I do not own ratchet and clank (I wish I did) this story is for entertainment purposes only
"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival." ― Winston Churchill
It has been four hours since ratchet had locked his children in the brig and he was now going down there to see if they learned their lesson yet. On his way there he spotted the lieutenant who got beat down by kaden walking around the hanger with a limp. "Hey lieutenant are you ok? Kaden downed you pretty hard" Ratchet asked, the lieutenant looked over to Ratchet and huffed before turning around and walking away. "Great there is one more person I need to add to the potential mutineers list" Ratchet mumbled sarcastically.
Ratchet walked down the long corridor leading to the brig when a slam caught his ear from one of the cells, the one that Kaden was in to be exact. Ratchet picked up his pace to see what the disturbance was, when he turned the corner he saw a bloody knuckled Kaden in his destroyed cell beating his fist into the wall leaving red knuckle prints on it. "Kaden?" Ratchet said in a concerned voice "are you alight?" Kaden turned around with his head held low and collapsed to his knees. Ratchet hurriedly turned off the barrior to the prison cell and ran to his son who was now sobbing on the floor of the small metal prison cell. "I'm turning into one of those people that you put away dad, I'm turning into a villain" Kaden said in a hushed but serious tone, he was upset about his actions, all he wanted to do was help his parents, "Kaden listen to me, you are not going to turn into one of them, you are too good hearted, you just let your feelings take a hold of you and I can help you get control of that" Ratchet said in a reassuring tone. "I beat down an innocent man because I was upset, how can I be good hearted when I did something as evil as that?" Ratchet raised an eyebrow and moved over closer to Kaden and sat on the floor next to him. "I am not saying what you did was right Kaden, but you did it because you were worried for me and your mother, and I was wrong for doing what I did also, like you said you are eighteen and I can't order you around anymore, I apologize." Kaden lifted up his head revealing the moist darkened fur around his eyes; he just stared at the wall for a few seconds letting what Ratchet said sink in. "thank you for the talk dad, and thank you for coming when you did or else my hand would have more fractured bones than it does already" kaden looked over at his father and hugged him "I mean it dad, thank you" Ratchet was taken by surprise with the embrace but he hugged back "don't worry about it Kaden, now let's get your brother and sister out of here, and then we'll see about fixing up your hand."
The two stood up and walked out of the cell then walked over to the other two cells in the hallway and released Ryan and Sam. "Ok guy's head up to the bridge and wait for me and Kaden to return, I have a few ground rules for the three of you if you are going to be here during this Battle" with that Ryan and Sam nodded and started for the bridge. Ratchet put his hand on Kaden's shoulder and said "let's get to med-bay so you can get your hand fixed up" Kaden looked at his father and nodded and started walking for the med bay.
The two arrived at med-bay and they were greeted by the doctor "what seems to be the problem commander?" the doc-bot asked, Kaden held up his hand that had his fur all matted up with blood it also had multiple cuts and bruising with one compound fracture, seventeen of the twenty seven bones were broken his hand, and the grim expression on his face told how much pain he was in. "okay come in and sit on the cot here" the doc-bot directed and Kaden did as he was told. The doc-bot started examining Kaden's hand; Kaden flinched or yelped every time the doc-bot would touch his hand. "Well I'm fresh out of good news today; you are going to need surgery on your hand so that I can reset the bones so that when I administer the nanotech the bones don't grow back abnormally" when the doctor said these things Kaden's facial expression turned from pain to complete disbelief. "you have got to be shitting me" Kaden blurted out and looked over at his snickering father "oh the irony, you refused to leave the phoenix so that you can help with the attack and now you can't even do that" Ratchet said in-between his laughing fits, he was now grabbing his stomach because it was hurting from laughing so hard. "It's not funny dad, I am going to be useless without my hand" Kaden spat out "don't worry kaden I'm sure you will find something to do in the attack effort" Ratchet said in a now more professional tone, kaden looked up at him "I hope so".
On the bridge thirty minutes later Ratchet and Kaden walked in and everyone started snickering when they were Kaden. "What have you never seen a hand cast?" Kaden asked and everyone looked away not realizing they were staring. "Operation liberator, mission objectives capture or destroy the U.S.S Valiant, take a few humans as prisoners, interrogate them and learn troop movements, Kaden Ryan and Samantha the three of you are working ship defense shoot down anything that comes close to me out there, and that set of rules that I said we would discuss, the three of you think you really need to be here, you already have the training you need so I am personally conscripting you into the military, you will serve under me and carry out my orders without question and you will refer to me as sir, admiral or commander, got it?" Kaden, Ryan and Sam nodded and said a loud yes commander. "Ok you are catching on, the other rules are just your basic military rules consult your military handbooks for details, Sam you are now airman basic phyronix since you wanted to be in the air force and that would make your mother your C.O. but you will still answer to me Ryan and Kaden the two of you are now privates Kaden and Ryan Phyronix and you are marines, now go and get in your gear, we are leaving the warp tunnel soon" Ratchet commanded and they did as they were told.
About ten minutes later Kaden, Ryan and Sam came back to the bridge dressed up in their new military uniforms. "Sasha teleport over to the fortress and relieve command of General Dragoon command the fortress and do what you do best lay down hell on the valiant." Sasha nodded and stood on the teleport pad and went over to the fortress. The fortress is the largest ship in the galactic navy and it has the most firepower and the thickest armor too. "kaden get on the turret directly under the nose of the phoenix, Sam you do the same on the side turret, Ryan I want you to work as Wraiths second in command while I am gone, got it!" ratchet barked out orders left and right preparing for the massive space battle that is about to happen.
"Wraith take the stick while I am gone, announce when all of the ships are clear from the warp tunnel, when they are tell them to send carriers full of troops down to planet vopor and tell them to rescue and secure as many civilians as possible, while they are doing this I will be in aphelion distracting the humans and giving Sasha enough time to flank the Valliant with the other ships in the fleet and deliver the kill." Ratchet stated, he was deep in thought and determined to rescue as many civilians as he could, and to end this war as soon as possible. "I am moving to the hanger remember to announce that message" Ratchet said this and turned on his heels and walked out of the door of the bridge, he was going to right his wrong, he had to.
Ratchet made it to aphelion just in time, just as he was opening her cockpit and climbing in the ship shook and Wraith announced that the ships were coming out of the warp tunnel and to have all hands on battle stations. When Ratchet heard this he fired up aphelion and blasted out of the hanger. When he was in space around vopor he could see the scorched ground form Victoris's ships pummeling the surface from orbit. It was not until he saw the Valliant when he started to panic, "I sure hope these recalibrated laser cannons and shields that we just put in work better than the old ones did." Ratchet thought to himself remembering the last time he got into a fight with the Valliant. "Commence operation liberator, all ships send drop ships to the surface to rescue and secure any civilian you see" Wraiths voice came over the com system. Ratchet hailed the Valliant and major general Armstrong picked up "aww have you come back to die fur ball" asked Armstrong with a mocking voice "no I have come to put you in your place, you made one fatal mistake you didn't hide you shield frequency last time we fought, and I had help from my friend and my children to recalibrate our lasers and the shields so that they would punch right through your shields and deflect anything you throw at us, what do you have to say to that, bitch" Ratchet seemed really intimidating to the general but she didn't show it "well let's see who's steel is sharper aye fur ball" after that response from Armstrong she fired the first shot directly at the phoenix and it just bounced off of it, Ratchet grew a very wide grin on his face but it turned to a frown when he saw around eighty fighters fly out of the Valliant and half started to chase Ratchet and the other halve went to board Ratchets ships.
Ratchet found himself in a full on space battle highly outnumbered and running out of ammo fast. He knocked out close to twenty seven of them but they just kept coming. Ratchet launched two missiles and blew two enemy ships to smithereens. It wasn't until he pulled the trigger on his blaster and he heard a moaning and then a series of clicks the moaning was the seized up motor that ran the ammo from its storage compartment to the blaster on ratchets wing and the clicking on the other side meant that his right blaster was jammed and the left was empty, "oh great just what I need" Ratchet thought to himself. He was knocked out of these thoughts when aphelion stared yelling in fluent lombax because a blaster round tore through the cockpit window and sucked all of the oxygen out, Ratchet started choking making it even harder to reach his O2 mask but he finally grabbed it and secured it to his head and started breathing again.
"Aphelion is taking too much damage I need to land" Ratchet stated over the com link to his fleet, but what he saw when he made a U-turn made his stomach drop thirty seven of the fourth enemy fighters landed in the fortress's hanger. "Sasha you have thirty seven enemy's boarding I repeat thirty seven boarding, I'm on my way to help".
When Ratchet landed in the fortress's hanger there were a lot of bodies everywhere, from both sides, blood was everywhere as if somebody went through the hanger with a fire hose full of the crimson liquid. I have to find Sasha everyone in the hanger is dead. Ratchet sprinted to the bridge of the large Ship ignoring the bodies lining the floor only one thing was on his mind "save Sasha". When he reached the doors of the bridge he heard fighting on the other side so he pulled his constructo pistol and planted a kicker charge on the door for it was locked. Ratchet stepped back and detonated the bomb blowing the door in. He sprinted through the smoke to see to grizzly scene there were ten humans fighting against three of the fortress's crew that were pinned down. The humans knew that Ratchet was there, and every time he would poke his head through the door a bullet would nearly tear it off, Ratchet was getting sick of this, he pulled a grenade off of his belt and chucked it straight for the two soldiers covering the main door where Ratchet was pinned down, with a large bang the two were no more than a red stain on the floor. Ratchet looked back at the others fighting and his heart sank when the humans fixed bayonets and charged. Ratchet pulled his cryo mine glove on his other hand and threw a few of them while shooting his constructo pistol into the enemy' but to no avail the charge overran the defenders and ratchet could hear Sasha scream, so he pulled his wrench and charged the enemy's and fought them off until only his blood covered self and one last human were left, he could see Sasha laying on the ground and he went into a blind rage and charged the last soldier and caved hi head in with his wrench several times.
Ratchet fell to his knees next to Sasha who was bleeding out in Ratchets arms "Don't leave me Sash" Ratchet was crying an ocean of tears "Don't worry about me(cough) hotshot) Sasha said with the best smile she could muster, "What will I do without you Sasha, you are everything to me, I can't lose you, I love you" Sasha grabbed Ratchet by the collar and pulled him into a kiss, she let go and said "take care of the kids Ratchet(cough, cough) blood spat out of Sasha's mouth "I love you, (cough) goodbye Ratchet" Sasha's eyes closed and she fell limp in Ratchets arms, Ratchet let out a grief filled scream of sorrow and he pulled Sasha into a tight embrace and picked her body off of the floor and carried her to aphelion and took off for the phoenix landing hanger and just as he was going to fly into the phoenix it let out a blast against the Valliant and it turned into a flaming wreck as it fell to vopors surface.
Ratchet landed in the hanger and pulled Sasha out and carried her to their quarters and he put her in a blacked out cryo sleep container to preserve her body so that they could give her a proper burial.
Ratchet walked into the bridge and everyone fell silent when they see him, he was a blood covered mess his fur was all mangy looking and matted up with the red liquid Wraith was the first to break the silence "commander, are you ok?" Wraith knew the look on his face, it was as if he had seen death himself, as a sniper, it is a lot more personal than being just a normal soldier, because you see the persons face when you pull that trigger, Wraith looked the same way when he made his first kill, but that didn't fit Ratchet had killed many, that only leaves one more reason why he would look that way. "Ratchet, Where is Sasha?" Wraith asked the horrid question, Ratchet started shaking violently and he fell to his knees and looked at his blood covered hands, Sasha's blood when he saw the blood it finally hit him, that he would never see her again. Wraith rushed over to ratchet and pulled him out of the bridge, once the door shut Wraith gave Ratchet a sympathy hug. "After about ten minutes of blood curdling screams from Ratchet He finally calmed enough to talk. "She is gone man" Ratchet said in between sobs "I know Ratchet, she was a great person a great ship commander, she will be missed, but you need to get cleaned up you can't let your kids see you like this" Ratchet nodded and stood up wobbly and turned to Wraith "set course for home, we destroyed their flagship, it should disrupt their ranks for a while" With that Ratchet made for the showers.
When Ratchet arrived at the showers, he didn't even bother to take his armor off he just turned the water off and washed the blood off of himself. His mind started flooding with what he would tell his kids, he had to lie to protect them
Yea I know everyone who just read this chapter probably hates me now, trust me I didn't want to kill off Sasha, It's is the only way I could get Ratchet in this state of mind. I actually got pretty emotional writing this. I hope you liked reading this as much as I liked writing it, Random question: what was the hardest death scene that you wrote in a fan fiction story.
Any who I am done talking your ears off please review see yall later (Evil Ratchet Out!).
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