A little adventure, a lot of discovery.
The next day, the Sharing had an emergency meeting. Only high-ranking controllers attended. Plus one Lucky the Hamster. I used all the Hamster's instincts to hide and creep within hearing of the meeting. This is what I heard.
"The new Beam was damaged during transportation. We need as many mechanics as possible down there repairing it."
"It was damaged? How much?"
"If it is left more than a few days longer, then it will self-destruct, blowing one of the biggest highways in this state to pieces. Plus, any fool human could discover it, and take pictures."
"What are we supposed to do?"
"Get as many mechanics out there to stabilize it, and transport it to the nearest entrance. The Visser himself will be waiting for it, so we have to hurry."
"The Visser" must mean Visser Three. Visser Three is the only Yeerk to take over an Andalite body.
Well. What was this new beam for? What kind of beam was it? A Dracon beam?
I got out of the meeting, and morphed to parakeet.(Hey, I said all I have are the most basic house pets.) After a lot of flapping, I found what seemed to be a major road accident. Two eighteen wheelers had crashed. I flapped my scrawny wings, and saw boxes labeled in a foreign language. Or was it an alien language? I saw tracks on the ground, looking like something huge and heavy had been dragged into the woods.
I wish I had a bird of prey morph I complained to no one. These little wings aren't meant for long-distance flying. I landed beside the trucks, and demorphed. Checking to see if anyone was around, I crept into the truck, and opened one of the boxes. It was full of things that could only have been….
Eggs!
But what kind of eggs? I picked one up, and carried in out of the truck. I was about a mile from the orphanage, carrying an egg, and I was wearing a bathing suit.(You can only morph tight clothing. A bathing suit is better then walking around naked after morphing.) How was I supposed to get out of this mess?
I decided to check out the woods. Carrying the egg carefully, I stayed about thirty or forty feet to the left of the tracks. After all, I didn't want to run into the people that made them.
Finally, I came upon a machine. There were some people standing around, talking, but they left. I took a good look at the machine.
It was about twenty feet tall. It looked like a giant microscope, but where you would usually put the chemicals, or the leaves or whatever, there was a tray about 4 feet long. The tray had holes in it, that looked like the egg I was holding could fit in one of them. The tray was about two feet of the ground. To the right of the tray was a staircase. It led up to a platform with a bunch of controls, most of them looked like gauges. There was also a platform with a trapdoor in it above that.
I took a closer look at the egg. It was about 3 inches long, and maybe 2 pounds. It was dark brown, with green spots. It was warm, but not hot. I looked around. Realizing what I had to do, I hid the egg underneath some leaves, and covered it with dirt. I morphed the parakeet, then flew about 100 yards, the demorphed and morphed into a dog. The reason I did this is because if the human-controllers found my tracks as a human, then they wouldn't worry. If they found dog tracks, they'd follow them. That would not be a good thing. As a dog, I ran the mile back to the Center, and grabbed the backpack I always keep for emergencies. I got some water from the dog bowl, grabbed the pack in my teeth, and ran back to the woods. I demorphed about 100 yards away from the machine again. I walked back to the giant machine. Opening the backpack, I took out my Polaroid camera, leaving the extra film in the bag, I took my map of town, my notebook and my red pen. I circled the place I was at on the map, and wrote a description of the place, the machine and the egg. Uncovering the egg, I took it's picture. I took a picture of the machine, and took pictures of the boxes. I put the egg in my backpack, and took a couple more eggs and put them in my backpack. I took pictures of the controls. Carefully making sure that the eggs were safe, I put everything else back in my backpack. I took the backpack, went back to the truck, used my Dracon gun on the empty box that I had emptied of eggs, and left. I walked back to the Center.
Jake, Marco, Phillip(a.k.a. Ax)Cassie, Tobias, Rachel and Erek came back a little after that. I had a lot of schoolwork and chores to do, because I had missed regular chore and school times with my little adventures, so I told them to come back around three o'clock. Once I was done Math, French, Science, did dishes, laundry, and played with the Hamster, I began getting ready. First, I wrote done everything of importance that I had gathered about the Yeerks. I cleaned up, made sure there was room for all of them to sit down. It was 2:30. I sat down.
What did I expect Marco and the rest to do with me?
They've had their group for so long, it might take a long time to get used to a new member.
New member?
Right. A new member who can't come out at night, can't be reached in an emergency, can't acquire more than the most basic house pets, and is two years younger than everyone else.
They wouldn't have me join their group. But what would they do?
Use me for information.
That's all.
Would they help me run away from the Center? Would they take care of me? Would they protect me? Would they teach me?
No.
Then why was I so excited that I've found them?
They'd help me get rid of the Yeerks here. And they'd avenge my father.
Sure. They'd get rid of my only reason for living. Fighting Yeerks.
Something scratched on my door. I opened it.
"Hey, Midnight! Good dog! Come on in"
I scratched Midnight's ear. Then I moved down his back.
A little left, and down please. Yeah you got it. That feels so goood!
I jumped up. Midnight started morphing into a human. It was Marco. Then something on Marco started morphing.
"Eeeewwww a flea!" I said, not really as disgusted as I sounded. The flea turned out to be Jake. A mouse crawled into my room, which was the Andalite. And pretty soon, two flies came zooming in. Rachel and Cassie. A cockroach crawled in, who was Tobias, the hawk, and a girl I knew had been adopted some time ago came in, , turning out to be Erek, the android, in a hologram.
I sat down on a chair, the rest sat on beds and stools.
And I told them.
I told them about my father. About the Yeerk Pool.
I showed them the maps I had drawn. The entrances to the Yeerk Pool.
Marco made a couple of jokes, and Rachel made a couple of comebacks, but otherwise everyone was quiet.
When I told them about the accident, the machine and the egg, Aximili got excited.
"Show me these eggs."
I brought out my backpack, and brought out the eggs. There were four of them. I handed one to Ax. He was getting very excited, but he told me to show him the other things.
"An egg. What kind of egg is it?" Marco asked. "A snapping turtle? A cobra? A really, really big blue jay?"
Ax looked at me. Then he said the last word I ever expected to hear.
"Hork-Bajir."
The next day, the Sharing had an emergency meeting. Only high-ranking controllers attended. Plus one Lucky the Hamster. I used all the Hamster's instincts to hide and creep within hearing of the meeting. This is what I heard.
"The new Beam was damaged during transportation. We need as many mechanics as possible down there repairing it."
"It was damaged? How much?"
"If it is left more than a few days longer, then it will self-destruct, blowing one of the biggest highways in this state to pieces. Plus, any fool human could discover it, and take pictures."
"What are we supposed to do?"
"Get as many mechanics out there to stabilize it, and transport it to the nearest entrance. The Visser himself will be waiting for it, so we have to hurry."
"The Visser" must mean Visser Three. Visser Three is the only Yeerk to take over an Andalite body.
Well. What was this new beam for? What kind of beam was it? A Dracon beam?
I got out of the meeting, and morphed to parakeet.(Hey, I said all I have are the most basic house pets.) After a lot of flapping, I found what seemed to be a major road accident. Two eighteen wheelers had crashed. I flapped my scrawny wings, and saw boxes labeled in a foreign language. Or was it an alien language? I saw tracks on the ground, looking like something huge and heavy had been dragged into the woods.
I wish I had a bird of prey morph I complained to no one. These little wings aren't meant for long-distance flying. I landed beside the trucks, and demorphed. Checking to see if anyone was around, I crept into the truck, and opened one of the boxes. It was full of things that could only have been….
Eggs!
But what kind of eggs? I picked one up, and carried in out of the truck. I was about a mile from the orphanage, carrying an egg, and I was wearing a bathing suit.(You can only morph tight clothing. A bathing suit is better then walking around naked after morphing.) How was I supposed to get out of this mess?
I decided to check out the woods. Carrying the egg carefully, I stayed about thirty or forty feet to the left of the tracks. After all, I didn't want to run into the people that made them.
Finally, I came upon a machine. There were some people standing around, talking, but they left. I took a good look at the machine.
It was about twenty feet tall. It looked like a giant microscope, but where you would usually put the chemicals, or the leaves or whatever, there was a tray about 4 feet long. The tray had holes in it, that looked like the egg I was holding could fit in one of them. The tray was about two feet of the ground. To the right of the tray was a staircase. It led up to a platform with a bunch of controls, most of them looked like gauges. There was also a platform with a trapdoor in it above that.
I took a closer look at the egg. It was about 3 inches long, and maybe 2 pounds. It was dark brown, with green spots. It was warm, but not hot. I looked around. Realizing what I had to do, I hid the egg underneath some leaves, and covered it with dirt. I morphed the parakeet, then flew about 100 yards, the demorphed and morphed into a dog. The reason I did this is because if the human-controllers found my tracks as a human, then they wouldn't worry. If they found dog tracks, they'd follow them. That would not be a good thing. As a dog, I ran the mile back to the Center, and grabbed the backpack I always keep for emergencies. I got some water from the dog bowl, grabbed the pack in my teeth, and ran back to the woods. I demorphed about 100 yards away from the machine again. I walked back to the giant machine. Opening the backpack, I took out my Polaroid camera, leaving the extra film in the bag, I took my map of town, my notebook and my red pen. I circled the place I was at on the map, and wrote a description of the place, the machine and the egg. Uncovering the egg, I took it's picture. I took a picture of the machine, and took pictures of the boxes. I put the egg in my backpack, and took a couple more eggs and put them in my backpack. I took pictures of the controls. Carefully making sure that the eggs were safe, I put everything else back in my backpack. I took the backpack, went back to the truck, used my Dracon gun on the empty box that I had emptied of eggs, and left. I walked back to the Center.
Jake, Marco, Phillip(a.k.a. Ax)Cassie, Tobias, Rachel and Erek came back a little after that. I had a lot of schoolwork and chores to do, because I had missed regular chore and school times with my little adventures, so I told them to come back around three o'clock. Once I was done Math, French, Science, did dishes, laundry, and played with the Hamster, I began getting ready. First, I wrote done everything of importance that I had gathered about the Yeerks. I cleaned up, made sure there was room for all of them to sit down. It was 2:30. I sat down.
What did I expect Marco and the rest to do with me?
They've had their group for so long, it might take a long time to get used to a new member.
New member?
Right. A new member who can't come out at night, can't be reached in an emergency, can't acquire more than the most basic house pets, and is two years younger than everyone else.
They wouldn't have me join their group. But what would they do?
Use me for information.
That's all.
Would they help me run away from the Center? Would they take care of me? Would they protect me? Would they teach me?
No.
Then why was I so excited that I've found them?
They'd help me get rid of the Yeerks here. And they'd avenge my father.
Sure. They'd get rid of my only reason for living. Fighting Yeerks.
Something scratched on my door. I opened it.
"Hey, Midnight! Good dog! Come on in"
I scratched Midnight's ear. Then I moved down his back.
A little left, and down please. Yeah you got it. That feels so goood!
I jumped up. Midnight started morphing into a human. It was Marco. Then something on Marco started morphing.
"Eeeewwww a flea!" I said, not really as disgusted as I sounded. The flea turned out to be Jake. A mouse crawled into my room, which was the Andalite. And pretty soon, two flies came zooming in. Rachel and Cassie. A cockroach crawled in, who was Tobias, the hawk, and a girl I knew had been adopted some time ago came in, , turning out to be Erek, the android, in a hologram.
I sat down on a chair, the rest sat on beds and stools.
And I told them.
I told them about my father. About the Yeerk Pool.
I showed them the maps I had drawn. The entrances to the Yeerk Pool.
Marco made a couple of jokes, and Rachel made a couple of comebacks, but otherwise everyone was quiet.
When I told them about the accident, the machine and the egg, Aximili got excited.
"Show me these eggs."
I brought out my backpack, and brought out the eggs. There were four of them. I handed one to Ax. He was getting very excited, but he told me to show him the other things.
"An egg. What kind of egg is it?" Marco asked. "A snapping turtle? A cobra? A really, really big blue jay?"
Ax looked at me. Then he said the last word I ever expected to hear.
"Hork-Bajir."