Here's chapter 86.
On a nearby street, Alister and Ratchet were already heading back to their rented apartment. They were happy with the time they spent together without hiding and what they were told was true, no one began to observe them in a strange way, so no one had found out that they were from another planet that was several light years from Earth. The government should have hidden the identity of both and Clank, as well as the identities of the others who were brought to this city. Although they knew that there were government agents disguised as civilians to try to prevent any trouble someone might cause against them, both Lombax were sure they could hold their own, as they would have shown in the past, but they knew it was better not to attract attention and pretend to be normal citizens or in another case a couple of tourists who came to the city to take a relaxing vacation.
The two Lombax were holding hands as they walked, they definitely liked having that physical contact when they went for a walk. This was the first time the two had been in a relationship with anyone else, as Alister (despite being roughly 20 years older than Ratchet) had never dated anyone, including being General of the Lombax Praetorian Guard, founder of the Court of Azimuth , and after almost all the lombax disappeared and him trying to make amends (since he was responsible for that) he never had time to form a relationship with anyone. If the universe was giving him the opportunity to be happy with someone, and if this person was the son of his deceased best friend, then he would do his best to make both happy. Ratchet on the other hand, although he had the opportunity to form relationships with some girls who had been interested in him, he never reciprocated them because shortly before meeting Clank, he had realized that he liked boys, and for that reason he never he formed a relationship with no one until fate brought Alister into his life again.
They both still remembered the day they met.
At that moment Alister was lying on his side on a hard surface. He was unconscious at the time, but one thing made him come to his senses when he heard a voice repeating his name, at first with confusion, he didn't think he would hear that voice again. For a moment he thought of the worst and the owner of that voice had had a tragic fate and was now in the same place as him. Because the voice was exactly the same as the last time he heard it, he hadn't aged at all. At that moment he could feel the touch of the owner of the voice who stood next to him and began to hug him while hearing that he cried with joy, and he could even feel tears falling on top of him. He slowly began to open his red eyes and could see that it was Ratchet who was hugging him. But what surprised him the most was also seeing Clank standing near them looking at the situation in surprise. That gave Alister to understand that it was not Ratchet who had died, but himself who had come back to life.
When Alister had the strength to compose himself, he saw how Ratchet separated from him, but instead of letting him get away, he himself decided to hug him, until he finally felt relieved, so Ratchet also continued with the hug. They were there for what seemed like several hours until they finally parted ways. After that, Ratchet and Clank began to ask Alister what had happened that he was now alive again, but he had no idea what was going on either, he didn't even know what had happened to his armor, since the clothes he was wearing it was that he had under that armor. Whatever happened to him, the two Lombaxes and the robot had no answers. What's more, when they saw themselves around them, they were on top of a building, in a city they had never seen before. It would take weeks for them to figure out that they were on another planet and that they were too far from home. So to return, it would be a great challenge, since until they figured out how they got there, they would be stranded on that planet.
Returning to the present, Alister and Ratchet had just returned to the apartment. They could smell the food being prepared. When they went to the kitchen they saw that Clank had already reactivated again and was preparing dinner for both. The robot had learned to cook a few years ago, since when there were times when Ratchet got sick, he was in charge of taking care of it, since they were the only two who lived in that area. When Alister came into their lives, although it was no longer necessary for Clank to be in charge of cooking, he still insisted on doing it, so that every day one of the three of them was in charge of making the food, and although as Clank was a robot and for obvious reasons he didn't need to eat, he liked to see how the two lombax enjoyed their food, that made him know that he didn't need to be organic to prepare something edible for his lombax friends. That practice time when Ratchet got sick definitely helped him a lot with this.
"I see you're back, how was your walk?" Clank asked.
"It went pretty well for us. It was a pretty quiet time for both," Ratchet replied.
"I can't complain either. There was no setback of any kind. And how long ago did you start preparing dinner?" Alister added.
"10 minutes ago. It won't be long before it's ready. If you want you can go ahead and sit at the table" said the robot.
Both Lombax nodded their heads and went into the living room.
It didn't take long for Clank to return and put food on the table for his two friends. Alister and Ratchet began to eat calmly and quietly while Clank watched them. Little did the three of them know what had happened to Clank a few minutes ago after he deactivated. Since not even the robot itself knew that there was something different about it. What they did to him just now hadn't caused him anything strange. That wasn't to say that something strange couldn't happen soon though. It could happen sooner or later, depending on what was planned for him in the coming days or weeks.
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In another part of the city, Star Fox and Star Wolf had already returned to their shared apartment. After talking to the mobians and Slippy helping with the radars, they had decided to go back and rest. The vixen that had come to help with the construction of the devices had already left the city, a few minutes before they said goodbye to the inhabitants of Mobius. The vixen took some of the radars with her to be used by the agents of the agency she works for. Star Fox and Star Wolf took a few for themselves. The mobians also stayed with others. There were a few left for Officers Wilde and Hopps, and Agent Savage, who would hand them over when they saw them again.
On days like these that were quite calm and there wasn't much to do, everyone missed their adventures in space: In the case of Star Fox protecting the inhabitants of Lylat; while in the case of Star Wolf to make a profit from anyone who requests their services, whether for legal or illegal things, although it's been a long time (since the moment Krystal had joined the team) they didn't do illegal things anymore, and although they didn't earn as much money as before, it was still enough to support themselves. But one of the things they (or at least Falco and Leon) missed most was being on their ships trying to take each other down while hurling insults at each other in the process. It could be said that it was one of the favorite hobbies for both of them (Falco's other favorite was spending time with his boyfriend Fox and Leon's other favorite was torturing people).
The others thought that with how badly both the pheasant and the chameleon got along, and having to live together for 3 months, it would end in tragedy, because there would be three possible situations that could occur. The first that Falco murdered Leon, the second that Leon murdered Falco, the third that they both murdered each other. Those ideas caused a lot of stress for the others, so they always had to try to calm their disputes before they escalated. At the beginning these discussions were practically every day; so Peppy, Wolf, Panther and Fox were the ones who commonly had to separate them. Slippy and ROB just watched at first because Slippy couldn't control either the pheasant or the chameleon. Back then, Slippy still hadn't fitted ROB with the beam that would knock anyone unconscious in case it was necessary to stop arguments or worse. Fortunately, after a month passed those arguments started to subside, now they were mostly throwing sarcastic comments at each other.
Wolf and Fox sometimes had their arguments too, though unlike Leon and Falco. Their discussions were in a lower tone than the others, at least the others present couldn't know what the others were talking about. Since they didn't want to create scandals or uncomfortable situations if they had to live together. Apart from the argument they had the day before (in which Leon and Falco also got involved) practically the other days were calm. On the other hand Peppy, Slippy, ROB and Panther were calmer among them during their coexistence. Therefore, at least they were the ones who had the least adjustment problems from having to live together in an apartment. Each one was dedicated to their own and only interacted if necessary.
Right now, after that little meeting they had with the mobians, they only had to watch the news while they ate dinner, maybe watch a movie and finally go to sleep. At least something that the two groups had in common was that they had the same taste for the same type of movies, so when they watched them, it was the only moment where everyone was relaxed and it seemed like a group of friends sharing a common interest. There were times when some of them (mainly Peppy or Slippy) thought that if things had been different between them in the past; Wolf, Leon and Panther had been on the side of good all their lives, perhaps they could all have been members of the same team, or perhaps allies. Although it was not too late for the wolf, the chameleon and the panther to mend their ways.
After the group prepared for dinner, and it would have been Peppy and Panther who were in charge of preparing the food for everyone (since Fox, Slippy and Wolf didn't know how to cook; while Falco and Leon did, but they couldn't risk to Falco feeding Leon nasty things to eat or Leon trying to poison Falco, both were out) they finally started watching the news where there was nothing remarkable compared to the day before.
Once they finished they began to watch a movie that was action and science fiction that reminded them a little of their lifestyle. Since it had to do with spaceship pilots taking down enemy ships in outer space. It seems that in this star system that was not as advanced as theirs, they still had the imagination to make movies, comic series or manga with these themes. Definitely watching those movies would also bring back fond memories of home while they were there.
So far the chapter. I hope you liked it.