Ratchet and Clank Future:

Searching for Clank

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This story takes place after Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, after when Clank gets kidnapped by the Zoni.

Chapter 1:

"Clank? Clank! No! I don't believe it!" Ratchet cried. "They just…took him away." He said sadly. Ratchet stared up at the spot where the mysterious time-traveling creatures Clank called the 'Zoni' kidnapped him right away from the Lombax in the Apogee Space Station after they defeated Emperor Percival Tachyon. Ratchet wasn't sure if Clank heard him call out the robot's name, it was like the Zoni were controlling him, his thoughts... The emerald eyes just closed in defeat.

Talwyn saw the pain in Ratchet's face; she walked up to him and put a hand on his shoulder. "Oh, Ratchet. I'm so sorry" she said sympathetically The eyes opened to her voice. He looked up at her with his tear-stained face and said sadly, "Don't be. You didn't do this." But then his sadness turned to anger; eyebrows knitting together. "Those stupid Zoni did!"

Talwyn knew that Ratchet and Clank has a good friendship; the way they talk, act etc to each other, and even if you didn't know them for that long, you still knew. "Ratchet? What do you intend we do?" She asked.

Ratchet thought for a moment and finally said. "I'm going after the Zoni to get Clank back. While you guys stay here, I don't want anyone getting hurt during this."

Everyone looked at him in shock until Talwyn had the nerve to speak first. "Listen, Ratchet. We have to be practical; those creatures left the space station without any trace of Clank's signature. You can't just go off having no idea where to go."

This made Ratchet loose his calmness, "Your point is? I'm going after Clank if you guys help me or not! I'm not going to just forget about him like he never existed! I'm getting out of this space station, and I don't need your help!" He turned his back to everyone and left the room heading for Aphelion to go and search for Clank.

It was all silent in the room when Ratchet left until Cronk spoke up. "Err, Miss. Talwyn? Are we going to help the rookie look for his small robot buddy?" He asked curiously.

"Shut up you darn fool!" Zephyr said hitting Cronk's arm. "The Lombax even said he didn't want our help!"

Talwyn turned to face Zephyr, "Of course we're going to help him! But he doesn't want our help." She said, sadly in the last part. "What should we do?"

"I know! We should follow the little guy around wherever he goes, but we make sure he doesn't see us!" Qwark said, happily; who appeared out of nowhere.

Talwyn was the one who jumped slightly that did not hear Qwark who came through the door, but what Qwark said made her think. "As much as I would hate to say it, but, Qwark that's not such a bad idea! Cronk, Zephyr, get the ship ready!"

All four of them go off into the hanger; where all the ships were kept. Just in time they saw Ratchet just fly out of the hanger in Aphelion, so they came out of cover from around the corner. Cronk and Zephyr was busy getting objects into the ship for the trip; things like food, water, weapons, ammo etc. "You rusty ol' bucket of bolts, watch where you're going!" Cronk yelled.

"My bolts ain't rusty! They just haven't been used in a while. You're the one who keeps falling apart; keeping everyone else held up on the mission!" Zephyr shouted back.

Talwyn picks up something on her nav-unit.

"Hmm, hey guys my nav-unit here shows that Ratchet is headed off to Metropolis, Kerwan City in the Solana Galaxy." She said, with a bit of hope in her voice.

Talwyn, Cronk, Zephyr and Qwark go into their ship and flew off after Ratchet heading for the Solana Galaxy.

After a few hours they came out of the warp-drive, and saw Planet Metropolis in their line of sight, as well as Aphelion. Talwyn took the ships controls and flew behind Ratchet's ship, but of course making sure Ratchet didn't see them. Both ships came into the planet's atmosphere; Ratchet was in the distance, while everyone else was quite far back but still saw the Lombax starship.

Ratchet lands his ship on a landing pad and jumped out. Taking a deep breath, he walked into an armor shop. Later on Talwyn lands their ship and everyone got out too. They hid on the other side of the street across from the armor shop Ratchet was in.

"Now, what armor will be the best for this mission?" Ratchet asked the GrummelNet armor guy.

"Well, sir. I would go for the Holoflux armor, I'm sure you would look dazzling in it." The GrummelNet armor guy said, waving his hand about.

Dazzling? Ratchet thought, now I am convinced he is gay…all well, properly nothing-

"Sir?"

"Huh? Oh yeah, the armor." Ratchet said, snapped out of his thoughts and put a hand behind his head. "Alright, I'll take it."

Back to where Talwyn and Qwark kept watch out for Ratchet if he makes a move, while Cronk and Zephyr was looking after the ship in the ship-park.

Qwark was getting bored after about 10 minutes. "Man, why are we following Ratchet again?" He asked Talwyn.

She rolled her eyes in annoyance. "This was you're idea!" She hissed lowly. "We are following him incase he gets into any trouble along the way, so we'll be there to help him."

"Oh, yeah." Qwark replied, embarrassed. "Hey, look. He's coming out of that armor shop. Finally." He added, with a wave of relief.

Talwyn sight went back over to the armor shop, and Qwark was right. Ratchet was standing outside the big armor shop who wore some new armor and was holding a new wrench of some sort.

She looked in Ratchet's direction, moving her eyes up and down his figure with her mouth wide open. Wow, he looks amazing. The armor fits him so well; it shows his...his-

"Talwyn, are you alright?" Qwark was asking, but Talwyn was in her thoughts. He looked in her direction, and saw her looking at Ratchet in a dreaming way; like girls do when they saw a fit guy. "Oh, I see. You have a thing for the little guy. Well, looks like that Captain Qwark is changing to Captain Love."

"Man, GrummelNet was right, this armor is comfortable." Ratchet said happily. His armor was black and had blue glowing pads on the wrists, shoulders, shins, a circular pad on the back and a circular pad on the chest. The armor had a matching helmet too. "Plus this Omniwrench Millennium 12 will come in handy too. Finally, I can now start my quest." Ratchet's ears dropped slightly. "Only, where do I start?" He said, sadly. Only until he shrugs.

Ratchet walks off and goes around the corner only to walk into someone, sending them both to the ground with a loud THUD. Ratchet groans and rubs his head. "I'm so sorry 'bout-". He stooped dead in his speech, to only of saw a familiar figure on the floor with him. "SASHA!" He shouted, shocked; who quickly got to his feet.

"Oh, Ratchet, it's you!" Sasha said, shocked too and got to her feet too. "I haven't seen you and-wait, where's Clank?"

Ratchet's ears and tail drooped again in sadness not wanting to talk about it. "Well, it's a long story. Clank…kinda…kind of got." He sighs. "Clank got taken away from the Zoni." He answered.

Sasha put her hands to her mouth. "Oh, Ratchet. I had no idea, I'm sorry." She said, upset for her Lombax friend.

Ratchet smiled at bit. "It's okay. Look, I wish we could catch up on stuff but…I gotta go." He mumbled.