ODYSSEY REAPERS

By Healer

Chapter 05

DISCLAIMERS: THIS IS A CROSSOVER BETWEEN 'ODYSSEY 5', 'DEAD LIKE ME' AND 'ANIMORPHS'

I OWN NOTHING BUT THE IDEA OF JOINING THOSE THREE WORLDS, THE STORY IS MINE, HOWEVER MOST OF THE CHARACTERS AND PLOT ARE NOT.

NOTE/Dialogue between/ means it is thought.

Each Chapter is narrated by a different character.

CHAPTER BEGINS HERE

So here's the deal, the very moment we came back I woke up on my bed, with Paul; that shocked me but I was thrilled when I realized that I was actually back, that meant Corey was still alive.

It took me a while to accept it, Chuck even left a lot of messages on the answer machine; and it was because of Corey, because of my son, that I had stayed with the Odyssey crew and that 'saving the Earth' mission. Chuck once said: "This is still my crew, and this is still our mission"

I wanted my son to have a future. Back then, Corey died because of a Cancer, we didn't notice until it was too late. This time was going to be different… I wouldn't let Corey die.

The day I gave the news that Ed Scrivens was dead, we all learned about The Cadre, which was a more kept secret than Area 51, in which existence I didn't doubt anymore; and "GRIM REAPERS". When George, as Millie asked us to call her from that day forward, explained that Reap thing to us, I wondered if she had reaped my boy or at least knew who had. It didn't matter anymore, he was not going to die.

Angela and I went to visit Gerald Wilkinson's wife that same evening, if I had understood right George, she was going to die, so this was our only chance.

'Yes, who is it?'

'Mrs. Wilkinson, I'm Sarah Forbes from KNBS, and this is my partner, Angela Perry'

'Come in please. How can I help you?'

'We were wondering if you could answer us some questions' – Angela begged.

'Ok'

The information we got that night was that the night before, Gerald hadn't answer to his wife's pleas to stay, and took his bowling ball with him.

Gerald Wilkinson had a mortal disease, so he was on a 'gene therapy' directed by Dr. Barantz.

And that a few days before he died, Elaine, his wife, had followed him one night to a warehouse near town, she gave us the address.

When we reported to Chuck he said that was our first clue, we were gonna go there. So that same night Angela, Neil, Chuck and myself went to that place.

'You two wait here and call us if something happens' – Chuck ordered us, to Neil and me.

'So Neil, what do you think is going on here?' – I asked him once we were alone and hidden.

'I don't know Sarah, everything's fucked up… my parents are arguing 'cause mom thinks he has an affair, my brother's mad at me for spending more time with my dad who is actually worried about pushing Marc to hard into entering to the Astronaut training program 'cause we both know he won't make it and that'll make him leave home…

On the other side, my girlfriend is into drugs, back then I was too, but when I met Laura I changed, and as you know, I even became a pilot. Then there's her, my future girlfriend, to whom by the way I was gonna propose, is ok with me being with Holly, Laura's not even jealous.

We have this Grim Reaper thing with Mil… I mean George…'

'I know what you mean, in my case the good news's that my boy is still alive…' – I was going to continue but a couple of cars parked nearby and some people, about 10, got into the building where Angela and Chuck had gone to a few minutes before, and to make things worse, our cell phones didn't have signal.

I wanted to talk to Neil about that yeerk thing Kurt had mentioned up there. No one had talked to either Laura or Kurt about that, and it actually worried me. My worries would have to wait for a while 'cause right now we had to run to our car, Chuck and Angela were coming directly to us and they were persecuted by some armed people.

'They had some type of created being in there' – Began Chuck once we were on the road.

'What do you mean dad?'

'It's like there was someone or something inside a mmh, pool in there, tubes and that sort of stuff connecting it to some machine' – Angela explained to us

'Had, you mean as in no more, right?' – I asked trembling while driving.

'Yup, we destroyed that machine and I think I killed that thing' – Finished Chuck. Then no one said another word 'til next morning.

Our first lead was gone and we didn't obtain more info in there, just more doubts… we were just confused about that.

That same night, Elaine Wilkinson died. Dr. Barantz and his gene therapy were our next clue.

END OF CHAPTER

A/N: So, here's next chapter, don't know when next one will come …

I'll try to explain more of the Animorphs world within the next chapters narrated by Laura and Kurt, in like about two or three more chapters, but I'll push them with Chuck, Angela and the others...

Reviews are welcomed.