Hello everyone, and welcome! So, I decided to start a winter-themed collection of oneshots the other day. From now on, every day, I'll (try to) post a new short oneshot in which Ratchet and Clank enjoy the winter. The last chapter will be on Christmas Eve.
While the chapters may be short, there will be a new chapter everyday. Anyhow, enjoy!
One-shot 1
Days until Christmas Eve: 12
Snowball Fight
Ratchet yawned and got up. He shook his head, fighting the drowsy feeling in his head. When he felt more awake, he walked to the window and opened the curtains.
At first, he didn't believe what he saw. "Huh? Where's the grass?"
Because he was not yet fully awake, it took him a second to realize why everything was white. "Snow?!"
Ratchet laughed. "Clank, we've got snow!" he yelled over his shoulder. Clank, who had been sitting on his favorite chair and who had been reading the newspaper, answered. "Yes, I noticed it when I had to open the door this morning. Some sort of package got delivered. Do you know anything about it? Because I do not recall odering something."
Ratchet walked over to the package Clank pointed at. It was a cardboard box with, of course, some information about the sender. "Quasar Exclusives" Ratchet read. His eyes went wide with realisation. It was the Christmas gift he bought for Clank. He had to think of something, quick.
"Uuh, nope. I didn't order anything either. I'll just put the package somewhere safe for now, and I'll call the post office tomorrow."
"Tomorrow? Why not today?"
"Because it's Sunday, silly."
Clank chuckled and shook his head. "Oh, of course."
Ratchet looked through the window, at the snow outside. "It'd be a shame if I didn't do something with it."
"Clank, could you come outside for a moment?"
"Why?"
"I need to clear the path to the door as well as the driveway, but I could use some help."
Clank put down his newspaper with a sigh. "Of course. Give me a moment."
{Five minutes later...}
Ratchet was clearing the driveway while Clank was brushing the snow off the path to their doorstep. Ratchet was, of course, wearing a thick winter coat and a scarf.
To Ratchet's surprise, Clank, too, was wearing a scarf. Yes, you read that correctly: Clank was wearing a blue scarf.
Ratchet shook his head. "Well, he probably has his reasons."
But then Ratchet had an idea. He grinned mischievously as he sneaked closer to Clank and brushed some snow on the path with his feet. He quickly got back to work.
Clank turned around to inspect his work, only to see more snow on the path. He tilted his head in confusion. "That is odd. I am certain I brushed all snow off the path."
There was only one possible explanation: Ratchet had done something. Clank frowned and walked over to Ratchet. When the Lombax wasn't looking, Clank returned the favor and brushed a lot of snow on their driveway.
However, he got caught in the act. "What are you doing?!"
"I am returning the favor."
"But I worked so hard to clear that!"
"Just as I worked very hard, but thanks to you I can start over."
Ratchet sighed. "Sorry Clank, I was just running out of ideas how to start this!"
Ratchet threw a snowball at Clank that he had been holding behind his back. The snowball hit the robot right between the eyes, the force making the robot fall over.
"What did you do that for?" Clank asked with big eyes and some snow on his head.
"A snowball fight!"
Clank tilted his head in confusion, the snow falling off his metal dome. "Snowball fight?"
Ratchet's ears dropped. "Oh? You're not familiar with a snowball fight? Well, in that case you probably didn't see that snowball coming, eh?"
Clank nodded with puppy dog eyes. "Shall I introduce you to snowball fighting then?" Ratchet offered.
Clank nodded again. "Alright. First you grab some snow and squeeze it into a ball. Don't squeeze it too hard though or it'll become very hard, and getting hit by a ball of such densely packed snow hurts. Next, you-"
Ratchet couldn't explain further because he was hit in the face by a snowball that Clank had been hiding behind his back. The force made Ratchet fall over.
"Next, I do that, right?" Clank asked with an innocent face.
Ratchet got up, snow on his head. "A-yup, but something tells me you already knew."
Clank giggled and threw another snowball that Ratchet was barely able to avoid. "Oh, you've done it now!"
Ratchet threw a snowball at Clank, but due to the robot's size, he could dodge it with ease. The robot quickly made a wall of snow that he could hide behind and started to create snowballs as fast as his tiny hands let him. As he was about to finish his seventh snowball, Ratchet began bombarding the robot's wall of snow. Clank responded by peeking around his cover and throwing three snowballs back at the Lombax, two of them hitting their target.
Ratchet got up and made more snowballs, but he had to retreat when Clank sent a small storm of snow his way. When Clank was out of snowballs and had to make new ones, Ratchet used the time he had to create a wall of snow. From behind cover, he started to make snowballs and throw them over his shoulder.
After throwing ten or so, he heard "Umph!" coming from behind Clank's wall. The robot peeked around cover, snow on his small metal dome. While Ratchet had wasted all ammo blindfiring, Clank had been busy making ammo instead and had twenty snowballs ready.
Ratchet could barely get away from the torrent of snowballs sent his way. In return, he threw his last snowball.
"Oof!"
Ratchet stopped running, realizing that Clank had stopped throwing. Turning around, he saw Clank, and immediatly bursted into a laughter. His snowball had hit Clank on the robot's right eye. What was so funny is that the snow didn't fall off, but sticked to Clank's face, as if the robot was wearing some sort of eyepatch.
Clank tilted his head in confusion. "I do not see what's so funny."
Ratchet laughed even harder. "Best. Choice. Of words. Ever!"
"Excuse me?"
"Look in the mirror! Hahaha!"
Clank looked to his right. The robot could see his reflection in the windows of the house he and Ratchet owned, and he immediatly saw what was so funny.
"Hehehehe!"
Clank striked a pose. "Aye-aye, captain."
Ratchet bursted into a hysterical laughter, the sight of Clank with one snowball-eye and a snow hat was too funny, especially when combined with the robot's blue scarf.
After two minutes Ratchet stopped and got up. Clank tilted his head. "What is wrong? Is it no longer funny?"
"No, no, I was just freezing my butt off."
Clank gave his trademark chuckle. "I see." Then the robot threw a snowball he had been hiding in his chest compartment.
And the fight continued. Ratchet hit Clank with two snowballs in a row, but the robot responded by grabbing two snowballs he made earlier, running up to Ratchet, and throwing them at the Lombax' face at point-blank range, causing Ratchet to fall over. "Oof! Oh, I'm coming for ya!" Ratchet yelled as he got up, hands full of snow.
{Five minutes later...}
Both snow-war-veterans were covered in snow and were lying on the ground in the soft snow, panting.
"That was fun, eh?" Ratchet asked.
Clank giggled. "Yes indeed, it was quite amusing that I had no trouble hitting you but you had such a hard time hitting me."
"That's because you're only two feet tall. Kinda hard to hit something that small, eh?"
"I honestly do not know, my target was much bigger."
Ratchet bursted into a laughter. "C'mon, let's go back inside, it's getting quite cold out here."
"Agreed."
The two friends got up and walked inside, but both were too tired to notice the pile of melting snow on their heads.
And? How did I do? Tell me in the reviews!
Also, to the people who read my other stories, Zoniborn and Epilogue: I've put those two stories on hiatus until Christmas Eve for a good reason:
Zoniborn: I have barely started writing the next chapter and I want to give people some time to review and, optionally, send in OC's that will make an appearance.
Epilogue: Basically the same reason as Zoniborn. While Zoniborn will not be updated on Christmas Eve, Epilogue will recieve a new, special chapter. Since I have two weeks off school around Christmas and New Year, I'll have plenty of time to write new chapters. I've put Epilogue on hiatus for now because in the latest chapter people can submit an OC that will appear in the next chapter, and I want to give people some time. That, and I've got a christmas special chapter planned for Epilogue as I said earlier.
And, if anyone has any good ideas, I'm all ears!
