'I wonder what other things are going to change about me because of this.' she shut her eyes and tried to remove the thoughts of Dark Jak, and all the angst fics she had read about that subject. 'I just hope not.'

----------------------------------------One Year after the Arrival of Kaida, and Two since Jak's-------------------------------------------------- -------

It was early morning, the beginning of a day that started just like the last 360-something days had. Kaida shifted on the floor of her cell before she finally bothered to open her eyes. She had been trapped in this prison, along with a few others for almost a year after falling into her tv that fateful day.

There had been a few other people who had been held as prisoners here, but all except 2 had died, or more appropriately, were killed during the torturing experiments. The two who had somehow managed to survive miserably, were Jak and Kaida. Naturally when enough of the other prisoners died others would be pulled in out of the jail or off the streets, and then the large hall would be filled with the pained screams of those begging to be let out, or who were being tortured, though most went silent after a day or so.

Kaida moved to sit up in her cell and looked around, getting used to the light. She had long since lost her vigor in rising early. After all, there was really no reason to bother with that since there was nowhere to go and nothing to do except wait until it was your turn to be tortured. Once she had become accustomed to the light she looked up at the window into the next cell over, and a few moments later Jak's face appeared in the opening.

"Hey," he asked, and she smiled in response, "Well don't you seem happy." he said with a small smile on his face. "By the way, you don't happen to have any extra fruit do you? I kind of ate all mine last night." she shook her head with a smile.

When he was hungry he could pile though the small plate of food that they were fed. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a small red fruit. It was slightly bruised but otherwise fine. She tossed it to him and he reached through the bars and caught it.

"Thanks." he replied simply. She yawned as he took a bite out of the fruit, but otherwise remained silent. She slipped back to the floor and laid on her back with her hands behind her head, still watching Jak through the window. As he finished up she turned her head and stared at the ceiling. She unconsciously tugged her shirt down so that it covered her belly, but the truth was that she had long since outgrown her clothing due to the eco and blood mixture.

Her entire body had been skimmed of fat and her muscles had toned more, probably due to the eco energy and the diet. Her ears had grown out long and slim. Unlike most of the other females in the game her ears were not as short and thick as their's, but longer and slimmer and curved slightly like Jak's. She had almost forgotten the way she used to look, and probably would have if she hadn't found her school id in her wallet in her pocket. She shut her eyes and started drifting off again.

"Hey, don't go back to sleep you just woke up!" Said Jak, he smiled when she opened one eye to look at him. She shrugged from her place on the ground. Over the time that Kaida and Jak had spent here, Jak had for some reason found a way to come out of his mute condition, whereas, Kaida, for an unknown reason seemed to talk less and less the more Jak began to speak. Now, she only spoke when she had to with Jak, or when she was yelling at Praxis and/or Erol. She rolled on her side facing away from him, all the while grinning.

"Hey!! Don't turn away from me!!" he yelled with mock anger. She rolled back over when she fell him hit her with the core of the fruit she had given him. She grinned at him and he grinned back. He soon turned and left the window, and she heard him slide to the floor and sit in silence. Again she found herself looking up at the ceiling for no good reason.

After what seemed like a few hours she heard the stomp of all-too-familiar steel toed boots, and the clank of guards. She head the cell door next to her's open, and the person inside being dragged out. She didn't know what exactly was done to this one because they were taken elsewhere, but it was unusably short today ,and she suspected that they had died.

She kept silent and put on her dangerous glare when the guard came to her door. She not only beat up the guards when they came to her cell but she made it as difficult as possible for them to get her out of her cell. She kept her glare on him as he came inside and forced her to her feet. She could tell that he was trying to intimidate her by being rough, but she also knew that he was shaking from all the stories of the guards that she beat up. Once on her feet she allowed him to push her out of her cell and walk her towards the torture table, but just when he began to think that the rumors were untrue and she was easy to handle, she turned on him. He was holding her arms behind her so she simply pulled a round-house kick and slammed him to the ground. She counted the predictable seconds before she was mobbed by more guards. She sighed mentally as they struggled to keep a hold on her. Eventually they managed to over power Kaida and forced her to the table.

Today both Erol and Praxis were there watching her struggle on the table. Sometimes Praxis would come down and watch but not usually. Mostly it was just Erol. The torture began and ended as it usually did, but as her mind was floating in and out of consciousness she heard Praxis and Erol talking.

"Her bio readings have obviously changed, that can be seen in her appearance... but I other then that she hasn't changed at all. The amounts of eco that were used should at least be showing somewhere other than in her appearance, but for some reason they are not. It could possibly be the blood that is negating more of the effects of the eco." came Erol's voice.

"That's not good. She hasn't been here as long as some of the others but at the same time she has lived longer then most. We'll have to hope that the other project has succeeded." Praxis' voice showed some frustration as he spoke. She tried to open her eyes to see what was going on but it didn't work. All she could see was blurs of color and bright light. She guessed that the other project that they were talking about was Jak.

She half hoped that it was, because that would mean that today was the day that Daxter would show up and he would escape. The other half of her didn't want this to be the day that he would leave since it would mean that she would be left alone. She was dragged back to her cell and left there. In her delirium she could hear them dragging Jak to the table and some where in the distance she could hear his screams, but soon she was falling into unconsciousness. In their last ditch attempt to change her, Praxis and Erol had used more eco then usual causing her temporary weakness. Soon everything went black. --------?- --------?- ------?- ------------------------------------------ -----------------

Jak lay almost motionless on the table. His breath was short and painful, as it always was after a torture session. He didn't bother to open his eyes to look at Praxis and Erol, who were circling him, because he knew all he would see would be bright blurs. As he tried to stay conscious as the last of the energy was absorbing painfully into his body, the two others circled around him talking loudly.

"Hmm..." came the deep voice of Praxis, "Nothing. I was informed this one might be different."

"He is surprisingly resistant to your...'experiments', Baron Praxis." came the reply from Erol, as they continued circling Jak.

"Argh!" Praxis leaned closer to Jak, yelling in his face, "You should at least be dead with all the dark eco I pumped into you!" he lifted Jak's head by his hair yelling at him.

"What now?" asked Erol, "Metal head armies are pressing their attacks. Without a new weapon my men cannot hold them off forever."

Praxis clenched his fists, "I will not be remembered as the man who lost the city to those vile creatures." he turned away from both Jak and Erol and took a step forward. "Move forward with the final plan. And Finnish off this, 'thing'" he motioned towards Jak, "tonight." he faced Erol for a moment, then turned and walked away.

"As you wish." came Erol's cynical voice. He lifted Jaks head and puts his face eerily close to Jak's face, "I'll be back later..." then he too, turned and left. Jak continued to lay fairly motionless as his head and vision began to clear. He opened his eyes slightly waiting for his vision to clear.

Suddenly there was a sound of the hover elevator moving, and the soft thud of something on the hard floor, then came a familiar voice:

"Ding Ding, third floor, body chains, roach food, torture devices." It was Daxter. He jumped lightly onto Jak's chest, and began talking to the dazed friend.

"Hey buddy, you seen any heroes around here? WHOA!" was his surprised shriek when he finally looked his friend over, "Wha'd they do to you?! Jak, its me, Daxter." Jak tried to focus his eyes on his old friend but is unsuccessful. "That's a fine Hello. I have been crawling around this place, risking my tail, literally;" he steps had, unknowingly, on Jak's stomach, making him jerk slightly. "To save you. I have been looking for you for two years!" when Jak doesn't respond Daxter pleads with Jak, shaking him slightly. "Say something, just this once."

Jak's eyes suddenly became focused and filled with anger, and he lifted his head to speak, "I am gonna kill Praxis!" Daxter instantly puts his hand over his friend's mouth after his outburst.

"Shhhhh! Right now we gotta get you outta here. Just let me figure out how to open the security locks for your chair so..." he was cut off as Jak took a deep breath and breaks the cuffs on his hands and feet. Daxter stared up at Jak as he turned towards him. Only to he didn't look like Jak anymore. He was pale as death and his hair had turned sliver-y white, and he had horns. His nails had grown to a scary length and sharpness and he was advancing on Daxter.(so sue me about the description. I should hope you all know what Dark Jak looks like.)

"Jak?" came Daxter's uneasy voice as he backed up slowly. "Easy now, easy buddy. Its your old pal Daxter remember?" Only a moment before striking Daxter with his claws, Jak suddenly recognized Daxter.

"Aarrgh...Daxter?" he quickly returned to his normal form, though looking very confused and tired.

"What the heck was that?!" Yelled Daxter once Jak was himself. "Sheesh remind me not to piss you off." he jumped up onto Jak's shoulder and continued to talk, "Come on tall, dark and gruesome. Were outta here. I uh brought you some new threads. Put em on." After slipping into his new clothes the duo began looking for a way to escape that did not include the elevator that would make them as inconspicuous as a fox in a chicken coop. He spotted a pile of crates below a weird sort of door way. He started for the door but stopped only a second later. He turned back and headed for a particular cell.

"Jak! What are you doing? We don't have time for this!" complained Daxter as Jak found the correct cell and preceded to pick the lock.

"There is someone I have to help."he replied and continued working.

"We don't have time for your little prison buddies, we gotta go!" Daxter still complained. After a moment there was a satisfying click as the lock opened. Jak quickly swung the door open and found Kaida slumped up against the wall of her cell. Though she was unconscious, he wasnt worried. This was often what happened when they changed the does of eco. Normally she would be out for about an hour, but today she needed to get up. He leaned over and gently shook her.

"Kaida, Kaida wake up, we have to go." She made a small groaning noise in her throat and managed to open one eye enough to see him. It took a moment to register that it was Jak, and a moment more to realize that he was in her cell, standing just over her. Both her eyes snapped open and she looked up at him. A quick glance to her left and she saw the orange furry creature that was Daxter.

'This must be right after Daxter showed up. In the game Jak escapes right after, but here, he came to help me first...' she thought, 'I hope this doesn't affect the game in a bad way...' She forced herself, against her body's wishes, to stand.

"Wow, your prison girl is kinda cute, I can see why you want to bring her along." said Daxter when he looked at her. Jak threw him a gentle glare, telling him not to say any of his womanizing lines. Jak turned and paused for a second to make sure that Kaida was following him, then the trio made their way as fast as they could to the exit.

Kaida, having played this part of the game many times, knew the way out by heart, not that there was many other ways to go. As they ran she felt her body starting to ache more and more, and she knew that her recent torture was taking its toll on her. Even Jak, who'd had no problems in the game, seemed to be dogging a bit. A quick glance in the right room provided them with the precursor orb that can be found in the game. They continued with little difficulty. Kaida noticed that, although it was more difficult to escape in real life, it was still basically like the game despite her presence.

"Prisoner escape in progress." came the calm mechanical voice over the loudspeaker. When they reached the room with the platforms to jump up, Kaida want sure that she would make it. She watched Jak span the distance with ease, as he should, but it seemed farther then it had when Jak had jumped it.

"Come on Kaida, we have to go.!" Jak yelled to her when he noticed that she had lagged behind. She looked at him with uncertainty on her face.

She took a deep breath thinking; 'Well, if I don't make it at least I wont be holding Jak back anymore.' after another deep breath she took the leap, finding, to her surprise that she had easily jumped the gap and nearly over jumped it. With new found confidence she took the second jump with no reservation and caught up with Jak. He gave her an approving look before they started off again.

"You are in a restricted sector. This sector in on high alert." came the computer voice again. Kaida swallowed, knowing that the fighting part came next. She glanced quickly at Jak, almost envying his confidence spawned from knowing how to fight, and not knowing about the guards ahead.

"Surrender yourself!" came the voices of the guards as they rounded the corner. She scowled and muttered sarcastically under her breath;

"Oh yeah, we just broke out of prison, but because you asked we'll surrender right away."

"You are under arrest!" came the voice of the other guard. But before they even had a chance to do anything Jak had dispatched them with a few well placed kicks. She began to lengthen her stride as she anticipated the next obstacle. The part where the guards would shoot at you from under you was fairly easy. As long as you kept running you would have no problems getting through the room. She took a deep breath, for what seemed like the tenth time that day, and ran as fast as she could with Jak across the floor as shots whizzed by their heads. With her upgraded ears she could hear the shots passing by, close to her head.

Upon reaching the end of the long room, they broke the grate in the floor and finished the run to the window, and freedom. Without hesitation they both took the jump out of the second story window, landing themselves on the edge of the slums.

sorry for the delay. I had some computer problems. I hope you enjoy this chapter. I was trying to make it a little longer then normal. I think I succeeded. Anyways.... I am almost finished with the game now so I will finally be ready for Jak III. I almost cant wait for it to come out. Any who... I'll get back to typing. Hope to update soon! Read and Review as always!