A/N: Really sorry about the lack of updates, I've been working on my term paper, and tons of other stuff. My beta is MIA so if someone wants to cover for her, e-mail me.

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Chapter 4

"Whoa, Whoa! Back up just a little bit!" Rachel said, "Are you saying that Tamitha is a mutant? Not that I have anything against it, but -"

"Didn't you say that there weren't any mutants on this plane, or what ever you said," I finished.

~He did say that, for that is what he believes to be true~ came an ominous voice that all the Animorphs had grown to be annoyed with.

"What's that supposed to mean, Ellimist?" I asked.

"It simply means that in all technicalities, he is correct," he said as he appeared before us. "There should not be a mutant within this timeline, but there is."

"You sick, twisted, bastard, how could you?"

Yeah the others were surprised, I hadn't ever really exploded like this before, but then again, I never really had a reason to before now.

"Do you think that you would have survived against the Zephryllis without Tamitha's help?" he replied.

"Okay we get that she had to come here to save our sorry butts," I said, "but why is it that she was never mentioned in any of the books that Rogue and Kitty have?"

"For the exact same reason she does not exist in your X-Men comics or movies, she does not need to."

"Are you saying that I'm supposed to be with the X-Men, but at the same time with the Animorphs, and yet with none of them at all?" Tamitha asked.

"Simply put, yes. You need to exist in both timelines for each to survive."

"Why am I so important?" she shouted, "what did I do, or what am I capable of that makes you think that I'm really this needed?"

If she hadn't seemed so serious, despite the obvious sarcasm, I probably would have laughed.

"You are an exceptional being, and that is all that you need to know right now."

"I think he should be vaguer," Rachel said, sarcastically.

"I am vague, as you have said, because this is something that you cannot possible understand."

"Fine," I retorted, "is that all you came here to say? Or is there some other stupid mission we need to go on, simply because you can't 'interfere?'"

"I have come to confirm the suspicions that Tamitha is a mutant, and to inform her that she has forty-eight hours to make as decision,"

~One that only she knows about, one that only she can make. ~

And he disappeared, leaving all of us, but Tamitha, in confusion. Tamitha just sat where she was, deep in thought, the rest of the world lost to her.