"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

=== 2,000 years ago ===

If you ever wonder what the inside of the Void is. It looked like something out of a drug trip.

The first thing I felt when I got back to the real world was pain, lots of pain. I was laying down face first on...sand? Where the hell am I.

"I'm sure the light came from here, milord." a British voice close by said. That can't be...Kleiver!?

"It better not be a waste of time fat-ass" said another similar voice full of sass. Hell yeah that sounded like Sig!

"Why I a to-" Kleiver was interrupted by a third voice.

"Enough! Both of you, if you wanted to fight each other you will do on the Arena of Death!" said a voice full of wisdom, pride and leadership. Yup ya guessed it It's motherfucking Damas king of Spargus City.

"What do we have here?" asked Damas as he started jabbing me with his staff.

"You think this thing is what we're looking for?" asked Sig. Why did they call me a thing? Ugh I can't move my everything do to the amount of pain that I'm feeling.

"Might be, I say we take all his stuff and leave him out here, let the Metal heads have him." suggested Kleiver. Well fuck you to buddy!

"No, we take it back to the city it might be of use to us and quickly I smell storm coming."Damas said to the two wastelanders as he looked at the horizon spotting a wall of sand ahead. 'He said it, he said the intro line ha!' i thought to myself. Fanboy.exe has stopped working.

== First impressions ==

Ugh my head, I'm finally able to move my limbs but I still have a massive head ache. It's been a few hours since Damas found me out in the wasteland.

"I see you're back in the land of the living." said a voice behind me. I turned around to see an anthropomorphic Alicorn pony Damas. 'So I'm in Equestria maybe?' I mentally asked myself. He looks exactly like Damas except for being a pony.

"Yeah thanks for that mate. So mind telling me where I am and who are you?" i asked even though I knew where I am. Trying to act natural in this situation.

"My name is Damas, King of Spargus City. Right now we are in my throne room. And who am I speaking to and what are you?" He asked me.

"The names Jak and I'm a human. What is the name of the country?" i asked him wondering if this was Equestria. I scooped up some water in my hands and drank it.

"The country doesn't have a name the three pony tribes were united not long ago so they haven't named it yet." he answered my other question.'So I'm in Equestria but after the tribe unification' I thought to myself."Now you must prove your worth in the Arena of Death. Prove yourself to be wastelander material or die trying." he said to me. Fuck.

"Alright then, but I need my gear." I told him. Where did they take my shit man.

"Here's your Scatter-Gun, you'll need it for your second part of the trial." He said while tossing me my gun. So they know about guns. I wonder what else they've got.

I took a look at the Scatter-Gun and noticed a note on it. I took the note and began to read.

"Hello my friend if you're reading this then you've made to your destination. I've taking the liberty of doing a few things to your abilities.

List of abilities:

1. Your Light and Dark eco will be infinite so you won't have to worry about getting more.

2. Infinite ammunition for the Morph-Gun. I don't know if they'll have any so there.

3. You will have all your Light and Dark powers unlocked for shits and giggles.

4. And switched invincibility for Immortality. So don't worry if you're not in the right timeline

Have fun your friend

-The merchant

Huh cool. I decided to finally go to the arena for my trials. I have a feeling something bad is coming. I'm guessing in order to activate my Eco forms is to think which one i want to be.

== Trial by fire ==

"Welcome citizens of Spargus, today we bring you two new challengers. In order for them to become one of us they must pass their trials. The first trial is an obstacle course the challenger must complete while collecting Eco orbs that are scattered around the course. The second is a test of battle." Damas yelled at everyone in the stadium. I didn't see only ponies, I saw Changelings, Minatours, zebras, a few dragons here and there and griffons gathered around the stadium.

I decided to meet the other challenger. What I found was a really nervous orange alicorn looking changeling praying to the Precursors to give him strength. The guy looked like he was about as tall as me. I walked up to him.

"So you're the other guy taking the wastelander test?" I asked him. He just yelped in suprise and picked up his gun and turned around pointing it at me.

"What do ya want!?" he yelled in a really familliar voice. I took a look at his gun and noticed it's a blaster rifle.

"Dude I just came here to talk." I said to him. I hope it's who I think it is.

That seemed to calm him down enough to stop pointing at me with his gun. He leaned at the wall breathing heavily.

"The names Jak, what about you?" I asked him. He just looked at me with a face that says 'Give me a fucking minute asshole'.

"I'm Daxter. Sorry to be blunt with this but, What in the name of the precursors are you?" he said. 'Holy shit it's this world's versions of Daxter'.

"I'm a human. So you're a Changeling?" I asked him.

"Yeah but I wasn't always one, I used to be a regular earth pony but I fell in a vat of Dark Eco and came out like this." he said. So he still fell in the dark eco but came out a changeling instead.

"Challengers take your stations!" we heard Damas yell.

"Hey it was nice meeting you Daxter, see you on the other side." I said as I went to my side of the room.

"See ya later buddy!" Daxter yelled with excitement in his voice.

The doors to the stadium open, blinding us both with the brightness of the sun. All we could hear were cheering from the crowd, as our trials were about to commence.

== The present ==

I woke up to a set of loud knocking. I groggily got from the bed obviously still to tired.

"Who is it?" I asked the person who was knocking at my door.

"It's Spike, come on dude breakfast is finished!" He yelled through the door.

I responded by leaping from the bed with enthusiasm. I'm wearing some camo shorts with a white sleevless shirt. I opened the door heading downstairs.

"Food!" was the only thing I said as I looked at the glorious waffles sitting there at the table. I sat down at the table waiting for Spike to serve. I noticed Twi having an early morning read. She's wearing a long shirt without wearing any pants. Apparently she still hasn't gotten use to a having me around. I noticed the lack of clothing from her and got a bit of blood on my nose and blushing madly.

"Morning Twi." I said trying to stay calm. Ugh this is really getting awkward.

"Hm, oh good morning Jak." she finally said after a few minutes. Apparently she noticed my blushing cheeks. She finally took a look at herself and noticed her attire. In a flash she teleported upstairs. After a few minutes she came back wearing an outfit for a librarian.

"Sorry about that. It won't happen again." she said with a furious blush on her face.

"It's fine, come on let's eat." i said while taking a three waffles. I fucking love waffles especially cinnamon waffles. I picked up a plate and served a few waffles for Twilight and handed her the plate.

"T-thanks." she stuttered out.

The more I hang out with her the more this weird feeling lasts. What is wrong with me? 'I think I really am falling for her aren't I?'. Now finished eating I went upstairs to take a nice cold shower. I prefer the cold over the warmth. After I was finished I got dressed with the Jak 2 outfit.

"Twilight if you need me I'll be around town looking for a job." I said as I walked out the door beginning my hunt for a job.

== PoV change Twilight ==

After Jak went upstairs to shower I began thinking. 'Why does being near him make feel this way?' I mentally asked myself. 'Maybe I really do like him, but I hardly know him!' I menatlly shouted at myself.

Now that I took a look at the main room, looks like it needed to be reorganized.

"Spike! Help me reorganize the library." I yelled to the little drake upstairs. Today is going to be a long day. Next Chapter: An apple a day keeps the Lurkers away Estimated time remaining: 5 Hours, 9 Minutes