Whoo! Reviewers! Lots and lots of reviewers! I won't disappoint you guys (and girls)! Promise! So; chapter two, or chapter three if you count the prologue; which I don't. This one is written in Jak's POV, yay! Oh, and before I forget, in answer to your question Jaklover123; I know Rayn took over when Mizo died, but it's an AU, and they were as gang lord like I could get.

Jak: Chapter 2: Punishment.

I had returned back to my base a quarter of an hour ago and I was getting bombarded with questions.

"Did you kill the girl?"

"Why did you take so long?"

"What happened to the others?"

"How many of those Curvers were there?"

"Did they steal anything?"

Just as I thought no 'welcome back' or, 'are you okay?' straight down to business, and if they weren't asking how the mission went, they were badmouthing 'Curvers' also known as Northerners, but to these people it was always 'Curvers', their ears weren't normal according to most, I didn't care about stupid things like ear shapes and clothing colours, but I was forced into this life, and once you're squeezed into the corner of fighting to stay alive, you rarely make a victorious escape, there were only two ways to escape this sort of street life, jail and with a corrupt government the prison guards were allowed to do whatever the hell they pleased with you the evil bastards, or death, and I don't like things I don't know much about, that's why I never got into using computers.

I was now standing in front of the big man himself, Mizo, and he was pissed off, and I mean really pissed off, veins and blood vessels looked like they were gonna burst, his eyes were burning holes into my head, his face was actually starting to turn a nasty shade of scarlet, making the black tattoos on his bald scalp stand out even more than usual.

"Now Jak I want to make this very clear." I gulped, when Mizo started talking like this he'd usually get violent, and I seemed to be in the firing line once again. "When I ask you to kill someone, I don't mean that you hold a gun to their face and then run off! Even if you'd have shot her but she didn't die I wouldn't be as angry, you're nothing but a worthless failure." Then I felt the back of his hand – baring in mind Mizo wears about fifty gold rings on each finger – collide with my right cheek, I stumbled sideways and that was the opening Mizo needed, he kicked me to the floor, then winded me by kicking me again in my stomach, I curled up into a small ball trying to avoid any damage to my face.

Too late, old ink head was completely set on making me pay for what I'd done, his boot collided with my face, I though my nose would break but instead it just bled and hurt, now I knew why we were all given steel-cap boots to wear, they inflict a hell of a lot of pain!

The beating carried on for about four minutes – Mizo never liked to beat his own 'kind' up for too long – then I got back to my feet, body bruised and bloody, but I didn't care, I'd been hit by much worse, metal heads for example, when they hit they really hurt, a baby metal head once whacked me across the face when I was nine years old, I was out cold for two days!

We both straightened up and we went back into the small cramped ugly meeting room, I was in his office when he was beating me up, but I'd rather spend a day getting my body turned to pulp than spend an hour in the meeting room, no pictures, ugly grey carpet, grey metal walls to match, one lump of metal stuck out of one of the walls, acting as a table, it had been hammered to make it seem smoother than it actually was, you couldn't place a cup of coffee down in a late meeting, it'd just fall over, some stainless steel chairs had been soldered to the floor, the only two things I enjoyed looking at was the door that said 'Mizo's office. No appointment? No time.' And also the door at the opposite end of the room: 'exit'.

Everyone was in the room, so people suffering from claustrophobia had a hard time, Razer and Fyre were both making fun of me for cocking up in my mission, why did the words 'dumb' and 'ass' always spring to mind when I though of either of the two?

Daxter, Jade and Sig were all picturing daggers in the backs of Razer and Fyre, I preferred picturing the daggers in their heads, nice and easy to see them making sure the blood didn't get in their prised hair, I mean, Frye I can understand, she's a girl, girl's like looking good, but Razer? If I took as much time on my hair as he did I'd've given up all hope of ever finding a life a long time ago.

Tess and Edje were working on two small primitive laptops, - struggling to keep the laptops from falling and smashing each time they typed, the 'table' was well and truly useless unless you wanted to stage a monster truck tournament, - as usual they were the prepared ones. I sat down in between Sig and Jade, Jade was new to the crime family, but she was a good fighter, and we called dibs on her before anyone else. She could handle guns better than me, and that was saying something.

"Right as we all know, Jak here let himself down big time in this mission, his objective was clear and simple, take out the right-hand man's daughter, we'd take care of the rest, but he failed to kill or even inflict and damage onto the girl even at point blank range, he let her walk away from the incident untouched, where as Jade and Sig managed to shoot the one without the ears in the back three times, and Fyre, Razer and Tess may have even succeeded in killing the other Curver freak!"

Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Tess shuddering at what she'd done, I knew how much she hated war, and if we had anything in common it was that, but we'd both been forced into it at young ages, and like I said once you're in, you don't get out.

"Anyway, as I was saying, being that Jak here succeeded in nothing, we're going to have to give him a mission that he won't fail in, or we'll have his head on a pole in the wasteland. Is that understood Jak?" I nodded, Mizo really wasn't one to make empty threats. "Now, any suggestions for the mission Jak will next face?"

"How about making him run for a really long time off the world's shortest peer?" Razer immediately butted in, everyone rolled their eyes apart from Fyre, what was with that girl? She had an unhealthy obsession with the guy; he waxed at least twice a week, showered three times a day, spent more money on clothes and hair products than guns, ammo and armour, what she saw in him I'll never know.

"I don't think that's wise Razer do you? Now shut up or else I'll make you in charge of clean up duty for the next two months." Mizo threatened, the dumb bastard shut up straight away. I chuckled, Mizo had hated Razer ever since he was recruited, as far as Mizo was concerned, Fyre had forced him to recruit Razer, and Mizo made more than blatantly obvious that he hated Razer's guts. "What are you laughing at Jak?" I stopped chuckling and straightened my face, half of my training was making sure that I could maintain a still position for at least three hours. "So, if everyone's finished being stupid, I'd like to hear a few more suggestions, ah, Tess?"

Tess looked up from her laptop, she'd been real edgy lately, just about everyone noticed, but nobody said anything, she was usually chatting and joking with us all, but lately she was just a workaholic, and flinched whenever Mizo spoke or moved close to her, she tucked a piece of hair behind her left ear and faced Mizo, but she didn't look at his face, she looked more like she was looking through him, rather than at him.

"Um, well, uh, I guess he's not a bad spy, um, that is, he'd have to prepare, and, uh…" Tess sighed; she rubbed her temples and closed her eyes. "Sorry, Mizo, I'm fresh out of ideas."

"Hmm, a spy you say? That's not a bad idea Tess, any other suggestions?" Nobody said a word. "Right then Jak, your next mission will consist of you being a spy, Tess, Edje, get to work! Everyone else I want you all to train, rest and if you want, go and buy some new ammo or guns, but remember, keep your heads down."

And that was that, my next mission was in the hands of Edje and Tess, but I had a bad feeling that my next mission wasn't going to be easy.

Hmm, not such a great chapter I'm afraid, sorry, but I wanna get onto what happens next with Keira, please note that when I change the character POV, it will usually take place straight after the chapter before it and won't take place after the last time that character told their POV, if that makes sense, I'll tell you if there's a flashback or skip in time. So, read and review please!