The Animorphs Meet the JJL

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By Chicken Paddy


Chapter 1:

Parallel

Disclaimer: I do not own the Animorphs characters, powers, or plot. I do, however, own the JJL characters and plot. There, you happy?


JAKE:

My name is Jake. I'm an Animorph. And we were going to attempt a suicidal mission. As we walked down the corridors of the old warehouse I felt goose bumps on my arm. Marco told a joke and we gave a nervous laugh.

"Get ready guys," I said. "Battle morphs."

Ax demorphed into his Andalite form. (It should be,) he said (over here!) He jammed his tail blade into the ground and loosed a fake slab of shale that blended seamlessly with the rest of the floor.

I felt fur ripple across my body and my spine lengthened. My gums itched as teeth made to rip flesh and muscle sprouted out of them. My sense of smell grew keener and my muscles became taught. I was the tiger.

(Let's go.) I took the lead. We went down several flights of stairs. There was a light or two every so many feet.

(Ooooh, man) Marco shuddered. (It feels like we're going back down to the Yeerk pool all over again.)

(But, we are not going to the Yeerk pool.) Ax corrected. (We are infiltrating Visser Three's "Trans-Dimensional Project")

(Thanks to the information given to us by Erik.) Cassie added

(What's wrong, Marco?) teased Rachel. (Need your blankie?)

(Yes. Very much so.)

Eventually we came to what looked like a small computer room next to a heavy steel door. There was a set of gas tanks in the corner of the room held in place by taught wires. There was no sign of a data pad or retinal scanner. Ax was going to try to hack the computer until we found out the keys were unmarked and there was no screen.

(Wow,) said Marco. (The Visser really likes his security.)

(Any ideas?) I asked.

(I might have one.) said Ax. (But it is rather risky.)

(Go ahead.)

Ax explained his idea. After hearing it we all blanched, except Rachel.

(Let's do it!) she said.

(What?) exclaimed Cassie.

(I thought we were supposed to be sneaking.) said Tobias.

(You have got to be kidding me!) said Marco.

(Well,) I said. (Any better ideas?)

No one had one. (Well, Ax,) I said. (Hit it!)

(Oh boy.) groaned Marco as he covered his gorilla ears.

Ax stood there for a moment, calculating. Then his tail blade whipped out and cut the wires holding the gas tanks in place. He cut just right so when the taught wires snapped they caused one of the tanks to puncture and fly out toward the door. Ax then cut a cable that fed into the computer and it began shooting sparks everywhere. The sparks caused the gas to light, which also caused the tank to explode, completely removing the door from its frame.

BLAM!

The explosion was deafening. We looked up as the smoke began to clear, which revealed an army of Hork-Bajir, Taxxons and Visser Three himself waiting for us.

(Oh, crap!)


THE JJL:

John crept down the rows of crates with the rest of the JJL close behind. "See anything, Tomi?" he asked.

"Nope," he answered. John and Tomi were Animalians. Dog Animalians to be exact. This meant they both had enhanced hearing and vision. Tomi was an adept thief who knew what to look for when infiltrating a building. John was the leader. His eyes were enhanced by his Empowered energy. With John was Lee, JJL second rank, the strategist; Jimmy, JJL third rank, the technical expert; Rusty, JJL fourth rank, the warrior; Marcus, JJL fifth rank, the spell caster; and Tomi, the master thief.

John turned on his watch communicator: "So, Chet. Do ya have the schematics on this warehouse yet?"

Chet's voice came out of John's watch. "They should be there right abooouut…now!" A green grid hologram popped out of John's watch. Chet looked at John through the watch's visual feed. "Happy hunting."

John looked at the hologram. "What do you make of this Jimmy?"

Jimmy examined the hologram and let out a hum. "Hmmm…it seems it should be right over there." Jimmy pointed his index and middle fingers at a spot on the ground not too far away. Blue light surrounded his fingertips and a fake slab of shale that blended seamlessly with the rest of the floor levitated away, revealing a flight of stairs.

"Nice." John led the JJL down several flights of stairs with a light every five feet. Not that John needed them. John kept his x-ray vision on constantly and kept asking Tomi if he saw anything. Ubus Mellus could have laid any number of traps down here thought John.

"I hate infiltrating Ubus Mellus's bases." said Rusty. "They always give me the creeps."

"Really?" said Marcus. "It feels more like the jitters."

"Creeps, jitters, same thing." Tomi said in his slight English accent.

"At least it's not Mellus's main base on IO." Lee pointed out. "After we destroy this base we will have completely gotten him out of the Earth system."

"There it is." John said, breaking up the nervous chatter. "And what is wrong with you guys. It's not like we haven't beaten Ubus before."

They came to a stop before a heavy steel door, with no data pads or retinal scanners to speak of, next to a computer. "It looks like the computer is in Lobsteranian" observed Jimmy.

"Not quite," said Lee, who actually was a Lobsteranian. "It's like some form of mangled English, crossbred with butchered Lobsteranian, lightly seasoned with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs."

"Wow," said Marcus. "Ubus really likes his security."

"Well, let's just blast through the door with our powers" said Rusty.

"Wait a minute." Lee stepped in. "This is about stealth. We just can't go bashing through doors."

"Just let me melt through it with my heat vision," said John. Before anyone could say anything John's eyes glowed with a fierce red light and a slight blue coloring. Twin beams of heat and light shot from John's Animalian eyes.

TSSSEWWW TSSSEWWW!

John blinked several times to clear his eyes of the leftover Empowered energy. The door was unscathed.

"Of course," said John. "This is Ubus we're talking about. Of course he's going to make his base heat-vision resistant. Gosh dangit!" John sighed. "Any other ideas?"

Tomi looked as if he was thinking. "I might have one, but it's a risk."

"Go ahead"

After hearing it the JJL paled. Lee's red exoskeleton even seemed to turn a shade of pink. All except John and Rusty.

"Let's do it!" said John.

"Alright!" exclaimed Rusty

"But, I just pointed out this whole thing's about stealth!" said Lee.

Marcus vigorously agreed.

"Why don't we try the computer again?" suggested Jimmy. "I'm sure it won't take that long to decode."

After everyone gave Jimmy a weird stare Tomi put in: "But, Lee, you forget that I am the thief master"

"Master or not, there's too much risk!"

"Well, it's either that or wait for Jimmy to decode the computer for a decade and a half," John pointed out.

"Well, then. Shall I?" said Tomi.

"Be my guest. Hit it!"

"Oh boy," Jimmy mumbled as he covered his ears.

Tomi held up his daggers. They were seemingly ordinary black daggers with some sort of writing on them. Each was about a foot in length. One glowed blue, the other glowed yellow. Tomi swung them and blue and yellow piercing beams came from the Blades of Truth and Knowledge and went directly for the door.

BA-BLAM!

"'Master thief' huh," growled Lee.

"Everyone makes mistakes," Tomi said sheepishly.

"Uh, guys?" said Rusty. "We have trouble."

The JJL looked through the hollow doorway. They saw an army of Mini-Mels, Ubus Mellus's little abominations; Mega-Mels, bigger versions of the Mini-Mels; the Uber-Mels, Ubus Mellus's personal clones; and Ubus Mellus himself. "'Welcome to my lair' said the spider to the fly" he mocked.

"Aw, crud!"


Author's Note: There's chapter one. Tell me what you guys think. I'm open to all flames. Go ahead and ask questions too. I'll answer them as soon as I can. Thank you.