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Ch7:

Backup Has Arrived

Last time on Sibling Bonds, we left Ratchet and Clank receiving a good stay at the base in Romagna with the witches. Things were going quite smoothly, until an enemy neuroi has appeared. The 2 heroes wanted to help combat this threat, but Major Mio Sakamoto wouldn't allow it. As the battle was going on, it was then revealed that the other witches were having a bit of trouble. Even in spite of Sakamoto's direct orders and wanting to help their allies, Ratchet, Clank, and Yoshika set out to help the others in the battle. Will our 3 heroes make it in time? Find in Sibling Bonds out right now!

We begin the story in the middle of the battle with enemy neuroi, as the 10 witches are an intense struggle. The shots of bullets and beams were firing from many angles and turns, causing a lot trouble for the surrounding area in the sky for the girls. The witches were so far dodging most of the enemy's beam attack by either avoiding the beam or using their magic shields. The neuroi the were fighting was a big enemy ship, which was almost in the shape of a bat. It kept on firing it's beams without letting up a signal inch vigorously at the witches.

With the strong attacks that keep on coming at them, some of the witches were starting to feel tired and almost powered out. "Damn, we're giving it our all and it still won't give up!" Mio continues to look at the neuroi with anger going through her mind. "What can we even do to beat this one? We can't even make a dent it, only scratches!" Minna points out flying next to the Major sounding a little exhausted.

"We required back up a while ago, Where is it!?" Barkhorn continues to shoot at the enemy with her MG42s. "I don't know, but if they don't make it soon, we're toast!" Perrine continues to avoid the neuroi's beam attacks. "Damn it all! I hate to say it, but we might not be able to survive this." The thought goes through the Major's mind of the not making it back alive.

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Moving as a fast as they can via striker unit, the 3 heroes Ratchet, Clank and Yoshika are flying to the rescue of their comrades up a head. The trio had a combination of worried, anger, and determination on their face going into the battle. For they were going into battle hoping to save their allies in time and hope they are not too late. Ratchet was being carried from the back by Yoshika wrapping him around as tight as she can with her arms on his ribs, while Clank is on her back like a backpack like Ratchet would usually would.

"How much farther till we get there Miyafuji?" The lombax asked the witch in a serious tone. "Not too far. Remember before they left, Sakamoto said that the neuroi was not too far from where the base is." She reminded him of the Major's words. "Good to hear that, just keep on going then, don't stop!" Ratchet told to keep on moving. "We must hurry quickly, there is no time to lose!" The small robot tells the 2, that they have to make it as fast as they can. "Right" Yoshika replies back to Clank.

As Ratchet was looking up, he caught an upset worried look on her face, which the Lombax wonder. "Hey, are you ok? You look sick." He decides to ask the witch if she is ok, which snapped her out for a bit. "I just hope we'll be able to make it in time!" She continues to fly forward to the destination. "Don't worry, I have faith in you that we will make to help them!" Ratchet tries to comfort the girl a bit. "I you think so?" She looks back at the lombax still worried of the others. "In this case, I know so." The fuzzy hero promises her.

"I am detecting amount of un usual metal nearby, we should be there quite soon." The metal hero detects the enemy nearby. "Alright you 2 get for battle, Clank get the Plasma Slayer ready!" Ratchet orders his robotic companion. "I'm on it!" Clank opens his little compartment and pulls out Ratchet's sniper weapon as it grows to its original size, as the lombax then catches it in his hand. "Now let's go help the others!" Ratchet yells righteously. "Right!" The other 2 agree with the alien hero.

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Back at the battle sight between the enemy and the heroes, the girls are still having a hard time against the neuroi. As the beams from the neuroi keep on coming, the girls were dodging each attack they can avoid as they kept on firing their guns at it. Just as they were about to open fire once more at the neuroi, a click sound was heard as they pulled the trigger. "Oh no!" Lynne yelped out. "Crap, we're out of ammo!" Shirley then followed up to what Lynne said. "Damn it, now screwed for shore!" Mio cursed in anger that everyone has ran out of bullets.

"Damn it, what do we do now?!" Minna tells the others for any form ideas against the neuroi right now. "We still gave it everything we got, why won't this thing still let up already!" Perrine curses as the neuroi was once again getting ready to fire at the witches. As it was getting ready to fire, the witches look back at with dismay on their face knowing that they might not live after the next attack. "Well girls...it's been an honor fighting with you." The Major said sounding a little disappointed to the group. "Mio." Minna says silently sounding also upset.

Things were looking real bleak to the witches until, an unknown beam that was fired straight forward hit the neuroi on the side. This hit caused a good amount of damage to the enemy and made the neuroi roar in pain. After the attack landed, the 10 witches were a little surprised at what they just witnessed. "Wh...What the Hell was that!?" Barkhorn and the others looked back to where the shot was fired. With the flip on her eye patch, the Major uses her magic eye to see where the shot came from. As she took a look at what or who made the shock, she was most surprised who it was.

It was then revealed that one who took the shot was Ratchet using his plasma slayer on the neuroi. "It's Miyafuji with the alien and robot!" The Major revealed to others that the shot came from the 3 remaining heroes. After learn that, the others were also surprised to hear the 3 did such a thing. "Good shot Ratchet!" Yoshika compliments Ratchet for his marksmanship as she continues to fly forward. "Thanks, but we're not done!" Ratchet continues to look at the enemy. "We still need to take it down, it is only option for this situation." Clank tells the 2 heroes what they needed to do. "Couldn't have said better myself!" Ratchet agrees with robotic friend.

Just before they could do such a thing, the sound from Yoshika's communicator started to come through as the Major was trying to get through to them. "Miyafuji...Miyafuji come in." The Major tries to get through the 3 heroes. "Sakamoto are you ok?" The young witch replies back seeing if things are alright. "We're not doing too great out here Miyafuji and exactly what the hell do you 3 think you're doing? I thought I told you 3 to stay behind!" She scolds the 3 of them. "You were in danger, so we decided to help." Yoshika explains to her eye-patched commanding officer. "I understand that Miyafuji, but it will also too dangerous for you. return back to the base now!" She tells Yoshika to turn around and head back.

"...But Sakamoto!" She looks worried and confused to the Major's instructions. "No buts, turn back now!" Sakamoto replies back with the same order. In no time to ask politely, Ratchet uses his right hand to grab Yoshika's piece out of her ear and puts it in his instead looking a little displeased. "Major come in, I hate to break the news for ya, but we're not leaving, not until we take that neuroi down!" Ratchet tells the fuso witch that they will stay and fight. "This isn't a request it's an order, turn back now!" She continues to give out the same order, which made Ratchet to keep on denying it.

"I don't care! Listen to me, we're not going to let all of you get killed out here. We're going to help no matter what you say right now. I told you this before, we can help, so let us. I'll take full responsibility for this and you can punish me later, but in the meantime let us help and destroy that thing!" Ratchet declares to the Major of what needs to go down right now. After hearing all of that from the lombax, the Major begin to feel a little angered and unsure of herself what to do for the remainder of this battle.

She then came with the conclusion to what needs to happen. "Alright...you can help, but don't mess things up. If you do, we're all screwed, got it!?" She tells the others, still sounding uneasy of her decision. "Understood, Let's do this you 2!" Ratchet tells Yoshika and Clank to get ready for battle. "Right!" They replied back to the lombax at the sametime.

The new battle has begun as the neuroi now fires it's deadly beams at the 3 heroes coming it's way. With accurate speed, Yoshika manage to dodge the beam every time, either that or she used her magic shield to block the beam from hitting them. "Clank!" The fuzzy hero looks back at his robotic compian. "I'm on it!" Clank pulls out of his little compartment the lombax's Mega Constructo Pistol and tosses it to him quickly. With no time to lose, Ratchet starts to fire at the neuroi with the assisted help from Yoshika firing her Mauser Schnellfeuer M712 at the enemy.

The shots from both of them were doing a lot of damage on the robotic enemy that it is causing the neuroi to continue to cry in pain. With each shot they fired at the neuroi while avoiding the beams, the 3 of them were gaining some great momentum against the enemy, as it began to crack and chip away some parts from the scratches it took earlier. "That's amazing!" Francesca cheers in excitement. "They're actually winning!" Minna looks back at the 3 with a bit of a proud look on her face. "That maybe so, but they're not done yet. They still have to destroy the core to completely beat it." Mio reminds the others what the 3 need to do.

Avoiding the next shot, the 3 were beginning to feel a little exhausted from battling the mechanical enemy threat. "Man..this one really is tough." Yoshika breaths a little from fighting. "I know, how would we be able to beat it?" The Lombaxes wonders how to beat the neuroi foe. "We must find it's weak point. There just has to be one somewhere." Clank tells the 2 to find it weak point. "The only weak part about the neuroi is the core, that's what we need to find." The witchling tells the 2 about the core. "Where is it?" The lambax asked Yoshika. His question was then answered as he heard the sound of Sakamoto's voice from behind them. "The core is at the top of it's head piece!" She looks at the neuroi using her magic eye.

After hearing those words, the heroes flew up forward and started firing at the head piece. They having difficulty in doing so, as the enemy just kept on avoiding their attacks. "This isn't looking good." The alien looked a little uneased of the situation. "Indeed, it keeps on avoiding our attacks, it won't even let us crack the spot." The robot agrees with his best pal about the enemy. Things looked bad, until Yoshika thought up a good idea. "I have plan, but you 2 have to trust me on this." Yoshika tells the 2 to trust her. "What do you mean tru...ah!" Ratchet along with Clank gets tossed a few inches into air then being caught by Yoshika piggyback style giving him some support. (SN: If you're wondering, it's the same way Yoshika does with Lynne.) "I'll keep shooting. While it's focused on my attacks, you focus on the spot." She looks up at them. "Got it!" Ratchet replies back to the idea.

The 3 heroes flew from left to right, as they kept avoiding the neuroi's attacks from each side. "Clank, I need a new weapon. This one is out of ammo!" Ratchet tells Clank to switch out a new weapon while on his back. "Might I suggest the Judicator?" Clank takes out Ratchet's strong missile launching weapon. "I couldn't agree more pal!" He smiles back at his robotic companion for the weapon.

"Ok ready...aim...steady...NOW!" The heroes begin to put their plan into action, as Yoshika begins to open fire at the enemy. Seeing the opportunity he can get, Ratchet fires one shot and hit the spot, leaving a big dent. He then reloaded and fired the next shot and hit directly again, causing not only the dent to get bigger and reveal it's core, but also causing the enemy roar in pain once again. After he was done reloading, Ratchet fired the last clear shot at it with sheer force. The missile from the weapon hit straight on the enemy's weak spot, causing the core to crack and shatter. Due to its' core being destroyed, the neuroi then shattered into neuroi fragments and debris.

Seeing the neuroi's defeat, the girls began to feel shocked and releaved of the enemy's fall right in front of their very eyes. "Amazing!" Lynne cheers out with excitement. "They actually beat it." Minna smiles warmly back at the Major. "That they did." She replies back to Minna also with a smile.

"We did it...we won!" Yoshika looks up at the lombax with a smile. "I know right, your plan actually worked Miyafuji, good job." He compliments the Witches on a job well done. "Oh come on, I couldn't have done it without you 2." She compliments back at the 2 space heroes. "Umm...We may want to move." Clank looks a little worried as he looks straight forward. A little confused what he meant, the other 2 look at the same direction Clank was staring as the debris from before comes straights at them and engulfs.

Screaming a little as the fall from the debris, they manage to fall into the water of the ocean then immediately pops out of the water. Seeing it was kind of funny, the 3 couldn't help but laugh and chuckle. "That was unexpected, huh Miyafuji?" He continued to laugh at what just happened. "Yeah...that was." She continued to laugh with him. "Hey are you 3 alright down there?!" The Major yells at the heroes if they were alright. "Yeah, we're fine!" Yoshika tells the Major that they are ok. "By the way, we're friends right? You don't have to call me by my last." She tells the 2 to call her by first name. "Ok sure, It's Yoshika right?" Ratchet asked her back. "Yep, also what do you say we continue that tour?" Yoshika asked him back. "We would be delighted Miya...I'm mean Yoshika, we would be delighted." Ratchet answers as they then laughed once again while in the water.

Now that the enemy has been defeated and their allies now saved from doom, another day will come and go peacefully. As things go on, what will happen to our heroes as the story progresses on? Find out in the Next Chapter of Sibling Bonds!

To Be Continued.

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