Chapter six! Huzza!
Not as long as I wanted it, but here it is.
Enjoy.
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" So let me get this straight, you went up there to kill that thing, it kicked your ass, and you been down here crying ever since?"
The pathetic excuse for a warrior Daxter was talking to nodded his head.
" That's just pathetic man! No wonder you got yer keyster handed to ya!"
" Oh, and I suppose YOU think you can do better?" This guy had some major issues here. That monster couldn't be that tough if the loser was still alive. Although…
Daxter looked up at the roaring menace now know as Klaw as it threw another flaming boulder into the ocean. Shivering, Daxter turned to the warrior again.
"Of course I can! Taken on bigger things then him before, just let me find a way up there and he'll be beggin' for mercy in no time!" So what if those bigger things had only been in his dreams?
He could so do this.
Yup, no doubts here…perhaps he should explore them precursor ruins of shore first? To get in the fighting mood you know.
" You just put that there board walk back together and I'll mosey on up there. Seeing how I'm a brave hero and stuff, I'm gonna be down in them precursor ruins while I wait. So you know, get to it."
Striding off in what he hoped was a cool, confident manner; he ignored the strange man in a barrel and headed down to the floating boardwalk that lead to the ruins. A few quick jumps later and he was standing inside the small part of the ruin that was above water. He could just chill here for a while until he though of a way around Klaw.
Plopping down in the middle of the floor, Daxter jumped up again just as quickly as the floor began dropping sharply downwards. Despairingly, he watched as the top got farther and farther away, just his luck to get stuck on a freaking moving platform.
When the lift finally stopped, Daxter was not pleased to see that he was completely underwater. Hearing a click below him, Daxter looked down to see the button that he had sat on. A spark of hope lit inside him as he stepped on it again, a spark that died just as fast when nothing happened.
"Great. Just great, stuck down here with nothing but precursor JUNK for company."
Sighing, Daxter began walking towards the only door his he saw.
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Clutching the glowing EES in a tight grip, Daxter looked cautiously around the corner. He didn't know how long he had been down here, but ever since he had gone though that door he had been dumped in electrified water, nearly dumped in dark eco, chased by freaking mutant Lurkers of which seemed to be immune to the EES with out eco in it, and subject to more moving platforms then he would care to remember. On the bright side, he had found fifty precursor orbs and three power cells.
Right now, a mutant lurker that had been chasing him around for the better part of ten minutes was stalking about in the other room. Daxter was hiding in a small alcove the lurker hadn't noticed yet, and was waiting for his chance to make another run for it. He could see a large open door way across the room from him, and the second the Lurker turned it's back he bolted for it.
Much to his horror, the lurker saw him when he was about half way to the opening.
With an enraged roar the lurker charged after Daxter, waving its fists about. Although, to its credit it sounded just as surprised as Daxter did when its feet got knocked out from under it on the slippery floor.
Yelling their heads off, both Daxter and the Lurker did their best to dodge the white-hot parts of the floor that stuck up from the rest of it. Seeing the floor suddenly drop of into darkness ahead, Daxter franticly jammed the EES into the floor to slow himself down.
Daxter stopped just inches from the edge, large gouges in the floor from the EES trailing behind him. The lurker on the other hand, had no such luck as it careened off the edge at full speed into a pool of Dark eco below.
Standing, Daxter jumped as a large metal door slammed down over the entrance to the slide, cutting off his escape.
Cursing the precursors in rather colorful language, Daxter looked up, and up, and UP. The small room he was in now had virtually no ceiling in sight, though he could faintly make out the glow of blue eco blobs farther up.
A metal path way wound its way around the room in an upward spiral. Seeing no other choice, Daxter leapt the gap to the first platform…and nearly lost his footing as it jerked downwards.
"WARNING, DARK ECO LEVELS RISING"
Ice replaced Daxter's blood as an automated voice accompanied the bubbling sound beneath him. Screaming inventive profanity at the precursors, he scrambled up onto the rest of the plat form, and began running for his life.
The spiral was steep, though thankfully not as slippery as the slide had been. Nonetheless Daxter was gasping for breath before long, though he dared not stop.
When he finally reached the top, he was more then elated to see an active precursor launcher. With the dark eco nearly upon him Daxter wasted no time jabbing the EES into it.
Hurtling upwards, Daxter heard the noise of automated doors sliding together right before he began falling downwards again. Hitting the floor of the new room with an "oof!" he struggled to catch his breath. He didn't even notice the room had been moving upwards until a door opened to his left, blinding him with sunlight.
"The light…it burns!"
Daxter wheezed, covering his eyes. Once the burning in both his lungs and eyes had stopped, he pushed him self to his feet. Retracting the EES and putting it away, Daxter walked over to the doorway, and stared out at rock village.
"Finally! I thought I'd never get out'a that place!"
With a happy whistle, Daxter stepped out onto the conveniently placed rock forms, and made his way back into the village. Once back in the area with the warrior and barrel man, he was ambushed by said people.
" You raised part of the sunken city, now that's impressive! Say, how handy are ya' with a zoomer?"
Pushing the odd barrel man out of the way, the warrior gave Daxter an appraising look.
" No one who's gone into that sunken city ever came back out before...but you! You might just have what it takes to bring that monster up there down. I'll put the board walk back together for you."
Shoving his way past the warrior, Barrel man spoke up again.
" While he's doing that, I think you could be my big come back!"
Scratching his head, Daxter looked between the two in confusion.
" I can see why no one else got outta there alive, though it would have been nice ta' know that before hand…but what are you yapping on about?"
The man in a barrel grinned and rubbed his hands together.
" There's a valley not far from here called the Precursor basin, and in it is a little time challenge. What I need you to do is get on a Zoomer and make it to the end before time runs out and Pay day!"
"Yeah, that's nice and all but what do I get outta this?"
The Warrior rolled his eyes and moved over to the broken pieces of boardwalk to begin his work. Barrel man on the other hand, was short of words.
"Er, get? What do YOU get? …The respect of breaking the record?"
He sounded hopeful, but Daxter wasn't buying it.
" Yeah, right. Go find another suck'a." Turning to the Warrior and ignoring the Barrel mans stuttered excuses, Daxter called out to him.
"Hey! I'm gonna head up to the Blue sages lab for a while, let me know when you're done and I'll go kick that things ass!"
Not waiting for a response, Daxter began making his way through the village again.