(Planet Fastoon Just after defeating Tachyon.)
"I still can't believe Tachyon was helped by Lombax's and that's how he repays them." Ratchet said walking through the ruins of Fastoon with everyone fallowing behind.
"You know everything he said could have been all lies, Ratchet." Talwyn said walking to his right.
He looked at her, "That's why I don't believe it, he's a professional liar." he looked back ahead of him but what he saw he didn't believe which made him stop and have everyone look at him. It looked like another male Lombax but he looked almost like a hologram but Ratchet could tell it wasn't. The Lombax smiled at him waving for him to fallow and turned walking the other way around a cliff corner.
Talwyn put a hand on Ratchet's shoulder, "Ratchet? What's wrong?"
He didn't answer her he just took off after the figure like he was in a trance.
"Ratchet!" everyone yelled chasing after the young Lombax.
Ratchet turned the corner to face another cliff face, but this one had a hole in the side of it which had reviled a door which 1/3 of the doors base was covered with lose rocks. He looked around for the Lombax and saw him wave his hand again saying to fallow before he disappeared though the closed door. Ratchet ran to the steps leading up to the door and started pushing rocks out the way of the door.
The other stopped behind him after helping move the rocks enough to make a path; Clank stepped next to Ratchet, "This door has the same markings as all the others. Ratchet why not try touching it."
Ratchet reached out his hand placing it flat on the door; he waited a second before the markings flashed and the door lifted up to a pitch black room.
Ratchet looked around for the Lombax but couldn't see a thing; he pulled out a flashlight and found the light switch, turning on the lights.
As the lights came on, the room filled with light. The place he was closest to had a lot of controls while the other side of the wall had a lot of tubes but they were all empty.
Now that he could see, he saw the lombax was standing over by the control panels again he motioned for Ratchet to come over. Ratchet slowly walked over to him; now that he was close Ratchet could see the details of him.
He was about a half a foot taller than Ratchet with the same color fur and eyes, he wore the same type of armor him but had a red sphere in the middle of his chest and his had no sleeves. (Sorry the beginning armor of ACIT that's what the ghost dude has)
He smiled at Ratchet who just looked at him confused, he then pointed to a button on the controls that was big and green. Ratchet put his hand over it and questioningly looked up at him who nodded.
Clank walked over to Ratchet, "Ratchet what are you doing?"
Before Clank could stop him Ratchet pressed the button and turn to the lombax who grinned giving him a thumbs up and mouthing, "Take care of her, son." then he vanished in thin air.
Ratchet looked around a second before the floor turned in the middle of the room and a hole opened up. Slowly a big oval size pod came up through the hole, turning it stop in a laying position.
Without warning, a holo screen flashed up on the room wall above the controls, everyone turned to see the lombax Ratchet saw but he was a bit worse for were.
"Hey, If you're seeing this, then I never made it back. My name is Kaden... I'm leaving this message in case I die. Anyway in the middle of this room is a life pod, when someone is put in the pod, it preserves their life for years so anyone put in the pod can stay the same age for hundreds of years."
He turned as the room shook the door opened to see another female Lombax. She was shorter than him with black and white fur and long black hair on her head she wore a long short sleeve green shirt that looked more like a really short dress with a thick black strap across her boobs. She had black pants with dark brown boots with a black leather belt over her shirt with black fingerless gloves that went to her elbows and green color goggles on her forehead.
"Kaden! He's safe I was able to get him in an escape pod. What do we do now?"
He turned to her, "You're staying here in the life pod till I come back for you."
"What? Kaden I want to help and you said so yourself I'm the best sharp shooter you have." She said as he led her to the pod in the middle of the room.
"Please, I need you to do this for me, one of us must survive to take care of my son and I'm not sure I'll make it back. We can't let it fall into his hands, please do this for my son he'll need someone when he gets older, please."
She sighed looking at his pleading face, "What if you don't make it back?"
"I've programmed it to open by itself in 23 years if I don't come get you and no one finds this place it will open then."
She looked at the pod, "Fine just don't forget." she climbed in and sat down and looked at him.
He smiled, "Thank you, take good care of him and don't worry I'll be back before you know it."
She laughed, "If he's anything like you that might be kind of hard." she laid back with her arms at her side a piece of thick glass covered her fogged over then lowered.
Kaden walked back over to the screen, "That's who I put in there please help her find my son. All you have to do is press the green button on the side of the pod and it will open. Depending on how long she was in the pod it might take her a while to wake up and she won't know how much time has passed. So take care of her and tell my son I love him very much. I wish I could have stopped this and been there for him but hopefully he'll understand and grow up to be a strong hero." they saw him press the button so the pod would lower and almost fell as the floor shook before the screen went black.
Clank walked over to Ratchet, "Ratchet, Isn't your father's name Kaden?"
Ratchet nodded walking over to the pod looking for the green button, "I think it is."
Talwyn spoke up from the control panel, "You do look a lot like him, but Ratchet what lead you to this place you looked as if you saw someone but I didn't see anyone."
Ratchet turned to the pod walking around it, "I saw the guy in the holotape, he led me here and pointed to the button I pushed earlier then he grinned and mouthed 'Take care of her, son.' Ah here it is."
He pressed the button, the glass popped up and air hissed out before it slowly opened reveling the Lombax from the tape.
Talwyn walked up to Ratchet, "Are you really gonna help her you don't even know this girl?"
Ratchet slowly picked her up (He's stronger that he looks) and turned to Talwyn, "If my father trusted her enough to send her here to help me then I think I can trust her. Talwyn, do you think we could use the Apogee station till she wakes up? Please?"
She sighs, "Fine but we have no room in our ship you'll have to get her there, we'll meet you there." she says leading Cronk and Zafher out of the room.
Ratchet led the way back to Aphelion, he laid her down in the back seat and jumped into his own seat, he smiled at Clank before leaving.
She woke to weird sounds from somewhere; her eyes slowly open and look around, "What the…..? This isn't the lab!" she sits up and looks around then she remembered.
"Kaden!" she gets up running out the room and down the hall as fast as possible. She looked in every room she saw. She then got to the end of the hall as the door slid open reliving a garden with water fall and everything. She looked around not seeing any lombax's till she spotted one sitting on the edge of the water and he looked just like Kaden.
"Kaden!" she yelled running towards him, she stops when the lombax stands up and turns to her, "You're not Kaden." she says almost to herself.
He shook his head walking toward her, "No sorry. My name is Ratchet. What's yours?"
She points a finger at him almost as if she was angry , "Where's Kaden? What happen to Tachyon? How long was I in the life pod?"
Ratchet looks at the others in the room and back her he steps up a little closer to her only being a foot away, "Calm down, first I don't know what happened to Kaden as for Tachyon I got rid of him and I think you were in there for about 19 years."
That last answer hit her like a ton of bricks, "19 years but Kaden? Oh no, he didn't't make it back which means he must be gone!" she looked down and felt a tear roll down her face. Her best friend and the one who changed her life was gone and she wasn't there to help him. She wipes her face and looks up at Ratchet giving him a weird look.
"Ratchet how old are you?"
He looks at her confused, "I'm about 19-20 I was found when I was about one why?"
She smiles sadly, "Your Kaden's son."
Ratchet crosses his arms, "How did you know?"
"I can just tell, you sound like him to." She said looking away.
Ratchet smirked, "What did you have a crush on my dad?"
She laughs, "No! Kaden was a mentor of mine and he was one of the first people I saw when I woke up after my operation. I guess you could say he's that awesome brother I never had!"
That's when a girl who looked almost human with pointy ears and a tail and almost a dark grayish green skin, walked over stepping next to Ratchet, "I'm curious, What operation? I didn't see any sign of scaring when I had the computer scan you to make sure you where ok."
She sighed, "Well that's because there where no incisions made. It has more to do with DNA mapping and stuff. Now I'm not an expert but what they told me was that they took my DNA and found a Lombax with similar DNA and they mixed them up taking out different things that would mess up the good stuff, then they put it all back in me somehow. All I know is when I woke up I could see and Kaden was the first person I saw."
A little robot walked to Ratchet's other side and looked to her, "Excuse me but you seemed like you where implying that you couldn't see before this operation, Is that correct?"
She smiled at him, "Yep, that's the reason I agreed to do it. It was an experiment never been performed before, but the way I see it I didn't have much to lose. By the way my name is Nova."
Ratchet smiled, "Cool, Nova this is Talwyn and Clank that's Conk, Zafher, Quark and Rusty Pete." he pointed to each person who nodded.
Then out of nowhere a weird portal opens just above them and almost everyone turns to the robot called Zafher, "Wasn't me you said it was broken."
That's when three weird looking floating aliens floated down towards clank, "We need to make sure you survived, now it's time to come home."
Ratchet being the only one who stayed close to clank, "Whoa Clank, Are these the Zoni?"
The Zoni then did some energy magic and knocked Ratchet away and lifting Clank up, "The time has come to learn who you are, and who you will become."
Ratchet then stands, "Let him go!" he then jumps to his friends aid but is knocked away again.
The Zoni, "It is time to understand your purpose, it is time to come with us."
Clank looked at them almost in a daze, "Yes, time to come with you."
Ratchet stands again yelling to his friend but he is to late clank disappears within the portal. Ratchet stares after them feeling his heart drop, his best friend and he couldn't do anything about it. He looks around at everyone else almost looking for answers.
Nova walked up behind Ratchet and put a hand on his shoulder, making him turn and look at her, "Did you say those were the Zoni?" Ratchet gave her a confused look but nodded.
She almost smiled, "You know Kaden told me about a race in the Polaris galaxy that all but worshiped the Zoni, from what I remember he said that they where now mostly located Phylax Sector. May be you could start a search there."
Ratchet smiled softly, "Thanks for the help but how did you know I would want to search for him?"
She grinned, "Well your Kaden's son, do I need a better reason."
Ratchet nodded to her and turned to everyone else asking for backup from here and stuff. Talwyn stepped up, "Ratchet I know your eager but you need to rest sometime. Why don't you go rest for the night and I'll make sure Aphelion is ready and waiting when you wake."
Ratchet thought for a second, "Alright but only a short rest then I'm heading strait there."
Nova looked at him, "Ratchet you sure you don't want someone coming with you."
Ratchet shook his head, "Oh no you are not coming with cause I promised Kaden."
She crossed her arms in annoyance, "When did you promise him anything?"
Ratchet stepped up as if to be intimidating, "When I found you in that pod Kaden lead me to it so It's final your not going, your stay here where it's safe." he walked off have the last word.
She huffed and walked off having the perfect idea.
The next day Ratchet jumped in to Aphelion, "Thanks Talwyn and I hope Nova doesn't hate me to much for this."
Talwyn smiled, "Don't worry I'll take care of her you worry about finding Clank I'll offer help where I can."
Ratchet nodded, "I'm going to pick up Quark then heading out. See you later Talwyn." the ships top closed and he took off out into the space.