"My monks say the world is coming to an end. But I am a survivor! I say we live on long after this world dies! Be ready. You are shaping up to be one of my finest warriors, and I'll need you for the trials ahead. I mustn't lose you, like I lost my son.”— Damas, Jak 3

PoV: Jak
Location: Spargus City, Main Gate
Mission: Talk to Kleiver

I've subjugated through weird looks, disapproving looks, disappointed looks and such but I've never been subjugated with looks of approval.

Ever since I've left the building and headed towards the garage, people around have been congratulating me left and right for my acceptance into the city. I'm not the most social person, so going through the city was kind of a pain.

After an hour of searching for the garage, the city is much larger than in the game, I finally found the door leading to Kleiver and going through it, with dust in my eyes, fucking door.

Once inside, I took notice of the vehicles parked around the place. I saw Kleiver talking with what looked like a hybrid of a changeling and a pony pegasus. Though the hybrid was communicating through hand gestures.

“Hey, I'm here for the Job that Damas said you had.” I said, earning a hardened glare from the fat stallion.

“That's King Damas to you, bub.” Kleiver said as the hybrid stood next to him in silence. I had noticed his choice of clothing, he had worn something like the rag I had wrapped around my waist and torn jeans. He wore sleeveless black shirt with the Krimzon guard emblem crossed in the back.

“I don't care if he's king, do you have the job or not?” I sneered at him. Kleiver growled at me as he gestured the hybrid to walk closer.

“Red here said he spotted a few Metal head scouts around the oasis, your job is to go out there and wipe out.” Kleiver said as the now identified hybrid known as Red tossed me a set of keys.

“But first, you need to prove your driving skills in a race.” Kleiver said as he walked into his Sandshark. I looked at the keys at it had a tiny emblem of Naughty Dog. I walked towards the starter buggy known as Tough Puppy and sat in it. Red walked up to the side.

“You know how to drive a buggy, right?” He asked and I nodded, he then signaled me to go ahead as he opened up the main gate, putting on his mask in the process.

Kleiver drove out first as I put on my goggles and placed the bottom part of the rag I wore around my head over my mouth, to prevent sand coming in.

I then changed the gear to drive and stepped on it, making the wheels screech and the car to shimmy a little before it went off.

Once I drove out, I noticed that the wasteland looked a lot different from the game itself, though I guess it has something to do with everyone here being from the M.L.P verse mixed with the game.

I noticed the Sandshark out in the distance as it lifted the sand from the ground, driving towards two sets of palm trees near the ocean.

I followed not to far behind and as I got closer, I saw that there was at least five Marauders waiting in the starting line.

I drove up and stopped in between Kleiver and a Marauder.

“Here's the deal, one lap around the course, if you win you can keep that hunk a junk till the you die and use my Sandshark for the job, if I win I get those sweet toys you have.” Kleiver said. I wanted to object to those terms but found myself unable to as I spoke.

“Deal.” I said, surprising myself. I'm beginning to think that my body wasn't the only thing that had change. I felt confident, I'm confident in myself. It's weird, I've always been afraid of doing the wrong thing and I know this is wrong but it felt right.

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Kleiver threw a small drone up in the air and it hovered above the line of pebbles and rocks. It started to count down and once it hit green, all hell broke loose.

The Marauder on my left immediately tried to pop my tires with his spikes but missed as I instinctively hit the jump button, making him hit the wall instead as we all drove off.

I made sure to keep track on my position and saw a Marauder and Kleiver up ahead as they drove across the bridges. I punched it and had gotten a considerable amount of speed as I followed behind the Marauder, allowing me to slipstream passed him.

The Marauders swiveled out of control do to the surprise and fell off the side. I should've felt guilty about taking my first life, but I what I felt was something else, excitement, amusement, it scared to know that my personality is changing, drastically.

“Come on, pigskin! Is that all ya got” I heard Kleiver’s voice through the radio of the car. I noticed I had already reached my top speed but couldn't get close enough to him.

He laughed as he stopped my other attempt in passing him. I knew what to do, or at least I felt like I knew what to do.

‘Damas said I changed when I was being beaten by maraudeurs, I wonder.’ I thought as I had awoken my hate, the kind of hate the overpowers any other feeling I have, self-hate.

I had focused the change onto my right arm and I saw it change and grow claws. We had drove out of the cave and taken a hard left towards an area full of wet sand or mud.

I raised up my hand and slammed it at the steering wheel, sending it shocks of pure dark eco. I saw the turbo meter go haywire and engine emitted a powerful roar as it drastically sped up.

I focused more of the eco to the car as I hit the turbo, instead of a normal turbo, it was an insanely fast dark powered turbo. I had shot passed Kleiver while giving him the bird.

I had to keep a strong grip as I gave him the finger to keep the car straight. Once I was clear of the mud, I had stopped the eco flow and used the normal turbo instead.

After a few hill jumps, I saw the finish line with the drone in the air. I quickly looked back and saw Kleiver and two Marauders behind me.

I looked back at the finish line and stepped on it, making the turbo kick in again. As I got closer and closer, I noticed me and Kleiver were neck in neck. We both passed through the finish line, soon followed by the two remaining Marauders. I had been blinded by a flash from the drone.

“Let's see if I won.” I heard Kleiver say as I rubbed my eyes and slowly regained my vision. I looked at Kleiver as his smirk turned into a frown.

He then threw the drone on the floor in rage and stomped on it, smashing jt with ease.

“I'm guessing I won.” I said with a grin. Kleiver returned to his car and drove off back towards the main gate.

I turned my car back on and did half a doughnut and headed followed behind him.

“I said you could keep that pile of shit for as long as ya live, well let's see how long that is.” I heard him say through the radio as I was being fired at from behind.

I held on to the steering wheel as I grabbed my morph gun from my satchel. I had noticed it had only two mods and switch it towards the blaster rifle.

Honestly, I'm surprised that I had this much strength to hold onto rifle and point it out at one of assholes that are shooting at me.

Before firing, I noticed that it was the same marauder from the race and fired at the wheel, tearing apart from the blast. He lost control soon afterwards and the car flipped out of control.

I pulled the rifle back in and continued to drive towards the city.

After dodging and killing more Marauders, I had finally made it back and saw Kleiver and Red waiting by the Sandshark.

Once I parked and got off, Kleiver held the keys to the Sandshark and tossed them towards me.

“I'll get it back, from your lifeless corpse that is, hehe.” He said with a chuckle as he walked out the door.

I turned to look back at the Red as loaded up the mounted guns with what looked like .50 caliber bullets.

“Trust me, you'll need for it those buggers.” Red said, throwing the empty ammo cartridge out and inserting the newer ones.

“How bad are they?” I asked, wanting to know more in case they're different from the game.

“Bad, they've been harassing our supply caravans for two weeks.” He said, finishing up and walking towards the door.

“And Congrats on your win against Kleiver.” He said as he walked out.

I looked back towards the Sandshark with a grin.

PoV: Jak
Location: Everfree Castle, Under section
Time: 12:00 P.M
The present
Two days later

I had been working on something amazing, something I had always wanted to make but never had the time or resources but now I had enough of both.

Throughout the two days, I had been working on the arms and now I'm seeing if they're calibrated with the controls inside.

I placed my left arm on the inside of the arm with a plasma blaster and wiggled my hand inside, earning the same movements from the machine.

I then placed my right arm inside the one with a thumper attached to it. I repeated the same movements and got the same results and I smiled with excitement.

“Starhawk is best Hawk.” I said as I took my arms out from both mechanical arms. I then stepped onto the stairs and looked back at the two suspended arms.

I walked down the steps and hopped off the stairs. I then heard a small knock from the door and saw Nyx.

“What is it, angel?” I asked, earning a small blush from her from calling her angel.

“I wanted to ask if you wanted to go to the party that Pinkie is throwing for Rainbow Dash’s friend, Gilda?” She asked as cleaned off the oil from my hands.

“Alright, just let me go change.” i said, gesturing my dirty attire. I had worn a pair of torn up jeans and a white tank top that had black spots on some areas.

“Kay!” She said in happiness as she walked away. I proceeded to walk out my workshop and head on over to my room.

After discarding my dirty attire, I had looked through a few choices I had in clothing and went with the one I thought was best.

After tying up the ring with the straps of my satchel and put in my goggles, I made my way towards the lift and found Nyx waiting on it.

After a long walk from the castle to Ponyville, we arrived at Sugarcube corner just in time for the party.

During the party, I had gotten to know a little bit of the town residents, had some lunch and had a conversation with the mane six, minus Rainbow as she was too busy hanging out with the Griffin. Nyx had gone to her friends to play some of the party games. Those three fillies are the only ones that know Nyx, though she doesn't get bothered by not having many friends.

Speaking of which, Pinkie had told me that she had witnessed Gilda, stealing, threatening and even shouting at Fluttershy for just bumping into her.

In summary, Pinkie had described Gilda as a total bitch. After that Twilight had asked me why I haven't been in town for the past two days.

I told her that I've been working on something I've been dying to do for a while.

She had also asked about Cyrux, to which I answered that he had been helping me with the little knowledge he had on Metal-head war machines and that he's gone out to pinpoint the exact location of his old nest.

“Are you sure he'll be fine on his own? I mean, he's going back to the place that had banished him.” Twilight asked, worried about her new friends condition.

“He'll be fine, he knows a lot on unarmed combat, perfect for defending himself.” I said reassuringly at her. She was about to say something else but the shouting of the Griffin caught everyone’s attention. I looked towards the commotion and saw that Gilda had been standing in front of Pinkie as she kept on insulting her. Gilda then proceeded not only make Pinkie cry, but also had punched her, causing Pinkie to stagger backwards and trip on a table, spilling all it's contents on her.

I saw that Rainbow was going to do something but stopped as she saw Gilda cry in pain as dark eco course around her. The girls looked at me and saw that I had changed.

“You done fucked up.” I said as I walked towards the screaming griffin. I then grabbed her by her shirt and pulled her up.

“Karma is a bitch, isn't it.” I said before throwing her to the other side of the room. She landed on an empty table and I walked over to her again, grabbing her by the shirt again.

I pulled her up and straightened her, then knee kicked her in the gut. As she grabbed her stomach in pain, I elbowed her to the floor.

I but a foot on her, preventing her from getting up as I ripped off the pole that held up the table. I i put both her arms behind her back and placed them on the pole, then bent the pole as makeshift bindings.

I removed my foot from her and proceeded to walk out, wanting to be alone for a while.

Author's Note

Hope the wait was worth it for you guys.