Worldbuilding/Literature experiment: The deep cave

There were accountings of a strange cave located in the dephs of the atlantic ocean. It was an area was located where the pressure was at its near-apex. This cave was dotted with crystals all over, the azure rocks were incredibly smooth, polished with bits of strange goo matted. The rocks had small patterns of green lines, supposedly from the chloroplasts of dead plants.  

The rocks were concave-shaped, often branching towards other rocks .They were alsohard to break – hence why the cave has looked largely the same for centuries. The most damage that any man could ever do to those rocks was a few scratches, if even that.

Algae and plants engulf the lower parts of the cave, the rocks are also weaker at this point due to this. The algae on the other hand are as sturdy as the rocks higher up in the cave. They are near impossible to cut off due to this, the small portion of animals though years of evolution have grown to eat this.

The wildlife that resides here are strange eel-looking creatues with tounges that have holes in them, this is for sucking up the algae with such intense force, that it is plucked out of the rocks. Their average lifespan ranges from over thirty years, they reportedly only reproduce once in their lifetime and given that they often leave the cave a decade into birth, into the seas – they can be found anywhere … yet they are rarely seen.

Honour among the Replicate

Author's note (10/03/2018 - 26/03/2018 - 10/04/2018):

This is the story I planned/wrote back c. April or May 2015. If you aren't aware, I have drawn some concept art for this book - mainly the main character Chrisus. I have also drawn concepts of Narku, for example the pixel character you see below.
I have drawn a paper drawing of him, but I honestly can't be bothered to scan the thing in.

A bit of backstory into this story's making: 

In early April 2015, after completing the great SNES game 'Terrainigma' I was completely awe-struck of how amazing the story was and I was full of inspiration to create something like it. At the time I didn't have very much game development resources, so I decided to create a new "IP" that existed along with "Ratchet and Sinro" in the form of a book

The book was meant to be released around October 2017 , but I lacked the motivation and ideas to finish it. I thought of what I would have liked the end result to be, but lacked the direction to make it a reality and gave up a month on. I then went back to this idea becoming a game, full circle indeed.

With hindsight, what I was making wasn't a story; it was a fantasy, like that scene in a movie or a game where you think "HOLY CRAP! THAT WAS SO AWESOME!". I may expound as much ideas as I can find in a later blog. The result of this was a generic Disney-princess "I want to go out and see the world" kind of story with the Ratchetwombax* tradition of action scenes that are tedious, boring, repetitive and make 0% contribution/advancement to the story and are pretty much filler.
It also has the most abrupt ending ever (because that's all I wrote before giving up).


Regarding my reasons why I didn't make this an actual game,
I was pretty reluctant to using game engines since I was one of those people who think that everything programmed on languages such as C++ were far better than games made on Unity, GameMaker or the such like. Now, as someone who uses both Unity and C++, I know that's far from the truth, there are bad games made with both custom engines and 3rd party engines like the ones I've just mentioned. 

Later in June/July 2015 I envisioned this game's gameplay be like another game I played then which was"Chaos Seed", which was about resurrecting the world - similar to Terringma except the gameplay felt more intuitive to the whole theme of resurrecting the world. I envisioned the gameplay to be like that game.

Another thing to add was that instead of actually making the game, I wanted to wait for the 'right' time to make it and SOMEHOW get a programmer to write the code for the game.
I know it's stupid. That's not how successful games, let alone products are ever made. In retrospect, I'm glad I never made the game because I would have spent 5+ years trying to implement the first area as well as learn to write code, create an engine from scrach and let alone make a good game! These harsh lessons were taught to me when I worked on the infamous "Amalginment", which was cancelled.

But who knows? I might consider giving this project a revival, similarly to how I did with my unfinished 2013 game "Redler Adventures" which turned into "RedBlue Adventures: Crash n' Brawl" released on 20/03/2018. 

The funny thing is, I see tons of these kinds of ambitious, time consuming crowd-funded/early access titles everywhere and I found them cool back a few years back - but now, I'm honestly sick of them. I feel like most of them are trying to be the same thing and using a "throwback to the 80s/90s" as a marketing technique rather than a genuine factor.

I'm not sure if I should settle on projects like these (once I have stronger programming/design capital) or completely put the idea down.
Only time will tell...

Prologue

85 billion years ago there were two gods called Animaia and Demaia, who came to be known as Light Gaia and Dark Gaia. They created two universes, one being the light universe and the other being the dark universe. Light Gaia and Dark Gaia had very powerful wills. Light Gaia possessed life and wisdom while Dark Gaia possessed death and sorrow. 25 billion years later, Light Gaia created the planets and named one Earth, on which life was formed. Dark Gaia, jealous of this new life, created dark replicas of the planets and their life. A few billion years after that, a mysterious creature created by Dark Gaia landed on Earth, in the light universe, and dug its way into the core, where it remained thereafter. It released a gas known as “Replia”, the vapour formed from the decomposing bodies of replicas, which was very deadly and killed 99.9% of life on Earth. The core continues to release Replia every 300 years. The 0.1% of Earth not destroyed was Jerumila, a holy village protected by Light Gaia; it was the only place the Light Gaia was able to defend with its power. The rest of Earth was lifeless.

Chapter 1: The Fated Day

On a lovely late evening, Chrisus was out and stargazing at the shimmering stars like an owl. Chrisus was a young, long purple-haired 15-year old girl who lived in the village of Jerumila. She was raised by a caring Elder named Ekar who was very knowledgeable in magic; he even taught her some of his magic skills. Usually at this time, Ekar would be asleep like a sloth, not aware of Chrisus’ absence, and she would always return home when the morning rises.

Gazing at the stars, Chrisus whispered, “This is remarkable… but I wish I could be brave enough to go outside of this village. Maybe only going a little way out of town won’t hurt.”

Chrisus then scurried off, without anyone noticing, to the entrance of the village.

“But the Elder said to never exit through the entrance to the village, as it is dangerous,” worried Chrisus as she stepped outside. The outside place looked like a wasteland full of dreary grass and dark brown swollen trees with no leaves.

“This place sure looks ugly! No wonder the Elder told me not to go out here - but who knows, I might find something interesting!” hoped Chrisus as she ran into the dead forest. On her way she saw a tree that looked like it had more life than the rest.

“This tree looks more alive than the rest, eh? It is the only thing in this forest that stands out!”

 The Elder, who was peacefully snoozing until that moment, woke up and quickly staggered outside.

“Chrisus! Stop! Where are you?” yelled the Elder many times like an owner extremely worried about his dog. He scurried into the forest like an old monkey.

“No… this is not POSSIBLE! Chrisus!” yelled the Elder.

“I knew this wasn’t a good idea…” muttered Chrisus as the Elder found her and grabbed her like a kidnapper.

“This is no playground! You know how dangerous the outside of this village is, you may get lost and starve!” yelled Ekar harshly, “And don’t you ever go near that tree again!”

“But it looked so beautiful!” whined Chrisus sulkily.

“I will tell you about it tomorrow. When we get home, you go to bed!” replied Ekar.

“Oh, alright…” muttered Chrisus. The Elder safely walked home with Chrisus and they both slept. The next day Chrisus woke up and went to the Elder’s room.

“Good morning, sweetheart,” said the Elder, “Have a good day, make sure you get back home early because I need to talk to you about something serious.”

“Ok! See ya!” replied Chrisus cheerfully as she closed the door. The village had a very small population and they did all they could to keep the village alive. As Chrisus walked around the village many people greeted her with pleasure. Chrisus’ part time job in the village was to run a store for several hours. She did not really enjoy it too much but she liked looking at the things they sell. Several hours later she returned to the Elder.

“Welcome back my sweet Chrisus,” greeted the Elder kindly, “Now… about what I promised to tell you this morning…”

“Yeah?” replied Chrisus inquisitively.

“There was a legend my ancestors passed down about the dark and light universe.”

“Dark universe? Light universe? What have they got to do with that tree I saw?” asked Chrisus.

“The tree was a portal to the dark world” replied the Elder, “This world we live in is the light world, which was almost completely devastated by a creature that lives in the Earth’s core, even up to this day.”

“So that’s why the outside of this village was all dead and whatnot, huh?” replied Chrisus.

“This village was protected by the creator of the light world, Animaia, also known as Light Gaia,” explained the Elder, “The creature emits a deadly gas, Replia, created from the remains of dark beings.”

“Interesting … Well, can I look into that tree and see what the Dark world is like? It’s better than doing nothing in this village for another 15 years,” asked Chrisus.

“Well if you are so curious... you can go” replied the Elder, “But – you will not go without my assistance because I care about you very much and I cannot think of you dying at this age.”

“Yay!” cheered Chrisus.

“I will give you my old scythe, it is a useful weapon in case any danger comes,” replied the Elder as he handed over the scythe. Both of them went outside of the village.

“What about the other villagers? Shouldn’t we tell them?” asked Chrisus.

“Don’t worry, we will be back soon” replied the Elder. The two arrived at the green tree.

“The legends say that you need to touch the tree and close your eyes and you will enter the dark world” explained the Elder, “like this.”

The Elder softly put his hands on the tree and closed his eyes; suddenly, he was gone.

“Well, here goes nothing…” said Chrisus bewilderedly as she did the same thing as the Elder. The instant she opened her eyes she appeared in a forest that looked completely the opposite of what she saw a second ago.

“You are now in the Dark world,” explained the Elder.

“This place looks better than the Light world, like a lot better!” yelled Chrisus.

“It does not mean it’s safer…” replied the Elder.

Meanwhile, in a familiar yet different village…

An 18-year old boy named Narku lives in the village of the Dark world. He also knew magic and his guru made him realise some of his abilities.

“Narku.”

“Yes master?” replied Narku.

“Your time has come.” Explained the guru, “The chosen one has arrived, who is called Chrisus and is chosen to pull the needle that cursed this world and the other world. You are a very strong man, and you need to assist her like a true gentleman.”

“Oh yes! I nearly forgot what you told me about it! But you haven’t taught me all your moves yet” replied Narku.

“You will learn your moves by experience, follow me, there is no time to waste”

Back at the forest Chrisus and the Elder went to the village the same way they would come back to their village in the Light world. They also found a very familiar looking village to theirs.

“Let’s look around this village for a bit” instructed the Elder to Chrisus

The guru stepped outside of his house with Narku, who was peculiarly motivated to see who his partner was. The guru pointed at Chrisus, who was strolling around the village with the Elder.

“She was the chosen one” said the guru as him and Narku stepped up to Chrisus and the Elder.

“Hey, who are you supposed to be?” yelled the Elder with grief.

“So she’s this Chrisus girl that I needed to assist?” asked Narku.                                   

“Indeed my fellow student Narku” replied the elder

“H-Hey! How do you know her name?” demanded the Elder in shock.

“My master told me it” replied Narku, “You supposed to be her guardian or something?”

“Yes I am, and we just wound up in this world” replied the Elder.

 “Who is that other guy who looks a lot like my guardian?” asked Chrisus.

“I am the guru or master of this boy who is called Narku. And you are the chosen one to pull a needle that was a curse set by Dark Gaia that curses the light world not to regenerate and every living being outside this village have turned into monsters” replied the guru.

“So that’s why everywhere outside the village is dead in the light world.” Replied the Elder, “And the legends passed by my ancestors never said Chrisus was the chosen one”

 “Well the legends of this world say that Chrisus is the chosen one.”

“I’m not going to allow Chrisus to go on any quest of this sort, it’s dangerous and she may be killed” replied the elder.

“Do you want to continue to live in the mess of the world you live in or not?” asked the Guru.

“Well… things are very peaceful there and I have been used to it my whole life”

“Believe me, there is a lot to your world than just one village”

“Hmmm I’ll see…. Chrisus are you sure you want to do something dangerous like this?” worried the Elder concern.

“Sure! Don’t worry Elder… I have this scythe with me if any danger comes.” Replied Chrisus cheerfully.

“And my student Narku who knows several magic powers” added the Guru.

“But what if Chrisus dies?” panicked the Elder “If she dies I have no idea what to do with my life”

“Don’t worry she will not die” replied the guru “She has enough power to deal with the harsh conditions and so does Narku”

“If she dies, I’ll deal with you. I may be old but I can pack a punch!” threatened the Elder like and angry champion boxer.

“Hm. Hm. I’d like to see you try” taunted the guru.

Chrisus and Narku set out north of the village. The outside of the village was very Spartan, it had barley anything in it other than grass and a few occasional trees, but the thing that was different about that place than the light world was that it was much more green.

“So… Who are you supposed to be and where did you come from?” asked Narku to Chrisus curiously.

“Me? Well I am a girl who was raised by that old man who was with me, he’s called Ekuar by the way.” replied Chrisus as she then explained to Narku how she ended up in the Dark world and the fact that she came from the Light world.

GOUUAAHHH!!

Several guraks (beetle-like monsters the size of suitcases) surrounded the two. They pounced at Narku like several rugby players talking their target.

“AHH!!” shrieked Narku as he struggled to get up.

Chrisus brandished her scythe at the guraks and stabbed them all. The guraks disintegrated, leaving some mysterious purple balls of energy.

“Thank you for saving us… heh heh…” thanked the purple balls as they levitated up like balloons.

“What are those?” asked Chrisus.

“It may have been those souls of the other people in this world who were cursed and sealed into monsters, well according to my guru” replied Narku.

“Makes sense. But did you even try to defend yourself back there? If I weren’t there you may have perished!” yelled Chrisus.

“Well… I didn’t expect them to come that suddenly, I’m sorry! I’ll try and be ready next time and use those skills my guru taught me” apologised Narku.

“Well anyway, I can see a very tall light above.” notified Chrisus to Narku, “We’ll follow that light”

“Where? Oh I see that! That’s the needle that my master told us about.”

The two continued walking towards the light through the countryside-like field until they reached a dead end on a cliff and lava was below them. They looked behind them and a horde of monsters like blazik (big floating eyeballs that shoot fire) and more guraks confronted them like a load of bullies. Narku held back his fists and they were being charged up by blue aura, he then constantly strikes with his arms shooting glowing energy ball projectiles at the enemies. The enemies got pummelled by the projectiles and most of them disintegrated into souls. The remaining ones were the blaziks.

 Chrisus spun around with her scythe and Narku shot ice magic at the scythe and Chrisus defeated the blaziks.

“The guru did teach you some pretty useful moves, eh?” explained Chrisus, “My Elder taught me the basic skills and I taught myself some neat tricks like the one I just did now”

“We make a pretty good team huh” praised Narku.

“I think so, but I have the feeling we need to learn a lot more” replied Chrisus.

 “Anyway I just saw a conveniently placed bridge over there” explained Chrisus as she pointed over to the solid rock bridge to the other island. Both walked to the bridge and crossed it. They saw as clear as crystal the big rough rocky mountain that had a sword-like needle nested on top. There was a vine from the bottom to the top of the mountain.

Being bewildered Narku asked Chrisus, “I’ve been noticing something, there always seems to be something on impossible to reach places that makes it then possible”

“Maybe it is a God helping us” assumed Chrisus, “Let’s climb it”

The two climbed the vine like monkeys climbing a tree, all the way to the top where the glowing needle was placed like a legendary sword on a pedestal. Chrisus put her hands on the needle and with all her force she pulled the needle out of the ground as it became brighter and brighter.

WHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

The light and the needle dissolved into thin air like water when it gets boiled. A blue seed-like creature floated down to Chrisus and Narku.

“Woah! Thanks for freeing me! Dark Gaia turned me into a needle which was meant to curse both worlds, he used me to sealed the power of growth in the light world and the people of the dark worlds’ normal forms” thanked the blue creature, “Name’s Aidi by the way”

“So now the people in the dark world will regain their forms and the light world will be regenerated?” asked Chrisus, “And I am Chrisus and the boy next to me is Narku”

“I am the messenger of Light Gaia” informed Aidi, “And I am supposed to help the chosen one and it is some girl named Chrisus which happens to be you.”

“That’s what my guru said about her! She was the chosen one!” replied Narku, “Well let’s get back home and tell my guru”

“I’ll be there whenever you need me!” informed Aidi as he disappeared. The two set off to go back home and on their way, there were no sign of monsters, instead there were friendly people that took their place. After 45 minutes of walking, they arrived to the town and the guru went up to Chrisus.

“Well done chosen one.” Congratulated the guru, “You did well and so did you Narku”

“Well can we go home now?” asked the elder.

“Not yet, well at least for another two years.” Replied the guru, “Pulling the needle fast forwards time for 200 light world years which takes two dark world years”

Chrisus and Ekar sunk to the ground like melting ice cream.

“Well at least I can entertain you Chrisus” flattered Narku as he offered Chrisus to go with him“and we can go out places and have fun”

“Yeah… I guess…” replied Chrisus, feeling uneasy as she blindly went along.

2 years (dark world) later.

“Ohh…” yawned Chrisus as she woke up and slumped out of bed like water spilling.

“Chrisus.”

“Hm? What is it elder?”

END OF STORY

Written by Hamza (Pixel Brownie Software)

*Ratchetwombax: my username before I changed to Pixel Brownie Software.

The adventures of Ratchet and Sinro 5: The case of the mysterious person

Ratchet and Sinro 5: The case of the mysterious person

Chapter 1: The strange day out

On another peaceful Tuesday morning Sinro was sleeping in his comfy, wooden-frame bed. He was a ten-year old water dragon who was as tall as two suitcases with a handbag on top. He was woken up by the air horn in Ratchet’s room. Yes, it was that loud.

“Hey Ratchet! Y’mind turning the air-horn off? Oh wait, Ratchet told me he’s gone out with his friend” asked Sinro rising out of the bed, “It’s time to do something silly outside”. Sinro ran to the kitchen and made some honey on toast and ate it as he ran outside. As he was running he didn’t even bother to use the ladder and slid down the hill; he tumbled on the hill and landed on his face like an idiot.

“Don’t worry I’m fine” yelled Sinro as he quickly got up. Sinro ran to the beach as fast as a bolt of lightning. He wanted to rest at a nearby deck chair but he was too energetic for that

“I’m gonna go surfing instead. I don’t even need a surfboard!” yelled Sinro to himself as he ran like a true sportsman and magically summoned a wave to ‘surf on’. He was surfing for a long way, enjoying the nice sight of the crystal blue sky.

“It's nice out her-” Sinro stopped mid-sentence as a big green fish with menacing red eyes approached him, Sinro quickly jumped out of the way and dived. All the sudden Ratchet fell from the sky like a meteor and smacked the fish into the sea like a javelin hitting its target right on the spot. Ratchet was screaming like a meteor when it makes a loud sound, as he fell into the water.

“Ratchet!! NOOOO!” yelled Sinro as he was worried. Ratchet arose out of the water as he saw Sinro in shock.

“SINRO?!” asked Loki with a worried face,” What are you doing here? It’s not safe to go out in the sea!”

“Sorry I must have been going too extreme!” replied Sinro as he offered to ratchet a ride,”Hop on”

The two friends went back to the beach.

“We’re back home! YAY!” yelled Ratchet in a cheerful manner as that big fish came out of the blue (literally) like a bomb and ate Ratchet as well as make a big hole in the beach.

“I’ll save you Ratchet!” yelled Sinro as he jumped into the hole. He was falling like a metal ball being chucked from a cannon. Sinro yelled “I’m gonna save you!” as he fell. He landed into the dirty sewer water. Sinro was in the grey dank sewer.

“Really?” asked Sinro as he smelt the putrid air in the sewers, “Yuck! This smells! I’m not surprised if this is the smell of Ratchet’s peachy beef burgers he eats”

Sinro dived into the water, he swam further in hopes of finding Ratchet. Suddenly he saw.

“Oh no! Not you again” Sinro cried in horror as he saw the beast that he previously saw in the sea.

“I will kill you by DR.CRUELS ORDERS!” yelled the beast as Sinro quickly swam up, “HEY COME BACK OR I’LL EAT YOU NEXT”

Sinro gasped (even though he saw the fish clearly eat his best friend) “RATCHET IS IN YOU?!”

“DIE” the beast yelled as he charged towards Sinro. Sinro dodged.

“GRR! I MISSED” screeched the beast.

 Sinro quickly swung his tail and double smacked the beast in the face. The beast smacked Sinro very hard with its tail. Sinro was flung to the stone bricks ‘unconscious’.

“Hmm? Ow OW OWWWW!” screeched the beast in agony as it blew up and turned back into a fish, “Yay I am free!” the fish swam happily away.

Ratchet fell on to the same stone bricks as Sinro.

“Wow that wasn’t so hard was it?” smiled Ratchet as he was proud of getting out of the beast’s stomach. He immediately saw the collapsed Sinro, there was silence for a while.

“Get up. You didn’t faint”, moaned Ratchet impatiently. Sinro got up. A pale skinned teenager with spikey black hair appeared. He was Ratchet’s friend he spent time with while Sinro was asleep.

“Hi Ratchet and Sinro” said the person.

“Hanks? What are you doing here? I thought you were at your home!” asked Ratchet curiously thinking about that party he spent all night having with Hanks, like the ... beer... video games... potato chips ... etc.

“I was dungeon crawlin' as usual, fighting orcs!” replied Hanks as he yelled his catchphrase, “Beers and Swords united!”

“Do you know a way out of here?” asked Ratchet.

“Indeed! Come with me to my house both of you!” replied Hanks. He led the way out of the sewers. Later in a city...

“Nice of Hanks to get us out of here eh Sinro?” asked Ratchet.

“I hope he made lots of Broccoli” replied Sinro.

“I don’t think he did...” replied Ratchet.

“Sorry I’m hungry” replied Sinro.

“Let’s go home and eat!” replied Ratchet as he and Sinro ran out of the city.

A man appeared out of one of the buildings from behind as he saw a muscular pig person. He was Ratchet and Sinro’s enemy:

Dr.Cruel!

“General Pork sausage! I’m glad you’ve arrived after I called you!” he yelled.

“Of course! Oink! Oink! SQUEEALL! Wat do you expect? I'm a flippin’ general piggy!” snorted the pig.

“Listen up! Ratchet and Sinro have been messing up my plan!” yelled Dr.Cruel.

“Oink! Wait Ratchet and Sinro Are FREINDS. Oink! I thought our old master told us that there was a dragon and some kind of squirrel that would kill each other! SQQQUUEEEALLL!” yelled Sausage.

“Seriously, who is your old master?” asked Dr.Cruel.

“Oink! He travelled some other dimension SQUEAL! I have no idea where he is ... In a black hole?” replied Sausage.

“Oh ok! Let’s team up to defeat Ratchet and Sinro!” yelled Dr.Cruel with pride.

“Alright! Deal is a - Oink! Deal! I’m going to tell the other pig-men that they are the best and get their strongest mutants!” replied Sausage. A familiar tune could be heard.

“Oink! Oh my becoh (their way of saying bacon) sauce-er is waiting for me!” yelled Sausage.

“Can I come?” asked Dr.Cruel.

“Sure and we’re gonna have some nice pork chops and chips! Oink!” replied Sausage rubbing its fat stomach.

“HAHAHHAHAHAH- COUGH” coughed Dr.Cruel as he jumped on the plane.

“Seriously improve your laugh! Oink, Oink, SQQQQUUUUEEEALLLL!!” yelled Sausage giggling at Dr.Cruel’s laughter.

The saucer flew away into the clouds. In the saucer Dr.Carl was looking at the design of the pink-walled ship’s interior, which he was quite impressed by: the comfortable carpet floor, the smell of crispy, juicy bacon with the greasy sauce, the nicely-put operation system and the nice view of the clouds. One of the pig-men commented on how nice the bacon chips were. A pink rabbit-looking creature was driving the ship, there was a name tag on its back saying “Nark”.

“Dr.Cruel this is the becoh sauces- I mean saucer!” introduced Sausage feeling hungry.

“Hmm... Looks kinda nice, but less on the pink buddy” replied Dr.Cruel.

“It’s supposed to represent bacon” replied one of the pig men.

“Ok!” said Dr.Cruel.

“Hey... you look a bit like our old chief” asked another pig man.

“Who is he? Why are you bringing up your former masters?” asked Dr.Cruel.

“He was a cruel man who eats a lot of bananas and somehow disappeared” replied Sausage.

“Ok!” replied Dr.Carl uninterested.

“By the way the new king of the pig-men is,” said one of the pig-men as he showed the king’s name which is S****.

“Why is it censored?” asked Dr.Cruel.

“He is too powerful for some reason” replied Sausage.

“Oh ok” replied Dr.Cruel with somewhat more interest.

Chapter 2 the reveal of the mysterious person

Meanwhile not too far from a castle...

“Sinro?” asked Ratchet looking behind to see if Sinro was on track. Sinro was busy eating a tree.

“Sorry! I got distracted by that tree there” replied Sinro as he licked his lips and added “Man was that tree delicious.”

“Let’s get going before you eat any more trees” replied Ratchet trying to put on a smile. A pale brown haired girl ran past them.

“Who was that?” asked Ratchet shocked.

“I don’t know...” replied Sinro, “She must have been going somewhere.”

Sinro looked at the ground and saw a shiny gold object in the shape of the pendant.

“Wait I see something from the ground! It's a pendant!” yelled Sinro as he proceeded to pick it up, “She must have dropped it!”

“No time to loose let’s find her!” yelled Ratchet as he and Sinro scurried where that lady was. She was seen running into the castle’s interiors and the two followed her. The ship that Dr.Cruel was on arrived nearby. Within a second she was nowhere to be seen. Ratchet and Sinro walked around the dusty castle, they saw a picture which looked a lot like the girl they saw.

“This must be her home eh?” asked Sinro.

“Yeah.” Replied Ratchet as he saw a skeleton behind him. The skeleton had a purple ball of energy in his eyes; it certainly looked like it didn’t want the two of them alive. The skeleton threw a punch at Ratchet and he got hit. Sinro kicked the Skeleton in the back. The skeleton rattled its bones to call a nearby ghost that then chased Sinro.

“AHHHHH RATCHET IM SCARED OF GHOSTS!!” yelled Sinro as he accidentally ran into the skeleton and it became nothing more than a bunch of bones and a skull.

Ratchet breathed fire at the Ghost and it fizzed away.

“Tch... timewasters” sulked Ratchet, “They do nothing to advance this strange case...”

Ratchet and Sinro quickly ran upstairs as he saw the girl teleporting to the area they were at and ran into another room. Ratchet and Sinro ran after her. Ratchet entered the room first and a shot of lighting came at him which he dodged.

“H-hey who are you?” she asked. She was a woman who had long brown hair and pale skin and wore a white blouse with a purple vest over it with a skirt.

“I’m Ratchet” replied Ratchet as he remembered her, “Zelka?”

Memories were flooding back... He remembers going out with her at one point with Sinro, fought Dr.Cruel’s tanks with her and Ratchet having some feelings for her.

“Oh wait, you were the one I spent my childhood with!” replied Zelka, “And you helped me defeat Dr.Cruel’s tanks.”

“I remember too!” replied Sinro, “I was very young back then”

“That’s true” replied Ratchet as he asked Sinro for the pendant, “Well we came here to give you this... erm... princess!”

“Oh thank you! How could I ever repay you?” replied Zelka as she hugged Ratchet, “This is the pendant my mother gave me when I was young.”

“Well then just out of curiosity, w-why are you here” replied Ratchet as he blushed as he hugged her harder.

“Me? Well I’m just going here to see my past! It’s a nice castle no?” replied Zelka smiling at Ratchet, “It belongs to my family.”

“Shall we get going?” asked Ratchet as his heart beat even harder.

“Why not?” replied Zelka. The three exited the room and went to a nearby café, then ate a nice meal. Meanwhile outside of the castle...

“My goodness... where are these two!?” asked Dr.Cruel as he walked around the castle, “Y’know I’ve been searching this place for an hour! I’m getting sick and tired of all this bad guy business, let’s wrap up and go somewhere – any suggestions”

“Sure” replied Sausage, “Why don’t we go to the bar? I know a great Spanish bar that sells great drinks! I’ll buy us a round of champagnes – heck, I’LL BUY YOU THE WHOLE DANG BAR!”

Both laughed and went back to the saucer and flew to a bar....

What? You think there would be more? You think Ratchet, Sinro and Okami would go on some epic adventure and stop Dr.Cruel?

Nah... Screw it... just slap an anti-climactic ending on the story.

I’ve got nothing for you I’m afraid.

Happy April fools 2018!

Fun facts:

• I wrote this thing back in 2016 when Evermoral was still being written. I left it for nearly 2 years, and came back to it in early 2018 and finished it off.
• A lot of this is based on an old scratch project of mine, (Sinro stories ep 1-5) which were ironically not nessacarily meant to be the 5^th instalment to the Ratchet and Sinro series. They were dated from around 2013-4 (around the time I was working on the 4^th book), they were basically just ideas which I decided to use at the time I started writing this. Sinro stories was merely a spin off series that I just decided to make for whatever reason.
• I scraped off any ideas I could find (that existed before I canned Ratchet and Sinro), and just assembled them into this story. And yes I did intend a relationship with Ratchet and Zelka to happen as you can see in this story. Don’t take this as an official 5^th story per say, just take it as me dumping all the ideas I had for the series’ possible future throughout 2012-4. But if you want to consider it as an official 5^th story unironicaly, be my guest.
• There were also planned characters (which were all scrapped) i.e. Bonzil who was an iguana who was intended to appear in the 3^rd one and accompany R&S, Crunch, a robot who looks quite “Clank” from the game series “Ratchet and Clank” who was meant to appear alongside Bonzil (Crunch was referenced in the 2^nd book), Orenix, who is a tall, slender, orange-like creature who was originally part of Dr.Cruel’s army but betrayed him (if memory serves correctly), Orenix was also a guy who could do magic.
• One of the reasons I canned the Ratchet and Sinro series is because I didn’t know how it would end. Too many retconned scenarios as well.
• I’m not going to make a full version of this story or let alone make a 6^th instalment. Be happy with what you have.

That’s all from me!