Chapter 3
TOBIAS
Hooking up the Yeerk ship was surprisingly simple. In the last compartment of our small ship, energy bonds plus six modified Yeerk spacesuits could be used to tie the lumbering beast up. Strangely enough, I could fit into the spacesuit. Apparently my human morph (myself) aged with me. Must be some strange trick of the Ellimist's.
After fitting ourselves into the suits, Jake, Santorelli, Jeanne and I (Marco was, startling enough, the best pilot of the five of us) went into the suits and took the energy bonds with us.
Menderash had told us month's back that moving through space was hardly a walk in the park. If our restraint ropes snapped, we float endlessly through space until eventually our oxygen tanks depleted. Plus, in space you were weightless, and could not move by twisting your body. You would have to bounce along the ship, and encircle it with the bonds. The Blade Ship was a beast, and it took the better part of three days hooking the great thing up.
Santorelli explained to us how the Yeerks aboard had died. The Yeerks, while tough and mean in a fight, we, at heart, cowards and had turned away from us to speed into Z-Space. They had Dracon Cannons on the back of their ship, and had powered them up to fire on us, but they had underestimated our speed.
We had nailed them, and hit one of their engines while we were at it. The combined explosion of their ship's engines had caught the Dracons beams in full-power, and caused kin of a plasma explosion (Ax could, of course explain it better AND more complicated) aboard the craft and blew up almost half the ship. Needless to say, everyone died rather painfully. Either from the explosion or from the cold, dark, lifelessness of space.
What I couldn't figure out was why WE didn't die. We had been right in the heart of the explosion, yet we came out relatively unscathed, besides the death of Menderash. We should have been caught right in the plasma explosion, yet when we all came to, the ship was floating half a mile away from the stunned and defeated Blade Ship. How? I asked myself. Probably some physics or another from interstellar collisions.
Ax would have known. But he was gone. Gone, at least, to me. He was now part of an evil being not unlike Crayak. They would probably get along, I thought, with a grim smile.
I shook it off. Tried concentrating through the window of the ship. That failed dismally, nothing to really concentrate on in the white blankness of Zero Space. We were heading back home, the Blade Ship in tow, to what we presumed would be angriness from the Andalite people, plus the American government would probably be non-too-pleased with us either. We really didn't care when a very pissed off Andalite hailed us, and appeared on our communications screen. He yelled, screamed some crap about theft of Yeerk prototype, nobody really paid much attention to the scream and yells until Jake told him we had captured the Blade Ship.
Well, that got the attention of the Andalite, and he quickly called up his prince and he was just as stunned to find the Blade Ship was, in fact, along with these humans who stole the Yeerk vessel.
We landed at NASA's new headquarters and the rest after that was a blur. As quick as I could I went to my field, after telling Jake I would be back the next day, and had a good long rest. But not without some interesting dreams.
"YOU MEDDLING TWIT!" yelled the Darkest of Dark Beings, Crayak at the true meddler of the galaxy, but truly it's only defender, the Ellimist.
"Why whatever do you mean?" asked the Ellimist imploringly.
"We were allowed to attack the fools in the Falla Kadrat world with a belt of asteroids, and you were allowed to let the simpering little Animorphs destroy the Blade Ship! But you let them live! They should have been vaporized instantly, but instead you sent them to the safety of, oh, about 1 light year away!" yelled Crayak, his words filling my head.
"We agreed that should the belt hit the planet, I could make whatever move I wanted. I chose that one," replied the being of light that was the Ellimist.
"AARRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!" yelled Crayak out of sheer frustration. But his angry, red eye calmed. "Oh well, I suppose I should be happy. War will be upon those fools the humans soon."
"Perhaps," answered the Ellimist, "But I believe they will surprise you yet again."
With that, the Ellimist sped off through the very being of time to Kelbrid space and looked upon the One.
"Interesting," murmured he Ellimist quietly, "Very interesting. Not much unlike the Father. I wonder if he will meet the same downfall as he."
With a jerk, Tobias awoke, and he didn't remember the dream at all.
Well, after this, I'm actually gonna make the chapters long. Prepare for war mortals!!! Joking, but anyways..
TOBIAS
Hooking up the Yeerk ship was surprisingly simple. In the last compartment of our small ship, energy bonds plus six modified Yeerk spacesuits could be used to tie the lumbering beast up. Strangely enough, I could fit into the spacesuit. Apparently my human morph (myself) aged with me. Must be some strange trick of the Ellimist's.
After fitting ourselves into the suits, Jake, Santorelli, Jeanne and I (Marco was, startling enough, the best pilot of the five of us) went into the suits and took the energy bonds with us.
Menderash had told us month's back that moving through space was hardly a walk in the park. If our restraint ropes snapped, we float endlessly through space until eventually our oxygen tanks depleted. Plus, in space you were weightless, and could not move by twisting your body. You would have to bounce along the ship, and encircle it with the bonds. The Blade Ship was a beast, and it took the better part of three days hooking the great thing up.
Santorelli explained to us how the Yeerks aboard had died. The Yeerks, while tough and mean in a fight, we, at heart, cowards and had turned away from us to speed into Z-Space. They had Dracon Cannons on the back of their ship, and had powered them up to fire on us, but they had underestimated our speed.
We had nailed them, and hit one of their engines while we were at it. The combined explosion of their ship's engines had caught the Dracons beams in full-power, and caused kin of a plasma explosion (Ax could, of course explain it better AND more complicated) aboard the craft and blew up almost half the ship. Needless to say, everyone died rather painfully. Either from the explosion or from the cold, dark, lifelessness of space.
What I couldn't figure out was why WE didn't die. We had been right in the heart of the explosion, yet we came out relatively unscathed, besides the death of Menderash. We should have been caught right in the plasma explosion, yet when we all came to, the ship was floating half a mile away from the stunned and defeated Blade Ship. How? I asked myself. Probably some physics or another from interstellar collisions.
Ax would have known. But he was gone. Gone, at least, to me. He was now part of an evil being not unlike Crayak. They would probably get along, I thought, with a grim smile.
I shook it off. Tried concentrating through the window of the ship. That failed dismally, nothing to really concentrate on in the white blankness of Zero Space. We were heading back home, the Blade Ship in tow, to what we presumed would be angriness from the Andalite people, plus the American government would probably be non-too-pleased with us either. We really didn't care when a very pissed off Andalite hailed us, and appeared on our communications screen. He yelled, screamed some crap about theft of Yeerk prototype, nobody really paid much attention to the scream and yells until Jake told him we had captured the Blade Ship.
Well, that got the attention of the Andalite, and he quickly called up his prince and he was just as stunned to find the Blade Ship was, in fact, along with these humans who stole the Yeerk vessel.
We landed at NASA's new headquarters and the rest after that was a blur. As quick as I could I went to my field, after telling Jake I would be back the next day, and had a good long rest. But not without some interesting dreams.
"YOU MEDDLING TWIT!" yelled the Darkest of Dark Beings, Crayak at the true meddler of the galaxy, but truly it's only defender, the Ellimist.
"Why whatever do you mean?" asked the Ellimist imploringly.
"We were allowed to attack the fools in the Falla Kadrat world with a belt of asteroids, and you were allowed to let the simpering little Animorphs destroy the Blade Ship! But you let them live! They should have been vaporized instantly, but instead you sent them to the safety of, oh, about 1 light year away!" yelled Crayak, his words filling my head.
"We agreed that should the belt hit the planet, I could make whatever move I wanted. I chose that one," replied the being of light that was the Ellimist.
"AARRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!" yelled Crayak out of sheer frustration. But his angry, red eye calmed. "Oh well, I suppose I should be happy. War will be upon those fools the humans soon."
"Perhaps," answered the Ellimist, "But I believe they will surprise you yet again."
With that, the Ellimist sped off through the very being of time to Kelbrid space and looked upon the One.
"Interesting," murmured he Ellimist quietly, "Very interesting. Not much unlike the Father. I wonder if he will meet the same downfall as he."
With a jerk, Tobias awoke, and he didn't remember the dream at all.
Well, after this, I'm actually gonna make the chapters long. Prepare for war mortals!!! Joking, but anyways..