Apocalypse

Chapter Two: The Fall of Q-Force

Ratchet fired the Disintegrator at Klunk, who merely stepped out of the way of it's destructive blast.

'Your weapons cannot hurt me Ratchet!' Klunk bellowed, firing a

volley of missiles at the Lombax, who ran away whilst changing his weapon to the Hypershot and quickly made his way down to where Clank was lying. When he hit the bottom, he fired a few Devastator shots at Klunk and ran up to his fallen friend.

'Clank, come on, wake up!'

Slowly Clank opened his eyes.

'We've got to stop him before he destroys all of Metropolis.'

Clank nodded and lifted Ratchet onto his back.

'Now let's go kick some ass!'

Klunk was smashing down a skyscraper when he suffered a vicious blow to the head.

'You'll pay for that Clank!' Klunk hissed, firing another missile. Clank dodged it and threw Ratchet onto Klunk.

'Get off me Lombax!'

Ratchet fired his Disintegrator into Klunk's chest.

'Ouch!' the giant robot groaned as he toppled to the floor, reverting to normal size as he went. Giant Clank followed suit, though less noisily. As Klunk yelled and kicked, Ratchet put him in the suck cannon and returned to the ship.

'Let's get back to the Phoenix.'

When they did get to the Phoenix, it was a mess. Large blast marks were visible in the floor and the Armour Vendor was smashed. The intercom flickered.

'All personnel too the…' it fazed out. As Ratchet ran towards the bridge a large piece of rubble crashed in front of him, blocking the way in.

'Oh no!' Ratchet shook his fist.

Just then Qwark's ship pulled in.

'Sorry I'm late, I was watching Secret Agent Clank and I ended up landing on Eudora…Who let off a Mini-Nuke in here?'

Ratchet glared at him.

'Is there any other way onto the bridge?' he asked.

'Sure, just go through the living quarters.' Qwark replied, heading off in that direction. Ratchet and Clank followed him, passing fallen Galactic Rangers and the trophy room, which had been totally obliterated. As they reached the living quarters, Qwark ran down a set of stairs previously concealed by the hypersleep capsules.

'This way Ratchet!'

As they ran down the passageway, there was a large group of very angry looking robotic creatures wielding Tesla Claws. Qwark whipped out his blaster.

'Watch how a real hero gets it done boys.'

Qwark tripped over a bump in the floor. Ratchet sighed and blew the robots up with his Shock Cannon. As they ran, they bumped into Skid… or what was left of him.

'Skid!' Ratchet yelled in anguish. He tried to wake his friend but to no avail, as the Rilgaran had a large hole in his stomach.

'He was a good warrior. But we have no time to mourn we must find the others.' Clank said.

Ratchet nodded and ran forwards onto the bridge.

There was a large force of the robots blasting away at the frantically assembled barricades at the bridge entrance. Sasha, Helga, Skrunch and Al were frantically blasting away at the creatures.

'Ratchet! Qwark! We're so glad you made it. Where's Skid?' asked Sasha.

'Gone.' replied Ratchet sadly. At that moment, Helga spoke up.

'I vill not be staying here for ever! I say ve fight through the ze escape pods, or die trying.'

Everyone nodded. The final charge…

As the Phoenix burned, a sleek sinister black ship pulled towards it.

'Commander, commence the final assault. Q-Force will be destroyed.'

'Yes sir.'

As Q-Force ran, the robots had broken through the rubble and were firing rapidly at Q-Force. Al barely dodged a laser blast. Then Suddenly, the dark ship pulled into the docking bay. All eyes darted over to it as the cloaked figure exited. Thinking about what happened to Skid, Ratchet growled, but at that moment, the figure moved like lightning and beheaded Helga. Qwark yelled and fired towards the mysterious figure.

'We have to get to the ship Qwark, hurry.'

The superhero grudgingly nodded. They were nearly there when a stray shot hit Al in the chest.

'Just…keep…going.' He groaned, toppling backwards onto a fallen Galactic Ranger. The remainder of Q-Force reached Ratchet's ship, quickly getting in. Ratchet was last.

'Ratchet what are you doing?' Clank asked.

'Getting revenge.' The Lombax growled.

Before anyone could stop him, Ratchet ran towards the robots, his N60-Hurricane blazing. It was blasted out of his and still the Lombax ran, wrench in hand. He did not notice the robot creeping up behind him. Too late. A shot rang out. Ratchet closed his eyes.

No pain. He slowly opened his eyes. Sasha was slumped over on the floor. It was then that Ratchet realized what she'd done.

'No!'

His world suddenly went black as he suffered a powerful blow to the head.

Plz. No flames if I killed your favourite character. Next chapter up ASAP.