Act I:
Jak's World
Chapter 1:
Heroes Ally
Jak stood on the balcony of the building, scouting the road below. Haven City had been torn apart by two wars since Jak had appeared there five years ago and a new one had just started. The members of the Old Krimzon Guard had separated from the New Krimzon Guard and were now fighting their former allies. Soon after, the KG Deathbots had joined the OKG in their battle. Then, the Rebels had let Metalheads into the city as their allies against the Freedom League. Jak had been a big part of the battle for the city, what with his previous record: he had saved the world four times and he was only 26 years old. He had fought the armies of so many different nations single-handedly; Gol and Maia's Lurkers, Baron Praxis' Old Krimzon Guard, the Metalheads, Errol's KG Deathbots, the Dark Makers, and Duke Skyheed's Aeropan Air Force. And now, Jak and Daxter were being called upon to save the city once more.
He had seen so many things in his life; from Ghost Pirates to his best friend being turned into a two foot tall, furry, orange Ottsel. But the things that he never thought to see were wormholes appearing in the skies. Several specks fell from the wormholes, five he counted. His communicator beeped and came out of his pocket, floating around his head.
"Jak, find the third form that fell. We think they may be from distant planets and were brought here for experimentation. I don't think this planet needs another Aeropan Air Force."
"I agree, Jak out." Jak slipped his Eco rifle from his back (his Morph gun and Gunstaff had been destroyed in the early days of the war) and followed the indicators on his map to find the form. He looked around the bend of an alley and quickly hid himself away.
"What is it?" Daxter asked.
"Lobsters," Jak hissed quietly. Jak's eyebrows raised in confusion as Daxter licked his lips.
"Oooh, yum." Jak sighed in exasperation as he realized Daxter thought he was talking about actual lobsters, forgetting that "Lobsters" was the codeword for OKGs.
"I mean OKGs you idiot." Daxter's ears flopped to the sides of his head in disappointment.
"Ohh. Well, let's kick their butts." He jumped back up, leaping from foot to foot and holding out his fists like a boxer. Jak rolled his eyes at his friend but had to admit to himself that the Ottsel had a point. He swiveled the barrel of the rifle around the corner until the little red dot was right smack in the middle of the back of an OKG's head. One shot later, the guard fell on its face. This alerted the others, Jak had to act fast. Jak turned a dial until the gun flashed blue, turned the barrel to the guards, and shot them all down with a spitfire of blue fireballs. He kicked a few of the bodies aside until he found a small form dressed in a white shirt, not the bright red armor of OKGs. Jak picked up the small form and found it to be a young, orange furred girl.
"Wow, they sure make Ottsels big where she comes from," he whispered into Jak's elongated, pointed ear.
"Dax, I don't think this is an Ottsel," he muttered back quietly. The girl groaned and opened her eyes slowly. They shot open and the girl began struggling to get out of Jak's arms. He let her go, allowing her to fall on the ground. She quickly got up and flattened herself against the alley wall.
"Wh-wh-who are you? Where am I?" Jak stepped forward, putting his hands out defensively.
"Hey, calm down. We're on your side."
"How can I trust you?" she growled, picking up a long, pointed stick from the nearest dumpster and pointing it at Jak like a spear.
"We can take you to the others who fell from the sky. Your family, I believe." Her ears perked up from where they had been flattened against her hair, her expression changing from a scowl to a curiously excited one.
"My family? Where are they?"
"They should be back at HQ; we can take you there."
"Okay, I'll come along." She threw her "spear" back into the dumpster from whence it came and followed the Demolition Duo out of the alleyway.
Jak, Daxter, and the girl (who identified herself as Coco) made their way to HQ via the congested back ways and alleys. Needless to say, it was a long way over mounds of trash and such. After only half an hour, Coco started lagging behind the Demolition Duo. Jak noticed this and stopped briefly, not turning around as he spoke.
"Keep up, this way still isn't safe," he called over to her.
"Well I'm tired. Isn't there a quicker way with less trash?" she moaned miserably.
"There is…" Jak started but was interrupted by an angered Coco.
"Then why…" She started asking in fury before Jak finished his thought.
"…if you don't mind being shot at, blown up, and/or killed in some other way." Coco shrank back slightly in fear.
"Oh, I don't mind going this way." Jak and Daxter smirked at each other. However, their moment's joke was interrupted by the appearance of several dozen OKGs, around twenty KG Deathbots, and two Blastbots. Coco hid behind Jak, peering around his broad back at the enemy warriors.
"Aghh, do something Jak!" Daxter screamed. Jak looked down at his Eco Rifle, it was nowhere near as powerful as his Morph Gun or Gunstaff and even further from being able to take out all those things. Just when he thought the three of them were all dead, a blast of gunfire from an airship destroyed the Blastbots, the blast from which destroyed all the other Deathbots. Then, a ball of electricity broke apart the guard formation, one from a Peacemaker rifle. The owner of said Peacemaker leapt down from the Hellcat cruiser, followed by a brawny, dark furred Bandicoot.
"Hel-lo Cherries," the large, dark skinned man boomed.
"Sig!" they cheered in recognition of their friend.
"Crunch!" She ran into the large bandicoot, hugging him tightly.
"Well, it looks like you found your family," Jak observed. She shook her head.
"No, my brother's still missing."
"He's probably back at HQ with one of the others," he assured her comfortingly, leaping onto the turret of the Hellcat.
Back at HQ, Jak, Daxter, Sig, Coco, and Crunch met up with Torn and the black dragoness he had rescued from some other OKGs. She introduced herself as Cynder, she and her boyfriend Spyro were teleported in the same way as the Bandicoot family. Ironically enough, it seemed that Spyro was a hero like Crash was and, of course, so was Jak. Whoever had done this to them was after the heroes, for what reason was unknown. At that moment, a woman with red hair and a man with sleek blonde hair walked in.
"I lost my objective. It was an orange furred creature, like that girl over there except male." Coco's eyes started watering.
"And I lost my objective. He was a purple lizard type thing with red wings." Cynder hung her head. Daxter leaned in to whisper into Jak's ear.
"This entire thing sounding familiar to you too?"
"Too familiar." Unlike Daxter, Jak said this aloud.
"What was that?" Jak turned to the two previously unnoticed people in the room, a green old man and a young woman with blue hair.
"It's just like the way we arrived in Haven."
"Then, if it is so much like it, those two heroes will have been taken to the old Palace Prisons."
"But Jak, if they're there, do you think that whoever's behind all this will do…that?"
"I don't know, but if they are planning on it, then they just made themselves my prime target." Jak nodded to Ashelin who gave a returned nod of comprehension. She patted Coco's shoulder.
"Don't worry, we're gonna get your brother out of there," she indicated everyone around them, "all of us are."