This story is a sequel to my other story "The Relation" which you can find
at
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=848165&chapter=1
I'd advise you to read it first because even though I've done some explaining here, it's a bit choppy and disorganized, so go see! Unless you don't want to, in which the case I shall hunt you down and subject you to the mercy of my One Ring replica.
I'm also dedicating this fic to Jessica (Green Eyed Girl) for emailing me and reminding me that the reason why life feels so down right now is because I miss writing. So this is to you, you sweet, sweet girl!
So on with the story!
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My name is Rachel.
I can't ever tell you my full name. Heck, maybe Rachel isn't my real name. But what is real is the danger I face everyday. A danger called Yeerks. Yeerks are evil slime slugs that can crawl into your ear and fit themselves around your brain. They can control your every movement, your every word, your every glance. They can access your thoughts and act out your part perfectly, like talking back to your parents exactly the way you would. The worse part is that no one knows what you're going through. No one realizes that the person they're looking at has an alien in their head. You're trapped in your own body, an enslaved host to the Yeerk in your head. And you're thinking 'I'm stuck like this forever. If no one knows about me, no one can save me.'
Well, never fear because the Animorphs are here. Yep, Animorphs, the name my annoying brain-of-a-three-year-old friend Marco came up with to describe us. 'Us' being me, Marco, Jake, Cassie, Tobias and Ax. Some time ago, an Andalite prince named Elfangor crash landed on Earth. Elfangor gave the five of us the power to morph into any animal we managed to acquire the DNA of. Ax is Elfangor's brother, stuck here on Earth to fight with us until this war is over.
Yes, we fight a war against the Yeerks. We hate them. I personally want to grind them into little bits. And if you're thinking 'wow! A war! Cool!' let me tell you that there's nothing cool about this war. It cuts into my everyday life. I used to be able to hang out at the mall, practice my gymnastics and get reasonably good grades. Suddenly, I find myself doing the strangest things.
For example, sitting on the grass watching TV with an Andalite and a hawk.
The Andalite is Ax, the alien I told you about. The hawk is Tobias, who was stuck in morph after he exceeded the two-hour time limit. And the show we were watching was 'Win, Lose or Draw.'
That is obviously a dome! Ax was yelling at the TV.
No, it's Mary had a Little Lamb. Tobias replied.
A lamb is a four legged mammal, is it not? Ax asked. That thing she is drawing does not have any legs!
"And it's Mary had a Little Lamb! Two points to the red team!" That insanely cheerful host announced. The screen erupted with cheers. Tobias smirked at Ax. At least, he did as much of a smirk as a hawk could.
I do not understand. Tobias seems to be a genius at this game show, and I, a fool. Ax grumbled. The sore loser.
I turned to Tobias, who was laughing in thought-speak. "I think it's time you told Ax the secret." I said reproachfully.
What secret? Ax asked.
Yes, Rachel. What secret? Tobias asked innocently.
"That you cheat." I replied just as innocently. Ax glared at Tobias in mock anger.
How despicable! He sniffed. Tobias nearly started rolling about the floor. He was laughing that hard. But how do you do it? Ax asked.
See those words in yellow? At the bottom left of the screen? Tobias asked. Another game had started. This time the answer was 'Roswell'. That's the answer.
If Ax had been a normal human boy, he would have begun to pummel Tobias. And I would probably have joined in for the fun of it. But since Ax is anything but normal, he just switched the channel and refused to speak to either of us. Thankfully, Jake, Cassie and Marco chose to join us at this point. And Eric was with them.
Eric looks like an ordinary kid. He goes to school with us and tries to fit in. But in fact, Eric is a holographic image. Underneath that life-like exterior lay the metal body of a seriously advanced robot. Eric can do almost anything. He can switch his holographic image so that instead of a boy, he looks like a whole gang of boys. He can even look like an oversized stuff toy if he wanted to. The technology he was created from was the work of an extinct species of aliens named the Penalites. And since the Penailites were a bunch of peace-loving dog-like creatures, they made it so that their robots, the Chee, could not create violence of any kind. And the result is a group of extremely powerful robots who can't fight.
Eric and most of the other Chee have infiltrated the Yeerks. They pretend to be controllers by broadcasting an image of a Yeerk sliding out of their human's ear canal into the Yeerk Pool. The Chee are our greatest allies, the robots we rely on for information and help when the need arises. So whenever I see Eric, I know things can't be good.
"What evil wind brings you to our humble abode, Eric?" I asked.
"I'm hurt, Rachel. Really." Eric placed a hand over his holographic heart. "You wound me with your words."
"You have to admit, every time you come here, we don't end the day with cookies and cream." Marco reminded him. "Now spill your beans before I get Ax here to slice them out of you." Marco was just shooting his mouth off and we knew it. Ax wouldn't hurt the Chee.
"You've turned the Yeerks into paraniod beings. Visser Three is accusing everyone of being a traitor. He's having Yeerks executed by the dozens." Eric said. I couldn't help but look at Tobias. Everyone else did.
In our last mission, we'd found a female Andalite disguised as a human named Erin. Erin turned out to be Elfangor's ex-girlfriend. Helping Erin to remain secret was her human morph's real sister, Charlotte. Charlotte had been captured by the Yeerks, and to save her, Erin had died.
And Tobias was the one who had killed her.
I knew Tobias had gotten somewhat close to Erin, though he never told me much about her. Tobias had spent some time in Erin's head as a Yeerk to help her get past Visser Three. I guess he found out some things from Erin that he didn't want to. I don't know because Tobias never told me. In the end, we did manage to save Charlotte. She had begged to morph into a dove and stay in that morph forever. We'd granted her wish and used the blue box Elfangor used to give us our morphing powers. Tobias and Ax had stayed with her till the last.
"Unless I'm very much mistaken, this is good news." Jake said. "If the Yeerks are turning against each other, then we'll just sit back and let it happen."
"You didn't let me finish. Remember Charlotte?" Eric asked. We all nodded. I sensed that Tobias had stiffened. "The Yeerks are looking for her mother." I stared at Eric, confused
"Hang on, mother... Charlotte's real mother?" Marco frowned. Charlotte and Erin had been adopted by a man named Mr. Bloyd. Mr. Bloyd had been a controller, assigned the task of getting Charlotte to the Yeerk Pool. He'd almost succeeded. "So?"
I never told you guys. Mr. Bloyd told me that Charlotte's real mother is the first human controller known to have regained complete control of her body and to have forced the Yeerk out of her head. Tobias said. Now I was amazed. It was nearly impossible to fight the Yeerk in your head. You could rage and fight and scream but you would still be helpless. At most, you would only be able to control your body for a few precious seconds before the Yeerk wrenched it from you. And to force a Yeerk out of your head... That was unheard of!
"That's... That's great!" Cassie's eyes shone with excitement. "This means that there is hope for controllers! It's really possible to overthrow the Yeerks!"
This woman must have extraordinary strength of will. Ax marveled.
"What do the Yeerks want with her?" Jake asked Eric.
"They suspect that she is forming a Yeerk resistance alliance and holding controllers captive until they are freed when the Yeerk in their head dies." Eric explained. Yeerks need to sunbathe in Kadrona Rays every three days. They go to a Yeerk Pool to do so. It's like drug addicts in need of a fix, only if the Yeerks don't get their rays, they die. "The Yeerks cannot have freed controllers posing a threat to them."
Eric paused to let this sink in. Free controllers meant that more people were aware of the Yeerks and free to tell others so. Which meant that we would have more allies in our fight against the Yeerks.
"How do we find her?" Jake asked.
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=848165&chapter=1
I'd advise you to read it first because even though I've done some explaining here, it's a bit choppy and disorganized, so go see! Unless you don't want to, in which the case I shall hunt you down and subject you to the mercy of my One Ring replica.
I'm also dedicating this fic to Jessica (Green Eyed Girl) for emailing me and reminding me that the reason why life feels so down right now is because I miss writing. So this is to you, you sweet, sweet girl!
So on with the story!
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My name is Rachel.
I can't ever tell you my full name. Heck, maybe Rachel isn't my real name. But what is real is the danger I face everyday. A danger called Yeerks. Yeerks are evil slime slugs that can crawl into your ear and fit themselves around your brain. They can control your every movement, your every word, your every glance. They can access your thoughts and act out your part perfectly, like talking back to your parents exactly the way you would. The worse part is that no one knows what you're going through. No one realizes that the person they're looking at has an alien in their head. You're trapped in your own body, an enslaved host to the Yeerk in your head. And you're thinking 'I'm stuck like this forever. If no one knows about me, no one can save me.'
Well, never fear because the Animorphs are here. Yep, Animorphs, the name my annoying brain-of-a-three-year-old friend Marco came up with to describe us. 'Us' being me, Marco, Jake, Cassie, Tobias and Ax. Some time ago, an Andalite prince named Elfangor crash landed on Earth. Elfangor gave the five of us the power to morph into any animal we managed to acquire the DNA of. Ax is Elfangor's brother, stuck here on Earth to fight with us until this war is over.
Yes, we fight a war against the Yeerks. We hate them. I personally want to grind them into little bits. And if you're thinking 'wow! A war! Cool!' let me tell you that there's nothing cool about this war. It cuts into my everyday life. I used to be able to hang out at the mall, practice my gymnastics and get reasonably good grades. Suddenly, I find myself doing the strangest things.
For example, sitting on the grass watching TV with an Andalite and a hawk.
The Andalite is Ax, the alien I told you about. The hawk is Tobias, who was stuck in morph after he exceeded the two-hour time limit. And the show we were watching was 'Win, Lose or Draw.'
That is obviously a dome! Ax was yelling at the TV.
No, it's Mary had a Little Lamb. Tobias replied.
A lamb is a four legged mammal, is it not? Ax asked. That thing she is drawing does not have any legs!
"And it's Mary had a Little Lamb! Two points to the red team!" That insanely cheerful host announced. The screen erupted with cheers. Tobias smirked at Ax. At least, he did as much of a smirk as a hawk could.
I do not understand. Tobias seems to be a genius at this game show, and I, a fool. Ax grumbled. The sore loser.
I turned to Tobias, who was laughing in thought-speak. "I think it's time you told Ax the secret." I said reproachfully.
What secret? Ax asked.
Yes, Rachel. What secret? Tobias asked innocently.
"That you cheat." I replied just as innocently. Ax glared at Tobias in mock anger.
How despicable! He sniffed. Tobias nearly started rolling about the floor. He was laughing that hard. But how do you do it? Ax asked.
See those words in yellow? At the bottom left of the screen? Tobias asked. Another game had started. This time the answer was 'Roswell'. That's the answer.
If Ax had been a normal human boy, he would have begun to pummel Tobias. And I would probably have joined in for the fun of it. But since Ax is anything but normal, he just switched the channel and refused to speak to either of us. Thankfully, Jake, Cassie and Marco chose to join us at this point. And Eric was with them.
Eric looks like an ordinary kid. He goes to school with us and tries to fit in. But in fact, Eric is a holographic image. Underneath that life-like exterior lay the metal body of a seriously advanced robot. Eric can do almost anything. He can switch his holographic image so that instead of a boy, he looks like a whole gang of boys. He can even look like an oversized stuff toy if he wanted to. The technology he was created from was the work of an extinct species of aliens named the Penalites. And since the Penailites were a bunch of peace-loving dog-like creatures, they made it so that their robots, the Chee, could not create violence of any kind. And the result is a group of extremely powerful robots who can't fight.
Eric and most of the other Chee have infiltrated the Yeerks. They pretend to be controllers by broadcasting an image of a Yeerk sliding out of their human's ear canal into the Yeerk Pool. The Chee are our greatest allies, the robots we rely on for information and help when the need arises. So whenever I see Eric, I know things can't be good.
"What evil wind brings you to our humble abode, Eric?" I asked.
"I'm hurt, Rachel. Really." Eric placed a hand over his holographic heart. "You wound me with your words."
"You have to admit, every time you come here, we don't end the day with cookies and cream." Marco reminded him. "Now spill your beans before I get Ax here to slice them out of you." Marco was just shooting his mouth off and we knew it. Ax wouldn't hurt the Chee.
"You've turned the Yeerks into paraniod beings. Visser Three is accusing everyone of being a traitor. He's having Yeerks executed by the dozens." Eric said. I couldn't help but look at Tobias. Everyone else did.
In our last mission, we'd found a female Andalite disguised as a human named Erin. Erin turned out to be Elfangor's ex-girlfriend. Helping Erin to remain secret was her human morph's real sister, Charlotte. Charlotte had been captured by the Yeerks, and to save her, Erin had died.
And Tobias was the one who had killed her.
I knew Tobias had gotten somewhat close to Erin, though he never told me much about her. Tobias had spent some time in Erin's head as a Yeerk to help her get past Visser Three. I guess he found out some things from Erin that he didn't want to. I don't know because Tobias never told me. In the end, we did manage to save Charlotte. She had begged to morph into a dove and stay in that morph forever. We'd granted her wish and used the blue box Elfangor used to give us our morphing powers. Tobias and Ax had stayed with her till the last.
"Unless I'm very much mistaken, this is good news." Jake said. "If the Yeerks are turning against each other, then we'll just sit back and let it happen."
"You didn't let me finish. Remember Charlotte?" Eric asked. We all nodded. I sensed that Tobias had stiffened. "The Yeerks are looking for her mother." I stared at Eric, confused
"Hang on, mother... Charlotte's real mother?" Marco frowned. Charlotte and Erin had been adopted by a man named Mr. Bloyd. Mr. Bloyd had been a controller, assigned the task of getting Charlotte to the Yeerk Pool. He'd almost succeeded. "So?"
I never told you guys. Mr. Bloyd told me that Charlotte's real mother is the first human controller known to have regained complete control of her body and to have forced the Yeerk out of her head. Tobias said. Now I was amazed. It was nearly impossible to fight the Yeerk in your head. You could rage and fight and scream but you would still be helpless. At most, you would only be able to control your body for a few precious seconds before the Yeerk wrenched it from you. And to force a Yeerk out of your head... That was unheard of!
"That's... That's great!" Cassie's eyes shone with excitement. "This means that there is hope for controllers! It's really possible to overthrow the Yeerks!"
This woman must have extraordinary strength of will. Ax marveled.
"What do the Yeerks want with her?" Jake asked Eric.
"They suspect that she is forming a Yeerk resistance alliance and holding controllers captive until they are freed when the Yeerk in their head dies." Eric explained. Yeerks need to sunbathe in Kadrona Rays every three days. They go to a Yeerk Pool to do so. It's like drug addicts in need of a fix, only if the Yeerks don't get their rays, they die. "The Yeerks cannot have freed controllers posing a threat to them."
Eric paused to let this sink in. Free controllers meant that more people were aware of the Yeerks and free to tell others so. Which meant that we would have more allies in our fight against the Yeerks.
"How do we find her?" Jake asked.