This chapter is for Hubbe for adding my story to his favorites and for Lady Cosmic Brownie and X-Butterfly-Hime-X for adding my story to their alerts. C: Thanks so much!
/ You hear a loud boom that sounds just like thunder that makes you jump a little bit. You look up to see a giant machine; it's as big as a moon, dark colored with blue lights and one red eye. You see at least three or four claws. You all turn to Nefarious who stares up at in wonderment. He shakes his head, pointing at it. "That's not one of mine."
You're too distracted, and by the time you see one of the claws coming for you, it's too late. You only have time to scream with the others and then everything just goes black./
Ratchet's POV:
"Disengaging primary cyrofeed."
Light shines through your eyelids, and you yawn. Your head feels funny. You must've slept wrong last night. "Clank, get the light, wouldja?" You open your eyes, and only then do you realize the gravity of your situation. You're hanging upside down (which is why your head feels weird) and you're in some kind of facility. "Oh boy." Looking over, you see your best friend. "Clank, where are we?"
He looks around. "I do not know."
Looking around, you don't see her. "Where's Arianna?" Is she okay? Is she even here?
You hear a groan and to your left, you see Arianna still looking asleep. "How do we get down from here?" She calls. "All of the blood is going to my head!" Yeah, she's fine.
"Ratchet, Arianna," Clank calls. "Have you located Qwark?"
Your POV:
Over in the distance, you see a tangled up Qwark. "A little help here, someone? I think my thing is broken." He said, pointing up at it.
Ratchet does not look thrilled. "Oh, perfect. Can this get any worse?"
And, of course, it can. You see Nefarious, being held up by both of his legs and an arm, and the fear must've caused him to overheat and go haywire because you're hearing Lance and Janice.
"Oh Lance! Kiss me, love me, hold me like you used to before you became a flesh-eating zombie!"
That show is so weird. Really. "Qwark," Ratchet asks, seeing as how he's closest to Nefarious. "Wouldja…?"
He doesn't have to finish his sentence before Qwark gives Nefarious a sucker punch, and Nefarious spins around in a circle. You can't help but be jealous. "You know Ratchet, I could've done that."
"You still mad?" He asks.
"You have no idea."
Nefarious snaps out of it, and he's not happy. "You twit!" He snaps at Qwark. "You dare lay your squishy hands on me? When I get down from here, I'll rip you in half!" How are you squishy? Organic lifeforms have bones, you're not squishy.
You, Ratchet, and Clank look for a way to get yourselves free when you hear a little voice calling from the platform below you. "'Cuse me?" The three of you look down to see a little blue girl dressed in orange with a helmet that looks too big for her. "Whatacha doin' up there?"
"Hey, hey little girl," Ratchet calls. "Can you get us out of here?"
She adjusts her helmet and agrees, giving him a quick solute. She picks up the little orange device she has with her; it has a handle and it's about as big as she is. She holds it up and turns it on; you can see wind going into the device as she pulls out the green and black switch. It's only a second before the five of you hit the ground with yells and land rather painfully. "We should go before she finds out you're here." The little girl pulls at the switch again. "Come on. Head through the sector seven air vent, and we'll rendezvous on the south side. A galactic scout never leaves before her mission is complete!"
The launching pad flips over, and you use to get to the next platform. Heading down the hall, you take the elevator down. You see a blue and orange scanner minion, and the blue light it emits hurts your eyes a bit.
"Organic lifeforms detected. Reroute to creature pen for probing and experimentation."
That does not sound good.
"Probing?" Ratchet yells. "Wait, wait, wait-we're not test subjects, we're um…uh…new trainees." He says it in the form of a question.
"Very well. Rerouting to training lab for gadget certification."
Getting to the training lab, you hookshot to get to the other side of the chasm. The computer seems pleased.
"Excellent work. You will make fine minions."
On the computer screens on the walls, you see a single star. The door opens up, and you see that little girl again. "Over here!" She calls. "You guys are pretty smart. She thinks you're one of them."
"An interloper has been located in the sector two training lab."
"Aw man." The little girl starts. "That's my cue." She starts to pull out the green and black switch to open the door. "Head through the lab to the equipment room. I left you a present on the charging station."
"What about you?" Ratchet asks.
"The minions are onto me. I'll lose them in the feeding station and meet you over by the south exit."
You nodded and the five of you headed to three hookshots and the next platform.
…
Getting across the platform, you head through the door that shuts behind you. The room you're in has robots on the wall, and in the center, there's a charging station with five of those gadgets the little girl has been using.
Qwark picks up one and a letter that was attached to it. "Hmm, a letter," He gives a shout of glee. "And it's written in macaroni!" It must be a little hard to read, because his sentence comes out a bit broken. "Dear Lombax, these Vac-Us will come in handy. Love Susie." He tosses the letter while you, Ratchet, and Clank each pick one up. He flicks a switch and Nefarious (who was previously just standing there with his hand to his chin, examining the Vac-Us) gets sucked in. And he's not happy.
"Let me go, you half-wit!" He snaps. He tries to get out, but just keeps getting sucked back in. You and Ratchet just exchange glances and watch them argue.
"I'm trying!" Qwark snaps back. "Maybe if I just…" He presses a button, and Nefarious is sent flying forward and he crashes into crates.
Which only gets him even more pissed off. "Miserable, stupid, incompetent-"
You growl at him in response. You never thought you'd actually defend Qwark, but you do have more respect for him than you do Nefarious. "Please, you deserved that! After all you've done, you deserved worse than that. It's because of you, Alister's dead!" You snap.
Before you can turn him into scrap metal like you've always wanted to, Clank interrupts you with his diplomatic voice before you and Nefarious can destroy each other. "Please, we must all stay calm. We are going to have to work together until we find out where we are, and how to get home."
You growl at Nefarious one more time, who returns the nasty scowl, and then you groan. "Well, Clank's right." He's always right.
Ratchet's POV:
You've never seen Arianna act like that. She's usually just happy and upbeat, but she seemed so…hurt and angry-you've seen her mad, but never that mad. But you can't say you're surprised. The only people Arianna really remembers are you, Clank, and Qwark. She had Alister-he was like a father to her-but he's gone. You knew something was up. She's still not over it. You're not entirely sure if she's ever going to be.
You wonder if Arianna will ever get her memories back. Amnesia usually wears off if the person who has is around familiar people and places, but you have no idea where Arianna comes from. It's from her amnesia and being around Alister that allowed her to remember Tachyon's attack on the Lombaxes.
You can't blame her for hating Nefarious-she probably hates him more than you do. You remember Nefarious' words. He knows who her father is, and now Arianna has the chance to find out. All you can do is be there for her when she needs you.
Nefarious growls and reluctantly agrees, grabbing a Vac-U.
…
Your POV:
You defiantly lost your cool-and you know you're gonna regret that even more later when Ratchet asks if you're okay and you have to lie to him again, and you're reminded that you need to keep your emotions in check.
Getting on the platform, it takes down the hallway when the computer voice calls out once more.
"Congratulations on completing your training. You will now be transported to sector twelve for celebratory probing."
Not much of a celebration, is it?
Fortunately, Susie comes to the rescue. "Don't worry, a galactic scout never leaves an ally behind." She pulls out the versa-plug (those green and black things you keep seeing) and the platform you're riding comes to an abrupt halt and slides into the wall.
And that's when everything spirals downward.
"Intruder alert. Intruder alert. All units converge on the minions in sector three."
"Mission complete!" Susie says with a smile. "Come on! It's time to escape." You're thankful for it, because that red alarm is really obnoxious.
Opening the door, you find Rift-Jumper minions waiting for you, looking as "menacing" as they can. You go ballistic, and you, Ratchet, and Clank charge through them, armed and ready. It certainly does make you feel better.
"Attention interlopers. You have been found guilty of impersonating a minion. You are hereby ordered to stand down and prepare to be executed."
It only takes you a couple of mortar tosses to get out of there.
Getting into the next room, there's a Blade Minion-it likes just like the switches you've been hitting, it's just spinning and…of course, it has blades. But it works just like the switch-all it needs is a mortar toss or two.
"You must comply with my stand down order or I will be forced to take drastic actions."
You flip her off. Getting past more Blade Minions, you hear her voice one more time.
"Remember those gold stars I gave you for gadget certification? Look-no more gold stars. Try putting that on the fridge."
You look up at the screen and see each of the stars disappear one at a time.
What the fuck ever!
…
Finally getting out of there, you see it's…been ripped apart. In the distance, you see pieces of land with either broken, massive pieces of technology, or a red tree. There's an orange machine in the distance with two arms that's emitting blue wavelengths. There are some broken cables and wires hanging in the air.
"The gravity here's…broken." Ratchet says.
"Interesting," Clank nodded. "Something appears to have disrupted the gravity in this region."
You only nodded, taking a few steps forward-and only naturally, something falls from the sky and almost kills you.
Yep, just like old times.
Whatever just fell from the sky, it unfolds into four plates and a satellite and two holographic blue images of Cronk and Zephyr appear.
"Hello rookies!"
Yeah, chapter three is done. And no reviews so far! Whyyyyyyy, *why you do dis face*
See you soon!
~Mimi