Ratchet and Clank's Adventures of Lightyear

**Ratchet and Clank's Adventures of Lightyear**

## Plot

A framing device explains that the film was the favorite of a young Andy Davis, and that the Buzz Lightyear toy he received in 1995 was based on it.Template:Efn

Buzz Lightyear, a Space Ranger in Star Command, and his commanding officer and best friend, Alisha Hawthorne, explore the habitable planet, T'Kani Prime, with their new recruit, Featheringhamstan. They are forced to retreat to their exploration vessel after discovering that the planet hosts hostile lifeforms. Buzz damages the vessel during the retreat, forcing the crew to evacuate in order to conduct repairs and continue their journey.

One year later, the crew have constructed a nascent colony along with the necessary infrastructure to conduct repairs. Buzz volunteers to test hyperspace fuel, a key component of the repairs. However, after a four-minute test, he finds that four years have passed on T'Kani Prime, due to the effects of time dilation from having travelled at relativistic speeds.

Buzz is introduced to Sox, a robotic feline, and continues testing the hyperspace fuel. With every test, four more years pass on T'Kani Prime, until eventually over 62 years have passed. During this time, the colony develops while Alisha raises a family with her wife Kiko, subsequently dying of old age.

During these 62 years, Sox improves the fuel's composition so that it can be used to obtain faster-than-light speeds. Buzz uses this new fuel composition for a successful hyperspace test against the orders of his new commanding officer, Commander Burnside. After the test Buzz finds that 22 years have passed, during which T'Kani Prime has been invaded by a force of robots led by the mysterious Emperor Zurg.

Upon landing, Buzz meets up with members of the colony’s defense forces, including Izzy Hawthorne, Alisha’s now-adult granddaughter; Mo Morrison, a fresh, naïve recruit; and Darby Steel, an elderly paroled convict. While initially reluctant to work with them, Buzz eventually warms to them. Together, they plan to attack Zurg’s ship and destroy the invading force.

Following an encounter, Zurg abducts Buzz, bringing him aboard his ship where he reveals that he is an older Buzz from an alternate timeline in which he escaped from Burnside’s forces after the successful hyperspace test. Aided by the effects of time dilation, he travelled to the far future, encountering a technologically advanced and abandoned vessel. He had assumed Emperor Zurg's identity by wearing his signature mecha suit, and travelled to the now-present to get more hyperspace fuel from Buzz in order to travel further back in time to prevent the exploration vessel from landing on T'Kani Prime in the first place. However, Buzz refuses due to the implications of the possible temporal paradox that would result from such an action, which would wipe out the current timeline and everyone from it. Angered, Zurg attacks Buzz. Meanwhile, Izzy, Mo, Darby, and Sox board Zurg’s ship to assist Buzz. After a chaotic assault on the ship, Buzz and his comrades-in-arms destroy the ship and escape.

However, Zurg, having survived his ship's destruction, arrives and attacks Buzz, grabbing the hyperspace fuel. As Zurg prepares to destroy Buzz, he shoots the fuel, causing it to explode and seemingly killing Zurg. With the fuel gone, Buzz wishes to stay on T'Kani Prime. Upon landing, Buzz is arrested by Commander Burnside, who relents, allowing Buzz to revive the Space Ranger Corps. Buzz selects Izzy, Mo, Darby, and Sox to form the core of this organization, much to Burnside's surprise. Buzz and his team are then sent off to a new adventure in parts unknown.

In a post-credits scene, it is revealed that Zurg survived the explosion.

## Transcript

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