Chapter 1

Ratchet walked through the doors to the bridge. Sasha had just called him via transmitter and told him there was something he should see. He stepped casually up to the centre of the room were Sasha was. "You said you wanted me."

"Yeh, take a look at this will you." Ratchet looked through the glass window in the direction Sasha was pointing. Swirling around in the middle of space was a large purple "hole" in space.

"What the hell is that?" Ratchet asked.

"We don't know that's the problem. We think it's either a very strange black hole or a very strange warp hole. We sent some scanners down but apparently to them there's nothing there."

"Want me to take a look?"

"That's what we called you down for." Ratchet walked back to his quarters to fetch Clank and his omni-wrench. He told Clank all that was going on and what they were going out to do. Ratchet put on his magnaplate armour (he found the infernox armour to hard to move in) turned on the oxygen supplier and launched himself into space. They both floated over to the "hole" and surveyed it, looking for any sign of what it could be.

"It's all so weird." Ratchet said and put out a hand to touch it. As soon as his hand made contact everything started to spin, it seemed that him touching it had just "activated" it and started pulling them in. Ratchet reached out to try and grab Clank but couldn't seem to find him. He tried to call out but his voice wouldn't work. He was just falling… falling… falling…

"Ugghh" Ratchet pulled himself off the ground and dusted himself down. "Oh shit, what happened? Clank?" Ratchet looked around; he seemed to be in a clearing in the middle of a wood, the light filtering through the treetops. But no Clank, all he could hear was a deep sound of breathing. Deep sound of breathing? Deep sound of breathing! Ratchet twirled around and found himself staring in the face of some sort of huge lizard. It was standing upright on two feet and its arms had huge blades on the end of them. Ratchet tried to pull out his Omni-wrench but the creature knocked him aside. It was moving in with its arms raised about to strike, when a man jumped out from the top of one of the tree's and landed on the creatures head. The man couldn't be that old he looked actually around 17. The man pulled out a long blade with a trigger on the hilt, a gunblade, Ratchet remembered facing an inexperienced gladiator with one of these. A powerful weapon if used right. The man quickly grabbed hold of the creatures' snout and swung round to face it. Then with one quick movement he pushed the gunblade into the creature's throat and twisted. The thing roared in pain and fell to the ground, were it exploded into tiny wisps of multi-coloured smoke. The man walked over to Ratchet.

"You want to be careful; monsters live in large numbers in the forests." He replaced his gunblade into its sheath. "The name's Squall, Squall Leonhart"