Eventually, the bright light cleared and they were all on the floor, but they appeared to be alive.

"Are we dead?" Qwark asked.

"We are alive." Clank replied.

"All rangers present and accounted for," Tech remarked as he turned to Elaris. "We did it!"

"We did it!" Elaris smiled before hugging him quite excitedly before she then kissed Tech, hard on the lips.

The other Loonatics looked shocked, but of course, they felt happy for Tech. Finally, Elaris pulled away, and Tech's face was as red as Rev's feathers.

"How many planets do you think I'll have to save for them to call me a hero again?" Qwark sulked to himself.

"Ya don't hafta do big things to be a hero, Qwark," Ratchet replied. "Just the right ones."

Qwark gave a small pout before he soon smiled and thought of something. "Oh!" he then handed something back to the young Lombax. "I don't know, maybe it'll be worth something someday." It was the torn-in-half trading card of Captain Qwark that Ratchet had discarded on the ship earlier.

With a grunt, LJ placed Black Velvet's body down on the floor.

"Is she...?" Lee asked, not wanting to say the opposite of 'alive'.

"Nope..." LJ replied. "I felt her pulse; she's just recovering from that zap Nefarious gave her. Hopefully it cleared her thoughts so she might be thinking a bit more rationally."

"She might be evil, but it would be best if she didn't... Um... Die..." Zofia said.

"We know what you're saying, she'll be all right." Felicity coaxed.

At that point, Black Velvet woke up, but she clutched her head. "These goggles are so dark..." she grunted as she removed them, to reveal... A pair of normal brown eyes. "I... I can see... What happened?" she asked.

"Are you okay, uh, Miss Black Velvet?" Emi asked the enemy of the Loonatics.

"Y-Yeah... I think so..." Black Velvet replied. "I think... I might be cured..."

"Cured...?" Felicity asked as she looked over. "Velours Noir! Your eyes!" she then gasped.

Jenny soon walked over and gave Black Velvet a mirror so that she could see herself as she seemed to change and reform somehow.

"It's like when we reformed Uncle Sombra during that adventure with Anastasia." Akito commented.

"Oh, I read that last week..." LJ noted. "Sorry I freaked out and tried to attack him beforehand. I was behind on events leading up to that point."

"Ah, it's okay," Akito replied. "We're all still getting used to the change, but on the bright side, Uncle Sombra and Princess Celestia will be getting married soon, so that means that we'll have an Aunt Celestia, just like when Zadavia and Uncle Planet got married."

"I guess that technically makes Zadavia Aunt Mo's aunt, huh?" asked LJ.

"In a way, yeah," Akito replied. "Like with Aunt Queen Athena being Dad's aunt too."

"You guys really have an interesting family tree." Lee said to him.

"We sure do!" Akito and Estelle smiled proudly.

"Fair enough..." LJ shrugged.

"At least you're okay, Black Velvet." Chip said.

"No... You don't have to call me that anymore," Black Velvet replied. "Before all of this happened, I used to be called Vivica... So, call me that."

"Vivica..." Felicity smiled. "That's a nice name."

"Yeah," LJ added. "And pretty, too."

"Thank you..." Vivica said before smiling. "All of you... I've been in the dark too long, and now I have seen the light, thanks to all of you."

"How fitting..." LJ noted. "You're welcome."

Vivica soon stood up as she was a changed woman.

"I must say that it is curious that the sudden cessation of velocity relative to our inertia did not cause either of you to-" Clank soon spoke up.

Ratchet soon looked sick to his stomach and suddenly threw up.

Qwark laughed. "Yup, that's how it was MY first time, Cadet-" he remarked, before he vomited shortly afterwards.

Clank looked between them.

"Oh... Oh, that was terrible..." Qwark groaned before he soon ran out of the room while holding his stomach. "Oh, boy..."

"Should we go and join the others?" Clank soon suggested.

"I'd like to, but there's a promise I have to keep to an old friend." Ratchet replied.

"Eh?" asked Chip.

"...I understand." Clank said after a while.

"Don't worry," Ratchet smiled to his robot friend. "I'm sure we'll run into each other again someday. It's a small galaxy."

"Well, I suppose this is goodbye." Clank replied.

"Not goodbye," Ratchet replied. "Just... See you around."

The two soon shared a handshake which seemed to last for a rather long time.

"You can let go now, Ratchet." Clank suggested.

"Hehehe... Sorry..." Ratchet replied sheepishly.

The others smiled to each other as this seemed like a happy ending for Ratchet and Clank.

"Wow..." LJ sighed, as they were back aboard the Loonatics' ship and on their way back to Acmetropolis.

Ratchet said goodbye to them as they soon took their leave and came back into the year of 2772 onto the famed city planet.

Zadavia soon came with Captain Planet as they pushed Hercules and Maxima on their strollers to meet up with the Loonatics.

"We're back, everyone!" LJ announced.

"Oh, thank goodness," Zadavia smiled to them. "So good to see you all. I trust you had a good mission?"

"You bet," Chip replied. "We all got to help, we saved the day, AND we turned someone from the darkness to the light."

"Not too shabby, I'd say." LJ nodded.

"That's great, you guys!" Captain Planet smiled. "I always say 'The power is yours'. Uh, who's the someone you turned from darkness to the light?"

"Zadavia... Capitan Planet..." Felicity replied. "This is Vivica, formerly known as Velours Noir."

"AKA Black Velvet." Akito and Estelle added from French into English.

Vivica soon came out of the portal to join them as she was now friendly.

"It's a LOOOONG story!" LJ remarked.

They soon went to the Loonatics' Tower to celebrate.

"Hmm... I wonder what's on TV in the future?" Jenny commented.

Hercules crawled over and took the remote control before using it to turn on the TV to watch Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.

"Kid's got good taste in TV for someone so young." LJ remarked, picking him up and putting him on his lap.

"It's his favorite show," Zadavia smiled. "He watches it all the time. At least his sister has a love for it too, though she's more of a fan of that Princess Mira Nova."

"I see." LJ nodded.

"Bzz! Bzz!" Hercules beamed.

"That's right," Jenny smiled to him. "Buzz Lightyear."

A humanoid girl was seen coming by with a redheaded boy as they smiled to each other before looking over.

"Oh, uh, do we have company?" Ixta asked.

"Yes, Ixta, the others went away on a mission, and those are LJ and Zofia," Captain Planet told his adoptive daughter. "They're Felicity's brother and sister."

"Oh, okay," Ixta smiled before waving to the siblings. "Hi, guys!"

"Hi, there!" LJ waved. "Nice to meet you!"

"Greetings." Zofia smiled.

"Sorry I missed you guys," Ixta smiled back, a little bashfully. "I was hanging out with Eddie and his friends."

"You guys wouldn't happen to know Luna Vista, would ya?" Eddie asked LJ and Zofia since he already knew Akito, Emi, Estelle, Lee, Vincent, Jenny, Felicity, and Chip.

"Luna Vista?" LJ asked. "Not really. Enlighten me."

"I live there with my friends, Lloyd, Douglas, and Kurt," Eddie replied. "It's a space station, and Lloyd's mom is the commander."

"I visit often." Ixta blushed as she looked back to Eddie.

"Ohhhh..." LJ nodded.

"Thanks for the walk..." Ixta said to Eddie.

"You're very welcome." Eddie smiled to her.

LJ just shrugged at that. Zofia watched Ixta and Eddie before the boy seemed to kiss the girl before leaving and her eyes sparkled to that.

"Well, another adventure completed," LJ sighed. "Wait'll the others hear about this!"

"I hope they aren't too jealous," Felicity said as she leaned against Chip. "That was very invigorating though. Especially with making friends with Velours-I mean... Vivica."

A white bat soon flew by and perched on the end of the couch.

"Ah, bonjour, Bartok," Felicity smiled to her pet bat which she earned after the adventure with Anastasia. "So good to see you."

"I just got back from visiting my sister, and I'm an uncle!" Bartok beamed.

"Oh..." LJ commented. "Why do I feel like we missed out on something good?"

Everyone glanced at him.

"Just kidding," LJ replied. "Better to get in on what you CAN instead of griping about what I missed out on..."

"Eh, it's all right," Bartok replied. "Maybe you'd like to meet my new niece. My sister named her 'Stellaluna'."

"That's a beautiful name." Estelle smiled.

"Oh, I read that book!" LJ stated. "It was nice."

"Congratulations, Bartok," Akito smiled. "I know you'll be a great uncle."

"Why, thank you, kiddos," Bartok smiled back. "I look forward to meeting her once she's old enough."

"Good on ya!" LJ replied.

Bartok smiled to them as he sat beside Felicity.

"Bartok became my pet after we helped Anastasia," Felicity said. "That adventure's kinda groundbreaking."

"You don't think Uncle Sombra will feel mad about LJ attacking him during our first meeting with him, do you?" Zofia asked.

"Ah, he'll understand," Vincent reassured. "He's still getting used to the good side, and Dad's still getting used to him being good. I'm sure the next time we see Uncle Sombra, all will be all right in the end."

"Eh... I hope you're right..." LJ replied sheepishly.

"It should be just fine," Vincent smiled. "If not, then we'll talk to him for ya."

It seemed to be a good ending for everyone as they had a lot of fun, especially with Ratchet and Clank and the Loonatics, and with Tech finding love. All in all, it was a fun adventure. And they all knew the next one would be just as great.

Lionel soon appeared much to everyone's surprise. "That's all, folks!" he then called out like Porky Pig as he ended the story for right now.

The End