Here's chapter 92.

In a small playground were Alister and Ratchet. Both Lombax had gone out for another walk through the city. Clank had also stayed alone in his apartment this time to allow them some time to be together and hang out as a couple. They had decided to go to that place, since there were not many people around at the time, and they wanted to be in a place where they would have a lot of peace and could relax a bit. Although there were not many children playing there, the few that were there were having fun playing with each other, while their parents watched them closely, being alert in case something out of place happened that day, although for the moment everything was normal and calm, even so they would not lower their guard.

Seeing those children playing, Alister had various memories of his childhood past with his best friend Kaden (his boyfriend Ratchet's father) Back then things were so simple and calm. When there was a lot of peace on the planet Fastoon. When the Lombax race was not extinct, and the entire planet was full of them. There were children, adults, and the elderly everywhere. Most of the lombax that inhabited the planet had yellow fur with orange stripes, although there were a few that were white with red stripes. These last ones were very scarce compared to the others, so Alister was one of the few exceptions to that, and the only one at present, since as far as he knew all the Lombax that had him color pattern were dead.

Even the playgrounds on Fastoon were similar to those on planet earth, only some of these rides on their home planet were mechanical, but the kids knew how to operate them, so there were never any incidents. It was right in one of those parks where Alister would meet Kaden, when he saw the other lombax playing alone, could see that he felt lonely since his ears were drooping when he saw them. So the white lombax had approached the yellow lombax and asked him if he wanted to play with him. When he asked the question, the other Lombax's ears perked up in happiness. After that they would both introduce themselves and start playing for the rest of the afternoon. Which marked the beginning of a long and lasting friendship where both would be there for each other in both happy and difficult times.

There were moments when Alister still blamed himself for how things turned out, when it was his fault that the Lombax disappeared. Even said event caused his best friend and his wife to die, leaving Ratchet an orphan since he was a baby. Although he never told Ratchet, as he didn't want to worry him, from time to time he had nightmares about it, he still didn't forgive himself for what he did. But he couldn't change the past anymore, he tried once and it all went horribly wrong. He didn't want to go through situations like this again in order to solve his mistake. Since he didn't want to lose the only important people he still had in his life: Ratchet and Clank, who supported him in everything after being revived three months ago. He wasn't going to lose what he had just to repair something from the past.

As the white lombax continued to watch the children, it brought back memories of when his friend Kaden had given him the news that he was going to be a dad, and that he would like him to meet his son the day he was born. At that moment he could see that his best friend was just as happy as they had been the day they met when they were both children. Those definitely must have been two pretty significant moments for Kaden. The day the son of his best friend was born, Kaden could be seen quite proud and happy, the baby was the spitting image of him, and Alister could tell when he saw him wrapped in blankets in his mother's arms. If someone had told him at that time that the baby that he met that day would become his boyfriend when he became an adult, he wouldn't have believed it.

Then another thought came to mind, and it was a somewhat sad thought, since he and Ratchet could never have children with each other. Alister, since a few years before the catastrophe in the big clock, always wanted to have a child whom he would raise, protect and follow in his footsteps. But after what he did years before, he knew it could never happen, and although he fell in love with Ratchet and they are together today, the fact that they were both men made it impossible for them to have biological children. Because if they had children, they could adopt, but they would never experience the sensation of having a child that was biological to both. And Alister didn't want his child to have any DNA other than his own and Ratchet's. That would be one of the things that could never come true, as well as seeing his species repopulating the planet Fastoon.

Alister was pulled out of his thoughts, when he heard the sound of a ball stopping right in front of where he was sitting. When he looked down it was a red and yellow colored ball, which was made of rubber. He bent down and picked it up. Ratchet saw what his boyfriend picked up the ball. It seemed that one of the children who was playing kicked it too hard and it came down near them, which weren't even very close to where most of the children played. It didn't take long that for appear in front of the two Lombaxs an small cream-colored bear wearing a yellow long-sleeved shirt, red pants, a red and yellow hat with a small propeller on top to finally. The irises of his eyes were black and had the shape of pacman. Whereas his nose was pink and heart shaped.

When both lombax saw the little bear they recognized him, he was one of several that they had seen the weekend before. The same day they met the mobians. They remembered that he was accompanied at that moment by two adult male bears and a bear smaller than him, which was a baby. They didn't see anyone with him at that time, but he would assume that his relatives would be close to him, since with the things that were happening, they doubted that he was alone in that place. But they supposed that the reason why he approached them, was because the ball that fell near them was that of that bear, and it made sense, since the colors of the ball corresponded to the clothes and the hat of the little bear. It could be said that at first glance those were his two favorite colors.

"Excuse me, that ball is mine, can you give it back to me, please?" said the little bear.

"Of course, here," Alister said as he handed the ball into his hands.

"Thank you very much" said the little bear.

"Oh, Cub. Here you are" said a voice coming closer.

There the two adult bears that accompanied him appeared. One orange with darker orange afro hair; and that he wore yellow clothing from the 70's. While the other one was a cream colored of the same cream color that Cub; who wore red clothes similar to those used in the 50's when one were at home. And lastly in the arms of the second was a small bear that seemed to be a few months old, he was cream colored, he had orange hair, although curly. And his clothing was a long-sleeved red shirt with yellow pants. The eyes of these three bears also had black irises and were pacman-shaped with a pink heart-shaped nose.

"Oh, sorry dad. It's that I lives to look for my ball, this man found it and returned it to me" said Cub one of his two dads while he pointed to the white lombax.

When they approached where the little bear was, the two adults thanked the older lombax for finding their son's ball and returning it. He replied that there was no problem.

The two lombax hadn't noticed it the first day they saw them, but the baby bear in the arms of the cream bear had features of both bears. The fur color of one and had the hair of the second. Not to mention that this baby shared traits with what would be his older brother. If they did the accounts. Cub only looked like the cream bear, but his little brother had features of the cream bear and the orange bear. Unless one of them had a sister who could have been the donor, they didn't think there was any way that baby would look much like both.

At the same time that the two lombax were thinking about that, the two adult bears and the biggest little bear suddenly came to them that they had seen these two before. It was when they all met the mobians for the first time in one of the city apartments, they saw that there were many present there who came to the city for the same reason as them, each one had certain qualities. These two had the particularity that they were the only "lynxes" in the group, and unlike other lynxes, they had stripes on their ears as well as on their arms and tail. Which was weird at one point, since lynxes didn't have stripes but rather marches all over their bodies. These made them think that, like them, these two must come from another dimension, but from a different one than theirs.

"Excuse me for the question, but didn't you guys come through a white light that suddenly enveloped you?" asked the orange bear with afro hair.

Both lombax were surprised by the sudden question, the younger lombax nodded. The older one didn't move since he was dead at that moment, and when he came back to life, when he opened his eyes, he was already on that planet. So he didn't know what happened at the time, but if it wasn't for what Ratchet and Clank told him, he couldn't have come up with a better explanation for it.

The two adult bears noticed that the older lombax was a bit thoughtful about the question they asked.

"I'm sorry, perhaps the question I asked made you feel uncomfortable, if so I apologize" said the orange bear.

"No, don't worry. The question didn't bother me. It's just that if I'm honest, I don't know how I got here due to certain circumstances that I don't want to talk about at the moment" said the older Lombax.

"Well, don't worry, we won't ask you any more if he doesn't feel comfortable talking about it. By the way, my name is Disco Bear" said the orange bear.

"My name is Pop. Disco Bear is my husband," said the older cream bear. "This is my son Cub" he said pointing to the bear that had the ball in his hands.

"Nice to meet you," Cub said after his father introduced him.

"And this is our son Rory," said Disco Bear and Pop pointing to the little baby bear in the cream bear's arms.

The little baby bear, a few months old, waved his hand in greeting.

"Nice to meet you. My name is Alister Azimuth" said the white lombax with red stripes.

"And my name is Ratchet" said the yellow lombax with orange stripes.

After the introductions, the two Lombaxes invited the bear family in for a talk. So the bears sat on the same bench as the lombax, which was very spacious. And they began to talk about various topics, although without revealing almost nothing about their universes of origin, although they did mention what they did or what their interests were. And so they would spend the rest of the afternoon.

So far the chapter. I hope you liked it.