Ratchet rubbed his eyes and sat up not believing what he was seeing, he couldn't have seen that crook. When he looked again the figure was gone from the window. "Just my imagination." He thought sighing gently. Until he felt breathe on his neck and went stone cold.
"Hey there hero." The voice drawled right next to his ear. Everything froze at that very moment. Every single one of Ratchet's fears came rushing back to him at once. He was going to be tortured, violated, and humiliated. He was never going to see Clank again, nor Talwyn, Quark, anyone. Clank or even Talwyn was going to be captured because of him. Mostly importantly, he was going to die.
As time seemed to set back into normality Ratchet spotted his wrench, which he always kept beside his bed. Ratchet lunged for the weapon things seemed to be going too fast now. As he grabbed for the weapon he felt the man behind him jump after him. He was able to get to the tool and quickly flipped on his back holding the weapon in front of himself defensively. In a crack of lightning Ratchet saw the smuggler come at him, his knife glinting. Ratchet flung the wrench wildly in the air trying to land a blow. In his erratic motions the psychotic man managed to cut the back of the lombax's hand, shredding right through his glove. He recoiled in pain, but quickly attempted to stand up. He didn't notice that Clank had begun to wake up. The maniac lunged with his knife again, but Ratchet managed to block with his weapon, as blood began to drip down his arm. Flicking his wrench Ratchet was able to fling the knife across the room and it smacked against the wall. By this time Clank was fully awake and was horrified to find his friend fighting for his life against the crook.
"Ratchet!" Clank cried terrified.
Surprised by the robot's outcry and worried for his safety Ratchet paused and looked to his pal making sure he was safe. The villain took this time to sneak up behind Ratchet and stab him in the neck with a needle he had concealed in his coat. Ratchet cried out this time and tried to dislodge the object as an arm wrapped around his torso preventing him from moving. Things became blurry in the lombax's vision and he could feel himself begin to fall into a drug induced sleep.
Clank scrambled for his friend as he saw the blue humanoid lead Ratchet's limp body toward the window. Dropping the syringe the smuggler pried the window open with his free hand as Clank dashed across to his half-conscious friend. Clank grabbed at the marauder's pant leg trying to stop him, but his efforts were fruitless. The smuggler looked down at the robot's feeble attempts and scoffed.
"You're lucky it ain't you I'm after." He said and kicked Clank across the room. The robot flew to the opposite wall and smacked into a holoscreen shattering it on impact. The robot fell with a clunk to the floor. He tried quickly to get back up and to Ratchet as fast as he could. The smuggler looked down the twenty story building as Ratchet made eye contact with Clank.
"C-Clank, don't, don't ..." Ratchet tried but the drug was starting to take its full affect. The look in his eyes told Clank what Ratchet couldn't say. He didn't want him to try saving him. He didn't want him to get hurt again. He had to try damn it!
Clank made one last dash toward the smuggler reaching out to stop him, but was too late. The villain jumped down just as Clank had made contact with Ratchet's hand. When Clank made it to the window he saw that the smuggler had landed safety in a ship just a few floors down and was quickly closing the hatch. The last Clank saw of Ratchet was him zooming off into the night to relive his nightmares.
I love action scenes like this that make you're heart pound. Actually I like basically all parts in this story, but I digress. Anyway enjoy! :D