[New Haven City HQ]

"Well, that mission went plentiful..." Daxter joked though no one was laughing. Dr. Uoi was working with Bentley, Clank, and Keira and explaining projects he was working on for the Masters of Doom. Jak and Ratchet were discussing with Ashelin and Torn on newer plans for the upcoming invasion.

Murray came by Daxter and sat next to him, "Hiya!"

"Hello... Murray, right?"

"Yes, sirree! You're Daxter, right?"

"Yes, but you may call me by my other name: Orange Lightening! Zzzziing!"

Murray laughed at that and asked, "So what are you waiting for?"

"Jak to be done. Any time he does a mission, he likes to brief Ashelin on stuff. I missed the old days where he and I relaxed after a mission was completed. We would party often, too. Nowadays, it's just mission after mission." Daxter reminisces the times where he and Jak used to be in Sandover Village and then to here in Haven City when it was under the control of Baron Praxis. So much has happened in here past few years.

"You know the planet I'm from, the gang and I used to have all sorts of crazy adventures. But these people we're facing the Masters of Doom, it's like anything we've ever encountered." Murray stated, reminding himself of the fight between him, Sly and Shadowis.

"Oh yeah... what sort of people did you guys fight?" The ottsel asked. Murray replied "A lot of powerful gangs. Especially the Fiendish Five and their leader Clockwerk."

Fiendish Five? Well at least, it's better than 'Masters of Doom' or 'Dr. Nefarious'. Seriously what is it with these villains and their corny names. Daxter wanted to ask him about this 'Clockwerk' guy, however, he was starting to feel bored and decided to go outside and probably find something to make him not bored.

"Where are you going?" Murray asked, seeing the ottsel leaving.

Daxter made-up an excuse "Oh... ahhhh... I gotta go to a...race... yeah that."

"A race?!" Murray cheered and explained how he was a racer from when he was on his planet. This instantly surprised Daxter at such information revealed.

"Hey, I got an idea! How about you and I race." Murray suggested to Daxter as he kept thinking about it. Although he was bored, he didn't want to lose. With an instant yes blurting out of his mouth.

"Alright, let's do this." Daxter fist bumps Murray, as they both walk out of the room. After a few minutes of exiting the building, Murray and Daxter approached any vehicle to use for the race.

"Well, I got the Getaway Van here. What vehicle will you be using?" Murray asked as he noticed Daxter didn't have any.

"Hold on, hold on... why use your van? You can just use a Zoomer." Daxter gestured to the flying machines around him and Murray. The hippo shook his head in sadness and stated: "I do not know how to ride one."

Never encountering someone that says they do not know how to use a Zoomer, so Daxter suggested that they compete on which is better a Zoomer or the Getaway Van. Murray pointed out that isn't fair for racing.

"Does it matter? They're both vehicles..." Daxter suggested.

Murray thought about it for a second and made the deal.


[HQ]

Sly was walking around, seeing the technology in front of him. It's similar to Earth's and yet different. He never imagined in his life as a master thief that he would encounter... humanoid aliens. He never did imagine being in a place like this. He was approached by Jak, although he felt he was going to give him horrible news.

"Bad news... there's a decision made by Ashelin..." He paused. "We're gonna prepare defenses around Haven City against Shadowis." Jak said and he noticed Sly getting annoyed. He knew he wasn't going to like this news, but what can he do.

"What about Ratchet's world and mine?" Sly asked, feeling saddened that's what the decision has come down to. "Don't worry we've devised several countermeasures for that. Ratchet told us of a group known as the Galactic Rangers he's been trying to contact. Once he fixes his ship that crashed, we can take off to his planet and yours." Jak replied with certainty in his voice.

"Has he made contact with them?" Sly asked just wondering who these Galactic Rangers are.

Jak told him about the Starship Phoenix led by a woman known as Sasha Phoenix and how Ratchet's been trying to get in touch with them, but it's been down on his luck and the transmission he keeps sending out gets cut off.

"Well, that sucks," Sly muttered under his breath.

"Yeah, so we're gonna need your help on this mission, Torn is going to assign us," Jak stated.

"Ok... speaking of which have you seen Murray?" Sly asked Jak, who shrugged his shoulders. Jak then asked him about where Daxter was. Sly, too, shrugged his shoulders.


With Daxter and Murray...

It was going to be the time of their life. Daxter versus Murray, the grand race of Haven City. Daxter was using a regular Zoomer, well, it was Jak's, but that's beside the point. He was going to beat that... hippo... at least that's what Murray told him of his species and win no matter what.

Murray, using the Getaway Van, was confident enough to win. He's beaten anyone in a race and there was no way he was going to lose.

The race was agreed to start from where HQ was to certain zones that were abandoned and being reconstructed and to the Industrial Zone. It was all going to be who could make it to the finish line first.

"Be careful not to hit the people," Daxter said, not wanting to cause any accidents or have Jak on his ass for using his Zoomer.

Murray smirked confidently "Don't worry, it's you who's gotta watch your back since I'm going to win."

"We'll see about that!" Daxter blurted out.

Instantly, Daxter began the countdown-

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One! Go!"

And off they went off! Daxter knowing his practicing of riding the Zoomer quickly gained the advantage of speeding just ahead of Murray. The first turn was about to happen and Daxter did perhaps to fast almost hitting a few people. He screamed "Sorry!"

Murray not wanting to lose, pressed on the gas pedal up to 40-60 mph, he made sure to watch the people by honking. Though Daxter was fast on the Zoomer, he was about to go faster. Quickly, they were in an abandoned zone mostly from the KG Death-Bots that attacked this place and was being rebuilt during construction. Daxter and Murray were neck and neck.

Though, Murray started to go ahead of him going at 100 mph and passed him. Daxter wasn't going to let that happen as he revved the engine and sped to be neck and neck with Murray again. They almost were about to hit a nearby constructed building, Murray turned instantly to the right to go around it while Daxter went to the left and did the same thing, although parallel.

This was about to get thrilling as they both turned to the right at the same time almost colliding against each other with their vehicles. Murray wanted to get to the finish line first, so he even sped up to 110 mph just for good measure and he got ahead of Daxter again.

Daxter growled and started to get even more competitive to win. The Zoomer increased in its speed and they were almost in the Industrial Zone, this brought old memories from his time with Jak doing missions for Krew.

Although Murray was ahead and almost to the finish line, simultaneously Daxter caught up and they both crossed the finish line at the same time. This shocked Murray as no one had been able to that before against him in a race.

Daxter stopped the Zoomer and jumped off it and danced in victory.

"Yes! Orange Lightning won!" He cheered.

Murray clarified to him that it was a tie. Daxter disappointed by this argued with Murray that he won. While Murray argued with him that it was a tie.

This went on for a while until an "Ahem" was heard by both of them. Daxter and Murray turned to see Sly and Jak looking at them and asked what were they doing here.

Murray admitted it was a race between him and Daxter.

"Oh, really who won?" Sly asked before Jak shook his head and told them to be back at HQ as they were going to discuss a very important topic.


[Paris; Earth]

Carmelita was a bit surprised by the information granted to her by Mr. C thought she knew most of it from Nazar, but not the part about their true goal. The one known as Mr. Z plans on invading three locations: Earth, Kerwan, and Haven City on a planet defended by people known as Jak and Daxter. While the other officers dismissed such a theory, she didn't and took his word on it.

He also revealed how their operation was dealing in selling power weapons of mass destruction to the highest bidders from all across the world. That's why she sent her men to investigate from Japan, China, India, Canada, and so much more. And ever since she's caught a lot of international gangs dealing with the weapons and getting caught. It was a huge spiderweb untangled here.

Dare she say it herself as it's merely a theory, she believes that the Masters of Doom is plotting with an international conspiracy. She thinks that because there were dealings sold to assassins willing to kill world leaders. While she knew that this group goes beyond her planet, why would they be needing money selling these weapons in the first place? Most thieves or gangs steal money or steal from hostages they capture. And it's also the fact that they only relied on selling those weapons to those criminals they've caught. As if this rabbit hole was bad enough, there have no signs of gang wars, drug dealing, or any innocent person caught in this, almost as if it was meticulously planned out.

There were also rumors of Shadowis being in those dealings as every criminal INTERPOL caught immediately gotten scared and looked pale white at the mere mention of his name. Rumors that he is a demon and running the show. Now she knew Shadowis was powerful after seeing him do his stuff a while back when the Cooper Gang disappeared. But why would he reveal himself to these criminals, it's a bit odd in his character seeing as he's not in it for the money or power? So what is it about the Masters of Doom that she's missing.

An officer knocked on her door and entered in, "Inspector Fox, you might want to come here for this."

This was odd, did they find something? Carmelita walked out of her office as she followed the officer to a room filled with lots of papers. "What's all this?"

"This is all the business dealings occurring in those gangs. A Russian gang was documenting all of this and sending messages in binary code. But that's not the worst of it." He gave her a list of names, clients to be exact, translated from Russian to English.

Her eyes widened, "These are-"

"That's right an entire list of the richest people in the world as well as politicians ranging from Ambassadors to Senators and Prime Ministers. We're dealing something bigger than regular street gangs." The officer stated.

She paused, now looking into the step of the right direction. "Has any other intelligence agency been made aware of this?"

"Yes, ma'am. They're working with us as we speak." He replied. She sighed and relaxed.

"There's even more info you should know inspector. It's rather the fact certain gangs were after something in their messages. We've been able to crack the codes and they keep bringing up something known as the Q-Crystal. We're not sure what this means." He reported as Inspector Fox's eyes widened.

She remembered what Nazar said to her about this. "It is believed that Mr. Z has an entire own goal as opposed to Shadowis. He's after the Q-Crystal. A powerful item that can grant the user power beyond the Precursors."

"Bring in Mr. C for questioning again." Carmelita bolted out the door before the officer was going to ask her why. She didn't have time to answer, only searching for them.


[Starship Phoenix]

It was only a matter of time to find Ratchet and Clank. Nazar erased everyone's memories of him fighting Mr. Z, including the Galactic Rangers. Unfortunately, Mr. Z got away before he could be apprehended by the Galactic Rangers. Qwark didn't like this one bit as he was interrogated by them as to what happened. He provided vague answers and the coordinates as to where Ratchet and Clank are. Talwyn was also on the ship as she had been trying to contact Ratchet and Clank for weeks now.

And Tal had been questioning how Qwark got those coordinates since it was impossible to contact Ratchet and Clank. Qwark tried to ignore her questions or just gave a vague answer referring to a sent message by the duo.

He wished he wasn't in this situation right now, but what could he do. He told everyone about the Masters of Doom, Mr. Z's invasion, how he was defeated and got away. Albeit the part of how Mr. Z was defeated was a lie by him in order to cover for Nazar.

Sasha, with her arms-crossed, explained that the Masters of Doom was rumored by space pirates to be a gang of the worst criminals imaginable that even Thug-4-Less doesn't want to anything with them. That's how dangerous they are.

"And how long have you known about this organization?" Talwyn asked.

"Not much to be honest with you. But I do know this. A space pirate was hunting down someone known as Mr. O, they fought relentlessly. The coordinates almost match the one Ratchet and Clank were last seen... and yet..."

"And yet what?" Tal asked, starting to get worried about her friends.

"The space pirate hunted Mr. O down, it was a space battle only then for the space pirate's ship to vanish and never be seen again," Sasha explained as everyone shocked something like that can happen.

"So, who was the space pirate?" Qwark asked, getting nervous in confronting the Masters of Doom in the future.

She paused and proceeded to explain"That I do not know. I heard about it only from rumors. The pirate was sent by his captain to hunt down Mr. O personally. Only for that pirate to vanish was never explained nor investigated as it was only just a rumor. Then there's this little fact. Some people from the Prison Planet believe the pirate vanished due to the power of someone called Shadowis."

"Shadowis? I think I heard of that name before as well. I don't know where though." Brax said.

"He's quite the legend. A nobody in the galaxy yet strikes fear even to the most intergalactic enemy, dictator, and even an intergalactic leader." Sasha paused. "If there's one thing that's mysterious about him, it's the rumors that come about him from everyone."

"Yeah, the fact that some say he's a demon. Not that I believe in demons, but that is a wild claim to make." Brax added.

"A demon..." Qwark muttered in horror.

"Yes, rumors are quite the scare. There was something about that story that rubbed me the wrong way. However, I couldn't send any of the Rangers to investigate. It would've been too risky. And without Ratchet and Clank to help us, it has to be us to find them." Sasha suggested.

"Wait, you're not suggesting that Ratchet and Clank are captured by the Masters of Doom or worse..." remarked the worried Captain Qwark having a horrified look on his face.

"We don't even know that for sure. As of right now, we're heading to those coordinates you've given us." Sasha aid lessening the worry everyone was having or about to develop.

Talwyn hid her worry for her friends. It's not every day you encounter someone just being missing.


[New Haven City; HQ]

"Alright, here's the mission. We know from Dr. Uoi that there have several projects to increase the Masters of Doom's power of Eco similar to the experiments that Baron Praxis and Errol would do using the Dark Warrior Program. The only major difference is that it was voluntary. So, some of these guys are powerful to fight against. Then there's the fact that this guy, Commander Shadowis is able to order those guys around so keep an eye out for him when he invades. Thanks to Bentley and Clank giving us coordinates to their planets and Ratchet keeping in contact with the Galactic Rangers as soon as they arrive, we'll inform them of the situation at hand. If the invasion ever begins before the Galactic Rangers get here, we'll take our best defenses and fight the sake of this city. all civilians are to be deported to the other cities for protection. In the case of this invasion being thwarted, Jak will lead the main front leading the Freedom League against the Masters of Doom's army. Daxter and Ashelin are to lead the second front from another side of the city to counteract the enemy with a big surprise. Ratchet and the Cooper Gang are to lead a squad of NKG onto the main ship and blow it to oblivion. Everyone got their roles." Torn ordered and everyone nodded readily for this.

"Ok, this is the fight for Haven City. I wish you luck on your missions." Torn said proudly.


[Shadowis's ship; Bridge]

"Have we arrived at Haven City yet?" Shadowis demanded to know, being a bit impatient.

"Approximately 30 minutes, we will arrive, sir." A soldier said as he went back to checking everything in the ship, hopefully running functionally.

Shadowis smiled a bit before asking another soldier as to any updates to Mr. Z's invasion. The soldier told him about how Mr. Z as almost apprehended by the Galactic Rangers as well as Nazar.

This did not worry Shadowis one bit though. He smiled again, even grinning wider showing his keen teeth. "Just as expected. Everything is going as planned."

"Sir, we're identifying another ship close-by in range." A soldier stated. Shadowis groaned, got up from his chair, and ordered to communicate with them.


[Starship Phoenix; a minute earlier]

"So, how long until we reach this new uncharted planet?" Talwyn asked Sasha.

"I believe somewhere around 30 minutes." She said, then she noticed the worry on Talwyn's expressions. Sasha was going to comfort but then a Galactic Ranger told her about a ship approaching them nearby.

"Is it a member of the Galactic Rangers? Space pirates?" She asked but the ranger told her to check herself as she came to the bridge and saw it was a weird-looking one.

It appeared to be triangular in shape with whitish-gray color with an exception to the dark red on some parts of the ship. It also appeared to be 500 meters long.

"What are they doing?" Sasha asked as she was waiting on something to occur. This was wasting time in order to find Ratchet and Clank.

"I don't know, but they want to communicate with us." A ranger said.

"Let them talk." She ordered and thus began an interesting conversation...

A hologram of a weird figure in armor introduced himself as Commander Shadowis wishing to speak with the leader of Starship Phoenix. Sasha introduced herself to him and he instantly gave the chills with his smile though she was not going to let this man see her being weak.

"Greetings, Captain Phyronix. As you know these uncharted territories belong to the Masters of Doom. I'd advise you to leave or otherwise face consequences beyond your understanding." He stated firmly.

She decided to bluff "It is perhaps you are who is breaking code. The Galactic Rangers are gathering Intel on your organization as we speak. Apparently, you took care of a space pirate in this area, I would like to know why and how?"

"Hm, you are very brave for asking that. I haven't of that rumor in so long. That pirate should've minded his own business. Let's just say we ran into some business with those pirates, they decided to be uncooperative and take us head on for this territory. Simply put we ended that crew with our strength." Shadowis explained.

"And what exactly is this territory?" Sasha asked.

"You'll soon find out." He said and ended the talk.

Qwark, hiding out in the back, came out asking about the conversation being over and how Shadowis scared the crap out of him.

"Captain, they're about to take fire on us! What do we do?"

"Get us out of here!" She ordered as the ship moved in a different direction, heading away from the Masters of Doom ship.

A chase between the two ships occurred with Shadowis's ship firing at Starship Phoenix.


"Sir, we're firing at the ship but it appears we're missing the target as it is moving at a higher speed," reported the pilot of the ship.

Shadowis stated, "Since they're headed to Haven City, follow them, but keep minimum at firing."

"Sir?" A commanding officer asked being confused at his order.

"We don't want the Galactic Rangers involved that much. However, it is best to follow and give them an element of surprise."


"Have they stopped firing?" Qwark asked as he noticed there was barely any tension occurring.

"Seems like it. However, I'd caution as to why they're doing that." Sasha remarked as they proceeded on heading to their destination.

Ten minutes later...

"Sir, we appear to have an enemy approaching us." A ranger reported to Captain Phyronix. Sasha wondered what could it be now. Shadowis again? No, it couldn't be, they lost them just a while ago.

"What is that?" Cora asked looking at the scanners of something enormous approaching them.

"It's huge!" Qwark shouted out fear. Indeed, the object flying towards them was huge. A gigantic robot to be exact.

It started to emit red laser beams from its limbs, Sasha taking evasive action ordered the Rangers to be in their fighters. Brax and Cora got into their class-g Star Jumpers and started to exit out to fight this robot.

"Alright, let's blow this thing to smithereens!" Brax proudly remarked, but he was about to eat his words as the robot started to follow him and Cora.

Sasha communicating with them, "That's great guys. Distract it while we manage to get on the nearby planet."

"Easy for you to say!" Cora shouted. "We might need extra help!" She flew to the right dodging another laser beam and fired a few shots at the robot.

Qwark, taking a chance, decides to get into a Star Jumper and flies off to fight alongside the Galactic Rangers.

"Captain Qwark, what are you doing?!" Sasha yelled through the communicator.

"Sorry, Captain! But I need to take this chance and not let the Galactic Rangers lose this fight! Not one bit!" Qwark proudly claimed as he fired everything the robot, however, he noticed it activated a weird-colored shield which protected it from harm.

Talwyn was proud of the cowardly captain for doing this, however, not knowing what kind of robot this is or how powerful it can be, this was also a completely stupid move on his part.


[HQ]

A beep heard through Ratchet's communication device. It meant something to him as he cheered in victory. Everyone looked at him weird as he explained thatt he beep he got the signal to contact the Galactic Rangers.

He pressed a button and said "Hello? Captain Phyronix? Do you read? This is Ratchet?"

Starship Phoenix...

As the fight continues on with the Galactic Rangers, Sasha received a weird beeping noise and turned on the hologram to see Ratchet speaking.

"Ratchet!" She cheerfully said as did Talwyn who was happy to see that he was alive.

"Hey, guys! How soon can you arrive to the planet that me and Clank are on?"

"About 20 minutes. But enough about that, we're in the middle of trying to take this giant robot in space."

"Gia- you mean the Precursor Robot!"

"Precursor Robot?"

"No time to explain, but that's the thing shot Aphelion and crashed us here on this planet. I'm sending you coordinates ow."

"You don't to send the coordinates. Qwark provided to them to us."

"Captain Qwark?! He's with you, too!" Although this confused Ratchet as how Qwark got those coordinates, nut nevermind that he needed to come here quick.

"Yes and so is Talwyn."

Ratchet had a sense of relief that nothing bad happened to her. "Tal! Oh thank goodness." He paused and continued "Listen to me you have to stop fighting that robot."

Sasha was about to ask why before Ratchet pleaded with her that it will destroy the Phoenix and that he couldn't risk that fate with the Galactic Rangers and everyone that needs them. She thought about it and decided to trust Ratchet's word.

Sasha called off the attack and allowed the Galactic Rangers to enter back in the Phoenix. The robot followed them in pursuit but in an instant it retreated further away from them and into the darkness of space.

Qwark commented on this thinking it was weird for robot to do that. "It flew away... why?"

"Never mind that, we're about to enter the planet, Ratchet and Clank are on." Sasha stated as she ordered everyone to get into the dropships and land where Ratchet and Clank are.


Ratchet told everyone that the Galactic Rangers were coming and he was excited for them to meet everyone. Everyone wasn't so sure about this, they trusted Ratchet enough to see new people, especially considering all that's happened.

Clank was also excited although he didn't show it as much as he was still discussing with Dr. Uoi on technological advancements he could make.

Jak kept thinking about how these guys were like, considering how Ratchet was excited.

Daxter didn't care much about the Galactic Rangers, they almost sound cornier than the Krimzon Guard during the rule of Baron Praxis.

Samos the Sage also didn't really care, but he was leaving to go see Onin and Pecker wanted.

Keira was indifferent about the Galactic Rangers as long they were to help, that's all that mattered.

Torn wondered what they were like as Ratchet spoke highly of them.

Ashelin, although not showing it, was worried on they would preceive her as leader and governess of Haven City.

Sly had to wonder how different were the Galactic Rangers are compared to INTERPOL.

Bentley also wondered the same thing as did Murray about how much different are they from INTERPOL.

In a few minutes, the Starship Phoenix hovered above Haven City and was sending in dropships. Ratchet was cheering in HQ and immediately went outside to greet everyone.

Sasha stepped outside of a dropship and when she saw Ratchet and Clank running towards her she was relieved. Then Tal cape out of the same dropship and Ratchet instantly hugged her.

She embraced him back and had a tear fall from her left eye.

Tal remarked "It's been so long, Ratchet."

The Cooper Gang and the rest of the heroes went to greet the Galactic Rangers.

Torn didn't expect them to be...well... robotic drones with personalities...

Sly looked at Ratchet embracing someone he's assuming to be his lover and again was reminded of himself and Carmelita. He wishes nothing terrible has happened to her.

Jak spoke up, awaiting everyone to be done with greetings, "I know that we barely just met, but we have a common enemy... Shadowis and the Masters of Doom. Now we can either stay here and do nothing. Or we can do something about it and defeat them once and for all!"

Everybody cheered this on and was willing to fight. It was only a matter of time as the invasion was about to begin.

A huge shadow of Shadowis's ship hovered across from Haven City.

Jak stared at it intensely and said "Alright let's begin the plan..."

And thus the battle commences!