Lombax (Designation: Ratchet) Status: Active Threat Assessment: Omega
Corrupted. Hero Status: Active.
The file opened to a grainy security feed from the Planet Quartu. A small, orange-furred creature with a tail like a lightning bolt was hot-wiring a discarded robotics platform. ratchet and clank codex
“Shut up, Clank. I see an open hatch.”
On the viewport, a battered yellow ship with mismatched wings dropped out of lightspeed. Standing on the nose cone, riding it like a surfboard through the vacuum of space, was the Lombax. He was holding the OmniWrench. A small, orange-furred creature with a tail like
“The Lombax is not a soldier. He does not follow orders. He does not seek power. He seeks bolts —the galactic currency—and yet he gives every last one to refugees. He is a mechanic who fixes broken galaxies. The robot is his conscience. Together, they are a glitch in the code of reality. They are the hero the universe does not deserve and the fool who won’t stop showing up.”
Drek paused the feed. The Lombax had just used the wrench to deflect a laser bolt back into a security drone. The drone exploded. Standing on the nose cone, riding it like
The Lombax grinned. Drek could see his teeth even from here.