"But this child is such a part of this, such a part of you! Don't you recognise him? The boy is you, Jak!”— Metal Kor

Jak
Wasteland, Hills
2:00 P.M.
Mission: Rid of the Metal Heads in Wasteland hills [Completed]

After Red, who had told me that he's actual and preferred name is Crimson, loaded up the Sandshark and opened the gates, I drove off to find the Metal heads. That was two hours ago.

Now, I'm just rummaging through their corpses, finding Dark Eco crystals. Imagine my reaction when I heard the jingle of an item get from the game.

After finishing up and driving back to Spargus, I then reported it to Damas.

“You say that it was your first time driving, yet you managed to beat my best racer.” Damas said as he sat on his throne. I was kneeling a few feet from the steps to his throne.

“Yes, though it felt like I knew what I was doing.” I said to him. I heard him hum out loud in thought.

“It seems you'll be a great asset and a fine wastelander.” He said, standing up and walking down the steps.

“Allow me to be the first to Welcome you, to Spargus.” He said as I felt him put hand on my shoulder.

“Thank you, your highness.” I said, respecting his title.

“And as an added bonus, here.” He said handing me a new gun mod. I grabbed it and placed it on my morph gun, changing it to the Reflector blaster.

“Prepare yourself, in two weeks is your next arena test and you'll need it.” He said as he walked back to his throne. He stopped halfway and turned to look at me as I stood back up.

“I need you to finish your tests, I need someone like you for a mission in Haven.” Damas said as he sat down. I nodded and walked towards the lift and went downwards

The present
2:00 P.M.
Two weeks later after destruction of The nest

“So can you do anything?” I heard the voice of Nyx. How long was I out?

“Nyx, he's been asleep for two weeks, I don't think he's ever waking up.” I heard another voice that belonged to Twilight.
Two weeks? Damn.

I opened my eyes and closed them again as I sat up. I let out a loud yawn as I stretched.

“I'm up, I'm up.” I said in a tired voice. At least I had recovered from my Eco exhaustion.

“Dad!” I heard Nyx shout as I felt someone tackle me. I opened my eyes, this time leaving them open and saw that it was Nyx.

I looked around and spotted Twilight as well. I also noticed that that my room was a mess.

“What's going on?” I asked them as I held onto Nyx, trying to calm her down.

“You've been asleep for two weeks, most of us thought you were in a coma and Nyx thought you died. You weren't breathing for the past thirty minutes.” Twilight explained, I could see that she had cried at some point, judging from the damp fur line under her eyes.

“I can go longer without breathing, I needed to do things underwater, deep underwater.” I said to Twilight.

“Anything happen while I was out?” I asked Twilight.

“Me and the girls had to ask a dragon to leave, a unicorn showmare arrived and lied about defeating an Ursa Major, AppleJack went crazy after not having any time for sleep when it was time to harvest all the apples and there were this two men talking to Pecker.” She explained.

“What did they look like?” I asked her, curious to know.

“They wore some type of armor and carried staffs around, though I've never seen staffs like those before.” She explained as I managed to make Nyx stop crying.

‘They're looking for you.’ I heard a familiar voice.

“I know who they are, they're here for me after all.” I said as I tried to stand up but choked a bit. I looked back at the cause and saw that Nyx wrapped her arms around my neck.

“Sorry.” Nyx apologized, letting go of my neck.

“It's fine, I know you didn't meant to.” I said as I stood up. As I stood up, my legs felt weak so I walked around the room for five minutes until they felt better.

After getting my legs back to normal, I told Nyx and Twilight to wait outside my room while I changed. I decided to wear my wastelander gear again.

After putting on some clothes, I went out my room and found Nyx and Twilight having a conversation.

‘Me thinks they have things in common.’ The same voice said.

‘Quiet you, I don't want to deal with this right now.’ I mentally said to the voice.

“Let's go, don't want to keep them waiting.” I said as I walked towards the main lift, grabbing my morph gun and Damas’ staff on the way.

After walking for a full ten minutes through the forest, we've finally made it town and I saw the two figures and Pecker just outside of town.

I walked up to them with Twilight and Nyx following behind. I stood a few feet away and looked at the two Wastelanders.

The first was a pegasus stallion with brown coat, ash grey mane and tail. He had a scar running along his right eye. Speaking of eyes, he's left eye had amber yellow irises while his right had no iris, it was just white. He wore the typical Wastelander get up, but the only thing I could see that was of any interest was the amount of scratches while his shoulder pads were of Metal Head armor.

His partner was a griffiness. She could've been mistaken as Gildas’ twin if it weren't for the scars under both her eyes. She also had an cybernetic eye, it looked exactly like the one Sig had. Her right eye had a red iris. Unlike her partner, she wore a small shirt, only covering the top half of her chest. She also wore a pair of light armored pants.

“Can I help you two?” I asked the pair, only to see them getting on one knee.

“We've come to see if the rumors were true, the rumor of your return, my lord.” The griffiness said. Her voice had just the amount of power to put fear into the enemies with the right training, she could talk her way out of a fight.

“Is that all?” I asked as I tapped their shoulders, signaling them to stand up.

“We were hoping you could teach us in controlling Eco.” The stallion said with a small british accent. I raised an eyebrow at that statement.

“I would if you two had-” I was interrupted as the griffiness stood up and her red eye turned into an electric blue and ran around our group five times in only five seconds.

Once she stopped and her eye changed back to normal, she looked at me.

“We have eco abilities but we can't keep them up long, the longest we've gone was approximately five minutes before we gain massive headaches and fatigue.” She explained. I closed my eyes in thought and felt someone tug my pants a little.

I looked back and saw that it was Nyx.

“Is something wrong, Nyx?” I asked as I picked her up.

“Who are they?” She asked me. I looked at the two eco conduits as they stood their, looking at Nyx as if she had done something wrong.

“They're Wastelanders, like me.” I said, letting Nyx back down.

“Do they get rid of the monsters like you do?” She said, talking about my Metal head hunting skill. I nodded as I turned back to the two.

“What about you?” I asked the pegasus as he his pure white eye turned into a flaming red color as his hands emitted the same color aura.

“Alright, no demonstration needed.” I said, not wanting him to do anything insane.

His eye turned back to a normal pale white. I stood their thinking if I should, though I did wonder one thing.

‘How the fuck did they even get eco abilities!?’ I mentally shouted.

‘Gee, I don't know and it's not like you can, I don't know, ASK THEM!?’ The same mental voice said.

‘And then there's you! How the hell did you even come back!?’ I mentally shouted.

‘Pfft, Eco.’ was his answer. I mentally shouted in frustration.

“How did you two get a hold of these powers?” I asked, acting calm and collected while I'm shouting in the inside.

“We were born with them, we didn't know we had them up until two years ago. We were knee deep in Metal heads and it looked like the end for us but my partners suddenly eye shone blue and the next thing I knew, she stood on top on a pile of them.” The pegasus said.

“And you?” I asked, earning a small awkward chuckle.

“I might've gotten ballsy and tracked down a Metal Pede. It found me and I swore I was going to die then and there. So, on instinct, I punched it. When I opened my eyes to see if I was in hell, I saw Metal Pede, what's left of it anyways.” He explained, making me chuckle at his stupid decision.

“So will you help us learn to use our powers?” The Griffiness asked.

“Sure, on one condition; You follow what I say, when I say it and exactly how I say it. Are we clear?” I said, earning eager nods from the two conduits.

“Great, Pecker!” I shouted at the Moncaw, earning his full attention.

“Show them back to the castle, I need to do something.” I said to him, earning a nod as he flew towards the Everfree castle with the two conduits following behind.

‘You shared some of you life story to a mare you barely know? Are you going soft or is it something else?’ I sighed, knowing that he's back and even more annoying than last time.

‘Shut up, Hyde.’ I said to him as I began to walk through town with Nyx and Twilight. While walking by, I could see a few of the townsfolk trying to keep their distances from me.

I rolled my eyes, I've already dealt with situations like this. I stopped as I saw the town's library and Twilights home.

“I'll talk to you some other time, I need to do something really important.” I said to Twilight. She looked like she wanted to say something but kept her mouth shut and walked into her home.

I looked at Nyx and saw that she wasn't going to listen to me when I tell her to go. I smiled at this, knowing that she won't take any of the shit I'd say, so I took her with me.

“Where are we going?” Nyx asked as she tried to keep up.

“Whitetail woods, I need to meditate because if not, well bad things will happen.” I said to her as she looked at me.

“What kind of bad things?” She asked.

“Well, I can lose myself in a fit of rage, I could lose my powers or worse.” I explained as I noticed her getting tired of walking and picked her up. She was surprised by that but smiled as she saw me.

After entering the forest and finding a suitable spot, finding a beautiful lake with a small waterfall. I found a smoothed out stone and sat on it, cross legged and started taking deep breaths.

I opened one eye to see Nyx staring at me, waiting for something to happen. I smiled as I used green eco to take control of a vine that hung behind her and tapped her shoulder.

She looked back to see the vine just hanging normally of the tree. She turned to look back at me and I repeated the motions of the vine until Nyx caught it.

“What?” She said, confused as I used the vine to start tickling her, earning giggles from her.

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