Arsenal: Phoenix Tools
Twilight sat happily in the main room of the quarters suite she shared with Ratchet and Clank aboard the Phoenix, laying on the couch in the center next to Sasha as Ratchet gave a slightly embellished account of the assault on Tyhrranosis. Skidd sat on one corner of the couch, while Clank took the other corner. To Twilight's eyes, Sasha was eating up the story. Not necessarily because she found this type of story entertaining, though. She'd have to confirm with Clank later, but it looked to Twilight like Sasha simply enjoyed watching the lengths Ratchet went to in his attempts to impress her.
As it got to a rather dramatic point of the retelling, Skidd gasped. "No way...what happened next?"
Twilight rolled her eyes. "Skidd, you were there," she muttered.
"Oh, right," Skidd chuckled nervously.
A hologram suddenly appeared on the table. "Yes, go on," the bulkier holographic robot - who resembled a butler - commented. "We're all riveted."
Twilight was glad she'd taken to wearing her Sparks prosthetic at all times, just in case something like this would happen. She slipped easily into character. "I could have sworn you were soldered," she joked.
"How amusing," the portly robot commented.
"So, this is the mighty Q Force I've heard so much about," the hologram of Nefarious proclaimed.
"Nope," Twilight quipped. "That's three nodes down. This is the local chapter of the Captain Qwark fan club."
"Lawrence!" the Nefarious hologram proclaimed angrily. "You said you had the right signal!"
"I do sir," Lawrence replied in a long suffering tone. "It's Sparks. I believe she is yanking your power cable."
"Oh, of course!" Nefarious proclaimed. "Clever Sparks, but you won't fool me! It takes more brains than you have to pull the wool over my eyes!"
"How did Captain Qwark sneak into your base without us knowing?" she asked, glancing over the hologram's shoulder.
"Qwaaa-" Nefarious started to scream as he spun around. He then froze, his green dome turning pink.
"Oh Janice," a masculine voice said passionately. "I'll never let you go."
"But Lance, we can't!" a feminine voice replied. "What would our families think?" Kissing sounds could be heard.
"I don't care! I love you so much!"
Shaking his head, Lawrence gave Nefarious a quick smack upside the head.
"-aaark!" Nefarious finished, then blinked. "Where did he go?"
"He was never here, sir," Lawrence groaned out.
"Made you look!" Twilight giggled.
"I am trying to brag about how pathetic you all are compared to me!" Nefarious snapped.
"And I'm trying to keep you distracted as Captain Qwark directed while Al traces your communications signal," Twilight replied happily.
"Guess who succeeded?" Al asked over the PA.
"QWAAAAA-" His circuitry sparked again.
Lawrence shook his head. "Clever girl," he murmured over the soap opera playing from Nefarious before disconnecting the communication.
"Qwark's a better planner than I thought," Sasha muttered.
"And an even better one if this had actually been my idea!" Qwark proclaimed happily.
Sasha stared. "That was a bluff?"
"We are supposed to make Qwark the center of Nefarious' attention," Twilight pointed out.
"And now you know why we don't play poker with her," Clank explained.
"The signal came from a facility on Planet Daxx," Al explained.
"You're going to need some new equipment to handle that place," Sasha explained. "A new gadget just came in from Gadgetron: the Hypershot. It's like a combination of the old Swingshot model and the Megacorp Dynamo. It can activate various devices and attach an energy cable to various hypershot targets, much like the old Swingshot could."
Twilight's eyes lit up. "An energy cable? You know, there's this idea I've had ever since I first saw the Swingshot. Can you provide me a pair of swingshots, two swing targets, and one drag target?"
Sasha frowned, scratching her chin. "I think we can provide those from the nano-manufacture plants. But why?"
Twilight's grin was infectious. "Just watch me work!"
Half an hour later, Twilight tossed a modified Swingshot to Ratchet. "Put this on, Daddy!"
Shrugging, he did so. "What about this part?" he asked, gesturing to the cord and sensor dangling off the wrist strap.
"Hook that to your belt where you have the Tyhrra-Guise," Twilight explained as she did the same with hers.
Shrugging, Ratchet did so.
Twilight then aimed her Swingshot at Ratchet and triggered it. The energy cable locked onto Ratchet's Swingshot and dragged her to him. "It works!" she yelled happily. "Ever since back at the fitness course on Metropolis when we had to wall jump, I'd been thinking of ways we could keep up with each other through areas where it's easier for one of us to traverse than the other!"
"Excellent!" Ratchet said proudly. "What happens if you lock onto me while swinging, though?"
Grinning, Twilight activated the spare swing target. "Try locking onto me!" she proclaimed as she swung from the swing target.
Shrugging, Ratchet did so. "Whoa!" he shouted as he found himself swinging on an extended cable from Twilight as she swung.
"Just as I designed!" Twilight proclaimed happily. "This is going to be so fun!"
Sasha shook her head ruefully. "Quite a handful, isn't she?"
"Oh, she's easy enough to manage when she's inventing," Ratchet joked.
"It's the rest of the time that she's impossible to control," Clank explained.
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Just curious, are you going to go through all of the Ratchet and Clank Games or just the main ones?
6007854
If by that you mean the future ones as well, then yes.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
And still no one comments on the intrusion of romantic soap operas...
MORE EXPERIMENTS!
And taking advantage of a villain's tragic disabilities.
I didn't know Twilight had it in her...
So Twilight invented the thing that was in all-4-one?
6007875 Wow...
dis gonna be gud
Twi u delightful little troll! well, its clear to me that this Nefarious is just as much a Holovid junkie as in the games, but to let Twi con him that easily?
I loved it whenever Nefarious gets pissed
Twilight: 1
Nefarious: ZIP
Ha, Nefarious glitched again...
6008014
Yes.
6008068
Depends on what the acronym stands for.
...Why did this chapter make me picture Luna being raised by Starkiller?
6008188
...who?
6008196 The main character from "Star Wars the force unleashed"
Ok last question about Deadlock and i will not ask about that game again.
.....Are you just going to skip over it like what you did with Commando?
i really want to know so i don't get my hopes up.
6008228
Nope.
6008196 I got yer hookup for info.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Tv Tropes Page
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Wikipedia Page.
Both of those have information on the game Starkiller was a main character in.
But to sum it up; Force sensitive youth that Darth Vader raised as his apprentice, and trained him with the goal of having Starkiller assassinate the Emperor so that they could rule the galaxy together. It... didn't quite work out that way.
6008231 Oh thank celestia, that one is my favorite one out of all of them.
Thanks for the reply.
6007875 So you are going to be doing the Future series as well. Interesting. I guess then Deadlocked is next on the list then? I wonder if you're going to pull a stunt here like you did with GoW 3...
6008068
6008105
Well the common usage of that, at least for ponies, is 'The Conversion Bureau'.
6008105 the conversion bureau, read at your own risk
Nice chapter, especially Trollight. I can't wait to see what other hijinks she gets up to. I can totally see her keeping up the 'Qwark is right behind you!" gag until Nefarious won't react... which is right when Qwark is behind him and clobbers him.
6008436
I know enough to know I don't care for the concept except to make silly jokes about it.
I love this so much....
6008014 I thought the newest one was, 'a crack in time'?
6008671
Nope.
Hmm... I think I've seen this before... Ah yes, I remember now.
....did they just turn into circus acrobats whit the swinging ropes atached to each other???????
6008964
Well, Twi can fly, so is not really circus acrobatics.
6009331
I'll pass on that one.
6009325 I thought "Into the Nexus" was also part of the "Future" series.
"-aaark!" Nefarious finished, then blinked. "Where did he go?"
"He was never here, sir," Nefarious groaned out.
just pointing out an error.
6008671 I look at comment. I think isn't that a sequel to Hard Reset? I remember that it's actually A Stitch in Time.
6008188 CANS SIMEONE DO THAT!
I keep finding myself wondering how the people of Equestria would react to this Twilight when (if) she ever manages to return there, even if only temporarily, as I don't see her staying willingly
Hey look, it's the swing shits from all-4-one that totally were t mentioned earlier in this story as a simple theory
6386404 actually they were it was during the interlude chapters after clank and during the mentioned segment.
Nefarious was always that dramatic?
I'm surprised Lawrence doesn't screw with the Doctor when he's stuck like that. I'd easy slide a bar of soap into his mouth before fixing him.
6013139 I believe we noticed the same thing, although I was going to put Muldoon here.
loved Twiley's interaction with nefarious.
She's overloading nefarious circuits LOL 😂😂😂