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Thugs-4-Less Prison Ship

3:25pm Local Time

Worlds United

As he was regaining consciousness, Jordan's vision got better. Once Jordan's body was awake, he felt that he was lying on something soft. Jordan glanced over his shoulder and saw that he was lying on a soft mattress, probably a bed of some sorts

The Human slowly looked at his surroundings and saw that he was in a medium sized prison cell with some kind of red laser fence. Jordan felt like walking over and feeling the bright light, but knew that that wouldn't be a very smart decision. "Uuuuugh, my head." he moaned as he slowly got off the bed and stood up.

Being the very concerning person he was in terms of health and injuries, Jordan felt around his face and didn't feel or see any type of blood from his head. But he did notice something awfully strange about his nose. He not only couldn't breath through his nose, but when he exhaled, he felt air coming from the side of his face and not in front. Jordan felt where is nose was and saw that it didn't feel right at all. He then started moving his hand to where the air was coming out and felt the outlining and knew what had happened.

His nose was completely bent to the left side of his face.

Jordan really didn't want to deal with this, but he decided to save this situation for later and wake up his friends. But there was one problem with that. He was the only one in the cell. "Ratchet...Clank...Sophia...Guys." Jordan said, hoping to get a reply. But that reply won't come. Suddenly he heard something hit the ground behind him and he jumped in fear, but what he saw was a cover to an air vent slide off, and inside was a pink robot that was built to look female, and looked quite similar to an infobot. The robot brought its finger up to her mouth and gestured the Human to be quiet, then got back into the vent. "I guess I should follow it." Jordan said as he approached the vent. Jordan saw that the opening was about the perfect size for him and decided to get in it and travel down the cramped space.

...

Sophia was so tired that she accidentally passed out while being untied and thrown into her cell. Luckily for her, she landed on her bed. She had no clue how long it had been, but she suddenly felt the urge to wake up. Sophia jumped out of bed and saw that she was in the exact same prison cell as Ratchet and Clank were thrown in, or at least that was what she thought since, when she was still awake, she saw that they were thrown in first. But she looked around the room and saw that she was the only one occupying the cell. "Ratchet. Jordan. Guys" she said. But she suddenly heard something fall from behind her and it made her jump. She looked and saw a vent that was about her size open up, and inside it was a female looking infobot who quickly flew off deeper into the vent. "Jordan would want me to stay here, but I have to get out of here and find him and the others."

...

For all the danger they've been through, Ratchet decided to let his head rest on the soft mattress and sleep for a bit. It's been a long day, and all the Lombax wanted to do was get a little bit of shuteye, and plan their escape. Besides, why worry about his friends. There probably isn't any possible way out of the cell anyways. Once Ratchet was awake, they would escape, grab Jordan and Sophia, and get their weapons and ship and blast their way out of there. However, before he could fall asleep, the Lombax' ears picked up the annoying sound of ceramic hitting metal. The Lombax opened his eyes and saw that Clank was holding a small coffee cup and was sliding it along the laser walls that made up the cell. "Hey." Ratchet moaned as he slowly got off the bed and stood up.

"Sorry." Clank replied, dropping the cup and approaching the Lombax. "I have thoroughly analysed our surroundings and I am afraid that there is absolutely no means of escape." suddenly, something fell on the ground behind them and they looked over and saw that the covering of a small air vent was popped open by a small pink infobot. "Except that." Clank added, surprised.

"Shhh." the robot put a finger up to her mouth and flew back into the shaft.

"Someone's got a girlfriend." Ratchet teased.

"I will be right back."

"Dont stop for anything along the way."

Clank glared at Ratchet for saying that, but then decided to follow the robot into the vent.

...

Jordan slowly crawled through the vent until he found another vent cover. He bashed it open with his hand and he jumped down to a lower level of the ship. Jordan decided to be stealthy about this and he crouch walked down a long hallway, took a left and saw a guard standing there. Jordan knew that he would need to attack this guy and decided to make this quick and painless with his Bomb Glove. But there was a slight problem.

there was nothing in his Quick-Select.

"You've gotta be kidding me. They took everything." Seeing that all of his weapons were gone, Jordan figured the worst and looked at his right leg and saw that both his machete and sheath were gone too. Jordan figured that they must've took them when he was unconscious. Jordan now knew he would have to literally use stealth for this. Jordan looked around and saw a small rock on the floor and decided to use it. Jordan got out of cover, brought the rock over his head, then threw it to the left of the guard. Jordan heard the rock hit the ground multiple times thirty feet away from him and saw the guard starting to move towards the sound. With the coast temporarily clear, Jordan quickly walked down the hallway and walked through a door and saw that it lead to another part of the prison with more prison cells. Jordan closed the door behind him and slowly walked down the long hall, looking in each and every cell, hoping to find his friends. "Ratchet...Clank...Sophia..." Jordan quietly said as he slowly looked into each cell while walking down the hall. Unfortunately, Ratchet, Sophia, or Clank were nowhere to be found. The only clue that he could get on his location is a sign that said "Deck 4-13". But Jordan decided to continue down a long hall, hoping to find more clues.

...

The small Lombax was able to find another vent cover and once she punched it out, she slowly crawled out and looked at a sign on a wall that said "Deck 4-14". She didn't exactly know what this meant, she wasn't Clank, but she decided to explore and hopefully find her Human Companion. She walked down a long hallway, with empty prison cells aligned on both sides, and she soon came across an MSR Robot with its chain rattling hands. Luckily for her, it had not noticed her.

Sophia knew that she was in big trouble, because she knew that before they got her on the prison ship, they took her only defense, the Sheepinator, away from her and gave it to one of the guards. But she luckily found a small pebble on the ground and picked it up. She then carefully aimed the rock and threw it with full force down a long corridor to the left of the robot. The pebble was large enough to create a 'clank' down the hall. The robot started to walk towards the source of the sound and Sophia walked into a small room that must've been one of the guards' quarters. She noticed some locks on the wall and they all had different names to them like 4-11, 4-12, and 4-13. She looked beside the locks and saw a key on the wall that read 4-12. Sophia got on a chair and slowly took the key off and inserted it into its corresponding lock. She turned the key and saw that nothing happened. She then looked for anything that could be useful and walked down the stairs to a lower level.

...

While Ratchet waited in his cell, Clank decided to follow the small pink robot. She led him out of a vent and into a small hallway that had four blue MSR robots on patrol. Clank desperately looked around to find anything that could be used as a good weapon, but the only thing he found were four Microbots. Clank broke the four small pods that contained the metal devourers, but made too much noise and alerted the guards in front of him. The guards now had their chainsaw hand ready and Clank quickly commanded the robots to attack. The Microbots rushed towards the first robot and started devouring it limb by limb, and devoured the other whole in the nick of time: it was about to attack Clank. However, one of the Microbots was destroyed in the process. But Clank was determined to free his Lombax friend and walked down a long hallway and into a room that had a set of locks, with one of them having a key inside of it that said 4-12 on it. He didn't think much of it, but on the other hand, what did catch his attention is that the room had been ransacked. He knew this must have been one of his friends' work and decided to leave the room and continue down a long corridor. Halfway down he started hearing the sound of clanking metal and saw a red MSR robot coming around the corner. Clank commanded his little battalion to attack and they all rushed towards the enemy. Unfortunately the robot was able to scorch one of the tiny robots until it was nothing more than a sparking pile of scrap, but Clank knew that losses were going to occur. He took a right then walked down the hallway.

...

Suddenly, all of the prison cells opened and an alarm was heard "Alert, Lockdown override initiated." a female voice said over the speakers.

"I hope this was your doing Ratchet." Jordan said to himself.

Jordan turned left and saw a two hallway intersection. Jordan decided to check the left hallway first and he saw that sleeping in a chair was a thug that wasn't awoken by the alarm going off. But what Jordan saw on the guards right leg was a familiar looking blade and holster. "My machete." Jordan said with excitement, but kept his voice quiet enough to not wake the guard. "Okay this is easy, just undo the buttons, take the weapon and move on.

No killing here. I like it." Jordan whispered. Jordan slowly walked over to the guard and stopped when he saw the guard move around, but wasn't awakened. He then got on his knees and looked at the strap. He saw that it was in a difficult position and would have to be extremely careful if he was going to get the blade off. Jordan slowly brought his hand to the strap and felt that it wasn't that tight on the thugs leg and he could spin it around to get a better angle on it. Jordan did so and heard the guard move around some more, but was relieved when he saw that the guard had not yet awoken from his slumber. With a sigh of relief, he slowly turned the leather buckle around his legs until he could see the buttons it had to attach it to his leg. Jordan slowly pulled off the two buttons and gently pulled the sheath to himself. He then slowly got up and sighed in relief that he didn't wake the guard. But he noticed on an small keychain on his belt was a key that said 4-13. Jordan knew this must be some kind of key for the cells on that floor. But as he was looking at it, he also noticed the guard move and slowly open his eyes. "No no no, please don't wake up." Jordan quietly said, afraid that he might have to take another life. "Please. Don't make me do this." Jordan slowly pulled the machete out of its holster and saw the guard look up at him. He saw the guard immediately react to his presence by widening his eyes and pulling out a gun from behind him. And without hesitation, Jordan brought his blade up and rammed it into the alien's throat. Blood slowly gushed out of the wound, which soaked both of Jordan's hands. While the guard slowly gargled on his own blood, Jordan stood there and slowly whispered to the guard. "Shhh it's okay, it's almost over now." Jordan said, with tears ready to build up in his eyes. As he slowly saw the blood gushing cease, he saw the poor thug close his eyes and lay back in his chair dead.

Jordan closed his eyes,wiped a few tears and looked at the guard. No matter what people say or what excuse they give, Jordan always knows one thing. Killing is wrong no matter how you do it. Every adventure he goes on he spills blood in the name of saving the galaxy. Why can't he just reason like he always does? Why does he always have to resort to this kind of violence? He would never do this, not even as an adult. He frowned upon violence and forbid it from himself. But ever since their last adventure, he knew that violence would be with him wherever he went. Once he was done mourning over the man's demise, he looked at his blood red soaked hands in shock, and fear. The whole facility felt to darken around him and he could suddenly hear voices coming from the shadows. But suddenly, a long hallway to the right of him brightened, and what came out of it were five Blarg Troops, all armed with blasters. "There he is. Get him!" one of the troopers yelled. Suddenly they all fired their weapons at Jordan and the Human was able to dodge two of the bullets. Knowing now that he needed a place to hide, he looked behind him and saw what appeared to be an vault door that was wide open and knew this would do the trick. He quickly ran into the vault and behind the door. He waited for ten seconds until he suddenly heard footsteps coming down the hallway. Jordan wasn't sure if it was Blarg, or someone else. But he decided not to take his chances and waited by the wall, but realised he forgot to take the machete out of the thugs neck, so he just waited at the door with his bare hands at the ready.

…

Sophia walked down the stairs, made a right turn and entered another room full of prison cells. But she quickly noticed that none of the cells had an forcefield closing them and realized that the key must've opened these cells. She hoped that Jordan was in one of these cells and decided to walk down and check. "J-Jordan, are you here?" she said as she checked each and every cell. Unfortunately the Human was nowhere to be found. She walked out of the large room and as she was coming across a two hallway intersection, she saw an thug leader keeping watch, and beside him was Sophia's weapon. The Sheepinator. "My gun." she quietly said. She saw that the guard was so focused on watching one of the ends that he didn't pay too much attention to his weapon. So Sophia decided to be daring about this and decided to take the gun, knowing that Jordan would find it a bad idea. She slowly walked towards the weapon, making sure her flip flops didn't make any clacking sounds. She then approached the weapon and slowly held her arm out and grabbed the base of the gun. But as she pulled the gun away, she saw the thug look down at his gun and grab it. He then turned his head to Sophia and saw that she was trying to steal it. "What are you doing out of your cell?" the thug said as she snatched Sophia, picked her up and put her against the wall. Sophia wanted to scream, but the thug had her by the neck trying to suffocate her until she passed out. She tried fighting, but that only made it worse. So she decided to do the next best thing and brought her claws out of her hands and slowly run them down the thugs arms. He yelled in pain, but didn't let go. She then decided to reach and run them down the sides of his face. In response, the thug dropped her and put his hand on his face to relieve the pain. Sophia now had an opportunity and ran for the Sheepinator. She quickly picked the gun up and as the thug ran towards her, she frantically felt for the trigger and pushed it. A bright beam with smaller ones like it twisted around each other while making a strange hum, similar to the Morph-O-Ray. Slowly, the guard started to look at his hand and in an instant, he was turned into an small white sheep.

Sophia slowly brought the weapon down and looked at the sheep. For being evil, she thought the white animal was kinda cute to look at. But she had a mission and decided to walk down the hallway the guard had been watching. Once she reached the end, she saw another two hallway intersection, one that lead straight down, and one that branched off to the left. She saw though that at if she went straight, she would see a dead thug body that must've been the work of either Ratchet or Jordan. She knew she must be getting closer. and walked down the hallway leading straight down. she approached the dead guard and saw that still in his neck was Jordan's machete. Why is it there though? Why didn't Jordan have it? As she looked at the dead thug, she saw small droplets of blood that led into a vault door. Being as curious as she was, she decided to enter the room and investigate.

But as she entered the vault, she was forcefully grabbed by the neck and slammed against the wall. She felt however that this choke was even worse than the last one. So she brought her claws out and started running them down the aliens arms. But she noticed that these arms were much skinnier than an average Thugs-4-Less Mercenary. and the person who was crying out in pain not only sounded much younger, but far too familiar. The unknown being let go of Sophia, and as she recollected on the person yelling, she only figured one thing. "Jordan? Is that you?"

…..

Jordan heard the footsteps get closer, and closer, until he saw an Blarg trooper walking through the door. It was at that moment, with no hesitation, he grabbed him and put him against the wall and began choking the living daylights out of the alien. But Jordan saw it bring its hands up to his arms, equip its claws, and started slowly running them down his arms. But wait. Blarg don't have claws. Do they? Jordan didn't have time to realize it as an extremely agonizing pain came from his arms that he yelled in response. The pain was so unbearable that he released his grip from the Blarg and stepped back. He looked at his arms and saw three distinct, but deep claw marks in his arms. "Jordan? Is that you?" he heard. That voice was awfully familiar to him, but he was too focused on his wounds to see who it was. But suddenly, a bright light illuminated the room and he blocked his eyes with one hand. As the room slowly came to focus, he looked towards the voice and saw that it wasn't a Blarg, but one of his Lombax companions.

Sophia.

"Jordan!" Sophia yelled in happiness. Sophia ran full speed at Jordan and hugged him as tight as she could. Jordan stumbled from the force she put around his waist, but the pain simply just faded out as he saw her. Jordan crouched, picked her up and felt her put her arms around his neck, and her legs around his waist. Jordan embraced her and they both waited there for fifteen whole seconds hugging each other. "Hey hon'." he said softly. As they hugged, Jordan saw a bright blue light coming out of both his arms, and soon he saw three scars on each of his arms, but noticed that his veins were not bright anymore. He knew he needed Nanotech, but he worried about Sophia more than anything. Jordan looked at her "Are you okay? Did they hurt you?" Jordan said with absolute concern.

"Don't worry Jordan, I'm okay." Sophia replied. The Lombax now wanted to know about her friends condition and looked up at him. "What about you? Are you okay?"

"Yes I'm fine Sophia." Jordan saw that she was looking at him funny and saw her eyes widen at what she saw. "What?"

"Your nose, what happened."

"You know when I tried to grab you and the guard knocked me out."

"Yeah."

"Well. This is the result. Don't worry about it, I'll fix it later." Jordan saw Sophia then look down his arms and saw the scars. "I'm sorry what I did." she said as she lowered her head and ears, knowing that she hurt her very dear friend.

"Hey." Jordan said as he brought her head up to his. "It's okay, I forgive you. I'm sorry I almost choked you to death."

"Well I forgive you."

Jordan then looked down at Sophia's neck and saw that there was not only blood along the sides of her neck, but on the back of her bright pink shirt too. "Sorry about your shirt too."

"What do you mean?" Sophia looked over herself and saw that right where Jordan was holding her, was blood splatter that was as big as Jordan's hands. "Are you bleeding?"

"No."

"Whats all this blood then."

"Nothing, let's just get moving."

Jordan lightened his grip on Sophia and she slowly climbed onto his back. As he was about to walk out of the vault, he noticed the Sheepinator on the ground and turned to Sophia. "Where did you get that?"

"I don't know." she lied.

"Well we better get-" as Jordan was about to finish, he saw something from the corner of his eye. He turned and saw that in the center of the room was a big and shiny platinum bolt that both of them failed to recognize when they reunited. Jordan approached the large bolt and saw it shine from the lights in the room. "What are we gonna do with it? Clank isn't around to carry it and you needed Ratchets help carrying it."

"Well whatever the case I'm taking this bolt."

"How?"

"I don't know Sophia, just give me a second to think." Jordan looked around the room and saw in the far right corner of the room was a small pull cart that must've been used to carry the bolt in. Jordan walked over to the cart and pulled it right next to the metallic screw. Jordan then pushed it and saw that it was at least light enough to be pushed and he was able to push it onto the cart and positioned so that it would be stable when they start moving. Jordan then grabbed the handle of the cart, grabbed the Sheepinator, and walked out of the vault. As he walked two feet out the door, he realized he had completely forgotten about his machete and grabbed it out of the dead thugs neck, and reached down and pulled out the key the thug had on his belt. "Hey you found another one!"

"What do you mean another one?"

"I know where that goes, follow me."

Sophia hopped off of Jordan's back and started running down a long hallway and make a sharp right turn. "Hold up Sophia!" Jordan yelled.

"I am waiting." Sophia replied as she peeked her head around the corner.

Once Jordan reached the Lombax's location, he saw that right around the corner was a lone sheep wandering through the halls. Jordan immediately knew this must've been Sophia because why else would they include the word sheep in Sheepinator. Jordan really didn't like Sophia hurting people or taking risks like this. But he knew she was okay and decided not to say anything. They both walked through a room that was filled with open prison cells, made a left turn and what was at the end of the hall was a flight of stairs that led to another level. But how were they going to get a two hundred pound bolt up a flight of ten stairs. "Its right up here."

"Uh Sophia. How am I going to get up there with this bolt?" Jordan questioned

"Oooh." Sophia said, just now realizing that they still had the bolt. And knowing that Jordan could barely lift it, they would have to find another way.

"Don't worry. I'll try to find another way."

"Well I'm coming with you."

"No. You stay up there near the room so I can find you."

"You sure."

"Here, I'll give you the Sheepinator in case you have to defend yourself."

"Okay." Sophia took the gun and waited on top of the stairs. "l'll be waiting right outside."

"Alright." Jordan started walking back into the prison room, but was stopped by Sophia. "Jordan."

"Yeah?"

"Be careful."

"When have I ever not been." Sophia smiled and Jordan walked into the room.

Jordan walked passed the cells, out of the room and decided to turn right at the intersection this time. He saw the hallway slightly curve to the right and saw that there was a long ramp that must've led to the second floor where Sophia is. Jordan had some struggle to bring the bolt up. But with some time and alot of effort. He was able to make it to the top. Jordan now decided to figure out the path by remembering where the stairs that Sophia was at were located. He made a right turn, walked down a long hallway. and made another right turn. As he walked down a long hallway, he walked past another room with more cells in it. But he stopped to see that his second Lombax friend Ratchet was waiting there, laying in a bed. Normally he would've went in there and at least say hi to him and make sure he was okay. But he decided to try to find Sophia, knowing Ratchet will be fine as long he's in his cell. He walked past the room, took a left and as he was coming across a three hallway intersection, he saw a room beside another long hallway and inside was a patient Lombax waiting for her friend. Jordan started walking towards the room and he saw Sophia turn her head to him. "There you are." she said as she walked towards Jordan.

"So where is this thing that you said that this key is for?"

"Right here." Sophia pointed to the right side of the door and Jordan saw that it was some kind of prison cell override and saw that one of the keys have already been used. Now that Jordan knew what that alarm was for, he saw that it was for deck 4-12 and knew this could be some kind of clue to where they were at now. But wait. If they were on 4-12 and they went up a level. they must be on 4-13. And the key reads 4-13 on the label. This key must be able to unlock not only all the cells, but Ratchet's too. Jordan now knew what he had to do and he inserted the key into its appropriate slot and twisted it to the right. Suddenly, an alarm went off and a female voice said the same words whenever the cells were opened and knew that guards will probably be down any minute. But Jordan knew he had to get all the blood of Sophia's body and brought her over to an sink and let her wash the blood of her neck. But as Jordan approached the sink to wash his hands, he looked at them and hesitated. Why would he rid himself from what he did. Jordan had very strange views and beliefs when it came to the dead. But he felt like he must wear this as a punishment to what he's done. He thought that he deserved sadness for all the lives he's taken and sorta deserved to be haunted by the trauma of his past. So he decided to leave the blood on his hands and exit the room with Sophia. But as they stepped outside, they both started hearing footsteps of incoming thugs.

Jordan now had to make a critical decision. Go down the hall, meet up with Ratchet and possibly face very heavy resistance, or avoid the thugs and run down the hall away from the noise, but abandon his best friend who has virtually nothing to protect himself with. Jordan would really regret this decision for the rest of his life, but he decided to avoid the thugs and started running down the hallway with Sophia.

….

As Ratchet waited patiently in his cell, he heard the forcefields of the cell suddenly go off, followed by an alarm. "Alert, Lockdown override initiated."

"Thanks Clank." Ratchet mumbled.

But as Ratchet was about to leave his cell, he heard multiple footsteps coming down a hallway and figured it must be backup to control the prisoners. Ratchet saw a door near his cell that led away from the incoming Thugs and quickly ran out the door. He then turned left, then right again and entered a large room, with a magnetic shaft that led a few levels up. Ratchet decided to use this to his advantage, equipping his Gravity boots and walking up the shaft. Unfortunately, footsteps were heard at the bottom and Ratchet slowly turned to see that two thugs entered the room and saw Ratchet. "There he is! Kill him!" one of the thugs yelled out. With their Shotguns equipped, they bombarded Ratchet with Shotgun pellets. Ratchet then quickly ran up the shaft and into the next room. Feeling exhausted, he was blasted with a wave of heat as he saw he has entered some kind of room with lava for a floor, and only a few platforms protecting him from the searing liquid below.

"You've gotta be kidding me." he said.

Before he decided to take any chances, he looked in his Quick-Select and saw that the only thing he had as an offensive weapon was his wrench. He now had a choice, go back down the shaft and confront the guards with only a melee weapon, or try to cross this lava gap and find another way around. Ratchet decided at this point he had no choice and decided to cross this chasm. Ratchet turned to the closet platform and leaped as far as he could and made it. He then saw the next platform and saw that it was a little bit closer to the one he was on. Ratchet jumped onto the second one, and barely made the third one. Just one more left, he quickly jumped onto it and then on the ledge. As Ratchet looked at the door, he looked to his left and saw that on the ground was an Omniwrench, but this one looked much different than his current one, consisting of the colors red and orange. "Hey, check this out. Another wrench!" Ratchet held both of the tools in his hand and decided that the new one looked much cooler than his current one, he decided to keep it and maybe give it to Jordan. But as Ratchet was looking at his new wrench, he heard strange sounds coming from an air vent behind him and heard the cover come off. He quickly got ready into attack position. But saw that coming out of the vent was his metallic friend Clank. Alone.

"Clank! Good to see you again."

"Good to see you too Ratchet."

"So, did you run into your little friend out there?"

"I do not know what you mean." Clank said turning his head.

"Nevermind. C'mon, we gotta find Jordan and Sophia. I hope they're okay."

…..

Jordan and Sophia ran down a long hallway, made a left turn, and ran straight into a room, shutting the door behind them. "There. I think we're safe for now." Jordan said.

"What do we do now?"

"I don't know." just as he said that, he heard a beeping sound coming from his Ephone. Jordan opened the screen up and saw that it was an incoming message from Angela. "Who's that?" Sophia asked.

"It's miss Angela. It looks like some kind of distress message."

"Is she okay?"

"I don't know. Lets just see if she is." Jordan opened up his Ephone and saw that it was indeed a video of miss Angela, and she appeared to be hiding behind a wall. "Ratchet, Clank. And….Jordan, I hope your names correct. I hope this gets through to you. I'm transmitting from the Thugs-4-Less fleet." she whispered. But she quickly disappeared from view as she hid from a passing guard. Once the guard disappeared from view, she appeared back into camera view again. "This ship just returned from an Megacorp Distribution Center and I think I've found the answer to…" she hid into cover again to hide from the passing thug leader. But she sneezed and caught the leaders attention towards the noise. "Hey! Who's there?"

"Meow."

"Aww. Hey, wait a minute! Angela returned into view and stared at not just any guard, but the Thug Leader himself. "What are you doing here?" the thug noticed the camera. "Ah-ha-ha! Sending a message to ya little pals huh? Well say goodbye, boys!" the leader looked off screen towards another thug. "Take her to the headquarters!" a thug off screen grabbed Angela and the video ended immediately. "Who was that?" Sophia asked.

"It was Angela. She's in trouble."

"We gotta go save her then."

"We will Sophia. But first, we have to find Ratchet and Clank."

Jordan and Sophia walked through exit on the other side of the room and saw that at the end of a hallway was an elevator. They rode the elevator a few stories up and walked down a long hallway that lead to a large hangar bay. But Jordan saw that standing outside the door were two thugs. Jordan saw that one of them was carrying the RYNO that Jordan and Ratchet had on their first adventure and decided to approach with extreme caution. Jordan left the platinum bolt where it was and slowly approached the guards. Unfortunately Sophia accidently sneezed and caught both the guards attention. They both looked in the direction of the noise and saw both the Human and the Lombax standing there. "Ha! what are you going to do now without your little buddy around?" one of the guards said. Jordan quickly equipped the Sheepinator and unleashed a steady beam on the guard with the RYNO, turning him into an sheep and making him drop the weapon. The other guard saw this and slowly backed off, not even bothering to pick up the missile launcher. Jordan then started approaching the guard and saw him slowly backing away towards their ship. Once the guard's back was on the nose of the ship, Jordan aimed his gun towards the guard and saw him bring his hands up to his face. "No! please don't kill me! Please!" the thug pleaded, sounding much younger than the second guard.

"Why shouldn't I?"

"Because. I know you. I've seen you on the news when you defeated Drek. Big fan. You're the reason I joined the Thugs-4-Less. To save the galaxy."

"And you think it's heroic to help them arrest us and throw us in jail?"

"I never agreed on it. But I just do what the boss tells me."

"..."

"Looks. If you're going to kill me, then do it. I deserve what's coming to me." Jordan lowered his weapon as he said that. Jordan was glad he said that, knowing that killing was actually not an option at this point. But he still didn't trust this guy and decided to give him a proposition. "No, I'm not going to kill you. But you have to help me find my friends and get out of here. Do we have a deal?"

"Deal."

With an new ally, Jordan ran back, grabbed the cart with the platinum bolt and walked it back to the ship. He then ran back, grabbed the RYNO and placed the Sheepinator next to the ship. As they were about to walk out another long hallway on the left side of the hangar bay, they started hearing footsteps coming from it and saw multiple guards ran out from it and saw the group. "What are you doing! Kill them." One of the five guards yelled.

"I'm sorry! But I'm with them!"

"Traitor! Kill them!"

As the guards brought their guns up. Jordan quickly pulled the trigger on the RYNO and saw six of the missiles hit three of the thugs and blow them to pieces. The other two guards saw this and started yelling in terror as they saw Jordan and the thug running towards them. They both ran down a long hallway and Jordan yelled a warning towards them. "YOU BETTER RUN! YOU BETTER RUN!" Jordan yelled as he stopped in the middle of a two way intersection. But he turned to his right as he heard a familiar voice. "Jordan!" he heard. Jordan turned towards the sound and saw a familiar Lombax jogging down a hallway towards him. Before Jordan could even react, he was embraced by his friend. Jordan stumbled a little by the force, but he hugged his fellow companion back. They hugged for three seconds until Sophia invaded. "Sophia. You're okay." Ratchet said.

"Of course I am." Sophia replied.

"What about you pal?" Ratchet asked Jordan. but as he turned towards him, he saw that his nose was twisted in a different direction and Jordan could immediately see the concern on his face.

"Don't worry about this Ratchet. I'll fix it later."

"Are you alright miss Sophia." Clank finally asked.

"Clank!" Sophia said as she ran up to him and hugged him as tight as she could. "I'm okay Clank."

"Sorry for interrupting, but reinforcements are bound to be here any minute." the thug finally spoke up.

"And who the hell are you?"

"Easy Ratchet. He helped Sophia and me get here."

"Oh. But why?"

"He's heard of us. He wanted to be like us. So I told him if he helps us escape, I won't kill him."

"Well we have to find the ship first."

"I already did, follow me." Jordan turned around and guided Ratchet to the hangar bay and towards the ship. The group quickly got into the ship as they heard the reinforcements come in. But Jordan saw that the thug stayed behind. "You coming?" Jordan asked.

"No, you guys leave and stop this Protopet madness. I'll hold the guards off."

"You sure?"

"Just go, now."

"Take this then. You may need it." Jordan gave the RYNO to the thug. Just as the thug was about to walk over to the approaching reinforcements, Jordan yelled something over the roaring thrusters of the ship. "HEY!" Jordan yelled, catching the guard's attention. "GOOD MAN!" with that said, the guard walked over to the approaching guards and the group quickly flew out of the hangar bay and out into space, trying to figure out where to go next.

OOOH what a turn of events in this chapter. Jordan's insanity is starting to catch up to him and there was a thug who was a big fan of Ratchet and the gang. Once again, dont be afraid to review and feel free to follow or favorite. I need to know if you guys are really into this story and know if I should continue with it or not. But do stay tuned for the next chapter, that possibly will be notoriously short.

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