A/N: Since likes to eat my formatting: "Speech" 'thought' ""Thoughtspeech""
My name is Helios-Ilfaxt-Terros, I am an Andalite Warrior trapped on Earth. I was shot down in orbit over earth fighting the Yeerk invasion. I fear my prince Elfangor may be dead; I have been on earth approximately two standard months by now and received no evidence to quell my fears. I was found by a number of human 'teenagers', who nursed me back to health, I have since been spending my time understanding Humans. My first visit to a large scale social environment was less than favorable, I fell victim to the human sense known as taste.
My human companions called this food, chocolate. It tasted like a small piece of heaven torn from a spatial rift. I almost found it hard to believe it was an earthly invention, considering how primitive Humans are.
I was later to discover Humans have a huge advancement when it comes to pleasing the sense of taste. Perhaps it is why the humans are so far behind technologically, they spend so much time advancing things like food and 'entertainment' both of which are quite pleasing, but it's no wonder the humans abandoned their own moon when they discovered it was not made out of cheese. I am told however that that was only a joke, but somehow I find it a more believable excuse than the actual provided one.
Aside from the sense of taste, I believe I am very good at passing for human now, I no longer play with the sounds I can make from my mouth, and I understand most human jokes or sarcasm when I hear them. I understand the concept of a 'bad joke' or an attempt at humor that was not made in an honest attempt to make people laugh, but rather to draw out a distraction from a negative emotion.
My human friends have come to suspect an organization called 'The Sharing' is the front for the Yeerk invasion attempts. After providing me with a computer and introducing me to 'The Internet' which is a global network of computers, I was able to confirm their suspicions and hack into a few Yeerk databases, clearly demonstrating Andilites superior computer skills.
There are times- that I feel confused, when the humans seem so Andalite to me that I almost forget I'm not home, forget that I'm stranded millions, if not billions of light years from my home planet. But then I return to my senses and feel even more- 'homesick' as the humans call it. It is a nostalgic based emotion; I miss my home planet, and my possibly dead friends and fellow warriors.
I fear that if the Yeerks successfully take earth, they may possess enough bodies and firepower to possibly return to their home world, to even attack us Andalites outright on our own home world.
I found it downright frightening to think about, almost 5 billion bodies, plus the thousands of Hork Bajir, Taxxons, and Gedd at their disposal. With the home pools of the Yeerk home world, they might have enough filthy slugs to populate Earth entirely, and even have enough for every Andalite as well.
The Yeerks are a very real threat, and having lost in fighter-to-fighter battle, my confidence is shaken, although not entirely broken. My optimism is still strong, but despair does occasionally rule my thoughts.
Sometimes I think to myself, if only my human companions could help me, then maybe we might keep the Yeerks at bay, even if we could only perform Guerilla movements. Even the near futile 'hit-and-run' strategy would at least slow the Yeerks down enough for my people to return in greater numbers. Within the Yeerk Database I have managed to decrypt I have found continuing references to a group of "Andalite Bandits" running just such interference. Yet all my attempts to reach them have failed.
Yes I fear, I fear the Yeerks may discover my human companions or I, drag me down into the filthy Yeerk pool, and make me into another Abomination- a new Andalite-controller...
To never move my own hands again, ruled by a tiny slug-like parasite invading my brain- controlling my body, even my ability to morph any animal I may touch; such as my human friends, from whom I have acquired a human form which is a blending of each of their traits.
My human- friends, yes, they truly are my friends now, they have taught me so much in these meager months. My favorite aside from the sense of taste was the T.V. program 'Sailormoon.' T.V. is a device humans use to broadcast forms of entertainment, which are a distraction from their everyday lives which they all find so stressful.
'Sailormoon' is a T.V. series based around a group of Teenagers not to dissimilar from my human friends, except that in 'Sailormoon' the majority of the major characters are female, and three of my human friends are male. I was shocked to discover that in the fourth season of this T.V. series there was another character that shared my name. A creature referred to as 'Pegasus' who turned out to be named Helios. A Pegasus is a creature that looks like an earth horse, except with feathered wings, and this particular Pegasus had a unicorn's horn, which I have been told by my friends is mythologically inaccurate. I of course fail to see the difference it makes considering that it's all fiction anyway.
I was watching the entertainment device 'T.V.' when the 'important messages' were interrupted by news broadcast, informing local citizens to avoid the local mall because of the appearance of a Tiger, a powerful and wild earth feline. It immediately struck me as unusual, even for earth. The wild animals of this planet tended to avoid urban environments, and those not wild we're kept in a place called a 'Zoo' where humans can see and awe these creatures from a safe distance or behind protective, clear walls.
So it struck me as unusual. I wanted to immediately leave to investigate, but I felt my human companions might suffer a great anguish they call 'worry'. My human companions, perhaps humans in general, suffer greatly from this emotional response, no matter what they tell themselves or how well the other person can take care of themselves, they feel the need to worry for this person, even when it achieves nothing productive.
Assuming my human morph, I quickly rushed off for Alex's house, mostly because his was the least distant, but also because, whether he realizes it or not, Alex posses many qualities of an intuitive leader. When I got closer to Alex's house, I noticed the artificial lighting all around the inside of the house was turned off, which meant it was likely that his parents were asleep. Alex lived in a single story house, which is where humans close themselves off from the elements and spend most of the time they don't spend on 'education', 'recreation', or 'employment.' I went over to the window pertaining to the smaller
'room' assigned to Alex. My Human vision though average for seeing in the dark did not allow me to make out anything more than a large shape underneath his sheets. I took a careful moment to make sure no one was around and quickly de-morphed, then re-morphed into an owl which I had found some time ago in the clubhouse. Perched on the windowsill with an Owls eye I could now easily make out two human shapes in Alex's bed. Alex had his arms wrapped around another person. I quickly realized the other human was Jessie.
""Well good, this saves time, I can inform the both of you at once.""
Alex and Jessie both shot up with an expression I've learned to identify as panic, they looked in all directions before locking in on me. The sheets that had been over them fell to their waists, I could then see they were wearing 'undergarments' on their lower bodies, but not their upper bodies, which confused me because of how they seem to assure me of the necessity of garments to cover a females upper anatomy. Alex and Jessie began speaking quietly behind the window; only because of my Owl senses could I hear it.
"Figures the one night your parents aren't home..."
"Hellios," Alex rose up from the bed and reached for a robe he had near it, "what in the world are you doing here at this time of night?"
""I believe I have discovered the location of what the Yeerks refer to as the 'Andilite Bandits'. I do not know the urban environment well enough and would like assistance in tracking them down.""
Jessie used some language I have been told is obscene as she clothed herself, I still do not understand the exact purpose of clothing other than to protect from the elements and conceal the reproductive functions of the human body, but humans assure me these are not the only reasons, though they make the bulk of them. Alex went over to the phone and called Lisa, and told her to call Matt and say Jessie was there and for them all to meet at Alex's. I do not understand the reason for the deception, but have learned not to speak to humans while they are on the phone because they consider it 'rude'.
After Alex hung up the phone I spoke,"" May I ask why you are asking Lisa to lie to Matt about the location of his sister""
Alex's eyes widened for a moment, and he wore an embarrassed expression, "Ah... Because it would lead to a possible confrontation that would be ill-timed," he explained after a moment.
""So this is a conversation for later""
"No actually," Jessie corrected, "It's really not his business at all, though he'd think it was, part of the unnecessary worry stuff."
I still did not fully understand, but I let it drop, another human expression for simply leaving the conversation unfinished. Lisa arrived first as she came up to the door and I came in with her.
"It's a little late to be planning a sleepover- somehow I think the only reason my parents bought it was because I neglected to mention it was Co-ed," she smirked as she said this- which reminds me, it's amazes me the near infinite variety of expressions one can make with a human mouth, they are quite capable of the same range of expression as we Andilites.
(Sorry the chapter is incomplete... I just wanted to put out the rest of what I had.)