Chapter 7: Unexpected Visitors

A Lombax opened his eyes to see his ship once again trashed and let out a groan, not only from the wreck but also because he had hit his head pretty hard.

"Ugh…My head…Wait! Clank!" said the Lombax as he began to rummage thru the debris and found his rectangular bodied, round headed robotic friend.

"Clank! You alright? How many fingers am I holding up?" said the Lombax holding up three fingers as his friend's eyes began to open.

"Ratchet you are holding up three digits. Why you would need to do that for me is not necessary." said Clank getting up.

"Ah, come on! What, would you prefer me hitting you with my wrench?" joked Ratchet.

"That would most likely do irreparable damage to my internal systems. So I guess the first option is better." replied Clank going to the ruined door and hopping out of the ship and Ratchet came behind him.

"Oh man! It's hot here!" said Ratchet holding his cybernetic hand above his eyes.

"Correction: It is actually 180.87 degrees Fahrenheit here and your chances of survival are slim." said Clank.

"What about you?"

"The intense heat will most likely cause me to malfunction unless we can find shelter within the next 30 minutes."

"Great. Now I have to worry about finding them and death." said Ratchet walking away from the wreck as Clank jumped onto his back.

"Ratchet, I believe we have company." said Clank with an alarmed tone.

"What?! Where are they?!" said Ratchet looking around for enemies with the Dual Vipers V.9 at the ready.

"We have two underneath us, but I'm not picking up hostile readings from them. Another from the north, a "helicopter" I believe. Fifteen from the west and five from the east."

"Which is closest?"

"The fifteen will be here any moment followed by the helicopter then the five."

"[Sarcastically] Great."

Suddenly Ratchet heard loud roars from over a sand-dune and saw 10 medium-sized creatures with greenish eyes and green gems followed by 5 giant ones with turrets on their backs charge him. Suddenly the sand to his left and right erupted spewing forth two metal scorpions; one huge, one small. The small one suddenly turned into a metal humanoid and both of the two started to fire missiles with purple tails that exploded into black twisters.

Upon hearing helicopter blades, Ratchet looked up to see a black helicopter open fire on the creatures and then turn into a giant metal humanoid. He then heard a loud engine approaching and saw a black and orange tank-car launch off of a cliff and crush one of the giant green-eyed creatures under its tires as a mini-gun on the back turned and opened fired on another and Ratchet caught a glimpse of the gunner and recognized him. The tank-car suddenly sped up and stopped behind a rock covering and five figures got out and Ratchet recognized four of them, but the fifth puzzled him.

"Ratchet get down!" said Skyler as he pulled out tri-launcher and fired three missiles at a Metal-Saur and its head was blown off.

"Next time you come, how about calling first!" said Dark Dax as he slammed a Metal Head into the sand breaking its skull.

"Sorry. Didn't even think the random quantum-warp jump would work." said Ratchet as he fired rounds at a Metal Head.

"Actually Ratchet, the chances of that succeeding are 0.00000000000000000000-" began Clank but was stopped by Ratchet who gave him a "not now!" look.

Suddenly Ratchet heard a wolf-like growl and saw a Wolf-Pine tackle a Metal Head and rip its throat out.

"[ Quietly] Things just keep getting weirder and weirder." Ratchet said quietly as the last of the Metal Heads fell and the Wolf-Pine reverted back to its human form.

"Woo! That was fun!" said Mike as he jumped off the Metal Head he had killed.

"Showoff!" said Daxter looking away.

"Hey at least I'm not a afraid to jump into a fight, unlike you Daxter."

"You wanna knuckle sandwich?! Because I'm about to give you one!"

"You can't catch me! You can't even catch your own tail!"

"[GASP] How dare you! I can too catch my tail unlike you wolf boy!"

"That's it! [Wolf growl]"

Mike tackles Daxter and both get into a biting and punching fight as the others snicker. After about thirty seconds, Skyler walks up to the fighting duo and grabs them both by the scruffs of their necks and then bangs their heads together and drops them.

"BOTH OF YOU QUIT IT! NOW!" yelled Skyler looking at both of them, "Sorry Ratchet. My brother just seems to want to pick fights with the weasel."

"WEASEL! I'm an-[Skyler's tail whacks Daxter on the back of the head]" starts a startled Daxter at Skyler's insult.

"Anyway…What brings you hear?"

"Cortex sent me to get you guys." said Ratchet uneasily.

"CORTEX?! You mean that big-headed, yellow skinned, failure of an evil scientist?"

"Yeah."

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE PRECURSORS IS GOING ON?!"

"Well, I think it'd be better if I brought you guys back, but the ship's trashed. But I think it'd be better if we took care of what's going on here first."

"What do you mean?"

"Errol is going to attack Haven in two days. I saw a huge cannon headed towards the city when we were entering the atmosphere."

"Great! No matter. Let's get him."

A few hours later they arrive at the base of the mobile cannon and see that its not only a cannon but also a heavily fortified fortress. Skyler arced everybody inside and they wondered how Errol had managed to build this, but they stopped when tons of guards came at them weapons drawn.

Suddenly Skyler formed his right hand into a mace and pulled it away from his arm as it formed a long chain then began to spin it until he launched it into a rogue KG's face causing the guy to fly back as it smashed into his face tearing half the helmet, along with half his face, off while also instantly killing him. Skyler then retracted the mace and formed it back into a hand as he brought out a eight-barreled Gatling Shotgun and began to open fire at the stunned rogues.

"Split up! Take out anything that looks important!" yelled Skyler as he continued to kill the rogues with high-velocity buck-shot.

The group split up with Mike, Ratchet and Clank heading towards the Power Core. Jak, Daxter, and Naruto the Engine Room and Skyler heading for the built-in Barracks.

But little did they know that Errol had seen this coming.

"Time for the surprise." he said in his distorted voice as he pressed a button and released experimental units, each heading for the different groups with one thing in mind: Destruction.

END CHAPTER