Authors Note: Hi! Angel-flys here with a new story with my friend RainEpelt. The whole collab writing thing is new to both of us so please feel free to give us feedback. Also for those on you wondering what happen to Operation: Deathzone, well I just a little overwhelmed with things, but the next chapter is coming out really soon. Hope you enjoy the story;)
This is RainEpelt here! As Angel-flys said yes we're knew to the Collab thing, but we both know how to write! Here's how this story will work: We'll alternate with different characters from the two worlds and every five chapter's there'll be a special event. Now we're going to assume you all know at least the basics in YJ but don't know a thing about Animorphs. BTW, I write the Animorph part of these chapters wile Angel-flys does the YJ team. And the reason the prologue is all Animorphs is because this take place early in YJ and late in the Animorphs. Now that I got all that out, enjoy!
My name is Tobias. My human last name is Fangor. My Andalite last name is Shamtul, well least by human tradition. I am one of the few of earth's defenders against the Yeerks. Wondering who the Andalites and Yeerks are? Here's a basic summary. Yeerks are evil mind controlling slugs. They go into your brain, read your memories and take over your identity. You can resist, but there's no really way to get a Yeerk out of yourself. Andalites look like blue centaurs with four eyes—two of which are on stalks—and scorpion tails. They're snobbish and annoying for the most part, but my father and uncle/best friend are Andalites too, so they aren't all that bad. In fact, my father was the one gave me and my four friends the power to morph. Well, I didn't know he was my father at that time, but that's beside the point.
Oh and I'm a red-tail hawk, courtesy of our first mission against the Yeerks.
Confused? That's to be expected. By the way, my girlfriend and mother are human, just saying.
Anyway, we had just blown up a Yeerk pool and pretty stopped the invasion of Earth with a bit of help-FYI now the Yeerks want to destroy earth. But in order to secure our planet's freedom, we had to take out the mother ship.
"We need to take out the Yeerk ship," Jake announced. Jake—or Big Jake as Marco says, or Prince Jake as Ax says—is our leader. He's brave and determined, but has a heart, more than I can say for his cousin—aka my girlfriend.
"What was your first clue?" Marco asked, his voice heavy with sarcasm. Marco was Jake's best bud, and our group clown. We could be on the brink of death and yet he would still be making a joke about it.
It will be very hard to infiltrate the Yeerk mothership, even with Captain Olston and the Auxiliary Animorphs Prince Jake, Ax stated. Ax's real name is Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, but we call him Ax for obvious reason. He's my uncle, though we're about the same age, and I'm his shorm, which is the Andalite term for best friend. He also insists on calling Jake "Prince" despite Jake's protests because that is how Andalites call their leaders. He and I communicate with "thought-speak" which is kind of like telepathy.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going," Rachel said grimly with a smirk on her face. Rachel is our most bloodthirsty member. She takes pleasure in fighting, and happens to be my girlfriend, though our relationship is complicated because of me being a hawk.
"Xena, are you serious?" Marco asked in exclamation. "We could die, and we're not exactly cats in case you haven't noticed." Marco also calls Rachel "Xena" because of her ruthlessness.
"There needs to be a way," Jake declared. "If we don't take out that ship we can kiss earth goodbye, we've been fighting for over three years, and I don't want that wasted."
"You're skills can be used in more than one way," said another voice. Naturally, we should be screaming by the fact there's another person appearing out of nowhere, but we're used to it. In fact, we knew that this person was Ellimist. Well, he wasn't exactly a person, but you get the point.
"What do you want this time oh-so-powerful Ellimist?" Marco asked. Ellimist only came when he wanted us to be his "pawns". Rarely does he do something that we actually enjoy, one of those rare things was giving me my morphing power. You see, during our first attack on the Yeerks, I got trapped in the body of a red-tail hawk. I became a nothlit. But Ellimist gave me my morphing power back, something that's basically impossible to do. Then again, he gave it back to me so I could do him a favor, but still at least I got it back.
"Marco, don't get an attitude. Listen to what he has to say," said Cassie. She had been quiet throughout the rest of the meeting. She was our sixth and final member. She was our pacifistic healer, considering both her parents were vets. Back when we actually had secret identities as normal people, she gave us most of our morphs from the Petting Zoo/Animal Sanctuary her parents ran called "The Gardens". We used to meet in her barn, and her house was next to my territory. Yes I had territory; I'm a bird of prey. Anyway, she's best friends with Rachel and kinda the girlfriend of Jake.
"I have an assignment that you might find interesting," said the Ellimist. His voice… well it was hard to describe, but it was booming.
"Just get on with it," said Jake coolly. He was trying to be civil, but he wasn't looking forward to whatever he had to say.
"Your world is on the verge of collapse, and there is no way for you to beat the Yeerks without suffering heavy casualties," the Ellimist began.
We know that much, so what are you going to do? I asked.
"Crayak and I have decided to transfer our game elsewhere," he continued. He definitely wanted us for something. Crayak was his arch rival. They're both powerful beings that hate each other, but since the last time they fought they destroyed a tenth of the galaxy, they decided to stick with "games". We're one of Ellimist's favorite pawns, while the Yeerks were Crayak's favorite. "You have the chance to beat the Yeerks where your loved ones cannot be harmed."
"And what's the bad side to this deal?" Marco asked suspiciously.
"The Yeerks will have time to slowly spread on the world for approximately twenty years," said the Ellimist. "Also, since this is a world that you humans fantasize in your "cartoons" with others having supernatural powers, the Yeerks get to have host of some of these "criminals" in exchange for your location next to some "superheros".
"So basically we go back to the way our world is in exchange for potential allies," Cassie summarized.
"That is correct."
"I say we put this crazy idea to a vote," announced Marco.
"I agree," said Jake. "What do you guys think?"
"Go with it, duh! We can kick Yeerk but without having to worry about anyone we know getting hurt," declared Rachel.
I will support whatever decision you make Prince Jake, said Ax as expected.
"We're endangering another world, another 7 billion people in our war," said Cassie. "Luckily, we have Marco. He knows cartoons so we won't be totally lost. But we still seem to be acting selfish."
"We don't have to worry about our parents," encourage Rachel.
Cassie sighed. "Fine we go," she decided. "But we have to try to preserve the lives of people on that world to."
I agree with Cassie, I stated. I usually agreed with Cassie on group votes. If we're going to use their world as a playground with ray guns, we better at least try to help them not get killed in the process.
"You already know my vote," Marco stated. "If you agree with me and Ax follows you we have a tie and you decide the tie breaker, otherwise we go."
Jake rubbed his temple. "I say… we should go. Cassie made a good point though, we keep our morals and standard rules of war."
"What happened to all is fair in love and war?" Marco muttered. As you probably already know, despite his jokes and sarcasm Marco is also the pessimist of the group.
"If you agree Ax," continued Jake, earning a nod from our Andalite friend, "we will go, but first, what's the catch? The Yeerks will be more or less in the same situation, and we get nearby allies."
"Some of the Chee will accompany you as well as Tobias' god-daughter, Toby Hamee," said the Ellimist. Yeah I had a god-daughter. She's an almost three year-old adult Hork-Bajir. Hork-Bajir are basically eight foot tall lizards with raptor beaks, dinosaur feet, and blades all over their bodies. Their lifespan is only for about 20 years, so they become adults by the time they're two. My family is just crazy isn't it? "The Yeerks will also have their Hork-Bajir and Human controllers, as well as Taxxons." Controllers were basically the hosts of Yeerks. Taxxons were nasty giant cannibal centipedes. They had weak eyesight, but could sense blood like sharks. They were always hungry, never satisfied, and could burrow underground with alarming speed. "I have left out nothing, except what you already know."
"You send us there and will contact us when we win and defeat the Yeerks once and for all," Cassie stated. "But you still left out something."
The Ellimist "smiled". "You are quite perceptive. You will be living with the Chee, who will pretend to be your family. You will go to school and try to act like normal humans. You will also have the Escafil Device, or as you call it, the Morphing Cube."
All of our eyes widened. My father, Elfangor used Escafil Device to give us our powers. We had lost the Escafil Device recently due to Jake's brother, Tom, who was a controller. But getting it back was going to cost us. "What do the Yeerks get?" Jake asked wearily.
"They have three inactivate Escafil Devices," the Ellimist stated. Hearing our groans he continued, "It will take Visser One to activate them, which he has not yet. Now, since it is obvious will keep asking questions which I do not have to answer, I will now declare that it is time for you to leave." Then we left, or teleported, or space-jumped, or whatever. The only thing that registered through our minds as we "landed" on a lawn was "Welcome to Happy Harbor".
Hope you guys enjoy the prologue! Stay whelmed:)
