Oh yeah! MORE INSANITY!
And I just want to say the last chapter was dedicated to Karone-sakura, and this chapter will be dedimicated to LittleMidgett!
Sorry guys… I just keep forgetting to do that!
Now… time to TORTURE Robert! Muuahahahahahahhaaa!
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Robert
The first thing I became aware of, was that my arms were above my head. Next, that gravity was somehow pulling me down.
I groaned at the throbbing in the back of my head, forcing my eyes to open, then lifting my head to look up.
My wrists were bound tightly together with a very thick rope, and that went up above the cliff I was hanging off. I grunted, remembering I'd been hit in the head, wondering what had hit me. I let my head drop…
And suddenly I wished I hadn't done that.
Down below… Taxxons. So many I couldn't even begin to count. They were walking over each other like it was nothing, almost all of them looking hungrily up at me. Good thing they were so far down…
Although, I would have liked to not be here at all.
We'd come to the Taxxon planet to save one of our friends, ending up… as usual… running and screaming for our lives. We'd gotten separated, and I'd ended up running from none other than Sub-Visser Thirty. I'd managed to shift my eardrums before I was completely knocked out.
I wanted to murder Marco for jinxing us.
I looked down again, realising that my feet were bare, and one of them was bleeding. I remembered having to take my shoes off as I swam through some kind of… muck… but not a cut…
They must have done it. God it stung though…
I realised my eardrums were still out of whack, so I closed my ears, shifting them back to normal. Then I pressed my cut foot onto my other jean leg, pressing to hopefully null the pain and to cut off some of the smell of my blood.
Jeez, who was I kidding?
Taxxons were blood hounds!
I growled, then looked back up at my hands. My wrists were really starting to ache…
How long had I been hanging here?
"Had enough yet, Andalite?" A Hork-Bajir face suddenly popped over the edge of the cliff.
Right… Andalite…they hadn't heard about Changelings yet…
"Why am I here? Surely you can't think this is going to do much" I said, trying my best to sound like an 'Andalite'.
"We'll see" The Sub-Visser disappeared over the side of the cliff. Suddenly I felt myself being lowered. I fought back a cry, instead tried to focus my mind on how I was gonna get outta there. I braced my feet against the side of the cliff, but it didn't do much good. I think it only gave me more cuts on my feet.
Suddenly I came to a shaky stop… I was halfway down the cliff now…
And the Taxxons suddenly looked a lot bigger and meaner.
"We will see what you have to say in half an hour, Andalite" he yelled down, and I could hear him walking off.
Great. Stuck here hovering above some stupid Taxxons thirsting for my blood.
I tried to just loosen the ropes a bit, but they were tied to tightly, and if I tried anything else I'd most definitely fall to my doom. Shape-shifting was outta the question…
DAMN! And it was my only real advantage!
I sighed, just looking down and seeing a couple of the big worms biting into the bottom of the cliff. This didn't look good…
Soon, one had completely disappeared into the side of the cliff. I was starting to get edgy… couldn't they like… build tunnels really fast or-
I stopped dead.
Because I was dead.
I didn't know how long I had, but it couldn't be too long with one of these suckers. The thing… I knew… it was gonna dig its way up here!
I tried to grab the rope above my hands, but without much success. Then, I tried to turn myself around. I needed to move if I was going to live much longer…
Finally, I managed to spin myself around, slamming my feet into the side, finally grabbing tight to the rope above me. I tried to climb…
But slipped, falling right back into the position I'd started in. This time, my feet were even more torn up.
"FUCK!-!-!" I screamed out, wanting to hit something. But I couldn't even do that!
I kicked the cliff with the heels of my feet, probably making it worse but not caring. I needed to vent before I lost it completely…
Below me, the Taxxons were becoming even more frantic. Another dove into the wall, then another…
I screamed in outrage, fighting to turn myself around again. I finally managed to do it a second time, panting and puffing and feeling like my arms were gonna fall off.
I looked straight at the cliffside as I caught my breath, then saw a few bits of rubble fall off right where I was…
"Shiest!" I yelped, slamming my feet down and managing to walk just a little sideways, getting myself into a swinging motion. Back… and forth… left and… right…
I swung like a little chime, spinning around and around, seeing a small hole, then bigger, forming.
I was just in an arch left as the Taxxon bust through, searching for me. By some miracle I managed to bring my feet forward, kicking its side and…
And making myself sick.
MY FEET GOT FRIGGEN STUCK IN IT!
"OH GROSS!" I yelped, yanking one foot, then another, pushing off it as it turned and snapped at me, then screamed.
It suddenly fell out of the little hole it had made, crashing to the ground below. The reaction was instantaneous.
The other Taxxons EXPLODED into a frenzy! The injured Taxxon didn't stand a chance!
Not like I really cared… damn thing was gonna try and eat me!
I swung back, looking in the hole and thinking this was my chance to get out of the ropes without falling.
When I swung next to it again, I grabbed the edge of it with my foot, slowly guiding myself into it, hoping I didn't fall again.
Also hoping that the Taxxons buddies were still pretty far away.
When I was in I kneeled down, grabbing the rope in my teeth and yanking as hard as I could. It didn't do as much as I hoped, but it did enough.
I felt my teeth aching as I yanked again, and it came a little more loose. I wriggled my hands and wrists around, and it finally loosened enough for me to get my hands out. I yanked them out, rubbing my wrists tenderly before looking back behind me…
Oh. Crap.
I grabbed the rope, throwing myself back out into the side of the cliff as another Taxxon came after me, falling into the abyss like its brother. I hit the side of the cliff again, swinging around and hitting my feet and knees and elbows against it.
I grabbed the rope tighter, bracing my feet again and starting to climb up it. I must admit it was killing my feet, but I'd rather it kill my feet than me drop into oblivion where those disgusting worms were.
I went hand over hand, going up as fast as I could. The problem was my feet kept slipping… I couldn't get a proper grip… and now my blood was all over the cliff…
And Taxxon guts were all over my jeans!
Gross!
I grimaced at the thought, climbing up and up and up, finally reaching the edge. I grabbed it, hauling myself up with exhausted arms. Then I looked around…
I was doomed.
I got up, seeing I was surrounded. The Sub-Visser was there too.
"Well well Andalite, well done! I've never seen anything so… determined… before" He grinned that freaky way Hork-Bajir grin. But it wasn't in a nice way…
"One, I'm not a thing, and two…" I huffed out, pausing and looking around, then closing my eyes and shifting. When I opened my eyes they were all staring at me.
"And two" I continued, feeling temporarily refreshed "I'm not an Andalite"
They just stared as I backed up, then jumped off the cliff.
"NOOOOO!" The Sub-Visser screamed as I opened my Chanaiben wings, flapping them and gliding cleanly over the pit of Taxxons.
Now all I needed to do was find my friends.
Which wasn't going to be easy at all.
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YAY! ANOTHER CHAPTER!
YIPAAAAH!