Chapter 4

Later that night, we were all on the cliffs by the beach. It was everyone tonight, even Sam. Tobias was in the air. We knew that there would probably be people there, but we had to do this. We needed to know what was going on, ans if we could exploit it. We suspected that there would be cops, controllers, and civilians, so we knew this would be the place tonight.

So we decided to drop in and give them a line.

"So, what makes you think that there will be people here?" Marco asked.

I sighed, "I can hear them over the dunes, I wouldn't say that is my imagination. Just over the cliffs is the beach where the andalite fighter was. Don't worry, I know how to use my ears." I was pretty mad, Marco was being an idiot, while we were trying to do our business.

We all walked over to the cliffs and looked over. There was a surprisingly small crowd. It all appeared to be members of 'the sharing'. These weren't civilians, these were yeerks, which made it completely clear that this was an andalite spacecraft.

"Wow, got the big guys here today." Marco said.

"Well, this seems to be a big thing." Jake said. "I think it is safe to say that this is a big deal."

"I think we have proved our point, we need to get out of here." Whitney said. We all agreed.

{I would be moving quickly too.} Tobias urged. {it is vague, but I can see about five guys coming your way.}

"Gotcha. Let's go." Jake answered.

We all started walking away quietly.

"I heard some voices over there." I heard a voice say from over on the other side of the tree-line.

"Guys, I think we need to be leaving now." Jake said. "Head for the dunes."

We all did that and made our ways to the dunes. We were slowly running when I heard a voice shouting from behind. "It's kids, get them!" It was vice principal chapman. He sounded a bit different, but overall sounded the same.

I looked back and saw that Sam was missing.

"Guys, Sam is gone!" I whispered.

"Okay, just head for the water, no need for alarm. Morph to fish." Jake said. Unfortunately, before we got there, I heard a loud booming sound. BOOM! BOOM! They were shooting at us.

We all ran to the water's edge dived in, and submerged our heads. Quite frankly, I didn't need anyone recognizing me or anyone else. They continued to shoot at us.

I immediately morphed to fish, feeling the dread, wondering where Sam was. If he fought with the guys who were chasing us, they would know that he was in arms with humans, and that would lead them to find us. I only hoped he had enough sense to just escape.

{Sam, don't fight, just escape!} I pleaded. I was the only one who could use thought speak out of morph. We weren't far enough in morph to use thought speak yet.

As I morphed, a little thought that was in my head became more and more apparent. Freshwater fish couldn't live in the sea. I could feel my gills burning and stinging, even before I finished the morph. I was a little ahead of the others, except Cassie, so I warned them. {Guys, this will hurt the gills.}

{No duh!} Marco replied.

{It does hurt a bit more than expected.} Whitney commented as she finished the morph.

We were all in fish morph, swimming away from the pursuers. Slowly making our way through the stinging water. The salt was enough to make you go insane. It was constant and irritating. {Just keep going until Tobias says they are gone.} Jake advised. Nobody argued.

{They're still looking, and examining the footprints. Said something about us definitely being human, and maybe the Visser was wrong. They also said they were not going to be the one to tell the Visser he was wrong.} ten minutes passed, before Tobias gave us the go-ahead. {Okay, they are leaving, saying something about making up an excuse and pretending it never happened.}

{That doesn't make sense.} Marco said. {In this world, there could be so many consequences. That doesn't sound right.}

{I know, but that is what they said.} Tobias informed us.

{Consider this, they are low-level yeerks. They are probably just trying to cut themselves a break, like any blue collar businessman.} Whitney suggested.

Cassie sighed. {Let's hope so. Tobias, are you sure they are nowhere in sight?}

{Positive.} he answered with confidence. So we all swam to shore, burning gills and all. By that point we had gotten used to the pain.

We all demorphed. I saw Rachel there, kind of in a trance. "What's wrong?" I asked.

"I don't know." She answered. "It was weird. We had been shot at by so many things. We have had our lives threatened by much more dangerous things, but those guns really set the adrenaline flowing. It was like being in a movie, only it was real."

I smiled. "I know what you are feeling, but we have to get home. Where's Sam?" I asked. Nobody knew. "Shit, I hope he went home. I don't need him causing trouble on the beach down there. We need to stay conspicuous."

"Either way, we really need to go." Jake advised. We decided to walk home. We all separate and went our own ways. On the way home, I had Tobias fly down onto a nearby tree.

{I saw Sam.} he said. {Floating up above me. I hope he never loses control and falls. That is dangerous, he should keep his feet on the ground.}

"I agree, but he is fine as it is. Let's go home."

When we got there, sam was already sitting there. "What took you so long?" He asked.

"I was walking. Unfortunately, I don't have the ability to fly, like some individuals." I answered sarcastically.

"Actually, you do, just not the same way." He contradicted.

"Oh well. Anyway, I have decided that we need to get more cheap clothes."

"Why?" He asked.

I stared down at my body. "Look at me. I have left yet another set of clothes at the site. I bet they will put two and two together. It is funny. I am the one with the least clothes and no parents to cover for me and I am the only one who decides to wear clothes to a place where I know I will be morphing. I am kind of an idiot."

Sam laughed. "You said it, not me."

I just laughed. It was late, so we went to bed.