Hello everyone and welcome back to 'The Human Avenger'. Now firstly I would like to thank TheLilyoftheValley, Autobot Allie 17, Moore98Luke, Rodrigo Guinea, Max Chronicle and ShadowofDeathsveil for choosing to follow and/or favourite my story or me. I was really nervous at first so I really appreciate it, so thank you again. The main story is officially underway and I hope I make up to your expectations. Oh before I forget, Jack's sword looks like Ryoma's Raijinto from Fire Emblem Fates but black and red in colour. Sorry I didn't mention that before. Ok, now that's settled, let's get on with the show.

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"Talking"

'Thoughts'

[Comm-link messages]

Chapter 1: 2 years later

Jack's PoV

Two years...

Two long, lonely years since Tachyon attacked my home and me ending up on his fleet in the middle of freakin' nowhere. Two years since my life had a sense of normality to it and two years since...since I last saw my best friend Chase. There were times I missed that old life, the one where I was invisible to all but a few, but I would be lying if I said I haven't moved on from it, one of the only people there for was Chase, but like they say, you can't change the past, only learn from it.

The years on Tachyon's ship had been quite interesting for me. I had to learn about different species across the universe including the Drophyds, which turned out to be Tachyon's walking aquarium *ahem* I mean 'legion of loyal robotic commandos' yeah loyal my rear, from what I hear, they only work for him due to the fact that Tachyon paid them with Raritanium. Ever since the beginning, the fish have had a personal agenda against me. At the start, they thought I was something called a Markazian, but that was cleared up with a bit of, shall we say, persuasion (I beat their bolts loose so much they stopped haha). At times, I even noticed some shooting jealous or hateful looks at me, possibly due to my equipment from the doc. But I guess some of them are a bit indecisive still as some respect me for beating them, my guess is they find strength respectable, and seeing as I nearly turned some of them into space sushi we have a mutual agreement to keep out of each others way (they get terrified when they hear the word 'sushi' of 'chips'. They even have nightmares about both things apparently...can't imagine why...) but some still hate me for it, guess you can't have it both ways. I had noticed there were less of them on the ship since then but I had no idea why though.

Speaking of the doc, I had grown to like the Terachnoid over the last couple of years, but only when he wasn't talking in a way I couldn't understand or he was being big ego pain in my backside about the massive intelligence span he and the rest of his kind have back on his home planet in Polaris. I see why he mentioned about the prison thing though, not much to do but tinker and build. We had worked together and built me a hoverbike, but I didn't know how fast it could really go and with the push of a button, it could fold in on itself into a backpack. Quite handy if I do say so myself.

I did have access to a large Room called the 'STR' or 'Simulation Training Room' which helped me get used to all my new limbs and weapons. The sim room was quite handy as you could input what kind of training sim you wanted and it would have access to your current experience, building a challenge, through that which helped me well. I had 'driving' lessons for both a ship (even if I currently didn't have one doesn't stop trying to be prepared for it) and my hoverbike. With weapons training, I had started to use two Combusters now and I was skilled with my sword and hand-to-hand combat. I even used one of my Combusters with my sword so I could be prepared and it was handy in combat sometimes too.

My metal body parts were quite handy too. They could stretch out and reach long distance ledges and Versa-targets, the palms could create a charge that could be dangerous and handy for shutting down electronics, create a energy shield absorbing enemy attacks but letting mine pass through and the screen on my left arm was designed for calls/messages. Overall, the STR was where I spent most of my time when I wasn't with the doc.

Tachyon was the one who allowed me to use it. I don't think he realises that he has willingly let the individual who is using this to turn him into Cragmite Pate practice in the first place or he has a smaller brain inside that big head of his than I thought. Either way, I wasn't going to fall for any elaborate scheme he has in store for me. Now, because I have progressed far with what I now have, Tachyon wants to speak to me personally in his office/quarters, which is where I was heading to now. Oh what I would do to him for these last couple of years.

"Ah, the Markazian, I see you have arrived. Shall we talk?" yeah, he called me it, and he knows I hate it but, unlike his pet fish, he knows I can't do anything to him about it. "I hear your training has been progressing well since we saved you from that awful fate two years ago. I here you have been making full use to the facilities that I have permitted you to use." Oh. My. God. I really wanted to punch him in the face right then but I decided to beat him in through a different method.

"Cut the crap Tachyon, what do you want?" I didn't want to spend more time in this room than I had to "Oh, and make it quick, you're wasting my time."

"We are approaching the coordinates. Planet Kerwan in Solana, I want you to assist my army in finding something of great importance to me and-"

"Forget it! There is no way in hell that I am going to help or work for you. So if you think I owe you for, what you call saving me, you can crawl back into whatever black hole you came out of." At that point I didn't really care that he could kill me with a snap of his fingers, just wanted him to know he had no control over me. But I guess even that didn't knock some confidence he had, all he did was chuckle sinisterly while shaking his head, glaring at me with those yellow eyes of his.

"Well, isn't that a shame?" he was mocking me with the false sadness in his voice while raising his left hand to wipe away a fake tear and we both knew it, and it just made me want to punch him even more "But, considering I have leverage I can used to my advantage, well..." wait, what? He has an advantage over me? I could only try to keep my face and voice in a neutral way but it was becoming all the more harder with each passing minute.

"What advantage? What leverage could you possibly have that could force me into actually helping someone like you? 'Cause the way I see it...You. Have. Nothing. On. Me." I admit, I was confident I was right. But the look on his face, the large grin, even the glint in his eye was starting to make me feel like I had just made a mistake by saying that.

"Oh you know..." actually I don't know, but whatever it was, he was brushing it off like it was something disposable, something I would possibly value, something like... "...I could have my armies back on your home world Earth completely destroyed"

"WHAT?!"

"Oh, didn't I tell you? Most of the Drophyds that have left after you beat them, I had deployed to Earth to make sure the rest of your kind don't try anything. If they do, orders are to exterminate on sight" right then, with the smug look he had, he had just won the universal s**t eating grin contest, and he was going to pay but not here...and not now.

"I am disappointed that you won't help me succeed in my noble quest. Go and come when you change your mind...oh and if you don't..." with that, I left the room to go see the doc. Now it all made perfect sense, all of the fish that had just up and went disappearing from the ship, Tachyon had sent all of them back to Earth that son of a... anyway he was lucky I was holding myself back from wringing his neck then and there, and unfortunately, I knew what he was blatantly threatening. But on the plus side he did just gave me even more incentive to kill him. Once he is gone though, I don't care what happens, I am going back to Earth, alone or otherwise.

When I had reached the room, I found the doc at some papers which I'm guessing is going to be another of his escape plans which do always succeed, but in failing. I still remember a year ago, he tried flushing himself down a toilet and it took three and a half hours with four Drophyds to get him out of the piping network, he stunk the lab out for three months he had ended up claiming it was a new perfume, and going along with it (as a joke) I had generously called it 'Eau du Crap Mountain' and while I had laughed about it, he wasn't finding it so humorous.

"What's up with you?" I had noticed the nervous tone, he knew I was mad and was wanting to calm me down "What did Tachyon-"

"Did you know that he had been sending his forces back to Earth? DID YOU?!" Oh yeah, I was really mad, I didn't mean to sound like that to him but I was too blinded by my rage that I didn't care, somehow though I know that just by looking at him, he was just as shocked as me, I guess he didn't know either and after a while (and a drink or two), I had managed to calm down for me to talk. "Oh and I am planning on taking that escape pod to Kerwan" the doc looked at me like I was crazy.

"Are you insane?! Wait, let me rephase that. You ARE insane!" Oh, it was worse, much worse. He probably though I should be sent somewhere for making that statement " Besides, you do realise that Kerwan is where we are going to be in almost thirty minutes, right?" and that is what I was counting on.

"I know and I plan on taking his the smaller battleship he has in this fleet." He knew what I meant, with that ship's speed and on-board weapons package, I could escape of Kerwan and punch a hole through some of the aerial forces loyal to Tachyon, but only if he, and whoever else is on the ship, all decide to disembark at the same time. It wouldn't be easy and was a massive risk, but one I was willing to take to stop that tyrant from hurting more innocent lives."Well then, take this then. It should prove useful for you" I looked at what he had given me and it turned out to be a earpiece with a orange coloured visor. Looking closer I could see two buttons on it. "The blue button attached to the earpiece allows you to answer anyone on you comm's link while the red will activate the re-breather function I installed. The visor will act as a link to tell you how much ammo you have in a weapon you are currently using and even allow you to visually zoom in like binoculars."

After strapping my sword and swinging my 'backpack/hoverbike' onto my back and holstering my two Combustors on to my hips inside my trench coat, I took the visor and put it on then headed to the ventilation shaft, I was planning to use it to get to the emergency escape pod level without being noticed by Tachyon or his forces on the way. It wasn' t a tight squeeze and only took five minutes as the pod platform was more or less directly below us so it was a relatively quick crawl, slide and fall there rather than a hop, skip and jump (which I would have personally preferred).

There were plenty to choose from but I was in a rush so I entered the nearest pod and set the coordinates (good thing I did have those lessons before doing this) with it powered up and ready to go, I contacted the doc one last time to let him know I was safe and inside one of the pods.

"Doc, you there? I'm in one of the pods and about to go. You sure you are going to be ok without me having to pull you out of anymore plumbing?" even now, when I couldn't be closer to getting away, I still just had to crack one final joke.

[Oh hardy haha. I will be fine Jack, you just get out of here while you still can.]

"Got it, and thanks for everything you have done for me these last two years...it means a lot, even if I didn't show it. I promise I will get you out of there as soon as I can." I don't know if he believes me, but I did mean everything I said. He taught me so much these last two years so I kinda owed him.

[Don't make promises you can't keep and good luck Jack, I will try to do what I can for Earth from here. Just do what you gotta do to bring hell on Tachyon. I will contact you when I can.] the transmission ended there and the pod was on it's way down to Kerwan. Whatever happens now, good or bad, is going to be the results of these actions.

It was only fifteen minutes that had passed when I had landed which left around five minutes in which Tachyon would be here...ten if I'm lucky. Straight away I got out of the escape pod and found myself in an office, and my god was it a mess in here. Broken tables, chairs and lights were littering the floor. Sparks were flying where electrical equipment had been destroyed. I headed to the conveniently created giant hole in the wall (thanks to me) to see a large bustling city the likes I had only seen in Sci-fi movies back on Earth. Buildings stretching possibly hundreds of feet so far they even towered above the clouds. Foe pete's sake I couldn't even see the ground below when I looked over the edge.

Looking back inside I found a door leading to what looked like...stairs *ugh* I have had nightmares about those thing for the last two years since that happened but no use dwelling on the past, Tachyon will be here soon...

*BOOM*

...Well what do you know. Talk about the devil and he shall appear. Now to try to get him to land. But the strange thing is, even though his battleship was there it wasn't doing much but look ominous, like it was looking for something and, using my visor's zoom feature, I had seen that the ship was sending out it's own mini-fleet. Dropships were hovering to deploy ground troops of the fish in their mecha-suits and large quadruped mechs that probably provided heavier fire power if the cannons on either side were anything to go by.

Turning back from the carnage, I headed up the stairs. The sounds of what sounded like a warzone were blasting through the walls as I headed up. When I had reached around halfway I was thrown sideways back to the wall, nearly falling to my death if not for my arm's extension upgrade I had to practically hug the wall outside when I heard a large explosion directly above me as I saw metal poles falling down into whatever lay below, I almost felt sorry for what or whoever was currently below...almost, and giving my current predicament, I felt that wad saying a lot. Once I was firmly back on my feet and ready to go, I felt a dampness on my forehead and, raising my hand to my head then bringing it back to eye level, I noticed I was bleeding.

'Great, I always wanted a cut on my head...NOT!' and after having my internal rant, I continued upstairs but this time, with a wonderful injury giving me a massive headache 'At least I'm still alive and that means I can still take Tachyon down'.

Once I had reached the top of the stairs and burst through the door I had immediately noticed I was on the roof of the building all around me there were explosions of fire and rubble where Tachyon's forces had attacked the planet. From what I could make out amongst the smoke and gunfire, it looked like the place was a city and from the traffic it was a very busy city most days. I began observing the area to get my bearings and to see where Tachyon's ship was but, unlike before, I couldn't see a trace of it. Sadly that was when my luck went from bad to worse...

I heard a sound behind me and, swallowing the lump I had found in my throat, I slowly turned to look to see five gunships with two more dropships incoming to surround the building and I also saw Tachyon's ship, but for some reason, it was attacking something on the overhead rails with the three 'Starbuster Cannons' attached to the front, both the figure and Tachyon's ship were approaching my current position and with a large part of the rail missing (that explains the falling metal 'poles' earlier I guess) the figure was going to land on the roof...

...which I was on...

...and with Tachyon's ship just approaching to land too...

...and I've just noticed that I am so massively screwed right now. The only things I did were draw my sword then one of my Combustors ready to defend myself and voice the first two words that came to mind at the time.

"Oh crap..."

? Well, that's chapter 1 of even I don't know how many just yet. Hopefully you will be sticking around for the whole ride, I know I will. Now from next chapter onward, it will not be in Jack's PoV unless absolutely necessary. I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter as much as I did writing it for all of ya . We will follow Ratchet and Clank in the next chapter on Kerwan and carry on from when so you got that to look forward to eh ?. Jack's hoverbike looks like the one in Deadlocked and his new visor is the same one you get as part of the Thermaflux armour in 'A Crack in Time' but without the full armour.

Now on to a serious point again, last week on Saturday 5th of June, there was yet another attack here in the UK. This time, it was at London Bridge. I wish to send my condolences and best wishes to the families of those who were injured of murdered in the attack that day. My thoughts go out to you all. ?

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