New Arrivals
Some time has passed since the planet was terraformed. Sev is currently working on a replica of the house Courage used to live but with a few updates. He is installing some high-tech stuff to make it a bit more livable since they are used to the technology back at the base. Sev is right now installing the solar panels on the roof while wiring them. Courage comes out of the house with a picture of lemonade and two glasses.
"Got the lemonade!" Courage heads up the ladder.
Sev finishes the last bit of wiring of the solar panels. Courage hands him a glass and pours.
"Thank you, Courage." Sev sits on the roof and look out into the bay.
Courage pours himself a glass and sits on the roof with him. The two look out into the bay under a clear blue sky of a terraformed world. The sound of the waves, the smell of fresh air, the sight of flying creatures, and the sight of everything they worked hard on was worth it.
"Oh, did you installed the pipes?" Sev asks before taking another drink.
"I did. Even installed that strange water heater."
"Good to hear."
The two both take in a deep breath with a relaxing sigh as they gave out into the view. However, there is something missing. Amongst all these wonderful things they have done, all the life they have created with the eggs, there is just one thing missing from this wonderful planet. That one thing: people. Sev and Courage are the only forms of intelligent life on the planet. Even though they have each other, it is pretty lonely with not a whole lot of people to talk to.
"Although," Sev starts to talk, "wish we have more people to talk to. Things are awfully lonely out here with just the two of us."
"I have to agree." Courage looks at Sev, "Hope that the people that sent you would come here so we can meet them."
"Same. Wish I could meet them as well and they would help fix my memories."
"Still got amnesia?"
"Yeah. But building this house here does feel nostalgic for some reason."
"Guess you had a family that built houses for a living." Courage smiles.
Sev continues to look out at sea, "Possibly. But I don't know." He then looks at one end of the bay and see a construction site done by drones.
The construction site is where he is starting to build the city based on the blueprints he and Courage found in his ship. Drones, robots and other forms of machines are working hard to create a city. First, they create a few houses in case of someone or some people that may have a connection to Sev would show up. Most of them are made by 3D printing machines that are made of concrete and have various designs. Some are built in a similar style to a house yet have smooth, round edges rather than squares while others are similar to domes. All of them are given some advance and eco-friendly utilities and a few other modifications. Some of them have solar panels along with some kind of wind turbine. Other forms of electricity is gonna come from other means.
The city itself is slowly being built with some of the bases and foundations starting to look like natural rocks while others start to form bloby structures. There is even a cylinder shaped arcology that is now being constructed. Although it may take a few years as all the other resources are used to build the city. Only time would tell when it will be completed. However, one apartment building has been completed if there are any large amount of people coming in.
"Well." Sev finishes his lemonade, "Let's see if we can make a greenhouse."
"What do we need?" Courage smiles. "Oh wait! What about the ship?"
"Oh yeah. Best to take it in the basement before nightfall."
Sometime later...
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Both Sev and Courage are sleeping in the master bedroom that looks similar to the one Courage is used to. They are still asleep with the clock reading 6:59, just a few seconds to seven. The two sleep comfortably after a hard days work. Courage is all curled up at the foot of the bed with Sev sleeping on the right side of the king-sized bed. However, when the clock reaches 7:00 a.m.
HOOOOONNNKKK!
A loud honking noise woke them up with Courage screaming and Sev fell off.
"Ow!" he landed on his right shoulder, "What dafuq!?"
"Wait," Courage realizes what the sound is, "is that a car horn?"
HOOONNNKKK!
The horn can be heard again from outside. The two look outside and see a blue van with some gizmos on the top and some sort of raccoon symbol on the side with flames at the front along with a similar raccoon symbol on the grill.
"The hell?" Sev is even more confused.
The two ran down the stairs and outside to see who in the world is it. However, when they exited out, there are more cars coming up to their house. Sev approaches the van and knock on the window. The window rolled down to show three anthropomorphic animals. One is a raccoon wearing a blue outfit while holding onto a golden cane. The second is a turtle in a wheelchair dressed as if he is gonna go on safari while wearing glasses. The driver is a large pink hippo dressed as a racer. Sev leaned to the left and see a fox dressed like some police detective with her badge on her left side.
"Sorry about the early morning." the turtle speaks, "Are we in the right place?"
"Umm..." Sev has no idea on what the hell is going on. "Uh?"
The raccoon speaks, "We're looking for a city that is being built here. We're the new residence."
Sev points at the direction, "That way." Still have a confused look on his face.
"Thank you."
The window rolls up and the van drives off. Another van droves by along with a fancy looking car, two limos, two jeeps, and one bus. A skeletal knight with no jaw on a horse also appears with ghosts behind him. Above, flying craft can be seen that are heading towards the city with the sun shining on their hulls.
"Courage?" Sev just look at what is going on.
"Yeah?" Courage is also giving a blank look.
"I think we now have neighbors."
"I just hope their friendly."
Sev got dressed and heads out to the neighborhood where he see everyone that has come in taking up new residence. There are some strange people with some looking human while others aren't. He sees some people with large, pointy ears and noticed one of them having similar hair to his while having some strange, orange, fuzzy creature. He sees some anthropomorphic animals he has seen earlier. There is a strange, furry creature that has similar ears to his own that is hanging out with a robot.
"What the fuck...?" Sev went as he sees a whole lot of people checking out the homes.
He is confused on what the hell is going on. So, he approaches the fuzzy creature with the robot companion.
"Hello." the robot noticed.
"Hi... I'm Sev. Sev Shard" Sev introduces himself. He then introduces Courage, "And this is my friend, Courage."
"I am XJ-0461, serial designation B5429671. But everyone calls me, Clank."
The fuzzy guy approaches, "My name is Ratchet." He looks at the neighborhood, "Did you built all of this?"
"With my machines, yes." Sev replies. "But I'm basing these on some blueprints Courage and I found on my ship."
"Pardon me, Sev." Clank speaks, "But are you a fan of Ratchet? I noticed you have lombax ears."
Ratchet takes a good look, "Yeah. You do have ears like mine."
"Never heard of a lombax and this is the first time I meet you guys." Sev explains himself, "I...have no idea what I am. I developed amnesia when my ship crashed landed and the vast majority of my ship's data is corrupted. Although..."
Sev looks around and noticed some of the people have similar features of his own. A raccoon tail of a raccoon thief, horns of a dragon from a purple dragon, same hair as the elf-looking dude. He starts to wander if he is an amalgamation of various characters from who knows where.
"You said you have a ship full of corrupted data?" Ratchet gets Sev's attention. "Perhaps Clank and I can help you with that. But it may require some help from some of the other guys. I'll ask around."
Ratchet and Clank ask a few people if they're willing to lend a hand. They manage to get two groups interested in seeing a spaceship and want to help out. The first group is the same elf-guy from earlier with his orange, fuzzy creature companion in jean shorts and a girl with blue and green hair. The second is the raccoon with the turtle and hippo.
"Hey there!" the orange guy approaches with a cool attitude, "The name's Daxter. You're number one Ottsel with the move and the grooves!"
"The name's Jak." the man introduces himself, "And this is Keira."
"Hi!"
"Allow me to properly introduce myself." the raccoon in blue speaks, "I'm Sly Cooper. Leader of the Cooper Gang."
The turtle wheels up in his wheelchair, "My name's Bentley, the brain's of the operation."
The hippo does some flexing, "And I'm, The Murray. The strongest guy around and the team's getaway driver. You want muscles, I'm your man."
"My name is Sev. Sev Shard. And this is Courage."
"Hello."
"Ratchet told us you got a spaceship that needs work." Keira pulls out her wrench, "Would like to see what makes it tick."
"And we figured that since you built this place, we should lend you a hand." Sly states.
Bentley takes a closer look at Sev and noticed a few details. "Say, are you related to the Cooper Family? Because your tail has some features like that of Sly's."
Sev shrugs as he has no idea.
Courage explains, "Sev lost his memory when he crash landed on this planet. The data on his ship is corrupted and we haven't found any backups."
"No memory, huh?" Murray thinks about it, "Perhaps my master can help you recover it. He's a guru and he helped me out a lot."
"I'll give it a try."
"First," Keira readies her tools, "let's see what your ship is like."
Everyone piled up in the van and headed towards Sev and Courage's house. Courage, Sly and Murray are in the front with Courage being the guide. Some are a little cramped in the back.
"So Sev." Daxter starts a conversation, "This is a nice place you got here."
"Yeah well, you should've seen what this place looked like before it was terraformed."
"You terraformed this place?" Bentley is amazed, "Now that is some amazing engineering."
"I don't know what to say." Sev feels a little embarrassed, "But where did you guys come from? How did you even get here?"
"We don't know." everyone says as they have no idea.
Jax explains, "One minute we were home, but the next thing we knew is that we ended-up here and a voice in our heads told us to meet you for directions."
"That's weird." Courage stated.
"That it is." Daxter agrees. "So now we're here. But where are you from Courage?"
"The last thing I remember that Eustace threw me in the freezer in the basement until Sev found me. Eustace was my abusive owner while his wife, Muriel, was the only one that appreciated me. She was the complete and total opposite of Eustace."
"Anything else weird?" Daxter asks.
"We're here." Courage points at the house.
Murray pulls over and everyone gets out.
"Where do you keep the ship?" Sly asks.
"Its in the basement." Sev walks over to the side. "C'mon, let's use the cellar door."
"Nice place." Jax looks at the house.
"Thanks." Courage smile, "Sev and I worked hard on recreating my old home with a few modifications."
Sev unlocks the cellar door and opens it up. Everyone head down and see the ship. But they are confused.
"That's the ship?" Ratchet is a little perplexed.
"Looks like an oversized external drive." Bentley tilts his head.
Sev press some buttons, "Yeah, but it is a lot bigger on the inside."
"So like a TARDIS."
Sev stops and looks at Bentley, "A what?"
"A TARDIS. Its a- nevermind."
They all head inside and some of them are gawking at what they see.
"THIS PLACE IS HUUUUUGE!" Jax is surprised by the size.
"Wow." Keira looks at everything with the same shocked expression, "I don't know what a TARDIS is, but I do have some ideas about it now."
Ratchet takes a closer look at the ruined machines along with Clank. Ratchet examines one loose part while Clank scans it all.
"Man." Ratchet continues to examine, "This stuff look like it went to hell and back. Some of the circuits are fried, not to mention some parts are melted, some parts are cracked or broken, and the list goes on with how much damage this ship took."
Bentley uses his computer to learn more, "You weren't kidding about the data being corrupted. I'm only understanding ten percent of the stuff here and there are a lot of firewalls that are beyond me."
Clank stops scanning, "Allow me to help. Alien computers are my specialty."
Murray lifts a few objects out of the way that were blocking some hallways. Jak also help with getting some of the stuff out of the way and revealed more passageways. Keira goes to work on trying to fix whatever can be fixed.
"Are you sure all this damage was from crash landing?" Keira asks as she disconnect some wires, "Because it looked like it got hit and then crash landed."
"I think it did." Sev tries to remember. "Might had a run in with a meteor or something."
Sev noticed that Daxter is heading into one of the newly opened corridors.
"Be careful!" Sev warns, "There are some areas that are-"
A blast of flames came out with Daxter screaming.
"Unstable." Sev cringes, "Some of the pipes are coming apart with some wires that are e-"
A bright light with the sound of electricity can be seen with Daxter screaming again.
Sev facepalms, "Exposed. Maybe I should also mention the explosiv-"
BOOM! Daxter is sent flying out of the corridor and back into the room. He is completely blackened along with his body being all skin and bones, his clothes torn up, and one of his eyes is completely bloodshot. He let out a wheezing cackle with his broken teeth exposed before passing out.
"Is he okay?" Sev asks out of concern.
Jax picks Daxter up, "He'll be okay. Trust me, he went through way worse."
"So have I." Courage states, "I've been through a lot that are way worse."
Daxter lifts his head, "HEY! Watch it, pal!" He takes offense, "Have you ever got stuck in some sewer pipes about your size and get stuck!?"
"Yes." Courage replies, "But smaller."
"Oh." Daxter drops his anger. "What the hell else you went through?"
"Well..."
All of a sudden, a portal opens up behind him and he gets sucked in.
Courage screams, "NOT AGAAAAIIIINNN!" and he disappears into it.
"COURAGE!" Sev runs up to the spot Courage disappears.
Murray is freaking out, "What just happened?!"
"Was that a portal to another reality?!" Bentley is shocked by what happened.
Sev remembers something, "Courage mentioned something like this. He went through a series of stuff. Although, I'm not sure how long it will take for him to come back."