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Ch9:

Another Tour

Last time on Sibling Bond, a day had passed since the three heroes have saved the other witches. On that same day accordingly, Aphelion was discovered by some recruits of the military and was brought to the base under the Major's orders. Upon further inspection by the heroes and the witches, Aphelion was badly damaged. In an act of declaration, the witches have vowed to help the two galactic heroes with repairs. Will the heroes get the back home? What awaits them in the future? Find right now!

We begin our story today in the base's hangar, where Ratchet is working on something that might help him and Clank when the time comes. He's currently assembling it next to Aphelion which still need repairs. As he works, he was also in the presence of Yoshika, Lynne, and Perrine who wanted to watch him set up something.

"Ok, this should do it." The Lombax pushes a button to activate it. What he had activated started glow and show a variety of weapons. Some of which were weapons he'd used before against the last neuroi Yoshika, Clank and himself have destroyed.

Slightly amazed by the thing, the girls look on with a slight look of optimism. "What is that?" Lynne decides to ask first.

Having no problem answering her, Clank decides to give her an answer. "What you're seeing a weapons vendor. It should be able to help us in battle for when we run out ammunition." The robot explains to the three witches.

"I guess that makes sense. Since you're using weapons that aren't on Earth, It should be easier to get the ammo that way." Yoshika tries to see why the two would need a weapon vendor.

"I'm not quite sure if it's ok. I mean with it, they can get as much ammunition they wanted. They can even you it against us." Perrine questions the purpose of the weapon vendor.

"That's not necessarily true. We can get as much ammunition, as long as we have enough bolts on us." Clank furthers the explanation to the three girls.

"What do you mean bolts?" Yoshika ask, as she and the two other girls were confused by what Clank had meant.

"You know, the currency of the weapon and it's ammo." Ratchet decides to answer the Fuso witch's question. "Oh." Yoshika replied back sounding unsure, for she sort of slightly understood what they had meant.

"Sorry we're a little late. It took a bit of a long time getting the martials." A voice calls out to the group of 5. Said voice belonged to the Major, as Minna, Barkhorn, Shirley, and herself walk towards the group, while carrying boxes full materials.

"Are those some of the parts that might be able to fix the ship?" The Lombax looks back the other 4 witches with a slight look of confidence on his face.

"Yep, we managed to find some parts laying around that might be able to help." Minna explains as she and the other 3 witches put the boxes of material down.

"If that's not enough, we even manage to find and purchase some reading material that could help out as well." Shirley adds on to the explanation.

"Thanks you. This should be good for now." Ratchet thanked the four witches, as he opened one of the boxes that had the reading material inside.

Feeling the need to peak at the material, Ratchet takes a good look at the first thing he grabs, which was some kind of magazine. Upon looking at the reading material, the lombax had a strange confused and surprised look on his face.

"No way. Does this planet have prehistoric lombaxes or something?" After the fuzzy hero had said, slight confusion gone through most of their heads. Wanting to see what he had meant, the others look at what he was reading. After getting a glimpse of what he was reading, most of them felt confused and dumbfound.

"Ratchet, that's a bobcat." Yoshika points out to the lombax, making him feel a little dumb for thinking that was some kind of lombax from ancient history.

"Oh...Well, she very pretty." Ratchet gives a compliment the picture of the bobcat in the magazine.

"How can you tell that's a girl?" Perrine questions the lombax on how he is able to identify the gender of the bobcat in the magazine. "I can just tell." Ratchet answers the blonde witch's question.

"Hey, you were the one who picked most of the books. Why did you put that in there?" Barkhorn looks back at Shirley while giving her displeased look.

"Oh you know me, wanting to put in a good laugh. Plus, I put that in there just in case he doesn't get too lonely." Shirley slightly laughs and gives the lombax a wink. After words, most of the group turned slightly red, for they understood what Shirley had meant by saying that.

Wanting to change the subject a bit, the major clears her throat as she prepares to speak. "A side from getting prepares done, how would you two like another tour?" She suggest to the two heroes.

"Another tour?" The lombax asks in confusion, as he wasn't quite sure she had meant by that. "I thought we already took a tour of the base two days ago." Clank brings up, as was just as confused as Ratchet.

"Not around the base sillys. We mean in the town of Romagna." Minna tries to clear up the confusion. "You did tell us that you two are on vacation. So as a debt of gratitude, we like to show you a part of this world of ours." She finishes explaining to the two heroes.

Seeing no harm in that, Ratchet and Clank turned to them with a slight smile of confidence on both of their faces. "Sure thing." The lombax says to the two higher up witches. "We would be delighted." Clank confirms to group that they would honored to have another tour.

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Driving in a military truck, the two heroes were making their way to the town of Romagna while being accompanied by Yoshika, Mio, Minna, Barkhorn, Francesca, and Shirley. As they were driving, the truck was slightly bumping up and down as it goes through some tough terrain.

"Can this ride get anymore bumpy?!" Ratchet groans as he and most of the others felt the brunt of the terrain.

"That's Shirley's way of driving for ya." Francesca compliments her friends way of driving with a smirk.

"I hope you two like the town. Romagna is actually quite beautiful." Yoshika tells the boys as they make their way to the town.

"Miyafuji's right. Romagna has a lot of interesting details that you two might find pretty fascinating." Minna adds on to what Yoshika is say.

"Yeah, my home country even has a lot of food that is really delicious." Lucchini also adds on, as she pictures the images of the food of her home country.

"Trust us, we'll take your word for it. Also, why do I have to wear this?" Ratchet questions why he has to wear a dark brown hood with a matching cape and a mask that covered up his mouth and face, that only shows his eyes.

"Sorry, but we don't think some of the people are ready to see an alien and his robot. I hope you could understand that." Mio says, as she apologizes to the duo.

"It's perfectly fine. Telling by the how you all you girls reacted to when you saw us, I wouldn't be at all surprised." Clank brought up an a good point, as he and Ratchet didn't mind at all.

After the conversation, another few bumps from the terrain of the road had occurred. Feeling the brunt form the bumps again, most of the gang slightly groaned after feeling that. Laughing at most of that were Shirley and Francesca, as they were enjoying the ride.

"Can you drive properly?!" Barkhorn glares at the redheaded driver, as she was in the shotgun seat of the truck.

"Oh come on. It's pretty fun." Shirley laughs at Barkhorn's misfortune, as she and Francesca thinks the way she's driving is fun.

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After some more tough terrain and slight reckless driving, the heroes have made it to the town of Romagna. The sight of the town was simply beautiful, as there were so many big buildings, shops, and lovely blue skies.

As an overwhelming response, Ratchet whistles at the sight of the beauty of the current surroundings. "Look at this place. Pretty lovely, huh Clank?" Ratchet turns towards his mechanical friend, who was attached to Yoshika's back, like a backpack. "It really is." The robot agrees with his lombax companion.

"That's just scenery of this place. Just wait until we go into the places around here." Yoshika tries to peek their interest while being a somewhat tour guide. "I couldn't have agreed more. Let's get this tour started." The Major declares.

(Short Montage)

And so, the group were making their way throughout the whole town of Romagna. From the looks on most of their faces, it seemed that they were having a good time. It was especially going well for the duo from space, for they were actually enjoying themselves for the first time in a while. From eating amazing foods, going into stores to see amazing stuff, and learning a lot about earth and it's inhabitants. All in all, it was turning out to be a good tour for the two galactic heroes.

(End Montage)

Now relaxing at a white round table with matching white chairs outside a store, Ratchet, Clank, and Yoshika were taking a break from touring, as they were waiting for the other five witches to come back from a stand nearby.

"So you two, what do you guys think of all this, so far?" The young Fuso witch asked the two heroes how they were enjoying the tour.

"It's great. I mean I gotta say, this place has got some class. Right, Clank?" Ratchet turns to his metal friend while still being on Yoshika's back.

"I couldn't agree with you more. This place is quite amazing for those who want to relax." Clank agrees with the lombax.

"I'm glad you two like it here." The Major walks up to the table with the other four witches, with some Romanian sweets in their hands.

"Sorry, we couldn't get you one, Clank." Shirley apologizes to the robot, as she places one of the sweets down on the table.

"I'm pretty sure robots don't eat the kind of food we eat." Barkhorn reminds Shirley that Clank is not a human being.

"That is alright. I had some oil from earlier today when we went to the auto shop a couple of blocks down from here." Clank reminded them of where they went.

"Seeing that you two enjoyed yourselves today, what do you say we get back to the base soon when we're done here?" Minna suggest to the duo and the others.

"That sounds alright. We had much fun today. Right Ratchet?" Clank asked the lombax if he had a good time.

"You said it, pal." Ratchet didn't mind leaving soon, for he knew Clank wasn't wrong. They did have a good time that day.

However at that moment, it all went slightly went down hill as the sound of a siren goes through the air. The group was caught off guard once the alarm goes off. Wondering about this, the Major uses her magic and flips her eye patch up, revealing her right bright purple eye.

As she searches the area around her, she managed to spot something coming towards the town. From the sight of it, she already could tell that the situation was bad, as the enemy was an neuroi shaped like a rocket.

"It's a neuroi and it's heading this way!" She revealed to the others. "Oh no!" Yoshika yelps out, as she and the others shocked to hear.

"Damn it! Just when we thought it was going to be peaceful today!" Shirley cursed with anger at the enemy that approaches them.

"Get back to the truck and get to your units! We're going to take down before it reaches town." Minna instructs the others to get ready.

"What would you like us to do?" Ratchet ask the commander what he and Clank should do to to help the witches.

"You two take cover and wait until it's over." Minna orders the galactic heroes to stay out of the fight. Ratchet started to get very annoyed, after he and Clank heard Minna's orders to have them both to stay out of the fight, again.

"Oh, come on! We want to help!" The lombax pleaded. "Why won't you allows us to help?" The robot insisted that he and ratchet should help.

"We don't have time arguing about this! The enemy is getting closer by the second!" Barkhorn points out to the others. "Then, let us help!" Clank pleaded some more to the witches.

"Yeah, we disobeyed your words before and don't think that we won't do it again! I'll take as many of your punishment as it takes! We're helping and that's final!" Ratchet righteously bursted out, which seemed to have really grabbed their attention when he had said that.

"Major?" Minna turns towards the eye patched, as she and the rest of them didn't slightly know what to think of the lombax words. It was a few seconds of silence at that point, until Mio let out a small sigh in defeat.

"It would seem that they have made up their minds." She sighs with a small smirk. After that, she turns back towards them with a more serious expression. "Alright, You can help. Remember, you to get one chance. Don't screw it up." The Major finishes with talking to the two heroes.

"Let's move out and take it down!" Minna orders the others to take action. "Right!" They responded at the same time, as it was time to fight.

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Hovering through the sky via striker units, the group of heroes take action as they defend the town from the enemy neuroi. Luckily for them, the witches brought their units just in case of an emergency such as this. Because if they didn't bring them along, the would be caught guard. As for the two galactic heroes, Ratchet was being carried by Yoshika, as Clank was on her back.

"Alright, are you guys ready?!" The Major shouted to the others. "Ready!" The witches responded back, as Ratchet pulls out his constructo pistol. "Ready!" He replies back, as he was ready for battle.

"Now don't let it get through and take it down!" Sakamoto orders. "Yes ma'am!" The responded back, as they charge the enemy head on.

The battle with the neuroi has begun, as the heroes fight not only for their lives, but also for the town's sake. Bullets were sent flying towards the neuroi and magical shields were up to avoid it's red energy attacks.

Red plasma blast were also sent flying towards the enemy, as Ratchet keeps on firing his constructo pistol. The shots he made manage to do some damages to the enemy. Just enough to leave a couple of holes on the enemy.

In other words, they were on a winning edge of the battle, but still had some trouble with the enemy. They still needed to take it down, yet it keeps on get closer to the town with every second.

"Damn it! It's not letting up!" Barkhorn brought up as she keeps on firing. "What the hell do we do now?!" Shirley feels the same way.

"No! My home is going to be destroyed!" Francesca yells in dismay for her town's possible demise.

As though things seemed rather bleak, Clank looked back at one of the town's tallest building. This in which, may have sparked something that may help. "I may have an idea!" The bot tells the lombax and the witches.

"Let's hear it!" Minna and the others listen in on what Clank has planned. "Listen carefully." Clank sets up to explain.

"Miss Yoshika, do you see that building over there? I want you to put Ratchet on top of it to make the shot. Ratchet we need you to use your Plasma Striker for this. In the meantime, you witches try to find it's weak spot and core, so Ratchet can the shot" Clank summarizes the plan to them.

"That's kind of easier said than done, don't you think?" Barkhorn continues to hold off the enemy after listen to that plan.

"Yeah, but so we have to give it a try." Minna was on board with the plan the small robot had made.

"Agreed, Miyafuji! Get him up to building so he can make the shot." The Major ordered the other fuso witch. "Right!" She replies back as she flies towards the building.

"Are you sure this is going to work, pal!?" Ratchet was a bit worried about his robotic friend's plan. "Just, trust on this!" Clank tries to give Ratchet some confidence.

After being placed on the top of the building, Yoshika flies back to the others and Ratchet pulls out his plasma striker. He tries to focus on aiming correctly so he doesn't miss. Because he misses or screws up the shot, it all over for them and the town itself, along with it's people.

"Keep at until the core shows up!" The Major orders the other to keep on firing. In doing so, they were weakening the enemy. With just a few more shots, the witches manage to shoot up the opening that they needed.

"It's the core!" The Major revealed to them. "Ratchet! Take the shot!" Clank followed up to tell Ratchet it was time to strike.

The lombax positions his weapon carefully. For he knew that it would be the end if he messed up. "Study...Study…" Ratchet locks on to the core, as it was now time to strike the opening. "FIRE!" He pulls the trigger a few times. The shots he fired managed to land successful hits on the enemy. One of the shots even manage to hit the core.

Said core, then shattered into red shards. After word, the neuroi was destroyed and shatters itself into neuroi fragment like they usually do. Seeing the results of all this had put a smile on the heroes and witches faces. For they had one the battle with the foe.

"We did it!" Francesca cheers in excitement. "Wow, Clank! Your plan worked!" Shirley was proud of the robotic hero's genius. "I never doubt it you for a second, pal." Ratchet compliments Clank though the communication piece.

"It was nothing, really. We all pitched in together to stop the enemy. It was more of a team effort, if anything." Clank explains to them.

"Couldn't have said better myself. We all did well today and that's what truly matters." Mio words put warm smiles to their faces. For they all did really well this fine day. However, there was still one thing that Ratchet needed.

"Hey, not sound rude or anything, but...Can someone get me down from here, please?" The lombax pleases to be let down from the building.

To Be Continued.

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