Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time fanfic

Genre: adventure, some mystery, humor, family themes

Warnings: cussing, violence

Summary: This is about Mr. Geld's robot daughter, Celia, and how she gets involved in Kaden's plan to change time. This is a backstory to the first part of Only Time Will Tell.

Hope you all enjoy!

Only Time Will Tell: A Robot's Perspective

Ch. 1- To Create

Mr. Geld P.O.V.

All of my hard work has finally paid off. I have spent years of time, money, and research to build the perfect machine. My plans have finally succeeded.

I guess I should explain first. My name is Herald Geld. I own the famous Geld Corporation. We are a big provider to Mega Corp. My company has been around for many years.

It is hard for humans, such as myself, to make a living sometimes because there are so few of us. It can be difficult for other races to take humans seriously because of our so few numbers. I can only think of two successful humans, Captain Qwark and myself. What happened to most of human society is a mystery to me and the rest of the universe; and probably will be for the rest of eternity.

I stop with my random thoughts to check my completed work. My location was a laboratory, which I saw was my best fit for a project like this. I looked over my creation. What lies on the work table was a robot girl.

For years, I had wanted a child of my own. Since humans are so scarce, I decided to make my own child. I knew that if I was going to do this, she would be made of the best materials.

So, for the past few years, I spent my time looking for a specific metal. It was called Celtron. This metal is the rarest one all of the galaxies, but it is also one of the strongest. It is a light metal with a light grey as its color. The metal is a good conductor for energy and electricity. That's why so many are after the metal. Being rich does have its perks.

It took me a long to find the metal and all the rest of the necessities for this project, but I finally found what I was looking for. It took just as long to build her.

Now, all I needed was to put in the power core that I had built. There were two power cores that I had built but only one should be needed. I am afraid to test this, but because of the metal she is made of, she should be alright.

Before that though, I do one last check to make sure everything is in place before activating the robot. Brain circuit board? Check. Memory chip? Check. Personality chip? Check. On and off switch? Check. Emergency on and off switch? Check. I check everything else and all looks to be in place.

I put my gloves on before picking up the power core. A button is then pressed to open her abdominal area for the core. Once opened, I carefully place the core in. then, the necessary wires are attached.

Her body is closed and I press the on switch. The robot starts to glow a bright blue. It is amazing to me to see such a tiny machine glow so brightly.

The glowing abruptly stopped. She did not move an inch. Could I have done something wrong? I could have sworn everything was right…

Mt thoughts stopped when a slight glow came back to the robot and her eyes opened slowly. She looked at me. Her expression held confusion at first. Then, she decided to sit up and have her eyes glance everywhere. After some time, she looked at me again.

"Who are you? Where am I?"

That's right. I had not actually downloaded answers into her memory files. No matter, now is the best time to see if her brain circuit board could obtain the information and see if the memory circuits could keep it.

"My name is Herald Geld. You are in my laboratory." I answered.

"Hmm…" she looked around some more. The robot then turned her body so her feet were dangling from the table.

"Who am I?"

That's right. I had not programmed a name into her yet either. I had not decided and completely forgot to program something before putting the chip in. I wonder, what should I name her?

"I think I will name you… Celia." It was based sort of off the metal. Celtron, Celia, you can see the similarity.

"Celia?" She questioned before a smile became present on her lips. "I like that name. It's pretty."

Well, the personality chip is working. "I am glad to hear it."

Celia hops off the table. She grins when this proves to be successful. The robot girl looks up at me with the biggest smile I have ever seen.

"Since I am awake now, can we play together?"

I did remember to install basic knowledge and common sense. No, I did not forget everything. I smiled down at her and answered, "Yes that sounds nice."

I held my hand out to her but then she seemed hesitant. I frowned, "What's wrong?"

Celia answered, "I have to ask. What am I to you?"

Talk about her making the situation sound weird. I answer, "I am your father."

Her face turned blank, "Wait… Isn't that impossible since only organics can have parents because of se…"

"Stop!"

Maybe I gave her too much information. I don't even remember putting that in there. It was probably Joe who did it. He could be a great employee but loved to pull shit like this. That bastard…

"Not physically. But I built you and I did it for the sole purpose of being your father." I explained.

She looked at me for a moment with no expression. Did she not understand? However, Celia smiled at me.

"Okay. Can I call you daddy then?"

I smiled at her, "Of course."

My hand was taken into the little girl's hand. "Let's go play then."

We both left the lab. I soon realized that making her was one of the best decisions I had ever made.

*Hey everyone. Do you guys remember in the last chapter where there was a robot girl in the machine that Kaden had created? I explained in the chapter it was Mr. Geld's daughter. That's what these few chapters I am going to make for this are going to be about; about Mr. Geld's daughter Celia. This will help explain some back story for the first part of Only Time Will Tell. Tell me what you think. Thanks for reading guys!