Ratchet and Clank: Love That is a Rift Apart (COMPLETED) ✔️

Chapter 8: self-amputated

Back in Ratchet's dimension.

"WHERE'S MY SON!?"

A loud female voice cried from all over the hospital as a fluffy brown tabby Kraetsiz burst in. She was surrounded by flames and her eyes were red. Then her husband, a black, navy and white Kraetsiz, came in to calm her down.

The doctor then came in to see what's going on. "Mr and Mrs Forest!" The doctor exclaimed, "we're glad you're here." "how is he?" Demanded Heather, the female fire kratz, "is my baby alive?" "yes he's alive." Said the doctor, "he's awake and conscious, but he's still recovering." "what happened?" Hunter, the male kratz, asked. The doctor sighs, "I think your son needs to tell that story."

The doctor lead a couple into Room 30 where Lincoln was reading a magazine from his hospital bed. He looked exactly the same as before he was taken to the hospital, but he had some differences.

He had a large chunk taken out of his right ear, and he had a large scar over his eye. But the most biggest change of all was that his right arm.........was gone.

Heather gasps at the site of her son's real disability, Hunter was also shocked but he tried not to gasp. Lincoln then looked up at his parents, The happiness in his Heterochromia eyes were now gone, only replaced with slight hatred for his parents.

"What are you two doing here?" He asked blandly. Hunter steps up, "Son...." he began "what happened to you?" "it's a long story....." Lincoln muttered. "but can you tell us?" Heather mewed in soft encouragement.

Lincoln takes a deep breath before he begins to tell his story:

"me and Ratchet decided to take the day off together..." he began, "and that's when I saw my sister...."

"Your sister?" Hunter echoed.

"yes." Lincoln said, "your first born. She told me the truth of what happened to her and why she did it."

There was deep coldness in Lincoln's voice when he said that.

"she told me that she wasn't kidnapped." Lincoln continued grimily, "and that The reason why she ran away was because of me....... and that you paid more attention to me! I was heartbroken....so much so that I ran. It's up to the place were me and Ratchet took a break after Eric tried to kill me, and then I heard them."

"Heard who?"

"Ratchet and Cleo.......arguing. Ratchet had enough and broke up with her. But then....."

Link was then cut off by a gash in his voice. "but then what?" Asks Heather. Lincoln shivers as tears began to stream down his face.  "She killed him...." he muttered.

"What...?"

"SHE KILLED HIM!!!!"

His parents stared at him with a shock in their eyes. "Son..." Hunter began, "i'm so sorry...." oh YOU'RE sorry?" Lincoln hissed, "why thank you Dad! That will make things so much better! First I lost my idol, my mentor, my friend, then I lost my arm and you really think that a apology could fix all the hell that happened the last two weeks?! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!"

Hunter was silent. He had a sorrowful look on his face, sorrowful from all the pain that his son went through. Lincoln's ears went back when he realized that he just raised his voice at his father. "I-I'm Sorry......" he rasped in tears. Hunter sighs, "it's alright, Link." He said calmly, "you are grieving right now."

"Grieving?"

"Yes. It's normal to feel that way after you lose someone that you love. Trust me, I was just like you when I lost my father when I was about your age. He was killed in ship crash from a drunk driver.... The crusher so bad that the doctor said that if he would have survived, he would've lost both of his back legs."