“Fall back! I repeat- FALL BACK!! are you listening to me, sol-”
out of the corner of my eye, I saw a morph gun, hiding in the shadows. A new wave of terror fell over me. Could it really be him? In that split second, the figure jumped out of the shadows. He had a blue shirt, a yellow goatee, and goggles on top of his head, one glass red and the other one clear. My god, it was him!
I had to warn the others! I immediately yelled, “Jak is here! Take cover!”
One of them said, “Who the hell is Jak?”
I then realized my mistake. Almost none of them knew his real name. I then used his other name. I replied, “Public enemy 1! For god’s sake, take cover!”
This had the desired effect. My comrades all took cover. Unfortunately, I didn’t take cover in time. I heard a scatter gun go off. The force of the gun blasted me off the edge of the bridge. Time seemed to stop while I was airborne. I couldn’t feel anything. I saw that bastard Jak kill my friend Tomas, and then the pain started creeping up into my legs. It was unbearable. I started seeing red. I took another look at the battle scene, and I saw that son-of-a-gun blast Tomas into another soldier, sending them both off the bridge. All the while, the pain was getting to my chest, and then my arms. The pain got even worse. That’s when I hit the water. I heard the splash, and then silence. I was sinking! With the little strength left in me, I swam up to the surface, as a desperate attempt to get an ally to see me.
Someone did. I saw the guard wave to a Krimzon zoomer pilot. He saw me, and stomped on the gas. At that time, my body gave out. With the last of my energy, I screamed, “Help Me! Oh god, help me! I’m sinking!” And that I did.
While I was sinking, I realized that there were two good reasons I shouldn’t have screamed. The first was that since I had let my mouth open, water went in, choking me. The second was that that had definitely would have alerted Jak if he was in the vicinity. Crud. The pain overtook me. I went unconcious. My last thought was: Jak, I am going to make sure you go to hell.
Jak’s Rival
Part II: Training of the Elite
“uuughh...”
I opened my eyes. I had a minor headache. At first I couldn’t see anything because of the blinding light, but as my eyes readjusted, I started seeing more of my surroundings. I was laying in a bed in a white room. The room had a television, a vase of roses, an aquarium and a few surgical looking devices on a table. The floor was tile. that told me that whoever built this room did not want stains in the floor from whatever was done here. The room was well lit. I was laying alone in this room.
I tried to turn around my body around to look into the window to study my outer surroundings. My upper and lower body soon flooded with pain. The pain was so excruciating that I couldn’t even muster a scream-only a wimper. The pain shot back memories of the past events that had led to this. I immediately remembered. I then thought that if this was what hell felt like, I had got to make sure that when Jak died, he got sent there.
Then I thought about Tomas. Tomas, my best friend and my best man, was now... dead. We had been friends since our parents had applied us for the Krimzon Guard Military School when we were 4, all the way to when we both got our lieutenant badges when we were 16. We had our badges, our armor and our weapons given to us by Baron Praxis himself. We both thought that that had to have been the best day of our lives... and we were right. Ever since then, it had been been dope bust after dope bust and sewage drain repair after sewage drain repair. When are we going to get to be part of the murder investigations, or joining the war on the metal heads? Well, that question got answered when we were each 24. Our mission: Find and Kill Krew.
We were excited as hell to finally get to try one of the elite missions. And one so big as this... I mean, Krew is public enemy number 1! He’s the wealthiest and the most powerful person in Haven City besides the Baron! and with wealth, comes quality assistance. Word is that Krew’s hired the escaped fugitive, A.K.A Jak. Jak has been causing quite a bit of damage ever since he escaped the Baron. How he escaped? I don’t know. But I’m not worried about him right now. My target is Krew.
Before I could go after Krew, I had to go through extensive training. They brought us to the elite training room, one by one. When it was my turn, I was confident and cocky, and I had reason to be. I had been the best at the KGMS, and that was no easy feat- they made me train until I barely had enough energy to chew my food when it was lunch time. I could do 1,000 in less than 5 minutes, run 3 miles without taking slowing down or taking a break, and I was the best marksmen. My best subject though, was acrobatics. I could nail a triple back flip! Seeing how much I had accomplished in the KGMS, how much harder could this be?
A hell of a lot harder, it turned out. The first thing they made me do there was to fight someone in CQC. If I passed this, I would begin my elite training. No matter, I thought. I was good at that. When I saw my opponent, I almost laughed. My opponent was a woman- and looked about 60! She also looked fat! She wouldn’t stand a chance!
I had spoken too soon. We both went into one of those wrestling (and boxing) rinks. Before the match started I said, “I’ll go easy on you, old timer, since you look like you haven’t been to the gym in a couple of years.”
She responded, “Big words, coming out of a small and foolish mouth.”
Angry, I charged at her. I then slowed down and flipped to my left side. Once I landed, I flipped again, this time landing a good 3 feet behind her. I turned around, aimed at the side of her rib cage and kicked at her. Big mistake. She caught my left leg in midair. This took me by surprise. Then, she grabbed my foot and my kneecap, and then she pressed down. I instantly felt bolts of pain run up and down my kneecap. I kicked at her other side, and she let go before I could reach it. I fell to the ground, only to instantly get off the ground and punch at her chest. She grabbed my arm and punched me in the face. I fell again, only this time I was covering my face with both of my hands. I thought: Was this how André felt when I punched him in the face for flipping me off?
As I laid on the ground in pain, the old lady walked towards me and stopped next to my chest. She looked me in the face and lifted up her foot. She’s going to stomp on my face! Luckily, I kicked her other leg before she could do it. She fell onto the ground. Immediately, I got up and aimed at her ribs. She then tried to grab my leg. I jumped over her and aimed at her face. unfortunately she anticipated this beforehand, and got back to her feet. she threw her fist at my chest, which I dodged. I grabbed her arm and twisted it. she jumped back. I charged her again, this time kicking her in the chest. She fell to the ground again. I then said, “who’s the fool now?”
I turned around and almost left the rink, when she got up and ran towards me. She flipped over me, turned around, and then threw a dozen punches. All of them hit their mark. I was sent flying into the ropes. She charged at me. She grabbed my shirt and threw me into the air. before I landed, she jumped and kicked me in midair, square in the gut. I went sprawling on the floor. Then, she put me on the ropes and punched me in the face 5 times. each time, blood flew out of my nose. cuts appeared on my cheeks and forehead. Then, she kicked me in the crotch and threw me over the ropes. The match was over. She climbed over the ropes and landed on my stomach. She got off of me and then replied, “you are.” She left the arena. It was about 10 minutes before I could get up and get myself out of there. It was raining. In the rain, I wondered: Did I pass?
Sullen, I walked over to Tersborn Inn. I rented a room for a night. The innkeeper asked me if I wanted a low, medium, or high quality room. I said a medium. He told me my room number, and asked me to put my hand on a palm scanner. I did, knowing that this was so that my room’s palm scanner would recognize mine. Once it finished, I paid for the room and bought a pint of brandy. I silently went to my room and palmed it. The room had a bed, computer and a voice-activated light. I climbed into bed with my clothes on, and went to sleep.
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When I woke up, I turned on the computer. I accessed my e-mail. There was one unread message. I opened it. The message read like this:
To:Paul280@KG.com
From:KGT@salvo.com
KGMB
Paul Crosse,
Where the hell are you? Why aren’t you at the barracks? Man, we’ve been worried. You need to start showing up more often at the barracks, man. Hope you show up at the barracks tomorrow.
P.S. Did you pass?
When I finished reading it, I logged out and shut down the computer. There was only one person who knew my last name-Tomas. Reading the e-mail made me smile again. I decided that I wanted to leave the inn now. I left my room, checked out and headed for the barracks. That’s when I remembered that I had left my brandy back in the room. Oh well.
It turned out I had passed. so had 10 others, whose names were Braddon, Maden, , Achilles, Tor, Anstor, Tercius, Gordon, Sitrus, Troy and my best friend, Tomas. I had been thrilled-but not for long. The training program was a living hell. run a mile and then do 100 push-ups. Then, you had to do double the amount of push-ups and miles each time. The minimum you had to reach was 32 miles and 3,200 push-ups-in 1 hour. This meant that you had to do 1 mile and 100 push-ups. then 2 miles and 200 push-ups. then 4 miles and 400 push-ups. Then 8 miles and 800 push-ups...It was grueling. After that, you got a 5- minute break. then, you had to spar with that lady. We learned that her name was Roberta. If you lost against her in a fight, then you had to do the whole routine again and fight Roberta again. if you beat her, you got to go home. On the first day, all of us lost against her 2 times. Only on our third try did we beat her. As we all went back to the barracks Anstor said, “I can’t keep up with this man. This place is hell.” We all muttered in agreement. Little did we know, we wouldn’t be saying this for long.
As we got better and better at the routine, we started beating her every time. By the 7th week, I could beat her without my hands or without my feet. Then suddenly, the routine was changed. Now, we had to do 5,000 chin-ups and instead of running miles and laps, we punched a punching bag for an hour, nonstop. Then, we had to fight another person. This time it was a man. He looked to be about in his mid-twenties or his early-thirties. His name was Arnold. It was the same thing as last time- if you lost against him in a fight, you had to do the whole routine again. If you beat him, you got to go home. This time, I lost once. The other guys were a different story-most of them took about 3 tries before they could beat him.
As our training progressed, the routine changed accordingly, and we got stronger, to the point where all of us alone could take on over 50 soldiers. We truly were elite. Our physical training went on for 1 and-a-half years. Arnold came into our barracks and told us that our physical training would stop, but we were expected to commit to keeping ourselves in our current shape. We all swore we would. We broke into laughter and tears. We were so happy that our torment was over. After this, he told us that this was only the first part of our training. The laughing stopped. He then said, “That’s right. In addition to the physical training, you need to learn how to use your Krimzon Guard equipment properly and efficiently. You need to learn how to drive and how to swim. You need to know what type of weapon is best suited for which situation-and most importantly, to know when it is okay and not okay to use your weapons. You need to-”
Maden interrupted and said, “We already know all of this. Or at least I do.”
Arnold was obviously offended. He cooly said, “Oh? if that’s true, Maden, can you tell me why you don’t use your gun as a threat? Or why you never wear your uniform unless needed in battle or a crime scene?”
Maden opened his mouth to reply, but no sound came out. I spoke up for Maden. I said, “You don’t use your gun as a threat because the only reason you should take out your gun is if you mean to kill, and to kill only. You never wear your uniform unless needed in battle because it attracts unwanted attention and it raises the awareness of enemies.”
A smile came to Arnold’s lips. He said, “good answer, Paul. And Maden, you were right. All of you did learn that in KGMS, if you paid any attention. All of you who paid attention: your training is officially complete. I know who did because I have your grades from the KGMS. Anyone who’s name gets called has officially graduated, and will exit the barracks and meet me at Tersborn Inn. The first to graduate is... Anstor!” Anstor jumped in the air and said, “Hell yes!” Everyone clapped as he left the barracks. Arnold then said, “Tor!” Tor left the barracks. “Achilles!” Achilles waited left the barracks and waited outside for Braddon. “Braddon!” Braddon quickly exited the Barracks and walked with Achilles to the Tersborn Inn. “Troy!” Troy ran out of the door and yelled, “Whoo hoo!” Arnold then said, “Tomas!” As Tomas left, I cheered and said, “Yeah Tomas!” Finally, Arnold called my name. “Paul!” I quickly left the barracks and caught up with Tomas. I told him to wait up so we could see who else would make it. Sitrus came out almost right after I did. We decided to wait a little longer to see if Maden, Gordon and Tercius would come out. After 5 minutes, we concluded that they weren’t going to come to the Tersborn Inn. We were.
20 minutes after we got to the Tersborn Inn, Arnold finally got here. When he got here he told all of us who had graduated, “You 8 will officially be the first Elite Krimzon Guards starting tomorrow. Your uniforms will-”
I interrupted by saying, “What do you mean the first? Are we really the first Elite Krimzon Guards?”
“Arnold said, “Yes, you are. Speaking of which, you should know something else- Krew is dead.”
I was dumbstruck. I replied, “But if Krew is dead, what’s our mission?”
Arnold had cast a grim smile on his face. He said, “ I’ll tell you eight outside. It’s to risky discussing it in here.”
We all went outside. Arnold then told us, “Your new target is one who escaped- Jak. And, you eight should know a little something about why he is such a high security risk. Here’s why: He’s the one the we’ve been experimenting the effects of dark eco with.”
I was shocked. I said, “Oh my god... He’s the one who has killed over 1,000 Krimzon Guards? He’s the one who faced over 20 drop ships full of Krimzon Guards and lived? He’s the one who almost killed Baron Praxis?”
Arnold reluctantly responded, “Yes. And to make things worse for you guys... You’ve been sent to capture or kill him. That is why you eight are the first Elite Krimzon Guards- up until now, we have never needed soldiers as good as you eight. You are the best of the best, made for intense CQC and weapon combat. You eight are our only hope.”
Braddon chimed in by asking, “What about the other three? Aren’t they joining us?”
“I’m not sure. I doubt it, because we need you eight on the field now. Don’t you eight get it? Haven City as we know it is on the brink of destruction because of Jak, and unless the Baron acts now, Haven City as we know it will be destroyed. Now do you see why this is urgent?”
All of us replied, “Sir yes sir!”
“Good. Now then, tomorrow, I will show you all you’re newly made elite equipment and how to use it. You are free to do what you please until then. You are all dismissed.”
Those are the events that have led up to where I am currently. As you already know, my name is Paul. You now know everything you need to know about me to understand my current mission, and my personal quest. And one more thing: Tomas isn’t dead.
We are losing this battle!!! I called as My buddy next to me was killed. NOOOOOOOOOOOO. I had been hit.A small hit sure but i thought that was the end.We were losing badly. The enemy gaurd was about to finish the gaurd when he dropped dead.It was Daxter of all people. he had a Scatter gun on his shoulders and was having a hard time carrying it.Let me help you with that. In a second i was healed without him touching me. WTF? remember i am a precursor. I am one of the most powerful Beings.right then Daxter just maded out of the way instead i took the blow. dammit. TORN CAN YOU HEAR ME TORN.. SEND IN RENFORCMIENTS FAST. about 20 gaurds came and dragged me into cover. The enemy was gaining the advantage. TORN THIS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH — PHHSHSHSHSHSH ELITE GAURD PSHHHSHHSHS 143 We are sending Group 112. when i heard those very words I new we had some hope left. 5 minutes later. about 50 Enemy bots came we were screwed. Just then A hover car crashed into about 25 of the enemys. there on his hover board was jak with his Valcan fury gun blazing and beside him was sig and torn himeself. I new we were gonna win this battle. about 100 more enemys came and were destroyed before they called back. We had victory but only this battle. this wasn’t looking so good. in the meeting room. Torn you guys are doing good but we are losing. if it wasn’t for jak you would all be dead. We would all be dead including you if it wasn’t for us i shouted. WHAT WAS THAT torn said. I shouted with anger YOU HEARD ME. thats when torn attacked me. With all my might i pulled him off and gave him a slam to the face. DAMMIT I SAID WTF IS YOUR PROBLEM. All of a sudden a huge explosion. It was 20 big spider bots. now were screwd i thought. Jak was here but we only had 2 teams ready for combat.wait im not going it jak said. WHAT!!!! said torn but but... but nothing you have to try and win without me. you can’t depend on me. To late move in formation 1234 said commander. NO i refuse to listen do your formations im going a differn’t strick. joe follow me i will need you. 1 minute later. Sorry ma’m unless you wanna die i need that hover car. so i jacked it. Joe took his gun and started shooting. AIM FOR THE CONTROLLER I SAID. he shot a spider bot in the head. one more i said. so he shot another. Ok on 3 jump into that spider bot. 1! 2! 3! GO he jumped made it good now we got a small resistence. mean while on ground They were losing the battle bad. they had only one team left. odds were looking crappy. I jumped into the remaning spider bot. the guy was still alive. first left then right i dodged his punches. Then smack in the nose he was out. good i said. I took controll. I shot the lazter into one the legs of the spider bots it broke causing it to fall and trip another spider bot.soon it was just a big ball. I used the Hover viechle and crashed it into the spider ball and jumped out just at the right time. Rolling the ball into there forces. We had the better odds. Reinforcments were in. I could hear jak shouting see.before you whiped out peace maker. Remind me to premote you and give you one of these babys. as he pointed at his gun... the next day. We found there base jak said.but we can’t get in. Soldiers i need you to Break the door open at all costs. were sending out groups 187 253 and 789! WHAT TORN THATS THATS CRAZY I SAID. Thats almost all of our men! what if they attack our base? we will use the rest of our resistence. We need to Kill Hurly and win this war once and for all. alright. Get get out everyviehcle and bring all our fire power. This is no wooden door. ** an hour later** We can’t break this its impossible. Jak and Daxter will sneak in and unlock it said torn over the radio system. Ok fine its heavily gaurded how will you survive. remember when i said i would premote you Travis. Yeas well you joe and Will are coming with me. oh and you to dax said jak right away after dax gave him a look. alright lock and load time. and and you soldiers Be ready. Once we got inside i had never seen anyting quite like it. wow how are we gonna take this out. we have a couple thousand guys but. Trust me Travis.when we saw where the door unlocked we were in for a shocking surprise. There must be millions of boughts lined up at this door. we have to warn the squads. how can we help though? Jak remember the wastelanders? they said they would come to your call. Well its time for the legendary mar to use the legendary wastelanders. and maybe Haven city will take there favour and let them live back... Ok jak called. after calling them . one of the wastlanders called on the radio. Whats your problem. Meet our army at area D 143 in haven. HAVAN THE WASTE LANDER CALLED. NEVER AGAIN WILL WE GO THERE. I AM THE GREAT MAR AND AM CALLING YOU TO COME HELP. MAR but but your jak not mar. NO I AM MAR NOW COMe AND HELP. ok mar. Now lets unlock that door. 20 minutes later. They were back outside fighting for there lives.damnit when are the wastelanders gonna come. Things were looking very grim. Daxter was shot. then we new all hell would break lose. ( Daxter ) AWWW GOD!!! I NEW I WOULD DIE THIS WAY!! OH I NEW IT!!! SHUT UP DAXTER. YOUR A PRECURSOR I SAID. your right who cares its just a bullet said dax. We heard a bunch of reving of viechles and i saw it they were htere. the wastelanders nad there viechles. I new that this would be the fight of our lives. I jumped on a car and started blazing my guns.we had destroyed the army taht was at the dooor. now time for the base. Shoot everything you see i called. Leave nothing behind. Jak started ripping peacemakers. then we saw it. We new that we would die. the whole army of metal heads and enemy squad. i thought we took out most of the resistence i said. That was Just a lap around the duck pond? jak said. Oh boy joe said we are done for. FIGHT TO THE DEATH. Then we clashed. Everything was going slow motion. Will was shot. and was down. NOOOOO I CALLED!!! Travis GET OVER HERE JAK CALLED. I ran behind him he said look we got a turret. take it over theres one over there. I started blazing the turret. Daxter was busy healing WILL. Sig had just killed 5 guys from hand to hand combat. it was hard not to shoot my own guys. Everything was going slow motion again.when Samos came in with a big huge magic orb surrounding him. ABOUT TIME YOU CAME I THOUGHT. He started killing metal heads with a spell. We had one impossible odds. now for the core system. WE move on. Finnaly we found it. there was Hurly. Only a matter of seconds and 30 of our guys were wiped out. But with all of us shooting he couldn’t dodge it. Now for the core. We destroyed it. when the wholy place collapsed. We had to make the exit. We started running. When a piece came on joe. NOOOO I THOUGHT but i had to save myself. We made for the exit. I was surprised to see only 30 of our guys made it out alive. 200 of our men had Restrained order in haven City we had one. The next day. was the memorial service. we remeberd joe. and samos. Sig had a broken leg. and jaks arm had came out. I had some scars and cuts but nothing serious The end
its alright. although its pointless to make jak a bad guy when hes not. plus the krimson gaurds are the bad guys and they lose at the end of jak 3. if i have my priorities strait
warning. microsofttouch was me. my BROTHER YOU IDIOT!!! put that to impersonate the real one i forgot to change the real name. another more important warning. do not go to lemons party.org it has a gay naked men having the horrible... aww its to nasty to say. just don’t go there.I have expereicned the pain. and only i should. so you guys. im am gonna save you from going there. HIM THIS ENDS SOON. MASTER CHIEF HERE IS GONNA BRING YOU DOWN AND MAKE SURE TO PROTECT INASENT EYES
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its stupid but jak 2 and 3 are awsome
