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Ch8:

Repairs & Declaration

Last time on Sibling Bonds, we left the remaining 10 witches in a desperate struggle against the neuroi. In an act of bravery, Ratchet, Clank, and Yoshika decided to save the others and confront the enemy themselves. It was a heated battle through and through, but in the end the 3 heroes destroyed the mechanised foe and reigned victorious. What will happen next? Find out right now!

Having gone through the rest of the tour yesterday, we begin our story today in the hangar as some of our heroes were doing nothing particular at the moment, watching Shirley seeming to have a bit of trouble with her striker unit. Looking on at this were Ratchet, Clank, Yoshika, Francesca, Lynne, and Perrine. She tries to test out her unit the old fashion way by using her magic to get it started. At first it was going smoothly, but then it started to go a little haywire for a few seconds and stopped.

"Damn it!..Come on baby don't give up on me now." Shirley continues to struggle with her unit. "So what exactly happened?" Yoshika turns to Lynne for some sort of explanation. "Shirley's striker unit got damaged in battle yesterday." Lynne explains why the redhead is having so much trouble. "How bad are the damages?" Clank ask as he continues to look at Shirley struggle. "There really bad, so bad that it may not work anymore." Francesca tells the robot a bit of the results.

"Ah man...If my unit doesn't work anytime soon, I won't be able to fly anymore!" Shirley continues to look frustrated. "Here let me take a look." Ratchet walks up to Shirley's unit and begins examining her unit. As he was carefully examining the unit, he was a little impressed by how the unit's interior design looked. "Hmm...I think I should be able to fix it. Clank did you happen to also bring my…" The lombax extends his right hand to the side as though someone is handing him something. "I'm way ahead of you." Clanks pulls out and gives Ratchet's signature tool and sometimes weapon, his Omniwrench.

When Clank pulled out the wrench, the girls were a little startled at the sight of the big wrench. "What do you think you're doing with that battle ax!?" Perrine mistakens the omniwrench with an ax. "Battle Ax?..What battle ax?" Ratchet looks back at sounding a little confused what they meant by that. "I think she's referring to the omniwrench." Clank guesses what she meant. "Omniwrench?" Yoshika looks back at the wrench itself. "Yeah, It's a wrench made Ultra-Light Teratannium." Ratchet explains a little about his tool.

"That thing's a wrench!?" Francesca was surprised to find out about the big tool/weapon. She wasn't the only one who was a little blown away by Ratchet's wrench, the other 5 were just as amazed by how big and advanced it was. "I got to admit that is a big ass wrench." Shirley was a bit by the size of the wrench. "Yeah, I don't think we never seen a wrench that big before." Lynne pointed out to the wrench.

"Wrench or not, it still looks as though it could be used as a weapon." Perrine points out to the others sounding a little stricted. "Hey, I may have used this to whack enemies, but it was a tool first." The lombax continues to fix Shirley's unit as they were speaking.

As he kept at it, Lynne turned to Yoshika looking a little concern about something. "Hey Yoshika. What happened to his tail?" She continues to look at the Lombaxes tail, wonder what had happened to it. Saying this caused the others to look as well with a bit of the same expression on their faces, except for Yoshika and Clank. As to what they staring at, was Ratchet's tail looked as though it had been rugged burned from nearly the tip of it.

Seeing this sort of thing, Clank and Yoshika looks back at each other with disturbed looks on their faces, for they knew what exactly happened. "It a bit of a long story actually." Yoshika sighs about happen to the hero's tail. "You see, it started off when we got back from saving you girls." Clank tries to explain what happened.

(Flashback)

We take you back to the day the 3 heroes saved the others from a life struggling battle from the enemy neuroi. All things seemed normal at the base after they gotten back from battle, until the sounds of screams of pain were coming throughout the base. The scream were coming from our lombax hero Ratchet, as he on his elbows and knees wincing in a bit of pain.

The reason for being in this state, was the fact that Captain Barkhorn was holding on to his tail while squeezing and giving it rug burn. The situation was even more worst for Ratchet, as she had her dog ears out thus using her magic to add more pain to the tail.

"Owowowow!" The lombax yelps in agonizing pain. Looking on at this was Yoshika and Clank with concerned looks on their faces. Along with the 2 were the Major and Commander looking on at what Barkhorn is dishing out on the fuzzy hero.

"Poor Ratchet." Yoshika sighed for Ratchet being in pain. "You think you could have chosen a less cruel and unusual punishment?" Clank agrees with a sigh. "That's what he gets for disobeying orders, and this had to be the punishment we had in mind." Minna looks back the 2 with a sigh. "Also, I don't think you 2 should be helping him at the moment. After all, he did say he would take responsibility and the punishment for the both of you, so I really wouldn't complain right now." Mio turns back to the 2 also with a sigh. "Yes ma'am." The both replied back with a sigh.

(Flashback End)

After explaining all that, the others had weird looks of grief on their face from hearing what happen to Ratchet's tail. "Wow, poor guy." Francesca sighs for the hero. "What's worst about that is he took it not only for him, but for us as well." Clank looks back at Yoshika, as they both felt and looked bad and guilty for Ratchet taking the bullet. "Well that's what he probably gets for disobeying orders." Perrine replies back not sounding the slightest bit of her feeling sorry for him. Ratchet sighed in annoyance over Perrine's comment.

"Ok, just more twisting and…" He gives it a light whack to Shirley's unit and closes the small door to the interior of the unit. "Alright it should be fixed, try giving it a test run now Shirley." Listening to the lombax's words, the redhead pops out her rabbit ears and uses her magic to power up her unit. From the sound of the unit, it sounded like it was working back to normal again. "Wahoo! It working once again! Just here this baby purr...Uh no pun intended." Shirley looks back to the hero with a bit of an embarrassing look. "Aah it's ok, I'm sort of use to that." He replies back politely.

After a few more seconds of revving up her unit, Shirley decides to have enough fun for the moment and powers down, thus turning off her unit. "Thanks for the fix fuzzy, I really appreciate it." Ratchet just pops up his right eyebrow from what Shirley just called him.

"That was quite impressive." The others turned to see that the voice belonged Commander Minna alongside Major Sakamoto. "Indeed it was." Major agreed with the commander. "Major?!" Lynne along with the others were a little surprised that they didn't see the 2 higher up witches standing 2 inches away from them. "How long have you been standing there?" Ratchet decides to ask how the 2 commanding witches.

"We been looking long enough, to see what you have doing for a while." Minna replies back the hero's question. "We couldn't help, but notice how well you're working on Yeager's striker unit." The Major points to the unit as she gives the hero a compliment. "Well you see, believe it or not, Ratchet's race are actually skilled engineers." Clank explains how Ratchet is really good what he does.

"Wow really?" Lynne and the others were a little surprised to hear that. "Oh, so that's why you were interested in the striker unit from yesterday." Yoshika brought up what happened yesterday during first part of the tour. "When you put it that way, yes. I mean look at these, great turbines, good interior, and the way it's styled." Ratchet could go on and on about his compliments about the units, but only had time for a few.

As the others talked amongst themselves, the Major began to wander in thought as she kept on staring at the lombax with uneasy look on her face. "Skilled engineers huh? It's all interesting, yet still sounds so familiar" As she kept on wondering for a second she was snapped back to reality when a voice started to call her name.

"Major Sakamoto, thank goodness I found you." The voice belonged to fellow soldier and friend Hijikata, who was a well dressed in uniform male with short dark hair and eyes. "Hijikata, you needed to see me?" She turns to Hijikata in a concern manner. "Yes Major, the unidentified aircraft that you requested to bring back here from yesterday, should be here in a couple of minnutes." He reported back to her about ratchet's ship.

After hearing that, Ratchet and the others turned to the conversation concerning the hero's ship. "Now that's some good news to hear, right Clank?" Ratchet looks back to his robotic friend. "That it is indeed good." Clank replied back to his lombax bubby. "Yaah! What on earth…?" Hijikata was a little startled when he first saw the lombax and sentry-bot for the 1st time.

"It's alright, these 2 are with us. Infact, they're the ones who helped us yesterday with the neuroi." She informed him Hijikata of the 2 heroes who help during the battle with the enemy. In fact, he was a little surprised to learn that the 2 space heroes were the ones who helped took down a neuroi. "It's honor that we thank you for helping us in retrieving our ship Mr. Hijikata." Clank decides to bows in respect to the Fuso soldier. "You're are quite welcome, but you don't have to call me Mister." Hijikata smiles back at the bot while rubbing the back of his head.

"Anyways, you said it's going to be here soon right?" Ratchet turns to Hijikata hoping for an answer. "Affirmative, it should should be here in momentarily." He reports back to the lombax. "Good work, thank you and the others once again." Minna thanks him once one last time. "You're welcome Commander." He bows in respect to the Commander. "Are you 2 ready to see your ship again?" Sakamoto turns to the 2 heroes. There was no reply at first as the 2 of them look at each other, then turned their heads back to the Major. "You know we are." Ratchet says in response.

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Now at the opening of the base's hangar, the 11 witches and the 2 heroes are waiting the arrival of the ship with anticipation. As they were waiting, the sight of a large cargo plane was coming straight towards the base. "It's almost here Major." Minna looks back at Sakamoto. "All right, everybody standing by for landing!" The Major instructs everyone to please stand by for the ship.

In nearly a couple of minutes or maybe even seconds, The plane was coming down for a landing. It safely landed on the platform with the greatest of ease with no damage in sight. With not much time to waste, the plane's' door opened up and a couple of men with the same outfits as Hijikata were trying to push the ship forward into base without doing anymore damage to it.

Most of the witches were a little surprised by the ship's appearance, for they expect for Yoshika, Lynne, Perrine, and Francesca never seen such a thing like that before in their lives. "So that's it huh?" Elia decides to ask the one who actually got a chance to see the ship before. "Yep,that it. That the ship." Lynne was the one who decides to speak up answering Elia's question. "To be honest, I kinda figured it would be bigger." Shirley talks about the ship's size.

"Ok, thank you and the others once again for the help Hijikata." The Major thanks him one more time as she bows her head. "You're once again welcome Major. Ok men let's move back out!" Hijikata leaves with the other men out of the hangar, just leaving the ship alone with witches and the 2 heroes.

Seeing how bad the ship is, the 2 galactic heroes walk to it and began to examine it to find out if it still would work. "How bad are the damages boys?" Minna decides to ask in concerns of their ship's condition. "They are bad as we anticipated." Clank decides to answer her question sounding a little serious. "You said pal, her parts got busted in the battle when we got here. Let me see if I can get her to respond." Ratchet pushes a few buttons to if the ship would activate.

When Ratchet pushed on the activation button, the ship began to glow just a bit. This signified the ship was working but, just a little bit for the most part. "Aphelion, Aphelion do you copy?" The lombax tries to see if he can get a response back from the ship. At first it started as static, but in a few short seconds she started to become a little more clear. "Copy loud and clear." The ship responded back to her lombax owner.

The girls were surprised and impressed to hear the ship actually talk like that. "Woow that's so cool. I guess his ship must be really smart for it having to talk." Yoshika wonders in thought over Aphelion. "Aphelion, what's the status report on your condition?" Ratchet asked his ship about the damages. "Total amount of damage 95%" The ship makes the analysis on her damages. "That doesn't sound too good. We're going to repair you completely, which really shouldn't too much of a problem." Ratchet sums up what he needs to do to make this right.

"Do you really think that we would be able to repair her?" Clank looks back at his best friend with concern expression. "Definitely, I mean we can use the resources around here on Earth." Ratchet turns his head to the robot with a bit of confidence in his eyes. "Are you sure about that?" Clank ask sounding as though he wasn't sure if that would work.

"No problem. Say doesn't anyone here know where we can some supplies for repairs?" Ratchet looks back to the witches hoping to get answer. "Umm...I suppose...we can. What kind of supplies are we talking about?" Minna replies back to the lombax's question. "Well for starters, do you know a place that has raritanium?" Ratchet asked if they know where to find raritanium. "Uh? I don't think we have that around here on Earth." The Major tells the heroes the bad news.

"Oh...ok how about some auxiliary thrusters?" Ratchet ask again. "We don't have those either." Minna replied back this time.

Ratchet: "Ion boosters?"

Mio: "No."

Ratchet: "Titanium sprockets?" (Sounding a little worried)

Minna: "We're afraid not."

Ratchet: "Gravimetric wrap drive?" (Sounding more worried)

Mio: "Unfortunately not and we don't know what that is."

"Ok...looks like we do have a problem then. Do you a least have any form of engine?" Ratchet asked the 2 witches. "Why yes indeed." Mio replies back first to the lombax. "We'll make sure you get the one that would do the job." Minna tries sounding a little comforting to Ratchet. "Thanks I guess." Ratchet sounded a little worried saying that. "Are you ok Ratchet?" Clank ask sounding concern. "Well pal considering the facts that we don't have most of the supplies we need, I'm not quite sure we'll be able to get off this planet." Ratchet looks back at his friend with a worried expression, which made both Clank and the witches feel bad a little.

As the others continue to look at the bad side of things, Yoshika had other thoughts about the situation and decides to speak up. "You can do it." She said sounding a proud. "Miyafuji?" The Major says a little quietly. "I know you can do it." Yoshika continues to look at the heroes righteously. "I believe it isn't all that simple Miss Miyafuji, we're not quite sure if we can repair the ship without the proper supplies." Clank talks back to her about the situation. "Then we'll help you. We will do anything for you if you need it." Yoshika saying some big words which got the rest of the witches wondering.

Then understanding what Yoshika was saying, Mio then smiles proudly for those spoken words from her. "Miyafuji is right. Don't give up hope just yet." She says righteously clenching her fist. "That's right, as she said before we will do anything to help you 2 out." Minna agrees with the other elder witch. "Yeah, we're behind you for this no matter what!" Shirley was next to agree. "Yeah!" Then Francesca was next. "You can count on us." Lynne was next to agree. "She said it, we're with you!" Then Hartmann. "We'll be happy to help." Even Eila and Sanya

As most the witches agreed, it the heroes a little touched and warm inside for those kindful words. "Wow, you girls really are a special one of a kind group are you?" Ratchet said this time with a smile. "I guess you can say something like that." Yoshika replies back to the question with a smile of her own. "Thank you all for volunteering to help us." Clank thanked the witches. "You're quite welcome." Shirley decides to reply back with a smile.

"As of right now, we vow to help you 2 in anyway possible to get back home! Right girls?!" The Major righteously decelerated to the 2. "Right!" The rest of the witches agreed in unison. "Well Clank looks like we got some help!" Ratchet looks back at his partner with a smile. "Indeed we do." Clank smiles back at his friend sounding quite proud.

As the days will keep rolling on now that the 2 heroes gaining help from the witches, what will happen to them in the near future? Find out in the next chapter!

To Be Continued.

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