Pro Log

          Hold on! We have almost reached the entrance to Z-space! They wont be able use the shredders once in there! Said Dant-Himel-Beras to his wife Resh-Hasi-Corras, who was behind him in the small fighter that they had stolen from the Andalite fleet. Cradled in her mothers arms was little Raechalli-Estlid-Corras-Shamtul, not more than a couple of months old the little andalite did not understand the reason for all of the yelling or the noises that made the inside of the ship rock as if in a earthquake. She did not understand the reason for her mothers sobbing, or the why they had had to live the glorious clearing where they had live for so long.

          Himel! They're getting closer! Exclaimed Resh to her husband.

          Don't worry we'll make it. Once we reach the speed needed to transport into Zero space the shredders will not work unless they intend on killing themselves. Once we reach the new planet, we will find my brother he and Leena should already be there. We will be a happy family one mor- Suddenly Himel's reassuring are cut short by an enormous sound caused by an explosion that shook the ship form top to bottom and the entrance to Z-space, that the explosion had seemed to trigger, and a horrendous scream that filled the ship with the cry of death.

          Looking at the control panel trying to stabilized the ship with his main eyes and hands and trying to decipher where the scream had originated with his stalk eyes, Himel found a terrifying sight. His wife had been hit a metal plate from the ships walls at the back where the explosion had happened. She lay there just behind his chair with the thin plate inserted in her back and piercing her from her shoulder blades to the front of her ribcage, cutting her almost completely in half. Raechalli lay under her mother covered in blood and totally oblivious to what was happening.

          Resh! Screamed Himel in horror and sadness because in his heart he knew he could do nothing, not even go to his wife and comfort her in her last moments in the world of the living. He could not step away form the control panel or the ship would go about into oblivion. He had to get his daughter to safety, and focus on the task at hand; forget the bleeding body of his wife and keep driving.

          He had to reach earth, look for his brother and have the life he had promised her. Hemil knew that the Andalite Guard that had chased after them and that was responsible for his wife's death, would not follow them into Z-space. They were safe now; but not whole. She was gone and nothing could bring her back. Only in his dreams would he see her because the body she had used to be with him was now nothing but an empty shell capable of housing no other life but that of the parasites that would start feeding on her flesh once the ships doors where open and the air and warmth of their new home washed over her.

          Almost two days later, hungry and cold they came out of Z-space and into the galaxy were their new life was to begin. He followed his brother's coordinates to the planet called earth, but once the ship hit the atmosphere the injury left from the explosion on ship started to catch on fire and the ship's mechanical systems went berserk. He lost control of the ship, but using the auxiliary motors of the ship was able to fall slower down to earth and crash-landed in a land far from their original destination. Far from anyone that could help, and all alone; but alive, he and his daughter were alive.