As the bits and pieces of the robot were salvaged and cleaned up, Jak, Daxter, Shining, and Keira found their way to a massive Precursor door, ancient and engraved with endless runes. Since it was stationed above the silo, it was plainly important. "What is it?" Jak asked, staring at it in amazement.
"It's a door," Daxter replied. "I should think that was obvious."
"How do we open it?" Shining asked, examining it from a distance.
Keira moved close to the door. "It looks like there's indentations for placing Power Cells," she stated, running her hand over one. "I count...100 of them."
"Holy Yakkow!" Samos called out, coming up behind the group. "That's a lot of Power Cells. You won't be getting that door open any time soon-"
"But we have 101 Power Cells," Jak pointed out logically.
"Oh. Of course you do," Samos replied, looking away. "Of course you do..."
Not really understanding the tone of Samos' voice, Jak placed the Power Cells into the slot, their Eco Power drawing them into the points on the door until every single one was filled. The group stared at the door for a time, waiting for a response. After a time, a crack appeared down the middle of the door, and the two halves swung forward slowly as it opened.
Behind the door was a massive ring of Precursor metal filled with light, and a strangely configured vehicle, large enough to seat four. The moment Shining's eyes fell on them, a shiver ran down his spine. There was something so...upsettingly familiar about them, as though bad memories were associated with the very shapes. He looked away from them, trying to get himself under control, only for his eyes to fall on Samos.
Samos was staring at the ring and vehicle with distaste. His hand stroked his chin as he slowly shook his head. His mouth was moving, and Shining's sensitive hearing picked up the quietest of words from his lips.
"Already? Why so soon? ...They're so young...so young..."
Shining's eyes went from Samos to the ring, to the vehicle, trying to make sense of what was going on. Approaching the vehicle, he stared into the seats. Climbing in, he stared up at the shining light within the gate...
Gate?
Samos' voice suddenly rang in his mind.
"Don't worry. I'll take care of you. That's a promise."
Shining clutched his head as he fell over into the vehicle, not hearing the concerned shouts of his friends and family.
As Shining slowly came to, he found Samos standing over him. "Feeling better, Shining?" he asked softly.
Shining Armor glanced around, seeing he was back in Samos' hut. "That vehicle...the gateway-"
"Gateway?" Samos asked in shock.
"It's the same as from my dreams!" Shining said quickly, standing up. He staggered as his knees buckled, but he held his ground. "The dream of the grey city and the black sky, and the other unicorn and two Jaks! It always ended the same way. You, me, and Jak sitting in that vehicle, staring into the shining light of that gateway as you promised to take care of us! How is it here, Samos? What does it mean?"
Samos looked at Shining for a time, then sighed. "It means that your dreams will soon make sense, Shining," he explained at last. "But I fear that once they do, you will find them to be nightmares."
"Sir?" Shining's eyes widened, his confusion very much apparent.
"I had hoped that you would have more time before this would happen," Samos continued. "But I fear time has run out after all...or perhaps caught up to us. Even hearing the whole story, it never made sense to me..." He glanced away, sighing ruefully.
"Sage Samos?" Shining asked worriedly, walking up to him and nudging him with one hoof.
"Don't think about it for now, Shining," Samos stated firmly. "Enjoy the time you have while you can. The time's not far off when this peaceful life you two have known will come to a terrible end, and pain and strife will become your bosom buddies. Joyous moments will be few and far between. I've prepared you both for all this as best I can...but soon you'll be thrown into the fires of adversity." He turned back to Shining. "Shore up every gap in the armor of your heart with whatever happy memories you can make now, young hero, so these fires may temper you only, and not melt you to slag."
Shining swallowed, nodding. "Yes sir," he replied. He wasn't entirely sure he understood what Samos was talking about, but he was beginning to think the answers he'd wondered about for so long were going to be unpleasant to learn. It was best to relax and be ready. "How long do we have?"
"Until Keira gets the vehicle and gate working again, young one," Samos replied. "When that day comes...our peaceful time here will be at an end...and an adventure you won't be ready for will begin." He shook his head. "I know something of what might happen...but I know not how it begins. Be ready...and be happy."
Shining nodded. "Alright," he replied. "I'll let my smile be my armor." Turning, he headed out to find Jak and Daxter. One of them was bound to have an idea of something fun to do. Maybe they could go back to the snowcap mountain and go skiing!
As Samos watched Shining leave, he sat back down to gaze out his window. "Time is a fickle thing, the way the Precursors toyed with it," he muttered. "We made it safely around last time...but will we this time, young Princes?"
inb4 it's Princess Twilight.
Yeah, Jak 2 was always the hardest for me.
Wow, This is probably the best chapter of the story so far, both Samos and Shining sort of came to life in this chapter.
6619125 Yeah, Jak 2 was the hardest alight, I still find it difficult. you can't take more than four hits from most enemies, and the bosses are murder.
I've recently taken to calling it: 'Dark souls for kids'
6619125
Huh, which part?
In some ways, that's the hardest of the first three games. I'm only saying those, because I never played the racing one, Daxter, or the frontier one. Both of the last ones are for a system I don't possess, and I don't have a copy of the racing game.
I think the racing one took place between Jak 2 and Jak 3, but I'm not sure.
As for the second one, I always got the feeling that the developers were copying GTA 3 after a fashion. The way that you triggered story missions, the map, and the driving grid were similar.
Not that I think it's bad that they did if that's the case; imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
I feel your pain though; there were quite a few parts in the second one that gave me problems. The one major one was that ridiculous symbol-burst mini-game of Odin that you had to beat to get a part of the Seal of Mar.
I put the last part in spoiler tags cause I don't wanna give away too much of the story.
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1. Are you going to include the game DAXTER?
2. Since Gol and Mia weren't killed in your story how will effect Jak 2 and the events that are in the game. Because if memory serves me well the dark eco silos were at the drill platform in the mountains I think.
3. Will there be a sly Cooper story down the road cause I really want to see spike team up with the cooper gang. Think about it he could help them in situations that the gang couldn't get out of before.
P.S. love the story so far keep up the good work
Signed
Spyro the Night fury guardian of the multiverse.
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1. As in do the events of that game happen? Yes. As in, will I write anything about it? No. Nothing to change.
2. I'll figure something out about that.
3. There will be such a story. But Spike is being raised by Samus Aran.
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I wonder how they'll handle the slums...
I got to say I love this line, really deep and I can just see Shining getting his Cutie Mark from it if he didn't already have it.
Nothing sucks more than knowing that bad times are coming. Hopefully Shining will use this break to live life to the fullest.
Beating Jak 3 took me four days tops, Jak 2 took me a year...even after rebeating Jak 3 just to catch my bearings. I can't wait to see the gloriously frustrating mess that is Jak 2.
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Yeah, that confused me for a moment too. He's actually talking about Shining and Jak, who are each a "Prince" of Spargus. And since Twilight is off saving galaxies with Rachet, there will be no princesses here unless Jak has a sister we don't know about.
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Oooh, I wonder who will it be!
You've already done the Mane 6, Spike, Trixie, Octavia, Vinyl, Shiny, Cadance, Chryssy, and Nighty Moona.
The biggest name that I can think of that you haven't done yet Celestia, but the flight alone would probably count as OP for the games (two words: aerial surveillance). Unless...
Unless you have her as Carmallita's adorable daughter sidekick who helps mommy on cases but sometimes lets mommy's arch-enemy Sly Cooper slip away because she thinks it would be totally nice for him to be her daddy and I think I just gave myself a squee attack "hrrngthud!"
...
But seriously, who do you actually have planned to join the Cooper Gang?
6619747
Currently Cheerilee, but I'm waffling back and forth on it.
I have the storyline fully planned out for how the pony gets there and gets adopted by the selected parenting units, but I'm not sure which pony to use. Thankfully, the planned out segment of the story will be the same no matter what pony I use. The only change is what said pony contributes in the later games. Currently, Cheerilee will be the resident safe cracking specialist (no more hunting clue bottles).
However, I could easily switch it out for anypony else I can select. But Tia's going to Captain Picard.
Another enjoyable chapter. Well done.
6619761
*Long slow blink*
*Looks at Discord*
*Looks at Q*
*Looks at DisQord, just in case*
Well, no matter what happens, this is going to be an interesting ride.
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Honestly, I beat Jak 3 before Jak 2, and even then I had to load someone else's save file to do it. Can't remember where I got stuck though.
6619821 I know the pain bro, I know the pain
When I was little, I never finished Jak 2, no-one I knew did, everyone usually gave up. years later, when I finally finished it, I was so bloody pleased with myself.
I recently finished it again, and it's still bloody hard.
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The reason two is the hardest, is unlike the other ones, most of the combat missions were matters of endurance, Unlike the first which was more puzzle based with combat taking a back seat, and the third had manners of healing yourself and more effective weapons, the second was largely combat, healthkits were few and far between, you can only take four hits from most enemies, and checkpoints were infrequent, sometimes non-existent. Put this together and you have a recipe for little children tears.
6619761
First off, I am sad that I'm going to have to skip out on your Celestia story, but I know next to nothing about Star Trek (Picard was the bald one, right?).
And second of all.
Cheerilee?
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Cheerilee?!
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This pony right here? This Cheerilee?
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This is your current candidate for master safecracker?
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Not maybe, I don't know, Doctor Hooves?
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Or how about Bon Bon, AKA Special Agent Sweetie Drops?
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Now there's a pony I'd trust on a safe.
But Cheerilee is, well...
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... Cheerilee.
Although if you do end up using her, I'll have to read it anyway just to see how you even manage to make that work.
6619761
Hold on a mo; did you change your mind on doing Sly? Cause I remember you mentioning awhile back that you had no plans on doing Sly at all.
Not that I'm complaining, mind; I happen to enjoy the Sly games. Always have.
Still don't know how I feel about Celestia and Picard. Not that big of a Trek fan to be honest. Of course, we all know that if you do that one, we're gonna see a filly Celestia look up at Q and say "Discord?" in a high pitched cute voice.
6619914
Both Bon Bon and Time Turner fail my criteria for use in such a story.
6619963
And I changed my mind when I discovered a solution to my problems with using it.
6619982
Ah, okay.
Well, that's cool. I'm sure I've mentioned this at least once or twice, but I love the Sly games.
And I'm glad you're doing away with the clue bottles. No matter how much I love collection-type questing, they really overdid it in Sly Cooper and the Thevious Racoonous.
I hope I spelled that right.
Keep up the good work.
6619125 those mini games were always so cruel
6619747 You forget, however, that all these stories are taking place in different universes, different Equestrias (with the possibly, likely exceptions of WWW and Melody of the Future). If you go through the endings of each story Tatsurou has completed, none of them even reference each other (minus the ones with Deadpool and Pinkie Pie involved, they already broke the fourth wall thrice over each). In addition, Tatsurou himself said that none of his stories will interact with each other until My Little PWNY. So, in the Equestria Shining Armor disappeared from, Twilight is still there. Ergo, it is still entirely possible that Twilight is the one Samos referred too.
... and only as I'm getting ready to post all this do I look the chapter ending over again and see he said "Princes", plural, not "Princess", singular.
Aw yeah! Dark Jack and Armor! And this is just a small bit, not a scene, but perhaps let young Jak pet Shining Armor like a dog. And allow Shining to kick his leg like a dog, followed with sear scratches and belly rubs.
I wonder if we'll get to see a dark Armor, and if such a pony would have an obsession with crystals and stairs...
6619035 Princes is the plural form of Prince, not the female identifier. It makes sense given who they are and who they are related to, plus their record of world saving has just begun. Then again, it could be a mistaken gender for Cadance...
6620755 Hmmmm. A young kid, with the ability to produce (almost) impenetrable shields and what will grow to a rather hefty mana pool, gets mind-fucked for about five uninterrupted years. When he snaps he will possess the ability to stop all means of suppression, return fire with lethal accuracy, and grow a shield from the inside of a body causing *heh heh* well:
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They're boned. So Hard.
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Jak was only held captive for two years.
6621371 ............. right. haven't played that game for so long.
I wonder if Shining Armor would ever be exposed to Dark Eco much like Jak and Daxter...
I still think you doing a X raises Flash Sentry would be interesting.
and I vote Lupin the 3rd as his parent.
who better to raise a supposed Waifu Stealer than the best thief in anime?
Somehow i got a "Tyrant Armor" (Nightmare Shinning) feeling about the whole Thing.
6619125 The flipping water Titansuit part was the hardest for me...
6623021 dark eco.... just saying
Question: "Whats happening in Equestria?"
>Samos looked at Shining for a time, then sighed. "It means that your dreams will soon make sense, Shining,"
Why do time travelers always have a desperate need to be vague and annoying in the information they dole out?
...OK. WOW. 10/10.
7058977 Because reveling the wrong bit of information at the wrong time can destroy any attempt at things turning out alright.
7512997
Well said.
Of course, that's where time travel is allowed. Physics actually doesn't allow for it practically, though there are theories of time viewing.
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We're not meant to know what the future holds as a certainty. As Oogway says in the movie Kung Fu Panda, "One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it." Yoda also said, "Always in motion, is the future." It's fickle, like Samos has said here. Time is like a river, as Zecora says in the show, and a single change–even a minuscule one–can disrupt everything, causing a cascading avalanche of effects that we'd all end up seeing, and most often the results will be terrible. There's only one theoretical way time travel could be achieved perfectly, and it would depend entirely upon performing a perfect, uninterrupted and precisely executed plan that's way too elaborate to describe here. If you messed it up, you could cause all sorts of paradoxes, and who knows how that would effect time and space? To quote another character from across the multiverse–one who made an appearance in Twilight's side of the PWNYverse, "Time is a gift, and not to be tampered with." We must learn from the past to better work in the present for the sake of a brighter future.
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Well said friend. Well said indeed. Though I tend to think of time as an ocean as opposed to a river. Rivers often flow in only one direction, whereas an ocean has currents and flows going all sorts of different ways; even to nowhere, as is the case with a whirlpool.