//------------------------------// // Beyond The Brink // Story: Daxter 2 // by Grains on PZs plate //------------------------------// "We came ALL the way out here just to find another one of these?!?" Said a very Disgruntled ottsel. "It just doesn't make any sense." Said a blue haired women. "This is what all that Eco is being used for?" Said a blondish, green haired young man. It was a Rift Gate. it was very similar to the one They had discovered atop Gol and Maia's Citadel over 300 years ago in the past. The only difference between that one and this one is that this one looked seemingly more demanding to power, due to the large amount of Eco being pumped into it, and this one was grounded to a wall rather then rotating both clockwise and counterclockwise in segmented pieces. "Why would they be using so much Eco to power a rift gate?" Said the blondish green haired young man. "Well Jak nothing about these Precursors ever makes sense, Just take a good look at me!" Said the ottsel. "This is disappointing..." Said the blue haired women solemnly. "It's a shame alright. All well let's go home, it doesn't look like there's anything out here." The ottsel said as he was walking back to the Hellcat that they had come to the small island on. "Hold on there Dax." Jak said to his partner, making him stop dead in his tracks "I say we go through it, just to be sure. We didn't come all this way to just give up on Keira." Keira perked up a bit at this and began setting up the rift rider that they would use to go through the gate with. "Uh, did I hear you right Jak? Did you say we're going THROUGH that thing?" Daxter said. It wasn't uncommon for Daxter to complain before following Jak to a dangerous place. Like outside of Haven City or into the Sewers, where creatures of all shape and size run rampant. "Maybe you two are quick to forget! Do you remember what happened last time we used Precursor crap like this? Maybe I should refresh." "I know what happened last time Daxter, but we just have to see what's through it, for Keira's sake." "So your trying to guilt trip me know huh? Fine! Lets assume we go through this junk and it takes us To whatever Precursor forsaken city where you get pumped full of dark Eco and I have to squash some nasty bugs just to find you,all that Eco is powering that gate, which means that chances are we aren't gonna find any, And we would DEFINITELY not be getting home anytime soon." "It's a chance I'm willing to take." Jak said determinedly "Actually from these readings I'm getting off this machine, not even 5% of the Eco going through the gate is powering the gate itself." Keira said with newfound excitement. "Well then that settles it, we're going through!" Jak said with the same enthusiasm Keira had. "But......But..wha wha wait a minute Jak remember Kor and all the metal heads and dark Eco and stuff!" Daxter said as he ran back toward Jak, jumping on his shoulder in his futile attempt to make him reconsider. "Come on now Dax, try to relax. That was all in the past. Whatever happens, and that's IF it happens;" Jak said putting extra emphasis on if. "We'll be ready." *Sigh* "I don't know how I ALWAYS get roped up in you and Keira's antics. Fine. We'll go through it. But if we all die I will NEVER speak to you again....Obviously." "Thank you Daxter." Keira said with a smile. "Everyone pile in, I think I've calibrated this machine to the preset coordinates it was reading out." "Alright Keira, you ready Dax?" Jak said "Whatever lets just get this over with." Daxter said grumpily as he got into the rift rider "Alright. Buckle in Everyone, we have a..." Keira trailed off "Uh oh." "What, What's wrong?" "Something's not righ... "Oh no EVERYONE GET OUT NOW!!!" At that instant both Jak and Keira jumped out of the machine without a second thought while Daxter stumbled to exit the machine, getting his pant leg stuck on one of the switches on the dashboard. Which was coincidentally the switch that powered the rift rider. "WAAAAAHHHHH IM STUCK." Jak ran back to the machine in an attempt to grab his partner but he was a second to late. The machine took off through the gate, with Daxters scream of terror trailing off through it. And within a second, he was gone. All power to the gate had immediately shut down, and Jak was left with no way of getting his partner back. For Daxter the sensation he felt from traveling through the rift was nauseating. And the fact that he was hanging off the switch, upside down didn't help it either. Time began to slow down for Daxter, he was thoroughly convinced that he was going to die. He was never going to see Jak or Keira again. He would never see Ashelin, Torn, or Sig again. Nor would he ever see Samos again (though he wasn't sure whether to be happy about that or not) But most importantly he would never see Tess again. Daxter accepted this and was ready to die. Everything in his line of sight gradually got brighter until it had completely engulfed him till he could no longer See anything. "This must be what it feels like to die" he said "Always thought it would be more painful." And just like that, the rift rider stopped shaking and bounced 2-3 times off of what Daxter could only assume was ground, But he didn't have much time to think on it before he hit his head hard on the Dashboard and was out cold.