It has been thirteen years since Ryan, Kaden and Samantha first stepped foot on the phoenix. Today was their eighteenth birthday, Ryan, Kaden and also Samantha had finally made it to simulation sixty three and they were now experts with most weaponry, Samantha was also a weapon expert but a weapon of a different kind she used her Vector pistol a pistol used by many pilots and ship captains it was fast firing and accurate and it had a heck of a punch. The trios were now entering the simulation together while Ratchet and Sasha were watching from the observation deck of the VR training suite.
The trio materialized in the post-apocalyptic city bots sentry guns and any sort of weapon could be seen roaming the street that they were on. The trio immediately got into cover as wads of plasma cracked through the air "this is simulation sixty three, the only way to beat this sim is to use teamwork to fight the guardians and push the button at the end of the street" Ratchets voice came over the neural interface reconnaissance device, or nird for short, it is a device that Kaden had made that was implanted into their bloodstream via syringe, it made its way to their brains and locked in place and it had many uses such as a map, recorder or even a radio, Kaden, Ryan Samantha and their parents all have one "copy that" the trio responded and Ryan peaked his head over the jersey barrior he was in cover behind and almost got his head torn off by a plasma bolt. "Ok I have an idea listen closely, I am going to throw this grenade and you guys are going to run to that old car over there, when you give me some cover I will run up also" Ryan explained his cover to cover plan and his siblings nodded their acceptance. Ryan pulled a grenade off of his belt and pushed a red button on the top of it and threw the grenade at a cluster of enemies who exploded as Kaden and Samantha Ran to their next piece of cover shooting a few more on their way there, and they did that the whole way up the street until a centurion guard was the only one left, centurion guards were also the most toughest of them all, they had very strong armor and they had a eight foot long double edged sword. The armor was too strong for any of their projectile weapons to penetrate so they had to get close and personal, and that is where it excels in combat. The trio contacted each other via nird "Ryan you take care of the power cell me and Sam will distract it" Kaden spoke and his siblings nodded Sam and Kaden walked over to the left t gain the attention of the massive machine while Ryan snuck around the right to un plug the power cell keeping the machine running
Samantha started pelting the centurion with her vector pistol and that only pissed the thing off, it went to swing its sword at Samantha but Kaden caught on and threw himself in front of the attack, the massive sword lodged itself in his side, blood started gushing out of his massive wound and he spat up blood when he tried to talk "dammit this pain never gets easier" Kaden said before he teleported back to the VR room. He had died in the simulation and he was now back on the phoenix, Ryan managed to pull the plug before the machine could hit Samantha and they pushed the button.
Ryan, Kaden and Samantha walked out of the pods Kaden was still nursing his side even know there was no wound he could still feel the pain. "Very good guys, very good" Ratchet stated, he and Sasha were waiting for their return "Kaden I am very proud of you that operation would have never worked if you had not thrown yourself in front of Samantha, but before you do that in the real world promise me you will think of other ways of saving someone before you do that" Ratchet said jokingly and Kaden chuckled "sure dad" Kaden said with the straightest face he could pull. "Ok you three go and clean yourselves up me and your mother will be on the bridge if you need us, "sure thing pops" Kaden said and walked off to the shower room.
About an hour later Samantha walked on to the bridge and confronted her parents about something that she had been thinking long and hard about. "Mom, dad, I want to join the Galactic Air Force" Samantha stated very bluntly. Ratchet and Sasha were both very shocked at the suddenness of this request "are you sure Sam, this is a big step" Sasha asked "yes I am sure" Samantha replied "I would prefer you not, but you are eighteen now, I couldn't stop you if I wanted to" Ratchet said "so I guess that is it, when we get back to marcaidia I am going to enlist, who knows maybe I can get stationed on the phoenix" Samantha said with a reassuring tone "you do know that would make us your commanding officers and not your parents right" Ratchet stated "yea I am aware of that dad" Samantha stated "well I guess that is that when we get to marcaidia at least let us see you off before boot camp " Sasha said "Commander sir ship sighted, military class battle cruiser" Wraith stated, he was now the phoenix's communications officer. "Wraith, hail that ship" Ratchet commanded, Wraith punched a few codes into the computer he was sitting at and the screen flashed on "This is commander Ratchet of the Phoenix explain what you are doing in this sector, you have thirty seconds to respond or we will take you as a threat" Ratchet stated over the com device. the face of Victoris come up on their screen Ratchet is shocked that after only eighteen years they had found them "oh so this is the Commander Ratchet I have heard so much about over the screams of my prisoners" Ratchet barred his canines and his ears folded against his head "huh you don't look like much, Commander that fur covered monstrosity told me that you would rip me apart with his last words before I drove my knife into his gut, I don't see that happening, Prepare to die commander For I am Victoris and I will conquer you all, General have at it" Victoris said with an evil laugh and walked off of the screen and a female took his place "This is Major General Armstrong of the USS Valiant, any last words before I send you to your graves" Armstrong asked with a sadistic tone " yea only three go to hell" Ratchet said and switched off the communicator and reached for the PA system of the phoenix "all hands battle stations, this is not a drill, I repeat this is not a drill, reroute power to the frontal shields and the main cannons" just as the shields came up an ear shattering explosion shook the phoenix from the variants main cannons. "shielding down to fifty percent "a soldier yelled over the chaos "fire everything now" Ratchet screamed and two panels slid open on the hull of the phoenix and two giant barrels slid out and they hummed before letting loose hellfire on the valiant but its shields held tight, it didn't look like they lost any power at all "what the hell, Fire the rail gun" Ratchet ordered and another blast shook the phoenix "shields down to five percent sir we can't take another hit" the soldier called out "he is right we can't die out here we must tell the president that they have found us" Ratchet thought to himself "route power to the warp drives and set a course for marcaidia".
The ship started shaking and then it entered a warp tunnel on a set course for home
Well there it is the first chapter of Ratchet and Clank Vengeance I hope you all like reading this as much as I like writing it SPACE FIGHTING EPICNESS whoever finds the star trek reference gets a cookie well I will see yall later (Evil Ratchet Out!)