Disclaimer; Unfortunately, K.A. Applegate has stolen her series, Animorphs, off me, so I don't own it. Any more. XD
Thank you to;
Traycon3, Dweem-angel, Metamorphstorm and Sarah Mercury for reviewing!
Next chapter will be from another character's view. Who? …Why should I tell? XD All I can say is they're not part of the Animorphs. Another rebellion, yippe! If you didn't want another rebellion, I'm terribly sorry, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. And it's the way I daydreamed my story. (The characters changed their names a lot, tho. I kept forgetting them!)
OC Character #1; Haha. Marco is, like, so out of character, Kaisong.
Kaisong; T-T Sorry. You possessed me to do it.
OC Character #2; He sounds like #1. –Giggle-fit-
OC Character #1; Uh, thanks. Nice of you to say.
Kaisong; x.O' Okay, don't mind those guys. The Animorphs are a bit OOC here, but I was high when I was writing so you can't blame me.
OC Character #1 Yes we can! –Chants-
Kaisong; SHUT UP!
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(Ouch.)
(Hey! Shut up, Marco! Not my fault you're so, so small.)
(Small? SMALL?! Who are you calling small, you great lump of feathers?!) Marco whined, fluttering his gray osprey wings.
I laughed, in thought-speak, of course. It was a little later than nine the next day and we were in our birds-of-prey morphs. We were flying towards the school, which was home to one of many Yeerk pool entrances.
(Rachel, stop trying to peck Marco. Marco, stop complaining,) Jake ordered, keeping his sharp falcon eyes on the ground.
Grumbling, I flew away from Marco, and towards Tobias, who was in his normal red-tailed hawk form.
Marco dived away from me. (I love you, Jake!) he shouted, regaining height. (She was going to keel me!) I laughed inwardly at his little speech.
(Prince Jake, we have been in morph for twenty minutes,) Ax informed us, northern harrier wings spread wide. (Twenty-one, now.)
Jake turned his head, then turned back. (Okay. There's the school. Everyone knows what they're doing. Ax, don't call me 'Prince',) Jake babbled, swooping down towards the trees.
We all followed immediately, keeping our senses alert.
(Look out!) Marco screeched, diving at me in a flash. The two of us tumbled out of the sky and landed with a loud (oof!)
I turned my head and pecked at him. (And that was for…?)
(Oh, nothing. I was just telling you to look out. Make sure no one sees us,) he said casually, pulling away to proceed in demorphing.
(I was looking out anyway!) I seethed, beginning the demorphing process myself.
Morphing wasn't pretty, and that was a fact. We'd just twist and change, turning into freaks before actually turning into an animal.
My wings withered, like a newspaper in flames. They withered down to long lumps, which were reforming into arms and hands. All the while, my feathers pressed against my body and became flat, and then vanished completely. I started growing, my form raising to human size, and my hooked talons turned into toes, followed by the rest of my legs.
I was left there, standing with a featherless bald eagles face and a human body, watching my friends demorphing, each horrifyingly ugly, except Cassie, who has a talent for morphing.
"Errm…" Jake said, once he had fully demorphed. "Rachel, aren't you going to finish?"
With a careless shrug, I finished my own demorphing. "There. Happy?"
Jake rolled his eyes but said nothing, gazing around at the others. Ax had remained in his harrier morph. "Lets go," Jake declared, striding towards the school with the rest of us rushing after him.
I crinkled my nose as the school came into view. Wasn't very attractive at night, then again, it was never attractive- being a school.
"Aren't we a lively bunch?" Marco said cheerfully, trying to lighten the mood. "Running into danger's grasp?"
With a growl, a knocked Marco, sending him falling to the ground.
"Very lively, Rachel! Lively!"
"Next time, I'll be in bear morph."
(Next time I'll have my tailblade art your throat,) Ax said merrily, butting into our conversation.
It'd always surprise me when Ax made a joke. But he obviously didn't get them, himself.
Marco laughed as we stepped up to a window that led to the chemistry lab. "Oh, man-" His mouth dropped open as Jake opened the window.
"Chemistry was my last subject," he explained. "Mrs. Morris told me to lock the windows. I kept this one open for us."
"Good thinking, Jake," Cassie praised him, jumping up and sliding into the room. "Lets get going, okay?"
The rest of us followed carefully, keeping as quiet as we could. Tobias sat on my shoulder and Ax flitted around, muttering about humans and chemistry, I didn't listen much.
Jake looked at Ax, and the andalite-in-morph flew towards him, landing on his shoulder. The two then moved towards the door and Jake opened it a crack, enough for Ax to peep through.
There was silence for a few short seconds. To me, it felt like forever. We were so close to the Yeerk Pool…a Controller could walk right in on us and we'd be in big trouble. If they realized we weren't Yeerks' we'd be killed. Or worse: enslaved.
(All clear, now. A human male had been entering when I first looked. I estimate he is already half way down, by now,) Ax informed shortly.
Jake nodded silently and slowly shut the door then turned to the rest of us.
"We better not be doing cockroach again," I hissed, leaning in so the others could hear. "There's been a lot of bad experiences." I reflected on all the times we had nearly gotten killed in cockroach morph. It wasn't a very short list.
My cousin looked at me helplessly. "What other choice do we have? It worked last time, it should work again… It's not like we can barge in as tigers, wolves and bears, as much as you want to."
Marco interjected unhelpfully with: "We could do fly, flea, or ant?"
I swatted at him but he ducked down, just in time. Like I'd ever do ant again! The others were probably thinking the same thing- we'd went through hell and back.
"We could do the dragonfly thing again?" Cassie reasoned. "That worked well."
Tobias laughed at the suggestion. (It'd take half an hour, at the least, to get onto the dragonfly in flea morph. And, well, if someone decides to fly-spray us…six in one go, you could say. Game over, Yeerks' win, one against none.)
Jake had obviously already thought of that. He was scratching his chin, thinking. "One of us could pretend we're a Controller and the rest could be riding on as bugs of your choice?" He was basically saying the same thing Cassie had said, except it was much more dangerous.
"How are we going to do that?" I commented rudely, snorting. "If the Yeerks' find out who that someone is…"
The sound of footsteps came to our ears, getting louder. We instantly scattered around the room, while Ax and Tobias fled out the window.
I hid in the closet at the back of the room where all the extra tools were kept. It was a tight fit but I cramped myself into a shelf, just as the door opened.
"Hello?" a voice rang out, loud and clear. I instantly thought, Mr. Chapman. He was our principle and a well-known Controller.
"Anyone there?" His voice was met by silence. Warily, he started closing the door, which gave Tobias enough time to dive into the class and land under a desk.
Mr. Chapman caught the movement and opened the door once more, peering into the dark class. "The window," he muttered, entering and walking to the window. He shut it tightly and nodded in satisfaction. "Just in case those andalite bandits find their way in…" he said firmly to himself as he left the room and closed the door behind him.
We dug our way out of our hiding places and dashed to the window. When I escaped the closet, Cassie and Jake were both trying to force the window open with Marco standing at their side stupidly.
"He locked it!" Jake cursed, trying to pry the window open. "We don't have a key to open it!"
I frowned. We needed Ax to be our timekeeper…didn't we?
Marco seemed to be thinking the same thing. "Can't we break it open? With Rachel, or something?"
Cassie shook her head, ignoring his last words. "Controllers might here. Too risky." She then turned to Tobias. "Ask if Ax's okay."
(Ax? Can you hear me, buddy?) Tobias called in thought-speak, obeying Cassie.
We were slightly relieved to hear his reply: (I am perfectly fine, Tobias. Although I do not think there is another way into the school without being noticed or noisy,) he muttered. (Unfortunately, Prince Jake, I believe I will not be able to participate in this mission.)
Silence. No one wanted to do the mission without Ax. Well, I didn't mind. I just wanted to go kick some Yeerk butt.
Tobias looked to Jake, who's face was pale with recognition. "We'll have to do it without him. Tell Ax to go back to the forest, and not come back."
Our nothlit friend repeated the words to Ax and he had left immediately. Ax wasn't going to risk being caught, and Jake wasn't going to risk Ax being caught. Obviously.
The remaining five of us crowded round in the darkest corner of the lab, and figured what we were going to do.
"We need someone the Yeerks' wont recognize to act the Controller. It can't be me because of Tom…" Jake trailed off, looking to us.
I shook my head. "I'm your cousin. I'd be recognized," I informed with a slight sigh. I would have gladly accepted the job, but this was serious.
"Not me, sorry. Tom's seen me too many times, so has Mr. Chapman, like the rest of us. Which leaves…" Marco averted his gaze to look at Tobias. "…You."
And, so, that's how we ended up as fleas on a nothlit-turned-human named Tobias.
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Well, hehe. I like that ending. Please read and review!
-Kaisong.
