Jake

Don't ask me why I was at the beach. Ed, Mark and Nathan thought they'd get a kick out of it. I didn't want to go, but they practically pushed me. What I had failed to notice, however, was the fact that the beach was the host for a Sharing event, yet again. I don't think Ed, Mark and Nathan were too happy about all the people around, which relieved my worries that they were Yeerks.

I leant against a wall separating the street from the beach. Ed was beside me and Nathan beside him. Mark went off to talk to some girls. Not that they took much notice in him.

"Jake, my man," Nathan said, lighting up a cigarette. "Your cousin…whoa."

I didn't bother to reply. It wasn't the first time I've heard someone talk about Rachel like that. Before I might have stuck up for her, but now I couldn't really care. It was just talk.

"Did you try you-know what?" Ed asked, slyly to me.

I shifted uncomfortably. "Yeah…uh, great stuff."

"Great," Nathan said. "We got some more. We'll give it to you tomorrow."

I turned away and looked over at the beach. Tom didn't come today; he had a more important meeting. So that's what he told me this morning when I was half awake.

"Hey, what's that?" Ed asked, pointing in the distance towards the far end of the beach.

I turned and what I saw made my blood freeze. A rampaging bear, a bounding wolf, a lumbering gorilla and a soaring red-tailed hawk. People started screaming and running onto the street.

"Mark!" Nathan shouted. "Get out of here! There's a freaking bear over there."

Ed started to run after Mark and Nathan took off. I was about to follow when someone grabbed my arm. I turned around and found Erek the Chee holding me back. He produced a hologram around us. I tried back off, but he held me there. His mechanical dog face grinning up at me.

"What do you want Erek?" I asked impatiently.

"Why aren't you out there with them?" he asked. "You are their leader."

"I'm not in this anymore," I said. "They can handle it without me."

"You are their leader," he said. "They need you."

I snorted. "They don't need me."

"No?" he asked. "Take a look. One minute into it and they are already outnumbered and cornered."

I twirled around and saw about fifty human controllers circling a bear, a gorilla and a wolf. The red-tailed hawk was circling over head, trying to peck someone's eye out. But it was no use. I saw Rachel try to jump on a human controller, but she was stunned with several Dracon beams and stumbled back, roaring in pain.

"How could they be in trouble?" I raged, thanking Erek for his hologram. "They were hardly out there for five minutes."

"They are only four," Erek said. "They have no one to lead them."

I turned back around and saw a very prominent human to all Yeerks walk up to them. Visser Three in human morph.

"Crap," I cursed. "I'm morphing, you want to cover me?"

Erek smiled more broadly if that was possible. "Sure," he said.

I stripped down to my bike shorts and t-shirt. It was a habit now. I started to morph tiger. The changes began.

Author's Note Alright, my apologies for the last couple of chapters. Short ones and I feel guilty! Also sorry if I disappoint anyone in any of the chapters, especially this one because I just can't imagine three animals and a bird taking on armed controllers by themselves! Oh well. I knew this fic wasn't going to be good to begin with! Thankyou to all my reviewers!