"Okay," Jak said, looking at the layout of the village for a moment, recalling who lived in which house, "who should we ask first? The Mayor? Our uncle? The birdwatcher?"
"Why don't we just start with the Mayor and work our way towards the Forbidden Jungle?" Pinkie suggested, beckoning to the building that looked like a cross between a windmill and a house, "I bet he has a quest for us to take on while we gather Power Cells, or he might be willing to trade one for some Precursor Orbs... or maybe he's got a Power Cells for trading and one for a quest reward. Though if that's the case we might want to run around the village and gather some of the orbs... just in case someone else wants to trade as well."
"Actually, why don't we take the Mayor and the sculptor." Daxter stated, indicating that he didn't want to go anywhere near Jak and Pinkie's uncle, because the old man irritated him every time they were in the same room, "You can deal with your uncle, the birdwatcher, and the farmer. One of them is bound to have a quest or something for you to do while Jak and I speak with the others."
"If you say so Daxter," Pinkie replied, a slight smile appearing on her face, because she liked being around her uncle... even if she was sure that he had no real family connection to her and Jak.
The moment the trio entered the village, and left Samos' hut behind, they separated from each other, with Jak and Daxter heading into the Mayor's house while Pinkie headed into the one that was opposite of that building. Pinkie found her uncle staring at a couple of maps and mumbling about something, though she had the suspicion that he was low on Precursor Orbs and was trying to figure out where the rest of his stash had gone. Her uncle was dressed up in a fashion that was similar to Jak's blue clothing, save for the fact that his had a collar around his neck, had a monocle over his right eye, and was using a small cane to help him walk around. He even had the strangest beard Pinkie had ever seen, as it wasn't actually a beard seeing how it was his mustache that wrapped around the back of his head.
Pinkie barely took a step into her uncle's hut before he turned his head towards her and grinned, indicating that he was glad to see her and was glad that she was doing well.
"Pinkie my dear, it is good to see you again," her uncle said, though as he spoke he pulled Pinkie into a loose hug, before pulling his attention back to his maps, "What can I do for you?"
"Jak and I were planning on going on an adventure and we need some Power Cells before we get underway," Pinkie replied, though a smile also appeared on her face while she spoke, "We were wondering if you happened to have one you can lend us."
"Actually, I'd be willing to trade you one for ninety Precursor Orbs," her uncle said, though he already knew how difficult it would be to acquire some, "I'm sure your friend, the miserable ugly one, might have pilfered them or something and I'm a bit short for my own expedition. Surely such a trade is agreeable with you?"
"It sure is," Pinkie agreed, but she held up a hand to stop her uncle from saying more at the moment, "Just give Jak and I a few hours and we'll be back with the orbs you requested... and then we'll make the trade."
"Capital idea," her uncle said, pulling back and turning his attention back to the maps, "I'll be waiting here until you have the necessary orbs to make the trade, then I can also get underway on my own journey."
Pinkie nodded and headed out of her uncle's house, though as she exited the building she noticed that Jak and Daxter, who was riding on Jak's left shoulder, were entering the sculptor's house, so she turned to the right and headed in the direction of the Forbidden Jungle, where she stopped at the birdwatcher's home. The birdwatcher was an aged woman who wore a yellow hat that resembled the head of a bird, though Pinkie guessed that it was most likely used as a disguise mechanism to assist in her bird watching.
"Why hello dear," the birdwatcher said, putting down her binoculars for a moment as Pinkie stopped in front of her, "I don't suppose you would be willing to help me out? I saw a group of terrible Lurkers capture a mother Flut Flut, leaving behind an orphaned egg on Sentinel Beach that has no one to care for it. I've put some hay down at the bottom of the cliff that its resting on, so if you or Jak can knock it down I'll gladly give you a Power Cell for your valor."
Pinkie agreed to the proposal, as it allowed them to get another cell for their adventure, before she walked outside the house and stared at the Precursor Oracle that Samos had pointed out many times in the past, where she spotted two Power Cells acting as its eyes. After a few seconds she let out a sigh and decided not to bother with it at the moment, though instead she approached the farmer's house, where she found a trapped Scout Fly inside, and approached the sleeping man. From what she could gather, as it was a jumbled mess of words that left his mouth, she would be able to get a Power Cell if she herding all of the Yakows back into their holding pen.
She ran at one of the Yakows and jumped onto its back, to which she wrapped her hands around its neck and gently maneuvered it towards the pen, though once it was back home she jumped off of it and headed towards the second one. As she herding it towards its home she noticed that Jak was running around the rocks near where she was working, though she could tell that her brother was heading towards the statue she had been looking at for a few seconds. It didn't take her too long to bring the other Yakows back to their pen and return to the farmer, who spouted some more words, again hard to tell because of how tired he was, but she managed to get the Power Cell he had promised before she headed towards the entrance to the Forbidden Jungle.
That was when she and Jak finally met back up, where they could finally exchange information on their objectives and what all of the villagers wanted for their Power Cells.
"The Mayor has two Power Cells he could give us," Jak said, just as he and Pinkie made their way out of the village area, "one for giving him ninety orbs, which is easy enough, though the second one involves restoring the village's power... which means that we need to find out what's interrupting the Blue Eco beams and, somehow, reconnect it to the village. The sculptor wants us to head to Misty Island and see if we can't find his muse, the golden creature that inspires him to do his work, in exchange for another cell. And finally the Precursor Oracle spoke to me and told me that it would gladly give us its Power Cells... if we offer up one hundred and twenty orbs for each of them, for a grand total of two hundred and forty orbs."
"We also found the last Scout Fly, grabbed the Power Cell it had found, and happened to find fifty orbs to add to our collection," Daxter added, to which he turned his head back to Pinkie for a moment, to which he found that she had pulled out a pad of paper and a pencil from somewhere and was writing something down, "What are you doing?"
"Writing down what everyone asked of us," Pinkie replied, turning the pad around so her brother and best friend could see what she had written, before indicating to the tasks that they had completed or still had to complete, "I managed to get a Power Cell for herding a group of Yakows back into their pen, the birdwatcher wants us to save an egg somewhere on Sentinel Beach, and there's still ninety orbs that we can trade to our uncle for another Power Cell."
"I'd question where you pulled those out of, but I won't," Daxter groaned, knowing that Pinkie could do some random stuff when she put her mind to it, "Let's get our adventure started."
"Then we had best start searching the Forbidden Jungle," Jak said, though at the same time he and Pinkie moved around the entrance of the jungle and collected a few orbs that happened to be on the beach, before returning to the entrance and climbing up to the cliff that had a bridge connected to it.
The trio moved across the bridge and truly entered the Forbidden Jungle, though once they were on the other side they took the path on the right, as they decided that helping the Mayor would be a good first place to start. A snake dropped down from the top of the trees around them and tried to strike Jak, though as he jumped to the side to avoid it Pinkie brought her fist into the snake's face and took it out, to which some small Green Eco orbs were left behind. They then jumped over the row of wooden spikes that were in front of them, struck the frog like creature that was coming right for them, rolled past the swinging log that would definitely hurt if they came into contact with it, and took out yet another snake before they were safe for a few seconds.
Pinkie spotted a Scout Fly box above where they were standing and jumped onto the tree stumps that were around them, to which she maneuvered around them, collecting the various orbs that were up there, before she rescued the fly and returned to her brother. They then moved around another set of tree stumps before jumping onto the cliff that was by the Precursor Temple, though as they rounded the corner they spotted a few Lurkers working on some sort of machine. They noticed that the Eco that was coming off of the temple was being captured by a mirror on the machine, and being redirected into the center of the machine, so Jak and Pinkie knew exactly what they needed to do next.
Pinkie climbed up the moving pistons on the side of the machine while Jak charged at the Lurkers and slammed his fist into one of them, though once Pinkie reached the top she found a few orbs laying about, which she grabbed, she made her way to the mirror and stared at the Blue Eco beam that was heading into the machine. She approached the beam and touched it for a second, to which a full charge of Blue Eco surged into her body, though as she looked around she spotted a Precursor Door nearby. A grin appeared on her face as she jumped off the machine and ran up the ramp that led to the door, to which it opened as the Eco surged out of her and revealed a Power Cell, though she grabbed it before heading back to the top of the machine and smashing the mirror for real this time.
The instant the mirror was gone, and the beam was heading out into the water, an ancient Precursor mirror appeared in front of the machine, complete with a large pole that allowed it to catch the Eco Beam.
"Well now, let's see what we can do with this," Jak said, spying something that looked like a viewer of some kind, which allowed him to move the mirror until it directed the beam to the next one in the sequence, "I guess this is how we'll reconnect the village's power."
"If we follow the beam we'll find the other ones," Pinkie stated, though while she spoke she looked over the edge of the area they were on and spotted a Power Cell, and some more orbs, hanging around a small piece of ground that was almost completely covered in water, "and we'll need to figure out how to get that Power Cell as well."
The trio followed the beam to the next mirror, to which Jak aligned it with the next one once they arrived, before they had to follow it to the third mirror, which happened to be on the cliff they had jumped off of a few seconds ago. Once that one was reconnected they followed the beam across another one of the bridges, where Daxter pointed out that the fisherman was done at the riverside they were passing, before they arrived at a set of Precursor objects that were arranged in a circle. They grabbed all the orbs that were laying around before they jumped up to the walkway above them, where they avoided another swinging log trap and accessed the viewer that had been placed there. As Jak moved to head towards the next mirror location, which appeared to be on the beach they had passed by when they entered the forest, Pinkie jumped up some nearby stumps and collected another Scout Fly, giving them three as Jak said that he had picked up one by the first mirror.
It didn't take them long to reach the final mirror, as the moment Jak connected the beam to a mirror on the outskirts of the village Pinkie confirmed that the windmill was moving again... though she also insisted that they finish exploring before collecting their reward from the Mayor or the other villagers.
With that objective done they reentered the Forbidden Jungle and quickly made their way towards the fisherman, who told them, the moment they asked if something was wrong, that he couldn't catch two hundred pounds of good fish without accidentally poisoning the entire lot with a poisonous eel. Despite the fact that he was using a tiny net, and how slim the river looked, Pinkie accepted the challenge and laid down on the small bridge that the fisherman had created. She had to do what the fisherman couldn't do, catch enough one pound and five pound fish to get the desired number, though she surprised both him, Jak, and Daxter by moving her arms faster than they could and, after about a minute or two of concentration, the fish basket was full of fish, exactly as the fisherman had asked.
They then left the fisherman to cheer their praises, though they had permission to use his boat to reach Misty Island, which would definitely help them in the future, as well as another Power Cell for the collection. The trio continued along the river they were on and found a few Lurkers hanging out down there, though that was in addition to the two Scout Flies that happened to be trapped inside their boxes, a number of orbs that happened to be scattered about the place, and the Power Cell that Pinkie had spotted earlier. After a few more seconds of searching the bottom area for items of use, of which there were none, the trio returned to the upper area of the jungle and made their way past the circle of Precursor platforms they had seen earlier.
That eventually led them to an area in front of the Precursor Temple, where they spotted three Lurkers trying to figure out a way to cross the gap in front of them, but Jak and Pinkie quickly put them down before staring at the puzzle that was in front of them. Daxter opened his mouth to say something, no doubt to give a word of advice or something, but that was interrupted by Pinkie appearing next to them, with Blue Eco dancing about her body. Not a few seconds later the fallen bridge reacted to the Eco inside Pinkie and reconstructed itself, using whatever pieces still remained, before the trio jumped over the ancient bridge and entered the temple. Before they went too far Pinkie spotted a walkway to their right, so she hopped onto the small jump pad that someone had left behind and, upon landing, walked along the exterior of the temple before returning to her brother.
"Well, I found a few more orbs and another Scout Fly," Pinkie commented, a grin appearing on her face as they activated the platforms that would take them to the top of the temple.
Eventually they found the seventh Scout Fly, which was apparently guarded by some Lurkers, and retrieved the Power Cell that it had found, to which they continued their ascent towards the top of the temple and activated every platform they came across... until they reached the tallest point of the temple and located yet another Power Cell that was theirs for the taking. Unfortunately the moment they collected the Power Cell Pinkie accidentally stepped on a button and the platform they were on lowered into the temple, though once it reached the bottom it was clear that they weren't going back up the way they came down.
"Oops... I didn't mean to do that," Pinkie said, noticing that the room they were in had two sealed doorways, which could be opened by Blue Eco, and a third opening that would no doubt take them to said Eco.
"Well, we had better search around here as well," Jak replied, while at the same time Daxter shook his head, "I bet there's some orbs we can grab so we can trade with the villagers... and maybe a Power Cell or two."
They both jumped up to the passageway that was open and walked through the tunnel that they found, collecting all of the orbs that were waiting for someone to take them while also avoiding the sharp spiked vines that they had seen outside the temple... though before long they found a Power Cell sitting on top of an ancient Precursor device that had Blue Eco coming off of it. The moment they stepped onto it the machine glowed before a nearby Blue Eco Vent opened up, though seconds later Keira called in and informed them that they must have activated all of the Blue Eco Vents around the land. With the Blue Eco surging through their bodies Jak and Pinkie made their way towards the previously locked doors, though as they did so Pinkie jumped back onto the passageway they had taken to get the Blue Eco... but when she returned from a launch pad she was carrying more orbs for them to use later on.
They used the launch pad ahead of them to get more orbs, though when they rounded the corner they found a massive plant creature that appeared to be living off of the Eco in the temple... and it appeared to be guarding the only way out of the temple.
The instant they touched its platform it sent out its minions, little green creatures that withdrew their spikes after a few seconds, though once they creatures were dealt with the planet opened a way up to its chin and bared its neck towards them. Jak, deciding to take a risk, jumped up to the top of the pads and struck the creature where it had been beckoning them to hit, though all that did was make it spawn more enemies for them to fight. They ended up doing the same thing two more times before the creature slammed to the ground and coughed up a Power Cell, though Daxter started jumping on the dead creature's head for no reason as Jak collected the Power Cell... only to discover that the creature had eaten a few orbs when Daxter handed them over.
With the temple cleared out, and they were sure that they hadn't missed anything, they gathered some Blue Eco and used the launch pad to escape the area they were in, though when they exited the temple they found that they were back in the circle of Precursor platforms, where they were able to collect what appeared to be the last of the orbs in the area as they landed on the ground.
"So now what?" Daxter asked as Jak and Pinkie made their way out of the Forbidden Jungle, though he was glad to finally be departing from the place and never have to go back.
"Now we head to the beach and see what needs to be done," Jak replied, though at the same time he was looking over the list that Pinkie had made earlier, "We've still got to unclog Samos' Eco Collectors and find that Flut Flut egg, while not even bothering to throw in the Scout Flies and any other Power Cell we might find there."
"Its a shame, it really is," Daxter moaned, staring at the sky for a moment while Jak and Pinkie headed towards the village, "I was looking forward to a relaxing walk on the beach or something."
"Don't worry Daxter, we can always do that once we've completed our quest," Pinkie spoke up, a smile appearing on her face again as they walked, "though we should stop and eat before we go to the beach. Wouldn't want to fight anything on an empty stomach."
Neither Jak nor Daxter could argue with that statement, so the trio decided to make a quick stop in the village before they headed towards Sentinel Beach... and whatever danger awaited them.