Spargus: Monsters and Men
The Black Knight grinned widely, showing all his teeth as he pursued his target down the long tunnel, the Dark Corona surrounding him and deflecting weapons fire as Veger desperately shot back at him to try and keep him at bay. Several pillars erupted out the sides of the long tunnel as The Black Knight approached, but they shattered as the Dark Corona slammed into them. Still, they slowed him down somewhat, even if they didn't hurt him, and he didn't want to be slowed down. He didn't want Veger to get away.
Channeling Blue Eco from his reserves through his Darkness, he unleashed a wave of purple lightning bolts ahead of him, crashing through the pillars that had already erupted and damaging the slots of those that hadn't, causing them to explode as the mechanisms activated. Seeing the effectiveness of the Dark Shock, The Black Knight chuckled wickedly. "Nowhere to run, Veger!" he called out as he saw his prey desperately trying to accelerate his vehicle. "Nowhere to hide..."
As Jak and Daxter stared after the transformed equine, Damas pushed himself somewhat upright. "We...have to go after him," he growled out, struggling to make his body move.
"Your wound isn't even healed yet!" Daxter cried out. "We only just have the damage to your liver contained! If you move now, you'll tear it open again-"
"I am already dead!" Damas snapped out. "I freely accept death for the sake of my people and world! I will not lay idly by for a slow death, if choosing a quick one can save my son from himself!"
"Dad, it's just his Dark mode, like mine," Jak told him. "Once he works it out of his system, he'll change back-"
"No he won't!" Damas snapped. "Did your voice change that much when you transformed? Did it turn your nature inside out?" As Jak stared in confusion, Damas continued. "The mark upon his flank...when I first took him in, I asked Onin about it. She couldn't tell me much, but she told me it symbolized his inner nature. She also told me he shared the abilities you inherited to biologically metabolize Eco, and to be especially wary if any attempts to do so altered that mark." He tried to push himself up, but his legs would not move. "Jak, I need you to be my legs."
Nodding, Jak ducked under Damas' shoulder, bracing him and lifting him up, one hand under the opposite shoulder and the other over his wound. Daxter perched on Damas' other shoulder, pouring his Light Eco into Damas to keep him whole as long as possible even as Damas used his staff as a crutch. "But what does that mean?" Jak asked worriedly as they reached the other vehicle.
"It means right now, he isn't your brother, isn't my son," Damas growled out as Jak activated the controls. "And if we don't reach him before he kills Veger, we will lose him to the Dark Eco inside him...forever."
"So...you're saying to get Shining back, we have to save Veger," Daxter clarified as the vehicle shot down the now incredibly smooth tunnel without any obstacles. "Umm...are we sure this Black Knight fellow's really all that bad?"
At that moment, they passed a gruesome sight to one side of the tunnel. Apparently, a Dark Trooper had attempted to get in The Black Knight's way for some reason. Black energy raced across its twisted body, its limbs bent backwards and tied in knots, its skin turned inside out, a loop of its own entrails wrapped around its neck and mouth, stifling its screams of agony as the energy that had twisted it would not let it die...
"Yes," Damas whispered, his face pale from more than blood loss. "Yes we are."
The Black Knight pursued Veger out of the tunnel and into a wide, spherical space filled with endlessly rotating rings tracking the movement of celestial bodies, with a massive Precursor Statue in the center, a floating platform levitating before it...not through the use of Eco, as one might have expected, but because the platform and statue rested at the exact center of the planet's gravitational field, so it had nowhere to fall. This was the center of the planet, the focal point of the worlds natural fields.
All this was lost on The Black Knight as he lunged, pinning Veger to the platform beneath him, his sharp hoof digging deep into Veger's chest. He heard his victim's scream of pain and reveled in it. There was another voice, but The Black Knight heeded it not. "Are you ready to die, Veger?" The Black Knight hissed, ripping his hoof out of Veger's flesh and licking the blood from the tip. "Such a sweet taste...time for more..." He brought his hoof down towards his victim's heart...but a voice stopped him.
"Ar-Mar! Enough!"
The authority in that voice tore through the madness of the Dark Eco racing through his mind. Turning, he saw Jak, Daxter, and Damas approaching him. "...D...Dad...?" Shining gasped out, struggling through the miasma in his own mind and heart. He staggered back from Veger.
"My King, thank you!" Veger began desperately. "If you hadn't arrived when you did, there's no telling what this monster would have-"
His words were forever silenced as Damas' staff struck his skull, smashing it open like a melon against the platform. Jak, Daxter, and Shining all stared, stunned. "Ar-Mar," Damas began firmly, his tone instructing. "If you must kill, do so with a calm heart and a clear mind. Never allow your rage to control you and drive you to such things...or it will destroy you."
Shining shivered and nodded as he stared at Veger's dead body, his own shape slowly reverting to normal.
"Well done, warriors," the voice of the statue intoned. "You have saved one of your own from falling down the path of the Dark Makers, and arrived with plenty of time to save this world. Now, place the Eco Sphere in the receptacle."
Nodding, Jak pulled out the Sphere - resembling a giant Power Cell, and composed of all the Eco Crystals they'd collected - into the waiting receptacle. It immediately began to spin, and two large devices began to energize.
"It will take some time for the weapon to fully charge, but we have time enough in hand," the voice continued. An image of glowing light in the shape of the Precursor who had come out of the Stone appeared before them. "You have proven your worth, warriors. A place awaits you amongst us, if you so desire." A beam of light shot down, illuminating a place upon the platform.
Jak stared up at it for a time...and Damas collapsed to his side. "Dad!" Jak called out, terrified. Shining rushed to his side as well.
"Look!" Daxter called out to the statue. "I'm sure this 'place amongst you' is some great honor or what not, but as you can see, Jak and Shining have a lot to do out here still! If you really want to reward them, maybe you could fix their Dad? I can only do so much for a liver puncture and broken spine on trial and error, you know!"
The image hesitated. "There is something we can do for him," the voice replied. "But...all of you must understand what it is, and what it means. We have time enough to explain."
The image vanished. The front of the statue slowly opened, and a chamber filled with light was slowly revealed. Inside...were five ottsels in white robes, three facing the group and two keeping their eyes on the controls within the chamber. Of the three facing, the middle one was larger than the others and somewhat chubby. The one to the left was rail thin, and wearing a strange cap on its head that covered its eyes. The one to the right was much smaller, and somehow dainty. All three had the same coloration as Daxter, though the two at the controls were pale gray and dark purple in coloration and refused to look at the group.
The chubby one held a device up to his mouth. "We have much," he began, the device distorting his voice into that of the statue. He then lowered it. "To explain to you," he continued, his voice gentler and older, reminiscent of when Samos dressed up as the Solstice Saint to deliver gifts around Sandover.
Damas, Jak, Shining, and Daxter all stared, struggling to wrap their minds around what they were seeing, their jaws hanging open in total stupefaction. Damas was the first to find his voice. "...what the fuck?" he demanded angrily.
"As I said," the chubby ottsel repeated, "we have much to explain..."
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So, the precursors are ottsols? I'm as confused as Jak and the others.
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Ah, yeah, pretty much. It was both a gag, and homage to a cult classic.
I never did figure out that second part until much later, after watching The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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I'm not sure if I want to see two of them be named Frankie and Benjy or not.
Note: Haven't actually played the games.
Wait a minute...
"Five"? *Goes back to watch the scene* Where the hell did the other two come from?
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What else has changed from canon?
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I haven't even read the chapter yet, and I already have a good guess who the extras are.
aw no ottesl veger. That was funny as hell when I first saw it.
7344414 are the two extra Ottsels Gol and Maia? Please tell me they are. that'd be hilarious. I mean, it can't be Shinings parents because that'd be pale gray and dark blue. seeing as Shinings pon dad is blue.
7344401 That's what I'm saying...
Yeesh, I know we don't hear from Veger anymore after this game anyways, but that was needlessly graphic. Thank you ever so much for bumping up this game's rating to M for us.
7344356 I've heard about the Precursors being ottsels thing before, but how is it a Hitchhiker's reference? Granted, it has been a while since I read the books, but I don't really remember something similar to this.
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*thinks back*
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It's Veger's fault he caused the whole series to happen anyway.
7344465 Quoth Slartibartfast:
"Yes, well, the best-laid plans of mice..."
Damas delivers justice! Loved the way he blurted out his anger near the end
I wonder if he'll join Shining back in Equestria...
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Okay, this is a bit complex and might be a bit of reaching on my part, but here's what I think.
You know how a race of super-intelligent mice asked a really smart computer about the secret of the universe in the Hitchhiker's universe? Well, the thing that I get is that the Ottsels look something like a cross between a weasel and a large rat. In other words, a super-intelligent race of rodents that created everything.
It might be a bit of a reach, but the fat Ottsel even alludes to the fact when he comments that 'if everyone knew that the all-powerful Precursors were nothing more than a bunch of rodents, they would never take us seriously.' It's a nod to the Guide- at least in my mind -while at the same time as being a gag.
Oxymoronic as well, considering that the whole 'super-intelligent mice from another dimension' thing from the Guide is a satirical joke itself.
Eeyup, called it.
...though, if they don't have the Ottsel coloring, doesn't that mean that they are technically Dark Makers? Only, you know, not evil and stuff. 
...make what you will of Ottsel Veger's darker orange color scheme.
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Yeah well, he's DEAD.
And I'VE got the human SOULS!
Guys, I'm not worried. Tatsurou has gone out of his way in other fics to save those that truly didn't need to die, so Damas is going to survive.
At least for awhile anyway.
Honestly, I agree with him, as Damas dying was always something that just stuck in my craw, and was a serious down point to an otherwise great game. I'm perfectly serious here; my personal rating for Jak 3 loses two points simply because Damas dies.
Yes I'm harsh, but unnecessary deaths of heroes is one of my pet peeves.
Then again, if Tats does finish Damas off, I'll be seriously annoyed with him. I honestly don't see that happening though; as I said before, Tats has made a point in saving those that needed saving. Remember Praxis?
I could just be really tired, but damn if that doesn't seem like the best line in this entire arc. is still giggling over it
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Who's worried? We've been calling him going Ottsel since last chapter.
Edit: We need fan art of Ottsel Damas.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
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I absolutely want to see that after next chapter!
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It'd be more satisfying than Ottsel Veger, that's for certain!
YES!!!
Veger hath been served!
7344531 or more resnably they are some wat related to daxter and transforend due to dark eco exposure the first time the dark makers arrived and the 2greay ones gotta be the two dark eco masters from the past
Damas as an Ottsel, well this is going to very funny. Also I know who the other two ottsels are, though I won't spoil it for anyone else.
Ok.....so Damas is going to be a precursor?
7344569 I still think the Precursors' reaction to Jak fusing his Light and Dark forms is better.
But yes, this was definitely up there.
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I sorta agree, sorta don't. I personally think his Light Eco form will be Alicorn Shining Armor.
I guess Damas is going to go the fuzzy route... can't wait to see how that goes.
Veger is lucky Damas didn't get to take his time with making him suffer for all the pain he put Damas's kids through.
7344451 I forgot their names but was thinking this as well.
They're totally gonna turn Damas into an Ottsel
I understand Damas' reaction to the reveal of what the Precursors look like, but why were the others surprised? I know that when this fic covered the first game it was explained by Gol and Maia that Daxter's new body was a Precursor one, though I don't entirely remember where they said it.
In any case, I'm glad it looks like Damas is going to get to live. I was worried there for a while. Ottseldom was wasted on Veger anyway, especially since Kleiver seemingly eats him between games.
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They didn't say his body was a Precursor. They said his body was an evolution, not a mutation. The only place the implication that meant Precursor appeared was in the comments.
Does Red Bull er Light Form give him wings?
Shining got his sense back, Damas, hopefully, still lives, and Veger is dead.
Don't know whether I prefer Veger dead, or becoming an Ottsel and forced to being Kleiver's partner.
Hahahahaha, the precursors are ottsels, I love it.
8233443 i know. Took some time out to get the full story via cutscenes. Veger's reaction was priceless.
Oh boy, looks like Rachet and Shining when really pissed off are both incredibly merciless.
Incase you guys are wondering, I am referring to how Ratchet forced a Battlebot's CPU into its pain Circuits, when when compressed, caused irreversable agony, and only shutting the Robot off would stop it.
Guys, I feel there is an easy solution to this issue.
Okay, that (espeicaly the underlined six words) takes him beyond "engine of execution with no regard for collatoral damage" and into "war criminal". Yowch.
For attempted planet-scale slaughter Veger might merit that as a sentence for his crimes to discourage similar behavior in others, and it could MAYBE be argued that, as a Prince, Shining Armor has the authority to be judge, jury, and
executionertorturer, but on a random trooper? Not so much......this is also a relevant point.
...court is adjourned.
The last sentence in the footnotes indicates to me that eco does not match with my sense of morality...if that makes sense? As I said above, a clean kill of the trooper would have probably been fine.
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Think less morality and more Id/Superego. The Dark Troopers were literally corruptions of life twisted into beings meant only to kill and destroy to the point they aren't technically alive...and overuse of Dark Eco can lead you down the same path. In Shining's case, Dark Eco unleashes his Id through his darkest emotions (in essence, a Nightmare transformation).