Disclaimer: I own the chicken nuggets I'm eating because KA doesn't own them. But KA owns the Animorphs. Damn.

A/N: I LOVE THIS CHAPPIE! That's all. Oh! And this is half of Snazz's bday gift because I didn't manage to finish her fic.

Rachel, Cassie and I ran out of there. Well… we didn't exactly run- we burnt the rubber on our shoes on the black top. I looked to my left after we had ran about a mile, Cassie was there. She was panting and sweaty but it was clear she had no intentions on stopping anytime soon. Rachel was on my right- every hair on that girl's head was misplaced and no beads of sweat clung to her forehead. She looked like she could've run forever.

Sometimes I really hated that girl.

We ran for a total of three minutes, thirty seconds more before I collapsed and claimed that I wasn't moving another step until I had a five minute rest, a plan and a kiss from Rachel.

I got two out of three.

Ended up Cassie was thinking of a plan as she was running. How she managed to do that, I'll never know. It wasn't exactly the best plan in the world. Oh no, far from it in fact. The plan involved running up and down the city looking for Jake.

I never said it was a good one.

"That's it?" I asked, my tone was a little high and I was… um in hysterics. When you stopped to think about it, I had ditched school in order to run away without lunch to look for my best friend who could be anywhere in the entire world and the only plan we had was to avoid every police officer in the city as we slumped around looking for him.

Cassie nodded. Rachel nodded.

I grinned. It was crazy, stupid, illegal and insane. It just might work.

"Let's do it," I said.

Rachel stopped, and looked at me oddly. "What did you say?"

"Um… let's do it?"

Rachel stood there and peered at me. I could practically see the wheels turning in her head before she nodded and said, "I like it".

I stood up, brushed my pants off and managed to look up at the exact moment Cassie screamed. Her eyes were locked on something huge behind me, I could feel it breathing and frankly- I didn't want to know what it was. I turned around slowly, praying to God it was just a small beetle with big lungs.

I didn't expect to see a gorilla.

I screamed like a girl. I admit it, I did. One tends to loose their dignity when they turn around and see a thug the size of a dump truck smiling down at them.

It got worse. I turned to my left and found a tiger and to my right was a wolf and directly in front of me was an elephant. They boxed us in like we were a herd of sheep and eyed us like we were prey.

I felt Rachel and Cassie put their hands up from besides me. I decided it wasn't such a bad idea and threw them up quite desperately.

It was at this moment, and I swear it happened, the gorilla raised his finger and tickled my armpits. If it wasn't so screwed up I would've laughed my behind off at this gesture. But I was scared shitless and that kind of prevented any jokes from being recognized.

The gorilla managed to tickle me until the wolf from besides me swatted its big hand away from my armpit. The gorilla rolled his eyes and left me alone.

Cassie stared at the gorilla and muttered to herself about insane animals and the use of radiation in our woods. I really could care less if they were insane, radiated or both- I didn't want a gorilla playing make-me-laugh with my armpit.

Come with us. the tiger snarled.

Yes, the tiger said that. It said English. It didn't really say the words, they just went through my head without making noise.

I looked at Cassie and Rachel to see if they heard it too. Judging from Cassie's utterly confused look and Rachel's pissed off look, I'd say they did.

It was Cassie that gained composure first. "What do you want with us?" She asked.

Nice question Cassie, it's the first thing I'd ask a band of circus animals when they came to kidnap me.

Come with us or else… the tiger repeated.

I was never one to disobey a tiger so I said, "Ok sure!"

Rachel on the other hand decided to take a more heroic approach to her death. "Go to hell."

The tiger seemed unimpressed. "We have Jake."

"Oh," Rachel said, "well then… let's go!"

And so that's how the band of circus animals and their three little trainers pranced through the city on a warm spring day. We were parading very nicely through the streets until we were shoot at. And these weren't normal handguns. Handguns would've been welcomed compared to these things. They were every sci-fi flicks dream gun. They looked like flashlights but fired lasers that stung. I know- one cut my arm.

I managed to stifle my cry into a rather loud yell. That was nothing compared to the men that were being pulled apart like dolls by my circus.

It was ten minutes before everything was still. Dead littered the streets mangled and scarred. I fought down my urge to throw up, Cassie however couldn't. Rachel held back her best friend's hair as she spilled her morning breakfast.

Let's go. Mr. Tiger said once more.

"Oh no, we're not going anywhere. Not 'till you tell us what the hell you did with Jake and why there are people with guns erm… lasers after you." You had to admit, Rachel had guts.

The tiger turned around and starred her in the eyes. Where any other normal person would be peeing their pants, Rachel stood on her tiptoes to get a better look at the beast. I swear I loved the girl right then.

We'll take you to Jake. the tiger said sighing.

It was the best we were going to get. Rachel knew this, which is good that she nodded and walked behind the tiger.

I sped to catch up with Rachel, who was supporting Cassie with one arm. I took Cassie's other arm and supported her other side.

"Hey Rachel, you think that maybe after this is all over, you'll… I don't know, want to see a movie or something?"

Cassie choked. Rachel choked. And I began to think that whatever Cassie did, Rachel did.

It was a long time before she smiled that devilish smile and said, "Yea, sure Marco."

And then… we entered the room.

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Jinnie: Thank you! Whee, I'm glad you like it.

Ulti1: It'll make sense I think when I'm done. :-D Just stick with me till then ok?

Psyco101: Really, I'm making grammar mistakes? Sorry. I proofed this one, so whatever mistakes in here should be due to my writing style. And *sigh* I'm trying to write more but my stupid teachers think I should get one report every week…

Dark Ice Dragon: What bit with Rach? Yea, his birthday was October 7th I'm pretty sure. I sent him a card- wonder if he got it.

Runa216: Thanks for that buttering up, I loved it! Hehe. Woah! You're getting a little to far of the fic there… slow down. Jake's not taking over the newbies, I'll tell you that much. :-D You can post wherever you want, just please link it back to here, where I can get credit. (Not that I don't trust you, I swear it's not!)

HPDancer92: I wrote more.

DH L'Orange: Yay! You get a grain of rice for forgiving me! *hands over grain of rice with choir boys singing rejoices in the background* IC Rachel? You think so? CASSIE'S NOT DYING. *hides Cassie from harsh things* But I made her throw up, good enough?