The Suit
Part I
My name is Jake, and you know the drill, so I will skip the introduction part.
I was in bird morph on my way to Cassie's barn this morning. Cassie had called saying that
there was news. I got to the barn flew inside and quickly began to demorph. The others
were all ready there. Cassie was cleaning a cage, Rachel pacing back and forth, Marco
sitting up in the hayloft relaxing, Ax in human morph, Tobias up in the rafters and me. It
was right about then when Erek came in. "Jake, man the Yeerks have captured a new
technology, its like a biochemical suit. It has great powers for those who use it. Its designed
for humanoid shape. So the human controllers would be able to use it." "A battle suit?"
Cassie said "What else do you know about it." "Well the Yeerks were advancing on a race
called the Serians, but they had a sole protector who wore this suit. He was humanoid in
shape obviously." "Obviously!" Marco commented. "Anyway he used the suit against the
Yeerks, the suit is like a symbiote, it binds to the body doing what the brain tells it to do. It
has natural abilities such as flight, battle mode, lazer technology, force fields, holographic
projectors, and many other things. The suit can make you look like anyone or anything. It
is also believe that it has z-space travel. "Lets put it this way the suit could go one-on-one
with a dome ship and survive!"
We can't let the Yeerks keep this thing, do they even know
what they have Erek? Tobias said speaking up for the first time. "I do not believe they do,
but their scientists could figure it out." "So we bust in grab the suit, use if for ourselves and
get rid of the Yeerks once and for all." Rachel added. "If it was that easy the Serians
wouldn't have lost the suit!" I said. "The Serians feeling infestation self destructed their
home planet, only the suit survived" Erek said. "Wow that thing can take some damage, I
vote for dibs on it first" Marco said sheepishly. "None of you may use the suit, because it
doesn't combine well with you morphing powers" Erek said. "Then what's the point of
having it. Well better no-one than the Yeerks though" (Rachel).
"So its decided, we sneak in to the Yeerk Pool, again" I said not to happily. "Ok so we do
this, but one little question how?" Marco asked. "You could use the old mole entrance"
Erek suggested. "The I could meet up with you there so I could hide you in my hologram."
"Since we are doing this, no screw-ups got it?" I said. They understood, but we were doing
it again, going down to that hell they called the Yeerk pool. This wasn't going to be one of
my best days.
We got to the shed, morphed to moles and scurried down the old hole, and landed in the
middle of the bat cave. We morphed back to humans, not a fun experience, being in bat
poop. We then morphed to bats and flew into the Yeerk pool. Erek had already taken care
of the hunter robots. Erek may not be able to harm a living thing, but machines are just
machines. We met up with Erek and got inside his hologram. Marco morphed from bat to
human to gorilla, so he could carry the suit. But it turns out the suit want really a suit it
was some black glue, that formed around a body. It was living glue. Good thing this is in a
bottle or I wouldn't be carrying the stuff! Oh stop the whining please Rachel. Done
whining lets just get our Animorph butts out of here! We did that but before we left
Marco pulled the release cage lever for the free hork-bajir. We eventually got back to the
barn. Now what do we do with it Tobias asked who was the first one to speak up. "We
can't use it" I said. But we could choose somebody who can."We can't just let someone
have something more powerful than us, what if he/or she decided to destroy us? What
would we do?" Rachel asked. It would have to be someone you humans trust, who would
that be? asked Ax. "No one thats who. Remember what happened with David, I don't
want to go through with that again." "Not all people are the same Rachel I'm sure that
there is someone out there we can trust." "Cassies right" I said. "Do you have someone in
mind Jake?" "Yes I do, do you know Quinton_____.? "Yeah I do, I used to sit by him in
Anatomy class" He was always nice to me. Tobias added.
"Yeah well nice doesn't always count, he is polite to me which always makes me
suspicious."Rachel. "How do we know he isn't a Yeerk. I mean his father owns one of the
bowling alleys around here and the Sharing is always looking for new businesses to control.
"I know, we'll have to put him to the test. Three days out in Ax's scoop. We get a Chee to fill
in at his home for a while, whether its for a while or permanately. I am not about to mess up
a family over something we need." I said. We all agreed, we were going to have a new
member of the team, and if we were lucky this guy would be what we needed to kick the
Yeerks off our planet.
My name is Quinton. I'm a normal 16 year old, or so I thought I would be. I mean I go to
High School drive a car, have a wonderful g/f. My hobbies include fun, reading, and
bowling. Since my father owns a bowling alley, it makes the third one especially easy to
enjoy. I'd known Jake since Junior High, we both went out for the basketball team, I made
it he didn't. I'd felt sorry for him then, but I feel ever more sorry for him now. Rachel was
just another good looking girl in school, Cassie was a animal nut, Marco a class clown. I'd
been good friends with Tobias, but one day he vanished, I'd assumed he went back to live
with his Aunt. My life was as normal as you could get, until that one day. I was relaxing
behind the counter in the bowl, when Jake walked in. "Hey Q" or so he calls me sometimes.
"Hi Jake, what's up?" "I need to show ya something outside, would you mind taking a
look at it." "Sure" I said, received to actually do something. I followed him outside and to
the back of the bowl.
Thud, there was a noise then pain, the last thing I saw was Jake's face. It
was also the first thing I saw when I woke up. When I looked around I noticed I was in a
room the size of my bed room, with a low ceiling. It had dirt walls and a grass ceiling, then I
realized it was underground, because I could see the tree roots that were against the dirt
walls. There was also some else in there with me besides Jake. I turned to look and to my
surprise I yelled. When I stopped screaming, I hadn't woke up yet and there was still this
creature there. It was a blue dear of sorts, except that it had a humanoid torso, stalk eyes
that swivelled all around, a human head, with no nose and no mouth really. But the most
terrifying thing was it's tale. I was a curved synth blade, on a tail that looked like it was
made entirely of muscle. He had the tail resting over his shoulder slightly above it. Hell
Quinton, I am Aximilli Esgarouth Esthill. But humans call me Ax, I am pleased to meet
you. "Pleased to meet you too Ax," It was all I could think of to say. Then I looked at Jake,
and he said "Sit down Quinton there is a lot I gotta tell ya" I listened for what seemed like
a 24 hours. I was told not to escape, and I wouldn't you see If I was in the same predicament
as they were I would have acted the same way. After Jake got tired of talking, Ax filled me
in on the Andilite and Yeerk histories. It was a lot to absorb but I felt what they were saying
was true. I mean I had a real life example of a Andilite right here, and I was shown the
morphing powers, I was also told of what they had in store for me. For the next few days,
the others stopped and they talked, when Ax had to feed Tobias stayed watch. I felt
even closer to Tobias now than I did before, I had always felt sorry for Tobias, but now I
was almost happy for him, he was a bird after all, but he had achieve such a high level of
respect for himself, that he didn't show before as a human. After 3 and a half days, I was
released, and I was to meet in Cassies barn the next day. I told the Chee that was playing me
to go home and thanked him. I knew the others would be watching me, but they didn't need
to, I mean like I was such an idiot to go and tell anybody I knew, I didn't want to be a
controller after all. The next day I went to Cassies barn at the time I was suppose to. "You
know you guys didn't have to spy on me all night, I mean you could of got some much
needed sleep." They all looked at me in embarrassment. "Well we had to be sure you would
be true to your word" " I understand Jake" "So lets see this suit thinggy." "How can you
even be excited about touching that stuff?" Marco asked. "Easily I said, if I can help stop
the Yeerks then I am willing to make small sacrafices like this." "Good answer." Jake said.
"No Erek said all you have to do is reach in and touch it and ask it to be a part of you with
your mind." "Sorta like you guys when you accquire a animal." I said. I put my hand near
the thing, touched it and asked it to be my weapon and protector for the human people.
Amazingly it wrapped around my arm and started expanding itself. It kind of reminded me
of the movie the blob, like when it gets stuck on that guys hand and starts eating away his
flesh. But it wasn't eating me it was absorbing into me. I could feel us becoming one with
each other.
Soon I looked just like myself again. "Are you okay?" Cassie asked. "Yeah better than
ever I said, then suddenly I was knocked to the floor by Rachel and Marco who were in
morph. Marco had my hands behind my back and Rachel was moving in to sit on me. I
gently broke my self free from Marco and stood in Rachel's way as she began to charge me,
She hit me half force careful not to kill me, But it didn't matter. Rachel ran into me and
immediately fell to the floor, she got up and hit me again this time lots harder, but it didn't
do anything. I then picked her up with one hand and threw her into marco. "Ok thats
enough, don't reck my barn trying to take each other out." Cassie said. "I agree I think we
should go into the forest and test the suits capabilities in a safer environment." Jake said.
Rachel and Marco demorphed and then they all remorphed to birds, and flew out the
window.Coming Q,? Tobias asked, "Yeah" I replied and flew into the morning air. "It
was great, I mean it was like being Superman, I could fly, was superstrong, could hear
better, could see better, and while I didn't have x ray vision or heat vision, I did have
sensors on my body that could detect certain things if I wished to do so. The suit could also
make me look like anyone I pleased, all I had to do was look for them and I could become
them. It was great and I didn't have a time limit for how long I could look like them. I could
also become them in the blink of an eye. I wasn't invincible though, the suit could sustain
damage, while a high powered dracon blast couldn't kill me, a lot of them could. I was real
nervous for my first mission. I mean I didn't know how I was gonna act, but I was
confident that we would succeed.
It was a little past two in the morning, when I got a phone call. "Quinton?" "Yeah, you
need something Jake?" "Yeah did I leave my history book at Cassie's barn?" I don't know
we can always check later, thanks now it will be 10 minutes before I am able to go back to
sleep." "Sorry, man." "That's ok, see you later" "Bye". I hung up and immediately went
invisible. I checked on my parents and my little sister, they were all sleeping, everything
was fine. I returned to my room, and set up a hologram of me sleeping, no one would
bother me, since today was Saturday. I then shot out into the sky and headed for Cassie's
barn. I probably could have gotten there in less than a minute, but I slowed down, to give
Jake and the others time. I saw Marco, sneaking through the yards down below, it was
funny because he could of just morphed and flew, but maybe he didn't want to, I don't
know. I swooped down and grabbed him from behind. "Hey what's going on man?" "Oh,
just your friendly airlines, giving you a lift." I flew us both the distance to Cassie's barn
and landed inside, through one of the windows. "Ok, that was seriously fun, but tell me
when you're gonna do that next time, ok?" "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." I said. "So,
Jake whats the problem?" "Well Q, I think it's time to see exactly what that thing can do. I
say we attack the Yeerk pool full force." "What, are you insane?", Marco asked. "No, but I
think we could do some real damage." "Let's do it!" Rachel said, using her usual approach.
They all morphed to birds, and I went invisible. We arrived at a common Yeerk Pool
entrance, by the McDonalds. The plan was for me to tear right in and destroy the Gleek Bio
Filters, before they could detect us. I landed outside the entrance to Mickey D's and looked
around. There wasn't anyone in sight except for the gang, all morphing back to human
then to battle morphs. I put the suit into battle mode, which is like encasing myself in
armor. You couldn't tell who I was, that was the fun part and to top that off I went back to
invisible also. "Rachel, it's but kickin time!." "You said it Q." Rachel had morphed to
grizzly and stood next to me, or where she thought I was, Tobias was on her back resting
before his work really began. I opened the lazer beams and sliced a hole in the back door.
Rachel took care of what was left of it and in we went. "I tore open the freezer with my
bare hands. Then I was thinking of how I was gonna get rid of the Gleek Bio Filters when a
piece of my suit shot straight up through the wall and tore open a machine up there. Turns
out the suit had found them itself and tooken care of them. It kind of scared me to know
that it almost had a mind of it's own, yet it was almost comforting to know that if I was in a
battle, and didn't see something, the suit would take care of it for me. I led the way down
the stairs of the Yeerk pool. When we got to the bottom there stood about 50 Hork-bajir. I
was almost terrified at the look of them. The suit felt nothing, it only contained my
emotions that I had. Then the rest of the Animorphs ran forward. The fighting was intense.
I watched stunned at what was going on. Jake was slashing and biting and jumping around
in amazing agility. Rachel was crashing into things and just mawing the Hork-bajir down.
Quinton!, we could use some help! NOW! Amazingly the shouting woke me out of my
trance. I rushed into and pried a pile of them off of Marco. Thanks man! "No problem
now lets get these guys" The first Hork-bajir that tried to attack me hit me with a uppercut,
I barely felt it. To him I just knocked him out cold with one punch. I did this to several
Hork-bajir. Before long there were only a handful left. My friends had already snuck away
demorphed and remorphed. I hit the last 13 Hork-bajir with low powered lazer blasts.
With about 30 Hork-bajir unconsious and 20 dead, we went up to the yeerk pool. Quinton
can you kill all the Yeerks here? "Yeah I can Rachel but I don't know if I want to, I mean
they are defenseless after all." Quinton's right we don't need to kill all the yeerks now. It
wouldn't be right. I was releived, I mean I tried to knock out as many Hork-bajir as I
could but I must have killed around 12 or 13 in the process. I didn't need anymore death on
my hands for now. The others escaped and I took the Hork-Bajir with me and took them to
the valley of the free Hork-Bajir. They would take care of them and in three days time we
would have 30 more Hork-Bajir on our side.
I was feeling pretty good when my suit started acting all funny, it was like it was in pain.
Then I felt the pain too, it was like this ultrasonic noise was driving me crazy. I fell from the
air and landed hard on the ground. My mind was fading fast, and then I was gone.
