Precursor: Robot
The trio rode the elevator to the top, seeing Gol and Maia already at work on the silo in the distance when they disembarked. Grabbing some nearby clusters of Blue Eco, they activated a mobile platform to carry them over to the primary silo. They were using a beam of Blue Eco from the robot to force it open.
Daxter glanced around, trying to come up with a plan, since he knew Jak and Shining's plan would be 'charge in and smash', and that ran the risk of letting the silo open all the way. Besides, he was supposed to be a distraction. Looking around, he saw a seemingly useless Red Eco vent - they couldn't get close enough to the robot to attack it physically - a large metal pipe with a pointed end, and several clusters of explosive Yellow Eco. An idea hit him. "Shining! Can you cast your shield like a ball around yourself and roll it around?"
"Uhh...yeah," Shining replied, somewhat confused.
"Do it!" Daxter spun around. "Jak! Grab that metal pipe, hit the Red Eco vent, and get ready to play golf!"
Jak, also confused but curious, raced to do as instructed.
"You're too late!" Maia proclaimed from the robot as Jak and Shining raced to work the plan. "Soon, the silo will be open, we will have all the Dark Eco we need to complete our research, and there's nothing you can do to-"
"I LOVE YOU MAIA!" Daxter shouted at the top of his lungs.
The robot froze where it hovered in the air, the Eco Beam shutting down as it swiveled to look at Daxter. Jak fell face first into the Red Eco vent, nearly impaling himself on the pointed metal pipe he'd grabbed. Shining's shield fluctuated as it held the gathered Yellow Eco. All were staring at Daxter now.
"Why are you not moving to destroy the giant robot?" Daxter demanded in a stage whisper. "That won't work twice!"(1)
Maia suddenly screamed in rage. "You miserable, lying rodent! Why I-"
Racing from the Red Eco vent, Jak drew back the metal pole and - putting the Red Eco he was filled with behind the swing - struck Shining's shield as hard as he could, shouting, "FORE!"
With a loud "THWACK!" Shining's shield ball flew threw the air, slamming into the side of the robot's face with a massive Yellow Eco explosion, eradicating the emitters it had been using to fire the Eco Beams. As Shining fell back - his shield still charged with Eco - Jak raced forward and struck again. They repeated this process to blast bits of the Precursor Robot apart with each explosion, at one point sending Shining through a Yellow Eco vent that activated to one side of the silo to recharge him.
"Nice!" Daxter crowed, leaping into the air. "I didn't think my makeshift plan would work this well!"
At that moment, Shining - in his explosively charged shield - slammed into the center of the robot, causing the entire thing to explode. Daxter let out a scream as he tumbled off the side of the silo, just barely managing to catch hold of two side indentations. Since he had nothing else to do, he decided to examine them until someone came and got him.
Atop the silo, Shining staggered around, looking drunk. "Mommy I don't want to ride the roller coaster again!" he chimed foolishly before slumping over in a heap.
Jak managed to catch his feet as Gol and Maia fell out of the head unit of their robot, the only part still in one piece. "You fools!" Gol proclaimed. "Without the Dark Eco, our research can never be complete! We'll never find the secrets of creation!"
"We'll never find a way to cure your little friend!" Maia added.
Blinking, Jak looked around. "Daxter?" he called out worriedly.
"I'm fine!" Daxter called out, sitting on Samos' shoulder as the Sages floated up on a wide platform the Blue Sage was powering. "Also, there's something you should see! Jak, bring that pole if it's still in one piece!"
"Gol, Maia, you both should come too," Samos instructed.
Confused, the trio boarded the platform, Jak carrying his unconscious brother.
"These are of interest, wouldn't you say?" Samos asked, indicating the indentations Daxter had grabbed hold of.
Gol leaned in close to the first one. "This is a...pressure guage?" he asked in shock.
"And from the looks of these Precursor runes, the silo's under...incredibly high pressure," Maia muttered. "If we'd succeeded in opening it all the way..."
"You would have flooded the entire world with Dark Eco," Samos finished for her. "Rather than perform any successful experiments, you would have killed everything, including yourselves."
"It's true," Gol murmured. "We lack the genetic markers...to achieve evolution via...the Dark Eco..."
"And there was no need!" Daxter pointed out, holding up a jar of Precursor alloy. "Observe. Jak, please put the pointed end into the other indentation!"
Noding, Jak inserted the pointed end. Dark Eco flowed down the pipe at a steady rate into the jar, which Daxter promptly capped once it was full and Jak had removed the pipe. "The Precursors obviously expected the study of Dark Eco," Samos explained, "and provided means to access it safely."
Gol and Maia glanced back and forth between each other, feeling incredibly foolish.
While the Sages discussed how best to handle careful Dark Eco studies, Jak sought out Keira. "Shining gave me your note," he told her softly, smiling.
"And you did save the day," Keira replied with a smile, hands behind her back. "Are you ready for your...suitable reward?" She looked up at him through fluttering eyelashes.
Jak nodded happily, smiling widely.
"I'm glad," Keira replied, leaning forward slightly.
Jak leaned forward as well, his eyes slowly closing.
Keira pulled her hands out from behind her back, holding a truly vile looking creation. "I baked you a cake!"
The sound of Jak's face hitting the floor echoed over Daxter and Shining's belly laughter.
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The cake is a lie.
6605700 Oh but it is real. Just the taste of it is a lie though, no matter how good (or bad) it looks.
Well, at least Jak can say he had his cake... And eating it though is another matter.
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I can't believe you actually used that! Thank you so much, that made my day.
Sadly for Jak, the cake is not a euphemism for anything else, unlike a certain Italian plumber.
6605734 That is so true!
Since I never had the opportunity to play this game, I suppose it's alright that I read it with a pony twist instead.
DE HORROR
Oh my God, do I feel bad for this guy.
6582019 It was!!!
looks like there was no need for the Silo's "Last Gasp" Safety Measure in this timeline... the one we saw in the game. and thus a myth remains a myth. now comes the times between games 1 and 2.
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well, everybody, there's only one thing to say to that.
I can't believe this but for some reason, Daxter reminds me of Sokka.
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And yet, even for Mario Jumpman Mario, the "cake" was still a lie.
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It could have been worse. If memory serves, Gol and Maia both died in the original story.
...of course, considering that "The End of the World as We Know It" is due to happen in less than a year, it isn't much of a reprieve.
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Except that Sokka was a Baddass Normal, whereas Daxter is slightly more empowered. Otherwise I totally agree.
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Not to mention hazardous to your health
Congratulations.
You removed one of the single MOST CRITCAL points of Precursor:
Jak's Light Eco form.
there's more than one of him?
Another enjoyable chapter. Well done.
6606973 Light form Jak didn't exist yet. Light form Jak didn't become a thing until the third game. So, for the sake of timeline preservation, he didn't show up two games early, but there is still the door left.
6607651 Um. No, that is a DIFFERENT light eco form. The one he is referring to is not a blue, glowy Jak, but rather a silvery one that possessed immense power, which was used to destroy the precursor bot completely in the game.
6609960 I don't recall a glowy guy with floaty tendrils showing up at all.
6610538 That's because the ONLY thing about him that changed when he absorbed it was his color.
Again, it was still not the light jak you're thinking of.
6610623 So, there was no supposedly angelic being with a silver color scheme, or a white/gold one according to a couple month old memory of mine at this point in time. I might as well go hunt down a video of it now.
Edit: One bit of light Eco does not a light Eco form make. That is just a normal Eco acquirement , the only difference being the type of Eco.
6610667 Well, considering the fact that with all the other eco types, the colors of the eco just glowed around him, I would say his entire color changing would be a transformation. And considering the amount of power it has, because he threw something similar to a yellow eco fireball that happened to be strong enough to absolutely DESTROY the precursor bot, I would, once again, say it's a transformation.
6610713 Guess we will just have to agree to disagree then.
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I interpreted it as the Light Eco fireball neutralizing all the Dark Eco that was powering the robot, causing the other colors of Eco it was using to erupt explosively out of it. Not so much that the Light Eco is that powerful, but the Eco reaction on impact was.
Wait, I thought Shining was the voice of reason.
And we have made it through the first Jak and Daxter, and now I am curious to see how Number two and three are handled. For starters I'm wondering will shining be abducted like Jak, or will he escape like Daxter? What weapon will you give shining (I sugest a gun stick like Sig)? I guess there is only one way to find out, write on good sir!
Oh, and I'm just going to put this out there early, but in Jak 3, I hope that you will ignore the totally out of nowhere Ashlin/Jak Romance
, just putting that out there.
6607651 What you're thinking of. vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/jakanddaxter/images/b/bf/Light_Jak_screen.png/revision/20140615130319
What the other guy is talking about.
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What happened to make the latter picture.
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Please get your facts right before an argument.
Why? Why couldn't the cake be a lie?!
...OMG Tatsurou you should totally have a Displaced pony fic where GLaDOS and/or Chell and Wheatley raise a pony.
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Glados is going to raise Gilda.
6614700 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
6611105 I'm not certain, but I think it was actually powered by everything BUT dark eco. But either way, it still destroyed it when his previous efforts only damaged it, albeit severely.
6614718 What are you "EEE"ing abou-
*Sees what you're "EEE"ing about*
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
That last part was funny and adorable
have you been playing PlayStation All Stars lately, by any chance
I couldn't resist.
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Oh god all of my yes.
"The cakes a freaking lie, dweeb!"
Also, Jak using Shining as a tennis ball could have gone SOOOOOO badly. One poorly aimed shot, whoops we missed the robot, see you in a year, Shining Armor... We'll find you eventually!
Messes with pipes, has a brother, platforming, animal sidekick, and a hot chick gives him cake. Jak "Jumpman" Mario.
Gol and Maia live, light eco doesn't make breif appearance, and a means of studying dark eco is possible.
Not a lot of changes you made, but the game was a straight forward collect-athon.
Still love it.
On to Jak II, where thinks get messed up.
I’m really liking what you’re doing with Daxter. It reminded me of this Death Battle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKoeSRhF1nc where one of the major points in Ratchet’s advantage was that he and Clank were a better team while Jak is mostly fighting solo. I like Daxter being not only useful, but competent.