Multi-Dimensional Disaster (Rivet x Male Reader) - OLD VERSION

One Tyrant to Another

Y/N's Perspective
Scarstu Debris Field, Zurkie's Gastropub & Battleplex
Thursday, 19/08/32

My eyes slowly opened as a bright and natural, yet cold light shone through the front window of the cockpit, lighting up the confined space behind the ship's seats. Knowing we had phase quartz to get, I went to get up and realised at the last second that something was on me. I looked down and my face lit up as I saw a peacefully sleeping Rivet lying half-on top of me, her head resting on my chest. I took a long, deep breath and thought back to what happened last night. I didn't remember much after the second cocktail, but there was definitely dancing, laughing, nicknames and a fair bit of drinking too. I smiled at myself. Maybe I had managed to pull it off.

Rivet stirred and slowly opened her eyes, looking up at me and smiling. "Hey~" She whispered, sitting up.

I smiled back, a very noticeable blush on my face. "H-hey, Riv-" I said sheepishly, sitting up as well. Rivet giggled and smiled at me. "Did you, uh... sleep well?" I asked, not sure what to say.

"Yeah, I slept alright." She replied, a blush quickly covering her face. "It was a bit cold last night, and I couldn't get to sleep alone in the front seat and--" She looked away, blushing and fidgeting as she tried to explain herself, but I stopped her by pulling her into a hug. 

"You don't need to explain," I said softly, my heart pounding in my chest once again. "I'm fine with it."

I let go of the hug and she looked at me shyly, about to say something but being interrupted by a projection appearing from the ship's console, showing the Emperor's logo on it. Rivet and I stood up, our bodies instantly tensing up. 

"Hellooooooo dimension!" The camera turned on and showed Dr Nefarious atop a large statue of himself. He jumped down into his seat and looked into the camera, smiling. "I know I've been away for a... you know how long, so I thought we should catch up!" He said, moving aside for the camera to zoom in to a screen behind him, showing his logo. "What have I been up to?" The picture on the screen changed to a coloured sketch of him on a platform stepping on a square robot while other robots watched him. "Oh just speaking with *my* adoring fans... Enjoying *my* lovely scenery..." The picture changed to a sketch of him looking up at a statue of Emperor Nefarious. "And finding out there are two, *two* insolent Lombaxes and some dimension-hopping human running around trying to ruin everything!" The image changed again, showing a few rather cute drawings of Rivet, Ratchet and I stuck to printed images of some of the places we had been. "So! I'm offering a bounty of three squillion Nefarious freedom coupons to anyone who can bring me those fuzzy miscreants and their fleshy friend dead or alive! But preferably alive so I can have some fun with them first! My elaborate spy network indicates that they'll be at Blizar and Savali very soon, so get to it!" 

Rivet scoffed at this, shaking her head. "No wonder this Nefarious always loses."

"And if you troublemakers are listening, just know that I'm going to crush you into dust, and then I'll blast that dust into a sun, and then I'll dump that sun into--" I reached forward and cut the transmission, sighing and turning to look at Rivet. 

"Great, now we're on two Nefarious hitlists." I grumbled, Clank turning back on and looking up at us. 

"And he knows where we're going..." Rivet sighed. 

"Then we must hurry and get that phase quartz before he gets us." Clank said as the ship's navigation popped up. He told Rivet the coordinates to Blizar Prime and she punched them in, then we shot off into space again, back on our mission.

(Fast forward, the gang's now close to Blizar Prime) 

"On Sargasso-- you said you gave Ratchet the Dimensionator so that he could find the other Lombaxes..." Rivet looked over her shoulder at Clank. "I never thought I'd see any more of my kind, much less find our 'home'-- if you can even call it that." She smiled at the thought of seeing other Lombaxes. "Do you really think it would work?"