The Sario Rip #5
*Author's note* I really think you should read #33 first.
Chapter One
Ax
I felt awful as I was frozen and watched my friends morph. I couldn't help them. Not at all. And they also had to carry me.
Marco looked at me and Tobias, puzzled. {Which one is Ax?} he said, since Tobias had morphed me. He had acquired me before (#33) {The one on the right,} said Tobias. Marco lifted me up with his gorilla hands. {Guys,} Jake said, {since Marco is holding Ax, somebody should fight along with him, like a bodyguard or something. He can't defend himself.}
{Bull,} said Marco.
{I will,} said Cassie.
The fight began. Basically all we were doing was running and dodging so it wasn't exactly a "fight."
We ran. Dodged. It was impossible to strike from behind because they also had an eye on the back.
Rachel was surrounded. All the others rushed to help her. But Cassie, Marco and I could only hope she was safe and dodge some more.
Chapter Two
Rachel
The others were coming. But I had two things coming at me. #1: a tail blade; #2: a claw. I decided to face the claw and sort of did a grizzly bear duck to at least try and avoid the blade.
*OWWWWWWWWWWWW* cried a Contor. I didn't look, but I felt some of the Contor drawing away. The tip of the tail raked my head, but lightly. Only a small cut. Nothing painful. A lumbered away as fast as possible. Two came chasing me.
An idea occurred to me. {Hey guys,} I yelled as I ran, {we should morph birds of prey so we can go faster. Tobias and l will morph Hork-Bajir so we can hold Ax and run.}
{Oh my,} commented Marco, {she's become Jake the II. Ax, you can now dub her, "Prince Rachel." Or do you have "Princesses" in the military? No, wait, she's too fragile to be a princess.}
{Shut up, Marco.} I snarled, {we're saving your lives here.}
{I'll provide a distraction,} said Jake. {Cassie and I will protect them while Marco morphs, then Cassie will morph. You two, back into the corner where we'll be and then, one by one, you'll morph to Hork-Bajir. One of you can protect me when I morph.}
{But Jake,} protested Cassie, {you could get killed. Birds of prey aren't much help besides giving people cuts and raking out eyes. }
{I'll have either Tobias or Rachel,} he told her.
{Both,} I said.
{People, people, let's do this! Come on!} rushed Jake.
{Steven Spielburg,} said Marco.
We morphed. We barely made it, too. Jake almost got bombarded by a Contor. Then, Marco raked out a Contor's eye.
{Yes, yes!} Marco gloated.
{What's all the fuss Marco? He's still got two eyes left.}
{I got the back eye!}
It dawned on me. {We can strike him on the back now!}
Quickly the others started raking out the back eyes. Then some of the front. Until one was completely blinded. Then something amazing happened.
A fellow Contor dug out one of his own remaining two eyes and handed it to the injured fellow.
Cassie snatched it up before it got to the injured Contor.
*NOOOOOOO!* he cried.
Chapter Three
Marco
{Oh, man, this is WAY better than Doom!} I shouted as I raked out another eye.
{Plus you don't pay,} said Jake.
{Pennypincher,} I said back. {But I mean, this is LIVE action, baby! Get with it!} I said in a hippie style.
{What are you, from the 60's or something?} asked Rachel.
{Whatever,} I said in a girlie voice, you know, those fashion freaks? Even though they ARE incredibly cute, you know.
{Crap!} I said as I missed another eye.
Three were blinded, four to go. Then only one eye was left.
Cassie got the remaining one. Jake joined us. Rachel carried Ax, while Tobias sort of "guarded" her, know what I'm sayin'? He made sure no Contor jumped out. Jake was in back, Cassie in front, me just kinda circlin' around, watching.
Two were strolling down a corridor. I got a back eye. Cassie got another one.
I raked one Contor's eye sideways. But then I realized I'd actually gotten two! {Guys! Rake them sideways, you know, on the face, it gets two! That phrase, "kill two birds with one stone or rock or whatever."}
Cassie got the other one. Then we saw something extremely funny. The blinded Contor rushed into the other ones and they fought each other, each thinking it was us. They finished up all wounded and dazed, mostly killed. Only two were alive.
Tobias finished them with two quick swipes of his arm.
We eventually found a way out. {YES!} I cried, {FRESH AIR! AFTER SO LONG!}
{It was already "fresh" in there,} pointed out Rachel.
{Yeah, but I have to have SOMETHING to gloat about, don't I?}
{Why don't you gloat about saving Tobias?} She smiled a Hork-Bajir smile.
{Mmmua!} I said, making "kissy" noises, you know.
{Marco! Cut the crap!}
{Oooooo, Mommy, Rachel said a BAD word,} I said to Jake.
YOU! Cried Crayak. MAY THEE LAND SUSPICIONS IN THY NEXT EVENT, MAY THEE BE TRAITORS, SWORN IN BLOOD. He chanted.
{What did he just say?} I asked.
{I think he just laid a curse on us.} said Cassie.
{Oh. What did it mean?}
{I don't understand Shakespearean stuff that well . . . like something about landing suspicions in our next event, and being traitors, and "sworn in blood" means sort of like swearing on the bible that it'll happen or something . . .}
{Okay. So we're now officially traitors. Whatever.}
The surroundings whirled.
We were in Cassie's barn.
Chapter Four
Cassie
We were in the barn. YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED, the Ellimist said. {Yeah. Whoopee!} hooted Marco. Ax was now moving around, twitching his tail and moving his stalk eyes to make sure they still worked.
{Quit it Ax,} complained Marco, {you're being annoying. Which is SO supposed to be MY job.}
{Bad boy. No wonder you're going to flunk English.} said Rachel.
{Bull. I am NOT going to flunk, because I just turned in an A+ quality assignment so I will pass. Humph.}
ANYWAY, I STILL MUST TELL YOU SOMETHING.
{You're sending us to a condo in Maui with hot and hotter running babes?}
NO. I SIMPLY MUST TELL YOU THAT YOU HAVE ANOTHER SITUATION COMING UP. WHAT IT IS, I DO NOT KNOW. BUT IT WILL UTILIZE CRAYAK'S CURSE . . . and then he disappeared.
{Oh, great. "Utilize Crayak's curse,"} said Marco on a high-pitched voice.
{Shut up, Marco.} said Rachel
{Give me one good reason and I will for one-tenth of a milli-second.}
{Uh-huh. Like that'll do us a whole world of good.}
We demorphed. "I guess we'll just have to wait and see what Crayak has in store for us," Jake said tiredly.
"Yup," I said.
Chapter Five
Rachel
We went to school. The usual. Except for the fact I actually finished the homework.
The Chee had covered for us. So we just thanked them and met at Cassie's barn.
"Erek told us about another crash landing, except this time at Lucky's." said Jake.
"Lucky's? What, are they trying out another new spaceship again?" asked Marco.
"I don't know, but we should check it out. 7:00 PM, 'kay?"
"Let's do it!" I said. I saw a grin spread on the others' faces. (except for Ax's, of course)
"We're doomed . . ." moaned Marco.
We met in front of the school at 7:00 PM. The Chee would cover for us again. Then we morphed flies, like the last time this had happened.
{Man, I have a really, really, really bad feeling about this.} commented Marco.
{Don't you always?} I said.
{Yeah, but it's different this time . . . really REALLY bad, worse than when we NORMALLY go on a suicide mission.}
{Oh, wow. What, you're all of a sudden psychic or something?}
{Guys, please.} said Jake.
{Whatever,} we said at the same time.
We all started laughing.
We reached the site of the crash. They had been testing out some ship that looked like a loooooooong dagger. Whew! It must've been at least 300 feet long! It wasn't all that tall, though.
Screens blocked any side view. But Chapman wasn't directing it this time; it was this Hispanic lady.
Marco's mom.
Chapter Six
Tobias
{Your mom, Marco.} breathed Cassie.
{Yeah. Whatever. The new Visser Three, so you have to expect that.}
Marco said it in a flat, cold, emotionless voice. I guess he was covering up his emotions.
{We don't have to do this if you don't want to, Marco.} said Jake softly.
{Bull! I hate sympathy! Besides, I don't give a DAMN about it,} shrieked Marco.
{Okay, calm down, just a suggestion.}
We demorphed. Then we crept up to the crashed fighter and got in stealthily. We morphed flies again.
Gedd-Controllers were running around and grunting orders to each other. Some human-Controllers were overseeing it.
{Galard,} said Ax.
{WE KNOW,} we all said stimulatouesly. Not that we understood it.
Ax led the way. He led us to the control room. Nobody was there. {All the better,}I said.
We demorphed and shut the door. Ax started the ship.
"Open up you fools! Don't fly it!" Controllers pounded the door.
The faint hum rose louder. There were no more noises.
{That's good,} I said.
"Yeah," sighed Rachel, and smiled at me.
I smiled back.
"No comment," said Marco.
"Good. You finally learned."
"Not at all."
{Somebody, please take control of the weapons station and the on-screen viewing station. The rest of you please scout the windows.}
Marco jumped to the weapons station. Jake took over the on-screen viewing station.
{If you receive any signals, just tell me and push the green button. Marco, you see that circle? That is-}
"I know, I know, I've played games like this before." Then he muttered, "First Jake the II and now Jake the III. Plus Jake himself has turned into Steven Spielburg."
"Marco. I heard that," said Jake. "Me too," added Rachel.
"Oh my! Pity me PLEASE!" Marco cried in mock horror.
"Can I try on the weapons now?" he asked a while later.
"Marco . . ." said Jake a little uneasily. "I'd rather you didn't."
"I'd rather? I'D RATHER? Oh man, Jake, you should fall asleep more often in English . . . your starting to sound like a teacher!"
Chapter Seven
Jake
I was uneasy. Last time this had happened, we had made a sario rip and I was the only person . . . well, never mind. I shook that thought from my head.
Marco fired.
WHOOSH!
And we were standing in some raggedy camp. Wearing some sort of blue uniform.
"Guys . . ." said Tobias uneasily. He was human again! So was Ax.
"Ax? You have any suspicions that something is erased? That somebody's not here? I know we're in a sario rip." I said.
He stared at me. "No. Nooo," he said earnestly. "We are all here. You are referring to last time? Referrrrrrrring. Fur. Ing."
"Yeah."
"Do not worry. We are all here."
" 'Kay . . ."
"What do you mean, 'sario r-' "
"SPIES!" someone hissed. He was dressed in a red uniform.
"Guys?" said Rachel uneasily.
"Yeah?"
"I think . . . do you think that . . . we're in the middle of . . ."
"Middle of? Oh yeah, definitely. The middle of the Civil War. And this, my friends," Marco made a sweeping motion at the camp, "is the Confederacy. WE," he referred to what we were wearing, "are Yankees. And this is Crayak's curse."
"Oh, god," gasped Cassie.
To Be Continued . . .
Look for the next one, Unexpected Surprises #6 The Escape
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