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At the jungle hotel... Jak, Sly, and Ratchet are on a mission to find a tomb around the jungle.

"Ok, we rented a room to stay in. We got the first case to investigate." said Jak. "We gotta find a key that was missing in the past century. Indeed, I'm hoping it's in the tomb in the jungle." Said Ratchet.

"You hope the key's in the tomb somewhere? I don't know about that." said Daxter.

"Only way to find out, let's go outside to explore the jungle." said Jak.

After they rented a room in the hotel, they went to the jungle. While they walked along the paths of the jungle, Sly found something on the ground. Sly picked up a shiny, Turquoise jewel. "I found this." said Sly. "What's that?" asked Ratchet.

"It's turquoise. Turquoise is a stone of the ancients, it represents wisdom, tranquility, good fortune, protection, and hope." said Bentley. "Protection? Hope? What a good crystal." said Murray.

Sly puts the turquoise in his pocket, and they continue walking around the jungle. "This is getting long." said Ratchet, wiping the sweat off. "Well, I'm pretty sure it's not gonna be that long. Shorty." said Jak, calling Ratchet shorty. "Don't call me that, Jak." said Ratchet, glaring at Jak. "Shorty." said Jak. "Dude." said Ratchet, slaps Jak in the arm. "And you hit like a girl." said Jak, teasing. "Did not." said Ratchet, annoyed. "Yeah, you did." said Jak.

"Hey, we found a tomb." said Murray. "Really?" said Ratchet. "Yeah." said Murray. "It's in the left path of the jungle." said Murray, pointing at the left path of the jungle.

The trio and their sidekicks run to the left side of the jungle to go find the tomb there. "There it is." said Jak. "It needs a round key." said Daxter. "Use the turquoise to open the door." said Clank. "The turquoise." said Ratchet.

Sly gives Ratchet the turquoise, Ratchet uses it to unlock the entrance. "Nice work, Ratchet." said Murray. The gang goes inside the tomb. "Yeah, nice job, Ratchet." said Jak as he went inside the tomb, along with others.

Jak slaps Ratchet hard in the butt, surprising Ratchet and his tail jumped in shock. "Dude... Stop." said Ratchet.

As they got inside, they turned on their lights. "Whoa." said Ratchet. "I know, right?" asked Sly. "We gotta find the key in this tomb." said Jak.

They explored inside the tomb, and they went to the straight path. Daxter spotted a centipede, he screamed with fear and jumped onto Jak's shoulder. "Mother-!" said Ratchet, started by the centipede and Daxter's scream. "It's just a centipede." said Clank to Daxter, laughing. Daxter glared at Clank for laughing at him.

"Look, there's the key over there. On the pedestal." said Jak as he sees the mysterious key on the pedestal in the pedestal room.

"Careful, there's booby traps around in this room." said Sly as he stopped his friends from unknowingly going through the booby traps.

The fire rises out in the traps.

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As they find traps, Sly decides to go past the fire traps. He went to the left, ducked down to prevent himself from being burned by a trap, sneak to the right, crawl down over another trap, and then make it to the pedestal. The traps are blocked after Sly goes past them.

"I made it." said Sly. "Good job, Sly." said Jak. Sly picked the key up and put it in his pocket. "OK, guys, let's go." said Jak.

After they got the key, they went back to the hotel. They researched the old key. "This key belongs to the indigenous chief of the jungle, Tokai. Tokai was known for healing his people with his herbs and setting shamanic good rituals," said Bentley.

"Shamanism," said Jak.

"Some people say that the pirates were trying to steal the herbs from the chief, but the chief placed a hex on the evil pirates who hunted for treasure and herbs, making sure what's done in the dark comes to light. Like a boomerang goes around, karma comes around. Some pirates got sick until they died, leaving their innocent loved ones behind (including their families)." said Bentley.

"Dang." said Ratchet. "At least, the medicine's safe, right?" said Sly. "Well, it depends," said Murray.

At the jungle museum... Ratchet, Sly and Jak went to the office to talk to the curator. "Excuse us, sir." said Ratchet. "Yes?" said the curator. "Is there anything to look around for clues in this museum?" asked Jak. "Well, certainly. We saw a mysterious man with an eye patch in the museum earlier, he was looking around the vase of Chief Rokai with a surprised look on his face." said the curator.

"Can we examine around?" said Ratchet. "Of course." said the curator. "Thank you." said Sly. The trio examined the museum. "Any clues in this place?" said Jak. "Not quite." said Ratchet. "Nope, not yet." said Sly. As they were looking around and even viewing the art, Ratchet found a note underneath the vase stand. "There's a note. It says: BLCV-03221." Said Ratchet. "Looks like we found a code to something." said Sly. "I wonder if there's a way to unlock something in this case. We still gotta find some more clues." said Jak. "There's another room to go in. We can sneak in there to investigate" said Sly. "Good idea." said Jak.

The trio went into the mysterious room and then discovered a basement, they went into the basement and found the study room.

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They begin to investigate in the study room, "There's gotta be around here in this room." said Jak. "I didn't know that this place has a secret room." said Ratchet. "Yeah, I think no one ever went to this room." said Sly.

"There's a folder." said Jak as he discovered a folder hiding in the opened cabinet of the desk. Jak pulled out the folder and opened it, revealing the more clues: the old inheritance papers from the florist named Amber Perez. "Someone's named Amber Perez, the florist." said Jax.

"I wonder where the florist is?" said Sly. "It appears that she was known for gardening rare plants from the Amazon area, exposing trafficking rings, and selling her special plants." Said Ratchet, reading the biography description of Amber.

"Wait, she exposed trafficking rings?" asked Sly. "Like sex trafficking, human trafficking." Said Jak. "There's another file of this person." said Ratchet, pointing at the second file of the man named Riko.

"His name is Riko, also known for making foundation money for the children." said Sly.

"That's strange, who got the files of people anyway?" asked Ratchet.

Back at the jungle hotel... The three men went back to the room, with their sidekicks researching. "So these are 5 people in the files?" said Sly. "Yep, 5 of them." said Jak.

"I gotta "So, where do we find the 5 mysterious people who know or don't know about the past mysteries of the jungle." said Sly. "I have no clue, but the only way to find out is that we find the florist and talk to her." said Jak. "We can try contacting her on the website, will it be a good idea?" said Ratchet. "Yeah." said Sly. "Uh, Ratchet... Don't look behind." said Jak as he saw a giant water bug on the wall, behind Ratchet.

"Oh god, it's huge." said Sly. "Don't look back at the wall." said Daxter. "Don't tell there's a big roach behind me, isn't it?" said Ratchet, a little scared. "Oh yeah, it's right behind you alright." said Sly. Ratchet turns his head to look behind and finds a water bug on the wall.

"Holy mother of Qwark!" shouted Ratchet, screaming like a girl.

"Where's the shoe? Where's the shoe?" said Jak as he and the others stood back from the waterbug. "If it flies, I'm gonna run to the bathroom to hide there forever." said Daxter as he gives Jak one of the shoes. "Kill it, man, kill that little dude!" said Ratchet.

Jak throws the shoe at the waterbug but misses and the water bug flies to the corner. Ratchet falls off the bed, trying to get away from the waterbug.

"Oh Lord! He moved!" shouted Jak. "He moved!" said Ratchet. Ratchet grabbed out the broom from the right corner, next to him. Ratchet hits the waterbug, it falls to the floor. Ratchet stomps on the waterbug multiple times, killing it. "Die, you fool, die!" said Ratchet, shouting and laughing.

"Watch what happens, there's another one coming from the vent. I think it's his mate." said Clank. The men screamed when the other waterbug came from the vent.

Ratchet swings the broom at it but misses a shot. The waterbug flies towards Ratchet, but Jak catches the second waterbug in his hands. He threw it outside and yelled "Yeet!" And the water bug flew away outside. "And stay out, motherf**cker!" said Jak, shouting.

"I hate waterbugs." said Ratchet. "Me, either." said Sly.

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The trio begin to laugh after they get rid of the waterbugs, they lay on a bed together while laughing. “That was crazy.” said Jak. “I know, right.’ said Sly. “I almost farted.” said Daxter. “And Jak threw the other bug outside, that was hilarious.” said Ratchet. “Did it bite you, Jak? Asked Sly. “Nope, I threw it outside quickly before its going to bite.” said Jak.

The trio laughed again. “With your bare hands?” said Ratchet. “Yeah.” said Jak. “Jak, that’s gross. What if you squished it?” said Ratchet. “It didn’t get squashed, I threw it outside.” said Jak. “Right.” said Ratchet. “Want me to wipe the bug off on your tail?” said Jak. “Ew! Oh no!” said Ratchet.

Jak teases Ratchet by playfully trying to wipe his hand on Ratchet’s tail, even though he’s joking. Ratchet playfully moved away from Jak, Sly playfully grabbed Ratchet in the arm as he moved back as well. “You better not wipe the bug juice on my tail!” laughed Ratchet. “I’m gonna wipe on both of you.” said Jak, teasing and laughing. Ratchet playfully raised his leg up to defend him and Sly, trying to kick Jak with his foot. But Jak grabbed his foot and slapped Ratchet’s butt 8 times. “Stop it, that freaking hurts, dude.” laughed Ratchet. Sly said “Oh, that’s it. You ask for this, Jak!”. sprays Jak in the face with a water bottle, playing. Their sidekicks join the play-fight.

That night… Jak heard a creak from the bathroom, waking himself up. He gets up from the bed, he goes to the bathroom to figure out what that sound was.

Jak tiptoed towards the window that is open and made creaking sounds. Jak peeps his head out, looking outside, and nobody was outside. He sees a note being stuck between the window slides, he pulls it out and Jak closes the window tight, turns around and is startled by Ratchet who walks in.

“Ratchet, where did you come from?” said Jak, startled. “I was gonna get a glass of water. What’s going on?” said Ratchet. “I saw a window and then I found a note stuck to it.” said Jak.

“What does the note say?” asked Ratchet. “It says: The Aurora Flower Shop. Amber’s address is Redwater Village 13.” said Jak, reading the note.

“Looks like someone wrote Amber Perez’s address.” said Ratchet. “Seems to me that someone is going for a visit to Amber’s place.” said Jak.