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// 11: Planet Gaspar And Timeline Branching 
// Story: Ratchet, Clank, And Spike: Journey Through The Galaxy 
// by dragonfan101 
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The trio proceeded to fly ahead to this new planet in order to get the pilots helmets that was advertised in the video, they soon came upon the planet and entered the atmosphere, they landed on the ground and got out of the ship, they looked around and saw this place was boiling hot, there were lava pools around the place, as well as more stations and ships from Drek.

"Kind of reminds me of the dragon lands.." Spike said as they looked around.
"This kind of landscape familiar to you?" Ratchet asked.
"Yeah, my kind lives in barren places like this, we're lava and fire proof, so this shouldn't be much of a problem for me." Spike explained.

"Interesting to know." Clank said fascinated.
"Yeah, well we'll talk about it later, let's just find those helmets." Ratchet said as they went of again.

They went down a platform again and fought through more enemy's again, with Spike's weapons it just felt too easy. Ratchet saw a turret right next to them and got in it, he shot down the metal wall that was blocking they're path to the right all the while destroying any enemy's that came near it.

"Man, why would they leave weapons like these near places that are weak to them?" Spike asked looking at the turret.
"I don't know, bad design choices maybe for them." Ratchet suggested as he got out, they headed down the path they opened up to fight through more enemy's, Ratchet used his new rocket launcher he got to clear them out. Sure Spike had his rocket launcher, but that made things way, way to easy.

Since the planet mostly consisted of lava, Spike used that to his advantage and used it to his advantages, he swam under it and snuck up behind enemy's and slashed them in half with his swords, they were apparently lava proof as well.

"These things are lava proof too?" Spike asked as he saw his swords and armor had no damage at all.
"I really hope we meet the ones who designed these weapons, i really want to know who or what made these." Ratchet said looking at them.
"Me too, i am rather amazed in what we've made with these things" Clank said amazed as well.
"We'll find this out later, come on guys." Spike said as they went ahead again.

They took down more mines that tried to come to them and went to a turret nearby, they used it to blast down the metal door ahead and even a few enemy ships in the sky, these guys are causing problems for every planet, so Spike has no shame in dealing with them.

They entered the facility that was nearby and fought they're way through it, they had to keep on using the turrets to move forward and take down enemy's that kept on coming, they went through an area that had multiple tanks which enemy's hid from, Spike slashed through them all easily with his blades. Spike had gotten the hang of using them, so it wasn't much of a problem with the fact that they're 6 feet long.

They fought through one more gauntlet of enemy's using another turret that was in the room to take them out, they blasted down the next door and went out.

"Well, that was fun." Spike told them.
"Surprisingly it was" Ratchet agreed as they continued, they came upon the area from the ad they saw, the ship was still being prepared from the crash, Spike and Ratchet found the helmets and picked them up.

"Surprised we didn't have to pay for these like literally every other item we've had to get." Spike said looking at it.
"Now this is cool!" Ratchet said as he put it on, Spike put his one as well and they looked at eachother.
"Looking good!" Spike said with a smile.
"Same to you! Let's see if they're is anything else we can find here." Ratchet suggested, they agreed to do so and went off.

There wasn't much left for them after they found the helmets, they went around a volcano and found a gold bolt and a bunch of ammo on top, they had fun taking down more ships with turrets' And Spike took a little break and relaxed in the lava for a bit as it was like a hot spring to him. 

They then took down more enemy ships by destroying chains holding them down which exploded for some reason, but they soon finished up any business they had with this planet and went back to the ship.
"Wow, kind of underwhelming this place was honestly." Spike said a little disappointed.
"Well at least we got the helmets." Ratchet said as he looked at them.
"Well, nothing left for us here, lets head to Drek's old planet now, there might be something for us to find." Spike suggested, Ratchet and Clank agreed to that and got in the ship, they headed back into space to Drek's old planet. 

The map began to zoom out again until the universe looked like a screen again, we see the two figures from before watching it all happen.
"Looks like he's found our specialized launcher now' The male said
"It took me years to design that thing, i'm glad it's being put to good use." The female said.
"I'm glad our son is finding what we've left behind.. if only we could have found him sooner.." The male said regretfully.

"It's for the sake of the timeline, you know how important our son is to this universe, to all the timelines that have branched off so far." The female told him and he sighed.
"I know.. i just hope they can stop what's coming. how many timelines have branched so far?" The male asked, the female pulled up the results with her technology and looked at each one.

"We've got a few so far, one was where he met someone by the name of Sonic The Hedgehog, and traveled through the starfall islands to save his friends, he also found that worlds version of me" She explained as they saw the footage, Spike and Sonic and Knuckles were currently playing at a concert as they formed a band like they said they would.

"Well glad to see that one's turned out well right now, any others that are going of right now?" He asked, she then pulled up more.
"One is where he and someone named Ori is traveling through the land of Niwen to save they're little brother, Spike was corrupted by the light in this timeline, and became a hybrid of a spirit guardian and a dragon." She said sadly as they see him and Ori traveling through the forest, the father growled in anger.
"Why must our son go through such things? He's only one child. no matter who he's with, a child shouldn't go through such things.." The male said regretfully, the female sighed and looked at more branches.

"One is currently branching off right now, this one is where our son was found by a demon Prince named Stolas." She said as they see Stolas finding an egg in his garden and wondering who left it there, he takes the egg to his palace for examination.
"At least he'll have a caring father looking after him there, i've heard he's a great and powerful father" The male said looking at Stolas, he seemed to sense something and looked at the camera, they gasped and quickly backed off of it. They sighed in relief as that was close.
"If he can sense our powers, he really must be.." The female said surprised.

"I just hope whoever he's going with in future timelines, it will be enough to stop.. him." The male said afraid.
"With how many versions are already powerful, there's gonna be many more to come, let's pray our current Spike handles things well" She said hopefully.
"Me too, i hope so too.." He said as they cut back to they're current timeline.

We cut to hell where Stolas had just found Spike's egg, he sensed something with his power, he could feel he was being watched by someone.
"This should be interesting.." Stolas said as he looked at the egg.
"You may just make a fine brother for Octavia in the future, i hope things go well for us." Stolas said as he took the egg into the palace and closed the doors...