Chapter Two
Marco paced across the room, with Velma following him. Jake had already left for work
and Cassie was playing with Ziggy Stardust, her and Rachel's Iguana. Marco was going to stay home and wait for the other animorphs. He was kinda weirded out by the fact that there was an alternate dimention with other versions of him,Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Ax and Tobias. He picked up a picture of Ax, Tobias, Jake, Rachel,Cassie and himself. Erek had taken it before Tobias and Ax had transfered to the moon base of the FVP, Federal Violence Preventors. The name was Cassie's idea, he remembered, smiling. Velma barked, demanding to be fed, bringing him out of his trip down memory lane.
"Okay okay, I'll feed you." Marco said to the Chihuahua, laughing. He walked into the
kitchen and opened a can of dog food for Velma. He dumped half of it into her bowl and walked
over to the frige to put the rest away for later. He then relized that he was going to go
food shopping after work, but with the arrival of those other Animorphs, he won't have time.
"I can always just pickup some munchies at the Dunkin Donuts. What do you think Velma?" The
little dog barked and wagged her tail happily. "Yeah. Come one girl. let's go for a walk,
but first I have to leave them a holonote."
***
"WHOA!" Cassie yelled as she fell to the floor from two feet in the air.
"CRAP!" Rachel shouted as she landed on an arm chair
Shit! Tobias shouted as he narrowly avoided get crushed by a falling Jake, who softened
his fall by going into a roll, a trick that Rachel had taught him.
"HELP ME!" Marco cried as fell, landing on a recliner that opened up when he landed.
Hey, I landed on a bed. Ax said, he did indeed land on the pull out bed.
Everyone else groaned.
"What's this?" Marco said, walking over to a device on the table, a peice of paper on
top of it read "Animorphs". A button was labeled "push me". He pushed the button and the image
of a boy, popped up, he looked almost excatly like Marco!
"This guy looks just like me, but his hair is down to his shoulders."
"He's cuter too." Rachel sighed.
"Hey!" Marco said. He was going to say more, but the the guy started talking.
"Hi! I'm Marco. I'm sorry I couldn't be there to greet you when you got here, but I am
out getting some food. I hope you have a soft spot for Dunkin Donuts and Coffee Coolatas. Feel
free to roam around the house, and when I get back I'll answer all your questions that I'm
capable of answering. Later!" The image blinked off.
"Gee, a plesant guy, ain't he?"
"Yeah."
There's something about him that just didn't feel right, and how did he
know we were coming?
"The Ellimist told him?"
"Eerie."
There was a loud thump and a giggle from below them. The Animorphs looked at eachother
and giggled nervously. Marco blinked and smiled "Someone's getting lucky down stairs."
"Thank God it's not you." Rachel smirked, "Stupid people shouldn't breed."
"Don't talk about yourself like that, it's bad for your self-esteem." Marco shot back.
Jake walked over to a picture and studied it. It was a picture of the boy from the
message and a guy that looked like him, but different. They were hugging, and not the way best
friends hug, more like a lovers hug. "Uhh, guys?"
"Hey look at this one!" Rachel said, pointing to another picture of the two boys.
There were two girls in the picture as well, they look alotlike Rachel and Cassie, but
the blonde's hair was longer than Rachel's, and the African American's hair was in dreds
down to her shoulders. They were all laughing in the picture.
"Here's another one." Cassie said pointing to a picture of a group of teenagers. One was
the Marco look-alike, another was the Jake look-alike, the other two were the Rachel and Cassie
look-alikes, but the other two looked like Ax and Tobias in human morph. They were all wearing
this grey and black uniform with FVP printed in white letters.
Someone's coming! Tobias said, just as the door opened to reveal the boy from the
message, holding packages from Dunkin Donuts, and a little Chihuahua, barking her head off at
them.
"So, you're the Animorphs." He said, looking at each of them, "I'm Marco. Did you get
the message?" They couldn't speak, they just nodded. "Good. I'll just put these on the table,
then we can talk." He smiled and breezed passed them. Jake walked over and shut the door.
"So.... dude, should we follow him?" Marco asked, looking to Jake.
Jake sighed, "Nothing left to do." They followed the other Marco into the kitchen,
sitting down as they listened to him hum as he unloaded everything. Music floated
up from downstairs. Cassie and rachel got up to search for plates.
"All my girls at the party look at that body, shakin' that thing like you never
did see. Gotta nice package, alright. Guess I'm gonna have to ride it tonight!" Voices sang
along to the music, badly.
The other Marco smiled, "Leave it to Rachel and Cassie to cut work and stay home." he
grinned that the Animorphs and winked.
There were two loud thumps as Cassie and Rachel sat down... hard.
Jake's jaw droped, "That was THEM making all the noise downstairs?!"
The other Marco laughed, "Oh, so they were making out. It's a teenage thing,
we do that here."
Jake sighed, "Nevermind."
"Don't tell me your homophobic." The other Marco said, his eyes watching each of them,
waiting for their reaction.
"No, it's just... creepy. See, in our dimention Jake's with Cassie and Rachel's
with Tobias."
"That sounds creepy." The other Marco said, then shook his head, "Umm, is there anything
you wanna know, so we can get to another subject?"
"Yeah, where are those two?" the now recoverd Cassie asked, shaking her head to clear it.
She pointed to the Tobias and Ax look alikes, then grabed a choclate creme filled.
"Tobias and Ax? Oh, they were sent to the moonbase of the FVP."
"Second question." Jake said, as he grabbed a Bavarian Creme donut and a French Vanilla
coffee coolata, "What's FVP stand for?"
"Federal Violence Preventers. Our Cassie came up with it."
"So you are a branch of government, like the FBI?" Rachel said, picking apart a bowtie.
"Actually, yes. But it's kinda like.... how do I say this?.... Think the X-Men." Jake and
Marco nodded, "The Xavier Instatute is the school for the mutants, but then there's the X-Men,
which is the deeper part of the school, am I right?" They nodded. "That's kinda like what the FVP
are. On the front we appear to be like the police or something, but on the inside we fight the
Yeerks."
"How did you get the morphing power?" Marco asked, taking a sip of his drink.
"Simple. We met Elfangor just like you did. But there was already and FVP, that we worked
in. Erek, our boss, decided that the FVP shouldfight the Yeerks, so that's our undercover thing."
Do you have code names? Tobias asked, preening his feathers.
"No.... altough we sometimes call Rachel 'Hot Ice'."
"Why?"
"Well, Rachel was always getting hit on, before she started datng Cassie, and our
original nickname for her was Ice Princess, because she was so cold to the guys. So one day,
this guy named Derek was talking to me, saying how hot she was, and said she was 'Hot Ice', it
stuck."
"Oh. but it's gonna get confusing you know." Jake said, polishing off his donut and
grabbing another one.
"So I figured. We'll figure out something. You can call me 'Marc', by the way. We could
always go the way of the Gundam and call you '01' and so on."
You watch Gundam Wing? Ax asked, it was the first thing he said the entire time he was
there.
"Yeah. When we get home from work, usually around six o'clock, we sit down and watch the
epsiode we taped."
"But what about when you have missions?" Rachel asked, leaning forward.
"Those are usually at night, so we have alittle time to ourselves. I usually meditate."
"You what?"
"Meditate. Clear my mind and concetrait on the mission. But usualy I get, ahem,
sidetract."
Rachel grinned, "By what?"
He sighed and got a far away look in his eyes, "Jake. He's the perfect guy." Marc
smiled and looked down while Marco blushed furiously. "We've been dating for three years,
our aniversary is coming up." He sighed again and looked at the Animorphs and observed Marco's
obivous distress. "Don't worry, I'll see if I can keep him inline while your here."
Rachel laughed, "Okay gossip time. Did he ask first?"
Marc looked genuinly confused, "Ask what?"
"To live with you."
"We bought the house together."
Cassie smiled at him, "Marc, how long have the other Rachel and Cassie been together?"
"They've been together for four years now. They are so cute together it's sickening."
The conversation continued like that until they heard a car pull into the driveway.
Marco paced across the room, with Velma following him. Jake had already left for work
and Cassie was playing with Ziggy Stardust, her and Rachel's Iguana. Marco was going to stay home and wait for the other animorphs. He was kinda weirded out by the fact that there was an alternate dimention with other versions of him,Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Ax and Tobias. He picked up a picture of Ax, Tobias, Jake, Rachel,Cassie and himself. Erek had taken it before Tobias and Ax had transfered to the moon base of the FVP, Federal Violence Preventors. The name was Cassie's idea, he remembered, smiling. Velma barked, demanding to be fed, bringing him out of his trip down memory lane.
"Okay okay, I'll feed you." Marco said to the Chihuahua, laughing. He walked into the
kitchen and opened a can of dog food for Velma. He dumped half of it into her bowl and walked
over to the frige to put the rest away for later. He then relized that he was going to go
food shopping after work, but with the arrival of those other Animorphs, he won't have time.
"I can always just pickup some munchies at the Dunkin Donuts. What do you think Velma?" The
little dog barked and wagged her tail happily. "Yeah. Come one girl. let's go for a walk,
but first I have to leave them a holonote."
***
"WHOA!" Cassie yelled as she fell to the floor from two feet in the air.
"CRAP!" Rachel shouted as she landed on an arm chair
Shit! Tobias shouted as he narrowly avoided get crushed by a falling Jake, who softened
his fall by going into a roll, a trick that Rachel had taught him.
"HELP ME!" Marco cried as fell, landing on a recliner that opened up when he landed.
Hey, I landed on a bed. Ax said, he did indeed land on the pull out bed.
Everyone else groaned.
"What's this?" Marco said, walking over to a device on the table, a peice of paper on
top of it read "Animorphs". A button was labeled "push me". He pushed the button and the image
of a boy, popped up, he looked almost excatly like Marco!
"This guy looks just like me, but his hair is down to his shoulders."
"He's cuter too." Rachel sighed.
"Hey!" Marco said. He was going to say more, but the the guy started talking.
"Hi! I'm Marco. I'm sorry I couldn't be there to greet you when you got here, but I am
out getting some food. I hope you have a soft spot for Dunkin Donuts and Coffee Coolatas. Feel
free to roam around the house, and when I get back I'll answer all your questions that I'm
capable of answering. Later!" The image blinked off.
"Gee, a plesant guy, ain't he?"
"Yeah."
There's something about him that just didn't feel right, and how did he
know we were coming?
"The Ellimist told him?"
"Eerie."
There was a loud thump and a giggle from below them. The Animorphs looked at eachother
and giggled nervously. Marco blinked and smiled "Someone's getting lucky down stairs."
"Thank God it's not you." Rachel smirked, "Stupid people shouldn't breed."
"Don't talk about yourself like that, it's bad for your self-esteem." Marco shot back.
Jake walked over to a picture and studied it. It was a picture of the boy from the
message and a guy that looked like him, but different. They were hugging, and not the way best
friends hug, more like a lovers hug. "Uhh, guys?"
"Hey look at this one!" Rachel said, pointing to another picture of the two boys.
There were two girls in the picture as well, they look alotlike Rachel and Cassie, but
the blonde's hair was longer than Rachel's, and the African American's hair was in dreds
down to her shoulders. They were all laughing in the picture.
"Here's another one." Cassie said pointing to a picture of a group of teenagers. One was
the Marco look-alike, another was the Jake look-alike, the other two were the Rachel and Cassie
look-alikes, but the other two looked like Ax and Tobias in human morph. They were all wearing
this grey and black uniform with FVP printed in white letters.
Someone's coming! Tobias said, just as the door opened to reveal the boy from the
message, holding packages from Dunkin Donuts, and a little Chihuahua, barking her head off at
them.
"So, you're the Animorphs." He said, looking at each of them, "I'm Marco. Did you get
the message?" They couldn't speak, they just nodded. "Good. I'll just put these on the table,
then we can talk." He smiled and breezed passed them. Jake walked over and shut the door.
"So.... dude, should we follow him?" Marco asked, looking to Jake.
Jake sighed, "Nothing left to do." They followed the other Marco into the kitchen,
sitting down as they listened to him hum as he unloaded everything. Music floated
up from downstairs. Cassie and rachel got up to search for plates.
"All my girls at the party look at that body, shakin' that thing like you never
did see. Gotta nice package, alright. Guess I'm gonna have to ride it tonight!" Voices sang
along to the music, badly.
The other Marco smiled, "Leave it to Rachel and Cassie to cut work and stay home." he
grinned that the Animorphs and winked.
There were two loud thumps as Cassie and Rachel sat down... hard.
Jake's jaw droped, "That was THEM making all the noise downstairs?!"
The other Marco laughed, "Oh, so they were making out. It's a teenage thing,
we do that here."
Jake sighed, "Nevermind."
"Don't tell me your homophobic." The other Marco said, his eyes watching each of them,
waiting for their reaction.
"No, it's just... creepy. See, in our dimention Jake's with Cassie and Rachel's
with Tobias."
"That sounds creepy." The other Marco said, then shook his head, "Umm, is there anything
you wanna know, so we can get to another subject?"
"Yeah, where are those two?" the now recoverd Cassie asked, shaking her head to clear it.
She pointed to the Tobias and Ax look alikes, then grabed a choclate creme filled.
"Tobias and Ax? Oh, they were sent to the moonbase of the FVP."
"Second question." Jake said, as he grabbed a Bavarian Creme donut and a French Vanilla
coffee coolata, "What's FVP stand for?"
"Federal Violence Preventers. Our Cassie came up with it."
"So you are a branch of government, like the FBI?" Rachel said, picking apart a bowtie.
"Actually, yes. But it's kinda like.... how do I say this?.... Think the X-Men." Jake and
Marco nodded, "The Xavier Instatute is the school for the mutants, but then there's the X-Men,
which is the deeper part of the school, am I right?" They nodded. "That's kinda like what the FVP
are. On the front we appear to be like the police or something, but on the inside we fight the
Yeerks."
"How did you get the morphing power?" Marco asked, taking a sip of his drink.
"Simple. We met Elfangor just like you did. But there was already and FVP, that we worked
in. Erek, our boss, decided that the FVP shouldfight the Yeerks, so that's our undercover thing."
Do you have code names? Tobias asked, preening his feathers.
"No.... altough we sometimes call Rachel 'Hot Ice'."
"Why?"
"Well, Rachel was always getting hit on, before she started datng Cassie, and our
original nickname for her was Ice Princess, because she was so cold to the guys. So one day,
this guy named Derek was talking to me, saying how hot she was, and said she was 'Hot Ice', it
stuck."
"Oh. but it's gonna get confusing you know." Jake said, polishing off his donut and
grabbing another one.
"So I figured. We'll figure out something. You can call me 'Marc', by the way. We could
always go the way of the Gundam and call you '01' and so on."
You watch Gundam Wing? Ax asked, it was the first thing he said the entire time he was
there.
"Yeah. When we get home from work, usually around six o'clock, we sit down and watch the
epsiode we taped."
"But what about when you have missions?" Rachel asked, leaning forward.
"Those are usually at night, so we have alittle time to ourselves. I usually meditate."
"You what?"
"Meditate. Clear my mind and concetrait on the mission. But usualy I get, ahem,
sidetract."
Rachel grinned, "By what?"
He sighed and got a far away look in his eyes, "Jake. He's the perfect guy." Marc
smiled and looked down while Marco blushed furiously. "We've been dating for three years,
our aniversary is coming up." He sighed again and looked at the Animorphs and observed Marco's
obivous distress. "Don't worry, I'll see if I can keep him inline while your here."
Rachel laughed, "Okay gossip time. Did he ask first?"
Marc looked genuinly confused, "Ask what?"
"To live with you."
"We bought the house together."
Cassie smiled at him, "Marc, how long have the other Rachel and Cassie been together?"
"They've been together for four years now. They are so cute together it's sickening."
The conversation continued like that until they heard a car pull into the driveway.