Anger, Rage, Hatred, Revenge

By Sarge11

Disclaimer: We all know I don't own anything.

To all who said this didn't take a long time, you were obviously getting the prologue and chapter one confused. Here is the real chapter one.

Chapter 1: Another Gifted Lombax

Ratchet awoke from his rage after he was about three hundred yards off the ground. For a half a second, he was confused and disoriented. He did, however, become aware of his situation in time to right himself and give Clank the angle he needed to make a steady descent.

Ratchet gently touched down, and slowly dropped to his knees and then on all fours, breathing heavily. His skin was red partly because of the wind beating against his body and partly because of his anger, and his hair stood on end. Clank jumped off his back and started backing away.

The Ranger Dropship touched down about thirty feet away from Ratchet and jumped out with Tesla Claws in case Ratchet needed to be temporarily knocked out. Ratchet was gagging at the possibility that both Sasha and Screw could be dead, and in fact, did vomit.

The Rangers cautiously approached Ratchet until he held up his hand and wheezed, "It's alright. HACK! You can come closer."

"Sir, we didn't have enough time to tell you while you were in the air, that your son survived." As the Ranger said this, Ratchet's eyes started welling up in tears because he was so relieved that Screw had lived.

"Good, very good," Ratchet was starting to speak a little more normally now and got up on one knee. "And what about Sasha?"

"She, uhh, she didn't make it," the Ranger said both sadly and hesitantly, because he didn't want Ratchet to go into another rage.

However, lucky for the Ranger, Ratchet's emotions kept on switching before they could become too serious. He would start to get angry, then sad, then hatred would set in, and then sadness again. Ratchet just choked on himself.

The Ranger pulled him into the Dropship and showed him a medical video. It showed a young Lombax lying under a white sheet on a hospital bed, which Ratchet recognized as his son. He was currently asleep. He could see a torn and melted vac suit hanging from the wall; probably Screw's. But all Ratchet could see was Screw, who had cuts, bruises, serious burns, places infected by frostbite because of the coldness of space, and some broken limbs. Ratchet could just barely see him breathing.

A Ranger medic pushed by the young Lombax with a knife and started to make a cut to pull out a piece of shrapnel from the boy's shoulder. Ratchet tried to turn away, but the Ranger next to him forced him to watch, and Ratchet was astounded as the knife burned away in the Ranger's hand in blue fire that seemed to erupt from the boy himself. He was amazed further as a sort of humming sound came from Screw and he opened his eyes. But instead of his father's bright green eyes, a blue luminescent light came from his eyes. Then, his entire body started glowing blue and he started hovering in the air and the pieces of shrapnel started sliding out of his cuts. Ratchet was amazed further as the spots where the skin had been harmed by heat or cold started to turn a healthy color again and fur grew over them. And all at once, he started spinning really fast in the air and he stopped, and slowly started coming down, and his arms were moving as if they had never been broken and his cuts were gone. He touched down and stood there for two seconds. When all of a sudden, he thrust his arm out toward a nearby Ranger and pushed through the wall without touching him.

Ratchet's eyes widened and he muttered to himself, "Oh, my God. Telekinesis."

The medical room then erupted into chaos. Rangers were running and screaming everywhere and were being flung into the walls. The recording continued in this way until one of the Rangers crashed into the camera, leaving nothing but static.

The Ranger looked at Ratchet and said, "Must be hereditary."

"Yes, It would appear my powers worked their way into your reproductive system," said an all too familiar voice, but the Ranger didn't recognize it and spun around and pointed the Tesla Claw at the stranger.

Ratchet, who had seen the stranger and knew him very well, put his hand on the Ranger's arm and forcefully lowered the Tesla Claw.

Standing in the doorway was the mystic. Ratchet and Clank approached him to ask him a question.

However, before Ratchet could cross the whole distance, a female voice popped up behind the mystic. "Hey, dad." It was Alema, who was followed by Angela.

Alema gave Ratchet a hug and then started to talk with Clank about things smart people talk about. Angela walked up to Ratchet, gave him a hug and a kiss, and asked three things. "Is Screw alive?" To which Ratchet could happily reply yes. "How is he?" Ratchet had to show her the video since it was too bizarre. Before she asked the last question, she had to add, "He gets that from you." She wasn't so surprised because Ratchet had some abilities like that. The last question she asked was, "Who is this guy?" she asked gesturing toward the medic. "He came to our home and said that there was something wrong in the family and told us to turn on the holovid. He said he was an old friend of yours."

Ratchet had to explain what happened on Tabora, Grelbin, Veldin, and Crusade (Let's just say she had never met the mystic).

"Where's Ax?" asked Ratchet.

"Off saving some small planet or something. You know, the usual," Angela said as if stating a fact. "He gets that from you." Angela smiled.

Ratchet looked at Alema and Clank, who were still talking.

"She gets that from you," Ratchet made a comeback. Ratchet and Angela smiled a little. Ratchet sighed and said to the Rangers, "Take me to Screwdriver, and you," he pointed at the mystic, "you're coming with me."

Well, I don't know about you, but I think two things and know two more things. I think this will be a better story than the last one, and I think that the next chapter will take longer to complete. As for the things I know, there will be another sequel, and I think that Mr. D 91 should know that yes, you were correct in assuming that the second story was better than the first.

-Sarge11