Break-in

Several hours after going to see Skidd's agent had passed. He seemed very happy to see that they had got back to him. He even gave them a Sonic Summoner! Though Clank didn't seem very impressed by the fact that he gave them something that attracted mice that tries to kill them. At all.

Now they were speeding towards Orgia, a small planet at the edge of the Solana Galaxy. Apparently, that was where the power source was being held. There wasn't much information about the planet despite Clank searching his database-twice.

"Still nothing?" Ratchet called from his seat. Clank shook his small head. "Nothing. It seems that Drek has done well to hide the planet from the authorities. It is like it doesn't exist!"

There was a small explosion behind them. Ratchet's eyes darted behind him in confusion. Three dark ships behind them were starting to take fire onto their small orange striped ship.

"Let's hope that salesman wasn't lying about this scrap junk being study!" He pondered as he increased speed. The ships started to enter Orgia's stratosphere. When they came closer to the planet surface, they could see hundreds of turrets on the planet surface-all aiming at them.

"This is bad." Clank said.

Ratchet cranked up the engine. "Alright. Let's see what this baby can do."

Ratchet nimbly flew over the planet's defence system with the attackers close behind them, the turrets shooting like crazy. One of the unlucky pursuing ships was soon shot down by some rogue bullets, and burst into flames before it hit the ground. The two remaining ships stayed locked onto Ratchet's ship. "Damn, do these guys ever give up?" He pulled the ship into a halt, with the two ships zooming past him. Now they were directly in firing range. In a few shots both the ships were blown to smithereens.

"There, that'll teach them." Ratchet cheered, pumping his fist into the air.

"We are not out of the woods yet Ratchet. We must still reach the bunker." Clank responded.

"Right, right. Hold on, this is going to get bumpy." The ship navigated its way though more turrets, just missing the hurricanes of lead aiming at them. Ratchet fired more shots into the lines of turrets sending several exploding simultaneously. Suddenly, a loud crash to the ship's side started to bring it down. Smoke began to pour out left wing. Ratchet desperately flicked switches and pulled the wheel up to stop the nose dive.

"Clank! We've lost one of our engines! This thing isn't gonna hold up much longer!"

"Well what do you suggest we do?" Before he could reply back, several turrets began to shot at the remaining engine. That too sent out an explosion, and sent the ship into a deadly nose-dive.

"Alright Clank, get on. We're gonna eject!" Clank sat up and pulled himself onto the Lombax's back before Ratchet slammed a button besides him, sending both he and Clank up into the air with a hidden parachute bringing them slowly floating to the ground while their ship hit the planet floor in a ball of flames.

When they finally reached the ground, Ratchet holstered a Blaster before charging into the bunker entrance, shooting any guards or mechanical machines that stood in his way.

48 could hear the commotion outside her door. There were a lot of footsteps and running around. She could just make out Bishop yelling, "Get rid of the documents. Pack the blueprints and get the extracted energy out of here!" She sat there and put her pendant over her neck which was just hidden by her jumpsuit collar. "This can't be good." She thought.

Bishop's wobbled steps coming towards the door. "You two, get out there and fight, or I'll serve you to a Snagglebeast!" Without hesitation the guards ran off, and the mechanical door lock disengaged. Bishop lugged inside and snatched 48's arm. "You're coming with me." 48 pulled against his grip.

"What's going on?" she yelled, as she was dragged out into the corridor.

"Nothing you would understand. Now shut your mouth and come with me."

48 grinned in realisation. "There's been a break-in hasn't there?"

"I told you to shut it!" He swung his free arm to slap her, but she bent out of the way and used his momentum to grab his tuxedo and throw him over her shoulder. As she turned to run, he slammed against the floor, grunted, then pulled out a stun pistol. "You filthy little Exo!" he yelled before pulling the trigger. It hit 48 directly in her wounded leg, sending shock waves pulsing though-out her body. She screamed in pain then collapsed to the floor, groaning.

"You will obey me! You will remember your place, Exo!" he shouted as he stumbled towards her. He started to drag her by her tail towards the Energy Department.

"We're evacuating the bunker aren't we Bishop?!"

He typed the code into the door panel. "So what if we are. Now you keep it shut or I swear you won't be able to breathe by the end of this trip." The door opened.

"If we're leaving, what about the whole 'strengthen-my-body-to-it's-maximum-endurance-leve l'? What about that?"

That earned her a strong tug on her tail. The pain burned and her eyes stung, but she bit her lip to stop yelping. She grabbed onto the doorframe as the tugging grew stronger.

"Don't be stupid. We'll still go through with that after it's safe to leave the safe house. But during that time we've got to keep ourselves busy now don't we?" He looked down at her with a dirty grin. "And I'm pretty sure that a girl like you can still make a guy like me have a bit of fun-even if you are an Exo." He smiled darkly.

48's eyes widened. "You wouldn't dare." She hissed.

"Try me." Bishop finally dragged her inside, and the door closed behind them. 48 continued to scream, kick, and try to resist Bishop. After a lot of difficulty, he threw her into a corner and started to repeatedly kick her in the stomach and face. Blood started to ooze out and spread onto his shoes. 48 remained sprawled out on the floor, black dots dancing around her vision.

He kicked her one last time then ran off over to a set of machines and started to furiously type in messages to other networks. 48 struggled to keep conscious while several screens played over the same message, "Planet Orgia has been infiltrated by the Lombax. Send reinforcements immediately." Then she blacked out.

"Now Ratchet," Clank said from his back, "You need to take a right here and go straight on until you see a large door on the left. The source should be in there."

"Alright Clank. This had better be right!" Ratchet followed the directions and threw himself into a large doorway, gun loaded. He stared around the room to see that there was no one to be seen-just several machines and boxes of what seemed to contain glowing blue light. "You sure this is the right room Clank?"

Clank ran a scan of the bunker before replying. "Yes, this should be the right...Ratchet look out!" Ratchet spun round just in time to knock an incoming grenade out of harm's way with his wrench, sending it exploding into a computer. The attacker cursed.

"Ratchet, that is the man the infobot showed us!"

The Blargain scowled, pulling out a loaded pistol. "That's High Priest Bishop to you!" He fired several shots at Ratchet, all of which he jumped out of the way and dodged, before pulling out his wrench again, and then slamming it into Bishop's jaw. He cried out in pain, but was cut short of another blow by the wrench, this time to his large gut, sending him flying across the room and impacting with the large bubble in the centre cracking it slightly.

Bishop exhaled in shaky breaths. "So you're the one who's been messing with Drek. Must say, you're a good fighter."

Ratchet growled back, dragging his wrench on the floor as he stepped closer and closer to Bishop. "Where's the power source."

"You really think I would tell you?" he sneered back, "I am the most loyal Blargain here to Chairman Drek. You will have to try harder to get me to talk. If I talk."

Ratchet released another low growl but was cut short by Clank, who was looking towards an unconscious figure lying behind several machines. He quickly scanned the body, and then turned back to his friend. "It seems that this girl is the source Ratchet."

Ratchet looked at Clank in confusion, before then grinning back at Bishop. "Guess you don't have to do any talking." He growled before knocking Bishop out with his wrench. "Clank, that's not a power source. It's just a kid."

"It seems so. But my radar scans detecting large amounts of energy frequencies coming off those boxes-which seem to contain the energy Drek mentioned."

"So?"

"The same frequency is coming off this girl, Ratchet. There is no doubt about it."

Ratchet looked at the small girl. She had pale grey fur with printed blue symbols, long blue hair, and had a worn, dirty-looking orange jumpsuit with bare feet. She seemed the same height as him and was probably around the same age too. Lying beside her was a long grey tail with the same symbols on her arms and legs, which ended in a large knife like point.

Ratchet rubbed the back of his neck. "Well what do we do with her?"

"We take her with us and drop her off at a safe location." Clank shrugged.

He glared evils at him. "You can't be serious?"

"Be reasonable Ratchet, she is only a bit younger than you. Besides, do you have a better idea? Or would you like to kill her here and now so to destroy the source?"

Ratchet let out a moan. He stamped over to the girl and hauled her over his shoulder. "Come on, before the backup arrives."

Okay, so this isn't the best chapter I've ever written, but let's see how this goes. Well hopefully I'll get more chapters up before I have to go back to school, so watch this space!