DISCLAIMER:
The Animorphs were created by KA Applegate. They are not mine. I got the idea for this story from several other fan fics. They are: The Reunion by SD, The Final Case by Weird Blondy, and Xena and the Hawk by Susan D (only the title, nothing else). I hope I didn't bother anyone by taking some ideas and mixing them with my own, but that is why I am giving them credit here.
Author's notes and warnings:
-This story was intended to be a romance but it seems to be turning into more of an adventure. There will be Rachel/Marco pairing, so if you don't like it, don't read it.
-This is an alternate universe, so it does not follow the ending that KAA wrote.
-If you think this story is bad, say so, but please give me some suggestions on how to improve it – simply flaming it does not help.
-There are clues to a possible relationship between Rachel and Marco in KAA's books, and I think something would have happened between them if Tobias was out of the picture. I am trying to stay in character, but remember that they are all a lot older than they were in the books, so some of the things they say and do will correspond more with adults than teens.
-I can't seem to make the thoughtspeak brackets work, so I am using dashes. -thoughtspeak example-
Prologue
-Marco-
Well, the war finally ended. The Andalites showed up and started frying Yeerks in space while we had a huge battle on the ground. The free Hork-Bajir did not want to get involved, so they said, but apparently someone convinced them to help Rachel kill Tom so she didn't get killed too.
All James' people were killed and Tobias was killed by a Dracon beam while flying cover. We took the ship up and starved the Yeerks of Kandrona rays while 2 of us searched for Tobias' body at all times. After a week, we just gave up. We never found the body, but a Dracon beam leaves very little of a red-tailed hawk to find.
Rachel took that one really hard. She ran away and no one saw her for a long time. I guess she managed to move on, somehow, because a year later, she was back in school, but it was obvious she wasn't the same. She was the only one (other than Tobias) who missed all the TV interviews and such.
We all finished high school and moved on. Cassie went to vet school, like she planned. Jake went into the military to train new morph-capable soldiers. Rachel went to college for a while, but I guess she didn't like it because she later joined the secret service or CIA or something doing detective work. I went to Hollywood, did lots of movies and TV shows, bought a huge mansion and basically lived the high life. Ax went home.
We sent some diplomats from Earth to the Andalite homeworld and they worked out an exchange – they would allow us to use their morphing technology and Z-space traveling technology in exchange for weekly deliveries of human DNA, Cinnamon Buns and Krispy Kremes.
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