Chapter 27: New Mission

Date: April 18, 3658

Location: Wasteland City Ruins

When Jak, Daxter and Annalina made their way to the surface, the bright light caused Jak to squint her eyes slightly. Pulling her goggles over her eyes, Daxter followed suit. The two best friends lowered themselves to the ground and began to search for any nearby enemies. Annalina noticed their behavior immediately and took out her pistol, the weapon charging its power cells instantly. Jak waved Daxter over to take the left as she took the right, the two quickly scanning the area for both sky pirates and metal heads. Seeing neither, Jak waved Annalina her way. The three then made their way back to the hopper where they saw Sig's monster of a truck waiting for them. The dark skinned elf quirked a single brow at the glowing being that was walking in between the two friends.

"Well chilipeppers, it seems you found something down in that shaft," he said with a nod at the obvious warrior between them.

"This is Annalina, she's a precursorean warrior who was on ice down below," Daxter explained before approaching Sig. "Uh, hey, big guy? Can I ride wit ya?"

Jak rolled her eyes. "He doesn't like how I drive," she explained as she walked over to her ride.

"I don't mind," Sig said with a smirk. "We have a job ta do anyways Cherry," he said causing Daxter's ears to twitch.

"Do I wanna know?" he asked with a suspicious tone towards Sig who chuckled.

"Probably not," he said with a deeper chuckle.

Daxter gave a deep groan. "Whatever. As long as I get ta shoot somethin' I'ma be happy," he said as he jumped up onto the turret that was attached to Sig's rig. "What we killin'?"

"Metal heads," Sig stated simply before flooring the pedal to the metal and leaving Jak in a trail of dust.

Jak chuckled when her comm unit suddenly gave a sound. Answering the beeping sound she saw the image of Bruter appear. "Jak, I met with him. He has a proposition for you," the purple furred lurker stated causing Jak to look at him with shock.

"What is it?" she asked as she watched Annalina climb onto her rig.

"He needs you to get rid of some bad guys for him," the lurker merchant stated excitedly.

"Pirates?" she asked.

Bruter shook his head. "No," he stated. "Aeropans."

Jak looked at the device with a quizzed look. "Uh…" she began as she tried to think of where she had heard that name.

"They is bad guys!" Bruter yelled into the comm unit. "They the ones that created DWP. Lady Ashelin looked up the information on them for me long time ago," he stated. "They experimented on Bruter's clan. They killed many, long time ago, before Baron Praxis came into power."

Jak could feel Adriana begin snarling. It was true that because of Praxis' experiments that Jak had gone from male to female, but the experimentation had left her with tormenting dreams and with a fractured mind. She was under no illusions that she was possibly going insane, very slowly and that Adriana may one day become the dominant mind. It was her greatest fear. "To be able to create some chaos to the people truly responsible for what's happened to me, sounds like some fun." Annalina looked at her with a questioning looked caused Jak to chuckle. "How far am I to go?"

"Far Drop," Bruter answered. "I'll send you the coordinates," he said before smiling. "Good luck!"

Placing he unit back into her pack, she started the engine and smiled at the other woman. "Now to go get a ship or a cruiser," she said with a wicked smile. "Whichever I find first." With that said she pulled the release lever and went flying across the desert and was rewarded to hear the screams of a very worried and frightened Precursor as she pressed the button that accelerated their speed and sent them flying faster than ever before. The hopper did what it was named for and hopped over the large gaps and canyons that were between them and Spargus City.

Location: Wasteland Desert

Daxter screamed as another pterodactyl type metal head suddenly dive bombed them as Daxter shot the turret when another bomb from the creature was sent towards them. 'This is when having a flying girlfriend would come in handy!' he mentally screamed as he swore to never get into a vehicle with Sig again when he said they were going to shoot metal heads. These weren't metal heads, these were mutants! Another stegosaurus type metal head fell to the ground which caused the canons on its back to explode as the eco inside became unbalanced.

"Woo-hoo!" he cheered as the ninth monster finally fell dead.

"Good job cherry!" he heard Sig praise him and felt that warm feeling of having done something good fill his chest. "You've been practicing."

"Jak's idea," he stated with a bright smile. "Tessie poo has been helpin' when she can too." He smiled as he got another metal head monster in his sights. "My friends are great. They wanna make sure ole Orange Lightning is in fit condition talked kill monsters."

Sig chuckled. "So, how serious are things between you and the King's kid?" he asked, Damas having wanted to ensure the two were serious and not just playing around until somebody got hurt.

"Eh." Daxter began. "Well, I'ma very serious. Love her." He tapped his chest above his heart. "I'd die fer her and she fer me," he snapped his fingers. "We're that serious big guy."

Sig gave him a nod as the young man climbed off the turret and into the passenger seat. "Good," he finally said as Daxter finally got comfortable.

"Wake me when we get there," he stated. "I'm beat." With that Daxter fell asleep in the seat next to Sig as the wastelands drove them back to Spargus.

Location: Precursor City Above Spargus

Ze'dura wasn't just the smartest A.I. ever created, she was the mother of all Precursor based A.I.'s. Being nearly a hundred percent sentient, she could create her own army of A.I.'s in blink of an eye. Each and every one she'd create would be thousands of times more intelligent than a Single organic being. However, just because she could do this, didn't mean she would. She wanted to ensure that her creators and the other organics on Gaia survived. Unlike most A.I.'s, she'd learned the concept of love; no matter how impractical the emotion was, it was an emotion all organics shared and something she desperately wanted to know herself.

While thinking of this, she was also think and analyzing the energy waves around the planet. Frowning she found that near an old outpost where one of the world eco cores were, the energy output of the eco core was strangely non-existant. Confused and worried that this could unbalance the other eco cores, she began to run a diagnostic.

As this happened, Ze'dura encountered a warning that one of the old cryogenic facilities had just activated. Looking at the number from the cryogenic vessel, she found her eyes widening. "Commander Annalina is awake," she muttered to herself. In an eighth of a second she began to look for the contact information with Mar and his facilities to see which ones had been reactivated. Finding the nod in less than twenty seconds. She connected the old conduits that would allow her to transfer her consciousness to the facility that Mar was currently in. Her consciousness brushing against another's for less than a second before being allowed entrance.

The holo pedestal next to the dark precursor warrior suddenly became active. "Commander Mar!"

Mar had been resting his mind in meditation when the yell of a strange voice brought him back. "Who-" he began before recognizing the avatar on the pedestal. "It can't be. Ze'dura!" he said with excitement. It had been years, even more so that before he went to sleep, that he had seen her. "Mother of A.I. how is it that you live?" he inquired.

"There will be time for that later," she said waving her hand at him. "I knew if she was awake, that you must be too."

"Who?" he asked in confusion, thinking he was the only to be awake at the moment.

The A.I. gave him a great wide smile, something she had discovered Daxter did a lot when around the Jak girl. "Commander Annalina is awake and is headed towards my facility." She watched Mar's eyes widen, the organic one doing a better imitation of shock than the mechanical one.

Mar turned quickly looking for the second holo pedestal. "Kella!" the blue A.I. appeared looking worried.

"Yes?" she asked. "Looking towards the second A.I. she gave a soft smile. "I thought I felt somebody open an access door into this facility."

"You let her in?" he asked.

"She gave me the password," she stated. "Now why did you yell at me?" she questioned him, sounding slightly annoyed.

"How much longer until the others awaken?" he asked, hoping it would be over long.

"Major Eagan just woke up fifteen minutes ago and is beginning to look through the history of the planet since he went to sleep. Miri and her twin Zakary, are both still sleeping. I can't seem to awaken them." she frowned. "Their brainwaves are normal. They're just asleep." She cocked her head as she looked at him. "Why Commander?"

Deep blue eyes looked out into the darkness of night as the new star appeared in the sky. "Because my friend, Anna, is now awake." He closed his eyes before saying ominously, "We don't have much time left."

M-Angel: Well, this time I had a two month hiatus. Perhaps this story will get done by 2020. Lmbo! Okay, I promise to update it a bit more often. I swear I will! ^_^

xoxoangii: 2020.. 2030 I'll still be here, I hope you guys will be too. Lol!