DISCLAIMER: HELLO! **fireworks** MY NAME IS FREAK APPLE! **smoke machine** AND I AM TRYING TO **laser light show** DISTRACT YOU FROM THE FACT THAT **jumps through a ring of fire** I DO NOT **swallows some swords** OWN THE ANIMORPHS!
But I have very pretty special effects. . .
NOTE: I feel like I haven''t updated this in a long time. . . **checks the last update date** Oh, hehe, only 6 days. Okay fine, make fun of my lack of a life. Just remember, I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!! **cackles** Actually, no I don't but I got nothin on any of you. . .
F-RECAP-LE: Ohhh crap, I forgot. I have to go read the whole thing again, be right back in like 5 minutes. . .Oh! Okay, Jake and company head to the rebel Nisk base with the combins where they are ambushed. The plan: morph a Nisk and try to rescue Rachel and Cassie while Ern and Kevin stay in the ship and wreak havoc on the rebels by blowing stuff apart. Oh and before this, Ax makes a couple cheap shots at Kevin the yeerk. Hehe. Onward!
Jake –
MOVE MOVE MOVE! I ordred. I barrelled through the other Nisk. No one seemed to notice us. We were lucky that the Nisk size and number were making this easier for us. LEFT! I called. We veered left, to avoid the invisible blasts from Ern's ship.
Which way? Tobias asked.
Umm. . . Up ahead I sensed, more than I saw, a passageway open and close. Open, close, open close. Follow my scent, I think theres a way.
I led my band of identical Nisk through the opening and closing passage. We practically flew through, because none of us were sure that the door would stay open or if it would crush us to death. I was surprised the other Nisk hadn't jumped us yet. We felt as obvious as a set of quadruplets stripping and streaking through a monastery (Note: Gosh, my pervy mind at work. . .)
Now what? Marco asked. We were now in the usual bright white Nisk hallway. There were more Nisk forces coming through, but they were getting thinner and thinner.
That Kemnar room thing! Tobias said. We have to find out where that is.
I cursed myself. I should have asked before we went storming in here. I looked back at the wall we had just passed through. Just one wall.
Bobby! I called. Bobby can you hear me? I knew Bobby could thought-speak, so he had to hear me from this distance.
Hello. He said in a weirdly calm tone.
What going on there? Marco asked.
They are attacking us. The other combins are taking refuge in the ship but I have been captured. he continued to speak in an unnerving calmness as if he were inviting me for tea or something.
Crap. Where are they taking you?
The Kemnar Room. We are entering the corridors now.
What?
There was a blast of hot air that almost blew us away. The entire wall behind us swoosehed open. Two Nisk creatures were dragging an immobile Bobby through the door.
Bobby! I thought for a moment. You guys we have to follow them. They'll take us straight to were Rachel and Cassie are being held.
Or where they - Ax started, but he didn't continue. I knew what he was going to say. Or where they WERE held.
Ax, just what is your problem anyway? Marco demanded. You've been snapping all day! Are your Andalite panties on too tight?
There was a puzzled silence before Ax answered.
Andalites know of the Nisk.
I almost stopped. What?
It was before my time. But long ago the Andalites and the Nisk were partneres in their. . .gene expiraments. he said quietly. Actually, we introduced it to them. They were more advanced than us, but knew nothing about cloning. We needed help in our expiraments, so we turned to them.
No one knew what to say about this. I didn't encourage him to continue, but he did anyway.
But when it became evident that the Nisk were becoming too obsessed with the gene expiraments we tried to break off ties, but they got angry. There was an Andalite-Nisk war that lasted over 10 human years.
If I had an eyebrow I would've raised it. Again, I decided to not say anything and let Ax deal with his own unnecessary guilt. There would be no use saying it wasn't his fault. Everyone else also kept silent.
COMBIN! I heard someone cry in rage.
Sir, this combin is rebelling. He has taken the side of the collaborators! one of the Nisk creatures holding Bobby yelled. Bobby was slumped over, conscious, but losing it fast. He must have been stung by several thousand Nisk.
This combin? The other Nisk spat. I assumed he was the leader. You. Combin. Your insubordination will be rewarded by death!
We can't let them kill him. Tobias hissed.
No. We can't. I sensed a room to my left. Everyone smell to the left. There's a room there, right?
Yeah. I think so. Marco said.
Okay, go there, but don't run or anything. They might notice four of the same Nisk scrambling away. I tried to calmly walk away. The others followed me a short distance behind. I don't think I even breathed until I knew I was out of sight.
This room was dark, but I saw some round orbs of light floating around. There were computer panels lining the walls. In one corner there was a heap of I don't know what.
What's that? Tobias wondered, indicating the strange mound.
It's not moving. I doubt it's alive. Ax said.
Yeah. I'll demorph first, just in case.
Prince Jake, I think it would be best if I demorphed first, as I have my tail for defense. Ax said sensibly.
I hesitated. Okay. Go.
I sensed the Nisk behind me start to grow.
Whooa, Ax-Man, watch it! Marco yelled. We scittered away from Ax before he crushed us.
Sorry. he apologized. When his morphing was complete I heard his clomp carefully over to the strange pile in the corner.
I think you should all demorph. Ax said quickly. Now.
Why what is it? I asked.
Rachel.
Immediately felt the Nisk beside me start to grow and sprout feathers. I demorphed as quickly as I could. As soon as I regained my decent eyes I saw that the light orbs that were floating around were actually holograms of planets. Including one especially familiar planet with a lot of blue oceans. My eyes traveled across the computers to the heap on the floor. It was a large gray bull elephant, bleeding from unknown places.
Oh my God. Rachel! Tobias cried.
I sprinted over and tried to find any sign of life. When we were Nisk it didn't look like she was alive.
Ax was practically squinting at Rachel's big elephant head.
I-I think she's breathing. he reported.
We have to wake her up! Tobias cried.
I saw Marco swivel around. He bent over and picked something up. It was a discarded torture weapon. He looked at me.
"Think it'll work?"
"Is there another plan?" I turned to Ax and Tobias. "You guys stand back, we're gonna try and shock her awake."
They backed up. What – HEY!
Marco turned the beam on Rachel and fired. The elephant body jolted as if it were struck by lightning.
What the -
Rachel's big black eyes opened halfway. If an elephant could look confused, it would probably look like Rachel did now.
Where am I? she mumbled in our heads. Then her eyes landed on Marco, who was still pointing the weapon at her. Oh my God, I'm in Hell!
Demorph Rachel! Tobias ordered her.
Where's Cassie!? she demanded.
Rachel, you are losing blood very swiftly and slowly you are bleeding to death. I strongly advise that you demorph. Ax said.
Okay, but we gotta find Cassie! She's - Her thought speak stopped as her head became human. She tried to continue speaking, but hermouth was filled with two foot long tusks.
"Caffree's turmig itoo a dinoforr! I cubbn't stoff heh! We gotta fine heh!"
"We're working on that. SHH!" I hissed.
"How bow gettig back hobe?"
"We're working on that too, now shut up!" I started my tiger morph. There was no sneaky way out of this, we were going to have to go full force. Marco started his gorilla morph, managing to grin at Rachel.
"Say 'hullabaloo" Rachel!" he taunted.
Before Rachel could knock his head off his shoulders, Tobias intervened.
Shut up Marco. We got no time. Tobias began his Hork-Bajir morph. As soon as Rachel was fully human she started her elephant morph again.
So anyway, what's the plan? Rachel asked.
We bust in, get Cassie, bust out, try to squeeze everyone into Ern's little ship, and high-tail it outta here.
Then?
Then we hope we think of something before the Sario Rip annihilates us.
Then Let's Do It!
Marco groaned.
Do you have any idea where they might have brought Cassie? I asked Rachel.
Casseratops. . . she mumbled.
What?
Jake, Cassie's really changed since you saw her last. I don't think she's much "Cassie" anymore. . .I -
Doesn't matter, we're saving her. I said firmly.
She's somewhere nearby.
Well that's great. Marco muttered.
Rachel rounded on him. YOU try to write down directions when your bleeding and unconscious!
Everyone shut up! I cried. I heard yelling outside.
GO INTO THE KEMNAR ROOM, COMBIN!!! a voice roared.
I AM BOBBY! Bobby declared, all the monotonous "combin tones" gone.
Follow where they're taking Bobby! I said. We rumbled out of the room, startling the stingers off the Nisk.
WHAT ARE -
Rachel bashed through the leader Nisk. In front of us was another door which led to another dark room, except this one didn't have the floating planets. Two Nisk were drawing their weapons, but doing this caused them to lose their hold on Bobby. Bobby thrashed, sending several Nisk flying. One of them managed to get a shot in at Marco, but Bobby blocked it.
Hey, thanks. I- Marco said. Are you okay?
They do not affect combins. Bobby said grimly.
On a far wall there was a big cage with blue bars of light. Inside the cage was a 10 foot tall unconsious monster. A monster with a long dinosaur tail, sharp protruding fangs, clawed feet, greenish-brown dinosaur hide, and an oversized head. But the scariest part of this combin was the soft brown patches of skin and the short black hair that littered the top of its head.
This was Cassie.
Holy - Ax completed his thought by gasping a certain four-letter word that I knew was taught to him by either Marco or Rachel. (Note: I'm keeping this as PG as I can. Next time I'll let them swear til you all blush, but not in this story.)
Everyone froze to stare at Ax. Until the Nisk outside started screaming.
EVERYONE WHO CAN HEAR ME COME TO THE KEMNAR ROOM NOW!!
Ax, can you open that cage thing? I asked.
I will try. Ax went over to the panel closest to the cage. Then he whipped his tail forward faster-than-the-eye-could-see, slicing the thing into bits. The blue bars disappeared.
Nice. Rachel complimented.
Thank you.
Marco, can you pick her up?
I think so. . . Marco carefully lifted Cassie onto his shoulders. Oof, she's heavy. When he picked Cassie out of the way, I saw something else that was hidden behind her. It was another combin, except this one looked like. . .
Is that Marco? Ax asked.
Marco's gorilla eyes went wide.
Huh. Oh yeah, everyone meet Marcosaur, my former fiance. Rachel introduced us to the unconscious Marco combin. We decided to break things off when he tried to eat my face.
You guys, we're having issues! Tobias called from the doorway. He and Bobby were trying their best to swat the Nisk away.
Back away, you guys. Rachel told them. She lowered her head and charged through the doorway, smashed through a wall of Nisk and headed down toward the docking bay. You guys come on, the charge and ram thing works great on this planet!
We followed her example. I felt the almost unbearable stinging of the Nisk and I felt extremely glad that they couldn't fire their weapons well in a disorganized state. Up ahead Rachel had reached a blank wall. Tobias caught up with her.
What do we do? he asked.
Well, all the other times all we had to do was walk and a door would open up automatically. she said.
Right. Tobias sprinted forward, achieving nothing but a flatter face and a dent in the wall.
Or maybe not. Rachel said thoughtfully. I guess we do this the fun way. She backed up, lowered her head, and rammed a big hole through the white wall.
To the ship! I ordered.
- - -End of chapola 20. Hee-hee, can't you just picture Jake saying that? "To the ship!" Heeeheeeeheeee! Remind me to make my next story PG-13. Actually I'm pretty sure this would already pass as a PG-13, even without the cursing. Oh well. I'll change the rating if you want. But it's kinda late now, considering theres only like an hour left in this story **giggles** Oh mee oh myy, who's gonna die? **giggles more**
THE SAD KORNER! Just kidding, hehe. Boo! THE HAPPY KORNER! Always be happy.
Silent Bob – I'm glad you liked it. Ya know, I try my best (most of the time. . .when I'm not lazy. . .or hyper. . .or mad. . .which is actually almost never. . .). Hehe. Hey did you just start reading this? If you did then welcome aboard the Freak Apple Train to Insanity! First stop: No idea but it's going to be stupid! If your ever confused with something just ask me. I'll be confused too, but I'm loserly enough to have the time to figure it out. Hehehehe. Oh and HP tool me 3 days. Daaaaang all you guys out there read fast.
Astrodragon – Hey ya know what I think you may actually be my very first flamer ever! Wait, was that a flame? I can't tell because almost every word is misspelled like you were typing cross-eyed with your feet. Anyway, thanks for your opinion, because it is now being used to toast marshmallows! (I have no idea who the first one to say that was, but I saw it around and I like it)
Amy Angelblade – I gotta poem for you too! Here goes. . .
BEES are cool.
BEES
BEES BEES BEES
BEES
Heheheheeeeeeee!
Digimon-lover – Well I used to read the Animorphs books like 45 minutes each, but Harry Potter books are like a bajillion times longer. And I think Order of the Phoenix was the longest book I've ever read. Sooo I guess it was the quickest for that long a book. **gives digimon-lover some cake** I betcha I could eat cake faster than you though!!
DawnOfEast – Aw, Ax crashing the ship for real woulda been cool! Disco woulda been cool too! Buut I didn't think many people would appreciate that much. . .but that was a dream I had and I HAD to write it someplace. . .
EsotericEric – Well that gang has been reunited! So maybe they won't be too boring anymore. Hopefully. And I can picture Ax doing that too! Actually I DID picture Ax doing that, in a strange dream. . .
Jinako-chan – Well in your story you managed to not make "just talking" boring. Probably cuz you have it evenly spread out in your talented mechanism known as "organizing stuff". Me, on the other hand, I am a naturally screwed up person (my mom said I tried to be born feet first) so it is hard to overcome my screwed-upness to organize things. Did that make sense? Umm, doesn't matter you probably shouldn't listen to me anyway, lest you catch my idiot virus. Oh. And how did you like Ax cussing here? That was just for you, hehehe. Still, I can't make him curse for real cuz I only rated this story PG. It's getting annoying though, I wanna curse. Next story is PG-13!!
Oedipal Kat – Ending is coming up! Sheeeesh I can't believe this whole thing takes place in like 8 hours. OH well, I've seen worse **cough Dragon Ball Z Buu Saga cough**
SaraMcGregor – I might take you up on that betareader offer. I'll email you if I do. Thanks! I agree, wuuuuv Ax-y!!
Stink E. Burrito – Morph a combin. . .hmm. . .great idea, I'll seriously think about that. . .
Kristen Goddess – hmmz :\ How old is Orlando Bloom? He is kinda hott. . . Anyway yeah it was kinda short. . .I was just lazy. And I dunno if YMCA is a disco song, I have no idea. I just know when my mom and dad do it it looks VERY disco. Ern is the leader of foreign affairs for the Nisk under Motroveld. Met him a while ago. And he's named after that cow guy in the commercials for Post cereal. You know, Eet and Ern? Hehehehe.
Someoneotherthanyou – Thanks for reading! Oh yeah, I figured out what driftball was, thanks.
BlackOpal - **chases BlackOpal with a tennis racket** Gimme back my chapter! Teee-heee! O0o0o0ookay, I guess its safe to open my window now.