NOTE: I do not own any of these characters, or K.A Applegate, I'm sorry to say.

Jake

My name is Jake Berenson. And I am about to make a decision that could change the course of the war. I need an Animorph to be my backup plan. Kill Tom and everyone else on the Blade Ship. They may die, but the casualty would be worth it, if we could beat the Yeerks. I don't know who to choose, and as I sit alone in the forest, I think.

Who would accept the proposition? Would Rachel be able to fight her way through her enemies? Or would her passion for war affect her judgement? Would she be needed on the ship or could we afford to lose her? What about Tobias? How would he react? I don't know. But I know that I can't choose Rachel.

Would Marco be a better choice? Would he have the courage to do it? He had only just been reunited with his parents. How could I make him do it? But if I needed him to do it, I know that he would accept. He was the one who kept us motivated, that kept us going for most of the war. He would not be the one I choose.

Ax has been away from his home world for too long. Would he accept? I know he would. I am his prince, and he would do anything for me. But if we lost him, could we still negotiate with the Andalites? His parents must think he was dead. How could I tell them that I killed their son? If I had no other choice, I would choose him. But I need him for the negotiations with the Andalites. I will not choose him.

Then there was Cassie. So moral, so beautiful. The one I loved. But I knew, deep down that she was not needed on the ship. We could afford to lose her. And I thought of her as our weakest link. But if we lost her, the other Animorphs would not follow me, then what would we have. A destroyed planet. Even if I asked her, I do not think she would accept. Not Cassie. Never.

That left me with Tobias. Our very own bird-boy. He has no family. No one would miss him, apart from us Animorphs. He would say yes. He would sacrifice himself easily. He loved Rachel. Rachel loved Tobias more than anything in the world. She would never forgive me. That would leave me with two members down. No, Tobias could not do it.

I have to do it myself. I know that I have to. Who would lead in my place? It does not matter. I'm the one that has to go. I would follow Tom around, and if the worst got to worst, than I would kill him. That is the only option. I will give them all their orders, and tell them I had my own ones to do. And see what happens. I hope I made the right decision.

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So here I am, on the Blade Ship. I decided to be a fly. I told Ax my plan, and he would tell me if I needed to fight. I made him swear not to tell. As I expected, the order came into my head.

It's your time to fight Ax said with sorrow.

I found a place that seemed quiet and quickly demorphed to human. I thought about what to morph. I decided that firepower would be best. I began my morph into the rhinoceros. I remembered the times that I fought in this morph. I hope that I would morph again.

A dark grey colour spread over my skin. Then I felt myself become larger, growing and filling up the space around me. As my ears grew much larger, I fell onto all fours. The last thing to change was a horn that came up on top of my nose. I saw the others staring at me from a screen. I looked at Cassie, the girl I loved, tears streaming down her face. I saw Ax, looking woefully at me with all of his four eyes. As usual, Tobias showed no emotion in his hawk face. He had an aurora of compassion however. I saw Rachel, sad but with a determined look on her face. She looked at me in gratitude. Marco just stared at me.

Goodbye Jake said. Turning away from them, I was ready to fight.

Two Taxxons came towards me. I easily ran straight over them. Two Hork-Bajir came towards me. I impaled one on my horn, the other I nudged away. Then approached lots of different morphs, all eager to end me. My eyes were only on Tom though. My brother, the one I loved. A Yeerk, I told myself, it's just a Yeerk.

As I approached him, he smirked at me. "You going to kill me, little brother?" he asked. Jake did not bother to reply, he just ran straight towards him. For a second, fear showed on his former brother's face, and he quickly dodged out of the way. I ran straight into the communications module, my friend's faces disappearing in an instant. The Blade Ship swerved suddenly.

"You've destroyed the ship" Tom said "You're as good as dead". I knew he was right. I demorphed right in front of his eyes. He did not do anything to stop me. We looked at each other in silence.

"I am sorry" he said.

"I know" Jake replied.

The ship was hurtling towards Earth. A crowd of people watched slowly as the Blade Ship hurtled towards the city. People tried to avoid it, but it was too late. It crashed. Jake died.

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All of Jake's old promises were fulfilled. The Taxxons were morphed into various snakes and let loose into the jungle. The Hork-Bajir were counted as endangered and the Andalites were common to be seen walking around. Earth was much more technologically advanced, and many humans moved to other planets, or at least had a look at them. The world was never the same again.

Cassie never really got over Jake's death. She isolated herself for a long time, but eventually she found some peace within herself. After seeing her friends one last time and saying goodbye to all of her friends, she went to explore the remotest parts of the world. Eventually she settled down in a jungle somewhere. She refused to tell anyone where she was and apart from the odd letter, she was never heard from again.

Marco changed lots after Jake's death. After everything that he would talk about, being famous and having all of the girls in the world, he did the complete opposite. He tried to avoid the press as much as possible, and just blended into normal life. He got a job at an advertising firm, found a nice girl who he eventually married, and had two kids. He called his first child Jake. The only Animorph he ever saw was Tobias, who once in a while would come and say hello. His parents got remarried as well.

Tobias left Rachel. Tobias was happy as a hawk, but Rachel insisted on him being a human. Eventually they talked less and less, and then one day Rachel had up and left. He did not know what happened to her. He settled into life as a hawk, living off the land and finding a mate. He came to see Marco however, saying hello and remembering the old times. However, hawks do not live as long as humans, and a few years after the war ended, he died. His mother, struck by grief, died soon after.

Rachel left Tobias. Tobias would not accept that the war was over, and Rachel was insistent on him being a human. They started to ignore each other, and then they avoided each other. One day, Rachel decided that he was not worth it and left. After having a few meaningless relationships, lots of jobs and hundreds of parties, she eventually ran into an Andalite. She went with the Andalite back to their home world. After living there for a while, Rachel eventually was offered a ship and a crew to run. She accepted. For the rest of her days, she travelled through the universe in her ship, The Dreadnought, and fought the Yeerks.

Ax was tired of fighting. Soon after the war ended, he went back to his home planet to meet his family. They welcomed him back with open arms, and he lived there happily. However, the war had changed him and he could not live at the Andalite home world. He was going back to Earth. On the trip back, there was an accident. The ship veered off course, and crashed into an uninhabited planet. He could not leave, and neither could the rest of the people on the ship. He lived on this island for the rest of his life, happily.

Just have a few things to say. I know the endings for the characters were kind of weird, but I am going to change the endings every time. This was my first fanfic, so don't put me down too much.

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