Ratchet and Alister:

The Blue Orb

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

Chapter 18 The Blue Orb:

"We have captured the two male Lombaxes and Bird." Said one of the robotic troops who caught Ratchet, Alister and Drake. "What do you want us to do now?"

Lola, who was sitting behind her desk, was smiling like mad. Finally she has got the local rebal Alister Azimuth and Drake, and the younger...again. This was wonderful. Three in one day, at the same time. Just wonderful. "Rest my troops. You deserve it."

"Thank you, master." With that the guards made their way back to their quaters and rested up for the night. Leaving the Viric grinning evilly. Time to pay the elders a vist, hmm? Getting up, she made her way down to the cell block in the ship.

Meanwhile...

Alister kept fidgeting with the tight chains wrapped around his wrists. If he didn't to get to Ratchet, who know's what Lola will do with him. Not to mention, she controlled the young Lombax to kill him. It's obvious the female wants him dead, so he can have Ratchet all to herself.

"Azimuth?" Drake spoke, breaking the silence in the air after minutes of waiting for something to happen. Hearing the that the sound of metal rubbing against each other, he guessed that the other heard. "What are we going to do now?"

More silence filled the cell. "...I don't know." The General mumbled under his breath.

"What? I didn't quite-"

"I DON'T KNOW!" He yelled loudly. How was he meant to know?! Looking at the bird, he noticed that he was hurt from the outburst. He hung his head. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-"

"Well, look at you two making friends." Lola joked out of no-where; which made the other two jump. They didn't even hear her come in through the doors. "It's it just great to make best buds." She spoke to them like they were 5 year olds.

"What have you done with Ratchet?!" The elder yelled at the top of his voice, spitting at the same time but he soon lost his breath as the now angry Viric punched him in the stomach to shut him up.

She bent down to whisper in his white ears. "You'll find out." Getting back up, she pulled out a remote and pushed the button. A screen appeared of a room with a metal stab in the middle with machines around it connecting with the stab. Several troops appeared in the room, with one of them carrying someone very familiar who was trying to free himself.

"RATCHET?!" Alister called out thinking that the younger could hear him, but when Lola started laughing. He was guessing that it was just a Holo-camera not a Holo-communicator where they can speak to each other.

The guards slammed Kaden's son down onto the metal bench and pulled metal straps around his ankles, wrists, waist, legs, arms and chest. By the time that was all done, he couldn't move a budge.

"LET ME GO!" Ratchet screamed with all his strength. "ALISTER, HELP ME! PLEASE!"

A metal helmet, that was connected up the the machine just like the straps, was put of his head tightly so he coudn't shake it off.

Alister had to make himself look away, he could not bare it anymore. He failed to protect Ratchet...again.

Lola smirks at this, and finally tells the Lombax and Bird why the younger is so important to her. "I guess you've properly been wondering why I want Ratchet so badly. Well today's the day you find out." She said, patting Drake's cage while looking at the General.

"You see, he's one of a kind. He's very special to people." She glanced at Alister for a second and carried on. "He's the key to everything."

This got Drake thinking. "What do you mean?" He asked, curiously.

"I mean, you know when Vorselon told you a little clue that you couldn't work out...about this 'Blue Orb'? Well, I think you know where I'm going with this."

"Ratchet is the Blue Orb." Azimuth said under his breath but loud enough for everyone to just catch it. He didn't want to believe it. It could not be true. As much as he hated it, it was true.

"Yes, you are correct. And now, I need to finish what I started." Lola pressed a different button which turned on the machine that Ratchet was connected to. The elders could clearly see what was happening. It was sucking the life and energy out of him and being transported into a crystal glass ball.

Alister's ears laid flat against his head, trying to not hear the horrible screams of the younger. Anger and rage was lifting up in his body. The female Viric spotted this out the corner of her eyes. She laughed evilly and left the two and went to the room that Ratchet was in but leaves the screen of him up. His yells slowly died out. This made Alister look up.

He just laid there emotionless in a few minutes. His mouth was slightly open from yelling, but the most disturbing thing was that his eyes were wide open. His chest was still, lungs not breathing. Heart not beating. He was dead.

Lola enters the room, walks over to the body of Ratchet. Her cold hands run through his golden fur. Grinning wildly, she looks at the holo-camera dangeruously and pounces at the screen. Smashing it strongly with her sharp teeth.

Alister, Drake and even Lord Vorselon was shocked of what happened. They couldn't believe what their eyes just saw, they blinked at the now fuzzy screen with eyes as wide as dinner plates.

"Vorselon, come to my headquaters now." She commanded with a quite vicious tone of voice.

He gulped but did as what he was ordered to do. Now what was she up to? He thought. worriedly.

Well, here's chapter 18 at last folks! Sorry I haven't uploaded anything in quite a while but I went on holiday for like a week up in Scotland where we had no internet connection. But finally I got to upload this chapter that I've been wanting to do for ages! Hope you enjoyed it :)