DISCLAIMER: **sneaks to KA's house, steals the Animorphs, and runs away**
YES, I OWN THE ANIMORPHS!! **walks through red lasers near the floor and an
alarm sounds. Several guards grab me and wrestle the Animorphs out of my
hands** NOO! So, close. . .
NOTE: If you want a morning perk
Before school or before work
Don't be sad because - OH!
There's a box of MARKY-O's!!
2nd NOTE - Thanks for the input, Super Hurricane, but I just didn't think it would be okay for them to chop Tobias's head off. For one thing, the Hork Bajir probably needs his brain to be able to regenerate (if you chop off a lizards tail and head its pretty much dead. Will the tail grow back? I dunno.) The second thing you said yourself. Rachel's shoes would get slimy. Hehe. Feet, rather, she's not wearing shoes. :-D Wow, I wrote 3 chapters in 6 days. I'm just spitting these things out like a machine gun.
Marco -
We trudged through the forest, with Cassie the osprey leading us to an empty shack were we were going to keep Tobias until the yeerk starved. It was the same shack we had kept Jake when he was a controller a while back. I hoped Cassie was keeping a good lookout. I know I'd be pretty freaked if I saw a tiger, a bear, a blue alien, and a gorilla carrying a bladed demon monster from hell walk by. Forget freaked, I'd empty my bladder into my pants.
The Hork-Bajir wasn't that heavy to my gorilla body. Not many things are heavy to a big hairy ape. I swore to myself that I would work out until I was almost as strong as a gorilla. Or at least until the muscles showed and I had all the girls at school drooling over my manly physique. Ok, I admit it. I was distracting myself from thinking of the Mercora.
As I pondered over how I would have to give up Cheetos and actually make an effort to lift my butt off the sofa, Jake was rattling off some instructions. I guess he noticed my lack of charmingly witty remarks, because he snapped me back to reality.
Marco, did you hear a word I said? Jake asked.
Of course. I lied. And I will be happy to go out with your cousin, thanks for asking.
Marco, do you want to keep your teeth? Cuz I might just remove them for you the old fashioned way. Rachel threatened.
Anyway, as I was saying. Jake continued. As soon as we get to the shack, Cassie's gonna fly to her barn and get a syringe of adrenaline to wake this yeerk up. We need everyone to demorph and remorph battle mode so we could start fresh with him.
Prince Jake, we have not yet established how we are going to make the yeerk demorph. I believe Tobias might be nearing his limit. Ax said.
I thought for a moment. The stupid yeerk wasn't going to do anything we say. He'd only listen to Visser Three. Hmm. . . Then I felt the light bulb turn on over my head.
I believe I may have a plan. I said. A completely insane one that probably will blow up in our faces, but it's a plan. I explained it to them in an orderly and detailed fashion.
I'd say that wouldn't work, but the yeerk has surprised us so far. Cassie said.
Yeah, might work. Rachel, said reluctantly.
What's the matter, Xena, you don't like plans that don't include explosions, butt-kickings, and us screaming like ninnies?
We arrived at the broken down shack. I probably shouldn't call it a shack anymore, a termite-ridden pile of wooden planks nailed together with rust and a roof that covered about 2 feet would be more correct. Budweiser cans still littered the floor. I was pretty sure they were the same ones as last time we were here.
All right, I'm taking off. Be back in a jiffy. Cassie said.
Jiffy? I asked.
A human unit of time which signifies -
Alright, Ax, I was just kidding.
Okay, let's get Marco's plan into action. Jake said.
Did anyone else feel chills run up their spine when he said that? Rachel asked.
I only feel it when you say "let's do it!" I said.
Well, let's do it!
I put Tobias down on the filthy dirt floor. He didn't seem to be stirring. I immediately demorphed to my dashingly handsome self. The Jake and Rachel followed. Then we went back to battle mode. We'd been doing these morphs all day, and morphing is exhausting. After this I believe I deserved to sleep a good week or so.
Alright guys, I'm here. Cassie announced her arrival. She was a wolf carrying a hypodermic needle in her teeth. Behind her stood a good friend of ours.
What's up Erek? I said good-naturedly.
"Nothing much, except posing as you is a huge pain. Girls kept giving me weird looks and brushing me away like I was a insect." He said.
All in all, a normal day for Marco. Rachel cracked.
Ha. And. . .oh yeah, ha. (Note: Poor Marco, everyone picks on him all the time. . .)
Ok, Erek, work your magic. Jake said.
One second I'm standing in a rotten old hut, the next I'm on the pier of the yeerk pool. Chee holograms.
Ahh, jeez, that was weird. Rachel commented. I looked around. It looked exactly like I remembered it. A pit were voluntary controller scum watched TV and laughed their cares away. The gray, sludgy pool itself, filled with writhing yeerks. Several Hork-Bajir, Taxxons, humans, and various other aliens. And large cages filled with humans that were screaming, crying, and just staring off into space. Basically, if I had to imagine hell on earth, this would pretty much be it.
Go for it, Cassie. Jake instructed. Cassie bent her snout low and jabbed the needle of adrenaline into Tobias's neck. Then she pushed the plunger in with the tip of her nose.
It should take a sec. Cassie informed us. We waited. For quite a few seconds. The seconds turned into minutes.
Um, how much longer? I asked.
I hope that was enough. . . Cassie said worriedly. I wasn't sure how much a Hork-Bajir needed.
Suddenly Tobias twitched.
There ya go. I glanced around at the others. Erek had given us a makeover too. All of us looked bound by chains and thick cables and guarded by several Hork-Bajir. Ax was not tied up, he was playing the part of Visser Three, and thanks to Erek he looked it.
Unhh. . . the yeerk lifted himself up. He stared. V-v-visser! Visser, it is I, Evlan 913! Your faithful servant!
Evlan 913, you have served me well. Ax boomed in his best Visser Three voice. I was impressed. Thanks to you I have captured the Andalite bandits.
Evlan looked us over, with a huge smile. I told you, fools. I TOLD YOU!
Evlan you have completed your duties. You must now return to the pool, were you will await a debriefing. Do not worry, you will surely be promoted. I will allow you to choose an Andalite to infest. Ax said.
Visser, I am at the very beginning of my feeding cycle, there is no need for me to return to the pool. You may ask me anything now, I have MUCH to tell you!
Ah, well. . . As was stuttering. I grimaced, that wasn't Visser Three-like. Your morph must be running out of time. Please revert to your hawk form.
No! Jake hissed.
Hawk form. He said HAWK!
Evlan looked startled. How did you. . .
I meant Andalite. He corrected himself.
That was not good. Rachel said.
Bad, even. Cassie added.
Evlan looked strangely at Ax. I think he was beginning to realize -
Quickly, if you demorph now I will reward you beyond your wildest dreams! As said. This excited Evlan. Stupid power-hungry, crazy yeerk.
Yes, Visser! He demorphed as quick as he could to hawk. Erek put a surprised look on Ax's face.
What is the meaning of this? he roared.
Please, Visser, let me explain! Evlan pleaded.
Evlan, please remove yourself from this creature's head, I wish to find out for myself. Ax was doing a decent job. He had fixed up his mistake pretty good.
Yes, Visser, but then I must become this creature's TRUE form. Evlan said, as if he were about to give Visser Three a present. He morphed to human Tobias.
HUMAN! Ax cried.
"Yes, Visser." He pointed at us. "They are all - "
SILENCE. LET ME INFEST THIS HUMAN! Ax yelled. In reward for your service I will allow you to infest my own Andalite body.
Tobias's eyes were practically brimming with tears of happiness.
Jeez. Jake muttered.
Soon, we saw a gray tip poke out of Tobias's ear. The yeerk slowly slithered. Tobias fell on his stomach and the yeerk plopped down on the dirt. Not the concrete floor of the yeerk pool, the dirt. Erek had removed the hologram.
Tobias didn't look up. He clutched his hands into fists.
"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU EVIL SON OF A - "
Tobias? Rachel said softly.
Tobias jolted. He turned his head up at the grizzly bear. The not- tied-up grizzly bear.
"RACHEL!?" he gasped. He looked at all of us, and his surroundings. We were free. He was in the shack. His eyes landed on Erek. He stared in disbelief.
"I thought. . ..I thought. . ."
Nope, we're free and ready to rumble. I said.
All a ruse. Our Visser Three did a pretty good job there. Jake said.
Ax beamed. Rachel was swiftly demorphing. We decided to go human too.
Tobias was breathing hard. "You. . .you. . ."
"All MY plan." I said proudly.
"Are you okay Tobias?" Cassie asked. He nodded.
The last of Rachel's fur was sucked into her skin. Her black grizzly eyes changed back to their cool blue. She was Rachel again. A human Rachel and a human Tobias.
Uh-oh.
"Rachel!" Tobias sobbed.
"It's okay." Rachel said. She bent down and Tobias ensnared Rachel in what had to be the tightest hug I'd ever seen. He buried his face in her hair. She stroked his back gently.
I was about to say something, because that's what I do, but I was stopped. Cassie clamped her hand over my mouth.
"Shhh." She said with a smile. Jake grabbed my arms and pulled me out of the shack, also smiling. He motioned Ax to follow. Ax was thoroughly confused, but he followed us anyway. Erek came out.
"I'm gonna go tell my friends to clear out so you could go home." He said, referring to the Chee who were playing the others. There was a sheepish grin on his holographic face too.
As they pulled me away I just caught a glimpse of Tobias and Rachel's faces coming together, before they dragged me from my view.
"Aw, come on! Not even one joke?" I whined. They laughed and we waited outside for a few minutes.
"Hopefully they don't go any further in there." I said suggestively. Jake raised an eyebrow and got up.
"All right, what do we do about the yeerk?" Jake called in before we entered. Tobias was still gripping Rachel like his life depended on it. I looked at the yeerk.
I believe I know what to do. Ax said bluntly.
"Me too." Rachel said.
I picked up the yeerk and put it next to Rachel and Tobias. Rachel took a rock and pounded on the yeerk once. That was easy. So easy to kill a yeerk. Hard to believe that little slug almost wiped us out.
"It's over." Cassie said, looking away.
"For now." Jake said with a sigh.
Awww, wasn't that sweet? Not the squished yeerk thing, the Rachel and Tobias thing, hehe. I thought so. Tell me what you think REVIEW. Well, I'm going to write one more chapter after this. You know, to tie things up. Then after that comes a chapter thanking all the reviewers. After that. . .this story is COMPLETE. Everyone read my next story, it will be coming soon. **wipes away tear** I'm gonna miss this. Remember: one more chapter, don't give up on me now!
NOTE: If you want a morning perk
Before school or before work
Don't be sad because - OH!
There's a box of MARKY-O's!!
2nd NOTE - Thanks for the input, Super Hurricane, but I just didn't think it would be okay for them to chop Tobias's head off. For one thing, the Hork Bajir probably needs his brain to be able to regenerate (if you chop off a lizards tail and head its pretty much dead. Will the tail grow back? I dunno.) The second thing you said yourself. Rachel's shoes would get slimy. Hehe. Feet, rather, she's not wearing shoes. :-D Wow, I wrote 3 chapters in 6 days. I'm just spitting these things out like a machine gun.
Marco -
We trudged through the forest, with Cassie the osprey leading us to an empty shack were we were going to keep Tobias until the yeerk starved. It was the same shack we had kept Jake when he was a controller a while back. I hoped Cassie was keeping a good lookout. I know I'd be pretty freaked if I saw a tiger, a bear, a blue alien, and a gorilla carrying a bladed demon monster from hell walk by. Forget freaked, I'd empty my bladder into my pants.
The Hork-Bajir wasn't that heavy to my gorilla body. Not many things are heavy to a big hairy ape. I swore to myself that I would work out until I was almost as strong as a gorilla. Or at least until the muscles showed and I had all the girls at school drooling over my manly physique. Ok, I admit it. I was distracting myself from thinking of the Mercora.
As I pondered over how I would have to give up Cheetos and actually make an effort to lift my butt off the sofa, Jake was rattling off some instructions. I guess he noticed my lack of charmingly witty remarks, because he snapped me back to reality.
Marco, did you hear a word I said? Jake asked.
Of course. I lied. And I will be happy to go out with your cousin, thanks for asking.
Marco, do you want to keep your teeth? Cuz I might just remove them for you the old fashioned way. Rachel threatened.
Anyway, as I was saying. Jake continued. As soon as we get to the shack, Cassie's gonna fly to her barn and get a syringe of adrenaline to wake this yeerk up. We need everyone to demorph and remorph battle mode so we could start fresh with him.
Prince Jake, we have not yet established how we are going to make the yeerk demorph. I believe Tobias might be nearing his limit. Ax said.
I thought for a moment. The stupid yeerk wasn't going to do anything we say. He'd only listen to Visser Three. Hmm. . . Then I felt the light bulb turn on over my head.
I believe I may have a plan. I said. A completely insane one that probably will blow up in our faces, but it's a plan. I explained it to them in an orderly and detailed fashion.
I'd say that wouldn't work, but the yeerk has surprised us so far. Cassie said.
Yeah, might work. Rachel, said reluctantly.
What's the matter, Xena, you don't like plans that don't include explosions, butt-kickings, and us screaming like ninnies?
We arrived at the broken down shack. I probably shouldn't call it a shack anymore, a termite-ridden pile of wooden planks nailed together with rust and a roof that covered about 2 feet would be more correct. Budweiser cans still littered the floor. I was pretty sure they were the same ones as last time we were here.
All right, I'm taking off. Be back in a jiffy. Cassie said.
Jiffy? I asked.
A human unit of time which signifies -
Alright, Ax, I was just kidding.
Okay, let's get Marco's plan into action. Jake said.
Did anyone else feel chills run up their spine when he said that? Rachel asked.
I only feel it when you say "let's do it!" I said.
Well, let's do it!
I put Tobias down on the filthy dirt floor. He didn't seem to be stirring. I immediately demorphed to my dashingly handsome self. The Jake and Rachel followed. Then we went back to battle mode. We'd been doing these morphs all day, and morphing is exhausting. After this I believe I deserved to sleep a good week or so.
Alright guys, I'm here. Cassie announced her arrival. She was a wolf carrying a hypodermic needle in her teeth. Behind her stood a good friend of ours.
What's up Erek? I said good-naturedly.
"Nothing much, except posing as you is a huge pain. Girls kept giving me weird looks and brushing me away like I was a insect." He said.
All in all, a normal day for Marco. Rachel cracked.
Ha. And. . .oh yeah, ha. (Note: Poor Marco, everyone picks on him all the time. . .)
Ok, Erek, work your magic. Jake said.
One second I'm standing in a rotten old hut, the next I'm on the pier of the yeerk pool. Chee holograms.
Ahh, jeez, that was weird. Rachel commented. I looked around. It looked exactly like I remembered it. A pit were voluntary controller scum watched TV and laughed their cares away. The gray, sludgy pool itself, filled with writhing yeerks. Several Hork-Bajir, Taxxons, humans, and various other aliens. And large cages filled with humans that were screaming, crying, and just staring off into space. Basically, if I had to imagine hell on earth, this would pretty much be it.
Go for it, Cassie. Jake instructed. Cassie bent her snout low and jabbed the needle of adrenaline into Tobias's neck. Then she pushed the plunger in with the tip of her nose.
It should take a sec. Cassie informed us. We waited. For quite a few seconds. The seconds turned into minutes.
Um, how much longer? I asked.
I hope that was enough. . . Cassie said worriedly. I wasn't sure how much a Hork-Bajir needed.
Suddenly Tobias twitched.
There ya go. I glanced around at the others. Erek had given us a makeover too. All of us looked bound by chains and thick cables and guarded by several Hork-Bajir. Ax was not tied up, he was playing the part of Visser Three, and thanks to Erek he looked it.
Unhh. . . the yeerk lifted himself up. He stared. V-v-visser! Visser, it is I, Evlan 913! Your faithful servant!
Evlan 913, you have served me well. Ax boomed in his best Visser Three voice. I was impressed. Thanks to you I have captured the Andalite bandits.
Evlan looked us over, with a huge smile. I told you, fools. I TOLD YOU!
Evlan you have completed your duties. You must now return to the pool, were you will await a debriefing. Do not worry, you will surely be promoted. I will allow you to choose an Andalite to infest. Ax said.
Visser, I am at the very beginning of my feeding cycle, there is no need for me to return to the pool. You may ask me anything now, I have MUCH to tell you!
Ah, well. . . As was stuttering. I grimaced, that wasn't Visser Three-like. Your morph must be running out of time. Please revert to your hawk form.
No! Jake hissed.
Hawk form. He said HAWK!
Evlan looked startled. How did you. . .
I meant Andalite. He corrected himself.
That was not good. Rachel said.
Bad, even. Cassie added.
Evlan looked strangely at Ax. I think he was beginning to realize -
Quickly, if you demorph now I will reward you beyond your wildest dreams! As said. This excited Evlan. Stupid power-hungry, crazy yeerk.
Yes, Visser! He demorphed as quick as he could to hawk. Erek put a surprised look on Ax's face.
What is the meaning of this? he roared.
Please, Visser, let me explain! Evlan pleaded.
Evlan, please remove yourself from this creature's head, I wish to find out for myself. Ax was doing a decent job. He had fixed up his mistake pretty good.
Yes, Visser, but then I must become this creature's TRUE form. Evlan said, as if he were about to give Visser Three a present. He morphed to human Tobias.
HUMAN! Ax cried.
"Yes, Visser." He pointed at us. "They are all - "
SILENCE. LET ME INFEST THIS HUMAN! Ax yelled. In reward for your service I will allow you to infest my own Andalite body.
Tobias's eyes were practically brimming with tears of happiness.
Jeez. Jake muttered.
Soon, we saw a gray tip poke out of Tobias's ear. The yeerk slowly slithered. Tobias fell on his stomach and the yeerk plopped down on the dirt. Not the concrete floor of the yeerk pool, the dirt. Erek had removed the hologram.
Tobias didn't look up. He clutched his hands into fists.
"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU EVIL SON OF A - "
Tobias? Rachel said softly.
Tobias jolted. He turned his head up at the grizzly bear. The not- tied-up grizzly bear.
"RACHEL!?" he gasped. He looked at all of us, and his surroundings. We were free. He was in the shack. His eyes landed on Erek. He stared in disbelief.
"I thought. . ..I thought. . ."
Nope, we're free and ready to rumble. I said.
All a ruse. Our Visser Three did a pretty good job there. Jake said.
Ax beamed. Rachel was swiftly demorphing. We decided to go human too.
Tobias was breathing hard. "You. . .you. . ."
"All MY plan." I said proudly.
"Are you okay Tobias?" Cassie asked. He nodded.
The last of Rachel's fur was sucked into her skin. Her black grizzly eyes changed back to their cool blue. She was Rachel again. A human Rachel and a human Tobias.
Uh-oh.
"Rachel!" Tobias sobbed.
"It's okay." Rachel said. She bent down and Tobias ensnared Rachel in what had to be the tightest hug I'd ever seen. He buried his face in her hair. She stroked his back gently.
I was about to say something, because that's what I do, but I was stopped. Cassie clamped her hand over my mouth.
"Shhh." She said with a smile. Jake grabbed my arms and pulled me out of the shack, also smiling. He motioned Ax to follow. Ax was thoroughly confused, but he followed us anyway. Erek came out.
"I'm gonna go tell my friends to clear out so you could go home." He said, referring to the Chee who were playing the others. There was a sheepish grin on his holographic face too.
As they pulled me away I just caught a glimpse of Tobias and Rachel's faces coming together, before they dragged me from my view.
"Aw, come on! Not even one joke?" I whined. They laughed and we waited outside for a few minutes.
"Hopefully they don't go any further in there." I said suggestively. Jake raised an eyebrow and got up.
"All right, what do we do about the yeerk?" Jake called in before we entered. Tobias was still gripping Rachel like his life depended on it. I looked at the yeerk.
I believe I know what to do. Ax said bluntly.
"Me too." Rachel said.
I picked up the yeerk and put it next to Rachel and Tobias. Rachel took a rock and pounded on the yeerk once. That was easy. So easy to kill a yeerk. Hard to believe that little slug almost wiped us out.
"It's over." Cassie said, looking away.
"For now." Jake said with a sigh.
Awww, wasn't that sweet? Not the squished yeerk thing, the Rachel and Tobias thing, hehe. I thought so. Tell me what you think REVIEW. Well, I'm going to write one more chapter after this. You know, to tie things up. Then after that comes a chapter thanking all the reviewers. After that. . .this story is COMPLETE. Everyone read my next story, it will be coming soon. **wipes away tear** I'm gonna miss this. Remember: one more chapter, don't give up on me now!