Clank: Kerwan 1
The more automated landing system of their new ship made landing on Kerwan much smoother than it had been on Planet Novalis. Once they were safely settled, Ratchet and Twilight hopped out of the cockpit, Clank following to settle on Ratchet's back. Twilight suppressed a giggle at seeing them already working so smoothly together. Walking down the path, they came to a fork. "So which way?" Twilight asked.
Ratchet glanced at his map from the Gadgetron uplink. "Well, we need to find Big Al's shop so we can ask about Captain Qwark..."
Looking around, Twilight gasped. "No we don't!" she shouted, pointing. "There's Captain Qwark over there!" She took off towards the distant figure.
"Twilight, wait!" Ratchet called, running after her. When he caught up, he panted, "Don't run off like that, Twilight. Especially not to talk to a stranger, even a famous one."
"It's not Qwark," Twilight pouted. "It's just an automaton."
"Welcome to the Captain Qwark Fitness Course!" the green clad mechanoid proclaimed, waving its arms as it bobbled back and forth on its spring. "If you're strong enough, fast enough, and clever enough to beat my fitness course, you will receive a reward from my head trainer. Simply make your way to the third island to complete the course. Good luck!" It's voice quieted as it then spoke much faster. "Qwark Enterprises is not responsible for sprains, broken bones, snapped tendons, bruised egos or accidental death incurred while taking the challenge."
Twilight looked over to the island in question. "How are we supposed to get over there?" she asked.
"I believe we need to ascend to the top of the tower on each island in order to access the zip line to the next one," Clank proposed, pointing out the zipline.
"But...but I can't ride down a zip line!" Twilight complained.
"You can hold onto Clank while I slide down it," Ratchet offered.
Twilight nodded. "Alright."
As they climbed the first tower, they encountered several obstacles that tested their physical abilities. Long jumps over gaps between platforms were nothing to worry about, but Ratchet paused in concern at the first segment he would have to triangle jump upward. Twilight's body wasn't built for such a maneuver, after all.
Twilight, however, found no problem with this. Standing up on her hind legs, she pressed her forelegs against the wall, then lifted her hind legs to stand fully on the wall, her horn glowing as she utilized a gravity spell she had read about to realign her personal gravitational field to a 90 degree rotation. She let Ratchet triangle jump up the passage ahead of her so that he could pull her up to level at the top, as the absence of a curve at the top made that difficult for her.
Their original plan for the zip line immediately following didn't work as well as they'd hoped, as Twilight was unable to hold onto Clank, nor could Clank grip her without disengaging from his place on Ratchet's back. However, a rather risky idea of Twilight's proved workable. With a boost from Ratchet, she balanced her Omniwrench on top of the zip line and stood balanced on it to ride down the top of the line, while Ratchet gripped it from below to maintain that balance.
The tower on the next island proved even less of a challenge, as the only addition was platforms that moved in and out of the tower in predictable patterns. The slightly longer jumps proved foal's play for Twilight, as she could easily glide past the retracting platforms all the way to the other side, especially if Ratchet threw her across. The retracting jump slot - as the Gadgetron uplink informed them they were called, proved a bit more difficult for Twilight, as she was unable to get a stable gravity spell applied to a moving surface. However, Clank came up with a different solution that worked flawlessly: by bracing Twilight's forehooves against Ratchet's hands, the two of them could walk up the jump slot with ease, and a slight application of Twilight's telekinesis allowed them to crest the top to stable ground.
"Twilight, if your telekinesis is so advanced and powerful, why not simply levitate yourself up the jump slots?" Clank asked curiously.
Twilight shook her head. "While I have a lot of power, it takes a lot of concentration to work levitation like that. Being braced on a solid surface means I don't have to brace myself with my magic as well. Trying to levitate myself would be much harder, not to mention very disorienting."
Clank nodded understanding. "I see. ...have you considered perhaps the creation of steps made of focused telekinetic energy?"
"Like a magic staircase?" Twilight asked.
"Something like that."
Twilight rubbed her chin with a hoof. "I had considered it...but to build an entire staircase that way would require so much magic..."
"Do the individual steps need to be braced against each other, or solid surfaces?" Clank inquired.
Twilight thought for a bit as they approached the last zip line. "No, I don't think so. I mean, I can create a thin platform to stand on in midair." She generated a magenta square made of solid light with her magic, wide enough for all three of them to stand on. "But I don't see-"
"What if you only maintained three steps at a time?" Clank suggested. "The one you are currently standing on, the one you just stepped off of, and the next one up?"
Twilight frowned. "But that would..." Her voice trailed off. "That's...that would conserve my thaumic quotient so I didn't expend my entire magical energy maintaining the entire stairway, and it would have more stability than trying to levitate myself, as each step would be a fixed point to work from. It'll take some time to figure out the exact formulae..."
"If you explain the mathematics and science behind your abilities to me," Clank offered, "I could assist with the computations."
"That'd be great!" Twilight squealed happily, clapping her hooves.
Ratchet shook his head. "This is all way beyond me," he admitted. "I can build something based on the science I know...but I can't make heads or tails of your magic, Twi."
Twilight patted his shin with a hoof. "It's okay, Daddy," she said as she climbed up to stand on his Omniwrench before they slid down the zip line. "I'll explain it to you when this adventure's over."
At the end of the zip line, they encountered a rather hefty fembot in workout clothes, her 'hair' in pigtails. She was doing jumping jacks until they arrived. "Listen up you lard balls!" she proclaimed in a heavy German accent. "That was the most pathetic display I have ever seen on that obstacle course."
"Whaddaya mean?" Ratchet demanded.
"We finished the course," Clank pointed out reasonably.
"And I doubt you've seen many six year olds run it," Twilight grumbled, glancing nervously at her belly. "Daddy, do I really look like a 'lard ball'? I didn't think I was fat..."
"Oh yah!" the fembot proclaimed. "But it was we-" She cut herself off. "Did you say you were six?" she asked, leaning over Twilight, shocked.
Twilight nodded. "Uh huh." She looked up, sad. "Am I really...a lard ball?"
The fembot scooped her up into a hug. "Oh I'm so sorry, kleine," she whispered hurriedly. "I was expecting grown ups running this course, not children. For one as young as you, that was an excellent time! And you are not fat at all, little one. That is just Helga's way of encouraging lazy bums like the cat boy over there who disgrace her obstacle course. Don't be sad, ja?"
"Hey..." Ratchet complained. "I'm not fat, either..."
"Then where were those cat-like moves I was expecting on the course, eh?" Helga proclaimed. "Your performance was pathetic!" She then turned back to Twilight. "But you weren't, little one. Captain Qwark was very impressed by you, I'm sure. He wants you to have a Swingshot." She gave the gadget in question to Twilight.
Twilight grinned widely. "A gift from Captain Qwark?" she gasped happily.
"Ja!" Helga confirmed. "With it, you can sway to and fro from those targets up there, and any like them. Doesn't that sound fun?"
Twilight nodded eagerly. "It really does!"
Helga set Twilight down with a smile, then turned to Ratchet with a scowl. "Dat idiot Captain also wants me to give you one, but you disgraced my course today! If you want it, then I will make you pay!"
"But..." Twilight whimpered. "But I need Daddy to show me how to use this." She looked up at Helga, her eyes wide as she whimpered. "Please let my Daddy have his, too, so we can swing together?" Her lip quivered as she begged.
Helga caved. "Oh, alright. I guess it isn't such a disgrace if he was working so hard to help you cross." She tossed a swingshot over to Ratchet.
"This thing is sweet!" Ratchet said, looking it over. "I bet Captain Qwark uses stuff like this all the time."
"Ha!" Helga proclaimed. "Real men can swing without silly toys like that!"
Seeing Ratchet with his swingshot, Twilight grinned. "Works every time," she mumbled under her breath.
Helga's hearing, however, was apparently more acute than Twilight had expected. She let out a gasp. "Why you little lausbub!" she proclaimed loudly, bending over to tickle Twilight mercilessly as the filly laughed as she rolled onto her back from the assault. "You are a tricky one, aren't you? I hope I see you again, if not your lazy Papa!" With that, Helga hopped into a nearby air taxi and sped off.
Smiling and still giggling, Twilight turned. "Well, I guess it's time to look for Big Al's, after we test these out." Lifting her Swingshot - mounted on her hoof - she aimed at the nearest target. "Whoa!" she shouted, as the hook launched out, caught on the target, and dragged her through the air.
Chuckling, Ratchet followed her, determined to keep up.
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i like it this chapter
""Why you little smut'yan!"
1. Extra opening quotation mark.
Well. I'm hooked for this chapter
Great chapter.
very cute
i wonder how Celestia and Twilight's friends will react on all that weaponry and gadgets she will have as well as her agility (i wager she will be very nimble in the end) once Celestia either finds Twilight or Twilight finds a way home with Ratchet and Clank on tow
Helga's accent is supposed to be German.
She says 'ja'(pronounced yah), not 'da'.
And in Up Your Arsenal, in the third vid-comic she says "guten tag".
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I have no idea about accents. I'll go do corrections.
5109398 While I have your attention, I have a dilemna to present.
In R&C 2 they meet Angela Cross, who is a Lombax.
Throughout their adventures in Polaris Rtchet is caalled the last lombax, Azimuth notwithtanding.
Twilight wouldn't forget Angela quite so easily, so... what do you plan to do?
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Don't worry. I have a plan for number 2. That won't become an issue.
Question, do u intend to do one of these for each of the main 6? If so, could u do a "ultimate crossover" with all of them afterward?
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Hmm...
I have had a few ideas for a few other stories of ponies raised by various fictional characters - one I already have fully planned out is Trixie raised by Sam and Max of the Freelance Police - and I've always enjoyed speculating fic crossovers like that...
Tell you what. If I end up writing a story like this for each of the Mane 6, I will write a story of the events of the season premiere - and possibly other events of the show - staring the Mane 6 as altered by the stories. So far, just the idea of Nightmare Moon dealing with Fortresshy and this Twilight is amusing.
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Umm...who's that a reference to?
5112705 a tf2 medic freak bearing that name and aforementioned attributes. Look him up on the freak fortress wiki because it would take like 3 comment boxes to explain him...
5112704 (evil chuckle)
5112704 personally, I wanna see what happens to discord when a group of adoptive father find out about his betrayal post-tierek...
5113890 Discord's gonna get six multiverses worth of pain handed to him.
And now I'm caught up. Twilight's cuteness came in handy around here
So Twilight is only six years old in the universe of the first Ratchet and Clank game. Does this mean that you are going to go through all the other games before the story is done? Just curious.
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10 of them, anyway, but yes.
5225908 Hey anything possible at this point.
5166739 If so, It's going to be an epic of gigantic proportions, also a little precision, the "last lombax" bit was an oversight that was corrected in ACiT, and a piece of advice for the next chapters, as she grows up, the cute deviousness should give way to devious and clever resourcefulness, I saw what could happen to cutesy characters that didn't outgrow such a mindset as they advanced, and let me tell you, bar the FEW exception, it was not pretty to behold.
Also, cool story in progress, bro.
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Don't worry. I certainly plan for her to outgrow cute.
5137342 Technically 7. The verse each of them was raised in is 6, yes, but their home verse of Equestria makes 7.
5319719 So Discord, Nightmare Moon, Chrysalis, Sombra and Tirek are gonna get 7 multiverses worth of pain?
5364451 Fetlock watches? I'm not sure of my horse physiology, but they're essentially the same, given the mobility of forelimbs we've seen in the show.
When can we expect MORE?!? I am extremely excited to see where this goes, if you couldn't tell by the previous sentence. Also, I have noticed something troubling. You have really good crossover ideas, and your execution of said crossover ideas is also really good, however, most of the crossover ideas that you have seem to go incomplete. Why is that? Well not troubling, actually, just kind of annoying.
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They go incomplete because I rarely write one story from beginning to end. My mind is too scattered for that.
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I believe that Daffy Duck has some words to say to you (and he manages to convey my feelings quite well!):
About these clips, I simply cannot stand having stories go unfinished! IT IRKS ME TO NO END! It truly does! Better to not have a story than to learn that I will never learn the ending of said story!
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Oh, you'll learn the endings, as sure as Elmer season comes. It'll just be a while.
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So are you being serious right now, and you do have plans to finish these stories, or are you mocking me? If you are mocking me, then I suppose I deserve it. It's just that I regret the fact that your stories will never be finished, because, as my last comment said, it really, really IRKS ME whenever I come across stories that will NEVER be finished, and your stories are good. On the level of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, the three series that Erin Hunter has out (namely Warriors, Seekers, and Survivors) good (or at least the stories that I have read of yours have been on the same level as their stories. Which is saying quite a lot actually, as I am not a very easy person to impress. Most of the time, the only reason that I say things good about an incomplete story's author is to get that author out of whatever slump that they are in, and back to writing so that I have something to pass the time. With you, however, I actually mean what I said. The stories of yours that I have read have been on par with Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and the three series of Erin Hunter's that I mentioned.) (if you haven't read those series, then you won't understand the following part of the comment): Now imagine, if you will, if a book in those series never got finished, (for example, if J.K. Rowling decided to stop writing and release the 5th Harry Potter book after the chapter in which Harry sees Sirius Black getting tortured in one of the visions that he was getting because of his mental connection with Voldermort, and people were aware that the status of the book was Incomplete or [in order to cover my bases in the current non-hypothetical situation, On Hiatus or Cancelled]). Can you imagine all of the letters that people would send to her bugging her about the fact that the book was incomplete? Can you imagine the riots in the streets if she appeared on the television and said that her mind had went off on a tangent and that what she had released of the 5th book was all that they were going to get? So, I personally feel that I am being 2 things here. A: (possibly) slightly creepy with all of the praise and encouragement that I am leveling towards you (and the reason that I said possibly is because I have never been good with praise and encouragement when it comes to people that tell me that they aren't going to do something that I feel that they should do, I am more of a "Try to guilt the person, and if that doesn't work then try to get under the person's skin another way" person, but I'm trying the encouragement route as the other two routes appear to have failed to get the proper results), and B: Better than what I could be, seeing as how when you take the number of fans from all of the stories that you have that are incomplete, you get 2819 fans that would probably like to see you complete those stories sometime in the future, and that could probably be used to start swarming you with comments about how they would like these stories completed, when they get pushed enough.
I would start completing those stories in the following order (I don't really care if you decide to take this advice or not, seeing as how you said that you don't tend to complete stories, it's just that the sooner you get that number down from 2819 fans, the harder it will be for the aforementioned worst-case scenario to take place, and it just occurred to me that maybe if I show that I can think through and convince you of why you should complete your stories, you just might do it):
this has the most fans out of all of your incomplete stories with 874 fans.
=this is second in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 393 fans.
=this is third in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 377 fans.
=this is fourth in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 309 fans.
=this is fifth in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 139 fans.
=this is sixth in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 121 fans.
=this is seventh in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 104 fans.
=this is eighth in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 102 fans.
=this is ninth in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 88 fans.
=this is tenth in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 81 fans.
=this is eleventh in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 71 fans.
=this is twelfth in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 64 fans.
=this is thirteenth in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 45 fans.
=this is fourteenth in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 31 fans.
=this is fifteenth in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 15 fans.
=this is sixteenth in popularity out of all of your incomplete stories with 5 fans.
So, there is my advice, as well as my (slightly creepy) encouragement (do you feel that it is more than slightly creepy? Do you feel that it is not creepy whatsoever? Feedback on the matter of whether the amount of encouragement that I gave to you to continue writing your incomplete stories is creepy or not would be greatly appreciated so that I know how much encouragement to dole out when I go to the group dedicated to incomplete stories.) So, once again, you, good sire, write books that are on the same par as the books written by J. K. Rowling, Rick Riordian, and Erin Hunter, and therefore should probably finish the Incomplete stories that you have, lest an internet riot break out. (Or you should put into your bio that your stories tend to go unfinished, in order for future readers of your stories to know what they are getting into so that they are not met with soul crushing despair when they find out that their new favorite story will never be finished like I was.)
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I actually do have all of those stories planned out all the way until the end. The problem is, for the most part, I rarely have time, energy, and motivation for any particular story. My writing process is one chapter in a single sitting from concept to written to published. So that's just how it goes for me.
They will all be finished some day.
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Thank you for putting my mind at ease! It was really annoying not knowing whether or not that was the case. However, as that is the case, then please feel free to ignore the threat of internet rioting. However, they will all be finished some day doesn't really inspire confidence. Neither does the fact that you appear to be writing other stories while these stories go unfinished! I'm not really sure of my feelings about this so? Oh well. As long as you say that these stories will be finished some day, I have all the time in the world.
More please?
This is cute.
More!
Still don't quite know how to continue this, I take it?
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I know how I'm going to continue it and what to have happen next, much like with nearly all my presently incompletes.
The issue is time, energy, and motivation to do so...which I am unlikely to have for at least the next week.
5479015 Fair enough. My own fics have slowed to a crawl for Kingdom Jearts 2.5 HD.
5650222 German Heavy or Russian Medic...
If I'm not mistaken I spy a Ben 10 alien force ability in this chapter.
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Really? Which one?
Ah, Ratchet and Clank. From what little I remember of it, the gadget stuff follows this song:
Well, having such a powerful alicorn just saves time and money.
Triangle Jump? Wait you mean wall jumping is actually called that and Sonic Heroes didn't just make up that term out of nowhere?
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It's been called a triangle jump since the early Metroid games.
Gravity Rush?
Also, I watch a longplay as I read this. I want my visuals as I read it...or most of the time, before. This if you're wondering.
Lausbub means rascal in german
Uh... Twilight? might i remind you...
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She doesn't know how to yet. She's outgrown the foal 'flight surges', but hasn't had anyone to teach her how to fly. That's actually a major plot point further on regarding the development of Twilight and Ratchet's relationship.
From what I've seen when I played the first levels of Ratchet and Clank when I was younger and the playthrough I'm watching, you've made Helga a much more enjoyable character! I am proud!
This is outstanding.
Please keep it up.