He easily caught up with the shuttle, and attached a flak charge onto his nuke so he could make it explode early. He launched the nuke and watched asit headed straight for the shuttle, but was diverted at the last second by a tractor beam on the shuttle. The beam turned the warhead around, and Ratchet had to take evasive action just to avoid the missile, and even then, he did not fully escape the blast. He turned back on Nefarious' tale and quickly caught up with him.

He flew up to where he could see the scientist, turned inverted so he could see Nefarious, flipped him off and turned over again, combined all his weapons into one pod on the bottom of his ship, deactivated the thrust on the pod with all the weapons, and simply dropped it on the shuttle.

Ratchet veered away and looked back as the shuttle exploded into a brilliant fireball.

It's over, Ratchet thought. He activated his ship's "camera whatchamacallit", briefed Sasha on his situation, and said he was out of fuel. All of a sudden, he felt tired and fell asleep. His rage had drained him. He fell unconscious to the sound of Sasha screaming his name.

Ratchet woke up in the med bay of the Phoenix. He saw Angela and Sasha sitting next to him. Their eyes made contact, and Ratchet and Angela reached an understanding.

"I'm tired," Ratchet said.

"I know," Sasha said solemnly. "Get some rest."

Ratchet shook his head and replied, "No. I'm tired of fighting, tired of, killing, tired of war. I am empty now." They were silently contemplating his answer as Ratchet continued. "I thought maybe I could settle down on Veldin and learn how to feel pain, sorrow, and joy again. I hereby resign my position as Sergeant."

Sarge11 came barging in. "Hey! You can't just quit like that!" He picked Ratchet up by the shoulders and shook him. "Who's gonna fight alongside me when all my Rangers run away? I need someone to stay with me!"

"Maybe you can find some other hero to fight alongside you. I'm just, sick of it." Ratchet sighed and got out of bed. "I guess I'd better pack my stuff." Ratchet pushed past a stunned Sasha and went to the living quarters to gather his stuff.

As Ratchet turned to leave, he saw Sasha blocking his path with tears in her eyes.

"Well, I guess this is goodbye then." Sasha could barely keep from crying.

Ratchet walked up to her, put her hands in his, and hugged her tight. "It's O.K., we can still talk." He gave Sasha one last goodbye squeeze and met Angela and Clank by his ship. He nodded toward them both and they hopped in and blasted off to Veldin.

And just like that, it was over… or so they thought. Ratchet and Angela were married the day after they reached Veldin, and they and their children, against Ratchet's wishes, had many more adventures together, but that is for another story.

Yeeeeeeeeehaaaawww! I gotta tell you, I wasn't really expecting it to end like that when I started this chapter. Now, after reading something this great, I just know you have to review.

-Sarge11