Chapter 3

At Nimbala

Nimbala landing pad

4:45 pm

Ratchet landed his ship on the sandy surface of Nimbala. He hopped out and looked at his surroundings; to his left was a completely deserted surface of sand and cactus's, to his right, were a few small buildings but they looked abandoned. Ahead of him was a great circular wall of stone, like a stone stadium. Of course this building must but he city, unfortunately, it was about two miles away. So Ratchet pulled out his hover-board, he was very pleased, as he had been looking for a real life situation to use this. Ever since Kassy (a girl he knew) had said "You can't use a hover-board in real life, you are either a pro making big bucks, or just some dumb kid riding around." I'll show her! Ratchet thought to himself. He put the hover-board down and put his feet on the glowing green circles, the metal straps came up and strap his feet down. Ratchet motioned his body slightly and he was off. Ratchet shot across the sand, leaving beautiful marks below him in the sand, the same thing happened over new snow. It didn't take long for Ratchet to get the doors of the city. He hopped off his board, put it on his back, and then banged on the door with his wrench. A small slit at the top of the door opened, and a gun nozzle pointed out.

"Don't shoot!" Ratchet yelled.

"Hold on a sec," The guard said, "I'm just reading this book of cliché's."

Soon the guard walked up, and moved the gun for the hole.

The guard was a bulky sort of man, with greenish bluish skin. He had medium round eyes that looked tired. As soon as he saw that Ratchet wasn't a Nimbalian, he said,

"No tourist without an appointment."

"I'm here to see the blue sage." Ratchet replied.

"Do you have an appointment to see him?

"Um...yes?" Ratchet said hoping the guard wouldn't check, and trying to make it seem as though he wasn't lying.

"Well then... hold on a sec let me just make sure he knows." The guard said walking off.

Shit! Thought Ratchet. He didn't know what to do, he looked at his wrench, and then he knew there was only one thing to do.

The guard walked into his office and went to the phone. But as he didn't he saw a poster with Ratchet on it. The poster read:

WARNING:

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

RATCHET ON LOOSE

1,000 BLARG REWARD FOR CAPTURE.

The guard looked at the picture, that looked like the guy alright. But he'd better make sure, so he went to get a second look at Ratchet, but when he went, Ratchet was gone.

"Huh?" The guard said.

Ratchet waited, his grip on his wrench tightened. Then he jumped out and held the wrench a few inches from the guards face.

"Look buddy, you move and you're dead. So open this door. And in case you think I won't do it, I broke out of a prison by killing 24 guards and jumping a 6-foot fence. So if you think you are gonna stop me from getting through these doors, you are sadly mistaken."

The guard opened the doors.

Ratchet took his wrench and used it to pin the guard to the wall, his neck in the space of the wrench. Then Ratchet took the guards card and swiped it through the card access door lock. He was about to give the card back, but then he figured he would probably need it later. Once out of the guard building, Ratchet walked down the streets of Nimbala. Nimbala city was nothing like outside the walls. Here, the land was all surrounding a lake, and all the houses were Tiki sort of huts. Ratchet wondered were he would find the blue sage. That is until he spotted a large hut at the top of a hill. It was clearly the highest property of the whole city. The roof of the hut came just a few feet below the top of the wall.

That must be the hut of the blue sage. Ratchet thought to himself.

He ran up to the wall, and used his swing-shot to hook onto a branch sticking out, from this he swung around the hill ¾ of the w3ay around, then he latched onto another branch, and swung ¾ of the way around, he did this 4 time and then he was at the top.

6:00 pm

Blue Sage's Hut, Nimbala

He walked in, and was looking straight at the blue sage.

"Come in my boy. I sense you have had a very herd time in getting here, come and have so tea. And oh yes, some fish fresh from the harbor we have a very good harbor here you know."

Ratchet was surprised. The hut was small, full of books, with a small kitchen to the left, and in the middle were chairs, in one of those chairs sat the sage.

The sage looked at Ratchet thoughtfully.

"Well now my boy, you have the whole city looking for you, and according to the news. Most of the galaxy, what on earth is so important that you had to see me?"

Ratchet was about to point out that the Sage had no T.V, and it didn't look as though he got the paper, but Ratchet decided not to.

"Well I have to get my revenge on Drek, and Clank you were the one to go to, so ya..." Ratchet said.

"I see. Well...Drek is, how shall I say this, no longer among us."

"You mean he's dead?" Asked Ratchet loudly.

"Yes, in less delicate terms..." replied the Sage.

"Great! Now I'll neverget my hands on him!" Ratchet said angrily.

"Well now my boy is that all you need?" Asked the sage.

"Yah." Ratchet said walking out the door.

Note, if this were a movie, right now the song, Were is my mind, by the Pixies would be playing.

Ratchet Swung down. He barely looked up as he flew past the guards, only knocking them down when he had to. This part is way cooler is the music is on!

He soon got to the borders, and got on his Hover-board. He zoomed out to his ship, the guards chased him, but he was too fast.

Once at his ship he zoomed off. They would never get him, they didn't even have a ship!