Ratchet is a species called a Lombax from the planet Veldin. He is the only Lombax anyone has seen.

Ratchet and Clank

Ratchet was a lonely Lombax trying to get off his planet to see other galaxies and planets so he built a ship but it's missing 1 thing. His adventure starts when he sees 3 ships in the sky and 2 of them are trying to destroy the other ship. Then the other ship falls out the sky and crashes. He then takes his trusty Omniwrench 8000 and his bomb glove to check out the crash site. On the way there he battles a few robots trying to kill him. He destroys them then he sees a small robot on the ground he picks it up and takes it back with him. The robot then wakes up and asks Ratchet who he is. Ratchet introduces hisself then asks the robots name. He says a whole bunch of numbers so Ratchet just decides to name him Clank. Clank then asks to see some guy named Captain Quark but Ratchet says he can't see him. Ratchet needs a ship and he's missing one thing. Clank then says the robotic ignitions chip. Ratchet says yeah. Clank offers to help Ratchet only if he takes him to Quark to stop a villian named Drek. They get in the ship and soon get to the planet Rilgar. When they get there they find out to see Quark they need to win a hoverboarding race. Ratchet gets a hoverboard and then goes to the top of the building where the race will be held.

Ratchet and Clank in Blackwater City

On the way he meets this guy that wants to sell him the R.Y.N.O. The Rip You a New One. Clank then says thats the most powerful missle launcher in the galaxy. The guy then wants to sell it to them for 250,000 bolts. They don't have that much money but they will come back later. When they get o the top they enter the race and Ratchet manages to win. They then see Quark after they bribe the bouncer. He says that he needs Ratchet to help save the universe. He gives them an infobot to watch then Clank downloads the coordinates and thleave for Quarks H.Q. on planet Umbris. When they get there they traverse the obstacle course then they meet up with Quark and he says stand in the ing of heroes to get what you deserve. Clank urges Ratchet to do it because he was having 2nd thoughts. When they do they fall a few 100 feet. Then Quark explains that the villian Drek dosen't want them in the way. Quark then sicks a Blargian Snagglebeast on them and Ratchet Clank kill it. Ratchet then gets mad at Clank for allowing them to be tricked so easily. Then Ratchet just gets obsessed with taking out Quark. Ratchet then finds Quark on a space station. They go there to find Quark and a faster ship. While they traverse the space station they find a hangar with a ship in it and they see Quark. They get in the ship and fight Quark. Ratchet ends up winning and Quark falls on a planet and blows up supposedly.

After that they go to another one of Drek's space stations. They find out that Drek intends to blow up a planet that is in the way of his planet. Ratchet soon finds out its his home planet Veldin. Ratchet races to Veldin and then traverses the obstacles then he is face to face with Drek. They fight and before Clank could finish Drek with his giant Clank form Drek shrinks Clank and activates the wapon that will destroy Ratchet's planet. Ratchet shuts it off and manages to knock Drek on to his planet. Then Ratchet and Clank blow up Drek along with his planet. The falling debris almost kills Ratchet but Clank manages to save Ratchet by turning into a jetpack and flying them to safety. Clank breaks his arm and Ratchet leaves for 2 seconds and tells Clank to come with him if he wants that arm repaired Clank comes and that ends their adventure.

Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando

Ratchet and Clank in Going Commando

After they beat Drek things start to cool down after a while and they get bored. Then suddenly they get teleported to the Bogon galaxy. Then this guy named Abercrombie Fizzwidget tells Ratchet and Clank that the Bogon galaxy is in trouble and that they need Ratchet. Fizzwidget says he's the head of Megacorp. He then talks about the experiment and all this information about it. After his training Ratchet then goes to this flying lab to get the experiment. When he tries to get it this masked villian stops him then Ratchet escapes. Fizzwidget then gives Ratchet coordinates to chase down the theif on several planets. They then meet on the planet Sibeirius and they fight and Ratchet wins.

The theif then flies away. Ratchet then gets the experiment and then heads to the place that Fizzwidget wants them to go to. They meet Fizzwidget and give him the experiment. Then while they were in his ship he accidentally ejects them and that gives Clank some dought. After they get out of their they are confronted by the theif who trips and the mask falls off and Ratchet sees it is actually a girl who's name is Angela Cross. They then go to planet Dobbo and find out the protopet their now calling it is really a savage beast. So then they go to Boldan to stop Fizzwidget from selling protopets. Too bad it was really a robot.

Then R&C head to jail for trying to knock off Fizzwidget. They break out and find out Angela's been kidnapped then they manage to save her from a gigantic robot. She then says they have to go to Megacorp Hq and stop Fizzwidget. When they get there they find out that Fizzwidget was really trapped in a closet. The fake one was really Captain Quark. He tried to use the protopet to restore his status as a hero. He then screws up and makes the protopet even bigger and badder then before. So then R&C defeat the protopet and restore it to normal and it now is not a savage beast. After that Angela gives Ratchet an infobot that shows Quark paying for his crimes and he's testing out the new Megacorp Crotchitizer.

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal

After that they were watching the holovid then just scrolled to the news. Ratchet saw that his home planet was under attack by the Tyhrranoids. So Ratchet leaves Bogon and goes back to his galaxy and helps the Galactic Rangers beat back the invasion. They then find out that the person who ordered this invasion was Dr. Nefarious. So then the president orders them to find the one person who ever beat Nefarious, Captain Quark. He lost his memory trying to save a planets forest. R&C find Quark and take him back to the Starship Pheonix to get his memory back. After all that the Q force (including Al, Helga, Skidd , Ratchet, Clank, Qwark, and Sasha) is ordered to infiltrate Nefarious's base on planet Aquatos. After all that the travel to the planet Daxx. They learn of the biobliterrator but they didn't know what it did. When they go to Holostar Studios to film Clank for his t.v show Secret Agent Clank, Clank had to bring on this popstar robot named Courtney Gears so R&C could get information on Nefarious but things go wrong when Gears knocks out Clank. Then she replaces him with a fake Clank called Klunk. Ratchet dosen't realize this until he goes to the planet Metropolis where there's a Tyhrranoid invasion.

After Ratchet makes it to the end he says hey Clank to the Clank that's imprisoned. Then he realizes that his Clank isn't really Clank. He then beats Klunk and rescues Clank. After all that and more R&C go to the planet Koros to destroy the Biobliterrator. After they destroy it Sasha reveals that there's one more. So then they go to the planet Mylon. When Ratchet starts to battle Nefarious and beats him Nefarious teleports into the Biobliterrator and starts firing missiles at him. Then Quark shows up and helps R&C out. R&C then get in to a mini ship with missiles and start shooting at the Biobliterrator and soon destroy it. Nefarious tried to escape but he didn't specify a destination and he is trapped on a asteroid for 5 to 10,000 years. R&C then go to Clank's Secret Agent Clank movie and that ended another adventure.

Ratchet:Deadlocked

Ratchet and Clank in Deadlocked

While on the Starship Pheonix robots came to capture Ratchet, Al, and Clank. Ratchet then goes unconcious for a while. When he wakes up he finds out he's going to be on a show called Dreadzone but he has some choice words for Al when he wakes up. Al tells Ratchet that if they try to escape the Deadlock collars they have on will detonate killing whoever is trying to escape. Since Ratchet now has a combat suit on to make sure all the circuits are working Al tells Ratchet to try to move around to make sure everything is working. After Ratchet qualifies for Dreadzone after he wins the preliminaries he explores his new place to stay. Al then gives Ratchet his own battle bots from a fallin contestant who didn't make it. Ratchet then visits Clank at his station to talk about how to escape. During Ratchet's first event he gets slandered about things that are untrue or if it happened the Dreadzone Announcer/News Reporters Dallas and Juanita twist everything that happened around. After Ratchet wins that event and he travels to a few more planets he ends up in his first big event. He has to go up against the Exterminator Shellshock. After traversing the Dark Cathedral of Chronos and encountering Shellshock several times Ratchet finally battles Shellshock Lombax to Robot. During there battle Shellshock runs away several times to different parts of The Dark Cathedral of Chronos. When Shellshock finally stays in one place Ratchet manages to defeat Shellshock then Shellshock falls to his knees and he dies. This win only lead to more slander for Ratchet. Ignoring that Ratchet tells Clank about how it felt for him to beat his first exterminator.