Chapter 9: Battle for Gremlin part 1
It had been hours and Rachel hadn't been able to wake any of the Q force to help Ratchet and Al hadn't come back from the ship yet and it was way to far away for Rachel to crawl to him. Rachel tried to inch her way back to Ratchet.
"Ratchet? Doing better?"
"Worse" he barley managed to say. There was a bruise big enough to be seen through the fur. Ratchet was shaking and Rachel was starting to worry about him.
"Should I try to wake up the others again…Ratchet?" Ratchet's eyes were slowly closing and he could barley understand anything Rachel was saying.
"Ratchet! Stay awake!"
"I'll be fine jus-" ratchet was interrupted by the noise of ship engines.
"Al…" he said his voice trailing off
"R-Rachel call Al."
"I'm on it." she got out a communication device and called Al
"He's not answering…"
Ratchet forced himself to his feet squeezing his eyes and grinding his teeth.
"Ratchet you need t-"
"Look! I'm going to save Al!" he bent down to Rachel and picked her up
"And you're coming too." Ratchet inched his way up the stairs with Rachel in his arms.
"The holo shields are down…" Rachel whispered.
"And I can see the ships outside. What are we going to do?" Ratchet looked around anxiously, Rachel could tell that he was getting scared. Ratchet spotted a good hiding spot behind a couch near caption quark and put Rachel there.
"Ratchet! Are you insane!" she whispered. Ratchet only replied by throwing her his disk blade gun. Rachel could only watch Ratchet stumble into the dark.
"The doors are open…these aren't tyrranoids drop ships though…who do they belong to? Oh crud!" Ratchet ducked behind a patch of snow. Galactic rangers started exiting the vehicle and walked toward Angela's house.
"Galactic rangers? I can't believe it!" Ratchet limped over to the drop ships."You came back…"
Another Lombax came out of the ship. He looked a lot like Ratchet a bit taller though. And he had a serious face.
"I can't believe we ever left you guys." The stranger said reaching his hand out to shake ratchets. Ratchet was unfamiliar with the other Lombax.
"And you are?" Ratchet asked
TYRRANOSIS
SOLDIERS CAFITERIA
"Gary calm down dude! I just think you shouldn't have said all the stuff to" Aaron, a friend of Gary, was interrupted
"I stand by what I said." Gary growled
"Whatever it's just-"
"She wasn't just anything and it was wrong!"
"Gary why do you care about her so much?"
"Do you ever think how it could have effected her?"
"Her side is at a disadvantage…this is a good thing"
"NO YOUR NOT LISTINING" Gary yelled
"I said HOW COULD IT EFFECT HER!"
"She's a robot now?"
"NO SHE WAS PREGNANT!" he realized that he shouted that a bit louder than he should have. Aaron's expression was blank.
"And she doesn't even remember me. She stared at me like I was…" Gary's voice was now hushed.
"But are you sure she was pregnant? I mean, when did she tell you?" Aaron whispered
"Yesterday before this all happened."
"Wow…so you and her were like-"
"Not with me you idiot!"
"Just had to make sure." Aaron chuckled
"We all know you like her."
"Not that way."
"Hey!" boomed a voice from behind the two men.
"We don't talk about 'Sasha' anymore got it. If she were to figure out anything she could tell the others and they could all start to question us. And we could have all of them against us! Sasha never existed understand!"
"Yes sir" Aaron and Gary said in unison.
"Gen bad news" a Sasha's voice rung
"The Unit on gremlin hasn't responded to my calls. That's where they must be sir. I suggest we catch them before they can do more damage."
"Good job." The sergeant said running off.
"And you two are looking at…?" she turned her attention to Gary and Aaron.
"Nothing Sasha, I-I-mean R1"
"Sasha?"
"I can't do this" Gary mumbled grabbing Sasha and pulling her into the corner.
"Are you crazy?" Aaron called from the other side of the room
"I'm on my own now!" Gary called back
"What is this all about?" Sasha roared
"You aren't who you think you are!" Sasha chuckled
"Who am I?" she asked
"Your Sasha, you and me used to be good friends" Sasha smiled
"I remember!" she whispered
"We were good friends!" Gary nodded
"Good friends do each other favors right?" Gary frowned
"Yes." He mumbled
"Good because when I'm out on gremlin I want you to be part of the squad I send." smiled and walked away.
"Why did I even bother to try…?" Gary continued to scold himself as Sasha got further and further away from him. She caught up with the sergeant she had recently spoken to and walked off with him.
"So we can start gathering the soldiers tomorrow morning and-"
"Are you crazy?" she interrupted
"We should attack now?"
"But were unprepared."
"Think you idiot! Neither are they. Not only are they outnumbered one for every 1000 soldiers we'll be sending-"
"But what if they are prepared what if the fleet regrouped?"
"Then we send more ships, and more soldiers. We'll keep them on standby just a few miles off the planet."
"And the megacorp fleet and their soldiers."
"Don't you understand? We can take everyone and everything out in one blow. We'll send hundreds of R unit's to megacorp HQ and have them take over while I finish off the other nuisances."
"If you think-"
"Sir I know this will work."
"…Ok fine."
GREMLIN
"Thanks." Ratchet said
"I have no idea what we would have done if you hadn't come."
"No problem, I'm just sorry we couldn't be here earlier."
"So what's the status?"
"There snipers all over the hills of the valley there soldiers all over the place trust me you and your friends are fine.
OUTSIDE
"Do you see that." one of the rangers said to one of the others.
VALLY FLOOR
"Thanks to you Gary I'm here in the pitch black night patrolling every inch of this WHITE PLANET!" Aaron yelled
"Hey do you see that?" the whole group looked up.
"sni-" Gary was cut short by a shot to the chest
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