Title: Animorphs: The Time
Author: Annie-morphs
Rating: T
Genre(s): Adventure/General
Summary: The Yeerks have found a time traveling machine. They plan to destroy the 'Andalite bandits'. What will the Animorphs do? Steal it, then what? It sends them on an unpredictable adventure of time.Many things can go wrong... Rated T to be safe on battle scenes
Warning(s): There may be OOC ahead, please beware of this. Also, there will be some action scenes. I try not to make it too bloody.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters, they all belong to K.A Applegate. The time device is mine though. :D Along with the plot, but that's it.
Notes: My very first action/adventure story. And my second fanfiction on Animorphs. Also, because fan fiction won't let me use those carets, I replaced them with "/"s.
Animorphs: The Time
Chapter One
Jake:
I woke up with the birds tweeting loudly outside my window. I grumbled, "Great. Another day of school." Then, "CRAP! I forgot to do my math homework!" I scrambled out of bed, quickly getting ready for school, in hope of getting answers off of Cassie.
Grabbing my backpack, I went out the door.
My neighbor smiled at me. She was watering her rose bushes, "Good morning, Jake. Off to school?"
I nodded in a hurry, "'Morning. Yeah. Bye!" We still weren't sure if she was a Controller or not. We decided that it was best to leave it like that. If she was a Controller, we'll find out when it was crucial to know. It'll just make us paranoid if we were to spy on everyone just to check if they were Controllers. Immoral too.
I ran the rest of the way to school.
When I arrived, Cassie and Rachel were just walking up the stairs to the main entrance doors of the school.
I called, "Cassie!"
She turned. Naturally, she was in her overalls and oversized boots.
"Yeah?" she asked.
I rested my hands on my knees. "Did you do your math homework? Can I copy your answers?"
She flipped through her binder and pulled out a worksheet, "Here. Give it back after lunch. That's when I have math."
I gave a nod and took it, "Thanks."
We entered the hallways and Rachel asked, "Why didn't you do it? You had lots of time. Just yesterday, when Cassie asked if you could come over to her barn, you said that you were about to head over to Marco's place for video games. Apparently, video games are more important than girlfriends now, eh?"
I ignored the girlfriend and video game remark. "I didn't have time." I took a glance around before saying, "Besides, didn't we have that mission yesterday? Or was it the day before that...or the one after that? Augh, I'm losing my memory. No wonder I forgot to do my math homework."
Cassie smiled sympathetically at me, "It happens to everyone, Jake."
"Mission? What mission?" Rachel asked. "Unless, of course, going to the mall was a mission."
Marco rounded the corner. "Looks like someone's losing their memory."
"That makes two of us.," I smiled.
"Three," Marco corrected, "Hey Xena, did you do your English essay? I need a prompt. I totally forgot it was due today."
Rachel rolled her eyes, "Idiot." She took out her notebook and passed it to Marco, "Be sure to return it during second passing. I'll be blaming you if we both get incompletes."
"No worries."
"Why doesn't that make me feel any better?"
A voice appared in our heads before Marco could tease back. /Jake, everyone. I have news.\
I glanced out the nearest window. A red-tailed hawk soared in circles in the sky. Tobias.
He continued. /The Yeerks. They're up to something. I was just flying over the constuction site last night. It looks like they've found something. I heard something about it being very important and that if Visser Three succeeds he, along everyone who helped him, will be promoted.\
This wasn't good. I took a glance at my friends. They all had disturbed faces. I instructed, "Cassie's barn, afterschool."
The bell rang soon after. We parted.
In science, my teacher was lecturing when Tobias spoke to me again. This time, in private thoughtspeak. /Jake, I'm not sure if I should be telling you this, but it seems like I don't have much of a choice since it's a bit important. Tom was there. Along with Principal Chapman, the librarian, the post office lady, and a whole lot of other people. They all belong to large societies. I think this is something big to get everyone infested.\
Tobias lost me as soon as he mentioned Tom. My brother was in on this? I frowned down at my empty page of notes.
"Jake? Jake! JAKE!" My teacher called sternly, "Jake, pay attention. Take notes, this will be on a test."
Perfect. Another test. Just what I needed. Then again, a test is minor compared to Yeerks taking over Earth. It's funny when you start thinking about minor things when there are bigger things at stake here.
Mr. Science started talking about time travel and how it was impossible. It caught my attention.
"Going back in time, or through time, is impossible. At least for now. Scientist haven't dicovered a way to create a time machine. It's highly complicated. Going back in time would mean warping dimensions and altering reality, along with changing the present and future. Like all those science-fiction movies, time travel is probably very, very risky. It's possible for people not to be born if someone messes around with the past. That was a very good question, Nancy, but lets get back to my lecture..."
Going through time? Everyone wishes to go through time to change the present somewhere along their lives. The Animorphs that's for sure. Change the day where we walked through the construction site. We wouldn't be in this mess of morphing animals and alien invasions.
Cassie:
Once again, everyone was gathered at my barn. We all still had our bags with us, taking no time to take a trip home to drop them off. We knew this was big if Tobias notified us first thing in the morning. Ax was in human form since my parents were home. Marco and Jake sat in separate hay piles. Rachel combed a horse while I treated a possum that had been mistreated by a bunch of school boys. Tobias was perched high on a wooden plank.
"Tell us more about what you saw at the construction site." Jake said.
The construction site. The place where Elfangor crashed and died. The place where our lives changed forever. The mentioning of the construction site was probably another reason we found this meeting urgent.
Tobias replied. /Like I said earlier, it was like they found something. Something deep underground. They have this secret entrance hidden somewhere. It couldn't be seen from the sky so I had to land and spy on them. I could hardly see anything, but it was like a tunnel heading underground. The tunnel was like a steel cylinder, and it opened and closed at the front opening. The back opening couldn't be seen, it was deep in the ground. The opening that could be seen had a...a sensor pad of some sort in front of it, buried in the ground. The Controllers had to do a tap dance, or something that looked a lot like a tap dance, on it to make the tunnel open up. When I first saw it, I thought the Yeerks cracked. It was silly and strange.\
Jake thought aloud, "What do you think they found?"
/I think they mentioned something about time.\
Marco suggested, "Time travel?"
Jake shrugged, "My science teacher was talking about time travel today. Someone asked about it and he answered. He said it's impossible."
I placed the possum back into the cage, giving my full attention to the conversation. It seemed to be getting more serious each second.
Ax spoke through his human lips, "I believe. Buh-leeve. Ba-leave. Beeeeee-lieve. I believe there was news going around on the Andalite planet that there had been two scientists that created a time travelling machine. Mah-cheen. Perhaps when my brother crash landed on Earth, he had the machine with him? Or perhaps there were Andalites earlier than him that arrived on Earth."
"Maybe they had to leave the machine there to hide it, but ended up not getting it back?" Rachel guessed.
Jake nodded, "It's possible. Either way, we have to investigate. Tobias, can you show us where?"
/Of course.\
We went to our bird morphs.
Feather sprouted across my body as I shrunk. I felt my nose and mouth jut out to form a hard beak. My arms turned into wings and my toes fused together to form three talons on each foot. I was osprey and I yearned to take flight.
/Ready?\ Jake asked.
We took off, out of the barn and into the sky.
/The thermals are nice today.\ Tobias noted. /Follow me.\ He veered to the right and started to ride a warm air current to gain altitude. We followed his lead, making sure there was a good amount of space between us. It's a dangerous thing if our neighborhood spots a strange group of birds flying together instead of fighting or eating each other. Especially if the ones that saw us were Controllers.
Soon, we were in the familiar area of the construction site. We started to descend slowly.
/Hold on!/ Tobias said. /There's a Controller. He's gonna go in.\
/Tobias, stay out here and keep watch.\ Jake ordered /Everyone else, fly morphs. We're going in. Hurry.\
We hid and demorphed, then remorphed to flies.
Plooop. Plooop. Two balloons erupted on my eyes to form big fly eyes. I looked like Bug-Girl. A tube sprouted from my mouth and I started shrinking even more than I did when I went osprey. I formed another pair of arms. Or legs, however you looked at it. And I got antennaes. Transparent wings grew from my backs. Morphing was never pretty. I felt sick but glad that I didn't have a human mouth to barf out of.
Soon, everyone was done morphing and we were a bunch of flies being watched by a red-tailed hawk.
Tobias instructed. /Okay, keep going forward. Ah, wait. Marco you're going too far right. Turn a little to the left. Alright, keep going go towards the darkness.\
Through the multiple sections of my fly eyes, I went towards the darkness. I saw a human right in front of what should be the tunnel. He was jumping around on the sensor pad buried in the ground.
Marco thought-laughed into our minds. /Well, now I see why Tobias thought the Yeerks cracked. That's a ridiculous dance.\
The entrance hissed open.
/In after him.\ Jake said. He flew and landed on the sleeve of the Controller. We followed suit, on other parts of his clothing – no need to alert him by letting him spot a swarm of flies taking a ride on him.
Inside, it was very cold and dark. The Controller was walking. He was descending stairs. The tunnel looked small on the outside, small enough to need to crawl through, but inside it was large enough to hold stairs. I didn't bother to think about it. I'll only end up with a headache and no logical answer.
After a few minutes, light appeared.
Marco couldn't resist to say. /Walk into the light...\ I imagined everyone rolling their eyes. I rolled mine in my mind.
When the Controller entered a large, spacey room, we flew off of him. Landing on the walls, we took a look around. It looked a lot like a machinery room. Very metallic and noisy. The wall was rumbling.
"Did anyone see you?" a voice said. A man's voice.
"No, Visser Three."
/Visser Three!\ Rachel hissed. /He's here? In human form? Let's get him!\
"Good. I'll have your head if someone did. Especially if it were the Andalite bandits. The secrecy of this mission is crucial. The Andalites must not find out. If they did they will, with no doubt, try to ruin it for me."
/Too late for that.\ Marco murmured.
"Now, " continued the Visser, "Is everything ready?"
"Yessir. I believe it is. But please be aware that you may not be able to return to the present if something goes wrong." The Controller said.
/Time travel.\ Ax concluded.
"Yes, I'm completely aware of that! If I wasn't aware would I be standing here so confident? I'm willing to take the chance of not being able to return. If it is to get rid of the Andalite bandits once and for all, I'm willing. If I am not to return, I will be sure to take the honor of ridding the hindrance called the Andalite bandits. The people after me shall then have no trouble with taking over this planet. Now, let me go."
"Okay, Visser." The voice trembled slightly.
Visser Three walked off.
/After him!\ Jake ordered. /We have to find out where the machine is. Then we steal it.\
/What do you think he's planning to do?\ I asked.
/Go back in time and destroy us, probably. Meet us at the construction site even before we get to run away. Kill us./ Rachel guessed dryly.
Marco said. /I don't even want to know. I don't want to find out. I don't even want to think about it. Lets get this thing before it gets dangerous.\
/I agree with Marco.\ Ax noted, dutifully.
The Visser walked through a dimly lit corridor. I could hear, well in the fly's way of hearing, his shoes on the ground and the rumbling from the machinery room grow dull. I felt a strong woosh of air as he made a turn.
/Geez.\ Marco remarked. /It's like standing in front of a hurricane.\
I felt the wind stop. The Visser stood in front of a steel door. He glanced left and right. I saw a fly hanging onto a strand of hair as he did so. Then he typed in a code into the key pad. I couldn't see a single number. These fly eyes are horrible.
The door swung open and he walked in. The room was huge, but it was very empty. The only thing in it was the Visser, us, some wooden boxes, and a device in a tiny dome. The door swung shut behind us. I just noticed that there were no air vents or windows. So did Jake.
/Crap. Is there any other exit?\ He asked.
A pause before Ax answered. /No, Prince Jake.\
Rachel thought. /Think we got enough fire power to break down that door?\
/We can try.\ Jake answered.
The Visser stepped forward, then stopped to press a button, like he nearly forgot. Lasers appeared, stretching from one side of the room to the other. Then he pressed another and they disappeared.
/Paranoid much?\ Marco said rather weakly. If the Visser had forgotten, we would have been fried along with him.
Then he started walking toward the device. I felt shifting on his skin. Then on his clothes. They started stretching and shredding.
/He's demorphing!\ I alerted.
/Off! OFF! Get off!\ Jake ordered. /If those stalk eyes see us, we're dead!\
We took off just when stalk eyes sprouted from the top of his head. Andalite eyes could rotate and spot us in an instant if we were still on him, but they weren't nearly as strong as hawk eyes so we should be relatively safe at a distance. We buzzed in separate circles, trying not to be seen, but still keeping an eye on what the Visser was doing. Easier said than done. My heart hammered in my ribs, hoping the Visser wouldn't catch sight of one of us.
The Andalite stepped toward the small glass dome sitting on a counter top. He had a card in his hand, which he slid into a slot. The dome slid off, disappearing into a curved slit of the counter top. He picked up the device and said /Finally, the time has come.\
Marco joked. /Translation: Hello there, my precioussssssssss...\ He does that often. Joke during stressful times. Marco that is, not the Visser. ...And it seems like his jokes are rubbing off on me.
/Time to morph again.\ Jake said. I sensed a bit of tiredness as he continued. /Ax, demorph first. We need a distraction. Everyone else, battle morphs behind the boxes. Try to remain as small as possible until you're finished morphing.\
Ax waited as we flew to the wooden boxes that sat in the back, past the counter where the device used to sit. Landing on the ground, we all demorphed. Crouching, laying on our bellies, and kneeling to remain hidden because we were now human. Then we all morphed our battle morphs. Ax started to demorph to Andalite.
Jake sprouted orange fur, striped with black. Rachel's body started to be covered in brown fur. I could tell she was trying her hardest to remain small. She started looking like a small, cute cub growing bit by bit. Marco's face began to get leathery and furry at the same time. He was going gorilla. Me? I was going wolf.
/ANDALITE!\ Visser hissed, filled with dreadful hatred.
/Visser Three.\ Ax hissed back with equal hatred. They both wanted each other dead.
Dark gray fur rippled across my body, branching out to my legs and arms.
I heard the clashing of tail blades, the stepping of hooves, the wooshes in the air, the thought-grunts being sent to our heads.
My mouth and nose jutted out to form a snout, tipped with a wet nose. I felt human teeth turn into sharp ones.
I heard the sickening sound of blade slicing through fur and skin. Please be careful, Ax.
My knees reversed while a tail sprouted from my behind. Fingers and toes fused together to form paws.
Rachel finally started gaining her full size. She shot up towards the ceiling, turning into a gigantic beast. A moment later, she charged into battle to help Ax.
Then paws started to grow claws for gripping and defense. Soon, I was done and ready.
I dashed out from behind our hiding, followed closely by a lumbering gorilla and a strong tiger. I felt the killer insinct of the wolf, wanting to kill anything threatening it. That would be the Visser.
I felt a growl grow in my throat.
Jake ordered. /Ax! Enough, we got it. Get the device quickly. Then we're out. Rachel, Marco, tear down that door. Me and Cassie will fight this off.\
I reached the Visser. He swiped his tail at me. With quick wolf reflexes, I dodged it and lunged to take a bite out of him. Jake came, with a roar escaping his tiger mouth. He slashed his huge paws at the Visser's arms. Andalite arms are weak, making the Visser drop the device he was holding. It landed on my snout and I tossed it to Ax who caught it. He carried his Andalite hooves away, along with the device.
/NO!!\ The Visser roared, trying to gallop after him. Jake and I quickly blocked his path and snarled nastily.
His Andalite eyes burned with intent to kill. /You won't get away with this, Andalites!/
We felt the room shatter and rumble. Marco and Rachel were on their jobs.
Author's Note: Review please! I hope you like this. It's my first action/adventure fic! Reviews are welcome to point out any grammar/spelling mistakes I might have made. Constructive critism is always welcomed too.