The Andalite

Chapter 4: Terrance

My name is Terrance. I am an Andalite. As much as I can decipher about my past, that is much that I can tell. I seem to have forgotten about my memory and who I was. Upon further investigating about the problem of mine, I soon came to realize that my name started with the letter "T". My friends, human friends, decided to give me names and finally we landed on the name "Terrance."

The Yeerks are here. They have come to infest this planet. My friends told me the exact time I lost my memory. According to them, I was walking aimlessly in front of Kathy's house. Kathy is one of us. She has been given the power to morph and is now a nothlit.

As I was saying, they say I was walking in front of Kathy's house aimlessly. Kathy came and took me in the house. Her other friend, Madi came over to her house and accidentally saw me. She helped me and I 'revived' as they say. After nearly being spotted by a Controller, she showed me to her parents and from that day on, her whole family. Then afterwards, JM, Leisa, Paul, Nick, were 'dragged' into the whole thing.

I do not remember that particular day.

They say that I had sufficient knowledge about the Yeerks until I accidentally fell in a fifty-foot high house in one of our ways to attack the Yeerk compound. I had managed to break my fall however I had lost my memory.

However, I remembered the time I had taken Kathy as a Prince. I had mistaken him for a man and had accidentally called me Prince. She is the leader of the "group". Whenever I would say Prince, she would say, "Did I forget to mention that I was a girl?". Sometimes, when I feel better, I call her Princess, which is another term used for women.

"Caaaaaaaan we just go hooome?" Madi wailed. Humans produce sounds with their mouths. This particular words that Madi just said is called wailing. "I mean, I know we came here but what's the point?! I mean, I'm really worried about the guys we left behind in the Philippines! Arg! Arg! Arg!" she said.

We are the Animorphs, the Animorphs from the Philippines. We came here in America on the simple fact that we were no longer safes back there. We decided to confuse the Yeerks that we were going in Europe using our morphs. We made one of the Chee do it and then he will find his way back to America to help us out.

We had left Nick back in the Philippines to help the other ve- I mean, the auxiliary Animorphs who are all vecols except for four.

The Yeerks know who we are, although I doubt that they know anything about me. They know who my friends are and what they do. So we had to sneak in a ship. We 'kidnapped' certain people so we could take their places. In the end, they understood who we were and agreed to let us take their places and to acquire their DNA. Therefore, we were able to sneak to America and had given us an ample amount of money to use for our whole stay here.

We had been here for two days.

"I wannnnnnna goooo hooooooooomeeeeee!" Madi wailed again. "Why oh why did I go here?! Whyyyyyyyyyyy?"

Princess Kathy shook her head. We were in the food court eating. Eating is a process wherein you place a very wonderful substance called food and chew it with your teeth. Then your saliva softens the food and you swallow it. There it is digested in your stomach.

But the TASTE! I was eating the thing called hamburger in tiny small bites at a time. I wanted-oh-so-wanted to just swallow the whole hamburger however Princess Kathy said that it wouldn't be safe for someone to see me eating like I haven't eaten for weeks.

"Ter, are you ok?" Paul said as he looked at me. Ter was a shortcut my name Terrance. Sometimes, when the human mouth is tired from chewing, they talk in shortcuts to not further tire their mouths.

"I-I..." I stammered, hoping they'll undertand, "I long to eat this. This. The-ese. This hamburger. Burg. Burgr. Rrrrr. Rrrrr. Rrrrrr. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr."

"Ok! Ok! Stop it!" Paul said as he raised his arms in defeat, "Eat that burger."

"Thank you." I said. However, deep inside, my emotions were brimming. If Paul was a leader and not a thinker, I would have loved to call him Prince.

I placed the half a burger in my mouth. I looked confused at the piece of burger still protruding in my mouth.

"I think that Terrance over here has realized that he can't place half a burger in his mouth," Paul said as he leaned back in his chair, grinning.

I took the burger out sheeplesly as they all laughed. I decided that from now on, I would stick to eating the burger piece by piece.

"Sooo, are we ready?" JM asked as he crushed the sheet of paper of paper lined with plastic into the tray in the table. In that paper was supposed to have another burger. But JM finished ahead of me.

"Terrance, are you done?" Leisa asked. "I mean, I know we told you not to eat your hamburger as a whole but we didn't tell you to eat your hamburger in little miniscules..."

"Oh, so that's why I could hardly savor the delicious hamburger." I said as I began wolfing down the little piece of hamburger I had.

My human friends shook their heads sideways. If I understood right, it had meant pity.

Chapter 4.2

We were walking to a specific building that made chocolates. I had long remembered a certain desire for those 'candies' however, I had once eaten a rotten chocolate and do not wish to attempt eating it again.

"We are close." I said, "Close. C-CloOse. Ose. Ooooooooo."

"Yeah." Princess Kathy said, "I wonder why the Yeerks would want a chocolate factory for themselves?"

"Oh duh!" Paul had said. Both Princess Kathy and Paul fight over dominance occasionally, however, they are still friends. "I mean, if you own your own chocolate factory, all you do is lure all the Andalites by putting up a big, "Chocolate: For Free" sign and they'll come barging by the millions." he continued in what humans call a sarcastic way.

My eyes furrowed at the thought, "I do not wish to attempt. Tempt. Empt. To eat another chocolate. Ate. Choco. Ch. Ch. Choo. Choo."

"Ter..." Leisa groaned.

"Yes? Yes. Ye-es." I had said. Mouth sounds are so fun to make.

"Stop playing with your mouth." she said.

"I wasn't playing with my mouth." I said. "Outh. Th. Th. Th. Th."

"Hey! Watch it! Saliva's spitting!" Paul said as he went out of my direction. I apologized.

We were walking in the forest, as I tasted the grass. It tasted good however, not great by Andalite standards.

KA-BOOOOOM!

"What was that?!" Princess Kathy shouted over the explosion.

"There!" I pointed to an explosion a little far from us. A little behind the explosion was a building. The chocolate building.

"Did the Yeerks know were here?" Princess Kathy asked, feeling a little bit nervous.

"We will never know..." Madi said as she placed in a small voice, like the little three year old humans give.

"Wolf forms, guys!" Princess Kathy said to us. In a few minutes, we had morphed into wolves.

We had just entered America when we all decided to go to the zoo and acquire some animals. It was called the Gardens. We had acquired the wolf morph by going in the wrong door. Then, we practiced to use it.

Now, let's move out. Princess Kathy said as she bounded away.

Aren't wolves, or any particular animal, runs away from the fire or any sort if explosion? Madi asked.

Yeah... Princess Kathy said, That's why we have to slink a little. Try to make ourselves wolves that you know, wants to know what caused the explosion.

In short, smart wolves. Paul said instinctively, Simplistically? Humans in morph.

We were running towards the explosion when we smelled something strange.

Animals? I wondered aloud.

I'm starting to guess that one is a gorilla, one is a tiger, one is some animal I can't smell out. Paul said, It's not a pretty bunch. I don't think a gorilla, a tiger, and a strange four legged animal would like to hang out to with other.

Can they be Andalites? Leisa suggested.

Why would they be here? Madi asked, I mean, the last time an Andalite came here was to plant a little bomb that was strong enough to blast the earth. And to think that was under Andalite authorities supervision.

I remembered that time. I too, had great respect for my kind. However, I wondered why would they do too much of that?

We have to attract them to us. Princess Kathy said.

Are you nuts?! Paul shouted, And then we have to detonate that bomb again? No way. Never. Huh-uh.

See that bird flying over there? Princess Kathy said.

It's called a red-tailed hawk, from what I read. I said as we all stopped and watched that bird dive to the rubble.

We'll attract them here? Madi said hopefully. She liked anything extreme. However, there were times that she forgot to stop.

Yes. Princess Kathy said.

How? Leisa asked.

Terrance over here will morph back to his Andalite form and I guess that will pretty much attract them to us. Paul said knowingly.

That was my line. Princess Kathy said instinctively, Anyway, I'll be there.

Cool. Leisa said.

What about mee? Madi wailed like a kid.

You hide and the moment that the Yeerks will come, you all attack. Princess Kathy said. That had me confused.

Yeerks? I said doubtfully, Aren't they Andalites?

Yeerks. Princess Kathy said firmly. Look, we have to hurry so put it this way: The last time the Andalites came here to plant the second bomb, they pretty much lost the morphing cube and it was taken by the Yeerks, right? We got the that morphing cube back and returned it to the Andalites, however, the Yeerks already had a sufficient morphing power.

Yes... I said, Go on...

Put it this way, Kathy said, Can't it be a fact that the Andalites came to a great country such as America? Couldn't there be a chance that the Andalites who came to America gave the morphing cube? Or rather, lost the morphing cube?

Then why is it that the Yeerks haven't controlled America? Leisa asked, We use the morphing technology for power. To attack. To weaken the enemy. Who are the Yeerks enemy?

Another small group of Andalites? I said hopefully. This must be the "good" Andalites if not, this country, America, would have been conquered.

Yeah, Terrance has a point. Madi said, So that's step two. Look for the Andalite group after we kick these Yeerks who stole the morphing power!

Yeah! Paul said in an imitation I had seen in the movies, the movie wherein the small groups would fight until death plus, in those movies, the small group dies.

I shivered at the thought. Humans can make deathly humor if they wanted to. I had wondered why humans still call it humor.

Prince Kathy, I saw the red-tailed hawk flapping up from the explosion. I said. Whenever the fight comes, I would usually come to call Princess Kathy to Prince.

Move! Now! Prince Kathy ordered. Paul, Madi, and Leisa bounded away behind the bushes and hid away from sight. I had told them that hawk eyes had very good vision.

I watched as Prince Kathy and JM demorphed back to a human. It wasn't a pretty sight however, when the red-tailed hawk came, both were completely back to their human forms.

Strike one. JM said. Boy, and here we were thinking that we can live our life here in America...

Kathy grinned.

Footsteps... I said as I thought-spoke privately to them.

Yeah, we hear them. And smell them. Boy, one seemed to have lost his deodorant. Paul said.

I heard Madi strike Paul in the head.

Nice. I heard Leisa mutter to Madi and Paul.

An Andalite walked into view. An Andalite. Prince Kathy seemed to be at lost for words. A human boy with short hair appeared.

"Who are you?" he asked.

Those Controllers must have captured the Andalite! Paul yelled loud.

"Wait, what do you- "the young boy was not able to finish as four two suddenly attacked him. The Andalite male lashed out his tail and the three of the wolves were hit.

Madi! JM yelled, Paul!

Everyone, that Andalite might be a Controller. He must be the Abomination! Prince Kathy yelled.

How dare you say that I am the Abomination?! the other Andalite yelled in thought speak.

Attack! Prince Kathy said to all of us. I looked at my side and saw that Kathy had morphed into a wolf along with JM.

They all attacked.

Wait! I yelled.

"Um, Marco, I guess you would be in handy now." the boy said in some sort of weird human humor.

The gorilla is ready to party. a thought speak said from somewhere in the forest. That pretty much stopped everyone.

Gorilla?! the humans said. A gorilla?!

Suddenly, a gorilla came swinging and landed in front of the boy and the Andalite. A bird came attacking and pecked JM in the head.

Ow! JM said, Who did that?!

Red-tailed swooping bomb Airlines at your service. the red-tailed bird said to the short-haired boy. And Rachel and Cassie are on their way.

"Well. I guess that's good." the short-haired boy said.

Prince Kathy, I don't think we should attack right away... I said to her, There might be an explanation...

There I none. Yeerks are Yeerks. If we give them a chance, they would kill us or worse, capture us. she said.

I was surprised. She had always listened when I had wanted to say something. This was the first time she didn't say anything, or rather, did not listen with what I have to say.

AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!! the gorilla said as Paul bit the gorilla's hand and tore away a huge chunk of flesh. The gorilla looked at the wound. Ok, so who was the inconsiderable ninny who bit my arm? the gorilla said angrily and let out with what is considered as a gorilla roar.

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:Oh guys, sorry about the thing it was supposed to be the or the beggining of the thought speach but this particular computer does not have iSpell. Waaaaaaahhhhhh.