Here we go another mental world as Nigel continues to get his disguise.

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DM77's Psychonauts Chapter 22

Cybertron World Part 1

Nigel smiles as he re-enters the courtyard of the Asylum, he had got one part of the disguise he needed to get past Crocker. He decides to go to Ratchet who was still fighting with himself while playing a strange game. Either way his blue straitjacket will be perfect for his disguise.

"Excuse me, sir?" Nigel said to Ratchet.

"My name is King Mondo!" Ratchet said in his royal voice turning to Nigel.

"Oh! Uh…excuse me…Mr. Mondo?" Nigel said awkwardly, he knows little on King Mondo being an evil ruler of the Machine Empire, so clearly this guy believes he is him.

Ratchet then bends down and whispers in a normal voice "Shhhh! I only THINK I'm King Mondo." He then stands up and says in the royal voice "Do not listen to the weakling! He denites his lineage because he fears it!"

"I like your jacket. Very strappy!" Nigel said to him.

"You want it? You can have it! Just help me undo these buckles in the back and..." Ratchet said in his normal voice but then said in his Mondo voice "What are you doing?! The royal vestments of this empire are sacred! We shall wear it proudly until the battle is over." He then looks at Nigel and whispers desperitly in his normal voice "Help me!"

It was clear to Nigel that Ratchet was suffering some kind of Split Personality Disorder and he wasn't going to get his straightjacket until the two personalities settle their conflict. He readies his Pscyho-Portal and throws it onto Ratchet's forehead.

"Ah! I've been hit!" Ratchet said in the Mondo voice in shock.

Nigel sorts out his shades and mentally allows himself to be pulled into Ratchet's mind.


When Nigel arrived in the world, he found himself in a quiet sitting room that was simple and elegant, he sees Ratchet sitting at a large table slumped and board, across from him was a robot styled like a king holding a sceptor, Nigel figured this was King Mondo. Both were quiet and concentrating on the table.

Nigel looks at the table and sees that it leads inwards to a game board. It was of a futiricitc medieval kingdom, Nigel reagonize it to be that strategic war board game Cybertron. Nigel then asked the two "Who's wining?"

"Nobody's winning!" Mondo said slamming his staff down in annoyance "Want to know who's losing? The Machine Empire Royal family name!"

"Look, I forfeit, okay? You win!" Ratchet said to Mondo annoyed "King Mondo wins again!"

"Is that the real King Mondo? I mean the imaginary real King Mondo?" Nigel asked amazed, he thought Ratchet just had regular split personality like Sally did but it seemed he was fighting an actual representation on King Mondo.

"Yeah, I'm actually related to him, can you believe it?" Ratchet said to Nigel, "I'm the offspring of a line that came from his eldest son Prince Gasket."

"Shut up! Stop telling people such shameful facts!" King Mondo told him, he then explained to Nigel. "I don't even want to be here, but when this sad excuse for a part of my Royal family lost a simple game of war to a feeble minded invalid, I just could not take it anymore! I was forced to take control, and I will stay in control until I beat the love of victory into this rustbucket junkheap who dares call himself a member of my lineage!"

"No, really great, great, great grandfather Mondo. I do love victory like…a ton. I love it so much. You can go now. I swear." Ratchet said not convincingly.

"Your move!" Mondo said not buying.

Nigel looks at it, seems Mondo is trying to help Ratchet in gaining confidence but clear Ratchet has no real desire to play because he won't win he feels. Well Nigel is going to conscript himself into Ratchet's army to lead the troops to victorty. So he climbs the ladder and goes down into the game board. He was bit enough to tower over the board still but was in the game board.

Just then a minute version of Mondo approaches on a walking throne and said surprised "What's this? My lazy opponent is actually trying to win? He has sent reinforcements! Well, well! Let the game begin! Send in my best soldier!" Just then coming out of the castle was a game piece, a robot with a gold heard in silver cloth, it was a Cog Solider. "You! Destroy that bridge! For the Machine Empire!"

"For the Empire!" The Cog said as he goes to the bridge close to Nigel and fires his eye beams at the bridge destroying it "I hate you stupid bridge! This is how much I hate you! Haha! Suck on that stupid bridge!" He sees a farm house nearby "Ah, yes now I will go torment this poor peasant over here. Haha!"

"Oh man, now look!" Ratchet said dejected looking at the board "The bridge is broken and I can't move my pieces past it anymore, I quit. Mondo, you win."

"No! We don't forfeit!" Nigel said firmly "We're going to beat you, Mr. …Genetic memory of King Mondo!"

"Ha ha!" Mondo said with a laugh "I like your attitude young Earthling! Your spunk! Maybe you will teach my cybertronian nincompoop a lesson, eh?"

Nigel looks at the board and can't figure out how to play. He goes to Mondo and asked "Excuse me, Mr. Mondo? But how do you play this game?"

"Ah, this game is so easy, even a earthling child like you can play it." Mondo said to him and explains pointing to his castle "All my worthless descendant has to do is move his Gourmet Guy piece into the centre of my castle." He then laughs pointing over to a restaurant on the far opposite side of the board "But his Gourmet Guy isn't even on the board. He's hiding out in that house."

"Well, maybe he's got a good reason…" Nigel said thinking

"And Gourmet Guy is good at storming castles, but they are no good at field combat." Mondo continues to explain pointing to several houses "So he'll need Vehicons to fight my Cogs. But he has no Vehicons. His people are hiding out in their houses hopeless, hungry, and unarmed."

"Yeah, but…" Nigel said only to be cut off.

"And if they came out to form a strong Vehicon army, they wouldn't be able to move around the board because I keep breaking his bridges!" Mondo told him.

"Hey that part is your fault…" Nigel told him.

"He could easily fix the bridges I keep breaking if he just had a Craftmon, but his Craftmon is hiding out in his house, ha ha, afraid!" Mondo laughed pointing to the Carpentor house.

"Well, war is scary…" Nigel said rubbing his head

"So, you see, it is an easy game, but Ratchet has already lost it." Mondo told Nigel.

"Not this time! This time we're going to win!" Nigel told Mondo.

"No, we're not!" Ratchet called out.

"Ratchet shut up!" Nigel whisper yelled.

With knowing the rules, Nigel goes to Craftmon's home first and shrinks down to be smaller to move around the area. While this size Nigel had to deal with mental enemies like a walking cannons known as Kaboomba which Nigel had to defeat by stunning them and lighting there fuse to blow themselves up.

Nigel once he dealt with the enemies goes to the door of Craftmon and knocks on it. "Hello in there! Any Craftmon home?"

The door opens but then closes as the Craftmon inside said "Go away, burglar!"

"I'm not a burglar!" Nigel told him. "I'm a recruiter for Ratchet's army. We're a little light in our corps of engineers, see…"

"Listen, I know you're a burglar." Craftmon said opening the door enough to just talk "I've been listening to your footsteps on my roof all night, trying to break in. Why don't you just slide down chimney? I've got a nice fire going for you in here, Mr. Burglar!" He closes the door again

"Okay, if I'm a burglar, then how can I be down here talking to you AND up on the roof at the same time?" Nigel asked him.

Craftmon opens the door a bit again and said, "Maybe you're a ventriloquist."

"Listen, if I go see what's up on your roof and take care of it. will you come out and help fight Mondo?" Nigel offered him.

"Maybe." Craftmon said and shuts the door.

"Good enough!" Nigel said to that and goes to do that while also work on getting Gourmet Guy and some troops out. He goes to where Gourmet Guy was at and knocks on the door. "Hello?"

The door opens enough to talk and Gourmet Guy says "Sorry! I can't storm Mondo's castle today. Too weak." He closes the door.

"Oh, okay." Nigel said to that concerned "Want me to call a doctor?"

Gourmet Guy opens the door again and said "No, I'm not sick. I just can't find any decent food around here. An army moves on its stomach, you know. An elite force such as I require the finest meals, I'm afraid."

"Oh, well, I'll keep on the lookout for some place with good take out." Nigel tells him.

"Only the best young lad." Gourmet Guy said and points to an area across the broken bridge to a candy grove "I am a bit of a sweet tooth, and anything but the sweetest of deserts might bruise my palette, and leave me unable to storm anything, save the vomitorium." He closes the door.

"Ew." Nigel said to that.

Nigel first decided to get Craftmon out ready, he uses nearby building roofs and wires to make his way to Craftmon's roof and saw it was some Micromangers running on the roof, being led by a Buff Micromanger. He takes them out and also finds running on the roof a mental vault, he smacks it open and looks into the slide viewer.

It was titled 'Ratchet vs. Crocker' the first slide surprised Nigel as he saw Ratchet in the mental asylum not as a patient but as worker there the next slide was more surprising as it showed Crocker as a patient as Ratchet looked at him concerned, so whatever happened switch the twos positions. The next slide showed Ratchet offering to play the boardgame Cybertron with Crocker to help him out.

The next slide showed the two playing the game but the slide after showed Crocker winning the game which in the following slide showed Ratchet shocked and confused on how he won. The last slide showed Ratchet angrily set up the board again while Crocker watches on smirking.

"Geez, that might be the cause." Nigel said putting it down. He then heads down to Craftmon's door and knocks on it "Okay, you can come out. Burglar's gone."

Craftmon opens the door and said "Wow. You're pretty tough for a ventriloquist. Okay, here I come." Nigel sees a piece appear on the board, it was huge compared to his current size, it was of a robotic looking builder creature with many arms and tools "Just show me where there's some materials to work on and I'll go to town."

Nigel nods and uses a fountain to help make him go up to be on the map of the board, he looks at the Cog and said "Word of advice, give up while you still can because Ratchet's winning this. "The Cog laughs "I can burn metal with my mind so hot it melts."

"But that will be as the Earthlings say, cheating." The Cog soldier said.

Nigel rolls he eyes, he then heads over to the sugar grove and takes out some Buff Micromangers and Kaboombas before gathering a varaity of Sugerland sweets creatures by being invisible.

Once he got the tenth one he said to the lead sweet "Okay candy. It's time to serve the cause!"

"SO BE IT!" The lead sweet said to it. They then appear on the board as a candy decorated cake. "If it is truly a time of war then we are ready. We can no longer hide in out sugar homes, we are after all sweet filled warriors, and this is our land too. We may not be strong looking, but we always march the glittering path of righteousness, for we create it ourselves from our hearts. Lead us onward and let us make the carpet of Mondo's carpet sticky."

"Wow, right on, yes" said Nigel who was impressed by the speech, he was almost feeling guilty for where he was taking them. He then goes to the farmhouse the Cog was harrissing and knocks on it and reveals a purple, black and silver robot with a red visor known as Vehicon "Is this Cog bothering you?"

"Yes." The Vehicon said nodding.

"Then why don't you come out and fight him?" Nigel asked

"How much is it paying?" The Vehicon asked.

"Um…nothing." Nigel said to that.

"Not interested." The Vehicon said and slams the door shut.

After that he goes to the other side again andopenoaches the farmhouse there and knocks on it and the door opens to reveal another Vehicon. "Hello, I'm recruiting for the Army of Ratchet, and …"

"Go away!" The Vehicon said "Ratchet has forgotten the people, and we have forgotten him!"

"What? Ratchet loves the people!" Nigel told him "He was just telling me that some of his best friends are, um…the people."

"He has abandoned us! He doesn't care if we live or die!" The Vehicon told him.

"Look, I'll tell you what: I'll talk to Ratchet. I'll talk to him and prove to you that he cares about the common man, and that the fight is not meaningless." Nigel told him

"I'll believe it when I hear it from him." The Vehicon said and closed the door.

Nigel then goes big again and moves Craftmon to the broken bridge. Craftmon seeing it said "Aww, now who went and broke my beautiful bridge? Don't worry darling. We'll get you fixed up good as new in no time!" He then works on building the bridge and it was instantly repaired "Man, I am good. Mmm!"

Nigel then moves the candy cake to the house of Gourmet Guy and then knocks on it and as Gourmet Guy opens it the candy yells out "Charge!"

Gourmet Guy then consumes the cake and said "Delicious! I haven't had a cake like that since a fiar princess baked me one herself. But even that wasn't so full of…spirit! I am truly inspired. Come, let us storm Mondo's caslte and win this game for Ratchet!" He appars on the field a large Shy Guy with a knife and fork "But do hurry. I believe I may be hungry again soon."

Nigel nods in agreement, with Ratchet's champion piece back in play and the bridge fixed it was time to fight back against Mondo's hold and make their way to the castle.


Well the battle has started but will Nigel be able to ensure Ratchet wins only one way to find out.

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