Ch2

I didn't know how long Jak was gone for, but I couldn't hear any screams from the position I was currently in. It must have been at least a half hour until Errol came back with his guards. "Looks like it's your turn, freak!" he grimaced, opening the cell doors and having his guards take me by the arms.

I knew resistance in front of Errol would just get me a gun smack to the face, so I followed them to the room where Jak was and got in the chair... it was just as menacing as I remembered it to be from the game. "Strap her in," Errol commanded, the guards doing just that as I heard approaching footsteps from the walkway behind Errol. "B-Baron..." I gulped as Errol moved to show the intimidating figure of Baron Praxis.

"So, commander. I see that you have a slight oddity here," he smirked, looking at me with his evil eyes. If I wanted to resist now, it'd be way too late to do so. "Start the dark warrior eco injection!" he said to Errol. "Dark eco injection process initiated," said the computer from above me, the large needle getting closer to my body. Then it happened. The dark eco entered my body.

But the reaction of this happening wasn't pain at all... it actually... tickled! I couldn't hold in my laughter as I was moving around nonstop, unable to control my voice from the eco entering my body. "Er... this is new..." Errol said, surprise in his face. I couldn't stop laughing as the eco kept entering my blood stream pump after pump. "Why does she not feel pain? Could it be?" Baron Praxis gasped. The eco stopped being pumped into me and I caught my breath.

I had to breathe in and out for awhile until I could finally stop giggling and tingling. The straps were then removed from my body and I quickly felt somewhat lighter on my feet. I took the chance and got up, jumped off the chair and landing right where Jak found his escape route, shocking Errol and Praxis. "Catch ya later, suckas!" I laughed, running away and finding amazement in myself for being able to jump that far.

I'd never been a jumper before or that athletic, but... with the usually destructive dark eco in my bloodstream, it actually made me just those things! I ran out of the prison in record time and made it outside, noticing that a fight had just occurred right there. "Something's... happening to me... something he did! I can't control it!" said the voice I wanted to hear the most right now.

I was in the cutscene where Jak saved the kid and Kor! Once the cutscene finished, I followed after Jak without a sound and made it to the Underground entrance right by him and Daxter. "Hi. We're looking for a guy named Torn. Kor sent us... um... are you Torn?" Jak asked as Torn got in his face. "Maybe this guy's a mute, like you used to be," Daxter said to him. "New faces make me nervous," Torn smiled over to me quickly and then looked at Jak. "Word is you guys are wantin' to join the fight for the city. You know picking the wrong side could be... unhealthy!"

Jak looked at his gaze but noticed me all the same. "We want to see the shadow," he said, pulling me closer and whispering to me, "what are you doing here?" he whispered quickly. "I escaped just like you." "Not likely," Torn smiled when we did this. If you want to join something, why don't you two and your pet join the circus?" Daxter was about to say something until Torn pulled out his machete. "Unless you got the fur, for a really tough task. Steal the Baron's banner from the top of the ruined tower and bring it back to me. Then, maybe we'll talk."

When that was all said and done, I followed Jak over to the zoomer and noticed that it was a single seater. "Um... of course, huh?" I asked, Daxter just then looking at me for the first time. "Hey! Who are you?" he asked in his annoying voice that made Navi from Zelda seem like a pushover. "I'm Alice by the way, Mr. Fuzzy" I groaned when he said that. "What?! My name is Daxter!" he exclaimed. "Whatever," I smirked as Jak hopped onto the zoomer. "I'll walk to the location, okay?" I smiled, rushing past the buildings with an aura of dark purple emanating from my body. Jak must have seen this because he came after me in the zoomer and actually beat me to the entrance first.

"You have it too?" he exclaimed as I got there as well. "Yeah... but for some odd reason, it didn't hurt me at all! In fact, I couldn't stop laughing from the tickling it gave me!" "Wait a minute! You got dark eco pumped in you and you got tickled by it?! I can't believe that to be true!" Jak exclaimed as we got into the entrance to dead town. "Well it is. I escaped the prison much faster than you as well... for some reason, it seems to have made me more agile and quick." "Like blue eco?" "Um... yeah!" I said, trying to smile at him.

"So how did you escape?" Daxter asked me. "The moment the Baron and Errol let my restraints loose, I jumped up and ran away. They can try all they want, but they can't match my speed when this stuff is in me!" I smirked. "So... you survived a meeting with the Baron, eh?" asked a voice I didn't expect to hear when we got past the security walls and into the actual ruins. Torn was just standing there and had a smile on his face. "It's not polite to eavesdrop on a lady's conversations, you know!" I growled at him as I felt a single jolt of... something leave my body and enter Jak's.

"Whoa!" Jak gasped as I jumped. "Heh. Looks like the stories I heard were true then..." Torn smirked. "What stories?" Daxter asked. "According to my spy, she said that you guys are dark warrior experiments... with the exception of the rodent." "HEY!" Daxter yelled. It was quickly muffled by Jak's hand as we proceeded forward and I got an eyeful of the stone tower. "Okay... time to see if this stuff makes me better at climbing towers..." I said, trying to put off my fear of heights for a second as we moved onward.

"So how did you and Jak get to know each other?" Daxter asked as we took out some small, but annoying green frog things. "I was his cellmate for a single day and it just happened to be the same day as today," I smirked, knowing by the moon in the distance that it was at least 9 pm. "And... she kinda cried when she got there..." Jak said. I flicked his ear in retalliation. "Don't blame me for being terrified of cops! I've had a bad rap with them where I come from," I frowned. "Wait... where you come from? There's more than just Haven?" Jak asked.

(Crap! I just gave away something huge!... Gotta think up a lie quick!) "I actually came from a different world... as you can see from my ears," I frowned. I didn't lie too much, but I didn't want to say anything that could hurt the story at all. "Really? From another world? We are too!" Daxter exclaimed. (If only you knew how stupid you sound right now, Daxter...)

We then started climbing the tower which was pretty easy for the both of us to be honest. With the dark eco in my body, I was able to jump from the platforms with ease and landed so softly on the crumbly parts that they didn't even fall below me. Jak was smart, however, and knew to move the moment he touched those tiles. We soon made it to the top and Jak and Daxter grabbed the banner... only for the whole tower to start falling behind us. I jumped immediately and grabbed Jak and Daxter as they fell. I then did a bit of acrobatics on the falling rubble and finally fell on the ground feet first with the duo right by me. The tower fell behind us, never to be used again. "Yeah... I guess you guys are in." Torn said.