Here we are with chapter 21. I think by this point in time I think its safe to say I will be uploading a chapter every weekend, due to the fact I spent the whole weekend making this chapter. But anyway here is chapter 21 and I hope you enjoyed it. I apologize that I have not much to say this time. I will only say though that this chapter mainly consists of Ratchet and Jordan and their friendship starting to strengthen.
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As Ratchet was flying their new ship to Oltanis, Jordan decided to use his time to scavenge the ship for anything that could be useful. Due to the size of the ship the only thing that he could search was the various compartments on the ship. Jordan searched the ship and saw that there were only four compartments. He checked the first one located under the dashboard and saw there was nothing in it, he then checked the second one located on the right side of his seat and saw there was nothing in it either. Just as all hope was lost, he searched the glove box which was located in front of him and Jordan's luck would finally pay off.
A strange first aid kit with two unused vials of Nanotech inside.
"All right, Nanotech." Jordan said happily.
Jordan quickly pulled out the syringe he had in his pocket but saw that there were two new syringed right beside the vials. Jordan decided to throw his syringes away later and he got out the two from the kit. Jordan took the first vial and filled the syringe up with Nanotech. Jordan then turned to Sophia and Jordan knew she would go first, due to the fact she had none in her system. Sophia looked at the syringe and then at Jordan and she knew what to do. Due to her and Clank sitting next to Ratchet, she lifted the sleeve of her right arm and decided to use that one.
Sophia closed her eyes and Jordan gently pushed the needle into her arm and pushed on the plunger to inject the Nanotech into her arm. Jordan saw the veins in her arm slowly get brighter until they were as bright as they normally were when Nanotech is introduced. Jordan removed the needle and rubbed Sophia's arm to relieve the pain. After rubbing for thirty seconds, he placed the needle back in the kit and got the second needle and vial of Nanotech. Jordan filled the second syringe with Nanotech and once it as filled, he started to think.
He needed it alot, due to the fact he had none in his system as well. But Ratchet, he had some in his system by Sophia was right about Jordan. He does care.
Jordan knew though that Ratchet would probably still tell him he needs it more than he does and Jordan decided to administer the meds to himself. Jordan lifted his left jacket sleeve to reveal his arm and he took a deep breath and pushed the needle into his arm. Jordan pushed the plunger to inject the liquid and saw his veins get brighter until he was finally done injecting the liquid. Jordan removed the needle and placed the syringe back in the kit. As he was placing the kit back into the glove box, Jordan could hear the same female robotic voice on the dashboard.
"Arriving at..Planet..Oltanis."
Jordan looked through the cockpit to see a darkened planet with occasional blue flashes appearing at random areas on the planet. Jordan decided to go on his Ephone and look up fact about the planet. Jordan learned that the planet is always bombarded by continuous thunderstorms and they use special generators that harness the energy of the lightining and use it to power the city. Jordan quickly had sympathy for the people who lived on that planet, Jordan would never want to be somewhere where you would never see the light of the sun. But Jordan focused on the main task as he felt the ship go into the atmosphere of the planet.
Gorda City Ruins
Planet Oltanis
7:00pm GST
The Two Musketeers
As they landed on a landing pad, Jordan saw that the weather was worse than it was on Blackwater city. Jordan saw the rain pouring and the sky thundering as Ratchet opened the cockpit and the group could feel the interior of the ship already get drenched with water. They jumped out of the ship and Jordan put his hood up and put Sophia on his back. Ratchet and Jordan took three steps away from the ship and Jordan suddenly saw a bright flash streak across his face and hit Clank.
"AAAH." Jordan yelled as he quickly jumped back in fear.
But Jordan quickly pulled himself together and saw Ratchet who was just as petrified as he was. Jordan saw Ratchet quickly look over to see Clank, lying motionless on the ground. Sophia got off of Jordan's back and they quickly ran over to Clank and Ratchet did the same.
"Clank?" Ratchet said, getting no response from the robot.
"Clank, cmon, wake up." Ratchet said with more concern.
Jordan pulled Clank over and was about to see if he could fix him, but saw Clanks eyes open and saw his bright green optics staring into his eyes.
"Captain, Qwark?" Clank said in confusion.
Ratchet laughed at him being completely wrong about who Jordan was "No goofball, its us, Ratchet Jordan and Sophia." the Lombax said.
Clank slowly started to stand up, "What happened?" Clank asked.
"You got toasted by lightning, this place is having one heck of a storm. You won't be safe out there, we'll be right back." Ratchet answered.
Sophia got on Jordan's back and Jordan picked up Clank and handed him to Sophia. Ratchet opened the cockpit of the ship and Sophia carefully lifted Clank into the cockpit. Once Clank was in the ship, Jordan took Sophia off his back and placed her into the cockpit as well.
"What are you doing Jordan?" Sophia asked in confusion.
"I want you to stay here with Clank."
"But I'm not made of metal, I wont get hit."
"Well I don't wanna wait to find out."
"But Jordan-."
"Please Sophia, just listen to me on this."
Sophia sighed, "Oookaaay." she quietly said in frustration.
Jordan jumped off the ship and once they were inside, Ratchet closed the cockpit. Jordan walked over to Ratchet and Jordan saw he was confused.
"You know she probably wont get struck, right." Ratchet said.
"I know." Jordan said
"Then..why did you put her in there?"
"Well..I figured if were are going to establish a stable friendship..Then we should you know..hang out I guess...away from them."
"Well this ain't exactly a hang out I had in mind, but...I guess this could work for now."
"Well we better get moving then, Don't like being out in the rain for too long."
With that said, the duo walked over to a metal platform that lifted them down to a circular area where a statue with a bolt that had a lightning bolt through it was positioned in the center. They stepped off the lift and looked to their left to see an upside down platform with a button in the center of it. They saw another magnetic shaft that lead to it and Ratchet quickly remembered something.
"Dannit, I forgot my magne-boots." Ratchet said.
They knew the ship wasn't that far from their location and they took the lift back up to their ship and Ratchet opened the cockpit. Jordan jumped up and hanged on the edge of the cockpit and saw Sophia and Clank sitting inside.
"Clank, we may need those magne-boots, if you don't mind us getting them from you."
Clank opened his compartment up and Jordan pulled the magnetic boots out and quickly pushed the boots bottoms to his chest to make sure Clank doesn't stick to them. Jordan stepped off of the ship and Ratchet closed the cockpit and the duo got on the lift again and took it back down to the shaft. They approached the shaft and Jordan handed the boots to Ratchet and saw him put them on his bare feet.
"I still don't know why you don't just wear the grindboots all the time."
"They were uncomfortable."
"Noo, I think its that you are so use to not wearing shoes and you have developed a tolerance in walking bare foot."
"Yeah suuuure, whatever you say." the Lombax said in sarcasm.
Once Ratchet got the boots on, He placed his right foot on the shaft, then the left and started to climb his way up towards the lift. Jordan followed right behind him and placed his right foot then his left foot and he climbed up the shaft as well. Soon they were both on the upside down platform and Ratchet stepped on the button. The lift started to move and Jordan didn't even want to know where it would take them as he was too focused on the confusing feeling of being another way up. Soon the lift started to turn them the right side up and the lift stopped near land where they saw an electric fence.
The duo stepped off of the platform and climbed up the narrow opening in the fence and saw that the ground was now covered in a thin sheet of ice. Ratchet went first and slid across the ice over to the other side where there was a long path, consisting of a metallic shaft. Jordan ran and he quickly slid straight across the ice over to Ratchet. Ratchet went first again and he placed his left foot on the shaft, then his right and started to walk across the shaft. Jordan did the same and they were both following the nauseating path.
They saw the shaft go downward and they walked down, only to see a strange red sphere orbiting around the shaft. Ratchet equipped his blaster and shot the sphere and it exploded. They saw the shaft curve to the left and then up and they walked around and then up. They then walked another left curve, and then up again and saw another mine. Ratchet shot the mine with his blaster and they were soon off the shaft and back on solid ground.
They looked over and saw another long sheet of ice and saw that there was two electric fences electrifying some parts of the ice. Ratchet went first again and he used his momentum to slide across the ice, and jump over the fences. Jordan then saw Ratchet jump on a narrow metallic shaft and saw he walked funny across it, indicating to him that it was magnetic.
'Uuhh that looks completely uncalled for but, ok.' Jordan though, knowing that the shaft at the end was uncalled for.
Jordan did the same thing and ran and jumped on the ice and used his momentum to slide across and jump over the fences. Once Jordan got near the shaft, Jordan moved to the left side of the ice and forcefully jumped on the ice and both of his feet landed on the shaft. Jordan walked across the shaft to a patient waiting Lombax and Ratchet and he saw more ice with two more electric fences, but this time the ice curved. Ratchet jumped from the shaft and Jordan saw Ratchet use his feet to maneuver the curve and he jumped over one fence, then the other. Jordan jumped from the shaft and onto the ice and took things slow.
He jumped over one fence, used his weight to maneuver around the curve, then jumped over the final fence and slid over to solid ground again. They started to walk along the narrow ground until they saw another magnetic path. Ratchet got on the shaft first and then Jordan and they started to walk the shaft. As they were walking, Jordan could feel the strong wind blow against his side and could feel the chill in the air through his jacket. Jordan saw the shaft go downward and he looked down to see the path consist of two corkscrews, and have more of those spherical mines on them. Jordan saw Ratchet still continue down the path and Jordan did the same. Jordan saw Ratchet walking and destroying the mines and they walked through the two corkscrews, and soon on land, which was ice again.
'Why is there so much ice and magnets on this planet.' Jordan thought.
They looked over to see a ship firing mines down on the ice and Ratchet equipped his Devastator and used the homing rockets to shoot two rockets at the ship and destroy it. Ratchet now walked on the ice and slowly slid across the ice to the end and saw him go behind a wall. Jordan followed him and he walked on the ice and slid across as well. Jordan met Ratchet behind a narrow wall and Ratchet climbed up and shimmied across the wall onto another long sheet of ice. Jordan jumped onto the ledge and did the same and soon they were on a long sheet of ice with more electric fences on it.
Ratchet ran on the ice and used his momentum to slid across the ice, and jump over the four electric fences jump over to land. Jordan did the same thing and ran across the ice and used his momentum to slid across, and jump over the fences. Jordan saw the ground to the right of him and got near the right side of the ice and he forcefully jumped off the ice and onto the land. Once he was on the ground with Ratchet, they looked over to see Captain Qwark situated by a homemade stand that had the name Gadgetron written across the top, and a giant G that was painted on a piece of paper and taped on the bottom, Jordan also saw him reading something on a clipboard. Jordan and Ratchet approached him and Jordan equipped his machete, ready for any deception the Captain might pull on them.
"Captain Qwark." Ratchet said
"Where?" Qwark said in confusion
"Cmon Qwark I know its you."
"Uuhh, the names Steve, please to meet you." Qwark said holding his hand out.
Ratchet sighed in frustration "Look Steeve, we need to know where Drek is before its too late."
"Did you say too late, Sir-." Captain Qwark held the clipboard up to him and started to read the words on the paper that was on the board, one at a time. "It is never to late to acquire the latest in the long line of quality products from Gadgetron. I have for you, today only, the Gadgetron PDA." Qwark held out a device that had various buttons on the bottom and it had a large screen with a giant G on the screen. Jordan also saw it had an antenna on it.
"Personal Display of Affection." Ratchet said thinking that is what the abbreviations meant.
"No No No, Personal Delivery Assistant." Qwark said angrily. Qwark cleared his throat and continued to read the clipboard, "This device allows you to purchase ammunition wherever, and whenever you want it."
"Yeah, and how do I know it works?" Ratchet asked
"You can always trust Gadgetron quality, or my name is not..Steve."
Qwark marked the price of the device at one thousand bolts. Jordan thought that was a little overpriced but from what he hears, that definitely will be more useful than just relying on vendor. Jordan saw Ratchet pull up his account and he purchased the device from Qwark. With the money now transferred, Qwark threw the device to Ratchet.
"Thank you and have a Qwark-Tastic day." Qwark exclaimed.
"What did you say?" Ratchet said
"Nothing." Qwark quietly said
Ratchet put the device in his left pants pocket and as they were walking away from Qwark, Jordan couldn't help but get something off his mind and he angrily walked back over to Qwark, who was reading the clipboard again. Jordan took a deep breath and calmly put his hands on the counter, catching the captains attention.
"Alright look here Steeve." Jordan calmly said, making air quotes with his fingers when he said the name. "I know we had our problems in the past, I'm a forgiving guy, probably more forgiving than the fur ball back here. And trying to kill us is one thing-." Jordan started to sound more angry, "But to put a little seven year old girl in danger, that's another thing. And I really don't like those kind of people." Jordan said through his teeth . "So let me make myself clear, you dare try to kill my girl again and I swear I'm gonna..." Jordan started making gestures with his hands in a way that Qwark didn't even want to see. Qwark started to look terrified at this point, "Now, do I make my self clear."
Qwark put his hands in front of his head, "Yes yes, okay."
Jordan half smiled "Good, No hard feelings then."
Jordan walked away from Qwark and met up with Ratchet.
"Wow, I thought for a second you would take your knife out and stab him." Ratchet said
"Well I'm surprised you didn't go psycho on him when we first approached him."
"Like you said, I'm a forgiving guy."
"Ooooh is that, soooooo." Jordan sarcastically said, knowing about his 'Forgiveness' that he showed towards Clank. They looked over to see another shaft by Qwarks stand and they walked past Qwark and Ratchet got on the shaft first, and then Jordan. They saw the shaft go up and they walked up the shaft and walked on another upside down platform. Ratchet pressed the button and the lift, taking them away from Qwark and over to the same shaft that they encountered before. They walked down the shaft and ended up by the bolt statue again.
Jordan looked over to see an airtaxi and the duo walked over to it. They say that it had coordinates to the upper city and the duo took the airtaxi, taking them across their ship and over to land where a turret was firing at them. They had quick reflexes though and they jumped over the turret fire and Ratchet ran over and destroyed the turret. They now walked down a short walkway and down to an open area where they saw seven of those one eyed bots hovering over them. The bots noticed the duo however and slowly hovered down towards them.
Jordan equipped his Walloper and Ratchet kept his wrench and Jordan took no hesitation and started forcefully swinging at the bots, killing five of them, and Ratchet used his wrench to kill the other two. They walked to the edge and saw a green Versa target farther away from them. Jordan held onto Ratchet and Ratchet equipped his swingshot and shot the hook at the target. The hook latched onto the target and it quickly pulled them over to the other side. They saw that two turrets immediately shot at them and Jordan, with his Walloper still equipped jumped over the turret fire and punched the turret and destroyed it.
Ratchet did the same with his wrench and the area was quickly cleared. They now looked and saw a ladder that lead somewhere above them. Jordan decided to go first this time and he and Ratchet slowly climbed up the ladder until they reached the top. Once they were up top, they saw a long walkway and saw four ships with spotlights shining down on it. They saw though that they moved in a horizontal pattern and they waited for the first one to go far to the left, then they ran in between the two ships and waited again.
The second ship flew far to the right this time and they ran past it. They saw that there was a long gap in between the two ship and they waited there for the third one to go far to the right. It did and they ran past it and waited in between the final two. The final one flew far to the right and they ran past it and over to the edge of the walkway. They saw a ship flying in circles with a green versa target hovering over it and Ratchet equipped his swingshot and waited. As it got close, Jordan grabbed onto Ratchet and when the ship was as close as it got, Ratchet fired the swingshot and it pulled them over and onto the ship.
The duo now waited on the ship and as it was circling around, they saw another green versa target on a building. Jordan held onto Ratchet again and Ratchet used his swingshot to pull them over. They saw that inside was a dark and open area and there were four more ships with spotlights, flying in a circular pattern around the room. They waited for a small enough gap in between the ships and they ran past them and into the center of the room. They now waited again for a gap and when they got it, They ran past it and to the edge of the building.
They were now outside and they saw that there were four large circular platforms. Ratchet went first and climbed up the first one, then Jordan went last and climbed up the first one. As they were jumping from platform to platform, Ratchet noticed a turret and it started to fire at them. Ratchet jumped from the second one onto the third one and equipped his blaster and fired two shots at it, causing the turret to explode. They then continued to jump from the platforms until they were soon on the square platform were the turret lied.
Once they were on it, they saw another ship with a green versa target on it and they waited for it to circle around to them. Once it got close to them, Jordan held onto Ratchet and the Lombax used his swingshot to pull them onto the ship. As the ship was circling around, they saw another ship with a target on it and Jordan held onto Ratchet and Ratchet fired the swingshot again and it pulled them over to the other ship. As they were riding around, Jordan saw their ship below them and took in the view of the desolate city that used to be Gorda. Jordan saw Ratchet looking at another ship and saw that it was circling around a platform with multiple turrets and robots on it.
Jordan held onto Ratchet once again and Ratchet used the swingshot to pull them over to the final ship. Jordan equipped his blaster and Ratchet did as well and they started to shoot at the turrets. Due to their spinning, Jordan aimed a little more to the left and they were soon able to destroy the six turrets that surrounded the platform. They now focused on the robots and Ratchet decided to make use of his Decoy Glove. Ratchet tossed a decoy down and Jordan saw the decoy inflate into the creepy Ratchet again.
The bots saw this and hovered down to destroy the decoy. While they were busy with the decoy, Ratchet equipped his bomb glove and started to toss bombs down on the group. He destroyed all seven of the bots with four bombs and the duo jumped down onto the platform. They saw a ladder that lead to the top of it and Ratchet and Jordan both climbed up it, only to see that at the top was a strange blaster that had a wide barrel at the end and it was painted in a golden color. Ratchet picked it up and Jordan saw that he was joyous again.
"Sweet." Ratchet exclaimed.
"What is it?" Jordan asked
"Its called a Morph-o-ray." Ratchet said as he read the name of the weapon on the side of it.
"What does it do?"
Ratchet shot the weapon and Jordan saw two streams of light come out of it, one red, and one blue, he also saw them spin around each other. But Jordan started to pay more attention to the grind rail that he saw in front of them.
"Do you have your Grindboots?"
"No."
"How we gonna get outta here then?"
Jordan thought about an exit but Ratchet quickly thought of something.
"Well...maybe we could use your shoes."
"You think they could grind on this?"
"Yeah."
"Well put them on then and we'll see."
"Jordan you know these will never fit on me."
"Well I can't grind this, you know that."
"Well we don't have alot of options."
"Ratchet-"
"Jordan." Ratchet started to sound more firm, but Ratchet placed both his hands on his shoulder and spoke more calmly. "I know you can do this."
"I don't know about this."
Ratchet sighed "Here, I have an idea. I'll get on your back and if your having any difficulties with balance, I'll shift my weight to the side your having problems and you'll stay balanced."
"But-"
"Jordan, please just trust me on this."
Ratchet proceeded to mount himself on Jordan's back. Jordan saw that it was similar to how Sophia was positioned, with his legs around his waist, and his arms around his chest. Jordan had difficulties keeping his balance with Ratchet on him however, due to the fact that Jordan had his own weight on his back. But Jordan leaned forward and he was able to keep his balance. Jordan approached the rail and he took a deep breath and chose not to look down. Jordan hopped on the rail and Jordan could hear his boots make a screeching sound similar to his Grindboots. Jordan could feel himself fall back because of the weight and Ratchet pushed himself forward and Jordan leaned forward to keep his balance. Jordan saw the rails lead them to their ship and once they got to the end, Jordan jumped off the rail and stumbled due to weight, but Ratchet got off his back and looked at him.
"See, I told you you could do it."
As they were walking back to the lift, Jordan could see Sophia and Clank watching them from the cockpit and Jordan saw Sophia wave to him, and Jordan waved back. They got on the lift and were now back at the statue and they walked to another entrance behind the statue and saw a long narrow walkway that was riddle with bots. Jordan and Ratchet jumped down and Jordan immediately equipped his Walloper, and Ratchet equipped his wrench. They saw two bots and they noticed the duo and hovered down to them. Jordan used his Walloper and punched the first bot, then Ratchet destroyed the other one.
They continued to walk down the walkway until two different looking bots suddenly appeared and they had claws on one hand that shot an electric stream at them and the duo dodged it. Ratchet decided to use his weapon on the bots and Ratchet ran up to them and fired a continuous stream at one and Jordan used his Walloper and delivered two punches at it to destroyed it. When Jordan looked over to see the bot that Ratchet was destroying, the only thing he saw was a chicken that looked similar to the ones on earth walking around.
"Chickens, that weapon turns enemies into Chickens?"
"Yeah."
"...Sophia's definitely gonna love this."
The duo continued on the walkway and climbed up one ledge, then another. They now walked around a corner, then climbed another ledge, and were now in another wide area where there was a ship firing more mines down on them. They took cover behind the ledge and Ratchet equipped his Visibomb gun and fired a rocket above them. Ratchet used the joystick on the weapon to maneuver the rocket to hit the hip directly into the cockpit, destroying the ship instantly. They climbed up the ledge and walked to the end of the platform and saw another short grind rail that lead to a square platform.
Ratchet got on Jordan's back again and Jordan took another deep breath and hopped on the rail. The rail curved and Jordan shifted his weight more to the left to make sure he doesn't fall. But soon the rail ended and Jordan jumped off and landed more smoothly. Jordan saw two pods built into the platform and once they were on it, they opened up and two bots flew out of the pods an immediately shot their streams at the duo. They dodged the streams and Jordan quickly equipped his Walloper and punched the first bot, knocking him off the platform and into the abyss below.
Ratchet did the same thing and swung at the robot and knocked him off the edge as well. With the threat now gone, they climbed up a circular platform and they walked along a narrow walkway until they found two more ledges and they climbed both of them. They continued down another narrow walkway until they walked through an entrance that had three different grind rails, and five bots above them. Ratchet equipped his decoy glove and tossed a decoy and the bots went after it. Jordan equipped his bomb glove and delivered a well placed bomb on them and killed all of them. Jordan now looked at the rail and saw that this wasn't gonna be a short one. Ratchet got on Jordan's back and Jordan took a few deep breaths and Ratchet felt worried.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, just a little nervous."
"Don't be, your gonna do fine Jordan."
Before Jordan jumped on the rail, he used his fingers and touched his forehead, then his chest, then both of his shoulders to form a cross. Jordan took one last deep breath and hopped on the center rail and they rode off. Ratchet looked behind them and saw another pod and three more of the electric bots hopped on three rail and pursued them.
"Behind us." Ratchet said.
"You got to be fucking kidding me." Jordan said.
Jordan knew he was gonna have to jump from rail to rail and Jordan looked behind him and saw the bot on his rail fire his stream. Jordan took a deep breath and forcefully jump to the rail on his left, dodging the stream. Jordan looked back again and saw the bot fire a stream and Jordan jumped back on the center one. Jordan looked to see an electric fence on his rail and he waited for the perfect time and jumped to the rail on the right and saw the bot on the center rail electrify and explode. The duo continued to ride the rail, through curves and straightaways and Jordan saw another fence on the right rail.
Jordan jumped back on the center rail and he felt himself lean more to the left, but Ratchet leaned to the right and centered his balance. Jordan saw the bot explode and now knew there was one more left. Jordan continued to grind and saw a fence on the left rail and decided to ignore it. He suddenly saw a both carrying a mine and placed it directly on his rail. Jordan waited and jumped to the right one and Jordan saw the bot explode. Jordan continued to grind and saw the end of it and jumped from the rail and due to the height of the fall, he made a rough landed and fell directly on the ground, throwing Ratchet off his back. Ratchet quickly got up and walked over to Jordan who was laying there.
"You alright?" Ratchet asked.
"Lets see, I grind on a dangerous rail and jumped for my life in between rails...I feel peachy."
Ratchet helped Jordan up and they looked over to see an older looking man. similar to the plumbers race in a concession stand and he who looked like some kind of mad scientist to Jordan, and he was holding some kind of tablet. The duo approached the man and he greeted them.
"HEY HEY WELCOME TO MY SHOP, WHAT CAN I GET YOU?" The man yelled.
"Were looking for Drek." Ratchet asked.
"SURE SURE, I GOT LOTS OF STUFF ON SALE. AFTER THE BOMBING, NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO BUY ANYTHING." The man replied, completely off topic with what Ratchet said.
"Are you okay?" Ratchet asked.
"LOW PRICES, YOU BET. I CAN MAKE YOU A DEAL ON A BUSTED TURBORATOR OR A MANGLED CARBONISOR OR I GOT THIS INFOBOT." The man held out an infobot.
"Guess that bombing was pretty loud huh?"
"OH YOUR ONE SHREWD NEGOTIATOR, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT. I CAN LET THIS INFOBOT GO FOR HALF PRICE."
Since Ratchet bought the PDA, Jordan decided that he would buy the infobot and he spent the two thousand bolts the bot cost to get it, Jordan was now nearly broke with only 500 bolts left. The man handed the bot to Jordan.
"WELL, THAT'S ABOUT IT FOR ME." The man said.
"Thank ya." Jordan said back.
"QUIT YOUR COMPLAINING I GAVE YOU A GREAT DEAL, JEEZ."
The infobot opened its mouth to reveal changing pictures of a man similar to the scientist at BTS freaking out as he was about to get eating by a strange creature. They also heard dialogue in the background.
"Afraid to go out at night? Afraid to go out during the day? Just plain afraid? Then you need this." The video revealed a terrifying looking robot that had claws on its body and a launcher on its shoulders and to Jordan it just looked terrifying. "The Ultra Mech unlimited. This mech is the ultimate in personal defense systems. Blarg industries is now taking pre orders Get yours before its too late." The video then showed the bot aiming one of his launchers at the two Blarg standing in front of it and killing them. The video then cut off and Jordan simply held the lifeless bot in his hand.
"Now that's what I call serious firepower." Ratchet said while making two gun gestures with his fingers. "Clanks gonna be jealous if he sees this."
"No he's not, we don't need that thing."
"Oh cmon."
"Ratchet I am not letting that thing near us or Sophia. If I end up finding it I am going to destroy it. We can't let that thing get into the hands of innocent people."
"Oh fine, But if I find it first, were taking it."
"Your on then fur ball."
With a bet now settled, They walked over to a gate that had a button built in near it and Ratchet pressed it. The gate lowered and they saw a large Blarg ship fly near them and launch a rocket. The rocket flew towards them and hit the bronze statue and blew it to pieces.
"Aww, I actually liked that statue." Jordan said.
The duo ignored it though and jumped down from the ledge. Seeing that there was nothing more they could do for the poor planet. They got back on the lift and took it back to their ship. Ratchet opened the cockpit and saw that Sophia moved to the far right seat of the ship and let the duo enter.
"Were heeeeeere." Jordan exclaimed.
"Did you find anything?" Sophia asked.
"As a matter of fact we did."
Ratchet pulled out the Morph-o-ray and Jordan showed it to Sophia, and also told her he would show her what it does later. While Jordan was showing her the weapon, Ratchet typed in the coordinates for Planet Quartu that was on the infobot. As Ratchet was flying the ship out of Oltanis, Jordan remembered something and turn to Clank.
"Hey Clank." Jordan said.
"Yes Jordan." Clank said back.
"Look at this and tell me if you feel jealous about it." Jordan said as he activated the infobot and showed the video to Clank.
"Oh Brother." Ratchet mumbled to himself.
Now Jordan's starting conversations and not Ratchet, that's not normal of him. But as I said they are starting to become real friends now. I do apologize if the title may look a little not right, because of their being three musketeers and not two, but that was the only name that got stuck in my head with this chapter and I had to just pick it. I guess I could say to I was gonna put Sophia in with this chapter but I chose not to in the end. But anyway, that's chapter 21 and stay tuned for when they go to Quartu in chapter 22.
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