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Starship Phoenix, In orbit behind the Earths moon.

Ratchet and Sasha were laying in their bed when something knocked on their door. They glanced at each other. If the Rangers were knocking on the door that could only mean trouble. Ratchet looked at Sasha hopefully.

"We could just ignore it" He said

Sasha looked at him with humor "You know we can't do that"

He sighed "Yeah, I know, I just wanted to try"

They rolled out of the bed and walked towards the door together. Ratchet thumbed the open switch as they got closer and was greeted with a Galatic Ranger saulteing.

"Sirs, we have a small problem"

Sasha looked over at Ratchet "Told you we couldn't ignore it"

Ratchet glanced at her her before facing the Ranger. "What kind of problem?"

The Ranger handed Sasha a small Vid-Screen "We lost contact with the shuttle and the Rangers inside. Last data drop sent reports nothing new." Sasha handed the Vid-Screen to Ratchet who looked at it.

"There is something new" He held the screen back out to Sasha with big red letters glowing on it.

"Not good" she said as she stared at "UNITS DESTROYED" Flashing repeatedly on the screen. She handed the screen back to the Ranger. "We need to go down there and get that shuttle" Ratchet nodded and reached for his quickselect watch.

He stopped when Sasha put her hand on his. "Peacefully" she added and Ratchet scowled at her.

"Fine. But I'm taking my Omni-Wrench" He grabbed it off his workbench and attached it to his belt. "We'll take my fighter" He said walking out of their room and towards the elevator that would take them to their private hanger. Sasha shook her head as she ran after him.

The elevator opened onto Sasha and Ratchets Private hanger and Ratchet ran towards his fighter popping the canopy as he went. He hopped in and warmed up the engines at Sasha climbed into the passenger side. He lowered the canopy and spun the fighter around throwing Sasha sharply to the side.

"Ratchet!" He glanced over at her and grinned sheepishly

"Sorry, I'm a little worried"

Sasha glanced at him with rueful eyes "I've noticed. Care to explain?"

He glanced over at her again "I knew something was up with that Zen guy, and I didn't trust Slade much eithe. I guess I'm just worried about what we will run into down there"

Sasha leaned over and put her hand on his shoulder. "Don't. We can handle anything they can throw at us"

Ratchet gripped the controls tighter as they sliced through Earths atmosphere "I hope you're right"

Ratchet banked the fighter through the high clouds and arced towards the Whitehouse. As they got closer they could see the shuttle. Ratchet pulled the fighter to a stop and activated his belly camera. He zoomed in on the shuttle to see Secret Service agents unloading the destroyed Rangers. Ratchet scowled at the screen as he threw the fighter into a steep dive towards them.

Sasha braced herself against the edge of the cockpit as Ratchet pulled up suddenly and shut down the engines letting the fighter hover above the lawn. The secret service agents were staring at them in shock for a few moments before they dropped the dead Ranger and pulled out pistols. They began to shoot at Ratchets fighter not even realizing that their guns were having no effect.

Ratchet pushed a button on his dash and a small shockwave errupted from his fighter sending the agents tumbling into the shuttle. Before they had a chance to recover Ratchet popped the canopy and was after them. He knocked one out with his Omni-Wrench while he pinned the other to the wall of the shuttle.

"What happened here!?" He demanded as the agent struggled to puncture his armor with his fist. Ratchet raised his eyebrow before slapping the agent over the head with his wrench and leaving him knocked out next to his friend on the floor.

Sasha walked up the ramp and knelt down next to a stain on the floor. She reached out gingerly and touched it. Bringing her fingers to her nose she gasped in surprise.

"Blood" She stood up and looked at the large stain "Somebody bled a lot here, And they tried to clean it up" Ratchet walked into the shuttle cockpit.

"It doesn't look like the controls have been tampered with" he called back. He came out of the cockpit and looked at her "You ready to leave?" Sasha glanced down at the blood stain again.

"Aren't you worried about that?" she asked.

Ratchet glanced at the stain "Nope, Just hope it belongs to Slade. Come on let's get out of here" Sasha held her hand up as her ears twitched.

"Wait, What's that?" Ratchet glanced out the shuttles landing ramp. He and Sasha walked out and looked towards the Whitehouse, where a voice was echoing across the grounds. "That's Zen" Ratchet said suddenly only to have Sasha shush him.

"I come to you, at a dark hour in the worlds history. We have finally made contact with beings from outer space. Unfortunately these beings have revealed themselves to be hostile. Our beloved President and I went to their ship to meet with them to only have them attack us." Sasha and Ratchet glanced at each other in shock.

"We manage to get to one of their shuttles and figure out how to launch it. Unfortuntly Preisdent Slade was shot while we escaped. He bleed to death right before we landed" Zens voice stopped echoing around the grounds. "I promise you, We shall study this craft and chase these beings out of our galaxy" Echoing cheers sounded as Zens voice fell silent.

Sasha and Ratchet were still staring at each other, but as the silence was replaced by the cheers they were inspired with a new energy. An energy to escape. Sasha turned around and headed for the cockpit. A hand reached out and grabbed her ankle. She looked down as she gasped in surprise to see that one of the secret service had regained consciousness. He reached for his lapel with one hand as Ratchet approached from behind him. Ratchet raised his wrench and struck the agent over the head again. But not before he got two words out.

"There Back"

Ratchet and Sasha looked back towards the Whitehouse as an alarm echoed across the grounds now. They glanced at each other and ran to the shuttles ramp to see secret service pouring out and heading towards them. Sasha turned around to enter the cockpit but Ratchet grabbed her arm.

"There's no time, Come on" He dragged her back towards his fighter.

"Bu-But what about the shuttle?" she stammered as she got her feet under her and started running along side him.

"I'll take care of the shuttle" He jumped on the wing of his fighter and bounced into his cockpit as Sasha ran along the side and pulled her self in. Bullets started to ping off the side of his fighter and Ratchet glanced dismayed at his read out screen to see that they were doing damage to the shields.

"They brought bigger guns not good." He lowered the canopy as a hail of bullets found their mark on it, a few of them leaving dents. He activated the engines and faced the shuttle. He quickly primed two missiles and sent them spiraling into the belly of the shuttle. He rocketed towards the atmosphere as the shuttle exploded into a thousand pieces. The shockwave threw most of the secret service to the ground. As Ratchet concentrated on flying Sasha opened a channel to the Phoenix.

"Get the shields up and the warp system warmed. We're leaving ASAP, The humans have proven hostile and opened fire on us." The Ranger on screen saluted and closed the channel as Sasha glanced at Ratchet.

"You don't think they'll follow us do you" She asked, Ratchet was about to answer when he suddenly jerked the fighter to the side. Sasha gasped as something flew by the cockpit window and exploded in front of them.

"No, I think they'll try and shoot us down" Ratchet accelerated pushing his fighter to the limits. It was so much harder to leave atmosphere then to enter it. It didn't help that he was constantly dodging the flak that they were throwing at them. Finally after what seemed like hours he felt Earths pulls loosen and he blasted towards the Phoenix.

As he landed in their bay and popped the canopy the lights suddenly started flashing red. Sasha and Ratchet looked at each other as they ran towards the elevator. As they reached the main landing bay they jumped off the elevator and ran towards the gondola. They jumped on and paced as they waited for the doors to close and take them to the bridge.

Ratchet was ducking under the gondolas door before it had fionished opening and ran towards the doors to the bridge the alarms urging him on, Sasha right behind him. As they ran onto the bridge the Rangers looked at them with relief.

"What's going on?" One of the rangers pressed a button and they saw a large missile spiraling from Earth towards them. Painted on the nose cone were the words "Fatman Sr."

Sasha stared at it "What's that?" But Ratchet paled underneath his fur. He remebered something from his studies on the planet.

"It's a nuke, not even the Phoenix's shields will stop that thing." He faced the Rangers "Get us turned around and away from here, NOW" he shouted at them. The Phoenix began a slow turn and they watched the missile breach Earths atmosphere. "It's going to be close" Ratchet thought as the Phoenix started to move away from the moon. Unfortunately the missile was getting closer instead of farther. Ratchet ran up to the command chair and leaned over to the console next to it.

"Hold on" he said and slapped the warp button. Time seemed to stretch as the ship shuddered and jumped and threw everyone to the ground as the Phoenix suddenly accelerated. The ship shook harder and metal screeched. Panels lit up with danger signs as the blackness of space was replaced with the blue and purple of a warp. Ratchet sighed in relief as the alarms silenced and the ship stopped shaking. Sasha picked herself up off the floor and walked towards him.

"What, was that?" she asked out of breath. Ratchet looked over at her.

He grinned "That was Hotshot saving the day. Although you're Dad's not going to like the stress we put on the Phoenix."

Sasha raised her eyebrows at him "We? I believe that was all you Commander. Why did the Phoenix act like that anyway?"

Ratchet glanced over at a status display. "That was entering a warp before leaving a gravity well. Since we were still at the fringes of Earths gravity well. The Phoenix's engines had to work harder then they were designed to to get us to warp speed. That and the fact that we forced the warp before they were warmed up as well didn't help much either."

Sasha nodded thoughtfully. "Aside from the fact that you still keep saying 'we' I understand it. But I heard screeching metal, like it was being torn. What was that?"

Ratchet consulted the status screen again. "Stress, Sash, Stress. The metal just wasn't designed for that. We're okay for now but we are going to need to get some of the panels replaced when we get back to Marcadia." He walked up to the command overlook and pushed the warp button again. "Let's set our course for Marcadia, and demand another vacation from you're Father. We seem to be getting shot at way to much lately."

Sasha walked up next to him and smiled, He smiled back and grabbed her hand. "Rangers? Do me a favor and take us back to Marcadia. I need to talk to Commander Sasha in private."

The Rangers on deck saluted as Ratchet led Sasha back towards the gondola. As the gondolas door slid closed behind them Sasha turned to Ratchet.

"What did you need to talk to me about?" Ratchet just grinned at her. Most irritating. She scowled back at him. "Come on, tell me" He just shook his head and grinned somemore. She deepened her scowl but knew he wasn't going to tell her anything.

The gondola thunked into position on the other side and Ratchet pulled her towards the elevator that led to their private hanger. She stumbled along behind him wordlessly, trying to figure out what he was up to. He pulled her into the elevator when it opened and hit the floor for their private hanger.

The descended rapidly and Sasha was still watching Ratchet who still had a goofy grin on his face and staring at her. When the doors opened Ratchet proceeded to drag her out into the hanger. She dug her heels in and jerked him back towards her.

"Allright Ratchet, I want to know whats going on. Now" She crossed her arms and stared at him tapping a foot. He sighed and turned to face her.

"Allright, I was going to do it here anyway." He said as he reached for one of the pockets on his belt

She raised one of her eyebrows at him "Do what?" she asked almost nervously.

He looked at her with a serious face. "While I was studying the god awful planet I noticed that the males there have a strange custom, and since I wanted to ask you this for the past month I decided to try it their way."

"Ratchet....You're worrying me"

He dropped to one knee. "I don't want to worry you Sasha, I love you, and if you'll have me, I want to marry you" He pulled a small ring out of his pocket and held it out to her.

Sasha gasped. She had heard about the males of earth proposing like this but never thought she would see one, or that it would happen to her. She leaned down and brushed a hand across his face. Tears sparkling in her eyes.

"Oh, Ratchet, Of course I'll marry you" She extended a hand and Ratchet put the ring on her finger. He stood up shakily and embraced her. She noticed that he appeared to be sweating and shaking. She laughed softly.

He pulled back a little bit. "What's so funny?" he asked staring at her

"You." she said "You've faced Alien beings, Evil monsters, Crazy villains, Countless hoards of baddys with out breaking a sweat. Yet you find Proposing to me something worth worrying about."

He grinned at her. "Well sure, those are easy, swallowing my nervousness around you to propose, is not." She just laughed at him and hugged him again. He sighed into her shoulder.

"You realize we have to tell my dad right?" He stepped back from her.

"Can it wait for a bit, Like till I'm in the Bogon Galaxy?" She laughed at him "You're that nervous of him?"

"No I'm nervous of the Galactic Rangers he'll send to hunt me down for doing this"

Sasha couldn't help herself anymore "Oh shut up" she said and pulled him into her arms and kissed him.

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Planet K4852-Designation Earth, White house lawn, Washington D.C., Earth Standard time 6:42 AM

Zen walked through the wreckage of the destroyed shuttle, contempt visible on his features. How dare they try and stop him? He was so close to getting what he wanted. Then they had to go and blow up the damn shuttle. He was about to leave when a technician who was scanning the wreckage ran up to him.

"Sir, we found something" Zen followed him as the tech led him to a scorched cylinder.

"And what is this? Why is it so bloody important?" He asked as he stared at it.

"Sir, it's one of the engines, and it still has power."

Suddenly Zen was happy again. He yelled to some of the secret service to drag it to a lab. He grinned as he watched the technicians drag the cylinder towards the Whitehouse. Sasha and Ratchet hadn't seen the last of him yet.

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AuthorsNote: Oh dear me, We have arrived at the end of the story and I seem to have left another cliff hanger. :3

If you liked the story, hated it, or are just angry that I left another cliff hanger. Leave a Review and tell me how much it angered you.

So just some insight, This story was meant as a bridge between my next big one. Containing Things that I thought important enough to have their own story, but not be added into my next one. Which I plan on being around the same size as NoftP (Nightmares of the Past). Also do to the positive feed back this has gotten. Although there has been very little of it. I know people are still reading this, I'm already typing out the next part of the story and may upload soon. Or rather as soon as I come up with a good title for it.

Until the next story, To my Friends, Enemy's, and Fans, Let peace rule you're heart.

This is Emile, signing off.

Peace