Chapter 7 (Gordon.)
When the Ellimist came for the first time, I was overwhelmed. With what, I don't know. But I do know it hurt to think about it.
After he woke me up, he showed us the array of earth's beauties. And I agree, he was right. We did have a beautiful planet and we squandered it, but the way he did it just didn't seem right. It seemed too fake.
But when we came back to the yeerk pool, I could see the truth. I saw something I hadn't noticed before. The drop-shaft. It was remarkably close to the building we were stuck in.
We had seen one before, in the mother ship, when we went into space for the first time. Which made me realize what was going on.
Me and Jake both saw it, and we both knew what we were thinking.
But when Jake told the Ellimist to come back, I was surprised to see only myself and the Ellimist in the yeerk pool. I knew he was curious, but I couldn't place my finger on it at first. Especially because apparently there could be nothing I hid from him.
But instead of being demanding, he asked politely. "Why did you say 'Toomin' when you were knocked unconscious?" He asked.
And to be perfectly honest, I didn't know myself. "It was simply the first thing that came to mind when I lost consciousness." I said simply.
"So you do have it." He said simply.
I almost laughed. He was trying to tell me that I had telekinesis too. "Mr. Ellimist, sir. I hate to be rude, but leave me alone about this telekinesis thing, oaky? I do not have it. I tried, and it doesn't work." I did laugh.
"No, it is true. Sam is correct in believing that. You have it. You do."
"So you are saying I am one of sam's minions?" I joked. "Well, I have heard it before. Sam does it all the time. And don't give me any of that 'chosen one' crap. I have seen it too much."
"No, not chosen. Made." He said. "You were not born with the power, and Sam did not give it to you. It was given to you by a superior being."
"You?" I asked incredulously. I laughed again. I couldn't believe what he was trying to say here.
"No, not me. Much higher, but I am not able to truly understand it myself. All I know is that I cannot tamper with you or Sam. Your time- lines are forever stitched in the never ending fabric of time."
"Well, that's good to hear." I said.
"I leave you with a question.....what would you do if you did have Sam's powers?" He said as he vanished into nothingness again. I looked around, wondering if I had the answer, when suddenly, I was on the taxxon tongue again.
It's sticky liquid held me there, as the others were all screaming. I was too confused to scream. I was demorphing. Simple as that.
{Everybody, demorph now!} Jake yelled. He didn't need to tell me once.
I could feel the flesh of the taxxon press up against me as I was swallowed. The pulsing and pounding throat tried to force me down, but I was not easy to swallow, as I was getting too large for the taxxon to swallow.
I could feel a spasm of the muscles as he tried to greedily force me down his throat anyway, he was used to big bites, but this was too much. I was growing rapidly, human features emerging from my cockroach body, and cassie was right behind me. The others were still small.
Between me and Cassie, he had more than he could handle. I could feel a pressure release as the taxxon split open. If I remembered correctly, then there were few people where the taxxon was. Which meant less guilt for me.
But I had other things on my mind that very second. I had to worry about what I was going to do to not puke. Taxxons were some of the most foul creatures I had ever known, and if they were any worse when gutted, I would have to puke. Luckily I couldn't smell anything yet, my nose hadn't been formed from the cockroach's mouthparts yet.
But I thought too soon, as soon as I was demorphed, the smell hit me like a wave of bile. I wiped the taxxon's entrails off me and used all my willpower to not hurl all over the place. It wasn't until I got to my senses before I realized the rest of the group was still morphing and giving each other advice.
{......Morph battle morphs!} I heard Rachel yell.
{Yes, do that, we will get out of here as soon as we can.} jake agreed. They were still all half cockroaches. About two feet tall.
I began to morph to Hork Bajir, it was my standard battle morph. I had every morph the others did, though. Wolf, tiger, elephant, gorilla, hork bajir, and andalite. I don't use the andalite one. It was Elfangor.
TTTTTSSSSSEEEEEWWWWWW!
TTTTTSSSSSEEEEEWWWWWW!
Two red beams lanced across the room, missing me by millimetres. I looked over to see where Cassie was, she was fine.
I then looked to see where the beams were coming from. I could see nothing. Just a counter. I figured the guy was hiding behind it.
I hobbled over to the counter on my still-forming legs. By the time I got there, I was almost fully morphed. So close that I could use my body fine. I leaned over the counter and saw a man quivering behind the counter.
He caught sight of my shadow and looked up, panicked. He tried to aim his gun at me, but I grabbed his hand with my much bigger reptilian fist. I grabbed the gun from him and threw it across the room.
He tried to run, but I grabbed him around the neck. My hork bajir muscles bulged as I picked him up, kicking and trying to yell. My hands were blocking off his airway, though. He was making no sound.
I turned around to see everybody finally demorphed, wiping themselves off. Ax was the first to notice me holding the controller. Soon after, everybody else noticed.
{He has seen us as humans.} I said simply. {I am sorry.}
I was disgusted by what I had to do. I wished Sam was here to do it. But it had to be done. It was just that simple.
{Is there no other way?} Cassie pleaded.
Unfortunately, there wasn't. {I am sorry Cass, this is war, and there is nothing we can do. If there was, do you think we would be fighting?}
She turned around with nothing to say. Everybody else turned around and began to morph. I knew what I had to do, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. He was a human, he was not battling, and he was at our mercy. If I was human now, I would be shedding a few tears.
I grabbed his head, and........
I tossed him to the side, watching the others complete their morph. We were ready to brave the pool area now that we were all morphed.
Out we went, Rachel's elephant body shattering through the glass that was the front wall. We were all soon to follow. We got quite a few "Andalite!!!"'s, but we forced our way through. Rachel tossing hork bajir and people out of her way. She was going straight towards the dropshaft. I guess Jake filled her in when I wasn't listening.
Cassie got in front, weaving through the people, she was the first to reach the dropshaft. Up she went, into the roof. Jake was the next, he jumped up and over some of the hork bajir and landed in the dropshaft. Up he went too.
That left me, Ax, Rachel, and Marco. Rachel took the lead, allowing us to make sure her ass wasn't slashed to hell. We did eventually all make it to the dropshaft, but Rachel was too big. She had to partially demorph to fit. Ax, Marco and I all defended her.
There were people all over the place. To every angle, in every direction. I was keeping myself bust y pushing and kicking them back. Marco was doing the same as Ax whipped his tail around, keeping the controllers at bay.
We kept this up long enough to have Rachel disappear into the dropshaft. Ax was quick to follow, and so was Marco. I stayed behind long enough to push the last group of people back long enough to get on without being mugged. I stood on the empty platform and thought up. And I went up into light, looking down at the onlookers. Not one of them went up, and not one of them shot at us. It confused me, but I didn't worry about it.
We were home safe.
When we got to the top we began to demorph. We were in an empty building, a round, empty building made of concrete. It looked like a water tower. There was nothing around but the dropshaft. But when I looked over to it, it looked like solid ground. Clever, they used a hologram.
We were tired, so we all morphed to our respective bird of prey morphs and went home. Since we were so tired, we didn't even think about how many things could be hidden by holograms.....
When the Ellimist came for the first time, I was overwhelmed. With what, I don't know. But I do know it hurt to think about it.
After he woke me up, he showed us the array of earth's beauties. And I agree, he was right. We did have a beautiful planet and we squandered it, but the way he did it just didn't seem right. It seemed too fake.
But when we came back to the yeerk pool, I could see the truth. I saw something I hadn't noticed before. The drop-shaft. It was remarkably close to the building we were stuck in.
We had seen one before, in the mother ship, when we went into space for the first time. Which made me realize what was going on.
Me and Jake both saw it, and we both knew what we were thinking.
But when Jake told the Ellimist to come back, I was surprised to see only myself and the Ellimist in the yeerk pool. I knew he was curious, but I couldn't place my finger on it at first. Especially because apparently there could be nothing I hid from him.
But instead of being demanding, he asked politely. "Why did you say 'Toomin' when you were knocked unconscious?" He asked.
And to be perfectly honest, I didn't know myself. "It was simply the first thing that came to mind when I lost consciousness." I said simply.
"So you do have it." He said simply.
I almost laughed. He was trying to tell me that I had telekinesis too. "Mr. Ellimist, sir. I hate to be rude, but leave me alone about this telekinesis thing, oaky? I do not have it. I tried, and it doesn't work." I did laugh.
"No, it is true. Sam is correct in believing that. You have it. You do."
"So you are saying I am one of sam's minions?" I joked. "Well, I have heard it before. Sam does it all the time. And don't give me any of that 'chosen one' crap. I have seen it too much."
"No, not chosen. Made." He said. "You were not born with the power, and Sam did not give it to you. It was given to you by a superior being."
"You?" I asked incredulously. I laughed again. I couldn't believe what he was trying to say here.
"No, not me. Much higher, but I am not able to truly understand it myself. All I know is that I cannot tamper with you or Sam. Your time- lines are forever stitched in the never ending fabric of time."
"Well, that's good to hear." I said.
"I leave you with a question.....what would you do if you did have Sam's powers?" He said as he vanished into nothingness again. I looked around, wondering if I had the answer, when suddenly, I was on the taxxon tongue again.
It's sticky liquid held me there, as the others were all screaming. I was too confused to scream. I was demorphing. Simple as that.
{Everybody, demorph now!} Jake yelled. He didn't need to tell me once.
I could feel the flesh of the taxxon press up against me as I was swallowed. The pulsing and pounding throat tried to force me down, but I was not easy to swallow, as I was getting too large for the taxxon to swallow.
I could feel a spasm of the muscles as he tried to greedily force me down his throat anyway, he was used to big bites, but this was too much. I was growing rapidly, human features emerging from my cockroach body, and cassie was right behind me. The others were still small.
Between me and Cassie, he had more than he could handle. I could feel a pressure release as the taxxon split open. If I remembered correctly, then there were few people where the taxxon was. Which meant less guilt for me.
But I had other things on my mind that very second. I had to worry about what I was going to do to not puke. Taxxons were some of the most foul creatures I had ever known, and if they were any worse when gutted, I would have to puke. Luckily I couldn't smell anything yet, my nose hadn't been formed from the cockroach's mouthparts yet.
But I thought too soon, as soon as I was demorphed, the smell hit me like a wave of bile. I wiped the taxxon's entrails off me and used all my willpower to not hurl all over the place. It wasn't until I got to my senses before I realized the rest of the group was still morphing and giving each other advice.
{......Morph battle morphs!} I heard Rachel yell.
{Yes, do that, we will get out of here as soon as we can.} jake agreed. They were still all half cockroaches. About two feet tall.
I began to morph to Hork Bajir, it was my standard battle morph. I had every morph the others did, though. Wolf, tiger, elephant, gorilla, hork bajir, and andalite. I don't use the andalite one. It was Elfangor.
TTTTTSSSSSEEEEEWWWWWW!
TTTTTSSSSSEEEEEWWWWWW!
Two red beams lanced across the room, missing me by millimetres. I looked over to see where Cassie was, she was fine.
I then looked to see where the beams were coming from. I could see nothing. Just a counter. I figured the guy was hiding behind it.
I hobbled over to the counter on my still-forming legs. By the time I got there, I was almost fully morphed. So close that I could use my body fine. I leaned over the counter and saw a man quivering behind the counter.
He caught sight of my shadow and looked up, panicked. He tried to aim his gun at me, but I grabbed his hand with my much bigger reptilian fist. I grabbed the gun from him and threw it across the room.
He tried to run, but I grabbed him around the neck. My hork bajir muscles bulged as I picked him up, kicking and trying to yell. My hands were blocking off his airway, though. He was making no sound.
I turned around to see everybody finally demorphed, wiping themselves off. Ax was the first to notice me holding the controller. Soon after, everybody else noticed.
{He has seen us as humans.} I said simply. {I am sorry.}
I was disgusted by what I had to do. I wished Sam was here to do it. But it had to be done. It was just that simple.
{Is there no other way?} Cassie pleaded.
Unfortunately, there wasn't. {I am sorry Cass, this is war, and there is nothing we can do. If there was, do you think we would be fighting?}
She turned around with nothing to say. Everybody else turned around and began to morph. I knew what I had to do, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. He was a human, he was not battling, and he was at our mercy. If I was human now, I would be shedding a few tears.
I grabbed his head, and........
I tossed him to the side, watching the others complete their morph. We were ready to brave the pool area now that we were all morphed.
Out we went, Rachel's elephant body shattering through the glass that was the front wall. We were all soon to follow. We got quite a few "Andalite!!!"'s, but we forced our way through. Rachel tossing hork bajir and people out of her way. She was going straight towards the dropshaft. I guess Jake filled her in when I wasn't listening.
Cassie got in front, weaving through the people, she was the first to reach the dropshaft. Up she went, into the roof. Jake was the next, he jumped up and over some of the hork bajir and landed in the dropshaft. Up he went too.
That left me, Ax, Rachel, and Marco. Rachel took the lead, allowing us to make sure her ass wasn't slashed to hell. We did eventually all make it to the dropshaft, but Rachel was too big. She had to partially demorph to fit. Ax, Marco and I all defended her.
There were people all over the place. To every angle, in every direction. I was keeping myself bust y pushing and kicking them back. Marco was doing the same as Ax whipped his tail around, keeping the controllers at bay.
We kept this up long enough to have Rachel disappear into the dropshaft. Ax was quick to follow, and so was Marco. I stayed behind long enough to push the last group of people back long enough to get on without being mugged. I stood on the empty platform and thought up. And I went up into light, looking down at the onlookers. Not one of them went up, and not one of them shot at us. It confused me, but I didn't worry about it.
We were home safe.
When we got to the top we began to demorph. We were in an empty building, a round, empty building made of concrete. It looked like a water tower. There was nothing around but the dropshaft. But when I looked over to it, it looked like solid ground. Clever, they used a hologram.
We were tired, so we all morphed to our respective bird of prey morphs and went home. Since we were so tired, we didn't even think about how many things could be hidden by holograms.....