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Chapter Eleven: That Was Interesting. Let's Never Do It Again.
Tom's POV
"It's official," Esp announced, slumping into the crumbling building. "I hate the Blade ship."
(Why were you on the Blade ship?>
"Oh, no real reason, I just had some spare time so I figured that I might as well free your mother. You can demorph now, Forlay." I placed the cockroach in my pocket on the floor.
The cockroach became purplish-blue, pale indigo really, and grew. Midget told me that there is nothing uglier than a cockroach the size of a human. There is—a blue, fluffy cockroach the size of a horse, growing Andalite stalk-eyes and a tail, three feet away from your face. I had a sneeze attack the second the fur sprouted. I left the building so the Andalites could have their family reunion in peace.
Five minutes later…
(HOW?> Noorlin demanded, glaring at me.
"You're welcome."
(No time for that, Esp. What happened?> Elfangor snapped.
"I snuck onto the Blade ship, messed up the filters so they'd let a cockroach through, found her," Esp jerked my head towards Forlay, "convinced her I didn't work for the Empire—that took a while—got her to morph the cockroach, and walked out, nearly getting pummeled by a suspicious guard on the way. Oh—I had to borrow this." He took the fragments of the morphing cube from my other pocket. "Took me a while to find all the pieces, but it just got shattered, no melting. Weird, huh?"
(I thought that was destroyed when my ship blew up,> Elfangor whispered.
"Nope. Smashed and scattered. Good thing I'm patient."
(Right. You just keep thinking that, Esp.>
(Shut up, Tom.>
(Make me.>
"We've got to run. I'm using Eftlak as an alibi and I need to let him know about it."
Author's Note: See? I told you it was short.
Mob: YEAH! WAY TOO SHORT!
Me: Well, cry me a river, build me a bridge, and get over it! I'm busy with the homework from hell, and an update was way overdue.
Review Responses:
Anicrazy: As long as you care enough about the story to review, why would I care if you signed in or not? Good point on the chapter previews, I just saw them in a Harry Potter story I liked and thought that I'd try them out.
Asmodeus1389: Yay! I can get regular feedback from you now.Dragon: BE PATIENT, OKAY?
Tiamath: Don't worry, I swear you will forgive me (evil grin). Thanks for pointing out that blooper. I owe you one.Korean Pearl: She said Ax was the first male she was allowed to be friends with. I'll leave you to think on that.
Tobias1452: Nice use of reverse psychology. The only trouble with that is sometimes you'll be taken literally.