Authors Note: This story is a collaboration between me and my sister. My favorite childhood series was (and still is) Animorphs, and hers is Harry Potter, soo with our powers combined we created a monster before unknown to human kind! Yes, the chapters are short, but there are a ton. We switch views each chapter, with me taking the Animorph views and her taking Harry and co. We have a few chapters already written, but we'll space them a little apart for a while. On another note, my sister is seven years younger, and yet her writing still rivals mine. Awesome, no?

Anyway, now that I have that all out of the way, here you have the best I've got. ) enjoy.

Jake

Rachel! Watch out! I called out to my cousin just before the sharp blades of a Hork-Bajir took out a chunk of her hide. She was in a blind rage, her grizzly bear form towering over seven feet and roaring its displeasure. I moved like liquid fire over to her, my large cat paws slapping the alien away. She didn't have time to thank me, already slamming into another body that was coming onto my left. Cassie danced around a few rare human controllers towards the gate we were attempting to breach, her lithe wolf body twisting away from the fatal rays and her thin muzzle darting with deadly precision. Tobias was doing damage with sharp talons and Marco was punching a few faces in with the monster strength of a Lowland gorilla. Where was Ax? There- moving up from the end to find me, his hooves braced on the tile floor while his bladed tail whipped around him like a viper. Okay, we were all still alive.

I'm Jake, by the way. You know our story by now; the kids not yet out of highschool living the double lives of straight A students by day, superheroes saving the world at night. If only it was that easy, if only the world was that perfect. If only I hadn't flunked my last math test because I had been out the night before loosing a battle trying to hinder the construction of a new Yeerk pool and had to sneak out earlier this evening, even though I was grounded, to do the same thing all over again. If only, huh? So to save us the trouble, I'll assume you know the story already, about alien invaders and mind-controlling Yeerks and the Hork-Bajir Marco once described as walking Swiss army knives, and I'll get back to fighting desperately for my life with a back leg tendon severed and mind numbing pain interfering with my ability to think and plan. And I needed to think and plan, because I had to give the directions once we breached that armored gate because that's what everyone else would expect me to do.

Jake! I've smashed the lock! Rachel's voice was strained through the barrier of pain in my mind, but I managed to order her to wait for us before charging in. She loved charging in- she couldn't keep doing that and living on luck. Not with the way we lived off it like fish with water. We were lucky to still be alive, and one day we would come to our senses and stop going on these stupid missions were we could die. Would die.

Tobias! Marco! Move to the gate! Ax was already by my side, protecting my left were my back leg had been cut and was dragging slightly. Tobias flew towards Rachel and Cassie while Ax and I moved to help Marco away from the flashing blades of the enemy. Marco was bleeding badly. We couldn't keep this up. This had to be over soon. Just get in that room, mess with their new toy, and leave. How much time did we have left?

Ax? The time?

Twenty five more of your minutes, Prince Jake

I was too winded and dizzy from loss of blood to remind him not to call me that, but Marco always had time to blow off some angry steam.

AX! Stop with the 'your minutes' crap, alright?!

I understand that your harsh words steam from your frustration and anger at our situation. Cassie explained this to me during our last conversation.

It always amazed me how formal and composed Ax seemed to be when bleeding from his head and fighting for his life. We were running out of time though- luckily Marco was too angry and frustrated to continue yelling at Ax.

Let's go! I led the charge towards Tobias and the girls, ignoring the pain in my leg- and the pain everywhere else, actually- and barreled through the thin defense between me and them.

Jake, there doesn't seem to be nearly as much back up as normal… Tobias, ever observant, commented as I flew toward the gate. Too late now, I hurt everywhere, my friends were bleeding, this needed to be over- SMASH through the gate and onto clear white linoleum.

I slide forward a few feet from the combined momentum and my slick paws, leaving bloody streaks behind me. I lifted my heavy head and my bleary eyes tried to adjust to the lighting.

I heard the rest of my group amble in behind me, Rachel and Cassie growling low in their throats and Ax's hooves clicking a cautious walk. We all stopped and stared with various clarity at the frail human before us. He was managing a large control panel, and looked pleased with himself. When we crashed through doors and into workplaces, this was not the normal reaction we got. That meant something had gone wrong.

Trap. Ax stated the fact that was dawning on everyone's mind. No, NO- this couldn't happen. We needed out, and we needed it now. The man was dressed in a lab coat as white as the room, and the large control panel was between him and us. I could scale it in a single leap. We had to get to him, now.

MOVE! I shouted second and started the race first, wasting no time. The room wasn't that big, but we were already so damaged and all he did was slip down his goggles and push a button.

Then there was only a white light.