Starting Notes: Well, Just got back from my first class of college and as I promised I bring you the first chapter of Earth Bound, Enjoy.
Alright, now here we go.
This, is, Earth Bound. What might be my last story for Ratchet and Clank. These happy events will span Twenty-Nine Years. With various skips about
you will see the Sky and Stella grow up and mature.
Now for the legal stuff
I do not own Ratchet and Clank or any of it ideas or concepts that's Insomniac Games. Only thing I own is the Nightmares Story Line.
Now that is out of the way, on to the story....
Planet K4852-Designation Earth, Oval Office, Washington D.C., Earth Standard time 9:48 PM
Zen was leaned over his desk working on some random bill that the senate had presented to him earlier that day when a person dressed in a lab coat was
escorted in by three of his Secret Service. Zen looked up and study the man with great interest as he was 'helped' into a seat by his guards.
Zen finally sighed and spoke up "Well Derek, What's this weeks failure report?"
Derek fiddled with his lab coat as he spoke nervously "Well, That's just it Sir, I think we have a success."
Zens pen stopped scratching on paper and he got very, very still. "You've said that before Derek. Remember what happened to the rest of the scientists on
your team"
Derek nodded and gulped hard, when you worked on a top secret project for Zen, Casualties went unreported, or investigated.
'Yes Sir, I still think that what we have is important enough to show you."
Zen sighed as he stood up and made a circular motion with his hand at his guards who grabbed Derek and started to move him towards the back of the
room. Zen approached the wall and pressed his hand on a seemingly normal piece of wall, which beeped and slid back to accommodate an elevator. Zen
gestured to Derek who was shuffled in with Zen's guards. Zen walked in after them.
Zen adjusted his tie in the mirrored walls of the elevator as it started to move down. He had aged quite a bit since he last had contact with the aliens Ratchet
and Sasha, and since his plans for unsurprising Slade took a turn for the worse. He had actually grown a little taller, although if that was from the shoes was
hard to tell. His suit that he wore was a customary black with a blue tie and his gray hair had turned a startling white. With his face getting pale from
spending so long in one of the many labs he had under the white house. What was most impressive, though, was the fact that Zen only broached
forty-five years of age.
The elevator dinged into place on the only other floor it could go to, and Zen walked into a control room where several other scientist were already standing.
"Get back to your consoles and show me what's so damn amazing, and this had better not be another burnout." Zen growled at the other scientists as
Derek went over to an observation window. Zen walked up and started at was basically a cone with wings.
"The Engine is in there?" he asked skeptically glancing at Derek. Derek nodded and gestured to his lab assistants, who leaned over their consoles and started
pressing buttons.
Zen returned his attention to the cone with wings and watched as it started to vibrate. He raised one eyebrow and and spoke up. "You dragged me down here
to show me a giant vibrator?' he asked skeptically.
Derek shook his head "No sir, it just starts like that. Watch" Derek pointed out the window as the cone suddenly lifted off the ground five feet into the air. Zen
took a step back in surprise. "You managed to get the vertical lift off right?" Derek nodded as he leaned down and pressed another button, The cone shot
across the small room it was in right towards a wall, banking at the last minute to do a lap around before returning to the platform.
Zen nodded in approval. He glanced at Derek who finally wasn't looking so nervous.
"There's more" Derek said as he bent over a console and started to type in a command. Zen glanced back out at the craft who's nose cone glowed blue before
a small laser shot out and burned a scorch mark into the wall.
"You restored its Laser function?" Zen asked in amazement.
Derek nodded. "We reversed engineered the Engine and made a power source, then we just connected it to one of our laser emitters and we had a weapon.
We've already begun designs on a ship."
Zen glanced over at him. "Really..." He asked
Derek nodded nervously. "Yes sir, the patents alone will make millions."
Zen nodded while he turned around "The, Patents, right." Zen walked back towards the elevator and nodded at his guards. As he walked towards the elevator
two gunshots rang out and he heard Derek yell in surprise. As Zen stepped in the elevator and turned around Derek was standing while his guards pointed
their guns at him. His lab assistants leaned over their consoles with blood pouring out of holes in their skulls.
Derek dropped to his knees in fear. "Why?"
Zen just adjusted his tie. "You're job is done, you're no longer required, you're departments is having some cutbacks. Any other way to get it through your brain.
You now know too much and are a factor against me, so you must be eliminated." He nodded at one of his guards.
"Clean up the bodies and blood when you're done, then get a new team in here to start researching guns and ship designs." His guard nodded as the doors slid
closed and another shot rang out.
Zen smiled at his reflection in the doors, soon, Ratchet and Sasha shall see his face again. That and a whole bunch of Earth's forces coming to wipe them out. Funny
really how gullible the Human Race has always been. No matter what they bought his lies and were ready for blood, and they would get it, soon. Soon.
Authors Note: Well It short, true, but that how all my first chapters are usually. I promise that most, if not all the chapters after this will be much longer and worth the two weeks you now have to wait for them. Now on to an actual note. This Chapter actual had me nervous, new names, how to describe the Zen I see in my head and all that fun stuff. I do hope that those who have read through The Nightmares of the Past Triolgy and have moved onto this one will enjoy it as much as I enjoy writing them. Remember I love to get and reply to Reviews, so please take the time to leave one.
Now, On to homework, yay....
Emile
