As they had no other leads to follow - and no coordinates yet for Blackwater City - the trio made their way to planet Eudora. Landing, they saw that the 'harvesting' of the planet's trees was well under way...and at this point, the robots had ceased with collecting and now seemed to be focused on simple destruction. "Okay," Ratchet said calmly, "I think this time we'd better stick together."
"Alright, Daddy," Twilight said calmly, seizing a nearby harvest robot in her telekinesis and slamming it repeatedly into another until they both exploded.
Clank remained silent, internally calculating exactly how much force Twilight was actually generating and running through the calculations of her potential energy generation if she could do so at such range without even visible signs of strain. The results were not proving to be comforting.
Here, they discovered the first bolt crank operated bridge. At first, Ratchet was going to use his Omniwrench and walk around it to open it up, but Twilight was able to handle it much more efficiently by levitating her Omniwrench over, attaching it to the bolt, and remotely spinning it around the bolt crank. "Say, Daddy," she spoke up as she did so, "why does this work?"
"Well," Ratchet explained, "according to Gadgetron Help Desk, bolt cranks like this are designed to interact with things like the Omniwrench."
"But only you and I have Omniwrenches," Twilight pointed out. "And I made mine by duplicating yours. So why would systems be designed for interface with tools nobody has?"
Ratchet opened his mouth to answer, but had none.
"Much of the construction technology available to the galaxy is based off the initial reverse engineering of Lombax tech," Clank spoke up. "Aside from those facilities which are old Lombax constructions left abandoned and adapted for later residents. The Omniwrench, obviously, is a Lombax tool, so it makes sense that various other tech is designed to interface with them."
"...huh," Ratchet and Twilight said together, doing their best to wrap their heads around this.
After a while of exploring along the main path, they eventually came across a new weapon.
"The Suck Cannon," Ratchet read from the Gadgetron Uplink. "Apparently, it can suck up enemies and fire them as high-caliber missiles...but only if they're small enough to fit in the barrel of the Cannon."
"It sounds a great deal like what Twilight generally uses her telekinesis for in combat," Clank pointed out, "except...more limited."
"The name's appropriate then," Ratchet admitted. "This Suck Cannon really...sucks."
"I wouldn't be so sure," Twilight said, looking the cannon over and tapping her chin. "Daddy, can I see it? And your Power Glove Gadget?"
Blinking, Ratchet handed them over. "Sure. What did you have in mind?"
"Let's see..." Twilight muttered as she began disassembling both devices. "A miniaturized power source...tweaked to generate high end suction and propulsion...if I instead tweak it to amplify the gravimetric energies of the Power Glove...hey, it's already based in gravity manipulating principles, this'll be easy! ...and done!" Turning back, she held out the Power Glove Gadget, but slightly bulkier and with a new design on the outside. "Behold the Power Gauntlet!"
Taking it, Ratchet slipped it on. "Looks and feels like the old Power Glove..." he pointed out.
"Try using it to grab that robot!" she said, pointing at one of the smaller robots nearby.
Shrugging, Ratchet held out his gloved hand, focusing to trigger the gravimetric field the glove generated. The robot in question levitated, flailing about in the field. "Well, that's impressive..."
"Yes!" Twilight cried, pumping her hoof. "The glove's circuitry takes the fluctuations of the target's movement into account in adjusting the field strength! Now, look at another target and flick your wrist towards it!"
Shrugging his shoulders, Ratchet glanced towards one of the larger robots which was watching its levitating comrade, and flicked his wrist in its direction. The levitating robot launched forward, slamming into the other robot's head and exploding, breaking both. "Sweet!"
"The enhanced targeting system works too!" Twilight crowed happily. "Now, try grabbing one of the smaller robots again, but this time make a fist afterwards."
Eager to see what else the Gauntlet could do, Ratchet followed her instructions. The generated gravimetric field crushed the levitated robot into scrap. "Now that's a weapon!" he crowed.
"Oh, I can't wait to submit this new design to Gadgetron!" Twilight cheered, bouncing happily from hoof to hoof.
Coming to the end of the looping path back to the ship, the group headed forward to a door protected by a Gadgetron Invinco-Lock, which Ratchet's new Trespasser was designed to interface with and unlock.
"Hang on a minute!" Twilight complained. "So Gadgetron makes these Invinco-locks, which are supposed to be unbreakable except with the key the lock comes with, right?"
"That is correct," Clank agrees.
"And then they come out with the Trespasser, which is specifically designed to interface with any Invinco-lock and bypass them?" she continued.
"That is also correct."
"Then how are they still selling Invinco-locks?"
Clank opened his mouth to answer, his hand lifted to make a point. "...that is a very good question," Clank finished lamely.
"Because their customers for the locks are impressionable idiots who fall for carefully designed marketing schemes?" Ratchet suggested as he finished opening the lock.
Twilight frowned. "...okay, I can see the logic there. I don't really like it, but I see the logic."
Eventually, after clearing many widely spaced platform jumps, the group encountered the lieutenant they had seen in the original infobot transmission. He stepped forward as though to attack, but as soon as he saw how much force was readily arrayed against him, he quickly ran for it, leaving an infobot behind.
"Why didn't we capture him?" Twilight asked.
"Because we don't know anything about interrogation," Ratchet pointed out. "Besides, the infobot should provide all we need."
After watching the ad for the Blargian research station, Twilight bounced eagerly. "Did you see all that new tech? I bet I could figure out how to make all sorts of new tools to help us fight them if we went there. Not to mention I could figure out how their tech works and find a way to combat it."
Clank frowned. "We don't really have time for side trips-"
"We don't exactly have any other leads to follow," Ratchet pointed out.
Clank sighed. "Very well," he relented, collecting the infobot and downloading the coordinates for the Blargian Tactical-research Station.
Oh, Twilight's going to have a field day
And another story enters The Bunker
Well, Twilight and Rainbow are gonna bore everyone with their technobabble.
How did I not see this story before? This is amazing! Childhood game relived with a twist of MLP in it, I can't wait to show this to my brother (who I usually teamed up with when playing Ratchet games, especially after they added co-op), this is the perfect pick-me-up for him now that he called in sick!
LOGIC!
5650259 what's that?
5650594 Logical logic!
5650728 makes sense
Suck cannon couldn't take crates until the Up Your Arsenal version.
The Gold Suck Cannon might have, but I never bothered to get it.
Outpost X11 was where they just came from and it's the Blarg Tactical-research Station. The Blarg language is called Blargian, which you mis-spelled.
Lombax technology was never found in the Solana galaxy, as the only ones to ever go there were Ratchet and his father.
I could not make it any clearer that I am a colossal nerd for the Ratchet universe, could I?
I'm almost as big of a nerd for it as I am for the Crash Bandicoot universe(Crash of the Titans and Mind Over Mutant notwithstanding) and The Legend of Spyro Trilogy.
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While everything else I can accept as appropriate corrections, let me ask you this.
If there is no Lombax tech in Solana, how do you explain the massive amount of bolt crank type units, which would only interact with an Omniwrench type tool...which is indisputably Lombax tech?
5652728 Ratchet's Omniwrench is a Gadgetron product for Gadgetron Bolt-cranks, as confirmed by the one he finds in a cave in 2, and any similarity to the Lombax wrench-staves, which are capable of releasing an energy-based projectile blast, is strictly coincidental.
The bolt-cranks found in ratchet & Clank 2 are by-products of the Bogon galaxy's defunct Gadgetron brand and have since been reclaimed and re-branded as Megacorp products, designed to fit the Megacorp brand of wrench, based off the Gadgetron product.
Ratchet 3 is a return to Solana, and Gadgetron, so we'll go straight to Ratchet: Gladiator/Ratchet: Deadlocked.
The bolt-cranks used by Pox Industries are, like most of their products, stolen designs which they later modified, again, including their Omni-wrench melee weapons, which are copied directly from Gadgetron. Their Harbinger weapon is pretty much the only one they can claim to be theirs because it was inspired by the R.Y.N.O. weapon line.
We don't see any true Lombax tech until Tools of Destruction, in which EVERYTHING is traceable to the Lombaxes at some point, with the sole exception of the opening, which is set in Metropolis on Kerwan in Solana.
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Well, that pretty much screwed with 40% of my already established canon for this story...
5652801 Because a Ratchet-ard used official canon to blow it all away?
5652801 I knew I wouldn't regret playing the games and listening to the commentaries!
Oh, in the name of a fourth-wall break, if you get around to Ratchet 3 with this fic, the code to swap the wrench for a dual laser-sword/light-sabre is start/pause, circle, square, circle, square, up, down, left, left.
It's also actually stronger than the wrench as a weapon.
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Not gonna play a part, that.
5652888 I meant as a Pinkie Pie joke in an Author's note. I wouldn't expect you to genuinely break canon with it. I've spent too long picking the inaccuracies to allow myself to do that.
5651225 Why thank you! Check out my blog!
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Ah.
Well, just to let you know...
For the future of this story, inaccuracies that are minor details - such as the names of things - will either be corrected or otherwise addressed.
Major details pointed out - such as the origin of bolt cranks and the like - will be marked off as 'tweaking'. I already established in the first chapter that Ratchet had his Omniwrench his entire life, after all, which perforce requires it to be Lombax make and sent with him. Also, all of Solana galaxy knows he is a Lombax, which means the Lombaxes had to have some presence in Solana, and long enough ago that people aren't questioning why there's only one now...especially since Ratchet's father was never in Solana, since he was killed in the war with Tachyon, and Ratchet was sent to Solana (ala Kalel). This is stated in Crack in Time.
5652969 Well, considering Ratchet's age, and Mister Gadgetron's age, it is not out of the question that he knew the Lombaxes before Tachyon went berko.
And speaking of Lombaxes as a race, I'd like to see either Ratchet OR Angela Cross in 2 try to explain to Twilight why female Lombaxes don't have tails or quite so large ears.
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Which also makes me wonder if Tachyon even knew about Angela and why Ratchet thought he was alone when he KNEW Angela was in the Bogon galaxy.
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I don't know if I'll address it in story, but here's my head canon.
Female Lombaxes have larger ears because they were the primary hunters before they evolved to technology level, so they had stronger senses.
The reason Angela doesn't have a tail is because she was being actively hidden from Tachyon he same way Ratchet was. However, since Bogon is closer to Polaris than Solana is, she faced greater risk of discovery, so her tail was removed to hide her better. The removal of said tail is also why Angela is so clumsy, because her body still thinks it has the tail to counter balance.
However, since no one anywhere in any of the games directly states that Angela is a Lombax, and it's only official game documentation that does so, I think I will go with the absence of a tail meant that no one - not even Angela herself - knows she is a Lombax.
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Well, that's a bit outside the physics Ratchet knows...
5653017 No, MALES have larger ears.
Also, I think Ratchet could tell.
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Okay, in that case the males were the primary hunters with enhanced senses. Read your post backwards.
And how would he know? He's never been around another Lombax, let alone a female one.
5655041 Angela is also significantly taller though, so perhaps Females are the hunters and Male are more like sentries?
Also, Lombaxes have a unique pattern, almost tiger-like, that's yet to be seen in any other species in the Ratchet universe. It's near impossible to miss.
Granted, Angela wore that mask for the most part, so she could have been using that to hide being a Lombax and pretend to be the same race as Captain/Mayor Sasha. Their body structures aren't too different.
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A good point, but what I was saying is that Ratchet doesn't know enough about Lombaxes to recognize another one he meets unless he's told what to look for.
5655422 I'm pretty sure instinctive special recognition can be played.
If not, it can be a prime opportunity for adorkableness from Twilight.
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Unfortunately, something else is going to take precedence in regard to Twilight and "Going Commando".
...possibly also extra reason why Ratchet won't be paying enough attention to recognize Angela as a Lombax.
5655480 I'm not going to ask any further, because at this point it would become spoilers.
...I don't know shit about the Ratchet and Clank series.
But I'm loving this story! Moar chapters! MOAR!!
Try using it tog grab that robot
1. To.
Never did play the first two games and only started from the third. Guess because I got in late. The discussion was also getting quite interesting for the comments.
5652087 I say Ratchet would win seeing that he has weapons that auto track, do MASSIVE damage, any RYNO or Alpha cannon, and has a multitude of clank attachments that allow him to fight in any environment. Even space. In addition, Ratchet has armor that can literally catch fire at no damage to himself. and last thing, between clank and Daxter, I would say clank as well since he has clank-fu, multitudes of spy gizmo's, control over time, and the ability to control other robots.
Well, the plot of the first game would not even exist if it wasn't because of idiots.
So basicly the preedcesor of the Vac-U
(buh dum tshhhhhh)
LET THE PUNS COMMENCE!
5717369 Are you taking into account that since Jak has his eco powers from The Lost Frontier, that would mean Daxter has access to his dark transformation?
*Slams fist on desk* You've done it Twilight you Magnificint Mare! You gave Ratchet the Force!
I was a Nintendo sorta guy growing up so all I had that was considered awesome was a Gamecube and N64, and later a 360 and 3DS.... So I never grew up with the Ratchet and Clank.... I could probably emulate it. Despite that, this story is awesome. You have a way of writing that prevents spoilers of the game and still be completely original.
This story is toned down in whacky hijinks compared to the other stories though. It seems to be just another crossover with ponies instead of hyper badass of doom like the other ponies.
This is in no way a bad thing, but it could deal with more humor.... Anyway, I aim to keep going till I run out of chapters
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Deadlocked: Level 99 Rainbow Mega Supernova:
Kind of like that, but greater firepower and more pretty colors. Thirteen shots at a slow rate unmodified, but with the right mods it can be a very rapid W.M.D.
Thus, regardless of light or dark eco, regardless of Jak and Daxter both being capable of activating dark mode, Ratchet clears stadiums.
Also author, I require Twilight to have a version of this she uses to love and tolerate. Because rainbow lasers.
Just add that end quote! Here you go. /)"
Oh man, he didn't just leave the infobot behind, oh hohohoho no.... I can't believe such a huge robot could be such a coward, seeing Clank do a sorta Karate pose made him crap that infobot out!...or did he crap it out as a sort of surrender? Ew.
Getting close to where I'm going to need to take a break and continue watching the playthrough. Got up to BLARG last night, Clank's little side mission in it to be precise. Twilight's renown is going to come in handy...
I couldn't have said it better myself, Ratchet!
Actually, the Suck Cannon isn't as bad a weapon as people would think. It does actually have a fairly good use in limited situations, as you don't have to get ammo for it. Plus, you can use crates for it instead of smaller enemies- at least in one of the games anyway; it's been awhile since I played the first one, so I can't be sure.
It does have a couple of major downsides though. Trying to refill it in a middle of a fire fight is a major pain, and it has limited capacity. Still, it can make short work of medium to larger enemies that would usually take rockets to defeat. All in all, a nice way to conserve ammo, while at the same time getting rid of pesky ankle biters faster.
The Tesla Coil on the other hand is utterly useless; you have to use almost the full damn clip to do any kind of damage, and it often leaves you open. About the only saving grace is that it lances between foes; even then, there are far better weapons.
Meh, Twilight has gone Mary Sue. Meh.
6889046 At one point in the show, Twilight is literally moving the sun and moon simultaneosly, she's already a mary sue, but at least she's adorable
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Both of you should look up the difference between 'overpowered/excessively skilled' and 'Mary Sue'. There is a big difference, and the use of the term 'Mary Sue' as a catch all like that is asking for a huge argument.
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I know you've just defending your story, but thank you for saying that.
Seriously, I don't think people really get what a Mary/Gary Sue/Stu really is. There's an actual definition; not every OP character is automatically one. I've gotten really annoyed at some of the comments people have left on your Displaced Adoption fics. Virtually every one of them has several people calling the main characters 'Mary Sue/Stu's'.
Hell, I don't even consider them to be over-powered. First of all, they're coming at these situations with knowledge and skills from a universe completely different than the original. That means that they're naturally going to be able to handle what comes towards them in a way that seems overpowered.
Every singe one of them has had difficulties that they've had to deal with at some point. Not the enemies themselves; outside of a few circumstances, none of these bad guys are real threats. Where their problems are in dealing with those around them that don't want their skins; that's where you shine Tats.
I'd say to just ignore those who cry 'Mary Stu'; they have little understanding of what the phrase means, obviously.
I see what's going on. Twilight seems overpowered by Rachet and Clank standards, but when she adds her genius... well...
"When everyone's super! ...no one will be." - Syndrome from The Incredibles.
5652087 I'd say jak could win, but it would be a really cheap victory. the method? as soon as the battle starts, start firing the Vulcan, which means unbreakable stunlock. which means death. but like i said, that would be incredibly cheap.