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Chapter 2: Home sweet Home

Aphelion arrived at the Space Station and touch downed on the landing pad outside the station. Ratchet and Clank hopped out of the Lombax Starship. The reunited duo walked into the space station and saw Cronk and Zephyr in the 'fishing hole', trying to fish even if no creatures were in the water. The two warbots spotted the young Lombax and small robot walk through the door.

"Miss. Talwyn! The young whippersnapper is back with his little metal buddy." Cronk called out and Talwyn quickly came running into the room. When her eyes spotted Ratchet, she hugged him in a tight embrace. He was shocked; no expecting a hug from her; but still embraced her back in a hug too.

"Man guys it's been a while. Clank, it's great to see you again. Now Ratchet can start to eat and sleep properly. If I knew guys were coming sooner, I would have cleaned the place up a bit too." She said, letting go of the blushing Lombax.

All Ratchet could do was smile at her but Clank replied, "It's good to see you again to Miss. Talwyn. The-"

"The place is fine Tal; you don't have to worry about it." Ratchet said interrupting Clank. He just looked at his furry friend and could see that he was blushing a deep red under his fur by seeing he's friend again.

"Oh, thanks, I guess. Anyway, you wanna stay here for a while? I mean, if you're alright sleeping on the couch Ratchet?"

"Really, are you sure? If you are then, nah, the couch will be fine." He said, waving his hand while doing so.

"Kay. Clank if you need to recharge there is a charger in the living room for you." She said, clapping her together.

"Why thank you, Miss. Talwyn. If you need help with anything, I'm sure Ratchet and I will be happy to be at your assistance." Clank said in a happy tone.

"Thanks Clank, but I'm sure everything is going fine at the moment. Anyway, you." She said turning to Ratchet. "You need to do some explaining."

"What?" he said puzzled, raising one eyebrow.

Talwyn sighed. "What happened during you was looking for Clank?"

"Oh, right! That explaining." He grinned, rubbing the back of his head.

Talwyn grabbed one of Ratchet's hands and took him into another room; where no-one else was and wouldn't disturb them. In the room were projects all over the black painted walls. The projects were in a different language; so Ratchet couldn't read it however there were some drawings on some of them. Ratchet was looking around the room until Talwyn distracted him.

"Listen Ratchet I wanna know about what happened on your journey finding Clank?" She said, sitting down against the wall.

He looked at her and sighed. "Tal, can…can we not talk about it. Just yet. I don't feel like talking about." He said, with pain in his voice he thought she wouldn't notice but she did.

"I know there is something you're not telling me! What is it? You can tell me, you can tell me anything. You know that, right?" she said, worried.

"Yes I know I can tell you anything, but…not just right now. It's hard to explain, okay?" He said, looking away from her. The room went silent, Talwyn was about to speak again when a sudden BANG came from the 'fishing room'. Ratchet and Talwyn looked at each other in shock and confusion, and then ran as fast as they could to where the noise came from.

They entered the room but it was hard to see as the room was filled with smoke. Ratchet entered the grey cloud first shouting Clank's name, Talwyn was about to follow him until someone came up behind her and whacked her on the head; making her unconscious.

"That's one, time for them Warbots." A dark cloaked male said.

"And don't forget that little robot too." Another dark cloaked figure appeared, the figure was female but her voice sounded a bit muffeled from the cloak.

"I'll go for the Lombax, while you go for the robots." The male replied, heading off back into the smoke.

'Oh come on buddy, where are you?' Was all Ratchet had on his mind. He couldn't see anything because of how thick the smoke was. "Clank! *cough* Where are you? *cough, cough* Man, there is hardly any oxygen in here." He said in a weak voice.

The sound of metal rubbing against metal started to fill the room, it was ear shattering. Ratchet's ears went straight down during the noise. The golden Lombax turned around, hearing it behind him. His eyes narrowed, trying to look through the pitch-black smoke, but failed.

"Hmm? Clank, is that you? *cough* Come on, if this is a joke; it's not funny."

"Oh, this is no joke." Said a male voice behind Ratchet. The Lombax turned around hoping to see someone. As he did turn around he was met with a metal object on the side of his head. He hit the ground, with his vision getting very blurry until all he could see was blackness.

Ratchet: How could you let that happen to me and my friends? Me: I had nothing else to think of! Leave me alone! Ratchet: No, I wanna know what's going on here? Me: Later! You will find everything out later on. If you keep going on at me, I can just make you wait even longer :) Ratchet: DAMNIT! Me: R&R please :) :D