After Twilight and Starlight encountered each other they made sure to spend every other day doing something to make up for lost time, be it comparing their notes on everything that had happened to them or to the city as a whole, their couple of encounters with the Krimzon Guards, or discussing everything both of them had seen when they used the Rift Gate, since it seemed to be important to what happened to them and they agreed on one thing, there had to be another one in this time period, somewhere anyway, though with the Rift Rider destroyed them would need to rebuild it before even trying to find the gate itself, hence they they focused on learning whatever they could about the gate. For the most part Alvin, Simon, and Theodore had no idea what to contribute to that particular topic and usually remained silent whenever they discussed the Rift Gate, even though it was clear that Simon was interested in the fact that the Precursors had the power to travel through time, in addition to everything he had discovered about the ancient race, which made the sisters interested in what he had discovered over the years and invited him to join those particular conversations, since having another voice meant that they would have some better discussions. Whenever that happened Alvin either did what Daxter would do, ignore them and just sit around waiting for something interesting to occur in the nearby area, or he would simply stare outside and focus on all of the Krimzon Guards that were wandering around whatever section of Haven City the sisters met up in, which was usually away from the Port and was more in the Slums, something that allowed Starlight to be as far away from Krew as she could, since it appeared that she didn't like him all that much, while Theodore mostly just watched the outside of the buildings and occasionally trained with Alvin, just to make sure their bodies were ready for anything, not that Twilight was thinking of even sending them into battle while they were in their Ottsel forms. Simon then informed her and Starlight that, due to the Eco Dome that protected the city from the rest of the Metal Heads and anyone else that served as the Baron's enemies, in case he had more enemies than just the Metal Heads and the members of the Underground, that they were unable to actually transform into their true forms and their hybrid forms, meaning that while they were inside Haven City they were stuck in their Ottsel forms and could only change when they were outside the Eco Dome, interesting information that the sisters kept in mind for later.
Speaking about the Metal Heads for a time made the sisters wonder if they ought to label the Ottsel brothers as their own species, something that was due to the vast differences between them and the rest of the seemingly mindless brutes who were in the middle of attacking Haven City, or at least the outside of the city anyway, hence why Starlight came up with the idea to call the three brothers 'Neo Metal Heads', neo being a word to describe new and they were a new type of being in a sense, something that Simon did agree with when he and his brothers heard it, but they also planned on applying the new name to any additional Metal Heads that were like the Ottsels, because if the Leader created three of them both she and Twilight knew it was a matter of time until more were made. The problem of there being additional Neo Metal Heads was that some might turn out to be polar opposites of Alvin and his brothers, as they might join the Leader of the Hive and just continue the assaults on Haven City, possibly by transforming into another form and slipping in to cause some damage from this side of the city's walls, which could even bring down the Eco Dome if they were incredibly lucky, or maybe these hypothetical Neo Metal Heads might be like the brothers and ditch the Leader for a more peaceful existence, even if that would likely draw them into defending Haven City from the Leader and his forces, like Alvin and his brothers were doing at the moment. Alvin informed them that, to the best of his knowledge and the vast knowledge that Simon possessed, it was unlikely that the Leader would make more Neo Metal Heads after they, who happened to be the first three successful ones in his long line of experiments, or whatever he had done to ensure all three of them had been born, ran away from the Hive and even killed the other Metal Heads in battle, but there was always the chance that he might be wrong about such a thing and that the Leader could be making new allies for his cause, this time making sure to twist all of them into willing allies, which would be unfortunate for them if such a thing happened. Of course this was something that they would keep to themselves, as they definitely didn't want Krew to get his hands on everything they were talking about, even though Twilight wasn't sure why Starlight disliked the person in question and was told that she would find out at a later date, nor did the brothers want the Underground to learn of this truth either, as each of them felt that sharing it with the Shadow would be best, that way he could figure out how to tell his forces the news that they had friendly Metal Heads that were taking the fight to their former allies.
While Twilight did feel a little bad about lying and hiding the truth from the Underground, given that Torn and Tess had brought her in and made sure she had a place to stay, some food to eat, and even new clothing, but given that they were still hiding stuff from her, something that she was positive on given the years she spent learning from Samos, but once she figured out what sort of secrets they were hiding, which would take some time given that she knew next to nothing about her new friends, she was sure that Alvin and his brothers would share the secret of their identities with those that they were helping out, which would be a long day when it finally arrived.
In addition to all of the times that they talked with each other, about whatever topics they felt like discussing at the time, Starlight made sure to set aside some days so she could show Twilight, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore how to properly use the Morph Gun, even though one of them would be using it while the others just sat there and watched what the pair was doing, though fortunately the weapon had a safety mode so no shots could be fired, mostly for intimidation purposes, as these were intended to end up in the hands of the Krimzon Guards at one point, but since Twilight nearly dropped the gun on the ground the first time she held it both she and Starlight were pleased to have the safety feature. Once she finally got used to the Morph Gun's weight, which took some time since she wasn't used to holding or carrying something like this in her hands or on her back, as these seemed to come with holders on one's back for when they were walking, even though she was sure the guards would have a different attachment since they almost always seemed to be carrying their weapons in their hands, that was when Starlight finally got around to teaching her how to move with the gun and the movements that allowed one to wield the full power of the gun's first form, the Red Eco 'Scatter Gun' as it was called by the individual who created it. Twilight was still surprised by the fact that the Morph Gun used Eco as ammunition, something that didn't seem to be the best way to use the ancient power, or at least that was her opinion on the matter, and she was even more surprised to hear that, while the Scatter Gun required a lot of work to reach the final stage where it could be produced in mass quantities, the individual who made the Morph Gun had three total mods, as they were called, for the weapon, the first being the Scatter Mod, the second being the Yellow Eco 'Blaster' Mod, and the last being the Blue Eco 'Vulcan' Mod, which made her and Starlight wonder what the other two weapon types would do. Of course Starlight heard a rumor that there was a fourth mod, the Dark Eco 'Peace Maker' Mod, in the works as well and that the individual didn't want many to know about their work, though the only reason she knew about the rumor was due to Krew and his love of weapons, an odd obsession to have at this point in time, but there would be no way for them to know about the fourth mod until the one that was working on it and the others completed their work on the weapons that would be given to the members of the Krimzon Guard, even though some would be seized for the Underground at some point, before she refocused on the lesson she was giving Twilight and stopped talking about the mods she knew about.
As Twilight fired the Scatter Gun for the first time she determined that it might not be for her, as the thing was harsh on her arms and hands, something Starlight agreed with and determined that something was either wrong with how it had been made or a component was in the wrong spot, or maybe there was another aspect that they hadn't considered yet, but that just meant that they had to be careful as they trained with the gun, just to make sure neither of their arms were dislodged or damaged in some manner, especially since Green Eco was rarer in this time period and came in small cube shaped containers that were supposed to heal whoever happened to be injured, an interesting discovery based on what Twilight had figured out about this strange time period.
While learning how to wield the Morph Gun, even if only the Scatter Mod was available, Twilight spent some of the other days trying to figure out how to contact Vin and speak with him, without the Baron knowing that the Underground had an informant inside the forces that were keeping the city safe, or at least it was seen that way if one asked a guard when they were off duty, but for the most part it didn't look like she was going to have any luck in that field, as Vin was a hard guy to contact and she wondered if that was actually his name or just his alias, because it was possible that it might be a false name to avoid drawing suspicion to himself. Even asking Torn about Vin didn't give Twilight much to go on, as he seemed unwilling to share that information with her or the Ottsel brothers, saying that he was one of the few informants that the Underground had and, based on his particular set of skills, that he might be the most valuable one of them all, though that wasn't counting their informant in the Port, who Torn decided not to name right now since he knew that Twilight still had to prove herself worthy of the high ranking information, or at least that seemed to be his thought process, to which she just sighed and quickly dropped the issue since it didn't appear she was making any progress. Still, that didn't stop Twilight from trying to figure out a way to get into contact with Vin and see if she could convince him to help her locate the rest of her family, not to mention the rest of their group since she had no idea where Keira and Samos had landed, though one thing she determined after some time was that there was a building inside the Industrial Section and it seemed to be very important to the power of the city, like someone used it to make sure the Eco Dome and the shield it produced were just fine, to ensure no enemies entered the city and started attacking the civilians. The interesting thing was that the building was unlocked and that there was no one inside it, as Twilight went in to investigate the structure after a few weeks of just seeing it while she moved between the Slums and the Port, though there was a bunch of machines and based on what she was seeing it looked like everything in there was tied to the other sections of the city, given that a few machines seemed to give readings about what was going on and one even had a reading about a flow of Eco from outside the city, to a location called the 'Strip Mine', which informed her that either the Baron or whoever had built the city had constructed a way to pump Eco into the city and power the Eco Dome.
Another thing she discovered was that there happened to be an open communication window between this location and the Strip Mine, where it looked like some of the Underground members came by and discussed things with someone, no doubt on Torn's orders so he could figure out what needed to be done inside the city, though she felt it was odd that her allies would have left the window open, since she figured it would require a password or code to let Vin know that he was speaking to someone from the Underground, hence why she walked over to the terminal and tapped a few buttons as Alvin and his brothers looked around the 'Power Station', as that was the name by the door. Twilight assumed that Alvin had found the name of this place, which was rather interesting and confirmed her thoughts on the matter, before turning her focus back to the terminal and noticed that someone had sent her a message, one that seemed to be asking who she was and how she came by this discussion panel, to which she quickly sent off her reply and made sure to inform whoever she was now conversing with that whoever he had been talking with previously had left the window up for anyone to see, even if the Krimzon Guards didn't seem to care about this place. Of course she wasn't expecting the incoming reply to be that whoever she was speaking with to assume that she was part of the Underground, without her saying anything for that matter, but instead of worrying whoever was on the other end she confirmed that she was part of the rebellion, while also making sure to reveal that Torn hadn't sent her to the Power Station, rather she had come on her own and her curiosity had been the reason for her coming here in the first place, though she also made sure the other individual knew that she felt like there should be a lock on the window for when someone was done and that a code was needed to make sure the line between the other speaker and the Underground was still secure. Sure enough the figure agreed with her idea about having a code to keep this line safe, though they had to keep it simple since the Baron would assume it was complicated and most of the Underground didn't seem to be all that smart, as the person on the other side was worried that the rest of their forces might forget a complicated code, to which they came up with a rather simple code that would ensure the continued safety of this communication window and make it so the Baron or the Krimzon Guard wouldn't be able to see it at all, not without cracking the code.
What surprised her was the fact that she was conversing with Vin, as the person that she was conversing with determined that she was deserved to know his identity and that he knew who she was, not that such a thing surprised Twilight since it was obvious that someone was hiding her and Starlight from Baron Praxis and Krew, with Vin being the only one that had the skills to do so, which was when she made sure to thank him for his help in keeping a low profile, even if the residents of the city didn't seem to care about her unique body, while asking about Cozy and anyone else that might have appeared rather suddenly, since she was looking for Keira and the others while seeing if there were any possible enemies that could have entered Haven City at some point. Interestingly enough Vin informed her that there were three strange readings on the same day, roughly around the time that Twilight and Starlight appeared in their respective locations, as she knew that it had been about seven months now, one month after reuniting with one of her sisters, which meant that Cozy had to be somewhere inside the city, if all three of them landed roughly at the same time, and that she, Starlight, and the Ottsels that knew their secrets needed to step up the pace since there was no telling where Cozy had landed and how much danger she was in. In addition to all of that Vin revealed something else that she found to be interesting, there were a few records of two rather faint signatures that had been caught about two years before the three he mentioned, meaning Keira and her father must have landed around the same time and had been separated from each other thanks to what happened to the Rift Rider, since she figured that if it was Jak and Daxter that landed she or Starlight would have found them by now, so all of this told her that her brother and Daxter hadn't landed yet and that it would be some time before it occurred, but at the same time she made sure to keep this to herself and Alvin, since she wasn't about to share that information with Vin, who didn't seem like he wanted to know why she was interested in those events. Either way she thanked him for what he was able to share with her and wrote down the code they had agreed on so it could be shared with Torn and the rest of the Underground, before logging off and locked the communication window for later, something that was followed by her and the Ottsels leaving the Power Station and headed back towards the Slums, to tell her superior what she had done with Vin, by accident since she wasn't planning on conversing with him like that, and hoped that he would just roll his eyes and move on to more important business.
Torn didn't seem all that bothered by her discovering Vin in the manner that she had, even though they hadn't seen each other face to face, and made sure to pass on the code to those who would be handling the Power Station, along with new instructions that they were to make sure they did what Twilight did to ensure that their ally stayed safe without the Baron finding out about what was going on, before assigning her to go cause another distraction, which seemed to be his favorite thing for her to do since her magic allowed her to excel at that and ensure the Underground was able to obtain a lot more gear when she did it.
After that Twilight spent the next couple of months in a sort of repeating state, she would get up at the same time Tess did every single day, they would share breakfast with Alvin and his brothers, before heading through a secret tunnel to get to where Torn resided so he could order them around, which usually ended with Twilight either patrolling an area of the city, which was rather boring in her opinion since it meant she either had to slowing fly around that section and hide herself to make the guards lose sight of where she went, or just lurk in the shadows and just stare at anything Torn wanted to keep an eye on, like the Krimzon Guards, Krew, or the one odd Lurker that seemed intelligent enough to speak and run his own shop in part of the Market District. The last one kept catching Twilight by surprise for the first couple of weeks, because it was odd for her to see a Lurker who had a greater level of intelligence than what she and her siblings were used to seeing, even if what they knew was from three hundred years ago, though it appeared that he was tolerated by the guards, due to the fact that she noticed many of them stayed away from the small part of the city that his shop was located in, but for the most part there were other things for her to worry about and staring at an intelligent Lurker wasn't important in the grand scheme of things, hence why he was at the back of Twilight's mind as she focused on the rest of the city. While she did that there were two individuals that she kept her eyes on whenever she and the Ottsel brothers were in the same area that the pair were in, one being a Human that was roughly about Torn's height and had orange-red colored hair, though he wore a uniform that was mostly a gray suit with a yellow trim in certain places, like on the outsides of the arms and legs, while he also had a mask that could cover his face, one that had red colored eyes and silts near his mouth area, before she noticed that his right shoulder plate had the word 'Commander' written in Precursor text, meaning that he had to be Errol, the one who served as the Baron's right hand. The other figure was a lady who had a slim body and stood at six feet tall, while also having a robust figure to boot, where Twilight noticed that she had short red colored hair that was done up in a deadlock fashion, if she was recalling the hair style correctly, and the couple of tattoos on her face meant that she had to be one of the Krimzon Guards, given Errol was wearing the same set, though while the lady had a heavy duty set of attire on it had also been modified to be more revealing, since she could see the lady's stomach area and part of the left leg of her pants had a rectangular hole in it, making it more revealing in some manner, plus she had a number of straps and holsters for her weapons, at least one gun from what she could tell.
Based on all of that Twilight had to determine that the lady was either a lower ranking member of the Krimzon Guard, who might be working her way up to Errol's position, or she didn't care about which of the various ranks she was in and wanted to focus her efforts on bringing down the Metal Heads and the Underground, so she would have to keep an eye on her in the future as she drove overhead and continued on her way, heading for a better spot to hang out in for some time before she bothered heading out to see if there were any additional things she needed to observe between now and when Torn wanted her to return to the hideout, to inform him of everything she had seen today.
Torn ended up informing her that it was never a good thing if Errol was out and about, given that he was ruthless and just loved the attention of the citizens, due to his status as the greatest zoomer racer in all of Haven City, hence why Twilight and everyone in the Underground steered clear of him for the most part, save for the days where Torn wanted someone to keep an eye on what he was doing, but all Twilight discovered was that he seemed to like walking through the Market sections of the city or heading to Hip Hog Heaven Saloon, Knew's place of business based on what Starlight had told her at one point, where she had to assume he was buying drinks and relaxing for the most part. Other than that she found that nothing major happened whenever she followed Errol or the lady, the latter coming out of the base of the Palace's large structure a few times, something that told her the figure was either more important than what she assumed or she was one of the Baron's elite guards, even though the act of her leaving the Baron's side, if the latter was true, meant that all of the times she had seen her in the city had been during whatever time off she had to have, though since Torn didn't seem to care about her Twilight decided to do the same thing. As such Twilight went through her days and weeks basically doing the same thing, either patrolling part of Haven City and seeing what the Krimzon Guards were up to or keeping an eye on Errol, just in the off chance that the Commander did something interesting that might undermine the Baron's forces, while keeping her eyes out for signs of Cozy, Jak, and the others, because if some of them had arrived before her and Starlight it meant they had been hiding in this place for a long period of time and that they had to be making it hard for someone to find them, keeping a low profile to be exact, though before she knew it a few months had gone by and put her on the date of when she and Starlight landed in Haven City. She still felt that spending a year inside the city, while helping Torn and the Underground expand, had been interesting in some cases and it allowed her to master a good number of her abilities, as in magical spells and physical attacks, though being unable to find anyone else from her group, not from a lack of trying since she spent a great deal of time trying to locate the rest of her siblings and the others, really annoyed her and she was sure Starlight was feeling the same way, to which she sighed and continued her drive through the section of the Market District that happened to be near the entrance to Haven Forest and the Precursor Temple that she had landed in, where it seemed to be the same as every other day and nothing important seemed to be happening.
Of course that was when a ripple appeared in the sky and something came flying out of what seemed to be a slight tunnel opening, as in the tunnel that the Rift Gate used to bring everyone to this time period, to which she focused on it as Alvin and his brothers did the same thing, showing that they were interested in what they were seeing, before determining that whoever had emerged from the tunnel had landed in the Industrial section of the city and she pulled out to go see who it was, even though she was sure it was Jak and Daxter, though given her distance by the time she reached the area that she had traced the energy to she found that no one was there, save for a handlebar that seemed to be part of the Rift Rider, to which she sighed for a moment as she parked her zoomer.
"Either they got away before the guards investigated the area, or they were captured," Twilight remarked, because those seemed to be the only two options that could explain what had happened in this part of the city, where she felt like taking a moment to curse the fact that she had been on the other side of the city, but even then something bothered her, as the lack of Krimzon Guards in this area meant that they must have known something was coming and had already dealt with it before anyone got scared, though the citizens who were around her didn't seem all that interested in what had occurred and went about their day as if nothing special had happened.
Alvin and his brothers didn't have anything to say to that, even though they were surprised by the fact that whoever had landed in this part of the city had disappeared so soon after exiting the Time Tunnel that Twilight had told them about in the past, something that meant the guards must have been waiting for another odd energy surge to happen, like what Vin had found when Twilight, Starlight, and the others had arrived in this time period, since it had to be the Precursor powers interacting with the Eco Dome to allow them safe passage, though for now there wasn't much she could do besides just returning to her mission and thinking about what had happened. What interested Twilight in the following days was that there were rumors of another Ottsel running around Haven City and that he seemed busy, meaning it had to be Daxter and that Jak had landed with him, with Jak being the one that was missing right now, and sure enough Starlight heard the same information that she had learned, even though it was hard to say if it was actually the truth or if someone had made up a lie to pull them out into the open so they could be captured, so for now they needed to keep their heads down and gather information on what was going on. As time went by, and there was no change in her missions from Torn, both she and the Ottsel brothers heard a number of additional rumors about Daxter, since Twilight was positive that was who they were hearing about, where some of the more popular ones seemed to be about him being an exterminator and that he was dealing with some sort of infestation, though for the most part every time she tried to get close to him he seemed to slip away and disappear, leaving her to return to her mission and wait for another rumor to emerge, even though she had the feeling that all of the rumors would be the same thing. She did think it would be funny if it was true, because at one point she recalled Samos saying that Daxter could have taken up the role of Sandover's exterminator and dealt with the rat problem, or whatever problem he and the Mayor had been aware of, though Daxter likely disliked the rumors and was either on his way to correct them or just ignore them as he looked for someone he could trust, like her and Starlight, but for now all she could really do was keep moving forward and spend her days keeping her ears open for any new rumors as her eyes kept watch for Daxter, to pull him to safety before the Krimzon Guards found him and captured him, as that had to be what happened to Jak.
What surprised Twilight was that by following the pattern she had established with Starlight and the Underground, which was what had gotten her through the first year of her stay in Haven City, another year had gone by and placed them at two years in the city, despite the fact that she was surprised by the fact that neither Baron Praxis or the Metal Head Leader had made any progress in their war and it make her wonder if it was ever going to escalate, since this seemed to be taking too long in her mind, but at the very least it allowed the Underground to grow and expand for what the future held, meaning they would be roughly prepared for whatever the future held for them. Once that day came and gone, with no new events happening at all, Twilight started to count down on the days as she and Starlight approached their third year in Haven City, where the first one had been rather eventful and the second had been rather boring, so it made them wonder if the third would be even better than the first one, or more eventful to be more exact, all while keeping an eye out for Daxter and the rest of their group, since she refused to admit that Cozy and the others weren't inside the city, given what Vin had told her in the past. Eventually she had Alvin and his brothers invade the Fortress by using some of the various vents that were on the outside of the building, even though it was on Torn's orders since he wanted more information as to what was inside it and if they needed to launch an offensive against the structure, which would mostly be Twilight and those he trusted, but during their venture they actually came across Daxter and found that he was definitely an exterminator, though while he did that he was looking for a way to free Jak, as it appeared Twilight's brother was somewhere inside the fortress and that he had to be careful, as the Baron and Errol had been inside the structure too much recently, meaning he needed to silent and not draw attention to himself, least they find him and capture him. As such Twilight made sure he stayed in contact with her and shared any information he found with her, which she might share with Torn if they found anything useful for the Underground, though one thing he discovered was that Errol occasionally spoke with someone called 'Count Veger' in one of the sections of the fortress, even though he felt like the man was more of a Vegan, showing he hadn't really grown up all that much, but for the most part he and Errol spoke about something called the 'Dark Warrior Program' and that it used Dark Eco for some purpose, even though the Count wanted to use Light Eco, which Torn revealed was impossible to find inside or around the city, so at the end of the day it was a fool's dream that Veger was chasing.
Still, the discovery that Jak was inside the Fortress, no doubt trapped in one of the cells that Torn knew about and told her that each of them were designed to hold some of the city's dangerous criminals, which made her wonder how in the world he could have known that, before revealing that Vin might be able to help them out in freeing Jak from his cell, because he recalled there being a Warp Gate inside one of the Fortress' rooms and there was another one inside the Power Station, so a connection between them could be opened and she could jump into the structure, though leaving would be a problem since Vin wouldn't be able to open the connection again without revealing that he was part of the Underground, showing Twilight that Torn wasn't fully committed to helping her out, not at the cost of their spy. As such Twilight, Starlight, Daxter, and Alvin and his brothers spent their time making a map of the Fortress, since they didn't want to access the official one in case the Baron had eyes on it, and prepared a bundle of equipment for Jak, containing a blue tunic and some pants that were off-white colored, basically his old attire remade in a modern fashion, and it even came with new shoes and a pair of gloves, making him look sort of like some of the other people in the city, though he would still stand out since he was one of the more unique people in the world. All of their preparations lasted until the date of Twilight and Starlight's third year in Haven City, which would put them at the same age as Jak since he had spent two years, alone, inside the city, before Vin revealed that he was ready to send them into the Fortress and cease communications with them for some time, as he did have his own job to do and didn't want the Underground to jeopardize his standing with the Baron, to which the pair and their Ottsel friends regrouped in the Power Station and waited for the Warp Gate to activate, though the moment it was open they jumped through it and braced themselves, as they had no idea what was going to happen next.