Authors Note: OMG YOU MUST ALL HATE ME! I'M SORRY SO SORRY, LIFE HAS BEEN KICKING MY ASS SO HARD I HAVEN'T HAD TIME FOR FF NET I FEEL SO BAD.

Seriously though, Life has been dropping me left and right. School all day Monday-Thursday Work all day Friday-Sunday Then start the whole thing over again I feel really bad, especially since I did that whole "Review if you want an update" then got like three reviews. Passed My Mid Terms only to have Finals start to loom over me now. Plus I got to take my A+ Cert test too...OOOO I'M GOING TO EXPLODE. But first a Chapter. Its short, but its all I've got right now.

10 hours later

The Giant turbines that powered the Phoenix sluggishly moved inside their containers, providing only partial power to the ship.

"Hey, Stella, It's not supposed to be like that right?" Sky asked as he and Stella ducked underneath the safety rail to get a closer look.

"Not the ones I've read about, most engines like this have those things going so fast you can't even see them."

Both of them groaned as their parents tugged them back onto the catwalk. "Aside from our kids nearly falling into the engines pistons, they do have a point." Ratchet turned to CR3 "How did they get the Phoenix here so fast CR3?"

CR3 just started laughing "We've been in transit since the Galactic President walked out your door a month or so ago."

"What?"

"Yea, I guess she knew that you would end up taking her offer. As soon as she was in her ship she turned to me and told me, "Get Marcaida to send the Phoenix to Veldin,by the time it gets here, I'm sure they'll have changed their minds.'"

Ratchet growled "That's no fair"

"In her defense she also said that if you still hadn't accepted her proposal she would leave it in dry dock up here for you to fix up under her bill. Nobody will work on it anymore."

Ratchet looked down as Stella tugged on one of his armor plates. "So, does that mean I get to help you fix the Phoenix Dad?"

Ratchet glanced around "Maybe, Depends on how CR3 answers my next question..." he trailed off as the group continued down the catwalk. Stella glanced at CR3 who just stared back at her, she waited for a bout two minutes before she looked back at her dad. "Welllllll?"

The rest of the group chuckled and Ratchet glanced over at CR3. "So tell me, why will nobody work on the Phoenix?"

CR3 made a snorting sound "Scared, we lost track of the first group that came in here to fix it and nobody wanted to work on it again."

Ratchet raised an eyebrow "Lost Track?"

CR3 glanced meaningfully at the Twins "Well we found them, sorta."

Sky looked puzzled "Sorta? You mean like dead?"

Sasha and Ratchet looked at him with a mild surprise while Stella and CR3 chuckled. "Nah." CR3 said after he was done chuckling "There's a blocked repair pipe that we can't around, we think they might have somehow been sealed in there."

Ratchets eyes narrowed "How would they have been trapped in there?"

CR3 shrugged "Looks like it just collapsed, no idea what caused it though."

"Was it near here?"

CR3 looked away from them and his face plate blinked a few times "It was conduit L-48A, Two decks down."

Ratchet nodded and sighed, "Might as well check it out then. Come on"

Ratchet began to head further down the path. "Uh, Sir" CR3 called after him.

Ratchet stopped "What?"

CR3 seemed happy about something. "Elevators out" He said almost sounding smug.

Ratchet groaned. "Alright, Service ladder it is."

2 Decks, 450 Rungs, and four breaks later. At Junction L-48

Ratchet stood in front of the large tunnel blocked with junk that marked the entrance to conduit L-48A. He was leaned over the junk pile looking closely at it, as if he could tell what caused it to fall. His eyes narrowed as he noticed a green ooze and ran his finger through it. He brought it to his nose and sniffed twice. He thought for a moment and stiffened when he realized he smelled this ooze before.

"Sasha?" He asked quietly as he crouched and and began to back away very slowly from the wall of junk. Her husbands tone of voice and movements set her hair on edge and had her reach for her electron staff. "What's up?" she asked just as quietly. Their kids both ducked low and crept behind CR3 at their parents tone and actions.

"Got my QSW?"

"Yea" she whispered and reached into her pocket and threw it at him. As he caught it the junk piled shuddered violently. Ratchet began back pacing until he was even with Sasha. "CR3!" He called "GET MY KIDS OUT OF HERE! NOW!" he shouted over the now loud rumbling from the junk pile.

CR3 grabbed the scared kids in one arm and ran for the elevator.

Ratchet snapped his watch on and pressed the button, his view overlaid with eight of his weapons Ratchet growled involuntarily as the pile pressed out and green slime leaked from it. He blinked rapidly at one icon and felt the weapon start to solidify in his hand.

He brought the handle forward and felt the tube land on his shoulder as it formed, it grew in length until he had to crouch to support the weight. He braced the front and his finger tightened on the trigger as the targeting sight popped out of the side.

Sasha glanced briefly to the side "That's new, and gold?" she said as the pile of junk bowed out again with a tremendous bang.

Ratchet moved his shoulder underneath his Devastator. "Actually, its old." he said as the King Amoeba smashed through the barrier and Ratchet felt the gun kick as a Rocket flew into its roaring mouth. He watched shocked as the large rocket spiraled downward into what must have been its stomach where it vanished in a boiling mass of slime. The Amoeba didn't even seem to notice, that's when Ratchet noticed something about it, it was large, larger then any he had ever seen, ever. It seemed to have a form of hair in the mass of slimy tentacles that slithered from its head, each one darting towards Ratchet and Sasha. Ratchet ducked under one of the slimy vines that pounded into the wall behind him, cracking it. He dropped this devastator and blinked at another one of his icons. He felt his blaster form and he started to pepper the creature with blaster shots.

Sasha meanwhile had begun her own fight, cartwheeling through the air her staff flashing about zapping the tentacles as they got close. "You may not like Rockets" she called as she reached for an orb on her belt. Lets see how you like a this" She finished as she trapped one of the tentacles in the floor with her staff, causing the creature to roar in pain. The little silver orb sailed into it's mouth. Leaving the creature trapped by the tentacle she dashed forward and grabbed Ratchets shoulder as she flipped over a set of crates with him behind her.

"Wha-" He started asking right before a tremendous explosion shook the crates and green slime splashed the entire room they were in. Ratchet peaked over the edge of the crates to see the green covered room and raised an eyebrow at his wife as he settled back against the crates again.

"So-" He began again "What, was that exactly?"

Sasha reached into her belt and pulled out another small sphere. "Something I brought out of out little venture to Bogon, no Idea what they are but when we field tested one once we got back." She shrugged "I was saving them for a rainy day." The beeping of an elevator had both of them on their feet with Ratchet pointer his blaster at the source while Sasha cocked her arm back to throw again. Keeping his eye trained on the elevator her raised an eyebrow again. "Really?"

She shrugged and held her hand out behind her, her staff being summoned back to her from where it had flung from the blast. The doors of the elevator opened and Ratchet and Sasha relaxed when CR3's head poked out. They were on the point of putting their weapons away when CR3 called out. "Hey, that stuffs not supposed to be moving right?"

Ratchet and Sasha realized that the goo had been moving and now formed a large number of little piles, all of them forming a smaller version of what the had just killed. Ratchet and Sasha stood back to back and faced down the little mass of creatures. Sasha spinning her staff while Ratchet Threw his blaster in the air and it broke apart into his Duel Vipers. He caught one in each hand and aimed down the sights as his Aegis armored clacked and smaller plates of his dread-zone armor slid out covering any loose sections of his skin. A small visor slid over his mouth and Sasha glanced back at him. "Okay, now you can't tell me that's not new."

He nodded behind his glass view plate. "It is, I've spent some time tinkering with some of my old stuff." The Amoebas at this point had finished forming and each began to attack the two, their tentacles lashing out and their mouths chopping. It was almost going to be close. Ratchet leaped into the air his armor giving him a boost and rained fire down onto the amoebas. When he reached his peak he flipped and stuck his Vipers on his side and charged towards the ground with his wrench out, smashing into the deck and his armor temporary discharging its shock net creating a shockwave the blasted a small number of the amoebas into little bits. He than began darting through the mass, striking out left and right with his wrench splattering green goo everywhere.

Sasha meanwhile had begun her own fight, splitting her electron staff in two at the handle she now held two short electron sticks, and she was darting through the mass of amoebas striking left and right zapping each one and sending it into convulsions that shook them apart. She jammed one stick into an amoebas face and left it there when another one tried to claim her hand. She lost the other one on the back swing from another amoeba. She growled and began using her fists to strike out at them keeping them back.

"Ratchet, Vipers" she called and held her hands out just in time to catch Ratchets Duel Vipers as he tossed them at here and continued beating down with his wrench. Sasha cleared a small bit of space around her by swinging the vipers around her in a circle, before back-flipping into the air firing rounds into the masses below her. She landed ten feet away and re-cocked the vipers aiming them at the last few amoebas. She loosed two quick flurry of shots the cleared the ones in front of her then blind shot one about to jump Ratchet from over her shoulder.

Ratchet didn't hesitate as Sasha had called out for his vipers, he had just jumped up and tossed them before drawing his wrench and continued his fight. He had just about cleared the room when he felt something splash across his back and saw her holding one of his guns pointed at him over her shoulder. Apparently having just blasted one that was about to attack him. He gave her a thumbs up and realized the slime the cover his back was moving.

"Get ready for round three" he called and she answered with a sigh and tossed the raptors back at him. "New gun then" she said. He blinked a few times at his weapons load-out on his visor and smiled when he saw another gold plated weapon. "Try this one on" he said as he blinked a few times and tossed the weapon at her.

She caught what was obliviously a flamethrower, an old model though she thought as she glanced at the gold weapon she held. "Seriously, a Gold Flamethrower?" she asked him as smaller and even more amoebas started to form. He grinned at her and shook his hand, a second wrench appearing in it. "It was a good buy" he said before he turned to face his group. She shook her head and turned around waited for the closest amoeba to leap at her before she pulled the trigger and a column of green fire sprang forth from the nozzle washing the amoeba in flame and making it vanish into ash. She grinned and put more pressure on the trigger spraying it in front of her. She realized though that she wasn't covering enough ground with it. Ratchet who saw her predicament called out. "Squeeze the trigger three time rapidly and hold on." He yelled as he smashed another amoeba into the ground and sent dissolving goo everywhere.

Sasha looked at the weapon in her hands before she squeezed the trigger three times...and gasped as the flame stopped for a split second the metal on the outside of the nozzle split off and formed three smaller nozzles on a trident type thing that started spinning while she held the trigger. As soon as an amoeba got close A giant column of flame spurted out of the one of the nozzles as another smaller column spiraled through the amoebas burning them to ashes, while the last one spread out a small cone of flame in front of her, shielding her from amoebas that jumped at her. She grinned and charged into the mass burning them left and right. Shortly after the battle ended as Sasha used the Pyrocitor to burn the last puddle of slime into ash. She tossed the weapon at Ratchet and went to retrieve her own as Stella and Sky ran out of the elevator.

"THAT WAS SO AWESOME" Sky called as he darted into the middle of the room. Stella laughed at him. "That was pretty cool to watch" she said. Ratchet turned to face CS3 and tapped his chest sending his advanced armor sliding back into hiding. "What are they talking about CS3?"

CS3 shrugged "Screen in the elevator, not my fault Stella tapped into the video feed from the cameras out here. Sky held me so I couldn't stop her."

Sasha raised an eyebrow at her children who grinned sheepishly before turning to CS3. "We're sorry CR3" they said together.

CR3 laughed and walked towards the pipe that had been blocked. He raised his arm cannon up and began to walk in "Going to go see if I can find that missing crew" he called as the black swallowed him. Ratchet and Sasha turned to their kids and beckoned them to follow. The four of them headed back towards the ladder and upper decks.

A short time later the lights dimmed through most of the ship and Ratchet and Sasha closed the door to their room, having just tucked their children in for the night.

Hopefully My next chapter won't be so far away, I Would still like reviews from all who read this (if they still do and haven't giving me up for dead) to give me your thoughts and all that.

Emile