The Preparations
Chapter 2: Jake
We were all in the Hork-Bajir valley. James was there. I knew that he was angry with me along with all of the other Auxiliary Animorphs...
My name is Jake. Leader Jake. Commander Jake. Jake with no more family.
I had a family but my parents and my brother were all Controllers. I am sure you already know the basic. Marco, my best bud, saw to that.
The Auxiliary Animorphs. These are kids with morphing abilities.
"Duh!" you say, "We can see the word Animorphs so they are morph capable."
The difference between the Animorphs and the Auxiliary Animorphs was that the Auxiliary Animorphs were vecols, an andalite term for someone who was handicapped.
We chose them since the Yeerks will not touch them. Come to think of it, where do you see a Controller with no arms but fighting? Yeah, there are the ninjas but you can't just see ninjas at the nearest hospital can you?
On our attempt to kill Visser Three, many of these Auxiliary Animorphs has died. I don't know if I should feel guilty or not. I feel guilty even if James said that there was nothing to be guilty about.
I was leader. Leader thinks. We have feelings. We have emotions. We get scared. We feel guilty.
But now I'm ok.
Even if Visser Two is my brother.
"We have to make an attack to Visser Two." Toby said. She's the 'seer' which means, she does not talk like an average four-year-old like the common Hork-Bajir. She understands things.
"Why bother?" Marco said as he lay beside the trunk of the tree. It was night and the campfire was in front of us. Somehow, we weren't sure if what the Andalites said was real.
Marco, Marco, Tobias said as he flew down to the lowest branch, Don't you think that we ought to look presentable in front of the Andalites? We don't want them to think that we're weak right?
"Whatever." Marco said as he munched on the stale bread we had.
I have my doubts. Ax said, I may see that this is the Andalite fleet that we are hoping for however, how sure are we that they will come? What if they do not? All our efforts will be wasted.
There was touch of bitterness in Ax's voice. I guess he was still battling who were his people and who weren't. Still, Ax had a point.
"I think what Ax suggested is alright." Cassie said. She's one of the Animorphs and the one I really love.
"Hello!" Marco said as he threw his hands high up in the air, "If we attack the Visser Two, no offense Jake, which is a big IF, what happens if they don't come, huh! We used our sorry buts for nothing.
"Marco, your mouth is full." Rachel said as he edged away from Marco wherein pieces of breadcrumbs were spitting at her every few seconds.
"At least if we did that, we still have suspended the Yeerks for quite some time." Cassie said, "We attack them, manage to reinforce ourselves a little bit and if the Andalites don't come, which is a big IF, we have ourselves many people so we can defend the last remnants of this planet."
I was starting to guess that our favorite word right now was the big IF.
Still, what Cassie said was true and I was dumb enough not to think of it. Cool. Why didn't I think of it that way?
When she meant presentable, she meant that we had to try to keep Earth as safe as possible. Like a victory dance. You know, give it all your best since the Andalites are coming here.
Or will they?
Which was the question we needed to ponder.
See, the Yeerks took the morphing cube already, which was, thanks to Tom. Yeah, the fact about Cassie giving the morphing to save me from mental derangement is true. The Yeerks already have the morphing cube.
But it's all not lost.
Visser Three hasn't given the all the Controllers the morphing power. Now, Tom, I mean the Yeerk in his head, is very possessive of the morphing cube. Yeah, he can morph however he has found a way to stop, or rather, eliminate the morphing capabilities.
How did he do it?
Let me tell you this: I'm shrugging right now.
The morph-stopper (which I might tell you will forever eliminate morphing capabilities unless touching the morphing cube) is mainly liquid. The Yeerk in his head, (A/N: I don't know its name so someone tell me) thought that a morph-capable being cannot morph with no DNA to morph to.
So he made the Eliminator, which I might add is not the Ellimist. It destroys the DNA of any animal that is in the body of another being rather than its own.
How he did it?
I don't know.
Soon, he finally managed to find a way to stop the morphing capabilities. He believed that morphing could be achieved since your excess skin is sucked in Zero-space. If there was a way to stop the excess skin in Zero-Space...
He did it. I remembered hearing from Tom that it (the body) is magnetized to reject being separated from its body whenever large masses of skin are taken out.
So now, in the Yeerks side, Tom is only the one who was morph- capable.
Until now...
So again, the Andalite fleets are coming.
"This is insane." Marco said, "But whatever decision you have Jakey- boy, I'm all for it."
I nodded. "Thanks Marco." I said. I started pacing around. Toby looked at me. "There are certain problems that we are experiencing now. Tom, I mean the Yeerk in his head, hold the morphing cube which I am very certain that the Andalites will never agree."
Ax nodded.
"Two, we have the other Animorphs." I said, pointing to James. "The Andalites have accepted, in one-way or the other, that we, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and I, has the power to morph. However, can they take the fact that there are new Animorphs?"
No. Ax said, my people will kill you all for that. he said innocently.
"Gee Ax, that was a reassuring though." Rachel said sarcastically.
Thank you. Ax said.
"So, we have to prove to the Andalites that the decisions we made are reassuring enough." I said.
"What do you mean by that?" James said.
"I'm sorry James but we have to let you fight or rather- prove yourselves to the Andalites." I said.
"Why would the Andalites not want us?" James said referring the 'us' as the Auxiliary Animorphs.
Andalites are very particular about physical capabilities. Ax said, They refer vecols as beings that should be separated from the rest.
"Why you-"James said as he lunged to Ax as Marco jumped to him, literally, and held James back. Rachel came and helped Marco.
"I have this great idea..." Marco said as he struggled to hold James down, "Why don't we stop fighting, skip the basic, and head out to the advanced level?"
"Not bad." I commented.
"How do we do that?" Toby said, "I'm very sorry Jake, however, I do not want to sit this out."
"Yeah, you can come too." I said as I scrambled my brain for a plan. The truth was, I didn't have any sort of plan but I did have a scratch. Still no visible plan in sight.
"How do you get your plans anyway?" Marco said as he crossed his arms, "It seems to pop out in thin air."
I shrugged.
Then I started talking hoping that after every word, I could find another word to add to it. "It's like this," I said at first, buying time, "Everything's back to square one. There is only one being capable of morphing and that's well, Tom and the Yeerk in his head. Two, the Yeerks are starting from scratch. As in scratch. We eliminated seventeen thousand or more Yeerks in the galaxy. However, they still have a crew of another seventeen thousand somewhere out there as the Chee said."
"Erek helped us?" Rachel said in disbelief, "After what we did to him? After blackmailing him?"
I nodded. "He understood." then to the whole group, "We have to attack Visser Two and destroy as much of his plans."
"What about Tom?" Marco asked. See, he's my best friend but he can still be a pain in the butt.
"If we see him, and he does trouble, I don't know, attack him." I said. The others looked at me closely before nodding.
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Ok, that was done. I don't really know how they all feel since this is the first time I wrote an Animorph fic but I AM trying. I'm not going to give up. -o
Chapter 2: Jake
We were all in the Hork-Bajir valley. James was there. I knew that he was angry with me along with all of the other Auxiliary Animorphs...
My name is Jake. Leader Jake. Commander Jake. Jake with no more family.
I had a family but my parents and my brother were all Controllers. I am sure you already know the basic. Marco, my best bud, saw to that.
The Auxiliary Animorphs. These are kids with morphing abilities.
"Duh!" you say, "We can see the word Animorphs so they are morph capable."
The difference between the Animorphs and the Auxiliary Animorphs was that the Auxiliary Animorphs were vecols, an andalite term for someone who was handicapped.
We chose them since the Yeerks will not touch them. Come to think of it, where do you see a Controller with no arms but fighting? Yeah, there are the ninjas but you can't just see ninjas at the nearest hospital can you?
On our attempt to kill Visser Three, many of these Auxiliary Animorphs has died. I don't know if I should feel guilty or not. I feel guilty even if James said that there was nothing to be guilty about.
I was leader. Leader thinks. We have feelings. We have emotions. We get scared. We feel guilty.
But now I'm ok.
Even if Visser Two is my brother.
"We have to make an attack to Visser Two." Toby said. She's the 'seer' which means, she does not talk like an average four-year-old like the common Hork-Bajir. She understands things.
"Why bother?" Marco said as he lay beside the trunk of the tree. It was night and the campfire was in front of us. Somehow, we weren't sure if what the Andalites said was real.
Marco, Marco, Tobias said as he flew down to the lowest branch, Don't you think that we ought to look presentable in front of the Andalites? We don't want them to think that we're weak right?
"Whatever." Marco said as he munched on the stale bread we had.
I have my doubts. Ax said, I may see that this is the Andalite fleet that we are hoping for however, how sure are we that they will come? What if they do not? All our efforts will be wasted.
There was touch of bitterness in Ax's voice. I guess he was still battling who were his people and who weren't. Still, Ax had a point.
"I think what Ax suggested is alright." Cassie said. She's one of the Animorphs and the one I really love.
"Hello!" Marco said as he threw his hands high up in the air, "If we attack the Visser Two, no offense Jake, which is a big IF, what happens if they don't come, huh! We used our sorry buts for nothing.
"Marco, your mouth is full." Rachel said as he edged away from Marco wherein pieces of breadcrumbs were spitting at her every few seconds.
"At least if we did that, we still have suspended the Yeerks for quite some time." Cassie said, "We attack them, manage to reinforce ourselves a little bit and if the Andalites don't come, which is a big IF, we have ourselves many people so we can defend the last remnants of this planet."
I was starting to guess that our favorite word right now was the big IF.
Still, what Cassie said was true and I was dumb enough not to think of it. Cool. Why didn't I think of it that way?
When she meant presentable, she meant that we had to try to keep Earth as safe as possible. Like a victory dance. You know, give it all your best since the Andalites are coming here.
Or will they?
Which was the question we needed to ponder.
See, the Yeerks took the morphing cube already, which was, thanks to Tom. Yeah, the fact about Cassie giving the morphing to save me from mental derangement is true. The Yeerks already have the morphing cube.
But it's all not lost.
Visser Three hasn't given the all the Controllers the morphing power. Now, Tom, I mean the Yeerk in his head, is very possessive of the morphing cube. Yeah, he can morph however he has found a way to stop, or rather, eliminate the morphing capabilities.
How did he do it?
Let me tell you this: I'm shrugging right now.
The morph-stopper (which I might tell you will forever eliminate morphing capabilities unless touching the morphing cube) is mainly liquid. The Yeerk in his head, (A/N: I don't know its name so someone tell me) thought that a morph-capable being cannot morph with no DNA to morph to.
So he made the Eliminator, which I might add is not the Ellimist. It destroys the DNA of any animal that is in the body of another being rather than its own.
How he did it?
I don't know.
Soon, he finally managed to find a way to stop the morphing capabilities. He believed that morphing could be achieved since your excess skin is sucked in Zero-space. If there was a way to stop the excess skin in Zero-Space...
He did it. I remembered hearing from Tom that it (the body) is magnetized to reject being separated from its body whenever large masses of skin are taken out.
So now, in the Yeerks side, Tom is only the one who was morph- capable.
Until now...
So again, the Andalite fleets are coming.
"This is insane." Marco said, "But whatever decision you have Jakey- boy, I'm all for it."
I nodded. "Thanks Marco." I said. I started pacing around. Toby looked at me. "There are certain problems that we are experiencing now. Tom, I mean the Yeerk in his head, hold the morphing cube which I am very certain that the Andalites will never agree."
Ax nodded.
"Two, we have the other Animorphs." I said, pointing to James. "The Andalites have accepted, in one-way or the other, that we, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and I, has the power to morph. However, can they take the fact that there are new Animorphs?"
No. Ax said, my people will kill you all for that. he said innocently.
"Gee Ax, that was a reassuring though." Rachel said sarcastically.
Thank you. Ax said.
"So, we have to prove to the Andalites that the decisions we made are reassuring enough." I said.
"What do you mean by that?" James said.
"I'm sorry James but we have to let you fight or rather- prove yourselves to the Andalites." I said.
"Why would the Andalites not want us?" James said referring the 'us' as the Auxiliary Animorphs.
Andalites are very particular about physical capabilities. Ax said, They refer vecols as beings that should be separated from the rest.
"Why you-"James said as he lunged to Ax as Marco jumped to him, literally, and held James back. Rachel came and helped Marco.
"I have this great idea..." Marco said as he struggled to hold James down, "Why don't we stop fighting, skip the basic, and head out to the advanced level?"
"Not bad." I commented.
"How do we do that?" Toby said, "I'm very sorry Jake, however, I do not want to sit this out."
"Yeah, you can come too." I said as I scrambled my brain for a plan. The truth was, I didn't have any sort of plan but I did have a scratch. Still no visible plan in sight.
"How do you get your plans anyway?" Marco said as he crossed his arms, "It seems to pop out in thin air."
I shrugged.
Then I started talking hoping that after every word, I could find another word to add to it. "It's like this," I said at first, buying time, "Everything's back to square one. There is only one being capable of morphing and that's well, Tom and the Yeerk in his head. Two, the Yeerks are starting from scratch. As in scratch. We eliminated seventeen thousand or more Yeerks in the galaxy. However, they still have a crew of another seventeen thousand somewhere out there as the Chee said."
"Erek helped us?" Rachel said in disbelief, "After what we did to him? After blackmailing him?"
I nodded. "He understood." then to the whole group, "We have to attack Visser Two and destroy as much of his plans."
"What about Tom?" Marco asked. See, he's my best friend but he can still be a pain in the butt.
"If we see him, and he does trouble, I don't know, attack him." I said. The others looked at me closely before nodding.
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Ok, that was done. I don't really know how they all feel since this is the first time I wrote an Animorph fic but I AM trying. I'm not going to give up. -o