Here is the long waited chapter of Worlds United. Now you must be thinking, "What took ya so long." well I was with my dads this weekend and I worked with him when I was there and he tends to pull me away from my writing (Probably because he doesn't know about it) and this chapter also took alot of thought so there's a reason I couldn't upload this weekend (This chapter was actually meant for the weekend, but work and thought got in the way). But I'm back at my house now and hopefully that won't get in the way anytime soon. But another thing I wanna say is, WOW, in just 3 chapters I've gotten 5 reviews, 108 views, 2 favorites, and 1 follow, when normally that probably would've taken me 20 chapters from the last story to get that. So I thank you guys so much for the support you've been given this story and keep it up, its much appreciated. And as you can see I still haven't got the cover art up but if you do view or follow my DeviantArt I did post the cover art on there so if you are interested in seeing it, do go onto and look up my account (MedicineMan426). Now before you move on to reading, I do have one new review to reply.

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Kyzil Plateau

Planet Veldin

12:00pm GST

Nightmares And Comfort

Things were going well in Jordan's dreams, until bad things started to take its toll on his brain. Jordan started seeing strange creatures that looked like Blarg being shot and then quickly flashed over to Blarg getting devoured by tiny robots and soon his mind quickly flashed back to a Sandshark that jumped right at him and immediately after it jumped at him, everything disappeared as he flew out of slumber and raised his fist ready to hurt something or someone. But the only thing Jordan woke up to was a dark room, and a snoring Lombax with a silent robot beside him. After seeing this Jordan sighed and layed back into bed and knew that going back to sleep wasn't going to be that easy. fifteen minutes into laying in bed and Jordan was completely bored out of his mind.

Jordan knew what to do and gently removed the blanked and carefully walked out of bed and towards the door and walked out into the main area of the garage. As Jordan was walking beside the desks to avoid the couch, he stopped and saw that Sophia was silent as well and Jordan saw her stomach slowly going up and down and Jordan smiled, knowing how long it must've been since she has gotten this long of a good night sleep. But Jordan looked his gaze towards the desk and saw many tool and blueprints to ideas of inventions that Ratchet had in mind, but looked and saw a small white piece of paper next to some of those blueprints. Jordan walked over and moved some of the blueprints and picked up the paper. Jordan saw small lines of green and blue and flipped the paper and saw something that caused him to slightly smile. What he saw was a drawing of two poorly drawn figures, one on the left that resembles Sophia, and another one on the right that sorta resembled himself due to the black and gray square that made up the figures whole center. And Jordan saw that the figures were standing on grass and there was a blue sky in the background and knowing that Ratchet is not that bad of a drawer and Jordan knew that only one person would draw something like this.

Sophia.

"Aww that's sweet of her." Jordan quietly said as he looked over to Sophia.

Jordan however continued on to what he was gonna do and set the picture down and quietly walk over to the small metal door. Jordan twisted the knob and slowly but surely pulled on the door and it made no squeaky sounds while it was opened. When the door was opened enough to squeeze his body through, Jordan looked over and saw that Sophia was still fast asleep and Jordan squeezed through the door and slowly closed the door. Once the door was fully closed, Jordan to a step or two away from it and was now exposed to the chilly air that made up the Veldin night. Jordan walked around the garage and to the side and when he was halfway down the garage, Jordan sat himself against the walls and brought his legs up to his chest. It was at that moment Jordan started to hear multiple voices and Jordan reacted by putting his hand to his ears.

"Get out of my fucking head." Jordan quietly said, causing the voices to stop.

After his delusions disappeared, Jordan buried his head into his legs and sat in a fetal position which to him felt like forever.

2 hours later

Jordan could now feel himself getting uncomfortable and Jordan lifted his head and unfolded his knees and slowly got up. Jordan knew he had to get some rest but resting along a cliff side, definitely not. Jordan walked along the side of the garage to the back of it and saw the same withered out tree from last time and sat himself down under it. Jordan then reached into his right jacket pocket and pulled out a bottle of Rozerem and popped out two of the many pills contained in the container. Jordan however needed a liquid to wash them down so Jordan improvised and decided to build up enough saliva so it could help him swallow the pills. Once Jordan accumulated enough he decided to take one pill at a time and put one pill in his mouth and once he did, he swallowed a big gulp and repeated the process for the second one. With both pill now in his system, the only thing left to do was wait.

Jordan sighed "They should be working any-." Jordan couldn't finish the sentence as he felt himself become extremely drowsy then suddenly felt himself fall to the ground and his eyes close.

6 hours later

8:00pm GST

The beautiful Veldin dawn had begun and sunlight could be seen illuminating from the window of Ratchet's bedroom. Ratchet opened his eyes and yawned while stretching out his arm and looked over to his side to see that Jordan was nowhere to be found.

"Where did he go this time?" Ratchet said to himself as he slowly got out of bed.

Ratchet walked through the door frame and out into the main area and saw that Sophia was still sleeping and decided to leave her be. Ratchet walked over to his desk and saw that a bunch of his blueprints mysteriously move and in the center of it all was the drawing that Sophia made a week back. Ratchet knew this was Jordan's doing and still tried to find him. Ratchet decided to walk to the door and walk outside and once he was outside, he looked at the ground and saw distinct footprints and they lead around the garage to the side. Ratchet did so and halfway down, he saw the trail end, but saw it begin again following to the back of the garage. Ratchet continued to follow the trail and saw that it lead to a tree and under it was a motionless Jordan.

Ratchet immediately went into panic mode and rushed over to the Human and from seeing what Jordan did a year back, decided to do what he did. Ratchet lowered his hear to Jordan's mouth and instead of getting nothing, felt and heard a puff of air hit his ear and he looked closer to see his stomach going up and down, signifying that he is sleeping. Ratchet had no idea how he could sleep on that ground but proceeded to wake his friend up.

"Jordan." Ratchet said, lightly kicking his side.

After kicking him five times, Ratchet could see the Human's eyes start to open and soon Jordan was finally awake.

The blinding sun was starting to set his eyes ablaze as Jordan slowly woke from his slumber to a beautiful sky, and a curious Lombax standing next to him.

"What are you doing out here?" Ratchet asked.

"What do you mean?" Jordan moaned out.

"Well when I last saw you you were inside, now your here."

"Must've been sleepwalking or something."

"You sleepwalk."

"I guess."

"Well, good morning I guess."

"Good morning to you too."

Ratchet held his hand out to Jordan and Jordan grabbed his hand and Ratchet pulled him up and the duo walked around the garage and through the door to get back inside. Once they were both inside, Jordan saw that Sophia was still sleeping and Jordan decided to walk over to her and proceed to wake her up.

Jordan placed his hand on Sophia's forearm "Sophia." Jordan said as he lightly shook her, in which Sophia slowly opened her eyes and saw Jordan beside her. "Morning Sophia." Jordan said to her.

"Good Morning Jordan." Sophia replied.

Sophia rubbed her eyes and slowly sat up in her seat and Jordan started to hear Sophia's stomach growl. Jordan knew that he had to get her food and he asked her what she normally ate.

"What does Ratchet normally feed you in the morning?"

"Umm, usually cereal, I know he has it somewhere."

"I'll go find it then."

Jordan started searching the whole garage now for the food in question. First checking the cabinets underneath Ratchets desk, then the nightstand in his room, all having no luck. All that was left now was a cabinet hanging over Ratchets desk and Jordan opened it, revealing a cereal box that looked like it would appeal to kids, and a metallic, but smooth bowl beside it. Jordan took the box over to Sophia and she confirmed that was it. Jordan opened the flaps on the top of the box and started to pour the food into the bowl. After he was done, Jordan closed the flaps and placed the box back into the cabinet. Jordan however saw that there was no milk at all and guessed that Sophia would have to eat this with no milk. Jordan took the bowl and walked it over to Sophia and Sophia took the bowl and started to eat the cereal. With Sophia now distracted, Jordan started to walk towards the door but Ratchet noticed him and stopped him.

"Were you going Jordan?" Ratchet asked.

"Just, out for a bit."

"Oh, well don't stay too long out there."

"Okay."

Jordan opened the door to the outside world of Veldin and started to walk out. Jordan took a few steps outside but looked down and saw that Sophia was standing beside him.

"What are you doing here?" Jordan asked.

"I don't know, thought I'd join you."

"Why?"

"Why not."

Jordan sighed "Alright, but stay near me."

"I can handle myself Jordan."

"Alright then."

Jordan and Sophia started walking away from the garage and while Jordan was walking, he saw the whole landscape as it was a barren desert that looked like something out of a Mad Max movie. Jordan however felt that there was no wind and the temperature was pretty uncomfortable, but Jordan dealt with it anyways. Soon Jordan and Sophia encountered a familiar hill and Jordan recognized that the hillside led down to the same lake that Jordan saved Sophia from. Jordan decided to walk down the hill and Sophia followed and soon they were near the lake and Jordan looked to the right of him and saw a small cave right across from the lake and thought this is were Sophia must've lived after her escape from the orphanage.

"Sooo, you lived in this cave after you escaped?"

"Yep."

"Seems a little uncomfortable."

"It was."

Jordan looked around the cave an saw that there were no blackened spots in the ground to show any evidence of a campfire. "You didn't build any campfires or any light in here?"

"I didn't know how."

"It must've been hard to live in here."

"I only slept here for one day."

"I take it the next day is when I showed up."

"Yeah."

"Well I guess I'm glad I came to you sooner than."

Jordan looked towards the lake in question and Jordan saw a branch near the water "So that was the branch you said that broke on you?"

"Yeah."

"I still think you should be careful of those kind of risks but as long as your ok, that doesn't matter."

Jordan decided to walk into the cave and Jordan sat against the wall of the cave and Sophia did the same. After one minute of sitting in complete silence, Jordan turned to Sophia "Sooo, what was it like for you with me gone?"

Sophia hesitated at the question but started to speak up "Fine, I guess."

"Were you sad while I was gone."

"A little."

"Well, I am here now so-."

"Why are you doing this?"

"What?" Jordan said in surprise, knowing this question threw him off.

Sophia scooted closer to Jordan "Why are you treating me like this?"

"What do you mean?"

"A year ago you were just a stranger to me, and now. Your like a best friend to me and you take care of me like a parent does."

"Do you think of me like a-."

"NO, no of course not."

"Oh, Ok then."

"I'm sorry if your sad about it."

"No no, its fine Sophia."

"Okay...Why did you call me Sophia?"

"Well...I guess it's cause if I had a daughter, that would be a name I would name my daughter."

"So your saying I'm like-."

"No, of course not Sophia."

"Oh, okay."

"...Look, why I took care you a year ago and now, I don't know, I just do I guess. You've had a hard life and I think that a little happiness this early in life would be good for you. So I guess that's why I treat you how I do. I care for you so I will do as much as I can for you until we find you a new family."

Sophia moved herself closer to Jordan and rested her head against Jordan's arm "Thank you Jordan."

"Your welcome Sophia."

It was at that moment that Jordan heard what sounded like a ship and got up and walked out of the cave and it sounded like it was coming from Ratchet's garage. "Cmon Sophia." Jordan said, causing Sophia to get up from her spot and catch up with Jordan. Once they were both up, Sophia and Jordan walked up the hillside and back to the garage.

Jordan and Sophia saw the garage and they both saw that there were multiple ships parked outside of the garage and they both saw that the big door to the garage was opened and Jordan saw multiple feline looking creatures that Jordan recognized were Cazars, and two others that Jordan couldn't make out.

"What the hell?" Jordan said, completely confused on whats going on.

Jordan grabbed Sophia's arm and pulled her up on his back and Sophia wrapped her arms around Jordan's body just like on their last adventure and Jordan put his hood over his head and walked towards the garage. Jordan saw that they were setting up strange microphones and cameras and Jordan walked through the garage and saw that on the walls of the garage were Ratchet and Clank and Jordan saw Ratchet separating the sofa to make three equal chairs. Jordan moved two people out of his way and walked up to Ratchet who immediately saw him.

"Ah your back." Ratchet said to Jordan.

"What's going on here?" Jordan asked Ratchet.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, Solana Galaxy News wants to do an interview on us, on the whole Drek incident."

"And they wait a year to do that."

"Yeah its kinda strange."

"And you wait till now to tell me."

"Well she could've" Ratchet said looking towards Sophia.

Jordan looked over his shoulder to Sophia "You knew about this?"

"Sorry."

"Were live in three minutes." a man shouted.

"Jordan listen, I know this seems last minute but...we were hoping that you could join us on this, you helped stop Drek after all." Ratchet said to Jordan

Jordan sighed, Jordan really didn't want to be on public television but an interview, it wasn't exactly what he had in mind. But Jordan knew he had to to this and if his friends were gonna do this, than he would to "Fine." Jordan said.

"Good."

Ratchet, Jordan and Clank started to sit in their seats, Ratchet on the far right, Clank in the center, Jordan on the far left, and Sophia sat on Jordan's lap.

"Were live in two minutes." a man shouted again.

As the time was ticking down, Jordan saw that Sophia was looking very shy and swore he could see water start to develop in her eyes. Jordan turned Sophia to face him "Is something wrong Sophia?"

"I don't know if I could do this." Sophia said.

"What do you mean?" Jordan asked.

"Last night you said it was okay Sophia." Clank said, overhearing their conversation.

"Yes but..."

"But what?" Jordan said.

Sophia moved closer to Jordan "What if they see me?"

"Who's they?"

"..."

"You mean the kids at the orphanage?"

"They have a TV, what if they watch it."

"Well..."

"I don't know If I could do this Jordan."

Jordan could now see tears start to develop and Jordan was quick to calm her down "Hey, Sophia listen." Jordan said, getting Sophia to look up at him "You can do this, remember what I said down there in the cave, I'll protect you. Even if your face shows up on TV theres no way they'll know where we are. You'll be okay Sophia, your safe here."

"Okay, whatever you say."

"Alright then, pull yourself together now, its almost time."

"Were live in fifteen seconds." A man shouted again.

Sophia quickly wiped the tears from her eyes and Jordan pulled his hood farther over his head, his face was no longer in view of the cameras. The clock was no ticking and soon enough, it was time for live TV.

"Were live in five..four..three..two.." a man shouted.

Jordan saw a small screen to the side and it showed a logo of a green upside down triangle and in front of it was a silhouette of a familiar person to him that caused his teeth to slightly grind, but his anger was cut off as the image quickly disappeared and switched to a camera and Jordan saw the whole group in it, and a man behind the cameras that started to talk. "Welcome back to Behind The Hero. Tonight's heroes are the duo who recently restored peace and order to our galaxy, Ratchet and Clank. So, gentlemen, tell us about your latest incredible adventures?"

"Well as you can imagine we've been pretty busy, after Dreks defeat there were parades, press conferences, fancy dress balls.." Ratchet said, sitting back in his chair and sounding much more relaxed and confident than his last experience with the public eye.

"And the wiener roast at Al's." Clank added.

"Oh yeah that. And then things started to slow down a bit, after that we..well.."

"There was the grand opening of Groovy Lube." Clank said.

"Right, I think that was, last week."

"Six months ago."

"Were still pretty busy but in a more..domestic sense."

"Yesterday, I flushed out my radiator core."

"I guess, no one needs a hero right now." Ratchet finished.

"I see." the interviewer said "Now I've heard rumors of another person who helped you with stopping Drek...a Markazian was it?"

"He was a human, not a Markazian."

"So is that him sitting next to you?" The man said with the camera moving over towards Jordan and Sophia.

"Yes it is." Ratchet said, with Jordan obviously not saying a word. "He doesn't talk much." Ratchet said.

"And what about the girl with him?"

"She helped us as well."

"Wait, your saying a little girl helped you stop a vile villain." The interviewer said, causing Ratchet and Clank to look towards Jordan's direction and Jordan looked at the camera and slowly nodded. "But don't you think that might of been unsafe for-." The interviewer said before getting interrupted by Jordan who was confident enough to speak up now.

"Look I know it sounds crazy to be putting a little girl in this kinda danger, but I protected her and she did the same for us...she saved our lives, all of our lives, and most of this credit should go to her and not us."

"Hmm, interesting."

"Yes, it is."

"Well would you mind If I ask her a few questions?"

Jordan looked down at Sophia and Sophia looked up at him, but Jordan looked back up at the camera and answered the question "Umm, I don't know if...if..." Jordan said as he started to feel really dizzy and Jordan felt his head ache.

Ratchet looked over toward Jordan "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine...it's...just..." Jordan started to pass out on them but before he hit the ground, everything went black.

And there is chapter three. Once again I do apologize for the delay of this and I'll try not to have too many delays like this again. And for me of course I will draw what Sophia drawed for Jordan and It will soon be up on my DeviantArt along with a couple other Ideas I had in mind. And I will also say to with Jordan blacking out at the end, that meant that they were teleported so don't think it was because of Jordan's problems, It was because of Fizzwidget teleporting the group, Jordan just blacked out when it happened. So I guess I sorta lied about the adventure beginning, instead of chapter 3, it will be chapter 4. But that's all I think I have to say now so stay tuned for chapter 4 as the group figures out where they have been teleported to, and for what purpose.

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