A/N: Well, I'm back from my friend's, and yep, it's straight back on the PC. We went to see the Yu-Gi-Oh film (It's just come out over here) and then we ended up talking about her Yu-Gi-Oh fic (Not to put up, just for fun) for four hours straight, with a break for half an hour, then talking about it AGAIN till two in the morning. However, I did get a lot of ideas for funny YGO fics...heeheehee...watch this space!

East Coast Rider: Yay! Second Review! Errm...he did? Well...errm...poetic licence? And Yep, they were kids. (I hope!)

Anonymous-cat: Well, that's the point...Glad someone guessed...Anyway, I'm glad you've reviewed me! I read some fics of yours a while before I got an account...don't know if I reviewed though...

Korean Pearl: Thank you! I like peoples saying nice things bout my stories!! I'd thank you for the 'Author's Alert' thing too...if I knew what it was. Is it a good thing...? Please, enlighten me! I'm new to this! Well, the hopefully-not-too-long-wait is over! Here's chappie Three! Oh, by the way, I've read your fics too, before I got an account!

Dancingsaxes: I'm so sorry! How did I mange to forget you? Your review came within an hour of me putting it up! I'm a bad person...Ah well, this chapter's for you!

Three: NewKid's a girl?! (Well, that just gave it away, didn't it?) (Tobias)

It was winter.

When I was a little kid, I had loved the winter. Snow and school holidays, but most of all...Christmas.

Now I like it for different reasons.

See, everyone has their heating on in winter.

Houses, cars, offices...they're all creating this huge updraft of warm air. You can ride the thermals right up the bellies of the clouds. The only downside is that it's a lot harder to find prey when they're all hibernating. However, I have human intelligence on my side. I know that they hide down holes.

Anyway, I'm sure you don't want an entire chapter of my winter life.

I was above a road. Just chilling out, really. The hawk equivalent of crashing down on the sofa and watching day-time TV.

I spotted Jake and Marco walking down a road on the next block. With Ax.

You can't take Ax anywhere. And I mean anywhere. I'm not exaggerating.Taking Ax out isn't a recipe for disaster, Ax is a walking disaster.

At least, when he's human. But people would probably get a little upset if Asimov's answer to ET went walking down the street.

(I better keep an eye on you guys.) I said, more cheerful then I am usually. But they didn't hear. Turns out I wasn't in range.

But not out of earshot. I listened to Marco's valiant attempt at explaining Christmas Trees. I laughed. Then things got weird.

Some kids were coming down the road towards them, talking about Star Wars. Then- and I'd bet my morphing power on this- one of them mentioned Taxxons.

(Taxxons!) I yelled. (They're not in A New Hope!) And I was so shocked that I nearly flew into a seagull.

How embarrassing.

I turned back round, searching frantically for my friends. Then I saw them, just chatting to the Star Wars fans on the pavement below. My first feeling was relief.

Then I thought: That's not right...For a while I couldn't figure out what was going on. Come on Brain. I thought Supply the clever solution...

Not gonna happen, it replied You're on your own, buddy.

Yes, I know it's a bit weird, but I think I'm allowed a few oddities. I'm a half-bird, half-human, half-andalite that fights brain-stealing aliens on a regular basis.

And that's too many halves.

I watched Ax having a perfectly normal conversation with these kids.

"Uh-huh." He said. "I failed it too. Why do they make the tests so hard..."

Perfectly normal?

The penny dropped.

(HOLOGRAM!!!) I yelled at no-one in particular. Then I added smugly (I knew I could do it without you...)

(Tobias...?) a voice slightly to my left said, uncertainly.

Great.

(Ax)

The Hologram was really rather clever. And I had never seen anything like it before. It was dome shaped as usual, with the force-field reinforcing it on the outside.

The reason it was unusual was because there was a divide, another force-field down the middle. I didn't have a clue how it worked. Elfangor could work it out. I think. Maybe if Marco, I, and the Chee helped...yeah, that would work...Of course, I'd have to ask Prince Jake if was alright first. Or Elfangor. Elfangor was my Prince, after all.

So was Jake.

Well, Elfangor is my brother. Prince Jake was friendly, but he's not family.

"Is it really necessary to sedate them...?" The girl in the strange seat frowned.

"You're the technical wiz in this." The male pointed out, not quite casually "If you want it off, turn it off."

"I don't think it's right." The girl scowled back.

"Yeah? You think these guys will let you X-Ray their heads without argument? At least one of them knows about our alien friends."

"They're not friends..." I muttered "They're nasty." The boy laughed.

"I think I'm going to like these guys!" He cried. "Who knows, maybe one can replace you Maya."

"Hey, leave her alone..." Marco said blearily. "She's not doing anything..."

"Yeah, lay off Chris." The other female said. "if it wasn't for her, we wouldn't be able to do this at all. So leave her alone, and hope she decides to stick around!"

The girl in the strange seat smiled at her. The male just snorted.

Maybe humans are related to pigs...I'd have to ask the Professor of Xeno-biology when I got back. Maybe he'd know.

Or maybe I should ask Cassie. Perhaps she'd know how plastic trees grew in houses once a year too...

"Are they ready?" He said impatiently "Let's wrap this up, shall we? It's a long way home."

"The fact the twins'll get us home instantly has nothing to do with it?"

"Nnnope."

"Uh-huh. They're done." The girl in the chair said. "Drop the force-field."

The divide disappeared.

"Why couldn't Cissy deal with this?" The second female asked. The male snorted again.

"Cissy can't do a thing...at least, not right." He turned to girl in the chair, who had been rooting though a backpack. "You got those headsets, Maya?"

"Yep." 'Maya' replied. And then, she pushed the wheels on her chair, and to my surprise, she was propelled across the ground!

"That's amazing!" I said happily. She laughed.

"You like the wheels, man?"

"Yes!"

She laughed again, and began to attach some sort of headset to me.

What am I doing? The thought came from far away. I ignored it. It wasn't important. I watched with interest as the chair moved across the Hologram, to allow Maya to attach headsets to Prince Jake's and Marco's heads.

Snap out of it! Another thought said. The girl was just finishing Marco's set.

(Ax? Marco? Jake?) A firmer thought this time. It was Tobias. He wasn't in here...

"You'll have to wait..." I told him. "I'm busy."

(Guys, hang on. Cassie's here and we're trying to get in...)

Cassie? I had to remember to ask her about...what was it...?

Elfangor is dead!

What? No, he was my Prince. He wasn't dead. How absurd. I watched Marco and Prince Jake trying to put the sets off. How silly.

Prince Jake? What about Elfangor?

ELFANGOR IS DEAD!!

He was...dead. Yes. Murdered by Visser Three.

Dead.

It was like waking up. I snapped back, and began to attempt pulling the set from my head, whishing I had my tail. Thank goodness I had remembered Elfangor was dead, or I might still be in a dream.

"Chill." The other female walked over to me, and put a hand on my arm. Just an X-ray. I glanced at Jake. He had stopped struggling. He caught my eye, and gave a slight nod. Beside him, Marco winked at me.

I stopped struggling. So we were playing along for now.

The human called Maya was now checking something on a laptop.

"He's clean..." she announced. "So are the other two. Looks like we've got a relatively easy day. No hosts among them." The male seemed to relax.

"Well, at least that makes our job relatively easy..." he said.

"Easy for who?" Marco said, pulling the set off. Prince Jake was doing the same. So I followed suit. "Just what's going on here?" All three of the strange humans jumped. The other two turned to glare at Maya.

"Opps." She shrugged.

"And we want the truth." Jake added. "Or Andalite friend here may not be too pleased." Everyone turned to look at me. I began to demorph.

"So...an Andalite..." The female that wasn't Maya whispered.

"So..." Marco mimicked. "A bunch of Yeerks." They all started to laugh. Relived laughter.

"To the contrary," Maya giggled. "Which one of you is BalwinBoy5?" The suddenness of the question shocked us. Never the less, Marco gave a catious nod.

"Well," The boy continued. "BalwinBoy? I'd like you to meet NewKid."

The girl in the odd chair gave a little bow.

There was a stunned silence.

"Well," Marco said brightly "We found him- her, even."

"Took ya long enough..." Maya grinned.

A/N: So there we have it. Sorry about the split POV's, but I wanted to get Tobias into it. And Cassie was just one of those spur of the moment type add-ins. Rachel's in the next chapter though, just bear with me. At least this was a long chapter to make up for the last one!

Ya Know, I can't wait to reveal thier names. Do you know how annoying it is to keep having to write 'The Male' 'The other female' all the time? Bet it's annoying to read too...

To all those Dungeons & Dragons fans out there, happy anniversary! That's right, D&D has been round for thirty years today! (21st August, 2004)

See ya all next chapter!