Chapter 13: escape

Rachel

(Oh no, not AGAIN!) Marco said.

(That phrase brings nothing but trouble...) Jeff commented.

(Any time, boys...)

The Hork-Bajir weren't holding back, but they were drawing back. We were moving the battle 'behind the fence' so as to not reveal our secrets.

The only way we could tell April from the other Hork-Bajir was a shred of her over shirt stuck on her blades. She, apparently, constantly wore a leotard underneath her clothes. Don't know where that came from.

FWAAP! Andalite tails whipped through the air.

April rammed her elbow blade into a Hork-Bajir, who had just drawn out a Dracon beam. The Hork-Bajir dropped the Dracon.

Actually, he dropped his whole hand.

April picked up the Dracon and threw it towards Ax. Ax grabbed it, quickly turned it from 'stun' to 'kill,' and fired.

TSEWWWW!! A Hork-Bajir fell. Another.

Jake and Shelly had basically taken care of the rest.

(Let's go. Transport morphs,) John ordered.

(Same,) Jake agreed. (April, acquire Tobias.)

She demorphed, set her hand on Tobias's head, and morphed.

(Watch out for the instincts,) Tobias warned.

April gained quick control of the morph as with the Hork-Bajir morph, and took off. We all landed separately, about two-three minutes apart. But we didn't demorph.

John bird-walked toward a small hill on top of the hill that was Camp Streefland.

(There's a password,) he explained. Speaking to nowhere, he said, (Freedom now, freedom forever.)

A hole in the cave opened.

(Well, hop in.)

We fell, blind for a moment, then hit a pillow/mattress. I couldn't really tell. Then, as we demorphed, a light came on. And what was there... was amazing.

"You live here?" Marco asked. What he should have asked was "How do you fit all this under here?" or, "How did you build this?"

A central area served purpose as an entryway. Different tunnels led to separate rooms, all rather large. Quite a few were bedrooms, furnished rather well. There were two bathrooms, and a small armory. A small stairway was carved into the ground, leading to a living room of sorts. An upward staircase led outward. A kitchen was in a room out of the living room as a kitchen.

He decided to ask my questions.

"How did you build this?" Marco asked, moments before I started to ask the same thing.

"Stolen Dracon beams on low power carved out the main areas, Andalite tail did some of the finer work; the stairs and tunnel entrance. Al worked out the password entry. Mostly looting furnished the place, but some of it was taken from home," John explained.

All I could say was, "Whoa."

"So, what kind of morphs are you guys packing?" I asked.

"All of us have an Andalite morph, we each have three separate battle morphs, several flight morphs, walleye or northern pike morph, fly, mosquito, ant, termite," Shelly was ticking off the bug morphs, a shiver running down her back, "cockroach, there's actually an interesting story behind that, endurance morphs (elephant, rhino,) wolf..." She turned toward John. "That's about it, isn't it?"

"Basically. How about you guys?"

"Polar bear, dolphin, hammerhead shark, rhino or elephant, trout, wolf, horse, anteater, fly, mosquito, cockroach, ant, termite, we all have our battle morphs, cheetah, seal, god, there's too many... um... Jake morphed a lizard once, lobster, Tobias morphed Ax, cows, dog, cat, seagull, assorted flying morphs, flea, snake, skunk, wolf spider, dragonfly, Hork-Bajir, cockatiels, rat... that's it," Marco said.

"Wait a moment. You morphed a lobster?" I said turning to him.

"Didn't we tell them that one?" Marco asked Jake. Jake shrugged.

"Later," Jake said.

(My question, Prince Jake, is how these Animorphs came to be, and how an Escafil device fell into their hands?) Ax informed us.

"Al, you might want to take this one..." Stephanie said.

(Moments before you arrived at my fighter, as it was falling toward Earth, a young aristh morphed me. We saw you five, on our scanners, which started malfunctioning. I told him what to say to you, and he left as Tobias began to call out to us. I morphed a Helteh, a very small Andalite insect that is similar to a flea, and jumped onto him, before jumping off outside. I stole a bug fighter that had crashed and fixed it before flying it over here.)

sniffle They like me... they really really like me... two chapters left! Okay, on to the responces.

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