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"Only the dead have seen the end of war." Plato

Ratchet and Sasha stood inside of the president's compound letting the information about the genocidal humans sink into their brains. Ratchet felt horrible for letting something like this happen, and it was his fault. Ratchet needed to do something about his mistake. "Sasha go and get Talwyn" Ratchet asked, he needed Talwyn's support for his plan to work, Sasha walked over to the door of the president's office and knocked on it to let Talwyn know they were done watching the video. Talwyn walked into her office and sat on the couch beside Ratchet. I have a plan Talwyn, but I need full command of a fleet to initiate a counter attack and hopefully liberate some of these planets being attacked by Victoris" Ratchet said, Talwyn raised an eyebrow "What is your course of action" Ratchet stood up and sighed "it seems that he has it out for me, apparently he captured some during operation earth and he heard a lot about me, I guess he wants to test his steel against mine, I propose to be bait and distract them while some of our ships flank the valiant and go in for the kill" Sasha looked over at Ratchet with a look of disbelief plastered on her face, she did not want Ratchet to risk himself like that, she couldn't lose him "no way!, I am not going to let you do something that reckless Ratchet, we will find another way" Ratchet looked back to Sasha anger and guilt showing on his face, he didn't want to do it but he had no choice, he had made up his mind and he wasn't going to budge "there is no other way Sasha, and any time we waste trying to think of one thousands are dying, I know the danger but I have made up my mind we are doing this" after that Talwyn gave ratchet her acceptance for the mission.

Ratchet stormed out of the presidential compound and made his way to aphelion. Sasha following close behind arguing the whole way there, they got into aphelion and blasted off towards the phoenix. When they arrived they were met by their children, "we are going to assault the valiant, I want you three to stay on marcaidia until we come back" Ratchet ordered his children, they all exchanged glances at each other and turned back to their parents "not a chance, we are coming" the three said in sync, they were not going to let their parents get into a fight without their help. Ratchet scrunched up his face and glared at his children "you three are going to stay and that is final" the children argued back for a few minutes before Sasha stepped in "I am with your father on this one, I know you want to come and help but that isn't going to happen" the children got even more irritated by that comment "we are eighteen now you can't order us around anymore mom and dad we are coming if you like it or not" Kaden shouted back now appearing very irritated, the five of them bickered for another ten minutes. "You don't have a choice… lieutenant escort my children to the drop ship and make sure they stay on marcaidia" Ratchet ordered a soldier standing near them. Kaden pulled out his Combat Wrench "I am not leaving without a fight, how about you sibs" Kaden said, his two siblings nodded and pulled their wrenches also, a soldier stepped behind kaden and grabbed him by his shoulder, kaden jabbed the soldier in the stomach with one end of is wrench before spinning around and leg sweeping the soldier with the other end, he fell on the ground with a thud. "Stop this at once!" Ratchet yelled at the top of his lungs causing everyone in the hanger to look in their direction, the whole room fell very silent; Ratchet broke the silence "if you want to come fine but you are spending the duration in the brig to think about what you have done!" Ratchet looked at the gasping soldier on the ground "Gunny, take the lieutenant to the med bay, I will deal with my children" a gunnery sergeant that was standing near picked up the lieutenant and carried him off.

Ratchet turned to his children and they cringed when they saw look on his face, he was staring daggers at them and they had never saw their father with such anger boiling inside of him. "Give me your weapons" the trio hesitated "NOW!" Ratchet screamed the trio fumbled around scared half to death of their father; they gave up their weapons and were escorted to the brig by none other than Ratchet who was staring a hole in their backs as they walked.

They arrived at the brig and they were placed into the cells just as Kaden was going to enter his cell Ratchet stopped him, Kaden turned around "dad I, gaaa" Kaden was interrupted when Ratchet grabbed him by the collar of his leather jacket and shoved him against the wall of the cell and held him there "I don't want to see you do something that stupid ever again!" Ratchet yelled with emphasis on ever again, he released his son when he realized what he had done "I am very disappointed in you Kaden" Ratchet said in a hushed tone before walking out of the cell and engaging the barrior.

Back in the bridge Sasha was getting the phoenix ready for departure while Ratchet escorted the children to the brig. She didn't want to go along with this mission at all but Ratchet out ranks her now as admiral so what he says goes. Sasha hit the PA system button on her command chair "prepare for departure, ETA five minutes" Sasha's voice carried throughout the phoenix and the crew started finishing up their duties. Sasha was just about to call Ratchet on the intercom when he stormed through the door of the bridge clearly still pissed, he walked over to his command chair next to Sasha and sat down, Ratchet wasn't really pissed it just seemed that way to everyone around him, he was more worried for his children being in the middle of a war and he is worried that he might not succeed in the operation and all of the stress of his worries just snapped when Kaden beat down the soldier in the hanger. "Sasha commence launch" Ratchet stated, Sasha pushed a few buttons on her console and the ship started to leave port. "Open warp tunnel and commence operation liberator" Sasha got on the intercom and announced the warp jump and the phoenix headed straight for planet vopor, the Valliant's last known location.

I hope you all liked the chapter, please review good or bad I'll take it. forgive me for the long upload time i have had a lot on my plate. Random question: Which OC in my story do you like the most? Ok it's been a long one see yall later (Evil Ratchet Out!)