Chapter 2: the emperor and the twin gods

1 hour before the lombaxes and robots awakened

Nefarious was slowly waking up after being forcefully shut down by the portal he's been sucked into and groaned as he got up, putting his hand on his head.

"Oh, my head. Ugh." he mumbled. When he got up he checked his surroundings and saw that he was in some kind of stadium filled with very large speakers, he looked some more and noticed a structure that looked like a skull and below it was a piano with multiple keyboards. Behind the piano were some candles and two glass windows (like the ones you see in churches) with a human on it each but with a different gender. The female on the left window had white hair and blue markings and a black coat and the male on the right had black hair and had red markings, a robot arm on his right and a white coat. Both humans had their hands together to make a 'V'.

"Where am I?" he asked himself and immediately came to a realisation.

"Oh, wait. I remember now, it was rivet and that dumb purple rock that opened up the portal that brought me here." he said as he paced arounded

"Note to self, once I kill Rivet and her friends and reconquer my universe, I'll find every purple stone and destroy them all!" he bellowed in rage before he let out a sigh.

"And before I do that, I just need to find out where I- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGH!" he said as he turned around to see a black, lifeless male human husk with its hands in front of its face with a horrified expression on the face with a crystal coming out of the chest and screamed at the sight. He took a few breaths to calm down before he examined the husk.

"W-what happened to you?" he asked as he gently tapped it and it immediately began to crumble and turn to dust as well as the crystal. Nefarious kneeled down and ran his finger on the dust and checked the said finger.

"Whatever did this must've killed the human by turning him into this, maybe I could use it to get my revenge. If this is caused by someone then maybe I could make an alliance with them and combine my psychic abilities with theirs then we will be unstoppable." Shortly after saying this, the emperor heard footsteps coming his way, he got up, looked to where the sound was coming from and saw two figures coated in the darkness, approaching him.

"Ring, ring, did I hear the robot-man say he had psychic powers, tyreen?" the figure on the left said in a male voice to the figure on his right.

"I think I did, troy. Looks like our followers didn't bring a useless piece of junk after all" a female voice answered the male. Robot-man!? Useless piece of junk!? Nefarious was highly insulted by these comments. he's far more than a robot-man and a useless piece of junk, he's an emperor, a leader of a great army, well WAS leader of a great army before they were all wiped out by the hands of rivet and the war bot rebel.

"Who are you?" he demanded and the duo chuckles evilly, well at least he knows they're evil.

"Us? Well, robot-man you're looking at the most loved, worshipped and most powerful twins the universe has ever seen, god-queen tyreen and my brother, God-king troy!" The woman known as Tyreen answered proudly as she and her brother Troy walked into the light and one thing immediately popped into nefarious' mind, these two humans are the same ones on the windows.

"Well, now you know our names, what's yours, robo-dude?" Troy asked with a grin. 'Robo-dude'? That's basically 'robot-man' insult but minus the 'T' and replacing 'man' with 'dude'. Still, the robot let out a sigh before answering.

"If you must know, I am the great emperor nefarious, the conqueror of galaxies, that is until those rodents and their robots that play 'backpack' ultimately defeated and humiliated me and left me to rust under in watery grave and I swear, once I get my hands on those lombaxes, I will make them wish they were never born!" Nefarious answered as his fists clenched while his mind took a trip down memory lane to where the lombaxes defeated him and left him to die to the kraken he escaped from. You know, now that he remembers it, he heard that nobody knew how he escaped the kraken's grip except him but not even HE knew how he survived. He looks back at Tyreen and Troy who have confused faces, giving him the message that he forgot who he was talking to. He clears his throat and stands up straight with his hands behind his back.

"Sorry, that experience is always repeating in my head like a traumatic moment." He apologises.

"Lombaxes? What the fuck are those?" Tyreen asked and nefarious let out a sigh, he has some explaining to do.

1 hour passed as the calypso twins, which is what people call them, told nefarious about how much fans they have, how they will do everything for them, why they both have markings on their left arms, the thing they call 'the great vault' and the trouble maker that they call 'the vault thief'. Then nefarious told the twins about the dimensionator, his empire and the lombaxes that took it all away by defeating him in megalopolis, and after he was done explaining the twins were on their knees, dying of laughter.

"HA HA HA. S-so let me get this straight, your whole empire was wiped out and got your ass kicked by a little white rat that's one quarter taller than a tink?! That's the funniest thing I've ever heard! BWA HA HAAA!" Tyreen yelled in laughter as her brother fell on the floor, crying of laughter. Nefarious was disgraced by their behaviour.

"Grrr! She's smarter and stronger than she looks AND she had a war bot on her side!" Nefarious shouted as Tyreen got back up and wiped her tears.

"Okay, okay, sorry. Ha! Seriously despite you losing to a rodent, me and my brother still respect you as a leader like us. And this 'dimensionator', you said that it could create portals to other universes." Tyreen said and nefarious nodded as Troy got up.

"Yes, it's also how I got here and it might be somewhere on this planet that you call 'Pandora'." Nefarious replied firmly. A moment later a muscular human man with a helmet walked into the stadium.

"What is it now, mouthpiece?" Tyreen asked the man, mouthpiece, as he bowed before the twin gods

"My, queen, our security cameras from one of our bases have picked up the vault thief and something else of interest" He replied as he got up and turned his head to the emperor.

"He's a friend of ours, before you ask." Troy informed mouthpiece before the muscular man turned to the piano and pressed a button on his glove and shows a holo-picture of ratchet, rivet, clank and kit talking to another robot that nefarious has never seen before but he was more focused on the ones who bested him in the past. He clenches his fists, unaware that Tyreen notices this.

"Ah, guess those are the lombaxes and robots you told us about, nefie?" She asked the emperor as he turned his head in a confused expression. Did she seriously give him a nickname? Ah well, it's better than 'robot-man' and 'pile of junk'.

"Indeed." He replied

"And that being, I assume that he's the nuisance you call 'vault thief'?" He also asked

"You bet your bolts and gears and what ever the fuck else you have inside you! They call him flick I think, no, uh, clock, no, uhh, Fl4k, no, yes, Fl4k, Fl4k's his name." Tyreen answered then mouthpiece shows another picture of the heroes and robot riding an out runner.

"Oh, and it looks like both our enemies become best buds." Troy said to the robot emperor who put his hand on his chin. He then turned his head to the god-queen.

"Hmm, tell you what tyreen, I want those lombaxes dead and you want this 'Fl4k' character disposed of immediately, so here is what I'm thinking, we join forces and have some of your followers to search for the dimensionator." Nefarious said to Tyreen who was gaining interest in the words coming out of his mouth.

"Go on." She said with a grin.

"With our powers, the dimensionator and your loyalists, we will be able to find the great vault before they do and you will rule this universe with an iron fist. Once they're all dead, I'll lend you some of my troops from my universe to make sure no one steps out of line in return for your help, so do we have a deal?" Nefarious asked as he put his hand out for a handshake. Tyreen was thinking about this, a whole universe full of followers and no enemies trying to kill her with war bot bodyguards on her and her brother's side.

"Ah, fuck it! It's a deal!" She replied as she shook the emperor's hand. Troy ordered mouthpiece to inform the rest of their followers that they have a new ally. Mouthpiece obeyed and walked off. The emperor was thrilled, not only did he have gods on his side but also a whole, new army as a bonus. He looks at the picture again with an evil smile on his face, an alliance has been born and it's hungry for the taste of success. But he needs to be careful, because he won so many times during his rule in his dimension, he hasn't noticed how much strength rivet has gained, he forgot that the female lombax is not the type to give up, he forgot who he was dealing with, if he strikes at rivet then she strikes back twice as fierce. He was so oblivious to the lombax, it almost cost him his life. But this time however, he won't make that mistake again, he will never let his pride blind him of the lombax, he will never be as reckless as he was before his defeat.

"This time rivet, I won't be playing with you and your allies like a child with his toy, I won't be the fool I was. These will be the final days. the days before. You. Die." He whispered before starting laughing evilly. He will never… NEVER… let his success blind him like it did before.

Hey guys, I want to give you a heads up, ratchet and rivet will not have their weapons but instead use the borderlands weapons and kit's war bot mode will be used in this story so you could expect her to whoop some bandit and maliwan ass. PS: I want to thank the many authors for inspiring me to write fanfics like the one you're reading now. see you and your reviews next time. XD