A/N: This is set Pre-45. Hope you like it! This idea's been going round in my head for quite a long time, and I am putting all my other projects on hold for it. R/R please!
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The Terror
by DJ Eagel.
RACHEL
My name is Rachel. Just Rachel. I have a last name, but I can't tell you it. You might be one of them. A controller. A Yeerk. If I told you anything else about me, my last name, my address, you might drag me down to the Yeerk pool, kicking and screaming, and put my head under. Then, a Yeerk would crawl in my ear, attatch itself around my brain, and take control. I would not be able to move. I would be a slave in my own body. I would scream inside my head as the Yeerk moved my hands and feet for me, chose when I had to eat or pee, and generally did everything for me. I would be a controller.
I know what you're probably thinking: Wacko! But I'm not kidding. It's the truth. The Yeerks are a parasatic alien species who take over peoples bodies. They are taking over the world, through a silent invasion. A lot of people are controllers already. The Assistant Principal at the School I go to, for example, Chapman. And my cousin Tom.
Ok, now you're probably thinking: Ok, Nurse? But this isn't a joke. Me and my friends are the only thing that can stop them. One night, me and my friends, Cassie, my best friend, and farm girl, Jake, my cousin and Tom's Brother, Marco, Jakes best friend, and Tobias, a wierd kid who hung around with Jake and Marco, were walking through an abandoned construction site, when we saw a bright light in the Sky. That light turned out to be an Andilite Spaceship. Andilites have fought a huge war against the Yeerks for many Centuries. This one, Elfangor, was about to die. But before he did, he told us about the Yeerk invasion. And he gave us the power to morph.
That's right, to morph. To aquire the DNA of any animal we touch, and we can then become that animal. So now, we fight the Yeerks. Jake, the Unofficial leader, Marco, the person who can see clearly point A to point B, and will focus on what needs to be done. Cassie, Jakes unofficial girlfriend, well-meaning, peaceful, but a good fighter. Ax, Elfangoir's brother, who we had rescued from the Ocean back when we started this War Tobias, my boyfriend, and a hawk. That's right, a Hawk. You see, if you stay in morph for more then two hours, you get trapped in that morph. That's what happened to Tobias. He got his morphing ability back, but his natural form is a Hawk. At least he can morph back into his old human body, but only being able to stay in it for 2 hours at a time makes dates very short.
And then there's me. Rachel. The ruthless one. The one that'll be first into a fight, and last out. I guess I'm a warrior. Yes. I like that. Only I've benn feeling weird lately. More........dark. I can't really explain it. Maybe I'm going insane.
Anyway, I was just hanging out with everyone, at Cassies barn, our usual meeting place. Jake, pacing the floor, Marco, on a bale of hay, Tobias, in the rafters, Ax, in his strangely attractive human morph, sitting next to Marco, Cassie, cleaning out a cage for a bird (Cassie's parents own the Whildlife Rheabilitation Clinic, where the take in sick or injured animals. Cassie helps them out.), and me, leaning against a wall, watching Cassie scrub at the cage.
"It's times like this I sometimes wish my parents didn't own this place," She grumbled. "The Osprey who was in this cage sure pooped a lot."
Everyone laughed, except for Jake.
"What's up, Jake?" I asked him.
"Erek told me the Yeerks are working on a new project." He told us.
Erek is our spy inside the Sharing, a Yeerk front orginization. He is one of the Chee, an aincient race of Androids, who came to Earth about the time of the Aincient Egyptions. He tells us what the Yeerks are planning, that kind of stuff.
"So, what's the project?" Cassie asked him, as she put the cage down, and took the rubber gloves she was wearing off.
"Yes," said Ax. "What is the project. Proj. Ect. Prrrrrrrrrrr."
Andilites don't have mouths, so when Ax morphs into human, he has a tendancy to play with his words.
"That's the problem." Jake replied. "He doesn't know yet. He says he'll come over when he does know."
"Why should we wait for him to come to us?" I found myself saying. "Let's go to the Yeerk Pool, right now, and smash whatever it is to pieces!"
"Tut-tut, Xena." Marco said. "If we did that, we'd die. And dying is not on my To-Do list."
"Shut up, you little runt, or I'll morph to bear and rip your guts out!" Whoa! What was I saying?
"Whoa, Jake, calm her down!" Marco stood up.
I backed him against the wall. "You better watch your mouth, Marco, or I'll get you one of these days!" I backed away, and started to morph to Bald Eagle, my bird morph.
"Rachel, what's wrong?" Cassie asked me.
I ignored her. I finished my morph and flew away. But Tobias came after me.
Rachel, what's wrong? He asked me.
I don't know, Tobias. I told him. I need some time to figure things out.
I flew back to my house, and Tobias went back to the Barn.
"What the hell is up with me?"
I was laying on my bed, thinking. Why had I yelled at Marco? Why had I backed him up against the wall? And why, why, did it feel like it was something else using my body?
"Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha!" A voice said. "This is just wonderful!"
I turned around, and saw the face of the Drode, servant of Crayak, the Ultimite evil being. He could control the Space-time continuim, if it wasn't for a being, the same as him, but working for good, the Ellimist.
"It's Crayak, isn't it?" I asked him. "He's doing this to me."
"Very good, genius." The Drode answered sarcastically.
"But how is he doing this without the Ellimist knowing?"
"Great Crayak is far superior to that meddling fool."
I realized that was the best answer I was going to get. "So what's he doing to me?"
"You shouldn't be in the Animorphs, Rachel." He said. "You are too dark, too evil. Crayak is trying to get you to see this. You shouldn't be taking orders from that idiot Jake. You should kill them all, and go off on your own mission to get the Yeerks. They are too wary. The Yeerks will infest them all. Only you have the chance to save them. by killing them. Only you have the guts. They will lose Rachel. But you, and you alone, will win. But only if you kill them. All of them."
What he said, was it true? I wasn't sure. But then again, this was the Drode. The servant of evil itself. I decided on a reply.
"Screw you, Drode. I don't deal with evil."
"But Rachel, you are evil. The Darkness inside is growing. Soon, it will be unleashed. Take the offer, or you will die with the Animorphs."
"Piss off."
And with that, he went.
I was still thinking about what he had said an hour later. The darkness inside me......growing.........unleashed. What did he mean by unleashed? And he said I was evil. But then I remembered what I had said to Jake once.
"Maybe you're right, Jake. Maybe I do get off on it all. But I still know where the line is. And I won't cross it."
That was as true now as it had ever been.
Then I remembered the time I was split into two Rachel's, one bad, one good. If the darkness was unleashed, would I be like the bad Rachel? Or worse?
BRRRING!!!!!!!
I answered the phone. It was Jake.
"Hey, Rachel, Erek's at the barn with the Maths Homework. Coming?
"Sure!" I hung up.
I put the phone down, still feeling angry and sad.
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A/N: So? Thoughts? Please review and tell me!
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The Terror
by DJ Eagel.
RACHEL
My name is Rachel. Just Rachel. I have a last name, but I can't tell you it. You might be one of them. A controller. A Yeerk. If I told you anything else about me, my last name, my address, you might drag me down to the Yeerk pool, kicking and screaming, and put my head under. Then, a Yeerk would crawl in my ear, attatch itself around my brain, and take control. I would not be able to move. I would be a slave in my own body. I would scream inside my head as the Yeerk moved my hands and feet for me, chose when I had to eat or pee, and generally did everything for me. I would be a controller.
I know what you're probably thinking: Wacko! But I'm not kidding. It's the truth. The Yeerks are a parasatic alien species who take over peoples bodies. They are taking over the world, through a silent invasion. A lot of people are controllers already. The Assistant Principal at the School I go to, for example, Chapman. And my cousin Tom.
Ok, now you're probably thinking: Ok, Nurse? But this isn't a joke. Me and my friends are the only thing that can stop them. One night, me and my friends, Cassie, my best friend, and farm girl, Jake, my cousin and Tom's Brother, Marco, Jakes best friend, and Tobias, a wierd kid who hung around with Jake and Marco, were walking through an abandoned construction site, when we saw a bright light in the Sky. That light turned out to be an Andilite Spaceship. Andilites have fought a huge war against the Yeerks for many Centuries. This one, Elfangor, was about to die. But before he did, he told us about the Yeerk invasion. And he gave us the power to morph.
That's right, to morph. To aquire the DNA of any animal we touch, and we can then become that animal. So now, we fight the Yeerks. Jake, the Unofficial leader, Marco, the person who can see clearly point A to point B, and will focus on what needs to be done. Cassie, Jakes unofficial girlfriend, well-meaning, peaceful, but a good fighter. Ax, Elfangoir's brother, who we had rescued from the Ocean back when we started this War Tobias, my boyfriend, and a hawk. That's right, a Hawk. You see, if you stay in morph for more then two hours, you get trapped in that morph. That's what happened to Tobias. He got his morphing ability back, but his natural form is a Hawk. At least he can morph back into his old human body, but only being able to stay in it for 2 hours at a time makes dates very short.
And then there's me. Rachel. The ruthless one. The one that'll be first into a fight, and last out. I guess I'm a warrior. Yes. I like that. Only I've benn feeling weird lately. More........dark. I can't really explain it. Maybe I'm going insane.
Anyway, I was just hanging out with everyone, at Cassies barn, our usual meeting place. Jake, pacing the floor, Marco, on a bale of hay, Tobias, in the rafters, Ax, in his strangely attractive human morph, sitting next to Marco, Cassie, cleaning out a cage for a bird (Cassie's parents own the Whildlife Rheabilitation Clinic, where the take in sick or injured animals. Cassie helps them out.), and me, leaning against a wall, watching Cassie scrub at the cage.
"It's times like this I sometimes wish my parents didn't own this place," She grumbled. "The Osprey who was in this cage sure pooped a lot."
Everyone laughed, except for Jake.
"What's up, Jake?" I asked him.
"Erek told me the Yeerks are working on a new project." He told us.
Erek is our spy inside the Sharing, a Yeerk front orginization. He is one of the Chee, an aincient race of Androids, who came to Earth about the time of the Aincient Egyptions. He tells us what the Yeerks are planning, that kind of stuff.
"So, what's the project?" Cassie asked him, as she put the cage down, and took the rubber gloves she was wearing off.
"Yes," said Ax. "What is the project. Proj. Ect. Prrrrrrrrrrr."
Andilites don't have mouths, so when Ax morphs into human, he has a tendancy to play with his words.
"That's the problem." Jake replied. "He doesn't know yet. He says he'll come over when he does know."
"Why should we wait for him to come to us?" I found myself saying. "Let's go to the Yeerk Pool, right now, and smash whatever it is to pieces!"
"Tut-tut, Xena." Marco said. "If we did that, we'd die. And dying is not on my To-Do list."
"Shut up, you little runt, or I'll morph to bear and rip your guts out!" Whoa! What was I saying?
"Whoa, Jake, calm her down!" Marco stood up.
I backed him against the wall. "You better watch your mouth, Marco, or I'll get you one of these days!" I backed away, and started to morph to Bald Eagle, my bird morph.
"Rachel, what's wrong?" Cassie asked me.
I ignored her. I finished my morph and flew away. But Tobias came after me.
Rachel, what's wrong? He asked me.
I don't know, Tobias. I told him. I need some time to figure things out.
I flew back to my house, and Tobias went back to the Barn.
"What the hell is up with me?"
I was laying on my bed, thinking. Why had I yelled at Marco? Why had I backed him up against the wall? And why, why, did it feel like it was something else using my body?
"Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha!" A voice said. "This is just wonderful!"
I turned around, and saw the face of the Drode, servant of Crayak, the Ultimite evil being. He could control the Space-time continuim, if it wasn't for a being, the same as him, but working for good, the Ellimist.
"It's Crayak, isn't it?" I asked him. "He's doing this to me."
"Very good, genius." The Drode answered sarcastically.
"But how is he doing this without the Ellimist knowing?"
"Great Crayak is far superior to that meddling fool."
I realized that was the best answer I was going to get. "So what's he doing to me?"
"You shouldn't be in the Animorphs, Rachel." He said. "You are too dark, too evil. Crayak is trying to get you to see this. You shouldn't be taking orders from that idiot Jake. You should kill them all, and go off on your own mission to get the Yeerks. They are too wary. The Yeerks will infest them all. Only you have the chance to save them. by killing them. Only you have the guts. They will lose Rachel. But you, and you alone, will win. But only if you kill them. All of them."
What he said, was it true? I wasn't sure. But then again, this was the Drode. The servant of evil itself. I decided on a reply.
"Screw you, Drode. I don't deal with evil."
"But Rachel, you are evil. The Darkness inside is growing. Soon, it will be unleashed. Take the offer, or you will die with the Animorphs."
"Piss off."
And with that, he went.
I was still thinking about what he had said an hour later. The darkness inside me......growing.........unleashed. What did he mean by unleashed? And he said I was evil. But then I remembered what I had said to Jake once.
"Maybe you're right, Jake. Maybe I do get off on it all. But I still know where the line is. And I won't cross it."
That was as true now as it had ever been.
Then I remembered the time I was split into two Rachel's, one bad, one good. If the darkness was unleashed, would I be like the bad Rachel? Or worse?
BRRRING!!!!!!!
I answered the phone. It was Jake.
"Hey, Rachel, Erek's at the barn with the Maths Homework. Coming?
"Sure!" I hung up.
I put the phone down, still feeling angry and sad.
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A/N: So? Thoughts? Please review and tell me!