Here we are with chapter 21, and I must say that I appreciate that some of you listened to my ran on the last chapter, since we got 2 new review and favorite. Like I said though please review, fav, or follow if you like this story. But I must say recently since I got my new Kindle I've been reading the Walking Dead Comics, from issue 1 to I believe 21 or so now and I must say, it is much different than the TV show. The only thing I don't like about it is, SPOILER ALERT, Daryl or Merl Dixon are not in it. But overall I would give the series so far a 9 outta 10. Its just a great comic series. But anyways, lets get to your reviews. Oh and I also wanna thank Keyblade132 for favoriting this story, Left Behind, and One For All, you support is greatly appreciated.

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After Jordan showed the video of their captured female ally, Ratchet was determined to get her back, stopping at nothing to rescue her. This caught Jordan's eye, since it was unusual behavior for Ratchet.

Jordan would guess Ratchet had a crush on her, but he had to interrupt his thinking as they stopped by at Slim Cognito's ship shack for a tuneup, they did not want to fly into a warzone unprepared. They quickly agreed on selling the platinum bolt for some sweet upgrades for their Megacorp Star Explorer. Jordan preferred to purchase the platinum bolt, but he decided to let Ratchet enjoy himself with some new ship upgrades.

When the ship was upgraded, everyone climbed in and fastened their seatbelts. They were going to Gorn, and fast.

Thugs-4-Less Fleet

Planet Gorn

5:15pm Local Time

Turrets and Payback

Soon planet Gorn appeared in front of them, basically a swirly mass of clouds. "Is this even a solid planet?" Jordan wondered out loud.

"We'll see soon enough." Ratchet replied as he steered the ship through the uppermost cloud layers.

As they broke through the thick clouds hiding the surface of Gorn from view, they could see that the planet was in fact rocky, with many mountains reaching above a swirling sea of clouds. There were some hovering metallic structures here and there that were made primarily of a light blue metal of some sorts with a frame of solid titanium. Some of the structures even had docking bays.

Now they knew that they were going to need to bring out their ship's weaponry once more.

There was one problem though: there was no sign of the enemy. They all looked around in search of any hostile aircraft. However, while searching, the ship suddenly shook violently. They had been hit by a Thugs-4-Less aircraft that flew past them. Luckily, their shield had taken the blast.

"I am detecting Thugs-4-Less ships at one o'clock." Clank informed them.

"It's payback time." Ratchet said, anger clearly present in his voice. "Jordan. think you can use the new turret?"

"You mean this thing isn't automatic?" Jordan replied as he looked at the new console that had been added to the ship's interior, and Jordan now knew that it controlled the turret.

"It's all we could afford. It's not that hard to use. Just use that controller there and I hope you know how to use a video game controller."

"Well lets hope I do." Jordan grabbed for the controller and saw it looked quite similar to most game controllers he was familiar with: two joysticks and a few buttons. There was also a small screen built into the controller that was connected to a camera built into the turret, so anyone operating the turret could see from the turret's point of view.

Jordan took a few deep breaths and pushed against the left joystick. According to the screen, the turret moved left. He quickly got the hang of it, and soon the turret was moving left, right, and spun three hundred and sixty degrees. He then moved the right analog stick and saw that the turret looked up. Jordan then figured that if he used both of them together, he could move at different angles. Jordan did just that and had soon mastered the controls.

But there was one small problem. He had not yet figured out how to shoot. He did not have much time for that, however, as a small ship was approaching them, and fast. But before Jordan had time to shoot, Ratchet used the ship's main guns and destroyed the hostile ship with no problems at all. But then Ratchet glanced over his shoulder and saw a ship right on their tail. "Behind us!" he alerted.

Now it was Jordan's time to shine. He quickly took aim at the ship and to his surprise a green rectangle appeared on his screen. It was hovering over the enemy aircraft, meaning that the turret had locked on.

Jordan hoped that his luck hadn't ran out and pressed the button on the right side of the controller. He saw the turret come to life and fire a slow two bullet per second stream of plasma at the ship, destroying it completely. "Got it." Jordan said.

"Good, now let's focus on these bigger ships."

Jordan turned his attention to what was in front of them, and saw what Ratchet meant. Up ahead, flying in between the floating metal structures, was a larger ship, with another large ship that looked exactly the same flying in the distance. It was an upgraded courier ship by the looks of it, with a few turrets mounted on the side of the craft. They could also see a small swarm of Thugs-4-Less ships flying around the ship.

Ratchet grinned evilly and turned on the afterburners, shooting towards the nearest ship with a trail of fire in their wake. While Ratchet took care of the smaller Thug ships, Jordan used the cannon to attack the larger, upgraded courier ship. While Ratchet performed breakneck maneuvers to prevent them from being blown to bits, Jordan was able to land twenty shots on the larger Thug vessel, slowly stripping away it's armor.

Ratchet made quick work of a squad of Thug starfighters with his phenomenal piloting skills, and Jordan destroyed the survivors with the cannon. Last but not least, there still was the courier ship.

Ratchet turned towards the larger vessel and as soon as he had stabilized their ship he and Jordan opened fire on the courier ship, one of them landing a lucky hit on the ship's thrusters, causing a chain reaction: the ship started to self-destruct as it fell to the ground and disappeared in the fog far below, losing it's battle with gravity now that it's thrusters were offline.

With one ship down, they quickly moved on to the next, but not before taking a hit to their right wing from a Thugs-4-Less ship, though the threat was quickly eliminated by a rain of plasma courtesy of the turret Jordan was controlling. They were now approaching the small fleet of Thugs-4-Less starfighters who were likely sent their way to intercept the group and eliminate the threat. Working together as a team, Ratchet and Jordan took down the majority of the group, but then only one remained.

The squad leader, a clearly more trained Thug pilot. The pilot skillfully dodged Ratchet's attacks, and even fired a few shots of their own, though none of them hit their target. As the Thug ship passed by, Jordan wondered what the other button on the controller was for, and out of curiosity, he pressed it. Suddenly, the cannon fired a homing rocket at the Thug ship. As skilled as that pilot may have been, he could not outsmart the projectile hellbent on blowing the Thug ship to pieces.

Now Jordan knew exactly the function of each button. As they approached another Thug courier ship, Ratchet and Jordan both fired at the ship, Jordan firing loads of plasma-bullets while Ratchet fired homing missiles. After a bunch of hits, the ship had had enough, it's engines dying and the ship losing it's battle with gravity and thus falling towards the ground, disappearing in the dense fog.

"Look, over there is another one!" Sophia suddenly pointed out and indeed, in the distance was another courier ship. Jordan unloaded a homing missile but before he could fire another one, he saw that it wasn't necessary. His missile had hit the ship's fuel tank, igniting it. The result was a high speed chain reaction, and seconds later the ship exploded spectacularly.

With one more to go, Ratchet quickly turned the ship towards the last Thugs-4-Less courier ship and got to work on getting rid of it's defenses. Ratchet made quick work of two defending Thugs-4-Less starfighters, then used two missiles to take out two more ships. The last Thug ship attempted to flank them, but a few rounds from the turret controlled by Jordan sent the Thug ship plummeting towards the surface, vanishing in the dense mist. The final courier ship was now in their sights and Jordan decided to let Ratchet take this one. Ratchet immediately bombarded the ship with missiles, blowing it to smithereens. With all the ships destroyed, their main goal now was to find Angela. "Clank, see if you can find any transmissions about Angela."

Clanks antennae started beeping and he was indeed able to pick up something. "It appears that they moved Miss Angela out of this quadrant."

"Can you find anything on the deep space channels?"

'Deep space huh, sorta reminds me of the deep web. And God almighty of all the snuff films I found there.' Jordan thought.

After a minute of searching, Clank was able to pick up a signal that apparently was being directly transmitted to them.

Clank patched it through to the screen built into their ship, and immediately the all too familiar face of the thug leader appeared on the screen. "What is your problem?!" the thug leader yelled at the camera, in his normal studio. "I'm trying to make a living here and you four losers keep lousing it up! Ratchet and Clank, eh? And what about your friend? His name was uh...let's see here...it was...Ah whatever, your girl wasn't too keen on the details but that's not the point. If you four don't high tail it back to your own galaxy, I'm gonna blast you into so many pieces you'll need an… um, ah, well there's gonna be a lot of em, I can tell ya that. And don't bother trying to find me 'cause I've got wind! Erh, I mean I'm like the wind, eh... you never know where I might show up next. And I blow hot, and I can be cooling on a warm summer day, and uh... well you get the idea. Goodbye morons!" the video ended and Clank facepalmed.

"Does he realize he just transmitted his... exact location?"

"Well good. Makes it easier to find him." Jordan said.

"Yeah. Just upload the coordinates and let's get Angela back." Ratchet mumbled.

Clank did just that and soon they were out of the atmosphere of planet Gorn, making their way to the fiery, molten world of planet Snivelak.

Now I know what your thinking "Two weeks for this!". I am so sorry on how short this is, the length of this actually shocked me as well and I did think about it making it a little longer, but laziness got the best of me and decided just to live with this. But next chapter will be longer, I promise. But anyway, Stay tuned as the group takes on another fight with the Thug Leader in chapter 22.

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Thank you for reading.