Animorphs: The Soul: Chapter 3
Disclaimer: I do not own the Animorphs or The X-Men. They belong to K.A. Applegate, Scholastic, Inc. and Marvel Comics and Fox, respectively. I do own Tamitha, and the story surrounding her.
Author's Note: This story is a continuation of my previous two stories, The Surprise and The Twins. I strongly suggest reading those, unless you enjoy being lost. I am writing this as I am posting it, so there will be no sort of schedule as to when the chapters will be posted. I am hoping to get more written during the holidays, and hopefully I will be able to post more sometime after Christmas.
Happy Holidays!
Chapter 3
Once we reached the scoop Cyclops, and Jean looked around, incredulous.
"You live here?" Jean exclaimed.
"Does this thing get cable?" Scott asked, indicating to the TV.
For a while only Ax and I lived here and, being who wee are, we didn't really need much. Tamitha has been living with us for a little while and we need to set up better accommodations for her. Tobias said, and yes, it does get cable, Ax set it up.
I noticed that Kitty, Jean, Scott, and the professor didn't really seem to fit in with this seemingly-hobo lifestyle but Storm, Wolverine (no surprise there) and Rogue (much to my surprise) did.
"Do your parents know you live out in the forest?" Dr. Grey asked.
Tobias ruffled his feathers, Tamitha and my parents are basically non existent, we both lived with various relatives, never knowing the other existed. I began to live in the forest not too long after we received the power to morph, and Tamitha left home just about a week ago.
"They just don't care?" she asked.
Well my aunt and uncle both thought that I was with the other, but now, I think I am the equivalent of dead to them, because, as Rogue or Kitty probably told you, I'm not fully human any longer.
"I'm sorry what do you mean by 'not fully human?'"
I guess now is as good a time as any to tell them the story.
Jake nodded his head in agreement and gathered everyone to the center of the scoop (really close to the TV), and we told the X-Men the basics of our adventure for the past year.
"So," Jake said, "let's start at the very beginning."
I opened my mouth but Rachel cut me off, before anything could come out.
"No singing," she said.
I smiled. Cassie just shook her head sadly.
"As I was saying," Jake started again, "It all began one night when Marco, Cassie, Rachel, Tobias, and I all met up and decided to take a shortcut home through an old abandoned construction site. We saw an alien spacecraft crash, and the alien introduced himself as Elfangor. He was injured and died before our eyes, but he left us with one gift, the power to morph, before he did."
"After that day," Rachel concluded, "we have been kicking the asses of this other race of aliens that have decided to invade Earth, the Yeerks. These guys are parasites -"
"Think of them as intelligent tapeworms," I added.
"Except they infest brains, not stomachs," Rachel finished, giving me a scowl.
"Visser 3 is the biggest bad guy we've faced so far," Cassie said, "we usually end up running."
We found Ax not too long after we got our morphing powers, Tobias said. It turned out that he was Elfangor's brother. We've all fought together ever since, and you know that Tamitha joined us not too long ago.
Needless to say, they were stunned, well all but Rogue and Kitty, who already knew about our past.
"Didn't this alien realize that you were all just kids?" Cyclops asked.
"I think he did," Jake replied, "but he knew he could trust us."
"Have you ever given thought to what you all will do during college?" Professor Xavier asked, "you could be spread all around the country."
"We uh…" I replied, "We haven't really though that far ahead. Driver's license sounds good though." That got a laugh from a couple of people.
"I just find if very difficult to believe that no one has caught you all yet," Storm commented.
"Well, we've had a couple of close calls," Cassie said, "But Marco here is pretty good with the security side of things."
"Yeah it pays off to be paranoid." I said, and ended up having everyone turn to look at me, "What?! We haven't been caught yet, have we?"
"He's got a point," Tamitha said, oh how I love that girl. Oops, I hope the professor didn't hear that. Crap, he grinned at me.
"Was it hard," Dr. Grey said, "hunting for the first time?"
Rachel gave a half-hearted chuckle, Let's just say it was slightly traumatic, Tobias said.
Rachel was in shock, "Slightly, slightly? First you nearly killed yourself running into a glass wall, fortunately Marco saved you -"
"Thank you, thank you very much." I said.
"- then you disappeared for three whole days." She concluded not really noticing that I had interrupted her, this was obviously still a sticky subject for her.
Tobias shrugged. If you have never seen a hawk shrug, which you probably have not, let me tell you that it is a very entertaining thing to see.
"So how did you all end up here," Cassie asked the X-Men. "I guess I should say why did you come?"
"We were called, on the phone by a man, who called himself the Ellimist. He informed us that there was a girl who had just come into her mutant powers and was in grave danger," Cyclops said. "He told the professor that she could not be found by the usual means."
Half of our group looked at him quizzically.
"He means, by using Cerebro," I said with a sigh, "have none of you seen the movie?"
"So that's what that thing was called," Rachel said, "okay, I'm with you now."
"The Ellimist then suggested that we use a time machine that had been used to aid another mutant," the professor added, "and we ended up here, although I am not sure if any mutants exist here."
"Leave it to the Ellimist to be as vague as possible," Rachel grumbled.
"However, he was not vague as you say, about who should come," Professor Xavier said, deep in thought.
He has his reasons, Ax supplied.
What the hell is that - Tobias shouted.
"Tobias you should go eat," Tamitha interjected, shocking us all.
How did you know I was hungry? He asked, sounding as shocked as I felt.
"I just did, now go before I get hungry too," she looked down at her feet.
"For how long have you had this ability, Tamitha," The professor asked, voicing everyone's question.
"Not too long, since I moved to the forest, I guess."
Well that explains the nightmares, Tobias said, doesn't it.
"Nightmares?" Cassie asked
Yeah, I guess she must have interpreted the feelings of the animals around her, like she did just now, and seen them in her dreams, he answered, unfortunately Ax and I got to see them too.
"Well, if that's true," the Wolverine said, "Then we've found our girl."