It had been a couple weeks since Ratchet found Spike and said he'd help Spike get home much to Spike's gratefulness, Spike had felt a little depressed in not being able to at least contact Twilight through a letter because he's to far away for the magic to reach her, and has had a lot to go through knowing he's really alone on this.

He and Ratchet often talked about what his life was like on Equestria, and what he mainly did there, and Spike soon told him what he really was, and Ratchet had been surprised to know that Spike was a dragon, as he thought they didn't exist, and that interested him on what Spike's planet is like even more. The two got along really well during they're short time on this planet, and the closer they got to making the ship, the more hopeful they were about finding out where to find his home.

While Spike really wishes he could at least find some way to contact Twilight and let her know he's okay, he's on a completely different planet, lightyears away from her and his family, and the only way to get back, was to get off this planet. And during their time here,

Spike and Ratchet were putting the finishing touches on the spaceship, it looked like it would help them.
"Pass me that wrench over there please" Ratchet requested while holding his hand out, and Spike did so and handed him it to

"So how much longer till it's finally done?" Spike asked as he had been taught a lot in the last couple weeks about the Solana Galaxy and what important stuff he should know

"Just a few more touches and we'll finally be off this rock!" Ratchet said happily as he was making the last few tweaks.

"Aaand done! Finally!" Ratchet said excitedly as spike looked happy the ship was finally powering on.

"Ship requires an onboard robot intelligence system, " The ai voice says which disappointed Ratchet as that is one of the most crucial features of any ship.

"Crap, completely forgot that ships require at least one robot..." Ratchet said sadly while Spike looked upset as Ratchet turned to him to give him the bad news.

"I'm sorry spike, looks like we both aren't leaving.." Ratchet said depressed as he puts a hand on Spike's shoulder.

"So we're both stuck here?" Spike asked with regret hearing this, and Ratchet nodded his head in response to confirm it.

"Yeah.. I'm really sorry about this Spike.." Ratchet said as they tried to figure out what they can do to

But as they were thinking over what to do next, something unexpected happened. Far off in the distance, they saw what looked like another ship crash just beyond they're home, and they both looked extremely surprised knowing they're answer, may have literally just fallen out of the sky like that.
"What was that?" Spike asked with shock as they got up and saw the smoke coming from it in the distance.

"I don't know, lets go check it out" Ratchet said as they both made they're ways to it.

Ratchet had given Spike a thing called a " Omni Wrench" which was used for fixing tools but also for attacking some enemy's thanks to its extending feature, and a "Bomb Glove" which only shot out bombs but Spike found it really cool as they don't have stuff like this back home, Ratchet and Spike had to fight off some of the small wild life but it wasn't much of a difficult challenge, it's when they got near the crash sight however things got a little interesting. There were some large robots that had attacked them much to their surprise but was able to defeat them because they have their bombs.

"Why would those robots be near this crash sight?" Spike asked with a confused look seeing this.

" I don't know, it must be important if they came out here" ratchet said as they arrived at the crater and found something in it.

"It looks like a small robot" Spike said as they looked at it

"Let's take it back to the shop and see if we can activate it." Ratchet suggested as they picked it up and took it back to see what it may know..

We cut back to the shop as Spike was working with Ratchet on the ship to try to get it to work, the robot came on and walked behind them both looking at the ship.

"Interesting." The robot suddenly announced, which surprised the both of them and they fell off the box they were on before they quickly got up and looked at the robot with surprise.

"What the?!" Spike and Ratchet asked at once as the robot took an inspection of what they're working on.

"You two are quite handy with those wrenches." the robot told them, and they looked at eachother with surprise seeing he looks completely fine despite that crash just half an hour earlier.

"Yeah i just got this recently but i've gotten the hang of some stuff with it" Spike said as he held his out.

"Yeah you bet, we built this ship with i.t" Ratchet said pointing at it, and the robot looked back at him

"Currently i have been in search of someone who could be in assistance of saving the solar system" He said as they both looked confused

"What?" they both asked confused.

"Do you know where i might find that fellow?" he asked pointing at a poster on Ratchet's wall.

"Well he's on the radio every week, better then that no" Ratchet answered

"I have no idea if he can even help as he probably will be to busy with stuff" Spike suggested and Ratchet nods

"Hey what's with all the save the solar system stuff anyway?" Ratchet asked

"Yeah what is it about?" Spike asked wanting to know as well.

Another robot had came out and had showed them what he's talking about, someone by the name of Drek was talking to the citizens of the planet called "Novalis" and said that they're own home planet is uninhabitable now ,was building a large planet but had been forcefully taking recourses from other planets in order to make it his own, they got all the information they needed as the robot soon finished the video.
"Are we still on? turn it off you idiot! Drek ordered someone off screen just as the screen went black, and Spike already didn't like him just from this info alone.

"Corporation greed..." Spike said annoyed as he already sees what kind of person he is, and clearly doesn't care for what will happen to anything else around him.

"Yeah it's really obvious on how that planet died." Ratchet replied seeing what they've done to the place.

"The people on that planet are done for, well good luck getting Captain Qwark too help ya." Ratchet said sarcastically while the robot had an idea after looking back at their ship.

"Actually you two could help me, we could use your ship to take us to the coordinates indated in this Info Bot, i might be able to gather further information there. " he informed which sounded like a great opportunity, and the two looked at eachother with smiled knowing what this means.

"This could be our chance to get you home!" Ratchet said with a hopeful look while Spike looked very hopeful this could be their way off this place.

"Yeah! he could be the help we need, we just need to take care of this Drek guy first " Spike said agreeing as they looked back on him.

"We'll help you, we just need a robotic ignition system in order to get it flying." Ratchet informed while remembering what the computer system told them before.

"I believe that's why we couldn't get it working before that." Spike said as he looked at the ship, the robot looked at the ship and scanned it.

"Yes, you both need a robotic ignition system in order to get it working, and i just so happened to be equipped with the latest robotic ignition systems, they allow me to start any ship i chose." The robot explained which they were understanding a bit better.

" So we agree to help, take you to this where ever it is, and you get our ship up and going?" Ratchet asked hoping that's what he's meaning.

"That is what i am purposing". He replied which sounded good to them, but just then, two large ships appeared from the sky and they both were getting nervous seeing they may be here for the robot, and they didn't want to risk losing they're only ticket off this planet.

"We'll help you! But lets get going now!" Spike said as he, Ratchet and the robot got on the ship. Like he said the ship was activated almost immediately and it finally took off, and Ratchet held onto the controls as it takes off beyond the atmosphere, and is finally taking off into space.

Their ship was being seen from orbit and Drek saw it flying off, and even from the sight of it, he already has a strange feeling
"This could be a problem." He told himself as a large figure stood behind him, and was waiting for further orders.

"Take care of it! " He orders the figure and he walks off to deal with this.

We cut to them flying through space and they both were amazed at the beauty of it, Spike was sitting next to clank as there was only two seats but Spike was looking out the left side amazed by what he was seeing.
"This is amazing..." Spike said in awe as he looked back at the planet only getting further away, and he was extremely excited to see that he's actually traveling through space after weeks of being stuck there.

"Woah this is great so that's where we've been stuck this whole time!" Ratchet said in excitement as he looked back at the planet as they got further away from it, and he did shake the ship a bit which tossed the two of them around a bit from the lack of focus.

"You sure you can fly this thing?" Spike asked nervously with the robot agreeing.

"Please regain your attention to the steering mechanisms sir." The robot requested which made Ratchet remember what he's supposed to be doing.

"Oh sorry" Ratchet apologized while putting his hands back on the controls to keep it steady.

"By the way you can stop calling us "Sirs" the name's ratchet, this is Spike" Ratchet introduced himself and Spike nodded.

"Nice to meet you" Spike said with a smile.

"Pleased to meet your acquaintances sirs" He replied making them chuckle.

"So you got a name?" Ratchet asked since they don't know if he does or not.

"Yeah do you have one?" Spike asked as well while they looked back at him.

"My serial number is XP B5426..." he is cut off as Ratchet almost his a rock and he fell over making a clank sound. And just from that sound alone, it already gave Ratchet an idea on what they can call him.

"We'll just call you Clank for short!" Ratchet suggested which Spike liked the sound of too.

"Yeah i like that name, nice to meet you Clank!" Spike said with a smile which Clank was glad to accept

"Alright we're approaching the planet now, hang on guys!" Ratchet said as they saw the planet " Novalis" getting bigger.

"Twilight i hope you are doing okay.." Spike said worried as they entered the planet, and hoped that this place can help them find his way back soon..

Author's Note

Hey guys hoped you liked this first chapter! This story will mainly handle the ps2 version of that game as i believe it is more of a proper for the journey to start for them, I hope you enjoyed my story so far and my previous ones, hope you look forward to more and see you soon!