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Little was said as they flew away from the great clock, Ratchet was glad to have Clank with him of course, but at the same time he felt hollow inside, Alister's death had a greater affect on him then he let Clank know, he was the closest thing he had to a father, and now he was gone forever, it was a depressing thought, and Ratchet felt sad and empty.

'No.' he thought, 'This is not the thoughts to be dwelling on right now, Nefarious is dead, I have Clank with me for the first time in ages, I should be happy, and besides Clank doesn't want to know that I'm thinking this, he wouldn't understand.'

'So where are we headed?' Clank asked, looking at Ratchet, looking for the answer.

Ratchet sighed. 'I don't know, home probably.'

Clank sensed something was wrong, so he asked Ratchet, 'You miss him, don't you?'

Ratchet knew that there was no point in lying to his best friend, and besides, friends don't lie to each other.

But occasionally, they do.

'Yeah, I do miss him, he's the only Lombax I ever knew, and the last Lombax in the whole galaxy, so it's no surprise that I'm upset about him dying.'

Ratchet had no idea that something he said was not true, and there was something he didn't know, but that was not known to him, not yet anyway.

'We all go someday,' Clank said, staring at his Lombax friend. 'We all perish, we all disappear, leaving only our work and memories in the mind of others behind, it's all going to happen to everyone, one day you will die, not for hundreds of years, but you will go someday, I will be shut down as well, we all will, and the best we can do when we are alive is live life well, and leave positive memories in the mind of others behind, and when we do die, we are remembered well. If only we could live forever, no wars, no fighting, peace and happiness, living forever would be something to be desired by many.'

Ratchet listened to his friend's speech, while popular song played on the radio softly, somehow adding to the emotion that was building up in the ship, he knew what Clank said was true, but he just didn't think that he could fully grasp the fact that Alister was gone, and he was the only Lombax left, the savior of the broken, one who defeated villains plans that they had made. What had Alister said to him one day? 'One day, I'll leave you, and I'll be a mere phantom of you, and you will be leading the universe into peace, never forget that, son. Never, never must you forget that.'

He had called Ratchet his son, remembering that, he felt his chest tighten, Alister had set a path for him, and he was going to follow it and finish it, if there was one thing he could do for respect his passing wish, it was that, and he would do it, for Alister, for his father, and the Lombaxes.

'Well I've got you, I almost lost you, and you mean everything to me, and I am just happy that you're here with me, and nothing could make up for your presence, absolutely nothing.

Clank noticed the Lombax shake slightly while he said this, and he suspected that Ratchet missed Alister, but he was letting him, go, or at least trying to.

Ratchet steered the ship well, he veered to the right, away from the direction of an asteroid that was heading towards him.

'Every time I got in this ship while you were gone, and looked the at empty seat, and thought you, and knew that I would find you again. I had my heart set on it, and my work paid off,' Ratchet said suddenly, and then, 'I missed you buddy, I really did.'

Clank smiled. 'Thank you, Ratchet for coming after me.' Then he said, 'Do you have any injures or pain from our "adventure"?'

'We certainly get ourselves into scrapes don't we?'

Ratchet smiled his Lombaxian grin, 'And we get out as well eh?'

Clank looked down on his metallic hands. 'Yeah.'

They didn't say anything for a while, just glad of each others' company, just glad to be alive, escaping once again from the jaws of death.

Then suddenly Clank said, 'You should call Talwyn, she be wanting to know how you are.'

Ratchet nodded uncertainly, ' I will, she'll kill me if I don't call and tell her were alive.'

'Well you won't be alive for long if she finds out you aren't calling her.'

As Ratchet brought up his contact list, he felt a pull in steering, like some force was pulling his ship towards to the source.

'What's the matter with this thing?' Ratchet exclaimed, 'Blasted, infernal….'

'Unknown force detected, proceed with caution,' said the ship in its bland voice.

'What the heck is this thing?' Ratchet exclaimed as he steered the ship away from the invisible force, but it was futile as the ship kept being sucked into the invisible source of unknown power.

Ratchet looked outside the window, and looked scared, even more scared then when him and Clank watched Sore XXXVIII one night, and Ratchet wasn't the sort of person who scared easily, thing meant that whatever was outside, it was something not good, and not good at all.

'What is it, Ratchet, something bad?' Clank asked, 'What's wrong?'

'Agorian Battleplex, the place where Qwark was captured, and I had to bail him out, and now they're sucking the ship in, well I'm not giving up without a fight, that's for sure!' Ratchet wrestled with the controls, hoping that they would be able to avoid being sucked in, but it was hopeless,a dn they both knew it, but Ratchet was going to give up without an fight, even though he knew it was fruitless, he didn't want to feel that he had submitted, he never let go.

'That's why he is, what he is today,' Clank thought, 'And why I'm not in Nefarious' clutches, and why I'm still alive.'

Clank thought about this while Ratchet swore and tried to bring the ship under control.

They were coming closer to the ship now, almost there, the Aphileon was being sucked in with incredible force.

'I'm not going to give up without a fight Clank,' Ratchet said, as Clank looked into his eyes as saw something he had never seen before.

The look of a person who will do anything, even kill everyone mercilessly to survive.

The look scared him.

At least he was on his side.