The Demon of Polaris
The smell of chemicals was all that filled Ratchets nostrils; he woke up in the medical tent. Ratchet lost consciousness shortly after the battle between him and Kane. Ratchet opened his eyes and looked around the tent, it was full of cots, and medical supplies were stacked to the roof. "Oh, look who is up" came a voice from the other end of the tent. It was elder Weiss. "I thought you were the head scientist Elder Weiss" Weiss chuckled and walked over to Ratchet. "I am, but I also happen to be a certified doctor", Ratchet sat up and cracked his neck. "What happened, I have a pounding headache" Weiss chuckled again "I gave you brain surgery, I love poking around people's heads" Ratchet gave a grim look; Weiss went into a laughing fit at his reaction. "Don't worry I'm just kidding; you lost consciousness form all of the adrenalin leaving your system at once". Ratchet nodded and stood up, "I need to speak to my mother, do you know where she is at?" Weiss nodded "she is with Thompson where you dropped last night".
Meanwhile
"This is not like him, why would he do something like this" asked Kate with a tear in her eye. She was standing where Ratchet was nearly killed last night. "I know elder Kate I know, but let's just hope Ratchet is alright, we can worry about Kane when we make sure Ratchet is ok".
Ratchet walked through the camp to where he battled his brother last night. When he turned around the corner he saw his mother and General Thompson standing there. "Mom, General, we need to talk" Ratchet said, Kate turned around and rushed over to Ratchet and checked his wounds. Ratchet chuckled "I'm ok mom, I can take a hit" Kate smiled, "you are just as reckless as your father" Ratchet raised a brow, "so I've been told" Ratchet replied. Kate let out a happy laugh. "We need to talk about Kane" Kate sighed and motioned for Ratchet to follow her. They headed back to Ratchets house.
After a long walk through the lombax camp Ratchet, Kate and Thompson arrived at the house. The three of them walked up to the door. Ratchet and his mother shared a glance before walking through the door. The trio walked into Ratchets Living room and sat on his large Leather crescent shaped couch. They sat there in silence for a few minutes. Kate broke the silence. "Ratchet, do you know why Kane attacked you last night?" Ratchet sat there, deep in thought, trying to remember every little detail about the death match he had with his brother the previous night. "Kane wants revenge, and he said I would get in the way". Kate gasped, Kane had always been such a nice boy, there is no way he is capable of revenge Kate thought to herself. "Did he say what he wanted revenge for?" Kate asked. Ratchet nodded, "he said that the surrounding planets did nothing to help the lombaxes when they were being… killed by that douchebag Tachyon". Tears started to form in Kate's eyes but she held them back. Murder and attempted murder are punishable by death or life in prison, Kate didn't know what to do, this is her son they were talking about. "What will we do, I can't stand idly by and let my son be condemned to death". Thompson cut in "if we can get him to turn himself in I might be able to lessen his sentence, but that is the best I can do, I'm sorry Kate". Kate's tears started to fall; Ratchet put an arm around his mother to comfort her. "Don't worry mom, we will bring him back, all we can hope for is that he hasn't done anything too foolish after he left"
When the trio got done talking they left the house. Thompson went about his guard duties, Ratchet and Kate walked with each other discussing what their next move was. "Mom, we need to go public about this, we need all of the support we can get" Kate looked over at her son. "No it's too risky, I don't want everyone knowing about this until we have Kane back". Ratchet nodded and continued walking. "Well if you really want to come with me and the general I need to buy you guys some ships, aphelion is only a two seater" When Ratchet mentioned Aphelion's name Kate stopped in her tracks. Ratchet looked back at his mother. "What's wrong mom" Kate gave a surprised look "did you just say Aphelion?" Kate asked and Ratchet nodded, "Aphelion was the name of your fathers Ship". Now Ratchet was the one giving a surprised look. Ratchet had never known that, he was very shocked to hear that the ship he had been flying for the last four years was in fact his fathers. "Well that is odd; she never told me that dad was her pilot". Kate gave a smile in response and started walking again.
Ratchet and Kate were nearly at aphelion when Ratchet spotted Clank. "Hey mom there is someone I want you to meet" Ratchet waved to Clank. Clank walked over to them. "Hey buddy this is my mom Kate, mom this is Clank" Clank stepped closer to Kate with an out stretched hand "it is a pleasure to meet you Madam Donner" Kate knelt down and shook Clanks metallic hand "it is nice to meet you too Clank, you can call me Kate" Kate stood back up. "Hey buddy I was just going out to purchase a ship for my mom, do you want to come?" clank looked up at Ratchet "yes, I will accompany you" Ratchet smiled and pulled Clank up and snapped him into his harness and they walked to aphelion.
When they arrived the trio climbed into aphelion. Since Aphelion only had two seats Clank hat to sit on Kate's lap. The canopy closed over their heads with an audible hiss. Ratchet flipped a few switches on Aphelion's dash and they started to hover. Ratchet then pushed a button near the steering mechanism and Aphelion took off. Before they knew it they were leaving the atmosphere of Fastoon.
They arrived at metropolis the capital of Polaris. "I can't believe the only place to buy a ship is all the way in the capital" Kate said. Ratchet chuckled "it's not the only place, but I know the dealer here and he gives me discounts" Kate shrugged and jumped out of the cockpit followed by Ratchet and Clank. Ratchet took the lead and they walked to the starship dealership.
When they arrived at the dealership they walked over to what looked like a overturned garbage can "oh it's my two best customers, what can I get for ya" Ratchet looked back to his mom and turned back to the overturned garbage can "I'm looking for an upgraded star fighter for a friend, whatcha got in stock slim" Slim opened the gate to the ship yard and the trio walked in. "come get me when you find what you want"
"the trio walked around the ship yard until Kate found what she wanted, it was a salvaged Lombax star fighter, the same model as aphelion, it had upgraded cannon, thrusters and a mega shield. "I want this one" Kate said, she then saw the price tag "six million bolts!, never mind I can't make you spend this much money for me" Ratchet walked over to Kate and stood next to the ship labeled Omiria "don't worry about it mom, I am a hero and I make a lot of bolts, I can afford it, plus slim gives me a forty percent discount". With that they walked back to the dealership entrance to meet with slim. "We will take the lombax ship Omiria" Ratchet said when he arrived at the gate "great choice that will be four hundred thousand bolts" Ratchet paid the shady salesman and Kate went back into the shipyard and flew Omiria to the entrance. "Thanks for the business, and don't forget you didn't get it from me" Ratchet waved goodbye to slim and climbed into Omiria. Kate gave Ratchet and Clank a ride back to Aphelion.
Ratchet climbed into Aphelion and he set clank in the copilot seat. Ratchet went through the usual procedure of flipping switches on the dash, he pushed the takeoff button and Aphelion flew off into the sky. "Clank turn on the radio" Clank obliged, he put it on pirate radio. After a few rock songs a news man came on. "We are sorry to interrupt your music but we have some breaking news, the planet of Terachnos has fallen under attack by a lone lombax, he has black fur and white stripes, he destroyed the pollyx industries building killing many, and he is laying waste to the rest of the city as I speak". After the news anchor said his last sentence a larger explosion was heard over the speakers and then static. "Well it looks like we are going to Terachnos buddy; we need to stop him before he kills any more people"
I am sorry for the late update I have a lot of crap on my table right now with school and my dysfunctional family. I hope you enjoyed the chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it. As I always say Reviews are fuel for my writing the more I get the more chapters I pump out. Anyways I'm done rambling it is seventeen hundred hours right now and I'm off to bed. (Evil Ratchet Out!)