Disclaimer: I do not own Animorphs, K.A Appleg…TRANSMISSION DISRUPTED DUE TO SHEER POINTLESSNESS OF THIS OTHER THAN AS A DISCALIMER, WAIT A MOMENT…OOPS.

Anyway, on with the chapter.

Ax slowly inched towards the vibrating door. Rachel was about to morph grizzly when Jake stopped her.

"Let's see who it is first, you wouldn't want Cassie's mum to see you like that." Marco, attempting to break the tension, tried a joke.

"Not that there's much difference…" Rachel glared at him. He grinned, then turned serious as he looked at the door. Ax was almost at it and opened the tiny peephole Cassie had just installed a few weeks ago. He peered through it just as the door was blasted out, sending the Andalite tumbling. Jake ducked as the deadly tail sliced the air where his head had been moments before. In the smoke, he could see several indistinct forms walking towards him. Then, the smoke cleared and his jaw dropped. That was definitely not Cassies's mum.

Tobias was quietly perching on a nice strong branch. His talons were wrapped round him. Not too long ago, those talons had been feet. Human feet. HE wondered why he was demorphing to human. Could it have something to do with the whole odd technology of morphing? Or was it something to do with what the Visser had injected him with? Why were the other Animorphs trying to hide from him? So many questions. He had to rest on the tree branch to figure them all out. Then, it happened again. He began to demorph to human. He first realised it when he noticed he was kind of slipping off the branch. When he shifted his talons, he noticed the wood was biting into his soft flesh. Soft flesh! He looked hurriedly down. His talons were changing into feet, his feathers that had been stabilizing his body, were melting into hands. He was trying to focus when he fell of the branch, breaking his concentration. HE tried to focus but it did not seem to be working at all. Finally the demorph was complete, he was standing in a meadow naked. Not exactly the best of circumstances. The sun had now set and a cool breeze had picked up, making Tobias shiver. Normally, he would have morphed and flown to Jake's house to get some clothes. But his morphing power was apparently gone, leaving him in not too good a position and his friends were hiding from him.

Like many other times, Tobias felt alone.