Chapter 1- The Return

Jake's P.O.V.

I had just given the order. The order to ram the Blade Ship. To ram that big ship with our little ship called the Rachel. I knew it would probably kill everyone in both ships but if we were going to die, we were going to die fighting. We started accelerating. We went faster and faster. We were almost at collision point when we veered.

We veered left. Nobody was injured but looking back, it seemed there was a big hole slashed into the side of the Blade Ship. I looked to the drivers seat when I saw her. I saw my cousin Rachel. My cousin who had been dead for three years. It was then when I lost it. I fainted.

Marco's P.O.V.

When I saw her I almost fainted just like Jake had. Menderash put the Rachel. Into zero-space so we could get away from the larger Blade Ship. That is, if it managed to survive. But that was not our main problem. Rachel was here! Jake woke up and we confronted the girl who had been dead for so long.

"Rachel?" I asked. "Is that really you?" She looked at me. "Yes! It's me! It really is." "But, but, but.." I started. "But I'm dead," she finished for me. "Well, technically, yeah. I am dead. But guys, I have been given the chance to come back. To do the last mission of the Animorphs!" "And how's that?" asked Tobias, who still had a look of shock on his face. "Well, It's a long story. But
here goes," started Rachel.

It took about a half hour for Rachel to tell us the story of how the Ellimist allowed her to come back to help us finish the mission. All of her knowledge that she gained in her death was erased. She was allowed to keep her morphing powers but that's all. And, if she dies during the mission, she dies. If she makes it through the mission she still has to go back to the afterlife. Now she's just normal old Rachel. But then I remembered something. "Hey Rachel," I started. "What happened to the Blade Ship? What did you do when you just showed up?" She cleared her throat and began to speak. "Well, when I came down I appeared in the driver's seat and veered left. We were close enough to the Blade Ship so I threw out the side blades and opened up that ship like a can of tuna fish. They're probably not dead though, considering the fact that I'm sure they have a couple extra ships on the Blade Ship."

Rachel's P.O.V.

It's weird. Being back here. On another mission. But I love it! I just wish Cassie was here too. It's just like Jake to think of her first. He loves her so much. Just like Tobias and I love each other. He was back in human form. I walked over to him. "I love you," I said simply. "I love you too," he replied. We then shared a nice long kiss. It was broken up however when I heard Jeanne squealing, "Oh my gosh! What is that?!"

She was pointing out the window. Then I saw them. Two ships about the same size as ours. "We can't get away!" screamed Menderash. They'll have us destroyed before we can even turn around. Then one of them shot. TSSWWEEEE! The dracon beam was soaring straight for us.



(Chapter two will soon follow)