! 4th chapter today! lol I'm on the ball today. Oh, btw AJMS, Laona likes JAK now. lol I'm adding a new OC charactor in this chapter, so you have GOT to read this one. :-P

Jak moved into my apartment with me after a few months later. Since the Jak and Daxter adventure trilogy was on hold for a while, it was more peaceful. I was laying on my couch, lazily watching TV when Jak and Daxter walked in. I didn't really notice because I was half asleep. Jak snickered and crouched down so he could be level with my face. He gently shook my shoulder, as I opened my eyes. I greeted, "Hey."

"Hey." He said softly.

Daxter shook his head. "Geta room." Jak frowned and glared at his friend flatly. "You're such a hypocrite, Daxter." I commented. Daxter looked at me puzzled.

"How?"

"You always flirt with Tess. Why can't we have a few moments?" Jak said as if he was reading my mind. Daxter sighed, and walked out. "This ain't my place anyway." He grumbled. I noticed Jak got his hair cut and new clothes. (It's what he looks like in Jak X) I smiled and strung my fingers through his hair.

"I like it."

"Thought you would." He said quietly, standing up. I sat up, and looked at the TV screen, as Jak sat down. I looked closely at it. I was watching the racing channel down from Kras City. Razer was racing against Erol.

Must be a replay. Erol's dead.

"He was such a pain in the ass." Jak commented glaring at Erol from the TV. The TV station had the nerve to replay Erol's accident, crashing into the Dark Eco barrels. "It's my fault." I said, as if I had done something wrong. Jak looked at me, "How the hell is it your fault?" I looked back at him, "Before the war ended with the metal heads, before Praxis died.. I met his brother, Razer, down at Kras City. Razer told me to tell his brother to come back into contact with him. Bingo, look what happened."

Jak looked at me puzzled.

"Why'd you go to Kras City?"

I closed my eyes, "I needed to get away from the war for a while." I said quietly. There wasn't much more to say on the matter. Things were just beginning to settle down after the war ended. I gently wrapped my arms around his chest and he kissed me lightly. "That was in the past. This is now." He said quietly. I looked at him wearily, and kissed back softly. He put his hand gently on my cheek as he looked into my blue eyes as I was looking in his darker shade. I pulled him closer as he slowly started to lay down on top of me pulling our lips together again, and uh... You get the picture on what happened! xD

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Later on that day we went on a mission Torn had brewed up. Go out into the sewers, and destroy the last of the KG robots. That's simple enough, right? When we got there, I stopped to load my gun. Jak's was naturally all set. "How many are there, you think?" I asked, still focusing on my weapon. Jak scratched his head looking up.

"Oh, probably a couple hundred or less." He sighed. I shrugged, as I stood up. Grinning, I did the Cha Chic-a sound thing on my gun,
confirming it loaded. "Let's go kill some bad boys." I said in a devious tone. Jak laughed, "You've been hanging around me too often."

Oh whatever.

I smirked, rolling my eyes looking at Jak. We moved on into the sewers, destroying most of them. I was ahead of Jak when we saw our biggest challenge. It was a giant metal head that had somehow squeezed its way into the sewers. The creature was much larger than Kor, too! It had a dinosaur-like feature that you couldn't miss. Not only that, it was meaner than a waste land metal head.

"Ok, this can be a problem." I cried, staring at it.

Slowly, I walked back away from it, gripping my gun, accidently bumping into Jak. He looked at me questionably, not sure what I was doing. Then, the creature roared angrily, coming right at us. "I wasn't prepared for this!" He wailed, loading his gun. The creature swung it's claws at us, barely missing as we dodged it. I rolled, and shot a peace maker at the thing. My attack only made it wince, and get even more angry. I jumped up, and shot at it again, several times to see if I could weaken it.

No effect but an angry metal head. Jak for some reason held his fire. Something was bothering him about this metal head. I noticed he wasn't doing anything but staring at the thing and backing up.

"What the f-k are you doing Jak? Help me!" I cried, shooting at the thing.

That let me off guard, and the creature swung at me again. Fortunately I dodged it, but then Jak jumped on it's claw, swinging him up quickly to it's ugly face. I fell on my butt, watching what Jak was doing. The metal head backed up, resisting Jak as he clung onto it's multiple horns to grab hold of.

Oh so that's what he's trying to do! Use it's weakness against itself.

But then, things weren't looking as well as planned. It looked like Jak had trouble holding on. The metal head started shaking it's head vigorously. It was like dangling for dear life on a bucking bull but worse! With one large snarl, the metal head swung Jak up into the air. Jak panicked, swinging his arms around.

"Jak!" I screamed, shooting at the metal head's face. I blinded the creature, and it crashed through a wall in agony. For a while, it was gone. Quickly, Jak transformed into his light self, and flew away out of harm, for a little while. He was still high up in the air, and his light powers were dissipating quickly.

After his light eco was all used up, he started falling quickly. I started running towards him, hoping to at least try to break his fall until suddenly someone popped up out of nowhere, and broke Jak's fall abruptly. Odd, weird, and scary, yes. But a stranger broke his fall. The man groaned in slight agony, having Jak on him back to back sideways.

Jak was a little stunned at first shocked to see that it wasn't me breaking the fall. Quickly, he rolled off the man and stood up. I glared at the man, and then looked at Jak again. He looked at me worriedly, and I put my hand on the lower part of his jaw, stroking his cheek gently with my thumb.

"Jak, are you ok?" I asked sounding concerned. He nodded, gently holding my hand. Our attention quickly went to the man who saved Jak's life.

Wait. That's not a man.. That's... a boy... A boy?

His hair was dark spinage green with a spike in it, and had a slender build. He stood up slowly cursing under his breath, and glared at us. But his glare turned quickly in a stunned, innocent looking stare. All 3 of our eyes locked in shock for some reason. The boy was about 5 " 5 and had dark purple eyes. What I also noticed was that he had a well even tan, like Jak. With me guessing, he was about 16.

"Uh... I'm sorry if I interrupted anything I um, seem to be lost." He said slowly, looking at me.

I looked at Jak, then back at the boy.

"Where are you going, if you think you're lost?" Jak asked. The boy looked at Jak. "Spargus... To see my father." He said slowly, staring at Jak as if he was trying to see how he felt he knew who he was.

"You're far from Spargus, kid." I said.

He looked at me questionably. "Oh. Thanks for telling me." He said quietly. The boy quickly glanced at this large platinum wristband that he had on, and held it. He studied it, and blinked. "What the f-k I'm not in..." He grumbled so quiet to himself we couldn't hear it. The boy glanced up at us quickly, and I ask, "Is there a problem?" He shook his head slowly, and backed up.

"I godda go."

Swiftly, he started walking off until Jak went, "Wait!" That stopped the boy quickly, and he turned to face Jak and me. "What's your name?" Jak asked quietly.

"Derrick." He grinned, and started running off. I sighed, and hugged Jak. He hugged back gently, thankful to be alive thanks to a mysterious stranger. Jak looked at me.

"We better go before that monster comes back."

"Right."

We ran out of the sewers.

Oooooh! Derrick... Hm... lol well I couldn't think of anything else. As always R&R plzz and thank you. I wonder who this mysterious kid is... Any guesses? lol He's got dirty green spikey hair, purple eyes, tan... lol I've got a lil mystery going on here. xD