Time: Split Perspective
As Clank raced on, followed by Sigmund, he found himself confronting Dr. Nefarious himself. "Well, Clank," Nefarious began. "You've led me a merry chase...say, where did you get an energy blade?"
"Twilight," Clank replied, stalking forward.
"Well, she is impressive, isn't she?" Nefarious asked. "And...why are you still walking towards me?"
"I was planning on dismembering you before interrogating your head," Clank replied calmly.
Nefarious staggered back, practically tripping over Lawrence. "But...but you're the hero! Heroes don't do that!"
"I'm not a hero just now," Clank replied. "I'm a parent worried about his child..." His eyes turned red. "And you know something."
"Lawrence!" Nefarious screamed in terror. "Get us out of here!"
"Immediately, sir," Lawrence replied, teleporting them both away.
Clank stared after the vanished foes and sighed, disengaging his energy blade. "So much for that lead," he muttered. "Now, Sigmund...show me what I need to do to fix this place."
"Right away, sir!"
By the time Ratchet and Twilight had made it to the Breegus System, Qwark had managed to catch back up with them, claiming to have 'taken a shortcut taught to him by a pink skeleton'. Ratchet and Twilight both decided not to question that. Besides, Twilight found much more amusement in Qwark's retelling of his meeting with Sasha and Angela, especially the expressions Ratchet made in reaction.
"You realize this ship has an ejector seat, right Twilight?" Ratchet chided as she laughed anew at Qwark's retelling of Sasha's testimony of 'Ratchet in the bedroom', even if Qwark didn't quite realize that's what he was describing.
"As if Aphelion would eject her niece," Twilight countered.
"I certainly wouldn't!" Aphelion confirmed.
Ratchet sighed. "At least you aren't laughing at me, sis." He was...rather touched to learn that Aphelion was, technically, his sister, and he found in himself a desire not unlike Twilight's for a sibling. As such, he'd taken to referring to her as 'sis'.
"Oh, I have been," Aphelion replied. "Just silently, to spare your ego."
Unfortunately, having a sibling came with all the difficult parts as well. Groaning, Ratchet checked the nav computer. "So where are we headed? We're in the Breegus System...where to now?"
"Dunno," Qwark replied. "Talwyn only said the sector was crawling with mercenaries. Took a while to convince Sasha and Angela not to come to your aid when they heard that-"
"Wait! Angela and Sasha have met Talwyn?" Ratchet gasped out.
"Of course!" Qwark replied. "They were talking about having a slumber party while they waited for the call for backup. Those three are getting along like a house afire!"
Groaning, Ratchet slammed his forehead into the console.
"Warning! Warning! Unidentified anomaly detected!" Aphelion announced, red lights flashing over the console.
"I didn't do it!" Ratchet shouted out, prompting even more laughter from Twilight.
A strange blue energy wave passed over the ship.
"Error!" Aphelion shouted out. "Unknown energy overloading systems. Shutting down all but life support to preserve AS functionality! Crash protocols engaged!"
"Hang on!" Ratchet shouted, doing his best to steer the ship with the unresponsive controls.
The ship cut into the atmosphere of an unknown planet at an unsafe angle, only just barely shifting to protect the occupants from an excess of reentry heat. Pieces of the ship broke off as it fell.
"Twilight! Can you give us any protection?" Ratchet begged.
"That energy wave...it messed with my magic!" Twilight groaned, clutching her head as blue lightning arced up and down her horn. "Can't...push past it..."
As Aphelion bounced and tumbled through the atmosphere and off landscape, she flipped one last time into what would be a lethal crash...only to halt as the air around them all turned blue.
Twilight blinked as the energy dissipated around her horn. "...oh. That's why I couldn't force past it. I thought it was spatial energy, but it was temporal energy!" Popping open the canopy, she calmly hopped down debris that were suspended in midair.
"Uh...Twilight?" Qwark called out. "Are you sure it's...safe?"
"It's Zoni magic," Twilight replied. "I've dealt with it before. It's the same time manipulation ability Clank was using while we were going after Tachyon, but on a much more massive scale."
"So...is it safe to leave Aphelion here and explore?" Ratchet asked.
Twilight glanced over Aphelion, scanning with her magic. "...it's going to have to be," she murmured worriedly. "This anomaly right here is the only thing keeping her AS functioning. If we try to move her out of the anomaly, her core systems will be wiped. We're...we're going to need to find some way to address the anomaly to get her out of there."
"Alright," Ratchet replied, hopping out of the ship. "Let's go explore this uncharted jungle and find some Zoni."
"Should somebody stand guard over her?" Qwark asked. "In case the anomaly fades?"
Twilight shook her head. "Bad idea," she countered. "There's only three of us while Aphelion's offline. We shouldn't leave anyone on their own in a new environment. That's just asking for trouble, or kidnappings..." She winced visibly, biting her tongue. "I don't want to risk losing anyone...not now."
Qwark nodded. "Alright Twilight. Aphelion's...a big girl. I guess she can take care of herself."
With that, the trio turned to head into the uncharted wilderness.
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I would like to know who the pink skeleton is please.
I bet the pink skeleton is Pinkie. Wouldn't surprise me.
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It could be Pinkie Pie dressed up as Sans.
It could be Sans dressed up as Pinkie Pie.
It could be a figment of Qwark's imagination.
Take your pick.
6758001 The scary thing is, all 3 of those sound viable.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
6758021 or maybe he just had a dream from a cotten candy induced dream while watching the skeleton dance cartoon
Sans, Pinkie, and Quark should hang out and have some spaghetti together. I believe that they would make the best of friends.
(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ
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I choose to believe it is the lovechild of the Pinkie and Sans. Because Multiverse. And we've seen different Pinkies appearing in your stories before.
6758037 That would fall under option 3.
6758001 Of course the correct answer is:
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That Mama Bear Clank...
Pinkie and Sans: Fuuuu-sion! HA!
Too bad he didn't learn from Han Solo. He could have made the journey in less than twelve Parsecs.
6758066 For some reason I fell like that should be "ALL of the aboves!"
That was fun, may I have another? Looking forward to more.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
The jungle is not the Everfree Forest, right?
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No it's not.
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Remind me again... Isn't "Parsec" a measure of distance?
near the end should change it from "I don't want risk losing anyone...not now" to "I dont want to risk losing anyone... not now"
otherwise another great and awesome chapter Tatsurou keep em coming
I just realised I know of SEVERAL skeletons that have travelled through time-space.
...
I also imagine the Irish one as painting himself pink as a disguise.
...
Skulduggery Pleasant is a massive troll.
6759408 yes it is. according to Wikipedia A parsec is equal to about 3.26 light-years, still possible for Quark at this point, by bending space... which i think he did to do this in the first place. so all answers at this point are yes, that happened.
You know, it just occured to me: This version of Twilight might get her hooves on some of the guns from Jax and Dexter if she ever meets her displaced brother. Cross game tech would be interesting.
Clank sent Nefarious running scared, nice job.
next thing we know aphelion gets a body for herself...,(just a geuss also Have a great chrismas)
6760020 like Curie from Fallout 4?
She and Paladin Danse are my favorite companions along with Dogmeat
6759591 Well, would YOU want to deal with someone who was enraged beyond belief, wielding a large energy blade, and on top of both of those VERY dangerous things, a worried and concerned parent?
6760399 Nah, if a Mama Bear character is charging towards me I drop to the floor in the fetal position to make myself non threatening and hope they pass me by so they can get to the asshole who deserves their wrath.
6760409 I wouldn't go so far as to cower like that, but I would get out of their way and point them in the right direction.
6760388 ....i havnt gotten to that part but yeah
100 chapters!!! This is now the 2nd longest fic I've read on this site.
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It's not how many chapters that truly defines how long a fic is, but how many words.
6763973 Either way...
2nd longest I've ever read.
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just looked at how many words it has and...my god! 162,102 words total?! How...When...I...I just don't know what to say to that...except. that we'd better get to see this same turnout for Celestia's story!
6759408 that's also a legitimate thing regarding it's standard use: describing the kessel run.
Consider that the kessel run has your heavily-loaded freighter flying out of kessel with a highly perishable and immensely valuable drug/spice spiderweb, avoid the law, then skim the Maw (Think a sargasso sea... comprised of black holes) before running through an asteroid field and finally making the jump to their destination. You make this run at the maximum speed you can because the cargo will spoil and cost your contractor and yourself probably more money than your ship is worth.
Shaving off the distance by skirting as close as you can to the leering hydra of event horizons saves time, if you dare. It's also doubly risky because even if you do make it past that navigator's nightmare, you have to run through the asteroid field in your little freighter, and are much more likely to be exhausted from doing so, so you're more prone to a slip, and one slip is all it'll take for a fist-sized space rock to impale your star-dinghy and either kill you outright or worse- cripple your ship and leave you to be found by either the law (spice smuggling is- obviously, rather illegal) or by your employer, who will be quite disappointed that you lost their incredibly expensive shipment and will probably take it out of your hide.
I'm going to close this segway with the statement that in the original trilogy, Han Solo's issues with Jabba and the bounty on his head? Yeah, that's because he lost his spice shipment on the kessel run, and Han was one of his most reliable assets. The guy even flew Jabba's family yacht for a while before he won the Millenium Falcon. He and Jabba had a history, and look how Jabba came after him for that spice shipment and the complications that arose from it.
Okay, I'm done with my info dump. Back to Timey-Wimey shenanigans with Twilight and Ratchet and Quark!
6759408 language wordplay pun: parsec sounds like "a couple of seconds" in Russian, as in "para sec". So, if those rules are used, then it works as time.
However, i remember someone used a rules of magic and literal pronounce to blast a wall witj a jar. What door is open? The one that is ajar.
So, here.
edit. When pronounced fast "para sec" is usually said as "par sec"
Poor traumatized pony.
Alphelion is stuck. THAT sucks!
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"He went that way!"
"Who?"
"Anybody not me!"
That sounds like Pinkie but as a skeleton, which be weird if it wasn't Pinkie Pie.
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Pinkie learns death magic, if I remember right. It could be her.... Somehow...?
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Think Pinkie And Sans from Undertale.