Allen
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"What about cats?" asked the geeky kid.
"I don't see many stray cats on the beach, but it's the only morph any of us have that can see well in the dark." responded Katie or whatever the barn-girl's name was.
"We gotta move to a more private spot," said Rachel. "We don't want to be near any of the controllers."
I can't believe I used to like Rachel. I thought she was a hot chick, but then I learned she was a maniac. It must have been her friends, the wimp Tobias, and the black girl Katie. I dumped Rachel automatically after I learned she joined these suckers into trying to stop an invasion by turning into animals. Sure, Colin and me joined them, but we only did so if we did get rid of the Yeerks then we'd be millionaires.
We moved near the lifeguard stand where no one else was. "Okay, time to turn back into a cat" said wussy-boy.
This was the 3rd time that I had ever witnessed a morph. After a few minutes, wimp-kid was turned into a cat. I still couldn't believe that I had the power to turn into an animal, but when I turn into an animal, I'd want it to be something deadly.
Okay, I'm going now. Wish me luck, said the wuss as he went to the dunes where the meeting was being taken place.
I couldn't get used to the talking in my head, it was annoying. It sounded so much like the Andalite thingy. If only he hadn't died, maybe I could've sold him to a zoo or something…
We waited near the lifeguard stand when, Rachel broke the silence. "Colin, go check on Tobias."
"Why me?" I said. "I don't care what happens to him."
"Well, we do," said Karley. "And you're going because if I show up it would look suspicious, and I can't say that Tobias is my cat. Tom knows that I have no pets, and there's no way Tom would believe Cassie owned just a regular cat. You're the only one who can check on him without rising suspicion."
I was going to say something that would make little miss airhead go crying but I decided that I had to play along until the Yeerks were stopped. "Fine," I said.
I walked towards the Dunes where the meeting was being taken place. I could hear them talking "We could either make my cousin ours…or kill her," said the Rachel's cousin Tom.
Hmmm, her family seemed to have many problems. But just then, "Hey what are you doing back here?" a voice asked, "This is a private meeting."
"I could do whatever I want, you can't tell me what to do!" I said to the voice as I turned around.
It was the police officer from this morning. He looked straight into my eyes and said, "Yes, I can."
I got up immediately, there was no way I could win against a cop.
"Take off," the policeman said. "But I have my eye on you."
I walked away, "stupid dumbass," I muttered to myself. Then, a cat just came by running towards me.
What were you doing? the wimp now turned cat said.
"Checking on you," I said. "Miss airhead told me to check to see if you were okay."
Oh, I just found out some useful information. Let's go back to the others, he said.
"Shut up," I snapped. He was talking to me like he wasn't a wimp anymore. "Just because we're gonna fight together doesn't mean I'm your friend."
We walked back to the others, and the nerd demorphed. "I have some good news and some bad news" he said. "The good news is that, as long as we don't say anything about the construction site, then we'll be okay. The bad news is that-" he glanced at Rachel.
"Assistant principal Chapman and…Tom are controllers,"
"No way," she said, "Tom can't be, he's like coolest and closest cousin I have. He's like a brother to me"
"It's true," I said. "He said that he'll make you one of them, or kill you."
If I had a camera, I would have taken a picture of her right then. The expression on her face was priceless. Her cocky face, turned now into deep shocked eyes and sadness. It was really funny, one moment she was strong and stood like she was the queen of the world, but now she was sitting down looking like a very depressed dog.
"Wait, this could be good news," said Carla. "We know more controllers now, if we watch them for three days, we could find where the Yeerk pool is and free everyone there, including Tom."
"What is a Yeerk pool?" asked Colin.
"Every 3 days the Yeerks have to leave their host bodies and swim around in the Yeerk pool otherwise they'd die," wuss said.
"Anyway," continued Kaydian, "We could morph something that could spy on Mr. Chapman tomorrow."
"Like what?" asked Colin.
"I was thinking something small, it's not really in the clinic as a patient. It just sort of lives there," said Caroline.
"Tell us what the hell it is already!!!" I yelled. Why couldn't this dumb girl just say it already. All she keeps doing is making me angry.
She looked kinda scared, "A lizard, one of us could morph a lizard and spy on Chapman."
"I'll do it," it came from the crying blondie. I was surprised she got out of her depression so fast.
"No, it can't be you. You've got a perfect attendance record and if you just started skipping for no reason, then they might put 2 and 2 together. It can't be you, there's only one person who could do this," said Cathy.
"WHO???!!!!" I yelled at her. She was doing it again. She could just tell us right away, but nooooooo! She just had to keep being stupid and not telling us anything.
But then I noticed that one by one, everyone started to look at me. First I thought it was because I yelled at her, but then I noticed Colin staring at me. Then it hit me. I was the one!!!
The wimp snapped his fingers. "you're the only one, If you skipped the whole day it wouldn't matter because it wouldn't make you look suspicious.
" I'M NOT GOING TO BECOME A LIZARD!" I screamed.
Suddenly the hot chick grabbed my T-shirt and pushed me against the lifeguard tower. "You're going to do this, and you're going to succeed. You're going to find a way to the Yeerk pool, so we can free and the other captives whether you like it or not."
"Fine. I'll turn into the stupid lizard," I said as she let go of me.
I did it on Monday morning in my locker at school. All of us had ended up in Kate's barn later that night looking for lizards. I waited till the bell rang for first period. Everyone emptied the hallway except for the wimp, Cordelia, and Rachel. They were there to watch me to see if I could morph.
I stepped into my locker, while the others stayed in front of my locker.
"Focus on becoming the animal," Claire told me before.
I started focusing on the lizard. I started to shrink, and the walls of the locker started to grow bigger.
This isn't so bad, I told myself. I touched my face with my hand. My skin was looser than it should've been. And pebbly to touch.
"Ahhhh!" I didn't want to become a stupid lizard. I wanted to become something with power. I stopped concentrating.
"What's going on? Are you demorphing?" asked the nerd.
"I don't want to be a stupid freaking lizard!" I said.
"Do it," said Rachel. "Do it, or else."
"Fine," I said.
I started focusing again, my hair started to disappear. Now the walls started to grow bigger and bigger.
FEAR! TRAPPED! RUNRUNRUNRUN!!!!!!!!
I was trapped! I needed to get out!! I moved towards the light.
"We're going now," said a voice. "We can't be late, and don't mess this up. This could be our only chance."
GO TOWARD THE LIGHT! GET OUT!
I got out through the ventilation slits. But I was afraid of light. I was terrified of light.
"Allen? Allen?" a voice asked as I shot out of the trapped area. "What's going on? Why aren't you talking back? Cassie, something's wrong."
"I think the animal has taken over his mind. It happened to me as a cat," said another booming voice.
"Allen, get a grip. Your human, not a lizard," said a voice. Wait. Not just any voice. The wimp's voice.
Huh? What's going on? I asked
"Good, your back with us, the lizard brain had control of your body," said Cameron. "We've got to go, before the second bell rings. You're on your own now. And to get to Chapman's office, just go straight down the hall, and turn left."
Good, go away you pricks, I said back, although I was still shaken up by being controlled by a lizard. No one controls me except for myself.
"Allen? Remember you're a lizard right now, and that we could stomp on you at any time. Well, good luck," said Rachel.
I felt their footsteps as they left to go to class. Suckers. Now, I better get this over with I said to myself. But then I started to think. They're not here now. I could just make up a story saying that I couldn't find anything. Yeah, that would work! I could go sneak off into the girls' change room, although my eyesight at the time wasn't so good.
As I started to think of more things I could do, something big started to come by. I didn't know what was going on, suddenly a huge shadow was in the sky. Something big was about to step on me! I started to run, but it was too late. A shoe stepped on my tail! I was trapped.
The lizard and human brain combined their brains at that moment, and tried to get free by trying to run. Suddenly I was free! But then I noticed I was missing a tail. I looked back and saw that my tail was still trapped by the giant shoe. Nobody took anything from me and got away with it! I started to run after the lumbering giant in hopes of gaining my tail back.
Suddenly he stopped. The giant opened a door. I went inside. I looked around. We were in the janitor's closet. I could tell, because I've had to do janitorial work because of all the trouble me and Colin caused.
I looked at what the giant was doing. He was at the sink faucet. He twisted one of the hooks they used to hang up mop heads. Then to my amazement, a door appeared where the wall was. The giant walked down. I was about to follow him, but then I caught a faint sound.
"Noooo!" a voice moaned. "Noooo!"
I stepped out back into the janitor closet as the door started to close.
I knew what it was down there.
I had found what the black girl had said. The Yeerk Pool.
The Yeerk Pool was underneath my school.
A/N: Jake the Yeerk Killer here again! First off I'd like to say on behalf of what all the Team Omega members feel. NOOOOOOOOOOOO SCHOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally, school is over. At least Grade ten is. Goodbye Grade ten! Hello Grade eleven! Oh well. Here is my announcements. Marco or Epyon will not work on this fic. They've all got their own fics that they are working on. Secondly, some of you who are wondering why I made Cassie like Tom, well it's because in the books they say Jake looks like Tom, except that Tom has really dark hair, almost black. So, I figured that since Tom looks like Jake, and since Jake doesn't exist in their world, I thought Cassie would like Tom since he looks like Jake. Okay? Everyone understand that? Anyway, keep up the questions, and I hope that the end of this fic (which is in 4 remaining chapters) will answer all of your questions. If you still have questions, then I'll make a HUGE FAQ of "Burden of a Leader". So, I'll see you all in the next chapter
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"What about cats?" asked the geeky kid.
"I don't see many stray cats on the beach, but it's the only morph any of us have that can see well in the dark." responded Katie or whatever the barn-girl's name was.
"We gotta move to a more private spot," said Rachel. "We don't want to be near any of the controllers."
I can't believe I used to like Rachel. I thought she was a hot chick, but then I learned she was a maniac. It must have been her friends, the wimp Tobias, and the black girl Katie. I dumped Rachel automatically after I learned she joined these suckers into trying to stop an invasion by turning into animals. Sure, Colin and me joined them, but we only did so if we did get rid of the Yeerks then we'd be millionaires.
We moved near the lifeguard stand where no one else was. "Okay, time to turn back into a cat" said wussy-boy.
This was the 3rd time that I had ever witnessed a morph. After a few minutes, wimp-kid was turned into a cat. I still couldn't believe that I had the power to turn into an animal, but when I turn into an animal, I'd want it to be something deadly.
Okay, I'm going now. Wish me luck, said the wuss as he went to the dunes where the meeting was being taken place.
I couldn't get used to the talking in my head, it was annoying. It sounded so much like the Andalite thingy. If only he hadn't died, maybe I could've sold him to a zoo or something…
We waited near the lifeguard stand when, Rachel broke the silence. "Colin, go check on Tobias."
"Why me?" I said. "I don't care what happens to him."
"Well, we do," said Karley. "And you're going because if I show up it would look suspicious, and I can't say that Tobias is my cat. Tom knows that I have no pets, and there's no way Tom would believe Cassie owned just a regular cat. You're the only one who can check on him without rising suspicion."
I was going to say something that would make little miss airhead go crying but I decided that I had to play along until the Yeerks were stopped. "Fine," I said.
I walked towards the Dunes where the meeting was being taken place. I could hear them talking "We could either make my cousin ours…or kill her," said the Rachel's cousin Tom.
Hmmm, her family seemed to have many problems. But just then, "Hey what are you doing back here?" a voice asked, "This is a private meeting."
"I could do whatever I want, you can't tell me what to do!" I said to the voice as I turned around.
It was the police officer from this morning. He looked straight into my eyes and said, "Yes, I can."
I got up immediately, there was no way I could win against a cop.
"Take off," the policeman said. "But I have my eye on you."
I walked away, "stupid dumbass," I muttered to myself. Then, a cat just came by running towards me.
What were you doing? the wimp now turned cat said.
"Checking on you," I said. "Miss airhead told me to check to see if you were okay."
Oh, I just found out some useful information. Let's go back to the others, he said.
"Shut up," I snapped. He was talking to me like he wasn't a wimp anymore. "Just because we're gonna fight together doesn't mean I'm your friend."
We walked back to the others, and the nerd demorphed. "I have some good news and some bad news" he said. "The good news is that, as long as we don't say anything about the construction site, then we'll be okay. The bad news is that-" he glanced at Rachel.
"Assistant principal Chapman and…Tom are controllers,"
"No way," she said, "Tom can't be, he's like coolest and closest cousin I have. He's like a brother to me"
"It's true," I said. "He said that he'll make you one of them, or kill you."
If I had a camera, I would have taken a picture of her right then. The expression on her face was priceless. Her cocky face, turned now into deep shocked eyes and sadness. It was really funny, one moment she was strong and stood like she was the queen of the world, but now she was sitting down looking like a very depressed dog.
"Wait, this could be good news," said Carla. "We know more controllers now, if we watch them for three days, we could find where the Yeerk pool is and free everyone there, including Tom."
"What is a Yeerk pool?" asked Colin.
"Every 3 days the Yeerks have to leave their host bodies and swim around in the Yeerk pool otherwise they'd die," wuss said.
"Anyway," continued Kaydian, "We could morph something that could spy on Mr. Chapman tomorrow."
"Like what?" asked Colin.
"I was thinking something small, it's not really in the clinic as a patient. It just sort of lives there," said Caroline.
"Tell us what the hell it is already!!!" I yelled. Why couldn't this dumb girl just say it already. All she keeps doing is making me angry.
She looked kinda scared, "A lizard, one of us could morph a lizard and spy on Chapman."
"I'll do it," it came from the crying blondie. I was surprised she got out of her depression so fast.
"No, it can't be you. You've got a perfect attendance record and if you just started skipping for no reason, then they might put 2 and 2 together. It can't be you, there's only one person who could do this," said Cathy.
"WHO???!!!!" I yelled at her. She was doing it again. She could just tell us right away, but nooooooo! She just had to keep being stupid and not telling us anything.
But then I noticed that one by one, everyone started to look at me. First I thought it was because I yelled at her, but then I noticed Colin staring at me. Then it hit me. I was the one!!!
The wimp snapped his fingers. "you're the only one, If you skipped the whole day it wouldn't matter because it wouldn't make you look suspicious.
" I'M NOT GOING TO BECOME A LIZARD!" I screamed.
Suddenly the hot chick grabbed my T-shirt and pushed me against the lifeguard tower. "You're going to do this, and you're going to succeed. You're going to find a way to the Yeerk pool, so we can free and the other captives whether you like it or not."
"Fine. I'll turn into the stupid lizard," I said as she let go of me.
I did it on Monday morning in my locker at school. All of us had ended up in Kate's barn later that night looking for lizards. I waited till the bell rang for first period. Everyone emptied the hallway except for the wimp, Cordelia, and Rachel. They were there to watch me to see if I could morph.
I stepped into my locker, while the others stayed in front of my locker.
"Focus on becoming the animal," Claire told me before.
I started focusing on the lizard. I started to shrink, and the walls of the locker started to grow bigger.
This isn't so bad, I told myself. I touched my face with my hand. My skin was looser than it should've been. And pebbly to touch.
"Ahhhh!" I didn't want to become a stupid lizard. I wanted to become something with power. I stopped concentrating.
"What's going on? Are you demorphing?" asked the nerd.
"I don't want to be a stupid freaking lizard!" I said.
"Do it," said Rachel. "Do it, or else."
"Fine," I said.
I started focusing again, my hair started to disappear. Now the walls started to grow bigger and bigger.
FEAR! TRAPPED! RUNRUNRUNRUN!!!!!!!!
I was trapped! I needed to get out!! I moved towards the light.
"We're going now," said a voice. "We can't be late, and don't mess this up. This could be our only chance."
GO TOWARD THE LIGHT! GET OUT!
I got out through the ventilation slits. But I was afraid of light. I was terrified of light.
"Allen? Allen?" a voice asked as I shot out of the trapped area. "What's going on? Why aren't you talking back? Cassie, something's wrong."
"I think the animal has taken over his mind. It happened to me as a cat," said another booming voice.
"Allen, get a grip. Your human, not a lizard," said a voice. Wait. Not just any voice. The wimp's voice.
Huh? What's going on? I asked
"Good, your back with us, the lizard brain had control of your body," said Cameron. "We've got to go, before the second bell rings. You're on your own now. And to get to Chapman's office, just go straight down the hall, and turn left."
Good, go away you pricks, I said back, although I was still shaken up by being controlled by a lizard. No one controls me except for myself.
"Allen? Remember you're a lizard right now, and that we could stomp on you at any time. Well, good luck," said Rachel.
I felt their footsteps as they left to go to class. Suckers. Now, I better get this over with I said to myself. But then I started to think. They're not here now. I could just make up a story saying that I couldn't find anything. Yeah, that would work! I could go sneak off into the girls' change room, although my eyesight at the time wasn't so good.
As I started to think of more things I could do, something big started to come by. I didn't know what was going on, suddenly a huge shadow was in the sky. Something big was about to step on me! I started to run, but it was too late. A shoe stepped on my tail! I was trapped.
The lizard and human brain combined their brains at that moment, and tried to get free by trying to run. Suddenly I was free! But then I noticed I was missing a tail. I looked back and saw that my tail was still trapped by the giant shoe. Nobody took anything from me and got away with it! I started to run after the lumbering giant in hopes of gaining my tail back.
Suddenly he stopped. The giant opened a door. I went inside. I looked around. We were in the janitor's closet. I could tell, because I've had to do janitorial work because of all the trouble me and Colin caused.
I looked at what the giant was doing. He was at the sink faucet. He twisted one of the hooks they used to hang up mop heads. Then to my amazement, a door appeared where the wall was. The giant walked down. I was about to follow him, but then I caught a faint sound.
"Noooo!" a voice moaned. "Noooo!"
I stepped out back into the janitor closet as the door started to close.
I knew what it was down there.
I had found what the black girl had said. The Yeerk Pool.
The Yeerk Pool was underneath my school.
A/N: Jake the Yeerk Killer here again! First off I'd like to say on behalf of what all the Team Omega members feel. NOOOOOOOOOOOO SCHOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally, school is over. At least Grade ten is. Goodbye Grade ten! Hello Grade eleven! Oh well. Here is my announcements. Marco or Epyon will not work on this fic. They've all got their own fics that they are working on. Secondly, some of you who are wondering why I made Cassie like Tom, well it's because in the books they say Jake looks like Tom, except that Tom has really dark hair, almost black. So, I figured that since Tom looks like Jake, and since Jake doesn't exist in their world, I thought Cassie would like Tom since he looks like Jake. Okay? Everyone understand that? Anyway, keep up the questions, and I hope that the end of this fic (which is in 4 remaining chapters) will answer all of your questions. If you still have questions, then I'll make a HUGE FAQ of "Burden of a Leader". So, I'll see you all in the next chapter