Here we are with chapter 12 and I must say that I am a little... shocked by the feedback I received from the last chapter. I looked at the views and saw that I got 0 views for chapter 11 and it sorta threw me off. I probably shouldn't worry as much though, it's probably just a bug or something but if it happens with this chapter as well, I may file a report to the developers about the issue. But moving on, I do want to thank Light Seeker 001 for favoriting One For All, and Worlds United. Your support is much appreciated. I also want to say too that the hallucinations I said in last chapter, wont be in this one, but it is guaranteed when they get on the next planet. I actually wanted to add it here, but it just never happened. Some from laziness, and some for the way I wrote it.

Review Replies from One For All:

Light Seeker 001- I appreciate the enthusiasm you gave in the review. And I was new (Newb) to the whole world of writing and it does explain why there were grammar and spelling errors.

Review Replies from Worlds United:

Light Seeker 001- We'll just have to find out in the sequel. And we will never know why Michael Kelley left. But I'm sorta glad he did. Because I don't think Ratchet's voice would ever be the same if he stayed.

-That is a nice idea for a hallucination, but no. The hallucinations will consist of things from Jordan's past (His last adventure). That kinda Idea will only happen if he sees it, But who knows.

-That was actually suppose to be a reference to my account name (You know the last three numbers are 426), but with you saying that Mr Bean reference in your review, I guess that was one weird coincidence when I looked that up.

-I also want to thank you for those links to the game scripts you sent me. I did print the whole thing (ALL 40 PAGES OF IT), and It definitely will save me cut scene time.

The White Guardian- I sorta don't know what you mean by your review. Yes Jordan did get injured, but his injuries didn't meet the...requirements for Nanotech to be involved. Here is the necessary injuries for Nanotech to get involved: scrapes, cuts, stab wounds, gunshot wounds, burns, and broken bones. And it does have some involvement with bruises, and sometimes frostbite. And Jordan slipping on the ice and falling wasn't good enough for Nanotech to kick in. For the most part Jordan only suffered a mark. And the black eye, it did have some Nanotech involvement. I will say though that it does heal in this chapter.

-Yes what Jordan did to Sophia was cruel (I sorta found it a little cruel as well) but don't worry, Sophia will get her revenge (With a little help as well).

Now that all the reviews are replied, I will shut up and let you guys read on.

If your enjoying the story so far, feel free to review, favorite, or follow, please know that any feedback is much appreciated.

Disclaimer:

Ratchet and Clank, associated characters, weapons, locations, etc. belong to insomniac games. some real world companies and organizations belong to their respective owners, etc. I only own the right to some characters and some weapons and events introduced in the story.

After discussion amongst the group, Ratchet (for the first time) decided to save the fun for later. The group agreed to go to Planet Siberius to confront the thief. As Ratchet was flying to said frozen planet, Jordan called Fizzwidget about the Nanotech and he learned that if he did enough damage to enemies, the Nanomites in his blood will split up to create extra Nanomites, and because this increase quantity of Nanomites in his bloodstream might be too much for his veins, the Nanomites will widen his veins so more Nanomites can fit in without cluttering up Jordan's veins. But (luckily) after a dose of a special medication, they will return his veins to normal size and store a normal amount of Nanotech. With his question now answered, Jordan tried to relax in his seat, but then he saw that Sophia was still drenched from the stunt he pulled on her earlier.

"Aren't you a little chilly?" Jordan asked, getting no response from the Lombax. "Oh, cmon, are you still mad about that whole stunt back there?" Jordan asked, still getting no response. Jordan decided to try to dry her off as he carefully removed his jacket from the cramp cockpit of the ship and put it around Sophia. Jordan then started rubbing the jacket around her body to dry her off and once he was done, he let her keep the jacket on her. Jordan tried to relax once he got back in his seat "There, your pretty dry now and should warm up with that jacket on." Jordan said, still getting no response from the Lombax. Jordan sighed heavily. "Look," He said with sincerity, "I am sorry about what I did back there, it was very cruel and very wrong of me. If you'll never forgive me that is fine, I understand." Jordan finished, slightly putting his head down. Jordan glanced at Sophia out of the corner of his eye and saw that she had turned her head to him, and he could see that she was smiling. Jordan saw Sophia move a bit closer to him and he finally heard her reply to what he had said.

"It's okay, I forgive you."

"You do?"

"Why wouldn't I? You've helped me so much, the least I can do is forgive you for what you did."

"So you aren't mad about that?"

"I am. But you apologized."

"Aww, well thank you Sophia."

"You're wel-" Sophia was cut off as the ship's on-board computer spoke through the cockpit in it's usual female robotic voice.

"Arriving at: Planet...Siberius." The female voice spoke.

As Ratchet was flying down to the planet's surface, Jordan could see that the planet was primarily light blue in color, with a few darker colored areas here and there. Jordan figured that the light blue surface must be ice or snow, while the darker areas must be water that thawed temporarily.

Frozen Lab

Planet Siberius

10:00 GST

Sweet Sweet Vengeance

As Ratchet landed on the frozen tundra called Siberius, Jordan got his jacket back from Sophia and put it on. However, he forgot that he'd used it a few minutes earlier to dry a once-drenched Lombax, and the soaked jacket quickly reminded him of that fact because the water was making Jordan feel a bit chilly. Once Ratchet landed the ship on another strange landing pad, the group exited the ship. Jordan, who was still wearing the cold, soaked jacket, was slightly overwhelmed by the planet's cold surface temperature, and the fact that he was wearing a wet jacket did not help at all. In fact, it only made him feel even colder. Jordan however ignored the cold biting at his skin. He put his hood up and helped Sophia climb on his back. He then walked over to Ratchet who was currently standing in front of a nearby Megacorp vendor, checking out the various weapons and gadgets.

After two minutes, Ratchet walked away from the vendor and equipped his Mini Nuke. "Alright. Let's go find this guy and then meet up with Fizzwidget to return the experiment." Ratchet said.

"Sounds like a plan." Jordan replied.

Jordan knew he was almost out of bolts, so he decided to save his money instead of wasting it on ammo and weapons. Seeing enemies up ahead, Ratchet equipped a new weapon. It had purple light coming out of both sides of the weapon, and two blade like projections coming out the front.

"Its called a Seeker Gun." Ratchet said before Jordan could even ask what the strange weapon was. "It shoots tiny drones that automatically attack enemies once they get close enough."

The group was now ready and as they were walking along the side of a cliff, Jordan felt shaking on his right shoulder and looked behind him to see that Sophia was trying to ask him something.

"Jordan, there's something I have to tell you." Sophia said. But before Jordan could reply, he noticed two strange dispensers embedded in the ground up ahead, and out of them came the same blade-spinning spherical objects that they encountered before, that (according to Jordan's research) were called PX6 BladeBalls. However, this variant of the BladeBall was bigger.

'Oh. Crap.' Jordan thought.

"You can tell me later Sophia." He quickly said to Sophia while still keeping his focus on the murderous balls that were closing in for the kill.

Jordan decided to test out his new Bomb Glove and as he equipped it, the BladeBalls closest to him opened up to reveal their namesakes. Ratchet and Jordan quickly took a few steps back, trying to keep a save distance. Jordan then noticed that a bomb came out of the glove's ammo capacity, hovering above the palm of his gloved hand. Once the balls were close enough, Jordan threw the bomb at the blade-spinning enemies. The bomb exploded in mid-air mere centimeters from the BladeBalls, exploding with enough force to blast one into a million pieces while the other was slammed into the wall by the explosion and exploded a few seconds later. With the threat gone, they continued to walk along the path and saw a strange garage like door built into the wall of the cliff. As they approached it, the door exploded to reveal three red robots that (according to Jordan's knowledge) were called Megacorp Security Robots, or MSR for short. Jordan was ready to take on the flamethrower wielding bot, but saw it ready its arm and fire a ball of fire at him instead of closing in and using it's flamethrower like this type of MSR usually did.

The group took cover and now knew they really had to keep their distance. Luckily, Ratchet knew what to do and equipped his Mini-Nuke while Jordan equipped his Bomb Glove. The moment one of the other bots shot a second fire ball at them, the duo ran from cover and used the robot's reload time to let Ratchet aim and fire a bomb at the group of fire-wielding machines, but it wasn't strong enough to destroy the robots immediately. However, the duo had predicted this, so Jordan was more than ready to throw a bomb at them and permanently disable the MSR's. With no enemies in sight, the duo walked across a bridge and onto a platform that was built against the rocky wall of the mountain. They saw that on the other side of the platform was another fire-loving MSR. Ratchet decided that this was the right time to try out his new gadget. He equipped his new Seeker gun and as he pulled the trigger, a small drone fired out of it that slowly moved away from Ratchet, keeping itself airborne with a thruster it's backside. However, once it got close enough, it stopped and transformed into a ship like object with wings and an antenna on the front side. Ratchet and Jordan saw the antenna starting to glow in a bright red color, and suddenly saw it flew straight at their enemy with a speed rivaling jet planes. It slammed into the MSR and destroyed it with ease.

The duo walked down the small walkway into a building on their left. Once everyone was inside, they felt the floor underneath them go down and they quickly realized they walked into a rather spacious elevator. The elevator took them down thirty feet and once it stopped, they looked out and saw what looked to be some kind of winter wonderland, with icy platforms and trees, their leaves different shades of blue, aligned the sides of this icy path. Jordan looked and saw that the gap separating the platform they were on from the next platform of ice was too big to jump across, and he knew they would need something to help him over. And just like an answered prayer, he looked to his right and saw a platform with a bright orange tractor-target on it. Jordan equipped the Tractor Beam and fired at the column, causing the orange target to glow a bit brighter and forming a tractor-beam between the column and Jordan's arm. Jordan then moved the weightless platform to the edge, deactivated the gadget, climbed onto the column and got ready to jump.

Ratchet, using Clank's helipack, jumped over to the next platform with ease and as Jordan got ready, he saw two dispensers at the far end of the platform open up and let out more BladeBalls. Ratchet noticed this as well and quickly equipped his wrench. He whacked the hovering balls of blade-doom as hard as he could. The blow probably damaged the stabilizers, for the balls shot off in random directions, one hit the wall while the other flew at the icy water and disappeared with a splash. Jordan jumped to the next platform and, together with Ratchet, he noticed that up ahead was another gap and the next platform was currently occupied by four more security bots, blue in color this time, and with even bigger sawblades for hands. Ratchet decided to put his Chopper to good use and he launched six blades. One of the blades sliced one of the bots across the chest, though this wasn't a lethal hit, though the duo soon saw the chopper blade close in on the robot for another strike. It sliced across the robot's thin stomach this time, but still the robot survived.

They then saw another blade give the final blow by slicing across its chest, destroying it this time. The group saw the blades slice the other robots across different parts of their bodies, though none of the hits were lethal. Jordan knew it would take forever for the blades to destroy their enemies, so he decided to take matters into his own hands. the Human equipped his Bomb Glove and jumped across the gap to meet the other three severely damaged robots. Jordan saw their blades starting to spin, so Jordan got as far away from them as he could without falling off the icy plateau. He then slowly aimed and threw a bomb at the group, destroying all of them at the same time. As Ratchet jumped across the gap to meet up with Jordan, they both looked above them and saw a strange drop ship coming in. It stopped moving and hovered above the ground ten feet away from them, and dropped off four of the new and improved red bots.

Jordan and Ratchet quickly got out of the way of four fireballs shot by the robotic squad. They quickly took cover behind a rock or a tree, and seeing that their enemies were now at a distance, the Lombax and Human both equipped their Lancers and once the bots fired off another volley of fireballs, the duo ran out of cover and took aim at the bots. Jordan decided to take the one on the far left first and he fired a three rounds of concentrated plasma at the bot, hitting it in its chest, stomach, and the illuminated center of its chest. That last one must've hit something vital, for the bot exploded. Now knowing that the weak spot on this new MSR model was still... weak, Jordan now knew where to aim to deal the most damage. He aimed now aimed at the second one on the right. Jordan brought the weapon up to his eye, held his breath and fired, causing one shot to hit the bot in it's weak spot and destroying it instantly.

Ratchet, in the meantime, focused on the last enemy after taking destroying a bot with a lucky head shot. Ratchet took aim at the bot, but a fireball sent his way forced the Lombax to roll to the side to avoid being toasted. Jordan quickly fired the bot in the stomach, then in the chest to buy his friend enough time to get up without being shot at immediately. Ratchet thankfully made use of his friend's distraction by firing at the robot's weak spot, putting it out of business for good. As Jordan was ready to continue on, he looked and saw Ratchet's Lancer was starting to vibrate. It suddenly flew out of the surprised Lombax's hands and came to a stop in mid-air. It suddenly transforming into a completely different weapon: the upgraded version of the Lancer, called the Heavy Lancer. Jordan saw the newly upgraded weapon hover back down to Ratchet and judging by the Lombax's overjoyed expression, Jordan guessed Ratchet was more than happy with this extra firepower.

"Alright, sweet!" Ratchet said, sounding more than happy.

"Welcome to the Club." Jordan said.

The duo looked above them and saw that the dropship was still hovering there for some weird reason. Since it wasn't deploying any more murderous machines at the moment, the duo decided to finish it. As one they aimed their Heavy Lancers up and as one they fired a rain of plasma on the dropship. After twenty shots from the duo, the ship exploded into a million pieces and the group went back to finding what they came for: the thief, and with it, the experiment. Looking to their right, they saw some sort of gigantic vehicle. It had a large room in it's back for storage purposes, with a large ramp that enabled people to carry stuff up and into the giant vehicle's storage room. In front of said ramp was a conveniently placed Megacorp Vendor, and a teleporter that could teleport them back to their landing site. Ratchet and Jordan decided to save their money and walked up the ramp, into the vehicle's opened storage compartment.

When they walked inside, they noticed five stacks of bolt crates, six crates per stack. Ratchet was about to destroy the left half, but then decided to let Jordan take this one knowing that Jordan was having a bit of a money issue at the moment. Or, at least the Lombax figured his friend was running out of money, judging by the fact that it's been a while since Jordan bought ammo, and the only reason Ratchet could think of is running out of money. Jordan equipped his machete and as he destroyed the piles of crates, he noticed that his machete had no problems at all with breaking through the crates. Once he was all done, Jordan then checked his bank account and, to his surprise, he now had 5,000 bolts. With quite a lot of money earned, they saw an opened door in front of them that led deeper into the vehicle and as they walked through the door, the door automatically shut behind them. Another door opened up in front of them, with four blue robots coming out.

Ratchet quickly equipped the Mini-Nuke and fired a well-aimed bomb at his opponents, though the blast was only powerful enough to tear the robots' chest plate armor off. Jordan saw an opportunity and equipped his Blitz Gun. He ran up to the robots and pulled the trigger, causing six of the bullets to hit three of the bots in the center of their chest and kill them instantly, while Jordan's attack stripped the remaining robot of it's right arm. The Lombax now equipped his wrench, ran up to the robot and used his wrench to deliver a sweep at his opponent's spider-like legs. With his enemy on the ground, Ratchet brought his wrench down on his opponent's head. However, before he could hit the MSR's head, a vibration went through the vehicle that made Ratchet lose his balance. Using his enemy's moment of weakness to it's advantage to turn the tides, the MSR got up and attempted to cut the Lombax in half, though a burst of Heavy Lancer fire from Jordan quickly put an end to the MSR's plan. After helping Ratchet get up, the duo slowly made their way to the door on the other side of the room, though both Human and Lombax were outbalanced by some sort of force constantly pulling and pushing on them.

"Whats going on?" Jordan asked Ratchet.

"I don't know... maybe this truck is moving?"

"You think?"

Ratchet pressed a button on the side of the door and it opened up to reveal the outside world. Apparently Ratchet's guess was correct, for the truck was indeed moving. It was following a few other trucks through a snowy valley, with an occasional turn left or right.

"What is this?!" Ratchet yelled over the roaring sounds from the trucks' engines.

"I don't know!" Jordan yelled "Do you think these trucks contain what the thief ordered from Canal City?!"

"Maybe, but for all we know the experiment could be in one of these trucks as well!"

"Lets hope you're right!"

Ratchet looked at the next truck and saw that there was a green Versa target hovering above it. Ratchet equipped his Swingshot and prepared to board the next truck. Jordan held on to him and, once they were ready, Ratchet fired the Swingshot's grappling hook. The duo watched as it moved closer and latched onto the target, and Jordan soon felt the familiar pull of the Swingshot retracting his cable, carrying the group to the next truck. Once they were up top, Jordan could feel the wind pushing him back, but it would take more to defeat the two Megacorp commandos. As they were halfway across the truck, two dispensers on the far side opened up and two more BladeBalls came out of them.

Ratchet readied his wrench while Jordan equipped his Heavy Lancer. The trucks were now making a right turn and Jordan aimed more to the right. Jordan followed the ball's movement with his Heavy Lancer, slowly aiming and waiting for the perfect moment. Once the ball got close enough and decided to deploy it's rotating blades, Jordan fired a salvo of concentrated plasma fire into the ball's exposed inside. One of the plasma bullets must've hit something important, for the blade ball suddenly exploded and unfortunately the wind launched the debris towards Jordan. The Human acted quickly to avoid being hit in the face by smouldering debris and followed Ratchet to the far end of the truck, but another set of BladeBalls was sent their way by the two annoying dispensers on the far side of the truck. The duo held their ground however and got ready to attack. Jordan decided to use his Blitz Gun this time and as the two balls approached him instead of Ratchet, he reloaded the weapon, then slowly aimed and fired, hitting the two BladeBalls with five shots and disabling them permanently. Jordan dodged the incoming debris once again and the duo slowly proceeded to walk up to the edge of the truck. Once they reached the end, they saw a green Versa target on the next truck's back door, But as Ratchet equipped the Swingshot, Jordan could feel something tap him on the shoulder. "Uh, Jordan?", Sophia asked with a tone that Jordan did not like at all. He glanced over his shoulder and immediately saw what she meant. The thief was standing on a strange hover board with a blaster in his hand. He was following the convoy with ease and was already charging up his blaster to fire at the small group.

"THE THIEF!" Jordan yelled as he equipped his Blitz Gun.

Ratchet quickly turned around, equipping his Heavy Lancer. The thief aimed the barrel of his blaster and fired a solid laser beam at Ratchet. Jordan however was quick enough to pull Ratchet back and out of harm's way. The duo readied their weapons, and gave the thief a taste of his own medicine. As Ratchet shot Heavy Lancer fire at their masked pursuer, Jordan shot round after round with his Blitz Gun, though after shooting for five times he noticed that most of his shots miss their intended target. Not only that, but the thief was dodging Ratchet's fire with ease. With Jordan ready, the Human reloaded his weapon, then slowly aimed and fired. Three of his shots seemed to hit the thief, or rather the shield around him. Jordan decided to try something else. He equipped his Heavy Lancer and once it was ready, he saw the thief point his blaster at them once again. This time, the shot was aimed at Jordan's feet.

Jordan jumped backwards to avoid being hit and watched as the thief readied his weapon once again, this time to shoot at Ratchet's head. Luckily, the Lombax ducked to dodge the shot just in time. Ratchet and Jordan now fired a three round burst at the thief and they saw that some of their shots hit the thief in random places on his shield as well. The thief seemed perfectly fine until one of Jordan's shots hit the left thruster on the hoverboard and caused it to spin out of control with the thief holding on for dear life. The group saw the thief reduce his speed and fly of sight, and they decided to focus on the task at hand. Ratchet and Jordan felt the truck slow down and get closer to the truck in front of it as next truck's door, damaged in their small battle with the thief, collapsed and opened up.

Ratchet equipped his Swingshot and once Jordan was holding on tight, Ratchet fired the hook at the target and the tool pulled them into the next truck. They looked and saw two more dispensers and got ready for what was to come. Jordan equipped his Blitz Gun and Ratchet equipped his wrench and once they moved just a tiny bit closer to the dispensers, they activated and released two BladeBalls. Jordan stepped in front of Ratchet and once he reloaded the weapon, he aimed at the balls and fired off one shot that caused the two balls to explode into a lot of debris. They saw another door in front of them. One that was suddenly blown up, by the fireball attack of the four MSR's that had been hiding behind it. Ratchet and Jordan immediately hid behind what was left of the door and Ratchet decided to try his seeker gun once again.

Ratchet equipped the weapon and fired off one shot and watched as it opened up, transform, and slam into one of the MSR's, destroying it instantly. With one threat gone, Jordan decided to equip his Bomb Glove and once the bots fired off a salvo of fireballs, Jordan quickly ran out of cover and threw a bomb at the bots, before quickly getting back behind the door's remains. If it wasn't for two loud explosions, Jordan couldn't have known if his attack had any effect. Knowing that he had only thrown one bomb while there were two explosions, Jordan knew he must've damaged or destroyed at least one bot. Glancing around his improvised cover, he saw that he'd damaged not one, but two MSR's, while the other one only had minor damage. Now getting really impatient, Ratchet ran out from cover, equipped the Mini Nuke, and quickly launched one bomb at the last three robots, destroying them all at once.

Finally the next door opened up, revealing the next truck, that had a large crate on the back this time instead of a door. Ratchet saw the hovering Versa target and he equipped the Swingshot, with Jordan holding onto him as well. Ratchet fired his gadget and instead of launching them into another truck, they landed on a narrow walkway that led to the top of the truck. They slowly walked across the walkway to the top of the truck. "Ratchet, Jordan, I believe we have company.", Clank, who was facing backwards due to being on Ratchet's back, warned. They looked behind them and saw the thief approaching on his hoverboard once again. He seemed to be yelling something at them but they couldn't understand it due to the wind. Once the thief caught up to them, he fired his blaster again, but this time it launched a ball at them that exploded into a ring of fire. Ratchet and Jordan saw the incoming wall of flames and jumped over it. Now fully focusing on the thief, Ratchet and Jordan quickly equipped their Heavy Lancers and this time conserved ammo as they launched a few salvo's of three bullets at a time at the thief.

Then the truck turned to the left, so Ratchet and Jordan had to adjust their aiming. They continued to fire at the thief until he suddenly fired two shots at once that exploded a few feet in front of them. Ratchet and Jordan dodged the flames with ease and once he landed, Ratchet was getting tired of this. He equipped his Seeker Gun, aimed, and fired the weapon, sending a lock-on missile straight at the thief. Once again the thief's shield managed to defend it's owner, though it didn't prevent the thief from losing his balance due to the blast, causing him to trip and fall onto his board face-first while still moving. As the thief got up and aimed at the duo, he suddenly stopped his board and the duo saw him vanish in the distance. This totally surprised the group, but when Sophia gasped and Clank said "Ratchet, Jordan, look out!", they knew something bad was up ahead. They turned around and saw that the truck was approaching a completely frozen lake. They then heard a screeching sound come from below them as they heard the truck try to stop, but it was too late as they saw and felt the truck skid across the ice. Then the truck hit a rock and tipped over.

"Oh no." Jordan said as he could feel that the truck was indeed falling over. "NO NO NO NO NOOO!" he yelled in panic, but it was too late. The truck's wheels jammed and the truck suddenly tumbled over.

The group and the crates of the truck were now flung off the truck. Jordan felt Sophia tighten her grip, holding on for dear life, then, suddenly, the impact of him hitting the floor knocked the air out of his lungs.

Everything went black for a moment, but after a few moments, Jordan regained his consciousness. He looked behind him and, next to a truck lying on it's side were four bodies. At the same, time however, he felt a sharp pain in his head.

"Ah, my head." Jordan groaned.

Jordan looked to his left and saw Sophia lying on the ground. She was not moving.

Jordan immediately ran over to her. Running towards her, Jordan saw her move her head ever so slightly. Once Jordan reached the Lombax, he helped her sit up by guiding her with a hand behind her head and shoulders.

"Sophia, are you okay?" Jordan said with absolute concern.

"I'm fine." The Lombax replied, her voice a little heavier than usual.

Jordan noticed various cuts and bruises along her arms and legs, and he was surprised that she was not crying in agony "You're quite tough to withstand injuries like this without crying at all."

"Umm, thanks." Sophia said. "Are you okay?" she said turning to Jordan.

"I'm fine." Jordan replied.

"You're bleeding!" Sophia yelped, pointing at the right side of Jordan's forehead.

The Human moved his hand to where Sophia had pointed, then moved his hand back to see that it was now covered in a red substance that Jordan knew was blood. 'No wonder my head was hurting.' Jordan thought. However, out of the corner of his eye he noticed that his forehead was starting to glow. After a few seconds, the light disappeared, taking the pain with it. "Not anymore." Jordan said to Sophia. Jordan then noticed light coming from various areas on his legs and arms as well, indicating that he had multiple severe scrapes as well, though he soon saw the scrapes become scars. His veins were also less wide, indicating a smaller number of Nanomites in his system. As he looked at Sophia, he saw light come from her scrapes and saw those scraped turn into scars as well. With the two of them healed, they got up and ran over to Ratchet to see him helping Clank get up. "You guys alright?" Jordan asked his two friends.

"We are fine, Jordan." Clank answered.

"Well, I doubt the experiment is in those trucks, so I suggest we go after that thief." Ratchet said.

"Maybe we can get him to tell us where it is." Jordan replied to Ratchet's idea.

Jordan lifted Sophia up on his back and Ratchet did the same with Clank. Once they were ready, they took in their surroundings. "It seems like we landed on some sort of metal structure.", Sophia thought out loud. They walked down the metal path and climbed up a ladder to their left that led up to the next floor of the structure. Jordan climbed the ladder first and saw that there were two red robots at the top waiting for them. They fired at Jordan and the Human immediately dropped down from the ladder, taking cover behind it.

"Alright, there are two of those red fire-robots up there waiting for us." Jordan informed Ratchet.

Ratchet equipped the Seeker Gun and fired two missiles into the sky. The missiles opened up above them, then flew out of sight at where Jordan saw those robots. Judging by the sounds of explosions above them, the missiles destroyed both MSR's. Jordan climbed up the ladder once again and saw that, this time, he wasn't staring down someone's gun barrel. Jordan signaled Ratchet to come up and once he did, they proceeded to walk down a narrow walkway, but stopped as they saw three BladeBall dispensers embedded. Said dispensers opened up and let three large BladeBalls out. Jordan equipped his Blitz Gun, reloaded the weapon, and made quick work of two BladeBalls, though one survived, though the survivor was introduced to Ratchet's wrench a few seconds later.

They walked towards another ladder and this time Jordan made sure to look first before getting out in the open. Apparently the group had now reached the top level, with a teleporter and a conveniently placed Megacorp Vendor. The duo decided to stock up on ammo and once Jordan was done buying his ammo, he saw he only had 4000 bolts now. They looked to their left and saw a large circular platform and in the center of the platform, they saw the thief standing there looking at a rocket. Jordan focused on the rocket and noticed that there was a small blue ball tied to the rocket. When he moved a few feet closer, he saw that the blue ball was in fact the experiment they had been trying to recover for so long now.

"The experiment!" Jordan said.

"Well lets not just stand here, let get it!" Ratchet said.

The duo ran across the narrow walkway onto the platform and as they ran to the thief, he turned around with a blaster pointed at the group.

"Hah! you've lost, Megacorp!" The thief yelled "Take your imperialistic eco-fascism to another dimension! Say goodbye to your frightening pest." the thief pulled a small metal box with an antenna from his right pocket and held it with his left hand

"C'mon Jordan." Ratchet said.

Jordan equipped his Blitz Gun and reloaded, but saw Ratchet jump at the thief. The thief however jumped to dodge the attack. When the thief was still airborne, Jordan fired his weapon at the thief, though he missed. The group saw the thief land on his hoverboard and hover above the group.

"To slow you corporate lackey." The thief said to the Lombax.

The thief pressed the green button on the device he was holding, and a robotic female voice could be heard from he speakers surrounding the platform.

"Launching in five minutes." the voice informed.

With valuable seconds passing by, Ratchet got up and equipped his Seeker Gun, while Jordan equipped his Heavy Lancer. The thief flew to one side of the platform and started firing a laser from his blaster. The duo dodged the attacks and while Jordan fired three round bursts from his Lancer, Ratchet fired three Seeker missiles at the thief and they soon started to pummel the shield. Jordan noticed the thief take a button panel out of his pocket. It was similar to the one the thief used to start the launch countdown, though this one had a red button. The thief pressed the red button, and after a few moments Jordan heard a roaring sound above him. He looked up and saw a dropship hover down towards platform.

What came out of the ship were five blue chainsaw-armed robots. Ratchet quickly equipped his Mini-Nuke, but then saw that the bots were focusing on Jordan only. As the robots came closer, Jordan equipped the Blitz Gun, reloaded the weapon, then fired several times at his opponents, though he only killed one of them with a direct hit to the center of the chest. Seeing that there were now four bots, Ratchet aimed and fired a bomb at the bots, killing two of them. Noticing that multiple Blitz Gun rounds and one bomb weren't enough, Jordan equipped his Bomb Glove and threw a few bombs at the remaining two, destroying them.

"Launching in three minutes." the voice informed.

The thief equipped his blaster again and this time launched the exploding balls of fire at the group that he used earlier though Ratchet and Jordan jumped over the waves of fire sent their way with ease. Ratchet and Jordan equipped and aimed their Heavy Lancers as one and together, rained hell down on the thief, spraying bullets like nobody's business while dodging the attacks sent their way. As they fired their weapons, they saw that the thief's shield started to flicker, indicating that it was failing to keep up with the duo's firepower. The thief tried to launch another fire-bomb at the duo, but they managed to dodge the attack. The thief pressed yet another button and this time four BladeBall dispenser were activated, sending four BladeBalls at them.

"Launching in two minutes." the voice informed.

Running out of time, Jordan equipped his Blitz Gun, reloaded the weapon and fired at the four balls, destroying three of them at once. Ratchet then equipped his OmniWrench 8000 and slammed it into the last BladeBall with enough power to launch it at one of the walls. After the last BladeBall exploded upon hitting the wall, the duo was about to attack the thief once again, however, that is when another squad of BladeBalls were launched from the dispensers. Ratchet knew they had to destroy these things quickly so he equipped his Mini Nuke and fired a bomb at the four balls, destroying all of them with the bomb's large blast radius. With the balls gone, the thief aimed his blaster at the group and started to fire lasers once again, and again the duo dodged the incoming shots.

"Launching in thirty seconds." the voice said.

They had to stop this thief once and for all. Deciding that this had lasted long enough, Ratchet equipped the RYNO and aimed at the thief. The thief fired a laser at Ratchet and as it raced towards the Lombax, Ratchet fired the RYNO and dodged the laser in the very last second. Ratchet and Jordan saw the nine missiles fly towards the thief, with eight of them hitting his shield. The shield stared to flicker and spark and after a few seconds, it disappeared completely. The RYNO missile that hadn't hit the thief, however, hit the left thruster of the board, causing it to spin out of control. The thief tried to keep his balance, but the battle-scarred hoverboard wasn't made to be shot at, especially by something with as much firepower as the RYNO, so unsurprisingly, the engines sputtered and died. The hoverboard fell to the ground with the thief landing right next to it. With their enemy defeated, Jordan ran over to Ratchet to help him get up as they heard the final seconds count down.

"Launching in five..four..three..two..one."

As the rocket activated it's immense thrusters, Ratchet equipped his Heavy Lancer and fired at the experiment. He managed to hit the rope around it, and the poor rope was completely obliterated by the Heavy Lancer's plasma shots. The experiment was sent flying, and while Jordan watched the rocket fly to the heavens above, Ratchet quickly predicted the experiment's trajectory and caught it mid-flight.

"Gotcha." Ratchet said.

"You had us worried for a moment." Clank said to the creature.

'So that's what we're here for.' Sophia thought out loud.

With the experiment safe, Jordan looked over and saw the thief jump on the heavily broken hoverboard and fly off, using it's reserve power. Jordan could've sworn he heard the thief mumble something, though he couldn't make out what.

"Do you suppose we should stop him?" Clank asked Ratchet.

"It's not worth it, we got what we came for. Now, let's just get this little guy back to Mr. Fizzwidget."

Jordan walked up to the duo and saw the experiment jump from Ratchets hands and latch onto Clanks left arm, attempting to crush the metal with it's teeth. It was at that moment Jordan equipped his Heavy Lancer and pointed it at the creature. Ratchet saw this and was quick to reassure him. "Don't shoot Jordan." Ratchet said.

"Don't you see what that thing's doing to Clank."

"It is quite alright Jordan, it's not strong enough to bite my arm off." Clank said to Jordan.

Jordan lowered his gun and put his weapon back in his Quick-Select "Alright then." Jordan said.

The group walked back to the teleporter and as they got in, all could feel the weird sensation of being teleported. Once they were back to their ship, Ratchet took a portable television screen from the ship and contacted Fizzwidget. Soon the top half of the eccentric Megacorp CEO filled the screen.

"Ratchet, Jordan, is that you?" Fizzwidget asked.

"We've accomplished our mission sir. The experiment is safe and in our possession." Ratchet said to Fizzwidget.

Fizzwidget gasped as he saw the experiment latched onto Clanks arm "Why that's stutaneous, absolutely munificent. You four are a goluptious team." Fizzwidget said with joy and pride.

"We are glad to assist, sir." Clank said.

"We just need the coordinates of our next rendezvous point.", Jordan added.

"Of course. I'm on my way to give a tour of Megacorp's historical mining site. Here is a little backtalk on the vergility."

Fizzwidget disappeared from the screen and an old looking video popped up and what appeared was the Megacorp logo, with a male voice narrating.

"Megacorp Manufacturing and Mining. A tireless drum major leading the galaxy on a march of progress." the video now showed some kind of desert wasteland with two large buildings in the background. "Come tour our desert mining facility and come see why our most precious product, is our history." the video now showed a forest, with a bunny sitting on a log, and a butterfly above the animal. "When we first arrived, we found a planet completely overrun by rain forest." the video now showed the wasteland again, but this time had the bones of a dead animal to the left of the screen. "To better accommodate the local wildlife, we transformed this impassable jungle into an easily navigable desert." the video now showed two miners mining something in a cave, and beside them were two large robots with strange blasters "Ever the technological pioneer, Megacorp invented the automated management team. There by eliminating cost mobility. And all the while making your life richer." the video now showed a strange alien with a top hat and suit on, and he was observing some kind of gem that looked like a diamond. "Megacorp Manufacturing and Mining. Our march continues to the tune of progress and profitability."

The video ended and Fizzwidget appeared on the screen again.

"Is that facility still-" Clank paused his sentence for a moment. He had been attempting to make the creature let go of his arm, and the blue ball of fluff was finally letting go. Clank held it above the ground by the little antenna on it's head as he finished his sentence. "-operational, sir?"

"Alas no. But its deep in hysterics. I've offloaded the condiments to your naval computer."

"We'll see you there." Ratchet said.

"Hold on a second." Jordan said as he approached the screen "You promised that you would find me a way home after we did this. We got your experiment, now you better start keeping your end of the deal."

"Don't worry. Meet me at the facility and I'll tell you everything."

Fizzwidget disappeared from the screen and the television flew back into the cockpit of the ship.

"You better." Jordan mumbled.

With another destination in mind, Jordan saw a partially frozen lake near the landing pad their Megacorp Star Explorer was currently occupying. He walked over to it, and stared at his reflection in the partially frozen water, and to his surprise, he saw that his blackened eye had healed. Jordan then noticed that the usual weight of Sophia on his back was disappearing as he was about to turn around to look at Sophia, he felt something cold hit him on the side of his face. Snow. Jordan turned around to see where this snow came from, but saw Sophia throw another snowball at him, one that hit him in the chest. He looked down to see the now soaked part of his jacket, but then felt more and more snowballs hit him, up to the point where he had to hold his arms in front of his face to keep the snow out of his eyes.

Jordan felt something pushed him backwards and after being forced to take three steps back, he found himself falling backwards and soon he fell into the chilly water. Jordan immediately felt the cold bite at his skin and he couldn't feel his hands and feet anymore due to the cold. Looking around, he saw his bottle of sleeping tablets floating in the water. Somehow Jordan had the energy to swim over to it, grab the bottle of pills, put them in the left pocket of his jacket, and swim up to the surface. With his last strength Jordan climbed onto dry land, and looking at his skin he could see that his arms and legs were looking somewhat pale. As he was lying there, shivering, he saw Sophia walk up to him and look down at the poor Human.

"Now I forgive you." Sophia said.

Jordan was obviously too tired to react, he was even barely able to walk back to the ship with her. Once everyone was inside, Ratchet activated the engines and started flying out of the atmosphere. As Ratchet flew closer and closer to the provided coordinates, Jordan felt like he was once step closer to home.

And there's chapter 12. I must say though before I wrote this, I actually got this crazy idea of making a crossover of Ratchet and Clank, and Sir you are being hunted. Just think about it. Jordan and the gang surviving in a world where robots hunt Humans for sport. This however might never happen though, this was just an idea. But anyways, there is chapter 12 and stay tuned for chapter 13 where the group might head to Slim Cognitos (Might, I'm gonna see what happens. They either go to Slim Cognitos or meet up with Fizzwidget immediately, I still gotta think that part through).

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