The Warrior Within
by:DeathGrip
Jake ran over fields of dead bodies of all shapes and sizes,bounding over cows and elephants,leapfrogging over everything else.No more.Every creature on Earth...almost every one,was dead.He noticed Amber racing on the other side of the field,dodging and using intricate and energy wasting basketball and soccer moves to dodge the taxxons and Hork-Bajir on her heals.She had the main crowd,he only had a few strays.But then,her face was etched into the mind of every Yeerk...every little detail of it.Devil Jenni.Dapsen Easha.And Evil Amber.He remembered those final months when they weren't running...
Cassie had been taken down first,unable to fight anymore,guilty conscience or not.Marco had followed her,screaming and bellowing,but in the end he followed Cleopatra into suicide rather than betray his friends.Tobias was next,fried out of the sky in the Yeerks first wave of animal lives lost.Rachel followed him soon enough,fighting so long and hard she remained forever grizzly,and there fought to the death.Ax followed her,dieing as he attempted to remove the Visser's head.Amber,Jake,Easha,and Jenni had rid themselves of anything moral,anything kind.Now Jake was scared of Amber.Easha and Jenni had been called back to their regiments,and it was so important force had been used.Jake and Amber had been left on Earth,alone.Amber cursed Andalites night and day,and Jake was so fed up with trying to even tell Amber what to do he quit.She scared him,now more than ever.She was a cold,calculated,killing machine.She'd ripped apart Hork-Bajir with her bare hands.She took blow after blow from anything and fight back.She was swift enough to grab Andalite tails,Hork-Bajir blades,and Merliz claws.She could judge a morph and attack while you were perfectly defensless,too far morphed to stop,and dead before you finished.There was one part of her that never changed,though,and that was a reversable tub hat she'd gotten from Claire's back when she was younger.It remained through morphs,oceans,and battles.Jake turned around once he was far enough from her pursuers,set his stolen dracon beam on ten,and fired toward Visser Three,in the center of Amber's group.Once.Twice.Three times.He thought he heard Amber scream 'traitor' as she was incinerated,but he didn't care.She was dead,before he had even shot.She had been dead from the moment Jenni and Easha had been herded on the fighter.He shot once again,and his own pursuers were dead.Then he shot himself.
But he'd been dead from the moment Cassie had been taken down,anyway.