DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Animorphs, but I'm still searching for a way to own Shawn Ashmore. Meeee-Owwza!!
NOTE: Um yeah, I guess I am having issues with chapter longness. I'll work on that. Hehe, oobergoober, is that sarcasm I sense? Muahaha. And Ash is right, Tobias should have a bigger role. K.A. more or less always had Tobias in the sky, so I figured I'd do the same. Well, I just sadly realized I'm not K.A. so I promise he'll have a bigger part. In the meantime please accept this packet of Listerine PocketPaks, as I am no longer allowed to be near them (didn't know its bad to eat a whole pack at once). Uh-oh Jinako-chan, Rachel's narrating, not Marco. **gasp** Hehe. . .I thought you'd know me by now. . .
Rachel –
It was chaos. Mayhem. Absolute madness. I was rapidly morphing cockroach, since cockroaches can pretty much survive anything. Hopefully "anything" included a ton of rock falling on your head. Cassie and Ax were morphing too. Marco was still sprawled on his stomach, not moving. Jake stood over him, a beat-up tiger missing a tail. I don't know what he thought he was doing. He should have morphed!
I heard nothing but the crunching and creaking of the boulders. The Tyrannosaurus was not showing any signs of tiring. I heard some screaming too, but I didn't know who it was. By some unbelievable stroke of luck I was able to avoid many of the falling rocks. Feelers protruded from my tennis ball-sized head. A stiff shell encrusted my body as it became flat. I fell forward and continued to shrink. Then my extra legs shlooped out. I was a cockroach.
I'm a roach! Everyone hide under another rock or something! I yelled as I skittered under a boulder. I should be safe there. But the others? What was Tobias doing? If that stupid T-Rex. . .
I felt another cockroach's presence behind me.
Rachel?
Yeah Ax its me. Where are the others?
I'm here. Cassie reported. Jake? Marco?
Tobias? I added.
No answer.
It has become strangely quiet. . . Ax said. He was right. I had assumed the crashing noise stopped because cockroaches don't have the best hearing, but I no longer felt the heavy vibrations.
Guys? GUYS! Cassie yelled.
Cassie? Where are you? a voice said wearily.
Jake! Where are you? And what are you?
It stopped caving in. I'm still a tiger. Marco's alive too.
Prince Jake, you should demorph quickly before your loss of blood causes your bodily functions to fail. Ax warned.
Tobias!? TOBIAS! Whats going on out there! I called.
No freakin idea. I was going to dive-bomb Big Rex's other eye when he suddenly stood straight up. His nostril perked up and he hightailed it outta here. Tobias informed us. How are you guys?
We're okay. Except Marco. I told him.
What happened?
"He got hit by something. We have to get out of here, the entrance is blocked and we could lose air." Jake said in his human voice. He had demorphed.
Mole? I suggested.
"Through rock?"
Maybe we'll just find a little hole for us to fit through as cockroach. I said.
What about Marco? Cassie said.
If I had hands, I would have thrown them up in exasperation.
Well there is no way I'm gonna sit here and rot forever! I declared.
Rachel, you may find a hole and when you escape morph your elephant. Perhaps it can remove much of the rock and debris so we might free Marco. Ax said sensibly in his calm Andalite way.
Oh. Yeah.
I scuttled about, searching for any opening. I once read cockroaches could fit in spaces no wider than a dime's thickness. I also read that in the event of a nuclear holocaust, only cockroaches would survive. Just then, I realized how sad I had become, reading up on cockroaches.
Hey, Rach, over here. Cassie called.
I found Cassie. She had already gone through the tiny opening and was demorphing. I followed her.
What if the - my thought-speak ability diminished as I became human. "What if the Rex comes back?"
I'd see it. The big guy destroyed everything blocking my view. Tobias assured us.
I looked around. He was right, the furry trees were now practically woodchips. Hairy woodchips. The white sand was caked with the thick white liquid from the coconut things. Footprints the size of wading pools surrounded our little pile of boulders. And the big huge banana leaves were like a large green blanket.
Cassie looked behind her.
"Thank God morphing restored my morphing outfit." She muttered.
"Huh?"
She held up a leaf. It was the one she and Marco rode here. It had two holes in it, where the friction of rough sand and rock scraped it. It was shaped oddly like. . .butts.
"You guys had your butts shaved!?" I laughed. The end of my laugh got distorted as my head was replaced by the head of an elephant.
Okay. Jake, Marco, and Ax. I'm here to save the day. I said a little gleefully. The encounter with the Tyrannosaurus left me a little giddy. That happens to me sometimes, leftover adrenaline rush. I heard muffled yells from inside the cave.
"Rach. . .please stop being psycho. . .get us the. . .out of here!"
Rachel, Prince Jake wishes to tell you to overcome your chemical imbalance and get them out of here. Ax informed me calmly.
Okay, okay, jeez.
I lifted my trunk and wrapped it around a medium sized boulder. It was a lot heavier than it looked. As I picked it up I heard crumbling noises inside the cave. I also heard Jake yell something.
"Dam. . .Rach. . .you're gonna fu. . .smash our brains in!!"
Rachel, you are causing another cave in. Prince Jake advises you to be careful and make every effort not to crush us to death.
I'm trying. I tried another rock and heard more crumbling.
"Godda. . .are you trying to fu. . .kill. . .?" I guess Jake was getting kind of mad. Not the silky, slow talking, Jake-mad. The angry, yelling, face-as-red-as-tomatoes mad. He very rarely gets that kind of mad.
Rachel, Prince Jake is inquiring whether you have the intention of-
Uh, we hear him, Ax. Tobias said.
After a couple minutes of experimenting which rock would not cause the others to smash my friends into bits, I was able to clear out a small hole. Enough for a human to fit through. Ax crawled out, still a cockroach, and demorphed. Marco's head followed, his forehead splattered with blood and his mouth gaping open. His eyes were squeezed shut as Jake carefully pushed him out of the hole I'd made.
I wrapped my trunk around Marco and picked him up the rest of the way. Then I tried to carefully lay him on some leaves.
Cassie came over and lightly patted Marco on the cheek.
"Marco? Marco? Wake up, Marco." He stirred a little.
Marco, get up! Tobias said in his head.
"Marco I kicked your butt in Tekken Tag and you know it!" Jake declared.
We looked at him strangely. Suddenly Marco's eyes opened slightly and a bloody, crooked, but still stupid-looking grin appeared on his face.
"You did not, you loser." Marco wheezed. They laughed weakly.
Idiots. I muttered.
What is Tekken Tag? Ax wondered.
"A stupid video game." Cassie said with a slight smile on her face.
Marco started to morph gorilla to get rid of his injuries. As soon as he was able to thought-speak he began to fill our heads with his mindless babble, as usual.
Okay, so that's great. We have Nesk. We have dinosaurs. We have one more controller, unless whatever alien killed the aforementioned Nesk and the other controller killed that one too. Meanwhile we are a couple hours away from being annihilated from existence by OURSELVES unless we find a way to BLOW OURSELVES UP!
Marco, do you even know what your blabbering about? I asked.
Nope, but I don't feel any better so I may just start again. . .
NO!
Aw, please Marky-O don't start that again. One thing I did noticed about the series was how Marco liked to rant about situations. And will you looky at that! No one died. Gee, I'm so surprised. **makes surprised face** See my shockedness? Next chapter coming up pretty darn soon. Read and review, cuz I love you. Wow that rhymed. I'm a poet and I didn't know it. That rhymed too! Huzzah, I'm on a roll!
Oh yeah, I now have a website. Not really, it's most just pictures of me and retarded things I do. But it will be a website soon, I already have lots of junk up. The address is on my profile thingy, just click my author name. It sucks, but I'm still working on it. Buh-bye now.