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Chapter 5: Back to Earth

December 25th, 2004

We were right about one thing when we were making our calculations. It WAS a long way up to the top. And I also found out something new-Mallards do get tired, and my size didn't make it much easier. It took a LOT of straining to get to the top.

By the time we got to the Iskoort world, I had about a minute to demorph. Luckily, from all the practicing I had done it took about three seconds for me to turn human again. We were a little bit worried about how the "Squick" would work, so I made sure I only used the size of the Squid, so I was basically a huge duck.

Anyway, back in my human body me, Jeanne, Menderash and the Mundu started to walk through the Iskoort skyscrapers.

"So, how exactly are we going to get a spaceship." Jeanne asked, "It's not like we have any money."

"Nah, I have a pretty good idea how we are going to pay." I replied. Of course the idea was that we would sell our memories. I suddenly had a picture in my head of a rich Guide and an even richer Spaceship dealer, insulting Guide because Guide didn't have the "complete" Marco memory, but he did. I went up to the nearest Iskoort and asked him where I could get a spaceship.

There should be a Vehicle Bunker over there. By the way, would you like to visit my corpse chamber?

"No thanks…."

We got to the Vehicle Bunker and saw the strangest array of spaceships around. Some of them looked like a normal suburban house, but with wings, and others looked like huge steel beams with glass domes on them. There was nearly every different type of spaceship there, and some I knew I had seen in a movie somewhere.

We eventually settled with one that was shaped exactly like a bullet. The top half was a glass and showed the inside of the ship, which was a sort of like the inside of a dome ship. The bottom half was creamy colour and had the engines and shit in it. Menderash, who had examined the ship, said it was a great design, nearly as good as the Andalite Dome ships.

We left the Iskoort planet right after turning down the spaceship dealer's offer to sell him our eyes in exchange for a "Koriifgarn" heart, and headed back to Earth.

The whole experience was very strange for Tako and the other Mundu. They had never seen anything like it, and didn't say anything the whole trip. But because of their isolation from anything besides the forest they lived in, somehow everything they saw wasn't strange to them.

It took four months to get to Earth in Zero-Space. As we got to Earth, I saw something that scared the crap out of me.

The Blade Ship.

The One had come to Earth. But I didn't know why. If The One was nearly as powerful as the Ellimist and Crayak, surely he would know that I was at the Iskoort homeworld. We stayed there for two months. He could of easily just taken the Blade Ship to the Iskoort world instead of spending ages getting to Earth. Why did he bother waiting for me at my Homeplanet, where I could easily see him as I approached the planet. Then it hit me.

Cassie.

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Author's note: Yay!! Chapter 5 is finally up! Now, unfortunately for me, I just found a MAJOR plothole in this story. Soooo…I'm going to have a competition. Whoever points out the plothole first gets to play a part in the fic.

crushed berries(reviewer) Okay, okay, I'll review.
First of all, this idea of the frolis maneuver bothers me, because I'm not sure it could be done. I've got no idea what this planet you made up is like, how strong the gravitational pull or the winds are, but a duck the size of a giant squid would never be able to fly. Swans have a hard time flying, being the size they are, and if I'm not completely wrong, their wings are larger in proportion to their body than those of a duck. A flying "Squick"? Not likely. Especially since the two sets of DNA are too different to be successfully put together. A squid doesn't even have a skeleton!
On the other hand, it's a story, you're the writer, you make the rules. You want a flying duck the size of an elephant? Fine - go ahead. That's the beauty of writing. And it's an interesting idea.
Secondly, his name is MendErash, not MendOrash. A few spelling mistakes.
And thirdly, despite the annoying complaints above, this is a good idea, a good story, and I like it. So keep writing and ignore my babbling.

Well, I, unlike K. A. Applegate, don't know much about animals, so I probably wont be that accurate. Luckily, they will be morphing aliens thoughout most of the story. Anyway, since this is the worst review I've gotten, I can't be doing that bad. Thanx for the reviews everybody!!

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