Feline Jaye: I'm glad you liked the last chapter better :) I'll take what you said about Artemis's character into consideration. I will agree he was a little too naive in that scene thank you for letting me know

Skylan D. Water: Thanx again!

Artemis may be a bit OOC in this one, but I think I'm getting better at his character

"Jake, I can't believe you let Marco do that!" Rachel said.

"I hate to say this, but Rachel's right. That was very irresponsible of you Jake," agreed Cassie, "I mean, you probably traumatized the poor kid."

"Totally. If anyone's going to break into a cafe in Europe to kidnap a criminal mastermind in battle morph, it should be me!"

"No, not what I meant. I mean, Jake, we should've done this in a more subtle way, imagine the shock those poor innocent people will get when a gorilla bursts into the cafe."

"We didn't have much time to think of a plan, and we needed to get Fowl out of there as fast as possible. You know how dangerous it would be for the Yeerks to get a hold of a mind like that? If he's half as smart as Marco says he is..."

Marco ran through the door, still in gorilla morph.

((Do you have him?)) Tobias asked.

((Yep.)) Marco began to demorph.

"Is he okay?"

"No," Marco said once fully human. "the guy sounds like a talking dictionary. He's creeping me out."

"He can't be that bad-"

"Yes he can! The kid's not scared at all!"

"Well, what's he doing now?"

"Meditating."

"Okay, somebody has to go out there and question him to make sure he's trust worthy."

"Uh, Jake? He's a criminal mastermind. I don't think he's exactly 'trustworthy'."

"You know what I mean! Cassie, you can do it. Be very careful."

"Got it!"

Jake looked around. Something was wrong. "Hey, where's Ax man?"

((Eating all the salted nuts,)) Tobias replied casually.

"Go figure."

Artemis examined his surroundings. He was in a jet of some sort. Probably inside the storage room.

The door to the main area of the jet opened. A wolf casually walked in.

((Hi,)) "said" the wolf. But no words came out of its mouth. Artemis was not surprised by this, after all, a wolf's vocal cords were too far different from those of a human to be able to speak English. The voice went directly into his head, just as the gorilla's did.

"Hello," said Artemis, feeling there was not much else he could do, considering the wolf had the advantage of sharp teeth, claws, and of course, not being chained to a chair.

The wolf looked at Artemis. ((You seem surprisingly calm for someone who has just been kidnapped.))

Artemis shrugged. "Pannicing will not solve much, now will it?"

((I suppose you're right. And in case you're worried, we are not going to, you know, hurt you or anything.))

"I figured as much," Artemis reasoned, "otherwise you most likely would have done so already. Unless, of course you are planning to torture me for information, or trick me into gaining your trust." He paused, cocking his head to study her. "You aren't really a wolf, are you?"

The wolf, to his surprise, actually laughed. ((No, I'm not. You are a smart one, aren't you?))

"So a shape shifting creature. An alien perhaps?"

((Wow, you're good. But no, well, not all of us.))

"So some of you are aliens? And those creatures back in the cafe, aliens too, I pressume?"

((Is there anything you don't know?))

Artemis, unable to help himself, smirked arrogantly.

((You don't seem too dangerous. Well, for a criminal mastermind, anyway.)) And with that, the wolf just left.

Cassie returned to the other animorphs.

"Well?" Rachel said, looking up from filing her nails.

"He's not too bad. But he seems to be keeping to himself. Should we tell him?"

((Well, we obviously can't leave him chained to that chair forever,)) Tobias pointed out.

"We can't?" Marco asked.

"But what is our plan exactly?"

"We try to befriend him. He'll find out one way or another, so we might as well tell him."

"Jake? Do you ever listen to yourself? My dad would ground me for enternity if found out I'm hanging out with a wanted ciminal. I know I don't say this a lot, but, ARE YOU INSANE?"

"This Artemis guy might be useful, better to have him with us then against us."

"Fine. But we're not giving him the morphing power or anything, right?"

"Of course not! We learned that the hard way." They all shuddered.

That was defenetly an experiance they did not want to repeat.

The Animorphs told him their story, or the basic idea (they decided not to give the kid too much information just yet.) Artemis kept his face clear of any emotion whatsoever the entire time.

"Intriguing," Artemis commented once they were done. "So five ordinary children and an alien have the power to transform into any animal they touch. How is that possible?"

((Well you see,)) Ax said, ((by touching and making physical contact with an animal the device allows you to absorb and duplicate the animal's DNA.))

Artemis interrupted the alien, "And a mental imagine allows you to transform into that very duplicate by altering the organisms in your-"

"Ooookay, thank you very much for that mental picture," Marco said.