A/N: 'Sup! Guess you guys haven't seen me in a while. Bet ya missed me...you know you did. I decided to take a break from my other fic, Family Twists, and go for a more suspense filled actiony thingy than a humor fic. (Plus I have horrible writers block) So, here we go.

Disclaimer: Don't own anything, you know 'cept the plot.

THE RECOMBINANT PROJECT

CHAPTER ONE

WHERE ARE WE?

My name is Jake. It's the same thing everytime and if you still need an explanation, get out of here 'cause I'm not doing it. Right now, we, the Animorphs, have got a bigger problem than the Yeerks alone. WAY bigger. You wanna know the problem? That I'll tell you.

We don't know what's going on.

One minute, we were in Cassie's barn and disscussing the next way to rattle the Yeerks (Rachel suggesting we smash everything, Marco wanting to go home, you know, the usual) when BAM! We're out cold.

Now we're awake, and, as I said earlier, we don't know what's going on. And one other thing:

We. Are. In. Space.

So, yeah, confused in space, that's gonna work out well.

"Why the HECK are we here?" Rachel said, masking her confusion and fear with rage (whoa, gotta cut down on my Cassie time).

"What about where, Rachel?" Marco said, not at all masking his fear and confusion," Or, how we got here, or when we're gonna stop, or if it's even the same day. or--"

"Marco," I interrupted,"We understand you're a little freaked out, if you weren't your sanity would be questioned, but you need to calm down, you too Rachel," she scowled and laid back against the wall of the little white room we were stuck in.

Honestly, while saying that, I felt like I was contradicting myself. I felt like screaming and crying out how scared I was, letting Cassie comfort me until I fell asleep. Unfortunately, I couldn't. I was the "leader" and I couldn't breakdown. It was times like these I wished I wasn't the leader.

Coming out of my personal problems, I gotta tell you, being in a little room is really boring. We fell asleep like three minutes later.

Dunk-ch-ch-shhhhh. The impact from hitting the ground (or at least some thing like ground) woke all six of us up. We all sat up abrubtly, getting ready to morph as soon as someone came into our little sanctuary.

Shhhht. The door opened. I focused on my tiger morph. The orange and black skin, the muscles like liquid metal, the enhanced senses, the--wait. I opened my eyes. What? Nothing had happened.

Do not try to morph. A thought-speak voice said. The bands you are wearing prevent you from doing so. Come with me, do not argue.

We stood up, like we had a choice. I looked over at each of the others. Rachel looked mad, Marco looked scared, Tobias looked...well, he looked like a hawk, Ax looked completely stoic and Cassie (my heart jerked slightly) looked frightened. She looked at me and tried to smile, I tried to smile back. Bet it didn't look like a smile.

The room they had taken us to was a large and lab-like. There was an operating table behind a glass screen, several computers running numbers and other things that could have possibly been test results. There were several unidentifiable tools that sent an eery chill down my spine, and they weren't the only thing.

Now that we were in a larger room that was lighter and had more of them, I finally got a good look at the aliens that had captured us. They were all about the same height, taller than me but not built too well. They had on huge eye that took up most of their square faces faces and a small slit that I assumed was their nose. They were almost completley red and were hunched over. They were reptilian and had long, Lady Deathstrike claws that could scalp you with a single swipe. Their tails were like lion's, but instead of fur on the end of the tail, there were little spikes. They were freaky.

What do you want from us? Ax asked the creatures.

First, you two, one of the creatures commanded, pointing to Tobias and Ax, Morph into your human forms. They did so, with hesitation. As soon as Tobias was finished, Rachel moved closer to him.

Now, what do we want from you? Your bodies for one. What seemed to be the head alien said. I knew Marco was fighting that snigger.Your abilities for another. We are going to observe you for a while, run tests, then we will perform your operations and finish our experiments.

"Operations? Experiments?" Cassie asked, sounding freaked and, surprisingly, a little mad.

The Head Honcho turned and conversed with the other aliens. Then he turned back to us.

I guess since you are going to be part of this, we might as well tel you what's going on. He (or she, I wasn't exactly sure about how the genders worked in this species) paused then, obviously reluctantly, went on. You are going to be part of what we call the Recombinant Project. We were all wondering what that meant, but knew we had to keep our mouths shut.The Recombinant Project can only be done with morph capable creatured. It consists of taking the aquired DNA from the systems of the morph capable creatures and tie it into their own DNA graft. Then, when they morph they will no longer change form completely, but just add certain animal attributes. You morph a bird, your sight improves and wings grow out of your back. A tiger or lion, your stanima increses, your muscles enlarge, your reflexes improve and your senses enhance. Each of you will almost always be in the form you were born in. That is the basic project. The tests are for our benefit, as well as the observations, do not ask about them. Do you understand?

We each nodded. Then, I asked, "Who are you? Where are we?"

"I am Garfan, leader of the Nabse, that is our species. As for where you are, you are on our home planet, approximately 1,250,092 light years from Earth.

1,250,092 light years away from Earth. The Milky Way was 100,000 light years in diameter. We were out of the Milky Way.

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