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Ch6:

Military hospitality

Last time on Sibling Bond, we left the 2 heroes Ratchet and Clank going through multiple explanations about themselves and the witches. As they were explaining to each, both the heroes and the witches found out they are indeed not enemies but, possible allies. Now knowing of the scenario at hand, Major Mio Sakamoto, has agreed to help the 2 heroes out by offering them help to repair their ship and letting them stay at the base. Will our heroes be able to succeed or will they fail to do so? Find out right now.

We currently find our 2 heroes of the galaxy Ratchet and Clank, still napping in the room of fellow Strike Witch recruit, Yoshika Miyafuji. Now starting to wake up from her slumber, Yoshika yawns and stretches to wake with eyes still be a little closed. While she was getting up, she puts her legs in sitting position near the edge of the bed as she tries to get up. Not knowing what her right foot was under, she leaps up standing and accidently stepped on Ratchet's tail causing him to wake up in an instant.

"Yeowww!" Ratchet yelled out in pain as his tail got stepped on. The yelp from him a was loud enough to cause Yoshika to completely wake up in shock from the noise and to completely wake up Clank. Now completely awake, Ratchet holds his tail in a bit of pain looking at it with a upsetting look on his face. "Oh, I'm sorry sir, I forgot you were sleeping there." Yoshika apologised for stepping on his tail with sincerement in her voice. "It's fine, it's nothing too bad but, my tail." Ratchet said as he accepted her apology. "Would you like me to heal it sir?" Yoshika asked the hero if he wanted his tail healed. "No, I'm good" He replied back to her question.

"Might I ask on why you're up this early, Sgt. Miyafuji?" Clank asked out of curiosity. "I usually get up early to help make breakfast in the morning." Yoshika told Clank why she's up so early. "I see, you're not only a Sergeant but also, a cook, interesting." Clank identified the young soldier. "That sounds good, since we're awake, care if we tag along?" Ratchet asked the young female soldier if he and Clank can come with her. "Sure thing sir, I'd be happy if you 2 would join me." She responded to his question a smile.

After to what she said, Ratchet got a bit of a strange look on his face. "Ratchet." He said to the Witch. "Parden?" She replied back sounding a little confused to what the Lombax just said. "You can stop calling me sir, the name's Ratchet." He introduced himself to the Fuso witch. "And I am XJ-0461 but, you can call me Clank." Clank introduced himself next to the witch. "Ratchet and Clank, those sound like pretty nice names." Yoshika complimented them on their names. "Thank you, let's get a move on." Clank told the other 2 to get a move on. "Right." Ratchet and Yoshika replied at the sametime.

A couple of seconds have passed and Yoshika along with Lynne and the 2 heroes were in the dining hall getting things ready. "I got to admit, this stuff looks pretty good." Ratchet complimented on the food the girls made together, as he helps lay it down to the table. "Thank you, me and Lynne here worked hard on it." Yoshika thanked the Lombax about her cooking. "You 2, I must say, are quite skilled." Clank complimented the 2. "Well technically, Yoshika here was the one who's good at cooking than I am." Lynne said with a smile while blushing a little. "Oh, come on, you helped too." Yoshika told Lynne to take some of the credit.

In a couple of minutes, the remaining witches gathered in the dining hall eating and having conversations amongst themselves along with the 2 heroes. "So little pal, what do think of the base so far. The Lombax asked how his robotic friend is doing while, eating some rice. "It's not too bad, if look passed the whole part about us being a little stranded here." Clank replied back to his best buddy.

Just then, some of the witches looked and moved towards the 2 with a bit of smiles on their faces. "So, mind telling us a little more about yourselfs?" Shirley asked with a smile. "Yeah, why don't you tell us Mr. Toy man." Francesca said with a smile. When she said that Clank made an annoyed expression on his face. When Ratchet heard that, he couldn't help but, chuckle a little. "What's so funny, Mr. Cat-Alien Man" Hartmann asked the Lombax on what's so funny. After hearing what Hartmann said, Ratchet then also, had an annoyed look on his face. "hehehe." Clank laughed back at what Hartmann said.

"Seriously, what's so funny." Eila asked the 2 on what's funny. "You called them by the wrong names." Yoshika pointed out while laughing a little. "I suppose, this would be a good chance to get to know each other a little more better." Clank pointed out that idea to the others. "Couldn't have said it better myself pal, I'm Ratchet and this is Clank." Ratchet introduced themselves to the other witches. "Please to make your acquaintance." Clank said in a polite voice. "Ratchet and Clank, those sound easy to remember." Lynne pointed out.

"Neat names, I'm Charlotte Yeager but, my friends and you can call me Shirley." Shirley introduced herself with a smile and her hand out seeing to get a handshake from one of them. "Nice to meet you Shirley." Ratchet said as he gave her the handshake, only to have a bit of force being applied her hand. "Strong grip." Ratchet said when he let go of her her hand. "Hahaha!" Shirley laughed after he said that.

"That's my Shirley, Always knows how to welcome people." Francesca said while putting her face close to Shirley's chest. "Oh my." Clank said sounding a little worried for what he was seeing. "She's always like that, by the way, I'm Erica Hartmann." Hartmann said as she introduced herself to the boys. "I'm Captain Gertrud Barkhorn but, I prefered if you'd call me Captain Barkhorn." Barkhorn said sounding a little strict. "Aww, come on Trudy, I don't think it matters if they call you by your first name." Hartmann said sounding a little at ease. "Hartmann!" Barkhorn yelled at her comrade sounding annoyed as most of the room laughed at Hartmann's comment.

"I'm Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen and this Sanya Litvyak." Eila introduced both her and Sanya politely. "Pleasure to meet you." Sanya greeted to the heroes. "I'm Francesca Lucchini." Francesca introduced herself next with a smile. After Lucchini introduced herself Perrine was looking at the heroes with a bit of a displeased look on her face, which got the robotic hero's attention. "Umm...Is there something wrong, you look displeased Miss….." Clank said to her sounding a little worried. "Perrine Clostermann, and quite fine for your information." Perrine said sounding a little rude.

"What's that one's problem?" Ratchet whispered to Yoshika sounding confused. "She's usually like this towards some people." Yoshika whispered back to the Lombax. "Don't worry Clank, you're still a pretty cool looking toy I ever seen." Francesca complimented the robotic hero. Hearing that again, Clank made a displeased look on his face again. "I'm not a toy." Clank said sounding annoyed. "I'm a highly intelligent sentry-bot." he continued. "Huh?" Hartmann said sounding confused. "What I think he's basically saying is, he's a very smart robot." Minna guessed to what he's saying. "Oh." Hartmann said bluntly. "I suppose that's one way of explaining it." Ratchet said to the others.

"What are you supposed to be Ratchet?" Yoshika asked the Lombax what he was in a curious tone. "Well, I'm what you call a Lombax." Ratchet revealed his race to the witches. "Lombax?, I never heard of those before." Yoshika said sounding a little amazed to what Ratchets race is. After Ratchet said Lombax, the Major had a serious weird look on her face, as though she heard that name before. "Something wrong Mio?" Minna asked her friend in concern. "It's...nothing." Mio said sounding odd than usual.

"So tell us Ratchet, is there any more of your kind out there?" Lynne asked the Lombax with a bit of a smile. After what she said, Ratchet had a bit of a sad-like disturbed look on his face. When the witches saw the look on his face they all felt concerned. "Is there something wrong?" Yoshika asked the hero in a concerned voice. "That's a bit of a sensitive topic for my friend." Clank explained to the witches on why Ratchet looked upset. "Ah, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to make you upset, I didn't know!" Lynne apologised to the Lombax for what she asked. "No...It's fine really, I'm not too upset about that." Ratchet replied trying to put on bit of a smile.

"Ahmm, since someone here needs to change the subject, I guess I have to do that, seeing that you're all done eating, I think it's about time that we get going to the meeting room." The Major suggested. "Sounds far enough, what do you think Clank?" Ratchet asked his campaign. "Seems logical for this moment." Clank replied back. "Couldn't have said it better myself, everyone let's move on to the meeting room in few minutes." Minna ordered the others to get going to a meeting. "Yes ma'am!" The other 9 witches said at the they even got up before going to the meeting, Ratchet raised his hand as though he wanted to say something with a bit of a confused and embarrassed look on his face. "Um, I actually have one more question that concerns me a bit." Ratchet said sounding unsure of himself.

"Ah...sure, what's your question?" Mio asked the alien what his question was. "Ah...I know I should have probably said something earlier maybe, but I sort of realized this now and not to be rude, but ah...why aren't you girls not wearing pants?" Ratchet asked sounding embarrassed asking that question. After hearing what the lombax said, some of the witches a had embarrassed looks on their faces as well. "It's a long story!" Some of them replied and yelled at the sametime in an embarrassed tone.

In merly a minute or 2, everyone was now out of the dining hall and in the meeting room getting ready start talking about a couple of things to, what's going to happen for now. "Ok everyone, a couple of announcements, for starters, as you all know by now, Ratchet and Clank are going to be staying with us until, their ship is repaired." Minna announced to the others of the situation.

"Umm, excuse me, I Know I don't usually don't disagree to higher officers, but don't you think keeping an alien and his robot here is a risky idea?" Perrine complaint sounding worried about having the 2 heroes being here. "Why are you complaining?, we sort of did something like this before." Hartmann said sounding a little chilled. "Shut up, that's way more different than before, that one and his family was actually raised on Earth!" Perrine said sounding annoyed about the topic. "So you're saying you want them back here?" Francesca continued to tease Perrine. "Absolutely not!" Perrine yelled stilled sounding annoyed. "Should we be wondering what you girls are talking about?" Ratchet asked Yoshika what they were talking about, as Ratchet and Clank were confused. "It's a long story." Yoshika replied back to the 2 heroes.(SN: Props to anyone who knows what they are talking about.)

"2nd announcement is that, we won't be training too much today, since one Miyafuji isn't going to be with for some parts of the whole day." Mio announced next to the other girls. "Why is that?" Yoshika asked in a confused tone. "The reason is because, we need someone to show these 2 around the base after the meeting." Minna explained that they needed someone to show the Lombax and his robotic friend around the base. "Oh, ok." Yoshika replied and offered to do so. "You here that pal, we get a free tour." Ratchet said sounding a little confident. "Sounds intriguing, I would like to know more about this place." Clank said sounding interested in.

Like they said after the meet, Yoshika was showing Ratchet and Clank the tour of most of the base. So far, they seen what they felt like seeing, and have now made it to the base's hangar. "So what do you guys think of the base so far?" Yoshika asked with a warm smile. "So far, I actually kind of like what I seen Sgt. Miyafuji, what do you think clank?" Ratchet asked to his best friend. "It is indeed interesting, What I found even more interesting, was how can you girls be able to live here." Clank said sounding empressed. "Hmhm...It takes a while to get used to." Yoshika laughed to what Clank said.

When they were done talking, Ratchet noticed something in the hangar that interested him the most. "Wow." Ratchet awwing to what he is seeing. What got Ratchet's attention was the sight of a striker unit. "Clank take a look at this, this is a pretty good looking piece of equipment." Rachet said sounding a little amazed and intrigued. "That is indeed interesting, what is this piece of machinery?" Clank asked sounding curious about the unit.

"It's called a Striker Unit." A voice called out revealing that it belong to the Major. "Sakamoto?" Yoshika said sounding a little surprised to see the Major. "Are you enjoying your stay so far?, I couldn't help, but check in on you guys and seeing how you're doing." The Major said to the 3 of them. "It is going pretty well, thank you for allowing us to observe and tell us about this place." Clank thanked the Major for the tour so far. "You're welcome, and I see that your furry gained an interest in striker unit." Mio replied and revealed the object to the boys. "Striker unit?" Clank said sounding interested.

"Yep, our striker units are one of the few ways for us to fight the neuroi, they allow us to fly in the air with ease." Yoshika explained a little more about the striker unit. "I got say, this thing looks amazing, I mean look at it, the exterior, the design, and the equipment it has." Ratchet complimented the unit sounding fascinated. "Who invented these?" he asked out of curiosity. "My dad did, pretty cool right?" Yoshika revealed to the 2 heroes.

"Your father invented these?" Clank said sounding a little surprised by what he just heard. "That's right, Dr. Miyafuji was the one who invented the striker unit so, we can confront the enemy at hand." Mio explained to the 2 about the Doctor. "He sounds like a pretty good kind of doctor, you think you can introduce him to us?" Ratchet asked if he could meet the good doctor. After saying that, both of the witches had an uneasy look on their faces, which then Ratchet began to wonder if he said something wrong. "Did I say something wrong?" Ratchet asked sounding a bit concerned that if he said wrong. "I believe that's a sensitive topic for them to answer, Ratchet." Clank said sounding a little upset.

Just then before anyone could say another word, the sirens went off creating a loud noise. The emergency sirens took the 4 heroes in the hangar by surprise and got the 2 space beings wondering what's happening. "What's going on!?" Ratchet asked in a surprised tone. "A neuroi has been spotted!" The Major yelled in a serious manner. "Of all times now!?" Yoshika yelled in serious tone.

"What should we do?" Clank asked the Major on should they do. "Leave it to us, Miyafuji stay here and watch these 2 until we come back." She instructed Yoshika to follow the orders she was given. "Ah...understood." Yoshika replied back sounding a little confused and sure of the situation. "Hold on, we can help you fight you this thing." Ratchet said in a serious voice. "No, you 2 stay here, we can take can handle one single neuroi." The Major replied back in a serious tone. From hearing the Major words, the boys had no choice but to follow her orders and stay at the base with Yoshika.

Off to battle, the other 10 witches flew out of the hangor going to confront the neuroi. As they flew away the 3 heroes look on with a bit of worried looks on their faces. "I hope they're going to alright." Ratchet said in a worried tone as they began to walk back into the base. "Don't worry, they been through many of these situation before, and they always come back strong." Yoshika said with confidence in her voice. "Sgt. Miyafuji's might be right, we must have faith in them." Clank agreed with Yoshika to give them faith. With that being said Ratchet tried putting a smile on his face and continued to move forward.

Having a few minutes passed, the 2 boys and 1 girl were still sort of taking the tour while the others were away. As things were looking pretty well, Ratchet once again had a worried look face. "What's wrong Ratchet?" Yoshika asked the lombax in concern. "It's been a few minutes since they left, don't you think they should be done by now?" Ratchet also asked in concern for the others. "Sure it takes a while but, I can promise you they'll be back." Yoshika told him to come down a bit.

Just before anyone could say another word, the Major's voice was come Yoshika communicator in her ear, which can also be heard that the boys were able to hear. "Anyone, come in?" Mio said sounding serious and worried through the communicator with a bit of static coming through. "Sakamoto, what's wrong?" Yoshika said sounding worried. "We under attack, the neuroi we picked up is too strong to beat, somebody send reinforcements!" The Major announced sounding displeased.

"Oh no, they're in trouble!" Yoshika yelp in dismay. "Oh my!" Clank said in shock for what he heard. After hearing that Ratchet began to run away from other 2 to where the hangar is. "Ratchet where are you going!?" Yoshika asked and yelled out to the Lombax as she began to run after him. As Ratchet kept running, Clank had a bad feeling in his mechanical gut that he knew what Ratchet was up to.

In a couple of seconds or less, Ratchet and the other 2 have made it back to the base's hangar. As Ratchet looks around, he looks around and spots Yoshika's striker unit with a look of planning in his eyes. "Why are we back here?" Yoshika asked the lombax for she still didn't know what the lombax's intentions for being in the hangar. "Miyafuji, are you able to use one of these things?" He asked the witch if she knew had to use a striker unit. "Umm...Yes?" She replied back sounding still confused.

"We're going to help the others, so let's get a move on." Ratchet said in a serious tone. "What?!, but Ratchet you heard what Sakamoto said, she told us to stay here until they get back." Yoshika reminding the lombax what they were instructed to do. "I know what she said, but we can't just let them get slaughtered out there while they're in trouble." Ratchet replied back in a serious tone.

"In that case allow me to get some of your weapons." Clank said as he opened the compartment in the center of his robotic body. "Clank, you cared my weapon's?" Ratchet asked sounding a little confused. "I figured we would get into a situation like this, so I took the liberty into storing some of your weapons inside my compartment for safe keeping." Clank explained to his alien companion.

"Please Miyafuji, I told you we can help you fight this thing, so please allow us to help your friends." Ratchet pleaded in a serious voice with a matching look on his face as he pulled out his hand to see if she was on board. With the look on the lombax's, Yoshika could tell that he was deep serious. With the thought running through her mind, Yoshika also put on a serious face to signify that she can trust the lombax and shakes his hand in return to also signify she was on board. "Ok, let's do this!" Yoshika said as she agree to the 3 of them going out there to save them.

Now having to agree on helping their allies, Yoshika and the 2 heroes were getting ready for battle. Will our 3 heroes making it in time, and will be able to the enemy? Find out in the next chapter.

To Be Continued.

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