Kate looked around the containment unit she was in as she sat with her back to the corner hugging her knees. She was terrified to the core. The food that the robots brought lay completely untouched and it wasn't too much longer when Vorselon appeared out of nowhere and lowered the grid before entering the containment unit. "You, young Lekti, where is the rebel Lombax?" "I don't know any rebel. The one I was with isn't the one you're looking for- but I can help you find him IF you leave my friend alone." Kate says while looking at the power-suited floating head with fury in her pale brown eyes.
"Nonsense! The rebel Azimuth is the only Lombax I know, what proof do you have that your friend is not him?" Vorselon asked. Kate stood. "What proof? I don't know who this 'Azimuth' is but Ratchet's not him! Don't you find it the least but weird he didn't know who you were? –plus he's a little YOUNG to be your arch enemy don't you think?!" Kate wasn't yelling but boy was she angry, and she wasn't afraid to show it. Vorselon narrowed his one and only eye before cuffing her wrist with his claw and practically dragging her out of the containment unit.
"Lemme go you power-suited alien head!" Kate yelled as she struggled to free herself from his grasp. Vorselon stopped and looked at her. "You are a Lekti, you have powers much like the Caretaker of the Great Clock and yet you hang around with that- Lombax! You can go back in time and save your people without disrupting the space-time continuum!" Kate blinks a few times and stares at him blankly. "I could... Save my people…?" She barely managed to get out into words she was so awestruck, "Stick with me and teach you how to access your full powers." Vorselon says in a very convincing tone.
Kate was silent for the longest time. She remembered the screams, the cries, and the blood shed of her kind. No; her family. She remembered her parents screaming for her to run and before she could argue she was sent to the Planet Quantos in a half-conscious state. Her snow white hair covered her pale brown eyes that were filled with a mixture of unwanted emotions. Just as she was about to agree to stay with Vorselon to find away to save her kind from nearly going extinct, a loud blaring alarm went off throughout the entire ship.
Kate shakes her head as if coming back into reality and rips her wrist from his clutches; cutting it open pretty bad from the metal of the robot pincher- so yeah, it was bleeding, but not as much as she was expecting it to. It was bleeding like it was merely a simple cut. Kate used the few moments she had due to Voreslon's pause to make a run for it. She ran as fast as her little legs would allow her. "Get her! Do not let that Lekti rejoin with the Lombax!" Vorselon ordered after regaining his senses. With that, the robots that weren't go after the escaping prisoners and Ratchet.
As she ran, Kate gently placed her hand on the wound on her bleeding wrist and reversed the time of it, healing the wound quickly and painlessly. She stumbled a couple times and froze a few attacks aimed at her. "Take me to Ratchet!" She cried, but nothing happened. "Transport for cryin' out loud!" Kate yelled with anger rising in her desperate cry to rejoin with her friend before getting incinerated by the robots. She tripped over a thick wire and hit the floor with quite an impact. Kate curled up in a ball and grits her teeth.
"Can these floors be any harder?" She mutters grimly. "We mean you no harm." A mechanical voice from one of many robots surrounding her, spoke. The usual circular saw bladed and blaster robots with a few plasma robots not too far in case she did manage to escape the enclosed circle. Kate's eyes went wide with fear as she slowly lifted her gaze to see the robots way passed her comfort zone. A dry, single noted laugh escaped her lips. "Boys, we're all friends… Right?" She smiles sheepishly. "Insolent squishy, prepare to die." One of the others voiced as the group readied their weapons.
Kate winced at that. She thought on her toes and forcefully pushed herself painfully off the floor and ramming into one of the small-framed robots from out of the way and running, again. When the plasma robots took action, she held a hand out and froze their attack and kept running, not daring to look back. Kate ran hard until she came to a ship hanger where Qwark and a few Fongoids were piling into a small escape pod before the door closed. Her lungs begging for a break and her throat felt like it was on fire.
By the time she had actually gotten into the hanger, the shuttle was closing and the hanger doors were being opened soon after the shuttle was up and running. Kate went to stand beside something large and bolted down for her to grab onto when the hanger doors were fully opened. She'd worry about whom or what was opening them later. Soon enough, the hanger doors were open and she was clinging to a computer bolted to the wall as she the shuttle was launched into space, being lifted off her feet in a matter of seconds.
Then the doors closed and she landed on the floor with an impact, much like earlier. She groaned a curse under her breath and lay still for a moment. She was sore and she was tired from using quite a few of her abilities in a short amount of time. "Kate!" A familiar voice called shortly after she heard footsteps coming towards her. "I've been through a lot today so unless you wanna-" She curled up in a ball, grinding her teeth in the middle of her sentence. Ratchet knelt beside her on one knee and hesitated before taking the risk of carefully placing a gentle hand on her shoulder.
He saw it coming before Kate jerked and side-kicked him. Ratchet let out a light grunt as he slumped over due to the impact of her tibia hitting him just below his rib cage, even if he was wearing light weight armor. Kate brought the leg close to her and held the spot like felt like it had just hit bullet proof glass. "Bloody-!" She growled under her breath and blinked when she saw her golden-yellow fury friend smiling sheepishly. "Ratchet?" Kate barely managed to whisper. He gave a light wave. "Glad to see you still kicking." He joked light-heartedly.
Kate blinked a few times and glared at him when his light-hearted joke reached her ears. Using the last of her available energy and strength, Kate swung her legs around the waist of the young Lombax and pushed the rest of her body to a sitting position. So yeah, she was sitting on his lower torso with her hand pressed against his ribs and he was pretty much pinned by a little girl. "Care to say that again?" He shakes his head and grins nervously. "I'm good. Aphelion's waiting a head since Vorselon blocked the entrance."
Kate carefully got off of him and slowly stood on unstable legs. Ratchet pushed himself up on his feet in one go just as Kate lost her balance. He caught her upper arm and held her steady. "Get on my back." She shakes her head and pulls away from his grip. "Vorselon's army's already headed this way; I can manage on my own. C'mon!" She grabbed his hand and ran as if her life depended on it for the third while being stuck on this ship. Ratchet didn't see that coming and got pulled forward a little too suddenly. He had some trouble running on his own at first, but in no time he was in sync with Kate and he took the lead in case they came across any robots troops.
Her grip on his gloved hand never loosened, it tightened slightly every time she stumbled. Ratchet glanced back at her with concerned green eyes that made her heart sink. "Eyes foreword soldier!" She scowled, surprising him and he did as he was told. "Any news on Azimuth, like where we can find him?" Kate asked. "I'll tell you when we get to Aphelion." He answers as they get to an elevation. After a few moments, the elevator doors closed and brought them to the central hub. Kate was bent over doing her best in catching her breath. "I… Hate… Running…" She said in between breaths.
"You sure you don't me to carry you?" Ratchet offered as he looked at her with a hand held out. She nods slowly. "I'm sure." She replies with a light-hearted smile. It wasn't long before the doors opened again. There were no robots and no Vorselon. "Ratchet…" Kate whispered quietly after regaining her composer from catching her breath. "It's too quiet… I don't like it." Ratchet took a step out of the elevator. "You worry too much." He said casually. "If anything comes up I'll take it down." "Like the Warlord himself?" Kate asked, pointing in the direction of the awaiting Vorselon.
When Kate stepped out of the elevator, the doors closed and it disappeared into the ceiling. "You two have interfered with Dr. Nefarious's plans for the last time! Prepare to die!" Kate and Ratchet exchanged a glance before they shrug and look back at him. "Whatever you say Lord Dorkselon, you're goin' down." Kate grinned smugly. Ratchet pulled out his Constructo-Pistol and got into a fighting stance. Kate saw that there was no place for her to hide, so she stayed in the back of the room.
The battle seemed to be short but painful. Kate was back-up, freezing the time of Vorselon's major attacks until the battle was over and Vorselon's power-suit started falling apart due to the taken damage. Vorselon's head made a quick escape after yelling, "This isn't over!" Kate keeled over in exhaustion and Ratchet rushed over to her, gently picking her up and hurrying to Aphelion. It wasn't long before he and Kate were inside the ship and heading into the Polaris Galaxy.