Note: Yeah, here we are, another cameo. So soon? Yep. Let's get to the responses and get to the story so we can see what happens.

LilManiac: Jakey-poo? That's cute!
Hehe!
I love the fight... but i get a feeling that it's all just a little too easy...
Something cools gonna happen, isn't it?
AH, EITHER WAY IT'S GONNA BE COOL, CAUSE YOU'RE COL!

Yeah. Cool. I believe it is time to rock your socks off.

LucreziaNoin86: Totally awesome. I really hope that your still planning on having Loren in the story, and I can't wait to see how you handle that.

Yes, Loren will arrive later. But not until after the war ends…

Elwing: Hey, I thought you left us a while back. I really missed your reviews. But thanks for returning. And about this review section: I find it easier, not harder, to respond to your reviews this way. But thank you for your concern.

Early: Hey, I appreciate you reviewing all of my chapters at once. I see you found my story and took a liking to it. I have heard from many people, including you several times, to slow down. That is apparently what I need to work on the most. To answer an issue you arose in one particular review: I know what you mean when you say the Escafil device and its properties are seriously flawed. I vaguely remember Rachel trying to change her appearance (I think it involved her hair) after demorphing and it didn't work. It might have something to do with the difference between appearance and DNA, or it might be that K. A. indeed needed an "out". I don't know. But please keep reviewing.

LittleMidgett: Gettin better! Oh so much more interesting as well!
Seemed a bit easy for them to get the Bladeship...what's up with that? Where was everyone?
I wanna know! AH!
Sorry...I'm in a weird mood...
But continue soon!
And thank you for that review...greatly appreciated!

It was easy for them to get on the Blade Ship because they had something like a hundred warriors and just plain charged the ship. Plus Visser One was absent. Where is that old goose, anyway…?

SilverHawk27: cool it was kinda hard to follow at first, but then i re-read it it it's really awsome, UPDATE SOON!

I assume you meant the part where Jake was flying was confusing. Sorry. I'll try to make it better.

animorph19 hahaha..."jakey-poo". nice touch. so they finally get into the blade ship. yay. i wonder how differently jake will lead this time around since they were actually able to rescue his family (which made him act all cuckoo for coco puffs when they weren't rescued)...

I don't know. How will he act? Maybe we should ask the author…hmm? I'm the author? Uh-oh. Uhhh…here's the story.

James

The Blade Ship slowly lifted into the air. I looked through the window in the hull of the ship and saw several Hork-Bajir running towards the ship, waving their arms. I smiled to myself. Then I looked back to my troops. Scarred, bloody, tired, and proud.

(Alright everybody, demorph and remorph. We need to be able to fight when we get on the Pool Ship.) I turned to Jake, who was back in his natural form. (How are we going to get on the Pool Ship?)

Jake looked at me. He smiled. "Ax tells me that if we can hit near and around the base of the engines, we might be able to take out their power. They won't be able to shoot or move, then we will try to use the grappling hooks to connect just outside the bridge. Animorphs will attack the bridge, Hork-Bajir will hold the corridor outside." He laughed. "It might work." He laughed again.

I didn't see what was so funny. I was plenty scared of dying, or of one of my friends dying. I started to demorph. (Jake, what do we do about Visser One?)

He looked at me strangely. "We hope for the best." He turned back to the helm next to Toby and Ax. I finished demorphing and wondered if Jake had lost his mind. He was switching between complete euphoria and complete mysteriousness. I turned back to the Animorphs. They were laying around in various positions, breathing hard and limbs twitching.

"Alright, everybody remorph. We're almost out of the atmosphere." The few that could nodded and all started morphing. Somebody tapped me on the shoulder. I spun around.

It was Jake. "We are leaving the atmosphere. Ax is going to close the window and we won't be able to see the Pool Ship. When Ax gives the order, we charge through those doors." He pointed at the back of the bridge. "Do you understand?"

"Of course." I started to morph lion, going to relay the orders in morph when I saw it. A lone Bug fighter, soaring past the Blade Ship. I tensed up, expecting it to fire on us. Instead it just kept on flying, as if it were on a lazy Sunday drive. Half lion and half human, I shivered. Something bad was going to happen. I felt evil exuding from that Bug fighter, felt it and knew something terrible was going to happen. Soon.

Trying to shake it off and failing, I finished my morph and looked around through my lion eyes. The others had also finished their morphs. The window was closing and the dim stars of outer space were locked away, out of sight.

(Alright everybody, Ax is getting ready to fire at the Pool Ship.) I was surprised. So soon?

(Jake, are we close enough to it yet? I mean, we don't want to shoot the Pool Ship and then spend thirty seconds under fire just getting there.)

(Don't worry. The Pool Ship stays just outside of the atmosphere. Ax actually had to back us away from it so that we wouldn't blow ourselves up with the backflash.) Then he spoke to all. (We are firing in twenty seconds. That means we'll probably be fighting in a minute. Before we get on that Pool Ship, I want everybody to know that I am proud of them.)

Marco cut in. (Jake expects every man to do his duty.) I laughed in my head. I was one of the few who knew what that meant. Admiral Nelson sent out a message to his fleet in 1803 that said, "England expects every man to do his duty." Then I remembered that Nelson died in that battle.

I wanted to throw up. It was too soon. We weren't ready. This next battle might take the lives of the last real hope for humanity. It was insane! We just weren't ready.

(Okay, now!) Even as Jake ordered it I heard the twin Dracon beams blast across space. Then, unexpectedly soon, a loud explosion resounded throughout the Blade Ship.

(Prince Jake, they are turning the ship on auxiliary burners. If we do not move-)

(Alright, let's do it! Rachel, you're first through.) I felt a slight acceleration. (Then Marco and me.) We turned toward the Pool Ship's bridge. (James and the first group will follow us.) Oh, God, we weren't ready! (Next Cassie and the second group of Animorphs, plus Toby and half of the Hork-Bajir.) There was no way we would survive! I heard the grappling hooks shoot out. (Tobias and the third group of Animorphs next.) Then I remembered what Jake had told me long ago. He had told me that being brave isn't being fearless. (Ax, the second half of the Hork-Bajir, and the last of the Animorphs will bring up the rear.) Rachel had already gotten inside. He had told me that being brave is not showing your fear to those around you. (Let's go James!) Jake and Marco ran inside. I gathered my courage and followed.

Running past a deflated Taxxon and another Taxxon eating the first, I called out, (Alright everybody, let's go!) A polar bear lumbered past me and knocked a small, monkey looking thing off balance. The monkey thing almost pulled a Dracon, but thought better of it and ran away. I caught up with Jake. (What was that thing?)

He looked behind. The monkey thing ran in a side room. (That's a Gedd. Don't worry about them unless they pull a gun on you. Watch out!) Three Hork-Bajir leaped out of a side hallway and were slashing at Jake and me. A cougar landed on my back and used it as a springboard to jump at one of the Hork-Bajir. A red-tailed hawk flew repeatedly at another.

I coiled my leg muscles that would send flying threw the air. I leaped! I latched onto the last Hork-Bajir and shook my head as he gashed my back legs with his claws. Then suddenly he fell, spilling blood everywhere. I stepped off of his corpse and loped to the bridge. Rachel was poised to charge through and Jake, Marco, Cassie, Ax, Kelly, Joe, Ax, Pedro, and several Hork-Bajir were already beside her.

"Jake, we are holding them off." Toby was bleeding on both of her arms and forehead. Her middle wrist blade on her left arm was gone. "We need everybody down there now to stay, otherwise we will get run over."

Jake was quiet, Then, (Okay, tell them to stay put.) Then he addressed us after Toby had left. (It looks like we are going to have to do this without the rest of them. That's okay. Just remember how easy the Blade Ship was. Rachel, on three.) She reared up, prepared to knock the door down. Jake started counting and she knocked the door flat on two.

He leaped, bounded, slithered, loped, galloped, and flew into the bridge of the Pool Ship. I had never been more afraid, giddy, pumped, and tired at once. Then utter shock hit me as I saw him. How? Why?

(Hello, bandits. Or should I say, Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, Ax, and...) He peered at the rest of us. (Some new additions, it would seem.) Then he narrowed his eyes as he saw the dozen or so free Hork-Bajir. (And some traitors. Welcome aboard. I hope you enjoy your visit. It will be your last.) Then Visser One started laughing.

I turned to look at Jake, but he leaped. Visser One put a neat, two inch cut into Jake's shoulder. Then everybody started slashing, kicking, yelling, and punching.

I spotted a Taxxon raising a Dracon beam. I was at his side in one leap and sliced his top ten legs clean off. Then I saw the Visser tail fighting with Ax. I could easily take him down. I started running, faster and faster. I leaped, soaring through the air. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a Hork-Bajir Controller raise his arm. In his hand was a Dracon.

I had only a second to wonder when a wave of pain swept my body.

The pain! The burning, torching agon-