Chapter 14
Over the forest I went, looking for Tobias and Ax. They were usually somewhere around the house, not too far away. But I couldn't find them.
but right as I was about to give up and go home, I saw a lone Red- Tail hawk. {Tobias!} I called. No answer. So I called again, {Tobias!} still no answer, maybe it wasn't him.
{Hello?} Tobias answered. I guess it was him.
I swooped down a bit and got closer. {I need to know where Ax is.} I said.
{Why, do you have some sort of plan?} he asked.
{Well, kinda. I have a plan if what I think is true.} and man, I hoped I was right.
He sighed. {well, if I knew where he was, I would tell you. And what might your plan be?} he asked.
{I can't tell you. I don't want to get your hopes up unless it is true, you know what I mean?} I said. I think he understood. {Umm, if you see ax, tell him to meet me at the house. If I see him, I will do the same, and I will come and get you.}
So we went our separate ways. There was one problem, though. I still wasn't sure if Ax could confirm what I thought, but it was worth a try.
So over the next ten minutes, there was no answer, but I did hear Tobias yelling for ax in the distance. But there was no answer, as usual.
It was actually me who found him. He was running in the thickest of bushes, far from our house. {Ax!} I called down. He stopped in his tracks.
{Yes, Gordon?} he said.
I swooped down and landed on a branch not too far from him. {what are you doing so far out?} I asked. He looked at me funny, like I was wasting my time.
{I am exercising, why?} he said.
{nothing, I need you to get back to the house. We have some things to discuss. Important things.} I said.
{Why not Cassie's barn?} he asked.
{because I don't have time to call a meeting, it is only me, you and Tobias.} I explained.
{Oh, okay.} he answered, then turned and galloped away. I leapt off my branch and flew away myself.
It took em a good five more minutes before I could find Tobias. When I did, I told him I found ax, and we both went back to the house. Ax was waiting for us outside already.
I landed and demorphed. Tobias landed on the house. As soon as I was done morphing, I walked up to the house, Ax let me go by, confused.
I grabbed a piece of paper and a pen, and went outside. Tobias and Ax were out there, with confused looks on their faces. Well, Ax had a confused look, Tobias had the always fierce gaze of the hawk he now was.
Anyway, I whipped the pen and paper out, and set them on a bg, flat rock that just happened to be there. "Okay, when we went into the future, we were drawn towards the pool, right?" I asked around.
Ax nodded and Tobias said, {Yes, why?}
"Look at this." I said as I drew one big circle on the page. "This is this area of the city...." Then I drew some humps along the side of the page. "....and that is the forest." I looked up to see if they understood.
{Yes, that looks like a very crude map, now what is it you wish to tell us?} Ax asked impatiently. It wasn't like him to be impatient. Usually he was quiet.
I went back to the paper, and drew a big oval down the side of the forest humps. It was about three quarters of the page long and about half the page wide. "Let me finish before objecting, but I think this is the approximate area of the pool." I said as I drew three small circles around the oval. One at the end at the thin section, and one in the middle of each side of the long section.
Then I drew a square at the other end of the oval. "That square is the mall. If you remember, that is where the pool ended. And the pool stretches to the heart of the city...." I pointed to the small circle farthest from the forest. "That there is the EGS Tower, I noticed it when we were in the future place."
{Good for you, what does it all mean?} Tobias asked.
"I can answer that..." I said. I then pointed to both the small circle closest to the forest and the one farthest from the mall square. "These are both the Radio Tower and the Water tower. The water tower isn't too far from the mall, and it is close to the forest." I explained.
I got blank stares from both of them. And I am not going to tell you again that Tobias only has one stare.....
But Ax said something. {Gordon, I fail to see where this is going, unless you are trying to put a bomb there, thus destroying half your city....} he trailed off.
{Um, Gordon, I don't think you want to do that.} Tobias added.
I gave my seriously heavy sigh and slumped. You know, the sigh where they are being so dense and I don't want to have to explain it, but will end up doing it anyway. "You just aren't getting it." I sighed again.
{Getting what?} Tobias asked, puzzled.
I shook my head and decided to give it from the top. "Okay guys, let me explain. When we were in that future world, we went to the yeerk pool. When we were there, we were at one end, at the mall. When I was looking around, I saw three big towers all on the perimeter of the pool. The Water tower on one corner, the radio tower on another, and right at the edge of the remaining town, the EGS tower was closest to the pool. And on top of that, when we came out the drop-shaft into the water tower. That means that is where the boundary is." I explained.
{Gordon, I know you have somewhat a scientific mind, but I don't see the need to figure out the dimensions of the pool unless you are planning on attacking, then it is useless. And I don't think you are going to destroy the majority of the city....} he trailed off. {on second thought, how about we just accept the Ellimist's offer and get out of here, ignoring the whole idea.}
I sighed and slumped again. "Tobias, Ax was kinda right, this Ellimist is not to be trusted. Okay? He is not going to take us to never- land or anything like that. He came here to try and help us, without doing it directly. He showed us what to do, and now we are going to do it, and change the future we saw into a future we want." I said.
{Why would he come and tell us that, then?} Tobias asked.
"Because, he wanted us to trust him. After he first talked to us, he talked to me personally. He told me a bunch of stuff, he gave me sam's power along with my own...."
But Tobias cut me off. {He gave you Sam's power?} he asked.
"Don't worry about it right now, we have a job to do." I said. "He told me that the future we saw was simply a possibility. But his interference was to make sure that didn't happen. That future is false. That is why he talked to us, to make us trust him, he showed us an exit, the drop-shaft. And he showed us an exit the second time, the towers mean something." I said. I was breathing heavily, barely able to contain myself.
Then Ax's eyes open in wonder. {Those towers hold kandronas.} he said simply.
"Exactly. He showed us the drop-shaft, and he showed us the kandronas. Think about it, if we took out the kandronas, this could all be over in three days, and there would be no more yeerks!" I was so excited, I could hardly contain myself. "I needed to make sure you knew that I was thinking kandronas. I wanted to know if you knew how it worked in the past."
{Yes, that would make sense. The Kandronas would not be too far away, and they would be elevated!} Ax was excited too. He hated the yeerks as much as I did, if not more.
{You are a genius, Gordon.} Tobias commented. {but one question, what made you figure it all out?}
I did a half smile, I didn't really know how to answer this one. "Well, when he first came to us, he showed us the drop-shaft by not appearing until we were all in the main pool area. Then, afterward, the Ellimist talked to me, told me that I was important, and whatever I did would be huge. So I realized that without his intervention, I, and all of us, would have been dead. So he was trying to save us.
"When I went home, I realized that time was feeble, and even I could change it. He gave my power a boost to change that. Then I realized the second time we went to his dream world that he was trying to show us something. So I looked and found the answers in the towers." I said. Man, I was proud. I even struck a hero pose. Look at me go.
{That is amazing, you must do nothing but try to find ways to hurt the yeerks, and this time you may have outdone yourself.} Tobias said.
{But what is in the mall? The EGS tower, or whatever you called it, and the water tower could easily store a kandrona. The radio tower could hold a small one if hologuised. But what about the mall? What use did it have?} Ax asked. Damn Ax, always raining on my parade.
"I don't know, and I think we should worry about one at a time." I said. "And we should probably go and tell Jake the news." I said.
{Wait a minute. If you said the Ellimist gave you the power, then why aren't you using it} Tobias asked accusingly, like I was a liar.
"Fine, if it helps, then before I leave, I will give you a presentation. But be warned, I don't think I want to abuse it yet, or let sam know about it when he gets back. I want to keep it a secret." I said. I extended my hand, palm up. My eyes went blue, and Tobias rose from the side of the house and levitated onto my hand. I could only hope he didn't poop out of surprise.
He tried to flap, but I made sure his wings didn't extend until he was on my hand. Then he flew back up to the roof.
"There, are you happy?" I said. "Now don't say a word." I began to morph to peregrine falcon. "I will get Marco and Cassie. Tobias, you get Rachel, and Ax, Get Jake.} I said. My speech went from human to thought speech very smoothly.
Ax began to morph, and I was off! Tobias was quick to follow.
Over the forest I went, looking for Tobias and Ax. They were usually somewhere around the house, not too far away. But I couldn't find them.
but right as I was about to give up and go home, I saw a lone Red- Tail hawk. {Tobias!} I called. No answer. So I called again, {Tobias!} still no answer, maybe it wasn't him.
{Hello?} Tobias answered. I guess it was him.
I swooped down a bit and got closer. {I need to know where Ax is.} I said.
{Why, do you have some sort of plan?} he asked.
{Well, kinda. I have a plan if what I think is true.} and man, I hoped I was right.
He sighed. {well, if I knew where he was, I would tell you. And what might your plan be?} he asked.
{I can't tell you. I don't want to get your hopes up unless it is true, you know what I mean?} I said. I think he understood. {Umm, if you see ax, tell him to meet me at the house. If I see him, I will do the same, and I will come and get you.}
So we went our separate ways. There was one problem, though. I still wasn't sure if Ax could confirm what I thought, but it was worth a try.
So over the next ten minutes, there was no answer, but I did hear Tobias yelling for ax in the distance. But there was no answer, as usual.
It was actually me who found him. He was running in the thickest of bushes, far from our house. {Ax!} I called down. He stopped in his tracks.
{Yes, Gordon?} he said.
I swooped down and landed on a branch not too far from him. {what are you doing so far out?} I asked. He looked at me funny, like I was wasting my time.
{I am exercising, why?} he said.
{nothing, I need you to get back to the house. We have some things to discuss. Important things.} I said.
{Why not Cassie's barn?} he asked.
{because I don't have time to call a meeting, it is only me, you and Tobias.} I explained.
{Oh, okay.} he answered, then turned and galloped away. I leapt off my branch and flew away myself.
It took em a good five more minutes before I could find Tobias. When I did, I told him I found ax, and we both went back to the house. Ax was waiting for us outside already.
I landed and demorphed. Tobias landed on the house. As soon as I was done morphing, I walked up to the house, Ax let me go by, confused.
I grabbed a piece of paper and a pen, and went outside. Tobias and Ax were out there, with confused looks on their faces. Well, Ax had a confused look, Tobias had the always fierce gaze of the hawk he now was.
Anyway, I whipped the pen and paper out, and set them on a bg, flat rock that just happened to be there. "Okay, when we went into the future, we were drawn towards the pool, right?" I asked around.
Ax nodded and Tobias said, {Yes, why?}
"Look at this." I said as I drew one big circle on the page. "This is this area of the city...." Then I drew some humps along the side of the page. "....and that is the forest." I looked up to see if they understood.
{Yes, that looks like a very crude map, now what is it you wish to tell us?} Ax asked impatiently. It wasn't like him to be impatient. Usually he was quiet.
I went back to the paper, and drew a big oval down the side of the forest humps. It was about three quarters of the page long and about half the page wide. "Let me finish before objecting, but I think this is the approximate area of the pool." I said as I drew three small circles around the oval. One at the end at the thin section, and one in the middle of each side of the long section.
Then I drew a square at the other end of the oval. "That square is the mall. If you remember, that is where the pool ended. And the pool stretches to the heart of the city...." I pointed to the small circle farthest from the forest. "That there is the EGS Tower, I noticed it when we were in the future place."
{Good for you, what does it all mean?} Tobias asked.
"I can answer that..." I said. I then pointed to both the small circle closest to the forest and the one farthest from the mall square. "These are both the Radio Tower and the Water tower. The water tower isn't too far from the mall, and it is close to the forest." I explained.
I got blank stares from both of them. And I am not going to tell you again that Tobias only has one stare.....
But Ax said something. {Gordon, I fail to see where this is going, unless you are trying to put a bomb there, thus destroying half your city....} he trailed off.
{Um, Gordon, I don't think you want to do that.} Tobias added.
I gave my seriously heavy sigh and slumped. You know, the sigh where they are being so dense and I don't want to have to explain it, but will end up doing it anyway. "You just aren't getting it." I sighed again.
{Getting what?} Tobias asked, puzzled.
I shook my head and decided to give it from the top. "Okay guys, let me explain. When we were in that future world, we went to the yeerk pool. When we were there, we were at one end, at the mall. When I was looking around, I saw three big towers all on the perimeter of the pool. The Water tower on one corner, the radio tower on another, and right at the edge of the remaining town, the EGS tower was closest to the pool. And on top of that, when we came out the drop-shaft into the water tower. That means that is where the boundary is." I explained.
{Gordon, I know you have somewhat a scientific mind, but I don't see the need to figure out the dimensions of the pool unless you are planning on attacking, then it is useless. And I don't think you are going to destroy the majority of the city....} he trailed off. {on second thought, how about we just accept the Ellimist's offer and get out of here, ignoring the whole idea.}
I sighed and slumped again. "Tobias, Ax was kinda right, this Ellimist is not to be trusted. Okay? He is not going to take us to never- land or anything like that. He came here to try and help us, without doing it directly. He showed us what to do, and now we are going to do it, and change the future we saw into a future we want." I said.
{Why would he come and tell us that, then?} Tobias asked.
"Because, he wanted us to trust him. After he first talked to us, he talked to me personally. He told me a bunch of stuff, he gave me sam's power along with my own...."
But Tobias cut me off. {He gave you Sam's power?} he asked.
"Don't worry about it right now, we have a job to do." I said. "He told me that the future we saw was simply a possibility. But his interference was to make sure that didn't happen. That future is false. That is why he talked to us, to make us trust him, he showed us an exit, the drop-shaft. And he showed us an exit the second time, the towers mean something." I said. I was breathing heavily, barely able to contain myself.
Then Ax's eyes open in wonder. {Those towers hold kandronas.} he said simply.
"Exactly. He showed us the drop-shaft, and he showed us the kandronas. Think about it, if we took out the kandronas, this could all be over in three days, and there would be no more yeerks!" I was so excited, I could hardly contain myself. "I needed to make sure you knew that I was thinking kandronas. I wanted to know if you knew how it worked in the past."
{Yes, that would make sense. The Kandronas would not be too far away, and they would be elevated!} Ax was excited too. He hated the yeerks as much as I did, if not more.
{You are a genius, Gordon.} Tobias commented. {but one question, what made you figure it all out?}
I did a half smile, I didn't really know how to answer this one. "Well, when he first came to us, he showed us the drop-shaft by not appearing until we were all in the main pool area. Then, afterward, the Ellimist talked to me, told me that I was important, and whatever I did would be huge. So I realized that without his intervention, I, and all of us, would have been dead. So he was trying to save us.
"When I went home, I realized that time was feeble, and even I could change it. He gave my power a boost to change that. Then I realized the second time we went to his dream world that he was trying to show us something. So I looked and found the answers in the towers." I said. Man, I was proud. I even struck a hero pose. Look at me go.
{That is amazing, you must do nothing but try to find ways to hurt the yeerks, and this time you may have outdone yourself.} Tobias said.
{But what is in the mall? The EGS tower, or whatever you called it, and the water tower could easily store a kandrona. The radio tower could hold a small one if hologuised. But what about the mall? What use did it have?} Ax asked. Damn Ax, always raining on my parade.
"I don't know, and I think we should worry about one at a time." I said. "And we should probably go and tell Jake the news." I said.
{Wait a minute. If you said the Ellimist gave you the power, then why aren't you using it} Tobias asked accusingly, like I was a liar.
"Fine, if it helps, then before I leave, I will give you a presentation. But be warned, I don't think I want to abuse it yet, or let sam know about it when he gets back. I want to keep it a secret." I said. I extended my hand, palm up. My eyes went blue, and Tobias rose from the side of the house and levitated onto my hand. I could only hope he didn't poop out of surprise.
He tried to flap, but I made sure his wings didn't extend until he was on my hand. Then he flew back up to the roof.
"There, are you happy?" I said. "Now don't say a word." I began to morph to peregrine falcon. "I will get Marco and Cassie. Tobias, you get Rachel, and Ax, Get Jake.} I said. My speech went from human to thought speech very smoothly.
Ax began to morph, and I was off! Tobias was quick to follow.