Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time fanfic

Genre: dark themes, adventure, mystery, some humor, possible romance (I haven't decided on this yet)

Warnings: violence, suspense, cussing, some death

Summary: At the Great Clock after Alister's death, Ratchet explores the Great Clock and finds a room that sends him to another dimension. In this dimension, Ratchet was never born and Dr. Nefarious succeed in robots ruling the universe. Organics are either caught and turned into a robot or killed. Ratchet must find his way back to where he belongs before he's caught or killed.

Hope everyone enjoys!

Another Chance

Ch. 4- Battle and Time Holes

It was too late to run, Ratchet and Frederick knew. The robots ran towards them with evil grins and weapons. There was no turning back. It was time to fight.

Ratchet got out his wrench. Fredrick had two spikes come out of each arm by his wrists and these produced electricity. The Lombax looked over and noticed this.

"Note to self, try not to piss you off."

Frederick glared at the organic. "Focus! There are robots running at us. Make stupid jokes later."

Ratchet pouted slightly, "Ok, but you have to admit, that was kind of funny." Frederick just rolled his eyes. Ratchet then noticed that his eyes were a different color. They were usually blue but they changed to a yellowish orange.

The enemy robots were then in front of them. It was a group of four. Two held metal clubs and the other two held guns; one was a pistol type gun and the other was a bomb glove. The clubs were bright red with a giant light blue D on the front and a smaller dark blue N placed in the D.

One robot with a club tried to swing at Ratchet. Unfortunately for him, the Lombax crouched down to avoid the hit. He hit the other in an upward motion with his wrench to make the robot go flying through the air.

Frederick was doing quite well himself. He was not much of a fighter but knew how to protect himself if need be. The robot with the other club went after the tiny robot companion. However, Frederick was able to slice the club in half when a swing failed and the club was stuck in the ground for a moment.

When the gun was sliced in half, he shrugged and pulled out a pistol type gun. He started to shoot at Frederick. Frederick was an extremely fast runner so he was able to dodge the shots easily. The problem was that he was a close ranger fighter. So fighting an enemy with a gun proved to be quite difficult.

Ratchet was still working on the robot with the club. The other two robots started to fight Ratchet was well. Since one robot had a club, it did not take the Lombax long to knock him out due to having a really shitty weapon that was more for looks than damage.

Luckily, his wrench was able to be used as a shield since the shots from the pistol were not very strong. It was strange that the robot with the bomb glove was not really fighting, but crouching and watching the battle. He didn't understand why but there was not much time to think on this since he was fighting another robot.

Frederick still dodged shots while trying to figure out a way to attack the enemy. He eventually found a way behind the other robot and before the enemy could do anything, Frederick stabbed the other in the back. Electric sparks could be seen as the enemy robot fell to the ground.

When done, they tiny robot went over to help the Lombax out. Ratchet saw him come and looked to see what he had done to the other robot on the ground.

"Did you have to do that to him?" Ratchet asked before crouching and tripping the robot with the pistol over.

"Unfortunately, something that you're going to have to learn is to kill," the enemy got back up and started to shoot them. At the same time, Ratchet swung his wrench down and Frederick sliced down with one of his blades. "Or be killed." Was finished as the robot fell to the ground.

They backed off away from the second robot body. Ratchet glanced at the other. "Okay, you're acting really weird."

Frederick didn't say anything at first. He then answered, "I'm in destructive mode."

"What?"

"I have a destructive mode. It comes out whenever I have to fight, I change. I become more aggressive."

"… Oh."

Their conversation was then cut off when beeps could be heard. They forgot about the last robot. The robot gave an evil grin before making a bomb appear in his hand. Before anything could be done, he threw it at them.

They both ran in separate directions. The bomb landed and went off. A head could be seen looking back in the direction where other went. Eyes widened right then.

"NO!"

The bomb had been thrown in Frederick's direction. He fell from the explosion. Smoke and sparks could be seen coming from him. Ratchet ran over to him.

However, he noticed the enemy robot getting another bomb ready. Ratchet picked up a gun from one of the fallen enemies. He aimed and shot. The bomb in the enemy's hand went off and caused him to explode.

The battle was over. When Ratchet was sure of this, he ran over to Frederick. There were oil pools under his body.

"Frederick?"

Eyes could then be seen opening slowly. His eyes were blue again but the blue was very dull. "Hey Ratchet."

"Listen, I'll get you somewhere. There has to be somewhere or someone who can help you."

The little robot shook his head. "Not here. I'm not going to make it Ratchet." He then took off these bracelets that he had been wearing. "Wear these. These have the electric blades that I use. The nice thing about this weapon is that it adjusts itself to size of the user, so the blades will be more effect for you instead of really tiny like me."

Ratchet got on his knees and took the bracelets. His eyes started to water. "Frederick. I-I'm so sorry. If I had been paying more attention, or…"

"Ratchet?" Ratchet looked at the dying robot. "If what you told me was really true, about how stopped all this from happening in your time, then please, save this one. I chose not to work with organics because I used to be organic myself. Most changed robots have their memories altered, but my process was messed up and I remember everything. You can fight and you have a heart, so please save everyone."

"F-Frederick?"

"G-Goodb-bye Ratchet…"

His eyes turned off. Ratchet just stared. It took him a minute to grasp what had happened. He stood up and put the weapons on. He planned on using these, and he planned on saving this time, or wherever he was.

+Another Place+

A robot could be seen mumbling to himself as he typed away on the keyboard in front of him. Another smaller robot could be seen walking into the room. This tiny robot had a worried expression on his face.

"Sigmund? Have you seen Ratchet? It's been a few hours since I've seen him last."

The robot typing then turned to face the other smaller one. "Sorry Clank. I haven't seen him. I've been busy trying to read these strange readings I've been getting."

"Readings?"

Sigmund nodded, "Yes, you know how time holes appear sometimes? Well, these have a different signature than the normal ones. I've never seen time holes like these before."

The larger robot hit a few keys and brought up a visual screen. Clank's eyes widened at what he saw.

"What is going on? When did this start?"

"Strange time holes are opening. I'm trying to see if I can get rid of them on my screen but I'm not having much luck so far. This started a couple hours ago."

"… Okay. I'm going to look for Ratchet again and I'll be back soon. Just let me know if it gets worse or if anything else weird happens."

Sigmund nodded and started typing on his keyboard again. Clank left the room and went back on his search for his friend. He was extremely worried about his friend. He hoped he would find Ratchet soon, especially since he hasn't been himself.

*Hey everyone! Thanks for reading! I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. Sorry about it being depressing but it had to be done. Anyway, it might be a little bit before I update again because there will be a contest going on for a cover for this story, but I promise that I will continue. Again, thanks for reading!