Due to falling asleep when this thing was due AGAIN! And due to school work, this chapter was delayed even more. I do try to avoid delays like this as I want to continue with this story. Over the course of the weekend I've actually developed and thought through another story idea. "What is this story you speak of?" Well good question. The story would be a crossover of Ratchet and Clank, and "persay" Bioshock 2. I'm not going to go in detail of the plot unless you guys are interested in this idea, but I will give you the short version of the plot.
Rapture has always been filled with female siblings known as sisters, but how come there were no brothers. All that will change however as Jordan and the group perform and experiment that has gone terribly wrong. They are now separated and due to tasting the concoction known as ADAM, Jordan has now turned into someone that some call "Big Brother." he must now not only find the cure to his condition, but find his friends and help them build a machine to get them, and himself back home.
So that's a little short of the plot. Like I said though if alot of you are actually interested in this story Idea, I will post a more detailed plot description in the next chapter. I do have another Idea too, but I don't think I'm gonna explain it. There were no new reviews, but I do wanna thank Kairi671 for favoriting this story, your support is much appreciated. I also do want to add that I am sorry for the loss of your sister, I am sure she's in a better place. Now that my fit of crying is over, I'll let you guys read on.
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As the group flew to the testing facility on planet Dobbo, Jordan looked over to Sophia to see her sitting with her head in her hands and with a bored expression on her face.
"You bored?" Jordan asked. Sophia nodded. "...Yeah I'm sorta bored too. Maybe there's something on this TV here we can watch." Jordan said.
"A TV? What is that?" Ratchet asked.
"You know. TV. Television."
"You mean Holovision."
"Ok fine, Holovision." Jordan saw two buttons below the HV and pressed the button on the right. The HV turned on, and Jordan started to flip through the channels "No, no, no, no." as he flipped through the various networks, he was about to pass by the channel that aired "Behind the Hero". It was at that moment that Ratchet grabbed his hand to stop him.
"Hold on a second, maybe they'll say something else about Qwark."
Jordan backed his hand from the buttons and the group watched the episode from the ships small HoloVision screen.
"Welcome back to Behind the Hero. In yet another setback for the embattled Captain Qwark: the galactic court ordered him to pay six billion bolts in damages to citizens suffering from Personal Hygenator syndrome." the video switched to a picture of Qwark wearing some kind of blue shirt with palm trees while standing in a tropical background, and behind him were his large hands restrained by large handcuffs. "Only two days later, Qwark was arrested trying to flee to Pokitaru." The video switched to another picture of Qwark, only this time he was behind metal bars "The one time hero, now one time zero, was placed into custody awaiting trial." the video to switched to yet another picture of Qwark, and he was this time flushing himself down a toilet. "But the next day it was discovered that he had escaped: flushing himself to freedom. We will return to Behind the Hero after these messages."
With the part of 'Behind the hero' about Qwark over, Jordan turned off the HV. After Jordan pressed the button, he heard Ratchet laugh. "Ahaha, what a nut! I almost miss that guy sometimes." Ratchet said, causing the whole group to look at him. "Almost."
"Well, I don't. He almost killed us." Sophia said.
"Well you gotta learn to forgive people Sophia." Jordan added.
"Forgive? How could you forgive him for what he did to us?"
"Well, you still have much to learn about me."
"Arriving at: Planet... Dobbo." a female voice suddenly spoke through the ship's speakers. The group looked through the window and much to Jordan's surprise (sarcasm overload) Dobbo looked like another Earth-like planet. The planet was covered in blueish-cyan oceans with an island here and there. 'How many Earthlike planets are there in this galaxy?!', Jordan wondered while Ratchet flew the ship into the atmosphere.
Megacorp Testing Facility
Planet Dobbo
5:15 P.M. Local Time
Mechs and Tanks
The giant Megacorp testing facility was hard to miss, the huge complex dominated the area. Ratchet landed the ship on a landing pad near the facility, and as the group got out of the ship, Jordan saw that the planet's surface looked more like a swampy rain forest than a beautiful paradise. Jordan did understand the feel though due to the industrial monarchy of the facility. Jordan put up his hood and lifted Sophia onto his back. The Human followed Ratchet to a Megacorp vendor and saw some more bolts a few feet away from them. Jordan walked over to the stack of seven crates and destroyed them. Jordan quickly checked his bank account and smiling back at him were a nice 4500 bolts.
With more money to spend, Jordan walked over to the vendor and restocked on ammo, spending 300 bolts. Once the Lombax and Human had more than enough ammo for all of their weaponry, they walked over to a teleporter. Hearing a clunking sound to their right, the group looked in said direction. A few feet away from them was a small group of what, according to Jordan's research, were Megacorp Chicken Bots. Luckily, two gaps separated them from the murderous machines. Unlike the Chicken Bots the group encountered earlier, this variant was more armored and red instead of blue. Ratchet knew his Mini Nuke wasn't going to destroy them in one hit, so he'd need more than one of the expensive bombs, so instead the duo used their Heavy Lancers to send a few three round bursts at the Chicken Bots, dealing enough damage to get the armor of the bots to fall off. After fifteen round had been sent at the six bots, all that remained of the monsters was a pile of scrap metal.
With the threat eliminated, Ratchet and Jordan jumped across the gaps and walked down a long walkway, and at the end of it were two armored guards with two strange blasters in their hands. Jordan equipped his Blitz gun and Ratchet equipped his Mini Nuke. The Lombax and Human ran up to the guards and Ratchet shot one bomb at them, the sheer force of the bomb ripping some of the armor off the guards. The group saw the surprised guards run for cover and Jordan decided to attack. Jordan ran towards the guards and fired multiple shots at them. Jordan saw them explode into pieces and everyone realized that the guards weren't organic at all, but robotic. The duo walked over and saw that on their right was a pile of ten bolt crates. Ratchet and Jordan shared the money and both destroyed five crates. Jordan looked into his account and saw that he now had 4600 bolts.
The duo now looked in front of them and saw that across a long gap were four of the Chicken Bots this time, though these ones weren't wearing heavy armor like the previous ones did. However, this gap was way too big to jump. Instead of islands or plateaus, there were two strange looking machines hovering in mid-air, a few green orbs embedded in their metallic frame. Ratchet knew what these were and equipped the Dynamo. Ratchet fired a green beam at the first one and the group saw a small holographic platform appear right beside it. The duo jumped onto the platform and Ratchet fired another beam at the next target. Another platform appeared and the Lombax and Human quickly jumped onto it. Now that they were at a decent distance from the bots, Ratchet equipped his Mini Nuke and fired one bomb at the bots, blowing them all up into a thousand pieces. They jumped off the platform and onto the plateau the squad of Chicken bots used to guard. The group had to climb up a ledge to get to the next platform. Jordan volunteered to go first. He slowly pulled himself up and peeked over the edge. He was staring down the gunbarrel of two robotic guards. Jordan didn't think twice and dropped down from the ledge just in time: plasma bullets now occupied the area where his head used to be. "Ratchet, there are two guards up there. Perhaps your seeker gun is a good idea."
"Got it."
Ratchet equipped the weapon and fired one drone. The drone opened up and flew up over the ledge and towards a robot. Ratchet and Jordan heard a loud explosion and guessed the first one must be dead. Ratchet fired another one out and as the drone flew over the ledge and hit the next bot, they heard an even louder explosion. Knowing that the robot apparantly needed two drones to explode, Ratchet fired two drones from the gun this time and once again they heard a loud explosion. Jordan know decided to check if the coast was clear and as he slowly peeked over the ledge, he saw that there was nothing but scrap metal. Since there were no more blasters in his face, Jordan climbed up the ledge and signaled Ratchet that the area was clear. Jordan offered Ratchet his hand and with a jump and pull Ratchet, too, was up on the next tier. The duo walked to the far side of the platform, though, they weren't the only ones who heard the guards explode.
A squad of robots ran out of two open containers at the far side of the platform, they had been hiding to ambush the group once they got close enough. The robots took cover behind the crates and sent a rain of plasma the group's way. Ratchet jumped over the plasma with Clank's help while Jordan ducked to avoid the rain of hot projectiles. However, the guard robots were programmed in such a way that they ducked and took cover after firing a salvo of plasma, and because all guards fired at once, they all ducked at once, unintentionally giving Ratchet and Jordan the chance to return fire. Jordan threw a few bombs from his bomb glove up so they would land on the unsuspecting guards' heads, while Ratchet sent seeker bombs. Where the drones aimed at before they launched off and disappeared behind the containers told Jordan where is opponents were hiding, and that is where he aimed when throwing bombs.
The group could hear a few loud explosions coming from the other side and soon enough all guards had been taken care of. Ratchet climbed over a crate while Jordan vaulted over another.
They could now see what was inside of the two large, open containers that the guards were hiding in. In each of them were ten bolt crates, though the container on the left also had a strange, blue crate with the letter 'M' on it. Ratchet took the container on the right, while Jordan took the one on the left. After destroying all of the fragile crates with his machete, Jordan looked into his account and saw he now had 5200 bolts. All that was left now was the strange crate with Megacorp's trademark 'M'-symbol on it and once Jordan destroyed the crate, he saw that inside of it was some kind of strange pod with Megacorp's logo on the side of it. Jordan picked the object off the ground and as he was observing it, he saw it dissipate into tiny particles. The particles quickly shot at Jordan, disappearing into his body.
"What in the world?" Jordan said.
"What?", Sophia asked, who had been looking behind them.
"I just found some strane pod, based off the logo on the side I'd guess-"
"Wait, what's that noise?", Sophia asked, unintentionally cutting Jordan off.
Jordan listened. "What sound do you mean?"
"I don't know what it is. It's some strange humming noise and it's getting louder."
Soon enough Jordan heard what she meant: a deep humming and it was getting closer. Jordan turned to Ratchet, who had been looking for a way across the gap. He, too, seemed to hear it. "You hear that noise?", he asked Jordan.
"Yes, what is that?"
"I don't know, but I think we're about to find out."
Suddenlty, the source of the humming revealed itself. It was a strange metal vehicle that used three thrusters too keep itself airborne. What caught the group's attention the most, however, was the turret on top of the vehicle, and it seemed to take aim at the group.
"Get down!", Ratchet yelled. He and Jordan quickly took cover in the two open containers. Ratchet equipped his Mini Nuke while Jordan equipped his Bomb Glove.
"Ratchet, Jordan, I believe I have found a way across.", Clank suddenly spoke from Ratchet's back.
"What is it, buddy?", Ratchet asked.
"I have scanned that vehicle's interior and it seems to use a Versa Core for it's power supply. If you two manage to blow it up, you might be able to swing across with your swingshot by shooting at the Versa Core."
"Got it.", Jordan replied.
As soon as the fire from the turret ceased, Ratchet and Jordan stepped out of cover and launched a few bombs at the hovering tank. Jordan's bombs seemed to do a pretty good job at damaging the tank, though the impact Ratchet's Mini Nuke bomb had was enough to destroy one of the tank's thrusters. The destablized tank slammed into the wall, exploding on impact.
Like Clank said, the Versa Core fell out of the wreck, coming to a stop in mid-air. Ratchet equipped his Swingshot and Jordan grabbed onto the Lombax. Ratchet fired the hook onto the target and swung the group over the gap and onto a small platform. Jordan let go of Ratchet and saw the platform lead into a small building to the right of them. They saw that inside were multiple containers... and two robotic guards at the far side of the building. Ratchet decided to use his seeker gun for this. He launched a drone at one of the unsuspecting guards, and to everyone's surprise, one drone was enough to blow one of the robots into a million pieces. The other guard noticed this and took cover behind one of the containers. Ratchet now equipped his Mini Nuke and waited for the guard to peek over the edge of the crate he was crouching behind. Ratchet fired a bomb at the guard and saw a piece of it's chest plate fall off. Ratchet fired another bomb at the robot, and this time the robot exploded too.
Ratchet and Jordan climbed over the various containers and walked out of the building, only to be greeted by four robotic guards, with one standing on top of a tower. The Lombax and Human quickly jumped behind the containers. Lombax and Human both equipped their Heavy Lancer. Jordan decided to aim for the robot on top of the tower and once the squad of robotic guards stopped firing, the duo stood up from their cover and attacked the robots. Jordan fired a three round burst at the robot on the tower, and he saw that two plasma bullets hit it in the chest. Though, to his surprise, the other plasma bullet hit the robot in the face. Their heads seemed to be their weak spot, for the robot Jordan hit in the face collapsed like a ragdoll. However, before Ratchet could destroy a robot, said guards opened fire again, forcing Jordan and Ratchet to duck into cover again and wait for the bombardment of blaster fire to be over. Once they stopped firing, Ratchet equipped his Mini Nuke and fired one bomb at the group, destroying two of them and leaving one severely damaged. Jordan decided to destroy the last robot and equipped his Blitz Gun, jumped over the containers, ran at the robot and fired eight bullets at the surviving guard, decomissioning it for good.
As Jordan was about to put the weapon away, it suddenly started to vibrate. Jordan instinctively dropped the weapon and took a step back. Jordan saw it hover above him and slowly it started to transform. Jordan watched as the barrel of his Blitz Gun grew, and to his surprise, cloned itself. The weapon slowly hovered down to Jordan, and the Human grabbed his loyal Blitz Gun. Though, it wasn't the Blitz Gun anymore according to the engraving on the side. While it used to read 'Blitz Gun', it now read 'Blitz Cannon'. Jordan felt that the bigger barrel and the fact that there were now two of them increased the weight, but it wasn't a very big change in weight. With nobody gunning for them at the moment, the group finally had the chance to get a good look around, and soon they noticed that there was a ladder that lead up to the tower where the robot stood on that Jordan killed with a headshot. Ratchet and Jordan climbed up the tower and saw that on the other side of a small gap was an entrance into another small building. The duo jumped over the gap and entered the building. Inside, a two guards were patrolling on the walkway above a pit full of Chicken Bots. The guards jumped into the air when they saw Ratchet and Jordan, and the fact that a Mini Nuke and a Blitz Cannon were pointed their way.
Five seconds later, all what remained of the two guards was scrap metal. Ratchet looked down from the walkway. "Hey Jordan, look at this."
"What?"
"This pit is full of those small swarmer robots."
Jordan equipped his bomb glove and Ratchet equipped his Mini Nuke, and after a few bombs were dropped down, Ratchet and Jordan used a nearby ladder to climb down into the pit and collect the money. When they climbed back up again, they walked to the other exit of the building, though they quickly took cover when another hovertank appeared.
"Megacorp is taking their security a bit too serious if you ask me. I mean, hovertanks?!", Ratchet said.
With ion balls pummeling the area around them, Ratchet and Jordan had no choice but to stay hidden behind a wall. That is, until the tank had to reload and Ratchet had time to equip his Seeker Gun.
Ratchet launched six drones at the hovering vehicle, then quickly got back into cover.
After hearing four loud blasts, they heard an explosion and peeked around their cover to see the tank explode into pieces. To cross the gap between the building they were in and the next platform, Jordan held onto Ratchet and the Lombax used Clanks Heli-Pack to slowly glide across the gap. They walked across a small walkway to their right and climbed up a tiny ledge and saw that there were three robots standing on top of another tower with blasters pointed at the group. Ratchet and Jordan quickly saw a container and ran behind it for cover. The robots fired their weapons and once they stopped firing for a moment, the Lombax and Human equipped their Heavy Lancers and fired three round bursts at the robots. After taking two of them out with six shots from both Heavy Lancers, the last robot fired his blaster at them and the group ducked for cover. Once the robot stopped firing, the duo jumped from cover and both Heavy Lancers shot out three plasma bullets. The six bullets were too much for the robot's plating.
The duo walked from behind the container and climbed up the ladder up to the tower. They now saw that in order to reach a platform ahead of them, they had to use another green versa target. Ratchet equipped his Swingshot and Jordan held on. Ratchet fired the hook and felt it pull them over to the next platform. They then jumped across a small gap and walked down a narrow walkway. Once they reached the end, they looked to their left and saw another long gap, but this time there were two Dynamo targets instead of a versa target. Ratchet equipped the gadget and fired one beam at the first target, causing a holographic platform to appear beside it. The duo jumped onto the platform and Ratchet fired another beam at the next target. They then jumped onto the next platform and made it to the other side. They now looked to their right and saw a very long gap, and saw that the only thing that would lead them across the gap were six versa targets. Ratchet equipped his Swingshot and while Jordan grabbed onto Ratchet, the Lombax used the swingshot and swung from one target to the other until they reached the other side. Once they crossed the gap, they saw that standing beside a large glowing pad of some kind was some sort of alien that had the apparel of a wrestler, but had glasses on and some kind of device in his right hand. Just as the group was about to approach the strange pad, the wrestler stepped in front of them to stop them.
"Nobody, and I mean nobody. Gets by the Mathematician." the wrestler announced.
"I guess all the good names were taken." Ratchet whispered to Jordan and Sophia, causing the small Lombax to quietly giggle.
Apparantly the 'Mathematician' head Ratchet's comment on his name, for he yelled "Watch your mouth zero, before the Mathematician subtracts your head from your shoulders!" at the Lombax
Clank jumped down from Ratchet's back, and spoke up. "Sir, as a fellow math genius, could I please ask what is going on?"
The wrestler then pointed up. The group looked to where he was pointing, and saw a large, rocky, spherical object, presumably the planet's moon. "That moon's where we divide losers from winners before adding them to the Megacorp Games. There's a challenger up there ready to reduce you to nothing."
Clank looked over at the strange pad and approached it "Hmm. This technology looks familiar; perhaps I could..." Clank stepped on the pad.
The group watched as the robot's legs suddenly grew ten times their original size, followed by his torso, then finally his head. Clank was now at least forty times his original size. The metal behemoth stared down at the group.
"I sorta forgot you could grow like that." Jordan said.
"Think you can get us to that moon?" Ratchet added.
"I will try." Clank lowered his hand towards the Lombax and Ratchet climbed on, but saw Sophia and Jordan still standing there.
"You coming?" Ratchet asked, with Jordan just staring, causing Ratchet to realize that there was nothing for Jordan to hold on to, unless he stabbed his machete into Clank's back, and a machete wouldn't be enough to keep Jordan stable while Clank throws punch after punch at the opponent. "Oh... I forgot."
"Don't worry, we'll be fine down here."
"Well, alright."
Jordan and Sophia watched as Clank's feet started to glow bright blue, until a bright light started coming out the bottom and the robot started to hover above the ground ever so slightly. As Ratchet grabbed the handles on Clank's back, Jordan cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled "GOOD LUCK!".
Then, finally, the main thrusters in Clank's feet activated and the metal giant launched off into space.
"Well, what now?", Sophia asked.
"A game, perhaps?"
"What game?"
"I spy with my little eye something...orange."
"That car over there?"
"...correct."
"My turn! I spy something..."
Dobbo orbit
Ratchet made sure to hold on tight as Clank shot out of Dobbo's atmosphere. Ratchet's rebreather helmet was already in place, so the Lombax had no trouble breathing. While Clank flew towards the moon, it turned out to be bigger than anyone could've imagined: the entire surface of the moon was one giant city. "Strange.", Ratchet thought, but his attention was caught by the stars once again.
"Ratchet, hold on. We are about to enter the moon's atmosphere."
Ratchet glanced over Clank's (now giant) shoulder. Ratchet saw something giant walking down a street. "Clank, over there!"
Clank also saw it and slowly hovered down in front of the giant. It was a giant mech, just a bit taller than Clank. It was painted deep crimson and unlike Drek's mech, this one had two legs. But what caught Ratchet's attention the most, was it's commander.
In the middle of the mech's chest was a glass window, the cockpit of the mech, and inside of it was the Thug Leader.
Once the robot landed on the ground with a loud thud, Ratchet climbed from Clanks back and onto his shoulders "Hey! Remember us?!" he yelled.
"How does it feel to not have your friend help this time?"
"It makes things a bit difficult, that's why I can count on one of my other friends this time. One that will blow you to smithereens."
The Thug Leader activated the thrusters in the mech's feet, making it hover above the ground. The robot raised its fists in front of it and started firing missiles from rocket launchers mounted on it's wrists. Clank blocked his face with his hands to defend, but once the thug stopped, Clank looked at his hand and saw multiple burn marks on his hand and body. Clank frowned and switched to offense. Clank raised his arms and returned fire.
The thug however didn't choose to defend and instead started to retreat. Clank now started to walk after the robot, and thanks to special endurance springs that were installed in his legs when Ratchet was improving his robotic functions, Clank could now jog instead of walk when he became his enormous size.
Clank finally caught up with the robot, but saw that he walked into a trap as six helicopters swooped down from above and surrounded the robot. The choppers started firing their weapons at Clank, but the robot saw that they did little to no harm on his metal torso. Clank raised his fists and punched every chopper of the sky, one by one until he and the thug were the only ones left. As the thug raised the mech's fists, Clank decided to try out an old weapon. Clank cupped his hands together, and a ball of energy formed into it's hands. Once it was a bright as the sun, he threw it at the mech and saw it explode into a bright flash. Once the blinding light diminished, Ratchet and Clank saw that there was a large burn mark in the center of its torso, and that one layer of armor on the robot had been completely vaporized.
The Thug wasn't happy with the damage done to his priced machine and started firing missiles at Clank. The robot did the same and they kept dodging and firing missiles at each other until the cowardly Thug fled once again. Clank ran after him, but along the way saw a strange blue crate and stomped on it. Clank saw that whatever it conained quickly fell apart into a thousand tiny orbs, which quickly disappeared into his body. Clank must've thought that it was ammo and continued to chase the enemy. Clank saw the thug once again, but saw he wasn't protected by any choppers.
As Clank readied his fists, he saw a ball of light forming in the center of the mech's chest and knew what this was. Clank immediately ran behind a large building, and heard the ball of energy hit the building with a loud blast. Clank saw the building crumble, and saw the robot on the other side launch another ion blast at him. Clank quickly ran to another building and avoided the second blast, then run behind another building to dodge the third blast. It was now Clank's turn and he used his right hand to launch two ion bombs at the thug, removing the first layer of armor on the mechs left arm, then remove a second layer from the robots chest. The Thug's mech started to hover once again, and the two combatants started to fire rockets at each other once again.
The thug flew away again with Clank, who was still shooting rockets, in pursuit. A few choppers appeared out of nowhere and fired their guns at Clank. Clank didn't have time for this, so he simply fired a few missiles at the choppers, destroying them. Clank caught up with the mech, but when the Thug's mech turned to face Clank said robot noticed that the Thug was charging up an ion blast, and this time Clank wasn't fast enough to dodge it. The ion blast hit Clank right in the chest and caused a large black burn mark to appear on the region. Clank now knew what to do, and while he kept firing rockets at the Thug leader he strafed towards an ammo pack to get some more ion bombs. He threw another ion bomb at the mech, completely taking the whole left arm off. Clank then threw an ion ball at the mech's chest and caused it's whole insides to be exposed. Ratchet and Clank saw the machine start to shut down, and Clank knew it was time to finish this. He walked over to his defeated opponent.
"I'll get you and your friends, even if its the last thing I do!", the angry Thug Leader yelled.
"Sorry, but not today." Ratchet replied.
Clank raised his hand in the air and dug it into the chest of the machine. He pulled out the main power supply, causing the mech to fall apart.
With the main power supply suddenly removed, the mech started to explode. The Thug Leader pressed a few buttons and activated the ejector seat. The windscreen was launched, so was the Thug. As he flew out, the robot exploded into a million pieces. However, it seemed like whoever built the mech forgot to build a proper ejector seat, for the parachutes didn't deploy, and the Thug Leader fell into the pile of metal parts.
"Great job, Clank!" Ratchet said "Now let's get back to Jordan and Sophia."
Megacorp Testing Facility
Planet Dobbo
5:15pm Local Time
Jordan and Sophia had been playing games for twenty minutes now. "I spy with my-"
Sophia stopped mid-sentence. "What's wrong?", Jordan asked.
"I hear something. Above us."
Jordan and Sophia looked up to see Ratchet and Clank flying down, just a few miles above them. Clank skillfully landed on the strange metal pad, and once Clank landed, the robot lowered his hand so a familiar Lombax could jump down from it.
"I take it you defeated the enemy." Jordan said.
"It was that thug from Megopolis. And yes, we did kill him."
"He's hurt." Sophia said, noticing the dents and burn marks on Clank's torso.
"Aah don't worry about him, he'll be fine."
The group watched as Clank became his original size again. Clank slowly walked over to the group and they all faced the wrestler "Divide and conquer huh? Hey, guess you guys were prime after all. You're going to the Megacorp Games!" the wrestler pulled out a Holivision screen from behind him and the group saw a video that must've been an advertisement for the competition.
"Welcome to the Megacorp Games! sponsored by Megacorp." a voice said while Megacorp's logo was displayed. The video then showed two aliens battling each other with meelee weapons. "Okay Megacorp contestants, get ready to grapple with the Megacorp gladiator team." the video then showed a terrifying spider-like robot, that was climbing up some kind of cage. "And if you survive that, enter the battle arena with our mega spiderbot in our mega death-defying mega cage match." the video now showed three aliens on hoverbikes racing on a path through a forest. "Then open the throttle for the all Megacorp hover bike race. Brought to you by Megacorp racing." the video then showed the same logo like Ratchet and Jordan saw for the gladiator fight at the Maktar Resort, and also heard the narrator speak very quickly. "Hostile indigenous life is not owned, endorsed, sponsored, supplied, abdicated, or even liked by Megacorp. Approach at your own risk." the narrator now spoke at his normal talking speed. "The Megacorp Games. Keep it mega." the video ended and Ratchet downloaded the coördinates to his quick select.
The wrestler simply stayed at his spot while the group walked over to a conveniently placed hovertaxi to their right. Once they got on the taxi and instructed it to fly back to their ship, Ratchet started to talk. "Well we know where we're going next."
"Not yet." Jordan added "We first need to get inside and investigate the facility."
"Why?"
"You heard what that girl said."
"What is so dangerous about the experiment to make it an intergalactic threat?"
"I'm not sure, but I don't wanna take any chances."
"...okay then. I'll trust you with this."
Due to laziness (Almost literally, I did finish this quite late too and I just wanna post something to you guys) I decided to make this a two parter. I really don't like making two parts of this story, but I do know though that the next chapter wont be as long and I will have alot of motivation to right it next week. So do expect chapter 15 to be out next week. But like I said. Do PM or... something, if you're interested in the bioshock crossover idea I have in mind. If you write that you'd like to know the plot in your message, I would be more than happy to give you a more detailed version of the plot in the reply. Also to anyone who views my deviantart, I do have a new drawing and will post it, probably tomorrow or tonight (Its nothing big though, just something simple. I've actually been starting to run out of Ideas.)
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