Ratchet and Clank:
The Chosen One
I DO NOT OWN RATCHET AND CLANK, INSOMNIAC GAMES DOES! I OWN ANYTHING ELSE!
Chapter 12: Discussions and Meetings
A yellow-orange Lombax was sitting at his desk in his office. The only light source in the room was coming from the lamp placed on the desk. There were piles of unfinished papers scattered everywhere on the desktop, but the Lombax didn't seem to care at the time. The said Lombax was starring into space and was leaning his chin on top of his fists. His emerald eyes glanced over to the clock. It read 11:36pm. He had been waiting hours for the two younger Lombaxes to turn up, but they didn't. He had clearly said to the female to collect his son and bring him straight to his office. He was angered that she disobeyed him, but at the same time worried as something could of happened to the youngers. He sighed. Who could he blame? He was like that when he was their age. Reckless and stubborn.
A knock at the door made the Lombax stop his train of thoughts and lift his head up. "Yes?" He called out. "Who is it?" Odd. Normally no-one else stayed up as late as him.
The door opened and a blue female Lombax came walking in. "Sorry to disturb you Kaden, but this is important; I need to show you something interesting." She said, closing the door behind her to make sure no-one could listen. She sat down on one of the green chairs. She passed a few pieces of paper to the other. Some were graphs, some were details of a patient and another was an X-ray scan.
"Oh, that's okay Alice, I wasn't doing much anyway." He took hold of the papers and scanned them over. His eyes got wider as he read more. He looked back at the female in amazement. "Your computers detected all of this!" Alice nodded her head. "How? I mean at the age he is now it must of been difficult to discover." Only he should of known about this kind of information. Well, his wife knew but she died in Tachyon's attack on Fastoon 2 decades ago. A few other Lombaxes knew, but they weren't meant to find out and then someone obviously blurted it out so everyone on the planet knew and were excited to meet him.
Alice laughed lightly. "You should know how. It was clearly my brother's job; he was the one who build the computers seeing as he's so smart. I was even surprised by how successful it turned out." Her twin brother could build weapons, gadgets and many other things in thirty minutes or less. She smiled. They both had powers, and were the only Lombaxes who did until The Chosen One came along, but they were different. She had healing abilities while her brother had amazing mechanic abilities.
Kaden grinned. "I thought so. Zain has fascinating talents as well as you do. It's interesting what you guys come up with." He double checked the papers again. They had data about his son, Ratchet, on it. He wanted Alice to do a check up on Ratchet while he was out unconscious back in the hospital to investigate if he had any injuries on his body. Turned out he only received large bruises around the back and chest area. Kaden didn't know how he gained them, which was why he wanted to ask him some questions once he woke up in which he sent Jasmine over there to round the boy up towards his office. The data on Ratchet was very impressive but strange at the same time. His heart rate levels were off the chart. He seemed to heal quickly. And the X-ray scan of him showed the his body temperatures were white and red colours to show that it was hot around the heart and lungs area while everywhere else was a blue-green colour to show that it a cool/average temperature. "Thank you for this. This helps very much with my research." He looked at the clock again. It now read 12:00am. How time flies by. He got up from his seat as Alice did. "I think it's best if we head to bed." He said, yawning and stretching.
"Yes, it is. You certainly need to catch up on your sleep." Alice replied, yawning as well.
"I just worry about Ratchet and Jasmine as they haven't come back yet." A worried glaze appeared in his eyes.
The female Lombax patted his back gently. "Don't worry, they're kids, they're gonna do stuff like this. I'm sure they'll turn up tomorrow morning and apologize that they didn't come back straight away. People learn from mistakes, believe you me. Besides, weren't we all like that when we were younger?" On that note, she then headed to her house for a good nights rest.
The yellow-orange Lombax sat back in his chair and smiled. "Yes, we were defiantly like that."
Back in the forest...
Morning sun came shining down onto Ratchet's face. The sunlight pulled him out of sleep, but he kept his eyes closed to try and avoid from waking up. After a while he gave up, and opened his eyes. At first he was confused of where he was, but then the memories came back into his mind. Jasmine had taken him to the forest behind the hospital before taking him to his father. He groaned. He had to forget. He was meant to see his father after leaving the hospital but forgot about it when he and Jasmine had... shared a kiss between them. He glanced at the said female asleep in his arms. He smiled with half-closed eyes. He really liked the other... a lot even though they have only met each other like a week ago. He guessed it was probably from instinct.
He laid there for a few minutes before Jasmine woke up. Their eyes met. "Hmm, morning." Jasmine said, still half asleep. Her mouth twitched to yawn.
"Morning." Ratchet replied. He lifted his head up to look up at the sky. "What time do you think it is?" He asked, yawning too from seeing the other yawn.
She cranked her neck to look at the sun. "Err, I'm guessing early morning. About 6-7am?" She guessed. "Not totally sure." She got off of Ratchet and stood up, giving him a hand up too. "Maybe we should head back. We're late already; I wouldn't be surprised if Kaden will be angry with us from not going to his office right away after leaving the hospital." Jasmine explained as they walked back through the forest. They both climbed over a fallen tree and landed swiftly on the ground before carrying on.
After five minutes of walking in silence, both Lombaxes came out of the forest and back at the hospital. "Come on, we'll have to walk through town to get to the Centre For Advanced Lombax Research building." Ratchet nodded. It took another 10 minutes to get into the town. They walked passed many houses before coming to the town center. Everyone who walked past them stared at the golden Lombax in curiosity, amazement or shock. The looks started to make Ratchet uncomfortable. He lent over to whisper to Jasmine. "Why is everyone staring at me?" He asked.
She looked kind of embarrassed as she grinned. "Well, like I told you when we first met in the library. Everyone knows who you are and are curious to meet you. I thought you would be use to it seeing as you already have many fans from being known in many different places and from being a hero." She joked.
The other gave her a exhausted glare, he didn't add too much heat to it as he was still tired. "Yeah but everyone does not stare at me like this... This is just nerve-rattling receiving all these looks." He felt small and didn't like being center of attention. Not one bit. He never had. Him and Jasmine carried on with their journey and tried to ignore the other Lombaxes' face expressions and whispers. They didn't get that far before someone yelled out Jasmine's name.
"Jasmine! Jasmine!" A female called out. The two turned around to see a slightly tall female Lombax run up to them. "Oh, know." Jasmine mumbled just loud enough that Ratchet heard her. "What are you doing here Lauren?" She asked.
The Lombax known as Lauren was a white Lombax, who surprisingly had no stripes, with long black hair that came down to her waist. She had a long white tail too. She had black eyebrows and a black nose too. Her eyes were a dark blue with long eyelashes. She had two golden earrings in one ear while the other only had one earring. She wore a blue 3/4 length top that showed her stomach off and package, along with that a short grey skirt that was held up by a thick black belt was worn. She had a pair of blue slip-on-shoes as well that had blsck soles and a slight heel. She was a little taller than Jasmine too. "I'm here to talk to my sis!" She giggled happily, not noticing Ratchet yet. "James wants to speak to you 'ASAP' as he said." She used her fingers to air-quote around 'ASAP' with a bored look on her face. However in a matter of seconds her last face expression was wiped away with an excited one. "Oh my Orvus! Who is this?!" Lauren asked, shoving her face into the poor male Lombax's face.
Ratchet cringed and took a step back from the close range. "Err..." Was all he manged to get out before Jasmine took his hand and ran to where they should be. "Someone who's busy!" She yelled back to the other female Lombax.
Lauren tilted her head in confusion before closing her eyes and grinning. "Okay! Bye Someone Who's Busy!" She waved the two rushing Lombaxes goodbye.
Here's chapter 12 of The Chosen One! Sorry it's short but that's where I kind of wanted to leave this chapter. The next one shall be long but I should be uploading another Good Vs Evil chapter first and soon. I really need to start drawing again XD Anyway, hope you enjoyed this one and I'll see you in the next chapter.
Ratchet and Clank (c) Insomniac Games
Alice Coba, Zain Coba, Jasmine Vitilas, Lauren Vitilas (c) Me