Author's notes:
This is the 4th and (arguably) last installment into the Ratchet and Sinro series. This was more delayed than any of my other books, mainly because I had a writer's block around 2013, so it was delayed to June 2014.
I think this is slightly better than the 2nd or 3rd one (albeit not by much) but not as good as the 1st one.
The characters are more expressive than they were before, in fact I made Ratchet a bit too 'edgy' and 'cool'. But at least it gives the some personality... right?
By the time I wrote this book, I was far more interested in working on a spin off/reboot series called "Ratchet and Sinro Origins" (which eventually became the series' swan song called 'Evermoral') due to the fact that I didn't fully like where 'Ratchet and Sinro' was going.
Chapter 1: Squidde
DING
DONG!
“Ah
man, it’s 6 in the mornin’! Seriously?” tutted Ratchet as he heard the front
doorbell ring. It was as loud as an elephant farting after a massive bowl of
baked beans.
Ratchet
rubbed his eyes, threw his blanket off and dumped himself onto the floor.
“At
least that stupid alarm clock didn’t go off,” he thought to himself happily as
he scrambled to the door. When he reached it, he looked through the square
window at the top so he could see. The shape of the person’s body looked like a
blue squid wearing a plain white top, standing like a human. Ratchet opened the
door.
“Are
you that Ratchet guy that everyone talks about?” asked the squid nervously.
“Of
course I am, what’s your name?” asked Ratchet, like the answer was obvious.
“Oh!
I’m Alam, I’m here to talk about something bad happening in our planet that was
caused by some D.O.O.M. people, or minions,” Alam replied a little more
confidently.
“Yup,
I know them really well. They’re one of the biggest enemies I know!”
“That’s
good … Anyhow, these guys are taking all our fish, our food and the Queen sent
me as her messanger!”
“And?
You can eat something else like…er, vegetables or meat like beef, lamb, stuff
like that.”
“We
would have food poisoning from them, even cooked.”
“Great…”
muttered Ratchet to himself sarcastically, “This guy seems too fishy, but maybe
that’s cos’ his species love fish…”
“Oh
by the way, D.O.O.M. mentioned about turning our fish into monsters!”
“Alam
wait here, I’ll call Sinro!” replied Ratchet, “SINRO!!”
“WAAAAHHH!!”
screamed Sinro, “CAN’T YOU SEE I AM ASLEEP, WHAT DO YOU WANT?!”
“Calm
down buddy, we need to save this squid-guy’s fish!” replied Ratchet.
“Why
would we need to save his fish?”
“Because
they will turn into mutant monsters!”
“Whatever
you say…” sighed Sinro as he walked to the doorway. He arrived at the kitchen
to eat but…
“Sinro!
You have no time to eat we gotta save Alam!”,yelled Ratchet.
“I
swear I’m gonna bury squid-guy in the sand” murmured Sinro hatefully.
“Alem
wait here,” instructed Ratchet as he ran to his room with Sinro as fast as a deer.
Chapter
2 :Magic?
When
Ratchet arrived at his room, at the other side of it there was a chest of
drawers. Ratchet went up and opened one of the chests that had a hidden
combination lock. Ratchet did the combination and the chest of drawers
shuddered to one side as if someone had pushed it, and revealed a lift. The duo
went to the lift and pushed a red button and the lift soared down like a hungry
eagle hunting for food. When the lift reached its destination the iron doors
opened. It revealed a room that had lockers filled with many things. It had a
coffee brewer on a big metal table.
The twosome rushed to the door in the left
corner and there was a shiny steel keypad. Ratchet typed “ratchetandsinroarethebest”
and the iron door next to it opened revealing a gigantic warehouse with a lot
of pale wooden crates scattered almost everywhere containing food, torpedoes,
missiles, mine bombs and ropes. At the middle of the large warehouse was a
round, butter-coloured lift and sitting on it was a bronze-red spaceship the
size of a van. The two heroes leapt onto the spaceship like a pair of frogs and
Ratchet pressed a button that activated the system, and the platform the flying
machine was lying on rose up to the grass.
“Hey
Alam come here!” yelled Ratchet. Alam went over to the Squirrelcoot and the
blue dragon. Alam was shocked at what he saw.
“How
did you get that spaceship here so quickly?” asked Alam inquisitively.
“Errr…magic?”
replied Sinro. The squid looked confused but didn’t speak his mind so he just
hopped onto the space ship. Ratchet turned on the radar and it appeared on the
screen on the dashboard. He pressed a shiny red button; the spaceship let out a
big blast as loud as an exploding fart. It flew up to space and took 49 minutes
to arrive at the planet. Alam told them which island to land on and they landed
their spaceship safely. The two friends were utterly shocked at the land.
“There
is not a living thing in sight, just palm trees!” shouted Sinro. “Why is there
a cave on the right?” asked Ratchet, pointing there.
“Ah,
that cave is our home,” replied Alam.
“That’s
one heck of a home. It should be called a ‘hollome?’” joked Ratchet sarcastically.
Alam told the duo to follow him into the hole and it led to a dim stairway that
looked like it went on forever. They proceeded down the stairs for 2 minutes
until they reached a wide underground ‘ravine village’ that was full of
crystals, diamonds, platinum, emeralds, ‘humanoid squids’ and homes.
“I’ll
take you to our Queen” instructed Alam.
“Really?
You have a Queen on this Spartan isle?” asked Ratchet arrogantly.
“Yes,
she’s really powerful and makes sure all our three isles are safe,” replied
Alam.
Ratchet
thought nervously to himself as he gulped, ‘I’ve never met a Queen since the first
time I met Sinro. It didn’t really end well. I’m not a big fan of Queens,
they’re pretty scary. It does not matter: I’m about to meet one right now. Come
on Ratchet, get out of your comfort zone, be strong and kind to her….’
The
three strode into the castle-like stronghold, Ratchet still nervous, and went
to the throne that was located in a small room to one side. Alam knocked on the
door.
“Your
majesty, these two are well known heroes. They are here to save these isles.”
“Ah
yes those two. These two save the galaxy from Dr.Cruel!”
“May
you summon help for them as well?”
“Sure”
The queen bowed to two dark holes. She spoke in an unknown language, “Au badoka
me sa LA MOKA!!’
The
two empty holes then abruptly glowed white and two orbs appeared out of thin
air.
“WOW!
Cool” shouted Sinro in amazement.
“This
orb is to contact me when you’re in trouble,” informed the queen.
“Thanks!”
replied Ratchet as he carried the orb. One of the guards with a hat looked at
Ratchet and Sinro.
“I
think we got them,” whispered the guard in a high pitched toned voice as he was
talking to Dr Cruel through the receiver the other person below him who was
supporting him.
Meanwhile
in Dr.Cruel’s lab…
“Good,
good!” replied Dr Cruel. Dr Cruel was a Mad scientist that wanted to take over
the universe and defeat Ratchet and Sinro. He was the leader of D.O.O.M.
Back
at the isle, the three were at the beach.
“It’s
on that other isle!” Shouted Alam. The three decided to go to the other isle.
Chapter
3: Hurgle business!
Ratchet was the only one out of the three that
could not breathe infinitely in water so Sinro granted Ratchet water breathing that
allows him to breathe infinitely in water however, it wears off after a few
minutes. The trio swam down into the sea. They swam deeper and deeper until the
orb found the sewers to Dr.Cruel’s lair. They went into a pipe that was as big
as a whale’s mouth. Inside the sewer were many blocked up pipes filed with
rubber toilet pumps.
“Wow
these pipes are blocked. Better be ‘pumped up’ for this” joked Ratchet.
“Wait,
what is a guard doing here?” asked Sinro.
“He
could’ve been one of those guards with the queen” guessed Ratchet. The three
went up to the guard.
“Sorry
but you cannot proceed any further,” said the guard in in a high-pitch squeaky
voice.
“Ok…
Why?” asked Ratchet.
“You
don’t have a…water pass?” guessed the guard.
“There
must be something wrong with this guy! There is no such thing as a water pass.”
said Alam suspiciously.
“Wait
are you-” asked Ratchet as he attempted to pull off the ‘face’ off the guard. It
revealed a face of a Hurgle (small orange creatures who are minions of
Dr.Cruel).
“Too
smart eh? We’re gonna beat your face,” yelled the Hurgle as he was posing in a
karate position. Another Hurgle leaped out of the costume on to Ratchet.
Ratchet quickly overheated his body so the Hurgle could get off his body.
“AAAHHHHHHH!
Oh darn its hot!” screamed the burning Hurgle. Sinro wacked the burning Hurgle
into the water. The other Hurgle soared towards Alam but Ratchet shot an aura
beam at the Hurgle and knocked him off, along with the other one who surrendered
cowardly.
“Alam
no offense but you were kind of… unhelpful”, said Sinro.
“Sorry.
I’m not very strong at fighting, I’m a healer” informed Alam .
“Seriously?
I can do healing too and I still at least try
to fight when there’s trouble”, replied Sinro. The three went to the
pipe-covered areas and started to notice fish in a green liquid slowly being
turned into human-figure monsters. They started to realise that the fish were
already being turned into monsters. They finally saw Dr.Cruel inside the
control room. Ratchet opened the door.
“You
three are too smart for my minions” laughed Dr.Cruel, “BUT YOU AIN’T
OUTSMARTIN’ ME!”
Dr.Cruel
got out his jetpack, flew and shot mini-missiles out of it. But all 3
(obviously) dodged. Dr.Cruel put his power glove on and soared towards Ratchet
and knocked him back into the metal wall!
“AAAAHHHH”,
Ratchet screamed in pain as he slid off like a melting ice cream. After he fell
to the ground he passed out.
“Darn,
I’m stumped” said Sinro. Sinro preformed a magical move that would summon a
magic forcefield. Dr.Cruel beat up Sinro mercilessly and Sinro’s force field disappeared.
Alam healed the weak Sinro and Dr cruel had an opportunity to shoot Alam but
Sinro jumped to take the damage Alam was going to take. Alam was now
defenceless thus he carried both heroes and ran away to prevent further harm.
“Hahaha!
I’m going to take over the world!” Laughed Dr.Cruel as he ran to the monster
chamber.
Chapter:
4 Track some time!
BOINK!
BOINK!
“OOOWWW”
groaned Ratchet as he and Sinro were gaining consciousness.
“You’ll
get better in no time!” said the nurse gladly.
“She
smacked you to wake you up” explained Alam, “You were very weak on Magenisis
power.”
“Where
are we?” asked Sinro.
“You’re
in a clinic located in the upper surface” replied the nurse as she was leaving
the room.
“What
happened?” asked Ratchet.
“You
two passed out and were suffering from major damage” replied Alam, “You’d better
hurry up, there are hostile mutant fish coming this way!”
Both
friends jumped out of bed and scooted outside.
“Looks
safe out here,” said Sinro.
“From
experience, every time Dr.Cruel is around things aren’t always glee heaven,” referenced
Ratchet.
The
three carried on and a mutated fish snuck behind the 3. Ratchet smelt the
monster’s smell and uncontrollably did a back-kick! SMMAASSSHHH! The monster
took heavy damage. Sinro and Alam heard the sound, Sinro then finished the
monster off with his tail slam! THOMP! The trio continued walking until they
reached the ocean.
“Where
is Dr.Cruel? I don’t find him anywhere!”
“Um…hello?!
Use this orb the queen gave us” reminded Sinro.
“Ah
Yes!” replied Ratchet as he took out the orb from his paw.
“But
how do we use it Alam?”asked Ratchet wonderously. Alam was looking the other
way but Ratchet caught his attention.
“Oh
yeah! The orb is used to contact the queen because she can feel the future.
Give the orb a little punch!” replied Alam. Ratchet punched the orb hardly.
BANG!
“OOWWWW!
That hurt!” complained Ratchet as the orb was illuminating an image on itself,
“But hey at least the orb worked!”. The image on the orb was the queen.
“Who
called me? Oh it’s you Ratchet and Sinro! How’s your journey going so far?”
asked the queen.
“Not
too well but not too bad either! We need to find Dr.Cruel, can you find him?”
asked Ratchet.
“I
don’t know where he is, but I can locate him using my mind and my orb” replied
the queen cheerfully as she closed her eyes and put the orb close to her and
the image changed to what the queen was thinking.
“Am
I seeing hot springs or the location to Dr.Cruel?” wondered Ratchet as he was
witnessing the queen’s private thoughts. Words appeared on the image saying
‘Sorry I need to think about the island’ then they diapered and there was a map
of the island, a mark appeared where Dr.Cruel was.
“BINGO!”
shouted Ratchet with glee. The queen opened her eyes and the image was back to
reality.
“He
is in the underground of the sea, near the island west of this one” identified
the queen.
“Thanks”
said the three.
“Be
quick because the village is suffering from hunger! Good luck!” replied the
queen as the orb was returning to its normal state.
The
queen looked through the palace window and saw many villagers either sleeping
unconscious or fishing in vain. The queen was even hungry herself.
The
three went to the nearest beach and dived into the water. Ratchet held his
breath as he knew the effect wore off.
“Ratchet,
you know holding your breath isn’t gonna take you that far” suggested Sinro as
he summoned the water breathing effect on Ratchet. The three swam deeper and
deeper into the cold deep blue.
“Be
careful you two, it’s dangerous around here” warned Alam as he granted Ratchet
and Sinro higher magic power.
WWWWOOOOOOSSSSHHHHHH!
The three felt they were being sucked somewhere like a vacuum cleaner sucking
in 3 big chunks of dirt.
“SWIM
SWIM HARD!” yelled Ratchet but the vacuum was too strong for them. They found
out as they got sucked in closer that it was a blue skinny snake-like creature
sucking the three. Ratchet gave up swimming and put himself in a cannonball
position and accelerated to the aim of the creature’s head.
“RATCHET
WHAT THE LIVING HECK ARE YOU DOING? YOU’RE GONNA GET DEFEATED AGAIN!” screamed Sinro
pitifully.
BOINK!
“GROOOOAAAHHHHRRRR!”
the creature cried painfully as he stopped sucking them in. Ratchet charged and
shot several aura balls from his hands into the monster’s mouth. BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! The monster was defeated.
Sinro
as he and Alam descended down like two paper bags floating to the ground.
“Eat
that sea snake!” replied Ratchet as he swam to his friend and aly. The three
carried on swimming through the coral-strewn sea.
“There
would normally be a lot of fish here!” said Alam worriedly, “The people of the
isles may starve.”
The
three swam deeper into the water and bu-
BOINK!
“Ooof,
my head!” yelled Sinro painfully.
“I’ll
light the way” instructed Ratchet as he closed his eyes and pressurised himself,
so the fire in his body would light up. Ratchet glowed!
“I
like your thinking pal!” said Sinro happily.
The
light was very dim but Ratchet revealed to a fallen city that could have
possibly been built hundreds of years ago.
“The
legends were true!” realised Alam.
“What
legends?” asked Sinro.
“The
legend about the ancient city,” replied Alam.
“Oh
ok!” replied Sinro.
“I
guess it’s nothing to do with this quest,” added Ratchet.
“Yep,
you’re right Ratch!” replied Alam. In front of the three they saw other
squiddies… which were actually O2 machines. Ratchet read the back of the
machine right in front of them. On the back it said in a very rusty print, ‘O2
Machine. Belongs to D.O.O.M’.
“I
think these are useful for finding Dr.Cruel,” informed Ratchet. The three found
more machines and were getting closer to Dr.Cruel’s location. Two hurgles in
scuba masks were getting their air pack restocked. One of them saw the three
and yelled at the other who just restocked his pack.
“Hur!
HUUUURRRR!” yelled both Hurgles like two pigs squealing as they soared at the
three. Alam squirted ink at both hurgles. Both were poisoned and blinded.
“Yes!
Now let’s finish them!” yelled Ratchet as he stomped on one of them into the
ground with both of his feet.
“You’re
2 feet under the ground!” joked Ratchet. The other Hurgle took the grounded one
off the ground, surrendered and swam away like little fish. An underground
tunnel was right in front of them and they proceeded inside. 5 minutes later
they arrived at what seemed to be a dirty old mineshaft.
“I
don’t think this is the place,” Alam said with a concerned look.
“Well
of course it is! Duh! There is the cases of the mutants,” replied Sinro.
“Who
built this?” asked Ratchet.
DING
DONG!
“I
did, red bunny and blue tail, thanks to my mutant creatures and my hurgles!”
yelled a voice that sounded exactly like Dr.Cruel.
“I’ll
get you baldy Mc Nose Hair!” cursed Ratchet, “Fatman, son of a pig, pile of-”
“Ratchet,
I think that’s enough insulting. We’re getting off track!” stopped Sinro.
“Ok,
let’s continue,” replied Ratchet. The three advanced through the narrow
wood-supported tunnel and came across a dead end.
“Ok,
what was Dr.Cruel thinking when he built this?” asked Sinro.
“Is
it like some kind of tra-” Ratchet stopped mid-sentence as they fell off the
tunnel.
“AAAHHHHHHH!”
screamed all three in agony as they were falling as fast as a fat elephant
after it ate a lot. THUD! The three were in Dr.Cruel’s dim lair (being
illuminated by Ratchet’s glow). But Ratchet’s glow wore off but a few seconds
later the room lit, revealing a big lab with many Mutation tanks.
“Hahaha!
You are too late” laughed Dr.Cruel, “My fish army have already kidnapped those
flippin’ squids!”
“What
about our queen?” asked Alam worriedly.
“Don’t
know or care!” Replied Dr.Cruel recklessly, “I’m going to make my army very
powerful and rule this planet and NOTH-ING will stop me!”
Dr.Cruel
took a bazooka and launched 10 torepedoes.
KABOOM!
The three got knocked back into the wall. Sinro got himself out of wall and
used some of his energy to heal Ratchet and Alam. He grabbed both allies out of
the wall to fight.
“Thanks
bro!” thanked Ratchet.
Dr.Cruel
got out a huge shell-horn and blew into it. HHOOOOOONNNNKKKKKK! The three
covered their ears in vain as the sound was as loud a continuous scream being
broadcast through a speaker.
“AHHHHHHH!
StoP ThiS KILLinG MY EARS!” screamed Ratchet as the sound was lowering his
volume.
Dr.Cruel
finaly stopped and the capsules nearby, that contained the mutants, shattered
into pieces of glass and lime-coloured water showing the muscular light blue
fish-heads.
“You’re
trapped now buddy HAHAHAHAHAHA!” yelled Dr.Cruel laughing hysterically. The
three were surrounded like 3 piles of meat surrounded by 30 lions.
“We’re
pretty much meat like it said in this book” joked Ratchet.
“What
book?” asked Sinro.
“’The
adventures or Ratch’-never mind” replied Ratchet.
The
three started to fight the monsters, but more came. Ratchet realised Dr.Cruel
was holding a remote. He snuck up from behind and snatched it off his hand
before he realised.
“ATTACK
HIM”” yelled Dr.Cruel.
“BROUTTTHHH”
growled the fish-heads as they shot ice beams out of their mouths. Ratchet
dodged most of them but got hit by one. Ratchet had an idea. He melted the ice
with his fire breath and put the remote in the water.
ZZZAAAPPP!!
The
remote’s life batteries died.
“No
more monsters coming here” yelled Ratchet as he jumped down like a ninja to
finish off the last remaining fish-heads that are conscious.
“YOU
FOOL!” yelled Dr.Cruel,” but I’m not done with you yet!”
BANG!
BANG! BANG!
“I
thought it would end” yelled Sinro as he saw a computer screen showing “Loading
Mutate files”. Sinro breathed ice at the computer and the rushing banging noise
gone weaker…weaker…weaker…weaker...weaker…weak-
“Yeah
we get the point” replied Sinro
“Ok,
ok last fourth wall joke that’ll happen” thought Sinro. Ratchet slammed the
busted door and found many fish.
“Do’h”
yelled Dr.Cruel as he ran as fast as a cheetah, “AAAAHHHHH!”
SELF
DESTURCT SEQUENCE ACIVATING.
“Give
me strength” prayed Ratchet as he, Sinro and Alam carried all the fish. They
ran back to the bit where they fell and found jetpacks and flew back to the
mineshaft. They took their jetpacks off and exited through the underground
tunnel. They released all the fish and they swam away into the horizon. After
20 minutes they made it back to the surface.
“You
mind escorting me back to the queen?” asked Alam.
“Ok,
I
guess” replied
Ratchet with a frown. The three then arrived to the village and everyone
stopped what they were doing and looked at the trio.
“D-Did
you s-s-save ou-r-r fish?” asked the villagers weakly as they were starving.
“Of
course” Replied Sinro. The three went to the castle and up to the queen.
“Oh
Ratchet and Sinro you saved our fish” Thanked the queen.
“You’d
better owe me lady! “yelled Ratchet, “Money”
“How
much” asked the queen.
“1000
shell dollars” Replied Ratchet.
“Ok!
1000 shell dollars”
“Double”
“Ok!
2000”
“Treble”
“Ok
3000! Oh great tempity that’s a lot”
“….Quadruple
then”
“Fine
here’s your money” Replied the queen.
“It’s
our job to do this stuff!” explained Sinro as he took the money.
“Good
luck on your journeys!” supported the Queen. As Ratchet and Sinro were about to
go back Alam stopped them.
“Ratchet
and Sinro! You did well! I didn’t know you guys were great” Cheered Alam.
“Whaddya
expect we’ve been doing this for 10 years!” replied Ratchet.
“If
I ever have to do something as dangerous as this it’ll be with you”
“Oh
thanks” replied Ratchet subtly sarcastic as he and Sinro left the area.
“Bye!”
Replied Alam as he walked back to the queen.
“Bye”
Yelled Ratchet.
“Idiot!”
whispered Ratchet to himself behind Alam’s back. The two went back to the
surface and Ratchet started up the spaceship.
ZZZZZZZZZOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!
They
flew to space and back to their planet. They landed on the pod near their
house. And went back inside.
The End
