Ah, To Be Young Again...

Disclaimer: I don't own anybody or anything in the Animorphs' universe...(sob, sob)

Description: During a battle between the Animorphs and Visser One, something explodes. Afterwards, when they all demorph, they notice that they aren't quite themselves. They've reverted back to...children?!

Prologue

A gorilla, tiger, wolf, grizzly, hawk, and a cheetah glared across the factory at the giant octopus-looking thingie. In between them was an entire platoon of Hork-Bajir, tense and trigger-happy. A good bunch were already dead, pushed to the sides of the platoon.

{Really, is that the best you can do?} taunted the octopus thingie, leaning heavily to one side, breathing hard. The tiger laughed, wincing at the sharp pain in its ribs, {You know very well it's not, Visser. Now why don't you tell your cronies to leave and we'll settle this tonight.}

Visser One cocked his head to one side, {Hmm, maybe I will. You 'Animorphs' have been a thorn in my si-} A Hork-Bajir let his nerves get to him and fired wildly towards the Animorphs.

TSEEEEEEEEEEER!

{FOOL!} the Visser swung a yellow tentacle at the cronie, {I TOLD YOU NOT TO FIRE!} The cronie hit a wall with a thud, and accidentally pulled the trigger again.

TSEEEEEEEEEEEER!

The red beam lanced towards one of the parked bug fighters.

KA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Thus began a chain reaction, all of the bug fighters exploding. A wave of green light rushed at the Visser, the Animorphs, and the Hork-Bajir. The Hork-Bajir panicked and exited the factory as fast as they could. The green light hit Visser One and the Animorphs, knocking them unconscious.

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{Uhhh...} Cassie woke up with a groan, {What happened?} She looked around, seeing her allies and enemies waking up in similar states. 'How long have we been out? Can we still demorph?' she thought, panicked.

{Everyone, demorph! Quick!} Cassie shouted at her friends.

They all managed to clear their heads enough, and began to demorph. Visser One was doing the same.

Rachel noticed with a shock, that she was shrinking too much. {Something's not right.} She looked at all the others, who were finishing demorphing. "Um, guys? You look like you're seven." She looked over at the Visser. "And so does Visser One."

{WHAT HAPPENED!?} shouted Visser One, staring at the nub of a tail blade he now had. Ax was in a similar state, just staring at his nub in shock. He stated the obvious, {We seem to have decreased in age,}

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DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN! What are they going to do now? R&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!