Haven: Rebuilding
Kor's head fell to the ground, the last remnant of the monster he had revealed himself to be. The cavern shook in response to the settling of the titanic energies unleashed during the struggle, and Jak only barely managed to stay on his feet. Shining and Ar-Mar had better luck, being on four legs. Young Mar allowed himself to fall on his butt, since he didn't have far to fall. He was the first to recover, and immediately noticed that the Precursor Stone was glowing brightly. Drawn to the light, he reached out and lay his hands upon the jewel.
A blue humanoid figure of pure energy leapt from within the stone, a silhouette filled with power. "A...Precursor..." Jak gasped out in amazement.
"It is finished," the Precursor proclaimed, its voice deep and echoing, though subtly different from what issued from the Precursor Oracle statues. "Our ancient enemy is no more." The figure floated there, hands spread wide. Though there was no face, a sense of joy and pride emanated from the figure, filling all who were in range to hear with hope. "Take hope, brave ones of the line of Mar, noble sons of Damas, for the terrible darkness inside you both is now balanced by a glorious light, drawn from the blood we share, waiting to awaken and serve you."
As Jak and Shining stared, stunned, the Precursor took note of the approach of the Lurker Balloon. "We will meet again..." the Precursor murmured softly as he sailed into the Rift Ring, vanishing into space and time.
As he vanished and the sense of awe began to fade, Daxter was the first to speak up. "So...am I the only one who thinks that dude somehow grows up to be Mar?"(1)
Jak and Shining were both silent for a time. "...and I'd just started to wrap my head around all this," Jak finally groaned.
As the Rift Rider arrived, Keira and Samos stepped back, letting The Shadow, Mar, and Ar-Mar get ready to ride the Rift Rider back to Sandover. Shining approached his younger self. "You take care of your brother, okay?" he insisted. "He doesn't exactly have the sense he was born with some days."
Giggling, Ar-Mar nodded before hopping into the Rift Rider.
"Hey kid," Jak spoke up, approaching his younger self. "You take care of yourself and your brother, okay? Oh! And trust me on this. Stay away from any Wumpy Nests on your ninth birthday."
Chuckling, young Mar handed Jak the medallion he'd been wearing around his neck all this time, an artistic representation of the Seal of Mar. Smiling, Jak pocketed it as the Rift Rider rose up to dive through the Rift Ring...before the ring itself fell apart, its ancient power finally spent.
As the group got ready to leave, Daxter suddenly spoke up. "Wait a minute...I'm the one who got stung by all those Wumpys on your ninth birthday!" he insisted angrily.
"And now you know why Shining and I kept our distance," Jak teased.
With Daxter fuming and the others laughing, the group rode the Lurker Balloon back to Haven, to let everyone know...the war was finally over.
With the news of the war ending, Praxus resumed his duties as Governor of Haven, and began drawing up the plans to slowly cycle the city back to peace time functions, as well as drawing up ideas for how the Wasteland might be reclaimed and restored, though that was a very long term project. He declined attending the party to celebrate the end of the war, as with Kor's death his mind had become completely clear for the first time since his skull had been damaged and repaired, and he had a lot of deep thinking to do. And beyond that, he hoped to delay the conversation awaiting him with Jak and Shining regarding Damas' fate.
Daxter, for his part, had found a new source of income for the group until such time as a new adventure overtook them. Taking over Krew's old saloon, he had renamed it The Naughty Ottsel, "The hippest, happenist, hoppiest joint in Haven City". Out of a sense of karmic irony, Daxter had affixed Kor's head over the bar in the 'trophy' style that Krew had enjoyed so much.
As Tess marveled at it during the party, Daxter had proudly bragged, "I bagged that big boy myself, baby!"
Pecker readied himself to translate a snide quip from Onin, only to stare in amazement. "What do you mean he's not bluffing?" Pecker demanded in disbelief, causing everyone present to burst into laughter.
"Well, he did deliver the finishing blow," Jak pointed out, shooting his old friend a thumbs up.
"Well, looks like I was betting on the wrong pony, then!" Sig suddenly proclaimed as he entered through the front door.
"Sig?" everyone shouted out in amazement.
"You're okay?" Jak gasped out happily as he strode forward.
Sig marched in with a huge smile on his face. "You cherries didn't think some nasty breathed, giant sized lizard-bug was going to keep me from the biggest party in town, did you?"
"You're tougher than you look, big guy," Shining praised. "And that's saying something!"
"And look who I found stuck in a broken down Titan Suit down in the lower levels of Under Port!" Sig proclaimed expansively, pushing Vin out from behind him. "He's not so bad himself."
Vin definitely looked the worse for wear and rather shell shocked, but he kept moving his arms as though trying to make a Titan Suit punch, kick, or jump. "Just survive..." he mumbled under his breath. "The unicorn will save me...just survive and stay calm, the unicorn will save me..."
"Vin!" Shining gasped out in shock. "We thought you fell at the Power Station!"
"Just survive..." Vin mumbled again.
"I think he could use a few calming drinks," Sig suggested. "When I found him, he'd just accounted for three of those guys that took me into the Abyss, and didn't even seem aware that his Suit was about to explode. He refused to let go of the controls, so I had to carve them free."
"...the unicorn will save me..." Vin muttered again. He remained catatonic even as Tess poured a jug of rather strong liquid refreshment down his gullet. He then promptly fell over backwards to snore.
"Just some of Bruta's sleeping potion mixed with some of the lighter booze," Tess replied to the looks she was being given. "He'll be fine once he wakes up after a good night's rest."
Deciding to let Vin rest peacefully, the group made their way outside to watch the fireworks as the city celebrated the end of a war that had gone on for far too long.
(1) While it's never stated outright in the games, the way things are phrased heavily implies that Mar was a Precursor and that the Precursor Stone was one of the last of his 'eggs', somehow. While not exactly accurate even within the game's own mythos - or how I intend to straighten out the mess of the game's mythos - still something funny to interpret from.
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I still hate time travel. It's WAAAYYY too convoluted for me.
Aren't you forgetting the reveal at the climax of the third game? How the shining energy being was just a hologram the actual Precursors use to interact with others without revealing their true forms? "Pay no attention to the ottsels behind the curtain."
Timey-wimey wibbly-wobbly.
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So we're not doing the ottsel thing then? Okay.
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No, we are. It just won't invalidate what was stated in game two as a 'deception.'
Anything more will be in PMs only.
I do wonder how you are going to handle the third game, and if you'll add in your own interpretation of events that happen between 2 and 3.
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One broke in through the floor, and he fell in.
A crazy sequence of lucky coincidences led to him landing in the very Titan Suit that had helped Jak through the underwater sections of Under Port.
...and I forgot about that 'upload' part...
Time travel is for fools and immortals, and since I'm the only immortal here...
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Cartoonish physics style lucky coincidences. Also, it wasn't of significance to the story.
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Hang on a moment...
Sig being crushed beneath a giant Metalhead as he's sent sinking into a seemingly bottomless abyss, only to come back sometime later completely unharmed, is believable.
Keira falling from the sky, and cobbling together an Eco equivalent of a jetpack to slow her fall before she crashes, and coming away just fine, is believable.
But Vin falling in stages beneath the city, never far enough to achieve lethal velocity in any one fall, catching himself repeatedly on sharp, jutting protrusions that injured without incapacitating him on his way down, and landing in a Titan Suit he helped design and managing to just barely survive quite a bit the worse for wear until someone found him and escorted him to the surface...stretches your sense of disbelief more than him uploading himself into a computer network.
Is that what you're saying?
You know when I first played the games. I thought Jak was actually the original Mar- had he not gone through the rift gate at the beginning of the second game and stayed behind- Since the game does use quantum theory to explain how Kira built the time roomer. But, since it was never brought up in the third game. I figured I just got it wrong.
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The second was from earlier in the story, when Keira went over how she arrived in Haven.
Also there's the fact that Jak and Daxter arrived in the games by crashing face first at high speed...and were unharmed.
Also, Green Eco is the life energy, as that's what heals you.
But the question is...is my explanation really that much of a stretch?
Nice precursor stone mythos. Better than what we got in the games actual sequel.
Ah, the end of 2. Looking forward to the in-between and into 3.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
Wasn't it spelt Wumpbee and not Wumpy?
Good thing you didn't include more drunk Onin
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Couldn't get subtitles in my sources.
A nice ending, now let's use Kor's head as a dart board.
6974618 Seems way cooler to learn he took on three giant Metalpedes and survived.
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It can still work. As long as the upload happened just before the floor gave out...
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You mean Vin is alive and in the mainframe?
...that's a little much...
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You might have a point. The less this story has to do with Cloning Blues, the better. *Starts having flashbacks to "Too many Pinkie Pies"*
Yeah, but the ending of number three has something really weird going on. Though, now that I think about it, there's really no way to be certain the Precursor entity that shows up at the end of Jak 2 and the one that appears a couple of times in Jak 3 are one and the same.
That part in the spoiler tags was not only funny, but confusing.
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Is what you said one and the same? I'm not so sure about that now; before this chapter, it wasn't something I ever gave much thought.
Though I do agree with you; it does seem as though the canon version was that both were a holographic projection. It's just one of those things that Naughty Dog never clarified.
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It has been quite a few years since I last played the games, so I might be remembering something wrong, but the impression I got from was that the "Heart of Mar" was primarily a key/power source for the Rift Rider; simple Precursor tech that was considered so important because it was used for frickin' time travel (which was supposedly very integral to the creation of Haven City and its super-powerful defense systems that nobody really knew or cared how it worked as long as it kept the Metalheads out, which it did really, really well).
The "Precursor" itself simply showed up after the fight for the classic, "congratulation on your victory, but your journey is not yet over," speech, then blinked out the same way it came in.
The reveal in Jak 3 actually made it make more sense to me because the Precursors would have known that the war was far from done; that some Metalheads would survive Kor's death and regroup, and more, that the Dark Precursors were on their way to destroy the planet. The last thing they would have wanted was for Jak to relax and get taken by surprise, but there's no way he would have taken the warning seriously from a random trio of Daxters (being two feet tall and fuzzy makes it kind of hard to get respect). So they used their standard holo-messenger, deliberately designed after the dominant species on the planet to instill feelings of both awe and trustworthiness. Heck, they've probably got a different hologram for each sentient race on every planet they set up shop on.
But if Tat wants to take this in a different direction, then who am I to argue? I'll simply wait and see where this new line leads us, and judge the story on its own merits.
6975077 the in between i think was jak n daxter racing or that was after but it was released befor 3 so theres that. And wibly wobbly timy wimy
Will you cover Jak X and Lost Frontier?
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
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Yeah I get what you're saying. And I agree with you; I can't wait to see what way Tatsurou goes with this.
For some reason imagining Vin in his crazed state made me think he was talking like Albert Einstein saying, "Crush, kill, destroy, swag..." or something. Where did I even get that from?
7475353 Your mind is an amazing place.
Not much difference, Praxis lives with his sense knocked back into him, meaning Ashelin's not governor, and Vin survives.
Least Kor's dead and Errol got blown up (hehe).
Now to see what you do with Veger in Jak 3.
Victory!