The Andalite
Marco: Cassie's Barn
"Bad news?" Jake asked.
"Better get it over with." I said, silently praying it wouldn't have anything to do with my mother. She was Visser One. One of our worst enemies. My mother had been a Yeerk for as long as I can remember. She was the one that had kissed me goodnight, the one that had laughed at my constant jokes, the one that had been screaming inside her own head the whole time because she was a slave.
A slave to the Yeerks.
"The Yeerks have developed a new anti-morphing ray. A new AMR. This one was tested on Alloran. Visser Three was willing to sacrifice the only Andalite host body so he could capture some of you."
He is dead! Ax cried. A mixture of triumph and pity. Not knowing which emotion he should convey.
"Alloran? No. Visser Three was willing to sacrifice him, but the ray didn't kill him, thank goodness."
Erek was an android. A robot programmed to be a hard-core pacifist. It had its pros and cons. It was nice knowing that even though he had the power to reduce you to a few atoms, he couldn't. But he wouldn't help us fight the Yeerks either. We reprogrammed him once, but he had been peaceful so long, he couldn't stand all the violence. The only help he could offer now was priceless information, and his very advanced force field and hologram generators.
"I guess that is good, if he is ever freed." Cassie said that.
Typical.
"Yeah, but that means that when we get there, sooner or later, we'll have to face him, and his bottomless grab bag of alien morphs." I said.
"Jeez Marco, look on the bright side." Rachel, of course.
"And YOU do, Xena? I happen to be the most bright side looking person here. Except when I am complaining, thinking about the Yeerk pool, and when we are doing something absolutely INSANE!"
"Which is all day, every day, Marco." Rachel laughed.
"Maybe, but still." I argued.
"Ummmm, guys?" Erek said, sounding confused.
"Thank you for telling us yet another way to get ourselves killed." I joked. "We appreciate it."
"There's more. This new AMR also knocks the victim unconscious" Erek said, like he'd been delaying the moment he had to tell us. I don't know, maybe he had.
Silence.
Then a collective gasp.
"You mean -" Cassie began.
"If this thing hits one of us, we are history." Jake interrupted.
It's like, the perfect weapon. Tobias said.
"It requires tremendous amounts of energy, though . . ." He added hopefully.
I began to think. If we were forced to demorph, we might as well kiss Earth goodbye. The Yeerks thought we were all Andalites. We had no desire to change that fact.
Then it clicked, if they thought we were all Andalites, they wouldn't try to shoot one to see if it would demorph. Never in their wildest dreams would they think an 'inferior' human would be morph capable.
"Hey guys, I got it." I blurted.
"Well?" Rachel asked impatiently.
I gave her a look. You know the one. "So we go in as Andalite. I mean it's not like they would shoot Ax, thinking HE would demorph. "
We all looked at Ax.
I suppose that is correct. Most Andalites put Serrow's Kindness above all other laws.
"Anyway, we can vary our morphs even more, now that we found Crusava." Then I added. "Everyone bow to me, I am a genius called Marco the Magnificent!"
Rachel fell to the ground laughing.
"How dare you mock me!" I thundered
She was now laughing so hard her face was beginning to turn blue.
."Shut . . . up . . . Marco." She gasped in between fits of laughter.
"Yes, my warrior princess." I said grandly with a dramatic bow.
That only made Rachel laugh harder.
Sheesh Rach, will you ever calm down? Tobias said.
Rachel's face began to turn back to its normal color as she nodded.
Wow. I had actually gotten Xena. There's a first for everything I guess.
I just hope there won't be a first time for me being a controller.
"Okay guys, here's the plan. We morph bird, and fly to the mall. There, we go to The Gap and morph FLY. Not cockroach."
Everyone agreed. We did not want to become some Taxxon's dessert.
Again.
"Okay. Then we fly in behind some unobservant controller and make our way to some unused room to demorph. Then we all go Andalite and hopefully destroy this new weapon."
He made it sound so smooth. If only I had known what disaster would happen.
Crusava: Cassie's Barn
I am sorry. But I do not have an avian morph yet. I said, wondering if they would leave me behind.
After all, I was new.
"Oh." Cassie said. "What do you want; we have a bald eagle, a red tailed hawk, and a horned owl."
I will take the owl because I have heard they have excellent night vision. Is that true?
"Yep, okay all you have to do is put your hand -"
I am an Andalite. We invented morphing technology.
"Oh . . . sorry." She sounded embarrassed.
I put my hand on the owl and felt it relax as I felt its DNA flow into my blood stream. Felt it go limp as I absorbed its power.
I took my hand away, and watched as the owl seemed to wake up from its acquiring trance.
"Alright boys, girls, and resident aliens, let's-" Marco began.
"That's MY line Marco! Okay . . . let's do it!" Rachel yelled.
* * * * * *
This is so insane; I mean what has happened to our lives? Marco asked.
I think it was a rhetorical question. I was not sure. I decided not to answer.
We were flying thousands of feet above the city. We soared through the clouds and rode the thermals, warm updrafts of air, up higher and higher.
Heading straight for the Yeerk pool.
As soon as the mall was in sight we began to descend.
Wowwwwwww. I yelled as I sped to the earth. I guess I have spent too much time in my human morph. I was going faster than an Andalite does at full gallop! In midair!
THAT is pretty fast.
Will we go to the 'bon? Aximilli asked. He had finally been convinced to call it that.
Maybe tomorrow, Ax-man. Tobias answered.
That is, if we even live to see tomorrow! This is so insane! Marco said that, of course.
Almost there guys. That came from the Peregrine falcon: Jake.
Oh boy. Marco muttered.
We all landed on the mall roof at three minute intervals. We did not want to attract attention.
Especially Yeerk attention.
Now we were in the mall and slowly heading toward The Gap. A human store where they purchase artificial clothes.
Ax obviously was not used to his human morph. He was at the brink of uncontrollable. Though I guess I was the same way the first few months.
By the time we reached The Gap, Aximilli had eaten two discarded pizzas, three cigarette buts, and seventeen nacho chips from one poor human's paper plate.
Sigh.
When will he learn to take control of his morph?
"Is everyone ready?" Jake asked.
We all nodded. One of my favorite human habits.
We were all crammed in the last changing room.
It was the entrance to the Yeerk pool. Years ago, when the Animorphs had used this entrance it was Jake's clothing that had been sacrificed. This time, it was Rachel's. She had insisted saying "I have more clothes than I need."
"Of course you do, you practically LIVE at the mall." Marco again.
Rachel had ignored him.
We had all begun to morph to fly. Everyone except Rachel, me and Aximilli. We had to demorph first, and Rachel had left to put our clothes in a locker.
My tail began to sprout as my front hooves came out of my chest. Blue fur covered my body.
For a moment I looked like a human Chia pet.
As the last shreds of human disappeared, I began my morph to fly.
It was a useful morph. Excellent for spying and hiding. My favorite insect morph.
Rachel had returned and had joined our morphing party.
"You guys look like runaways from that movie, The Fly? I don't remember the name."
I think she was referring to us.
I did not want to know what we looked like.
I think I hear someone! Tobias whispered.
He was right.
Moments later a human, no doubt a controller had opened the door and had walked up to the mirror. "Retcet four double six, host; Tom Berenson, code; redemption and alignment." The mirror slid into the wall with a tiny beep. He hurried in, and did not notice the seven flies following him.
We were in.
We're at the point of no return. Jake whispered.
Where would the weapon be? Cassie asked.
We stopped dead.
Anyone? Marco asked.
We had finally found the hole in our plan. The tiny detail we had over looked.
We could all morph to human and look for it. Jake suggested. Agreed? He asked.
Good idea. Tobias said.
A fly's vision is better than one might think. Soon we had located an empty storage room and demorphed. Leaving Ax, Tobias, and I to morph to human.
As soon as the changes were complete we causally left the room to search for the AMR.
It was not a difficult find. A large platform had been built between the two piers, and on it a weapon that had to be the AMR.
The place was as a human would say, crawling with controllers. Marco had noticed the same thing.
"Maybe we should do this as humans." He whispered.
"Shhhhhh." Said Jake, but he nodded to show he agreed.
"Tobias? Stand back; keep an eye on us, if it hits you, you'll go to hawk. If it hits us or Ax and Crusava they'll either demorph or we'll morph to Andalite. Okay?" Jake asked.
"Okay." He whispered, and then melted into the crowds.
We began to approach the platform, no one stopped us.
As Jake reached out to touch the cannon, a deafening alarm began to sound.
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Marco: Cassie's Barn
"Bad news?" Jake asked.
"Better get it over with." I said, silently praying it wouldn't have anything to do with my mother. She was Visser One. One of our worst enemies. My mother had been a Yeerk for as long as I can remember. She was the one that had kissed me goodnight, the one that had laughed at my constant jokes, the one that had been screaming inside her own head the whole time because she was a slave.
A slave to the Yeerks.
"The Yeerks have developed a new anti-morphing ray. A new AMR. This one was tested on Alloran. Visser Three was willing to sacrifice the only Andalite host body so he could capture some of you."
He is dead! Ax cried. A mixture of triumph and pity. Not knowing which emotion he should convey.
"Alloran? No. Visser Three was willing to sacrifice him, but the ray didn't kill him, thank goodness."
Erek was an android. A robot programmed to be a hard-core pacifist. It had its pros and cons. It was nice knowing that even though he had the power to reduce you to a few atoms, he couldn't. But he wouldn't help us fight the Yeerks either. We reprogrammed him once, but he had been peaceful so long, he couldn't stand all the violence. The only help he could offer now was priceless information, and his very advanced force field and hologram generators.
"I guess that is good, if he is ever freed." Cassie said that.
Typical.
"Yeah, but that means that when we get there, sooner or later, we'll have to face him, and his bottomless grab bag of alien morphs." I said.
"Jeez Marco, look on the bright side." Rachel, of course.
"And YOU do, Xena? I happen to be the most bright side looking person here. Except when I am complaining, thinking about the Yeerk pool, and when we are doing something absolutely INSANE!"
"Which is all day, every day, Marco." Rachel laughed.
"Maybe, but still." I argued.
"Ummmm, guys?" Erek said, sounding confused.
"Thank you for telling us yet another way to get ourselves killed." I joked. "We appreciate it."
"There's more. This new AMR also knocks the victim unconscious" Erek said, like he'd been delaying the moment he had to tell us. I don't know, maybe he had.
Silence.
Then a collective gasp.
"You mean -" Cassie began.
"If this thing hits one of us, we are history." Jake interrupted.
It's like, the perfect weapon. Tobias said.
"It requires tremendous amounts of energy, though . . ." He added hopefully.
I began to think. If we were forced to demorph, we might as well kiss Earth goodbye. The Yeerks thought we were all Andalites. We had no desire to change that fact.
Then it clicked, if they thought we were all Andalites, they wouldn't try to shoot one to see if it would demorph. Never in their wildest dreams would they think an 'inferior' human would be morph capable.
"Hey guys, I got it." I blurted.
"Well?" Rachel asked impatiently.
I gave her a look. You know the one. "So we go in as Andalite. I mean it's not like they would shoot Ax, thinking HE would demorph. "
We all looked at Ax.
I suppose that is correct. Most Andalites put Serrow's Kindness above all other laws.
"Anyway, we can vary our morphs even more, now that we found Crusava." Then I added. "Everyone bow to me, I am a genius called Marco the Magnificent!"
Rachel fell to the ground laughing.
"How dare you mock me!" I thundered
She was now laughing so hard her face was beginning to turn blue.
."Shut . . . up . . . Marco." She gasped in between fits of laughter.
"Yes, my warrior princess." I said grandly with a dramatic bow.
That only made Rachel laugh harder.
Sheesh Rach, will you ever calm down? Tobias said.
Rachel's face began to turn back to its normal color as she nodded.
Wow. I had actually gotten Xena. There's a first for everything I guess.
I just hope there won't be a first time for me being a controller.
"Okay guys, here's the plan. We morph bird, and fly to the mall. There, we go to The Gap and morph FLY. Not cockroach."
Everyone agreed. We did not want to become some Taxxon's dessert.
Again.
"Okay. Then we fly in behind some unobservant controller and make our way to some unused room to demorph. Then we all go Andalite and hopefully destroy this new weapon."
He made it sound so smooth. If only I had known what disaster would happen.
Crusava: Cassie's Barn
I am sorry. But I do not have an avian morph yet. I said, wondering if they would leave me behind.
After all, I was new.
"Oh." Cassie said. "What do you want; we have a bald eagle, a red tailed hawk, and a horned owl."
I will take the owl because I have heard they have excellent night vision. Is that true?
"Yep, okay all you have to do is put your hand -"
I am an Andalite. We invented morphing technology.
"Oh . . . sorry." She sounded embarrassed.
I put my hand on the owl and felt it relax as I felt its DNA flow into my blood stream. Felt it go limp as I absorbed its power.
I took my hand away, and watched as the owl seemed to wake up from its acquiring trance.
"Alright boys, girls, and resident aliens, let's-" Marco began.
"That's MY line Marco! Okay . . . let's do it!" Rachel yelled.
* * * * * *
This is so insane; I mean what has happened to our lives? Marco asked.
I think it was a rhetorical question. I was not sure. I decided not to answer.
We were flying thousands of feet above the city. We soared through the clouds and rode the thermals, warm updrafts of air, up higher and higher.
Heading straight for the Yeerk pool.
As soon as the mall was in sight we began to descend.
Wowwwwwww. I yelled as I sped to the earth. I guess I have spent too much time in my human morph. I was going faster than an Andalite does at full gallop! In midair!
THAT is pretty fast.
Will we go to the 'bon? Aximilli asked. He had finally been convinced to call it that.
Maybe tomorrow, Ax-man. Tobias answered.
That is, if we even live to see tomorrow! This is so insane! Marco said that, of course.
Almost there guys. That came from the Peregrine falcon: Jake.
Oh boy. Marco muttered.
We all landed on the mall roof at three minute intervals. We did not want to attract attention.
Especially Yeerk attention.
Now we were in the mall and slowly heading toward The Gap. A human store where they purchase artificial clothes.
Ax obviously was not used to his human morph. He was at the brink of uncontrollable. Though I guess I was the same way the first few months.
By the time we reached The Gap, Aximilli had eaten two discarded pizzas, three cigarette buts, and seventeen nacho chips from one poor human's paper plate.
Sigh.
When will he learn to take control of his morph?
"Is everyone ready?" Jake asked.
We all nodded. One of my favorite human habits.
We were all crammed in the last changing room.
It was the entrance to the Yeerk pool. Years ago, when the Animorphs had used this entrance it was Jake's clothing that had been sacrificed. This time, it was Rachel's. She had insisted saying "I have more clothes than I need."
"Of course you do, you practically LIVE at the mall." Marco again.
Rachel had ignored him.
We had all begun to morph to fly. Everyone except Rachel, me and Aximilli. We had to demorph first, and Rachel had left to put our clothes in a locker.
My tail began to sprout as my front hooves came out of my chest. Blue fur covered my body.
For a moment I looked like a human Chia pet.
As the last shreds of human disappeared, I began my morph to fly.
It was a useful morph. Excellent for spying and hiding. My favorite insect morph.
Rachel had returned and had joined our morphing party.
"You guys look like runaways from that movie, The Fly? I don't remember the name."
I think she was referring to us.
I did not want to know what we looked like.
I think I hear someone! Tobias whispered.
He was right.
Moments later a human, no doubt a controller had opened the door and had walked up to the mirror. "Retcet four double six, host; Tom Berenson, code; redemption and alignment." The mirror slid into the wall with a tiny beep. He hurried in, and did not notice the seven flies following him.
We were in.
We're at the point of no return. Jake whispered.
Where would the weapon be? Cassie asked.
We stopped dead.
Anyone? Marco asked.
We had finally found the hole in our plan. The tiny detail we had over looked.
We could all morph to human and look for it. Jake suggested. Agreed? He asked.
Good idea. Tobias said.
A fly's vision is better than one might think. Soon we had located an empty storage room and demorphed. Leaving Ax, Tobias, and I to morph to human.
As soon as the changes were complete we causally left the room to search for the AMR.
It was not a difficult find. A large platform had been built between the two piers, and on it a weapon that had to be the AMR.
The place was as a human would say, crawling with controllers. Marco had noticed the same thing.
"Maybe we should do this as humans." He whispered.
"Shhhhhh." Said Jake, but he nodded to show he agreed.
"Tobias? Stand back; keep an eye on us, if it hits you, you'll go to hawk. If it hits us or Ax and Crusava they'll either demorph or we'll morph to Andalite. Okay?" Jake asked.
"Okay." He whispered, and then melted into the crowds.
We began to approach the platform, no one stopped us.
As Jake reached out to touch the cannon, a deafening alarm began to sound.
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Tell me what you think! I now have ten reviews, but I've been kidnapped and they want fifteen reviews before I'm set free to write the next chapter. Anyway . . . which chapter is your favorite?
Did you like it? Did you hate it? Can I improve on something? Any ideas for a new title?
REVIEW! : - )
Please?