Its here, Its here, ITS HERE ITS HERE, DO DO DO DO DO DO DO DO DO ITS HERE! THE RATCHET AND CLANK GAME IS FINALLY MINE! I'm probably not playing it though until I see the movie. As I do not want to spoil any movie parts that are in the game for myself. But I did read the movie novel so NONE OF IT MATTERS! and coincidentally I give you the conclusion to Worlds United YAAAAAAAAAAY! and did I ever tell you I recently got a typewriter this weekend and it is FRIEKING AWESOME. But anyway, I'm not going to say much other than three new review replies and I will let you guys read on the concluding chapter to this story.
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Megacorp Apartment Co, Room #426
Planet Endako
2:30pm Local time
Epilogue
With another galaxy saved and all of the Protopets cured thanks to Angela's little invention, the entire group met at Clank's apartment like Ratchet suggested. And while they were waiting for the other patrons, Ratchet wasn't only able to fix Clank's arm, bu the little pink infobot as well, and he left the two of them alone afterwards.
Soon enough however, John and Angela made it to the apartment and the whole group sat down and started talking about the whole adventure. Jordan however was not present as he was in the apartment's bathroom getting rid of all the Protopet blood as well as washing his clothes. As the group waited for the Human to join them, Clank decided to break the silence.
"So, uh, what do you like to do for fun?" Clank asked the pink infobot. The infobot opened her mouth and what Clank saw made his neck extend and make his head spin three hundred and sixty degrees. "Oh, my goodness. Heh heh heh heh heh heh."
Ratchet joined in in the laugh. After he had stopped laughing, he turned to Angela. "So uh, I wonder what happened to Qwark."
"I heard he was working with Megacorp..." Anglea said with a smirk. The moment she had finished her sentence, the bathroom door opened up and a spotless looking Human came out, with a towel around his waist and a red shirt to cover his upper body, and clearly happy to have gotten the Protopet blood off him.
"There he is!" Ratchet announced.
"Alright, alright, let's not make a big deal about this. Besides, I think my clothes are just about done." Jordan walked through the bedroom and into the laundry room and closed the door. Fifteen seconds later, the laundry room door opened up again and Jordan came walking out with the towel around his right arm and he was now wearing his usual clothing, clean and spotless. Jordan tossed the towel into the bathroom and sat on the floor. "So, you didn't have any problems using the shower?" Ratchet asked Jordan.
"No. It was a little bit difficult at first, but I was able to figure out how it worked."
"Well that's good."
"So, Jordan, you haven't told us a lot about yourself." Angela said to Jordan.
"And?"
"Why don't you tell us something about you?"
"I don't think you would want to hear that."
"Oh c'mon, you trust us, don't you?" Ratchet added.
It took a few seconds for Jordan to come up with a direct response to that question, but he was right, he trust the whole group, although given her earlier actions towards them, he trusted Angela slightly less, although he trusted her enough to share at least one thing with the whole group. "Well, I guess I could say I am an unknown species who relies on primitive technologies in order to survive daily struggles of life, but I am happy with it and hope that someday my whole race gains the ability to cross galaxies and get to live with you guys."
The whole group clapped at his little speech. "That's really interesting." Angela commented.
"Thank you."
"So, what is your race called."
"Human." Just as Jordan said that, four knocks on the apartment door were heard and Jordan got up to see who it was. "I wonder who that is." Jordan equipped his machete in the case it was anyone bad and as he opened the door, he readied his blade... but there was nobody there. Just a cardboard box on the street with a few holes in the side. Something was moving inside.
Jordan lifted the box and brought it inside while he closed the door.
"What is it?" Ratchet asked.
"I don't know, I guess we should open it and find out." Jordan used his blade and cut the tape off the top off and once again he raised his machete in case it was a trap, he then slowly opened the box.
Inside were two balls of fur, one blue and one pink, and once their eyes looked at him, he was certain that it were two Protopets, and there was a note inside it. Jordan took the note and read it out loud. "'Dear Jordan and Sophia. For you and your groups heroic bravery. I am happy to give you two the two original protopets from before, I hope you love these two as much as you two love each other. Mr Fizzwidget.' How many times have I told people she is not my daughter?"
"Oh c'mon, Fizzwidget gave you two Protopets." Just as Ratchet said that, the pink protopet jumped out of the box and hopped towards Sophia. The Lombax looked more than happy to see that it was indeed the same protopet as before, still toothless. "I don't think we can keep these protopets though. I definitely can't, and I don't know if Sophia's ready to look after a pet."
"Oh cmon Jordan, can I please keep her, look how cute she is."
"Sophia, pets are a really big responsibility, you have to feed them, bath them, make sure they get water, clean up after them-"
"Cmon I can do all that. I have what it takes, I promise."
"I don't know-"
"Please." Sophia looked at him with big eyes, her ears lowering a little. Jordan sighed. "You promise you will take care of it?"
"Cross my heart."
Jordan smiled and shook his head. "Okay then, you can keep it."
"Thank you!" Sophia screamed with joy as she hugged Jordan's waist really hard before running over to her new pet and hugging it. "Oh she's adorable! I'm gonna take care of you and feed you and kiss you and hug you and fix you and love you and everything!"
Jordan then looked in the box and saw two different paper booklets that were instructions on how to take care of your new Protopets, two birth certificates with a blank line where the names had to be filled in, and a baby bottle which must've been for Sophia's pet since it still had no teeth and thus could not eat solid food. Jordan grabbed an instruction manual and a birth certificate and handed them to Sophia while he kept the others in the box. "So, what are you gonna name her Sophia?"
This made Sophia think for a while. She wasn't really good at naming things, but there was just one name that stuck out to her. The perfect name. The most beautiful name in the whole world. "Sarah. Yeah that's what I'll name her."
"Well I'll go find a pen and you can write it down on the certificate, to make it official."
Jordan went into the bedroom, but couldn't find a pen, but then the blue Protopet threw itself against the wall of the box.
"What's wrong?" Jordan wondered out loud as he looked into the box, only to see the Protopet nodding towards a conveniently placed marine blue pen with Megacorp's trademark 'M' on it. Jordan walked back to Sophia, gave her the pen and watched as she wrote 'Sarah' on the certificate. "So, what are you gonna name yours?" John said to Jordan.
"Like I said, I can't keep mine."
"Why not?"
"I can't just bring a creature of alien origins into my house, I'll have to hide him all the time."
"But you've told your family about us right?" Ratchet said.
"...No"
"What!" Ratchet yelled while Jordan's earpiece started to ring. Jordan answered it.
"Hello." He said. From the voice speaking back to him, he could tell that it was Fizzwidget immediately. "Fizzwidget... yeah we got a package... was that you who sent it... well we appreciate what you did... Not so fast, you promised me a way home, that was the deal. Now how are you bringing me home... you promise you will figure something out... okay... okay... well, the sooner the better... okay... goodbye."
"What do you mean you never told your family about us?" Ratchet asked immediately after Jordan had ended the call.
"Well, my race doesn't exactly know about any planet on which life has begun other than their own planet, so if I'd say that I'd met beings from other worlds, they would think I had gone insane."
"What did you say to them the first time you arrived?"
"I said I was on a camping trip."
"Whatever man, what about your sister?"
"What about her?"
"She's just a kid, maybe you can get her to believe your story?"
"I don't know, man."
"C'mon, you should at least tell your caring sister."
Jordan sighed. "Alright. If that's the case then, maybe I can think of a way to keep the Protopet hidden from my parents."
"So what are you gonna name him?" Sophia asked.
"Maybe…." This was hard for Jordan, but he had to think of an appropriate name for him "let's see here, it's puffy, but what would be a name that I like? Puffy? No. Bill? No. What about... how about... Fluffy, no, wait, I got it. Adam. Like Adam and Eve. Yeah, that's what I'll call him."
"Okay, Adam it is then."
Jordan wrote 'Adam' on the other certificate before reaching into the box and giving Sophia the baby bottle. "What's this for?" She asked.
"I believe that for feeding your pet until it grows teeth."
"Oh, but what should I feed her?"
"Well, read the instructions and find out." Sophia flipped through the booklet to the food section of the book.
"It says..."
Joran and Angela spoke in unison. "Anything that is edible can be fed to your Protopet."
On Jordan's questioning look, Angela clarified: "Hey, I designed it, it'd be pretty weird if I didn't know what it can and cannot eat. Plus, if what a Protopet can eat would be unknown, then how could someone ever feed it?"
"Good point." Jordan replied before turning to Sophia. "Well, I'll go see if there's any milk, if so, we could feed it." Jordan went into the kitchen of the apartment, to the fridge and unsurprisingly there was a bottle of, you guessed it, Megacorp branded milk in the fridge. Jordan poured some of it into the baby bottle before walking back to Sophia, who was cradling the Protopet like an infant, and giving the bottle to her. She moved the bottle over to the Protopet and it began to drink immediately, small sucking noises indicating that the creature was drinking it. "There, now your Protopet is fed." Just as Jordan said that, he heard his E-phone ringing again and once again it was Fizzwidget. "Hello... Yeah I'm looking out the window, why?"
Suddenly, a blue ball formed outside the apartment that grew in size before it stopped growing and just stayed there, about the size of a person. "Is this the portal?... Has it been tested... okay... okay... Well I hope it works... Thank you... Goodbye."
Jordan hung up the phone and quickly put his Protopet in it's box before starting to walk outside, with the others following him. "So this is it, this will lead you home?" Ratchet asked.
"I hope so."
"So this is goodbye then?"
"I'm afraid so." Jordan held out his hand, but was pulled into a hug instead, and Jordan hugged back, Jordan then felt pressure around his waist and looked down to see Sophia hugging him. "Goodbye Jordan." She said in an upset tone.
"Goodbye Sophia." Jordan knelt down and hugged the little Lombax. Their hug was a lot longer than usual, but when Jordan pulled away, he saw her putting her head down, ears lowered, and he used his hand to bring her head up to his.
"Don't be sad, I'll come back. Maybe Ratchet could get the plans from Fizzwidget and build something so I can return."
"You think so?"
"I'm certain."
"Okay."
"Farewell Jordan." Clank said as he held out his hand. But Jordan pulled him into a hug as well. "Goodbye buddy." Jordan set the robot down and walked over to John and Angela. "Safe travels, John." Jordan said as he held out his hand. "Safe travels to you too man." John and Jordan shook hands and it was now Angela's turn to say goodbye.
"Despite all that has happened for the past couple of days. I forgive you and trust you as a friend." Jordan held his hand out, but Angela pulled him into a hug. "Thank you." She whispered, but then Jordan got the biggest surprise of his life as Angela planted a kiss on his right cheek.
Once Angela pulled away from the hug, Jordan slowly felt where the moisture on his pale skin was. Jordan was pretty much frozen up at this point, but he was shook on the shoulder by Ratchet as he was trying to tell him something. "Uh, Jordan, I think the portal's shrinking."
"Oh, yeah, right... I better get moving." Jordan quickly took the 'Protopet box' and approached the portal. After looking at the group one last time, Jordan took a deep breath and stepped into the blue ball of energy, and immediately everything went black.
Two minutes later
Jefferson Woodlands, Pennsylvania
Planet Earth
7:30pm EST
After three minutes of darkness, Jordan hit the ground . Jordan slowly got up and saw that he was in a forest. He quickly recognized the woodlands and saw that this is where he had been before he had been forcefully taken from the planet.
Jordan looked behind himself and saw the flowers that he had been picking with his sister and fifty feet away was their hunting spot. Jordan looked around for the Protopet box and saw it five feet away from him. Jordan quickly picked it up and saw that the sun was going down. "It's almost dark, I gotta get outta here." he mumbled to himself.
Using his knowledge of the area, he found the path and ran home as fast as he could. As he was running however, he was getting visions of silhouettes following him as he passed by every tree. He knew that he was just seeing things, and he hoped that he could control it, but then he noticed a dim light in the distance. And as he ran to it, it got brighter, and brighter, until it was shining like a Christmas star.
But Jordan also saw a clearing by this light and once he walked into the clearing, he saw that this is where the forest ended, and there was a car, about to leave. "Wait!" He yelled running towards the car and to the window "I need a ride! Please!" Seeing that there were no other cars in the area. The driver signaled for Jordan to get in, so the Human opened the door and sat down on the passenger seat. "Thank you."
"Where to" the man asked with some kind of deep voice.
"Uh. Let me see here…" Jordan tried to remember his street numbers, but he was eventually able to come up with an answer. "531 Washington Drive. Jefferson PA"
"Wait a minute. I know you. You're my next door neighbor, with the kid that went missing." Jordan looked at the bearded man and saw that this was indeed his next door neighbor. He didn't know much about him though, only that he had a nice wife and a nice daughter who happens to be friends with Jordan's sister.
"Yeah, I'm the missing kid."
"Well what happened to you?"
"I…I just got lost, couldn't find my way out of this wretched forest."
"Well we better get you home then."
"Yes. We should."
The man started up the car and they slowly backed out of the empty parking lot and onto the road, while Jordan looked out the window to see the passing trees, and soon, houses. "What's in the box?" The man said with curiosity.
"Nothing. Just some equipment I had on me." Suddenly the box moved a bit, but luckily the man hadn't noticed it, and Jordan took the moment to open the box a tiny bit and gestured Adam to be quiet, and apparently the Protopet understood it and obeyed, for it stayed quiet for the rest of the journey. Soon they finally stopped in front of Jordan's house. They got out, and the man knocked twice on the door. It opened a few seconds later to reveal Jordan's father.
"Hey Mike." Jordan's father said.
"Father!" Jordan yelled as he slipped past the man named Mike and hugged his father. "Son." his father said back with both happiness and surprise.
"Jordan?!" Jordan heard another sound and it happened to be his mother and sister who rushed in and joined in the group hug. Once they were done with their five second hug. Jordan's father turned to Mike. "Where'd you find him?!"
"He just ran up to my car, told me he was lost in the woods somewhere and I brought him back."
"Well, you have our most sincere gratitude."
"Ah don't sweat it man, it's what neighbors do, right?"
"Yeah, you're right. Well good night Mike."
"G'night."
Mike left and once the door was closed, Jordan's father turned to Anna to tell her something. "See Anna, I told you he was just lost in the woods."
"Yeah. sure. Whatever."
"Well I say this calls for a celebration dinner." Jordan's mom announced.
"Oh boy, I'm starving."
While the family was making dinner, Anna grabbed Jordan's hand and led him upstairs to his room and once Jordan closed the door, Jordan had some explaining to do. "I know you didn't get lost in the woods so what happened?!" She answered with a slight bit of anger."
"Whoa. What?"
"I know what I saw wasn't fake. I tried telling this to my parents and they didn't believe me at all. I want some answers so what happened."
Jordan sighed and knelt down to her level and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Anna, listen. I can't explain what happened. But look, I'm okay, isn't that all that matters?"
"No it isn't. You're hiding something from me and I wanna know. Why are you lying to me Jordan? Why?"
This was it for Jordan. Ratchet was right, he had to tell her. After all, how could he possibly make up another excuse if something like this happened again? If he kept lying it'd just eventually begin to devour him alive. It was time to tell her the truth. "Do you really want to know the truth?"
"Yes."
"Do you really really want to know the truth?"
"Yes!"
"Do you really really really-"
"Yes! Yes! I wanna know. Now."
Jordan sighed again. "Okay." She sat down on the bed and Jordan stepped back a few feet. He didn't know if she was going to believe him or not. But with what she had seen, she had to believe him, right? Perhaps, if he'd tell his long story right, Jordan concluded. If she did believe him, she would be the second Human in history to learn of the existence of beings from worlds other than Earth, to get answers to some of the biggest mysteries known to mankind.
"Well..." Jordan took a deep breath. "Here goes..."
OOOOOOOOOH and it ends at a cliffhanger. But anyway thats the end of Worlds United. I'm going to take a little break from typing now but I dont want to take all the credit from this story. I would like to give some credit to TheWhiteGuardian as he's been helping me optimize my story and make it more enjoyable to readers, so I wanna thank him. Seriously go read his stories, their well written and really enjoyable to read. But next I am thinking about making a Redux story to One For All that will be based off of the new reimagining of the first Ratchet and Clank and it will be simply called One For All (Redux) but I cant wait to write it and I will try as well make the sequel to this story called ManVsMachine but will see. So thats all for now and if your new to this story, feel free to read some of my other stories that I've created and I will see you guys later.
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