Chapter 3!!! (If you don't include the prologue.) It's time I give some other characters a chance for a change...

Ugh. Does anyone know why Justin Beiber sang the beginning of We Are The World??? I mean seriously. Micheal Jackson must be ashamed. Although probably not. I guess it's all about the cause, right??? So after this we can all go back to thinking Justin Beiber is really a girl.

But anyway... Read and Review por favor.

Word Prompt: Hope

Characters: Torn, Jak, and Daxter

Rated T: for very very minor language. Just to be safe.

Torn sighed, kicking his way through the ruins of Dead Town. Generally he avoided the place as much as he could; it brought back memories that he tried his hardest to forget. Lately they seemed to be fading, but he could still see the all the red.

Shaking his head Torn closed his eyes. No, he wasn't going to think about the battle now. That was the past, and right now it didn't matter. The Baron would pay for that, eventually. He sighed. Eventually.

He continued in silence, the only sound his feet hitting the hard, cold ground. He was alone; not even the Metalheads were out. He began to wonder what the hell he was doing here alone in Dead Town. Obviously the kid and the rat couldn't be here, it was too quiet for that.

"Bet they couldn't even find the place," the ex-Krimzon Guard muttered. That brought a smirk to his face. The idea of the skinny street kid and his pet rat managing to make to Dead Town, let alone the Baron's Banner alive was pretty hilarious.

Suddenly out of the corner of his eye he saw a slight movement, the flash of a glowing skull. It was a Metalhead, hiding in a dead patch of grass. Quietly, barely breathing Torn pulled out his twin blasters, planting his feet just in case the Metal scum was hungry. But it paid no attention, scurrying away from where it hid directly past Torn, kicking up clouds of dirt.

Funny. It seemed to be running away from something. Running away from the building where the Baron's Banner rested...

A sudden noise made Torn's stomach drop.

Spinning around he watched as the tallest building in Dead Town-the building where the Baron's Banner sat-began to collapse. First the top began to crumble, rubble falling into the murky water below. Dust blew, dirt and leaves nearly landing into Torn's open mouth. He watched, transfixed as the bottom began to shake. The noise was deafening, but he was too shocked to cover his ears. It continued to collapse, windows shattered and stairs broke. More of the building fell, leaving a large pile of debris in its wake.

Holy shit.

And all of this had happened in a matter of seconds.

Suddenly, as fast as the building had collapsed the kid and rat leaped down from the wire they had somehow managed to hang on to. The rat seemed to be in pain, bu the kid (wait, wasn't his name Jak?) was smirking, his bony fingers grasping the Baron's Banner. His teeth were bright even in the darkness of Dead Town. "Here you go." So the kid was sarcastic.

Torn was too amazed to retort back so he just nodded. "Yeah."

Yeah. This kid was trouble.

"I guess you guys are in."

In Jak's determined blue eyes Torn found something he hadn't felt since the Battle of Dead Town.

Hope.

That's probably one of my favorite scenes in Jak 2. Hee hee. Torn's pretty cool.
Of course not as cool as Dark Jak... But who is?
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~LeiaOrganicSolo