Haven: Clean Sweep
Once out of the slums, the trio decided that Onin the Seer would be the best one to consult about the Seal of Mar fragment. Reaching her hut, they found that The Shadow was there waiting for them as well, Pecker on his head.
"The birdbrain and I were just talking about you," Shadow commented as the trio entered. "Onin is very proud of what you three did."
"What we did?" Jak asked, confused, not certain anything they'd done would make Onin that proud.
"What you did, what you do," Pecker interpreted. "It's all the same."
"Will you stop with the Deja Voodoo stuff?" Daxter demanded angrily. "It's creepy!"
"Onin says you must find the Tomb of Mar," the Shadow explained.
"Even now," Pecker began, translating directly for Onin, "Baron Praxus seeks-"
"We already know most of his plan," Shining interrupted. "So what's in the tomb that little Mar needs to fetch?"
"The Precursor Stone," the Shadow explained.
"It contains vast Eco Energies that can be used for great good," Pecker translated. "Or...great evil."
"So where are the other two pieces of the Seal of Mar?" Jak asked.
"One is inside the Lurker Totem at the dig site," the Shadow explained. "We haven't determined where the last piece might be."
"Easy enough to find," Jak confirmed, turning to lead the group out to the dig site. "Figure out where the third one is while we're gone."
Back at the dig site, the group found a few scorpion-like Metalheads wandering about, but they went down easily to the Scatter Gun. The bulkier ones took more than one shot, but still went down easily. The more concerning danger was the rivers of magma running through the site, adding an intense sense of danger to the mission, especially since the Jet Board wasn't properly shielded to coast over magma.
Moving deeper into the dig site, the trio found themselves confronted with a labyrinth of switches, rotating platforms, and rivers of magma. "Okay, this makes no sense," Daxter grumbled.
"What, that these protections would be here?" Jak asked.
"No, that they wouldn't have been dismantled when they were excavated!"
"Unless the entire chambers were excavated intact," Shining countered.
Daxter raised his paw in protest, only to yield. "Okay, there's that."
It took nearly half an hour of careful exploration of the site to find all the switches they needed to press to clear the path forward, and by that time all three were hot, sweaty, and tired. Jak then led the way across several pools of lava, allowing Daxter to ride his shoulder and Shining to teleport after him, doing his best to deal with the excess heat.
Towards the end of the dig site, they encountered some smarter Metalheads, which kept their distance and hurled Dark Eco grenades from above. Shining managed to find a clever way of dealing with them, using his Eco Blades to bat the explosives back at them.
Beyond that, a slope forced them to climb up platforms while evading spiked metal balls rolling down towards them. At long last, they finally reached the Lurker Totem, the Seal piece glowing near the top.
"Why don't you get this one, Jak?" Daxter suggested.
"Because I'm going to have to carry you two out of here," he pointed out, gesturing from Daxter's small size to Shining's near absolute exhaustion.
"...good point." Racing up the statue, Daxter carefully worked the seal piece - this one a round plate with two holes - out of the statue. "Wonder what makes it glow?"
"Maybe it's reacting to the blood of Mar in Jak?" Shining offered, panting for breath.
Shrugging, Jak pocketed the seal piece and slung Shining over his shoulders before making his way out.
"Hey Jak!" Daxter called out. "There's a portal behind the totem!"
"Talk about a welcome shortcut," Jak muttered, carrying Shining through.
After the three took a relaxing cold shower back at their apartment to cool off, they made their way to the saloon for some refreshing beverage. When they got there, they found Tess and Sig at the bar, with no immediate sign of Krew. Daxter immediately began to brag about a recent battle to Tess, painting himself as the 'hero of the day' while exaggerating the battle multiple times within the same telling. While Jak and Shining rolled their eyes, listening with tolerant amusement, Tess ate it up.
"Oh, Daxter, you're amazing!" she breathed, scratching his back just where he liked it.
"Quite the story there, golden boy," Sig teased. "Sounds like you're just the animal I need for a new mission. Combat Metalheads have been sighted in Haven Forest. These new bad boys have camouflage that make them tough to spot, but I'm sure with your 'killer instincts' you'll manage."
"Can we have a drink first?" Shining whined, only to be greeted with chuckles all around.
After getting proper refreshment, the trio made their way to the forest. The combat Metalheads were indeed tough to spot as Sig had suggested, though they tended to give themselves away when they opened fire. Not only that, the camouflage didn't work perfectly when they were moving, and also failed to fully conceal the crystals embedded in their foreheads. Though time consuming and nerve wracking, the trio was eventually able to eliminate all 30 of them.
"Wish we could have done this during the day," Shining muttered, shivering.
"Well, it's over now," Jak reassured him. "Let's head back."
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Is that Krew's slightly uglier cousin?
You know, when you write the story out, you forget just how long the jak games are. Though, despite the length, the first three games never overstayed their welcome.
6859597 Is it even possible to be uglier than Krew?
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
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He's about at the limit of how ugly you can get and still be recognizably as the same species, but yes. Go much farther past that, and things start... squirming
6860262 Female Krew who's delusional enough to think they're sexy?
I'm starting to wonder when, and how, things are going to change on account of Praxis. Looking forward to more.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
Stealth enemies.... one of the more annoying video game aspects after Computer is a Cheating Bastard. Though if can be funny if you're attacking something else and suddenly a second enemy falls dead in front of you that you didn't see.
6861316 Yeah.
...OK, when is Keira going to replace Shining's jump shoes are temperature regulating collar? The poor guy was dying near the magma and freezing to death!
Ok, one sec. I have to ask before going much further. What time logic are we following for this story? Dragonball Android Saga, Chrono Trigger or something else?
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The 'time logic' used by the games themselves.
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It's essentially a closed, contained time-loop theoretical scenario. What Jak and Daxter did in Jak II set the foundation for Jak and Daxter, and the two form a circle that constantly loops until the branch-off into Jak 3, at which point the time loop closes behind them, so to speak. Tatsurou happens to use it to grand effect building up his own variant of the story and theory.
Jak's younger self, Mar, was taken back in time by Samos' younger self, the Shadow, so that he would be safe, able to grow up into the young man Jak was when the second game's events started. The only reasons I don't put that under a spoiler code is because anyone who played the game and finished it already knows, and it's been heavily hinted to and practically thrown in our faces by now with this fic, though in a way that makes readers comfortable with it. We know Shining and Jak went through time with the Shadow, and why in general, and how it set the foundation for everything happening now.
Strange–but interesting!–isn't it?