After getting everything from the Mountain Pass as well as defeating the Lurker that was going to detonate the pass, we got a total of 2 more Power Cells in the process, meaning we had a grand total of 70 in our pockets! We then proceeded to the hut and we immediately saw it looked to be wrecked and trashed, but we did still hit the switch.

"OGH ACGACK! I hate the tingling that always happens after..." Samos groaned as he then looked around with us. "HOLY YAKOW! The Red Sage's lab looks even worse than the Blue's!" he said, me then hearing a chortling happen from above, me looking up... and gasping. Why? Because it was Gol and Maia... and they were holding my little sister! But get this: she was even LITTLER than before! She looked to be about a foot tall!

"I wouldn't exactly say that, Samos. The Red Sage barely put up a fight at all," Gol said, which I growled at him.

"Let. Her. Go," I growled at him angrily as Samos looked at them.

"Gol?! Is that you?! You've really gone off the deep end, and you too, Maia! I told you that the Dark Eco would affect you both!" Samos growled as I then grabbed some Yellow Eco from the molten rock from nearby and filled it into my fists.

"I'll say it again. Let. My sister. Go," I growled, Maia then smirking as she then proceeded to tilt her head back, open her mouth... and before she could even THINK about doing what I knew she was testing me with, I used some Blue Eco from a water bottle I had on my bag to force my little sister out of her grasp and hide her in between my cleavage, which got Maia to growl at me.

"You little bi-" she was about to shout before I then used the Yellow Eco to force a blast of sand to go directly for her eyes. "GGGAAUGH! MY EYES! IT BURNS! IT BUUURNS!" she shrieked in absolute pain, which Gol then growled at me angrily.

"You may have beaten us thus far, you little, short-eared nuisance, but we plan to rule the world and reshape it with Darkness! I'm sure Samos would know what I mean," Gol smirked as he produced some Dark Eco and put it onto Maia's eyes, which healed them... since they were both mutated.

"Not the silos!" Samos gasped.

"Yes! The silos, filled with Dark Eco untold! Once we unleash them onto the world, we can mold it and recreate it to be exactly what we want!" Gol smiled as I then spoke up.

"If you have the dark eco touch anything that it hasn't touched before, it's going to either kill it or make it evil! You should know this, mister Dark Eco Sage! Or have you always been this insane?!" I asked as I then hocked up a loogie, spat it into Maia's eyes and then activated Blue Eco to zap them, her shrieking as her eyes literally burned!

"THAT DOES IT! You will be the first that we kill when we rule the world!" Maia shrieked in pain as she and Gol then retreated, and Daxter then connected the dots.

"Wait... WAIT! THAT was Gol? The same Gol that's supposed to change me back?! GOL is the one trying to kill us?! I'm doomed," Daxter frowned, me then picking my sister from my cleavage and her literally shivering in fear.

"Jilly, what are you doing here? And at only a foot tall?" I asked, her sniffling as she hugged me as best she could. She was actually still the same age as from before I was warped here, but why was she at such a tiny height?

"It was so scary! I-I was j-just going to a friend's house... t-t-then, a weird light shined on m-me... a-and then, I appear in those two's home... t-they threatened to eat me! I don't want to ever leave your side again!" she said with tears in her eyes, me smiling as I hugged her close, me then looking at the others with seriousness.

"Okay, new rule. From now on, we need to travel in teams. So that also means that Keira will travel with one of us while Samos travels with another. We need to stick by each other, so we don't get caught off-guard. Gol and Maia were serious with those threats, since Maia was hoping to snack on Jilly. I'll keep watch over her and Keira while Jak and Dax travel with Samos. We need to find more Power Cells and Precursor Orbs in order to get to the citadel, because I'm fairly sure that the Zoomer's heat shield wouldn't be too good in an active volcano at its current level," I said, Keira nodding at that.

"I agree. And since we're stretched for time with their threat, we also need to up its speed. I think we'll need a total of 90 Power Cells to complete the setup. I can work on it's design while we travel together, I just need protection," Keira said, me nodding at her.

"And I'll be that protection. It would've been Jak, but that might distract the both of you," I said, which Jak blushed at and nodded at.

"C-Can I have something to eat? I'm hungry..." Jilly asked from my cleavage. I then proceeded to give her a dessert that I saw was on the shelf, it being a chocolate cake slice. It did have a bite taken out of it, but Jilly would eat anything that was sweet. She proceeded to eat as much as she could as we proceeded to split up. As for where I went first, it was to the Oracle, where I looked at him and he started to speak.

"THE DARKNESS IS GREAT, AND IT WILL CORRUPT ALL THAT TOUCHES IT... ONLY THE LIGHT WITHIN CAN PUSH IT BACK. I SENSE YOU HAVE THAT VERY LIGHT, FEMALE WARRIOR. BRING ME 120 PRECURSOR ORBS FOR EACH POWER CELL... AND IF YOU CAN ANSWER MY RIDDLE, I WILL GRANT YOU SAGEHOOD IN THE WAYS OF GREEN ECO," the Oracle said, me smiling at that, but Keira looked at me in surprise.

"Green Eco sage hood? Is he talking to me, Jilly, or you?" Keira asked.

"I WAS SPEAKING TO THE TALLEST ONES OF YOUR TRIO," the Oracle said, which made my sister mad.

"HEY! I wasn't born this way you know?! I want to be normal size again!" she pouted from my chest.

"IN THAT CASE, IF YOU, FEMALE WARRIOR WITH THE LIGHT WITHIN, CAN ANSWER 3 RIDDLES IN A ROW WITHOUT ASSISTANCE, I WILL GRANT SAGEHOOD TO YOU, THE GREEN ONE, AND I WILL ALSO USE MY ANCIENT POWERS TO RETURN YOUR LITTLE SISTER TO NORMAL HEIGHT."

I immediately nodded at this challenge. "I accept. Anything to help my sister," I said, her smirking at that. And then, I saw that Keira tried to talk... but her volume had been completely muted, same with Jilly. I guess even the oracles had some strengths to work with.

"VERY WELL, HERE IS THE FIRST RIDDLE. I STAND STILL, BUT YET I STILL MOVE FORWARD. WHAT AM I?"

"A clock," I smirked.

"THE NEXT RIDDLE. WHEN I AM LARGE, THE OCEANS SWELL. WHEN I AM SMALL, THE WATER RUNS DRY."

"The moon, obviously!"

"NOW, FOR THE FINAL RIDDLE. THERE WAS A MAN NAMED KOR WHO HAD 4 OLDER SIBLINGS. HALOW WAS 12, WOLO WAS 13, RUSH WAS 17, AND CHILLA WAS 19. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE YOUNGEST SIBLING?"

That one was actually a super tricky one... if you weren't exposed to trick questions. Also, I had to wonder if he was referring to the future... would those also happen to be Metal head leaders? And if so, were they nice or evil?

"Kor is the name of the youngest sibling," I smiled.

"INDEED, YOU HAVE PROVEN YOUR WISDOM AND YOUR ABILITY TO PAY ATTENTION. NOW, I SHALL HOLD MY END OF THE BARGAIN," the Oracle said as he then let loose multiple beams, me gawking at how one hit me, another hit Keira, and the final pulled Jilly out of my chest and we then felt it. I didn't know what went on with Keira and Jilly, but as for me, I felt as if I was one with mother nature herself... as well as the very air that we breathed... and I felt like I would get nutrients from sunlight, too! And right in front of me, her having been grown completely out of the tiny clothes she originally had, was my sister, her looking at me and then hugging me, which was easy to do, since she was only about 3 feet tall, being only 11 and all.

"So... does she need some spare clothes?" Keira asked, her volume having been returned, me nodding as I then gave her a spare set I had in my bag, her smiling at them as she put them on and then went back to hugging me.

"Thank you, big sister Dory... I'm never leaving your side again!" she sniffed, me smiling at her. She didn't even dare say that she wanted to go home, since she was like me. She and I were inseperable since the rest of our family got put into prison for horrible crimes.

"Just hop on my back and I'll piggyback you as we go explore for more Power Cells and Precursor Orbs," I said, seeing that Jak and Daxter had managed to go to the mine area and they got 4 Power Cells from the miners within, which we then proceeded to split up.

"I'll go to that mechanism over there, which, if we look up, I have a feeling it'll lead to the top of the mountain," I smiled.

"Lucky crocodogs, going for the snow. We already agreed to go to the Spider Caves, 2-1 against me!" Daxter complained.

"So the Oracle managed to return her to normal size? Thank the Precursors!" Samos smirked.

"And how!" Jilly smiled back as we then dispersed, with me going to the frozen peaks with Keira and Jilly while Samos, Jak, and Daxter went to the Spider Caves.


"I HATE THAT STUPID BRAT!" Maia shouted in absolute anguish at the fact that her eyes couldn't be completely restored from the Dark Eco after having been burnt badly by both the sand and the electricity of Blue Eco. The pain she was in was far worse than even child birth, she thought.

"I hate her too, sister. But we need to focus. And while you've been trying to heal, I overheard something interesting," Gol said as he looked at his sister with seriousness. "Apparently both the short-eared nuisance and the one with green hair are now Green Eco sages, fresh blood in Sagehood!" This definitely got Maia's attention.

"Wait, seriously?!" she asked as she rushed over and saw the sight in their Dark Eco vat, allowing them to see that the Oracle in the Volcanic Crater did give both Keira and the one known as Dora had actually done just that. And, apparently, the Oracle also returned the little snack to normal size, undoing the nasty effects they gave to her when they managed to bring her to this world using a strand of hair from Dora they found in the Boggy Swamp.

"All we have to do is single out one of them and we can get enough Eco from her to finish production on our plans! All will go according to plan!" Gol smirked.

"YES! And the world will be ruled by the darkness! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Maia laughed out loud before then looking at her hands and frowning. "Although... maybe I could try to find a bit of Precursor Technology to improve my eyesight before that happens, pretty please?"

"Very well. I'd recommend the mountain's citadel," Gol smirked, which Maia nodded at as she then vanished and proceeded to go to the mountain's summit, where she saw that the trio of women were currently beating up the Lurkers that were going to detonate a bunch of explosives, which Gol and Maia demanded they do to cover the land in snow as well as to try and find Dark Eco in the rubble, as they sensed some that had been frozen in the ice.

"Time to find some tech for my eyesight... it'd be so much easier if I wasn't partially blinded!" Maia growled angrily as she then tried to search around for something suitable... only to then realize something... problematic.

"HEY! There she is! GET HER!" shouted the short-eared human, which Maia gasped at. She then rushed away and tried to hide herself in the scenery, using Dark Invisibility to hide.

"Dangit, she got away!" Keira frowned.

"No, she isn't away. I can hear her breathing," Dora said, which made the Dark Eco queen gasp. How was she able to hear Maia's breathing? She was barely doing so! "Now her heartbeat is getting faster... isn't yellow eco amazing? It heightens the senses, y'know?" Dora asked, which Maia gasped at. Of course! She had to find an item imbued with Yellow Eco! Why didn't she think of it sooner? "Because you're corrupted by darkness, that's why."

"HOW DID YOU HEAR MY THOUGHTS?!" Maia asked in absolute shock and bafflement, whcih made Dora smirk at how Maia appeared shortly after.

"You were speaking with just your breaths, but you didn't realize it. I'd suggest you leave us be and do NOT try anything funny. I could very easily blast you to kingdom come for even thinking about eating my sister. Cannibalism is disgusting. Doing it to a kid that hasn't even gone through puberty is even worse!" And Maia growled at her words. Not because she hated them. But because, deep down, she knew that Dora was right. Maia then rushed off in anger, trying to search for a Yellow Eco item, which Keira frowned at.

"Why'd you let her go?"

"I'd rather take them both on at the same time. I like a challenge, and facing two beings fused with Dark Eco sounds like an even matchup," Dora smiled, which Maia growled at how she could still hear them... but then she realized WHY she could. She had accidentally, without realizing it, ran full-force into a Yellow Eco vent that had recently been opened up. And it managed to return her eyesight to normal!... But then she gasped as her eyes slowly reverted back to being very nearsighted and in pain... but... during a brief moment, before she had lost the eyesight... she felt... a sense of right and wrong, guilt, shame, and a piece of her that wanted her to not do these horrible things.

"That... was confusing... I want to feel it again..." Maia frowned as she then touched the yellow Eco vent again, her then gawking at how she felt those feelings again, this time, for way longer! And this time, after the effects dissipated... she felt... almost as if she were feeling sadness. "Just... just one more time..." And after this instance, Maia gawked at how she felt... intense shame, fully coming to terms of what had happened to her. The Dark Eco wasn't going to be good for anyone, her especially! She felt the knowledge of how Dark Eco had eaten away at her sanity... and she realized that she could beat it back... if only she had access to Light Eco... but that substance was supposedly a myth... maybe... maybe she could ask the Green Eco Sage himself? She just had to make sure that Gol wasn't around.

"Why not just ask me instead?" asked Dora, which Maia gasped and jumped at the sound.

"STOP DOING THAT!" Maia shouted at her.

"Then maybe stop speaking out your monologues with your breathing?" Dora asked, which Maia then growled at her after.

"What do you mean when you said to ask you? What could you do?" Maia frowned.

"I've been studying the books about Precursors for a very long time. I know Light Eco exists, and I know how to craft it. All I need is to get a bit of each of the four colored eco types and then I can combine them into Light Eco. Then all you'd have to do is get it in your bloodstream."

Maia looked at the small woman with disbelief. Could it really be so easy? She then noticed that the small human grabbed some Red Eco from nearby using Blue Eco, and then combined it with some Yellow Eco from the rocks and some Green Eco from the air... and after combining the four types togehter, Maia gawked at how there was a medium-sized ball of a pure white Eco... she felt as if she should hate it... but then the part of her that wanted to be freed wanted to touch it.

"I'll need you to either swallow this substance, or cut yourself so I can send it into your bloodstream and then heal it shortly after," I said, Maia looking at her in anger, but, against what she thought should be better judgement, just to make this tiny creature shut up, she took her long nails and cut herself on the palm of her hand, which gave the go-ahead for Dora to place the Light Eco into her bloodstream... and after healing it up with some of Keira's green eco, Maia gasped as she felt... liberated... but still angry.

"I... thank you... but I still hate you," she frowned.

"Same to you. So what are you going to do now?" Dora asked the darkened woman, now touched by the light.

"I... I don't know... I feel... back to my old self... but I still feel the darkness inside of me... it's telling me to hate you, but the Light Eco's slowly merging into me... what do I do?"

"I have an idea on how to do this... you'll act as a double agent. You'll pretend to be on Gol's side still, only to turn on him when the time is right. And then, you can be left to your own devices, so long as you promise to not do this crap again," I said, Maia frowning at this. She didn't want to hurt Gol... but the Light inside her knew that he was too far gone. He'd already become completely taken over by the Dark Eco... the only reason Maia was able to be saved was because she wasn't fully taken control of, but it was way too close until it would've been too late.

"Very well... but just letting you know, Gol expects me to capture one of the Green Eco Sages to complete work on the robot. I'll need to kidnap one of you to do so, but I promise I'll make the process slower to make the robot's production slowed down," Maia said, Keira smiling at that.

"Once we get 90 Power Cells and I finish the touches on my Zoomer, I'll be waiting by the mine carts. If you hurt me, though, then the deal is off," Keira said, which Maia nodded at. And after this, she finally disappeared, especially since the Light Eco within her had managed to restore her eyesight to normal, when combined with the Green Eco.