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This story takes place after the events of Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time

I do not own Ratchet and Clank. All rights, characters, and locations that were used in the franchise belong to insomniac games. Anything new that has not appeared before is © of me.

Author's Note: I Have no idea how much time has passed from the first Ratchet and Clank up until AciT. I'm taking my best guess at 6 years (Ratchet's time not ours) since he met Clank.

1 year between Ratchet and Clank 1 and 2

1 year for the military training in the second game

about half a year between 2 and 3

about half a year between 3 and Deadlocked/Gladiator

a couple days between Deadlocked and Size Matters (It was a vacation after the events of Deadlocked, so it must have happened right after.) (Going Mobile was a spin-off)

around a month between Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank

a year between Secret Agent Clank and Tools of Destuction

2 years between Tools of Destruction and A Crack in Time (The time stated for the search for Clank)

Ratchet sighed and sat down on the front of his bed trying to rub the sleep from his eyes.

"How do you feel Ratchet?" Ratchet was startled to see a concerned Talwyn standing in front of him.

"Whoa, hi Talwyn. I'm feeling better I guess, it's just, sigh, Alister was the first father figure I've actually had around, but he couldn't just settle for me." Ratchet smirked and tried to seem like he was felling better than he was.

"It had nothing to do with you Ratchet, he must have cared about you a lot to sacrifice himself." said Talwyn.

"I know, I just wished he realized what he was doing... Anyway, what happened yesterday, did you find out what happened to your father's ship?"

"The Galactic authorities found it on Aquatos."

"Aquatos, why would he go there?"

"The ship was shot down by space pirates, but went into the ocean after coming into the atmosphere, my father wasn't in the wreckage so he may have gotten out of there in time. I couldn't find out anything else, there's got to be a reason he hasn't come back for me, he may be guarding something even greater than the dementionator. But, I'm basically back where I started, and I have no idea where my father is."

Clank walked into the room and walked toward them.

"We did receive information, recently, that Angela Cross (another lombax) was with Max Apogee at some time, and that the last place the ship had flown from was Jasindu, perhaps we should ask ambassador Bugo for assistance in locating them. He may know their location." he said.

"That's great but, It may not be that simple Clank," said Talwyn, "The Kerchu aren't known for their hospitality."

Just then, the alarms in the station sounded:

"WARNING, incoming ship at high speed velocity, impact unavoidable, brace for impact, activating omni-flux oxygen barriers in the event of station breach."

"Ugh, why can I never have one day, that something major doesn't happen!" yelled Ratchet over the alarm, covering his ears. Everything pulsed a dark red color as they headed out into the corridors.

Outside the station.

A starship of a small size painted with blue flaming vinyls was careening out of control heading right for the space station's terrarium~ inside, an unconscious pilot. A Mercantail (Mer-can-tail) from beyond the grievous sector of the Solana galaxy.

The Mercantail had brown fur and the wings and face of a bat. His wings formed under his arms, not directly on his back. His eyes were yellow, his ears were like that of a cat's, and he had short silver blades coming out his wrists making them deadly weapons. He had on a pair of gray jeans, an open black pinstripe dress-shirt, and had tuffs of fur (like Ratchet's tail) on his tail and chest.

The unconscious pilot's ship blasted through the terrarium dome like it was tinfoil and landed in Cronk and Zepher's "swimming hole."

Down the corridors Ratchet, Talwyn, and Clank where rushing down toward the terrarium. The intercom with the female voice came on once again. : Breach detected in terra-dome sector... oxygen levels restored, dispatching laser bots to apprehend intruder.

"Wait, Megacorp laser bots?" asked Ratchet.

"I needed different security after you trashed the last bunch of security robots I had." Talwyn stated with a glare.

"Right, sorry about that. lets find out what this guy wants."

"Get away from me you freakin' robots!" The Mercantail, now fully awake, sliced through the robot that was in front of him with his claws. Then one of the robots grabbed his tail.

"Ow! Cut it out you mindless drones!" He spun 360 and cut the robots head clean off. After a brutal destruction of twisted metal, all bots were shredded by the Mercantail's claws.

Then Ratchet and Talwyn came through the door. The Mercantail's eyes glazed red with anger, he stretched his wings and flew toward Ratchet and Talwyn. As he seen the smaller lombax figure, his anger seemed to melt away and he landed softly in front of them, on the upper door to the terrarium.

"Ratchet?" he said.

"Blade?" Ratchet said back. "You're alive!" he said. Blade looked at him confused and was about to say something but Ratchet used a handshake to pull him into a hug.

"Uh, Ratchet what are you talking about, and why'd ya just hug me? (Hey wait a minute, I don't remember being the same height as you.)"

"Because I haven't seen you in years, I thought the longest friendship I had was ended!"

"What, you think I died, why? I only seen you yesterday, are you okay? Hey, you look sorta different."

Ratchet returned a confused look.

"Blade I didn't see you yesterday... you've been missing for over 6 years. It's year K-62." Blade was about to laugh at the statement but realized Ratchet was serious.

"What, where am I then, what happened? I don't remember anything."

"The Apogee space station in Polaris Galaxy, and I don't know, you just crashed here on that starship."

Talwyn turned to Clank.

"Clank, who is he?"

"I am not sure Miss Apogee. I myself met Ratchet 6 years ago. He never mentioned him. But it sounds as if they were close friends."

"Well losing his memory is going to be hard for him to cope with, I'll get Cronk and Zepher to get another bed ready."

"Good Idea, Miss Apogee" and she turned and ran off.

R: "This may be, harder for you to hear Blade."

B: "Worse than missing six years of your life?" he said letting out a frustrated sigh.

R: "Unfortunately, yes, but it may be better to take in everything in at once. It's actually changed your life drastically. Murcilaonia (Mer-sil-ay-own-ee-ah)... um, was destroyed... I'm sorry Blade, what I heard from galactic authorities is that there were no survivors." Talwyn gasped.

B: "No, " he said "I-It can't be true, Murcilaonia was supposed to last another 30 000 years minimum."

R: "I'm sorry Blade." touching his shoulder only to have it back-handed away.

B: "Get away from me." he hissed tears surfacing to his eyes. Then he took to flight down the station's corridors.

R: "Blade, wait!" he yelled after his friend. He strapped on his hover-boots and sped down the hallway after him.

Talwyn was walking by the ends of the corridors where she last seen the two war-bots. Most of the corridors had new windows on one side so you could see the stars and planets behind them. Talwyn hadn't seen where Cronk and Zepher went after talking with them..

Z: "Up here miss Talwyn!" Cronk and Zepher were in Ratchet's room setting up a bed that was hovering close enough to touch the high ceilings.

C: "We figured that winged fellow would like to fly up here and uh, whatnot, we don't have another bedroom."

T: "Great thinking guys, but how are you gonna get down from there?" They look at each other

Z: "This was your idea, ya darn fool!"

C: "Ha, it was yours, all your ideas end the same. Failure!"

Then Blade and Ratchet sped by Talwyn, nearly knocking her over...

"Blade, stop! I just want to talk to you."

"You'll never understand, everyone I ever loved is gone!" He raised his arm toward Ratchet and the blades from his wrists fired toward Ratchet. He narrowly avoided them.

"What the, when did he learn to do that?" They kept speeding down the corridors while Ratchet kept dodging blades until they reached it's end. Blade landed, stopping at the airlock door. Ratchet shut down his hover-boots and walked toward him.

"Blade, just listen for second, I really can relate to what's happening to you." Then Blade moved toward the airlock,

"Blade no!" Ratchet tackled him to the ground near moments before hitting the button.

"Are you out of your goddamn mind! What were you thinking?"

"I realize I'm the only one left, I might as well have finished the job." He hit him square in the face.

"Argh, Dammit Ratchet!" He yelled covering his nose.

"Never think something that stupid again! I'll tell you something and you're going to listen to it. You are only about a fifth of the way through your life. There's no way you will have discovered your favorite place in the universe, listened to the coolest song you'll ever hear, watched the funniest holo-film you'll ever see, no way you could have already played the all-time favorite video game of your life... or meet the person you'll love the very most in your life. If you'd have done what you just thought of doing, you would have ended it all and killed the person trying to help you. Is that what you want!"

"I, I... I don't know." Ratchet picked him up and hit his head against the floor.

"Is that what you want?" he yelled.

"No!" he sobbed.

"sigh. Just, here me out before you try anything again, can you at least do that?"

"Okay."

Mercantails, Murcilaonia, and Blade are all copyright of me, Zekay