It feels right to be starting this chapter off while listening to Jak X: Combat Racing OST. But aside from that here is the forth chapter. Gotta love eco right! So yep, here we go with that. Thank you to everyone who had followed and favorited and a special thanks to Tigre the guest reviewer who I am told has the name Crai22 for reviewing, the support is appreciated. I'd still love some more reviews, though. But anyways hope you like this chapter.

Jak:

Chapter 4

Eco

~Jak~

Channeling the different color ecos felt incredible. He missed it.

~Jak~

"My son," Damas announced to the three year old that was sitting on the ground next to him. He then bent down and held the green ball of light out to the toddler. "This is eco; it is the world's life source. Anything that lives on this world thrives on it, even Metal Heads. This eco is called green eco and it is what all creatures live off of, the only creatures that do not feed off of Green eco are the Metal Heads and Precursors who feed off of dark and light ecos respectively."

The three year old Jak looked up at the green ball of light in awe.

"Yes, Mar." Damas nodded. "Eco is very intriguing." He then put the ball of light back in the canister that it was in.

"Green eco is still very common in this world along with Light and Dark eco. We use blue, red and yellow eco for different things. Blue eco is an industrial eco we use to supply power to all our electrical systems, because of that only electrical workers have access to pure blue eco. Red eco is not very common in the world and is only used in weapons and combat racing. Yellow eco is also very common and is never in its purest from –much like red eco- it is used in weapons and combat racing. We already know that green eco is used in the medical field to cure wounds that normal medicine may not be able to. Dark eco is completely dangerous and is only used to fuel the most dangerous of creatures. Light eco is a healing eco as well, it is much more powerful than green eco, the only problem is that it is completely unpredictable and certain people react to it differently that is why our doctors will only use light eco on a wound if necessary."

Jak nodded, clearly interested in learning about the different colors of eco.

"Mar, since you know that we come from the house of Mar then you should know that we come from a long line of channelers. In fact your late great grandfather was a channeler and had told me great stories of how he had used eco to best the greatest of beasts." The warrior smiled.

Jak listened intently clearly wanting to know more about eco.

"Even the great hero of legend was a channeler and he was even able to weaponize light eco as it was created by the four eco sages."

Jak wanted to know even more about this hero and eco.

Damas however didn't acknowledge this and scooped up the toddler. "Come along Mar, there are certain duties I need to attend to, I'm sure you'll enjoy spending some time with your Uncle Sig now wouldn't you?"

The child nodded in agreement. He loved how his Uncle Sig called him 'Chili Pepper.'

~Jak~

"But I have no idea what had happened with the child!" Kor insisted.

"I don't want to hear it, Kor! You of all people know that we need the kid alive!" Torn snapped.

Samos who was tending to the heavily injured Jak sighed. "I'm afraid that's the least of our concerns."

"What's the verdict Samos?" Torn asked.

"His wounds are too bad, I'm afraid we're going to have to administer green eco directly on the child."

"Isn't that dangerous?" Kor asked trying to hide his malicious grin but couldn't help but hide his bloodlust in that last word. "Think about what could happen to the child if we were to use green eco on him."

"I'm afraid we don't have a choice." Samos grimly confirmed.

Torn looked between the two before sighing. "Do what you can Samos. Just make sure we don't lose him! If word gets out that the heir to the throne died, I'm almost positive Damas will come here to kill us all."

"Right." Samos nodded. He then turned to the boy who was lying on the table unconscious, with a blood soaked bandage across his chest. It was a miracle that none of the boys vital organs hadn't been pierced but he still lost a lot of blood on the way out.

Samos nodded and began to apply green eco to the boy's body.

As this happened Jak had finally woken up to the greatest sensation he could ever feel as the eco coursed through his body. Within seconds his wounds were completely closed and he was able to sit up.

"What?" Kor asked, completely surprised that this had happened. He growled, nearly letting the true beast inside of him loose as his teeth sharpened and his eyes grew dark. "How is this possible?"

Torn gave him an odd look before he regained his composure. "I am so glad that the boy came out unharmed, you clearly are quite the healer Samos."

"It seems like we have a channeler on our hands, Torn." Samos explained.

"Really?" The commander asked.

"Yes and quite a powerful one at that," Samos nodded. "I had only conjured a handful of eco and he reacted so well to it."

"Incredible…" Kor sighed as he shook his head.

"Yeah," Torn nodded. "He could be a valuable asset to this war if it were to go on long enough."

Samos shook his head. "Such power needs to grow before it can become its full potential. Why, he may just have the potential to be as good as the hero of legend."

"Don't be ridiculous," Torn dismissed the wise man. "As incredible as his reaction to the treatment may have been he could never be that good."

~Jak~

His first time channeling eco was actually because of Daxter.

"Come on!" Daxter shouted from within the door.

Jak jumped back in surprise at the sudden change, this caused him to fall into the blue ball of energy he had previously avoided.

Immediately the blue energy jumped off of him and into the pendant above the door. The symbol then glowed a brighter hue and immediately the pieces of metal retract and out falls a boy who lets out an "ah!" in surprise.

Jak looked down at himself, he had no idea what had just happened but in a way, he liked it. It was for a split second really and just as quickly as the energy was taken into his body it was gone.

As much as he would've liked to think about it some more he looked down at the child before him and began the conversation that followed.

That was the first time that the boy had channeled eco and he was only five.

~Jak~

"I have spent my life searching for the answers that my father and my father's father have failed to find." Samos explained to the three eight year old children sitting around him. "Who were the Precursors? Why did they create the vast mono lifts that litter our planet? How did they harness eco: the life energy of the world? What was their purpose and why did they vanish? I have asked the plants, but they do not remember. The plants have asked the rocks, but the rocks do not recall."

Daxter nudged both Keira and Jak and made a circular motion with his index finger next to his ear, clearly signifying how crazy he thought Samos was. The other two children tried to contain their giggles at the boy's antics.

Samos sighed, "Even the rocks do not recall…"

"But why don't we know these things daddy?" Keira asked.

"Yeah…" Daxter asked. "Besides, all we asked was what you do as a sage and you go off into this weird speech."

Samos scoffed ignoring the redhead's question, referring to his daughter though he answered. "The Precursors have left many mysteries for man to uncover. But if we work hard enough I'm sure that we can discover them. You never know who may be the one to do reveal the truth."

Jak felt that the sage was specifically looking at him as he said that.

Samos continued. "I feel that eco will be one of the crucial components to uncovering the truth."

Jak nodded.

"Who cares?" Daxter shrugged. "I mean if these stupid precursors wanted these things to be found then wouldn't they have already have been?"

Samos actually smiled. "You're not the first person to ask me that, Daxter."

"Exactly." Daxter nodded. "Because it's stupid."

"You never know Daxter. Maybe you could find one of our world's many mysteries."

~Jak~

He had begun training at 10 and had been training for the past three years. However due to their resources they could only get him to use blue and green ecos.

Green eco was probably the easiest. They would give him simple injuries such as scrapped knees and cuts and see if the green eco would heal his wounds which it easily did. Whereas with blue eco they were trying to see how fast he could go when he got charged with blue eco.

Keira stopped counting as Jak meet him.

"Wow! That was five seconds, Jak!" Keira congratulated him. "Two seconds faster than your last time!"

Jak smiled he was getting a lot faster using blue eco and that was great.

Samos shook his head. "No, no, no Jak! That isn't fast enough. We want you to make that gap in three seconds, No less."

"What does it matter?" Daxter asked. "I know if I was charged up on that colorful eco stuff I know I wouldn't be able to go nearly as fast as Jak does."

Keira shook her head. "You know you can't do that Daxter."

"Yeah, I know…" Daxter sighed. "Only channelers and whatever are able to use eco in its purest form in their bodies and whatever."

"Exactly!" Samos shouted. "Jak, you need to go faster if you wish to fulfill the-"

Samos stopped. He didn't finish his sentence as he knew he shouldn't finish that sentence, he couldn't reveal anything about the children's destiny for it might ruin things.

Jak, Kiera and Daxter were confused at what the old man was referring to but didn't press the issue any further, as they knew not to question the old man while Jak was training. But still the two wondered what exactly the old man was referring to, especially Jak.

Jak knew that training with eco was incredibly important. It allowed him to do incredible things. But he always wondered why Samos was always so insistent that he learn these things. He understood that he needed to learn how to use eco, but why does he have to be so much more strict than him.

"No matter," Samos shrugged, breaking Jak out of his thoughts. "Let's get back to work. I want you to go twice as fast this time Jak!"

~Jak~

Training with green eco was difficult. At first Samos had just been using it to heal his own wounds but soon it came to the point of learning to heal others.

"No! No! No!" Samos shouted at the boy. "Don't be so abrupt with the flow; you have to be subtle when healing others."

Jak groaned. He was only working on a flower that had been uprooted, it wasn't that big of a deal. Sure the other five flowers he had tried had withered away within seconds but it was just flowers it's not like he was actually working on a human body.

The flower withered away once more and Jak sighed.

"No! Jak you'll never be able to do it right if you don't apply yourself!"

~Jak~

It was his first adventure when Jak first experienced all the different colors of eco.

~Jak~

Green eco. It was a quick burst of warmth that immediately soothed him, it was calming and made him feel complete. When the eco mended the scratches that he had gotten after fighting the various lurkers and made his head stop spinning it was wonderful. No need for bandages and rest like other people he could just keep moving.

Green eco was warm, healing him of all his wounds.

~Jak~

Blue eco. It was like a battery. When he touched a ball of blue eco he felt super charged. He could run faster, jump higher, he could do so much more than he originally could.

He didn't just get his speed and endurance enhanced he could also power different Precursor artifacts. Doors, floating platforms, launch pads-

Oh the launch pads! When he got charged up on blue eco and climbed aboard one of those pads, he was giddy with excitement as he was about to propel himself into the air. When he actually did shoot up into the sky he was so pumped up it was hard not to laugh or smile when he did that.

Blue eco was like a battery; with it he could power not only himself but Precursor Artifacts as well.

~Jak~

Red eco. It was much warmer than green eco. When he touched it he felt powerful. He felt strong enough to take on any Lurker that crossed his path.

Red eco made him as strong as an ox. He could push, pull and lift objects and that normally would be beyond his strength. The most durable lurkers that could usually survive a plethora of attacks from him could be taken out in a single punch. He became much more durable when he absorbed red eco, he could plow through stone walls and only come out with a few scratches when he had blue eco.

Red eco was like armor, with it he was unstoppable.

~Jak~

Yellow eco. When he absorbed it he was armed with more than just his fists. He was a living arsenal that could fire plumes of fire like energy right from his hands. As he continued to use yellow eco, it increased his accuracy and made him feel powerful. He actually was able to shoot at enemies from long distances rather than fight then from close range. Even on the A-Grav Zoomer he was able to shoot the eco from his hands at various things, it got him out of a number of close calls, especially in the Lava Tube.

Yellow eco was hot, it came in handy in places that were incredibly cold like the Snowy Mountain, Spider Caves, or the Boggy Swamp (which was cold due to the rains and waist high waters.) The heat was able to keep him warm in those places despite his rather clothing. It was great, it sucked however when he ran out of that energy, especially in the Snowy Mountain or the deepest parts of the Spider Caves. But never the less Yellow Eco was hot.

Yellow eco was like a weapon, it was able to give him the strength to combat his enemies in new ways.

~Jak~

Finally the four colors of eco erupted from the four towers around the eco silo.

"Light eco? It does exist!" Gol called fearfully from the giant robot.

"They must not be allowed to get it!" Mai commanded.

"Light eco?" Daxter asked from atop his shoulder. "That could be the stuff to change me back!"

Jak glared at him. I mean seriously, Daxter.

Daxter got the message and added. "Or… it might stop that robot."

Jak gave the ottsle a knowing smile.

"Hm… Stay fuzzy or save the world? Choices…" The ottsle sighed, clearly thinking the obvious decision through as his friend glared at him.

"Okay fine!" Daxter shouted, finally agreeing with Jak. "We'll save the world… But do it quickly before I change my mind!"

Jak quickly ran off to one of the gelatinous balls of light eco as Gol and Mia sent various bombs at them from above.

Finally when Jak touched one of the balls of light Daxter hopped off his shoulder.

When Jak touched the ball of light it imprisoned him in a wall of light. It felt wonderful, it made him feel far more powerful than anything he could've ever come up with.

Gol and Mia saw this, afraid that they'd lost Mia desperately shouted to her brother. "Do something!"

"Ha!" Jak shouted and he hurled the ball of light at the Precursor robot destroying it completely.

Light eco definitely made him feel complete. It was definitely different than the other forms of eco as well. It was amazing to have eco in its purest form inside of him and to be honest, he hadn't ever felt more alive.

Light eco was magnificent, it made him feel alive.

~Jak~

Within seconds of entering the new world he was captured. It was horrible… And what was worse is that he was subjected to those horrible experiments with dark eco.

The dark eco was horribly painful and he was surprised he was able to survive the excruciating pain of all the dark eco injections.

Dark eco was nothing like the other four colors. As it was injected into him it ripped him apart from the inside. The eco was chaotic and only showed him visions of torture and bloodshed. As he was chained down to that table, he couldn't move at all to relieve any of the pain or get away from those horrible needles; he had to endure the pain.

Dark eco had a voice. It told him horrible things that changed him in more ways than one. It didn't help that he was all alone and the dark one was the only one he had to talk to. It was horrible.

Dark eco was destructive, it destroyed him from the inside.

~Jak~

Jak shouted in pain as the dark eco was injected into him. Despite Errol being there during all the experiments it meant something that Baron Praxis had arrived to watch the injections as he had hardly done so.

Finally the dark eco began to subside.

"Dark Eco Injection Cycle Complete." A robotic voice announced from the machine. "Bio Readings nominal and unchanged."

The Baron growled. "Nothing. I was informed that this one would be different!"

"He is surprisingly resistant to your experiments, Baron Praxis." Errol stated. "I believe the Dark Warrior Program has failed."

The Baron steamed. He grabbed Jak's face and yelled at him. "You should at least be dead with all the dark eco I pumped into you."

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

"I will not be remembered as the man who lost this city to those vile creatures! Move forward with the final plan!" The Baron shouted, he then gestured to Jak, spitting on him for extra measure. "And finish this thing tonight."

"As you wish." Errol bowed, before grabbing Jak's face and looked straight into his almost lifeless eyes. "I'll be back later…"

He then spit into his face like Praxis before walking away.

Of course Jak didn't hear any of this as he was too busy reaching for the bright light that was mocking him from within his mind's eye. He was about to reach for it when suddenly he heard something.

"Ding Ding. Third floor! Body chains, roach food, torture devices." The ottsle announced before he hopped on Jak's chest. "Hey buddy, you seen any heroes around here?"

Jak closed his eyes clearly not recognizing the animal yet.

But at that moment Daxter recognized him. "Woah! What they do to you?"

Jak continued to ignore him and returned to reaching for the light, he was going to get it this time.

"It's your old pal, Daxter!" He shouted actually prying open the young man's eyes. Of course he closed them again, returning to the light.

Daxter rolled his eyes. "That's a fine hello. I've been crawling around in this place, risking my tail –literally-" He grabbed his tail to show him exactly what he had meant. "To save you! I've been looking for you for two years!"

He then grabbed the boys face, now pleading with him. "Say something!" The creature yelled. "Just this once!"

He definitely had something to say. Something that had been on the dark one's mind for these two long years and over time slowly became shared by Jak as well. Never in his life had he spoke before but now that was about to change. "I'M GONNA KILL PRAXIS!"

So this is what it felt like to embrace the dark eco. It was different than the others but at the same time it felt good. Maybe he should try some more.

~Jak~

Finally Jak had gotten out of that horrible prison, this was his first time seeing sunlight or seeing anyone other than Errol, Praxis or any other face in two years and for a few seconds he just took it all in.

Finally a man in a blue robe with a golden pendant lying on his stomach approached them. His long white hair was flowing down and complimented his beard. In a way the man almost looked familiar. "Hello strangers. My name is Kor, may I hel-"

However Jak cut the man off and clenched the man's robe in his fist. "You look like a reasonably smart man! I want information. Where the hell am I?"

Daxter hopped off of Jak's shoulder and gestured to the small child before him. He looked familiar as well but they couldn't tell who exactly it was. The only strange thing about the boy however was the strange pendant lying on his chest. "Sorry, he's new to the whole conversation thing."

"Well…" Kor dusted off his robe as Jak finally let go of him. "My angry young friend, you are a guest of his majesty Baron Praxis, the ruler of glorious Haven City."

Jak snorted. "I was just a guest in the good Baron's prison."

Kor sighed. "Inside a cell or inside the city walls surround us both. We are all his prisoners!"

Kor then noticed the guards approaching them and sighed. "Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time…" He grumbled before speaking up and ushering Jak and Daxter forward. "I-I'd move on if I were you."

One of the approaching gaurds spoke up. "By order of his eminence, the grand protector of Haven City: Baron Praxis, everyone in this sector is hereby under arrest for suspicion of harboring underground fugitives. Surrender and die!"

Daxter, trying to be the rational one asked the Krimson Guard the important question on everyone's minds, "Excuse me sir… Don't you mean surrender or die?!"

"Not in this city!" Kor gasped, trying to push the child behind him protectively. "Protect us from these guards and I'll introduce you to someone who can help you."

Jak grinned maliciously. He immediately lunged for the guards taking out all the pent up anger he had been wanting to release all these years.

Normally he didn't like fighting other people, Jak actually hated it. But… the over time he had dropped that philosophy of his.

Immediately he sent a punch at the first guard, to his surprise the guard fell at his feet. He didn't expect the man to fall that quickly. Apparently he had gotten a lot stronger over the past few years.

Ignoring that he sent an uppercut at the next guard and it also crumpled to the ground, you could hear a sickening crack and Jak wasn't sure if it was the man's visor breaking or his jaw breaking.'

Soon Jak lost himself in the fighting as he threw himself into the throng of guards and within seconds he lost himself in the battle.

Within seconds something strange happened. Jak began to grow sharp teeth as his skin paled and his hair turned a silvery color. His blue eyes also went from their sky blue, to a souless obsidian with absolutely no pupils to be seen. He also gained a lot more muscle; it was noticed by Daxter as he almost fell off the young man's shoulder. "THWA!" He shouted out at the new change.

If he had lost himself in the fight before he was completely gone now. Despite being scared and confused he seemed to enjoy what was going on due to the animalistic grin on his face.

Within seconds it was over however and he was left panting and trying desperately to contain the power.

"That was cool!" Daxter shouted in glee. "Do it again!"

"Somethings happening to me…" Jak panted, between his heavy breaths and clenched teeth. "Something he did… I-I cant' control it…"

The first time using dark eco was difficult uncontrollable in fact. But it would take the help of an oracle for him to learn control.

~Jak~

Once Jak had control, using his dark form felt a lot like using red eco.

One of the few differences being that it was a lot stronger than the red eco. When he got into his dark form he was stronger than almost anything. It was his dark form that killed Kor, the destruction that it left in its path was unbelievable.

Another thing about dark eco was that it made him physically stronger as well. When he got into his dark form, Daxter had once commented that he felt the man bulk up a bit. It was true, when he got into his dark form he really did gain a lot of muscle mass.

Dark eco was also a lot more chaotic than red eco. It was like he became an animal when he turned into his dark form. He slashed and shredded through Metal Heads, Krimson Guards, KG Death Bots, anything really with ease.

It wasn't exactly the same but it was a bit calming that dark eco felt a lot like red eco. It was like he was back on Misty Island facing the largest of Lurkers.

Dark eco was way more chaotic than red eco.

~Jak~

His light eco form calmed him. But it was a lot different than the last time.

This time it made him feel at peace with himself. It didn't make him feel powerful or destructive like he had the original light eco or dark eco. But needless to say it was beautiful.

He was able to fly with light eco, he was astonished with what he could do with his light eco form. It was absolutely incredible.

Light eco now made him at peace with himself, it made him feel complete.

~Jak~

He could heal himself with light eco, it almost felt like green eco.

He could rejuvenate himself with light eco, he didn't even have to go into his light eco form to do that. He would just call upon the light from within him and he could soothe his wounds. It was much better than he could with green eco.

Light eco could heal him far better than green eco could.

~Jak~

Light eco, it was like blue eco in a way.

Freezing time and space. It was something new he could do thanks to the light eco in his body. Unlike with blue eco he wasn't able to increase his speed. That didn't matter at all , he was able to freeze time and go from one place to another in a matter of minutes while for others it was only a few seconds. In one moment he was in one place and in the next he was in another.

In a way light eco was like blue eco.

~Jak~

His scream was utterly terrifying to Daxter. The ottsle looked up at his friend as the sea of dark eco slowly turned him into his dark form. The poor ottsle could only watch as the man screamed in pain as his skin paled, his nails elongated into sharp claws, his calm blue eyes dulled until they were obsidian and completely devoid of pupils and of course he gained much more muscle. Along with that a lot of dark eco crackled around him like electricity.

Finally the slow transformation stopped and his transformed friend offered a hand down for the ottsle to climb.

Although hesitantly Daxter still climbed onto his shoulder and the two ran off.

To their surprise Jak faced a wall and chucked a large ball of dark electricity at it smashing it to smithereens.

Daxter didn't comment as his eyes widened in surprise at this.

The Dark Strike move definitely felt a lot like yellow eco just far more powerful. When he shot balls of yellow eco from his palms, it felt more like shooting fire balls. However with the dark strike it was like sending a massive ball of electricity from his two hands. It was so powerful, it was so destructive. It was actually quite amusing to watch things fall apart when it made contact.

Dark eco was far more destructive than yellow eco.

~Jak~

Firing light eco from his body while in his light form reminded him a lot of his first experience using light eco. He hadn't even meant to do it the first time but he needed to attack somehow and didn't have the time to turn into his dark form. He needed a way to attack and just fired away.

His light eco form was much better than just absorbing light eco.

~Jak~

He was able to heal others with light eco.

Samos had been trying to teach him with green eco for ages but he was never really able to do it.

But when he did it with light eco he was able to do it successfully. It just felt so natural when he did it. He was able to heal others within seconds where with green eco he hardly ever could.

He was far better with light eco than he was with green eco.

~Jak~

Sure he missed using the different colors of eco. But his dark and light forms were able to compensate for the loss of the different colors of eco in many different ways.

He'll never have the nostalgia of using these ecos again but he didn't mind being able to use their individual powers through dark and light eco.

That was actually a pretty short chapter. I actually expected it to be much longer. It was twice the size of the last one and half of the chapters like Sandover and It's Complicated. But I guess that's okay. Next chapter is about Jak's closest friends Daxter, Keira and Samos which is good. So you'll probably getting that in June.

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