Chapter 15
So this was it? We were trapped in an underwater bubble and the yeerks were on to us. I was thinking as fast as I could, but I had no clue what we were going to do. If they saw a bunch of dolphins swimming away from the dome, they would likely put two and two together and shoot to kill.
"Well, what now, oh mighty Jake." I was rather annoyed, because of them being wimps, we were now trapped.
"We have to get out of here and head for shore." He said simply.
"Easier said than done."
{We should probably be leaving now. I can get you out through the same hatch we came in, but it may be dangerous.} Ax said.
"We don't have many other options, ley's go." Rachel said.
We all ran over to the side of the dome where the door was. We all clambered into is as fast as we could. There was plenty of room, but the andalite seemed a little shaken. I guess it was true, they were claustrophobic.
{I might suggest we morph.} he said calmly. I did just that, morphing incredibly fast. Cassie and I were both finished at about the same time.
{You are both quite talented morphers.} he complimented.
{I know, but now is not the time to worry about that.} I said.
Since we were both finished, I could sense the dolphin's instinct bubbling up beneath my own. Of course, the dolphin was a little claustrophobic itself. It is used to wide, open spaces in the ocean, so it was a little edgy.
Underneath all that, there was the eternal happiness, which I also had to subdue. We needed to be serious this time, we had to move fast. Then, the one thing that would really help me with that, happened. The dolphin could sense a shark. The dolphin did not fear the shark, but it knew the dangers of one and that it was to stay away.
So now the dolphin brain was truly alert. Ax's tiger shark that he had acquired really motivated me.
It took a little while longer for everyone to finish the morph. And when they did, Ax moved his nose and hit a panel and the outer panel opened, throwing us all over with the sudden onrush of water and the decreasing pressure. It almost hurt.
I was disoriented, though, and it took me a good few seconds before I knew where I was and righted myself. {Is everyone okay?} I asked.
{I am fine, now let's get out of here.} Jake said.
{I hear you on that.} Marco said.
{Just don't go up unless you absolutely have to.} Rachel advised. We have seen what the yeerks do to any who oppose them, or even are seen during an operation.} she was right. At our last mission in the deep woods out by the mountains, the yeerks were shooting at any deer or rabbit that moved. It was terrible, but I guess coming from the yeerk's point of view, it was being careful, they had their priorities straight.
{So don't jump, and only go up for air if you absolutely have to.} Whitney suggested.
But I was running out of air now. We all knew this, but we definitely couldn't go up here. They would definitely shoot us here. We at least needed to get a bit farther away.
We just started to swim away when I noticed a tiger shark coming straight at us. It was Ax. I would have slapped myself. Sharks probably have strong instincts, they have been around for ages, and Ax probably hadn't tested it out before.
{AX!} I yelled just as he closed in on me and tried to take a chunk out of me. I dodged and swerved to just barely avoid him. It didn't last long. He spun the other way and almost got a bit of my tail. {Ax! You have to wake up, the sharks mind is taking you over!} he snapped at me one more time before he slowed to a stop.
There was a momentary pause before he said, {I cannot believe I have let the animal take over. It's instincts were so strong.}
{It's okay, Ax.} Cassie tried to comfort him. {It has happened to all of us in the past. Don't worry. Now let's go!}
Ax, obviously feeling a little better, left the subject alone and we all swam quickly away. I had a slight urge to ask him how much he had morphed before. He should be prepared for any situation.
Oh well, it was in the past, and we had a place to go. We all swam, quietly towards the surface. And something dawned on me. There were about three big tanker ships, accompanied by numerous power boats and stuff. Before we even hit the surface, I felt a bunch of things being dumped into the water. I couldn't tell what they were, but I assumed they were some sort of submarines.
{if what you say is true, then these are probably yeerks, correct?} Ax asked.
{Yeah, why?} Rachel answered.
{What typed of controllers do the yeerks use here?}
{Mostly human and hork bajir.} Marco said. {Why?}
{No Taxxons?} he asked cautiously.
{Sometimes.} I said, {Why?}
{I do believe we are going to have to swim a little bit faster.} he answered.
{Taxxons can swim?} Cassie asked.
{Quite well, actually.} he said, quite calmly.
Crap! I thought. That was probably what I heard dumping into the water. There had to be twenty of them all floating in the water.
I finally came to the surface to breathe in a much deserved breath. I was relieved with the air, but devastated to see that along with the three tankers, there were also about six bug fighters and the blade ship all hovering calmly over the water, dropping more taxxons gingerly on the water.
{This is bad, really bad.} I said.
The others all came to the surface to see too. They were also quite surprised.
{They really want to kill you, don't they?} Jake said.
{What is up there. I am afraid I cannot see with this body.}
{Umm, it's about six bug fighters and the blade ship.} Whitney informed him. {Lot's of fun.}
{THE Blade ship? Visser Three's?} Ax asked.
{Yes, now let's go!} I said. I turned away to swim away, but Ax stayed there. {Let's go!} I shouted.
{No, he will kill us all! I must try to avenge my brother.} he yelled back as he swam towards the turbulent waters with the taxxons.
{Get your ass back here, you can do that later, when we have a plan. As for now, we need to get out of here!} Marco yelled.
{No, he killed my brother, I must avenge him now.} he continued towards the taxxons.
{Ax, what are you going to do, splash him? He is way up there in his ship and you are down here, now let it go.} Whitney demanded.
He stopped, but by then, we were too close to the taxxons to avoid it. They were on to us and we had to fight. It was too late to run.
The first of the taxxons started at us and I was surprised to see that they really did move fast in the water. I sped up straight towards it and flipped my tail in such a way that I moved off to the side and beat it in the side with my tail.
WHUMPH!
I could hear a half-impact/half-squishing sound as the Taxxon burst like a balloon. It was gross, thank god dolphins don't really have a sense of smell, or I probably would have been incapacitated.
WHUMPH! WHUMPH! WHUMPH!
Three more people hit their targets. The water was filling up with entrails. It was gross.
I used my speed to ram one more taxxon in the side. I went right through it, with the guts trailing off my fins. That was enough to make you puke.
{Ah, so it is the andalite bandits, here to steal my prize?} I heard Visser three gloat from his blade ship.
{Be quiet, Ax.} Jake commanded, {Don't talk to him, it will just get you angry.}
{He killed my brother, he must pay.}
{No, he must be left until a greater opportunity arises. It is just that simple. Now lets go.} Jake said.
I heard Ax almost growl in thought speech before he turned tail and fled. I was still surrounded by Taxxons. I had to slap them and hit them with my nose to get through them. They were mush more manoeuvrable than they looked, so I had to bust through them. They were really soft, so it wasn't all that difficult.
{Time to go.} I heard Jake call. He was already far away. I seemed to be the only one left behind. It wasn't fair. I swam deeper into the depths, it seemed there were less taxxons there. I was hoping to maybe go under them all.
As it turns out, Taxxons are really floaty. They could swim quite well in a horizontal way, but they struggled when attempting to swim deeper to chase me. Thank god for that.
I swam deeper and deeper, until I was at the bottom, bordering the rim of the valley. I swam as hard and as far as I could until I absolutely had to go up for air. I was just outside of the group of tankers. And this time, I had a visitor. Because right as I surfaced, I could feel something big fall into the water not to far away.
So this was it? We were trapped in an underwater bubble and the yeerks were on to us. I was thinking as fast as I could, but I had no clue what we were going to do. If they saw a bunch of dolphins swimming away from the dome, they would likely put two and two together and shoot to kill.
"Well, what now, oh mighty Jake." I was rather annoyed, because of them being wimps, we were now trapped.
"We have to get out of here and head for shore." He said simply.
"Easier said than done."
{We should probably be leaving now. I can get you out through the same hatch we came in, but it may be dangerous.} Ax said.
"We don't have many other options, ley's go." Rachel said.
We all ran over to the side of the dome where the door was. We all clambered into is as fast as we could. There was plenty of room, but the andalite seemed a little shaken. I guess it was true, they were claustrophobic.
{I might suggest we morph.} he said calmly. I did just that, morphing incredibly fast. Cassie and I were both finished at about the same time.
{You are both quite talented morphers.} he complimented.
{I know, but now is not the time to worry about that.} I said.
Since we were both finished, I could sense the dolphin's instinct bubbling up beneath my own. Of course, the dolphin was a little claustrophobic itself. It is used to wide, open spaces in the ocean, so it was a little edgy.
Underneath all that, there was the eternal happiness, which I also had to subdue. We needed to be serious this time, we had to move fast. Then, the one thing that would really help me with that, happened. The dolphin could sense a shark. The dolphin did not fear the shark, but it knew the dangers of one and that it was to stay away.
So now the dolphin brain was truly alert. Ax's tiger shark that he had acquired really motivated me.
It took a little while longer for everyone to finish the morph. And when they did, Ax moved his nose and hit a panel and the outer panel opened, throwing us all over with the sudden onrush of water and the decreasing pressure. It almost hurt.
I was disoriented, though, and it took me a good few seconds before I knew where I was and righted myself. {Is everyone okay?} I asked.
{I am fine, now let's get out of here.} Jake said.
{I hear you on that.} Marco said.
{Just don't go up unless you absolutely have to.} Rachel advised. We have seen what the yeerks do to any who oppose them, or even are seen during an operation.} she was right. At our last mission in the deep woods out by the mountains, the yeerks were shooting at any deer or rabbit that moved. It was terrible, but I guess coming from the yeerk's point of view, it was being careful, they had their priorities straight.
{So don't jump, and only go up for air if you absolutely have to.} Whitney suggested.
But I was running out of air now. We all knew this, but we definitely couldn't go up here. They would definitely shoot us here. We at least needed to get a bit farther away.
We just started to swim away when I noticed a tiger shark coming straight at us. It was Ax. I would have slapped myself. Sharks probably have strong instincts, they have been around for ages, and Ax probably hadn't tested it out before.
{AX!} I yelled just as he closed in on me and tried to take a chunk out of me. I dodged and swerved to just barely avoid him. It didn't last long. He spun the other way and almost got a bit of my tail. {Ax! You have to wake up, the sharks mind is taking you over!} he snapped at me one more time before he slowed to a stop.
There was a momentary pause before he said, {I cannot believe I have let the animal take over. It's instincts were so strong.}
{It's okay, Ax.} Cassie tried to comfort him. {It has happened to all of us in the past. Don't worry. Now let's go!}
Ax, obviously feeling a little better, left the subject alone and we all swam quickly away. I had a slight urge to ask him how much he had morphed before. He should be prepared for any situation.
Oh well, it was in the past, and we had a place to go. We all swam, quietly towards the surface. And something dawned on me. There were about three big tanker ships, accompanied by numerous power boats and stuff. Before we even hit the surface, I felt a bunch of things being dumped into the water. I couldn't tell what they were, but I assumed they were some sort of submarines.
{if what you say is true, then these are probably yeerks, correct?} Ax asked.
{Yeah, why?} Rachel answered.
{What typed of controllers do the yeerks use here?}
{Mostly human and hork bajir.} Marco said. {Why?}
{No Taxxons?} he asked cautiously.
{Sometimes.} I said, {Why?}
{I do believe we are going to have to swim a little bit faster.} he answered.
{Taxxons can swim?} Cassie asked.
{Quite well, actually.} he said, quite calmly.
Crap! I thought. That was probably what I heard dumping into the water. There had to be twenty of them all floating in the water.
I finally came to the surface to breathe in a much deserved breath. I was relieved with the air, but devastated to see that along with the three tankers, there were also about six bug fighters and the blade ship all hovering calmly over the water, dropping more taxxons gingerly on the water.
{This is bad, really bad.} I said.
The others all came to the surface to see too. They were also quite surprised.
{They really want to kill you, don't they?} Jake said.
{What is up there. I am afraid I cannot see with this body.}
{Umm, it's about six bug fighters and the blade ship.} Whitney informed him. {Lot's of fun.}
{THE Blade ship? Visser Three's?} Ax asked.
{Yes, now let's go!} I said. I turned away to swim away, but Ax stayed there. {Let's go!} I shouted.
{No, he will kill us all! I must try to avenge my brother.} he yelled back as he swam towards the turbulent waters with the taxxons.
{Get your ass back here, you can do that later, when we have a plan. As for now, we need to get out of here!} Marco yelled.
{No, he killed my brother, I must avenge him now.} he continued towards the taxxons.
{Ax, what are you going to do, splash him? He is way up there in his ship and you are down here, now let it go.} Whitney demanded.
He stopped, but by then, we were too close to the taxxons to avoid it. They were on to us and we had to fight. It was too late to run.
The first of the taxxons started at us and I was surprised to see that they really did move fast in the water. I sped up straight towards it and flipped my tail in such a way that I moved off to the side and beat it in the side with my tail.
WHUMPH!
I could hear a half-impact/half-squishing sound as the Taxxon burst like a balloon. It was gross, thank god dolphins don't really have a sense of smell, or I probably would have been incapacitated.
WHUMPH! WHUMPH! WHUMPH!
Three more people hit their targets. The water was filling up with entrails. It was gross.
I used my speed to ram one more taxxon in the side. I went right through it, with the guts trailing off my fins. That was enough to make you puke.
{Ah, so it is the andalite bandits, here to steal my prize?} I heard Visser three gloat from his blade ship.
{Be quiet, Ax.} Jake commanded, {Don't talk to him, it will just get you angry.}
{He killed my brother, he must pay.}
{No, he must be left until a greater opportunity arises. It is just that simple. Now lets go.} Jake said.
I heard Ax almost growl in thought speech before he turned tail and fled. I was still surrounded by Taxxons. I had to slap them and hit them with my nose to get through them. They were mush more manoeuvrable than they looked, so I had to bust through them. They were really soft, so it wasn't all that difficult.
{Time to go.} I heard Jake call. He was already far away. I seemed to be the only one left behind. It wasn't fair. I swam deeper into the depths, it seemed there were less taxxons there. I was hoping to maybe go under them all.
As it turns out, Taxxons are really floaty. They could swim quite well in a horizontal way, but they struggled when attempting to swim deeper to chase me. Thank god for that.
I swam deeper and deeper, until I was at the bottom, bordering the rim of the valley. I swam as hard and as far as I could until I absolutely had to go up for air. I was just outside of the group of tankers. And this time, I had a visitor. Because right as I surfaced, I could feel something big fall into the water not to far away.