One-shot for Xannador on deviantart.
I hope you enjoy it.
A Twist in Battle
Ratchet's hoover boots were on high speed when racing to get to the room with the lever to change time. By the time he arrived, Azimuth was already there and had turned on the machine. The general had to be stopped. Alister switched the wrench into his right hand. Then, the fight began.
Blue electric shots started to be shot at the younger Lombax. Ratchet jumped out of the way of a good line of them. When he had a moment of rest, he took out his wrench.
"I didn't want it to be like this! You were supposed to be here! On my side!" More was said but the younger missed it because he was avoiding more shots from the general.
While the fighting was happening, Clank went to check Sigmund and helped him out of the room and into safety.
When the shots stopped again, Ratchet ran up to the elder, wrench ready to strike, and he swung. Alister ducked out of the way. It was going to be a close and personal battle with wrenches instead of guns it seemed.
Another swing was taken but this time, the elder blocked the shot and then pushed back. Before Ratchet could do anything when he became stable from being pushed back, Azimuth took his wrench and caught one of the other's feet and pulled. Instead of falling straight to the floor, however, the general timed his pull perfectly along with kick to the stomach to make Ratchet fly back a little and land on the floor roughly.
A hand held a stomach while getting up. There was a look of anger but determination present on the younger's face. He couldn't let the other succeed. There was too much at risk. However, he knew this would be difficult.
"Why are you fighting this? Don't' you understand what I'm trying to do?! I'm trying to get you your family back!"
The general kicked on his hoover boots and went to where Ratchet was. He wished the younger could see why he was doing this and not fight. However, he would not let Kaden's son get in his way, no matter what the cost. He would kill him if he must.
When there, the boots were turned off and the battle began once again. Alister shot more electric blasts at Ratchet. He avoided most of them, but the last two hit Ratchet. It hurt but he got himself back up. The general was fast, and strong. This was going to be more difficult than he previously thought.
The general ran up to the younger once he had gotten himself back up, and they started to battle with their wrenches once more. This was when things started going downhill.
After a couple of swings and dodges from both, Azimuth held his wrench over his head and slammed down. Ratchet barely had enough time to block but had with his wrench over his head with hands on both ends. The blow, however, made him fall to one knee. The hold was extremely hard to keep because of the general's strength.
The position of the long wrench had been changed, and before the younger knew it, his wrench had flipped out of his grasp because the elder quickly moved one his wrench ends under the other's wrench and pulled up.
When the wrench was gone, Alister swiftly moved his foot to Ratchet's chest and shoved him onto on his back on the floor. The foot moved down to the stomach and more pressure was applied which caused a grunt to escaped from the younger. The longer wrench was then raised up and before Ratchet knew it, the wrench went down and punctured the skin and cracked against the ribs.
"AHHHHHH!" Pain shot through Ratchet's body as the wrench punctured him. Blood could be seen staining the floor. The ends of the wrench were not sharp but enough force had been used to not need sharp ends.
To add to the pain, the electricity was turned on and traveled all through Ratchet's body. The pain was unbearable. It even caused skin to crack and bleed more around the holes in his skin. Thinking fast, the younger took out one of his guns and shot which caused the general to fly back and away from him.
Another grunt was heard as Ratchet tried to get up. He lost a lot of blood from the abdominal area from the holes that were made. Once he stood up, blood was then coughed up to make a pile of blood and saliva on the floor.
An expression of hate was on the younger's face, and it pained the general to see it. Regardless, he hoover booted to the other. Ratchet was not sure if he could fight like this, but he knew he had no choice. He readied his wrench.
Alister stopped in front of Ratchet once more but did not strike. He said, "Ratchet, you need to stop this! Don't you understand what I am trying to do for you!? If you don't stop now, I will kill you."
Instead of nodding like the elder hoped, the yellow Lombax answered, "Not a chance. You need to stop before destroying existence. If you kill me because of this, then so be it."
Nothing more was said. Wrenches clashed and had lasted for a while. Determination had built up in the younger which helped him fight, but that can only last for oh so long. Ratchet was getting sloppy because of the blood loss. Because of this, it was hard for him to dodge attacks.
The wrench had nicked the younger here and there during the fight. Some were on his arms when trying to block at time and others were on his face when an attack to the face was barely dodged but close even to leave two scratches on the same cheek.
Azimuth caught Ratchet when he had dodged his last swing. The longer electric wrench had caught the younger's right ear and sliced it some. It was enough to make him bleed but he did not lose any of his ears. The cut was deep though. He touched his ear lightly to feel the cut. Ratchet grunted.
"I warned you Ratchet," Alister replied, "You need to stop this. I don't want to kill you."
Again, instead of listening, Ratchet shook his head. His abdomen was covered in blood and now there was some blood right side of his face and on his hands. The pain in his body was getting worse by the minute.
"No. I will not stop until you do."
Using more strength than he should have, the yellow Lombax ran up to the white one to try to land a blow.
He was not as much of a threat, unfortunately, for Alister blocked the wrench and pushed the other back. Not enough strength was used to make Ratchet fall, which was the point. The general grabbed the younger's left lower arm with both hands and turned him around but the quick turn had results.
A loud crack could be heard between the two hands of the elder to prove that Ratchet's lower left arm was now broken. Trying not to cry out in pain again, Ratchet bit his lower lip; so much so that he caused his lip to bleed.
Azimuth then pushed the younger onto the floor. Ratchet hugged his arm after landing. He was in so much pain that coursed all through his body. "That should stop you."
Before much more could be done though, the security system said, "30 seconds until total system failure."
"What?!" Alister ran up to the machine some. "It's not working. Why isn't it working?!"
Ratchet sat up slightly and coughed up more blood. Alister looked back at him. The younger then faced him.
"Because it's not a time machine Alister. It's not meant to alter time, only keep it."
The general's eyes widened. He held his face in one hand before saying, "I'm so sorry."
The yellow Lombax finally stood up and he tried to walk over to the lever in a limp. He did not get too far, before Azimuth stood in front of him.
"No, let me." He slowly walked over because of all the energy."
"What are you gonna do?!"
Alister was right by the lever before looking back with an answer of, "Take care of yourself Ratchet."
The general then moved swiftly and tried to move the lever which broke. Because of this, he put his wrench in instead. While this was going on Ratchet moved as fast as he could away from the machine.
The machine was then turned off along with an explosion. Everything went white.
This was a commission I did on for Xannador. It's a bit violent for what I'm used to but I hope I did alright and that others as well as Xannador likes this.