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Ravage Chapter 2

Calamity dropped Clank but was still struck by the round. It hurt the evil entity and made him growl. "Well, you actually have stones you furry rat!" With that Calamity drew a two-bladed, crimson sword. He quickly slammed the blade into the ground towards Talwyn and drew it out. He then twirled the blade (which blocked three of Ratchet's combustor rounds) and thrust it in Ratchet's direction. It all happened in the space of two seconds.

A morphing-colored crack appeared on the ground and quickly snaked towards Talwyn. She rolled to the side but failed to evade the crack. When it reached her, the ground surged up and back, launching her backwards into the air.

Ratchet was able to fire another round before a blast of morphing-colored wind knocked him back into a rocky wall. Though he was tough, Ratchet could only take so much of a beating without nanotech. The blast hurt and made Ratchet yell but the pain was manageable. Ratchet looked up in time to see Calamity's foot in his face.

The kick made Ratchet see double, his ears ring, and his nose bleed badly. It also knocked him back into the wall. Dazed and disoriented, Ratchet struggled to lift the fog in his mind. He looked up as Calamity grabbed him by the tail. He wasn't gentle and Ratchet yelped as he felt pain in his tail and rear.

Clank yelled and ran. He didn't care about his own safety; he wanted to help his friend, "Ratchet!"

Calamity lifted Ratchet till he was eyelevel with him. "Admittedly, I was surprised to see something that wasn't human but you've proven to be a bit more interesting." Ratchet was stunned and weak from the beating; he was unable to offer any resistance.

The Cooper gang had been walking on the road for a bit over an hour. Carmelita then resumed fuming about Sly's deception, "Sly, if we get out of this alive, I don't want to see you again."

Her words cut deep into the thief's heart. He felt badly hurt, "Carmelita, I did it because I love you. I wanted to live my life with you. I was willing to give up being a thief to be with you."

"You still lied to me," the hurt vixen said.

Before Sly could respond, he heard something to the right of the path. He heard yelling and crashing. "Guys, do you hear that?" He said as he walked off the path.

Carmelita perked her ears and heard it to. She followed Sly. Bentley heard it but it was very faint. He too followed. Murray didn't hear the sounds but followed.

Sly picked up the pace as he realized the sounds were of distress. He began sprinting as he heard someone yell in pain. Sly became focused on helping whoever was in danger.

His focus almost got him seriously hurt as he almost ran off the edge of a cliff. Murray grabbed the master thief and kept him from plummeting down the steep cliff. Murray said as he grabbed his friend, "Got ya Sly!"

Everyone looked down and saw something tall, caped figure holding a smaller figure by its tail. The tall, strange figure said, "Admittedly, I was surprised to see something that wasn't human but you've proven to be a bit more interesting."

Calamity looked away for a second and thrust his free arm out. He commanded a blast of air. The blast knocked back Talwyn; she had recovered from his earlier attack and flew at him again. She had tried to kick him and used her hover-boots to gain momentum. It was in vain as Calamity casually knocked her away like a fly.

"Your girlfriend is quite the pest." He then made a similar motion again but this time kept his arm out. Ratchet followed the motion and his heart almost stopped. Clank was once again floating in the air surrounded by the strange energy. "I want you to say goodbye to your best friend. His demise will be playing through your mind as you slowly meet yours."

Ratchet felt sick, he wanted to fight so he swung but his arms were too short. He hit nothing but air. His futile punches made Calamity shake him a bit. He swung and bounced. The movements hurt and injured his tail, he yelped and howled.

"Calm down pet," Calamity sneered. He then began slowly crushing Clank by closing his fist. Clank grunted as dents began appearing on his body. His small arms and feet were pinned. His glowing green eyes expressed sadness. His expression showed how advanced he was as a robot. He couldn't speak, Calamity prevented it.

Ratchet was horrified, through his tears he yelled, "Clank! No! Let him go! Kill me you monster!"

"I will, in time I will. When I'm finished with your machine friend, I will." He then closed his fist a bit more before shooting the poor, small robot into a boulder. Upon impact all but Clank's right leg fell off and his green eyes shut off.

Ratchet's heart completely sank and he screamed in emotional pain and agony, "CLANK! NO! DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE!" The fur on his face was soaked. His tears mixed with the blood from the cuts and his bloody nose. "Don't leave me…" Ratchet sniffed and sobbed uncontrollably.

Calamity started to laugh manically. He still held the hurt and defenseless lombax by the tail. "Your turn," he then drew a knife.

As the bigger figure shot the small machine away, Sly watched through binoculars supplied by Bentley. The bigger figure's actions made Sly both angry and sick. He didn't know any of the figures, the tall one, the short one, the female, nor the small robot/machine. That fact aside, he hated to see the violence that three smaller beings were being given by the tall one. So, Sly said, "We need to get down there and stop this. Bentley you still got those zip-line guns?"

"Here," using the mechanical arms, Bentley grabbed the guns from the storage container on his chair. He then handed one to each member.

Meanwhile the tall figure took his knife and jabbed it into the top of the smaller figure's left shoulder. The angry, hurt, and terrified and yellow-furred creature howled.

Sly aimed his grapple a few feet above the tall figure, at a rock wall, and fired. The gun was silent and its bolt flew just as quietly. It impacted the rock wall and the line went tight. Sly winked before jumping and pulled the trigger again. When the trigger was pulled the second time, the gun quickly began retracting the line. Sly held on tightly as the gun pulled him towards the large figure. He held the gun in one hand and his staff in the other. His feet faced forward, aimed at the figure's head.

His surprise attack worked and Sly's feet nailed the tall, strange figure in the temple. It dropped the smaller, big-eared creature and was actually knocked back a bit.

Seconds later, the rest of Cooper's gang zip-lined down.

Calamity growled; the fact that some kind of vermin had gotten the drop on him ticked him off.

Carmelita grabbed the hand of the yellow and brown furred creature. She pulled him away from the monster. Ratchet grabbed the knife from his shoulder and yanked it out. Pain and relief both flooded his arm. "Thanks, whoever you guys are." He was able to say through the tears.

Carmelita nodded, "No problem."

Seconds later Talwyn joined them. She flew to Ratchet's side.

Calamity crossed his arms, "Reinforcements huh? Did Rykk send you?"

Sly responded, "What is going on here? Why are you torturing these three?" He asked genuinely.

The tall, grey being with glowing, color-changing eyes cracked his neck from side-to-side. "Well, that answers both of my questions. This is my lucky day, and is also your unluckiest. I'm just doing what I do best. Soon, you'll see, you talking fur cap!" Calamity threw both his arms forward and all three ghosts charged the group.

Instantly, Sly, Bentley, Carmelita, Murray, Ratchet, and Talwyn were united. Ratchet was pretty beat but had enough rage that mitigated his pain. He led the charge against the ghosts and Calamity. As he ran, Talwyn tossed him his wrench. He caught it and nailed one of the ghosts. It shrieked and was sent spinning.

Carmelita yelled and shot another with her blaster. It yelled and retreated inside Calamity.

Sly hooked the last one with his cane and yanked it into his fist. The thing vanished on impact and reappeared a short distance away.

Calamity hadn't moved but just smirked as Ratchet ran at him with his wrench. His rage blinded him and all he wanted was to kill the monster that took Clank from him.

Ratchet, Sly, and the rest (With the exception of Bentley and Talwyn) all charged Calamity at the same time. Bentley made his way over to the broken little robot that was once Clank. Talwyn joined the turtle as she realized she didn't have anything to contribute to the fight.

Calamity drew his sword and parried both Ratchet's wrench and Sly's cane. He quickly and smoothly ducked Carmelita's blaster shots as well as Murray's fists. He was fast and though it was a four vs. one fight, Calamity didn't seem to be expending any energy. In fact, he looked calm and just enjoyed their struggles.

However, after a minute of playing with them, Calamity became tired of the charade. He grabbed both the lombax's wrench and the raccoon's staff. He then performed a quick spin. In that one movement, he knocked back all of his assailants and made Sly and Ratchet lose their weapons.

Calamity held the wrench in his right hand and the staff in his left. "These would be neat weapons if they weren't already worthless. Oh well, guess I should give them back." Using the color-morphing energy, Calamity shot both weapons back to their owners.

Sly managed to duck his own staff. Its non-curved side embedded itself in the rock wall.

Ratchet was a bit more unfortunate (as usual). The head of his wrench impacted his right forearm, breaking it. Ratchet's bones gave a loud snap that made the gang grimace. Ratchet screamed as it was a compound fracture. The bone did show through his fur and even his suit. Blood began to drip from the wound; its color matched the ground it landed on. The nanotech in the lombax was very low but was able to heal enough to stop most of the bleeding. It was still dripping, but it by itself wasn't life threatening.

Calamity was then surrounded by the four. Ratchet wasn't much of a threat to him though. "You're just like humans; you all think you're so tough because of your child's toys." The dark entity chuckled. "You think they're your salvation. There is no salvation for you." With that, he did a quick spin in midair and landed with a punch to the ground. The ground rippled from his hand, like water on a pond. Everyone tried to jump over the ripple of rock and dirt but they all failed. They were all sent sprawling back. Talwyn landed hard and was knocked out.

Calamity then shifted his attention to the Cooper gang. "You know what I like just as much, if not more than, causing physical pain? Mental pain and anguish, it is just as decadent." He then pointed his hand in Bentley's direction.

The turtle's wheelchair then began to levitate towards Calamity. Bentley dropped Clank to the ground as gently as he could. He then tried in vain to get away.

"I gather that you are a friend to the raccoon." Calamity observed. He then angrily shot the disabled reptile to the ground. He pinned Bentley underneath his own chair. The impact hurt and made the turtle lose his glasses. Then Calamity used the strange energy to drag the pinned reptile across the hot, dirty, rocky ground. Bentley screamed in pain as the rocks cut and beat him.

Sly yanked his staff from the rock and jumped at Calamity, his staff held high.

Calamity grabbed the thief's staff like he had done it a thousand times before. Before he shifted his attention to Sly, he shot Bentley and his chair at Carmelita and Murray.

Bentley yelled as he crashed into them and knocked them both down. He was bloody and badly bruised.

Ratchet was on the ground, his arm's pain was intense. That and the stab wound and the beating he had, put him out of commission.

Calamity swung the staff and Sly into the ground. It hurt and made Sly briefly see double. Sly leapt to his feet and stepped back. He still had his staff. How do I win this? He shrugs off everything we throw at him. It's not like we can run either. Sly was desperate to end this fight, preferably by taking Calamity down.

Sly heard Murray roar and saw the enraged hippo charge Calamity. He joined Murray in the charge and yelled. This is for Bentley you monster!

Calamity wanted the raccoon first. He grabbed the hippo's fist and flipped him. He then threw the hippo into a rock wall and then pushed Sly back with his foot.

Sly screamed as Calamity kicked him on the side of his knee, breaking it. He fell down and felt his throat being grabbed and lifted.

Calamity looked around, "If any of you value your lives or that of your friends, you'll stay back!" He shouted as he knocked Murray back with an air blast. He then pulled his knife, the same one he had stabbed Ratchet with, into his grip. He then jabbed it into Sly's torso. Sly yelled as it punctured his gut. "Oh don't worry," Calamity said in a mocking, comforting tone. "This wound isn't fatal, just for pain. Don't want you to die too soon." He withdrew the blade and jabbed Sly again, this time in his lower stomach/upper thigh. Sly yelled again but was unable to do anything.

The ringtail's yells were music to Calamity; his pained and hurt expression like manna. "Oh, I almost forgot to brand you." Calamity said and watched the color drain from his victim's face.

Calamity used his knife to cut Sly's shirt off. "Odd, you seem so similar to humans." Calamity observed out loud before placing his palm on Sly's chest.

Sly felt the large hand on his fur, almost instantly there was an intense burning sensation. Smoke began to billow from the burning fur and Sly yelled loudly. His screams of agony echoed through the landscape.

Calamity held his hand there for a minute before withdrawing it. He revealed a glowing, circular mark on Sly's chest. The symbol burned away any fur it had touched. It was the same symbol that Calamity had on his shoulders and back. "There finished with you… for now." With that, Calamity tossed Sly aside like a rag. Carmelita and Murray ran to help him.

Calamity then started walking towards the badly hurt Ratchet. No one dared move this time. They were all either too tired, hurt, scared, or tending to the wounds of another. Talwyn was knocked out and unable to help. As he approached the hurt lombax, Calamity drew his knife. Normally he would've used his sword, but he wanted this to be personal. "Say hello to your father and Alistair for me," Calamity mocked. With that, he sent his blade into Ratchet.

Well that was brutal wasn't it? That's the end... heck no!

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