Ratchet crept through the halls of the newly abandoned palace waiting for the enemy to come around the corner to finish him. Then out of the corner of his eye he saw a shadow move closer towards him at that moment he dropped to his knees and crawled to a near by crate. A small snicker caused him to look upwards to see his opponent standing above him in utter triumph. "Well you found me you may finish me now….I guess" Ratchet said with a bit of pride in his voice. "Yea I could finish you off here and now but it seems too easy for you to let me finish you off with out a fight" "You're right" Ratchet shot at his opponent while they dodged the bullets. They decided they was tired of dodging bullets non-stop so they went face to face with Ratchet and kissed him on the lips the tables turned and the opponent had the chance to finish Ratchet and with that he had felt a sharp pain and looked down to see a sword in his chest. He stumbled backwards and fell over to see his opponent lip-syncing "Bye bye lombax" at him "training over" a voice echoed through the room and the palace fell to reveal the VR training room on the stardust.

Ratchet stood up and looked up to see his opponent take off their helmet to reveal a female lombax with shoulder length curly blond hair and ocean blue eyes "You aren't allowed to kiss people to win" "Well it didn't say I wasn't allowed to do that in the rule book" said Rachel with a smile she was allowed to get away with anything because she is captain of the star ship Stardust which was the ship Ratchet and Clank were staying due to Tachyon's attack to kill all the lombaxes in the universe. When Ratchet first boarded the ship he was surprised to find out he's not the last lombax in the universe there was 3 other lombaxes aboard the Stardust. After Rachel showed Ratchet around he asked "Can I see the engine room?" "Yea sure I don't know what you want to see down there" When Ratchet went down into the engine room he was shocked to see how well kept the engine was "Erm…Rachel do you have mechanics?" "Yea of course what did you think I would do it my self!" "No of course not you're too well kept to be a mechanic" Rachel punched him in the arm for that comment of his. She then showed Ratchet the cafeteria that's when he met the two mechanics "Ratchet this is Jacklynne Watson and Jake Bennet they are the ships mechanics" Jacklynne and Jake both had Blond hair and blue eyes and greeted Ratchet in the nicest way possible but not getting grease on his clothes. Rachel introduced Ratchet to the head chef Kelsie Smith "Ratchet this is Kelsie she's the best chef I've known my whole life!" Kelsie was staring at Ratchet in a way that made him shudder "Ratchet she has a minor thing with having sharp, shiny knives around her" Rachel was looking at Ratchet but he was miles away his eyes had become glossy and unfocused and he was slightly unbalanced this was because he could still hear the engine from 7 floors up.

Ratchet had remembered that day like it was yesterday but it had been six months ago since they boarded the ship and he had developed a thing for Rachel as he calls it "Ratchet it's not a thing it's called a crush" Said clank while he was struggling to get his suitcase down "Clank I'm 23 now I'm not in primary school and just ask I'll help you" Ratchet said while pulling down Clanks suitcase with ease "Why don't you tell her then?" "Because she might not like me back and it might ruin our friendship" Ratchet had started to fumble with his T-shirt Clank knew the only time he did that was when he worried "Yea, Yea…Ratchet she likes you duh isn't that quite easy to see and that kiss you shared today in the VR room proves it!" "WHAT! How did you see that!" Ratchet shouted in confusion "There are cameras everywhere you should know that" He groaned as he remembered when al installed cameras everywhere in the ship since some one stole al's munchie bar "Please tell me you're the only one that saw that!" "Yes Ratchet I was on security today I'm the only one that saw it" Ratchet started to calm down when he heard Rachel's voice over the intercom "Ratchet can you please make your way to the bridge" He was confused "Why do they want me on the bridge I checked all the equipment this morning"

Ratchet made his way up to the bridge to see no lights on "Rachel did the lights go out….Rachel?" Then the lights Flashed on and all the crew screamed "HAPPY BIRTHDAY RATCHET!" Ratchet was still rubbing his eyes from the bright light but then he heard what they had said Ratchet had forgotten his own birthday because he got soo caught up in that kiss earlier. All the crew had come over to say happy birthday to him and to give him presents. Then the last person to come over to him was Rachel "Ratchet can you stand up for me?" Ratchet obediently obeyed then Rachel couldn't handle herself and she reached over t Ratchet and kissed him in a full on kiss. The whole crew saw that moment and none were really shocked they knew that Rachel liked him that moment Rachel pulled herself away and said sorry "What are you sorry for?" Rachel stared at him confused why didn't he seem to be worried "I'm sorry for kissing you" "Don't be it's my birthday…Duh".

The next morning Ratchet woke up with a hangover and ringing in his ears "Gah…I have a massive head ache serves me right for last night" he said to no one in particular when a groan made Ratchet turn around to face his bed he saw Rachel then the whole night came back to him "Holy crap I'm dead for this" Ratchet said while trying to find some clean clothes. Ratchet decided it would be better for him to do his everyday routine like usual when a message came up on the screen it was Sasha "Happy Birthday Hotshot" "Thanks but my birthday was yesterday" Ratchet said while doing his normal checks on the ship "Sooo….Ratchet what do you think of Rachel?" Sasha said with a bit of self pride in her voice which made Ratchet's ears twitch "She seems really nice" "Yea...But she's soo not your type. I'm more your type I'm not like her" Sasha was trying to make Ratchet think differently about Rachel she was failing miserly "Yea that's most likely why she's laying in my bed…naked" "WHAT! Ratchet why would you do this to me? ME?" Sasha was getting peeved about Rachel "Look we broke-up ages ago I've moved on you should too and what have you got against Rachel any way?" Ratchet was getting to boiling point this had gone too far. "Ratchet what's all the yelling about?" Ratchet and Sasha's argument had woken Rachel up from her sleep "Nothing Sasha was wishing me a happy birthday" Ratchet turned to face the screen Sasha had hung-up "Rachel what has Sasha got against you?"

Rachel went on to explain Sasha's odd behavior "She's all ways been jealous of me I mean look at the phoenix compared to my ship my ship seems like the titanic compared to the phoenix! And I've all ways been the better student at school I got A's and B's and she got C's and D's. One more thing I have a bigger bra size then Sasha" Rachel got up and walked away Ratchet was shocked (Not really) about the last part in Rachel's sentence. Then Jake walked over and sat next to Ratchet "You know Sasha and Rachel had a falling out in school that's why they hate each other so much" Ratchet wasn't really one to go into someone's past but he had to know "Really what happened?" "Well back when Rachel and Sasha were in high school they both liked this guy and Rachel being quick asked him out first and Sasha went spastic over that and called Rachel everything bad you can imagine so they stopped being friends" Ratchet could easily imagine Sasha going off her nut about something like that Sasha has a lot of open nerves Ratchet had hit one to many and that caused them to break up.

Ratchet had thanked Jake for telling him and went to his quarters on the way there he heard Rachel and Jacklynne talking Rachel was crying and Jacklynne was trying to calm her down "Rachel you have him here you know they broke up" Jacklynne was saying while looking for another tissue box "Look at me Rachel…If that slut thinks that she can have Ratchet when he's yours you can tell her to shove it up her well hidden carzar…" Jacklynne had noticed Ratchet's shadow outside the door she got up and saw his shadow move away from the door. When Ratchet reached his quarters he searched for his phone and decided to txt Sasha to finish off Jaklynne's sentence for her but was stopped by Rachel "Ratchet don't make this worse for me please don't txt her" Ratchet put his phone on the table and asked Rachel to sit on his lap and he hugged her "I promise every things going to be all right"