As Jak, Daxter, Ben, and the Mane 6 returned to Geyser Rock, another device followed them. It was bright blue, box-shaped, floated, and had two antennae sticking out of the top.

"What's that?" Daxter asked in confusion.

"It's a communicator Twilight and I invented!" Keira's voice called out from the grill on the front of the floating device. "With it, my father and I can give you advice at any time during your quest."

"Ingenious!" Rarity commented.

"Guys, I just had an awesome idea!" Ben said. "We could make handheld versions of these things and give them to the folks around town. We can have free-range communication for everyone!"

"I don't think Sandover Village is ready for that yet..." Applejack pointed out. "And I doubt Ol' Samos would appreciate it either."

As the group progressed along, gathering Precursor Orbs, they stumbled across a Power Cell just lying out in the open. It looked like a stone sphere with four segments cut out from it, orbiting it at a distance. Forcing the segments into their slots while hooked to a machine triggered the production of immense amounts of energy from the cell, though no one was certain how it worked.

"Lucky one was just lying around," Twilight murmured, grabbing it carefully in her magic and stowing it away.

Not far beyond that power cell, they came across a strange box. Breaking it open, they found a device that looked like an oversized fly, except somehow adorable.

"Hey, that's one of my Scout Flies!" Keira pointed out. "I've sent seven of them to each area to track down Power Cells!"

"How'd they get stuck in boxes like that?" Jak asked in confusion.

"The Lurkers must have captured them," Keira explained. "If you find them all in each area, one of them should have a Power Cell."

"I must say, the design is absolutely adorable!" Rarity cooed.

Fluttershy blushed. "I suggested the design to Twilight and Keira..."

As six other boxes were close by, Jak broke them open, retrieving the other Scout Flies and recovering another Power Cell. As they moved onward, they spotted a glowing blue cloud.

"That's Blue Eco, which contains the energy of Motion. You kids are unique in your ability to biologically utilize Eco in your environment." Samos explained. "While the girls you do it by funneling the Eco through their innate magic... I'm uncertain how Jak and Ben can do so. However, it's an advantage you all should take advantage of."

"Like what's in our jump boots!" Pinkie pointed out to herself, Applejack, and Rarity.

"Absorbing it from your environment will allow you to run fast, break boxes just by approaching them, and activate various Precursor artifacts by funneling the Eco you've absorbed into the device." Samos continued. "However, while you're able to hold Eco within your bodies, it won't stay long, and you can only hold one type of Eco at a time. Collecting an additional cluster of the same type of Eco will extend the time it will remain before it dissipates. Make sure to use it carefully, as I don't know if there will be any side effects from overusing Eco."

"I saw a door with Blue Eco symbols on it. Let's try that." Ben suggested.

The group gathered the Blue Eco and sought it out, gathering Precursor Orbs as they went. Reaching it, the Eco in their bodies flooded into the door, causing it to open.

"Awww man, I wish I could take time just using all the Blue Eco I can use!" Rainbow said.

"Rainbow, the last time you did that, you caused a sonic boom that resulted in a 2.5 magnitude earthquake." Twilight pointed out.

Rainbow blushed. "Yeeeeeaaaahhh...my bad."

Not far from the door was a vent in the ground from which Blue Eco could be seen pouring out of it.

"I don't know the term for that thing, but I know standing on it fills me with Blue Eco," Jak noted. "Made use of it back during Samos' training to gather supplies quicker."

"Me too!" Rainbow said before looking sheepish. "That was actually what caused the sonic boom/earthquake combo incident..."

"It's called a Blue Eco vent," Keira explained.

"How original," Daxter joked, rolling his eyes.

Finishing their explorations, the group found a total of 50 Precursor Orbs and 4 Power Cells. On their return to Samos' hut, he was waiting for them.

"I doubt 50, or even 100, Precursor Orbs will be enough to get all the Power Cells the villagers have...or even if the ones they have will be enough to power my daughter's invention. It would probably be a good idea to also visit Sentinel Beach to gather any Orbs and Cells you can find there."

"You can count on us!" Twilight smiled.

"As long as you're going, you might as well see to my Green Eco Collectors there. They've been clogged up again."

"Can do!" Applejack nodded.

"At least I can count on the girls to be helpful and dutiful...most of the time," Samos said, eyeing Rainbow and Pinkie in particular. "Now you kids have fun with your 'adventuring'...and GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!"

Laughing, the gang raced out of Samos' hut, heading into the city to begin their explorations. It would probably take a while to gather everything they needed, but they were determined to have fun doing it. After all, as Samos had pointed out...this was going to be a grand adventure, and they were certainly of an age to enjoy that.

"As long as I get pants at some point," Daxter grunted.

"I could always stitch you a pair, darling." Rarity offered.

"You're a lifesaver, Rares.

After a brief run through Sandover Village to collect the 50 scattered Precursor Orbs, free the seven Scout Flies to get the Power Cell they'd located, and talk to everyone in the village, the trio met back up on the village outskirts.

"Alright, what's the report?" Jak began as everyone laid out their questing notebooks.

"We currently have 100 Precursor Orbs and several leads on where to get more," Ben said.

"I talked to the Oracle and it has two Power Cells that it will let us have...if we make an offering to the Ancients of 120 Orbs each," Twilight said.

"The Oracle?" Daxter asked.

"That big stone mask statue at the top of the cliff."

"Farmer Knut gave me a Power Cell for herding his Yakows back into their pen," Applejack said.

"Uncle Nil will spare a Power Cell if we give him 90 Orbs." Pinkie smiled.

"Mayor Fuzbuk has two Power Cells for us. One if we contribute 90 Orbs to his re-election campaign, and one if we can fix the Eco beams in the temple in the Forbidden Jungle to give the village power again." Rarity said.

"And Dai the Artist's Muse has run off to Misty Island." Daxter pointed out, frowning as he recalled the place he got turned into his current form.

"He'll give us a Power Cell if we bring Muse back. However, the only way there is with Gar the Fisherman's boat, and we need his permission to use it" Fluttershy gulped. "...and he's in the Forbidden Jungle somewhere."

"Awww, don't be a chicken, Flutters!" Pinkie said, slinging an arm over her sister.

"So we can either go to Sentinel Beach to do what Samos asked or hit the Forbidden Jungle to see about getting more Power Cells," Ben summarized.

"More Power Cells sooner sounds better. I say we hit the Forbidden Jungle." Jak decided.

"I have a question," Daxter pointed out. "Keira said the Lurkers locked the Scout Flies in the boxes, right?"

Twilight nodded. "Yeah."

"How'd they do that in the village without anyone noticing?" Daxter demanded. "I mean, some of the crates were in people's houses!"

Twilight opened her mouth to reply but found no words as she put a finger to her chin in deep thought. She didn't have to think for long, as Keira suddenly spoke up on the communication device.

"Actually, that was my bad. I looked over the coding of my Scout Flies, and where it's supposed to say 'return to your box for retrieval', it instead says 'reconstruct your box for retrieval'. So once one of the Flies in a given area finds a Power Cell, all of them lock themselves in crates, and none of them will give up the Power Cell unless all seven in that area have been retrieved. Sorry about that."

"I think you should have come to me first with that, Keira." Twilight said dryly.

"You two are the first to work with tech like this," Jak pointed out. "Mistakes are bound to happen. The fact they work as well as they do is an achievement."

Rainbow rolled her eyes. "That definitely earned you brownie points with her, Casanova."

Jak just rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, the girls giggling and both Ben and Daxter smirking at him.

"Never thought I'd come back to this place," Ben said. "Remember when we got ambushed by all those Lurkers while camping?"

"Oooh yeah! Riding on them was so much fun!" Pinkie beamed.

"Pinkie, phrasing!" Twilight hissed.

Rarity had gone to talk with Gar the Fisherman, who was having a hard time catching fish. The Unicorn girl used her magic to take the relatively small net and scoop 200 pounds of fish, also extending her aura slightly outward into the river, using it to angle good fish into the net and push the eels away.

"Arrr, yer a lifesaver, lass! You can use me speedboat anytime and here's a Power Cell for yer troubles."

"Much appreciated, kind sir."

Meanwhile, Jak had taken a quick detour into the water to retrieve another Power Cell while Rainbow found a Lurker Machine that was redirecting the Eco Beam Mayor Fuzbuk had mentioned. Flying to the top of it, She broke the Lurker mirror, which caused a Precursor mirror to rise out of the ground. Using the controls, she lined it up on the next mirror. Following the Eco Beams, she flew up Precursor tower to the next mirror, finding the seventh Scout Fly in the process. Reaching the top of the tower, she collected another Power Cell...as well as opening a pathway into the Forbidden Temple.

"Hey, guys! I opened us a path!"

The group followed Rainbow into the newly opened pathway. After some carefully timed jumps across pits, they activated the Blue Eco controller in the depths of the temple, activating numerous Blue Eco vents scattered across the continent and gaining another Power Cell.

Using the Blue Eco also opened several new paths...leading them to a large plant with eyes on its flower and spiked vines waving about. Dark Eco could just barely be seen veining its body.

"Anyone got any industrial-grade weedkiller?" Ben asked. "Nobody? Okay, guess we're doing this the hard way."

"Stand back! This isn't gonna be pretty!" Twilight said, flaring her magic and creating a giant magic buzzsaw.

Fluttershy averted her eyes as everyone else watched in shock as Twilight chopped the giant killer plant into mulch in a vicious display so graphic, that I can't even begin to describe it.

"Problem solved!" The Alicorn girl proudly said as she walked back to everyone with a Power Cell in hand.

After that display of carnage, the group finished aligning the mirrors, restoring power to Sandover Village. They then turned to return to plot their next move.

As they passed through the village, Twilight, and Jak took a brief detour to collect a few Power Cells while Fluttershy flew off to talk with Ama the Birdwatcher. After a while, everyone soon met back up on the beach.

"Alright, that's three more Power Cells!" Rainbow cheered. "Are we awesome or what?"

"Miss Ama actually has a request," Fluttershy said. "She wanted us to push an orphaned egg down to where she can get to it, so she can take care of it."

"Sounds like the perfect side mission for you, Flutters." Ben said.

"I got one of the Oracle's Power Cells." Twilight said.

"And I got both the Mayor had." Rarity added.

"That brings us to a total of 16," Daxter muttered, looking down at his checklist. "Four more to get through Fire Canyon."

"Maybe we should get a few extra," Jak pointed out. "I saw the A-Grav Zoomer Keira was building, and I'm not entirely certain it'll hold all of us as is. We should probably gather all we can before giving them to Keira, just to be on the safe side."

"I mean, Twilight, Rainbow, and Fluttershy can fly..." Ben pointed out. "But then again, where does that leave the rest of us?"

The group headed to the beach next, Applejack splitting off to address Samos' request first, following the lanterns as the Green Sage instructed, collecting Precursor Orbs and Scout Flies as she went.

Meanwhile, the rest had come across several metal boxes that were too strong for them to break open. However, it just so happened that a Lurker had been throwing bombs at them, which Twilight and Rarity were able to use their magic to redirect to the boxes to break them open, collecting the Orbs contained therein.

When the trio approached a Power Cell that was just sitting out on the beach, a pelican swooped down and swallowed it.

"Oh dear!" Fluttershy said as she followed after the pelican. "Um, excuse me, sir, but I think that isn't food, and if it wouldn't be too much trouble..."

After a bit of coercing, Fluttershy got the Power Cell back from the pelican. Not far beyond, another Power Cell was collected from where it was lying on the beach, this time without any interference.

While Twilight and Rarity gathered a few Orbs from underwater with their magic, Jak and Ben gathered others hidden behind a waterfall. Later on, when they found an uncapped Blue Eco vent, Jak raced around to activate any Blue Eco-based tech around. This resulted in collecting several more Orbs, another Power Cell, and disabling the Lurker cannon that had been launching the bombs earlier.

Meanwhile, Pinkie had been messing around with some nearby seagulls just for fun, coming across another Power Cell and some more Orbs as she went. When the seagulls flew off the last time, their noise resulted in an avalanche, leaving another Power Cell visible further up the hills.

"Oooooh! Lucky!" The Earth Pony girl beamed.

"Ahm back, y'all!" Applejack said, having finished unclogging Samos' Green Eco Collectors, a Power Cell in hand.

"It's about bloody time!" Samos barked from the communicator.

"Don't be such a grumpy goose!" Pinkie giggled.

"Sheesh, he's such a skinflint!" Rainbow huffed.

Further along the cliff in question, they discovered the massive egg the old lady had mentioned.

"Everyone, we need to do this very carefully." Fluttershy insisted.

Nodding, Twilight began to lower it gently to the hay pile Ama had mentioned with her magic. After the old lady provided the Power Cell, the egg hatched...and the large blue, white, and yellow chick immediately imprinted on Fluttershy as its mother.

"Awwww, aren't you just a sweet little baby?" The Pegasus girl cooed.

"I'll take the little sweetheart back to the village. Thank you, deary." Ama said gratefully.

Afterward, the group found the last Scout Fly, getting the Power Cell the Flies had collected. After that, they returned to the village but a new dilemma had now presented itself.

"Okay, we have the 20 Power Cells we need to power Keira's Heat Shield, plus a couple extra." Daxter began. "We could go give them to her right now and continue our adventure, heading through Fire Canyon and getting to Maia and Gol so they can figure out how to change me back...or we could go back to the Dark Eco-filled island where I turned into this in the first place, risk all sorts of crazy further mutations for me or the rest of you, in the hope there might be enough Orbs and Cells there to make it worth our while."

"I think we already know what Jak's gonna say." Ben snarked.

"And the Sculptor's Muse is still on Misty Island." Fluttershy pointed out. "And the poor thing must be so lost and scared and hungry and..."

"Don't do that, please!" Daxter begged. "You know my heart can never take it when you act like a kicked puppy!"

Fluttershy giggled. "Sorry..."

"Well, Mr. Gar has allowed us to use his speedboat after I helped him with his fishing troubles." Rarity said.

"Now that's a motive I can get behind!" Daxter crowed. Jak chuckled in agreement as they headed for the speedboat, pausing long enough to give Uncle Nil the 90 Orbs he needed for his own adventuring, getting another Power Cell in return.

Did I give the NPCs from the Precursor Legacy names? Yes, yes I did.