Ratchet (Minecraft)

*This article is about the character of The Altered Adventure Minecraft series. For his novel counterpart, see **Ratchet**. For the episode of the name of the character in the title, see **"Ratchet and the Ritual"**.*

**Ratchet**, formerly known as the Earth Guardian, is a character on *The Altered Adventure* Minecraft series. He débuts in the fourth episode of the first volume. He was formerly voiced by Steven and DragonHat in the Prequel series, and is currently voiced by DigitzedPixels.

## History

Before Gizzy's Arrival

The Green Bloods, an indigenous humanoid species known for their precious skin, are hunted down by a gang of men called the Bowsmen to make profit off of their hide. The Green Bloods are drawn to almost complete extinction by the Bowsmen. Ratchet, one of the last Green Bloods, is discovered, along with his family, by the hunters and is attacked. During the slaughter, Ratchet manages to escape, and assumes he's the last of his unfortunate kind. Soaked in blood, fatally wounded, Ratchet finds a man named Witch, a powerful sorcerer, and begs him to help him. Pitying the man, Witch decides to help Ratchet, tending to his wounds with his magic. Choosing to repay him for saving his life, Ratchet offers himself to serve Witch. The magician accepts his proposal by making the Green Blood his servant. ("The Green Bloods")

After his master learns takes it upon himself to stop a deadly demon coming from the Nether to destroy the land, Ratchet goes with Witch to Dawn's Opening where the magician casts a spell on the volcano, slowing down the Demon's entrance through the dimensional barriers. As the spell is enacted, King Alpha, along with his army comprised of Voice, Barath and Divine, arrive to defeat the Demon themselves. During the confrontation, Ratchet is commanded by Witch to leave, as he deems it too dangerous for him to stay.

Later, Ratchet visits Alpha's Kingdom where he finds his master alive in a conference and learns that they have successfully defeated the Demon. Unfortunately, King Alpha died during the fight, and so his powers were given to Barath, Elizabeth, Voice and Witch, making them the four Guardians of Altered. Ratchet is told to get out of the room as it is private Guardian matters, but only steps back into a corner of the room. He overhears them speaking of something called the Prophecy, and is then told by Witch for the second time to get out or else he'd use his new earth powers on him. ("Origin")

During Gizzy's Arrival

Ratchet reunites with Witch and Voice in the desert after returning from another universe. Witch is distraught after learning that his brother, Aurona, didn't come back with them and becomes angry at Voice for giving such little care for the loss of his sibling. To teach him a lesson for using him as a simple pawn, Witch uses his voodoo magic to remove Voice's body, making him a consciousness floating in the air. As punishment for treason and attacking a Guardian, Voice dethrones Witch and gives the earth element to Ratchet. Voice leaves the two to go find Gizzy, while Ratchet stays back with his former master. Witch tells him to do whatever it takes to stop Voice's plans and make sure Gizzy doesn't reach the Prophecy. Ratchet questions him on why this Gizzy person is so important, but Witch tells him he'll know soon enough. After becoming the Earth Guardian, Ratchet also becomes the owner of the Earth Kingdom, while Witch is kicked out of it. ("Sanctuary", "Origin")

Immediately after, Ratchet hears someone crying for help. With his powers of flight, he scours the ocean and finds a duck named Cib who's ironically drowning. Revealing to him that he's the Earth Guardian of the Altered Universe, Ratchet uses his once a full-moon teleport to take them both safely to land. Cib asks if he knows if any others arrived in this universe, but he says he could only find him because of his loud cries for help. As payment for saving his life, Ratchet decides to make Cib his right-hand man. Once they make the agreement official with signature agreement, he shows him the way to the Earth Kingdom. At some point, Ratchet comes across Voice's lost body and plans to tell him about it. ("Jekyll and Hyde", "Cruise")

Volume One

Having heeded Witch's orders to stop Gizzy from reaching the Prophecy, Ratchet teleports in front of this newcomer to speak to him, and then teleports away. Unfortunately, the Green Blood speaks a strange language that only the newcomer can't understand. Later, Ratchet goes to see his new right-hand man to make him stop this threat. ("Curse of the Bite", "Origin")

At a battle tower, the Earth Guardian is visited by Voice, who explains Gizzy only wants to go home, and is not going to the Prophecy or try to harm the Altered Universe. Using the knowledge of the location of his body, Ratchet blackmails Voice into luring Gizzy to him in exchange for his body back. If he doesn't help, then he will destroy Voice's body, and gives him a day to decide. ("Jekyll and Hyde")

Voice comes back to Ratchet for his final decision. He agrees into luring Gizzy to him to get his body back. ("The Grave Robbers")

Voice manages to lure Gizzy to his kingdom where Ratchet captures and imprisons him. He later congratulates Voice for his trickery and rewards him the coordinates to his body. Before he goes off to regain his body, Ratchet asks Voice why Gizzy can't understand him, to which he replies that he doesn't know. ("Deception")

Cib reports back to Ratchet with news on a fallen village. Cib says he destroyed an NPC Village and all of its inhabitants because they were helping Gizzy to the prophecy. He becomes very upset at the duck for what he did since it may ruin his reputation as a guardian. After the death of the villagers, Cib assures his master that at least there's no one who can help Gizzy now.

Ratchet later goes to check on his prisoner only to discover that he's escaped. He orders Cib to find Gizzy back at the village. ("Cruise")

Voice comes to visit Ratchet with his regained body. The two guardians conclude that Gizzy must've escaped with his morphing abilities. Ratchet tries to convince Voice to get Gizzy back but refuses to betray Gizzy again, so Ratchet threatens to get Witch to remove his body again if he doesn't help. Voice tells Ratchet he might go to the prophecy now two guardians have betrayed him. Ratchet tells Voice if he doesn't help capture Gizzy (again) then he will tell the other guardians he is helping a threat get to the prophecy and dethrone him.

At Cloud Temple, Ratchet discusses with Inferno and Letvia about Gizzy. The fire and water guardians don't see Gizzy at all as a threat to the universe and see Voice as a "good guy" for helping him get back home. They mock Ratchet of his suspicions and then leaves. ("Lucky Block Cavern")

Cib returns with news that Gizzy escaped. They are soon interrupted when they are both teleported to a trial at Cloud Temple hosted by the Guardians, along with Yoshi. They've summoned Cib and Ratchet to speak of the crime they committed by killing innocent villagers. Cib says he was just trying to protect the Guardians from Gizzy and the Prophecy. They blame Ratchet for commanding his Right-Hand Man to do such a thing. They also take into account that he blackmailed Voice, twice. The Guardians discuss what they should to punish Ratchet. They decide to not de-throne him, but give him his last warning. As his final warning, Inferno kills Cib. Inferno then warns him that if he kills another person, he will be de-throned. ("The Last Warning")

Back at the Earth Kingdom, following Cib's death, Ratchet discovers a whole cavern filled with Lucky Blocks that can dampen his Guardian powers. As the Earth Guardian enters the cave, he eavesdrops on a conversation between Witch and his father, Gypsy, about taking over the Altered Universe with Witch as the new king of Altered. ("Higher Rank", "Sanctuary")

Volume Two

After Witch leaves the cavern, he confronts Gypsy about his plans to takeover Altered. With the help of his powers of foresight, Gypsy tells him that he knew he was listening to their conversation and knew he was going to confront him. Before turning him in to the Guardians, he decides to remove all the lucky blocks in the cave with TNT. Knowing this was going to happen as well, Gypsy tells him the words "oink oink" before entering the set-off TNT and dies in the explosion. Ratchet realizes that he just killed another innocent person which is going to get him de-throned. ("Sanctuary")

He is visited by Witch who's wondering if he knows what happened to his father. Ratchet confesses that he killed Gypsy, but it was an accident. Using his leverage on Ratchet about knowing his last warning with the Guardians, Witch tells him to break into the Voice's Kingdom and steal the Witch Shield for him. ("Jungle of Hope")

Ratchet enters the Air Kingdom and finds the shield. He steals it and brings it back to Witch at his hut. He tells Ratchet that he tricked him. Knowing Voice, the Guardians must already know that he stole the item. Witch orders him to leave. Later, Ratchet watches Witch remove the former dead King of Altered's body and putting the paper with the coordinates to his body in his chest. ("The King of Altered", "The Power Born")

Ratchet is soon summoned to Cloud Temple by the Guardians for a trial for stealing the Witch Shield. He confesses that he stole it for Witch, but is reluctant to say why. He eventually tells them that he did it so that Witch didn't tell them he killed another person. As punishment for his crimes, Ratchet is de-throned as the Earth Guardian.

Later that day, Ratchet takes the paper from Witch's chest. When Voice and Alpha try to find the coordinates, he shows him the paper and then tears it up. Being the only person who can help Alpha in finding his body, Ratchet declares he will give Alpha his body back if he can get his powers back. Voice accepts the deal. ("Ratchet and the Ritual")

The ex-Guardian leads Voice and Alpha to his body. After getting the king's body back, Voice tricks Ratchet and teleports himself and Alpha away. ("Take Back Your Life")

As a way to get back at the Guardians, Ratchet thinks about teaming up with Witch, but doesn't ponder on it too long as it suddenly turns to nighttime. Ratchet becomes alarmed of what's happening until he finally sees someone and questions who he is. ("Divine")

Ratchet is kidnapped and taken prisoner by the power born ghost named Shadow in his mansion. His power is to feed off of other people's strength by absorbing them, replenishing himself. He tries to change his mind by telling him he's no longer a Guardian meaning he's not so powerful. On the contrary, Shadow says he's a Green Blood, which is a very powerful species. Before Shadow leaves him alone, he asks about a sword framed on a wall, but the ghost says he's done talking. ("Five Nights at Freddy's")

Ratchet begs for mercy since his arrival, when Shadow tells him to "man up". Shadow begins the ritual where he drains Ratchet of his strength, making him weaker and weaker. He survives, but becomes extremely pale and weak. A newly regenerated Shadow says he will continue to grow weaker until he will end up dead. Ratchet is surprised the ritual hurts to complete, and is struggling for his life after it is completed. ("What Lies Below")

Volume Three

Growing weaker each passing day, Ratchet starts dying, but gains strength when King Alpha enters the room, along with Shadow. He blames the king for betraying him after he and Voice tricked him earlier on, leaving him in the forest. He explains that Shadow found him there, and begs to be freed. Alpha is surprised by Ratchet's predicament, and says he will find his sword, then free Ratchet. Now with a guilty conscience, Alpha makes a deal with Shadow: he gets to keep his sword, but only if Ratchet is freed. The ghost agrees, but Ratchet leans close to the bars, and whispers to Alpha that his sword is framed on the wall. Alpha casually retrieves his sword and slays Shadow. Ratchet is freed, and the two go to Letvia to try get help. She tells them that Voice went into hiding, but gave her a pendant able to track his location. Telling them that Voice is at the Broken Church, Alpha and Ratchet head off to the hideout as the Air Guardian will be able to heal Ratchet. ("Haunted House")

Arriving at the church, Ratchet and King Alpha are surprised to see Inferno, Gizzy, Witch and Divine already there, as well as Voice, who's corpse is on the ground. Gizzy mentions that he might've killed Voice and runs away from everybody, afraid of being accused. Alpha tries to stop him, but Witch says that he'll take care of him. ("Hear My Voice")

Following Voice's death, Alpha, Ratchet and Witch bury him at the Graveyard where they each pay their respects to the Air Guardian, friend to all of Altered. King Alpha apologizes to Ratchet for not being able to save him in time, but luckily, Witch learns of Ratchet's misfortune and decides to help his former servant. Ratchet refuses to receive the sorcerer's help after seeing the true nature of his voodoo magic from being his Right-Hand Man. Even with everything that's happened between the two, Witch reminds the Green Blood the promise he made about protecting him when they first met, while he reveals the story of how he saved Ratchet from the Bowsmen to Alpha. Not wanting the blame for his death, the Earth Guardian makes Witch save him. Being Witch, the magician asks only to get something in return for his services. In exchange for saving the Green Blood, he asks to become the next Air Guardian. Seeing as how the air will start to dissolve without the Air Guardian, Alpha reluctantly agrees and plans a ceremony for his enthronement in the future. With the deal made, Witch decides to save Ratchet, but unfortunately, Ratchet's body is too weak to be helped, but what can be done is having his body removed, turning him into a conscience, and to live on forever. They all settle with the treatment and Witch commences the spell. Once he uses his magic, Ratchet is turned into a voice. Immediately after, Alpha receives a distress call from Letvia saying she's under attack. Witch, who has no business in participating in a war, leaves Alpha to handle it on his own. Before going, Ratchet makes a strange realization that if there truly was no Air Guardian, then the ground should've collapsed on itself. Figuring that Voice's Aura is also the Air Element, they discover that Gizzy is currently the Air Guardian, and doesn't know it. ("The Green Bloods")

Now a conscience, Ratchet follows King Alpha back to his wife's house, where they say their goodbyes, while they both decide to become friends after all that's happened. When Ratchet speaks, Alpha notices that his voice changed, unlike Voice when he had his body removed. They conclude that it must've been because Voice was a Guardian, and Ratchet is not. After parting ways with the new Earth Guardian, Ratchet travels to his former home, the Earth Kingdom, only to find that it's been destroyed while he was imprisoned. Now without a home, without a body and without a life, Ratchet starts blaming Gizzy for all of his misfortune. Ever since Gizzy's arrival in Altered, Ratchet has lost everything, and now, the conscience wants revenge. ("Yandere Crypt")

Tracking Gizzy at a dojo, the voice angrily rants about how terrible his life has been because of him, but like before, Gizzy is unable to understand the green blood, not knowing the language. Thankfully, Sensei, the owner of the dojo, suggest that he bitten by a bludder shark to understand Ratchet's language. Having seen some sharks outside of the dojo, Gizzy exits the building and jumps into the water. After a while, Gizzy is bitten and finally comprehends Ratchet when he talks. Now fully understanding what he's saying, Ratchet continues his rant about he's lost everything, including his home, his body, his friends and his powers, all because of Gizzy. But when the Chosen One reveals that the real reason of why he's in Altered is to slay a demon, Ratchet becomes confused, not knowing that was the case. With misunderstanding cleared up, Ratchet befriends Gizzy. Before Gizzy, along with Benji, Divine and Sensei, depart to head towards the Prophecy, Ratchet asks if he can join them, to which the group agrees on. ("Guardians vs Rebellions")

On their way to the Prophecy, Ratchet and Divine start arguing about which way they should go, but Gizzy intervenes, attempting to calm the tension between his friends. As they make their way, the group encounters a pack of wolves, the same pack that originally cursed Gizzy sometime ago. The wolves' leader, Woof, explains that him and his pack have been following Gizzy for quite some time. He also mentions that he recognizes Divine, having seen him when Woof ate Bashur to sate the hunger of his brethren. While Divine wants to take on the animals, Gizzy holds him down, saying that they must continue their journey. Once they get back on track, Gizzy suddenly realizes that Divine is missing. Figuring that the cyborg human must've gone back to avenge Bashur's death, the group quickly returns to the meeting place where they find Divine in a close confrontation with Woof. Although he desperately desires to kill him, Sensei steps in, stating that he's a professional combatant and is prepared to take on the wolves himself, while the rest of the crew should leave him. They do as they're told, reluctantly Benji, and retreat into the jungle, where Gizzy scolds Divine for going back, but soon forgives him after noting that everyone close to him has been dying. After a while, the Chosen One orders Ratchet to scout the area to see what happened. Once he returns, Ratchet reveals that they're all gone, and Sensei is missing as well. With one member short, Gizzy continues his quest to the Prophecy, thinking it's what Sensei would want. ("The Final Betrayal")

As the gang approaches the Prophecy, they decide to sleep in a moss stone building for the night. While sleeping in the structure, Gizzy combines the four Prophecy items in a crafting grid, teleporting him to the Spirit World and dropping the items. Although Gizzy is gone to find the King Sword able to slay the Demon, Divine, Benji and Ratchet pick up the items and carry on with the quest, knowing they'll eventually meet with Gizzy at the gate. ("The Spirit World")

Arriving at Dawn's Opening, Ratchet, along with Divine and Benji, await for Gizzy's return with the King Sword, while Divine has a chat with the Demon from within the walls of the Prophecy. The Demon, knowing what happened to Divine during the battle, antagonizes the former soldier, calling him a coward for running away from the fight, but Divine tries defending his actions. Sensing Divine's emotions, the prisoner reveals that the cyborg human didn't come to defeat him, but to defeat the Guardians as he's still jealous for not receiving an element. As he backs away, unable to handle the truth, Divine falls between a crack within and lands in a cave full of spiders where the Spider Queen finds him and prepares eat the newly arrived guest. Being the one in possession of the Prophecy items, Ratchet an Benji decide to get help from Gizzy since they're physically incapable of saving Divine themselves. ("Friends with the Enemy")

Ratchet and Benji go to another side of the volcano searching for Gizzy, though Benji later returns to the Prophecy, where he is reunited with the newly arrived Chosen One. Ratchet stays at the other side of the volcano. Later, a woman arrives at Dawn's Opening and Ratchet warns her to leave because there is a giant spider below them. The woman, Jen, identifies herself as Gizzy's ally and that she is looking for Divine. Ratchet then tells her that the cyborg has been captured by the spiders. This causes Jen to climb down to the Spider Queen's nest. The voice follows and spectates the woman demanding the Spider Queen to release Divine, using the King's Sword to strike fear in the Queen's children. Ratchet urges them to leave the cave and return to Gizzy.

Ratchet, Jen, and Divine return to the Prophecy and meet Gizzy, Benji, Inferno, and the Demon's voice. Divine hands Gizzy the four keys to the Prophecy. However, before Gizzy heads toward the Prophecy, Ratchet interrupts him. He desperately proposes the idea that Gizzy doesn't open the Prophecy and that he stays in Altered. Benji agrees with the voice, while Divine, Jen, Inferno, and the Demon disagree. Gizzy is conflicted by the choice, but then ultimately decides it is better to keep the Prophecy closed. Ratchet and Benji are elated with his choice, and Divine and Jen respect it too. Inferno, however, objects and uses his powers to push Gizzy into the Prophecy. When Gizzy contacts the gate, there is a flash and the four items disappear. The Chosen One recovers, exhausted, and realizes that the Prophecy is opening. ("Demon Slayer")

When the Demon betrays and kills Witch, Witch's disembodiment spell wears off of Ratchet. As a result, Ratchet's consciousness and voice goes into a nearby a corpse: a pig. Ratchet is shocked, but realizes that Gypsy has foreseen this fate.

In the after credits scene of the finale, Ratchet has wandered into the wilds, wondering about what to do now as a pig. Then Ratchet falls into a hole into a cage roasting over a fire. This same trap that Gizzy fell into in "The Green Bloods." Ratchet calls to the hungry Green Bloods and tell them that he is one of them. However, the Green Bloods cannot understand him since he is a pig, which terrifies Ratchet. The fate of Ratchet is currently unanswered. ("The Prophecy")

## Powers and Abilities

### Former

* **Standard Guardian abilities:** As a Guardian, Ratchet possessed multiple unique powers attributed to all four Guardians of the universe. He was later dethroned and is currently powerless.
	+ **Guardian detection:** Guardians are able to sense when another Guardian is nearby. ("Jekyll And Hyde")
	+ **Teleportation:** Guardians are able to teleport, meaning that they can move themselves or others instantaneously from one location to another without physically occupying the space in between. However, this power is limited as they can only teleport others once a full moon occurs, and they must wait another full moon until they can teleport again. On top of that, teleporting others to their location has a certain time limit, and when this time limit is reached, the teleported will return to their previous location. Also, Guardians can only teleport to location they've been to. ("Cruise", "Higher Rank", "Guardians vs Rebellions")
		- **Tracking teleportation:** Guardians can teleport to any person one desires to find, unless the target is in the presence of Lucky Blocks or holding a Pendant of Luck. ("Lucky Block Cavern", "The Power Born")
		- **Summoning:** Guardians are able to selectively summon other Guardians from any other location, at any time, to another specific location to host a type of meeting or trial. Although unclear, it seems that Guardians can only use their summoning powers at Cloud Temple. ("The Last Warning", "The Power Born")
	+ **Signature agreement:** Guardians are able to perform the signature agreement, a sacred bond, with another being. Should this agreement be broken by any of the participants in any way, shape or form, they will be punished by death. ("Cruise")
	+ **Respawn disabling:** When a player is killed by a Guardian, they're not able to respawn and remain permanently deceased. ("The Last Warning")
	+ **Storage sealing:** A Guardian's chest is specially sealed, making it impossible for someone to open it, except the owner, the other Guardians and former Guardians. ("Higher Rank")
* **Geokinesis:** As the Earth Guardian, Ratchet was presumably able to use the Earth Element to manipulate, shape and create earth.

## Trivia

### Production

* Ratchet narrates the "Previously on Altered Adventure" segment of "Lucky Block Cavern".

### Gameplay

* Ratchet's Green Blood skin is known as the "Tribe Elder" skin texture from the Custom NPCs Mod.