Jak & Spyro: When Heroes Collide

dragonball06 · May 22, 2009 7:44 PM

Is anyone else commenting? That's what is keeping me going!
Chapter 16 for your enjoyment!

Ch16: Vin and the kid

As they all walked outside, Spyro spoke up, “Well…that was…interesting”
“Interesting my puny little antennae bro,” Sparx replied, “he was completely psycho!...not to mention disgusting.”
“Sparx, for once I agree with you,” said Cynder.
“Don’t say we didn’t warn you,” Daxter commented.
“Can we say you didn’t warn us well?” Spyro replied.

“Alright, let’s drop it guys…” Jak started. “Look…I have some errands to run for Krew, why don’t you guys go and help the Underground?”
”How?” Spyro asked.
“Samos tipped me this morning the kid is staying over at the power station with Vin, he wants someone to escort him to Kor at another Underground station on the other side of town.”
“How do we find this power station?” Hunter asked.
Jak pointed to the entrance to the port, “We passed it on the way here, just take a right when you enter the industrial area, then head up the ramp to the station door, tell Vin Jak and the Shadow sent you.”
“And when you introduce yourselves,” Daxter cut in, “Be sure to keep your distance, Vin’s a little…high strung.”
“Oh terrific…” complained Sparx, “More surprises!”
“We’ll do it,” said Spyro, “We’ll meet up with you again somewhere.”
“Alright, good luck you guys.” Jak finished as he walked away.

Cynder turned to Hunter and said, “You think you can fly one of those zoomers?”
“How hard can it be?” he replied.

(one minute later)

“AAAhhh!!!!” Was all that was heard as Hunter tried to keep the zoomer level and from toppling over, or driving into a crowd of people. As he drove down the port straight, he bumped into a metal wall which caused the zoomer to fly on it’s side. “Level it out! Level it out!” Spyro and Cynder yelled together. Hunter turned the steering wheel and it leveled out, but as he did he pushed the wheel causing it to descend. “PULL UP! PULL UP!” Everyone yelled as Hunter pulled with all his might to bring it up. The zoomer crashed into the ground and skidded 50 ft, sparks were flying as it stopped just before the entrance to the industrial area.

Everyone climbed and fell, dizzy from the merry-go-round of a ride. “No offense Hunter,” Spyro began, “but I’ll stick to the ground.”
“Ditto” said Cynder.
“Oh come on! Give me a break, I’ve never flown before in my life!”
“Nor will you again buddy,” said Sparx, “If you keep driving like that, you’ll be dead before you wind up in jail!”
Hunter just scowled at all this criticism on his driving skills, but he said nothing else, and led the way into the Haven city industrial. Spyro and Cynder made sure their capes covered their wings, and their hoods were concealing their faces. Hunter even pulled his hood up. They walked along the wall to avoid attracting too much attention. Spyro noticed some Krimzon guards scouting the area, and beckoned for everyone to duck behind a pillar until they passed. Spyro noticed that the pillar was only one of many that held up an elevated walkway which reached across the entire industrial area. He turned to the right and saw a ramp which led up to another walkway, which was attached to a large cylindrical looking structure. Spyro believed it was the power station and beckoned for all the others to follow. The Krimzon guard had departed and saw their chance. They walked casually towards the ramp, trying not to reveal themselves. Some people stared, but Hunter just waved them off. As they walked up, another patrol on a zoomer was flying nearby. They moved quickly out of his sight and along the walkway. Not too far up ahead, they noticed a door in the cylinder. As they approached, it opened…they wasted no time in walking inside.

The room was filled with extremely high tech equipment, there were gears turning, mechanisms revolving, and computers analyzing millions of lines of code. Of course Spyro and his friends couldn’t understand any of it since they had never been around technology before. There was a holographic spinning globe of electricity in the center of the room that caught Sparx’s attention. “oohh…shiny” he said as he flew over to it, trying to grab it.

“Wow, and I thought we had seen it all now,” said Cynder as she observed the metal structure.
Spyro called out, “Hello? Is anybody here?”

A twitchy voice called out, “Whose down there?…Are you business men?...Gasp! Are you eco collectors?...Please…Please…please don’t worry, I will have the bill paid by next week, just please don’t put in the juvy!!”

The friends exchanged bewildered faces and then Spyro spoke again, “We’re not eco collectors, Jak sent us, he said you had someone for us.”

“Oh…Your friends with Jak?...Phew!...What a relief, for a moment there I thought I was gonna flip out!”

“Too late by the sound of it” Sparx muttered.

“Hang on, I’ll be right down.” A humming noise filled the air, and Spyro and his pals looked up and saw another hovercraft descending from the ceiling. As it landed, the dragons got a glimpse of a man with spiky white hair wearing monocles and overalls…he seemed quite twitchy. “Sorry for the scare, but I have the whole eco grid to maintain and keeping it stable has not really…” he turned his head and got his first look of the dragons and the cheetah. “AAAhhhh!!!!....Stay back! Stay back! Stay back!” he cried as he dived down into the corner of his hovercraft.

“What we do?” Sparx asked.
“We won’t hurt you!” Spyro explained.
“Stay back! Don’t come closer monsters!” the twitchy man cried.
“Look, if we were here to hurt you, wouldn’t we have done it already?” Cynder enlightened.
“Oh? Allies? Friends?...Phew! Another relief, I thought I was gonna have a heart attack, hehe…so…who are you all?” he asked as he stood back up.
“I’m Spyro, this is Cynder, Hunter and Sparx…and you must be Vin.”
“Yep that’s right, mining foreman, city technician and mechanical genius!...or as some folks call me…mechanical nut.”
“I can’t imagine why.” Sparx said sarcastically. Spyro nudged him to keep him quiet.
“Sorry about that whole monsters thing, it’s just uhh…” he paused as he adjusted his monocles. “Well, I’ve seen a lot of crazy creatures in my day, but you…you take the cake.”
“Yeah, we get that a lot.” Hunter replied.
“We were told you have a kid who needs to be transported to the Underground, is he with you?” Spyro asked.
“Oh yeah! He’s uhhh…right here! Come on up.”
The dragons saw as he tried to pick something up from inside the craft.
“Sorry, he’s just a little shy.”
“Or he’s scared, with blackie here I’m not surprised.” Sparx babbled.
Cynder shot him a look, as well as did Spyro and Hunter.
Vin didn’t notice anything, but he finally said, “Here he is.”

Spyro and Cynder turned again and saw Vin pick up a short little boy with green tinted hair from out of the craft and set him on the ground, he seemed be about only six years of age. He seemed to be trembling in fear at the sight of the dragons. Spyro saw how scared he was, so he tried to say something.
“Hey there.” The boy took a step back closer to Vin. Cynder spoke, “Let me handle this.”
“Oh sure,” Sparx babbled, “Let the evil she-dragon of the dark take care of a little kid.”
Spyro and Cynder shot him a dirty look, Sparx saw the fury in their eyes and said, “Sorry…sorry.” Cynder turned her attention again to the boy, she walked up to him and told him, “It’s okay, we’re your friends, we don’t want to hurt you.” The boy remained frozen in fear. Cynder tried something else, she extended her paw to him, “Come on, it’s alright, we’ll keep you safe…Trust me.” The boy then stepped out a little bit from behind Vin, and started walking toward her. He slowly for her paw, and touched it with his hand. Everyone sighed with relief. Vin said, “Whew…well, glad that’s settled, now if you all don’t mind, I have a lot of work to do, replacing circuits, revamping the protocol matrix, repairing system linkage....” He kept stammering as he jumped into the hovercraft and flew up to his maintenance in the power cables. Sparx was giving the crazy sign, but no one paid attention.

The boy walked with Cynder up to Hunter and Spyro. They each gave him a pat showing their good intention. The boy for once actually smiled. “So you ready to go?” Hunter asked. He then grabbed Hunter’s leg. “Aww Hunter…I think he likes you.” Sparx taunted. Hunter just said, “Heh…I’ll take that as a yes.” Spyro and Cynder just smiled at each other trying to avoid chortling. Cynder then caught something out of the corner of her eye. The boy was wearing a necklace, with an amulet attached. It looked like two scythe heads circling each other against an shield shaped background. Cynder spoke to Spyro, “Look what’s around his neck, that must be the Mar amulet Samos was talking about.” Spyro looked and nodded in agreement. Hunter led them all out of the power station, with the boy at his heels.

MarioSpyro · May 26, 2009 5:14 PM

dragonball06 · May 30, 2009 4:25 PM

Thanks mario!

I'm getting a little slow with this story, I still have a good idea though how I want these two heroes to work out though, so don't get any ideas that i'm thinking of stopping this story or anything...nono...I'll just be posting a little slower then expected, because i have another idea for a story when Spyro meets a new extra-dimensional hero! (I'm not telling who it is right now though, that would ruin the surprise!) I will still finish this story, but i might not be as detailed as i have been with the rest of the chapters, but i want to get the best parts in, so you can imagine a great confrontation between the two, anyway, thanks to all the loyal readers for your support and my new website pals for your comments! I still have some writing to do!

dragonball06 · May 30, 2009 4:27 PM

I have chapter 17 posted to keep the story moving, enjoy!

Ch 17: Dodging the KG

“I hope Jak appreciates what were doing for him, dealing the Baron is enough, but all these crazy townspeople are too much to bear!” Everybody ignored Sparx’s complaint and walked to a stray zoomer that was seated against the wall. “There you go big guy” Cynder said as she helped the kid get aboard. He smiled back and so did she. Hunter climbed into the driver’s seat next to the kid. “Take it slow this time…okay?” Spyro asked Hunter. He rolled his eyes and said, “Yes sirrr…oh dear, I think this city is starting to rub off on me.” He started the engines as Spyro and Cynder hopped on the back with their hoods up. The zoomer lifted into the air and took off.

As they flew toward the slums very carefully, Sparx asked, “Hey pilot…do you happen to know where we are going?”
Hunter was silent for a long moment, then all that came out of his mouth was, “Well…..uhhh.” Spyro and Cynder shook their heads in irritation, as did Sparx. “Well Jak never told us that!” Hunter informed. “So were flying through a city with the Baron’s cronies watching everywhere, while flying with a kid that’s wanted as much as we are?!” Sparx shouted. “We’re toast.” But as he finished his whine, the kid pulled something out of his pocket and unfolded it. He showed it to Hunter. “What’s this?” he asked. “It looks like a map,” Spyro answered as he observed it. It was definitely a map for one of the city sections, the feature that stuck out was the red X marked near the upper right corner. It’s a map of the city slums!” Cynder exclaimed as she recognized it’s layout. The kid nodded saying she was right. “This X…it’s right near the Dead Town lock, that must be where we need to go for dropoff!” Spyro finished. “Way to go kid!” Sparx commented, “Way to pull one out of your hat! Or in this case…your pocket.” Hunter gripped the steering bar and said, “Here we go!”

As the zoomer rounded a corner, two figures watched them secretly from the elevated boardwalk…Krimzon guards, having seen all the unique passengers the zoomer was carrying, one of them sent out a signal on a com-link telling their friends the kid the baron is searching for was heading for the slums.

As the zoomer was entered the industrial plaza, Sparx spoke, “Does anybody else have the nagging feeling were being watched?” “We’re in a city full of people that are out after us Sparx,” Cynder answered. “Of course we do.” “That doesn’t mean their after us right now though.” Spyro followed. Suddenly, they heard a clank sound, like the sound of someone activating a rifle, or something erupting from the ground. Everyone turned around and saw a KG turbo cannon emerge from the metal walkway and equip it’s guns! “I think you spoke too soon brother!” Sparx cried as the cannon shot numerous red energy bolts from it’s guns. They both shot low, but Hunter took no chances and steered to the right, out of the cannons range. The kid held onto Cynder in fear, she protected him as Hunter drove the zoomer into the slums. Suddenly two KG air patrols turned up right in front of them, blocking the main narrow entrance. “I think they’re onto us.” Hunter said to Spyro next to him. “Then get us out of here fast!” Hunter responded by sharply turning right, nearly toppling the zoomer on his turn. The dragons both had to hang onto the kid, and the zoomer to keep themselves from falling out. The KG followed closely firing their cannons in attempt to stop them. One shot hit the left wing on the zoomer and clipped it off. The zoomer then started spinning out of control. “AGGGGGHHHHH! Make it stop!! Make it STOP!!!” Sparx yelled. Both dragons yelled Hunter’s name showing they agreed, they couldn’t hang on forever. Relying on his first experience in flight, Hunter fiddled with the steering wheel strongly and cautiously, and carefully steadied the zoomer. The KG were still closing in, and guards on the ground were also firing upward at the zoomer as it flew over their heads. “This is getting too dangerous! You guys need to get the kid out of here now!” Hunter yelled.
Cynder and Spyro looked at him puzzled, slightly unsure of what Hunter was asking.
“But Hunter, what about you!”
“Never mind me, I’ll lure them away, and this way at least they don’t capture all of us.”
The dragons opened their eyes wide, even though the gunfire muffled nearly every sound, they could still hear what Hunter had said, even though it was almost too much to hear.
“What! NO! We’re not going to have you risk yourself for us, not again!” Spyro replied with emotion.
“It’s my duty to protect you two, and if I can’t fulfill that, I don’t deserve to be a warrior.” He said as he headed the zoomer down an alleyway with the KG still closing and firing.
“Don’t say that, that’s not true!” Cynder cried.
“Listen, this next turn, I want you to jump, understand?”
“NO!”
“Listen! We need Samos’s help if we are to get home!...And to help us, he needs our help!...And how can we help him?”
Sparx and the dragons looked at each other with incoherent faces, while the kid stayed huddled on the zoomer floor, listening with dismal feeling. The dragons then looked at their cheetah ally and nodded. He nodded back and gripped the steering wheel. As they approached a large building mound, Hunter made a sharp turn disappearing around the corner. The KG kept their sharp gaze and followed. As they made the sharp right around the mound, they spotted the zoomer heading across the slum courtyard and toward Main town. They followed in pursuit of their target. But unknowing to them, on the left hand wall of a building, clung two strangely colored creatures. The purple dragon held onto the black dragon as she held onto the boy they were protecting. Their glowing dragonfly pal buzzed near their heads keeping his back as close to the wall as possible. All four of them watched as their cheetah ally and close friend disappeared from sight as he led the KG deep into the heart of Haven City.

dragonball06 · Jun 10, 2009 12:48 AM

Here's the next chapter! Please don't stop commenting! I'd like at least one comment so I can move to the next page at least.

Ch 18 The Soothsayers Vision

The dragons and the boy watched sadly as Hunter disappeared into the city’s depths, pursued by the relentless Krimzon Guard. Knowing there was no more they could do, they escorted the boy to a narrow ally near where the Dead Town lock was. There they met an old man named Kor, who presented himself as an ally of the Underground. After a brief introduction, Kor and the kid bid farewell to the dragons as they made they way stealthy back to the Underground hideout.

On their way back, Cynder held her head low, feeling great depression due to the fact Hunter may have fallen into KG hands. Spyro comforted her in any way he could, from nuzzling, to lifting her head up to gaze onto his face. She was beginning to feel a little better as they swooped down from the city rooftops to the Underground alley, where Jak was waiting.

“Well look what the bats dragged in,” Daxter stated sarcastically.

“Their dragons,” Jak corrected.

“Whatever”

“So, I take it the mission was a success?”

“Yep,” Spyro answered. “The kid is safe, he’s with Kor.”

“Great.”

“Hey!” Daxter suddenly stammered, “Where’s tall, freckled, and fur-faced?” Sparx was immediately throwing a cutthroat expression to Daxter. Spyro and Cynder hung their heads, knowing who Daxter was referring to. Jak saw their faces and asked, “What happened? Where’s Hunter?” There was a moment of silence until Spyro said, “We don’t know.” Jak and Daxter looked at each other, eyes widened. “The Krimzon guard were chasing us, until Hunter led them away.” Jak immediately felt anger, clenching his fists in rage against Praxis, he desired to end him now more then ever. “I’m sorry…” he began, “I’ve only known him since yesterday, but one thing I’ve already noticed, is that he is a strong fighter, I’m sure he can take care of himself…so try not to worry.” The dragons smiled and nodded.

Jak then said, “Come on, there’s someone I want you two to meet.”

“Who?”

“Someone who might be able to help you.”

The two dragons and Sparx exchanged encouraged looks, and immediately followed Jak to another parked zoomer. They took off and left the slums and headed for another part of town the dragons had not yet seen. It was linked to the industrial section, but the odd thing was it seemed rural, almost similar to the shops and buildings back in Warfang. Jak explained to them that this was the Haven bazaar. As they approached the yellow gate which was the entrance to the bazaar, Jak told the three of them, “You better get off right here, and follow me from on high, the Krimzon guard is everywhere in this section, and I know they will immediately spot you if you walk.”

“Alright, but what about you?” Spyro replied.

“If there’s one thing I know, it’s stealth.”

“Yeah right,” Daxter exclaimed, recalling how Jak busted out of prison setting off the entire security system. Jak ignored him and pulled over to a wall. Spyro and Cynder jumped out and flew up to the top, and from there jumped onto one of the bazaar shop rooftops. Sparx flew right behind them as Daxter and Jak climbed out of the zoomer and began walking through the bazaar. They leaped behind pillars which held up the aerial skyway through the bazaar whenever the KG came into sight. Above, Spyro and Cynder leapt from rooftop to rooftop, following Jak as inconspicuously as they could. Jak led them to a small plaza in the south corner of the bazaar. He walked up to a large brown tent in the far corner. As he approached the entrance hole, Spyro and Cynder leaped down next to him, with Sparx tailing. “We should travel by roof more often,” Spyro told Jak, “It’s more quiet” “Way to keep it steady compadres” Daxter remarked with a peace sign. Everyone looked at him bewildered. Jak just shook his head and walked into the tent.

It was incredible, so many different colored lights were illuminating from ancient relics and knick-nacks. Both dragons replied “Woah.” In the center of the tent sat an old woman seated in a cross-legged position with a large pail-like hat on her head. She was dressed in old robes, and just from the appearance of her, Spyro could tell she had probably been alive for many decades. She appeared to be in a meditative state. Sparx didn’t even care to notice, he just said, “Wow, freaky crib…hey what’s this?” he asked as he grabbed what appeared to be a feathered rope.
“SQUAWK!!!”
“Aaahhh!!” cried Sparx, letting go and flying back.
A parrot like creature dropped from the rafters and said, “Touch the tail feathers again bugsy, and you’ll be…squawk!...counting to two with your antennae!”
The parrot flew over the rafters and landed on the woman’s hat. Spyro and Cynder were speechless, whereas Sparx just shot him a sour face.
“Well Jak, it looks like you’ve brought more animals than usual…whereas one was bad enough!” The parrot narrow-eyed Daxter.
“Can it birdbrain!” Daxter shot back.
“Look Packer, we brought them here because we thought Onin might be able to provide some help, they’re trying to find their way back to their world.” Jak explained.
“Oohh…aliens you say? Well we see what Onin has to say about that.” The bird said as he turned his attention to the dragons. “Sorry for the rough introduction, but I don’t deal well with surprise guests.”
“No kidding.” Sparx replied
“Welcome to my world.” Daxter followed.
“I am the brilliant Packer, interperter to the ancient, wise…and somewhat decrepit…foreseer Onin.”
Onin opened her eyes, Spyro noticed they were grayish white, she was blind. Onin clapped her hands sprinkling blue dust from her palms. She began waving them around in a series of strange movements.
“Onin welcomes you…blah blah blah blah blah…the usual boring greeting yaddah yaddah,” Packer translated.
She waved her hand over her face. Packer seemed confused.
“She says it is wonderful to see that you glorious creatures have returned to our grand city.”
“Returned?” Cynder asked confused as well.
“But we’ve never been here before,” Spyro explained.
“Before…after…it’s all the same,” Packer replied.
“Knock it off with that deja-vu crap already!” Daxter yelled. “It’s really freaky!”
Onin began waving her hands again, they sparkled with blue streaks as she did.
“She says know that you are here, our chances of stopping Praxis, finding the tomb, and obtaining the Precursor stone are much greater.”
“Yeah well that’s our job,” Sparx began.
“Oh no” Cynder muttered silently.
“We’re heroes, we have our duties…saving people…dodging danger…taking it to-“
“Sparx! We don’t need to hear that again!” Spyro stammered.
Packer continued, “As I was saying…or rather what Onin was saying…your assistance is most appreciated, and she will help however she can.”
“We seek a way home,” Cynder explained, “Do you know of something of a mysterious rift ring perhaps?”
Onin seemed to meditate for a moment, then started hand waving again.
“She has heard of this ancient ring many moons ago, it is said to be the connection between universes, everything else I’m afraid, is very clouded at the moment.”
Spyro and Cynder slightly lowered their heads.
“But wait, she also says, that by traveling through the ancient gate, your destinies are greatly altered, they are not only intertwined with your world…but with ours…the real battle for you all is yet to come…” Packer finished with a mysterious tone.
Everyone exchanged puzzled looks, they were all unsure what Onin meant.
“What does that mean?” Spyro asked.
“How should I know?! I’m just an interpreter for many’s sake!...you expect me to know everything?! Yeeessh!”
Everyone’s face went blank with irritation. Packer noticed them,and decided to change the subject.
“Ahem! Uh…Well then…moving on! Jak, your timing couldn’t be better in fact, for by gathering all of the ancient artifacts from the temple, and collecting pieces of Mar’s ancient seal, you’ve proven your brass…your brawn…but now you must show Onin your brains as well.”
Jak smirked with encouragement, ready to prove himself again. Everyone else noticed and too smiled.
“Frankly…I think she is pushing it, but I’m not the boss! Beat this final test, and the third piece to the seal will be revealed.”

Jak took the test, and after a few minutes of symbol interpretation, he was awarded the final piece of Mar’s great seal. He brought out the other two pieces for everyone to see, and as he did, they both levitated in the air along with the third part and melded together, revealing the same sign that was on the boy’s medallion, but on a larger scale.

“Behold! The seal of Mar is now complete!” Packer said with enthusiasm. Jak caught the seal as it landed in his hand, Spyro, Cynder, Sparx, and even Daxter admired the shimmering glow it was emitting. Packer continued, “Onin says the three artifacts you retrieved from the Precursor Temple…squawk!...are relics from an ancient light tower.”
“What relics?” Spyro asked.
“These” Jak answered as he unzipped one of his belt bags, inside was the shard, the gear, and the lens he and Daxter retrieved from the temple not so long ago.
“Wow” Spyro and Cynder said together.
“In fact, some old songs tell how this light tower once shined down on the actual sight of Mar’s tomb,” Packer explained, “I sing one of these songs for you…from the mists of TIME! Mar’s light would SHIIINEE!”
Everyone was holding their ears, trying to drown out the awful noise coming out of Packer’s mouth.
“Aaaaggghhh!” Sparx yelled in sarcastic pain.
“Woah there iron lungs!” Jak cut in, “Just tell us what we need to do.”
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
“Cretins with no taste huh? Phoh!!” Packer said as he spit. Onin waved her hands again in answer.
“You must take the seal to open Mar’s gate, bring the three artifacts, then…and only then will the light tower rise…and reveal the tomb.” Packer translated for the last time as Onin laid her hands down.
“Thank you for everything, we will help however we can,” said Spyro.
With that everyone walked out of the tent, with Packer shooing them away behind their backs.

dragonball06 · Jun 30, 2009 9:41 PM

Is everyone afraid to comment? I haven't recieved as much as i expected, except for you mario, thanks for keeping tabs!

Anyway, i finally finished the next chapter, enjoy!

Ch 19: The Tomb revealed

The gang secretly made their way back to the zoomer the same way the came. As the three heroes and their sidekicks mounted the zoomer, they first made sure all the artifacts were safely secure, then began flying along top the bazaar skyway all the way to the center of the section, where the palace itself was located. The group eyed it as they past it’s enormous front gate. Some memories came back to Spyro and Cynder from staring at it, how they had first arrived in there, and nearly being discovered by Praxis and Errol, and falling into slums and being captured after they escaped. Jak tried not to bring anything up to upset, and instead kept flying. He piloted the zoomer to the other end of the bazaar, where zoomer passage was allowed freely. He flew all the way to the end of a shopping section, and coming out in the midst of an urban farming area. “Nice to see not all of the city is focused on metal forging and eco mining.” Spyro stated. Jak nodded and flew to a cross-off section, at the end was an elevated pathway, which led up to another security lock in the wall. As Jak brought the zoomer to a stop, Sparx asked, “Oh we are not going outside the city again are we?”

“Yup” Jak answered.

“What Sparx, are you scared?” Cynder asked in a teasing manner.

“No way she-dragon!...just recalling our last little mishap, maybe I should wait out here, and you know, guard the zoomer?”

Everyone had skeptical looks on their faces. Sparx continued, “I mean come on? What use am I to you right now? I’m a bug!”

“He’s got a point,” Daxter replied.

“Maybe your right Sparx,” Spyro said, “You are a bug…but you’re our bug and your staying with us!” He grabbed him by his tail section and flew up to the lock. “HEEYYY!!”

Spyro entered the lock just as it finished opening. Daxter upon Jak’s shoulder said, “You know, I’m really starting to like you guys.” Cynder smiled and said, “Thanks Daxter.”
He continued, “I mean, you two with the exception of the housefly, don’t criticize at every single remark I say!” he finished with a wide goofy smile. Jak shook his head in irritation. “Ohh were getting there,” Cynder said. All three of them entered the lock after Spyro. He had already exited out the other end with Sparx and was waiting. He was standing on a patch of land that perched over a large abyss filled with darkness. Jak pointed up saying, “Up there.” To a high cliff with some sort of odd orange pillar structures sticking out from behind it. Spyro and Cynder began flying until they turned around and said, “Can we give you a hand?”

“No thanks, I can get up in a flash.” Jak said.

“There ain’t no stairs or pillars for you to jump this time big man!” Sparx informed.

“No, but there’s that.” Jak said pointing over toward a orange ring with a strange glow in its center. It was placed at the far corner of the land patch. Spyro and Cynder thought the glow resembled the rift gates glow they had come through before. Jak ran toward it, and jumped into it’s maw with Daxter on his shoulder. There was a flash that nearly blinded them, but as soon as Spyro and Cynder adjusted themselves, they were gone. “What the?!” Sparx exclaimed, looking desperately around for them.

“Up here!”

The dragons looked up and Jak and Daxter standing on the cliff. Their faces were now filled with shock. “But how did…they…weren’t they just…down…there…duh…” Sparx stammered trying to get a hold of reality. The dragons flew up and landed on the cliff.

“Warp Gates,” Daxter said, “The only to travel.”
The dragons still looked perplexed, but then they saw a second gate leaning out over the cliff edge. “You’ll get used to it,” Jak exclaimed examining their faces. He then walked to the other edge of the cliff with the others following behind. An elevator was waiting at the end, they all climbed on. As they levitated down, a group of metalheads were stalking the perimeter. Jak quickly brought out his gun, and with a few blaster shots, they were killed on the spot. As the elevator grounded, Spyro and Cynder got a real close look at the Precursor mountain temple. The buildings and pillars were all made of the same orange metal, it reflected with a glow that hypnotize one’s soul. Spyro could even barely turn away from the magnificent sight, before Jak shook him awake.
“You okay?”
”Yeah, just admiring the magnificence of this place, it’s incredible.”
“Yeah it’s some piece of work,” Daxter said, “Come on we got work to do…gasp! I can’t believe I just said that!”

Everyone ignored Daxter’s ridiculous remark and followed Jak along the path. They stopped at a door that was lodged into the right side wall, just outside the temple.
“This is it.” Jak said, and he brought out Mar’s seal. He lifted it up to the door. It suddenly broke out of his hand and floated toward the door, it was suddenly placed itself on the lock, and door opened up in a circular pattern. Everyone watched with amazement. After a moment of taking it in, everyone walked through the open gate. It led down to a series of small cliffs which fell deeper below. Everyone made sure to stay close together and alert, not knowing if there was anything hostile down here. Jak looked further down, he saw a giant human statue rising itself over the landscape. As he approached it, he noticed to the left an open area, filled with what appeared to be some strange precursor constructions. There was a gear mechanism, a stone monolith with four over extending arms, and a circular platform with a stone ring latched atop it. Spyro and Cynder were astonished with these precursor mechanisms, they were nearly beyond what they imagined. Even Sparx and Daxter were speechless for a moment.

Jak brought the artifacts, he gave the shard to Spyro, and the gear to Cynder, while he handled the lens. Cynder took the gear to the gear mechanism, and Jak ran over the ring platform while Spyro waited with Sparx and Daxter. Cynder placed the gear into the fitted spot, then suddenly, the gears started turning. As they turned, the stone ring tower began to rise, but before it was out of range, Jak placed the lens inside the ring before it rose too high. The tower continued to rise, nearly 80 ft in the air. Daxter and Sparx watched oohhing and ahhing. Even Spyro was amazed, until Jak snapped his fingers getting his attention, letting Spyro know to put the third artifact into place. Spyro ran to the monolith, and placed the shard into a desired slot. The shard disappeared, then reappeared at the top of the monolith. The four arms extended emitting a beam of light from their crystal tips. The shard channeled the light through it, then redirected the beam to the light tower. The lens reflected the beam toward Haven City. Spyro, Cynder, Jak, Daxter and Sparx were astonished at what was happening.

In the city, the beam passed the bazaar, then the palace, shocking everyone in the bazaar sector as it passed overhead. It struck the Baron’s statue located in the center of the section, in front of the palace. The statue shattered, but then the Baron’s head came toppling down, breaking away the stone wall of the rock base which it sat upon, revealing another doorway which led beneath the city.

Mar’s tomb…was revealed.

Dimensional spyro · Jul 12, 2009 10:19 PM

dragonball06 · Jul 15, 2009 3:31 PM

Andy123 · Aug 13, 2009 4:44 PM

not bad, I like it. and by the way Jak is not a human.

dragonball06 · Aug 25, 2009 2:46 AM

I know Jak is considered to be an elf Andy, but I've always viewed him and everyone in his world as humans with greatly elongated ears. Elves are supposed to be short, and they all seem pretty tall to me, that's why I'm referring Jak as a human in my story.

I finally have the next chapter ready...

Ch 21: The Tests of Manhood

Jak and Spyro couldn’t believe the innards of the tomb. Beautifully carved, with some artistic sense out of the rock. Spyro thought it somewhat resembled the stone garden he and Cynder came across before the falling through the portal. They were standing in front of a walkway which suspended above a large black abyss. The walkway led down to a large chamber lined with torches, which seemed to lead to a large door in the back. The door had the seal of Mar carved into it.

Spyro spoke up, “Incredible.”

“Yeah,” agreed Jak, looking all around.

“Yeah, perfect…now were stuck in this pitch black tomb with no way out! Way to go heroes!” Daxter yelled with sarcasm.

Jak just shook his head and said, “We’re here for a reason Dax…let’s go.” Jak started down the walkway with Daxter on his shoulder and Spyro at his side. At the bottom, they discovered a pond which led to the large door.

“This place almost resembles some catacombs I once came across in my world.” Spyro said.

“Really?” Jak commented.

“Yeah, it was a little more damp though, and plus…there was a large golem that was trying to crush me.”

“Good to know.” Daxter said without enthusiasm.

Jak activated his jetboard and began gliding over the water. Spyro followed flying just above. Jak stalled in the middle of the pond, there were two doors, one on the left and one on the right. Jak stalled on the right one. Spyro landed right next to him.

“I guess we begin the tests?” he asked.

“Yeah,” Jak answered.

The door opened as they approached it, and the tests began. They started climbing up a series of pillars which led to a room with giant bugs. With some assistance from Spyro’s fire, they were quickly incinerated. Another door opened and they continued down the halls. They came across several spiders almost as big as a dog.

“Keep them away from my tail!” Daxter yelled.

A few blasts from Jak’s blaster gun and some fireballs from Spyro did them in. As they kept walking, they noticed the tomb was growing more and more confined, the walls were lined with barred cells that held skeletons and rotted corpses behind them. Spyro nearly threw up from their stench. At the end of the barred hallway was another door. As they approached, it slid open, rattling the tomb as it did. Jak, Daxter, and Spyro walked inside. It looked like there were tombstones sticking out of the ground, 12 of them were lined in a small squared room. To their left was another giant door, sealed shut.

“I don’t like the look of this.” Spyro said.

“Small world, I don’t like anything I look at in this crate!” Daxter complained.

Jak stepped over to one to take a closer look at it, it had some strange writing he couldn’t make out. But he tripped, and face planted onto the stone’s flat face. Suddenly, a chime emitted from the stone.

“d….d..d..d….d..d..d”

Everyone was perplexed for a moment until Spyro asked Jak, “Are you okay?”

“Hmph…just a nick to my pride.”

“Yeah I gotta say,” Daxter cut in, “for a hero, that’s not very graceful.” He snickered as he finished his joke. Spyro and Jak narrowed their eyes in irritation. Daxter saw and stopped snickering.

“Just joking.”

“What was that?” Spyro asked Jak about the chime.

“I’m not sure,” Jak pondered for a moment, then kicked the stone. The chime emitted again…

”d….d..d..d….d..d..d”

Jak finally figured it out. “Quick, kick another one.” Spyro nodded and knocked another one with his tail. A different chime emitted…

“d....d….d..d”

“This one’s different,” Spyro said.

“Of course!” Jak exclaimed. “We need to listen to the rhythms they emit, and match them all up! Then I’m sure the door will open!” They searched the rest of the stones until they found one that matched the first emitted chime. Soon Spyro hit one that emitted…

“d….d..d..d….d..d..d”

“That’s it! I’ve got it!” Spyro told Jak. He nodded back and hit the matching stone. As it finished it’s chime, then sank into the ground, disappearing from sight. The sound of a picked lock came from the door, and Jak smiled. “One pair down, five to go.”

It took a good twenty minutes to go through the last five sets, but as they came down to the final two, they nodded at each other. They hit their stones at the same time and they sank into the ground. The door finally opened up to reveal the main chamber. Daxter was jumping up and down for joy as Spyro and Jak high fived.

“One test down, one to go.”

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Outside the tomb, everyone was being led away. Praxis had Samos, Kor, and the kid taken away in a large lurker transport towards the Krimzon prison. Cynder had been knocked out and Sparx locked in a lantern…again…and were taken away on a separate transport. The squad captain walked up to Praxis with an important report.

“Sir” He began as he saluted, “Your artillery weapon has been brought in inspected and working at full capacity.”

“Excellent…Jak’s dark powers won’t save him this time…and we’ll get back that purple pest he let loose! No one escapes from Baron Praxis!”

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Jak, Daxter, and Spyro all watched as a huge beam of white light emitted from an oracle statue clinging to the edge of the staircase they had come down from originally. It extended all the way across the room towards the giant door, it stopped as it made contact with the seal carved onto it. A platform appeared at their feet, levitating with some ancient magic, supporting itself over the black abyss. Jak jumped onto it with Daxter and said to Spyro, “see you down there.”

He nodded and took flight. The platform stopped at the edge where the pond began. The creatures started popping up again having smelled Jak coming back into the room. Jak jumped from the platform, and at the same time, activated his jetboard, then started gliding over the pond out of danger with Daxter clinging to his shoulder. Spyro flew over their heads as they headed for the second door on the left. As before, the door slowly opened as they approached, rattling the tomb causing some dust to stir up. Inside, more spiders crept up to attack, but Jak pulled out his blaster before they could even snap their jaws. The trio moved on and rounded a corner. There were four giant pillars extending from a huge lake of dark eco, and to make it even more horrific, huge spikes were seen popping out of the pillars in a certain pattern.

“Looks like things just got more complicated.” Spyro said.

Jak examined the movements the spikes were making, he noticed that as one went down, the one behind went up. He walked up next to Spyro and said, “cake.”

He stepped back a few feet, then took off in a run leaving Spyro with a state of shock as he saw him run towards the dark eco pit.

“JAAKK!” Daxter yelled atop his shoulder.

Jak jumped onto the pillar as the spikes went down. Then, listening to the cranks he heard from the pillars, indicating the spikes were about to shoot up. With careful precision, he made his way to the top of the pillars and jumped onto a narrow walkway that led along the wall. Jak got a better view of the room atop. The room was a large square, with hieroglyphics and ancient carvings of Mar’s followers aligning the entire wall, with the dark eco pit directly below him. Other than the entrance, he couldn’t see another way out of the room. But he did notice two square blocks sticking out of the stone on the other side of the room on the walkway, one was higher than the other though, so he would have to find some way to get higher. He made his way down the wall walkway to the first stone block, without a second thought, he stepped onto it and pushed it down. There was a clank…then the pillars started to rise up from the dark pit and move along the lake. The spikes disappeared as they led the way to another walkway up top. Jak jumped onto the first pillar as it came near him and started running and jumping as high as he could to beat them to the walkway.

He jumped to the last pillar…but his feet missed and just barely managed to grab the edge of the walkway. Daxter clung onto Jak’s bandanna in fear. Spyro was about to take flight…until Jak hoisted himself up with all his might and took a breath of relief in safety. He made his way along the wall, noticing some weird creature carvings in the stone, unlike the Mar follower statues aligning the rest of the wall. He stepped on the block, and the pillars rose even higher, as they did, a plaque of stone rose beneath them. The pillars began falling back into the ground, opening a staircase that led to an underground room. Spyro’s eyes opened amazed…Jak just smiled knowing he just solved the final puzzle. He noticed an elevator next to where he was standing and walked over. The elevator descended to the stone staircase, where Spyro was waiting.

“Very impressive.” He commented.

“What do you mean? I do that all the time.” Jak bragged.

“I was told long ago, pride can be your enemy as well as your ally.” Spyro said as both of them made their way down the staircase.

“Worked for me so far.” Jak said.

“Yeah, but it’s backfired quite a lot for me I’ll have you know!” Daxter shouted. “You always come out unscathed…me on the other hand, I’m usually squashed, burned, bruised, bitten or fumigated!” Jak shook his head at the constant complaining from his orange furred sidekick. Spyro though turned his attention to the bottom of the staircase. A large group of spiders spotted them and closed in, fangs drawn.

“Yaahh!” screamed Daxter.

Spyro shot each of them with an ice shard before Jak could even pull out his gun. He looked back, and Jak just nodded as he secured his gun behind his back. They walked to the back of the room; they could notice an opening behind a large stone ball, which blocked the way. It lay in front of an open door, secured by a small metal stick. The trio stopped in front of it, and Daxter hopped off Jak’s shoulder. He walked toward the stick observing the ball.

“I got this.” He said. He started pulling on the stick trying to free it. He could feel it wiggle, he then gave one last heave on the ground and he fell, along with the stick. The ball rocked a little, startling Jak and Spyro. Daxter stood back up and was horrified to see the ball rolling towards him.

“Daxter look out!” Spyro yelled.

Daxter started to run in the opposite direction, towards the open door. The ball picked up speed as it followed him down the tunnel.

“No not that way!” Jak yelled too late.

dragonball06 · Aug 26, 2009 7:18 PM

Here's a quick, comic relief chapter with Daxter, that's also reflected in the game...

Ch 22: Run Dax! Run!!

Daxter ran for his life down the winding tunnel, with the stone ball rolling towards him, constantly picking up speed. The tunnel was moving downward, so the ball would just keep rolling. Daxter had to keep looking behind to see where it was, as well as watch where he was going. He almost missed jumping over a small kazaam that the ball just ran over. Thankfully, Daxter noticed a stone barrier up ahead mounted with three pillars…and just as the ball was about to run over him, he jumped through the pillars, and the ball thumped into the blockade, stopping in its tracks. Daxter was about to breathe a sigh of relief…when suddenly, the ball exploded with a great force that knocked him flat on his face.

He pulled his face off the ground, it was flat as a pancake. He shook it vigorously, and it retained shape. He didn’t have much time to ponder what had happened, because he heard a sound that was more eerie than the tomb…a low hissing came from behind, he slowly turned terrified…and in an instant, his terrified face turned frozen with fear. A large, fearsome horrific black widow spider had emerged from the ball. It’s size filled up the entire hallway, it growled as it eyed Daxter with its dripping fangs. Daxter saw himself reflected in the spiders many fearsome eyes…without any words to describe the situation, he just went…

“YAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

Daxter immediately sped away with a dust trail right behind him, as well as the spider. The hallway seemed longer and longer by the minute, and Daxter seemed to grow more and more terrified as the spider pursued him. Daxter approached another kazaam with more platforms stretching across. He jumped across with ease, and looked back with a grin on his face, thinking he lost the spider. It immediately turned to horror as he saw it jumping across on the pillars and landed on solid ground.

“Oh come on…what do have against me karma?!”

He kept running and running with the spider in hot pursuit. Daxter glimpsed up ahead and saw a hole in the wall followed by a dead end.

‘uh oh’ he thought.

When he reached it though, he noticed it led upward, toward the tombs surface. He also noticed a trampoline nearby and saw numerous trampolines leading upward. The spider was closing in, but Daxter finally took a jump. He jumped up on the trampolines, making sure he didn’t miss a single one on his way up, and good thing, the spider was crawling his way up, hissing even more hungry than before. Daxter finally reached the top, as he jumped the final trampoline and made his way down the hall. He looked back hoping he lost the spider, but his exhausted face turned to horror as the spider erupted from the pit and pursued him.

“Oh give me a break bub!”

Daxter ran with all his might, trying to keep a hair’s breath away from the dripping fangs that wanted to feast on his flesh. The spider was gaining ground on the wall as it kept moving. Daxter noticed another door up ahead, it was open. Daxter kept running at full speed to make it through, the door was slowly starting to close, and the spider was breathing down Daxter’s neck. Just as the door was about to close, Daxter jumped, and the spider roared as the door slammed shut in his face…

…then the tomb was completely silent…

Andy123 · Sep 02, 2009 7:30 PM

very good

Oh... my image of an elf because of the lord of the Rings and Eragon is a being of magic and wisdom with pointed ears, great pysical abilites(that includes sences), and they will not die of old age.

dragonball06 · Nov 09, 2009 4:39 AM

S240sx24 · Nov 09, 2009 6:52 AM

Keep at it bro. its a very good story. i like it.

dragonball06 · Feb 19, 2010 4:34 AM

Hey everyone! I'm back! I'm terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for so long, but I've been really distracted and haven't gotten around to getting back on spyroforums until now. Figured i'd leave the next chapter, and don't worry there's more to come. I'm in college now, but that's not gonna stop me from finishing this story! Let's get on with it...

Ch 24: Battle for Power

Praxis saw the two heroes prepare to fight, so in turn, he pushed a button inside his cockpit.

“My little friends will take care of you!”

What appeared to be 6 small bombs of light erupted from compartments on the shoulders of the Baron’s machine. They landed on separate corners of the arc platform, and Jak and Spyro saw their true form…robots…KG deathbots programmed for one goal, destroy those who opposed the Baron. They were a lot like the Baron’s machine, except miniaturized, and electricity erupted from their bodies. They began crawling toward the duo and Daxter.

“Whatever you do, don’t touch them!” Jak told Spyro as he equipped his scatter gun. He then ran toward them and let out a blast. The shot from the gun blew away three of them, shattering them to pieces.

“I got these three!” Spyro yelled. He ran in front of their path, but the mechanical crawlers didn’t even slow down. To avoid being shocked, Spyro took flight…but as he did, the closest one jumped up to attack, and clenched his right ankle. “AAaaaagghh!!!” Spyro yelled as he felt the stinging pain of 100 volts coursing through his lower body. He shook it off, and countered with an electric stream of his own. The stream bolt was aimed at it’s leg, but it suddenly bounced away. The polarity of both the machines electric discharge and Spyro’s electricity breath were the same, so they couldn’t touch!

“Try an earth attack!” Jak yelled. Spyro nodded and began to spin over and over in midair, surrounding himself in a green aura which shaped into a rock. He propelled himself at the ground, and made a shockwave which crushed the robots.

Praxis growled and hit another button, letting loose 6 more light bombs. When they landed, Jak and Spyro saw that they were real bombs armed with destructive red eco! They ran in separate directions, knocking them over the side, where they couldn’t hurt them. Jak hesitated on his second bomb, he glimpsed the Baron’s machine, he was completely unprotected trying to drill out the stone. He then looked back toward the bomb, which was about to blow, and then yelled to Spyro.

“Hey Spyro!” the dragon turned. “Knock the bombs toward him! That outta shake him up!” Spyro nodded and lined the bomb up between him and the baron. Jak gave the bomb a full force kick toward the baron. It flew just above his machine head, but bounced off the statue and landed just behind him, exploding.

“AAAGGGH!” the baron yelled as his machine was lurched forward, off balance. Spyro then began to charge at his bomb, the fuse had just approached its end just after Spyro knocked it head on, it flew at one of the middle legs. It made impact and exploded, taking a foot with it. The machine lost grip and fell into the pit. The two of them didn’t have long to celebrate, Praxis activated his machine’s hovering system and was up faster than he went down.

“You’ll pay for that purple pest…with your own leg!!”

Blasters erupted from the machines front gun, threatening to hit them and send them flying. Jak and Spyro took cover behind the pillars on the platforms, but they wouldn’t last long. Praxis took a full sweep around the pillars letting loose the fire. He stopped, he nearly had shot through the pillars, but it wasn’t enough to break through. He went back to drilling the stone fasteners…not worrying that he had one leg missing since he had seven more to spare…and let loose more electric death bots. They approached viciously ready to grab and shock their targets to death. Jak pulled out his scatter gun and started blasting every robot in his sight. Spyro attacked every robot on his side with an earth blast, shattering them like the rest.

“Your just making this even more difficult for yourselves!!” The baron shouted in rage. Jak equipped his blaster and shot at him, the shot bounced off the armor barely scratching it. Praxis laughed and let loose more bombs as he attempted to pull the Precursor stone out. Jak and Spyro ran to a bomb at separate ends in an attempt to hit the baron from both sides. Jak kicked and Spyro charged their bombs. They flew, and one hit the baron high, and the other hit low. Unfortunately the low one hit the stone fasteners as well, shattering and leaving the stone loose. Praxis steadied his machine and ripped the stone off the statue, leaving Jak and Spyro with freaked out expressions on their faces.

“He’s got the Precursor stone!” Daxter yelled.

The baron fitted the stone into the center laser mounted on the head of his machine. The whole machine was now surrounded with a bright green aura, fully charged by the Precursor stone. Jak and Spyro took a step back as the shine from the aura blinded them. The baron jumped down from the statue, armed with the stone, and disappeared into the pit.

“Stay alert, with that stone, he could destroy anything.” Jak told Spyro. They both approached the edge, and looked down, they could see nothing. Suddenly, their platform shook with a ‘BOOM’ nearly knocking them over the edge. The ceiling was starting to collapse, large chunks of rock were falling around them. Suddenly, the bridge to the chamber door broke away, and the baron emerged on the other side. He had blasted through the platform and moved underneath to mount a sneak attack!

“Now your mine!” the baron yelled. Green lightning emitted from the stone, it seemed like it was preparing to fire! Jak and Spyro jumped to the side as a large green energy wave emitted from the stone and blasted the platform.

‘KABOOM!!’ was all that was heard in the room as the whole tomb shook. Jak and Spyro stood up and saw…a huge crack in the platform…Jak and Spyro stood on opposite sides of it.

“This…is bad.” Daxter said nearly speechless from terror.

“Ha ha ha ha! I’ll bring down this whole tomb to bury you both alive if I have too…so stay still this time!” The baron mocked, and let loose two bombs from his machine and landed on opposite ends of the platform. Jak and Spyro knew they were surrounded, but showed no fear.

“If you think you can just box us in and finish us off, your dead wrong!” Jak yelled at Praxis.

“I don’t want to box you in freak!” Praxis shouted back, “I want to cave you in!!” he finished and flew down to the hole in the platform to attack again. The tomb shook as he made the hole wider on his advance. While he was moving underneath them, Spyro said, “We have to hit him with both of those bombs at once!”

“He moves too fast, and with that stone he can deflect anything thrown at him and send it back at us!” Jak said.

“Maybe anything thrown from the front, but not from above!” Spyro informed.

“You have a plan?” Jak asked.

“It’s a long shot, but it might work, kick the bomb towards me when I signal you.” Spyro finished as he ran towards the bomb on the far end. Jak turned in the other direction with Daxter by his side as Praxis finally emerged from the hole. Spyro took flight as Praxis started firing his blasters again, evading by a few inches. Jak dove behind another pillar as Praxis reached him. The pillar broke as soon as he finished firing. The pillar head then fell into the hole leaving Jak exposed. Praxis seemed to grin.

“Now you’ll experience the full power of the Precursor stone freak!”

Green lightning started to emit from the stone once again, Jak and Daxter were frozen in place, unable to move or defend. Spyro had to think fast, he looked up, the ceiling was holding up somewhat, a lot of rock had fallen from it, but he could see a loose stone about to break right above the baron. He decided to give it a hand, and shot an earth bomb right above it. The stone gave way, and fell for a brief second, just before the baron was about to fire. It landed right on top his cockpit, nearly breaking through it. The baron screamed as the energy shield powered by the precursor stone was disrupted, green lightning was now emitting from the entire machine as its shield was short circuiting. Spyro yelled, “Now!”

Jak gathered himself and kicked the bomb in Spyros direction just as it was about to blow. At the same time, Spyro kicked his with his tail. They flew at each other on a collision course, until Spyro let loose a new beam from his mouth, a purple beam. It seemed to ensnare the bombs in a purple ball and stopped them in their tracks. The bombs floated over the baron’s wrecked machine. Spyro closed his mouth; the purple beam disappeared, along with the shield attached to it. The bombs fell and impacted the top of the baron’s machine just behind the cockpit. The machine started to top roll out of control as the bombs explosion ruptured the rocket boosters. Praxis then pushed another button inside his cockpit. The two heroes met on Jak’s side of the platform as the Krimzon spider machine was about to explode.

S240sx24 · Feb 19, 2010 5:52 PM

Im glad you continued with the story. I had thought you forgot about this. Good chapter looking forward to more.

dragonball06 · Feb 25, 2010 4:35 AM

Next chapter...hope everybody from before is still reading!

Ch 25: Return to Hideout

A loud BOOM!!!...echoed through the chamber as the Baron’s robot exploded. Jak, Daxter and Spyro shielded their heads from the impact. When they lifted their heads, they noticed the robot body was in pieces all over the platform and the ruined statue. The Baron, unfortunately hovered over their heads in his cockpit, having ejected himself before the explosion.

“Nice try…but the stone is still mine fools!” Jak and Spyro only scowled. The Baron noticed their faces and said, “Oh don’t worry, I will use the stone to its full potential…then soon, all who oppose me will be destroyed by its power!”

Jak and Spyro jumped at him, but the Baron lifted higher, avoiding them. The two of them crashed on the other side of the platform, and the Baron flew himself out of the open chamber door and out of the tomb. Jak and Spyro picked themselves up and shook their heads in frustration.

Finally Spyro spoke, “We can’t do anything more here, let’s go back to the Underground.” Jak nodded his head in agreement. Spyro gave him and Daxter a lift over to the door, since the bridge was destroyed. As they landed on the other side, the door behind them closed, shutting out any more intruders. Spyro and Jak made their way back across the pond, up the stairway to the door, where the oracle opened the tombs entrance for them to leave. As the heroes rode the elevator up, both of them were wondering what had happened to their friends while Daxter scratched his ear. As the elevator halted at the top and the heroes made it to the city door, Daxter spoke, “You don’t really think Praxis took everybody? Do you guys?”

Both of them were silent for a moment, then Spyro said, “I don’t know Daxter, I hope not…I surely do.” As the door opened, they realized it was true. The KG was nowhere in sight, there was nothing left but pieces of the crystal shield, people were walking the streets as if it was another typical day. Spyro hung his head in sadness, having lost his best friends and his love. Jak on the other hand, clenched his fist and smacked it against the statue base wall in anger.

“I don’t believe it!!” he shouted, “He gets away, he takes the stone, and he takes our friends!!”

“All we have is a gun, a board, and a set of dog armor on a dragon.” Daxter added irrelevantly. Jak and Spyro were too depressed to even shoot him a look; they were lost in thought of what their next move should be. Spyro had on his mind a lot of things, if he was ever going to get home again, if he was ever going to see Cynder again, and trying to fathom what the oracle had told him in the tomb, that dragons had come this world before, this unnamed world created by beings called Precursors. Why didn’t anybody tell me of this?! He thought to himself in suppression. He felt Jak’s hand touch his shoulder.

“Come on, we won’t accomplish anything sulking here, we need to see who’s left to work with, let’s head back.”

Spyro nodded, and moved to a secure hiding spot away from public eyes while Jak went to get a zoomer. He showed up in an AX-8 dual seat, a flyer with two driving sections attached by two flat metal flaps. Spyro jumped aboard and Jak drove the zoomer past the statue, around the palace toward the bazaar bridge to the industrial section, and toward the Underground.

They landed outside the door, and said nothing on their way in. When they reached the bottom of the staircase, Torn wasn’t behind his desk, the room was empty. Jak assumed he was in the back room, and decided they should wait. Spyro plopped on top of his bed, lost in emotion. Jak broke the silence…

“I just don’t get it, how did the Baron know we were so close to making a move for the stone?” he asked to get Spyro to speak, but to no avail.

“I’m afraid it’s because of me.” Someone behind him answered. Jak and Spyro turned toward the hallway next to the furnace to see Torn coming toward them. As soon as he exited the hallway, Spyro spoke, “What?”

Torn stood behind his desk, “I had no choice, the price was too high.”

“You sold us out?!” Jak shouted.

“You led the Baron to a power that could destroy the world just to protect one of your men?! Spyro yelled in disbelief that Torn had betrayed them.

“It was Ashelin!!” Torn shouted, “The Baron threatened the kill Ashelin for spying…his own daughter!...I couldn’t risk that, even for the Underground.”

Jak seemed to calm down at the sound of Torn’s comment, but Spyro still seemed confused and upset at the same time. He turned to Jak.

“Praxis has a daughter?” he asked.

“Yes…but she is not her father, she helps us, she’s against what her father is striving to do, despite the grueling consequences.”

Spyro then remembered, “Oh yeah, he mentioned her once before, when me, Cynder, and Sparx first arrived in the palace, he said he’d make her cooperate, by any means necessary.” Everyone shuddered; the Baron truly was ruthless, willing to even kill his own daughter to gain power. Spyro shuddered at the thought of what he could do to Cynder.

“Yeah, interesting thoughts to kick around,” Daxter said between them, “Except Praxis has the Precursor stone now, so he can do whatever he wants!!” Torn stepped out from behind his desk to speak.

“There is still a way to get our friends back, maybe the Precursor stone as well,” he said to get their attention, and to hopefully get back on their good side, “I’ll find Vin, you two head to the fortress, we’ll call ya.”

Jak stepped in front of him and looked right into his eyes. “Give us one reason why we should trust you anymore,” he said sternly.

Torn looked right back and said, “Because you and I both know the Baron would have killed Ashelin!” Jak turned away, Daxter’s ears drooped and Spyro looked down and shook his head in sadness. Jak got both their attention and signaled them to head out the door. Before they left, Torn continued…

“It will be a tough fight through the fortress, probably suicide.” Jak looked back at him and said, “Just get that door open, we’ll be there.”

S240sx24 · Feb 25, 2010 5:36 AM

nice chapter. Cant wait for the rest.

dragonball06 · Mar 12, 2010 8:55 PM

Thanks for keeping tuned in! Glad to know i still have fans who are enjoying the story. Don't worry! I will finish it, it just might take longer than i thought.

By the way, I've gone back and edited all my old chapters, so reading the story from the beginning should be a lot more clear!

Ch 26: Jailbreak

The trio arrived at the Krimzon fortress’s front gate. Spyro made sure to keep his hood up to keep himself from being discovered by the Krimzon guard. They walked through the door without much attention, since a lot of the guards were standing by the palace where the Baron had taken the Precursor stone. As, the three of them walked inside the front room, Jak brought out his blaster gun, using its laser target to scope the area. It was clear, so they made their way to some short steps which led up to the open electric door courtesy of Vin. Through the door, there was a hallway to the right which led a short way down to another open hallway that led deeper into the fortress. Jak motioned for Spyro to stay behind him while he scouted up ahead. As he got closer to the opening, he heard guards talking.

“You see anything?”

“No”

“Keep your eyes peeled.”

Jak made sure his gun was loaded, and began crawling as close as he could without being exposed. The guards continued their conversation,

“Have they found Mar’s tomb yet?”

“They wouldn’t tell us if they did.”

Jak then did a diving roll and pointed his gun into the room; a yellow guard was standing on top of a pillar which was extended from a walkway that moved across the room in a zig-zag pattern. The guard yelled at him, “Don’t move!”

He loaded his gun, but before he could fire, Jak shot two shots at him on the arm and stomach. The yellow armor was stronger than the red; the guard was knocked off his feet, still alive. Jak turned left, there were two more guards on pillars, and a jet-guard flying around the support beams armed with laser cannons. He opened fire on Jak directly, but his shots missed, Jak just stood still in between the fire. He fired his blaster twice at the flyer, knocking his controls loose and rupturing his rockets. He spun out of control toward another pillar until…BOOM!! The entire jet pack exploded, and the guard was dead.

“You’ll pay for that Underground filth!” screamed another yellow guard on another pillar across the hall. Jak noticed the other yellow guard behind him was getting back to his feet. Suddenly, a streak of lightning shot out at him, shutting down his armors safeguards and frying him alive. The guard toppled over dead. Jak turned and saw Spyro walking toward him with electric bolts emitting from his mouth. The 2nd yellow guard started firing at them, they both rolled to opposites to avoid the blazing streaks. Jak decided it was time for heavy assault, and armed his Vulcan fury. Using the nearby pillar as cover from the guard’s fire, he made some final adjustments to prepare for his run. The guard kept firing and firing until a click sounded from his gun, it was empty. He had depleted his eco fill. Jak then jumped out from his cover position and let loose a barrage of bullets. The guard seemed to be paralyzed being sent back from such heavy fire; soon he was hit back far enough to fall into the pit.

“Come on!” he yelled to Spyro. Soon he was at his side as they made their way across the room to the following doorway. Suddenly, a large group of Krimzon guards ran right out of the opening, arming their guns at the duo. Jak mowed through them with his Vulcan fury as they made their way toward the door. Upon entering, Jak stepped back from the remaining guards. This let Spyro jump in front and send a chilling ice wave from his mouth, freezing all the guards in their place. Soon the hall was filled with guard ice statues. Jak walked in and complimented with one word, “Cool.” Spyro just smiled and walked by his side until they found themselves blocked by another electric gate. On the other side was a corridor lined with sentry guns leading to another corridor to the right.

“I thought Vin took care of all the doors.” Spyro said.

“He only took care of the entrance, look around, there has to be some sort of switch.” Jak replied turning his head from side to side until his sidekick yapped, “Try looking down buddy.”

The two heroes looked at the floor, there were four red LED lights aligned in front of the electric gate.

“It seems we need to find four keys.” Spyro said.

“Brilliant deduction Sherlock,” Daxter commented. Spyro shot him an irritant look, the same one he occasionally gives to Sparx.

“WHAT?” the orange ottsel asked. Jak interrupted, “Hold on a minute…” he turned towards the doorway from which they entered. “Did you happen to notice what was on top of those pillars back there?”

“No,” Spyro answered, “I was too worried about the Krimzon guard, what?”

“Wait here.” He and Daxter ran past the iced guards and into the door. Spyro kept his eyes on the electric gate for about 10 minutes, wondering what Jak meant. He got his answer when he heard a low humming. Spyro looked at the ground, and noticed that the four red lights were turning green. Once all four were lit, the sound of a generator humming its last ounces of energy was heard from the gate. The electricity collapsed and the doorway was open. Spyro was in awe, until he saw Jak come back through the door.

“What did you do?” he asked.

“I noticed large electric switches on top the pillars, all I had to do was push them down.” Jak answered as he led the way into the corridor. He stopped when he soon noticed the sentry guns again. Spyro stepped up.

“I can take care of this.” He took flight, and as soon as he was hovering over a sentry gun, he let his earth powers surround him in a boulder shaped aura and crashed down onto it, smashing it to pieces.

“Original…but smashing.” Daxter told Jak. He just nodded as Spyro did the same thing to the other three guns, clearing the path. Jak then caught up with him as he rounded the corner. They made their way up some stairs which led upstairs to the left. Upon reaching the top, they made their way through some control boxes for piping that was sticking from the ground, until they heard a shout from above, “Intruders! Shoot them!!”

Jak and Spyro looked up, it was a holed floor, and Krimzon guards boots were seen everywhere. Red gunfire started blasting right toward them. The two heroes took evasive action, flipping, rolling, and diving to avoid the deadly blasts they eventually made it past them, only to find two more Krimzon guards firing them from farther ahead. The sound of jets was heard, and two more Krimzon jet-guards emerged from around the corner. Spyro shot an earth blast at both of them, knocking them back. The two guards on the ground kept firing at Jak, he was finding a lot harder to evade having exerted a great amount of his energy already. He thought quickly and equipped his blaster, and immediately started firing randomly in their direction. One shot caught a guard in the leg, making him drop his gun. Spyro then ran up emitting a red hot stream of flame at the other guard. The guard screamed as his armor was incased in flame, he started running blindly trying to extinguish it, but instead wound up falling into a nearby pit, yelling the long way down.

Watching the guard fall, Spyro looked up and noticed the jet-guards had steadied themselves and were zoning in on him. Unbeknownst to him, the injured guard behind him had retrieved his gun and was preparing to shoot him in the back. Before he could pull the trigger, a POP was heard and his body was sent flying back against the wall, dead. Jak then turned his blaster toward the two jet-guards and fired. One hit one guard in the helmet, sending him spiraling out of control. The other guard screamed in pain as two more hit the hand controls two his jet-pack. He immediately flew back towards the wall and exploded.

Spyro watched the spinning guard fall into the pit and slam against its wall, blowing up. He turned towards Jak, trying to catch his breath. “Nice shot.”

“Thanks, but were not out of the woods yet.” Jak said as he looked ahead. There was a small bridge over the pit which led to a large door, their only way to go. Spyro led the way across, the door opened as soon as they approached it, but it wasn’t a friendly greeting on the other side. Krimzon death bots were everywhere, the same ones from the tomb, emitting electricity and threatening to shock anyone foolish enough to touch them.

“These monsters again.” Spyro groaned, having not forgotten his last encounter with them.

“The Baron sure has beefed up security since our last visit,” said Daxter.

Jak looked to the left, and noticed another door at the end of a small stairway, he then turned to Spyro. “Spyro, fly over to the door, see if you can open it, I’ll clear these mechanical menaces.” Spyro nodded and took flight.

“Taste this metalbuckets” he sneered at the robots pointing his scatter gun. The robots lunged at him trying to shock him to death. Jak pulled the trigger and the gun erupted a loud BOOM, blowing nearly 8 of them to pieces.

Spyro landed in front of the door and examined its outline. He noticed a switch similar to the one he came across before in the fortress. He pushed numerous buttons seeing if the door would open. After pushing a fourth the door sounded a clank and slid open.

Jak was still blowing his way through robots. But they were coming at him from every angle, his legs were even being shocked numb from their electrical shields. Just then, a giant wave of green energy seemed to plow through the robots to his left. He grinned as he saw Spyro running up, trying to clear the path. He ran to Jak’s side and they turned their backs to each other and stood back to back. The deathbots were surrounding them, getting closer.

“You hit them high…I hit them low?” Jak asked his companion.

“That’s the plan.” Spyro answered.

“GO!” They yelled in unison. Spyro jumped up and emitted an electrical bolt that blew through a wave of deathbots at far range. While Jak with his Vulcan fury, blew away the deathbots in front and behind. Soon, there was nothing left of the deathbots but smoldering metal scraps. Spyro landed and Jak put away his gun. Nodding to each other, they walked toward the door. Entering the next room, their eyes went wide open.

“You gotta be kidding me.” Daxter said viewing the room. They had arrived back in the torture chamber, where the Dark Eco experimentation seat was still stationed in the center of the room, giving Jak bad memories of his time in that chair.

Spyro eyed the cells aligning the wall and the vent they had escaped through last time. He was wondering if they had taken a wrong turn. The two of them walked over towards the walkway that led to the chair and thought where they should go next. Suddenly, there was a clank, followed by the sound of a sliding door behind them. They turned to see two of the cell doors behind them opening, apparently being bypassed by Vin.

S240sx24 · Mar 13, 2010 5:57 AM

nice chapter, cant wait for more.

dragonball06 · Apr 29, 2010 12:32 AM

Here's the next chapter, and don't worry, the next chapter I'm working on will be much longer, but I think I'm past the halfway point of this story, don't worry, I won't quit until its finished!

Ch27: Samos and…Samos?!

Daxter ran over to the right cell and peeked in to see a tall blond girl with a green shirt and a short blue skirt. She wore grip gloves like Daxter and wore her hair back with a brown hairband. Daxter immediately laid his hand against the wall pulling his fur back over his head, trying to show his charm.

“Hey there sweetheart! The metalhead masher has come to your aid!” He spoke in a heroic manner trying to get her to notice. “Oh, and I let Jak and the dragon tag along as well…” he finished.

The girl immediately picked up Daxter and began squeezing the life out of him, “Oh my little hero!” she assumed.

“Oh PLEASE,” came a voice inside the cell. Daxter caught some breath and pulled his head over to see Sparx flying out of the cell with Cynder and Hunter right behind him. “The only thing furball could save is some air by not running his yap!” Daxter would have responded to his insult, but the girl was squeezing him too hard for him to barely breathe let alone speak.

“Cynder! Sparx!” As soon as Spyro saw Sparx his emotions shot straight up from glum to happy, and ran over to his companions. Cynder smiled at him, feeling comforted seeing Spyro was alive. “You’re alright, thank the ancestors,” he said.

“Hey man, the baron can gather all the men he’s got in the city, he can’t get rid of us that easily.” Sparx replied looking at Hunter for him to approve his comment, but he just nodded his head in silence and walked toward Spyro, who was already nuzzling Cynder.

“I’m so glad your okay,” he told her.

“You too” Cynder replied then pulled her head back to look into his eyes, to view her own happy reflection from them.

“What happened to you all?” Spyro asked before turning toward his cheetah ally, “Hunter, last time we saw you the KG was chasing you to the center of the city.”

“They eventually cornered me, I had no choice but to surrender, they brought me here, where I sat for hours until they came again with Cynder, Sparx, and her…” he explained turning towards the blond girl who was still hugging Daxter.

“I’m Tess,” The girl introduced herself; “I’m an undercover agent for the Underground, so you’re the purple dragon Cynder has told me about.”
“Yeah, nice to meet you, I’m Spyro,” said Spyro.

“Charmed.” Tess commented.

While Spyro was reacquainting himself, Jak had turned away to the other open cell, where he saw Samos waving to him. He stopped in the center of the doorway. He asked, “Samos, are you alright?”

Before he could answer, Jak caught the shock of his life when someone popped out from behind the underground leader. Another Samos. A much older version, with a bigger log on top of his head and more grey hair suddenly appeared with an agitated attitude.

“WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?! I added six rings to my trunks waiting for you to get me out of here!”

Jak’s eyes went wide open at the old Samos, as well as his mouth, completely speechless. Everyone else also turned to see who was making the commotion, only to be shocked as well.

Old Samos then turned back to Jak yelping, “Great Yakow Horns! What happened to you Jak?!” noticing his apparent change from a young boy to a pumped-up rebel fighter.

“Are there…two of them?” Spyro asked his friends, who just shrugged their shoulders showing they were just as confused as he was. Daxter on the other hand, jumped out of Tess’s arms bellowing, “WAIT A MINUTE! Your you! I mean the other you, I mean…you know what I mean.”

The other Samos stepped out of the cell stating, “Yes, it appears I have an older time twin.”

“Time twin?” Spyro and Cynder said in unison.

“Great grass grubs!” young Samos said, poking old Samos in his ribcage, “I can’t believe what a cranky old log I’ve become!”

“Two Samos the sages? YAAHHH!!! Jak they’re multiplying!!” Daxter yelped as he jumped behind Jak’s leg.

Old Samos changed the subject, “We need to find the kid pronto!”

“What are you talking about you old growth?” Young Samos asked, “The kid already opened the tomb! Our top priority should be to disrupt the Baron’s forces!”

“Ooh, look who thinks they’ve sprouted.” Old Samos stammered back. Everyone was rolling their eyes back in forth listening to the two old sages argue, Jak and Hunter had their arms folded while Spyro and Cynder kept an irritant look on their faces.

“If you were as half as wise as I am, you would know the proper course of action is to find the kid!”

“Listen you old dried up leaf, I run this operation! And I say we go after the Baron’s forces!”

Sparx was about to pull his antennae out when Daxter jumped between the two green logs and asked, “Do we have to separate you two?”

“How can ya?” Sparx asked, “They’re the same.”

“We don’t have time for this!” Jak said sternly and pointed toward the blue vortex of the warp gate, “Look, Vin has activated the warp gate, we need to get out of here now!” Everyone nodded and followed, Jak jumped in first, then Hunter, Spyro, Cynder, Tess, Samos, young Samos, then the two sidekicks, and then all in the prison block was quiet…

dragonball06 · May 09, 2010 4:32 PM

Is anybody still enjoying the story? Hope so! My writing is slowing down, but I have an idea where I want my story to turn

Ch 28: Blastbot attack!

As soon as the group exited the warp gate at the power station, they immediately huddled in discussion and thought it best to split up and regroup back at the hideout as soon as possible. Except for Tess, who went back to the Hip Hog Saloon to continue her investigation of Krew. The rest of the team headed back to the hideout as inconspicuously as they could.

Two hours later, everyone was back in the hideout safe and sound, and Jak was informing Spyro and his friends of who the old Samos really was. He was the version of Samos that he had grown up with; he was his teacher and legal guardian. He also made sure to include that he had come through the rift ring along with him, as well as his daughter Keira, but were separated upon their first arrival. Old Samos wasn’t around long enough to introduce himself, as soon as he heard his daughter was in the city, he set out immediately to find her, leaving the rest of the Underground to figure out their next move. Cynder was the first to speak, “How should we go about this? The Baron has possession of a power that can reshape this entire planet, and we can’t just rush in to attack head on.”

“Funny, I thought that was how you and Spyro always saved the day.” Sparx commented, only to have Cynder shoot him a glare.

“Right now,” Shadow Samos began, “We can only rally every ally we have. The best thing to do is strengthen our forces to prepare for any attack.”

“Your counterpart says otherwise,” Hunter replied.

Samos scowled, “I could care less what that old pile of sticks has to say, this is MY rebel force, and I will make the decisions that I believe are the best course for us, am I clear?” Hunter nodded, as did everyone else. Jak stepped up.

“What should we do now?” he asked.

“Jak, you and the outworlders must disappear for now, our escape has definitely put high alert in the city, and its best for us all to stay invisible. Take them somewhere where the Baron won’t think to look, if any problems arise, move as quickly as you can.” With that, he turned and disappeared down the hallway to make new battle plans.

Jak turned to Spyro, Cynder, Sparx, and Hunter and said, “Come on, let’s roll.” He led the way up the stairs to the zoomers. Hunter took command of a single seater BX-10, since he knew the dragons wouldn’t want to fly with him again after their near disastrous crash in the industrial area. Jak and the dragons climbed into the AX-8 parked next to it. Jak led the way to another side of the city, following the path to the water slums. This time however, they moved with the flow of traffic to attract as little attention as possible. Everything seemed fine entering the slum center. They were keeping a slow pace, Spyro, Cynder and Hunter covering their faces with their capes, and Jak was keeping himself from making eye contact with any guard patrols. They exited the center as Jak led them down a different direction, in between the path to the water slums and the alley that led to the fortress. But before they rounded the corner ahead, a zoomer engulfed in fire fell down and exploded right below them. Jak and Hunter stopped and looked to their right. A large robot was firing blue eco shots at surrounding people and zoomers. It had four legs which made it walk like a spider, its head was imperfect cylinder with a single red eye and a laser gun mounted on top.

“WHAT THE HECK?!” Daxter shouted at the top of his lungs.

The spider-bot continued firing at the nearby townspeople, on the street and in the air, clearly showing no mercy on anything in its sight. Hunter stated, “This is terrible, no doubt another one of the Baron’s toys.”

Jak nodded as the Underground communicator popped from one of his packs and floated right next to him. “Jak! Do you read me?” Samos spoke to him. He replied yes.

“Listen, we just got word from a slum agent that the Baron has sent blastbots into the city to search for the Underground hideout! We’re not sure how, but he must have tracked us after we escaped. You must destroy them! If even one of them reach us, we’ll be done for!” Jak landed the zoomer immediately just as the blastbot was about to round the corner. The dragons jumped just as Hunter landed beside them. Jak grabbed his gun from his back pouch and yelled out to them, “Come on! Let’s scrap that crab!”

Jak took off first with Spyro and Cynder beside him and Hunter equipping his bow at the rear. Meanwhile, Sparx found a nice safe hiding place and zipped to it. Jak fired two blaster shots at the blastbots head. It came to a stop, but its red eye seemed to move its direction and look right at them. Spyro noticed and shouted a warning, “Look out, I think it’s going to fire at us!” He spoke the truth as a blue eco beam erupted from its laser gun. Jak and Hunter moved out of its way, but the laser went past them and hit their zoomers. They both sparked for a second and then exploded with a BOOM…scattering debris everywhere.

Jak started shooting numerous shots at the blastbot. They hit but barely made a dent. The blastbot counterattacked, firing its laser at Jak. As he avoided its shots, Spyro and Cynder ran behind the robot and fired electricity and poison at it. Spyro’s electricity seemed to do the trick, it shortcircuited its vision, causing its head to spin wildly. Cynder’s poison also melted its leg, freezing it place. The blastbot was now unable to move or fire, but Jak knew it had one defense left. He aimed for its eye and fired. The head exploded off the body. Everyone took a short breath of relief, until they heard a beeping coming from the blastbot. Jak eyes sprung open and yelled, “EVERYONE, DUCK!”

Everyone in the area ran away and fell to the ground, and there then…KABOOM!!! The body exploded in a tremendous blast, with parts scattered everywhere. The civilians ran away from the scene while the heroes gathered back together. “Well that’s one down,” Jak said.

“One?” Spyro replied. Screams came from behind them, the heroes turned and saw another blastbot near the Dead Town lock, plowing its way through vehicles and civilians. Spyro then realized what he meant, there were more robots to destroy. “Oh great, there’s two of these things?!” Sparx complained.

“Didn’t I tell ya making it in this city ain’t easy?!” Daxter answered. As if hearing their conversation, the communicator popped up again from Jak’s pack and expanded. It hovered in front of them as Samos spoke, “I’m afraid two isn’t the magic number this time…we just received intelligence that one more blastbot is approaching from the industrial district. Jak, Spyro, everyone, you must stop them or the Underground is doomed!”

As the communicator dove back into his pack, Jak spoke to the others, “We’ll have to split up to take them out. Hunter come with me, Spyro and Cynder, I’m sure you can take care of that one yourselves.”

They nodded in agreement and flew toward the blastbot in sight. Sparx flew after them yelling, “Hey wait up!”

Jak, Daxter and Hunter ran to another AX-8 zoomer just outside Main Town. Jak started the engines and sped off from the ground. They flew over Spyro and Cynder as they made their way toward the blastbot. Soon they found themselves right over the blastbot, which fired two close shots at them. They were out of its range in moments and rounded the corner toward the other end of the slums.

Spyro and Cynder flew toward the blastbot at high altitude. The mechanical monster had made its way past the Dead Town lock and was heading up the street toward the Underground. The two dragons caught up easily while Sparx lagged behind(duh). Cynder swooped and fired an acid barrage at the robot. Two shots missed, the third hit the left side, it seemed to sizzle the left leg. In response to her fire, the blastbot’s head swung 180 degrees around to face her and started to fire. She evaded the shots and pushed left to fire again. However Spyro went low, then landed and charged with a fire comet dash. He impacted the body of the blastbot head-on, sending a shockwave knocking it off its feet. The sonicboom from the impact even shattered a few buildings as the blastbot landed on its back with a huge dent in its head. Spyro released his wings to halt his forward motion and landed. Cynder landed right next to him.

“Yeah man! That’s how you knock some sense into their tin cans! Whoo-hoo!” Sparx cheered from a distance. The crowd seemed to settle around them seeing how the dragon just took out one of the Baron’s most terrifying machines. CHINK…suddenly, a metallic noise came from the robot. Everyone recoiled back in horror as the blastbot’s legs were extending, they planted into the ground. Spyro was shocked at first, but suddenly realized this was his chance. He charged again, but then jumped.

“SPYRO!” Cynder yelled.

Spyro hoisted himself over the blastbot as it prepared to aim and fire. Spyro enveloped himself in earth energy. Before the robot could fire, Spyro plummeted to the ground.

“SMASH…KABOOM!!”

A smash and kaboom was all that was heard as the area around the robot was enveloped in a fiery explosion. Smoke emitted from all over. The crowd backed away, mothers and fathers pulled their children away from the toxic cloud of smoking metal. Cynder lowered her wing from her face. All she could see was a black cloud. Her eyes opened wide in sadness as Sparx flied toward her side with the same look.

“Oh man,” was all that Sparx could say.

Cynder looked like she was about to weep, until the clank of metal swept passed her ears. Out of the rubble, out of the smoke stepped Spyro, completely covered in soot. Cynder and Sparx’s spirits suddenly relightened.

Spyro coughed and said, “Well that was a blast heh heh…hey Cynder, could you help me clean up?”

She smiled and drew a breath. She blew all the ash off his body with her wind powers. Spyro shook any remaining ash off and walked up to them with a slight limp.

“Any other crazy stunts you want to pull before you give me a heart attack?” Sparx asked Spyro.

“I think I’ll refrain from using any earth moves for a while.” He replied.

“Refrain from using ANY moves, you worry me sick sometimes, and that was no less exception,” Cynder said to him. “And if you won’t do it for you, do it for me.”

Spyro smiled at her lovingly and nodded. “Come on,” he said, “Our friends need our help.” They took off and flied around the corner toward the Underground slum section. As they left, a little boy withdrew himself briefly from his father’s arms, and watched them take off. He said silently to himself, “thank you.”

Jak and Hunter were not having a good time. Hunter’s arrows were useless against the blastbots metallic shell, and Jak was busy wasting his ammo on both the robot and the Krimzon guards that were surrounding them as well. Hunter and Jak were suddenly back to back, surrounded by a large Krimzon guard platoon. The final blastbot was now moving past them, exiting the industrial area and into the slums. With their escape cut off by the KG, Hunter thought of one idea that could save them both or have them shot. He turned to Jak and Daxter and asked, “How long can you two hold your breath?”

“Huh? Over a minute, why ask now?” Jak answered. Instead of a response, Hunter reached inside his robes and pulled out what appeared to be some green energy orbs. With a quick flick of his hand, he threw all four of them into the air. The guards watched them with confusion, while Hunter yelled, “Hold your breath and cover your eyes!”

Jak was still confused, but did as he said. The four balls hit the ground with a smash. A yellow-green mist poured from all of them and quickly engulfed the two of them and the guards. The guards started coughing, choking on the gas. Their armor only protected them from outside combat, not the air itself. Jak felt something grab his arm and pulled him to go. He went with it, and soon he found himself outside the cloud thanks to Hunter. He and Daxter removed their goggles and took a breath. Looking back, the cloud was fading, but the guards were barely conscious. Some had even fallen, barely able to move.

Jak commented, “Nice job.”

“Now, I believe we have a robot to dismantle?” Hunter replied, turning toward the blastbot, which had already entered the slum sector.

“Let’s not keep it waiting.” Jak said, and ran after it with Hunter right behind him.

“Yeah, the guard blockade and the poisonous gas wasn’t enough,” Daxter started, “Now we’re running a full throttle assault on a machine with weapons that can turn our INSIDES INTO OUR OUTSIDES!”

Jak ignored him and just kept running. He equipped his blaster just as he entered the slums. Both of them ran down the right alley where the blastbot rampaged through. On the other side, they found the blastbot approaching the alley where the hideout was located. Jak fired three shots to hopefully make it stop. Two shots hit its body, causing it to cease.

“You get his attention?” Hunter asked. As if hearing his question, the blastbot turned all the way around to face them. His gun then pointed its laser target right at Jak’s head.

Jak answered, “Unfortunately yes, RUN!.”

The blastbot laser fired, the two of them split apart and the shot went between them. Jak fired three shots at the blastbot. Hunter nocked an arrow and fired. The arrow bounced off its armor, barely scratching. Jak reached into his pouch and tossed and hand-gun to Hunter. It landed at his feet.

“If you want to survive here, you’re gonna have to upgrade to our weapons!” Jak exclaimed. Hunter shrugged, but knew he was right. He put his bow on his back and grabbed the gun. The blastbot started moving toward the hideout again, but kept its blasts focused on the two heroes. Jak and Hunter kept firing, but it didn’t slow it down. Jak decided to switch over to his Vulcan fury. He started running after it and started letting loose a barrage of Vulcan shells. Now the blastbot was starting to shake, dents were seen all over its body, but its laser kept focus on him. But just as it was about to fire, a bright flashing lightning bolt struck right above it. Jak and Daxter covered their eyes as the blinding flash subsided. Once it was all clear, they noticed the laser cannon on the blastbot had been blown off. They turned and saw Spyro and Cynder flying toward them. Cynder let loose a poison bomb which hit and melted its leg. With one leg gone, it lost balance and fell with a thud. A hum was heard from as it lost all its power. Jak walked up to its head and pointed his blaster gun at its eye. POP…the blastbot’s head blew apart, leaving only the three remaining legs behind. Jak walked up to Spyro and Cynder as they landed.

“Nice of you to drop in.” he said.

“Figured you could use a hand blue boy,” Cynder said, “Looked like you two were in a pickle.”

“We could have taken him.” Daxter replied.

“Nevertheless, thanks for the help.” Hunter said.

Once again, the communicator popped up from Jak’s pouch and Samos spoke, “Great job everyone! Well done! We all can sleep peacefully here tonight!”

S240sx24 · Jul 09, 2010 6:50 AM

I still am bro hope you finish this.

dragonball06 · Dec 11, 2010 4:38 PM

Hello fans sorry to keep you waiting, but I've been busy with college and other projects I haven't been updating my story. Now that the holidays are here I'll be doing a lot more! I have about 30 chapters now, so here's 29...

Ch 29: Keira

With their mission successful, Jak led them to a zoomer to take them out of the slums secretly. Their activity definitely put the Krimzon guard on full alert, and would be all over them if they stuck around. Jak flew to the end of the slums and toward Main town, a part of Haven the outsiders hadn’t yet set foot in. As soon as they entered, they left the broken buildings and busted walkways of the slums behind. It was an area where structural sound buildings were built, and perfectly crafted walkways were settled everywhere, making both walking traffic and airway traffic smooth and heavy. Jak turned left, then turned right again, passing a large metal monolith that seemed to stretch to the sky. He made another right and started flying over a canal. They kept flying until they came to another bend. Jak turned left and everyone gasped at the huge dome structure before them. They made sure their hoods covered their faces before the huge crowd around them.

“Where are we?” Spyro asked.

“Haven City Stadium,” Jak answered, “This is where our city’s biggest fad, racing takes place.”

“Like foot races?” Hunter asked.

“No, we race zoomers, and they’re even trickier to handle than the ones driven by the civilians.”

“You race?” Cynder asked as Jak started to land somewhere close to the left end of the dome.

“Yep, just won one the other day, two more, and I can gain access to the Baron’s palace.”

“The palace?!” Spyro exclaimed.

“Every champion is allowed a tour of the Baron’s palace, if I can get in, I can confront him directly.”

Spyro was feeling uneasy, he did not like where he was going, “what are you planning to do then?”

Jak was silent for a moment, and so were the others. He finally said without turning his head. “That’s my business, not yours.”

With that, he walked off toward the stairs leading to the stadium. “Come on.” The others shrugged, but soon followed him. They walked up the large staircase in front of them and followed Jak to the left wing of the dome. He entered the first garage on the left which was loaded with counters of tools and zoomer parts, they were two lifts with zoomers on them which were clearly under maintenance, but other than that, there wasn’t anyone in sight.

“Hey Keira! You here?! Samos said you could…” He stopped when he finally realized the garage was vacant. “Guess she’s not around, make yourselves comfortable, you’ll be here awhile.”

“How long have you known Keira?” Spyro asked. Jak thought for a brief moment and replied, “I guess my whole life, Daxter’s the same, and they’ve been my friends as long as I can remember.”

“Yep, and oh the stories I can tell!” Daxter stammered.

“Hehehe, well I was never much for stories.” Another voice came behind Jak, a sadistic one. Everyone turned to see a figure step out of the shadows. They were shocked to see someone they did not expect.

“Well well, if it isn’t the dark eco freak, and his overgrown lizard companions,” Erol remarked. Spyro and Cynder narrowed their eyes. “Erol”

“What are you doing here?” Spyro asked with disgust.

“My thoughts exactly,” Jak replied with the same tone.

“Just keeping tabs on my favorite mechanic,” he answered sneeringly.

“Where is Keira?” Jak demanded.

“Don’t worry; I’m keeping a close eye on her.” He answered as he circled Jak like he was interrogating him; the others kept a glare towards him.

“You’re the talk of the town Jak, you give the people hope, how pathetic! I would have enjoyed killing you in prison; I would have enjoyed killing you all!” he declared in the direction of Spyro and Cynder.

“But now, it will be so much more fun to take you on the track, in front of the entire city! I can hear the roar of the crowd now, as everyone sees their hope die.”

“Don’t count on it,” Jak declared. At that same moment, old Samos walked up with a young girl with green hair right next to him. They appeared to be conversing.

“It’s good to have you back daddy,” she said to Samos.

“Yes, it’s nice to be free again,” he replied. He then turned his attention to Spyro and his friends. “Keira, these are the creatures I told you about, they helped free me.”

“So you’re the strange inhabitants that have put the city on edge,” Keira said.

“I guess so,” Spyro replied.

Cynder stepped up to introduce herself, “So your Keira, you’re just as Jak described you, I’m Cynder.” As the others introduced themselves to her, Erol stepped toward Jak and whispered a silent promise.

“You know, Keira loves a winner, someday she’ll be MY mechanic.”

“Stay away from her,” Jak silently demanded. With that, Erol walked away snickering. Hunter was shooting daggers at him as he exited the garage, to ensure he didn’t pull off any tricks. He had just met him, but he already sensed that he couldn’t be trusted, and his mere presence in that garage at the same time as them made him even more skeptical. But while he eyeballed him, Keira was gazing at his departure.

“Ah, Erol’s the best racer I’ve ever seen,” she stated. The others stared at her wide-eyed.

“You’re talking about him?” Spyro asked. Keira was confused.

“Yeah, why? You guys don’t trust him?” she asked.

“Let’s just say we didn’t have a good first impression,” Cynder explained.

“Trust me Keira, he’s not what you think,” Jak said backing up Cynder’s statement.

“Oh, and you’re the judge of character?” Keira declared, “Look at you! People say you get angry and change.” Spyro and Cynder turned their gaze away from Keira and Hunter, hoping that they wouldn’t ask them.

Keira continued, “Besides, the Jak I knew, wouldn’t be working for a guy like Krew!”

“I need Krew’s connections to fight the Baron, without my,” Jak paused in the middle of his statement, “You know what? Forget it, you just do it your way, and I’ll do it mine, and don’t come crying to me when the city falls to pieces!”

He stomped out of the garage leaving Daxter and the others behind. Spyro tried to persuade him to stop,

“Jak wait a second, just calm down,” it was to no avail as Jak had already disappeared from sight. That didn’t stop Daxter from trying however.

“Jak! Jak wait! We’ve gotta race remember?! Don’t leave me at the wheel all alone!!” Daxter was interrupted when the announcer spoke over the stadium intercom.

“Attention all drivers, the Class 2 Race will soon begin, please report to the stadium if you are qualified for this class, if you don’t attend, you will be dismissed for the remainder of the competition.”

“Wait, didn’t Jak say he was racing today?” Cynder asked.

“Yeah, winning this race means going to the championship,” Keira explained.

“Now what are we gonna do?! We can’t race without the star driver!” Daxter stated.

“You’ll have to drive for the team Daxter,” Keira answered, “you’re the only other registered team member so it has to be you.”

“It was nice knowing him, psych,” Sparx whispered to Hunter.

“How hard could it be? All I do is hold on tight and point the wheel thingy where I want to go right? Then there’s that turbo thingy that makes it go fast, fast is good, I can do this! I’m ready to race!”

Jackson117 · Dec 11, 2010 11:54 PM

Great to see you up again, By the way do you do OC that might fit in?

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