After having got to the starting point of the obstacle course, Ratchet put his Omiwrench on his back so he wouldn't have to keep carrying it. He still didn't understand why the voice had been so annoyed and angry when he had asked if Ratchet was his new name or not. He just shrugged it off and put it off as the voice hating the name. Meanwhile, unknown to Ratchet. The voice, Dr. Nefarious, sat in his chair tenting his fingers as he stared down with an evil robotic grin. Nefarious's plan was slowly coming together, soon he would have his revenge against that incessant lombax! Despite Lawrence's protests saying it backfire due to the fact that the Ratchet from another dimension could meet Ratchet and Clank, discovering they're good as well and not evil. But Nefarious as usual denied it and said that it couldn't possibly backfire.

Nefarious looked on with a evil grin, "Ahh…look Lawrence, isn't it wonderful? Soon I will have my revenge on that lombax! HAHAHAHAHA!"

Lawrence merely said to him, "As you've said before sir…..again though, it will backfire due to the fact that you won't trick him into fighting Ratchet."

Nefarious waved his hand dismissively as he said, "Bah! What do you know about making evil plans!"

Nefarious then pressed a button on the console and said, "Right remember, complete the obstacle course or face ANNIHILATION! Right, begin in 3…...2…..1….."

1st P.O.V

"...GO!" the voice screamed out as a horn blared and the lasers blocking the course dispersed.

I bolted forward as the first portion of the course came into view, there were two fences that I had jump over.

'How am I gonna pull this off?' I thought to myself.

I then took a deep breath and with all the grace I could muster, attempted to jump over the obstacles. Luckily I was able to by jumping on top of the fences and then over the ladder portion. Next up ahead of me, I saw two moving platforms.

"Ah...you've reached the second portion of the parkour section. Well in case, you don't remember…..just hop across those platforms and prove to me that you are mindful of your surroundings thus showing you are mindful of everything going on around you…." the voice said as I gulped.

I then waited for the first platform to come into range before jumping onto it, I did the same thing with the second as well. Once the second was within range of the opposite side of this portion of the parkour section, I leaped onto the metal ground. I missed slightly, but was able to grab ahold of the metal side and pull myself up.

"Good…." the voice said as I jumped down from the ledge, arriving at a metal gate that blocked my path.

"Seems you've made it to the gate portiona, I was unable to find a gate that would be able to be broken by your wrench. So I have placed fusion grenades throughout the area where gates may be, now….ANNIHILATE THAT GATE!" the voice yelled out the last part as picked up the grenade and aimed at the gate.

I then threw it and sure enough it exploded, making a new path for me to follow. I then moved ahead and saw yet another gate, I whipped out another grenade and threw it. Destroying the door, next I jumped up the small platform and then I froze. Right in front of me were two small gaps filled with lava, along with another gate ahead. I gulped and prayed to…...whoever I worshiped and jumped over the two, I also destroyed the door by throwing a grenade in mid-jump.

I then jumped down from the ledge and saw the escape pod ahead, above the escape pod was also a screensaver. Along the rounded out walls were these strange blue glowing circles. Seeing nothing blocking my path, I ran toward the escape pod. But then I quickly stopped as all of a sudden, multiple robots with flamethrowers appeared out of nowhere. After they all appeared, the screensaver turned on.

On the screensaver were two robots, the first was in the middle while the second was on the right. The second robot wore a butler's outfit and had his hands behind his back. While the first was a tall robot with a large transparent green egg-shaped dome head with tinkering gears and cogs, and his eyes had red highlights. His body was a mix of primarily purple and blue, he also had some sort of pipes on his chest, two mechanical-like wings on his back, and diamond-shaped guards on his legs and arms that glowed orange.

The robot smiled evilly as it said, "You didn't think it would be that easy, did you? Now if you destroy these Gadgetron robots, you're free to go. But until then, robots…..ANNIHILATE HIM! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

The robots then started firing their flamethrowers at me, I dodged as much as possible and hit as many as I could in such a short time. One of the pros of having this Omiwrench is that with one hit, the robots were destroyed. After destroying them, I turned my gaze to the robot on the screen and to be frank with ya…..it looked a little ticked.

But regardless it said in what sounded like a forced calm tone, "Good….you've completed the course, now…..GET ON THAT ESCAPE POD AND GET OFF MY STATION!"

His yell made me leap into the escape pod and accidently activate it, sending it spiraling out of the ship and towards some sort of desert-like planet which I assumed was Fastoon. The pod then started shaking violently and tossing from side to side, I quickly grabbed ahold of the seat.

"Oh boy…..this is gonna be a bumpy ride, isn't it? Oh geez, looks like the pod's about to cras-WOAHHHHHH!" I didn't have time to finish as the pod hit the ground and bounced a few ways, making me bounce and hit the pod at all sides

The pod eventually settled with my head slammed against the glass shield.

I then said, "Well, things can't get any wor-"

Before I could finish, a metallic voice said. "Self Destruct Sequence Activated, Self Destruction in 5…..4…."

I quickly ran away from the glass and toward the exit of the escape pod as I said, "Oh me and my big mouth!"

"3….." the voice continued as I quickly broke the door open with my Omiwrench and started running away from it.

I then saw weird buildings all around me and I gazed in both confusion and amazement.

"2…." however I was quickly torn away from my thoughts by the countdown.

I jumped behind some rubble just as it reached one and exploded.

I slowly poked my head out and looked around in wonder as I asked myself, "Where am I?"

But right behind me, I hadn't noticed that pod's SOS transmission system was still somehow running and was admitting a signal that could be heard throughout the Polaris Galaxy….

3 weeks later….

It's been three weeks since I had been sent down to Fastoon by that robot, since then I had looked around the area. All there were, were abandoned buildings and some rubble. Other than that, it was just a desert wasteland. There were the occasional sand storms as well, but I was able to hide out in some place called 'The Court of Azimuth'. Whatever that was…...but I wouldn't be here for long. While here, I had discovered a blueprint for a small ship that would get me off this desolante rock. I had just finished screwing in a screw, when I decided to check the blueprint.

"Ok, let's see….step 305, attach the robotic ignition system, robotic ignition system? Oh, man…..I don't even have that part, oh well…..I'll just go and search around a bit more…." I said to myself as I walked away to hopefully find a robotic ignition system.

3rd P.O.V

Unknown to Ratchet, up above Fastoon was a starfighter that contained a second lombax and a small robot who was grey, had a vent on his chest, had three fingered metallic hands, large green eyes, and a antenna that ended with a small bulb. The lombax wore the same clothes as Ratchet, except he wore a pilot's cap on his head. These two were legendary galactic heroes, Clank and….Ratchet? Regardless Ratchet and clank, not to be confused with our Ratchet, sat inside Aphelion. Ratchet had been looking outside Aphelion's cockpit window, when all of a sudden a red blinking light appeared onto the dashboard.

Ratchet looked away from the cockpit and towards the blinking light as he asked, "Uhh….Clank should it be blinking like that?"

Clank pressed a few buttons before saying in a curious voice, "hmm….it appears to be some sort of distress signal, the signal appears to be coming from Planet Fastoon."

Ratchet looked over to him confused as he said, "Fastoon? What would someone be doing on Fastoon?"

"I do not know….Aphelion, do you think you can play the distress call?" Clank asked the ship.

"Yes, playing recording now…." She said as the dashboard's screen turned on, showing...Ratchet?

Ratchet and Clank's jaws dropped as they stared in confusion.

Clank said in a confused voice, "Ratchet is that you?"

"Yeah, but how can that be? I'm right here with you." Ratchet said as he stared at the other him bizarrely.

Regardless of what they said, the message began to play. "Mayday! Mayday! This is Ratchet of…..something, I've just been launched in an escaped pod from a space station by an unknown robot and his butler robot. I'm being launched to somewhere called Fastoon, if anyone is listening...send help!" with that, the other Ratchet's message ended.

Ratchet and Clank only looked more confused before the robot and butler robot bit finally hit them like a train as they both said in unison, "Dr. Nefarious!"

Ratchet looked confused as he asked Clank, "What would Nefarious want with another me?"

Clank merely shook his head and said, "I do not know, Ratchet. But he could be you from another dimension captured by Nefarious. But, I am unsure as to why he would send Ratchet down to Fastoon."

Ratchet said with a sigh, "That's gonna get so confusing…..well, there's only one way to find out! Aphelion, you think you can land us down there?"

Aphelion replied, "Yes and I know the perfect spot, it will only take a moment."

With that, Aphelion headed down to the surface to land as Ratchet prepared to meet himself…..