Sorry for wait guys. Now I want to clear some things up first. First off, I AM CHANGING DREADZONE! In this story Ratchet is NOT forced to compete. There is NO Vox! Repeat: DREADZONE IS NOT THE SAME IN THIS STORY! Also I'm going to be working on an oneshot fanfic. It'll be rated M. So all future chapters for this story will be postponed until further notice.

Disclaimer: I don't own Ratchet and Clank or the characters.

Chapter 6

Dr. Nefarious vs. Ratchet

"I've been waiting for a long time for this," Nefarious told Ratchet. "Lawrence!" he shouted. "Install upgrade version 2.0!"

"As you wish sir," said Lawrence.

Lawrence teleported himself again and reappeared inside the arena. He pressed another button on his wrist and a micro data chip appeared.

The robotic servant gave the chip to Nefarious. The mad scientist put it in his mouth and swallowed it whole. Suddenly he started to glow. Electricity was sparkling within him. Nefarious grew larger. And larger. He was now twice his regular height and size. He looked down upon Ratchet.

"What do you think squishy!" Nefarious asked evilly.

Ratchet was speechless.

"Good luck sir," said Lawrence as he teleported back inside the podium.

Ratchet snapped back to reality and equipped his Duel Vipers.

He started shooting at Dr. Nefarious with them non-stop. Huge rocket launchers came out of Nefarious's shoulders and shot out missiles at Ratchet. The gladiator side-flipped over both of them. The missiles flew past Ratchet and suddenly turned around and went after him again. Ratchet ducked and the missiles hit Nefarious's leg instead.

Nefarious flinched as a piece of rusty metal fell out of his leg. Green energy balls came from his hands and he threw them at Ratchet. Ratchet dodged them and blasted Nefarious with his Magma Cannon. Nefarious shot red lasers from his eyes at Ratchet. The 5-star general did a series of back-flips while shooting Nefarious with his Duel Vipers.

On the other side of the arena Sly was watching the fight, amused. The tall robot that had told him to be on his side was doing well against the heavily-armored alien. He was sure the robot didn't need his help yet.

Nefarious shot out more missiles. Ratchet shot out several shields with his holo-shield launcher. The holo-shields blocked all the incoming missiles. Ratchet got out his arbiter and shot his own missiles at Nefarious. Nefarious put up a purple forcefield around his entire body.

The missiles hit the forcefield not affecting Nefarious. Nefarious resumed shooting missiles. This time he shot them upward. The missiles flew up to the ceiling of the battledome and came back down on Ratchet. Ratchet put a forcefield around himself with the shield charger and shot more missiles at Nefarious hoping to break the gigantic energy shield.

The missiles exploded within contact of the shield. But it was still up. "Damn it!" muttered Ratchet. Nefarious laughed. "My forcefield is impossible to destroy with those weak weapons!" Nefarious said. "Then I guess I'll just have to use my big guns," thought Ratchet. Ratchet got out his Harbinger and attached a special upgrade mod Slim Cognito sold him.

On the day after Ratchet saved the Solana Galaxy for the second time, Ratchet and Clank were at planet Aquatos to check if Slim had anything for sale. The lombax knocked on the metal cylinder. A strip of the steel slid open and out appeared two weary eyes shrouded in darkness. The eyes brightened upon seeing them.

"Well, if it isn't my 2 favorite customers," said the dealer. "I heard that you two have saved the galaxy again." "And now you're famous, Ratchet." "Even more famous than Secret Agent Clank." Clank didn't look too happy.

"What can I do for you?" "Got anything new for me?" asked Ratchet. "Well in fact I do," said Slim. "I managed to get my hands on some secret black-market mods." "No thanks Slim," said Clank irritably. "But we do not break the law." "I'll take them!" Ratchet said eagerly.

"What!" Clank said in disbelief. "Excellent choice!" Slim said. "But Ratchet!" Clank protested. "This is illegal!" "Ahhh, relax Clank," said Ratchet. "You never argued when I got his ship upgrades and Megacorp weapons." "That was because you needed the ship upgrades for fighting the Thug-4-Less,"insisted the stubborn Clank. "And those were your old Megacorp weapons you had in your Bogon adventure when you got rid of the protopets."

"Clank please…just stop it," said Ratchet. "Okay Ratchet," sighed Clank. "Good!" said Slim enthusiastically. "Now all these mods will cost 300,000 bolts." "Sorry Cognito," said Clank. "But this is too expense."

"These are half-price off," Slim said coldly. "Unless you don't wanna get a good deal and wanna get ripped off from the other black-market seller, then fine." "No, no, I'll buy them!" said Ratchet, shooting Clank a stern look. Clank shrugged.

Ratchet deposited the bolts from his storage watch to the illegal salesman. Slim handed the mods to Ratchet. "I'll be watching the news," he said slyly as Ratchet bade him good-bye.

Ratchet targeted his arch-enemy and fired. Flaming meteors rained down on Nefarious's shield damaging it. The Harbinger upgraded to V2. Ratchet fired again. V3.

V4.

V5.

V6.

V7.

V8.

V9.

V10. The Harbinger upgraded to the Super Nova. Ratchet continued firing until he ran out of ammo. Smoke covered the arena. After a couple of seconds the dust settled and the forcefield was gone.

"God damn it!" cursed Nefarious.

Ratchet smirked. Ratchet switched to his plasma storm and fired off electric blasts at Nefarious's chest. The evil genius staggered back, his armor peeling off. The lombax took advantage of this and ran towards him. He got out his scorpion flail and crushed the doctor's foot with it.

Nefarious howled in pain. Ratchet did the same to the other. Both of Nefarious's feet were now dented. A large cracked hole of missing armor on each foot revealed color-coded wires in a pattern along with machinery inside the robot's body. Nefarious started wobbling around the arena before finally collapsing down on the ground.

Ratchet charged towards Nefarious's head and prepared to crush it with his flail, when suddenly Sly tripped him with his cane.

The hero whipped his head towards the thief.

"Cheap basterd," muttered Ratchet.

Ratchet started getting up when the leader swung his cane down on the gladiator's head. The lombax caught it with his two hands and snapped it cleanly in half.

"M-my cane!" stammered Sly.

Ratchet dropped the two pieces down on the floor and crushed them into tiny chunks of wood with his foot. Sly turned and was about to run away when Ratchet kicked him in the crotch. The criminal dropped to the ground, writhing in pain. Ratchet resumed his focus on Nefarious.

"It's over Nefarious," said the furry creature. "You won't be getting outta here alive."

Twin lasers shot out from Nefarious's eyes and scorched Ratchet's armor. The giant robot sat up.

"Fool!" yelled Nefarious as he got up. "I am invincible as long as I have the upgrade!"

Nefarious blasted Ratchet with his green energy balls. The contestant flew in air like a rag doll and hit the ground leaving a mark on the floor.

Nefarious stood over the defeated lombax, convinced he was going to win. Ratchet groaned. His body was aching all over. Salty drops of sweat were running down his face inside the helmet. Ratchet kicked him in the crotch as a last desperate attempt. Nefarious grinned.

"Sorry squishy," Nefarious said. "But I don't have a crotch!"

Nefarious's hands began to glow. Electricity mixed with energy materialized from his palm. Nefarious raised his arms high in the air and all of a sudden the glowing stopped. The energy and electricity disappeared. Nefarious started shrinking. Soon he was his regular size and height again.

"What the !" shouted Nefarious.

Lawrence teleported into the arena.

"My bad sir," apologized the squat robot. "I forgot to tell you that the upgrade only lasted for a limited period of time."

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"Lawwwwreeenccceeeeeee!" screamed the insane robot.

Nefarious shook Lawrence aggressively and then pushed him down on floor. Before Nefarious could inflict more damage Lawrence teleported into the pod for a third time.

While Nefarious was yelling Ratchet was slowly getting up. Pretty soon he was up on his feet and Nefarious's back was still to the gladiator. Ratchet equipped his scorpion flail and swung the melee weapon down on Nefarious's extended head. Flash!

Nefarious vanished and reappeared behind the lombax. Ratchet whirled around and faced the wicked robot. Nefarious smirked.

"Sneaky little rodent aren't you," taunted Nefarious as he drew himself into an attack position.

By now Ratchet was wondering why the police weren't coming to arrest Nefarious. Nefarious was a villain. A dangerous criminal. Surely someone would do something. But nobody was so far.

Were they blind? If Nefarious escaped who knew what kind of destruction he would cause. Well then since the police or army weren't going to help he'll just have to defeat Nefarious by himself.

Ratchet checked his weapons' status. All of them were out of ammo. No problem. Ratchet simply attached the illegal ammo mods Slim gave him to the weapons he needed.

Ratchet equipped his N90 Hurricane and fired away at Nefarious. The robotic maniac ran to side dodging the rapid bullet fire. Several holograms appeared next to his side. They blurred across the arena towards Ratchet. Ratchet step-sided the first two then destroyed 6 others with his N90.

WHOOSH! Three more zoomed at him. KABOOM! The 3 fake Nefarious faded from the explosion of the mini-nuke. Only the real Nefarious remained now.

The sinister robot started spinning around in a circular motion. Dark energy beams came from all 10 digits of his hands. Scorch marks were

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Ratchet timed his jumps and carefully avoided the spinning beams. Nefarious stopped spinning. He hurled a dark energy ball at Ratchet. Ratchet ducked. He shot a missile at Nefarious with his Decimator.

PHWOOM! Nefarious crashed to the floor. Ratchet did a hyper strike. Nefarious kicked Ratchet while he was still in the air.

"Ooomph!"

Now it was Ratchet's turn to fall. Nefarious raised his hand and plunged it down on the gladiator. Ratchet rolled out of the way. He got up and ran, throwing turrets along the way. PHWOOM! PHWOOM! PHWOOM!

Missile after missile were launched at Nefarious. The robot rolled, jumped, and ducked. The turrets exploded, having run out of ammunition. By now Ratchet was in another section of the arena. He threw out doom eggs.

Out came his beloved Agents of Dread by his side. He threw more eggs. More agents hatched. Soon he had an army of little, cute, destructive robots. They all attacked Nefarious at once, blasting him with auto-targeting, blue glowing rockets.

While Nefarious was fighting off the agents, Ratchet switched on his communicator. He needed help. But who should he call? The Galactic Rangers were a bunch of sissies. Captain Quark wouldn't help either.

The rest of the Q-Force weren't combat trained. Maybe Helga was but she was always exercising. Ratchet pondered. Finally he remembered someone that could help. He pressed several buttons on his com-link.

A human face appeared on screen. "Ratchet!" he exclaimed, startled at receiving a call from the lombax.

"Gamer619! Ratchet said urgently. "I need assistance immediately! Dr. Nefarious is back and I'm exhausted from the 200-round fight I won."

"Wait, said Gamer619, scratching his head. Isn't Nefarious supposed to be stuck on far away asteroid?"

"He was!" said Ratchet. "But Lawrence teleported Nefarious and him into Dreadzone!"

"So you want me to fight with you?" said Gamer619.

"Yes!" said Ratchet, annoyed at Gamer619's slow response.

"What about the authorities?" questioned Gamer619.

"I don't know," said Ratchet. "Nobody seems to be doing anything but watch the battle!"

"Dumb asses!" muttered Gamer619.

"So will you help?" asked Ratchet eagerly.

"Well…I'm not a super soldier or anything," said Gamer619. "And…Nefarious is like all-powerful." "Are you sure I can handle it?"

"Definitely," said Ratchet while looking over his shoulder. "Besides who else can I chose other than you."

"Fair enough," Gamer619 said reluctantly. "I'll be on my way."

The screen blanked out. Meanwhile the agents vanished. Nefarious was now very pissed off. "I'm gonna get you!" he muttered. "You little rat!"

Now while I'm working on my oneshot I decided to let you guys choose the next chapter of this story. It will be either Gamer619 going to Dreadzone or Ratchet trying to survive until Gamer619 comes. Pick one and I'll tally up the votes and write the winner after my oneshot. As always, REVIEW!