CHAPTER 6
Cassie
That night the Ellimist visited me.
It was just becoming dark, and I was walking home (which was some abandoned half-alive park), when someone seemed to jump out at me.
"Cassie," he said. He was in human form, and old man leaning on a cane.
"Yes," I said in a semi-exasperated voice. I was exhausted, but he didn't seem to notice.
"I've come to warn you," He said. "Have you noticed any strange coincidencs lately?"
"Umm..." I thought.
"Like Rachel dying, Ax disappearing..." He hinted.
"Oh." I said. Of course.
"Cassie, I fear you are the cause of these... happenings."
"Huh?" I asked, totally taken by suprise. It was like a blow to the back of my head as I was waking up.
"Do you remember a long time ago when you and the other Animorphs were sent to another timeline to try and live like normal kids? Well, you wrecked that timeline." He paused. "I think you are breaking up this timeline, too. This time you're sub-consiously modifiying it so that it fits the other timeline.
"Can you do anything about this?" I asked.
"I'm afraid not," He said. Can the Ellimist even be afraid? "But... I can warn you about something that will happen tomorrow."
"...And what would that be?" I asked when he didn't tell me what it was.
"Jake is going to try to rescue Ax. He'll be accompanied by Tobias, Marco, an Andalite nothlit stuck in human form named Mendresh, and another woman.
"Oh." I said. I was so tired I was ready to pass out right there on the spot.
"Cassie, you need to stop Jake."
I nodded, went back home, and fell asleep in two seconds flat.
*Ax*
Slowly, I regained consciousness. When I was almost fully awake, I took notice of my surroundings.
Like the air. It was unbreathably thin, it was a wonder I had regained consciousness -- or survived -- at all.
I knew I was stuck in a ship of some sort. It was tiny. Not Helmacron sized, just smaller than the average Andalite dome ship. I couldn't see yet, but I knew it was a ship. My claustrophobia was starting to kick in. I've heard that it is uncommon for humans to have claustrophobia, was this a human ship?
I laughed to myself. Humans did not have the technology to build such a ship. The only kind they could make was one that could barely make it to the moon and back... although, that was thirty years ago...
It smelled like humans were around, alright. I could now see dimly. I was in a narrow room, and there was a door in the northwest corner.
I slowy stood up. We seemed to be moving, but I was not sure where. My sense of direction was thrown off. We were definitely in space.
I walked over to the corner, and readied my tail. I opened the door. There was a single Andalite-Controller with a dracon beam guarding the exit.
::Hey...!:: He said, but before he could react anymore, I knocked him out with the side of my tail blade, and took his dracon.
::Tsk,:: I thought. ::They really don't make Andalite-Controllers the way they used to.:: It was that they on that I realized the truth behind human sarcasm... the worst sarcastic remarks come when one is extremely nervous or stressed, but still everybody laughs.
I looked around. Now I was in a hallway, with half a dozen doors in front of me, three doors on each side. There was also a door on the opposite wall of the door that I had come out of. ::Probably the operating room,:: I told myself.
Then, something in the back of my head urged my to morph to fly. So I did, and not a second too soon.
Just as I finished morphing, Visser One emerged from the door I had assumed was the operating room. He spotted the unconscious guard on the floor near the room I had come out of.
::GET. THAT. ANDALITE!:: He hissed. Suddenly, two Andalite-Controllers emerged from each of the half dozen doors on either side of me.
::Phew,:: I thought. ::It's a good thing I didn't look in any of those doors...:: I looked at the Andalite Controllers. ::Uh-oh.:: Two of them were armed with bug spray... I looked around for an escape. Ah yes, the operating room! Visser One had left it slightly open. If I could only fly across the hall unnoticed, I could easily morph back to an Andalite in that room, and maybe take out Visser One before I died... heroicly, like my brother...
::Visser One!:: One of the guards said. ::I found it!::
I looked at the one who said it. He was pointing at me!
::No, over here!:: I yelled. Visser One and the other guards looked around, thinking that one of their own men had said it. I took the momentary distraction to fly out of sight of the guards, and gain a little ground on my destination. But with thirteen Andalites with great vision patrolling the hall, with dracon beams and bug spray, this wasn't going to be easy.
And as if that wasn't hard enough, one of them had managed to spray me with the bug spray, and I was rapidly losing altitude. I couldn't tell whether I would make it into the door, or fall to the ground in front of it. But it was my only choice to try to make it.
*Tobias*
I woke up in a flash. ::What a dream!:: I thought. ::I mean, if birds even HAVE dreams.:: I had dreamed that I was Ax, stuck on some strange Yeerk ship. How odd...
Cassie
That night the Ellimist visited me.
It was just becoming dark, and I was walking home (which was some abandoned half-alive park), when someone seemed to jump out at me.
"Cassie," he said. He was in human form, and old man leaning on a cane.
"Yes," I said in a semi-exasperated voice. I was exhausted, but he didn't seem to notice.
"I've come to warn you," He said. "Have you noticed any strange coincidencs lately?"
"Umm..." I thought.
"Like Rachel dying, Ax disappearing..." He hinted.
"Oh." I said. Of course.
"Cassie, I fear you are the cause of these... happenings."
"Huh?" I asked, totally taken by suprise. It was like a blow to the back of my head as I was waking up.
"Do you remember a long time ago when you and the other Animorphs were sent to another timeline to try and live like normal kids? Well, you wrecked that timeline." He paused. "I think you are breaking up this timeline, too. This time you're sub-consiously modifiying it so that it fits the other timeline.
"Can you do anything about this?" I asked.
"I'm afraid not," He said. Can the Ellimist even be afraid? "But... I can warn you about something that will happen tomorrow."
"...And what would that be?" I asked when he didn't tell me what it was.
"Jake is going to try to rescue Ax. He'll be accompanied by Tobias, Marco, an Andalite nothlit stuck in human form named Mendresh, and another woman.
"Oh." I said. I was so tired I was ready to pass out right there on the spot.
"Cassie, you need to stop Jake."
I nodded, went back home, and fell asleep in two seconds flat.
*Ax*
Slowly, I regained consciousness. When I was almost fully awake, I took notice of my surroundings.
Like the air. It was unbreathably thin, it was a wonder I had regained consciousness -- or survived -- at all.
I knew I was stuck in a ship of some sort. It was tiny. Not Helmacron sized, just smaller than the average Andalite dome ship. I couldn't see yet, but I knew it was a ship. My claustrophobia was starting to kick in. I've heard that it is uncommon for humans to have claustrophobia, was this a human ship?
I laughed to myself. Humans did not have the technology to build such a ship. The only kind they could make was one that could barely make it to the moon and back... although, that was thirty years ago...
It smelled like humans were around, alright. I could now see dimly. I was in a narrow room, and there was a door in the northwest corner.
I slowy stood up. We seemed to be moving, but I was not sure where. My sense of direction was thrown off. We were definitely in space.
I walked over to the corner, and readied my tail. I opened the door. There was a single Andalite-Controller with a dracon beam guarding the exit.
::Hey...!:: He said, but before he could react anymore, I knocked him out with the side of my tail blade, and took his dracon.
::Tsk,:: I thought. ::They really don't make Andalite-Controllers the way they used to.:: It was that they on that I realized the truth behind human sarcasm... the worst sarcastic remarks come when one is extremely nervous or stressed, but still everybody laughs.
I looked around. Now I was in a hallway, with half a dozen doors in front of me, three doors on each side. There was also a door on the opposite wall of the door that I had come out of. ::Probably the operating room,:: I told myself.
Then, something in the back of my head urged my to morph to fly. So I did, and not a second too soon.
Just as I finished morphing, Visser One emerged from the door I had assumed was the operating room. He spotted the unconscious guard on the floor near the room I had come out of.
::GET. THAT. ANDALITE!:: He hissed. Suddenly, two Andalite-Controllers emerged from each of the half dozen doors on either side of me.
::Phew,:: I thought. ::It's a good thing I didn't look in any of those doors...:: I looked at the Andalite Controllers. ::Uh-oh.:: Two of them were armed with bug spray... I looked around for an escape. Ah yes, the operating room! Visser One had left it slightly open. If I could only fly across the hall unnoticed, I could easily morph back to an Andalite in that room, and maybe take out Visser One before I died... heroicly, like my brother...
::Visser One!:: One of the guards said. ::I found it!::
I looked at the one who said it. He was pointing at me!
::No, over here!:: I yelled. Visser One and the other guards looked around, thinking that one of their own men had said it. I took the momentary distraction to fly out of sight of the guards, and gain a little ground on my destination. But with thirteen Andalites with great vision patrolling the hall, with dracon beams and bug spray, this wasn't going to be easy.
And as if that wasn't hard enough, one of them had managed to spray me with the bug spray, and I was rapidly losing altitude. I couldn't tell whether I would make it into the door, or fall to the ground in front of it. But it was my only choice to try to make it.
*Tobias*
I woke up in a flash. ::What a dream!:: I thought. ::I mean, if birds even HAVE dreams.:: I had dreamed that I was Ax, stuck on some strange Yeerk ship. How odd...