Jake
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I was standing there with the Ellimist. Standing in front of 5 kids. Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, and the two punks who I told to leave Tobias alone a long time ago. Well not the Rachel, Tobias, and Cassie that I knew. Okay, maybe they had the same personality but they weren't the Rachel, Tobias, and Cassie from my dimension.

"Tom?" Rachel asked me.

I gave a sad smile to them. I knew that I looked like Tom, everyone said so.

I slowly shook my head. "No," I said.

Tom, I thought to myself. Tom the controller. And now recently my parents are controllers. All because of me. Me. My mistake of not taking action right away.

"Who the hell are you?" asked the kid named Allen.

Who was I anyway? Who was I to have the right to tell people what to do, and risk their lives all because of my decisions. I was supposed to be a leader. Leaders aren't supposed to make mistakes. So, I knew I wasn't fit to lead the Animorphs. I never wanted to be the leader anyway. I only started to lead because long, long, time ago, Marco told me I was.

But the mighty being known as the Ellimist told me that I was fit. That I was the one that everyone needed, that I was the one that everyone trusted the most. And without me, things would fall apart. I did not believe that, so the Ellimist offered me to see what it would be like if I never existed.

We flew through his inside out world of n-dimensional space again to reach this dimension. And with the Ellimists help I viewed all the actions of what would've happened if I never existed.

I watched horrified that twisting and turning in Allen's brain was the plan to betray them all. I saw Marco become a controller all because he didn't have a friend that he could trust to lean on.

But still I thought that they could pull through. But I guess I was wrong. Wrong again. Like I usually am. I still wasn't convinced that could make a difference.

"My name is Jake," I said. I hesitated before I said the next part. "And I am the leader of the Animorphs"

"How does that help us?" asked Rachel.

Cassie looked puzzled, the boy named Colin just kept quiet. But I saw Tobias look at me with a side-ways glance like there was something familiar about me.

"Animorphs," he said in amazement. "I made that word up. Animal morphers. I was going to use that for our team's name. How did you know?"

"I will answer that," the Ellimist said with a nod towards me.

"We come from a different dimension in which he is the leader of the humans who meet the dying Elfangor. We have come to observe this dimension because it has great interest to us," the Ellimist said.

"Interest? How?" asked Rachel impatiently.

"You see, this is the dimension where he," he pointed at me. "Where he does not exist. He believes that he does not make any difference in his dimension and he needs to see that he does make the difference."

He then turned to me. "You see, Jake. You do make a difference. This group would not have even survived tonight, let alone other missions. Even if they did survive this battle, it wouldn't do much good. Allen would soon betray them again. Colin will eventually become a power hungry human. Cassie will break down because she needs someone like you, Your cousin Rachel, will have no one to direct her barely contained violence. Tobias will also die soon because since he is just a hawk, he will not survive long to fight the Yeerks. And Marco….."

"What about Marco?" a voice said. And there stepped out from the stairs was Marco.

"Whoa! What's with the blue dude?" asked Marco.

"Oh, he's just a guy who can freeze time and go to different dimensions," answered Rachel.

"Oh, is that all? I was expecting something more classy," Marco replied.

"And Marco will eventually become a controller again," the Ellimist finished.

All traces oh humor disappeared from Marco's face. "No," he said firmly. "I'm never gonna become a human puppet ever again."

The Ellimist just gave him a sad smile. The Ellimist then turned to me. "Jake, you must lead. You know that deep down inside that you must. If you don't, then all will be lost. Jake you are the only one who anyone trusts most to win, and keep them alive. You are the only leader they have, whether you like it or not. The choice is yours."

I took a deep breath, "Alright Ellimist take me back," I told him.

And in an instant he brought me back to the camp of the free Hork-Bajir.

THE CHOICE IS YOURS, the Ellimist told me.

I only had a few moments to reflect on what happened when Cassie came up to me.

We had a fight earlier, and she was trying to look as if she wasn't hurt from our fight. "Jake, Toby called a meeting, everyone will be there, the meeting begins in 2 minutes," she said nervously.

"Okay, I'll be there," I said neutrally.

And then she left. I knew that Toby did not call the meeting. I knew what the meeting was truly for. It was about me. She was going to try to convince the others to convince me that I had to be their leader. That I needed to take charge.

But I already knew what my answer would be. I didn't need convincing, I already got convinced although I still didn't like it. I knew that I had to be the leader. I was willing to be but I didn't like it. But the Ellimist was right

I knew that deep down whether I liked it or not, that it was my responsibility.
My Duty
My Burden.




A/N: Hi!!! I'm Jake the Yeerk Killer!!! And i'm a big huge nerd!!!!!! All my fanfics suck!!!!! I'm not at all good at anything!!!! This fanfic would be WAY better if i let Marco the Magnificent who is the cutest, most-loving, friendly, and modest member of Team Omega. He is soooooo much cooler than me. and i'm such a wimp. What? Stop looking at me like that!!!! Okay,Okay it's me Marco the Magnificent. Not Jake the Yeerk Killer. It's just that he didn't let me work on this at all and i'm amd at him. Here's his real last messege....



It's me Jake again. I finally finished this fic!!!!! Rejoice!!!!!!!! I forgot to tell you people that I freed Marco from being a controller just for you guys. I wanted to free Marco myself anyway. Also, do you understand why Cassie didn't feel the change of dimensions? Well , I'll tell you. The only reason why Cassie couldn't feel it was because her dimension was never changed. The Cassie we know, felt the change in MM4 because the Crayak changed the timeline. But the one that the Ellimist took Jake to was a parallel one. So the Ellimist did not alter Jake's dimension. He just took him to another one. Understand? Okay, I'm done. I'm going to take a break before I write another fic and I already have an idea. Anywayz, thanx for reading this fic, I hope you enjoyed it, and if you haven't already, please review this story and possibly add this to your favorites. Okay? BYE!!!!!!