Chapter 4

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I don't know who panicked first. Maybe it was me. It was possible that it was all of us. Maybe we'd just had about as much fear and horror and terror that we could stand. It was like an electric shock went through us. Suddenly I was running faster than I ever knew I could run.

"Split up!" Jake yelled, "They can't follow all of us!"

I bolted veering off from the others. I don't know what happened to them next. I do know that they all made it though.

I knew the construction site pretty well. The prince had said that Hork-Bajir don't see very well in the dark, so I hugged the shadows. I could hear one of them behind me his blades whistling through the air.

I stumbled over a piece of rusted equipment. The Hork-Bajir was close. He couldn't see you but he could hear me. I stopped. I pressed myself flat against the wall behind me. A chunk of the wall fell off and I caught it in my cupped palm.

I broke out into a cold sweat, imagining the sound it would have made had it hit the ground. How the Hork-Bajir would flash in the air before tearing me apart…

Wait. It was a trick I'd seen like a million times in movies and on TV. Would he fall for it?

Then again do Hork-Bajir watch TV?

I grasped the stone with my fist. With my best effort I drew back and fired the thing like a fastball, way off to the right. I prayed that my plan worked, as I had never been all that good at baseball. I hear a soft clunk as it fell.

The Hork-Bajir whipped his horned head around and took off after the sound, bounding like a kangaroo. Yeah. A kangaroo from hell.

I bolted in the opposite direction. My lungs were on fire, but I kept going. I vaulted over cinder blocks and debris, and I swung over little half built walls. I got to my mountain bike and then I really flew.

Author's notes: short chapter, this was originally going to be part of last chapter but I ran out of time to add it. But next chapter we can get into the really fun stuff starting with Derek's morphs.

To Seeker: In a sense this is where I diverged from book #1, but I'm still sticking to Alternamorphs #1 for a while. See we never got to see what happened to the character created in Alternamorphs #1 after it was written. While as a choose-your-own adventure type of book it wasn't that great as there was really only one safe path, Alt #2 was not a continuation as I'd hoped it would be, thus I have created Derek for this and have begun to develop a character. One who will begin to become clearer in time I hope, as my worst fear is Derek becoming a male Mary Sue.

To Quillian: Says who? The Goa'ould have ships. As do the Tok'ra the Asgard, and the Tollan. Besides I have this little alternate history of the Animorphs universe within the Stargate universe playing in the back of my mind. In it the Andalites developed Z-Space travel before they figured out how to operate their Stargate, which was buried in those coastal caves where the tail carvings were. When Ax finds out later that humans learned to operate their Stargate before they figured out Z-space travel, he stands by his assessment that humans do many things backwards. As of right now though the Yeerks and the Andalites believe that earth does not have a Stargate, as when the Andalites attempted to dial earth after they discovered the invasion the seventh symbol on their gate would not lock. They tried twice after that in the next two days as failed, so the Andalites chose to believe that earth had no gate, or else was buried. What did not occur to them was that earth's gate happened to be linked to a certain planet with black hole at the time.