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Ch5:

Alien & Robot of the Base III

We continue our story with Ratchet and Clank in the base's hangar. Where the heroes lives were being spared by Barkhorn for now. Still not knowing where they our Ratchet and Clank still begin to wonder. "So….Clank, have any idea where we are?" Ratchet asked his little buddy if he knew where they were. "Not quite." Clank quickly answered Ratchet's question. "Right, just checking." Ratchet replied back as he sounded a little disappointed. "Hey, what are you 2 mumbling about?, I told you no shady business." Barkhorn said in a bit of a strict tone. "Oh no, me and my friend here are just wondering is all." Clank said trying to explain a little to Barkhorn.

Before anyone could say anything else, Mio and Minna came in trying to figure out what's going on. "What's going on here!?" Minna questioned the girls in a serious tone. "What are you all screaming for!?" Mio also questioned the other witches in a serious tone. "Major?" Perrine yelped sounding surprised. "I'll ask you again, What's with all the…." The Major was cut off, as she and Minna saw Ratchet being up and about. The 2 then gasped at the sametime, with a surprised look on their faces. "The passed out being, it's awake!" Minna said sounding shocked by this. When Mio got the site of him, she had a bit of a getting ready to defend look and grabs the handle of her sword from her back, as she was getting ready to attack.

"No, wait!, don't harm him, he's not our enemy!" Yoshika yelled as she shields the 2 heroes and tries to tell the 2 that Ratchet is not the enemy. With Yoshika saying that, Mio lowered herself and both her and Minna were now a unsure yet, serious state. "She's telling the truth, we're here to fight any of you." Ratchet claimed sounding serious. When he said those words, both the 2 higher ranked officer witches were a little surprised that he spoke. "Fair enough." Mio said sounding a little eased and took her one hand off the handle of her sword. "Mio, are sure we can trust him." Minna said sounding a little worried. "It would seem he's telling the truth, for now, we might as well hear what he has to say." Mio suggested to do.

"Umm,...excuse me, I don't want to be rude or anything but, I got some questions that might need answering." Ratchet interrupted the 2 to see if they can answer some of his questions. "Can you answer some of ours first?, that way we'll answer some of ours. Mio suggested to the lombax. "Umm, Ok." Ratchet suggest said sounding a little confused.

"For starters, where are you from?" She asked the Lombax where he's from. "The planet where I was born or planet where I was raised?" Ratchet asked whether if she means the planet he was raised or born. "Planet!?" Yoshika yelled sounding surprised that Ratchet from different planet. "You mean, you're not from Earth!?" Lynne also sounding surprised to hear that.

"That's right, we came here on a nice needed vacation away from saving the galaxy on so many occasions." Clank explained to the witches. "Saving the galaxy!?" Francesca said also surprised to hear words like that. "You mean to tell us, you 2 are heroes?" Hartmann asked the heroes out of curiosity. "Yeah, I guess you can say that." Ratchet said sounding a little confident in what he does. After hearing about that, the witches had an look of awe on their faces knowing that they have 2 heroes from outer space in their mits.

"Ok, second question, on your way here did you happen to encounter an neuroi?" The Major asked them the 2nd question. "A what roi?" Ratchet asked sounding a little confused to what a neuroi is. "I think she's referring to the black and red hostile entity we were fighting when we got here." Clank guessed to what she was talking about. "That's right, a neuroi is a machine-like alien race, that is hell bent on destroying almost everything." Minna explained what a neuroi is and what it does. "Wow, that doesn't sound too pleasant." Ratchet said sounding a little uneasy at what Minna just explained to them.

"It doesn't." Barkhorn said a little bluntly and serious. "Ok, 3rd question." Mio said as she begins to look at Clank a little strangely. "Where did HE come from?" She said as she pointed to Clank. "Oh, he's with me, he's not all that dangerous." Ratchet explained to the Major. "That's a little strange, we didn't see you when the girls brought you here, just your friend here." Minna explained as she pointed to the Lombax.

"Hey yeah, when you were unconscious, you were the only one we found in the ocean, let alone someone like him." Yoshika said sounding a little confused as Francesca tries to sneak away until, she got caught in the caller of her jacket by. "That's not necessarily true, you see Lucchini and I found him next to the aircraft when you Miyafuji and Lynne were examining the body, it would seem when we weren't looking she snuck him in and was playing him in her room." Perrine explained while sounding a little annoyed. "Of course, why am I not surprised by that." Minna sighed also sounding annoyed.

"Ok, I think that should do it for our questions for now, in the meantime you may ask your question." Mio said. "Mio, don't you think you think you need to ask a little more questions?" Minna asked in concern. "All we need to know so far is that, they're alien heroes wanting to come to our planet for a vacation while getting caught and shipwrecked in battle." Mio explained to the other Witch officer. "You may proceed to your questions now."

"Ok for starters I want to ask, who are you girls and where are we?" Ratchet asked still sounding a little confused. "Allow us to explain but first, allow me and my comrade here to introduce ourselves, I'm Major Mio Sakamoto." The Major introduced herself to the 2 heroes. "And am Commander Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke." Minna introduced herself next. "And you are currently in our military base in Romagna." "Did you just say military base?" Ratchet asked sounding uneasy again. "Yes, she did, allow us to explain more." The Major said to the 2.

From that moment, both Mio and Minna were explaining to the 2 heroes about whom the Strike Witches are, what they do, and how they also saved many lives before. "So...let us get this straight, You girls are witches who serve in the military, trying to protect your planet from these machine-like creatures called neuroi, and saved people just like we do?" Ratchet recapped on what they were saying. "When you put that way, yes." Minna answered the lombax's question.

"Some of this I can understand but, the whole magic thing bothers me." Clank said sounding a little confused. "How exactly would it bother you?" Mio asked the robot out curiosity. "Well, it kind of sounds a little silly because, I really don't believe too much into that kind of stuff." Clank explained that he really doesn't believe too much in magic. "No honest, we do have magic, watch." Yoshika said as she then popped out her animal ears and tail and quickly began to work on Ratchet's injured shoulder again. "Thanks again for that." The lombax thanked the witchling. "You're welcome." Yoshika replied back with a smile.

"What exactly, did she do?" Clank asked his friend out of curiosity sounding a little confused. "Telling by what she did earlier, she was healing my shoulder, anyways I think they got ya beat here pal, I mean sure I didn't really believe it either but, telling by what's going on so far, I really don't know what believe in." Ratchet explained to his best robotic pal. "Well, I suppose I'll keep this mind for now." Clank stated.

"Then I suppose it's settled." Mio stated. "What's settled?" Minna said sounding confused to what Mio said. "We will help you with getting and repairing your ship starting tomorrow but, it might take a while, so in the meantime, you 2 will be staying here until, your ship is repaired." The Major declared. "What!" Almost everybody said in the hanger yelled out in shock to hear what the Major said. "Mio, are that's a good idea?" Minna said sounding concerned. "Yes, I want keep an eye on them for further notice, and for some odd reason, I feel like I seen that one somewhere before." Mio explained and whispered the rest to Minna as she points her eyes to Ratchet.

"Well pal, looks like we're going to have another vacation turned into a mission again." Ratchet sighed to his friend on what's going to happen. "Indeed." Clank also sighed to what his friend said. "Miyafuji, since some of our spare rooms are being occupied at the moment with leftover supplies, you would have to share your room with them." Mio explained to Yoshika. "What?!, me but, why!?" Yoshika said sounding really confused. "Well, you would seem to befriend them already before anyone else, and it sort of your idea to bring him here." Mio pointed out to the other Fuso witch. "I suppose you're right, I'll do it." Yoshika declared sounding ok with the idea.

A couple of hours have now passed and it was already night, as everyone gets ready to hit the sack. Walking in the hall with a spare blanket and pillows and sleeping bag was Ratchet, Clank, and Yoshika, heading to the room they will be staying in. They open the bedroom door and was revealing a big yet, smallish room with one bed and a window. "Please make yourselves comfortable." Yoshika said in a nice pleasant voice. "Thank you." Ratchet politely thank her. "I call the window." Clank calling dibs on the window frame. "I guess that means I get the floor I suppose." Ratchet said as he prepares to get ready to sleep.

"It's very nice meeting you guys today." Yoshika said to the 2 heroes. "The pleasures all ours." Clank replied back to the witch. "Yeah, without you girls showing up, We don't know what we could have thought of." Ratchet agreed to what his best pal is saying. "Well, good night." She tells the boys good night. "Night." The 2 heroes both said as Ratchet went straight to sleep and Clank went offline.

As the 2 heroes drifted away into their dreams, Yoshika looks at them for bit and begins to wonder. "Man, these 2 don't seem that bad to hang out with, I just that this is going to be the start of a great friendship." She thought as she too begins to fall asleep.

So now that the 2 heroes our now living in the base until, their ship is repaired, what will come of them in the near future? Find out in the next chapter.

To Be Continued.

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