A/N: *stares around the fandom, amazed* Gosh, I never thought I'd write for Animorphs again...and yet, here I am, posting a ficcy. I haven't been in here since before the chaptering system...Wow. But anyway, some inspiration struck me when I was re-reading 'The Android (canon book 10)'...the part where Erek is telling the Animorphs (minus Rachel) about their escape to this world...I wanted to know more about the Pemalites... Anyways, here's the story! (This chapter is just so ya get to know the characters a little. The actual plot will begin later.)
Disclaimer: I do not own the Pemalites or the Chee; however, Weffy and Jath are OC's. Raffy and Ceth are sort of OC's--they're early versions of some of the chars we know and love :)
Weffy laughed. She smiled at Jath. "I know something you don't know!"
Jath rolled his eyes, smiling. "Of course you do! You're a psychic! You always know stuff I don't!" Jath said that without any resentment in his voice whatsoever. He knew that, although Weffy was psychic, she wasn't very good at math (no offense to Weffy, of course), and that was something he could do easily. They were perfectly even, as both of the talents were equally important and useful.
"Mom's building an android! She said she might be able to program a sense of humor! That'll be amazing!" Weffy said, dancing with excitement.
"Oh! That'd be great! I hope we can program a sense of humor into the other androids! Laughing is so much fun!"
Weffy nodded, smiling. "Yep! Laughing is the happiest thing on anywhere!"
"I hope she succeeds!"
"So do I!"
Suddenly, Weffy jumped up and down. That didn't particularly surprise Jath, as she was the happiest person he knew (and he knew lots of people), and the most easily-pleased.
"Guess what! Guess what! She's activating the android right now! She's testing it out!" Weffy's powers were not affected by distance at all. "She's telling it a joke--IT'S LAUGHING! IT WORKED! MOM PROGRAMMED HUMOR INTO A CHEE!"
"Yay!" Jath cheered.
It was only a few minutes before most of the planet knew that there was a program for a sense of humor. And it was only about an hour before each Chee had been given one. And it was less than a day before the celebrations started. Not a Pemalite on the planet wasn't happier than they were normally (and that was an awful lot).
"Hiya, Raffy!" Weffy yelled at a Chee. Raffy was her next-door neighbor, and had been among the first to get the sense of humor.
"Hello, Weffy!" the Chee replied. She laughed. "I just can't get used to laughing! This is the best feeling ever!"
"I told ya so!" Weffy started laughing, too. "Laughing is the best thing in the world!"
"Nobody can debate that!" Jath agreed, also laughing.
"Why did the chicken cross the road?" Raffy asked suddenly. "To get to the other side!" Everyone started laughing even harder. Even a joke as old as that (many people said it could be traced several millennia back) was funny.
Weffy turned to look at her home. In about five seconds, someone would be coming out of it, she knew. An android. Yes, the one her mother had built with the sense-of-humor program.
"Hiya!" she called as he opened the door. The Chee waved at her.
"Hello!" Ceth replied, smiling.
"I'm hungry! Let's go get something to eat," Weffy said.
"Me, too!" Jath replied.
(Of course, Ceth and Raffy weren't hungry, as Chee don't need to eat, but they agreed to go anyway.)
A/N: *sweatdrop* They sound like they're hippies, high, five-year-olds, or all of the above, don't they? Oh, well. (BTW, 'Ceth' is pronounced 'seth'. Raffy is pronounced 'RAFF-ee'. Weffy is pronounced 'WEFF-ee'. Jath is pronounced 'jath', just in case y'all wanted to know.) *re-reads chapter* ^^;; The end of the chapter sorta stinks as an ending place, don't it? Oh, well...