Wastland Mayham (Jak 3 Fiction)

Back to the Dessert

I ran to the South Towns port to catch up with Jak and Dax for a ride to the dessert. I went blue and zoomed past all the fighting having to get on the roof tops and run on the walls a few times, which was fun and surprising all in it's own. Once I reached South Town I slowed down to a jog towards the cargo zoomer. Jak and Daxter were just walking up to the damned thing about to get on when I was just a few yards away.

"WAIT!!!!WAIT YOU GUYS!" I screamed waving my arms around as I picked up my speed just a little bit. Jak and Daxter stopped and scanned their surrounding until they saw me. I slowed down once more then stopped to catch my breath. "Whew...Though I would miss you guys." I said panting lightly.

"I was going to call you to ask if you wanted to come before leaving. I would have waited." Jak said.

"That would of been good to know. I went all out sprinting down here. I even ran on the walls and jumped over shit to get here." I said straightening back up. The door of the cargo zoomer opened. I looked at Jak questionably. He shrugged and entered the zoomer with me in following. Once we were both on the zoomer started to take off and close it's door. We had to grab a hold of something inside the thing to keep from flying out.

Once the door was closed Jak and I sat down on the benches. Daxter jumped off Jak's shoulder and sat down as well. I looked at my shoes and leaned back getting comfortable knowing that this trip was going to be a very long one, three hours to be exact.

"Well...I'm bored..." Daxter exclaimed loudly causing me to flinch.

"Hi bored, my name is Jackie. What's your?" I said giving him a dry look.

"Hey, no need for sarcasm here!" Daxter bit back.

"Sarcasm? What sarcasm? If there was any sarcasm around I would of smelt it by now." I said trying not to smirk.

"You wouldn't be able to smell sarcasm if it was under your nose!" Daxter said shoving his finger under my nose.

"Your right, it would have to smell like you. Then I could smell it a mile away." I scrunched up my face and pushed his hand away.

"It's not my fault we got sent down in the sewers! Jak over here just goes with it. I'm beginning to think he doesn't mind the smell." Daxter complained throwing a dirty look to Jak.

"Somebody's got to do it. If we left it to someone else then it would take too long to get it done and if you haven't notice, were on a tight schedule." Jak defended.

"He's got a very valid point but I think that you guys should at least carry around a bottle of spray or something. Not to be rude but the stank on you two is real." I said.

"Yeah, I'll look into that." Jak said. With nothing to say I leaned against the wall and got a little shut eye. I woke up to Jak shaking my shoulder and the feeling of the cargo zoomer lowering down to the ground. Stretched out yawning loudly as several of my bones popped loudly. The doors opened letting us get off. The sand was whipping around making me instantly want to go back into the safety of the cargo zoomer.

"Why does this dessert hate us so much?!?" I yelled against the winds.

"It's a dessert! It can't hate!" Daxter yelled back being a smart ass. Jak used his jet board to get to the gate faster while I hoofed it, good thing I'm insanely fast but now that I think about it....I'm starting to get slower....I'm going to have to ask the Precursors about this. Not that I wasn't able to beat Jak to the gates. I don't know why I had to get there first since I just sat there and waited for him to catch up anyways.

"Another storm is really churning the sand! Scanners show a few new artifact sightings. You two up for some rough ridin'?" Sig asked as soon as we got into the city gates. I tossed my head back and sighed in exaggeration but was ignored.