Demise Date

Ratchet checked the surroundings that were around him. What he saw was the air lock right next to him. Ratchet had figured it out. Vorselon was really desperate now. One of them was going to have to kill the other, and be thrown out the air lock.

"Now we will see who is truly superior," Vorselon said. "In an epic battle to the death, I intend to rid the universe of you and your pathetic race."

"My race?!" Ratchet said. "You gotta be kiddin' me! The Lombaxes left a long time ago!"

"I know." Vorselon replied. "They fled here. Afraid of that miserable excuse for a villain, Tachyon."

"None of this will happen until you kill ME!" Ratchet bravely said.

"You ARE going to let me do this, you know!"

"Why?!"

"Because it is the only way to save your nephew's LIFE!!"

Just then, a large cage rose up from out of the floor, confining Ratchet's only family. Justin.

Ratchet gasped in horror. "NO!!!" He screamed rather loudly. He had an important decision to make. Lose the galaxy, and what was left of his race, or, lose Justin. This was an unbearable decision.

"You can put an end to it all," Vorselon said. "The air lock is right there."

Ratchet understood all too well. But he didn't want to kill himself. He had other things to look forward to in his life. But he wouldn't have to. He had made a decision. One that would change the way he lived, it would change the way Ratchet and Clank's adventures would end up after that, and would make Ratchet feel that empty hole inside him that had been yearning to create itself.

"No."

That was the single syllable that Ratchet uttered.

"What?" Vorselon said.

"No, Vorselon. Neither of those things will ever happen."

Vorselon aimed his blaster hand at the floor that was next to Justin's cell. Ratchet didn't understand. And he must have raised one eyebrow involuntarily, because Vorselon said, "Do you know what your nephew's cage is standing on? Uralian Talcstone."

Ratchet new about Uralian Talcstone. It was THE THINNEST mineral, the thinnest rock, the thinnest THING in the ENTIRE Omniverse. Even the weight shifts of an insect walking could cause the entire area of the stone to shatter. And Justin was standing there, scared, in a cage, on top of a 30x30 slab of Uralian Talcstone. This was standing at the devil's knees as Ratchet knew it.

"Justin!"

Clank saw it, the chance of a lifetime; it would probably save the lives of Ratchet, Justin, and thousands of Lombaxes. He threw the time-bomb that would be heard 'round the Omniverse.

Vorselon saw it coming. He fired his blaster at the Talcstone. But, the quantum bomb was too fast. It landed, and froze Vorselon and the blast dead in their tracks. Seeing his chance, Ratchet started whistling innocently, walked to Vorselon, stuck his hand into the translucent sphere of quantum energy, and turned the gun toward Vorselon's chest, and stepped away.

There was the ringing of an alarm clock, and the broing of the sphere disappearing, and the blast of a gun.

"AUGH!!!" Vorselon screamed in slight agony as the shot hit him. "I do not know how you did that, but it will take more than that to stop ME."

He shot Ratchet in his arm.

"NNRRGGHH!!!" Ratchet yelled through clenched teeth. He was certainly correct. Ratchet decided that play time was over. And that the Mag-Net Cannon would not work on him either. He pulled out his Judicator. He let loose all of the missiles it had to offer. But each and every one of them was deflected by Vorselon's Trillium-Alloy steel armor.

"I did go to the liberty of upgrading my suit," He said. "All the better to kill you with, my dear Lombax."

Ratchet was MAD now. Vorselon had taken many things from him. Now, he was about to take away the only family he had left. And that was crossing the line. It was time for a fight. He manifested the ku-de-gra. The big guns. The weapon that was blacklisted eons ago. A gun that could get him thrown in Zordoom just for looking at. A TURRET that was voted "Most Likely to End Life as We Know It." The ultimate tool of destruction. The RYNO V. With a look of seriousness on his face, Ratchet aimed the illegal weapon at Vorselon's face.

"W-w-where did you get that RYNO?!" Vorselon asked in absolute fear.

"All the better to kill you with," Ratchet said as he cocked the gun. Click-click. "My Dear."

What happened next was an event that Justin would remember for the rest of his life. It shocked him and worried him to his core. He was witnessing the slaughter, bloodshed, destruction and confusion that was the releasing of the RYNO rockets. Hundreds came out every second. It was the most gruesome thing he had ever seen, and would ever see. And he loved it.

"Yeah, go Uncle Ratchet!" Justin said. "Kick his butt!"

The releasing of the rockets was shaking the room. It was cracking the Talcstone.

"Uncle Ratchet!" Justin yelled. But he was unheard. All Ratchet cared about was killing the psychotic savage in front of him. The Talcstone cracked more.

"UNCLE!" Justin yelled. But Ratchet had just destroyed Vorselon's suit.

It frayed and electrocuted the tank which his head had been floating in. His whole suit, his armor, weapons, and powers all exploded. His little, one-eyed, green alien head popped right out of the tank it was in.

Ratchet walked up to it, looked it the eye, and said, with his foot over it: "DON'T. MESS. WITH. MY. NEPHEW." And squished it. Vorselon's blood flew everywhere. He was vanquished. But, the final vibration of Ratchet's foot stamping shattered the Talcstone. And Justin's cage started to fall out the air lock.

"Self-Destruct activated," Said a robotic voice over the intercom. "5…4…3…"

Ratchet cast himself off the edge of the air lock.

"3…2…1…"

Above him appeared a massive explosion. As large as 7 of Planet Veldin. You probably know it as the Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant. When he had fallen too far to hear it anymore, he then heard Justin's screams. He looked down to see him flailing. He flew down to him and grabbed him.

"I got'cha," he said. "Now all we have to do is wait for Aphelion to…"

"Um…Ratchet?" Clank said from Ratchet's connector bolt.

"What?"

"Aphelion, well… is on… the warship."

Ratchet looked up. He once again saw the explosion.

"Aphelion!!!"

Just then, they were sitting in the seat of a ship, but it wasn't Aphelion. It was a clunker compared to Aphelion. Then he heard an old, robotic voice behind him.

"Lombaxes! They always need savin'!"

"Cronk?" Ratchet said as he looked behind his seat. And there he was!

"What about me?" Zephyr's voice said. Ratchet looked to his right, and saw him, too!

"And how about me?" Said the voice of a certain female Markazian. Ratchet smiled as he turned to his right and saw Talwyn's face.

"Oh, wow," He said, almost squinting.

"What're you doing?" She asked.

"Nothing," Ratchet quickly.

There was a long pause between everyone.

"To Planet Pokitaru!!" Ratchet and Talwyn said together on accident. Both their faces went very red.