Now, I was waiting for my Sly Cooper stories to be complete, but I really wanted to do a story with Ratchet and Clank! I started this story on 01/04/12, when I was almost done with Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One. I fell in love with the game and with the series, and this takes place during Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time.

Genres: Romance, drama, and adventure

Rating: T for violence, language, the usual

Pairings: RatchetXYou

Summary: You're a hardcore video game addict, most fond of Ratchet and Clank. When you win a contest to board a real spaceship, it crashes into an unknown planet. You wake up as a Lombax, and you meet Ratchet! Normally, it'd be a dream come true, but you don't remember anything, not even your real name. You uncover who you truly are as your world turns into a nightmare.

Your POV:

You're on your laptop that cost you $600. It was so worth it. Now you don't have to share with your parents, and you can spend as much time on the internet as you want to-when you're not typing up something for school. You've got an essay due for English class, and you've already finished your graphics work. You had to design a character, and that was the coolest thing ever, no joke.

The essay isn't due for a couple of days, but if you get it done now, you won't have to worry about it and then you have more time for video games! Video games are your passion, your calling life. People said it would be a waste to just be on the internet and on your PS3 all of the time, but you've made a living out of it!

Now you're in school at the Academy of Art as a junior, almost 23 now, and you're going to graduate and design video games. What you really want to do is work on a Ratchet and Clank game, but doing a Sly Cooper or a Jak and Daxter would be just as good. But Ratchet and Clank are your favorite. You had a Clank magnet in your locker when you were in high school. And you still have a poster in your dorm. With your PS3, PS2, and how many PSPs. You just got an Xbox 360 and it's amazing.

You don't have a roommate, thankfully, so you completely customized it. It's full of video game posters and bookshelves were your games are kept. And it's nice and clean too. Just the way you like it.

Printing out your essay (happy to be done with it) you turn on your PS3 and start playing A Crack in Time. It's just too awesome. But you were like heartbroken when it looked like Ratchet died. You're one of his proud fangirls, even though he's not even remotely human. You've had crushes on Sly and Jak too, but Ratchet defiantly wins out.

You start playing when you receive a call on your iPhone 4. You pause your game and pick it up on the nightstand next to your bed. "Hello?" You asked. The voice quality totally makes it worth all the money you paid for it.

"Is this Miss Arianna Artenie?" A voice asks.

"Indeed it is." You smile.

"Well, I have good news for you: you've won our free trip to space contest!"

You must've busted the person's eardrum, because you screamed as if you were being murdered. You started jumping up and down and kept screaming, "YES! YES! YES!" You couldn't help it! You put your name in that drawing forever ago, only once, you weren't expecting to win! But you're going on a real spaceship! It will be self-auto piloted and everything, but you will get to go into outer space!

You're eating breakfast with your female nerdy friends. You've always been pretty popular, especially with nerds.

"You're so lucky!" Christina, with her olive skin and light green eyes obviously Greek, says first. She and Faith are your absolute best friends-no one could replace them. But there's still one more person who you didn't think you would heal if you lost them.

Faith, blonde and French, scoots over so your boyfriend-one and only-Justin can sit next to you.

You've been dating him since freshman year. He's was your first serious boyfriend, and now fiancé. You're going to get married, have children, and design the best video games the world has ever known. You're just so excited for future you're going to have with him. You're going to make Faith and Christina godmothers, defiantly. You look at the white gold ring on your finger. It's beautiful.

It was the most magical night of your life. He took you to the highest cliff in town, and you watched the stars. He made all of your favorite foods, and you danced to your favorites songs, including you and Justin's song, "Lucy" by Skillet. Then he got down on one knee and asked you to marry him.

But Faith and Christina could never be replaced. Faith and Christina aren't as hardcore as you when it comes to video games, but they'll always play co-op in All 4 One with you when they're not busy. They and Justin were there for you when your father died, and you don't know what you would've done without them during that time. And when you were crying, Justin dropped everything and just held you. You've told them everything. You don't keep secrets, not from them. You've got the utmost trust in them.

"Hey Arianna." Justin smiled, taking your hand and kissing your forehead. You smile and give a deep breath and rest your head on his shoulder. "Are you guys talking about the contest?" You texted immediately after apologizing to the woman on the phone for blasting her ears about winning the contest.

"We are." Faith nodded. "How long are you going to be gone?"

You smile. "Only for a few days; I'm leaving tomorrow, so after class, I'm going to go pack. Now I can get a better view of the universe than from some telescope!"

"So you'll be back on Saturday?" Justin asks.

You nod in response, giving him a quick kiss. "Yeah. I just need to tell my professors where I'm gonna be and get all of my work to catch up on over the weekend. It's gonna be amazing!"

After classes, you start packing your things. You take clothes, toilet trees, and just for the sake of your sanity, you stuff your iPod touch in your back pocket, but you take your ear buds instead of your SkullyCandy headphones since ear buds are more portable.

Taking your suitcase, you call a taxi and while you wait, you say goodbye to your best friends and fiancé. You hug Faith and Christina, and kiss Justin goodbye. "Just look at it this way," You start, knowing he's going to miss you just like you would him. "In a few years, we're going to have a beautiful healthy baby. Do you want a boy or a girl?" You ask.

"I don't care which gender the baby is," You like how Justin refers to it as "the baby", instead of "it". It just sounds gentler, more loving to you. "I'll love the baby all the same, just like I do you." He kisses you one more time before the taxi pulls up.

You hug your bffls who you know you're going to live next to when they marry whoever they do, and your children are going to grow up together and fall in love and it'll just be the biggest happy ending ever. "I'll see you guys in a few days." You said as you place your suitcase in the trunk and you drive to the space shuttle.

After going through precautions (which took fucking forever) and getting your stuff onto the ship, you were ready. You were strapped in, and ready for lift-off. It's just like on TV and in cartoons; they do the countdown and you're in outer space-after screaming and hearing roaring engines.

It's just…beautiful. You can see billions and billions of stars and you see the planets. It's all just breathtaking. It's so much better than just looking at it through your telescope when you were little. You never wanted to be an astronaut, but with this experience, you may just change your mind about careers.

You just wish Justin could see this. You know he's your one, and you'd give anything-even all of your game consoles-for him to be sitting right next to you. You want him to see this with you.

Feeling drained from all of the processes you had to go through to get onto this ship, and from the longing for your lover, you feel yourself fall asleep.

You're suddenly awoken you don't know how much later by an alarm. There's a red light flashing. You jump from your seat, and read the screen. The auto pilot malfunctioned. The ship is off course. You don't even know where you are.

You take the wheel, having no idea what you're doing, and you turn. The ship jerks to the right and you're thrown to the ground. You take a deep breath and try again, but it's not working! The alarm gets louder, and you crashed against something!

The world just crashes down on you.

This just can't be it! You can't just crash into a planet, burn up, and die! You have a life! You've got a future with the people nearest and dearest to you! No, it can't end here! You try getting in contact with someone, but you're too far out of range. They can't reach you.

Remembering one last line from the song most important to you, you murmur, "I'll see you…in another life." Then…it's just…black.

Thanks for reading peeps! I hope you've enjoyed it so far. As you can guess, Arianna is not dead, and unlike my Sly Cooper series, she won't believe she's unconscious.

See you soon!

~Mimi