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Burden of a Leader
Chapter 1

My name is Allen. I am not going to give you my last name. Even if I could I wouldn't tell you, because probably just a nobody, a nobody unworthy of being in my sight. In the "old days" I knew I was more important than any of you nerds. But now I KNOW I'm more important than anyone else because I am the undeniable Leader of the "Morph troopers". A pathetic little "goody tooshoes" team against an alien race trying to enslave everyone on this planet.

I don't know why I'm telling you this or why I'm even talking to you, but I am so just listen to my story of how it all began:

Me and my friend Colin were walking home from the mall because we had been kicked out for picking a fight against a wimpy kid named Tobias. He was from our school and his head was practically made for being swirled around a toilet. That kid was, still, and always will be a nerd whose parents probably left him because they didn't want to raise a nerd like that. I don't blame them.

Imagine, just by luck we spotted our little "friend" Tobias also walking home. He spotted us too and he started to run. You see I'm a track runner and so is Colin. We LOVE it when people try and run away from us because we love a good chase.

We'd given the nerd a full 10 seconds to run, after that me and Colin ran after him but not at full speed of course, because what good is a chase when it ends so soon?

We could probably see the terror in his eyes when he saw us catching up. He took a turn straight into the abandoned construction site. I stopped completely and so did Colin.

"We should turn back Allen," said Colin. "He's not worth going in after. We should just leave and get him tomorrow."

"No," I said firmly. "If we show mercy now, then he'll think we've gotten soft. I don't want him thinking that he could keep us away so easily. Besides, your not afraid of going in are you?"

"Of course not, it's not that. It's just that, what if we get lost in there or get attacked by a hobo or something?"

"Don't be stupid, there's nothing that's going to attack us, so quit whining and c'mon," I said "We're wasting time and we're gonna lose him if we keep talking."

I started to run at full speed into the construction site, with Colin following close behind me. There was NO WAY that little punk was gonna lose us. Suddenly I spotted him. He was just standing there looking at the sky. That punk was SO dead now. Me and Colin moved in closer when we suddenly noticed that he wasn't alone!

Standing there about 5 feet away from him were two girls from my school, they were also staring at the sky. I knew who they were. One of them was named Rachel, she was one of the hottest chicks I'd have ever seen, and I've seen a lot. Standing next to her was her best friend named "Kathy" or "Cassandra" or something starting with "Kuh". She's a black girl with short hair, and ugly pooped-stained jeans. Overall, I would feel sorry for anyone who'd want to go out with her.

I stepped out into their view and walked up to Rachel. "Hey, baby. You wanna stare at the stare at the sky with a real man."

"Tell me when you find one, you dumbass," she said without taking her gaze off the sky.

"Hey Colin, we have someone with attitude over here," I called back to Colin.

He didn't say anything back. I turned around "Colin! I said tha-"

I stopped talking, he was staring at the sky also. Now I was just getting mad.

"What's going on here, hasn't anybody seen the sky before?" I asked furiously.

"Look," said the wimp as he pointed toward the sky.

"Listen, kid, I don't know who gave you permission to talk to me so shut up," I told the nerd.

"He doesn't have to do anything you say," said Rachel "Just look at the sky.

"Alright, alright, I'll look at the freaking sky, but only because of Rachel."

I looked up at the sky. To my amazement there were two glowing lights in the distance. The lights were too big and too bright to be a plane. Slowly the lights were coming closer and closer. We must have waited for at least 3 minutes when finally the thing came close enough to roughly see what it was.

It wasn't that big. It was about as long as a school bus. The front end was a pod, shaped almost like an egg. Extending from the back of the pod was a long narrow shaft. There were 2 crooked, stubby winglike things, and on the end of each wing was a long tube that glowed bright blue on the back end. It looked almost wimpy except that it had a wicked looking tail thing curved up and forward, coming to a point that looked as sharp as a needle.

"What the hell is it?" me and Colin said in union.

Then the black girl just blurted it out "It's a flying saucer!"






A/N: Hi! This is Jake the "Yeerk Killer" here a.k.a. Omega Goku. I had an urge to write this story ever since MM4. And finally the urge to write this story was too strong and I just started to write. This story will have different twists and turns from the books because Jake is not around and neither is Marco L. Anways if you read this story and find it interesting, you just might wanna check every week for updates, and also check out the story "The Confrontation." Also for my last announcement, I 'd like to take this time to say that everyone who reads this story should GO to ani-news.com and go there for chats and stuff if you haven't already been there. That's all for now. See u next chapter.

p.s. do you remember the description of the andalite ship? Guess what? i copid that from the book because i was lazy. Oh well.