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The phoenix is on its way to marcaidia in warp space after coming under attack by the USS Valliant Victoris's main heavy attack ship. Everyone on board was stressed to put it kindly, pretty much all of the crew that are on board the phoenix were the same ones during operation earth, they knew what was going on the only ones that were completely oblivious to this were Kaden, Sam and Ryan who were presently on the bridge questioning their parents on the matter. "Who the hell was that dad, we almost died, what the heck is going on" Kaden blurted out "yea how did they know about you" Sam questioned Ryan just stood there emotionless he was in shock, this was his first space battle and he almost died, it was also Kaden and Sam's first battle but they held themselves together better. "I am sorry guys, I don't have the clearance to tell you, me and your father could get in a lot of trouble" Sasha explained, she felt bad about not being able to tell her children what was going on, maybe she could tell them but it would have to be in a secluded area.
Sasha looked over to ratchet and motioned for him and the threesome to follow they walked into the captain's quarters and they sat on the large couch in the middle of the massive room. "You guys really want to know" Sasha asked and then looked over to Ratchet who nodded his acceptance "you had better explain this hotshot since you were there" Sasha said and Ratchet started explaining the details of the mission to his wide eyed children. "So that is how you got those scars on you back" Kaden asked, he had always wondered how his father had gotten ten scars on his back, Ratchet nodded "so you went on an operation that failed, got yourself shot ten times, and now there is a psychopath coming after us in a blind revenge mission, and it was all made possible because you neglected to destroy uncle Julius's ship" Sam said, she was going ape shit on her Father for neglecting such an important detail that now caused a war between two planets. Everyone in the room could see that ratchet was now getting very angry "it's not like I had a choice! I was only bleeding out on the ground" Ratchet retaliated "you could have ordered your squad to destroy the blasted thing" Sam yelled out, Ratchet brought his fist down on the table in front of the couch "How could I do that when I was unconscious huh" Ratchet yelled back. Sam started putting the pieces together in her head and now she realized she was wrong to speak to her father like that "I-I'm sorry dad I didn't realize" Sam apologized and moved over to her father "I blew that way out of proportion" Sam said and hugged her father "it is okay Sam, I went overboard also you shouldn't have seen me like that" Ratchet said and hugged his daughter back.
The five of them were enjoying a movie when the PA system came online "Commanders Ratchet and Sasha come to the bridge; we are preparing to leave the warp tunnel" Wraiths voice came over the PA system. "Ok looks like we are going home, for a while at least" Ratchet stated, he and his family walked to the bridge. When they arrived Ratchet and Sasha sat in their command chairs "hey guys sit yourselves down and strap in we took a bit of damage so this is going to be bumpy" Sasha stated while looking over her shoulder back at her children, "no problem mom" the trio stated they sat down and strapped themselves in. "everyone hang on! The ship was damaged during the last battle, this is going to be bumpy" Ratchet stated over the PA system and gave the crew a moment to get a good grip on something and he disengaged the warp drive.
The phoenix started to shake very violently as if it was coming apart Sasha looked back at the children who were white knuckling the arm rests of the chairs that they were sitting in, they had a look of terror on their faces, if they didn't have fur they would be as pale as ghosts, Sasha laughed in her head and turned around knowing that there was no danger.
The phoenix came out of warp mode and docked at the space station in marcaidia's orbit Ratchet and Sasha immediately left to get into aphelion and their kids followed, "oh no, you guys are helping the crew with the unloading, we have to do this ourselves" Ratchet explained and the trio nodded in understanding. Ratchet and Sasha got into Aphelion and blasted out of the hanger towards marcaidia. When they arrived at the presidents compound the ran to the front door and rang the bell, a holo-screen popped out with Talwyn on it "Talwyn we have bad news, they have found us" Ratchet said "ok come in and hurry" Talwyn replied and the doors swung open the duo ran up the stairs to the president's office and they walked in to be greeted by a very depressed looking Talwyn "Tal are you okay" Ratchet asked with concern for his old friend "I have some bad news about the humans as well" Talwyn said, she had a very grim look on her face as if she had just watched a very scary movie "well, um, who's news first" Ratchet asked "you two go ahead first" Talwyn said " well it seems that the humans have found the Solana galaxy, we had a running with them a day ago, there was a battle we almost lost the phoenix… their leader is a guy named Victoris he is middle aged, gray hair and a very nasty attitude" Ratchet explained, Talwyn looked even more depressed after Ratchet said his part of the news, "well, I already know that they are in Solana we have gotten a few messages from the humans that were passed along by… survivors, the humans have been assaulting any planet that they come across, and they have completely wiped out three" Talwyn told her part and Ratchet and Sasha both got a grim look on their faces "three!" Ratchet yelled out, how could they just wipe three planets off the map, their technology must be better than they thought, Talwyn walked over to her desk and pulled out four holo-pads and handed them to Ratchet and began for the door "I can't watch those again" Talwyn said and walked out of the door leaving Ratchet and Sasha with the "survivor messages".
Ratchet turned on one of the holo-pads and hit the play button it showed a large ditch being dug by the inhabitants of a planet in the Solana galaxy, they were being held at gunpoint by human soldiers. When the ditch was dug the soldiers ordered the civilians to climb out and kneel at the edge of the ditch, a Humvee rolled up behind the civilians and a soldier got on the fifty and mowed down all of them causing them to fall into the ditch. A soldier drug a civilian over to the camera "you are to take this video to your leader and tell them to surrender and die or this will happen to every planet we come across" the soldier ordered the lone civilian and turned the camera off.
"Holy shit" was all that could escape Ratchets mouth, Sasha was sitting there in shock she could not believe her eyes "did that..." Sasha paused "did that really just happen" Sasha said in a low pained voice "You don't kill civilians!" Ratchet said in a scratchy pain filled voice "we need to do something" Sasha said. "Don't worry we will, and I have a plan"
Oh boy the **** is hitting the fan now, what is Ratchets plan you ask? You will just have to wait for the next chapter, and those survivor tapes, they will be a big part of this (HINT,HINT) Please review it feeds my writing I don't care if they are good or bad any review will work. Anywho I am done rambling see yall later (Evil Ratchet Out!)