A Lombax's Past Chapter 7
Ratchet was sleeping on the couch having another nightmare.
"You fool!" Yelled Alister
Ratchet moaned as he kept hearing insults from Alister.
He was walking away from Alister again.
"This is your responsibility, you can't just walk away!" Alister yelled to him
Ratchet turned around and looked at Alister
He was about to say something, but Alister was sucked away in a dark cloud that surrounded Ratchet.
"Clank!" Ratchet called
There was no answer. The darkness swung around Ratchet faster and faster until it finally stopped.
"Ratchet." Whispered a voice
He turned around to see Ratchena. She looked horrible. Her eyes were stained with tears, she had a huge bruise on her cheek, and he fur was scruffy and bloody.
"Ratchena what happened, who did this to you?!" Ratchet asked worried
"Listen Ratchet we haven't much time! I'm not the person you think I 'am! You must get rid of me and fast!" she said shaking
"What are you talking about? What do you mean get rid of you?" he asked
She pulled out a knife. Ratchet backed away as she started walking toward him.
"Kill me!" she yelled with tears running down her cheeks
"Kill me! You, Clank, Talwyn everyone is in danger! Please kill me now!" She pleaded
Ratchet shook his head
"No! I'm not going to lose you!" He screamed
"Everyone will die!" she screamed
"How do you know?!" Ratchet asked
"Because I'll kill them." Ratchena said with a dark voice
Ratchet gasped as Ratchena walked toward him with the knife.
"Ah!" she screamed as she threw down the knife.
"Ratchet kill meeee…. Ah!" she screamed in pain as she clutched her head.
She started to laugh darkly then turned to Ratchet with Glowing red eyes.
"You should've killed me when you had the chance!" She yelled darkly
"Ah!" Ratchet yelled as he woke up on the floor.
He groaned as he climbed back up on the couch. He glanced up nervously up the stairs.
"Was she trying to tell me something or was that just a nightmare?" he asked himself
He took one more glance up stairs and went to sleep.
Up stairs Clank was having a dream. He was dreaming about Ratchet and his adventures. When they saved the Galaxy from Tachyon. Then he dreamed about when they met Talwyn. He smiled in his sleep.
"Good times." He whispered in his sleep.
The scene changed and he was now looking down at Ratchet's cold, stiff, lifeless body.
He had stab wounds all over and he was face down in a pool of his own blood.
"Ratchet" Clank chocked out
Clank kneeled down and lifted Ratchet's head up. His mouth was slightly open and his eyes were closed. Clank let out a sob as he hugged his friend for the last time.
Clank placed his head closed to Ratchet as he cried.
"Ha!" Laughed a dark voice
Clank lifted his head. He had Ratchet's blood all over his face. He gently put Ratchet's body down face up and stood up.
"Where are you?!" He screamed
"Right here." Said the voice
Clank turned to see long blood fangs and claws come toward him and then…
Clank woke up.
"Oh Ratchet." Clank whispered.
Inside Ratchet's room Ratchena was also having a nightmare.
She was in Nefarious Lab. He was replacing her left arm and right leg along with other things.
"No I don't want to be alive." She moaned in her sleep.
The scene changed and she was strangling Ratchet.
"Why won't you die?!" She yelled darkly
Ratchet's eyes were rolling in his head as he gasped for air.
"Stop! Rat….chena!" Ratchet gasped
Ratchena took out her long sharp claws and started to stab Ratchet. One blow after the other until Ratchet stopped twitching and groaning. Blood was dripping on the floor creating a huge puddle. Ratchena smiled then tossed Ratchet face down in the pool his own blood. The scene changed again and now she was standing on a hill and surrounded her were bodies as far as the eye can see of people she slaughtered in cold blood.
She took a deep breath as the stench of decaying flesh filled her nostrils. She smiled as ships were burning and buildings splattered with blood. She looked down to her claws, they were dripping with blood. She licked them slowly savoring the taste.
She woke up startled,
"Oh my god." She whispered
She rolled over on her side thinking about the dream until she grew tired and fell back to sleep.
Ratchet woke up early the next day. This was odd for him because he usually slept till noon, but his nightmare about Ratchena was really bothering him.
He walked into the kitchen think about what to make everyone for breakfast.
"Clank is probably sick of Pancakes…" Ratchet thought
"He has been eating them everyday for the past month now so I guess I'll make scrambled eggs and French toast." Ratchet smiled with his idea.
He got a carton of eggs, a jug of milk, and some toast and began to make breakfast.
Upstairs Clank was sitting in bed trying to make sense of his dream. He called Ms. Cute Anastasia Bot from his Secret agency.
"Hello Agent Clank. Haven't heard fro m you in a while." She said
"Yes I know, but this is a business call I need you to do a back ground check for someone named Ratchena Argon." Clank said
She fumbled around with her computer to have it say denied.
"I'll need some more information that that I'm afraid." She said
"Ratchena Argon age 20 and she's a female Lombax." Clank said
She looked at the computer screen and fumbled around some more. She took a deep breath and looked over to clank.
"I'm sorry to say, but we got zero results." She said sadly
"Oh well that's no help." Clank said disappointed
"Since she's a Lombax all her files have probably been deleted or burned." She replied
"Who deleted them?" Clank asked
"Tachyon maybe or she's in the deceased files." She said trying to get Clank less disappointed.
"How long will that take?" Asked Clank
"10-41 Hours on accounting she's a Lombax.
"So she's either a Lombax or a new robot." Clank said to himself.
"Yes or that." She said as she over heard Clank
"Would you please look just to make sure?" Asked Clank
"Yes agent well get on it."
"Thank you and did you get my request for my…equipment" He whispered
"That should be coming right now." She answered
There was a tapping on Clanks window. He turned to see a Gadgebot with a little black suitcase in its mouth. Clank opened the window and took the suitcase.
"Thank you." He said to the Gadgebot
The Gadgebot made some wired noise then transported its self back to the Agency.
"Be careful Agent Clank and good luck with your mission." She hung up and the screen went back into Clank's chest.
Inside Ratchet's room Ratchena was staring out the window arguing with her own mind.
"I'm not going to it." The real her said in her head
"What about Rayon? You're just going to let his murder run free?" Said the evil her with her dark, cold voice
"Yes I'm." She shoot back
"How dare you!" Yelled the voice
"I really think Nefarious lied. Ratchet was only a baby when Tachyon attacked. So how did he kill Rayon?" She asked
"How did Rayon die then?!" shoot the dark voice
"I guess I didn't save him. He died with me in that burning house." She answered sadly
"What about Nefarious? You're going to let that fur ball get away with that?" Asked the voice angrily
"Yes it's his battle not mine." Ratchena answered.
She started to walk to the door to go down stairs to greet Ratchet and Clank, but before she could get to the door a extreme throbbing pain went to her head.
"You're wrong! This is our battle! I gave you a chance to have control, but since you're so useless I'll have to take over from here." Yelled the voice
Ratchena dropped down to her knees clutching her head as the pain got worse. She gripped the carpet as the pain flared once again. It finally stopped, but Ratchena felt dizzy and light headed. She tried to move her arm, but couldn't. the voice wasn't kidding when she said she'll take over. She felt her face smile as she got up, brushed her self off and went downstairs.
"Good morning." She greeted Ratchet
"Morning have a good nights sleep?" He asked
Ratchena froze for a second
"Yes." She lied smiling
"Good I'm glad." Ratchet said with a nervous smile
Clank walked through the kitchen and sat down at the table.
"Good morning Ratchet and Ratchena." Clank greeted
"Morning." They said in unison
They looked at each other with surprise then burst into laughter.
Clank smiled and shook his head.
"What's for breakfast?" Clank asked
"Scrambled eggs and French toast." Answered Ratchet
"Oh not pancakes?" Asked Clank
"Nah thought you were sick of those by now." Ratchet answered
"You were right." Clank replied with a smile
Ratchet laughed
"Oh Ratchena your free to take a shower if you want." Ratchet said out of the blue
"What?" she asked with a surprise look on her face
Ratchet looked over at her
"I don't mean to sound wired, I just thought you would want one." Ratchet said looking embarrassed
"Oh no I'll love to I smell worse than a corpse!" she said giggling
Clank didn't think that was funny at all and nether did Ratchet, but they gave a nervous laugh anyways
"You just surprised me with the question. But I don't have anything to change into." She said
"You can borrow some of my stuff." Ratchet replied
"Gee thanks! I'll take one right now." She said getting up
"Ok upstairs down the hall to the right and the towels are in the cabinet above the sink." Ratchet said
"Ok thank you." She said smiling
Clank listened very closely to Ratchena's steps. He made a silent gasp as Ratchena right leg did make a faint clunk noise.
When she got to the stairs Clank listened with all his might as he heard Ratchena's leg let out a really faint sound of air pressure releasing as she bent her knee.
She finally made it to the top of the stairs and disappeared.
Clank breathed in deep. How was he supposed to tell Ratchet?
"Ratchet." Clank said sadly
"Ya pal" Ratchet replied looking up from his cooking
Clank took a deep breath
"Can I have some butter on mine?" He asked
"Sure pal." Ratchet said smiling
Clank put on a weak smile. He felt guilty for not telling Ratchet, but he knew Ratchet would be angry at him if he told him that Ratchena was a phony.
20 minutes later Ratchet finished cooking and Ratchena came downstairs wearing Ratchets black pants and a black shirt.
"Ah don't I feel better." She said sitting down with a big smile
Ratchet put down a huge plate of French toast on the table along with the pan full of scrambled eggs. Ratchena looked at it with great surprise.
"Wow um that's a lot of food." She said
"We have to do that when Ratchet's going to eat." Clank said putting syrup on his plate
Ratchena gave a confused look
"More than half of that food Ratchet's going to eat. Remember last night?" Clank asked
"Ya, but I guess I'm not used to it yet." She said smiling
They ate breakfast silently. None of them knew what to say to the other. 6 minutes later they finished Breakfast and Ratchet washed the dishes.
"Hey Ratchena want to buy some clothes?" Ratchet asked
"Yes, but I don't have any money." She replied sadly
"Don't worry I'll buy them for you." Ratchet said
"No you've given so much I can't possibly ask for more." She said
"You didn't ask I offered." Ratchet said with a sly smile
Ratchena giggled at this
"Alright then." She said
"Great. Hey Clank you want to come with us?" Ratchet asked
"Alright." Clank answered
"Wait I have to get something." She said
"Um ok" Ratchet replied as she ran upstairs
She came back with a black scarf around her head covering her face.
Ratchet and Clank were confused by this.
"I don't want any unnecessary attention" she said
They left the house and walked up the street to the mall.
Inside the mall there were tables after table of people selling items.
Ratchet and Clank were walking side by side. It wasn't long until a young cubby little Markazian wearing Lombax ears walked up to Ratchet.
"Could you sign my ears please?" Asked the little boy
"Sure." Ratchet said with a kind smile
He handed Ratchet the ears and a pen
"What's your name?" Ratchet asked
"Gorn." He said with a smile
Ratchena smiled under her scarf.
"Here you go." Ratchet said as he handed Gorn the ears.
Gorn looked down at the ears
"To my new friend Gorn from Ratchet." He read out load with a huge smile on his face
"Thank you!" he said
"Mom! Mom! Guess what!" He called
Ratchet looked behind him to see Ratchena smiling
"What?" asked Ratchet
"Nothing my new friend." She said
Ratchet smiled and they continued walking to the ladies clothes.
"We'll wait out here." Ratchet said as he handed her his credit card.
Ratchena looked nervously at the card.
"Have fun." Ratchet said
Ratchena walked inside and Ratchet and Clank waited on a bench.
"Attention all shoppers get your Ratchet ears and Tail for only 12 bolts And don't forget your Clank backpack for only 20 bolts! At the hero shop today!
Ratchet smiled and shook his head.
"It seems like only yesterday when we were on our first adventure." Ratchet said
Clank rolled his eyes
They waited for about 20 minutes when Ratchena finally walked out wearing short green shorts with a black tank top with the scarf over her head. She was carrying 2 bags full of stuff
"Sorry it took me so long, but I had to make sure they all fit." She said smiling
"Its fine, but wow you look awesome." Ratchet said smiling
Ratchena blushed, but then she squealed and her eyes started to water with pain.
"Look mommy she has a Ratchet tail to!" Said a high pitched voice
A little Markazian girl was yanking on Ratchena's tail.
"Suzan!" yelled the mother as she scooped the girl up
"I am so sorry." Apologized the mother
Ratchena turned around
"Oh it's fine kids will be kids." Ratchet said smiling
"Oh do you have kids yourself?" asked the mother
Ratchena was going to say yes, but remembered that he's dead
"No." she said sadly
"Well you would be a wonderful mother." She said
"Thanks" Ratchena whispered
"I'm sorry, but I got to go. Bye!" She said as she walked away
"Bye." Ratchena whispered
"Bye bye." The little girl said
Ratchena waved bye and smiled sadly
"Ratchena are you alright?" Clank asked Clank
"Ya I'm fine lets go." She said
"Alright, but I have to grab something first." Ratchet said
"Ya ok… Ow!" She growled and turned to see Clank with some of her fur in between his fingers.
"Sorry Ratchena, but you had mud in your fur." He said
"Oh that's ok, but next times warn me ok?" She said
"I will… oh I almost forgot I have to see Talwyn in an hour I'll see you two later." Clank said walking away.
"Alright see ya." Ratchet said
They walked over to a shop called Weapons fit for a Lombax. The wall was covered with guns and stuff Ratchena couldn't recognize. Ratchet over to the other side of the store and looked around while Ratchena looked over at the hand guns. One caught her eye. It was a small, but powerful RYNO.
Ratchena looked all around her to make sure no one was looking and used her tail to slowly picked it up and strap it on her right thigh. She then concentrated on the security cameras and the security on the gun and erased the security tape and disabled the alarm on the gun with her mind.
Ratchena knew Ratchet would buy her this weapon, but she wanted it to be a secret.
They finally left the shop and headed toward the exit.
When they got home Ratchena saw her chance to strike.
"With Clank and the others gone the other gone this should be easy." She thought
"Clank you here?" Ratchet yelled
"Huh he still must be at Talwyn's" He said
"Yep." Said Ratchena
"I better call and find out … oph." Ratchet was cut off as Ratchena Hit him in the back of the head with her gun.
Ratchet hit the floor with a thump
"Finally you shut up." She said in a dark voice
She ran upstairs and changed in her Black and Red armor.
"Talwyn was right not to trust you." Said a voice
Ratchena turned to see Clank looking angry.
"What do you mean?" she asked in her sweet voice
"I know who you are." Clank said angrily
Ratchena smiled evilly.
"Oh really?" She asked walking up to him. She squat down, her face close to his.
"Yes I know …." Clank was cut off Ratchena grabbed him by the throat and slammed him against the wall then finally threw him down the stairs.
Clank and Ratchet were knocked out.
"Wow some heroes." She said
She pressed a red button on her amour and grabbed Clank by the neck and Ratchet by the shirt collar. Her ship landed in front of the house and she threw Ratchet and Clank in the back.
"This is so sad." She said smiling
She jumped in and activated hyper speed. Within a flash she took off with Ratchet and Clank heading to Nefarious base.
This chapter in my opinion is really weak, but any I finally finished it.
