Oh, let's write another drabble. I feel like it. And I'm stuck on my other fan fictions.

003: Light

Flickering. Changing. Here, there, up, down, around, there it was again. There was no pattern. It just was. Blazing against his senses. So many senses. Sound. Taste. Touch. But the sight kept him mesmerized, his emerald eyes following it closely, tensed, ready. That light. So…hypnotizing…!

He knew they were laughing at him but, man, every time it moved it just sort of captivated him and he couldn't look away! He had to get it! He had to! He jumped at it, missed, slammed his head into the wall, shook himself, and ran after it again.

It was just a freaking laser pointer! But it was so cool! Ratchet had probably been chasing the little red dot for almost an hour and wasn't in the least bit tired of doing so. And Angela and Clank weren't tired of laughing at him either.

It had been an accident. Ratchet and Clank had been helping Angela clean up after a visit (Ratchet was the one making most of the mess) and she had stumbled across the laser pointer.

"Hey, check this out!" She clicked it on and spun it across the wall, "I can't believe I still have this piece of junk…!"

Ratchet's ears were pricked as he spun, following the glowing red spot with wide green eyes, fascinated. Clank noticed, chuckled, and nudged Angela's leg, pointing at his partner. Angela snickered and stopped moving the pointer. Ratchet edged closer, tensed, and leapt, slamming right into the wall as Angela whipped the laser away and pointed it at the ceiling.

It had all gone on from there.

"Stop…moving you stupid…little…GAH!" A face planted into the floor and rolled over, snuffling, pawing at his nose, one ear drooping, "Why can't I get it!?" He knew why he couldn't, he was just whining, he wanted to catch the stupid thing and make it stop making him look like an idiot.

"Ratchet, you do realize it is just a laser pointer, don't you?" Clank asked, unable to keep the laughter from his voice.

"I kkkknnnnnoooooowwwww!" Ratchet whined, sitting up on the floor and looking around for the laser dot, "But it's sooooo ccoooooolllllll!"

"Where's a holo-vid camera when you need one?" Angela giggled, swinging the laser back and forth slowly on the floor before the Lombax, "I would kill for one right now!"

"Do not worry," Clank responded in a low voice as Ratchet attempted to dive underneath a sofa where he presumed the dot had vanished to, "I have the whole thing stored in my memory banks. It should not take that much work to duplicate and copy onto a holo-vid."

The two fell about laughing as the galaxy's hero continued to chase around a little point of light he would never catch.

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Cruddy symbolism showing up in that last sentence…darn you.

Oh, this is hilarious to me! Absolutely hilarious! Can't you just see that!? Ratchet chasing after a laser pointer!? I've gotta draw this!