I don't own Jak and Daxter or any of it's characters, I only own Krane, Schorn, Overture, and Marlin.
I guess some people can't understand titles so whatever, I really don't care. After I'm done with this story, I think I might leave the Jak and Daxter fandom for a while. I don't know...whatever. Thanks for the reviews everyone, sorry I'm so down today.
Enjoy.
Near the Racing Stadium, Jak pulled into first place and stopped to look back at Erol. Jak moved his arms up into the air, showing his victory, while Daxter jumped onto the front of the zoomer
Erol passed Jak and turned to him. "Aggghh! Don't get too cocky, outlaw! Next time we race for keeps! And your head will be my trophy!"
Angry that he had lost, Erol turned away and zoomed off.
"Ahh, blow it out your ear! You were bottle-fed, weren't you?" Daxter yelled as Erol left. "Hey, what happened to that Marlin guy?"
"Shit," Jak turned his zoomer around, just now remembering what had happened. "He's fighting the guard; we've got to help him."
"But he's fighting the guard!" Daxter whined.
"I can't let him do it on his own!"
Overture hung his head as he looked at the screen in front of him. He had been watching Jak on the security cameras through his whole race and couldn't believe that a new character had entered the scene. Something seemed wrong, and Overture feared that him and Krane being here had thrown the timeline into a strange, unknown loop.
How can I keep telling the future if I do not know it? Overture asked himself as he looked back up at the large computer screen. I pray this timeline is still in its original format. If this timeline has frayed, I know what I must do to make sure everything go back to normal.
His door opened, and Krane walked in with a guard outfit covering her body. Once the door had closed, she took the helmet off of her head and sighed deeply.
"Jinx is fine," Krane said in a gentle tone. "I think he's going back to Krew."
"Good." Overture sighed. "At least that is still in motion."
"What are we going to do?" Krane asked, walked over to Overture's right side. "The next mission Jak has to finish is the one with Samos and the seed."
"Go with him to defend Samos. Right now I would suggest you to go to Onin's tent to meet up with Jak." Overture turned to face her. "After that is done, come back to the Palace and we will talk from there."
"Okay." Krane nodded. "I'll be back in a few hours."
"Be safe."
Krane smiled. "I will be."
Jak had drove around the area where he and Erol had raced but found no sign of Marlin. No one in the area had seen him either, and when he returned to Hip Hog Heaven, Jinx was gone and Krew was busy with Sig. His radio went off when he was in the bar, so he left and answered it outside. Samos told him to go the Sacred Site to retrieve a seed there. Once Jak got that done and out of the way, he walked over to Onin's hut to ask her about the seed.
"I wonder what happened to Marlin," Jak whispered so only Daxter could hear him. "He's just seemed to disappear."
"We'll find him." Daxter moved his right paw. "Weird guys like him always pop out when you least expect them."
They walked into the tent to see Krane standing beside Onin. Pecker perked up when Jak and Daxter came into the tent, and placed his feathered hands on his hips.
"Onin says what took you so long?! We had to skip lunch waiting for you two! Okay... okay...She really says, 'Thank you for saving the Life Seed'. But I wouldn't say that if I were her! Give Onin the seed, and she will prepare it for Samos." Pecker said as Jak handed the older woman the seed. "Mmmmmm... bird seed..."
"Back off, feather weight!" Daxter hissed, moving off of Jak's shoulder.
Pecker moved towards Daxter. "Listen tiny tail, I was leading my hundredth flock south before you had fur one between your legs! Not that your fur means anything!"
Daxter got into Pecker's face. "At least I'm not some stuffed, over yappin', feather dusty mouthpiece for the world's oldest professional! Jak says, 'have a nice day.' Jak says, 'I can't think on my own.' Jak says 'Go bite yourself!'"
"That's it, rat boy! Now you've really pissed me off! Hiyaaaaoooowww!"
The two moved into fighting stances with one another and glared towards each other. Krane sighed and rolled her eyes while Jak began rub his temples. After a few more noises between the two, Jak couldn't stand it anymore.
"Knock it off, both of you!" Jak hissed.
Pecker flew away from Daxter. "You're lucky I'm famished! Onin says take the energized Life Seed to young Samos in Haven Forest. It will give Samos the power he needs to finally see the forest from the trees! Go. Quickly!"
"I'm going with you," Krane said, breaking into the conversation. She hated to keep quiet nowadays but she knew if she interacted with the characters that she might change something on accident.
"Why?" Jak asked. "Shouldn't you be with Jinx?"
"He's on a mission for Krew." Krane crossed her arms. "I have to have Krew think I'm dead remember?"
"No." Daxter said as he blinked.
"He tired to turn me into the Baron. If they think I'm alive I'm sure they'll try to pull something again," Krane explained, moving her right hand a bit. "And I might not be able to survive the next attack."
"Good enough." Jak sighed. "Let's get this done and over with now."
As Jak began to pull up in a two-seated zoomer towards the door to Haven Forest, he stopped the zoomer and looked towards Krane. She didn't notice that he was looking at her, but instead kept looking up towards the sky.
"Krane?" Jak asked.
She shook her head. "Oh what?"
"Do you have a gun?" Jak reached down and grabbed his own gun. "In case something happens of course."
"Yeah." Krane touched the handgun sitting on her waist.
The three moved out of the zoomer and walked into Haven Forest. Jak led Krane to where he thought Samos was while they shot any Metal Heads that tried to sneak up on them. After riding the Precursor Elevator down towards the large tree, they walked towards the tree to see the young Samos standing in front of it.
"Samos told me to... I mean... you told me to... or... well... I mean your older version... ah... whatever. We heard you needed the Life Seed," Jak said as he handed the Shadow the Life Seed.
"Yes. Its power will help me speak to the plants," Samos said, taking the seed with care as he brought it in towards his chest.
"There he is!" a guard yelled as he ran up to the group with his guns out towards them
"Roger. We're in route!" another guard said, coming with the other.
"I see 'em!" a third yelled.
Samos turned towards Jak and Krane. "Jak, Krane, protect me from these guards! I must ask the plants vital questions about our future!"
"I thought we were going to get away with this." Krane sighed as she brought out her gun once more.
"We never do." Jak took out his Vulcan Fury.
Meanwhile Torn had been called back up to the Palace by the Baron and he had been asked to bring the child with him. Kor had strangely left the child behind that day in order to go back to the Wastelands, leaving Torn to baby-sit. He knew that bringing the child would be against the cause but the Baron threatened the death of Ashelin once more.
"What is it?" Torn hissed as he stood in front of the Baron. The child was clinging onto his left leg as the Baron stood from his throne.
"I'm going to take the child," the Baron said with confidence.
"What!?" Torn grabbed the child. "No, you can't take him. You already have the Precursor Stone! How much more do you want!?"
"The child," the Baron said as he pointed his index finger towards the small child.
"No."
"What do you mean no?" Erol asked, stepping from the left side of the Baron's throne. "Don't question the Baron!"
"Keep outta this!" Torn barked, looking back towards Erol. "This doesn't have anything to do with you so keep out of it!"
"It doesn't?" Erol laughed.
"If you aren't willing to cooperate," the Baron moved his index finger forward, "then we'll have to get rid of you."
Erol fired a shot towards Torn, hitting him in the right shoulder. Torn's left hand moved up towards his right shoulder and held the wound there as his instinct kicked in to protect the child.
"Run," Torn whispered as blood began to pour down his left arm. "Get outta here kid!"
The child looked around as more and more guards began to surround them, wondering what he should do. One guard moved towards the child as he began to run away and not wanting the guard to harm the child, Torn reached out and pulled him in towards him.
"Don't worry," Torn said huskily. "We'll get out of here, don't worry."
Suddenly Torn was grabbed from behind. He struggled against the stronger man but the moment the guard touched his wound, Torn yelled out and felt himself become weak. He looked down towards the child as guards grabbed his small arms and took him away.
"NO!" Torn yelled. "Give him back!"
Memories began to flood through Torn's mind and on the back of his eyelids as the pressure on his wound increased as well as the blood flow. The small blond child became a small girl in a bright pink dress, and the throne room changed to the streets outside.
"Stop it!" Torn demanded.
Tried of his whining and yelling, a guard walked over to him and smacked him on the head with the butt of his gun. Torn looked towards the child, surrounded by guards as his vision blacked and could only whisper one word.
"Grani." Torn's eyes finally shut, and his head fell backwards.
"Finally." Jak sighed as the last guard fell to the floor.
They had been fighting off guards for the past few minutes, trying to protect Samos from them. Jak thought that he had gotten off a bit easily this time, he was almost out of ammo when the final guard fell. With a deep intake of breath, Jak and Krane turned back to Samos who was done with his vision.
"The Life Seed gave me a terrible vision! The Baron is planning to destroy the Precursor Stone! He aims to crack it open somehow! If he does this, the energy released will be beyond comprehension! It will destroy the world and more... ending all life! The plants are crying out for protection! You must stop the Baron, Jak! Stop him, however you can!" the young Samos said in horror.
"Krane! Krane are you there over?" Jinx's voice said over her radio.
"What? Over," Krane asked, after bringing her radio up to her mouth.
"Torn's in trouble, he's up in the tower. That's not the only damn problem we've got. Vin says that somethin's goin' on and he needs Blondie to check it out. Over."
"Shit." Krane stomped her foot. "I'll go get Torn while Jak checks up on Vin. Where are you? Over."
"Outside the forest entrance. Hurry up and get your ass out here already!…Over."
"We're coming. Out."
"Great! More trouble!" Daxter said, throwing his paws up into the air.
"I'll stay here," Samos said once Krane put her radio back onto her hip. "I've got a few more things to do before those damn guards show up again."
"Fine, let's get this done," Jak said as he placed his gun away.
Krane, Jak, and Daxter left the forest to find Jinx outside as he had promised. They managed to get into the zoomer and on the way to drop Krane off, another wave came onto her radio.
"Krane," Overture said over the radio.
"What?" she asked, picking her radio up once more and bringing it to her mouth.
Jinx blinked for a moment, it was strange for Krane not to use the Underground's military talk on a radio. The more and more he thought about it, he figured that she had to be talking to someone who wasn't working for the Underground.
"I have a surprise for you."
"What?"
"A friend of yours. Come to my place when you get up to the Palace, I have him here. He has been injured but do not worry, I have Eco for him."
Krane sighed. "Thanks. Out."
"Who was that?" Jinx asked, slightly turning his head towards Krane's direction.
"A friend," Krane answered plainly.
"He sounded familiar," Jak whispered as he moved his right hand to his chin."What's his name?"
"I can't tell you." Krane hung her head a bit. "Please don't ask me anymore questions about him, I'm not going to tell you."
"Fine." Jinx rolled his eyes and went back to focusing on driving.
Jinx finally dropped Krane off, and then Jak off at the Power Station. Krane slipped up to the top floor by using a fake ID and a device Overture had given her to give her the appearance of a Krimzon Guard. She made it back to Overture's room to see Torn lying on the bed and Overture on Torn's right side.
"Is he alright?" Krane asked, turning off the device Overture had given her.
"He will be fine." Overture nodded and stood up. "The Baron has the child now, as he is supposed to."
"Good." Krane sighed with relief.
"I have not applied the Eco to Torn's wound yet." Overture crossed his arms. "I still have to get the Eco but I need the cloaking device I gave you."
Krane began to fumble with a small button on her shirt and handed it to Overture. "How did you make something like that anyway?"
"The Metal Heads," Overture began as he placed the device on his shirt, "have a cloaking device on them so I took one and borrowed this from him once I modified it. This allows me to sneak around and gather information."
Krane opened her mouth to speak once more when a sharp, burning pain filled her head. The pain grew so hot that she fell to the floor on her knees, unable to hold control over the pain any longer. In a bit of a panic, Overture to grab her and hold her.
"What is wrong?" he asked. "Krane! Krane can you hear me at all?"
"What…the…HELL?!" she screamed, holding her head.
"Calm down!" Overture said gently. "Please just relax."
"I can't!" Krane shook her head back and forth. "Just stop!"
A Wrap Gate appeared underneath Krane and because she was on top of the Wrap Gate, she fell in, her hands still clinging to the side of her head. The Wrap Gate began glowing and a strong wind blew up from the gate. The wind that had just blown upwards, began to blow downwards, pulling Torn off of the bed as well as Overture.
As he was being pulled in, Overture looked around the room and saw that nothing else was being moved in the room, only them. His head looked away, and got pulled into the Wrap Gate.
Torn woke up to feel the pain stinging his arm. He sat up quickly and felt the burning sensation he had felt before he had been knocked out by a guard. He grabbed his right shoulder and bent over a bit.
"Dammit!" he hissed.
"Are you okay?" Krane asked, walking over to him with a medical kit in her hands.
"You guys got me out?" Torn asked as he looked around to see that he was back in the Underground's HQ. "How?"
"I don't know." Krane shook her head and began to change Torn's bandages. "We just got here somehow."
Overture walked over to Torn. "I am Overture, pleased to finally meet you Torn."
"Where did you come from?" Torn blinked.
"The same place Krane has come from." Overture bowed. "I have been watching the Baron for you but now I must return."
"Please don't!" Krane said, then turning towards Overture. "I don't want you to back up there! Just stay down here with us!"
"I have to attend the race tomorrow, after that, I will come down and be with you," Overture said, placing his right hand on the side of Krane's face. "I have many things to do, and many people to talk to before anymore time passes."
"Please be careful," Krane whispered. "If there's someone I don't want to get hurt, it's you."
Who the hell? Torn thought.
Later that night Jak walked into the Hip Hog to noticed that Krew wasn't floating around as usual. Wanting a drink he walked over to the bar where Jinx sat with Sig and Tess behind the bar of course. He walked over and sat down on a barstool while Daxter laid down on the bar.
"What's everyone so down about?" Jak asked, looking at the two.
"Blondie," Jinx sighed, "I hate the fact that Krane's hidin' stuff from me."
"I told you not to worry about it," Sig said, taking a drink from his glass. "She ain't hidin' too much from you, she's just doin' something right now. Don't worry."
"She's talkin' to some guy I don't know." Jinx hung his head and moved his fingers through his hair. "I don't know what my problem is, I usually don't worry like dis."
"It's because you lllliiikke her." Daxter teased.
"Shut up," Jinx hissed back.
"Don't you?" Tess asked as she looked over towards Jinx.
"I don't wanna talk about it right now." Jinx shook his head. "Let's talk 'bout the race tomorrow'a."
"I don't want to talk about that." Jak let go of a heavy sigh.
"Hey Jak!" another male voice said. The group to turn around and there stood Marlin with a bandage covering his left cheek.
"You're alive!" Daxter said, jumping up.
"Yeah." Marlin blinked. "I came here to talk to Jak."
"Don't say nothin' you ain't supposed to," Sig warned, turning his back on Marlin once more.
"I won't!" Marlin moved his hand back and forth. "Come on Jak, let's go talk outside."
"Why should I?" Jak turned away from him.
"Just go boy," Sig said, as Jak turned back around and look at Sig strangely. "Trust me, I'll be good for you."
"Come on, come on!" Marlin said, moving his hands towards him. "It's already late! I've got to get to bed for the best race tomorrow!"
"Fine." Jak stood.
"What me to come?" Daxter asked, standing up as well.
"No," Marlin said, taking Jak and Daxter by surprise. "I want to talk to Jak only. No offence rat but this is something serious."
"Huh." Daxter crossed his paws. "I didn't want to go anyways."
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