Lauren
After a minute, Helen spoke up. "How exactly do you think the Yeerks are doing it?" "Doing what?" Alberto asked.
"You know, infesting people. I mean they can't exactly grab people off the street and shove a slug in their head. That would be just a little suspicious. So how are they getting people to infest?" After a silence, "Yet another good question." Joey responded.
Caitlin groaned. "This is going to be harder then I thought. I thought we would just get some morphs, find their headquarters, kick some ass, and they'd leave." "Well if the Andalites couldn't do it in a 3-2-1 process Hope, what made you think that we could?" Alberto asked rhetorically. "Shut up Alberto."
James came in right then looking grim. Joey took one look at him and said "Oh God, what now?"
After taking a breath James hit us with it: "I just saw this kid walking down the street with the blue box. You know, the one Elfangor gave us the powers with?" Yet another silence broken by Lauren. "Shit." "What she said." Caitlin added.
After catching James up on what they had discussed, Lauren jumped in again. "So what we have to do is, find out how the Yeerks are luring people in, find out what a Yeerk pool is, find out the way in, destroy whatever this Yeerk pool thingy is, and get back the morphing cube from this kid. Am I missing anything?" "Yeah that's about it," answered James. "You have a gift for simplicity Lauren." Kyle said wryly. "No, she forgot one thing." Alberto said. "What's that?" "We have to find some hot chicks too!"
Caitlin and Lauren turned to James and whined "Can we hit him now???"
James
Okay...so we have 2 missions i suppose," I said said to Kyle, Helen, and joey because Alberto was too busy running from Caitlin and Lauren.
"Yeah," said Joey. "But which one is more important? The cube? Or the pool?" wondered Joey.
Everyone just shrugged, they weren't sure. .
"Well, i guess we could split into 2 teams. One team go after the morphing cube, and another team goes to the Yeerk Pool,"I suggested.
"Yeah that seems alright," Kyle agreed.
"I don't know, that might be dangerous," said Helen. "What if we need backup?"
"Well we could just spy out instead of attacking it full force, it would give us a major advantage," said Joey.
I nodded. "Then it's agreed. I'll go with Helen and Alberto to get the morphing cube back from the kid, and the rest of you can go spy out the cavern. Cool?" said Jake.
Everyone nodded.
"But how will you find the kid?" asked Kyle.
"Luckily i saw which way he went, i followed him a bit, i'm pretty sure i know what area he lives in," pondered James thoughtfully.
I looked at each of them. "Be careful. Don't do anything stupid."
They all had looks of bewilderment on their faces.
"Of course we're not gonna do anything stupid. Alberto's going with your team remember?" Kyle said.
Everyone smiled at that.
"Speaking of Marco...shouldn't we help him?" asked Helen.
"Don't worry, eventually Caitlin and Lauren will get tired," said Joey.
"Yeah but didn't anyone tell Alberto that Lauren and Caitlin are Cross country runners?" asked Helen.
"Nope," I said with a smile.
Meanwhile.....
In the Yeerk Pool. A young controller runs to tell Visser his findings.
"Visser! We have detected the escafil device is still active," declared a controller.
Very good, fool. I learned that 2 hours ago frommy other scientists, you are very slow, The first ever Andailite controller said. I have no need for people who don't progress.
SLASH!
Quick as lightning the tail blade of Visser 3 slashed and cut off the man's head.
Clean this mess up! Visser 3 ordered the nearby hork-bajir. I want that cube. Get it at all costs.
Daniel
I was in my room inspecting the box I had found. My dog Walton came into my room and sat on the floor wagging his tail with his tongue hanging out. I was petting him on the back when he whent limp and stopped wagging his tail.
I was startled at this for a second but after a minute he came out of his trance and continued being his normal, happy self.
He left the room and I started to think about what happened to him. Just then,thick brown fur started to grow out of my hands and then spreaded out of my arms. I yelled in horror and closed my eyes.
When I opened them,I was back to my normal self. I looked at the small blue box and decided that I should put it somewhere safe.
Trying to forget about that,I went to the window and looked out. Up in the sky were 3 large birds of prey........
Agahim
I am Agahim two-three-double-six of the Fraten Hutt Pool. My rank is Sub-Visser 7. My twin is of fighting the war on Leera. My host? An adolescent Hork-bajir by the name of Haff Jekinpal. My host body is a fit
one, except he has scars across his chest, tail, right hand and left eye. All from battles I have fought.
I have had three other host bodies. A gedd, a second Hork-Bajir and a Human. The
Gedd was left behind me after I was promoted to Sub-Visser 34, the Human I did not
like for they are a weak species with no natural weapons, but I do however use this
female human host for times when I need to enter the human world, but this is not
often. She was called Rochelle or Rockie. As for the Hork-Bajir, she was killed in
battle, one of which I was recuperating from still now.
At the moment, I am blind. I can hardly hear. I am swimming in what appears to be
molten lead.
Suddenly, a disturbance! I echo-locate. I 'saw' the scared eye. Haff. My host. I swam
towards his ear canal. I felt with my palps. Yes! I could see again. I had physical
power.
Half was screaming. No matter.
The only thing about Hork-Bajir I dislike is the fact that you are not an andalite and
thus have no morphing powers. If only I could morph! I'm sure that if I could, I would ahigh ranking Visser at the very least! But I could never become morph capable. Never! Visser Three will always be my superiour and there is nothing I can do about that.
Morphing...........what a wonderful piece of technolegy!
I walked toward a 'bark dump' in a corner of the pool complex. I spoted Visser Three acting all tough in front of an inferiour Sub-Visser. Sub-Visser 34.
The Visser morphed!!! He morphed into a vanarax and succed the yeerk right out of the human hosts head!!!
Take her to the pool to be re-infested
He noticed me. He turned three of his eyes towards me as he demorphed. He knew!!! he knew I wished more than anything to morph and was rubbing it in my face! i stared back with my one good eye. Someday it would be me in that position.
Someday..........
Alberto
There. That's the kid, said James.
Me, James, and Helen were up above in the clouds in bird of prey morphs. With our lazer eye vision we spotted the blue box on his dresser. and luckily his window was open and all we had to do is wait for him to get out of the room.
Hey, i think he spotted us, I said.
The boy looked out the window and looked high into the sky straight at us. He had a look of suspicsion on his face, and closed the window.
Well, there goes that plan. Now what? I asked.
i dunno, said James. We could try morphing something small and sneak into his room?
Small? As in what? Flea small? You wish buddy. I'm not THAT insane, i said.
Helen sighed.
I hope Joey and the others are having better luck than us spying out the yeerk pool, said Helen.
Helen
Me, Alberto + James landed on the top of the house.
What to do now? I asked
Well, we cant get through the window... so... lets try the door! Suggested James. He jumped of the roof + disappeared round the side of the house,
Its open, a women is watering the plants in the front He reported, We just need a morph that wont look suspisious dissapearing into the house, + we need it fast!
He landed back up on the roof + we sat there in silence, thinking...
Just please, don't, say bugs Said Alberto
No, not bugs I said, They'd take too long to get there... wouldnt they?
Wellll..... Said James Flys are pretty fast...
For a minute we considered this...
How about a......mouse? I asked hopefully.
A MOUSE??!! asked Alberto incredulously. Man our team sucks.
James sighed. I hope Joey's team has better luck than we are
Joey
I slid 'A study in Scarlet' back onto the shelf, It was kinda weird. Anyone who'd seen me carrying a Sherlock Holmes novel would have thought I was a geek. Obviously the Yeerks really hadn't thought out the choice of books. We all crowded into the janitor's closet, I rapped on the wall with my knuckles, the door slid open silently.
"Do we morph up here, or what?' Caitlin whspered.
"Check it out as humans first." I said.
It was a question I'd been asking myself repeatedly, I'd decided on spying out as humans, before attacking. I stared down the now open path, it was just a long, steel ramp, with a hole of white light at the end. We didn't see any controllers walking up it, so I guess it was only an entrance, we'd have to find another way out.
We paced closer, the flash got brighter, and I saw glimpses of humans, but nothing could prepare me for the horror of the Yeerk Pool. It was huge! Just a huge cavern, it must have stretched under half the town!
We just stood and stared n disbelief, this was too big...
"No." I said under my breath, "No."
"It's so big." Lauren said. "It's...too big."
The outside was full of buildings, not particularly big. But large in number. They surrounded the edge of the cavern, and a couple were standing in the middle, but the shock was the pool itself. It was just like a slightly smaller version of a normal pool, the kind you'd normally see kids messing around in. But the liquid was a sludgy grey, and swimming and jumping around in it were Yeerks.
I'd seen one in the pictures the Andalite showed me, but in real life, it was different. These were real, and then my gaze was drawn to the true horrors. A steel pier, that stretched a quarter of the way out into the pool, and on that pier, a middle-aged man stood, two Hork-Bajir behind him. The man calmly dipped his head to one side, and out of it came a Yeerk. Slithering and worming it's way out of the man's ear. I screwed my eyes shut, I didn't want to see this. Then the man started screaming.
"HELP! HELP ME!" He yelled, tears brimming in his eyes. "LET ME GO! I WON'T LET YOU DO THIS TO ME!"
The Hork-Bajir just forced him off the pier, indifferent, they dragged him over to a cage and threw him in, along with 6 other people, a couple, hugging each other in their few moments of freedom, an old woman, a man in a police officer's uniform, a kid, my age. All yelling, or crying. Another cage, and another, full of slaves of the Yeerks.
They all had no hope, we were here to give them some.
I watched, as the boy was taken from the cage, by 2 Hork-Bajir, they took him past a cage, full of other Hork-Bajir, stronger bars, of course. The creatures paced up and down, slashing their blades and bellowing in thick, fierce voices. The guards took the boy over to the second pier, and from this point, the memories will be branded onto my brain for eternity.
They grabbed the boy, one Hork-Bajir kicked his legs from under him, sending him slamming down onto the steel. The boy screamed one last time, tears rolling down his face, and then....his head went under the water, and after 2 seconds, he emerged, once again a slave in his own head. One of us started crying, I saw a human-controller glance our way, but he must have been busy, he walked past.
"Shh! I know it's tough, but you have to hold up." I don't know who I was saying it to, maybe I was even saying it to myself. Caitlin asked the question that we were all asking ourselves.
"How do we do it?" She said, shaking her head. "Joey, this is too big, we can't do this, just....turn back."
I nodded, and turned back to the entrance, and then stopped. A scream pierced the air, another person.... wasn't doing this? To save the planet?
"No."
Everyone turned to look at me.
"We're doing this, we have to."
Kyle nodded in silent agreement, one by one, they all realised. This wasn't a decision. This was a duty.
I had a plan, I just hoped it would work.
"We get over to one of those shacks," I announced, pointing. "Then we morph, best fighting animals, I'll be a Hork-Bajir, so I can spy out for us. If you guys cause some damage, I could work out how to destroy this place, plus, I could maybe grab a dracon beam."
I was just making it up, to encourage the others. I never thought it would have been like this. I never thought I would be the one giving out the orders. But fate had played it that way, and I couldn't change it.
"Our Animal morphs will be useless for attacking the pool itself, but a Dracon beam might do a lot better. Once the pool is gone, they can't feed, so..."
I stopped breathing. My eyes had just passed the second pier, and I'd seen...
"Joey, what?" Lauren's voice. "What then?"
No, it wasn't.....
It wasn't!
Caitlin grabbed my shoulder, 'What is it!?'
The woman, kneeling down on the pier, screaming for mercy was...
"Mom...."
