Hay all you Dreadzone fans out there. Sorry I haven't updated in so long. I've been working on a background based on my story. Once I get it up somewhere I'll give you the URL. Oh and also the whole trying to pass high school thing put a kink in the writhing too. So anyways, I've kept you waiting for long enough. Hear it is:
Chapter 6 Bones, Bogs, and BombsRatchet brushed himself off. Jak, and Daxter walked over to him. Jak shouldered his Magma Cannon and motioned with his head to move on. The walked up to the trail made form the spine of God knows what. Apparently the thing had died on its back because the ribs lined the sides of the makeshift trail. Below them the strange brown ooze that created he discussing lake they crossed churned and bubbled.
"I sure don't want to know what these bones belonged to." Said Daxter frightfully. "Cuz it's relatives are probably still around somewhere. Daxter shivered at his own idea.
"Don't worry Daxter." Said Jak "It's probably just a fossil or something. We haven't seen anything remotely that big since we got hear and something like this can't just hide in such low lands."
"Yea right, sure," said Daxter not sounding to reassured.
"Shhhhh." hissed Ratchet quietly ahead of them hiding behind a rib bone and pointed ahead. Jak pressed his back against a rib bone on the opposite side of Ratchet and a bit further back. Looking forward where Ratchet was pointing he saw two Executioners standing guard on either side of the bone trail and three DZ strikers on top of the conjoined ribs above them. One of them held a strange long-barreled gun.
"Ok hears the plan," whispered Ratchet. "We charge the two Executioners and knock them off the bones. Then we shoot the base of the ribs to make the DZ strikers fall off too. Ok?" Jak nodded. "Ok let's go on three." Ratchet held out a clawed fist in Jak's direction, keeping an eye on the enemy.
One finger went up.
One of the Executioners scratched his nose.
Two fingers were up.
A DZ striker yawned.
Three fingers up.
Jak and Ratchet charged forward yelling at the top of their longs. Ratchet in the lead took the first Executioner by surprise and slammed his wrench into its would be gut causing it to double over then using a move Jak had taught him, leaped back on his hands and kicked with both legs effectively pushing the Executioner off the bone trail into the slimy, sticky mess of the lake. Ratchet turned to see Jak side kick the other in the chin, knocking it's head clean off. The body fell to its knees; Jak pushed it into the lake then pulled out his Magma Cannon. He nodded to Ratchet who shouldered his Arbiter. The both fired a round into the base of the rib ringlet and the bone exploded into fragments bouncing off Ratchet's armor with soft dry clunks. Jak guarded his eyes and leaped back. The bones separated and fell into he messy goo with a loud slosh.
Ratchet noticed that no dark orange armored DZ strikers had fallen into the mud with the bone. He glanced up to see all three of them flying above them, supported by jet packs. The one with the strange long barreled gun already had his weapon aimed at Jak.
"Jak look…" Ratchet began, but too late. A loud crack filled the air and echoed around a bit and Jak's shoulder exploded from a laser beam. Jak yelled in pain and fell to the ground. Ratchet leaped to stand over him and got out his Duel Raptors. He opened fire on the DZ strikers, fire that they returned. Ratchet let his armor take the punishment blocking the bolts from striking Jak and blasted the strikers out to the sky. The fell with a metallic scream and splashed into the lake to join their fallen comrades. Ratchet turned around to Jak and leaned down over him. Jak sat up bet fell back down with a yell holding his shoulder, his right one to be exact., crimson liquid seeping through the cracks in his finger. Daxter was yelling something. Ratchet ignored him.
"How bad is it?" he asked.
"Not too bad. I'll bleed but I'll be ok." Replied Jak through clenched teeth.
"Can you stand?" asked the Lombax
"Yea," grimiest Jak "Give me a hand." Ratchet grabbed Jak's good arm and lifted him up. With a groan Jak was on his feet again. He wavered a moment then walked over to pick up his Magma Cannon. He faltered almost plunging head first into the thick smelly goo. Ratchet caught him and stood him back up.
"Hear, tack a minute to rest." Ratchet sat him down with his back to one of the ribs.
"You…don't have a…minute." He said pointing skyward behind Ratchet weakly. About thirty of the other DZ strikers from the trail were lazily floating their way towards the team. Readying their weapons to fire.
"Shit!" cursed Ratchet and shouldered his Arbiter. "Clank," he said to his back
"Yes?" replied Clank
"Guard Jak. Let me know if you need help. You too Daxter" he added sensing the furry creature's comment before it came. Ratchet activated the laser guide to help the rockets find their mark. He aimed at the most condensed part of the sloppy formation and fired. The rocket exploded with a defining roar and shrapnel littered the top of the lake for a moment before it sank into its deaths. Ratchet reloaded and chose another target. He fired and once again the rocket blew away the strikers with no resistance. The remaining battle bots continued to press forward. In a few seconds they would be within firing range.
"Damn," said Ratchet as he reloaded. He wasn't killing them fast enough and they were still out of Duel Raptor Range. Ratchet finished loading and fired at the first one he saw, which was a mistake, the rocket only kill the single target because of its distance from the formation. Ratchet glanced at the digital ammo count on the weapon.
"Only four left." Said Ratchet sadly. He reloaded the gun and looked up to fire again only to find hundreds of laser bolts coming at him. Ratchet yelped and rolled out other way. Jumping to his feet he launched a rocket, missing his target entirely. He rolled again to dodge the incoming artillery. He jumped to his feet again and tried to reload the Arbiter but was forced to move again.
"Three left," Ratchet said to himself and reloaded the gun quickly. Now they were on the trail coming at him wile the others hovered around the edges of the trail firing at their small furry target. He was surrounded. Ratchet dodged what he could and took a lot of hits to his armor. He fired two rockets at the ones who had landed and blew them all away. He reloaded as fast as he could and readied to find a new target. Move landed on the trail and ran towards him. "Last one. Said Ratchet." He fired his last rocket into the crowd and robot pieces rained around him. He put the Arbiter away and took out the duel Raptors. The DZ strikers hovered back away as he unloaded them into their ranks but not into a full out retreat.
Ratchet blasted more and more of them out of the sky but they just kept coming. Finally he heard that fatal click form his guns, meaning there was no more ammo left to save him. Ratchet put he guns away that had served him so well the past few weeks and pulled out his trusty wrench form his belt. If this was how he would die, then he was gonna go down fighting, taking as many as these bastards as he could with him.
"COME ON!" he yelled to them in challenge. They returned his shout with bullets that he dodged. One came close and he threw the wrench at it clipping one of the thrusters sending him flying around in uncontrolled spirals until he hit the brown ooze. One tried to sneak up on him from behind but aided by his acute hearing Ratchet moved just in time to avoid a gun butt to the back of his head and bring the heavy wrench down on it's neck. They moved in for the kill now. Ratchet kept them at bay with some wild swinging of his wrench but knew it was useless. Suddenly the one in front of him lost its head with a loud clang and fell to the ground. A flying piece of metal rounded and flew back to ware it had come. A blue figure caught it easily in one hand and flipped it up and down.
"Wana' try for two?" she said. She was an Aquarian by the look of her with the trademark blue skin and small twin antenna on top of her head and dark, almost black long hair held back in a ponytail. She wore dark blue under armor that fit snugly. She was a little taller than Ratchet by about two inches. She flipped forward into the group next to Ratchet who was completely taken aback by his new ally.
"Hay name's Aqua Girl, I like flowers especially blue roses from Florana, chocolate, but not caramel, my favorite color is green and I'm 23." She said quickly looking at the strikers. "Now that we've had our first date let's get to the fun part." She smiled at the Lombax. Holding her four-winged boomerang dangerously.
Ratchet took a moment and placed his feet in a battle stance. "Let's" he said with an evil smile. They launched in opposite directions over the battle bots. Ratchet landed behind two and swung his wrench around behind him blowing out their knees and sending them into the solid bone of the trail. Then smashed their heads in with two quick slams of his wrench. He charged into the group swinging wildly. Aqua Girl threw her blade with deadly accuracy, decapitating anything in its path. I was used as a close range weapon too. With a flick of the wrist it collapsed into a double bladed knife and she slashed out armor and gears with ease. In no time nothing but robot parts and armor plats threatened them.
"Hell yea! We rock!" yelled the Aquarian. And held out her hand for a high five, which Ratchet took her up on. "Your Ratchet aren't you?" She said. "You must be, no other Lombax fights like you. You saved the Solona galaxy from the Blarg and Dr. Nefarious in the Tyrinoid wars right?" she said.
"Yea and the Bogon galaxy from that Proto Pet mess." He said slightly embarrassed by his own fame.
"Very cool." She said. Suddenly the lower half of a DZ striker launched at her from behind, its deadly claws aimed at her heart. There was no time to react. Then just as its claws were about to cut her flesh its head exploded from a laser beam accompanied by a loud crack that echoed across the lake that came from behind the Lombax. Ratchet turned to see Jak holding the strange gun that the DZ striker had had.
"Do…I always…have to…save…your butt." He wheezed and dropped the gun. Ratchet went over to him and cheeked to wound. It was bleeding really well and Jak was going into shock.
"Oh bad." Said Ratchet. He thought for a moment about what to do. His nano tech couldn't help Jak, and he had none of his own. He needed gauze to field-dress the wound, but Dreadzone hadn't given him any.
"Hear let me help." Said Aqua Girl. She pulled out a pocket Pyrositor that Gagitron had developed recently under the phrase: "Size doesn't matter." She released a small bit of flame on to the wound effectively cauterizing the bloody hole. Jak winced in pain as the flame touched his skin, and quickly relaxed as the wound lost feeling. Ratchet stared at his friend for some moments wondering what to do then suddenly it hit him.
"Clank! Do you still have my old nano pack from the Q-force?" Said Ratchet.
"Yes of course! How could I have forgotten?" said Clank. He opened the small port leading to his compression storage area and produced the small square with the blue life-saving bots floating inside the metal-glass view port. Ratchet placed the item on Jak's stomach and the bots flew out of the microscopic exit ports in the block. The entered Jak's blood stream and healed his wound to the best of their abilities. But it wasn't enough. Jak's shoulder was still badly torn up, but it wouldn't bleed any more.
"Ok Jak," Ratchet put his shoulder under his good arm. "Up we go." He lifted Jak up and hefted him onto his shoulder. Jak moaned in pain.
"I got a Puma a ways back. Lets get him to that." Said Aqua Girl motioning Ratchet to fallow.
"What's a Puma?" asked Ratchet hefting Jak along.
"It's a light armored assault vehicle. It works kind of like the old land cars but it has guns." She replied.
"Oh right, that's one of our missions. To locate the Puma Assault Vehicle." Ratchet checked his missions menu. It currently had the Puma Assault Vehicle and the Locate the Four Lair keys missions checked off. "Hay do you have the lair keys or something?" asked Ratchet.
"Hu? Why?" asked Aqua Girl.
"Because we don't have them and it's marked off on my missions log." Replied Ratchet shifting Jak a bit.
"Yea I got um. I was going to the Leviathan King's lair when I saw all the DZ strikers headed in one direction. I fallowed them and found you." She said. "Look there's my Puma." She pointed to a small land car up ahead on the end of the bone bridge.
They loaded Jak into the passenger side of the front cockpit. Daxter joined him and sat on the dash. Ratchet got into the gunner's seat in the second cockpit. Aqua Girl hopped into the driver seat of the front cockpit.
"Ok Aqua Girl," said Ratchet over the COM link in the vehicle. "Lets go kill that King Leviathan thing and get Jak outa' hear."
"Sounds like a plan, but you can call me Aquill." She said back. Aquill floored the gas pedal and the Puma launched forward. They passed some of the strange scorpion-like creatures, which Ratchet assumed must have been the regular leviathans and shot a few. Finally they were headed up a ramp into a cave mouth. The reached a door and Aquill got out and turned the keys. The door slid open and they moved on into the cave. They didn't go far as the cave opened into a massive chamber filled with the brown goo, and several islands around it. Ratchet hopped out of the Puma along with Aquill and Clank who attached himself to Ratchet's back as usual.
"Daxter, you stay hear and look after Jak." Said Ratchet
"Right-o captain!" said Daxter and saluted, then pulled the cockpit shut. Ratchet checked the ammo bay and reloaded all his guns.
"Ok, let's do this." He said and leaped onto the first island. Aquill was right behind him. As they entered the chamber the goo at the far end of churned and flowed. Ratchet pointed out the spot out to Aquill and got down of one knee to fire his Arbiter. He launched the rocket into the spot and watched as his went under the goo. With a muffled boom and a huge bubble that formed and fell in the goo, he knew he had hit his mark. A roar echoed through the cave and a large tail shot up out of the liquid just in front of Ratchet. The same energy at the end of the leviathan's tail formed on the end of it. "Move!" yelled Ratchet and the jumped in different directions.
The huge beam blasted the island they where on and it went up in flames. Ratchet realized They weren't islands; they were plants, much like lily pads. Meaning the massive creature could move around uninhibited by low depth. The tail went under again. Ratchet looked to Aquill.
"Careful, it could come up anywhere!" he shouted. And as if it had accepted the invitation it reared up next to her head first wailing it's pincers opened wide. Ratchet launched a rocket at it but realized it wouldn't arrive soon enough. Then from out of nowhere came Aquill's boomerang-blade and sliced off its right pincer. The monster roared in frustration and slid back into the brown liquid. Ratchet's rocket hit the wall behind it and it exploded with massive force echoing several times and making Ratchet's ears ring. Then a stalactite hit the goo just off to his left with a sploosh. Ratchet looked at Aquill who smiled back. Now they had a real plan. Ratchet moved to another lily pad to confuse the monster and so did Aquill. Suddenly it appeared right in front of Ratchet, as he was getting ready to leap to the next pad. He fired the Arbiter into the ruff and the explosion caused the stalactites to fall in waves. The sharp rocks impaled the creature over and over again and it roared in pain. Green blood seeped out around the rocks and with a moan it slid back into the goo. From Ratchet's armor computer came the long awaited phrase: Mission Accomplished.