Chapter 4: Planetary Assault
*Exit Hyper space*
*Big white glove pops out and slaps everyone awake*
"Ugh *yawn* where are we?" asks Ratchet and pretty annoyed at what happened.
"Welcome to the Shivan home world and it looks like something more is going on here." said Skyler looking at the GTD Orions and PVD Typhoons and some Republic Advanced Cruisers along with many smaller crafter when the ship's communicator goes off.
"Attention unknown craft, you have entered air space that is restricted for-" said the clone which Skyler chuckled at.
"Still following protocol, eh Alpha1?" said Skyler looking at the non-Crimson clone.
"Wait. Skyler? Where in the name of Unicron have you been?" said the pilot-turned-Jedi.
"Surprised YOU'RE still alive pal, been about 57 years since I last saw you and you were about 44 then."
"Stasis. And I was actually 48 then."
"Okay, but aside from all our fleets, who else are attacking the Shivans' home world?"
"Let me see…All of the Autobots and Autocons, Unicron himself, but he's currently getting the Predators, and your Xenomorphs along with a huge crate with the label "S-Z" on it, and some Galactic Rangers attack fleet led by Captain Sasha Phyronix?"
"Wait…Sasha's here?!" said Ratchet getting nervous and Alpha one's communication screen disappeared as a new one come and Skyler arced out of the ship and went towards the hugest ship in the Republic fleet.
"Ratchet what are you doing out here?" asked Sasha and before her face appeared on the screen Ratchet covered his cybernetic eye.
"What? Me? Helping an old friend out who helped me out in Dread-zone. Why problem?" said Ratchet with a bit a nervousness.
"Ratchet is something wrong with your eye?"
"No! I just got something in it. Sorrygottogobye!" said Ratchet manually shutting off the communicator and falling back into his seat and sighing.
"Ratchet, explain to me why you were nervous and covered your eye while talking to Sasha." said Clank.
"Look at me. My eye and hand is cybernetic. Tell me you think she'd still like me?" said Ratchet looking at his long-time pal.
"Why don't we find out?" said Clank setting the ship to land in the Starship Phoenix's hangar where Skyler was using some type of energy rifle.
"Hey Ratchet got something for you." said Skyler as he threw a small cube at Ratchet and began firing at the disabled Battle Droids at the far end of the hangar with the weapon and it fired multiple rounds and didn't seem to do any damage to the droids.
"Uh, that weapon's a dud." said Ratchet after activating the cube and Crimson armor went onto him and had the effects of other armor.
"Actually its called a Flail and it isn't a dud, it just weakens the enemy and sends them flying back. Now come on the drop ship is ready."
After removing the helmet Ratchet ran smack into Sasha and they locked lips and after the kiss he fainted and Sasha chuckled.
A while later Ratchet came to inside the drop ship and Ratchet noticed 30 Crimson clones and about 30 Galactic Ranger bots inside the drop ship.
"Ratchet the armor you're wearing will protect you from almost anything, even headshots." and with those words Skyler shot the nearest clone in the head (while the clone had the helmet on) and none of the other clones flinched or even gasped.
"That tickled sir." said the clone getting up.
"Drop zone reached. Prepare for free fall." said the pilot over the intercom and as the doors dropped open Skyler went into a tube and it went black and Ratchet and Clank along with the Crimsons and bots did a free fall.
"What's Skyler doing?" asked Ratchet towards the nearest clone.
"You'll see Lombax." was the Crimson's reply and after that a streak of black and orange came flying past them at Mach 80 (impossible? Yeah probably truly is) and upon hitting the ground created a 200 mile wide crater.
Upon landing Ratchet saw Skyler get up and was clutching his head and seemed a little disoriented.
"Please let me off now. I'm dizzy." he said with a bit of slur to his words and then he fell over.
2 HOURS LATER
(For those who have played Killzone 3, please imagine the Shivans' home world like Helgan, but with no air, water, or trees, animals, or anything living or essential for life, just red and black sand with winds of up to 100 mph, and also huge warship factories and tons of Shivans barreling at you in the hundreds or even thousands and with every one Shivan you kill twenty more take its place. Please note that if you played any of the Freespace games (they're from Violation, Inc., same as Red Faction 2) this is just a rough description.)
Ratchet and Clank along with clone Captain Boomer "Sharpshooter" and watched as Devastator, Demolisher, and Omega Supreme advance on the enemy and watched as a huge hand came down and ripped a huge chunk out of the planet's surface.
Suddenly the ground erupted in front of them and out came 10 Infested prisoners and fought of any Shivans in front of the three and then the ground began to shake.
Turning around Ratchet's mouth dropped inside the helmet in shock at what he saw: million, no trillions of small but vicious looking creatures came barreling past them and began to rip apart the Shivans with so much brutality that it made Xenomorphs look friendly and over head flying creatures began shooting globs of orange acid at the Shivans that upon contact split into smaller globs. One Infested prisoner approached Ratchet.
"Are…you the…one…called Ratchet?" it asked with a distorted voice and its skin seemed to rise and fall like something was on the inside.
"Y-yes." said Ratchet nervously.
"Follow…me." said the Infested turning around as a giant worm-like creature burst from the ground and opened its huge mouth for its two passengers to enter and then retracted back into the ground.
ABOUT 50 MILES LATER (FAST BY NYDUS WORM)
The worm once again burst from the ground and released a disgusted Ratchet.
"Your…stop." said the Infested as it burrowed into the ground and away from sight.
"I see you got to ride the Nydus Worm Express. Did you enjoy it?" said Skyler with sarcasm in his voice.
"No!" said Ratchet still wiping slime from his armor.
Suddenly the two got into fighting stances as they heard two laughs from behind and from the shadows stepped Dr. Nefarious and Emperor Tachyon (who was using a breathing device and inside a giant attack throne complete with lasers, rail guns, grenade launchers, and missile launchers).
"Nefarious is mine!" spoke Skyler as his body changed and began to arc dull purple lightning.
"So that just leaves you and me once again. The prince of the Cragmites and the last of the Lombaxes, this battle will-" began Tachyon.
"Yeah, yeah, decide the fate of the universe. You know, I'm sick and tired of listening to villains gloat and say how they'll "destroy" me, but I've beat you before and I'll do it again." said Ratchet getting annoyed with Tachyon.
"Well, this time I've made my own dimension-nator and this time the Cragmites will rise again!" said Tachyon pulling a chord and nothing happened.
"*clears throat* Rise aga-" before he's able to finish Ratchet fires off a Viper round instantly blowing the contraption off of Tachyon's head.
"Yeah…so not in the mode for them again. Besides you're the only one I'd like to deal with today." said Ratchet gently whacking his hand with his wrench (what you see your thug-like character do in some games when you have a baseball bat).
Nefarious couldn't believe his eyes, not only had the experiment worked but it was now against him and he was getting his butt kicked and for once he wished it was Qwark that was giving him the butt-kicking, not some enraged berserker that could smash him to pieces in one hit, but unfortunately he got defeated and his brain started to malfunction.
"*Yodeling*…*Chicken clucking*…Oh Lance! Oh Janice!….*Head blows off*" went Nefarious as his brain made his body dance while yodeling, cluck like a chicken, and then freeze up and finally head blows off and Lawrence picks up the head and walks away as fast as possible.
Turning around Skyler saw Tachyon blast Ratchet's helmet off and Ratchet fell about 20 feet away from Tachyon and Skyler snapped…
"What was it you said Lombax, "I beat you once, I can do it again."? HA! Looks like this time I am VICTORIOUS! And-"
"SHUT THE F%^& UP ! YOU'LL PAY FOR HURTING RATCHET!" said Skyler who had a red-orange aura and serrated claws and back spikes that now gleamed with dark energy and teeth that were normal length but made a Tarkatan's look dull and eyes that made Tachyon have a "accident".
40 MINUTES LATER
What once was a barren wasteland became so barren that the planet's core itself died and Unicron couldn't eat the planet himself and just crushed it with his hands. What was left of Tachyon is not to be imagined, but if those who want to hear it, it is this: After Skyler went Rage, Tachyon tried to fight back but the battle throne was destroyed in one clean swipe of the claws and Tachyon tried running but got his legs cut off and then his arms and he began to beg for mercy, but wound up getting skinned alive by Rage but was still alive after the skinning and was then Force Lightning Choked and then decapitated and then his head was crushed and even though his body was tiny before you'd need a microscope that can zoom in to 1000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000 0000x magnification to see the remains of a single piece of muscle now.
2 DAYS LATER
Ratchet woke up and found one of his legs felt weird and upon seeing it let out a sigh.
"Another cybernetic replacement. Oh well." he said with a hint of sadness to his voice and went outside of the med lab to find himself embraced by Sasha.
"Sasha! What-" he gets caught off guard as she kisses him again.
"You may be losing body parts, but that doesn't mean I don't like you any less Ratchet." Sasha says after letting go of him and Ratchet faints again.
"Where's Skyler?" Ratchet asks after getting up.
"He's in where we kept Qwark after the "Florana Tree Beast" incident." said Clank hovering over.
"Okay…Why's he in there?" asked Ratchet getting nervous and even more nervous upon seeing Sasha and Clank look away.
"Okay guys what happened?"
"Well apparently Nefarious' experiment on him both failed and succeed, but upon Skyler seeing you get hurt by Tachyon, he went berserk and killed Tachyon, but ravaged the planet in 40 minutes, 2.5 seconds and then returned to normal and put himself in that area. Upon seeing the death of Tachyon almost every Shivan surrendered, but we had to evacuate everyone from the planet and it became a dry and dead planet even more than it was before and the planet outside is actually the one called "Unicron" and he crushed the planet because he couldn't eat the planet. The Shivans are now going to suffer for the treaty they broke with the Republic very badly." said Clank. After Clank finish Ratchet had a confused look on his face.
"I'll see you guys later." said Ratchet as he left to see Skyler.
Upon entering the room Ratchet sees a large bat roasting a fish with fire breath and the bat spots him and flies down turning into Skyler.
"So, you here to hurt me or what?" asks Skyler with a sad face.
"Hurt you?! No, I came to thank you for saving my life." replies Ratchet.
"Saving your life? Its my fault you lost that leg! I should have taken care of Tachyon and let you deal with Nefarious, but something took hold of me and made me go after him!"
"Hey calm down. I don't care about the leg, besides I hated Tachyon and whatever you did he probably deserved it. Besides I still have to thank you for helping me out in Dread-zone."
"Huh. No problem kid. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm leaving."
"Wait. Where?"
"Another universe. See you later Ratchet and good luck with Sasha." said Skyler as he vanished through the portal and Ratchet blushed.
Skyler's Age: 130
LOCATION: BAYVILLE, X-MEN UNIVERSE
Finds love interest (shocker for later story).
Skyler's Age: 188
LOCATION: OUTSKIRTS OF SANDOVER VILLAGE
"Got any orbs for a blind old man?" kept repeating a blind old man near the village's entrance towards the Forbidden Jungle and a young green-blonde with a orange Ottsel on his shoulder give the man 3 orbs, but gets a shock when the old man grabs his arm.
"My, my, you're a strong one aren't you? Heed my wisdom young ones, you may encounter strange things in the future also give the flea bag a bath." said the old man walking away after letting go of the young green-blonde's arm.
"What a weirdo!" said the Ottsel.
"I heard that." at this the Ottsel shakes his fist at the old man as the green-blonde chuckles, "I heard that too Ottsel." with those words the Ottsel stops shaking his fist and forces the young green-blonde onward.
Leaving the two behind the old man morphs into an 8 foot tall man with a scar on the right eye along with black dreadlocks and a piece of metal on the left shoulder and a liquid metal-tipped tail and is smoking a pipe carved from bone.
"Good luck on your quest you two." he says before embedding himself into the rock underneath the small bridge near the bird lady's hut and goes to sleep.
Skyler's Age: 198
Waking up Skyler busts his way out of his rocky tomb and stretches and looks around to see the village in ruins and then hears a small scream and then turns around to see a small blonde being chased by creatures with weird gems and green eyes and then pain enters his neck and the rest of this part of the story is told later.
Skyler's Age: 214
An irritated green-blonde with a nervous Ottsel explore Haven city and come upon an old blind man asking for orbs and the green-blonde finds the old man's grasp familiar.
"Ah, I see you've been touched by Dark Eco also. So sad. Don't let your hate control you or you will destroy yourself."
"I don't need wisdom from an old man like you." says the green-blonde pulling his arm out of the old man's grasp.
"*Sigh* Two years in that prison and you aren't the same young kid with a happy heart from Sand Over." says the old man disappearing into the crowd, "We'll meet again, but not in this form young one for then I can truly see you."
"What was that?" asks the orange Ottsel to his friend.
"I don't know…" and the duo head towards the Hip Hog Saloon.
END CHAPTER
SURPRISE! I didn't have this part in the first story I made because I thought it'd be weird and so put into this one. Don't understand how Skyler did that? Lets just say he learned quite a bit from Naruto U. 's universe with the time he spent there even though I didn't write it down (no story idea) and the X-men one is also for later. If you want to know how the story goes read "Hybrid in Town". Also the young blonde in Dead Town running from the Metal Heads is the Naruto from Miyuki-ice-fox's "A Fox in Haven" and "Wasteland Fox". Areas I skipped: Mortal Kombat universe-meets young Shujinko and trains him, enters tournament and defeats the second most powerful Tarkatan (not Baraka), Naruto U.'s universe explained later.
Also I'm sorry if I didn't do Ratchet's love interest correct, but she seemed more likely and besides I've only played Ratchet & Clank: Up your Arsenal, Ratchet: Deadlocked, Secret Agent Clank, and Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters (stuck on Technomite planet) and watched walkthrough of Tools of Destruction, one with Captain Romulus Darkwater (Slag and Darkwater fighting over body), and Crack in Time and didn't find All 4 One very interesting.
Next few chapters show Skyler returning to earlier universes a FEW years in that universe later, but FIVE HUNDRED his time (also known as Jak's world Time).