DISCLAIMER: **is on a field of pretty flowers** Hey, what is this? **sees the Animorphs series running toward her through the field** Animorphs! **Runs in slow motion toward the Animorphs series, which are also floating in slow motion. Pretty music is heard in the background** Animorphs! I own you! (said in slow motion). **gets slapped awake by stupid brother**
"You dork, you fell asleep in the bathroom again!"
NOTE: Okay this is relatively long, and you'd be surprised in how long it took for me to write. 43 minutes. I timed myself. I just wrote it now, go me. I know I just updated like three days ago, but I'm bored, and maybe this will make Amy Angelblade and her flu get better. I mean Amy Angelblade, not the flu. D'oh! Oh and, uh the end of the chapter wasn't supposed to say "THE END" it was supposed to say "TO BE CONTINUED". It was just one big huge typo, hehe. Stupey me.
F-RECAP-LE: We find out the Nesk are cloning DNA and combining it with the DNA of other aliens, creating freak-aliens (*gasp** BAD Nesk!) Then the 'Morphs are forced to separate. Cassie is slowly changing, and what's in store for Rachel? Dun dun DUHHHH!
Rachel –
"So. What's up?" I asked the freaks casually. They just continued to stare. It was creepy. At least if they attacked us I could fight or do SOMETHING. All they were doing was staring, and all I could do was stare back.
"Hello?" I waved a hand in front of a dino-Andalite with a scaled head and yellow dinosaur eyes. It didn't bat an eye. "Hey Cassie, what do you think of them?"
Cassie was looking curiously into the eyes of a dino-Hork Bajir. "I don't know." Suddenly she gasped and jumped back.
"What?" The Hork-Bajir hadn't moved a muscle. It was still standing there, staring.
"The back of the neck. All of them!" she babbled.
I turned to the Andalite and peered behind his neck very slowly, in case he decided he didn't feel like playing "staring contest" anymore and lopped my head off. My eyes widened.
There was some sort of tiny ridged gray tube sticking into the back of its neck. Green ooze dribbled on the sides of were it entered. The tube led out of the neck and into a small metal box that looked like it was fused into his back. Red and yellow lights blinked from it. Although on some of the others the lights were brighter that these.
"Holy-"
YOU WILL COME THIS WAY. a voice said. COMBINS STEP BACK.
"Combins?" I asked. The freaks around us uniformly stepped back, like they were the U.S. Marines or something.
"They're being controlled." Cassie said, looking sick. "Those must be control panels on their backs."
New waves of Nesk were approaching us, armed with some invisible beam weapons, of course. I also saw something else. A syringe filled with green liquid. Cassie stared at me in fear.
"We have to get out of here." But we didn't move. We couldn't, not without being shot.
"Screw this, if I'm going down I'm taking-" I stopped because something caught my eye. The dino-Andalite. It blinked. Twice.
GRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
A big throaty roar came out of nowhere and nearly blew my eyeballs into my head. Suddenly there was chaos.
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
A dino-Taxxon dove into the wave of Nesk. They shot at the Taxxon but it continued to roll, crushing several million Nesk. More Nesk covered it and soon the Taxxon was just a big green smoking mess.
"Oh God!" Cassie looked like she was about to vomit. She looked just about like what I felt. It was horrible.
A dino-Pemalite and some dino-other aliens also dove into the fray, attacking the Nesk. They all were stung mercilessly.
THE REBELS! THE COMBINS ARE REBELS! a Nesk cried. ALL REAL COMBINS ATTACK!!!
Suddenly half of the freaks that were standing in line attacked the others ferociously. The dino-Andalite galloped towards Cassie and me.
Come! It urged.
"What's happening?" Cassie cried. The dino-Hork rushed to us also.
Go! Do you WANT to die!? it yelled at us.
"Cassie come on." I grabbed her dinosaur arm.
"Go where?"
The dino-Andalite suddenly grabbed us by the waist and lifted us onto his shoulders easily. Real Andalites were nowhere near that strong.
"Hey!" He took off in some unknown direction with me and Cassie facing backwards watching the battle that was going on. Rebel combins were fighting with the real ones. There had to be at least 50 in all. The Nesk were also taking part, covering a victim and sizzling it down into goop. It looked like the rebels were losing.
THE PRISONERS! THEY ARE GETTING AWAY!
I turned and looked forward to where the Andalite was taking us. He was running straight into a wall!
"Dude, are you blind!? That's a solid wall!" I shouted at him. He ignored me. A split second before we would have smashed into the wall at what had to be at least 20 miles per hour, the wall opened up.
SWOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!
We were no longer in the big white room. We were in a big white hallway. A big white hallway filling with auxiliary Nesk.
"Rachel, look!" Behind us the dino-Hork Bajir was trying to catch up. He was followed by what was either a bunch of combins trying to kill him or a bunch of rebels trying to escape too.
Hold on. the Andalite told us.
"Doesn't need to tell me twice." Cassie muttered. He ran straight toward the Nesk. I had a feeling this was going to end very badly.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
The dino-Andalite leaped insanely high over the Nesk. The highway ceiling was about 11 feet high. The Andalite jumped high enough so that his stalk eyes bashed into the ceiling. He didn't seem to mind.
AAHH! I looked back and saw that they had fired on his tail. It looked broken. Behind us the Hork-Bajir and the others had jumped over the Nesk too. But some weren't as lucky. A dino-Pemalite fell into the mass of Nesk in mid-jump. He was covered in a millisecond. More were caught.
Stay low. the dino-Andalite said. He began to speed up. This was definitely the freak roller-coaster ride from Hell.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" There was big opening in the wall and a sign with some foreign alien language written on it. I guessed it said something on the lines of "Corridor Not Finished" because the dino-Andalite took another flying leap, only this time he didn't land. It led outside, above a forest and a bunch of trees. We were plummeting to the ground.
VVVVVVVMMMMMMM.
Out of nowhere a big, flat, disc-shaped ship appeared. It was as big as a kid's wading pool, with walls about the same size. We landed on it with a loud CRASH!
CLASH! BANG!
More rebels landed on top of the tiny ship.
"What the hell. What the hell. What the hell." I repeated over and over.
"I thought we were underground." Cassie said, staring up and the mountain we just jumped off of.
We will explain when we get to the base. the dino-Andalite said. The ship clunked away at the speed of, well not very fast. I doubted it was going much faster than a bicycle.
"What if they come after us? They are definitely going to catch up." I said.
We disabled their docking bay. They will not be able to pursue us for a long while.
"Thanks for getting us out of there." Cassie said politely. "My name is Cassie. That's Rachel."
I nodded a greeting and he put us both down.
Hello.
"Who are you?" I asked.
We are combins with free will. he said simply. Rejects born accidentally from their mad experiments. Combins are not supposed to have minds, you see. They wanted to destroy us, but we escaped, thanks to a group of rebel Nisk.
"Nisk?"
The fiendish insects that inhabit that laboratory of evil. he said fiercely. So they were called Nisk now.
"Rebels against what? The DNA experiments?" Cassie asked.
The dino Andalite just looked at her. We will explain when we get to the base.
No one said anything for a while. The other rebels just stood silently watching the trees flash by. There were only 6 of them, including the Andalite. About half of the 50 I think I saw at the battle had to be part of this group. Now only 6 remained.
"What's your name?" I asked the dino-Andalite, just wanting to fill the silence. He stared at me.
I am a combin. I do not have a name. Names are given to individuals so they can be seen as more powerful then others of the same becoming, thus bringing about civil war a destruction to all.
"Oookay. . ."
"Not all names are like that. We have names and we are equals." Cassie said.
One of you is not higher in status than the other?
I shook my head. "No way. It's been that way for like 100 years now. She's my best friend."
He stared blankly at me.
"Friend. You know. Friend?" More blank stares. "Cassie, help me out here."
"We care about each other, we help each other, we have fun together." Cassie clarified.
The dino-Andalite just stared some more. Are you not of different species? You are of different coloration.
"That doesn't matter." Cassie said. "Anyway, we're the same species. Human."
He thought about this profound statement for a moment. Then he pointed at the Hork-Bajir.
I think that is my friend.
"And he's different than, say, that one that looks like the same species, right?" I asked, pointing to another Hork Bajir on the far side of the ship.
Yes, that one is a bit rude.
"So he's special to you." Cassie said.
She.
I raised an eyebrow. "Okay, she. What do you call her?"
Blank stare. That was starting to bug me. The guy needed to blink more often.
"To talk to her. If you wanted to talk to her right now what would you do?"
Walk to her and talk.
I looked at Cassie. "This is beyond weird."
"Listen, if you gave her a name, you could call her to you. If you had a name she could call you to her. You'd be special to each other."
Then we would be seen as higher than the others and thus create civil-
"Oh please! Then give everyone a name. Everyone is special. Come ON now!" I said exasperatedly. Blank stare. "And quit doing that!"
Doing what?
I sighed. "I give up."
Give up what?
"If everyone had a name, everyone would still be the same right? No one higher than the other. You would just be able to call one another and you can distinguish among your friends. No harm." Cassie said calmly.
He thought more about this.
Where would I get a name?
"Make one up." Cassie said.
How?
"Here. I'll give you one. Your name is Bob." I said. Cassie stared at me.
"Bob?"
"Why not?"
"Where'd you get Bob from?" she asked. "He looks like a guy that should have at least TWO syllables."
"What? Jake has one syllable and you like HIS name."
"Your name is Bobby." Cassie modified.
"That's a name for dorks!"
"You're a dork!"
Bobby. My name is Bobby. But please do not tell anyone that I have a name until everyone has a name.
"Well how long til we reach the base?"
We will arrive there when the red sun sets.
I looked up. The red sun was still almost directly above us. The yellow sun was already beginning to set below the horizon of Whomping Willows. It looked like the red one still had a ways to go. We'd be sitting on this small, slow-moving ship for a while.
Bobby proceeded to his little Hork Bajir girlfriend and tried to explain the concept of friendship and names to her. Cassie and I had to help out a bit, but she seemed to accept the idea.
"I want to be your friend." She said with a horrifying Hork-Bajir smile.
"So can you make up a name for yourself?" I asked. Blank stare. Of course.
"You got to name Bobby. My turn." Cassie said.
"YOU named Bobby. I named Bob." I said.
"Fine."
I looked at the half Hork-Bajir. She had a Triceratops-like frill around her neck. I reminded me of this poodle I saw on the Animal Planet channel that had to wear a cone to keep form biting and scratching herself or something. What was her name again? It was. . .
"Pickles." I said. "Her name could be Pickles."
This time the combins weren't the only ones to stare. Cassie stared too.
"PICKLES!? And you made fun of MY name!?"
Pickles seemed to enjoy having her name. Bobby walked to a far side of the ship and called her name and she joined him. It was weird to think that's the very first time they ever did that. And it was weirder to think that on their wedding cake it would say "Bobby and Pickles".
We continued to the other three: a half dino Hork Bajir, Pemalite, and 2 Mercora, and gave them names of their own. Cassie and I took turns naming them Frankie, Steve, Joey and Nicole. Nicole was a female Mercora. It turned out they loved having names. They said each other's names any possible moment they could. I had to say, it made me feel good to make a difference.
After about two hours of constant "Hello Pickles!" and Hello Joeys and others, Bobby announced that we were nearing the base entrance. Namely, a big open space of ocean. Their base was under water. It was getting pretty annoying on this small floating platform. Cassie was just about to tell the gang the story of the Ugly Duckling. For the fourth time. Just then it occurred to me, who was controlling this ship? I asked Bobby.
The rebel Nisk, of course. From the base. Oh. How will we give them names? There are too many of them.
"We'll worry about that later." Cassie told him.
Our flat little ship hovered over the middle of the ocean. The island was little more than a dot on the horizon. I wondered how Tobias and the others were doing. I looked at Cassie. She was looking back too, no doubt worrying about my stupid cousin.
"We'll get them out of there." I told Cassie.
"I think we only have about six hours left." Cassie said.
Six hours. The Sario Rip. I had completely forgotten. I didn't have much time to stress over that, though, because suddenly the water opened up like Moses at the Red Sea. Well not exactly, you could see the metallic walls coming up and pushing aside the water. It looked at least a mile deep. The ship slowly descended.
TO BE CONTINUED. . . Jinako-chan, I actually have no blimmin' clue how the hell I'm going to get them out of this. I gave myself 6 hours to work with, hehe. Don't worry, I'm not going to give some half-ass ending. The voices in my head will ponder something. Cassie as a dino freaks you out? I think its cute. **gets weird stares from everyone**
Hey Amy Angelblade read EsotericEric's review. He thinks we're peculiar. Go figure.