A/N: hmm... okay! I took the other version off to add this authurs note. and just to say that this isn't exactly what I had
in mind when I first thought of this. Wow, I guess it just sounded better on paper. I dunno. Its not exactly what I wanted.
But I hope ya read it, ya know, just to see. Tell me what ya think please. Oh and this isn't some alternate ending. I actually
mostly liked how Animorphs ended... I guess. Well anyways. On with the story already!!
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Rachel, I have a job for you Jake said.
And I knew. I knew that moment, when he started to explain, how it was all going to end. How it was all going to balance
out.
Good idea, Ellimist, Crayak I said to them privately. I don't know if they had heard me or not, but it didn't matter.
They knew. Knew as well as I did. It wasn't Jake's idea. Not really. It had just come to him. Yea, right. It had just
come to him, as the Hork Bajir valley had just came to, sweet, poor Tobias, so long ago. It had been planted there.
Given to him. A deadly gift, that's what it was. It had nothing to do with pieces falling into place, or one of Marco's
ruthless lines from A-Z. It had been Crayak, and Ellimist; it was all part of our deal. My deal, the deal that I hoped,
thought, would save my sanity, or at least my soul. Jake was done explaining, "his" suicidal, kamikaze plan. Waiting
for my reaction, wondering…no, knowing that I would do it, that I alone would do it. I played along
Are you sure, Jake I asked, trying to sound hesitant, hopeful, that he would, could give me something else to do.
Because, if you tell me "Go!" I'll follow your orders. You know what that means Yea, try to talk him down, see if
I could get him to change his mind, of course, he wouldn't.
Yea, Rachel, I know what that means. He said. He began to sound regretful. Trying to hide what he already knew,
what we both knew.
I wanted to back down. To prove him wrong, that I wouldn't just go running off to certain death, but that wasn't part of
the deal, now was it? But still, I would have to play along, to try and make him see the right and wrong, as Cassie would
have tried to do.
It won't be the Yeerk, Jake. It'll be Tom. It'll be him Yea, that sounded reasonable. Sounded right, well as right as this
completely wrong plan could be.
His voice hardened just a bit I know that he said, but then it softened, so many emotions, no way to hide them, that's
what it was, that and because what he said next would officially seal my fate. And I… if it happens, if it comes down
that way, I don't have a plan for getting you out. You'd be on your own.
All the better, I thought bitterly, at least I won't have to worry about taking anyone down with me. I could " give in to my
need to bash heads," as Marco had said once, without putting anyone else's neck on the line. But to him I said,
That's how I like it.
Okay then. Get started. Make sure Cassie doesn't know. He said.
Say what!? I thought. You still don't trust her? I raged.
She loves us both, Rachel he said wearily, I can't make her part of this, I can't let her know in advance, so, you
know, if it happens, if it happens, I don't want her spending the rest of her life wondering if she could have stopped
it somehow.
Yea, that makes sense. I guess that means Tobias can't know either. He'll want to come help me. But that would mean
both of us... Couldn't let that happen. Won't let that happen. I just hope that Cassie, and Tobias are going to be okay.
Please. I pleaded silently, and Jake... oh, God. It hit me then, like a hundred Hork Bajir. Killing two birds with one stone?
Is that what he had meant? The only way Crayak would agree. Jake would be so messed up after this. Tom had been
his main goal. His reason to fight, to live, to not give up, it had been his only way to see through all the confusion. Maybe,
I hoped, I can warn him, let him know, that what he's doing is right, not wrong, that I agree. Maybe...
Okay, Jake. You're right. And you're right to use me for this. Not exactly something I'm proud of, maybe, but later, you
know if- don't be blaming yourself, okay?
And with that delivered, I angled my eagle's wings, and took off. I had a mission, my last mission that just might,
determine the end of this forsaken war.
ARE YOU READY, RACHEL?
I looked at the sun, at the world around me. Taking it all in. Not that it would matter. By the end of the day, I would be
dead. I was sure of that. But at least for now, maybe, I wanted to remember the rush, excitement, thrill, and rapture of
flying, high above it all.
I dove, down, everything, so fast, all a blur, speeding by, the ground, the grass, and ants pulling a berry along. And then I
hit the brakes, pulled up just in time to keep from becoming a splattered mural on the ground. Yeah, Ellimist. I answered.
Lets do it!!
A/N: Okay this is it for now, I may continue it, maybe, but it all depends... But if I get a good response, I'll continue it.
It may take a while, but it'll happen. So what do ya think so far? r+r, flames excepted.
in mind when I first thought of this. Wow, I guess it just sounded better on paper. I dunno. Its not exactly what I wanted.
But I hope ya read it, ya know, just to see. Tell me what ya think please. Oh and this isn't some alternate ending. I actually
mostly liked how Animorphs ended... I guess. Well anyways. On with the story already!!
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Rachel, I have a job for you Jake said.
And I knew. I knew that moment, when he started to explain, how it was all going to end. How it was all going to balance
out.
Good idea, Ellimist, Crayak I said to them privately. I don't know if they had heard me or not, but it didn't matter.
They knew. Knew as well as I did. It wasn't Jake's idea. Not really. It had just come to him. Yea, right. It had just
come to him, as the Hork Bajir valley had just came to, sweet, poor Tobias, so long ago. It had been planted there.
Given to him. A deadly gift, that's what it was. It had nothing to do with pieces falling into place, or one of Marco's
ruthless lines from A-Z. It had been Crayak, and Ellimist; it was all part of our deal. My deal, the deal that I hoped,
thought, would save my sanity, or at least my soul. Jake was done explaining, "his" suicidal, kamikaze plan. Waiting
for my reaction, wondering…no, knowing that I would do it, that I alone would do it. I played along
Are you sure, Jake I asked, trying to sound hesitant, hopeful, that he would, could give me something else to do.
Because, if you tell me "Go!" I'll follow your orders. You know what that means Yea, try to talk him down, see if
I could get him to change his mind, of course, he wouldn't.
Yea, Rachel, I know what that means. He said. He began to sound regretful. Trying to hide what he already knew,
what we both knew.
I wanted to back down. To prove him wrong, that I wouldn't just go running off to certain death, but that wasn't part of
the deal, now was it? But still, I would have to play along, to try and make him see the right and wrong, as Cassie would
have tried to do.
It won't be the Yeerk, Jake. It'll be Tom. It'll be him Yea, that sounded reasonable. Sounded right, well as right as this
completely wrong plan could be.
His voice hardened just a bit I know that he said, but then it softened, so many emotions, no way to hide them, that's
what it was, that and because what he said next would officially seal my fate. And I… if it happens, if it comes down
that way, I don't have a plan for getting you out. You'd be on your own.
All the better, I thought bitterly, at least I won't have to worry about taking anyone down with me. I could " give in to my
need to bash heads," as Marco had said once, without putting anyone else's neck on the line. But to him I said,
That's how I like it.
Okay then. Get started. Make sure Cassie doesn't know. He said.
Say what!? I thought. You still don't trust her? I raged.
She loves us both, Rachel he said wearily, I can't make her part of this, I can't let her know in advance, so, you
know, if it happens, if it happens, I don't want her spending the rest of her life wondering if she could have stopped
it somehow.
Yea, that makes sense. I guess that means Tobias can't know either. He'll want to come help me. But that would mean
both of us... Couldn't let that happen. Won't let that happen. I just hope that Cassie, and Tobias are going to be okay.
Please. I pleaded silently, and Jake... oh, God. It hit me then, like a hundred Hork Bajir. Killing two birds with one stone?
Is that what he had meant? The only way Crayak would agree. Jake would be so messed up after this. Tom had been
his main goal. His reason to fight, to live, to not give up, it had been his only way to see through all the confusion. Maybe,
I hoped, I can warn him, let him know, that what he's doing is right, not wrong, that I agree. Maybe...
Okay, Jake. You're right. And you're right to use me for this. Not exactly something I'm proud of, maybe, but later, you
know if- don't be blaming yourself, okay?
And with that delivered, I angled my eagle's wings, and took off. I had a mission, my last mission that just might,
determine the end of this forsaken war.
ARE YOU READY, RACHEL?
I looked at the sun, at the world around me. Taking it all in. Not that it would matter. By the end of the day, I would be
dead. I was sure of that. But at least for now, maybe, I wanted to remember the rush, excitement, thrill, and rapture of
flying, high above it all.
I dove, down, everything, so fast, all a blur, speeding by, the ground, the grass, and ants pulling a berry along. And then I
hit the brakes, pulled up just in time to keep from becoming a splattered mural on the ground. Yeah, Ellimist. I answered.
Lets do it!!
A/N: Okay this is it for now, I may continue it, maybe, but it all depends... But if I get a good response, I'll continue it.
It may take a while, but it'll happen. So what do ya think so far? r+r, flames excepted.
