DISCLAIMER: The Animorphs WANT to be owned by me, they just don't know it yet. . .RIGHT!? **waves a hot hair-iron at them**
NOTE: Hehe, I snuck out of the house today! **bows proudly** Anyway in celebration of my 5 minutes out in the outside world (my mom saw me and made me lie down again), I've written another chapter! HUZZAH! Or "aw crap", depending if you like this or not, hehe. **sigh** I wanna go see a movie. . .
F-RECAP-LE: Ah, reuniited and it feeels so gooood! Yes, Jake and the boys succeeded in finding Rachel and. . .whatever Cassie is now. So, with a big manly heroic "To the ship!", the Animorphs are about to make their great escape. Probably. And hopefully they'll find a way out of this Sario Rip thing too. **sigh** All we can do is wait. . .
Rachel –
To the ship? What are you Captain Nemo now? I snorted. Have you guys been inflating his head while we were gone?
Tobias and I ran through the new door I made, followed closely by Jake and Ax, with Marco and Bobby taking up the rear. I was now standing in what I assumed was the docking bay, teeming with pissed off Nisk.
Where's the ship!? I cried.
There! Jake bounded towarded a very VERY small excuse for a aircraft.
Are you serious!? Sara wouldn't fit in there!
Just come on! Ax, morph something small. Everyone human except Marco! FAST! GO!!
A shot was fired at me, but Bobby blocked it for me. Combins were unaffected. Marco was shot at too, but he swung Cassie's body around to shield himself.
Hey! I protested.
Hey nothing, she can't feel it.
I started my demorphing process, ignoring the blinding pain as the Nisk decided to set my feet on fire with their poison. I saw Jake, half human leap into the ship.
Oh crap! he cried.
What?
The other combins are in here. I'm gonna go squirrel. Everyone as soon as you're in the ship, morph TINY!
Rachel, your left! Ax warned. I swung my half elephant fist toward my left and knocked a weapon out of a Nisk's hands.
Ax? Where are you?
I'm. . .I'm a seagull.
WHAT!?
We all glanced up to see a white bird flying around unnoticed. Unnoticed right then, anyway.
Ax get in here! Jake roareded from the ship. Tobias had already joined him, and Marco was lying behind them, wounded but still trying to shove the waves of Nisk that were trying to enter. Cassie was a squished as small as she could be in a corner.
My human feet were already red as I finally made it to the ship, followed close behind by Bobby, who had been guarding me. Ax flew in, grazing my hair with his wings.
We're all here, GO GO GO!! Jake the squirrel ordered. There was a Nisk creature at the controls who looked kind of surprised, but he obliged. We started to rise.
How do we get out of here, we're underwater, remember!? Tobias cried. No one had a brilliant answer to that. All I knew was that I was NOT going to sit here squished with about seven different species of animals in a space barely bigger than my closet. Outside I saw two familiar spherical ships revving up. They were each about the size of the basketball. I recognized them as the ships that brought us to this hellhole.
And I knew they had dracon beams.
Trouble you guys. I pointed them out as I morphed a small animal, a cat.
WE CANNOT OPEN THE GATES. the Nisk handling the ship told us.
They are opened with that. Bobby pointed at a mess of blinking controls below. But we don't know how to work them. . . He tried to avoid looking at the Hork-Bajir combin we named Pickles, but he couldn't help it.
"I know how." Pickles said evenly.
Okay. . .okay, we should land, drop her off, let her open the gates, pick her up, and then we go. Jake said. He said it quietly, as if he doubted it. I knew there was no way we could land without being recaptured. The Nisk below were already starting to reorganize and the two ships were almost ready to fire.
Without warning, Pickles slammed a clawed fist on a glowing blue button in front of her. A big doorway opened up on her side of the ship.
Pickles! Bobby cried. What are you doing!?
"No other way." She gripped the sides of the opening.
What do you mean? Tobias demanded. What are you doing?
"I have to open the gate so you could escape." She still didn't look at us, but she was staring straight ahead and breathing hard. "Bobby, watch them. . .be free. . .and think by yourself. . .
No! Bobby yelled. Stop!
"GO!"
The Pemalite combin, Steve, grabbed at Pickle's arm but she was too quick. She leaped out from the ship and fell almost twenty feet among the Nisk. She got up like she had just hopped off a playground swing and sprinted toward the controls that opened the gate.
STOP HER!!!! the Nisk below roared. Both of the spherical ships removed it's attention from us and focused on Pickles.
No. . .. I whispered.
PICKLES! Bobby tried to fight his way across the teeny ship to the open door.
The Nisk at the controls pushed the blue buttone and it quickly shut. No. We have to get out of here. She knows what she's doing. She's thinking for herself.
NO! Bobby looked like he was about to both break down in tears and break open the ship.
The combin Nicole grabbed Bobby's arm and repeated the Nisk's words. She is thinking for herself.
Pickles had reached the controls and her hands were flying wildly across them. She was engulfed in Nisk, but she continued to feverishly open the gates. Suddenly the was a loud grinding noise. The gate was opening, no water in sight. We could escape.
Pickles turned to our ship with a pained expression. She mouthed the word "Go."
TSEEEEWW! TSEEEEEEWW!
The Nisk ships fired and Pickles was gone.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Bobby and Kermu both let loose screams of anguish. I glanced back and was surprised to see water flood back into the docking bay as we sped away.
She must have tampered with something. Marco whispered. I saw him sitting upside down above me. A fly.
I looked around the quiet ship. Everyone was avoiding eye contact. Cassie was still unconscious in a corner. The only one expressing emotion was Kevin. He looked pale and shocked, but I didn't want to talk to him. I didn't want to look at Bobby or the other combins. And I didn't want to see the rebel Nisk base drowned by the ocean. I just wanted to go home.
- - -Should I end it there? Hmm, it's less than 3 pages long. . .Nah I'll keep going.
We were now flying over a familiar patch of forest, and still no one had said anything. I guess Jake realized this too so he spoke up.
How much time do we have left? Jake asked.
The seagull in the corner bobbed it's head a little before answering. 26 minutes.
WHAT!? all of yelled. Twenty minutes to find something explosive enough to send us back home?
Ern, are you sure you don't have any explosive weapons? Just these invisible beams? Jake asked the Nisk.
NO OTHER WEAPONS. he said solemnly. THE REBELS HAD. . .BUT. . .
They're underwater. Marco finished. Wonderful.
We approached the Nisk base. Then it occurred to me that these guys were the ones who injected Cassie and separated us in the first place. I couldn't believe I'd forgotten that these guys were the bad guys too.
I tensed up. Hold up. When the hell did we get so chummy with the Nisk.
The Nisk are being enslaved by Motroveld. They were forced to do everything, like these combins were. Tobias told me.
Motroveld. . .?
The big evil radioactive monster with all the tentacles. Marco clarified. Remember? Bloated, ugly. . .
MOTROVELD! Ern yelled suddenly. YES!
What? Jake asked.
Motroveld. . .he encases unspeakable amount of energy within his body.
We let this sink in for a few moments.
Oh yeah, I remember the glowing stoma. . .OH! Marco clicked. We blow up Motroveld!
Duh. I said.
Well how do we do that, Xena? Marco shot back.
What, your torture beams don't work on him? I asked Ern.
NO.
And your stings. . .
Do not penetrate deep enough into his skin. But I am sure than if he is penetrated deep enough the energy will burst from his body.
"Like popping a balloon. . ." Kevin said thoughtfully.
I glared at Kevin. You know, even if we do make it, what do we do about him?
Silence.
I think I have a plan. Jake said slowly. He looked at me with his beady little eyes. And you're definitely going to like it.
- - -Almost done! Yay!. . .Maybe 3 more chapters? **sigh** I'm gonna miss this story. . .even though it gave me several brain cramps. . . Anywhoo. . .review like always, tell me what you think. Don't worry, I can take it. **stands up, all brave-like**
THE HAPPY KORNER! (I'll think of a new name for this some day. . .)
Ikram – o0o0o my mom said I should see a shrink too, but she said I'll probably just drive him nuts anyway so she doesn't want to bother ;) It's nice when people say I'm good, but really I'm not as good as a LOT of other people out there. I won't mention names cuz I don't wanna make them turn red, hehe.
EsotericEric – Heehee, I believe I answered your question.
Oedipal Kat – Glad you enjoyed it, but constructive criticism is ALWAYS wanted. I know I got mistakes, especially since I forgot to spell check the last couple chapters. . .hehe. o0o0o0o I just read this story called Oedipus Rex, is that where you got your name from?
Kristen Goddess – YES!! I KNEW I wasn't the only one who remembered them. No one else I know remembers Eet and Ern! We're COOL! **boogies with Kristen** Oh and I said Cassie was about 10 feet tall and Marco was in gorilla morph. Since I figure a gorilla can catch a falling Hork-Bajir (#13) I figure he can carry Cassie.
DawnOfEast – Heehee. I think I laughed when I first heard the "they ate her face" line. It was from Malcolm in the Middle. Cats ate Dewey's grandma's face.
Jinako-chan – Yeah, why IS it the Andalites are stupid with who they give technology to? Hehehe. Maybe they aren't though, cuz remember: this isn't a real animorphs book and I'm just an idiot with internet access. I'm sure K.A. didn't mean for the Andalites to come off THAT dumb (though I think she wanted us to not think they were perfect). What you don't like Casseratops? I think it's cute **giggles and gets a few stares** Okay, okay fine. And I don't think I'll change the rating, cuz no one has asked me to. Plus it's almost over so. . .
ROGUE – Hey, unless I'm sick, I try my best not to go over a week without updates. If there's one thing I'm proud of, it me being so big of a loser that I have a lot of time to spill my freaky ideas into the computer. Did that make sense? Naaahhh. And you know I never had any idea there were so many Shawnie lovers out there until I met them all at FF.net. Hehehe.
Digimon-lover – Hehehehe, laugh harder maybe you'll make your brother cry. And are you sure about that cake thing? Cuz I'm a cake-eating DEMON!! MUAHAHAHAH!!!
SurrealSerpent – 0o0o0o Kenmar room, ok I just called it "Kemnar" cuz I was bored and staring at this little portable fridge my parents have in their room. It was made by "Kenmore" and I was so bored I was like staring for so long that it started to look like "Kemnar". Hehe.
BlackOpal - **hug** it's okay, Shawnie is still better. . .**hides from Kristen's wrath** And yeah, I spelled words wrong, cuz I'm really lazy to spellcheck nowadays. I still have no idea how to spell that. It's always underlined in red.
Stink E. Burrito – 0o0o0o0o yeah I forgot about that Rashy thing! I'll have to bring that back up later after the crap hits the fan. . .
Sara McGregor – Okey dokey! I didn't know Orlando Bloom was that old. Not that he's old.