Note: It's been a while, but I'm back. Sorry for the wait, but writer's block comes totally unexpected, and I wasn't prepared at all. But I'm sure this will get me back on the road. You know the drill.

Elwing: The Visser died? It was kind of sudden, and you should have made it a little more bloody and gross, because the Visser was bloody and gross in the years of his ugly life.
Excellent chapter!
And after James died, and now the Visser, who next? None of the Animorphs, I hope. Unless you want to make the story really sad.

I absolutely did NOT want the Visser to live. He is the ultimate villain and Ax needed to get his revenge. But I'm tryiong to avoid a terribly sad story.

SilverHawk27: HIT? i like Rachels musings. she's cool, one of my favorite characters. u captured her personality well. this was an awsome chapter, UPDATE SOON!

Yeah, hit. The Andalites have arrived. Great. I'm glad you liked Rachel's characteristic, because I thought that she wasn't war-like enough.

Early: Yikes. So you decided to kill off Alloran. That's okay. I'm glad you didn't make a hoopla about it as if to say "Look! See! It IS different from the original."

Nope, you were classy about it. James death too.

(nods appreciatively) What I don't like is the cliff-hangers, Plot-twist Cliffhangerson!

I want the rest of my story! (which isn't really mine but yours, which isn't really yours but KA Applegate's, which isn't really KA's but her Ghostwriters, which really doesn't belong to them but scholastic.)

(shakes head) Fanfiction. So hard to take pride of, because legally it doesn't exist.

True that. But really, it IS different! See? SEE? No, I'm just kidding. But, no matter what you say, I will never stop the cliffhangers. NEVER! I AM PLOT-TWIST CLIFFHANGERSON!

Shadow: Nice story. You haven't tried to fix everything, yet in someway everything has indeed been fixed. Keep going.

Wow. Really? That's insightful. I never thought about it that way.

LilManiac: Well, i lyked that... dawem, was it? Very cool...
THE VISSER'S HEAD GOES-A-ROLLIN! YAY!
BYE BYE VISSER!
Sorry, high on... something or other...
What next?
MORE PLEASE!

You misspelled "liked". But, besides that, thank you for your review. It's scary, isn't it? Andalites believe in ghosts. Now Ax will forever be haunted by James. Or will he?

Tiamath: To slightly misquote the movie Chicken Run, "Bloody Andilites, always turning up late for every war..." (sigh) Things are never as easy for the Animorphs, are they? Great chapter, although I wish it could have been just a little longer...;)

"But I don't want to be a pie!" I love that movie! But yeah, those Andalite rascals. When will they ever learn?

LittleMidgett: is speechless
And you know...that's a very rare occurance.
Seemed a bit rushed...but I ain't complainin! It was excellent!
Beyond excellent!
AH!
I'm still speechless...
Oh...Andalites...AH! RUN!
Sorry...I'm speechless AND in a weird mood...
But...you shall continue! BEECAUSE I said you had to.
So...continue!
Come on! What are ya waitin for!

If this is you speechless, I'd hate to see you hyper or talkative. But thank you for this special and…erratic review.

Cassie

(Just hold in there, Toby. Hold on. Help is on the way.) We weren't actually sure of that. We had called the bridge for medical supplies, but we didn't get a response.

Toby coughed, spraying blood across my mangled fur. I was revolted when I saw her lungs spasm through the deep gash in her chest. In the last minutes of the fight, Toby took on a Blue Band by herself and won. But if she didn't get help soon, she would die.

(You! Do any of you Yeerks know how to treat this wound?) None of the prisoners said anything as I demorphed. "Fine, I'll do it myself." I kneeled by Toby and tried to put pressure on the wound. Then I was violently thrown to the ground.

(What was that?) Marco knuckle-walked over to me. (Toby? You don't look so good.)

"She needs medical attention. Quickly." I looked at Jake, who had just returned from the Yeerk Pool. "Jake, what was that noise?"

He sounded shaken. (Ax called from the bridge. He said that the Andalites shot us. He told me that he has convinced them to board and see for themselves that we are not Yeerks.)

Marco held up a furry paw. (The Andalites are here?) Jake nodded his tiger head. Marco snorted. (Nice timing.)

Jake continued, (They are coming on board any second now. Cassie, get two Hork-Bajir warriors to take Toby up to the bridge with us. Once the Andalites board, we will send Toby to their doctors. Marco, Tobias, you guys come up with us too. Any questions?) There weren't. (Alright, auxiliary Animorphs and the rest of the free Hork-Bajir watch the Controllers. Everybody else, follow me.)

We plodded to the bridge, looking like a circus on a mission. A tiger, gorilla, hawk, wolf, and three goblin-like aliens. We heard a swish from far away, then several dozen hoof clops faintly echoed down the empty corridor.

(It sounds like they have arrived. Cassie, stay here with us.) He didn't want me to stay with Toby. That was okay. She should be fine.

(Everybody else, let me and Ax do the talking. We can probably speed up the process that way.)

The bridge suddenly appeared before us as we turned a corner. I almost ran into an Andalite guarding the door. (Who are you?) He knew that Yeerks couldn't morph, so he wasn't too worried. As in his tail relaxed about one millimeter.

Jake said to let him do the talking, but I was mad. Two people I considered friends, Jara Hamee and James, had died in the past twenty four hours, and another might yet pass on if we didn't hurry.

(The people who saved your asses, that's who!) Marco snickered, and Jake's jaw, his tiger jaw, actually dropped. I haven't used profanity before, but Toby just couldn't die. I won't allow it.

We shouldered past the guard, who was standing stock still, completely shocked. I guess not too many wolfs cuss him out. We bolted inside as Tobias whispered to me, (Toby will be fine. We won't let her go.) I silently nodded.

Andalites were every where. There must have been three dozen of them, and only a few warriors noticed us. All they did to acknowledge us was keep an eye on us constantly and edge their hand toward a Shredder.

(Hey! This Hork-Bajir needs medical attention, now!) Now everybody was looking at us. Jake took over. (She is the leader of the free Hork-Bajir on this ship and needs help. We also need to talk to your leader.)

Marco looked at Jake innocently. (I think the line is, "Take me to your leader.")

Hurriedly Toby was whisked away. Apparently, the Andalites had a newfound respect for the Hork-Bajir. The last I saw of Toby was her waking up from unconsciousness. Her body started spasming violently and she spit up tons of blood.

(Toby! NOO!) Toby couldn't die! No, no, no. Toby, just hang in there. I tried to tell myself that everything would work out okay, but I had a sinking feeling in my stomach.

I didn't even notice a large Andalite walk up to us. (Who are you?) Marco slowly looked at me and grinned. I didn't respond. The only thing on my mind was making sure I didn't lose another friend.

Jake said, (I am Jake Berenson. Leader of Earth's resistance. Who are you?)

The Andalite just glared at him, like he was annoyed at being questioned by a lowly species. (I am Captain-Prince Asculan-Semitur-Langor.)

Ax turned a shade or two paler. I'm guessing this was some big-shot. Jake started to demorph. (Well, Captain-Prince Asculan, welcome aboard the Yeerk Pool Ship. We will be happy to turn it over to you after we work out a few terms of negotiations.)

Asculan started laughing. The other Andalites had smug looks about them. (Little human, I fail to see what we have to negotiate.)

Jake, now fully human, smiled sweetly. "Look Asculan, how long have you guys been fighting this war? Almost forty years now? And how many species have you saved? One if you count the Leerans. Oh, wait, we saved them. How many years have we been fighting? Barely three? And not only did we save the Leerans and our own race recently, but we also started a colony of free Hork-Bajir, whereas you guys just felt the need to kill 'em all. And what about Visser One? The Abomination? We killed him as well." Jake then pointed at Earth on a display panel. "You see that planet, Asculan? Earth. Home of six billion capable hosts for the Yeerks. Enough for them to fight a hundred wars and win them all." Then he jabbed his finger in Asculan's ugly face, who was shaking with rage. "I don't see why you are any better than us. We just saved your butts, and you are not going to push arrogantly aside."

We all turned to the source of a muffled clapping. Marco, with a wide grin on his gorilla mug, was slapping his beefy palms together. If anything this just made Asculan angrier.

(Alright, human, you made your point. However, I -)

(However what?) Jake interrupted. (The point is, Asculan, that we don't owe you anything. However you want to slice it, the humans came and saved the Andalites in the Andalite-Yeerk war.)

"You tell him, Jake." Everybody turned to the breach between the Andalite bridge and our's. I almost fainted with relief. Toby just grinned.