Author's Note: Something went wrong with Tobias's thought quotes in
uploading, deleting his statement, so I'm going to try and see if a
different symbol with work.
Chapter 1 Jake
" Can we shoot?" I asked Menderash, making no attempt to conceal my words from the alien.
" His Dracon cannon have longer range and greater power," Menderash reported to me grimly. " And his defensive fields have been enhanced. I doubt our cannon can penetrate them."
" Thought so," I said in what everyone else would call my weirdly calm voice. I was scared. But the leaders can never show fear under pressure. " But we're faster."
" Yes."
" Okay." I took a deep breath. I looked around the bridge at everyone. At Tobias. At Marco. " What was it, Marco? 'Crazy, reckless, ruthless decisions'?" Marco nodded. I smiled. It was the same smile that Rachel would always give.
" Full emergency power to engines," I said. " Ram the Blade ship." As the Rachel rolled forward towards the Blade Ship, I saw Marco sit down.
" Jake, we're going to die, aren't we?"
" Nothing new."
" Sir, we're at optimum range for the ram," Menderash said.
" Do it."
My name is Jake. I am an Animorph. We were once charged with defending the Earth from an alien species called the Yeerks. Who's we? 'We' were Marco, Tobias, Cassie, Rachel and Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill. We called him Ax for short. Four years ago, an Andalite prince named Elfangor came to Earth with an Andalite warship to attack the Yeerk Pool Ship in orbit around Earth. They would have won, but the Yeerks had backup. The Blade Ship of Visser Three was hidden in the shadow of the moon. I hope you know what happened, but for those who don't, the Andalites lost. Elfangor came down to a construction site. Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, Marco, and I was crossing through that construction site. Elfangor gave us the power to morph into any animal we touch. In the three years we fought the Yeerks, I became my dog Homer, a tiger, a green anole lizard, a fly, a rhino, a peregrine falcon, a killer whale, a beaver, an anaconda, and many other things. My brother was a Controller, though, so the fight was personal. A Controller is someone who is or in most modern cases, was controlled by a Yeerk. The Yeerks, in their natural state, are slugs. Just slugs, and they'd squeeze themselves through the ear canal of anyone they got their slimy slug selves, then take control. They conquered the Hork-Bajir and the Taxxons this way. For nearly three years, we secretly fought the Yeerks, and they thought we were Andalite warriors who'd survived the destruction of the Dome Ship. They were wrong. Ax was the only true Andalite among us. Andalites in their natural forms have four eyes, four hooves, three slits for a nose, seven fingers on two weak hands attached to two arms, and no mouth. They talk by using thought-speak, which is what we use in morph. Oh, and did I mention the tail? The deadly scorpion-like tail? It can slice up someone faster than it take Michael Jordan to make a three-pointer. The Andalites gave the Yeerks their current powers, or rather, an Andalite prince named Seerow gave them the abilities. The Yeerks then took the Hork- Bajir homeworld, then the Taxxon world, then came for Earth. They'd already taken the Gedds, a species from their own homeworld. We fought them, but then, near the end of our fighting, the Yeerks figured out we were human, and we tried to get our families away from the Yeerks. We'd helped start a free Hork-Bajir colony, and we began living with them. Marco's mom and dad already lived with them, since before they figured us out, they learned that Visser One's former host was the mother of one of the so-called 'Andalite bandits' they'd been chasing. We got Cassie's mom and dad, Rachel's mom and sisters, and Tobias's amnesia-stricken mother. My mom and dad were taken by the Yeerks. Eventually, we chased them up into space. Rachel was on the Blade ship with my brother and Yeerks who'd been given the morphing power after Elfangor's blue box which gave us our morphing ability, but not before we gave several other kids, handicapped kids who most people would not realize were given the power. Rachel was killed, and the Yeerks on the Blade ship escaped. Rachel's body was dumped, and found days after the vast majority of the Yeerks surrendered. A monument was made in her honor, and a year passed before the promoted Visser One, formally Visser Three, the only Andalite-Controller who got promoted after the Visser One in Marco's mom's head was killed, was put on trial. Ax was promoted to a war-prince, and given command of an Andalite ship. Ax was captured by something called only 'The One.' The way the Yeerks on the Blade ship who'd also become servants of 'The One.' What were these guys, the Borg from Star Trek? Anyway, our ship, the Rachel, was now the only thing stopping 'The One' from accomplishing what the Yeerks didn't. And now, we were all going to die from it. As we flew towards the Blade ship, time seemed to slow down.
[We're going to die, and no one will ever know. Seems a little ironic, doesn't it? The Yeerks tried to kill us for three years, and now we're killing ourselves,] Tobias said in thought-speak. Tobias was trapped in the morph of a red-tailed hawk. That's the drawback of Elfangor's gift. Two hours, and you're trapped in a morph forever.
" Yeah, I know," I said, and closed my eyes, just waiting for my death.
Chapter 1 Jake
" Can we shoot?" I asked Menderash, making no attempt to conceal my words from the alien.
" His Dracon cannon have longer range and greater power," Menderash reported to me grimly. " And his defensive fields have been enhanced. I doubt our cannon can penetrate them."
" Thought so," I said in what everyone else would call my weirdly calm voice. I was scared. But the leaders can never show fear under pressure. " But we're faster."
" Yes."
" Okay." I took a deep breath. I looked around the bridge at everyone. At Tobias. At Marco. " What was it, Marco? 'Crazy, reckless, ruthless decisions'?" Marco nodded. I smiled. It was the same smile that Rachel would always give.
" Full emergency power to engines," I said. " Ram the Blade ship." As the Rachel rolled forward towards the Blade Ship, I saw Marco sit down.
" Jake, we're going to die, aren't we?"
" Nothing new."
" Sir, we're at optimum range for the ram," Menderash said.
" Do it."
My name is Jake. I am an Animorph. We were once charged with defending the Earth from an alien species called the Yeerks. Who's we? 'We' were Marco, Tobias, Cassie, Rachel and Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill. We called him Ax for short. Four years ago, an Andalite prince named Elfangor came to Earth with an Andalite warship to attack the Yeerk Pool Ship in orbit around Earth. They would have won, but the Yeerks had backup. The Blade Ship of Visser Three was hidden in the shadow of the moon. I hope you know what happened, but for those who don't, the Andalites lost. Elfangor came down to a construction site. Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, Marco, and I was crossing through that construction site. Elfangor gave us the power to morph into any animal we touch. In the three years we fought the Yeerks, I became my dog Homer, a tiger, a green anole lizard, a fly, a rhino, a peregrine falcon, a killer whale, a beaver, an anaconda, and many other things. My brother was a Controller, though, so the fight was personal. A Controller is someone who is or in most modern cases, was controlled by a Yeerk. The Yeerks, in their natural state, are slugs. Just slugs, and they'd squeeze themselves through the ear canal of anyone they got their slimy slug selves, then take control. They conquered the Hork-Bajir and the Taxxons this way. For nearly three years, we secretly fought the Yeerks, and they thought we were Andalite warriors who'd survived the destruction of the Dome Ship. They were wrong. Ax was the only true Andalite among us. Andalites in their natural forms have four eyes, four hooves, three slits for a nose, seven fingers on two weak hands attached to two arms, and no mouth. They talk by using thought-speak, which is what we use in morph. Oh, and did I mention the tail? The deadly scorpion-like tail? It can slice up someone faster than it take Michael Jordan to make a three-pointer. The Andalites gave the Yeerks their current powers, or rather, an Andalite prince named Seerow gave them the abilities. The Yeerks then took the Hork- Bajir homeworld, then the Taxxon world, then came for Earth. They'd already taken the Gedds, a species from their own homeworld. We fought them, but then, near the end of our fighting, the Yeerks figured out we were human, and we tried to get our families away from the Yeerks. We'd helped start a free Hork-Bajir colony, and we began living with them. Marco's mom and dad already lived with them, since before they figured us out, they learned that Visser One's former host was the mother of one of the so-called 'Andalite bandits' they'd been chasing. We got Cassie's mom and dad, Rachel's mom and sisters, and Tobias's amnesia-stricken mother. My mom and dad were taken by the Yeerks. Eventually, we chased them up into space. Rachel was on the Blade ship with my brother and Yeerks who'd been given the morphing power after Elfangor's blue box which gave us our morphing ability, but not before we gave several other kids, handicapped kids who most people would not realize were given the power. Rachel was killed, and the Yeerks on the Blade ship escaped. Rachel's body was dumped, and found days after the vast majority of the Yeerks surrendered. A monument was made in her honor, and a year passed before the promoted Visser One, formally Visser Three, the only Andalite-Controller who got promoted after the Visser One in Marco's mom's head was killed, was put on trial. Ax was promoted to a war-prince, and given command of an Andalite ship. Ax was captured by something called only 'The One.' The way the Yeerks on the Blade ship who'd also become servants of 'The One.' What were these guys, the Borg from Star Trek? Anyway, our ship, the Rachel, was now the only thing stopping 'The One' from accomplishing what the Yeerks didn't. And now, we were all going to die from it. As we flew towards the Blade ship, time seemed to slow down.
[We're going to die, and no one will ever know. Seems a little ironic, doesn't it? The Yeerks tried to kill us for three years, and now we're killing ourselves,] Tobias said in thought-speak. Tobias was trapped in the morph of a red-tailed hawk. That's the drawback of Elfangor's gift. Two hours, and you're trapped in a morph forever.
" Yeah, I know," I said, and closed my eyes, just waiting for my death.