Ratchet and Alister:

The Blue Orb

I DO NOT OWN RATCHET AND CLANK, INSOMNIAC GAMES DOES!

I OWN LOLA AND DRAKE, THEY BELONG TO ME!

Chapter 17:

Lola was sitting at her desk in her headquaters. Fingers tapped on the arm chair as her patience was running out. Where the hell was that stupid Terraklon? He was always late to this kind of meetings.

A light knock on the door cut through the silence and echoed after. Listening to it for a while before it died down, she said, "come in," in a harsh tone. Her sharp teeth were clenched together, showing anger.

Lord Vorselon came into the room quickly and quietly. He better think of an excuse of why he was late like this. He made a small bow and looked at the pisssed off female. A sigh escaped his lips. "Master, I'm-"

"I don't want an apolgy." She interrupted, calmly. "I want them!" Yelling and pointed at a picture of Azimuth and Ratchet on Axiom City after the younger recovered from the damage caused by the Terraklon. "You know the reason why the younger one is important to us. Also, why I need the elder gone!" Frustration was crystal clear in her deathly voice. The shouting and all said so.

A grin hushed over Vorselon's mouth. Do the elders know about the younger? Does the younger even know himself?

"What are you smiling about?" Lola said, still stressed from their conversation.

"I believe that Azimuth and the bird doesn't know about the boy's little secret." He replied, evilly.

This made the Viric light up with joy as an idea popped into her chaos mind. They just needed to find and capture all three of them, before they went a step further. "They don't know, which'll make it even more exciting when we tell them ourselves." She said, happily.

It took hours to plan out what was going to happen for tomorrow morning. "And we're done." The crimson haired female finished her non-stop talking at last. It was midnight by the time everything was sorted out.

The Terraklon was exhausted and went straight to sleep in his own headquaters for a few good hours. However, Lola wasn't even tired. She was wide awake. Maybe she was too full of energy to rest? Maybe it had something to do with her eyes? Her hungry eyes.

He woke up suddenly in a pitch black place. Not knowing where he was, he quickly stood up and turned in every direction to find a light source. Nothing by darkness surrounded him.

His ears pick up a sound, but it's goes in a second. It appeared again, and it sounded like someone was calling his name. He didn't recognise who the voice belongs to but it sounded very familiar. He listened again, and it sounded more and more worried each time.

He ran to the noise having that feeling someone was in danger. However he didn't know exactly where the voice was coming from, so he guessed.

He skidded to a hault when something wet touched one of his feet. Glancing down, he saw that what he stepped in was a deep red colour. Blood. Jumping back in alarm, two pair of yellow and red lights appeared through the blackness.

They were eyes, and he knew who they belonged to. A female Viric named...Lola. The eyes came closer to him, but he backed away. And that's when he noticed the body on the floor. White fur was coated in a thick layer of blood.

Suddenly he started to glow. His fur lost its goldenness and turned into different tints of light blue. "What the heck?" He said in complete shock.

Drake appeared out of the darkness as well, and looked worried as well. "Only you can save him." He said, while pointing at the younger.

This confused him even more. "Save who?"

"...Ratchet?" Alister asked in worry. The younger one had been shifting in his sleep, showing that a nightmare had occured while being in a deep sleep. Finally a pair of emerald eyes open and blink a few times to get use to their surroundings. A groaned left his mouth.

"Ratchet, are you alright?" Azimuth asked once again. He had tried to wake up Kaden's son for quite a while. His mind said something might of went wrong, but everything was good. But that's what he thought.

A gush a air escaped from Ratchet mouth. He must of have held it in, he didn't even realise he was holding his breath in the first place. "I'm fine." Was all he said and stood up to prove everything was fine.

Alister knew that the Lombax was lying but he wasn't going to question it. So he left it for now, he'll ask later.

"We better get moving before any of them troops find us." Drake suggested. They needed to get out of this cave soon enough, anything could appear from the darkness that surrounded them. All they had was the General's green flares for a light.

Everyone packed up the camp in a matter of minutes, just so no-one could see their trials of where they've been. They couldn't be followed. Not when they had to protect eacho ther from enemies.

The trio started to walk further into the cave, trying to find a diferent way out. The enterance they all came from, was properly not a good idea. The troops might of found the hole, and was on their way to kill them.

Alister had to get Ratchet out of here, alive. Even if it costs his own life. But what about the bird? Hmm, he didn't really care what would of happened to that creature. After all the horrible things that he had done.

Ratchet had another feeling on his mind. He didn't really like the idea of finding a different exit to escape. Something tells him that Vorselon's troops could of blocked every single enterance, leaving them sitting ducks. There was no way to get out of this nightmare. It literally had his fur rise.

Alister suddenly stopped to listen to the area around them. His ears twitched slightly. But the others still went on. "Everyone stop." He said, whispering. The younger and the bird did as they were told. Everything was quite for a few moments.

That's when the noise came. Footsteps. And it was coming closer and louder to them. Ratchet's heart beat raced. He knew who was coming to get them. The troops. Getting out his wrench, he made a defensive position. Alister did the same. But Drake flew off to see where they were coming from.

Suddenly a crowd of troops swarmed the area and surrounded Ratchet and Azimuth. Blocked they from escaping. There was no gaps for they to past through the guards. They were trapped.

They came closer to the Lombaxes, some of them held guns and some others held handcuffs. Alister knew that they were going to be captured, but if they refused they would be shot, not killed. Lola wanted them alive, but that didn't mean unhurt.

If he made a move, then they both would properly of ended up getting shot. So he lowed his double-ended wrench, slowly. He didn't want the younger to get hurt. Like he said before, he would risk his own life to save Ratchet.

One troop came and joined the group, holding a cage in his hand. The cage held Drake in it. There was no way he could get out of there either. They were all going to be dead meat in a matter of seconds. And he was right.

The troops moved swiftly to handcuff them, but that didn't mean they were going to be nice. They tightened the handcuffs as much as they could on the male Lombaxes. It literally disconnected their blood flow in their hands from the rest of their body.

Two guards took every single supply from the elder and younger. From their weapons to gadgets. The troops seized them and shoved them to an exit where three different ships were sitting. Drake knew that one ship meaned one prisoner. They were going to be separated.

Knowing this too, Alister tried to break free and get to Ratchet. The sound of the other screaming set him off. "Ratchet!" He yelled, pushing away the troops in his path. He needed to get to the younger and get them both out of this place. "Ratchet!" He shouted again, this time even louder.

He heard Kaden's son call out this name. By then he saw a troop had lifted Ratchet over his shoulder and carried him over to one of the ships. No, he's not letting them get away that quickly. A guard came up behind him and electrocuted him until his knees hit the ground. A painful sound escaped from his throat.

No he couldn't let them take Ratchet away. He also was lifted up and headed into a different direction. Being lead further away from the other. He just about picked up Ratchet calling out his name again, before he blacked out.

"No! Alister!" The young hero yelled at the top of his lungs. He couldn't run for it. He couldn't fight back. He was stuck. No matter how much he tried, he could never be free from Lola's chaos. The guards took him to his cell until they reached Vorselon's warship.

All he did was sit in a corner. Then he brang his knees up to his chest, and wrapped his arms around his legs. His head rested itself into his knees and a few tears fell down his muzzle. He was just part of Lola's game.

Sorry I haven't uploaded any chapter for this story for ages, I've been uploading of things ^^; But here it is, chapter 17 of The Blue Orb at last! It's my longest chapter at the moment...I believe XD

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it :)

The contest is on...again. I just didn't make it clear enough last time XD Well here we go:

1) Make a piece of artwork based on Chapter 1: Another Lombax. (NOTHING SEXUAL: but we don't mind kissing/hugging anything like that)

2) You have about a week to complete the drawing...The first closing date is the 27th July

3) Submit your artwork to me (yellowdizzylombax/deviantart/com ) or NightsBeast (nightsbeast/deviantart/com) on DeviantART (instead of putting the slash, replace it with a full stop)

We will dicide the next day who has won and their picture will go up. We'll being doing this in the next chapter as well for chapter 2 this time and give you another week and two days. We'll be doing this through out the whole story until every chapter is covered. Hope you have fun drawing and GOOD LUCK to you ALL! :D