THE CONFRONTATION
No where else to go
Quote of the day: "Be happy for me, And for all who fly free." -Tobias, Bk. #3
Tobias
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My name is Tobias. I am a freak, a loner, and a former Animorph. But now I've returned as a full-fledged Animorph to save a fellow ally and friend. I've been travelling in space with the rest of the Animorphs, an andalite who turned into a human nothlit, and two human recruits. The six of us have been travelling together for 6 months to find the ship that had our friend Ax. But we have just recently split up into two groups in two separate shuttlecrafts after our ship had collided with the blade ship.
"The captain's shuttle has not responded our calls, nor have they let out any distress signal," said Menderash. "Do you think they have been captured? Or worse?"
"We don't know that yet," said Jeanne. "We don't have much experience in these kinds of situations," then she looked towards me and asked "What should we do?"
The plan was to meet with each other at the only planet we know so far that can sustain life. We arrived safely on the planet with no bug fighters after us but the shuttlecraft carrying Jake, Marco, and one of the human recruits named Santorelli had not arrived at the planet yet.
We were in a thick forest of what I guess passes for trees here on "The Green Planet. The planet wasn't really all green, the whole landscape was actually all blue and the clouds up above were canary yellow and from space it looked like the planet was all green up in space.
I was perched on a thick branch on one of the blue trees. I angry about everything up to this point. I was angry that we had spent 6 months searching for Ax, and when we finally met up with him we couldn't do anything for him. But I was even more angry that we have no plan to save Ax, no plan to get our ship back, and the only person who has a clue of what to do is either dead, lost, or worse!
"What should we do?" repeated Jeanne.
These new guys were asking me what we should do. They now turned to me as their leader, but I can't do it, I'm not like Jake. I never hated Jake, I just hated what he did to Rachel, and if I became their new leader than I'd know why Jake had to make the decision and I'd have to forgive him. But I didn't want to forgive him even after 6 months. Not Ever. Yet, I knew if I didn't become their temporary leader now, then we'd never get out alive.
Well..um..I guess we should keep trying to contact Jake's ship, and I'll go take a quick flight to scout the area. I said I'll be back soon, and if there is any trouble use the Dracon beams we found in the ship.And with that I took off to take a look around.
I was glad that I could finally stretch my wings. We've all been cooped up in that ship for quite some time. I've been waiting for a long time just to catch some thermals watch for food or the scenery around me, even though there was not much to look at on this plane.
All I could see was a thick forest of blue trees and mountains that made Mt. Everest look like a child's sandcastle. I managed to spot strange looking animals popping out of the forest trees every now and then but, they would just disappear back into the blanket of trees without a trace.
Only after an half an hour flight, the sun began to set. Good thing too, I was getting hungry and tired after all that flapping.
It was already hard enough to fly around on this planet because the thermals here was not that great but, since it was getting dark already the thermals began to go away and it took me twice as long to get back to camp.
Darkness had fallen completely when I got back, I reported that there is nothing here on this planet Menderash and Jeanne still had no answer from Jake and the others we still had no clue of what we were going to do. So we decided to sleep on it.
Jeanne and Menderash went to sleep in the shuttlecraft while I perched on top of the ship. I had enough of sleeping inside of a closed up spacecraft with no up drafts.
It's been awhile since I just perched on something other than machine-based. It's been so long since I've went to sleep properly. I missed the days where I could sit out on my tree and sleep, and dream about her. Rachel. My Rachel. She was so beautiful. So fearless. So caring, to me at least. I've wondered of what life would I have if Jake had never given her that order. Would I have changed back to human form? Of course I would. Wouldn't I?
Crunch! Crunch!
I suddenly woke thanks to my acute hearing. Something was moving and making noise. It was so dark that I couldn't see a thing. There wasn't even a moon to reflect one of the nearby stars to spare some light. I knew something or somethings were out there because I could hear voices. Mere whispers, but I could hear all of it. I could hear it but I couldn't understand it.
Crunch! Crunch! More Footsteps! I had to wake the others
Menderash! Jeanne! Wake up! Something is coming to-
One of the creatures grabbed me right out of the branch. I wasn't ready or prepared for any attack. Whatever grabbed was holding me in its massive hands suffocating me. If he held me any longer than I would suffocate. So had to morph. Fast.
I had to morph something that was dangerous, quick, and with good eyesight. So I began the morph I had not used in a long, long, time. Just like the rest of my morphs. But this one was special.
I felt the changes begin. My sharp deadly talons formed into sharp claws. My wings melded into the rest of my body, which turned into black skin. I felt me beak twist and shrink into a mouth, and my mouth started to form sharp teeth. I was not completely done my morph but my teeth were all I needed to escape the deadly grasp. I bit down as hard as I could.
Aarrrhhhh!! The creature screamed in pain as it let go of me. At that moment each of my feet split in to 2 sets of legs making me a four-legged animal. I started to run, but I had no way of knowing where I was going because my hawk-vision was only made for daylight. Slowly my eyes began into form into eyes made for night vision and I could see clearly of where the ship was. I stopped right in front of the ship.
There I was completely morphed as a cat right in front of the ship. Not just any cat though, I had morphed my cat, Dude. It was my first morph ever and memories from what seemed like a million years ago began to pour into my head.
The memory of me morphing into Dude right in front of Jake. I'll never forget his face as I morphed into a cat. His eyes were filled with, shock, wonder, and disbelief. Those were what his eyes were like back then, before his eyes were filled with the burden of leadership. The burden on which I laid on to him when I told him we needed him most as our leader that fateful day. But now was not the time for a stroll down memory lane.
Menderash! Jeanne! Wake up! I repeated frantically.
I could see clearly now of what creatures attempted to capture me. They were 6 feet tall, their mouths were wide you could practically fit a certain red-tailed hawk with just enough room to fit a small cat. It had 3 monstrous fangs about 6 inches long that looked sharp enough to bite into solid steel. Its eyes were yellow and looked cat-like. It had a small nose that looked a little like a pig. His body was the color black with 3 lengthy arms, two where they were supposed to be, and a short bladed arm right in its chest!
His two arms had 3 massive fingers, each as big as Marco's wrist. He had two legs if you can call them legs. In reality they looked liked a bunch of blue vines forming a leg. Lastly he had only one tail as long as a Hork-Bajir's but it had these sort of propeller things on it.
There were a total of 3 of them. 3 of these monstrous beings that looked like the next competition towards a Hork-Bajir. Suddenly the shuttle door opened and a beam of light shone from the shuttlecraft appeared. There standing, were Menderash and Jeanne holding Andalite shredders both looking very sleepy but also very cautious towards these creatures.
Suddenly one of the creatures lunged! TSEEEW! TSEEEW! Menderash and Jeanne fired, trying to stun it! No effect! The creature kept going and he tackled Jeanne and her shredder went flying.
TSEEEW! Menderash fired again! This time he fired on a higher setting and aimed it at the creature's legs. The creature's legs completely burned off! Now he was half of himself still trying to fight Menderash. But Menderash used a pretty decent soccer kick that caused the creature to go flying.
Aaarrrhhh!! The two other were screaming in pain but at the same time creatures lunged at Menderash too.
I started to demorph as fast as possible. I had to morph something to attack these creatures, and I had to do it fast but by the time I reached my normal form, Menderash would be meat. There was no hope for him.
Suddenly a creature lunged at the two remaining vine-legs and started to slash at them. It was a creature, not any creature I have ever seen. It stood on two legs, and was covered in spots, it's hands were claw-like, it's hair on its head was black. Wait a second. Hair? Of course it was Jeanne! She was almost done morphing a leopard. But how could she mor-. Oh yeah. How could I be so stupid? She was Jake's student in his antiterrorism class. She was given the morphing powers! Duh!
The black long hair of Jeanne had disappeared and she was fully morphed and sank her teeth into one of the vine-legs. While Menderash Shot the vine-leg that was going to slam his massive fists into Jeanne.
Vive la France! cried Jeanne
I was fully demorphed now and if I had a mouth I would have smiled. With Jeanne I didn't have to morph again. Suddenly the vine-leg that Jeanne attacked used his chest-arm and clasped against the leopard's throat and started choking and punching her.
Menderash was about to fire at the vine-leg that was choking her, but at that moment the vine-leg that had no vine-legs grabbed his wrist and started fighting for control for his shredder. That's when I started to morph again. Another one of my "special" morphs. I just hoped the feature that I needed would appear first.
I immediately began to grow larger. Legs popped out of my stomach. They began to form into hooves.
AAAAHHHHH cried Jeanne Help. Please.
I had to hurry and I had to hurry fast. C'mon! C'mon! Where are you?
Finally the feature I needed appeared. It was a Tail. A tail with a sharp blade at the end of it. I wasted no time. I charged forth and with deadly speed, I cut the chest-arm off the vine-leg. I could brag and say that I meant to do that on purpose but the reality was, that I was aiming for his head. Oh Well. It worked, didn't it?
Stalk eyes began to appear on top of my head. My face formed into a face with two eyes 3 slits and no mouth. I had fully morphed an Andalite.
Merci Beaucoup Tobias said Jeanne
With Jeanne loose she started striking her opponent with shocking speed, while I went to go help Menderash. He had lost the shredder and the creature he was fighting had it in one of his hands. This time I hit my target dead on. The arm with the shredder.
I put my tail blade against the creature's neck. Don't even move buster
"I guess we won, warrior Tobias," said Menderash
"HA! HA! HA! HA!" another voice, but not Menderash! Out of the shadows appeared about a dozen more of these vine-legs. And one elderly woman. The same woman who had almost killed me in a helicopter while I tried to rescue my mother.
"You wish," she said." "Surrender now to the legion of The One."
Suddenly it occurred to me. Idiot Tobias! Now it I could see it all. That's why the bug fighters chased after Jake's ship only. It was a trap! The green planet was the base of "The One!"
A/N: Omega Goku Here! I know it was supposed to be Omega Epyon but he was busy writing a different fanfic. This was one long chapter of 2,205 words. I could've finished it sooner but I had a lot of homework. I have two announcements to make first I'd like to say that for all you Cassie and Ax fans there will be chapters of them next! Second announcement, those of you who got reviews from Jake The "Yeerk Killer" guess what?
It was me Omega Goku! Yup, Yup! Oh well Omega Gohan next Chapter. Later!