Ok, here it is.
I'm hoping for this to be a joined fic between my fellow writers and I. If not… that's ok too.
And before I go on… the characters I'm going to use… I HAVE PERMISSION, OKAY! So far, there are two I don't own, and maybe more later…
AND THAT IS MY DISCLAIMER! In the famous words of LittleMidgett... ONWARDS!
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My name is Jade Emily Harper. And my day started out normally enough.
Well, as normally as it ever could be in war.
Yeah, you know. The Yeerk war?
By now you should know the deal with that… as well as with my history… so I'll just skip all that junk.
We went on a mission… the eleven of us.
It was normal, recon stuff. You know, getting information we needed.
We all piled into Ithiell's fighter, and set off.
Naturally, we ran into all kinds of trouble.
And I wanted to kill Marco for jinxing us.
Naturally.
We ended up face to face with a new kind of ship the Visser was testing. Us against them… Ax and Ithiell up the front… a hit to us… we all went stumbling…
I pitched forward, and the boys went back. Not even Ax could stand his ground.
The last thing I remember is a white flash…
Then nothing.
And so my journey began…
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When I became conscious I felt myself being dragged. The next thing… my arms were above my head. I heard grunting from whoever was dragging me across what felt like a dusty landscape.
"Jesus… am I really this heavy?" This person grunted. I didn't hear anyone reply, so I guessed this person was talking to themselves.
I opened my eyes, and saw a dirty-haired head… dusted clothes… wristbands… what…
"Huh?" I mumbled stupidly. The person jerked, dropped my legs, and turned around.
And what I saw nearly made me faint.
I was looking at myself. Or… my evil twin…
This girl… whoever she was… looked exactly, and I mean exactly like me. And not like what my little sister Phoebe could've grown into… I mean me. But… besides the dark blue eyes that looked like my dad's peeping out from the dust-covered face.
Maybe I was wrong… this girl had a lot of dust on her…
"Who are you?" She asked, coming and leaning down beside me as I propped myself up on my elbows behind me… I blinked, then…
"Uh… me? Jade. Why? Who are you?"
"Jade Emily Harper. I've always thought of changing my middle name though… too girly…" she let out a hint of a smile…
Then there was the muzzle of a dracon beam pointed in my face. The eyes narrowed…
"Nice try Yeerk. Get up and come with me"
I scrambled to my feet, suddenly seeing my surroundings… we were standing in a barren patch of earth. Not far I could see an outcropping of boulders… maybe even mountains… and to the left of that a small patch of trees. But… just small… too small…
"Move it" she jammed the muzzle into the back of my head, and I stumbled forward. We were moving towards those boulders…
Which actually turned out to be mountains after all…
"Well… can you tell me what's going on here? I mean, if you're going to take me prisoner and all…" I tried to make my voice light.
Not happening.
"All right. I'll play your stupid little game. You Yeerks are winning this war… there are very few of us left, fighting. You Yeerks have turned our home planet into a wasteland… there is barely enough left to keep fighting for"
Okay. Not the way I'd left it… there was still a chance… we still had hope…
"I don't think I'm in my own time, or… my own dimension" I muttered, not knowing how the freakin hell I even got here…
Unless I was dead.
And this was my hell.
"What are you doing! Get moving!"
"Ow!" I stumbled forward, realising I'd stopped.
Nope. Didn't feel like I was dead.
Soon, we came to an opening in the rocks, and my… evil twin… shoved me inside. I stumbled again, almost tripping over my own feet, but managing to get up, getting ever more angry at this person… whoever she was…
Then we stepped through a cave with what almost looked like a door, and I took the chance to look around.
There were what looked like crates piled here and there, and what looked like old rusted work benches… or parts of… and I saw a couple of other doorways, but I couldn't tell where they led to…
"Hey! About time you… wow" I turned my head to see a boy with hair matted over his brow, and… icy blue eyes…
"R-Robert?"
The guy… Roberts evil twin… looked at me, then the girl behind me.
"I found her lying in the desert. Checked her over… she didn't have anything on her…"
"But… she looks like you…" Evil twin Robert said, pushing his hair back. By some miracle, it stayed back.
Must have been all that sweat.
"I honestly don't know. And I couldn't leave her out there… if she wasn't…"
He nodded, then looked at me again.
"All right. Three days and we should know"
"Yep"
He grabbed my arm, and I looked back at the girl. She was following us.
He yanked me into another room… well, it's the only way I could describe it… where I saw another small work bench, and sitting on it…
Amanda.
Or… Amanda's evil twin.
She was wearing something simular to the other two… clothes so dusted you couldn't tell what the original colour was… actual pants… not just the fashion jeans she usually… ok, so not Amanda…
She was sitting on a chair, guy style, and had her elbows on the table, fussing with something small and a screwdriver. When we came in, she looked up…
And her eyes… they were almost black…
It scared the crap out of me.
"So, what's this? Another Yeerk in morph? Or a Shape-shifter posing as you?" she turned to the girl who was my evil twin.
"We don't know. Shape-shifters would probably get my eyes right… wouldn't they?" my twin smirked, looking at me. Amanda nodded.
"Yeah. Either that or they're really loosing their edge"
"Where's… Ithiell?" I managed to let out, knowing this couldn't be good. Amanda hardly flinched. There was something in her eyes…
"I don't know how you know about Ithiell, but I can tell you this. He's dead, all thanks to the Yeerks"
"And thanks to him, the Yeerks now have more power than they should. Sucked his blood dry…" Robert muttered, almost sadly, then yanked me along again.
I then saw where we were heading.
It was a cage. Bars… and what I thought was a control panel on the rocks.
Jade… the other me… pushed a few buttons, and then I saw a shimmer of something.
So… they had a force field. Probably ran around the entire cage…. smart…
Then the bar door was opened, and I was shoved in. I hit the wall opposite, knocking my head… then turned in time to see the cage shut, and the force-field was put up again.
I looked around… from what I could see… a couple of prison-like beds, and a small box. My twin must have been following my gaze.
"A small bathroom if you were wondering. Wouldn't want to deprive you of… personal… needs, while you're in here, now, would we?"
She grinned, and walked away.
I don't know why I did what I did next. I honestly thought I was going crazy.
I ran at the bars.
Smashed into the force-field, got a definite electric shock…
And fell back into the blackness.
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"Well, that was just stupid"
"Like I don't know that. The funny thing was, you both did it"
"I only did it because… well…" the first voice seemed lost.
"Whatever kid, we've got to wake her up, see if she…"
"Kid? Hey buster, don't call me kid! I'm only like… a year or whatever younger than you!"
"Two. I'm nineteen. You're… what was it again?"
A grunt "Seventeen. But I don't like being called kid, got that!"
"All right. Peace dude. Now…"
I felt something gently running down my face… water. I managed to slowly open one eye, then… the other.
I was looking up at two boys.
One had fiery red hair and the other had dark hair. The red-head had kind brown eyes, and a deep scar on his face. The other one had grey eyes, and looked like a rebel.
Great. Just what I needed.
Two boys and me, alone in a freakin force-field cage. There was no way out…
"Hey. Glad you're awake"
"What…" I asked stupidly, blinking up at the older of the two. He seemed a lot calmer about the situation. The dark-haired guy didn't seem to be happy at all.
"Come on. Let's get you up" he reached out a hand, and I took it, pulling myself into a sitting position. I shook my head, trying to shake off the dizzy feeling.
As well as the feeling of being fried.
Not a good feeling, mind you.
"What… where… who…?" was all I could say, as I kind of sort of pointed at the older one. He just smiled, helping to pull me to my feet.
"My name is Erik Bishop"
"I'm… um… Jade Harper"
The younger boy blinked.
"That's…the same name as…" he pointed out to where I now saw the other me, working with Amanda on something or other…
"I… I know. I don't really understand it either. I think… parallel universe or something…" I managed to mutter. Erik suddenly snapped his fingers.
"That's it! Why didn't I think of it before! A parallel universe… and we're all from a different universe… brought here to… do something…"
He started to pace.
I watched him. Then I turned to the boy who was about my age. Maybe a little older.
"Do you have a name?"
He looked like he wanted to bite my head off. Then he sighed, scuffed his foot on the floor, and looked up at me again.
"My name's Pilot Jones. Don't laugh" he glared at me.
"I'm not. Interesting name. Different" I met his gaze with my own… I'd lasted through too many staring contests with Robert… the Robert I knew… to be intimidated by this guy.
He looked away first.
"All right… Jade, I have to ask you this; do you have the power to morph?"
I shook my head "No. But I can shape-shift"
The boys seemed to share a look through me.
"Ok… let's see… Pilot, you can morph and knew the Animorphs personally"
"I am an Animorph" Pilot corrected.
"Okay, sorry. I have the power to morph, but from a different source. And I don't personally know the Animorphs… it's all been about rumours… Jade, what about you?"
"Um… I know the Animorphs, but I'm not one of them. And… my team… called the Animal Eyes team… we fight the Yeerks too…" I mumbled, somehow managing to do just what Pilot did, looking down and scuffing a foot on the floor. I wasn't liking this one bit…
Then Erik seemed to fall silent, and I looked up and met Pilot's gaze by accident. We looked away, and I blushed. Now that I looked at him, the guy seemed kinda cute…
Damn hormones.
And damn this damn universe!
I was getting a serious headache.
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Ok, dudes, this is chapter one!
Hope you lyked it! Because I certainly LOVED writing it!