DISCLAIMER: **traps K.A. in an electric cage** Give me the Animorphs or you stay in there FOREVER!! **K.A. calmly picks up the remote I accidentally left inside the cage and pushes the red button. The bars disappear and she runs away** Crapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrap!!!
NOTE: Howdy! Okay well it has come to my attention that some people might miss a chapter and get all confuzzled, so I will be adding RECAPS to this and every chapter following. **a chicken squawks** Shh! Anyway, they will be called "F-RECAP-les". You get it? "Freak Apples"? Say it out loud. Laugh. NOW! I don't hear you. DO IT! Good.
F-RECAP-le: In chapter 10, uh, there is the usual mindless banter **chickens squawk in the background** Oh, uh, excuse me. Then Tobias finds something and they realize they're being watched and something's coming for them. Tobias also reveals that **gasp** he has a T-Rex morph. Unfortunately he gets shot down by the Nesk (the somethings) and I left you all with a pretty lil cliffhanger **dun dun DUHHH**. Woo-hoo. **more chicken squawks are heard** What chickens, I don't know what you're talking about!
Marco –
TOBIAS! Rachel trumpeted.
Tobias was falling fast. I didn't see what hit him. One second he's flying normally, next his wing crumples for no reason and he's twisting down toward the ground like he hit a brick wall.
Rachel lumbered forward, in an attempt to catch him. She stomped on, crashing smack dab into several reddish-brown aliens. I knew what they were, that acrid smell is hard to forget. The Nesk.
Rachel seemed to not notice the 5 aliens pointing alien ray-blasters or something point blank at her and ran straight through them. The insect-components of the Nesk scattered and dropped their dark gray, long-handled guns.
Rachel STOP! Jake yelled at her. She reached out her trunk and snagged Tobias's limp body from the air. It would have been an impressive catch, if she weren't risking everyone's lives on it.
NO ONE MOVE! someone roared. Probably one of the Nesk. The scattered Nesk were reorganizing and forming a crude hand. It was picking up the weapon!
Rachel! I cursed. She was forever making the bad guys mad and screwing us all over. The hand aimed for Rachel, so I combated the Nesk the old-fashioned way. I stomped the little bugs into the sand.
Stomp 'em you guys! I called. The others started to step up and join me, but suddenly I got a strange feeling in my big leathery monkey-feet. It felt like a dull burning. It quickly became more intense, like someone was rubbing sandpaper coated with acid on my feet. I looked down. The Nesk were biting me, stinging my feet! The burning was unbelievable!
Where they able to do that before? Probably not, but I was sure humans were not the only race in the galaxy to have evolved. I mean, it's been 65 million years. I'm surprised they aren't the size of buses and have laser vision from each of their four heads.
Ahh! Jake yelled. They were stinging him too.
Stop! They're poisonous or something! I told them. My feet were practically smoking. The Nesk were starting to move up my feet and were swarming up my legs. I tried in vain to shake them off. The others were also being swarmed by the Nesk. We thrashed around wildly, probably killing thousands of them. But it didn't matter, more kept coming.
YOU WILL ALL STOP, OR WE WILL NOT HESITATE TO KILL YOU. one of the Nesk said, loudly but calmly. Two red hands rose from the ground, aiming the weapons.
I'm thinking we stop. I said.
Yeah, everyone stop! Jake agreed. We all stopped twitching like we were having monster seizures and slowly the Nesk began to draw away.
The Nesk rebuilt their large bodies. Rachel stopped moving and stomping around. Tobias was limp in her trunk, but from here I could still see his chest rising and falling with his breathing.
We are not here to hurt you. Ax said calmly.
Yeah. You shot our friend and we just tried to stomp you all into oblivion. But we didn't want to HURT you. I muttered sarcastically.
YOU ARE INTRUDERS. YOU WILL FOLLOW US. The Nesk stated. How come every alien we meet has some kind of bloated ego disorder?
Like hell we will. Rachel growled.
Rachel? They have guns. Cassie said.
No choice. Jake said simply. Then he turned to the aliens. Where will you take us?
OUR LEADER OF INTERGALACTIC AFFAIRS. YOU ARE NOT OF THIS PLANET. The little ant parts were climbing on top of each other again, soon rebuilding the 5 big red aliens.
Oookay then. We should just ask them to give us a nuke and we're out of their hair. Or antennae, in this case. I said privately to the others.
Right. 'Hi, we're a potential enemy. Can you please give us an explosive weapon?' Rachel said sarcastically.
Hey, YOU'RE the one that pissed them off! I accused.
What!? They shot Tobias first!
Shut up you guys. Let's just do what they say before they just kill us for being annoying. Jake said.
The Nesk suddenly turned and started to walk away smoothly, as if they had forgotten about us.
So, uh, we just follow them? Cassie asked.
Unh. . .I guess. Tobias groaned from wrapped in Rachel's trunk.
They aren't even looking! Screw the- Rachel began.
Suddenly one of the Nesk creatures swiveled around and pointed its gun at me. Without any warning, no sound or anything, my arm felt as if it were being torn from my shoulder. I looked at it, but it was still there.
Ahhhh! I cried. The pain was incredible, as if it were being twisted from its socket.
Marco? Jake asked, startled. They didn't know. They didn't feel it. What kind of weapon was that thing?
That weapon! He is attacking Marco with the weapon! Ax said. He galloped forward.
FWAPP! His tailblade made the hand fall away. But that didn't matter. The hand moved on its own, continuing to pull the trigger.
AGGH! Ax cried. Another Nesk creature was shooting at him too.
I collapsed in a heap and clutched my arm.
Stop it! Stop! Cassie yelled at the Nesk. Suddenly the pain ceased. My arm was still a little numb, but the major pain was gone. Ax was on his side, breathing hard. I stared at the Nesk.
YOU WILL FOLLOW US, OR WE WILL PLACE THE SETTING ON 'KILL' they threatened. NOW REVERT TO YOUR ORIGINAL FORM AND FOLLOW US.
Jake and Cassie helped Ax up.
So they knew we were really human. Wonderful. It was slap-me-on-the-freakin-butt-and-call-me-Bessie WONDERFUL. But of course, we are the Animorphs. Anything could get worse.
WE WILL BRING YOU AND THIS CREATURE. they said.
Nearby bushes began to shake and suddenly two human feet poked out.
Two feet wearing Timberland chukkas. (Note: **gasp!**)
The rest of the body came into view. It was the red-shirted controller from the woods. He was still conscious, but bound by some weird thin filaments. Like Spiderman's webbing. His face was as red as his shirt and he was on his back, being carried by lots and lots of little Nesk. It reminded me of a scene from the movie, "Gulliver's Travels" when all the teeny people tied up Gulliver.
"Andalites!" he hissed.
THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING. REVERT TO YOUR ORIGINAL FORM OR WE WILL KILL YOU.
Why they have to yell? Dude, we hear you, we're not brain-dead. I muttered to myself.
Let's just do it. Jake said. He began to demorph. Rachel, Cassie, and I followed. The controller's eyes grew wider and wider as he saw our true bodies.
"Human. All human. I knew it!"
"Yeah human. Lot of good that piece of info will do you now." I told him.
THEM. One Nesk creature pointed at Tobias and Ax.
"That is their true form." Jake tried to say it in a tough tone, but it came out a little wavery and weak. Like when we first saw "Nightmare on Elm Street" and he kept saying "I'm not scared of that stupid movie." He was so pissing his pants every five minutes.
The Nesk seemed to accept this. We trudged along behind them.
"So, this could take a while. Anyone need to use the bathroom? I doubt we're going to be stopping at a Texaco station anytime soon." I said.
"Shut up Marco." Rachel said.
"Fine. Someone else is going to have to sing the showtunes then." I said. Then I decided to fall silent.
The controller was being carried to our left, still muttering to himself. I felt sorry for the man. He knew our secret and even if we did find a way back to Earth, he wouldn't live to see his home again.
**Stops typing** Okay, I'm tired. That's it for now. Glad everyone enjoyed the Ax plushies. And why would you want a Jake plushie, digimon-lover? **stares suspiciously and whispers something to Cassie. She glares.** Oh yeah. . .they are in a Sario Rip. . .I knew that. . .uhhhh. . .**chickens clucking** SHH!! **herds all the chickens back under the bed** Stay there! **looks at readers** what?
**eyeballs the Document Manager and the Reviews button.** Is it just me, or do they look different? "Story format"? Hm. . .