AuthorsNote: So like I said before, my updates will come infrequently now, although I will try to stay with the two weeks thing. The funny thing is, my life wasn't that hard this week. I was just addicted to Borderlands, Just got it, haven't stopped playing it. So I forget to update Sorry all of you who follow this story for me not updating, especially since i left a hell of a cliff hanger on the last chapter.. I've been a bad author....forgive me? :(

Sometime later, Sky awoke to see Stella's face etched with worry.

"S...y....KY........SKY!" He felt a sharp pain on the side of his head and realized the Stella had slapped him. He jerked up right.

"OW" He turned to face his sister "WHAT?"

Stella just gasped and pulled him into a hug "Oh Sky, I was so worried!"

"Stella, What happened?"

She squeezed him harder "The hook slipped out and we landed on the ground, you weren't moving, and I thought I had, had, Killed you"

Sky relaxed, realizing what Stella must have gone through, he even reached around and returned her hug, just not as hard. He felt her jerk a bit before softening her hug as well.

"What?" He asked.

She sighed "Nothing, you just never hugged me like this before"

He snorted and broke free of her hug, "Come on, who knows how long we have been out. We should get back."

Stella groaned "About that...."

Sky sighed "What?"

"I already tried, The swingshot can't reach that far, and it can't grip the walls. We have to go another way."

Sky looked about and saw the giant tunnel they had noticed from up top. It appeared one of the bottom panels of the door blocking it off had fallen in recently. He turned back to Stella to see her matching his gaze.

"I already explored a bit, there's a few chasms, but we can get across using the swingshot."

Sky snapped his fingers in front of Stella's face "Do you remember the fall we just had?"

She nodded "Yeah, But do you want to wait for Mom and Dad to find us?"

Sky shuddered, in trouble at school and then this, that would not be good.

"Alright, let's go"

They both ran towards the tunnel and hopped up to the tunnel and ducked through the panel that Stella had knocked lose. They found another of those old ladders that Stella used the swingshot to bypass. Before they reached the chasms that Stella talked about.

She pointed into the distance "The way I figure this route will end us up near by our house. We'll be above it, but we should just have to find a way down"

Sky nodded and they spent the next hour crossing chasms and running through light pools of water before they came to a giant chasm with a tunnel on the end, a light red glow lighted the place up and they could see no way across.

"I don't think the swingshot can grip anything on that side Stella, what now?" Sky glanced to see his sister studying an small green orb that had slowly started spinning.

"I don't think so.." She said slowly, Sky looked back at the orb, which was spinning faster now.

"What do you mean, come on Stella, we need to get out of here. We'll find another way around" Sky turned around to leave, but stopped when he felt his sisters hand land on his shoulder.

"Sky, Take my hand" Sky turned to face his sister, who was holding out her left hand towards him.

"What?"

"Take it"

Some part of Sky said no, but the trust for his Twin was stronger. He nodded and grabber her hand. She nodded back before jerking her right hand at the orb, this time, there was no kick from the swing shot, just a clank as the hook flew straight at the orb, a few seconds after it launched they heard a chink, then the cable got taught and they were pulled across the gap so fast there cheeks flapped with wind.

They both closed their eyes as they neared the wall thinking they were going to hit it, but they slowed and stopped right at the orb. The hook disengaged and they both dropped gently to the ground falling to their hands and knees. They turned to look at the gap they just crossed.

Sky turned to Stella "That, was pretty cool."

She nodded, Still a little light headed from the sudden rush, "Yeah, now, let's get out of here."

They both ran deeper into the tunnel, and after using the swing shot to bypass another ladder were dismayed when they emerged that dusk had fallen. They walked towards the edge of the platform they had emerged on. While Sky was busy searching for a way thorough Stella was studying the ground.

Sky heard Stella gasp and turned to see what had happened. She had covered her mouth were her hand and was pointing at something on the ground wide eyed. Sky followed her gaze to see what had freaked her out. In the pale fading light Sky could make out a form lying tossed on some rocks. Sky studied it for a bit before he realized what it was.

A body, with half of it's face missing, there it laid with some of its skin rotting and flaking off. Bits of skull poking out here and there. It had obviously died from a massive explosion considering the charring it wore like a second skin. Neither of them had know of Ratchet's full adventures, only that he and Sasha had saved the galaxy a few times. Sky drew back and grabbed his terrified sister. He turned her away from the sight and shook her until she snapped out of it.

He eventually slapped her and she started speaking fast"Ah, I'm sorry Sky, We shouldn't have gone, this is all my fault" She continued to talk but it just broke down into gibberish for some time until Sky hugged her. She gasped and grew silent. He pulled back from the hug and brushed the side of her face as she shook.

"Listen Stella, none of this is you're fault. It's mine, If I had never first gotten into the vent, we wouldn't be here now. If anybody is to blame for this it's me. Now, Pull you're self together, and use that slingshot to get us down. Stella shook for a bit more before shuddering one final time and nodding.

She launched the grappling hook into the ceiling and they jumped down towards the tunnel that led to the chasm. They landed and ran out, and just as they were trying to figure out a way across they saw two forms waving lights around.

Ratchet and Sasha were frantic, neither of the kids were in the house and they couldn't find them anywhere near the house. They had been flying around looking for them when Ratchet noticed a missing panel from a door he had sealed a long time ago. He had flown down to check it out confirming his fears that somebody had been venturing towards where he had first fought Drek. Possibly his kids.

He had returned to the car and had started climbing the car to reach the high cliffs of Veldin, he flew towards one of the rock tunnels he had been in long ago and landed the Hovercar. Sasha to her credit had waited this long to ask.

"Ratchet, what makes you think they are here" she asked as she handed him a flashlight to fight the encroaching darkness.

"Just a feeling, our kids have an exploration streak in them."

"Well, they didn't get it from me."

Ratchet looked over his shoulder at her with an eyebrow raised. She blushed and shook her head. He turned his attention back towards looking for his kids and faced the chasm. It was then that he noticed that an old Versa-Target had been active recently. It was still spinning when the rest in the area weren't.

He shinned his flashlight over and saw two small figures jumping up and down waving their arms. He gasped

"Sasha, across the chasm" he said pointing. She looked up and gasped as well running towards the hovercar.

"Ratchet come on." She called as she jumped in. Ratchet however just drew his wrist back and felt for his Dynamo with his mind. He heard more than felt coat rip as his dynamo appeared around his wrist. Glancing down and surprised his quick select watch still worked he thrust his hand forward and watched as the beam connected with the versa target. As he was tugged along, the slipsteam flapping his jacket, he smiled. It was like old times.

Both Sky and Stella gasped when the green beam suddenly connected to Versa-Target above their heads. They both took a step back and watched as the figure flew towards them. It landed with a hard thud in between them. It's coat settling down around him. It grimaced and stood up.

"Been a while since I've done that"

Sky and Stella looked around the figure to stare at each other, then at the same time they jumped towards it.

"DAD!"

Ratchet chuckled as he felt both of his kids impact into him. He bent down and gave them hugs as the cried and said they were sorry. Almost instantly after that Sasha arrived in the hovercar. She set it to float and hopped out into the pipe.

"STELLA SKY" She shouted as she ran up and took the kids from Ratchet taking her chance to give them hugs and hear their apologies. It was only after a few moments though that she set both her children down looked them straight in the eye and said.

"You both are in so much trouble right now."

They stopped and nodded staring at the ground.

"We know, and we're sorry. We didn't mean for any of this to happen. And were sorry we worried you."

Sky stepped forward "This is all my fault, don't punish Stella, I got her into this."

Stella's head snapped around to her brother "He's lying, I could have stopped this back at the house, but I didn't"

Sasha and Ratchet glanced at each other "I'm afraid you're both going to get in a lot of trouble for this. But We'll talk about it later. For now, we're going to head home and get some sleep."

Both kids sighed and trudged towards the hovercar. A grim Ratchet and Sasha following.

Closing: Well there ya go, happy ending mini adventure for now. But all is now well on earth, Zen and his lot are gearing up for their assault, and Ratchet, Sasha, Sky, and Stella are all about to have their lives thrown into overdrive. Also on a diffrent note, I have set up a community and forums for Ratchet and Clank stories, and before you get "Oh another community where somebody adds a bunch of their favorite stories and then leaves it be" Know that one, I plan on keeping constant because I have no life :D and two, the stories that make it in, aside from a few that i think get in hands down, are voted on by those who visit there. So go check it out and lets get it going.

Add the fanfiction before the dot net, because ff is removing it. or you can get the link off my profile page.

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Peace out, off to sleep since Borderlands finally choked and kicked me.

Emile.