Insanity is one of the many things I always seem to question, no matter how many the times or how frequent I question it, it always lead me back to the same thought that led me to question insanity as a whole. My mind wanders whenever I sit around doing nothing, it was one of things that had made me unique and creative.

Which is what I am doing at the current time, laying down on my bunk as Torn decides what to do next. It has been at the very least, an hour or two since we reopened the water valves to the slums thanks to the two newbies and their furry friend.

All I've done was sleep through those hours, unable to cause mayhem towards the city. To be honest, I quite enjoy my endeavours of the Underground, it gets the result I'm looking for, be it increase of patrols or the Baron addressing me during his propaganda speeches.

The silence was broken as the door opened before the voice of Daxter, the ottsel, was heard complaining about the guards. Whatever it was, I ignored him and saw both Celestia and Luna walk in.

“The slum's water is back on! I'd love to see the heads roll when the Baron finds out!” Torn exclaimed, a smirk forming with every word.

“Yeah, I'm sure he's losing lots of sleep over this 'arm-pit' of the city. We've done what you've asked. Now, when do we see the Shadow?” Luna asked, wanting to meet the leader of the Underground. Torn walked up to her.

“When I say so, if I say so.” He said, using a finger to push her back. “But, before I even think about it, I want you to take care of an ammo dump we've I.D'd in the fortress. Lots of Krimzon Guards, constant patrols. We know it's vulnerable, and the Underground needs both of you to blow up all the ammo you find inside. Get all of it, and we'll deal a body blow to the Baron.” Torn said, circling the Fortress in red marker.

“You're sending us in, tough guy! So what's with this we'll deal a body blow stuff?” Daxter asked. A frown on his fuzzy face as he climbed up to Celestia’s left shoulder.

“That's fine. I want the Baron to know that it's us who's hurting him.” Celestia said, an angered look donning her features. Sitting up from the bed, I stretched and stood up.

“Where do I fit in this?” I asked no one in particular. Hearing this, Torn gave one last look at Celestia and Luna before humming in thought.

“Go with them, make sure they don't get themselves killed. Oh and here…” He said, tossing me something from across the room. Catching it, I saw what it was and grinned as I cocked it.

“I had an inside griffon retrieve it from the Evidence room inside the Fortress.” Torn said as I gently hugged the gun in my hands. Looking at the Pegasus, I nodded with a grin.

“You're the man.” I told him before grabbing my goggles from the post of the bed and left with Celestia and Luna following behind. Walking up the steps and clearing the sliding wall, I saw two busted hiver bikes barely keeping themselves of the ground.

I glanced back at the newbies with a questioning look as they nervously laughed at each other while Daxter gave them the evil eye. Shaking my head, I looked down the alley way and saw a parked three seater hover car in yellow with green stripes.

“I'll drive, now get on.” I told them as I hopped onto the drivers seat. After both mares sat on each passenger seat, I drove off towards the Fortress.

I stopped the car just time as a Krimzon hover bike drove passed. The Guard glanced towards my direction but thought nothing of me and returned to his patrol on the hover zones.

The rest of the way towards the Fortress was uneventful. The Guards were seemingly clueless to what was about to happen and seeing the front door unguarded only made my grin wider.

Parking just beside the ramp, above a turret hatch, we then headed inside without a.single problem. Luna was the last to enter but once she did, the doors slid shut and wouldn't open.

“Woah.” Celestia’s astonished voice echoed through the room. We stood inside the first room of the Fortress and in front of us was an anti-infantry assault tank.

“I've heard of these things. The Baron mentioned it was the latest model of their anti-infantry class vehicles during one of his speeches.” Luna said as she inspected the side. Looking to my left, I could see the hall leading towards a restricted area.

“I guess we go through this way and figure where to go from there.” I said outloud. The two sisters nodded and we walked passed the two coils, causing it to shine a red light.

“Unauthorized use of fortress door, activating security tank.” A computerized voice said as an alarm blared into our ears. Behind us the tank’s turret turned towards us.

“Run and don't look back!” I yelled through the sounds of the alarm. They quickly nodded before breaking into a full sprint with me on the front.

“We're gonna die!” We all heard Daxter yell as he clung onto Celestia’s pony tail mane. Seeing a small gap between two platforms, we jumped before sprinting again. There were two more gaps but like the first one, we jumped over them without a hitch.

Once we landed onto the main walkway, we saw the laser targeted mounted sniper sentry as they all swept through the walkway. Behind us was a large metal divider, splitting us from the tank but our safety lasted only seconds before the tank rammed through the metal divider with ease.

Without a word from either of us, we continued our escape from the tank. Jumping over the lasers and having turned the corner, a few stacked crates were high enough for us to reach the poll on the wall before jumping onto the upper walkway.

Both Celestia and Luna flew up while I did the athletic route. Once I was up we continued forward as we heard the sound of metal breaking.

Quickly scanning the room and seeing the only exit blocked by a wall of electricity, I then tried to find a way to stopped the electricity and saw two tubes containing power.

“Break those tubes in the center!” I yelled out. Not seconds later, Luna flew with speeds that could rival my own and shattered the glass tubes with a few kicks. I smiled at this and started jumping from platform to platform.

It had taken us longer than anticipated to finally arrive at the Ammo dump. The Guards were more like pests than actual guards, they had left the area unguarded and the only guards we did come across were either impaled with the spikes they had set or at the bottom of what could easily be described as a pit.

After traversing through the maze like halls and going through a metal grate on the floor, we had found the Ammo dump and inside the room was a large missiles, crates and a tank. I shook my head as I walked up to a crate seeing a small device laying on top of it.

“Cool! That's a security pass. We need those to get through city checkpoints!” Daxter exclaimed with glee as he climbed up to my shoulder. I had picked up the security pass before flicking Daxter off of my shoulder.

“Hey!” He yelled after standing back.

“Shhh.” Celestia hushed before pointing below us. Looking down, I was greeted with two guards.

I got onto the floor to listen to there conversation with the two metal heads. I narrowed my eyes.

“These barrels are the latest shipment of eco. The Baron says take them and get out!” The guard in yellow armor said, his hatred showing through his tone of voice.

“Metal Heads in the city? Why are the guards giving them eco?” Luna whispered towards no one in particular. Opening my mouth to answer but closed it as I heard the sound of a turret spinning in front of us.

Looking up, it was the tank and it had us locked in its sights. Celestia and Luna both slowly stood up while I took a quick glance at the supply of ammunition at the center of the room before slowly getting up as well.

The turret turned to Luna, then me then Celestia before repeating. We then, as fast as we could, moved behind the crates for cover just before the turret fired.

“I got a brilliantly stupid idea.” I said to myself before moving out of cover and into the tank’s line of sight.

‘Stupid, Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!’ Were the only words that filled my mind as I ran before hiding behind on of the Missile Cooling pipes. The turret then fired after poking my head out and with the adrenaline pumping into my blood, I moved away from the pipe just before it exploded.

“Warning. Missile cooling system damaged.” I heard as I ran behind another one before moving just before it was shot by the tank. The latter started circling the missile as tried to shoot me.

“Alert. Back-up cooling system failure. Emergency override initiated.” Hearing this, both teens quickly ran up to the far end of the room. They both held pieces of a cooling pipe and once they made it to the far end, they saw the computer that triggers the failsafe and smashing it. I ducked just as two beams flew over me.

“Missile systems at critical overload. Fail-safe not responding.” The voice announced as a third cooling pipe was destroyed. Quickly glancing over my shoulder, I could see they had stopped the fail safe from triggering.

“Danger. Warhead detonation imminent. Evacuating area.” Said the voice as alarms started blaring and the emergency exit opened. I didn't need any motivation to start running and neither did the teens as we all ran towards the door.

The Missile exploded behind us and was sent flying out the door before falling. I landed on top of a metal roof and could hear the girls landed on the floor with a loud thud.

I groaned in pain as I opened my eyes and saw the black smoke of the fire pouring out the door before it closed. I chuckled to myself and closed my eyes as they were sensitive to the light.

*Creak*

My eyes snapped open as I felt the roof shake before feeling myself sliding off. Trying to grip something to stop me from falling but to no avail and fell, landing on the cold and dusty stone floor.

Placing my hands down on the ground, I then proceeded to lift myself up from the ground with another groan. Once I was up, I looked onto the spot I landed and saw Daxter laying as if he was flatten by a car. He opened his eyes and looked at Celestia and Luna.

“Ugh, this place has too much excitement. We need to move back to the country!” Daxter said before being picked up by Luna.

“I couldn't agree with you more.” She said, laying Daxter a top her left shoulder. I was out of breath and in pain, two things I'm very familiar with.

After catching my breath and finding a suitable hover car, we then made our way back to the hideout. On the way, the few guards patrolling the slums were seen running towards the Fortress.

The rest of the way was surprisingly uneventful, despite the ruckus we caused from the explosion. We arrived at the hideout but found that Torn was out, meeting with the griffon the guard. This gave Celestia and Luna some time to rest.

While they dropped like a bag of bricks onto separate beds, I stood in front of a mirror. I was greeted with a battered and bruised Jak. My arm had large cut going up to my shoulder, the possible result of a shrapnel getting too close for comfort.

The ring on my chest was cracked and so were the lenses of my goggles. Placing a hand onto my abdomen, I winced in pain from a broken ribcage. Those wore the most noticeable damages done to me but there were more.

I then noticed my hair, I've been locked up for a long time and my hair showed it. It had gotten long enough that I could feel the very end brush against the back of my neck.

Grabbing a pair of scissors from a tool box, I then began an impromptu haircut.

Present Time
Undersection of Everfree Castle

The snipping of scissors echoed through the room. The source of the sounds was coming from the pair of scissors in my hand as I shorten the length of my hair. It has been two days since me and Twilight saw the comet and as odd as it may be, I've grown to like the town Ponyville.

I stood in front of full body mirror only wearing a pair of boxers. Though normally I would at least wear a pair of cargo shorts whenever I'm home but both Nyx and Cyrux were out in the town helping Rarity make the dresses for the mane six. The other two went into the forest to hunt for some stray metal heads.

I hissed, feeling the burning sensation on the now cut finger. I flicked my hand a bit, allowing the pain to settle on as the light eco stopped the bleeding seconds after the cut.

“Fuck.” I said in a hushed tone before finally looking back at the mirror, seeing the now shortened spiky green-blond hair of mine. I let out a sigh before looking behind me, seeing a neatly placed tux on my bed.

I walked closer to it, avoiding the mess of hair on the floor before picking up the formal shirt. Unfolding it, I then began putting it on before completely putting on the tux and looking at myself at the mirror, seeing the reflection unlike my own. Sure it was a reflection of me, that's what a mirror is for but what I saw was someone else wearing the suit.

Me.

There I stood, a twenty three year old caucasian male, brown hair and hazel eyes. Moving my hand, the reflection did the same. With a silent shake of the head, I moved out of away from the mirror.

Through the corner of my eyes, I saw the shoes placed together beside the bed and put them on before standing infornt of the mirror again, this time the reflection showed me, the pointy eared, spiky green-blond haired Wastelander.

‘Things have changed, you as well yet you remind yourself of the life you once had.’

“People used to tell me I don't know what I've got until it’s gone. They're wrong.” I said as I started to discard the clothing. “Truth is, I knew what I had, I just never thought I'd lose it.”

‘I see. You are different, Jak. You hide your true emotions in a mask that even convinces yourself.’

“Yeah but masks break and I have a feeling mine will too.” I said as I began putting my clothes back on after discarding the tuxedo. Once I was fully clothed, I looked back at the mirror, seeing the real me through the reflection before shaking my head and walking out of the room.

Author's Note

Sorry for the huge delay, I was distracted with something both incredibly awesome and really stupid.

Note that me and a friend had decided to have a friendly competition for who can get The Platinum trophy or All the achievements in a single game first.

I lost.

Enjoy, Lads!