Author's Note: Wahoo! Here comes Chapter 3! Many thanks to Miss Trippy for her support. My first reviewer and my most helpful (I've only had four but so what!). Anyways, onward with the chapter! First…
Disclaimer: I don't own Ratchet, Clank, Nefarious, Vox, or any other characters, planets, etc. All I own is the plot, the planet Nifan 3, and any original characters.
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Recap:
As he said this, Vox's mouth crept into an evil and maniacal smile. Then he and Nefarious both went, "BWUHAHAHAHAHAHAH-AHAHAHAHAHAH" As the evil conspirers laughed, both the cloaked men behind Vox couldn't help but snicker. Lawrence simply looked at them like they were morons. The stage was set! Both Vox and Nefarious were back and wanted one thing and one thing only…
…REVENGE!!!
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--Ratchet's dream--
Ratchet was in an alleyway at Metropolis. It was dark, probably around midnight. As he walked down the alleyway, no weapons, he saw ahead a dark, robotic figure with glowing red eyes. As he got closer, he saw claws, blue armor, and a big dome head with metal gears inside. He stopped and snarled at the being of Dr. Nefarious.
"So Ratchet," snarled Nefarious. "You think you have defeated me, eh? WRONG!!! BWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Ratchet sneered and reached for his wrench, but realized he didn't have it with him.
"Hehehehehehe," continued Nefarious. "It seems that you have forgotten your weapons. Guess that means you won't be able to stop me from killing… HER!" Nefarious suddenly wiped out a Holo-vid screen showing Sasha tapped up and with a bomb under her. "SAY GOOD BYE, RATCHET!!!" With that, he pushed a button on a remote control, which detonated the bomb.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" screamed a TERRIFIED Ratchet. He set the ship into autopilot and decided to take a nap. Little did he know that it would turn into a nightmare!
"What is wrong, Ratchet?" Clank asked. "You were twisting inside your seat and murmuring Sasha's name."
Ratchet blushed underneath his fur. "Well…um… I-it was just a nightmare, okay?"
Clank nodded his head in agreement and said," Okay Ratchet, I understand."
Ratchet nodded back, satisfied. 'Just what was that dream all about?' Ratchet thought. 'Maybe I'm just spooked that Nefarious is back…'
As Ratchet was thinking, the computer in the ship's navigation system beeped, and then said, "You have arrived at your destination. Please switch to manual in order to land the ship." After pressing a button, Ratchet griped the flight stick and landed his ship.
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Elsewhere in space, another ship heads towards the desolate planet of Nifan 3. Inside the class-7 fighter sits a Silver striped Lombax, navigating her ship towards her home planet.
"I'm going to be glad to get home," she said. Then she reached down her white shirt to pull out a locket. She flipped it open and inside was herself, as a little girl, an adult female, her mom, a tall adult male, her dad, and another male, only shorter and chubbier. Her mom was wearing a red shirt and had earrings. Her dad had a white shirt with a pilot jacket on and an ear bent down at the tip on his right (probably from a fight). Her uncle had on a pair of overalls with a brown shirt underneath. They all had silver stripes, and white hair with silver highlights.
"Even though I didn't collect any new information, I'm still going home, no matter what my 'King' says!" she continued. At that moment, her on-board computer beeped, telling her she was near the planet. Before the computer could speak, however, she flipped a switch that silenced the machine. "That thing gets annoying anyway." With one last push of the button, she landed her ship.
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"Did you hear something?" Ratchet asked. They had just landed, gotten their stuff together, and were about to head out. Ratchet was wearing his normal clothes: Greenish blue pants, a chest brace, gloves, and an Aviator's cap. They stopped though, when they heard a noise. Kind of like an engine. In fact, it was an engine! Ratchet looked up to see a ship descending upon the ground.
"WHAT THE!?" Ratchet pulled out his Shock Cannon, having gotten all his weapons from past adventures and putting them in his storage watch. He charged up the lethal weapon, and prepared to fire. Clank hopped on Ratchet's back and turned on his Clank shocker mod.
As the ship sat down, the Lombax and his robotic friend could see a few things about the ship. It was a star fighter, like Ratchet's, complete with a nuke launcher upgrade underneath, and it had a Blargaian Red paint job. Unlike Ratchet's, it had a split nose and high lift wings. Inside the cockpit, they could see the figure of a woman inside. Then the ship's engine stopped as it landed with a hissing sound. The cockpit rose and out jumped a Cat-human hybrid with silver-ish hair and white stripes.
"So good to be… WHAT THE?!" the hybrid screamed mid-sentence. She saw in front of her a Lombax and robot holding a Shock Blaster. Not only did he have it charged up, it pointed straight at her. Suddenly she glared, and shouted, "Hey! Just who do you think you are?" The woman was obviously caught off guard, and wasn't completely sure how to react to this sudden threat. So she went with the basic 'leave me alone or I'll hurt you and/or blow you up' response.
Ratchet stared at her for a moment, puzzled, then asked," I take it you won't try to destroy, obliterate, annihilate, or just plain hurt us?"
"Hurt you? Only if you fire one of those electrical blasts at me," she replied.
Ratchet lowered his weapon then said, "Sorry, just being careful. Who are you anyway?"
The female grinned slyly. "Your not trying to hit on me, are you?" The Lombax went wide-eyed, and if you could pause time and shave his fur, he would have been glowing as red as an X-Mass light bulb. "Heheheheh. Just kidding there, fur-boy," Ratchet glared, "My name is Lilly," Lilly answered. "But just who are you?"
"The name's Ratchet," Ratchet answered, pointing his thumb at himself. "Would you happen to be a Silver Striped Lombax?"
"How, how did you know that?" Lilly asked, surprised that he knew such secretive info. "I'm impressed that you know that. Not very many people know about us."
"Well," Clank began, "we have been sent here from the Starship Phoenix. While we were briefed, we were told of your species."
"Oh, okay," Lilly replied. "Why were you sent here?"
"What!?" Ratchet asked, shocked. "You mean you don't know?" The Silver stripped Lombax nodded her head. "Have you ever heard of Dr. Nefarious?"
At the mere mention of his name, the teenage girl twisted her face in disgust. "Yeah, I've heard of him. Real jerk, too."
"Well… he's here on the planet, and he's up to something," Ratchet said. The female Silver striped Lombax stared in shock. "That's why we're here, to stop him," Ratchet continued, seriousness in his tone of voice.
"Yikes," Lilly said, shocked. "I have been gone from here WAY too long-hey, wait a minute? You're going to stop him?" Ratchet nodded. "What chance do you have?"
Ratchet looked offended at this remark. "Gee, I don't know…" he began, sarcasm layering his voice, "maybe being the person who STOPPED HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE?!" Lilly stared blankly. Ratchet look more annoyed. "You know, Ratchet, Solana's hero!" Nothing… "Surely they said something about me in the news?" She still looked puzzled. "Okay…maybe something about Dreadzone. Yeah, they MUST have said something about that!" Lilly's expression didn't change.
"All I heard was a televised interview of the President saying 'Agent Clank' stopped Nefarious AND single handedly destroyed Dread Zone," Lilly told him, "whoever that is."
"……" Ratchet stared, angry.
"Ratchet, you okay?" Lilly asked.
"HE…SAID…WHAAAAAAATTTTTTT!!!!!" Ratchet screamed, losing his temper. "Why that no good, double crossing, snooping, irritating, SON OF A…"
"Ahem," Clank said noisily. "Allow me to explain, Miss Lilly. I play a character on a Holo-vid named "Secret Agent Clank". When Ratchet and I first heard of Nefarious, we discovered that the President thought "Agent Clank" was real. He also held low esteem for Ratchet, because he played my bumbling chauffer. Thus, he gave credit to me… but he wouldn't give any to Ratchet."
"Oh," Lilly said, now understanding what was going on. "So, you beat Nefarious?"
Ratchet stopped steaming long enough to realize he was asked a question, "Huh…? Yeah, that's me!" Ratchet nodded with a grin, putting his hands on his hips in a 'heroic' pose.
"I would have pictured you being taller," Lilly replied. Ratchet stopped grinning. He crossed his arms and shot her a glare.
"What?" she asked innocently. "I'm part Lombax, and I'm six inches taller than you!" Ratchet only rolled his eyes. "Well, better some help than no help. That be the case, ya better follow me… unless you know how to get to town."
"Wait, you're going to fight Nefarious?" Ratchet asked.
"Well, I came back for a different reason, but it is my home planet! I might as well help defend it!" After saying this, she walked off. Ratchet just stared at Clank for a moment, and the two hurried after her.
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"Excellent, EXCELLENT, EXCELENT!" Nefarious shouted. He and Vox were standing inside a robot factory, something Nefarious decided to include in his new fortress, and Nefarious was pleased to see the production of a new army of robots. Dread Zone bots to be exact, their blueprints provided by none-other than Gleeman Vox himself. Parts were coming out of a hole in the wall on a conveyor belt. Then, different robotic arms would come and wield, pickup, paint, or attach different parts to construct the different robots. Finally, a large machine would plug itself into the head of each robot and download its AI into the machine. Then a giant crane would pick them up and place them in an area where the other completed robots were being held.
"All is going according to plan," Nefarious cackled to himself.
"May I ask just what your plan is, sir?" Lawrence asked. He was, of course, beside his master as Nefarious and Vox observed the progress of the production line. "I don't see how rebuilding the very robots Ratchet destroyed will help."
"Ah, but it will!" Vox said with assured, confidence in his voice. "These Dread Zone bots have new armor upgrades! Not only that, but enhanced weaponry and artificial intelligence. And if that doesn't work, we also have Nefarious' robotic troops and scientific-weaponry."
"Ah, I see," Lawrence replied.
"But if that doesn't stop him, we also have Bruno and Jeice," Vox added, shifting his head to indicate the cloaked men standing behind him. They'll take care of him."
"Bruno and Jeice, is that what you're names are?" Nefarious though aloud, somewhat 'stalking' the two cloaked men standing behind Vox.
"Yeah, why's ya' askin'?" Bruno asked in a reptilian, thuggish voice.
"What makes you think you're qualified for the job?" Nefarious pursued, almost sticking his face in his cloak. Suddenly, the reptilian pulled a Plasma storm from his storage watch, stood back, and put the face of the gun in Nefarious' face before he could even blink.
"Am I qualified now?" Bruno asked, a cocky tone coming from his voice. Nefarious chuckled.
"Not bad…for a squishy," Nefarious said, grinning. The man withdrew his weapon, satisfied that he made his point.
"SIR, SIR!" Suddenly, a test-droid came running in, screaming his head off. "RATCHET HAS LANDED ON THE SURFACE!"
"WHAT?!" Vox and Nefarious asked, only Vox added a "THE F#!?" to it.
"Yes, he's here!" The droid continued. "Scans show a furry life-form of 5ft. and a small 2ft. 6in. robot. However, they also show a 5ft. 6in. life-form with a feminine figure, her readings suggesting she's native of this planet."
"Hmmmmmm," pondered Nefarious. "Seems our little furry friend has acquired a tour-guide."
"Indeed," Vox said, also pondering. "Shall we give him a warm welcome?"
Nefarious smirked a robotic smirk. "Sure… lets." Both villains grinned an evil grin.
"DROID!" Nefarious said, "Alert all available troops that the Lombax is here! Send ALL men to EXTERMINATE them!" The droid immediately replied by running towards a room on the far right and through a door. "This time, Lombax, you WILL NOT BEAT ME!"
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Authors Note: Whew! Finally done! Sorry it took so long! Had many things going on. Well, here it is. As of now, however, I will have changed my name to Anime Fan18 (I saw what you said Miss Trippy, so don't worry. My reason for the name is for it to sound cool, not to give away my name. Also, to make sure that there is at least a SMALL chance someone else doesn't have the name.), so for those of you who have a review from me, don't get confused. As always, PLEASE REVIEW!
A/N EDIT: Okay, third chapter, redone. Now before Miss Trippy goes nut-so on my sorry bumpkin keeping bold in some of the dialogue, I understand that I don't need to use it all the time…but there are times when a character reaches an anger level that to show the emphasize, I feel that I must use bold. There…'nuff said. NOW you can read the all new, fourth chapter!