Chapter 5

Ratchet gets to Show Off his Skills, and We do some Recap

5:00 am

Ratchets Room, Aridia's Hideout.

Wake up! We got guards and cops surrounding this place! Grab as many weapons as you can carry and meet me at the space ship dock.

"Do you know what time it" Ratchet realized she was gone. Then everything she had just said got through his sleepy head and into his brain.

"Crap!" He said as he rushed off the bed and into the tiny closet.

There he found his bag, full of his gadgets. He swung the strap over his shoulder and headed for the Spaceship dock. Now you may be wondering how he found it, as Aridia had at no point showed him around the facility, but it was really quite simple. Ratchet had been in lots of bases, stations, etc. And the Space ship port was always in more or less the same place. He quickly ran to the port, and when he got in the room Aridia was waiting for him inside her ship.

5:20 am

Aridia's Space Ship

Location Undisclosed for Security Reasons (in other words we are being chased by guards and don't want them to know were we are)

Ratchet's Logue

Wow, I have just escaped from an intense space battle. There were guards everywhere! Fortunately, Aridia had a great idea. She grabbed some plastic explosive from her weapons locker on the ship, and stuck the plastic explosive in some carbonzian capsules. For those of you who don't know, carbonzia is an extremely strong metal, but has been know to crack under intense heat. So, I put on a space suit and took the capsules outside of the ship. Then I threw them in the direction of the cop's ships, and used my Pyrociter to set them off. The Pyrociter was powerful enough to break the capsules, and cause the plastic explosive to, well, explode. He he he, those guards had know idea what hit them.

This girl Aridia totally likes me I can tell. Like right before I left the ship, she said, "Be careful, we wouldn't want you to die."

She didn't want me to die! I'll admit it's not much, but hey, it's a start.

Anyway, I think its almost safe to go back to her hideout, so I'm gonna go.

Ratchet ran off to get Aridia, but he couldn't find her.

"Aridia! Hello? Where are you?" Ratchet called out to her.

"Hold your horses, I'm coming." Aridia said as she ran out to the pilot seat.

Ratchet sat down in the passengers seat, and noticed Aridia was certainly taking her time.

"Hey, uh, do you think you could hurry it up a bit?" Ratchet said.

"Why, what's your hurry?" Aridia asked.

"Well, there are loads of guards chasing us, wouldn't it be better to just get back to the hideout quickly?"

"Get back to the hideout? What are you, Stupid? They know where that place is. I hope you brought all of you stuff, cause we're never going back there. At least not till the heats off."

"Oh ya, sorry I'm just not used to this whole criminal stuff. I mean, at first I didn't care about anything. Then I met this robot named Clank, and so for some reason I turned

all-noble and tried to stop him from destroying the Universe. But then Drek came up with that bogus lie, and now I'm a convict. My life has been taking turns all over the place, and I can get really confused some times." Ratchet said scratching the back of his neck.

"Ya, well just make sure that you don't get too confused when we have to fight off all those guards."

"What? When?" Ratchet said confused.

"Oh ya. I figured out a new way for you to pay me back. You get to assist me in stealing some stuff. Tomorrow I have a big heist planned, with a good friend. You probably know him. His name is Sly Cooper; he's got some buddies. Let me fill you in on some of this stuff, you'll need to know it." Aridia explained as she handed Ratchet a Chart, which looked like this:

Bentley: Demolitions. This little turtle is in charge off all demolition, what so ever.

Murray: Our muscle. A big purple hippo, which will be assisting in all fighting.

Sly: Basically the leader, he has okay brains, and okay brawn, what he excels at, is sneaking around and steeling stuff.

Constable Neyla: Our girl inside. She gives Sly access and info, and no, its not because her and Sly have gone out to Bollywood together.

"Well, Thanks." Ratchet said, unsure of how to feel about all of this.