First Planet

[last_lombax]

Who: Ratchet and anyone else
Where: The Plaza
When: January 5th, early evening
Status: Open

At first there was nothing. Just darkness and silence. He couldn't feel anything really, no pain, no wind, no cold or warmth. Only nothingness. But soon came a familiar sound. That whizzing sound of rushing air. Ratchet knew that sound. He was falling. The air whizzed passed his ears, making his fur move as he continued down. He shivered at the cold air, only now realizing his eyes were closed. He couldn't bring himself to open them just yet, his lids just felt too heavy.

It felt like forever as he fell downward, shivering as he felt himself grow colder and colder by the minute. Why couldn't he open his eyes? Where was he falling to? The reasons and memories just wouldn't come. He was at the Great Clock with Clank and they were saying their goodbyes. Then came the yelling and he was told to stop. He did and then...The memories came flooding back into his mind, rushing in as it all became clear.

His eyes opened and he sat up in with a jolt. His coughed, his chest burning with a need to oxygen. The coughing finally subsided, letting him gulp down that much needed air. Why did he feel so heavy? He looked at himself, staring at the water dripping from his fur and armor. That would explain it but where had the water come from? He took in his surroundings and knew instantly this was not the Great Clock. Just where was he? He stood up, shaking what water he could out of his fur before looking at the massive structure in the middle of the Plaza. Was that...coral? How did coral grow in the middle of a city underwater? And then he spotted the glowing...thing next to him. He reached out to touch it before it flew back away from him.

"Um...hello?" No response. Great.

"I don't think I'm in Polaris anymore..." Well this definitely not what he had expected. He needed to find out where he was and how to get out of here. Clank needed his help.

Comments

[ashihara]

Chitose was walking by when she found someone in the middle of the Plaza. He appeared in the same situation that she was a couple of days ago. Chitose was never the person to actively help people if it did not involve her but seeing as she had time, she might as well. As she got a closer look, she raised an eyebrow. What...was he?

"Do you need some help, sir?"

[last_lombax]

Ratchet turned to look at the woman. She was definitely different than most creatures he'd seen before. Kind of like Qwark, just without all the spandex and the butt-chin. Well she was asking if he needed help, that was a step in the right direction.

"Yeah, actually. Do you know where I am? And where is the nearest shipyard? I'd like to get off his planet and go home."

[ashihara]

In Chitose's mind, at least this strange creature could talk. That would make things a lot easier. She would have to probably ask him in the future. It seemed rude when he was asking questions about this place.

"Yes, I'm afraid that you're trapped in a world of some sort called Vatheon. And as for the nearest shipyard, that would be impossible because it seems that we're stuck here at the moment."

[last_lombax]

Ratchet's face fell. Not so much in a disappointed sense as a more cynical frustrated sense.

"Great..." He sighed and shook his head. "So how did we get here? I didn't sign up to come to this Vatheon place, personally."

[ashihara]

That look on his face, how she remembered it well when she arrived here.

"It's not as simple as it seems. I'm still looking for information but this place can take anyone from any world at any given moment. I don't think anyone wanted to come here at all."

[last_lombax]

It took a moment for Ratchet's brain to connect exactly what he was just told, his hand hovering over his belt for a moment before moving away from it.

"Sounds like we've been captured. Whose in-charge here?"

[ashihara]

She shrugs. "I'm still in the middle of finding that out myself. I only arrived 3 days ago." However, with someone from her world, she is keeping a close eye on him. She did not have any time to really look up any information after he arrived.

"However, such information should not be too difficult to find. I'm sure that I will find a way soon, I am positive." Although at the moment, she was ambivalent about the idea of escaping from vatheon.

[last_lombax]

"You want any help with that? You're the first person to talk to me. Two heads are better than one they say." He was hoping to find someone to help him out and if they were on level ground with their information, it would make things a bit easier in his mind.

[ashihara]

A smile appeared. "I don't see why that might be a problem, I already asked someone to report to me some information until later. Another person would be wonderful!" While Chitose was use to working by herself, she had to admit, it was kind of nice seeing this level of cooperation from others.

[singularjustice]

N had seen a lot of strange things since he came to Vatheon, but this newcomer was something all together, well, new. He stopped in the middle of the plaza, shopping bags in hand, to stare.

...was that a person? Or an animal...?

[last_lombax]

Ratchet was still looking around when he spotted someone staring at him. He looked the person over, not really sure exactly what they were either. He blinked a few times before his stare became a bit cold. He really didn't like it when people did that. But then again, he was one of the last Lombaxes in the universe, couldn't be helped sometimes.

"Hey! You mind helping out a lost Lombax over here?" He asked, motioning for N to come closer as he walked towards him.

[singularjustice]

Oh! Whoever it was, it spoke like a person instead of the strange way he heard animals in his head. It startled N out of his confusion, getting him to smile instead.

"Oh, sure!" He walked to him. "Are you new? You look like it. Has anyone told you anything yet?"

[last_lombax]

Ratchet nodded to the first question. "Yeah, I'm new. And no, no one has told me anything. Where am I and how did I get here?"

[singularjustice]

"This place is called Vatheon. As for how you got here..." N shrugs sheepishly. "I don't know. None of us do. We just show up here at random, it seems."

[last_lombax]

"Well at least I can put a name to this place. You don't know how you got here?" A thought came to the Lombax's head and his ears droop a bit. "I really hope this isn't the afterlife..."

[singularjustice]

"I do not think so. Sometimes people return home, and for them a year or two passes. It's as if we get dragged out of the normal flow of time. I've wondered a lot about it myself -- I wouldn't have thought it was possible within the realm of normal physics, but even those laws seem to vary from world to world --" N looked embarrassed then, realizing he had been babbling.

"I'm sorry; it's really strange, but you get used to it."

[last_lombax]

Ratchet listened and the more he heard, the more he didn't really like it. But if he was stuck, what else could he do? Though, that question still burned in his head.

"Can dead people come here too?"

[420]

"You ain't." A voice suddenly rang out from behind the coral. Gamzee still came here every day, using the power of the coral to recharge him, despite the fact that he was having much more luck sleeping these days. "Hood's called Vatheon and--"

He poked his head around the coral, giving Ratchet a slow, sleepy looking smile, baring all his sharp long fangs. Then the realization that this wasn't another pinkie human bro arriving here struck --Gamzee's brain always was a pace or two behind that of everybody else-- and the rest of what he was going to say just evaporated from his mind. He glanced Ratchet up and down curiously, amazed. "Woah, ain't ever seen a motherfucker all like you before, my furry brother."

[last_lombax]

Ratchet was about to say something about something or other but he couldn't remember anymore. He stared at the owner of the voice, eyes running up and down him nearly simultaneously as he did him. This place was strange and it just got even stranger.

"Yeah...likewise. Name's Ratchet..." The cursing didn't bother him, he'd heard worse while eavesdropping on space robot pirates.

[420]

Gamzee had a certain miracle power to turn the strange into the unbelievably stranger.

"Gamzee." Oh, and then he does remember what he was going to say. Or maybe it was something else and he thought of something else to say instead. Gamzee wasn't sure but it didn't matter. No point in examining everything that went on in a motherfucker's pan too clearly. "You came to a good place, fur-bro. This hood is chill."

[last_lombax]

Ratchet will nod and eventually smile at his words. He doesn't seem like much of a threat really. Kind of calm and mello. He really wished he knew more people like this.

"Nice to know...horn-bro. So what can you tell me about this...hood? How did I get here?"

[420]

"Magic." Gamzee nodded, his face almost serious. Little could Ratchet know that magic was Gamzee's answer to everything, even to questions like 'how do computers work' and 'Magnets, what the fuck?'. Though surprisingly, for once his answer was about as right as any other answer was. Nobody knew exactly how they had come here and why.

"That brother up and brought you here." He pointed at the coral. "It's cool though. This is all like being the best motherfuckin' spot any motherfucker can get his chill on at."

[last_lombax]

"Magic? Like space voodoo or something? Great." Ratchet just shook his head and looked up at the coral when Gamzee pointed to it. So this stuff brought him here with magic huh?

"So the coral is magic and brought me here and got me all wet...

Sad as it is to say, this isn't the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me."

[420]

Gamzee laughed, patting the coral for a moment. "It's pretty much all being the best motherfuckin' things what happened to me."

He glanced over at Ratchet. "If you want, we up and got towels for the new peeps what arrive. Get you all dried up. And you should touch this motherfucker too. Does a brother good. Helps him keep his strong going."

[last_lombax]

The towel did sound nice but how could touching the coral be good for him? Was it radioactive or something? Maybe it was like the Zoni but...coraly. Why wasn't Clank here to explain this shit to him again?

"Sure, why not. What could it hurt?"