Rachel's pov:
The plan was simple. Get in the Yeerk pool, check it out, make it out alive… hopefully.
The first step: Seagull morph or in my case bald eagle.
Morphing is always unpredictable. You never knew what was gonna change first, except for Cassie of course. She had a natural talent for morphing and always seemed to look either cool or beautiful.
The first change for me was my hair. My blonde hair got sucked up like spaghetti.
"Thats a nice look for you Rachel." Marco teased. He shouldn't be talking. At the moment he looked like a chicken with human arms and hair.
"You should look at yourself" I wanted to say, but at the moment my voice box disappeared and or changed. So it ended up probably sounding like: "Yoush uld ook et yuuuurself."
I felt my bones shift and organs vanishing, being replaced with the insides of a bald eagle. Morphing doesn't hurt, but its kind of gross to hear… and see.
I already had a small bag stuffed with clothes around my foot, which was now a talon. We didn't want to look too suspicious.
After we were done morphing we quickly took off toward the super market. If I was lucky we would be able to at least kick a little Yeerk butt.
Hey spread out a little bit. We don't want any bird watchers to look at us Jake said.
The six of us quickly spread a little more out, but still staying at thought speech distance. If we get too far apart, we won't be able to communicate with each other.
Tobias and Ax were currently in the lead.
I find it odd that the Yeerk pool is at the town super market Cassie spoke up. Its not really surprising that no one was speaking. The Yeerk pool was not a pretty place. Its filled with screaming hosts, hoping that someone would save them from having to keep being a controller.
Plus the first time we went to the Yeerk pool wasn't pretty. That time was when Tobias got stuck in his hawk morph. Not exactly happy times.
No kidding. Could the Yeerks get any weirder? Marco said.
What is a super market? Ax asked.
Its where people shop for food Cassie explained.
The rest of the way was pretty quiet.
As soon as we got there, Tobias led us to a secluded area to demorph.
No time to waste, lets do this fast. Jake said
It was obvious he didn't want to go down as much as the rest of us.
Cassie was the first one done morphing so she took the bag I had and dug through, trying to find her own set of clothes.
We all followed suit and waited for Tobias and Ax to finish remorphing into their human morphs.
Tobias ran his hand through his dirty blonde hair. He held a hard expression in his eyes, considering he probably wasn't used to making facial expressions.
"Tobias, Ax lead the way" Jake said flashing a small smile.
We were all dressed rather nicely considering I picked out the clothes.
"I feel like straight out of a magazine" Cassie said grimacing slightly.
"Your welcome, now we can look good while we kick butt" I said.
"Count on Rachel to want to look good, while taking down Horkbajir" Marco said.
Jake gave Marco a look. "We have ears all around us" He said
"How, its an almost empty parking lot?" He shot back.
"Yeah, key word almost" I said batting my eyelashes.
We walked in to the super market, casually making our way to the back.
"Prince Jake I believe its this way. Waaaayyy, w-w-waaaayyy" Ax said playing with the words he said.
"Don't call me prince" Jake said.
We got to the door that said 'Employee's only'. "Anyone want to volunteer?" Jake asked
The other looked at me, expecting me to be all gung-ho. Even though I didn't want to, I said it anyway.
"I'll do it"
I pushed the door open and almost ran straight into the man standing by the door. "You can't come this way. Didn't you read the sign?" He asked.
Tobias stepped up in front of me. "We were just looking for the bathroom. There is the emloyee only one right?" He asked. I spotted a different look in the guy's eyes. "Follow me" he said.
He led us past the door and into a small closet to the right. He shut the door behind him and pulled a small hook on the wall. Immediately the wall opened up and it led to a ramp. The Yeerk pool.
We walked past the guy and calmly walked in. I heard the wall shut behind us.
"The Yeerks need better security" Marco said rolling his eyes.
"Fly time" Jake said.
I focused on the fly DNA inside of me and quickly changed.
I fired my little fly wings and I shot like a jet.
"This is so gross, but still cool" Cassie said.
We flew head on into the Yeerk pool, staying away from people and or creatures in it.
Suddenly, a voiced boomed through room.
"Make way morons. The Visser will be here any minute!"
Thats Rosalie Marco said. He sounded kind of astonished. Come to think of it he seemed disappointed when he found out she was a controller… Wait a minute Visser Three is going to be here? Just what we need.
Sarcasm if I am correct. Ax said
We kept flying and it just so happened above the girl Rosalie. Even with the flies compound eyes I could feel her penetrating gaze on us… On me.
"There are flies in here" She said simply narrowing her eyes, like she was waiting for us to make a wrong move.
"We see many flies in here" Someone said said back to her.
SMACK
"IDIOT THEY COULD BE THE ANDILITE BANDITS!" She yelled. I could hear her clear her throat. "Kill them" She said in a much calmer voice.
"Flies are pretty hard to kill" The person near her said.
"You know whats not hard to kill, you. If those are indeed the Andilite Bandits in morph, the Visser would not hesitate to kill you for your mistake" She said, her voice growing darker.
A couple of guys quickly ran over to us and they had something in there hands.
Bug spray, move! They are trying to kill us! Jake said.
We instantly took off, but some of us were not that lucky.
AHHH Ax yelled in pain. Prince Jake I have been sprayed.
Demorph! Jake answered quickly.
They will see me if i do it here Ax said.
Try to move away if you can Jake said. But if you can't then just do it there.
I will have to demorph out in the open Prince Jake Ax said
Suddenly I hear Rosalie talk again. "I knew it! I will be rewarded greatly if I capture you."
I was getting angry. I wanted to knock the Yeerk right out of the girl's ear.
I flew right out of there. Hopefully Ax could make it out.
I flew to what looked like a shed. Perfect.
I landed inside and quickly demorphed. "Grizzly time" I growled to myself.
I wanted power, something that would wreck.
I felt the itchy feeling on my arms and legs as the course brown fur grew. Speaking of growing I was getting taller and a whole lot heavier.
This was going to get messy…
Rosalie's pov:
The Andalite Bandits here!? Why?
I or rather Iniss nine seven nine already captured on of them. "Hold him still and do not let him out of your sight" I heard my own voice say.
"Where are you going?!" One of the other controllers demanded.
"Incase you didn't know, I still need to feed" Nine seven nine said.
Forgot you didn't 'eat' yet. I said to the Yeerk inside me.
Of course you did She said back.
She made our way to the steel pier at the end of the pool and kneeled down, putting my head just above the water. Slowly, but surely she started to slip out. Once she fell completely put of my ear I jumped up, trying to get away from the two Horkbajir trying to throw me in my own little cell.
The grabbed me by my arms and started to drag me away. I growled and thrashed, but I couldn't get out of their grip.
I closed my eyes and focused on my tiger DNA. I snapped my eyes open to reveal dangerous blue eyes, not my original brown. I took a look at my arm as I could see the forming of the black stripes. Obviously the horkbajir, knew my little 'secret' and a few more ran over to keep me secure.
"Get off" I growled, my voice getting deeper as I morphed. They didn't let go, but they did get me to my little private holding cell. Once I was once again locked up, I demorphed. I let out a growl as I sat down.
My wrists had chains on them to make sure I didn't decide to morph. If I did decide to morph, I would have no hands anymore.
I closed my eyes, trying to block out the other people's screaming. You see I had already lost hope for being rescued. What can I say, so many years being a controller breaks you.
Suddenly someone opened my cell door, but it wasn't any rescuer. in fact it was one more prisoner, but it just so happened it was an Andilite. Probably the one I got captured.
I felt a wave of guilt wash over me.
Before I knew it, his tail blade was pressed to my throat.
I will never give up the others He said. He narrowed his eyes at me in anger.
"Relax, I'm just as trapped as you are." I said back. I held up my arms, showing the Andalite the chains.
How do I know you aren't lying? He asked still suspicious.
"Don't you think I would of asked you about the others as soon as you got here?" I asked.
He seemed to think about it and took his tail blade away.
I apologize He said. He shuffled one of his hooves.
Narrowed my eyes. He is young, not at all like the Visser as I would of guessed. Obviously a warrior cadet. The shuffling of hooves… what would that mean? Embarrassment maybe? I deducted.
"We are going to be here for a while." I said. "In your case, I hope you don't get delivered to HIM"
He knew who I was talking about. "Sorry about that by the way." I said
It was not your intention He said.
It was quiet for a while as we just sat… well I sat anyway.
"So uh, whats your name?" I asked.
He turned his main eyes to me, Aximili-Esgarouth-Isthill
"Interesting. I'm Rosalie. You can call me Rose or Rosey if want."
I know who you are He said.
What.