9:25 am
It didn't come. What are you bastards wating for? HUH! Go on KILL ME! I wondered what had taken them so long. I felt my life leaving me, were they watching me suffer?
(I don't want to kill you.) A voice… Rachel. I felt like something was standing over me. (Demorph quickly while I can block you from view. I began to demorph, it was hard at first since I was in a daze, but then the pain hit and I snapped back. I had to morph quickly, once I reached human form I began to go back to cougar. I was back in morph quickly and Rachel stood up.
She was in her grizzly bear morph her bulk had covered me while I morphed.
(what are you doing here?) I asked.
(I stowed away on board the train, lets just say they had a rodent problem for awhile, hey where's the rest of your team.)
(They ran ahead, they should be in the second area by now,) I switched to public thoughtspeak. (This is burning cougar continue as planned I'll catch up). Rachel and I had little trouble finding the door into the next area. We just followed the dead Hork-Baijar.
(Hey I don't now if you meant to but that thing you thought about Karen came out in thoughtspeak, ) Rachel said. (She means a lot to you huh?) Another group of Hork-Baijar appeared.
(Let's talk about this later.) I pounced on one of the four and Rachel tore through another one. The one I pounced on had a crushed ribcage he wouldn't be getting up anytime soon. I went for the other one and half severed his head with a bite to the throat. I saw the door to the third area. I head the sounds of battle, then… TEESEW, a dracon beam.
(AHH) Fred yelled. We burst through, there were four Hork-Baijar two were fighting Jerry (and losing). And two had dracon beams as well as a belt of grenades. Fred had been hit and looked stunned, I only hoped he had recharged his morph time. One of the Hork-Baijar picked up his Grenade and threw it.
(Shield your eye's!) I yelled. BANG, I felt rather than saw a flash of light, I opened my eyes and saw that no one had been stunned by the flash bang grenade. Rachel charged the Hork-Baijar who had thrown the grenade and knocked his head off.
The other Hork-Baijar aimed his beam at Rachel I saw it was set on kill, I wouldn't be able to get there fast enough. A loud roar sounded Jakes, arrival, he tackled the Hork-Baijar from behind the shot hit the ceiling and left an 8 foot hole in it.
(RACHEL what the FUCK are you doing here?)
(I told you I wasn't going to stay here while the others risked their lives…) I tuned them out and check on Fred. He was coming to…
(Uggg how long have I been out?)
(Few minutes.)
(I gotta demorph.) I called Jerry, who had defeated the Hork-Baijar, over and surrounded him as he demorphed and demorphed. I heard Rachel and Jake still arguing.
(I don't know what's gotten into you Rachel but you have gone insane or something, and…)
(Hey once you guys finish with your audtion tape for the Jerry Springer Show can you think about getting back to the matter at hand.) Marco said. Marco had a Hork-Baijar head in his gorilla hand. I saw the door to the computer room.
(Me and Jerry will go in you guys stay out here and make sure no one comes in.) I said.
(Oh I just thought of something.) Jerry said. (If I demorph in there they'll know I human.)
(No they won't I got Becky to disable the cameras.) Fred said.
(All right then.) Jerry and I entered the computer room.
Once inside we both demorphed the room was a medium sized room , that was dark with a red glow. The computer was in the center of the room with a single office chair and a keyboard. It was on screen saver, (a hang in there cat) and Jerry easily bypassed the first password. The only thing on the computer was he database and it required 4 passwords.
Jerry began hacking I kept an eye on the door while listening to the keyboard tapping.
"Yeah got the first password." Jerry said. After a few more minutes.
"Second one is down." After he got the third one I heard Jakes thoughtspeak voice.
(Erik the police are coming, get out of there.) I went into my cougar morph so I could talk to him. (We can't leave Jerry's almost in. )
(No we can't risk it leave NOW that's an order.)
(I don't take orders from you, anyway Amy has her sniper rifle by now, she'll deal with…)
(What part of 'no human casualties did you misunderstand leave now, or we leave without you.) Jerry had stopped typing and morphed his komodo morph.
(Let's go if they leave us we'll never get out alive. 3 against pick a number, the odds are against us.)
(Fine!.) I nudged the door open with my nose and ran out. The trek out was easier, we ran into little resiteance. When we got to the entrance however we were met with a SWAT team.
(Oh, boy,) Jake said. (Now what?) Fighting was out of the question, there were enough automatic weapons to cause real problems, as mow us all down in a nanosecond. Becky emerged from the door behind the sectary's desk.
(Guys, we've got problems.)
(We've figured that out.) Marco said.
(No I mean worse, this whole areas gonna self destruct, we've got five minutes to get out of here.) Out side the SWAT team was debating how to est handle the situation, I could only hope that they didn't decide to shoot.
(I've got an idea, when I say run you run got it Jake?) I said.
(It'd better be a good one, I really would like to see how your gonna get us out of this one!)
(Just watch .) I said (Amy flash bangs NOW!) There were several flashes of light, the cops were stunned.
(RUN!) I yelled. We ran, we only had few seconds before the minds of the cops cleared. Somehow we made it.
11:22 am
We demorphed in an alley. I snarled at Jake.
"Jerry could have gotten in to that computer."
"And could have gotten us all blown up." As if to emphasize his point there was a loud explosion.
"It was worth the risk, anyway we had four minutes to work with, Jerry would have gotten in in 2 we'd be out in another 2, we might have made it, and even if we didn't Jerry could have uploaded the list to Erek"
"It was too much of a risk…" I looked him in the eyes.
"You know I think I liked the Yerks version of you a lot better, least that Jake would seen the advantage of having more people in there."
"You son of a bitch!" He charged at me, Marco and Cassie caught his arms and held him back. "You moron, you have no idea what kind of pressure I'm under, you see I see everyone here as a friend, I don't look at them like fucking pawns on a fucking chess board, you have no heart buddy… "
"Heart? In a WAR? Have you lost your mind? We can't look at things like that, we need to look at the whole war, not just how it affects one person!"
"What's the point of fighting if you kill who you fight for. You kill humans, they have homes families and children, don't you know what kind of sufering you cause, your just as bad as the Yerks, and you! He rounded on Rachel, you had better start listening to me, your going to get us all killed, stop the fucking Rambo shit, if I tell you stay somewhere you'd better stay!" Amy, Anna, James, and Karen arrived.
"What's going on here?" Amy asked. Jake who had been realeased answered her.
"Your 'fearless leader' here almost got us blown up!"
"Did we get the files?" Karen asked.
"No," I said. "We can thank Gandhi over here for that."
"Stop it you two!" Becky said. "You guys need to get grip! This was a bad mission, it had little chance of success anyway so lets not play the blame game now shake and make up." We shook I tried extra hard to crush Jake's hand but didn't succeed.
"Lets get back to the station." Cassie said. "We need to get some sleep."
"I have to go make a trip," I said. "you guys go ahead, I don't want to ride with Jake anyway, you know because trains go fast and have windows that a human could easily be tossed out of…" Jake flipped me off, I ignored him. "Anna, come with me." Anna kissed James and stood next to me. We both morphed buzzards and flew off. When I looked back I saw the two groups leaving. Tobias must have come up behind us at some point in human morph because he was with them, holding hands with Rachel.
We flew for ninety minutes and recharged our morph clocks.
(where are we going?) Anna asked.
(Back to the safe house, I've got to go get the supplies to make my nothlit cure.)
(You sure it's safe?)
(Yeah, the Yerks would have left it alone after the ATV guys got killed, they know we're not there.)
(Still it's not very safe, to go back so soon.)
(I have to get some medical supplies too, that doctor we have there is little good to us if we don't have them.)
(I saw him, he has some Hork-Baijar medicine, good stuff too, knocked my migraine out in two minutes.)
(Yeah but he still needs more than that, I get the feeling that he doesn't have a cure for everything, and I don't think he has IV's either .)
(IV's bro, why would we need them?)
(Like dad used to say better safe than sorry)
(Yeah but you carry that Mantra to extremes) I saw the ruins of the house ahead. As I thought there was no one around, to make sure we demorphed way away from the site, and walked in. Most of the house was destroyed. Anna looked like she was about to cry, our parent's portrait had been destroyed, it was ne of the few things we had left of them.
I patted her on the back. I saw that my lab hadn't been hurt, it was still in its hidden location beneath the foundation. I opened the hatch disguised as a cornerstone I jumped into the lab and picked up a bright white box. It contained the supplies I needed to remake the medicine for Tobias, I would work at that as soon as possible. I also grabbed four medical kits that contained an IV, sterile gauze, and bandages, aspirin and other assorted medical supplies.
I walked out of the lab.
"Great now how're you gonna carry them?"
"I'm gonna morph an eagle and carry them in my talons, we'll have to fly high, to make sure no one notices." We morphed again, I was a bald eagle and Anna a golden eagle we flew high to make sure no one noticed the eagle carrying a white box and four bags with the medical staff symbol on them.
3:00 pm
The flight to the Valley didn't take as long as last time since I knew where I was going. We flew Directly into the valley and landed. I demorphed first, a group of Hork-Baijar came over to great me. Toby was one of them. Toby was a seer a smart Hork-Baijar, he picked up one of the bags.
"I assume you want the good doctor to take these?" He said.
"Yeah I do," I saw Anna begin to demorph. "How's Jake?"
"Mad at you, I'd steer clear of him for a couple of days."
"Erik, I… I don't" I tunred and saw Anna had gone pale. She began to fall backwards. Cassie was where we were in an instant. She caught Anna.
"What's wrong with her?" Cassie asked.
"Oh no I think she's going into morphing shock." I said and felt icy fear grab me, thank God I had brought some IV's.
"What's that?"
"You know how our morphs hurt, well sometimes the pain causes our bodies to think they're injured and the body goes into a severe state of shock, it borders on a coma," I then yelled. "Get the doctor over here," I looked at my sister's pale face, "Don't die on me sis, I need you come on."
"What's wrong?" The Hork-Baijar doctor arrived, he checked her pulse. "I'm not as good with human's as I'd like to be but I think we need get her into a bed fat."
"You me stat." I said suddenly worried.
"Yeah, don't take that as meaning I don't know what I'm doing." He picked up Anna, and turned to Cassie. "Get Erek to get me some medical supplies beyond what this kid brought. Something to treat a coma patient, because she looks like she's going into one… and you can come with me." I followed the Hork-Baijar to a large tree with a large ladder carved into it, when I went in I was surprised to see a small hospital room, of the eight beds in the tree there were two Hork-Baijar in them. They both seemed to only have minor injuries. The doctor put Anna down on the bed and asked for IV. I helped him set it up. I noticed the gloves he put on before he began the procedure covered up his arm blades.
Once the IV was set up the doctor began to ask me questions about what morphing shock was. I only had theories but he seemed to appreciate my input. The IV was doing it's work, after only a few minutes her color had come back.
"Doctor…" I began
"Don't call me doctor, I don't have an MD call me Hortana, or if you must give me a title, call creknan which means healer."
"Creknan how long do you think she's out for."
"You said when you experienced this you were out for about three weeks."
"Yes."
"Well she's a bit smaller than you so she may take longer, I can't say for certain, I really didn't get much of a chance to practice for this since your group seems to be the only one prone to it. I will try some of my home planet herbs, who knows maybe it will work." James ran in panting.
'Anna," He ran over to the bed. "Oh no, Anna, sweetie, can you hear me." He took her hand, and spoke softly to her stroking her forehead with his other hand. Each member of our team stopped by, Jerry didn't stay long (he had been selected as a catcher for the Hork-Baijar baseball game). But he seemed worried. Fred came by with the medical supplies Erek was able to rush to us.
Becky stayed about an hour, she and Anna were close friends. Karen came by and stayed for about two hours. Finally the doctor came over to us.
"You should leave now," he said. "you've done all you can."
"I can't leave her." Both James and I said at once.
"You need to go and get some sleep if you don't you'll end up in the beds right next to her." Reluctantly we both left. James gave her a soft kiss before he left and whispered something in her ear. I left with my mind swimming.