Author's Note: Hellooooooooo Jak and Daxter Fanfiction! I recently decided to move this story from Game X-Over Fanfiction with the advice of CadeXHybrid (check out his story: BandiChron: Legends United in Crash Bandicoot Fanfiction, it's awesome) so this story can get more attention. So enjoy, Geek out.
Chapter 6:
Fight for Crystals
Through many dangerous quests, battles, shoot-offs, and escapades the Heroes were able to amass a collection of Crystals and Gems along with the help of their new allies Kendra and Craig. Although Jak and Spyro were wary of the newcomer to each of their groups, they still pressed on and fought side by side with them. Jak stopped listening to Coco's Dragon Ball Z references eventually and enjoyed more missions without fights to the death. And among all of this, Crash steadily grew more and more in love with Kendra in spite of Spyro's warnings.
Both Hellcats sailed towards some of the ruins on the middle island, their agreed meeting point. Jak's group came out first and approached the middle of the platform as Crash's group got out eventually and joined them.
"You got all the Gems?" Jak inquired to Crash as he displayed the bag full of Crystals to show his group's work was done.
"Yes I do," Crash grinned cockily and set his bag of Gems next to Jak's bag of Crystals. As their exchange was made, neither noticed Kendra's eyes go blank for a moment then back to normal as she shook her head. However, everyone noticed as a giant mech suit flew up next to the ruins and fired missiles at the group of Heroes. Everyone dodged out of the way in time and got out of the way for the three Heroes to fight; Crash's fists glowing with Gem power, Spyro's mouth full to the brim of Dragon Magic, and Jak's palms lit up with Yellow Eco. Crash started spinning and launched rapid fire white blasts at the mech's weapons. Jak followed after with several Yellow Eco blasts that burnt the newly exposed mechanics. Spyro finished off the mech with a large blast of Purple Energy, causing the mech to fly off in different parts. However, one of these parts, an especially large one, soared towards them while flipping rapidly. The thing rolled as it landed and bounded up as a smaller but tougher mech. It pounded towards the Gems and Crystals at an extreme speed until something caught it with a powerful blow. Jak charged more Red Eco in his sword and once again struck at the mech, only to be blocked. Several more of Jak's attacks were blocked until the mech got an opening and struck Jak so that he flew several feet. Blue Eco sped Jak back towards the mech and aided him as he leapt and performed a crushing overhead strike to the mech. The thing crashed to the ground, then looked forwards and reached to grab the two bags. Jak leapt up before it could do this and stabbed the Eco Sword through the mech's windshield. Apparently some important machinery had been critically damaged as the mechanics began to squeal weakly and flopped to the ground. A plump, ginger haired cyborg leapt out of the mech and dashed away as Jak gave pursuit. The man quickly hit something on his wrist so that he disappeared just as Jak attempted to tackle him.
"Damn it," Jak swore and pushed himself to his feet. Crash nodded and gave Jak a thumbs up while Spyro just smiled. The man sighed and pushed his sword into his sheath then approached them all. He heaved up the two bags and proceeded towards the Hellcats until someone shouted: "Stop right there!" in a voice that sounded false. Turning around, Jak saw Kendra had pulled a very large laser gun out of somewhere and was now pointing it at the rest of the group save Crash and Spyro. Her eyes had gone blank but her commands were clear.
"Put the bags down and back away or else I will kill them all," she said emotionlessly. Jak grudgingly obliged once he had calculated that it would be impossible to stop her. She smiled falsely and ran to pick up the bags but was struck down before that could happen. The obviously controlled bandicootess turned over to see that Crash had her pinned down. He grabbed her head and shook it.
"Kendra, snap out of it, I know that Cortex is controlling you through some kind of chip," he said with surprising softness. She slapped Crash hard across the face so that he rolled off and grabbed the bags before running off. Crash stared after her desperately, wanting to stop her but not to hurt her. Aku-Aku flew towards him.
"Use the power of the Gems Crash, my power will not harm the pure!" he called. Crash threw a ball of white energy hesitantly and watched as Kendra fell down again. She got up again, this time facing him and took out her gun to shoot him. Crash dodged the laser blasts and returned fire with his fireballs. Kendra attempted to block with a shield built into her gun but was knocked down again as the shield proved insufficient. Crash took the opportunity to rush forward and pin her down yet again before she could get up. He focused hard and drove Gem Energy through her body. The bandicootess went rigid for a minute then flopped down unconscious, closing her eyes and curling up tight. Crash picked her up and held her in his arms as he walked forward. Jak stomped behind him and caught the bandicoot by the arm.
"How do you know it's safe?" he demanded. "What if she's still controlled?" Crash shrugged the man's furious expression away and continued towards the Hellcats.
"I've just got a feeling, you know?" He leaned Kendra up against the wing of his Hellcat and proceeded to waft a half of a Wumpa fruit (after biting off the other half) under her nose. Kendra moaned and opened her eyes slowly. She smiled as she saw Crash looking over her and hugged him.
Kendra: "Crash, why does my head hurt?" she asked softly. "Did you take out whatever it is that Cortex must have put in there?" Crash nodded and smiled again to cheer her up despite her newly forming tears. "Crash I'm so sorry; I should have fought that thing's awful power and told you." She looked up and saw his irresistible smile and smiled back as it earned her to. "Just so you know Crash, I'm not a complete ditz like that control chip made me seem," she giggled. Crash helped her up.
"Hey, that's good. I like a girl with a good head on her shoulders, why else do you think I keep Coco around?" he laughed as Coco stuck her tongue out at him. Jak and Spyro seemed slightly satisfied that the threat was removed and allowed small smiles to cross their faces.
"Come on," Jak said eventually, "let's get back to the airship. I believe there's a shield we need to blow up." And just like that, everyone followed Jak towards the ships and through them towards Brio's airship.
Author's Note: How about some welcoming reviews?