Chapter Forty: We're leaving Bogon
"Sasha, listen. Clank and I left the bomb in the control room, just like you said," Ratchet took another breath. "We have no idea how the ship didn't explode."
"That's still not a good excuse," Sasha glared at him from her seat. "Heinous has enough power for his 'weapon', and he's gonna go back to Solana and start attacking. Or even worse….he'll attack Bogon!"
"He doesn't want Bogon," Ratchet said calmly.
"That's not the point!" Sasha fumed. He calmed down a little, rubbing her temples. "That will be all."
"Huh?"
Sasha tried to hide a yawn. "I'm gonna say my goodbyes to Angela, and then, we go back to Solana."
Ratchet signed sadly.
Followed by the silent Clank, the lombax left the Bridge.
"It's not our fault," Clank said as they stepped into the transporter.
"Yeah…..," Ratchet said sleepily, "……I know."
"And…..here's the last piece," Heinous said as he gave a Thugs-4-Less brute a back of bolts.
The thug smiled at the robot. "T'was a pleasure doin' business with ya."
"The pleasure was all mine," Heinous said. "You're all dismissed. I'll be leaving now."
The thug nodded and headed for his ship. While walking, he gave an 'Okay' sign to his comrades. They nodded and jumped into their ships.
The giant collector ship was in the middle of passing through the force field. It was now empty of all raritanium.
"Come on, Albert."
"What about Sandy and Raxamis, sir?" the blarg asked.
"Yeah, get them, will ya? Raxamis is in his room….and Sandy's in my room."
The butler nodded.
Heinous sighed as he remembered a certain last experiment he created.
"……………………………………………………………"
"Really?"
"Yes," Sasha nodded groggily at Angela's face, which was on a small holo-vid, "Heinous has enough raritanium and--" yawn "--will most likely return to the Solana galaxy."
"That's too bad."
Sasha only yawned.
Angela noticed. "You should get some sleep."
"Nnnnghhh," Sasha strained to stand up straight. He was the only one in the Bridge other than three rangers. "Rangers," she pointed, "get a course for Solana."
"Uh, Captain," a brave ranger uttered nervously, "if we get to Solana in the same time span as we got to Bogon, we'll run out of fuel."
"Then we'll send a dropship….or something--just do it!.!.!.!.!.!" Sasha was cranky.
"Yes, ma'am!" the rangers said at once as the scampered to their work stations.
Sasha yawned again.
"Goodbye, Sasha," Angela said. "And good luck."
"Goodbye," Sasha said. "Thanks for all the help." She fell into Qwark's chair and was out like a light.
"I here we're gonna go back to Solana," Nefarious said as he pressed buttons on the game controller he was holding. He shifted from position to position on the left sofa.
"Really?" Courtney asked. She sat a few feet away from Nefarious to give him some elbow room.
"Yeah. Apparently, Ratchet didn't manage to stop Jeremy, so we're going back to Solana. It's like Ping-Pong if you think of it."
Courtney nodded absentmindedly. She then said, "Why didn't you go with Ratchet? Heinous is your stepbrother, after all."
"Two reasons. One: There was a high chance that Jeremy wasn't on that ship. Two: There wasn't enough room in Ratchet's ship."
"Do you think you'll change you mind?"
"……………………………………….Maybe."
And that was when Lawrence entered the room.
"Sir, some people are asking you to turn the noise down; they need their sleep."
"Those squishies can rot in Hell for all I care!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!"
Courtney sighed, know full well that Nefarious hated his time being interrupted.
The four rocket 'mouths' all faced the same direction. They ignited, causing the base to move…
PSHHHOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!.!.!.!.!.!.!
…towards Solana.
The Starship Phoenix was busting with robotic activity. The rangers were powering the ship's thrusters up. All organic life-forms on the ship--including Sasha--were asleep.
Finally, the ship went into hyperspace.
PHHHHSSSSHHHHHHHHHWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHH!.!.!.!..!.!.!.!
This chapter wasn't much, I know. The next one will be a bit like Chapter Twenty-Nine, but with more humor and characters.