickly let go and back flipped in the air before latching a grappling hook onto the arm again. Jak fired and released his hooks, swing up the arm as he tried to think of a way to destroy that weapon that was now firing upon the Silos. A loud creaking sound was heard as the metal containing the Dark Eco recoiled under the intense fire. Jak leapt up and prepared to launch an attack into the glass of the weapon: perhaps that would damage it. Gol apparently had done something to alter the attack, since the three metal poles that were on the gun were moved in, separated into smaller pieces and rearranged to fire a torrent of volleyball sized energy pellets coming towards him at a higher rate of speed than the larger ones had.

Jak frenetically dodged to the right, and the Robot turned with him, trying to lead him as he unleashed dozens of Red and Yellow Eco bursts a second at him. One or two did hit, and Jak had to heal up some rather painful looking burn marks one his bare chest. Nonetheless, Jak rushed in, dodging the attacks and was met with the biggest bitch-slap in record. Jak went speeding into the Silo at such an enormous velocity that he actually dented it. Jak's eyes unfocused as he began his descent downward to the ground. His fall was slowed slightly by the branches, but still impacted hard enough to leave a small crater. Jak let out a goofy grin as heat washed over him and he closed his eyes, thinking a nap would be nice.

"Jak! JAK! WAKE UP!" Daxter screeched so loud that his own ears began to ring. Jak remained unresponsive as the fire around them drew closer. Daxter looked frantically around and spotted a lake. He quickly tried to push Jak, and despite the trail being downhill, he was unable to move Jak. Daxter started to panic, but he fought against it, knowing Jak would think straight in a situation. He flipped on the Blue Eco Box and Jak's body became lighter as the Eco flooded his body. He then backed up and slammed into Jak, rolling him down the hill and into the freezing cold water. Needless to say, it was a sufficient enough stimulant to wake Jak up. He looked around before a high-pitched voice drew his attention.

"Hey Jak! We gotta take that Robot down, so let's go!" After getting his bearings and figuring out what had happened, Jak took off to the skies, his eyes blazing with a new determination. He showed himself to the Robot and sensed (quite correctly) that Gol and Maia had stunned looks of disbelief on their faces. The fires below them gave Jak an eerie glow as he charged in again.

Both combatants simply moving about in a circle, each one formulating their next move. Gol was wondering which new attack he should break out against this foe, while Jak analyzed the Robot, looking for some flaw, some weakness that he could exploit and use to bring this Legatee-spawned creature down.

As they reentered melee range, Jak once again summoned his Eco Blades, ready to unleash them and their powers upon his adversary. They met with a thunderous din, as Jak brought both swords in aiming for an unarmored section of the arm, which Gol blocked with by rotating his arm around, and then attempted to retaliate against, lashing out with the right arm.

Jak ducked down and threw a Yellow Grenade at an armored section in the hope it would come off. Jak shot a beam at the eye and hit it dead on, causing sparks to fly from the damaged eye. Jak landed back on the Silo as one of the arms went up to the eye and the right one launched the bigger version of his Red and Yellow Eco Bomb. Gol unleashed five or six Eco Detonators and Jak summoned a Green Eco Shield to guard against the flying shrapnel. Jak picked up all of the shards and sent them hurtling at the Robot. As they impacted on the glass of the weapon on the right hand, the glass cracked. Jak rushed in and redirected the balls at the pipe that he had tried to cut before. A stream of Yellow Eco burst out and Jak was surprised: he thought that the tubes had kept the firearm connected, not give it power. He held out his hands and as the Eco came out Jak redirected the power to his hand and then added his own power to the mix. Gol roared and shot a massive beam of Dark Eco, and Jak dodged, keeping his mind on gaining the Yellow Eco. After draining the Eco gushing out at full blast for five minutes Jak focused all his power into his left hand. He raced down the arm and slammed his saffron hand into the other tube.

A massive explosion sent Jak flying back. When Jak looked at the Robot after the light had dimmed, he was rather pleased that he had not only managed to take out the weapon, but he had successfully blown the entire right forearm right off. Jak grinned at his shoulder before realizing Daxter was gone. He panicked and started looking around. He landed on the Silo as the Robot began attaching the replacement on the back. After satisfying himself that Daxter was not on the Silo, Jak noticed that he Silo was now halfway open. A mighty crash shook him off his feet as the Robot slapped a hand down. Jak dodged the appendages and caught sight of a quick flash of orange. He quickly flew up and threw a Grenade at the Robot to distract it as he found his friend on the elbow of the left arm.

"Keep him busy Jak!" Daxter shouted as he scampered into the arm itself. Jak remained crouched and winced when a piercing voice screeched at him.

"I gotta make myself useful, so I'm gonna try and take off this arm. Give me three minutes and I should have it off." Jak reluctantly nodded, since there was no way he would be able to get a hold of Daxter to dissuade him anyway. He back flipped off the Robot and once again began sparring with the Robot, if sparring was used to describe a fight to the bitter end.

Jak realized that while they damaged the Robot, his Yellow Eco Grenades and Red Eco Grenades were extremely draining. He summoned two Eco Blades and decided that he would have to rely almost completely upon his blade skills to finish the battle. Gol swung at him with both arms, and barely dodged the limbs that were about the size of buildings. He slammed his Blades down on the armor, but as before, it did little more than irritate Gol and give the demented Sage another reason to kill him.

"What is taking Daxter so long?" Jak thought as he recharged his failing Blue Eco reserves. Gol was getting angrier and angrier, and Jak was beginning to tire out. He decided it was time for a more direct type of warfare. Jak zoomed in, dispelling his Eco Blades and getting close to the body as he reeled himself in with his gloves. Jak finally made it up to the face and made a silly face at Gol. At a roar, Jak took off and the hand that had been going to slap him impacted the face of the Robot. Gol growled as he pried the hand off, a decent sized dent now permanently in the skull. Jak landed on the top of the skull and began to Channel Red Eco. He started to pry open the hatch where Gol and Maia were hiding. As his muscles bulged and his body screamed for him to stop, Jak's mind was so consumed with the task that he had given himself that he hadn't noticed that the Robot had landed on the Silo and was using both hands to try to pry the Silo open manually. Jak finally opened the hatch and was rewarded with an enormous blast of Dark Lightning. Jak struggled to stay awake as his body went flying off the heads and began falling toward the pit of Dark Eco that was now about two thirds open.

Jak twisted his body around and his eyes widened in fear as the Dark Eco grew closer and closer, every second catapulting him closer to his death.

Fortunately, he would be saved by the horrible death that he was so sure was inevitable.

Unfortunately, his salvation came in the form of a gigantic Yellow Eco Blast.

Jak's body rolled off the Silos and he dug his gloves into the metal of the Silos, trying to save himself from death. As he struggled to get up, a bag in his pocket jabbed him. He pulled the bag out and looked inside. His face was dumbfounded for an instant before he realized that the rejuvenation beans that tasted like pistachios were there. Jak popped one into his mouth and felt the wonders of this vegetation to its job. In ten seconds his body felt as good as when he had first began fighting: brand new.

He shot up and landed on the Silo, reveling in the way the Robot jerked back, as though the elf inside had received and enormous shock, before he charged up Red Eco and unlashed a torrent of flames. He didn't expect the fire to actually melt the face (he knew Precursor metal was much too strong for that). All he wanted to do was stall the abomination long enough for Daxter to finish his job. He certainly seemed to be making progress, since as Gol swung at him once more Jak noticed that the left arm seemed to be wobbling about. As Gol threw another punch Jak landed on the arm and sent a fireball into the center of the unprotected circuitry. The arm jerked about as it went reeling back.

As Gol threw another punch at Jak, said elf heard a loud grinding sound and smiled triumphantly as the arm continued and went flying straight down, where it hit Weyard with a vibration that Jak could feel even atop the Dark Eco Silos. He spied a certain orange rodent that he decided right then and there would get a medal when they finished this thing off. He ran in and began hacking away at the controls that were exposed. Gol shook the arm frantically; trying to get the Channeler off and, after Jak had severed more than a few connections, eventually succeeded.

Gol, who was by now more than frustrated with the sheer stubbornness of his enemy, decided that as his Robot was running out of power, and he needed a new trick, he would simply let nature kill Jak. The Robot's feet lit up for a few seconds before they activated and pushed the mechanical creation even higher into the sky. Jak flew after it, thinking Gol was trying to escape.

"That's it," Gol whispered. "Just a little closer…" he said louder as Jak approached. Unfortunately, Gol had forgotten that he had installed beyond gigantic speakers on the "skin" of the Robot, so Jak heard every word he said. He put a thumb on his Green Eco button, ready to raise a shield, and also on his Red Eco Button for when he landed on the Robot so he could just pound the living daylights out of it.

Gol raised the right arm of the Robot and a bolt of lightning hit it. What was curious was that the lightning bolt did not stop, but continued. The gun on the left arm began to glow, and a giant blast of electricity headed for Jak. Jak summoned the shield like he had planned, but he had not counted on the sheer force of the attack, which made it extremely difficult for him to continue. Jak could see the electricity crashing into his Green Eco Shield and struggled to make the shield more solid. As the lightning intensified, Jak decided to Legatee with the consequences, and went back down. While he waited on the Silo, Jak charged up a blast of Red and Yellow Eco together and dodged the bolts of lightning that were bigger than his body as he danced to and fro.

Daxter was having a panic attack, terrified that he would either fall into the Silo and get mutated into something really ugly, or that a stray bolt would fry him into deep fried Ottsel. He looked with pride at his friend that he had finally managed to aid. Usually it was Jak who saved the day, but this time, Daxter had actually managed to do something significant.

Jak had no idea that his friend was currently mentally cheering him on, though he felt that presence that he had always felt, that feeling that no matter how desperate and hopeless things looked, he, Jak, would always be able to count on his friends. He tossed a trio of Red Eco Grenades at his foe, still concealing the Red and Yellow Eco Bomb he had charged in his right hand. Gol backed up and had the Robot level the gun. Jak saw it begin to charge up with Yellow Eco and took off to get to it before Gol decided to stop charging and unleash the powerful weapon of destruction upon him and the Silo. Jak was beginning to worry: the Silo was now mostly open: probably three quarters of the way. If he didn't wrap this fight up soon, then he would ultimately lose. But then again, Jak reassured himself, the Silos would remain closed. Jak would do everything in his power to keep them closed. On the whole, Jak felt relatively pleased with himself: he was faring quite well against a machine of pure destruction that had been created purely by the Ancients. Jak dodged another enormous beam of energy and fired his energy ball straight into the heart of the weapon.

Small explosions went off as the Yellow and Red Eco Bomb went off, causing a small chain reaction.

"Seal off the caps! Isolate the fluctuators!" Gol shouted and the explosions slowed down and lessened in sheep power until at last they stopped altogether. Jak cursed: that had been his final blast of power. There was now no way he would be able to dismantle the Robot without an offensive power. The Robot decided to distract Jak from his musings by firing at him again. Jak dodged the initial blast, but Gol had somehow made this one go off in midair, slamming Jak down. As Jak steadied himself and touched down on the ground, a glow caught his eye as he crouched down to take off. He looked where the glow was coming from and saw a lake. Drawn to it for an unknown reason, Jak looked in the bottom and his face lit up when he saw what was at the bottom. The arm that he had supposedly blown up before had hit that water and the Eco Sabers that adorned the fingertips still worked. Jak grabbed a Red Eco Saber and a Blue one to along with it. As he began to take off, Jak saw that Yellow and Red Eco were leaking out of the arm. Jak was surprised, since he thought that the Eco had run out. He recharged his power and smiled when he was back to full power.

Jak took off once more, deflecting another ball sent at him by swinging both Blades together and actually managing to make it fly back toward the Robot, where it impacted the chest.

Sparks flew as the enormous charge exploded and caused the Robot to spasmodically jerk about. A small eruption went off on the chest and for a second Jak thought that he had actually won the battle. He rushed in with the Eco Sabers and began to hack away at exposed wires and the like, inflicting a maximum amount of injury in a minimum amount of time.

"Jak!" Maia screamed at him as she emerged. The Robot fell to the ground and Gol frantically worked the controls to get the auto-repair function working again.

The two elves rushed towards each other, each one desiring the other's blood. Maia summoned a Dark Blade as the distance closed, and time seemed almost to slow as they drew ever closer, ever nearer to the next phase of this planet determining conflict. Jak, brought his fist in with all the strength he had at his disposal, kicking up a small wind with the force behind him. Maia expertly dodged the blow with twist followed by a duck. As she came up, Jak rushed forward so that he was right underneath the Dark Lord. Maia struck out with Dark Lightning and his Red Eco Saber began to spark. Jak let go of it and threw it at her as it detonated. Maia dodged the explosion. Jak rushed forward and punched her right in the chest, Red Eco giving him the power to hurt her through her armor. Maia hissed at Jak as her body healed.

The demoness dodged to the right, rolling out of the way as Jak threw his Eco Saber at her in a boomerang fashion. As it came back to the Channeler, Maia snarled in frustration and lashed out with her Dark Lightning attack again. Jak rebounded it against her and Maia was stunned for a second. That second was all it took for Jak to get behind her and be presented with another chance to strike at him. As he slammed his feet down on her back, Maia went forward. She spun around and a tentacle of Dark Eco extended from her arm and hit Jak, even though he was well over twelve feet away. Maia continued to pound the Channeler furiously, knowing that the wounds would heal quickly. She didn't realize that Jak had summoned a thin Green Eco Shield around his skin so that he did not feel the pain.

Maia lit her hands up and let a barrage of small Dark Eco Bombs about the size of footballs. Frantically, Jak dodged to the right, and Maia turned with him, trying to lead him as he unleashed dozens of Dark Eco bursts a second at him. Jak rose in the air and deflected one or two back at the Dark Sage. As she healed herself, Jak sent a massive blast down at her and she went flying down. Jak went down with her to meet her and the Robot rose again, its left arm glowing brightly again. Jak noticed how a giant ball of Yellow Eco had already formed on the end and was growing. Gol laughed maniacally as he launched the gargantuan attack at Jak, who just barely managed to get out of the way.

Jak flew forward to continue the battle but a rumbling stopped him. It was odd how he could feel rumbling when he was in the air, but a tremor seemed to be going through the entire planet. Jak turned around just in time to see the Silos open fully.

"No," Jak thought as Gol and Maia let out screams of identical laughter.

"I'm sorry Keira," Jak thought. "I have failed…"

Well, there you have it. The Silos are open, and now the true battle can begin. I'll probably start that in a week or two, so until then, Sayonara.
My Top Five Favorite Authors (They are listed alphabetically, not by preference.) I stopped Fanfictions because there were too many to reasonably lump together.

1. Amathist Fwirrel

2. animedragongirl

3. Keeroshu

4. Light-Eco-Sage

5. Red Mage 04

Quote of the week- Anonymous (I think this is a good saying for the end of War of the Ancients Chapter Two)

Anonymous: A soul consists of two separate parts that go into two separate people. The soul searches its whole life to find its other half, and when it finds it, it never wants to lose it again.