Chapter 1

Ratchet yawned and felt for Clank nearby. He managed to find his friend; luckily they hadn't been separated like they had when they were in the middle world.

"What is it? It looks like a cat."

"It's too big to be a cat."

"It's so cute!" Ratchet opened his eyes and found three girls standing over him.

"Look it's opening its eyes!"

"Shhh… I want to listen to it Rikku!"

"Let me see!" Ratchet could see one of them had long blonde hair; another had short brown hair while the other had straight black hair.

"Hey "it" has a name you know!" Ratchet said to the crowd of girls around him. They all gasped as Ratchet talked to them.

"Oh my god! Did you hear that Yunie! It spoke!"

"I know I heard, what do you think it is?" Ratchet saw a boy with short, slightly spiked hair and a toothpick in-between his teeth pushed the girls back.

"Give it some space guys, how would you like it if you woke up to find a bunch of people staring you in the face? Tifa leave it alone!" The girl with black hair tried to pick Ratchet up.

"Hey quit it!" Ratchet said jumping to his feet much to everyone's surprise.

"Sorry kid, it's just where exactly are you from?"

Rinoa opened her eyes finding herself on what appeared to be a small room with metal walls. To her left was what appeared to be a sort of cage with a jungle setting inside. She looked back to see she was resting in Squall's arms. She sat up quickly in embarrassment and gave Squall a quick nudge. He woke up and stood up and took a look around.

"Where the hell are we?" Almost immediately two walking metal frames walked into the room, when they saw Squall and Rinoa they quickly raised there hands which had blasters on the end. Squall went to pull out his gunblade from its sheath when Rinoa put a hand on his arm and whispered in his ear.

"I think these are robots like Clank, they could be friendly."

"Or they could not." The robots then slowly put down there arms when they saw they weren't a threat.

"Sir, could you please state your name and what you are doing on the starship Phoenix"

Ratchet was standing in the garden quite aware that the three girls; Rikku, Yuna and Tifa were watching him. He heard them mention Squall's name at which time Clank turned around from his back (they didn't want to show Clank to them just yet) and told him that they were probably in Squall's world.

"It's not all that different" Ratchet said. "Look they even have hoverbikes like back home. He laid his hand on a, rather more chunky than what he was used to, hoverbike. Up on a balcony was a man in a long blue cloak watching him. If Ratchet had seen him smile he might have thought he was related to Sephiorth. Ratchet leant over to see what the engine was like when a short, burst of fire zoomed past where his head had been. Out of reflex Ratchet jumped on the hoverbike and raced off dodging fireballs as he went. The man cursed and expertly jumped onto another bike and soared off after Ratchet.