The Confrontation
Places to go, Peolpe to see, Escape from certain death


Quote: Cassie sat beside me. She put her hand on my arm. "Cassie, does Jake know you're flirting with me?" (Marco & Cassie- book 35)




Marco
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My name is Marco. I am known as Marco the Millionaire, Marco the cutest actor to walk the face of the earth and/or other various planets with vicious aliens with claws, tentacles, and hundreds of eyes, and other accessories. More importantly I'm known as Marco of the Animorphs. Human Kids with the power to morph into animals, who with the leadership of my best bud Jake, defeated an alien empire that was set on enslaving the galaxy. But those days were over and this was now and now was not a good time.

"So, anybody wanna see airplane again?" I said trying to make conversation as I prepared to blast this thing off.

Jake, Santorelli, and I were in one of the shuttlecrafts getting ready to launch before the now damaged blade ship would launch their own bug fighters and destroy our ship and us within it.

"Marco, just get us outta here," said Jake "And besides there is no DVD player on board?"

"I know, I just wanted to make conversation." I replied

After that I started the engines and was ready to blast off except there was one tiny problem.

"Um, how do you fly this thing?" I said sheepishly, "I only learned how to turn on the engine"

"WHAT?????" Jake screamed "YOU'RE THE REASON WHY I PICKED YOU ON MY TEAM!"

"What?" I said, "Well, I feel relieved. All this time I thought you were jealous of me and Jeanne."

"Um, Sir? Why don't we just you use the computer and plot the course?" said Santorelli, rather embarrassed to be on my team. While we were still squabbling in our ship the other ship was ready to launch.

"Captain, we are ready to launch," said Menderash

"Alright, go ahead. We will be there shortly," Jake answered back

The ship filled with Tobias, Menderash, and my one true love Jeanne blasted off while we watched from inside our ship.

"Alright Computer blast off and take us to sector AB459j, than to sector MQ6u78p3, and than finally to the Planet Green," said Santorelli.

WHOOSH!! Our ship accelerated too fast and we were rocketing out of control.

"Whoa!" I said "computer slow down a bit"

The computer slowed down and soon we were passed the now demented blade ship with our own ship inside of it. Finally things were looking good, well maybe not that good but at least we were all alive and everything was going to be fine for about 10 seconds.

"BEEP BEEP BEEP"

The computer had just detected 5 hostile ships. The Blade ship had just released bug fighters and they were coming for us.

"Computer, full power to the engines and GET US OUT OF HERE!" I said urgently

The shuttle ship accelerated at top speed. We were fast but the bug fighters were faster.

TSEEEEW! TSEEEEW! They had shot at us but they had missed probably because it was a warning shot. Nonetheless I jumped at the controls.

"Computer turn sharp left and lead us towards sector AG567k9"I said

The computer turned but so did the enclosing bug fighters but I had a small surprise for them.

"Marco, you just plotted our course towards the multicolored planet. We are supposed to go to the green planet because so far that is the only planet that can sustain life," said Jake "and the others won't know where we are."

"Don't worry Jake, We can't bring the bug fighters to the green planet otherwise they could hunt all of us down at once. We just have to lose them first," I said defensively, "I mean I'm not stupid Jake, so don't start to blame me."

"Captain, the computer detects we are heading towards an asteroid field!" cried Santorelli.

"Okay, now you can blame me," I said.

Jake turned computer trying to turn us back, but it was too late. If we did turn back the upcoming bug fighters would kill us for sure. There was only one thing to do.

"Computer override auto pilot and switch to manual," I said urgently.

"You don't know how to fly this thing manually Marco," said Jake

I did a little smirk with a hint of Rachel on it. "I can learn, just try and trust me Jake, we have to do this manually because the computer can't maneuver through an asteroid belt.

TSEEEW! TSEEEW! The bug fighters had shot again and this time a hit and our weak shields wouldn't stand a chance against another hit. If I didn't act fast soon we'd be goners.

"Alright," Jake said "Get us out of here alive. In the meantime I'll try to NOT remember the times you drove for us"

I took the controls as we headed into the asteroid belt. I swerved left right. Left. Right. Right. Left. BABOOM! One of the bug fighters crashed into an asteroid. HA HA HA, I thought, How's this for driving Jake . One down 4 more to go.

"TURN LEFT!" cried Jake. In all the excitement I almost crashed our ship. Back to concentrating. Left, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, straight, Left, Right, Straight.
TSEEEEW! TSEEEW! The bug fighters had shot again and hit us again and this time our shields were down for good.

One of the bug fighters was closing in towards us faster and skillfully more than the other bug fighters. He was so close and just about to kill us all when by sheer luck one of the other bug fighters had taken a shot, missed, and hit the bug fighter. 2 down, 3more to go. Soon afterwards another bug fighter had hit an asteroid. We were almost out, and we were going to make it!

The two bug fighters split up and tried to take us down on different sides but, luckily for us one of the bug fighters crashed into an asteroid as soon as we got out. We were now close to the Multi-coloured planet.

TSEEEW! TSEEEW! The last bug fighter shot at us one last time and hit one of our engines. We started to fall into the atmosphere and it was starting to get hot as our ship was burning up. We started to tumble around the ship and me and Jake collided head on with each other.

I was on the floor trying to keep consciousness, but I just collapsed with the thought of wondering, "I wonder if Jeanne thought I was cute?"
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Author's notes: Hi, I'm Omega Gohan! I finally got off my lazy ass and actually did some work! Well actually Omega Goku sort of edited this chapter and added a few stuff, but hey I wrote half of this at least! Well Omega Epyon is going write the next chapter but if anyone is interested in helping by joining are ranks just e-mail us. Oh yeah one more thing. Omega Goku wanted to say that there will be chapters of Cassie for all the Cassie fans.
Till next time!-