As promised, here's chapter 15, or part 2 of the adventure on Planet Dobbo. No new reviews to reply to, but I forgot to mention someone in the last chapter. I would like to thank goodowen2001 for following my profile, you support is much appreciated.

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Megacorp Testing Facility

Planet Dobbo

5:15pm Local Time

A Truth Revealed

The groups air taxi finally came to a stop right next to their ship and the group jumped off, knowing where to go next. They stepped off the car and approached the teleporter they saw earlier. Before they used it, though, Ratchet bought some ammo while Jordan decided to save his money and instead hoped to find some more of those strange crates he encountered. Once Ratchet restocked on ammo, the group stepped on the teleporter and they were quickly teleported into the interior of what was hopefully the main factory. But they looked in front of them and saw a very long hallway, with three strange robots hovering above it with some kind of searchlight shining down on it. Ratchet and Jordan decided to play it safe and Ratchet equipped his Seeker gun and fired a drone out of it. The object quickly opened up and soared towards the bot on the right and exploded. The searchlights turned red and they all focused on the group. They soon started to fire small explosives at them and the Lombax and Human were quick to dodge them.

Now knowing that these things cant be trusted, Jordan equipped his Heavy Lancer and started to fire three round bursts at the first robot. While he did so, Ratchet would fire out a seeker drone at the machine each time Jordan had hit it six times. After a lot of Lancer rounds and three drones, the robot finally exploded into a million pieces. The other robot started firing at them again and Ratchet and Jordan dodged the onslaught of bombs. They now started firing at the other bot and soon enough, it suffered it's friend's fate. The last one didn't fire any bomb this time and Ratchet and Jordan used this moment of silence to deliver a barrage of gunfire, and drones at it. The final drone now exploded and the group continued to walk down the hallway. They reached a corridor and saw that the whole floor consisted of a strange liquid, and a narrow platform. They also saw that at the end of it was a machine that shot out some kind of electrical line that flowed to the other side of the platform. Ratchet decided to go first and he quickly ran and jumped over the electrical lines and reached the other side. Jordan however saw that the electricity was up to his waist and knew he couldnt jump over those. But Jordan knew what he could possibly do, but would need a certain someone to get off him to do so.

"Sophia." Jordan said over his shoulder.

"Yeah." Sophia replied.

"I think I might be able to crawl under these, but I'm gonna need you off my back just to be safe."

"Whatever you say."

The Lombax hopped off of Jordan's back and they both walked down the platform until they saw the machine. They waited, and once the electricity reached them, Jordan and Sophia ducked down and the Human saw that his theory worked.

"Keep moving and stay close." Jordan said.

The duo slowly crawled along the platform and as they crossed the last line, they quickly got up and ran across the platform and over to the other side. Once Jordan helped Sophia onto his back, he looked at Ratchet and saw he crossed his arms and had an expression of impatience.

"Well sorry that I'm not as agile or as endured as you are."

"Lets just keep moving."

The duo saw they had to walk down another hallway, but this time there were two opposing robots with searchlights circling the hallway. Jordan equipped his Heavy Lancer, but Ratchet pushed the barrel of the gun down, gesturing to Jordan that he shouldn't use it. Ratchet then gestured to Jordan to follow him. The Human did so and once the first robot past, they quickly ran to the center of the room and waited once more. Once the second one passed, they ran to the other side of the hallway again and evaded the robots. Jordan was not only glad by this, but shocked. For the first time in what feels like forever, he actually encountered a situation where he didn't have to use his gun. Despite being robots, Jordan thought of them as beings as well, beings he doesn't like to kill or hurt. He refocused his attention on the task at hand and looked in front of him and saw four strange crates in the middle of the room. "What do you think?" Ratchet asked.

"It's a trap." Jordan replied.

Jordan equipped his Blitz Cannon, while Ratchet equipped his Mini Nuke. They slowly approached the boxes and as predicted, four robotic guards popped out from behind the crates and fired their blasters at them "Told ya." Jordan quickly said. The duo dodged the attack and as the soldiers ducked into cover. Ratchet aimed his weapon at the group and fired one bomb at them, causing it to lob over the crates and kill two of the robots, but leave the other two injured. Ratchet was about to equip his Seeker Gun to take out the next two, but Jordan gestured that he would take these two. Jordan had yet to use his new Blitz Cannon, and this was the perfect opportunity. He ran towards the first one and once he was close, he fired the gun and saw eight electrical bolts come out of the gun, obliterating the first bot. Now knowing there's a new modification to his rounds, he quickly ran to the other injured bot and blew it to smithereens with one shot from the Blitz Cannon.

They continued to walk until they reached a ledge that had a forty foot drop. and At the bottom were two robots with their blasters aimed at them. Ratchet simply equipped his Seeker gun and fired two drones from it, killing them with ease. With the threat gone, they saw a ladder along the ledge and slowly climbed down it. Once they reached the bottom, they saw another narrow walkway with strange liquid below it, and also another machine that fired more of those electrical lines. Swarming the platform were eight Megacorp Blade Balls, but they were green this time.

Ratchet knew they would have to take these out, but knowing that Jordan wasn't willing to jump over that electricity to get to the other side, he had to think of another option. Ratchet then came up with an idea and once the machine popped up from the ground to unleash more electricity towards them, Ratchet used his Seeker Gun and fired out one drone. They slowly saw it fly and hit the machine, destroying it into tiny pieces. With one threat out of the way, Ratchet equipped his wrench and approached the first swarmer bot. The machine unleashed it's blades and approached Ratchet. That was a fatal mistake, for the bot was sent flying across the room due to a hit from a certain OmniWrench seconds later. Unlike the Blade Balls they encountered earlier, this version had better hardware and had no trouble with recovering from Ratchet's swing, approaching the Lombax once more. "Uh oh." Ratchet said. The Lombax started running away from the blade wielding sphere and Jordan decided it was his turn to attack. As the bot go close, Jordan equipped his Blitz Cannon, reloaded the weapon and fired it at the sphere, blowing it up into tiny pieces. "Those things must be stronger than the last ones." Ratchet said as he walked towards the Human. "What do you suppose we do?"

"Simple. You get behind me and you shoot them with your Lancer, and any survivor that gets too close will meet this gun here."

"Sounds like a plan."

Ratchet equipped his Heavy Lancer and got behind Jordan. The duo slowly walked down the platform and one by one the other seven swarmer started to approach them. The first one attacked them on their left, but Ratchet was able to blast it with five rounds and kill it. The second one on their right however survived the five shots that Ratchet fired, but Jordan was able to blast it with his cannon and destroy it. They slowly took the swarmers out until there was nothing left. They then ran across the rest of the platform until the reached the end. They now had to deal with two more aerial robots, that were once again flying around the center of the area. Ratchet and Jordan did what they did last time and ran to the center of the room when it was clear. They then waited for it to be clear again and ran towards a small elevator and avoided the robots. They rode the elevator up to the top and once they got off, they now saw that in front of them was a very long gap. and no versa targets to swing over to the other side. "Great!" Ratchet exclaimed "How are we gonna get across now." And as if on cue, the group heard a low humming sound like before and soon enough, another hovering tank came into veiw and had its barrel pointed at the group.

"Figures." Jordan said.

The tank fired its explosives at them and Ratchet and Jordan were quick to dodge them. Jordan then got his Lancer out and fired a continuous stream at the machine, while Ratchet decided to use all of his ammo from the Seeker Gun on the tank. after alot of Lancer shots and seven drones later, the tank was severely damaged and soon it exploded into a bunch of scrap metal. When the smoke cleared, the group saw it's Versa core hovering a few feet above the pile of metal scrap. Ratchet then equipped his Swingshot and once Jordan grabbed onto the Lombax, he used the tool and swung the group across the large gap and over the pile of metal. Now that they are on the other side, they looked and saw they had to cross another gap, where at the end was a hovering platform, and in between it were a bunch of Dynamo targets. Ratchet equipped said gadget and fired one beam at the first target, causing a holographic platform appear beside it. As the duo hopped on the first platform, Ratchet quickly fired at the next target and they slowly hopped from one platform to the next until they reached the distant hovering platform. Once they did, they felt it take them up twenty feet. At the top was a surprisingly big Holovision screen and a conveniently placed teleporter next to it. The group immediately knew that thing must have some info and Jordan walked over to the side of the screen to find the power button. "Ok, this must be the core terminal. Lets see what we can get from it." Ratchet said. Jordan pressed a red button on the side of the screen that said power, but nothing happened. Jordan then pressed it twice and the screen still remained black.

"The power seems to be out in this entire area." Clank said.

"Yeah. We better call a maintenance bot." Ratchet added.

Jordan saw a button below the power that said maintenance and pressed it. A tall robot, with glasses on, and no legs hovered towards the group. However, it didn't seem to notice that it was approaching the wall, and soon it slammed into it. It hovered back a few feet and hit it's head with it's wrench a few times, and then it suddenly flew off. "HEY, COME BACK!" Jordan yelled.

"Lets just follow it and fix it ourselves." Ratchet said.

The group walked over to the bot and saw there was a strange red pad on the floor next to it. It was clear that the group needed a new gadget for this, so they decided to search the area. Jordan looked behind the Holovision and saw some kind of strange gadget that resembled some kind of glider. Jordan slowly brought the glider over to Ratchet and gave it to him "Here, you can have this. We'll wait here until you get back." Ratchet took the glider and positioned himself on top of the ledge. He then jumped, and Jordan saw him drop like a rock practically immediately. Jordan and Sophia ran over to the ledge, just in time to see him soar all the way up. The robot then started to fly towards Ratchet and passed him. Ratchet stabilized himself and followed the bot into the factory, flying out of Jordan and Sophia's sight. "What should we do now?" Sophia asked.

"I don't know. Just sit and wait I guess."

Jordan walked over to the Holovision and sat beside it, with Sophia doing the same. They sat and waited there for five minutes until Jordan suddenly heard voice in his right ear "Jordan." he heard, immediately recognizing Ratchet's voice. "Yeah." Jordan replied.

"We got the power working, see if that terminal works."

"Okay."

Jordan got up and pressed the power button once again. This time he saw an image slowly appear on the screen. "It works." Jordan said.

"Good, now see if there's anything on it."

The image finally got clear enough for Jordan to read what it said, and he knew that Ratchet wouldn't like it.
"Uuuh... There is one problem though."

"What now?"

"It says we need to pay ten thousand bolts."

"What?! Now even the computers are charging us? That's it, this galaxy blows."

"Do you have that kind of money? 'Cause I don't."

"Yes."

"Then quit your complaining and get over here. I ain't leaving this place without this info."

"Fine. But you owe me."

Soon enough Jordan did see Ratchet appear from the teleporter next to him and Jordan could definitely tell he didn't look amused. Ratchet walked over to the screen and he paid the bolts needed. Immediatly a video started to play, showing the expiriment on a metal table of some sorts with two alien scientists standing next to it, one poking it with some sort of machete. "Doctor James D. Fullbladder reporting on Megacorp experiment number 13. This update is strictly classified, if your watching this, you're fired. Early thinking held that the experiment specimen was entirely docile in nature. Even overt provocation failed to incite it." The doctor with the machete now poked the experiment harder, receiving a furious glare from the creature, and to the group's surprise, it suddenly started to grow. They then saw it leap from the table towards the scientist that poked it and started to devour it. But the camera was focused on the other doctor, so it blocked the horrific display. "But the late Dr Putridson observed that the natural levels of monsterpropolis in the experiments bloodstream were truely remarkable changes." The second doctor then held out a fried chicken drumstick towards the creature, but the group saw it grow even bigger and attack the second scientist, the two disappearing out of screen while the camera focused on the drumstick that dramatically landed on the table in front of the camera. "Attempts at neutralizing the specimen's violent tendencies were met with limited success." The camera then panned out and showed that the two doctors were now missing, only the 'experiment' remaining and you didn't need to be a genius to know where the scientists went. "Our surviving staff recommend that the experiment be destroyed immediately at Megacorps deep space disposal facility." The group saw the experiment grow even bigger and leap at the camera filming the whole thing. The screen then went black and Clank started scanning the computer.

"The computer's log indicates that we were the first to view that recording." Clank said.

"So Fizzwidget must not know. We've got to warn him." Ratchet said.

"I told you there was something wrong with that experiment." Jordan added.

Ratchet called Fizzwidget and soon enough, his face appeared on the screen "Yello." Fizzwidget said.

"Fizzwidget! You're safe!" Ratchet exclaimed "Sir, brace yourself. We just saw a video of your experiment eating it's handlers. I repeat, eating it's handlers."

"Ah yes. No fat, extra foam, no sprinkles." Fizzwidget said to someone off screen.

"Mr Fizzwidget, do you copy? Anyone handling the experiment must exercise the utmost caution."

"No, no, decafitated. What? oh, yes, yes: Exercise my front-most cushion." Fizzwidget said. Jordan facepalmed.

"Sir." Clank said "Your experts recommend that the experiment be liquidated, we will meet you at your deep space disposal facility."

"Ah, yes: my cheap date proposal facsimile. It's heavily guarded so be sure to use the correct password, which is... uh... ah... oh, yes! Qwarkstastic. The password is Qwarktastic. Toodleoo." Fizzwidget disappeared from the screen and the group got the coordinates to the facility.

"Does anyone find it weird that his password is Qwarktastic." Jordan said.

"What do you mean?" Ratchet asked.

"What does he know of Qwark?"

"Maybe he heard of him."

"Whatever. Lets just get to that facility."

The group got on the teleporter and took it back to their ship. Once they got to their ship, they jumped in and fastened their seatbelts. Ratchet entered the coordinates and the group flew off.

Were are now done with Planet Dobbo. Now if you'll excuse me, I will be watching a rare super moon lunar eclipse because to those who don't know, on September 27 there will be a rare super moon lunar eclipse that has not been seen for over 30 years. Of course by the time this is posted it will be long gone, but I just wanted to get that out. Anyways, keep up with the support and stay tuned for chapter 16.

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