Here we are with chapter 11. All I can say is this one was a close one. I was actually gonna delay this until tomorrow (By the time this is posted, I would be three hours past my deadline (I pretty much have to go to bed by the time this is posted)), but of course my dedication to these stories got the best of me and I decided to push on until it was finished. I will only say though that in this chapter I will introduce the Nanotech upgrades. Its not what it should be, but in the future chapters it will upgrade the normal way.

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Guest- I actually learned when reading this review that the vendor on Barlow was actually selling the RYNO II and not the original RYNO (Stupid me). But will it make an appearance in later chapters...maybe. I'll just have to figure out a way so that they get it fairly, but also get rid of the original RYNO.

I am gonna shut up now and I will let you guys read on.

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Thug Rendezvous

Feltzin System

Slipping And Dunking

As the group was flying to the rendezvous point, Jordan saw a strange ship fly over them and as he looked behind them to see the ship, he saw that it was right behind them and he saw shots start coming out of the ship and hit their left wing.

"LOOK OUT." Jordan yelled.

Ratchet saw the wing get hit and he dodged more shots from the ship, but Jordan saw that it was now an ambush as he saw more ships surround them and fire at the group. Ratchet was able to dodge all these attacks and once they were free from the fire, he leveled the ship and tried to figure out a plan of attack.

"We are under attack." Clanks said.

"Well we cant outrun them. Lets hope these weapons still work." Ratchet said.

Ratchet saw a ship to the left of him and he turned to that ship and once he was behind it, he started firing multiple shots at the ship and Ratchet saw it dodge some of the shots, but saw one of his shots hit the ship in the center of its main thruster and saw the ship explode. Ratchet then saw another ship to his right and flew after it. Once the ship was in his sight, he fired continuous shots at the ship and hit both of its wings, and at its thrusters and destroyed the ship. With two out of the five ships gone, Ratchet saw another ship in the distance and flew to it. Once the ship was in sight, Ratchet decided to use his rockets this time and the Lombax pushed a button near the steering wheel and once missile launched from the ship and hit the enemy vessel and destroyed it.

With two left, Ratchet saw a ship behind him and he used the ship and flipped it over so that it was now behind him and Ratchet shot at the ship and hit it in its thrusters again and destroyed it. With one ship left, Ratchet looked over and saw that the last ship was using his thrusters and trying to fly away from him, knowing by now that it was probably making a break for it. Ratchet however left no survivors as he used his thrusters to fly over to the ship and use one missile to blow it to smithereens. With all the ships gone, Ratchet flew the ship away from the system and Jordan looked around to see no more ships.

"Well I think that's all of them." Jordan said.

"Yeah, that was a close one." Ratchet said.

Jordan looked over to see Clanks antenna start flashing and Clank focused on the dashboards screen and Jordan saw the dashboard open up to some kind of video.

"Hold on, I am intercepting a transmission." Clank said.

Once Clank displayed the transmission on the dashboard, they saw a video pop up, but it showed a split screen and on one left side was a robotic lady that sounded like she was working in some kind of call center, and on the right side was the familiar thug from the previous video "For the fifth time, I have a collect call to the Thugs-4-less to a mister you are gonna die, will you accept the charges." the robotic lady said.

"Uh, you are gonna die?" the thug said in confusion.

"I'll take that as a yes, thank you."

The left side of the screen now went static and the robotic lady disappeared, and in her place was the familiar masked villain that was the thief.

"You, idiot." the thief said.

"Uh oh." the thug said.

"I'm paying top dollar for your protection, and all your moron employees are on a picnic." the thief said with anger.

"Hey it was a bonding exercise."

"EENOUGH! If your men aren't here pronto, you can kiss this contract goodbye."

The thief's side of the screen went static again and the thief now disappeared from the video and the thugs side of the screen widened to fit the whole screen of the dashboard.

"Oh yeah, well you can kiss your..uh..your-your..you know what I mean."

The video cut off and while the video was playing, Clank was able to download the coordinates to where the theif was during the video and he uploaded it onto the ships GPS.

"Did you trace that?" Ratchet asked Clank

"Coordinates locked in, were heading there now."

With a destination set, Ratchet flew the ship to Planet Notak and they flew off.

While Ratchet flew the ship to Planet Notak, Jordan decided to do some research on all the enemies he faced so he knows what enemies they could be dealing, and their names as well. But Jordan heard Clank pressing button and heard different sounds come from it and from what he heard, he knew the ship had some kind of radio in it. But the thing that shocked him was how something like that could function in the empty void of space.

"So, hows the reception out here?" Ratchet asked Clank.

"How could there be reception out here, were in space." Jordan said to Ratchet.

"We have Sports, Weather, ooooh the Science channel." Clank said while flipping through the channels, but stopping on some kind of science channel.

"Keep going." Ratchet said.

"Oh cmon, I could maybe enjoy this." Jordan said.

"Change it." Sophia said.

Jordan sighed in frustration and Clank continued to flip through the different networks. After changing three more channel however, Ratchet saw something and stopped Clank from changing the channels.

"Wait a minute, whats that?" Ratchet said.

"If its about ships then change it." Jordan said.

The dashboards screen lit up once again and it showed a video and on it was a picture of a familiar person that Jordan despised the most.

Qwark.

"The man, the myth, the legend, the loser." a commentator said. The video now showed another picture of Captain Qwark about to step in some kind of box with iron bars on the front "Captain Qwark, once the idle of everyone in the galaxy finally hit rock bottom.". the video now showed another picture and on it was Ratchet and Clank, with Qwark cowering in fear from Clank. Jordan also saw the busy city of Metropolis in the background. "After humiliation at the hands of Ratchet and Clank, he sold bogus merchandise that he claimed were Gadgetron Products. But a key defect in this product." the video now showed Qwark holding up some kind of Gadget that consisted of a Pink body color, and sticking out of it were multiple tools that a person would use on a regular basis. "The Personal Hygenator, that caused severe irritation in some body areas, and alerted authorities to Qwark's scam." the video now showed the logo again and Jordan knew that this was the channel that hosted Behind The Hero"Behind The Hero, will return after these messages." the video ended and Jordan could not believe that Qwark would try to sell something like that, but was glad he got busted for it.

"Well that explains alot." Ratchet said.

"What does?" Jordan said.

"All this time it was my Personal Hygenator that was causing that itch."

"You've gotta be kidding me?"

"What-"

"You bought that thing."

"What, I thought-"

"Why would you trust what Qwarks selling?"

"That's what I told him." Sophia said.

"Anyway, we will be at our destination shortly." Clank said.

"You know something I wanna know..How come we weren't in that video?" Jordan said to Ratchet, talking about him and Sophia not being mentioned in the video.

Canal City

Planet Notak

8:00 GST

Soon enough they did make it to the Planet and what Jordan saw almost made his heart drop. He saw that the planet was almost and exact replica to Earth, consisting of a body of water that surrounded the planet, and separated pieces of earth. Seeing this also made him a little homesick. Once Ratchet landed on a landing pad, he looked over at Jordan and saw that his head was slightly down and saw that he looked sad.

"Jordan." Ratchet said to the Human, getting no response. "Jordan." Ratchet said again, this time lightly shaking his left shoulder.

Jordan felt this and lifted his head up "W-what?" Jordan quickly responded.

"Are you okay?" Ratchet asked.

"Yeah yeah, I'm fine." Jordan said.

Ratchet opened the cockpit and the group jumped out. Once they were out, Jordan put his hood over his head and lifted Sophia onto his back. Once the group was ready, Ratchet, Jordan, and Clank walked in front of the ship and stared out into the city. While staring out into the city however they saw a black ship fly up into the sky and Jordan could see a glimpse of green eyes and he knew that was the thief's ship.

Ratchet sighed in frustration "Too late again."

"We always seem to be too late, why is that." Clank said.

The group stood there in silence trying to figure out an answer for that, but they got nothing.

"Well cmon, lets search this place to find out where he's headed." Ratchet said.

Clank got on Ratchets back and the Lombax and Human saw a floating platform and stepped on it. They felt it take them down to ground level and they saw that there was a vendor right beside it. Jordan decided to save his money and once Ratchet was done buying his ammo, they duo walked to their left and saw an entrance into a strange building and when they walked inside, they saw five of the strange robotic birds again, but from Jordan's research, he knew that they were called Chickenbots. Jordan was a little shocked though that they belonged to Megacorp, but Jordan didn't let it get in the way as he let Ratchet destroy these things. Ratchet equipped his Gravity Bomb and aimed it at the group and fired one bomb at them and destroyed them.

Once the enemies were eliminated, Ratchet felt the weapon vibrate and once he let go, the weapon hovered above them and spin clockwise. The group saw the weapons body get longer, and have two ammunition holders instead of one. The weapon slowly hovered down to Ratchet and once Ratchet grabbed it, he looked at the engraving on the side and saw that the name Mini Nuke was now on the side of it. With the new upgraded weapon, they walked into the room and saw that on the right side of the room were multiple display cases and inside were mannequins with clothes on them. The group ignored this and walked into the next room and saw that it opened up into the outside world and in the center was a large rotating planet with three rings around it.

The group figured that this must've been the courtyard to the building, but quickly saw four thugs appear from both sides of the entrance and fire at them. Ratchet and Jordan retreated behind the wall and Ratchet knew this would be the best time to test his new weapon. Ratchet ran out of cover and while the thugs were firing at him, he dodged all the shots and quickly lobbed one bomb at the group. Jordan peeked from behind cover and saw that the bomb turned into a small mushroom cloud and saw all the thugs fly across the courtyard with shards in all of their bodies. Jordan now knew that it upgraded its damage and blast radius and knew this kinda weapon would come in handy. The duo walked around the rotating statue and saw an elevator on the right side of the courtyard and as they walked to it, three thugs popped out and they fired their weapons. Jordan saw that this time they fired some kind of electrical ball, but saw that they were slow enough to easily dodge and Ratchet used his Mini Nuke and launched one bomb at the thugs and killed all of them with one bomb.

Ratchet and Jordan got on the elevator and once they reached the top, they saw to their left was three thugs and the only thing separating them from the group was a glass window. This however proved to be useless as the thugs easily broke through the glass and aimed their weapons at the group. Ratchet still had his Mini Nuke and he quickly launched one bomb at the group and blew them into pieces. They now walked past the broken glass and once they did, they saw a yellow ship hover a foot off the ground and saw that it started firing at the group. Ratchet and Jordan hid behind the wall of the thugs hiding place and Jordan equipped his Heavy Lancer and Ratchet did the same with his Lancer.

Once the ship stopped firing, Ratchet and Jordan jumped out from covering and they aimed and gave continuous blaster fire at the ship. Jordan felt that there was really no recoil on it at all and he was able to mostly hit the ship. The duo saw pieces of the ship now come off and soon the engine of the ship was exposed and Ratchet carefully aimed and fired at it, hitting it spot on and causing the ship to explode. Ratchet and Jordan now saw a bridge to their left and as they walked across it, they saw that there was another glass case with more thugs in it and Jordan equipped his Blitz gun, and Ratchet equipped his Lancer, knowing that he should maybe conserve some of his Mini Nuke ammo. Once they were close to the case, the thugs jumped out and slowly aimed their blasters at the group.

Jordan at the same time aimed his Blitz Gun and fired at the group, causing multiple shots to hit the thugs, but only one hit a thug in the chest and killed him. Jordan reloaded and the thugs fired their weapons and Jordan easily dodged the attacks and he aimed his weapon again and fired one last time, killing the last two thugs with a few more rounds. Jordan reloaded his weapon and him and the Lombax proceeded to another elevator and took it up to another level. Once they reached the top, they stepped off the elevator and looked to their left to see another ship hover down and fire at the group. Ratchet and Jordan hid behind a wide column and they both got their Lancers out and once the ship stopped attacking, the duo jumped from behind their cover and fired at the ship. Jordan decided to do a three round burst this time to conserve ammo and once again they saw pieces of the armor of the ship get stripped from it and the engine was revealed again and before they could shoot it, the ship fired at the again and Jordan saw a shot land right by his foot and Jordan immediately ran into cover. They waited out the bombardment and once it was done, Jordan held his breath, then aimed, then fired at the ship, hitting its engine and causing it to explode.

With the ship gone, they looked to where the ship was and they saw that a bridge connected a gap and on the other side were two glass displays, but only one of them had three thugs in it. Ratchet decided to equip the Chopper and once they approached the glass, the thugs jumped out and Ratchet got to work. He threw six saws at the thugs and Jordan definitely looked away once they approached the thugs. The goons fired their weapons, but the duo dodged them and Ratchet saw one of the saws strike one thug in the arm, completely taking it off. Then saw it come back and impale in the thugs chest and kill him.

He then saw another thug get sliced across the neck with a blade, then saw it come back and strike him in the stomach, then saw another blade impale in his chest and kill him. With one more to go, Ratchet saw a blade slice across the thugs left knee and cause him to kneel, but saw another one impale in his neck and cause him to bleed out on the ground, not being able to yell in agony due to the blood. Sophia made sure not to look either and once the gore fest was done, they kept their eyes off the thugs as they walked over to an elevator and rode it up. Once they reached the top, Jordan and Sophia focused on whats in front of them and they saw some kind of capsule and inside it was something that looked like a gene. Jordan decided to volunteer on figuring out what it is and while the Human was observing it, he accidentally dropped it and once the glass broke, he saw the gene split into multiple orbs that went inside his body.

Once it did, he saw all of his veins get brighter and brighter and saw that a bright white flash engulfed him, but quickly vanish. Jordan was completely confused at this point, but looked at his veins to see that they were slightly brighter than what they should and Jordan wanted an answer for this. He decided though to call Fizzwidget about it later and focus on the mission. Jordan looked to his right to see a teleporter and once Ratchet and Jordan stepped into it. They felt the teleportation effect kick in and soon they saw that they were brought back to their ship.

Once they stepped off the teleporter and went down the elevator again, they saw that in front of them as a bridge and they decided to walk across it. Once they did so, they saw that on the other side were six more Chickenbots and Jordan decided to equip the Blitz Gun. Jordan approached the bots, who immediately saw him and ran after him. Jordan aimed at the group of bots and when he fired, he saw all but one bot blow into pieces. Jordan now saw the bot get close and as Jordan reloaded the gun, the bot jumped at him with its sharp teeth exposed. As Jordan prepared for the injury, he saw the bot instantly turn into a chicken and he looked behind him to see Sophia aiming over his shoulder.

"Thank you Sophia."

"Your welcome."

With another save from the adorable Lombax, The group looked ahead of them and saw some kind of electrical force field and now had to figure out how to disable it. Jordan and Ratchet looked to their left to see an opening into another building so they decided to walk through it, hoping this will have the solution to their problem. Once inside, they walked down a hallway that lead to a room and inside it were three large water pumps that aligned both sides of the wall. They didn't know what this did though but decided to figure it out later as they saw a ledge that they could climb up in front of them, but below it was a body of water.

"How are we gonna do this now?" Jordan said.

"I don't know, maybe there's something we can use." Ratchet said.

The group exited the building and Jordan somehow thought there could be a gadget they could use and the Human decided to go to the Megacorp Vendor to see if they have anything available. While Jordan was going through the catalog of the strange weapons and gadgets that Megacorp had to offer, he saw that there was a limited time offer on a gadget and once he found the gadget that was being offered, he saw that it was called the Thermanator. Jordan decided to read the description of it and it said that the inventor was originally suppose to sell it to Gadgetron, but once he heard Megacorp ruled the galaxy, he decided to sell it to them. What Jordan read though was the tool was able to freeze water into ice, then saw it was able to thaw as well back into water. Jordan knew this was the kinda tool that they needed and signaled over Ratchet to buy, seeing that it was one thousands bolts and Jordan knew he couldn't afford it.

Ratchet bought the strange tool and once it was bought, Jordan saw that the tool had a similar model to the Tractor Beam, but saw it was more smaller and more cylinder in shape. Ratchet grabbed the handle at the end of the tool and they proceeded back into the building and once they were by the water, it was time to figure out how to use the strange tool. Ratchet saw that there was a knob on the right side of the tool that had the word freeze on the right side of the knob, and on the left side it said thaw. Ratchet saw that the knob was pointed towards thaw so he turned the knob to the right until it pointed to freeze. Once the setting was set, Ratchet pushed on the trigger that was on the handle of the gun and pointed it towards the water.

While Ratchet held the trigger, Jordan saw that there was now small bright blue balls that fired out of the tool and dissipated when they landed in the water. After shooting out fifteen balls into the water, the group saw the water instantly freeze into a block of ice. Seeing now that a problem was now solved, Ratchet went first and slowly walked across the ice until he was by the ledge. Ratchet then climbed up the ledge and was now waiting for Jordan and Sophia. Jordan knew that he would have problems crossing this and didn't want to hurt Sophia in case he slipped so he decided to take Sophia off his back and set her on the ground.

"What are you doing?" Sophia asked.

Jordan set a foot on the ice and proceeded to move forward "I just gotta make sure I wont-" Jordan was cut off as he felt his foot fly above him and cause him to land right on his back on the ice. Jordan looked at Sophia to see her grin and then start laughing, while seeing Ratchet slightly laughing at this to. Jordan slowly got up and once he was standing, he clearly didn't look amused when he started at Sophia "That's it." Jordan said as he slowly walked over and swiped his arm under her legs, causing her to fall over.

"AH!" Sophia yelled as Jordan caught her right when she was about to hit the ground.

Jordan then set her on the ground and grabbed her feet as he walked slowly across the ice while dragging Sophia across the ice as well. Once Jordan reached the ledge, Ratchet held his hand out and Jordan grabbed it with his left and and the Lombax pulled him up. Once he was up top, he held Sophia up by her feet until she and the Human were face to face.

"That wasn't funny." Jordan said at the upside down Lombax.

"You looked funny." She said as she was smiling and pointing at him.

"You gotta admit, that was kinda funny." Ratchet added.

"Shut up." Jordan said, clearly unamused.

Jordan set Sophia down and the Lombax got up and got on Jordan's back. Once everyone was ready, Ratchet and Jordan walked down a long hallway and as they reached another room, they saw something pop up from the ground in it and saw that it was a cannon. They saw however that its range only went to the end of the hallway and they knew this would be an easy target. Ratchet and Jordan equipped their Lancers and they started to fire three round bursts at the cannon and after six shots each, the cannon blew up into a thousand pieces and the room was now clear. They now walked into the room and saw it exit to the outside world, with a thug guarding the entrance.

Jordan equipped the Blitz Gun and ran full speed at the thug and by the time the thug noticed him and fired, Jordan shot the Blitz Gun right in the thugs face, causing multiple holes to appear in the thugs body and face and kill him. Ratchet caught up with Jordan and they proceeded to walk along a bridge until they saw another piece of it branch off to the right. They walked up the incline and saw that at the top were six Chickenbots. Ratchet equipped his Mini Nuke and he aimed at the bots and fired, destroying all of them with one bomb. Jordan looked to his right and saw another one of those strange green targets and Ratchet knew what to do.

The Lombax equipped the Dynamo and fired at the target, causing a green bolt to come out of the tool and cause the target to spin around. The duo however had no idea what this lead to so they decided to move on. They walked up another piece of the bridge and as the platform was clear, three thugs mysteriously jumped out from the bottom of the platform and readied their weapons. Jordan equipped his Blitz Gun and reloaded the weapon, aimed at the thugs and once he was ready, he fired at the thug in the center, hitting him in multiple places, and also hit a strange pod behind him. What the group saw next was the pod in question explode, not only killing the thug, but also causing the pods behind the other two thugs explode as well and kill all of them.

Jordan now knew to watch for these kinda pods as he knew they were useful. Ratchet and Jordan looked to their left and saw they had to jump a medium sized gap and Ratchet went first and used Clanks Heli-pack to jump all the way across the gap. It was now Jordan's turn and once he stepped back a few feet, he ran as fast he could and jumped, sending him close to the edge. Jordan grabbed the edge of the platform and once Ratchet held his hand out, Jordan grabbed it and the Lombax pulled him up. Once they were both on the platform, they looked and saw six more explosive pods paired together, but saw five thugs come out from behind the pods and aim at the group. Jordan sometimes wondered if these guys knew what those are and Jordan this time equipped his Heavy Lancer and aimed at the pod. Right when the thugs fired their weapons, Jordan fired his and Jordan saw the shot hit the pod behind the thug in the center and cause a chain reaction as one pod blew up after the next and killed the entire group of thugs.

Ratchet and Jordan dodged the incoming fire from the now deceased thugs and once the shots were avoided, they looked to their left and saw a small elevator that took them up to another level. At the top they saw that the platform was mostly empty, but looked to their right to see a ship hovering in the middle of a gap. Knowing they don't have much cover to work with, they had to think fast and because of its distance, it was close enough that Ratchet had an idea. Ratchet equipped the Mini Nuke and when the ship fired at him, he ran up to the ship, dodged the shot, then jumped and lobbed a bomb at the ship. Ratchet then ran back and Jordan saw the bomb hit the ship and then saw it instantly explode into pieces.

With the ship gone, Ratchet and Jordan approached the gap and saw that it was longer than the last one. Ratchet of course volunteered to go first and once he stepped a foot back, he ran and jumped, using Clanks Heli-Pack to jump across the gap. It was now Jordan's turn and from what he's seeing, he knows he couldn't make a jump like this. Jordan knew he had to try though and once he stepped back a few feet, he ran as fast as he could and jumped as far as he could. Jordan however was right about his claim as his fingers only touched the edge. As Jordan was about to plummet to his death, Ratchet ran over and grabbed Jordan's hand. Jordan however saw that Ratchet was clenching his teeth as he knew that the Lombax had difficulties in pulling him up. Slowly but surely though Ratchet was able to lift the Human up to the edge in which Jordan grabbed and helped Ratchet pull himself up. Once he was on the platform, Jordan took a few deep breaths and stood on his own two feet.

"Thank you." Jordan said.

"No problem pal." Ratchet replied.

With another close call, they walked over to the end of the platform and saw a blank tv screen and decided to walk over to it. Once they were all staring at the Television, they saw that it was blank for five seconds, but suddenly saw a large pair of eyes on the screen.

"Pssst, got a ship that needs some uh..improvements?" The man said with a lighter voice than all the others. "Worried about getting caught? Well Slim Cognitos knows your secrets are safe with us.". A Television now appeared beside the pair of eyes and it showed different pictures of a ship that looks similar to Ratchet's "Whether its weapons, shielding, or a new hyperspace module, well hook you up real quick, cheaply, and most importantly, quietly." the Television screen disappeared from beside the pair of eyes and the eyes returned to the center of the screen "So next time you in the market for some uh...legally ambiguous refashioning, remember the name, Slim Cognitos, the only inspections we pass, are yours." the video ended and Jordan could definitely tell that he didn't trust this guy, but wanted to hear the groups opinions about this inconspicuous figure.

"Star ship mods, well a quick visit to slims wont cost us much time." Ratchet said, seeing that Clank's arms were crossed when he said that "Or we should check out that chemical factory." he then said as he pointed to a large building that had the Megacorp logo in the center of it. "Someone inside might know where the thief was headed."

With another task in mind, Ratchet and Jordan looked down to see that the only way down to the bottom was to jump. Jordan held onto Ratchet and Ratchet used Clank's Heli-Pack to safely glide down to the bottom.

"Even after this, I don't know if we can exactly trust this Slim Cognito." Jordan said to Ratchet while hovering down to the bottom.

"Ah your being too paranoid, I'm sure we can trust this guy." Ratchet replied.

"Okay then, but I'll keep an eye on him."

Soon enough they finally reached the bottom and now made their way towards the factory. They walked in between two large buildings and saw a path that lead to the bridge, but looked in front of them and saw that they were now on the other side of the electric force field. They however walked along the path and were soon on the bridge, they saw though that in the center of the bridge were four Chickenbots and Jordan equipped his Blitz Gun when he saw this. Jordan reloaded the weapon and as the bots saw him and ran at him, Jordan fired his Blitz Gun and killed all of the bots with one shot. Jordan reloaded the weapon and the Human and Lombax continued to walk along the bridge.

There were no more threats at this point and as they walked across the rest of the bridge, they were now at the entrance into the factory that consisted of a large metal door, and a bolt crank at the entrance. Ratchet equipped his wrench and got to work on it and while he turned the bolt, Jordan saw the metallic doors go up until the inside of the building was exposed. Once Ratchet was done, he and the group walked down a small stairwell and saw that at the bottom was two opposing walls that were close to each other. Ratchet and Jordan knew they had to climb up this and Ratchet went first and used his muscles to jump from one wall to the other until he reached the top. Luckily for Jordan however this wall wasn't high up and knew this wouldn't take alot of strength and stamina out of him.

Jordan aligned his left foot on the left wall and once he jumped, he forcefully put his right foot on the right wall and jumped again. Jordan repeated this process and soon he was at the top. Ratchet and Jordan walked around a left corner and saw that they now stepped into on of the main chemical rooms as they saw that the room was large and had multiple pumps along the sides. Jordan saw Ratchet though go down a small ledge to the left of him and the Human followed the Lombax as he jumped down. Once they were at the bottom, Jordan saw a large body of water and saw that on a platform distant from them was another bolt crank.

Ratchet saw this as well and equipped the Thermanator and started to freeze the water. After fifteen shots, the water completely froze and Jordan decided to wait where he was while Ratchet got to the platform. Ratchet stepped on the ice and had no problems sliding along it as he reached the platform and climbed up to it. Jordan saw Ratchet turning the crank and as he did, he saw a bridge come out from the platform he was standing on and connect to the ledge above him. Once he was done, Jordan knew he had to walk across the ice and he carefully placed his right foot on the ice, then his left. Soon enough he started slowly walking along the ice and he also made sure to not take things too fast.

Sophia giggled "Don't fall." Sophia said to Jordan.

"Shut up." Jordan replied.

Jordan finally made it to the platform and as he climbed up it, he saw that Ratchet was already running across the bridge and it didn't take long for the Human to quickly climb the platform and run along the bridge to catch up with the Lombax. Once they were both across the bridge, they saw that instead of freezing water this time, they had to thaw it. Ratchet turned the knob to the left and set the tool to thaw the ice and once Ratchet pulled the trigger, bright red balls started to fire from the tool and dissipate when they hit the ice. Fifteen shots later, Jordan saw the ice instantly thaw and turn back into water. As Ratchet was putting his built in mask on, Jordan smiled at an Idea and Jordan grabbed Sophia from off his back and grabbed her by her feet, causing her to flip upside down.

"Uh...what are you doing Jor-." Sophia said as he was cut off by Jordan.

"You think its funny to laugh at my misery huh." Jordan said as he walked to the edge of the water. Sophia looked down to see that she was now over the water and she started to go into panic mode.

"What are you doing?" Sophia said with more fright in her voice.

"I don't know Sophia my hands are slipping." Jordan said as he let go of Sophia for a split second, then grabbed her feet again.

"OKAY OKAY I'M SORRY!" Sophia said now scared.

"...Too late." Jordan replied.

Jordan dropped Sophia into the water, but made sure to hold her feet. Jordan saw Sophia struggling to stay above water, but found it useless. Sophia kept screaming under the water and struggling while Jordan watched and almost chuckled at this. After ten second, Jordan knew this was enough and he lifted Sophia out of the water, hearing go into a coughing fit. Jordan then held up the drenched Lombax as he saw her face go from fear, to full blown anger.

"Cmon don't look at me like that." Jordan said to the unamused Lombax.

"I hate you." Sophia replied.

"Yeah I love you too Sophia." Jordan said.

Jordan layed Sophia down and the drenched Lombax go on Jordan's back again and Jordan looked over to see Ratchet with a clearly unamused face as well. Knowing that he still need payback for him, Jordan quickly grabbed Ratchet by his suit and threw him into the water, where he struggled for a few seconds, but emerged from the water thanks to Clank's Hydro-Pack.

"I saw you laugh too." Jordan said to Ratchet.

Jordan saw the Lombax look angry as well, but saw him press a button on the side of his helmet that caused the mask mouthpiece to drop over his face. Ratchet then swam over to Jordan and turned around so Clank faced the Human and Jordan grabbed his mask from his compartment and Ratchet started to swim down a large tunnel.

"Your gonna have to hold your breath for this okay." Jordan said to Sophia, obviously not getting an answer. "Oh cmon, your gonna go in the water anyways."

Jordan heard Sophia hold her breath and that was the signal to go under. Jordan got the mask on and went under water and quickly swam through the tunnel on his right and saw that it lead to another pool of water and once he saw the top, he swam up and saw that Ratchet was waiting for him. Jordan swam to the edge and Ratchet pulled him up and once they were up top, they saw that there was another gap they had to get across, but saw a bolt crank at the bottom of the still frozen water. Ratchet jumped down to the crank and as he was turning, Jordan saw a bridge come out from the platform he was standing on and connect to the other side of the gap. Jordan crossed this bridge, but Ratchet had to now figure out another way up.

Ratchet looked through the thick ice and saw a pipe underneath it and knew that must be another way to the bridge. Ratchet equipped the Thermanator and fired at the ice and fifteen shots later, the ice thawed and turned back into water. Ratchet went underwater again, swam through the pipe, then saw that there were two more opposing walls close to each other and now knew what he had to do. Ratchet climbed up onto a platform and switched the Thermanator to freeze mode and he started firing at the water. Soon the water froze back into ice again and he walked across the ice to the opposing walls and started to climb it.

Ratchet used his muscles once again to jump from one wall to the other and soon he was finally at the top. Ratchet looked to his right, climbed up a ledge, and saw that he was now back on top again and ran across the bridge to meet with Jordan. They now looked over to see water rise up, then sink down and they both knew they had to time this freeze in order to make it to the ledge above them. Ratchet decided to fire his tool at the water and once he saw thirteen balls come out of the tool, he stopped and waited for the water to rise as high as it went. once the water reached its limit, Ratchet fired the last two shots and saw that the water froze.

Ratchet and Jordan now walked across it and while they did, Jordan saw that below them was another one of those giant fish from their last adventure, but frozen. Once they climbed up the ledge, they saw that there was another pool of water that rose, then sunk, but this time they had to walk through a pipe below them. Ratchet fired thirteen shots again and once he stopped, he waited for the water to rise to the pipe and once it did, he fired the last to shots and froze the water. Ratchet and Jordan then climbed down a ladder, slowly walked along the ice, then climbed into the small pipe and walked through it. On the other side they saw another frozen body of water, but saw they had to get up to a ledge too high to climb up.

Ratchet set the tool to thaw the ice and once he did, he fired fifteen shots at the water and saw instantly thaw into water. The duo then quickly ran into the water and once they were in it, they felt it take them to the top and once they were at the ledge, they grabbed onto it and climbed up it and out of the water. They now saw the exit to the facility and saw there was an air taxi just outside of it, but saw there was another television screen to their left, with three small bots, similar to the Gadgebots were standing in front of it, with bow ties and glasses on

"Perhaps these robots can assist us." Clank said to the group.

"Are you sure they can understand us?" Jordan asked Clank.

"Well..there's only one way to find out." Ratchet said to Jordan

Ratchet stepped in front of the group and looked down at the robots "EXCUSE ME!" Ratchet said, hoping the robots are understanding him "HAVE, YOU, SEEN, ANY, MASKED, WEIRDOS?"

The robot on the right side of the other bots started to talk, but the only thing that came out of it was gibberish that none of the group could understand, besides Clank.

"I guess they can understand us, but we can understand them." Jordan said.

"I think I better do the talking." Clank said.

Clank started speaking gibberish similar to the bot, then heard all the other bots start talking back to him, sounding like they're agreeing on something.

"They said a masked customer picked up an order not long ago. Recently they received a new transmission from him. And they're willing to show it to us, for a small price." Clank said to the group, also causing the robot on the right side of the others to nod in agreement to what Clank said.

"How small?" Ratchet asked.

Clank told the group that they were willing to offer six thousand bolts for the transmission and Ratchet knew that this was a rip off, But Ratchet was willing to buy the information from the bots.

"This better be worth six thousand bolts." Ratchet said.

One of the robots now stood on the right side of the Television and the group saw the bots antennae start pulsating and soon they saw the thief in the center of the screen, and on his left arm was the experiment.

"Hello." The thief said. Suddenly the experiment showed its teeth and tried to bite at the thief's face "HEY!" The thief said to the creature while pointing. The experiment then jumped at the thief's right arm and latched onto it with its teeth "NO NO NO!" The thief yelled while swinging his army up and down to get him off. Soon the creature let go and landed on a few object out of the camera view, causing sounds of glass shattering to be heard from the screen. The thief sighed in frustration "Yes I need to order two more containers of Sulfuric Acid.". Suddenly the experiment jumped on the thief, causing him to fall to the ground and land on more object out of the cameras view. The thief got up and looked to the right to see the broken objects in question "Oops, uh, make that five containers, and uh, four containers of liquid Nitrogen.". The experiment jumped at the thief again and hit time latched onto his hand. The thief now stepped far to the left of the camera and shook his hand to get the creature to let go, but of course more objects were broken and the thief looked more concerned at the mess as he stepped back in the cameras view "Oops uh, six crates of Nitroglycerine, AAH!" The experiment jumped at the thief again and this time launched him to the left side of the room and this time caused things to explode "JUST GIVE ME, AAH!" The thief said off the camera, but was quickly launched to the left side of the room and caused more things to explode. The thief now walked into camera view and the group saw that the thief's head was buried in the experiments mouth "And I need it delivered." The thief said though the creatures head. The video ended and Jordan stood there in shock.

"What, just happened?" Jordan said.

'And why is it that they have chemicals from earth, available here?' Jordan also questioned in his thoughts.

All of the robots then started to say something, but then started to giggle and Ratchet wanted to know what it was.

"What, why are they laughing?" Ratchet said to Clank.

Clank giggled "Oh nothing, just some robot humor."

"Okay funny guy, lets just head to those coordinates."

With the next location set, the group walked out onto the air taxi and rode it back to the ship. While riding however, Jordan wanted some answers so he went on his Ephone and entered the number to call Fizzwidget. Ratchet however heard this and turned to see Jordan typing on the number pad.

"What are you doing Jordan?"

"Calling Fizzwidget."

"Why?"

"What do you think?"

Soon Jordan heard Fizzwidget and Jordan started to speak up "You better have a good explanation for your experiment because I just saw it attack-" Jordan was cut off as Ratchet pressed the end call button on Jordan's screen. "HEY!" Jordan yelled.

"I'm sure there's-"

"I knew there was something off about this guy. He never told us we would be capturing a creatures that follows the looks can be deceiving rule."

"Jordan the experiment attacked him because he was the enemy."

"Sure, tell me that when its munching on my face next."

The air taxi landed towards the ship and the group got off "What is this experiment, WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DEALING WITH!" Jordan said as he walked a few feet from the group and turned his back to them. Ratchet sighed and walked over to Jordan and placed a hand on his shoulder "Jordan. I'm sure there is an explanation for that, your just a little too paranoid. trust me, I'm sure this things isnt a danger."

Jordan sighed and turned to Ratchet "Alright. But I'm gonna keep an eye on it."

"Alright pal. Now lets get moving."

Ratchet and the group jumped in the ship and once they were in, they now had to decide were to go. Planet Siberius, or Slim Cognitio's shack?

First flesh eating bots, now limb amputating saw blades (Another thing to add to Jordan's insanity). As you can see though not only did Ratchets weapon get upgraded, you saw the introduction to Nanotech upgrades. And of course if you didn't know, the thing Jordan picked up was a Nanotech boost that is on the planet if you play the game. In a few chapters or so I will make it so there will be a normal Nanotech upgrade for Ratchet. I'm also thinking that maybe next chapter I will introduce another symptom to Jordan's illness, Hallucinations. But anyway, there's chapter 11 and stay tuned for chapter 12 as the group figures out where to go next.

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