Chapter 1: Chapter 1


I don't own Ratchet and Clank, only my alien races

Story starts after Into the Nexus

Planet Fastoon, unknown canyon 10:55 PM

A group of robots excavators is removing parts of ores hidden in canyon walls, placing them in transport wagons with the symbol of the Grummelnet

"Faster! Faster! You slowpokes, you want to be upgraded you'll have to work for it" a Grummelnet salesman yelled to the miners as he passes through them

The salesman took a good look at the present that were being mined, taking one on his hands he smiles and laugh saying "I'm going to be rich! Lombax steel, the hardest of Polaris" but changes his smile to an angry look "and obviously illegal, thanks to that annoying Lombax and his backpack robot friend" he grumbled, remembering the day it all started

*Flashback*

Planet Igliak

The streets of the capital planet of the Polaris government were empty, not because of another invasion or a terrorist attack. Every single citizen on the planet was rushing to the nearest Grummelnet store in order to buy his or her new top line products, which were of a new metal alloy that rumors said to be stronger than any other alloy out there in Polaris.

In front of a store, people were struggling just to enter at the market place but no one was intending in letting others buy anything. Even at the payout line, people were fighting each other to get out of the store and keep their new tools away from any anyone else.

While all that chaos was happening, a Grummel was just walking by looking at the scene, soon he stopped, laughing, looking at everyone

"Isn't this great, now You can have your favorite superheroes' arsenal at your home and be safe- or simply go around wreaking havoc to anyone who's being pestering you around" the Grummel said and pulled a remote from his pocket, pressing the button he resumed his speech "the Sin-Grametal line! Available only at Grummelnet and for a price you can buy all of them!"

Several holo-screens appeared, showing several weapons and gadgets with different color theme, but were just like the normal ones and by now everyone was getting even more mad to buy these new tools, until-

*BANG*

A loud shot pierced through the air and everyone stopped what he or she was doing and looked at were the shot came from; several dropped whatever they have at hand, gasping for air as everyone recognized who gave the shot

"What metal are these new tools made of, again?" the shooter asked, the anger was evident in his voice

"S-s-sin-Grametal, a synthetic lab-made metal alloy that we-" the salesman stammered to say

*BANG* *BANG* *BANG* *BANG* *BANG*

The shooter was mad before, but now he was looking like he was about to murder someone "THIS IS NOT A SYNTHETIC LAB-MADE METAL, IT'S A LOMBAX METAL!"

Everyone was looking doubtfully to the shooter and to the sales clerk, but the shopkeeper just started laughing like a maniac.

"Ha, ha ha ha ha, what proof do you have? None! Ha ha ha ha ha, guards get this crazy-"

"We have a proof, in fact several samples of said proof right here" a new voice said, this one was more robotic and was as furious as the shooter

Raising a device the newcomer started pointing it to the costumers; no more than a second later, the device was beeping loudly

"Here, this is our proof, the galactic authorities have recently developed this special detector to track illegal traffic of weapons, gadgets and anything that may have come from a planet that have being declared off limits to trade." the robotic newcomer said looking angrily to the Grummel

"And the metal these tools are made of is Lombax metal. According to new Galactic law: No planet with ruins of old civilizations should be colonized or used to any other purpose that may destroy the historical site or planet, unless there is a permission given by the galactic president, which make Lombax metal illegal"

"Not to mention the fine to be paid for breaking the law in question, two million bolts and half a year in prison, if said person take too much from historical site, he or she get life imprisonment"

Both the costumers and Grummel salesman were surprised. The costumers for being deceived into buying illegal products and the Grummel for he did break this law on purpose to become rich.

Soon two robot Police officers entered the store, a pair of handcuffs with them

"Ratchet, Clank, good afternoon. Where is the suspect?" One of the officers asked

"It's that one, there" Ratchet said bluntly without taking his eyes out of said Grummel, the officers started moving forward to arrest their suspect

"YOU WILL NEVER THROW ME IN JAIL" the Grummel yelled and grabbed a predator launcher and start shooting everything, making the whole store fall apart, causing people to drop whatever they have and start running away.

While all this was happening, the Grummel made his escape and disappeared down an empty street 'I swear you two will pay dearly for this, even if it's the last thing I do' he though while escaping

*Flashback end*

Suddenly the miners pass through him crying and scared

"Where you think you're going?" He asks as he ran after the miners

"You can torture us; you can even turn us into scrap! But we're not going back to that area" one of the miners said while running

"I'd rather be in prison than go back to that thing!"

"We already have crossed the line, but now we're not going any further not with that thing in there!"

"What are you idiots talking about?" The sales representative asked after getting in front of the miners making them stop on their track

"We mined already too many of the Lombax steel, let's go out of this planet!" one of the miners said trying to enter the spaceship

"You're not going anywhere! Not until you dig all the Lombax steel in this canyon" the salesman said with a intimidating tone

" YOU can go and dig it if you want, it'll be your funeral; but we're getting out of here!" one of the miners said and passed the salesman going into the spaceship, the others following him and going out of the planet

"Traitors! You're all fired!" The sales clerk yelled to the spaceships "AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH! Fine... I'll do this myself" the salesman said grabbing one of the pickaxes

Deep in the canyon 11:58 PM

The sales clerk arrived at the last part of the canyon where the miners stopped working, still grumbling about what they were afraid of; not even noticing all the Ancient Lombax Runes embodied on the walls of the canyon or even the drawings of a huge creature towering above cities and eating horrified and desperate Lombaxes

"*grumbling*... What those idiots are so frightened about?" the salesman asked himself "There's nothing here, nothing except... All of this Lombax steel... *greedily laughing* and it's all mine now" the sales clerk started digging on a wall, ignoring all the warnings behind him as if they weren't even there

11:59 PM

Some of the ore in the canyon walls suddenly fell, getting the sales clerk attention

"Ha ha ha ha, look like my luck is finally changing" he said while getting all the ore from the ground, but he started hearing some sort of whispering

He looked to his sides and behind himself, not seeing a strange black creature that was stacked in the wall, slowly waking up

11:59:58

"W-w-what the heck..."

11:59:59

"... Is going on?"

12:00:00

*RRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH* a hideous scream was heard through all the tunnel

The salesman heard the scream and became frightened

*Ssssshhhhhiiiiiirrrrrrrkkkk*

he heard a sound behind him, when he looked he saw a dark creature with lizard like clawed feet, clawed hands, red-blood eyes and huge black feather wings stacked in the wall 't-t-t-the... The Lombax Legends...' "THEY WERE TRUE" the salesperson yelled as he started running

*Ssssshhhhhiiiiiirrrrrrrkkkk*

The creature broke free from the wall and started running after the salesman

The salesman grabbed a construction gun from his Manifesto (a device for storing weapons and other things) and started shooting the dark creature, but it dodged every single blast he was giving it then he switched to a grenade launcher and shot some at the canyon cliffs, making it to fall over the dark creature

The sales clerk kept running until he arrived at his ship, he entered it and tried to start the engine quickly, but the ship wasn't willing to work

"Come on, come on, come on" the salesman kept starting the engine

*Thum* *Thum* *Thum*

The salesman heard something walking above his ship, he looked up but saw nothing and strange silence starts at the moment

*Tum-Tum* *Tum-Tum* *Tum-Tum*

The salesman heart was racing in fear, he closed his eyes and started muttering something to himself

*crash* *ssssshhhhhiiiiiirrrrrrrkkkk*

The dark creature suddenly appeared breaking the window of his ship and tossed him out of it, jumping together

The salesman was grabbed by his neck and raised in the air by the dark creature

"Where... Is... The closest Lombax city?"

The dark creature said with a horrifying and bold voice

"Lie to me and I will annihilate you"

"T-t-t-t-t-the... Closest city I-I-I-is that way" the salesman said pointing towards it

"How far?"

"Just twenty minutes of travel on foot"

"I need to eat something"

I-I-I-I have a small stock of food in my ship, if you want something-"

"No..."The dark creature said calmly and looked into the salesman eyes "You already should be enough"

*Ggggggrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* the creature roared with its jaw splitting in the half showing more sharp serrated teeth in between the parts of its jaw

"AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH" the salesman yelled in terror as the dark creature opened it mouth

*Line Break* Gore scene ahead *Line Break*

(A/n: read this at your own risk)

The dark creature impaled its other clawed hand on the Grummel's stomach and pulled off his insides, while the Grummel's facial expression went from pain to pure terror as the dark fiend grinned evilly, with it had snatched from its victim. It started eating them, the split jaw crushing the guts between the two halves while the teeth on upper part, somehow moving themselves to the inside of the mouth, sending blood everywhere, while the salesman cried in pain and terror for help.

Then the dark fiend pushed both its clawed hands into hole where the insides were coming from and ripped open the Grummel's rib cage exposing the heart and lungs making them hang on the blood veins of the arms. Putting the dying salesman on the ground it immediately make short work of the lungs and started going for heart, extracting one last, hollowed, pain filled and completely terrorized scream of the Grummel. His arms went up as if he was trying to escape his cruel and horrible destiny, but as the black feathered creature crushed his heart with its mouth, both arms fell to the ground dead. Then the creature resumed eating the rest of the body

*Line Break-End*

After eating the salesman, the dark creature looked to the direction that he pointed, grinning evilly

"Now, it is time for the dessert"

Who and what is this dark creature? Why it was buried in that canyon? Will Ratchet and Clank be capable of defeating it?

Fenixx13... Logging out...