Arsenal: Tyhrranosis
The trio flew in onboard their ship into the atmosphere of Tyhrranosis, maintaining a high altitude to stay out of range of the ground based defenses. "Is everyone ready?" Ratchet asked.
"As ready as I'll ever be," Clank replied nervously.
"Let's do this!" Twilight agreed happily. The four members of the Sparkle Squad sounded off in response.
"Let's waste these 'Noids!" Ironhead proclaimed, smashing his fist into his palm, energizing his shields. He was the team's defensive specialist now, utilizing a Tesla Barrier, a supercharger, and Gadgetron's new holo shield generators to create safe defensive points for the team. He was also the slowest member when not on a vehicle, as he was the most heavily armored, being not unlike a tank. He also carried the medi-units to keep the team up and running, though as a result he carried no weapons beyond his own fists...which were pretty intimidating on their own, considering his servos had been upgraded by Twilight to the point he could pulp steel in his grip.
"I've got them in my sights," Eagle whispered sibilantly, tweaking his gear. Being the long range specialist now, he was very lightly armored and only carried only a pair of N90 Hurricanes and a Splitter Rifle, along with a great deal of backup ammunition. He also had the clearest thought process of the unit, and would be the team spotter when they worked alone.
"Squishy 'Noids go boom-boom!" Boom Boom proclaimed. He was the team's demolitions expert, armed with a Decimator, a Heavy Bouncer, and a Nitro Eruptor. His was evenly balanced between the heavy armor of Ironhead and the light armor of Eagle, but most of his weapons were medium range and could cause a lot of damage. His transmission ended with a mad laugh.
"We're all gonna die...in glory!" Madd proclaimed, first cowardly than crazed. While he'd been the most dedicated to the training, he hadn't been able to overcome his inherent cowardice in a battle situation. Twilight had sympathized with him, and suggested he try pretending to be someone else during combat. Madd had taken it a step further, and downloaded a Klingon personality simulation crafted from Old Earth science fiction. As a result, he now randomly switched between being cowardly and being blood thirsty, though only ever against approved targets. His equipment included a Quantum Whip, an Infecto-Bomb gun, the Tempest, and the Agents of Dread. He tended to charge in screaming war cries as he doled out massive damage before the foe could react, then run screaming as the enemy started to counterattack, leading them straight into where the rest of the team had set up an ambush. He also used an experimental regenerating nanotech armor suit.
Ratchet grinned widely. "Let's go!" he shouted, popping the canopy and triggering the ejection seats. He strapped Clank to his back as the group made their way down in a dive.
The four lavender garbed Rangers leapt out of their dropship to join the dive shortly after, with Twilight swooping to the front of the formation to guide them. Following her movements, all four Rangers evaded the missiles being fired at them from below.
Once they landed, they engaged in combat against unarmored Tyhrranoids, taking them out quickly. Laser wielding mechs came next, but Twilight had equipped all of her unit with the same refractor field upgrade that she and Ratchet were equipped with, so the lasers were more dangerous to the mechs and their allies than to the Rangers.
Larger Tyhrranoids and saucers fell just as easily to the now well trained squad. As they continued to carve their way through, Ratchet turned to Twilight. "Just what sort of training sims did you put these guys through?"
Twilight giggled nervously. "I found this one old game in an ancient game library. I hooked it up to run as a simulation in their positronic brains, matching them to characters from the game that fit their personality...or a blend of characters, as the cases went."
"I'd say it was most effective," Clank commented dryly. "Do we even need to still be here?"
Eventually, they reached the first energy barrier generator. Locking on with the Heavy Bouncer, Boom Boom obliterated the generator with his first shot, as the mini-bouncers released from the first explosion focused on the generator. A second shot took out the power generator for the mortars, leaving the dropship free to come in to drop off the vehicles.
"Nice work, everyone," Sasha stated from the communicators. "I'm coming in on the dropship now."
"And this footage is amazing, people!" Derek proclaimed via remote link. "Thanks so much for bringing me in on this. Secret Agent Clank: Perils of War is going to be a huge hit when we add in the dialogue!"
Four vehicles came off the dropship. One for Ratchet was a standard assault vehicle. Skid came off on a gyroscopic assault craft, rolling around in a wheel with the weaponry on either side of the pilot's seat. Clank's vehicle was a hover unit armed with a bomb launcher. Twilight's was an attachment for her hover board to attach a high grade explosive to her turret as she swung around it.
"Sparkle Squad!" Eagle hissed commandingly. "Watch the bomber's backs, and kick these 'Noids back to where they came from!"
"But this is where they came from, sir," Madd pointed out in his coward voice.
"Then we blow it up!" Boom Boom laughed.
"Try to stay in one piece," Ironhead growled. "I'd like a chance to crush some 'Noids, too."
With that, the four mobile fighters scattered while the Rangers drew attention with their charge towards the main base. With the additional information Al had gotten from Nefarious' computer, they each went after one of the turrets that they could take out without leaving their vehicles.
With all four turrets down, nothing was available to prevent Sasha from flying the dropship in and blasting an entrance to the main base. "Time to finish the job!" she proclaimed over the comms. "Get moving!"
Qwark himself hopped out of the dropship as it flew by to assist. "Let's go, team!" he proclaimed, thrusting his fist into the air, clutching his trusty blaster.
As everyone charged in, Twilight walked in slowly. "So this is the part where Qwark hogs all the glory," she said sadly.
"Well, yeah, that's the plan," Ratchet replied. "So Nefarious will focus on him. It's a good plan."
"Yes, it is," Twilight replied. "Good for the team, and good for the galaxy and the mission...but I'm not so sure it's good for Qwark."
Ratchet and Clank both stared at her. "Explain," Clank finally requested.
"Hogging the glory and mugging for press attention...that's what started Qwark's descent into hedonism before heroism," Twilight pointed out. "What...what if he backslides because of this? He's going to be trying to 'play the role'...but he was the role for so long..."
"We won't let him," Ratchet said firmly. "We'll keep his ego in check."
Twilight smiled. "Thanks, Daddy," she said gratefully, nuzzling him.
Entering the control room, the assault group was confronted by the Tyhrranoid Mother.
"Lock and load, people!" Qwark shouted as he opened fire. The Sparkle Squad, Skidd, Ratchet, and Twilight followed suit.
With the sheer amount of firepower being unloaded, the massive beast did not last long. It was only a matter of time, dodging, and carefully placed shields before the monstrosity fell, and Qwark stepped forward as the press came in to crush one of the eyes beneath his heel.
Darla Gratch rushed up to his side with her mic and camera crew. "Captain Qwark," she said eagerly as she began the interview, "in yet another miraculous comeback, you've defeated the Tyhrranoids in a spectacular battle on their own planet! How do you explain your recent success?"
Mugging for the camera, Qwark went through the speech he'd prepared ahead of time. "Courage...compassion...dashing good looks...iron hard abs!" He grunted out the last part of the sentence as he flexed, Darla rolling her eyes. "Seriously though, to be a true hero of heroes, you need more than loads of charisma and a brilliant tactical mind. I couldn't have done it without..." Here he hesitated, his eyes turning to Twilight.
Smiling, Twilight gave him a nod.
Grinning, Qwark finished his prepared speech. "These massive guns!" he proclaimed, flexing his arms and blowing kisses at his clenched fists.
Ratchet led Twilight back to the dropship. "I don't think we need to worry about Qwark just now," he told her softly.
"Or us!" Madd proclaimed happily. "We can handle the clean up here on the surface! You head back up to the ship!"
Twilight smiled. "You seem a lot more confident now, Madd!"
Madd rubeed the back of his head unit. "Compared to the training you put us through, Sarge...the 'Noids just aren't that scary now I've fought 'em. I'm more afraid of disappointing you."
Twilight smiled. "No chance of that," she reassured him.
"Come on, you guys," Sasha said over the comms. "Head back to the Phoenix. You must have quite the story to tell, so why don't you come back and tell it?"
As Ratchet scratched the back of his head nervously, Twilight grinned. It seemed things were going swimmingly with Miss Phyronix and her Daddy after all...
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Okay, what is the team a reference to? I'm tempted to say Evolve because of the four team mechanics but I'm not sure...
In other news, the Sparkle Squad is badass, who would have thunk it?
Another enjoyable chapter. Good work.
I know they're supposed to be "scary aliens", but every time they call them "noids" I can't help but picture the team fighting against an army of that weird rabbit-man-thing that used to be Domino's mascot.
analyzing Sparkle Squad team makeup...searching for match...error, insufficient data...
Old Earth game?
Classes with personality?
TF2. And the name of the captain is Sasha. And the guy who is a blend of medic heavy, and engineer, I think. IronfistxSasha
Gee, he TOTALLY isn't actually named Leeroy Jenkins. Nope, not at all.
Congrats on getting featured!
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Ding ding ding ding ding! Got it right!
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...can you believe I completely missed that when writing him?
5997173 Sadly, yes. Don't change his name, it'll be too obvious.
Give him an oversized sword. And chicken.
5997146 Again!
Seriously, he's stopped keeping track on his stories. Whenever one of them gets updated, there's a 95% chance it'll get featured. The 5% is that the featured box has some good stories, and the rest are just clop.
holy....shit...
Now i really do hope the sparkle squad are in Deadlock!!!
At least mention (Out of all of them, Eagle is my favorite, i allways did love the leader of a squad)
Wow, great chapter dude I remember there was a part of that world where if you rode into a certain rock you could glitch through the map. Also I have a question, will you include the insomniac museum?
I wanna see Team Sparkle versus RED Team.
Fluttershy: What...is that?
Medic: It appears to be a heavily armed Princess Twilight...and company.
Fluttershy draws her butterfly knives, a wide smile crossing her face as her father's brandish their own weapons. This battle was going to be glorious!
One year later...
"HAHAHA, THERE IS NO POSSIBLE WAY YOU CAN ESCAPE NOW!"
There was a big explosion sound and the villain noticed the wall had been blow up "WHAT? Who the heck are you guys?"
"We are the Sparkle squad! And this is my gun, miss Smarty Boom!" Madd said and shot at him.
"So, who bet we would be saved by the power of friendship... and massive firepower?" Rachet asked, while the villain was busy dealing with Sparkle squad and he was using the skills he got by training for the latest Agent Clank movie to unlock their handcuffs.
"I did." Clank said "But to be fair, the idiot this us a favor by broadcasting his supposed great victory live."
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I was thinking of Borderlands 2
5997173 Team just became over powered with the team fortress two training.
Unidentified Ranger #1: "Renegade Squad reportin' in, Ma'am. Training mission complete."
Unidentified Ranger #2: "Was there ever any doubt?"
Unidentified Ranger #3: "We got in, got the goods, and got out again, no problem!"
Unidentified Ranger #4: "MMPH! MM-MPH MMMPH!"
Captain Phyronix: "Renagade Squad?"
Twilight: "That's Daddy's squad! Wrench, Fade, Turbo, and Torch. They only just completed their training, or they would have been on that last mission with us."
Captain Phyronix: "And what do they do?"
Twilight: "Why don't I let them tell you?"
Wrench: "I'm a combat engineer, Ma'am. I establish forward defensive positions guarded by portable turrets and set up supply dispensors to keep the squad running and able to restock on ammo when running low."
Fade: "I am an infiltration specialist. Using various disguises and a personal cloak, I can sneak into various guarded facilities for intelligence or assassination purposes."
Turbo: "Yeah yeah, and he takes freakin' forever doin' it too, let me tell you! Me? I'm all up in their faces, quick as greased lightning! Taken names and dodging return fire like it ain't even there. You want a fast assault or a quick distraction, I'm your bot!"
Fade: "Imbecile!"
Turbo: "Bite me, you Clank wannabe!"
Torch: "Mmph mm-m mmph mph mmph m mmph mmph mm-mph mmph!"
Fade: "That is both disturbing, yet strangely inspiring. Do not say that again."
Turbo: "Wait, you can understand this bot?"
Wrench: "You can't?"
Twilight: "Aheh... Maybe I should work out a few more kinks before we let Daddy's squad do any missions?"
Ratchet: "Ya think?"
Clank: "Some fine tuning before deployment does seem prudent."
Captain Phyronix: "These are Rangers... who keeps authorizing them to form individual squads for attached non-service personnel?"
Captain Quark: "You mean I'm not supposed to do that?"
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That line at the end sold that alt script! Won't be using it, but consider it a canon omake.
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Meaning Quark did sign off on Sparkle Squad!
Anyway, glad you liked it.
Now I'm wondering if Sparkle Squad will ever meet Fluttershy's nine daddies...
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...probably not. Would be amusing, though.
So, Madd's basically Noire from Fire Emblem: Awakening?
5997724 Beep boop, son. Beep boop
No Kavu Island?
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Those missions are completely optional to the plot, so there's no need to have Ratchet and Twilight present. Besides, Sparkle Squad can earn its own bolts now.
5998004 Fair enough.
Hard to believe it's been ten years since Ratchet and Clank 3 first came out.
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Even harder is that Crash Bandicoot, the first video game I ever played, turns 20 next year.
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Holy shit, I feel old, and I'm only going to be 21 next Tuesday.
,,,,,....,,,,, OHHHH YEEEAAAAH!!!! NOW THEY THE RANGERS DONT DIE FROM NINJAS IN 1 ATACK!
Anyone who says Sparkle Squad sounds like a bunch of pansies needs to get their butts kicked by all of them. I"m glad Qwark isn't letting the attention go to his head and looked to Twilight for a second, good man! There's hope for him to become the Hero she admired for so long.
5997568 This would be awesome, especially if both sides have a Respawner to keep the battle going.
5997724 I can totally see that last bit happening.
5997799 Once again:
I like thst Madd reminds me of Noire. She's cowardly, but psychotic at times. And badass. That old Earth game? I think it might be TF2.
5998043 Heard a rumor that there MIGHT be a new Crash coming soon....
5998975 Not entirely accurate.
Naughty Dog, Universal Interactive and Sony are considering buying the Crash franchise back from Activision, and should they prove successful, they intend for a 20th/25th(can never remember which) anniversary of all three originals, and the rumour is that they'll do it in the free-roam style of Twinsanity.
Furthermore, they're trying to talk Insomniac into buying back Spyro, and a rumour that should that fail, they'll try Krome Studios.
There's unconfirmed rumours of a plan for a Jak and Daxter movie.
Confirmation of a 2016 (further details TBA) release for the Sly Cooper movie.
Ratchet & Clank movie set for April 2016.
Deadpool movie set for February 2016.
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Crash turns 20 soon?
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Damn I feel old now.
5999244 Like I said, rumors.
5999510 I once found a meme that was a screenshot of the Boulder Dash level and it had captioned, "If you can remember this, you're too awesome."
It's a shame they don't make platformers like that anymore.
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I still own that game. Crash is best bandicoot.
6001467 Dingodile for the win!!!
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G'Day mates! Dingodile's the name. Uka Uka and Cortex hired me to collect the crystals during the ice ages. So deliver the goods, and shove off.
6001748I think what I like most about him is that Naughty Dog actually got a PROPER Aussie accent. Too many American companies just get someone to put one on and the character just ends up sounding British.
Thank God Krome is Australian.
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Sounds like 2016 will be the Year of Awesome.
I just want to say, Tatsurou, thank you for making this story. This was the thing that inspired me to buy the first three R&C games for the first time, and I can safely say that they have become some of my favorite games on the PS2. (I just beat Arsenal tonight. ^_^) So, thank you for introducing me to them, and at the same time giving us a pretty kick-ass story.
6003170 It will be...
5998043 happy late B-day.
Fluttershy approved!
...we really need a emoticon for a happy fluttershy
6130706 actually, we do have a happy Fluttershy emot...
ok, its not the best, but it works,
I'm a little disappointed at how much less egocentric Qwark is in this fic. Compared to the game, this fic makes it seem like he has swallowed his pride faster than Fluttershy gained assertiveness. I kinda like it better when he's a total glory hog we can all hope to bash later, like Moneybags from the first Spyro series.
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It took me awhile to figure it out, but it's actually a reference to Team Fortress 2; mostly because I never actually played T2F.
I was only able to guess that because of Tatsurou's fic Fortresshy: The Nine Fathers.
At least, this is what I think Sparkle Squad is based off of. I could be wrong, but I really don't think I am. I recognize some of the weaponry and skill sets used, despite never playing the game.
5997724 That last part got me thinking. The Qwarkers. (Rangers with oats!)
Chim Chim, Dial M for Monkey, Curious George, and Tarzan based rangers. Glorious.
5997218 I hate to burst your bubble, but the last three slots of the Features box is actually just for showing previously featured stories that have updated. As you will notice, every time a new chapter is added, this story will show up in it.
The picture of the Tyhrranoid Mother is broken.
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Fixed.
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The picture of the Tyrrhanoid Mother is still broken...