I dunno what chap this is... um... four I guess... does that sound right... yeah I think it is...


NONINTERACTIVE FOREVER!!!

that's what it was called right... yeah i think it was...

BY: T.B. STORMSHOT... AND FRIENDS!!!

ooo... vague...

wait, Elcolo said that... ha ha... what a card.

...or maybe he said subtle, i dunno, i don't care enough to check...



Welcome friends and people I'm not at all familiar with... at all! In the least! Okay!

Anyway, glad to see you, or something! I don't own the Animorphs! I with I did, because all the money AppleGate made off of'em would really help with college! But I don't! Damn!

Well go ahead and read.

Oh, and suffice to say, I'm doing this because I'm tired of horrible writers. We need some good stuff. I've even another humor in the racks if you want to know.


Jake dug his hooves deep into the ground as he made pace to where the Changarian woman, Sonya, assured him the City was, Behind him ran the other Animorphs, Marco, Rachel, and Cassie, all morphed as horses like him and carrying burdens of their own with the three perfectly normal, or at least close to it, human teenagers on their backs. Ax ran alongside Jake in his normal andalite form, mildly enjoying the long run on flat ground despite the seriousness of their mission. And above, high in the sky, rode both Tobias and the changarian shape shifted boy, Tim. Quite a group, Jake thought with an inward sigh.

Sonya, are we getting close? Jake than called in thought speak.

"Yes, we are in sight of it," Sonya replied stiffly, hands tightly gripping Jake's mane in order to hold on for dear life.

Jake then strained his neck upwards to look up at the speck in the sky he took to be Tobias. Tobias, Sonya says we are getting close. Do you see anything? he shouted in private thought speak.

No, all I see are more trees, Could be a hologram or something though-I'd act casual about it until we know for sure though, Jake Tobias shouted back down to him.

I plan to, Jake replied firmly as he looked forward.

"Stop here," Sonya suddenly said and Jake stumbled as he tried to stop in midstep, nearly sending Sonya flying off his back.

"Hey? Why are we stopping?" Steve asked from atop Cassie's back.

Jake looked back alarmingly at the slip, knowing that a normal changarian would know what was going on. Luckily though, Sonya took it differently.

"It's a secret entrance for the police when we need to get in or out quickly. While most civilians take the main gates, we have no time to reach them," Sonya told them as she quickly slipped off Jake's back. "Look over there," she said, pointing at a large pine tree.

What about it? It looks like a tree to me, Marco asked with a horse-ish snort.

It's wilting, the branches are turning brown, Cassie observed, she surveyed the pine-filled landscape. It's not just that one tree. All of them are wilting! Is it the virus? she wondered out loud.

"Of course it is. All plants and animals in the parks are kept at their optimum level of health, they would never be allowed to become like this," Sonya said in a slightly angry voice, her hands clutched into fists.

Of course, Marco copped, Everybody knows that. She was just asking if it was the virus.

If you would excuse me please, I believe we should be concentrating on getting into the city, rather than discussing these plants, Ax reminded them all, looking up at the sky with his eyestalks.

Yeah, Ax has a point. The Croake, those aliens, can't just be dropping viruses that affect plants. Sooner or later they'll be dropping diseases that affect people too, and I don't want to be out here when that happens, Rachel agreed with a whicker.

Up on top of Rachel, Georgia was thinking the same thing. She had already decided that she would have to slip away from the Animorphs and the rest of the group if she wanted a chance of escaping. Surely a species that could fend off energy attacks from a space-faring race would have spaceships, and if they did, Georgia's yeerk was sure she would be able to pilot one, especially since the Changarian body was so similar to that of a human body. But she couldn't escape now, not out here in the open, but perhaps inside the city...

Alright, let's get going. Tobias, Tim, get down here, Jake commanded.

Hey! I don't have to take commands from you. You're not my boss! Tim yelled angrily in thought-speak.

Just do it, Tobias told him in annoyance as he dove shallowly to the ground.

No, he can't tell me what to do! Tim protested angrily, continuing to wheel at his present height.

Sonya sighed angrily, "Tell him I said to come down."

Tim, Sonya says to come down... or they'll be trouble, Jake said, unable to resist tacking on the mild threat.

Well... alright. But just make sure we get in there quick. I don't like the looks of those trees... Tim agreed reluctantly.

He has Treephobia, the fear of trees or tree-like shrubs, Marco snorted.

"You will all have to shape-shift back to your original forms in order to enter," Sonya informed them all as she walked up to a large boulder. She tapped the boulder and a portion of the rock moved, revealing a digital number pad.

Well if they have to shape-shift, I'm going to shape-shift over there, Tim responded with a shudder as he landed on the ground, scratching it with his three bird feet. He made a whistling noise and stalked off behind a dying pine.

That guy makes one ugly bird, Tobias remarked in disgust as he settled on the ground as well, preparing to morph.

"He is young despite his appearance, don't give him too much credit," Sonya replied with a glance behind her shoulder. She tapped in the numeric code to the entrance of the city. "It will take a moment to process, this door is rather out-dated."

The Animorphs took this time to demorph back to their human forms while Ax and Tobias did the opposite. Steve looked on in amazement and Georgia also looked on with amazement... though not quite as much. Sonya seemed only to be thoughtful about the process.

Suddenly, something happened. It was hard to describe, but suddenly a great flash of light rippled through the blue sky and there was a horrible groaning noise. The clouds suddenly blew back leaving only the sky which had turned an unsettling murky green since the flash of light.

"Wh-what the-??" Tim shouted in shock as he stared wide-eyed at the sky and Jake knew that this was not typical of Changarie.

"The shield!! THE SHIELD HAS BEEN BROKEN!!!" Sonya shouted in horror. A horrible rushing noise filled the sky and the Animorphs knew that that sound spelt doom for Changarie. And them too if they didn't stop it.

The door slid open.

"Quick! Inside! Inside NOW!" Sonya shouted as she slipped inside quickly. The Animorphs and the others swarmed inside, just as a rain of laser fire fell from the sky. Only Jake stopped short of the door, long enough to look into the sky and see what filled it now. Huge, dark ships. Hundreds of them. Though only approximately half the size of a bug fighter, they were quicker and more agile and barraged the landscape with violet laser beams. Only now did Jake realize the size of the enemy. Only now did he realize what this enemy could do... and what Visser Three wanted to do. The enemy. The terrible, horribly powerful enemy.

He went inside and the door slid shut.

"No! NO! I can't believe it! The aliens! How did they get past our defenses?? How??! We were way too powerful! Our shields were way too powerful! They couldn't get through them before!! How?!! HOW??!" Tim shouted in horrified shock.

"The time for questions is later. Get inside to safety now," Sonya barked sharply. "You too Jake," she added as she glanced at him, that curious glint back in her eye, but only for a second. Safety came first before questions.

Jake nodded and glanced around to make sure everybody was alright. "Is everybody here?" he asked. He picked out his friends under the dim lighting inside the rock walls and relaxed. Everyone was here.

Or were they?

"Wait, where's that one girl... the short one with the purple hair?" Marco suddenly asked as he glanced around.

"Who your perfect match," Rachel snorted, but the sarcasm faded as a worried look pinched her face. She glanced around but couldn't find her either. "Where is Ali?"

The Animorphs' searching eyes trailed back to the closed door.

"Oh... shit," Marco remarked.



"Okay, now relax guys, it takes a few precursorary measures to go into another overlord's dimension. Namely, I got to make it known that I'm coming. If I just sneak in he'll see it as an attack and-" the Evil Overlord of Everything began to explain.

"-he'll take it as an act of war?" the Drode interrupted snidely.

Seemingly, Overlord took no notice of the Drode's sarcasm and nodded. "Exactly. Now shut up and let me do this." With that Overlord turned around and walked over to a large stone wall on the far side of her beanbag throne room. She closed her eyes and concentrated.

"What's she doing?" the Ellimist asked Melinda, staring intently at Overlord with glowing blue eyes.

"Opening a portal through the boundaries of the Overlord territories. Because overlords don't want to fight amongst themselves and mess with the territory, they set up a number of boundaries to keep themselves apart, like the barrier that pushes the minds of sentient races away from the other overlord's territory. There is another boundary though that is primarily for overlords. It's a mental barrier which keeps them from teleporting into each other's territory," Melinda explained.

"So what, is she breaking through or something?" the Drode asked curiously, raising a nonexistent eyebrow.

NO YOU FOOL. SHE IS UNLOCKING THE MAIN PORTAL TO ALLOW HERSELF TO TELEPORT TO THE OTHER SIDE. EVEN THOUGH OVERLORDS MAY WANT TO KEEP TO THEMSELVES, SOMETIMES IT IS... UNAVOIDABLE. BECAUSE OF THIS, THERE ARE MENTAL GATEWAYS LOCATED IN THE BOUNDARIES, Crayak explained further, despite his boiling anger.

"I see... I will want to talk to this Overlord about all this when it is done, it is risky when your enemy knows more than you do," the Ellimist said with a frown.

LET'S SEE IF YOU CAN EVEN BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND ELLIMIST.

An uncomfortable pause followed the explanation.

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"...Sure takes her a while to open the portal," the Drode sighed in annoyance.

"Well she does have 72 billion code words to break," Melinda shrugged.

"Yeah, and it's taking especially long since you guys won't shut up long enough for me to get through them all either," Overlord agreed.



"She's still outside! We have to go after her!" Cassie said in horror.

"I'll go find her! Just let me out!" Rachel demanded, already morphing into a wolf, the best animal for tracking.

"No way Xena. That's a good way to get killed," Marco remarked, shaking his head. His face was a pale white color.

"We can't just leave her out there though!" Cassie cried, always sensitive to people in need. "She doesn't deserve to die like this!"

"Hey, it's her fault she was out there! I say let her stay out there," Tim remarked coldly. "...And besides, all that laser fire... I mean, they might hit those trees and..." Tim shuddered at the thought of hundreds of falling trees. The sounds of 'timber!!!' echoing in the hills of the park.

"I agree. We can't risk our lives for someone who wasn't smart enough to stay with the group," Steve nodded, backing up Tim.

"That's not how things work here!" Rachel snarled, almost half-wolf already. Though she was horribly ugly right now, nobody had time to notice.

"Everybody calm down!" Jake commanded angrily. Jake's voice was the type people obeyed immediately and with no exception. Everybody calmed down at once, though obviously they were still seething. "Now look," he said as he looked at everyone seriously. "I agree that it's not a good idea to go outside right now-"

"That's right," Tim nodded.

"But Jake! We can't leave her out there!" Cassie cried.

"You didn't let me finish," Jake told them, "I don't think we should leave her out there either. Even if it is her fault. But I'm not going to put the whole group in danger either, so only a few of us can go get her. Any volunteers?"

I'm going, Rachel growled, now fully in wolf morph.

"I'll go too," Tobias also volunteered as he stepped forward. He immediately began to demorph back to hawk, but Jake stopped him.

"No Tobias. There's too much laser fire out there, that's an easy way for a hawk to get fried."

"But-"

"No."

"I will go as well," Ax volunteered. Jake looked up at him in surprise. Ax wasn't compassionate about humans in general, he had no doubt in his mind that Ax would go after one of his comrades, but Ali wasn't exactly one of the group.

"Are you sure Ax?" Jake asked.

"Yes Prince Jake. As an andalite warrior I feel that it is my duty to find this human, Ali. The... the Ellimist said she would be needed. I don't just do this for myself," Ax said, giving a human's smile, but only for a second, then the smile was gone, as well as his mouth for that matter.

Jake nodded in sudden understanding. If things went wrong it wouldn't just be Changarie that fell, but Earth too, and eventually the andalite homeworld. Ax was doing this for his people, and not just that one human. "Alright then, Ax, Rachel, and me. Anybody else?"

"Who said you were going Jake?" Marco asked, noticing that last addition. "No way, we're going to need you right here. You're the leader after all."

Jake looked surprised. And why wouldn't he be? He wasn't one to send troops out into a fight and stay back in the safety of the trenches. It had never been like that, Jake had always fought alongside and he never would send anyone to do a job he wasn't willing to do himself. "I have to go, they need me."

No Jake, Marco has a point... for once. You need to stay here. Don't worry, we'll be back with her before you know it! Rachel said energetically, she was ready to go.

Do not worry Prince Jake. It won't take long, she could not have gone far, Ax assured him as his scorpion tail shot out of his back and completed the morph.

Prince Jake pressed his lips together and nodded reluctantly. "Is that everybody?" he asked, slightly disspirited.

"I'll go too," Steve said suddenly.

"What? But I thought you were on my side!" Tim said angrily.

"I was. But then I changed my mind. Jake has a point, we can't just leave her out there. No matter how stupid she was," Steve shrugged.

No, he'd just slow us down, Rachel said with a growl, she looked at Steve and Jake with yellow wolf eyes.

I agree. We must move quickly, Ax agreed.

"Hey! What about those superpowers we're supposed to have though? They could come in handy if we get into a jam," Steve pointed out.

"Excuse me, but there is no time to argue," Sonya suddenly intruded. In anticipation of the search she had already typed the coding back into the door and had her hand hovering over the button which would slide it open.

"She's right," Jake said quickly. "We have to move. Ax and Rachel, I want you to take Steve. I know it'll slow you down, but hopefully she gave him something useful. If not, then at least he may be able to help you get her back if she's hurt. The rest us... we'll wait for you."

We'll come back, Rachel told him firmly.

"You better," Jake whispered.

Sonya slid the door open.

And they were gone.

TO BE CONTINUED...


I blame the badness of this chapter on the fact that I did the last chapter half a year ago... or more... probably more. I really can't tell. Anyway. I blame the badness on that. I'm rusty, and I hate it. I haven't read an Animorph book in a while. I'VE BEEN READING STEPHEN KING. Geez, I'm far gone... On the bright side, I also read this book called Howl's Moving Castle. Man that was a great book, spent all night reading that one...

Anyway, I figure maybe I'll pick this up again. I'm out of school, and I'll be going to college in a few months. I'm going to Ai, Art Institutes International Minnesota... art school. Hopefully I'll be getting my Bachelor's Degree of Science in Media Arts and Animation. That should be fun. I'll be able to make my own cartoons. Didn't know I had talent for drawing did ya? Ya learn new things every day I guess.

What was I talking about?

Oh yeah. anyway, I might pick this up again. But I need ideas. Seriously. I'm not picking this up again unless you guys give me ideas. Why? I have almost absolutely NO idea what's happening next. At all. I sorta know what Overlord might do, but have no idea about the Animorphs. I need help. Seriously. HELP ME.

Read... review... whatever... T.B. Stormshot out.