Chapter 34: That's Not Possibly Me.
Music: Mr. Highway's Thinking About the End
'It's like speaking in tongues for all you know.
Will we ever get what we deserve?
How long until the tables turn?
Will we ever get what we deserve?: lyrics/a/a_day_to_remember/mr_highways_thinking_about_the_ ]
I've created a monster.
I got a side of me that no one should see.
So quit stalling, pack your bags, keep walking away.
Your life leads to destruction.'
Mood: kinda sad but excited!
Disclaimer: Writers lie, just like your parents.
Jak and I made our way to the Air Train that would take us to the Metal Head Nest. It didn't take us directly too it, but just to the top of the path.
I could see the rise to the nest in the distance, so that's where we headed first, battling Metal Heads up long twisting paths. Most of the Metal Heads we encountered along the way were normal ones -scorpions, grunts, jumpers and stingers – but down the path and around a few bends and past a few bends we encountered at least four Flying Spiders. They were easy to take out, but also tedious with the jumper and stinger Metal Heads attacking from the back.
Behind them was a door that we passed through and killed a few more Metal Heads.
I climbed the steps behind Jak, hopping over the crest in the ground and following down after him and around another corner. There was a small swarm there that we took care of before heading on again, down the path. There wasn't much after that, just more Metal Heads and ammo boxes, and we were almost at the end of the path. I could see a huge metal contraption on the horizon that we were heading towards; Mar and Sylence's gun.
We reached it, Jak holding the Precursor Stone, and stepped up the stairs cautiously to reach the gun. There was an elevator at the bottom that Jak and I both stepped on simultaneously that took us to the top of the gun, where the lock was.
"There isn't much hope now." I heard my back pocket say as I stepped off the lift behind Jak. I pulled the Pocket Communicator out of my pocket and was met with Ashelin's face on the cam. She looked serious. "With the Shield Wall destroyed, it's just a matter of time before the Metal Heads overwhelm us." I tossed to comm to Dax as I walked up to Jak who was looking at the gun with a type of menacing glee. "You all should just go through the rift back to your own timeand get away from this horrible place.
Jak hefted the stone into the slot, and I stuck my palm against it just before he slipped it in the activate the thing. The machine accepted the stone and we both pulled our hands away.
"I see your point." Daxter agreed. "Come on, Jak, Maddy." He waved at us over his should, walking away.
"Hold it, Dax," I said, catching his tail. "We're not leaving just yet." I grinned maniacly.
"This place is worth fighting for!" Jak said loudly, resting his palm against the machine. I couldn't agree more.
"We'll hold out as long as we can!" Ashelin said in that, 'Oh well, I tried.' Voice. "Fare well!"
The comm hung up just as the gun started whirring loudly, loading up and getting ready for the almighty blast. "Precursor Stone." Jak said, resting his knuckles against the now glowing stone. "Gun." He finger gunned towards the nest next to the gun.
"Nest!" I finished darkly, feeling that dark look take over my face.
Jak started laughing menacingly. "Nest." He agreed in an equally as sinister voice.
"Light 'er up, padre!" Daxter jumped on Jak's shoulder, leaning forward to watch the damage, his voice as dark as ours. I should have been worried, but I couldn't be bothered to be. Too much anticipation for what was going to happen.
Jak let out another baleful laugh, "Eat this," He growled just as the gun shot off. I craned my neck standing on my tippy toes watching with an unabashed glee as a piercing green beam of energy shot over to a wall, drilling a path directly through to the centre of the nest.
I felt my face pull into a twisted smile as Daxter said, "That ought to wake 'em up!" Almost hesitantly.
"Let's go take care of business!" Jak snarled with a grin, leaning forward in anticipation.
"What? You mean, go in there?" The otzel asked disbelievingly before correcting himself. "Ahh, I'm right behind you!"
"Straight to the heart of the nest," I bit out malevolently, following directly next to Jak as Daxter hid behind the two of us.
We all headed down the path toward the big hole that would take us to the nest, killing even more Metal Heads.
There were a lot of ammo and health boxes around, so I tried to collect as much as I could while we still had the chance. A little bit down the path was where we encountered the first Elephant Grunt that was flanked by a whole lot of little Metal Heads. The thing reminded me of the Metalpede in size, but definitely not in shape. I looked a bit like the Ramheads from the Mountain Temple, only ten times bigger.
Neither of our weapons did anything to penetrate it's thick armour, so we had to settle for skirting around it dangerously when there was space on the thin paths.
We couldn't get close to it because it had proximity defenses that would shoot out huge bolts of electricity to anything that surrounded it.
We passed three of them on the way to the nest, all surrounded by other Metal Heads. Most of the ones around it were Flying Spiders and Jumpers. The Spiders were a bit harder to take care of, but we did it relatively mess up free, making our way up the path to whatever met us up there.
There were a lot more Metal Heads at the end of the path, and a whole lot of Metal Head eggs on the ground around our feet, which was how I knew we were reaching the end.
We had to break through a small door and walk up a small hill until we were finally approaching the mouth of the cave. There were rocks littering the ground around the opening and more Metal Heads swarming around us that we easily took out.
Inside the cave was a deep purple colour and had a very musty smell about it. There were a whole lot more eggs on the ground, all creating a big circle around an area in the centre, set in little clusters around some sort of purple plant.
When we made it through the short tunnel passageway, we were immediately swarmed with an army of Jumpers and Stingers, all of which had been hiding under the dirt. Jak took a majority of them out with his Vulcan Rifle, and I used one of my precious Peace Maker arrows to clear out the rest, following close behind Jak as we made our way to the very centre of the nest; a huge glowing hole in the ground with some sort of purple tree growing out and around it and what looked like a huge Rift Ring open next to him.
Kor in Metal Head form rose out of middle of the hole, his wings curling around the front of his body and hiding it, his multiple arms holding him up like a big spider.
"Finally, you've decided to join us, have you?" Kor asked gleefully, "and you brought the Precursor Stone!" I curled my fingers tighter around the stone. "Good. Both the children will now play their final part." I didn't like the way he said final. It took me a second to register what he had said. He had taken the kids.
The Metal Head's wings unfolded from the middle of his body, revealing two more hands in the middle, on separate sides of his body, both holding black energy spheres. The one on the right, directly in front of me, held the little boy curled up in on himself tightly, unconscious. I felt my body yearn to grab the boy and hide him out of harm's way and do whatever it took to take care of him. I didn't know where this affection was coming from, but it was like my body and mind had a natural instinct to want to protect the boy, even before the girl. I glanced at Jak quickly, to see if I could gauge his feelings, but I saw him staring longingly at the left sphere where the other kid was sitting, her face tucked in her knees. I could see him leaning in that direction and I didn't even think he knew he was doing it.
I turned back to Kor before I could ponder it more.
"Not this time." Jak snapped out of wherever he had been when Kor growled loudly.
"Oh, but this children are such a part of this!" Kor drawled slowly, moving the kids closer to us, teasing. I leant forward and snarled as he continued talking. "Such a part of you, both of you! Don't you recognize them?" He slowly switched the hands that were holding the kids, moving them both even closer to us so the little girl's sleeping face was directly in front of mine. "The boy is you, Jak!" Kor hissed, and I froze, shaking my head to make sure I heard him right as Kor looked at me. "And the girl. The girl is you, precious Maddy." He sneered, and I froze, staring at the little girl. Her hair. Her eyes. That's why everything was so familiar. "And this place... this is where you both began, in the future! Separated, only to meet again in such a tragic way."
"But how...?" Jak asked quietly. I was still staring at Kor, my hand knotted in my hair, tugging painfully to get myself to remember. I couldn't remember any of this. This didn't happen. It couldn't have. I searched through my memories. And what did he mean Jak and I had been separated? We had been together for…" I couldn't even place a time. The earliest memory I could remember was when I was 16, traveling to Misty Island with Jak and Daxter. That was seven years ago. Why couldn't I remember anything before that?
"You were hidden in the past on the hope that you would gain the skills to face me today. You two were separated, so that you wouldn't get attached to one another, depend on each other." He laughed menacingly. "But Onin was wrong! Now that you've been altered with Eco, neither of you can open the stone now."Your younger selves, however, still have the pure gift! Together, the two of them will fully awaken the Stone and the Precursor entity that sleeps inside."
"Wait." I interrupted, staring at the Stone. "This Stone is a Precursor?"
"The last Precursor egg!" Kor growled, staring at the thing in my hands. "Mar and Sylence were both very clever. They covered their track well, hiding their last egg from me." Mar and Sylence had eggs? Interesting relationship. "and building the shield and city to defend it! It has been a long siege. But today, I will finally feed on the last Precursor Life Force!" He went through all this trouble for a meal?!
"Ah, I think you're forgetting one little thing, Metalo-Maniac!" Daxter stated incredulous. "We've got the Precursor Stone!
"Not for long!" Kor jeered, charging the skull gem on his head with a bright white light, shooting it at the cliff under it, making it collapse on top of us, making me almost drop the Stone.
That was the least of my worries right now, though, because something in that light had made me so angry I wanted to explode. Which I did. In my Dark Form, at least.
I instantaneously changed in my Dark Form, exuding a small blue explosion that blew the rubble away from me as I burst out of the rubble, charging at Kor only subconsciously aware of Jak next to me, doing to same.
"DIE!" Kor yelled just as we reached him in a shower of blue and purple sparks.
A/N: I was going to have the battle in this chapter, but it would make the next chapter too short.
Also, I'm almost positive that the next chapter is the next one. Tears :'C
I can almost guarantee you guys there's going to be a third installment of this story, I just don't know when I'm going to be able to get it out. I don't want to start it and leave it hanging like I did this story.
School starts in a few days (3 to be exact) And I'm going to be swamped with all the back to school stuff, so if I'm going to estimate when I'll start a new story it'll be in the late fall, early winter when everything starts calming down and I have more time, but keep an eye out for any new updates cuz I might find some way to get it out before that.
I love you all, and I'll see you for the last chapter tomorrow!
Cheers!
xMonster