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I stood outside Stacey's cell for a moment. Is it possible she was telling the truth, would Visser One infest me once he achieved world domination? I shook the thought from my mind, of course she was lying, she was Jake's daughter. The apple never falls far from the tree. I headed back to my quarters but as I approached the visser's chamber something told me I should at least investigate her assumptions.
"I must be crazy," I groaned.
I began morphing to cockroach. My skin turned brown and glossy as the exoskeleton formed.
POP! POP! Two segmented legs exploded from my waist.
There was a sick sloshing sound as my insides liquified and became nothing but a loose bag of guts. The floor rushed up to hit me as I shrank. The antennae appeared and the change was complete. I squeezed myself through the crack between the bottom of the door and the floor and crawled into the visser's room. He was there with one of his troops discussing the progress of the invasion.
"Things are moving much faster than I expected," Visser One said, "within less than a year this world will be ours and then no one will stop us from taking the rest of the universe. We've already infiltrated the Andalite planet, it's only a matter of time before they are under complete Yeerk control."
"What about the human boy? You said he would remain free."
"David? Hah! I have no intention doing such a thing. I will have him infested before too long, right now he is to use at my discretion."
That son of a bitch! I had heard enough.
I went back to my room and demorphed. "That bitch was telling the truth! I can't believe this!"
I was really pissed off now. I couldn't go to her and say she was right, Visser One would know I was spying on him the moment he touched her brain. I had to wait for the right time to strike. Visser One would die, I was going to see to that.
That night my mind was plagued with nightmares from the events that have happened recently. I heard Stacey's voice in my dream.
To him you're just another Animorph.
I was an Animorph, and the Animorphs are Visser One's arch enemies, which meant that I was his enemy. The more I thought about it the more I realized I had been wrong the entire time. It wasn't really Jake's fault my parents were taken from me, they did all they could to save them, I just wasn't willing to admit it until now. But I still had it out for them trapping me as a rat. I guess I could forgive them for that. The next vision was the most disturbing. It was of Stacey's mom being murdered. I stared in horror as her body twitched with death spasms and blood pooled all around her from the massive hole blown through her chest. At that point I felt a pang of guilt. What had I done? That poor girl's mother was dead and I helped to do it by not doing anything to stop it, and it was all because I was blinded by the need for revenge. I decided then and there that I was no longer a part of this invasion, I was now part of the resistance.
YOU DARE DEFY ME?! a loud voice erupted in my mind. It was Crayak. I GAVE YOU ANOTHER CHANCE TO GET REVENGE ON JAKE AND YOU TURN SOFT!
"I was wrong! I don't want revenge anymore, I want to fight."
THEN YOU SHALL LIVE THE REMAINDER OF YOUR LIFE AS A RAT, ALONE AND SCARED.
I won't let you do that Crayak, another voice said.
ELLIMIST! Crayak hissed. I could tell by his tone that these two were rivals. WE MADE AN AGREEMENT: I WOULD GIVE HIM BACK HIS MORPHING POWER IF HE HELPED WITH THE INVASION.
Obviously there's been a change in plans. And heart. He will remain here with his powers fully functional.
VERY WELL, BUT THIS IS FAR FROM OVER.
I heard no more from Crayak after that. But who or what was this Ellimist? A blue light illuminated the room and a blue humanoid creature appeared in front of me.
"Obi-Wan?"
"I am the Ellimist," he said. "I have been watching you David, and I must say that I am most disappointed in you. A person with your potential shouldn't be fighting for slavery, you should be fighting for freedom."
"I know. I realize that now," I told him. "What exactly are you anyway, you're not human, that much I know."
"I am an Ellimist. An all-powerful being with the ability to alter space and time and destroy entire planets."
"If you're all-powerful then why did you let Stacey's mom die? Why didn't you help her?"
"We do not interfere, we only assist in the lives of others."
"That's bullshit! You mean to tell me you have all this power and you just sit on your ass and do nothing?!"
"I am willing, however, to let you keep your powers and live as a human. But on one condition; you help Stacey escape and fight alongside the Animorphs to free the planet from the Yeerks."
I thought for a moment. After all I did I wasn't so sure they would let me join them without proving they could trust me again. "Okay. But I have to wait for the right opportunity."
The Ellimist nodded. "Remember: you have a task to complete now. I expect you to succeed."
With those last words he vaporized and disappeared. I had a duty to
protect the human race from a fate worse than death, and it would begin
by freeing one person. A person I had begun to develop feelings for. I
would gain Visser One's trust before I made my move, that way he wouldn't
suspect me so quickly. I just hoped I would make it out of this alive.