Quillian: Another cool chapter! (I find this alt. ending story to be very worthwhile in reading... I'm currently writing a post-series fic myself. Please feel free to let me know whether or not you might be interested in reading it.)

Well, thank you. I sure am interested, so please tell me where to find it. Thanks for your review.

LucreziaNoin86: Yes weird al is a must.Good chapter.

Indeed he is. Thanks for reviewing.

rockergurl13: lol, that's the animorphs for ya! this was a good chapter. what i meant was most people do an alternate ending and forget about Ax being missing, well UPDATE SOON!

Thank you. And I don't think that people forget about Ax being lost in space, it's just that the "fix" it so he doesn't go missing in the first place.

CASSIE101: Yay! You wrote more! But wait Ax is missing! sigh that is drama for you P Good chapter C:

Yes, Ax is indeed missing. Alas, life must go on. The Animorphs will go on this final mission. Or will it be the final mission?

lilyofthevalley: I like this. I guess now the story should start to take a more unique turn now. Liked humor in this chapter. update soon.

Yeah, I guess it should. Crap.

LilManiac: good one!
poor Jake... no one listened to him...
OH WELL!
and by da way, you're in my second crazy story... just so you know...
called Holy shitaki! another crazy storay!
whee! write more whenever! i can wait.. im a very patient person... most of the time... :D

What? I am so honored! And sorry about the wait...band camp...but it's all cool, we are going to win state. HOO-RAH!

animorph19: it's been a while since i've reviewed this, but now i'm caught up with the story and ready to review again!
i just adore the Cran fellow...he's very amusing. hopefully there'll be more of him later (hint hint).
cool, you did a shout out to yourself. "Irish, man, can't you recognize Irish Rage when you see it? But where's the Love?" nicely done :)

No more Cran. Sorry. But I'm glad somebody caught that. Hehe, I'm so bloody mischevious.

deer10888: hi, i absolutley love your story! PLEAZE update! The suspense is killing me! gr8 writing! but i hav a question(s) why did you switch from book to book, and why didn't jake want to find ax, and why did marco bring weird al

Really? Cool. Not about the suspense killing you, belive you me when I say a dead reader writes no reviews, but about the loving the story. Hmm, I don't think I understand the first question. And it's not that Jake didn't want to look for Ax, he just wanted to go by himself. And why wouldn't Marco bring Weird Al?

voodooqueen126: i didn't much like the fact that you killed visser one's host-yuo should have waited for esplin to deinfest

I know, it was a tough decision for me to make. But I felt that whatever could have happened with a free Alloran, did happen in the final book. I didn't want to ruin a perfectly good storyline. Poor Alloran.

So, I guys I believe this to be the final chapter. Alas, a short story, but I need to wrap this up and send the message I want to send. Yes, this story does have a message. There might be an epilogue...but first, The Final Countdown!

Jake - The End

"I LOVE ROCKY ROAD! GONNA BUY..."

"Marco, for the last time, shutup!" Rachel was obviously on her last nerve. Which only made him sing louder.

I smiled on the outside, but on the inside I thought he was going insane. Month after month after pointless month of traveling in empty space, looking for an individual with the chance of success less than finding a needlehead in a hay field. I thought I could actually feel my mind breaking down. As I looked at the gang, minus Ax, I could see no signs of similar symptoms in the others, but I have had more on my shoulders since Elfangor landed in that abandoned constuction site many years ago.

"Jake?" I jumped, surprised at the kind voice behind me. It was Cassie, a look of concern plastered on her face. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, just thinking of Ax," I lied. If I couldn't tell Cassie about my mental breakdown, then I must be slowly going insane. What was wrong with me?

Cassie stepped away, but the look on her face never diminished until Rachel asked her to help take Marco and physically throw him in his cabin. Marco yelped as he was bodily picked up and I could hear the girls' laughter until the bridge door closed. My head almost immediately collapsed into my hands. "What is wrong with me?"

(What?) My head snapped around to see Tobias perched on a control panel, looking like he had been interrupted during preening. My face turned a bright red.

"Nothing. Never mind. I didn't say anything." I turned back around to the controls. What is wrong with me? I'm losing my mind!

(Yeah you are.) I swiveled around to see Tobias looking straight at me. (Now is not the time to lose it, Jake.)

"I...I said that aloud?"

(Yep.)

I might have just lost it there and have broken down in tears, if I had not sensed Tobias glance past me sharply. I whipped around, but everything seemed in order.

(What does that orange squiggle on the screen mean?) Tobias, as ever with his hawk eyes, had spotted the small blip at the bottom of the radar screen.

"It means trouble." I started jabbing away at the computer panel, bringing up the weapons and hailing screen. At the same time, I pulled the sound system microphone to my mouth. "Hey, you guys, get back up to the bridge quick."

Tobias flapped hard over to another seat and tapped his beak on the control panel, bringing up a large visual of the space around them. They were on the outer reaches of a nebula, the space around them mostly plain black with a few wisps of orange and green here and there. (Where are you...)

Rachel was the first to barge through the bridge door, followed closely by Cassie and Marco. "What's up, fearless leader?"

"We have on radar a Yeerk ship." That killed any cheerfulness.

Marco gulped, and laughed nervously. "Oh, c'mon, the whole universe is awash with old Yeerk crap."

Tobias piped up. (Uhh, we have visual confirmation. And they are hailing us. They...they call themselves Warriors of the One.)

Marco snorted. "Ooo, that's not too cheesy." He looked around. "Shouldn't someone wake Menderash and his buddies up?" Cassie shrugged and jogged to the cabin area.

I stared long and hard at the ship, an old Blade Ship, and felt something. Pushing all mental problems away, I focused harder, and it seemed as though an evil force exuded from that ship, much as Visser One had been.

(Linking communications.) Tobias, in human form to make it easier, still used his more comfortable form of communication.

A man's head popped up on the screen, middle-aged and half-bald. Needless to say, it surprised us all.

"Well, well, well, what have we got here? Are those the Animorphs?" He laughed, almost manaically.

"Who are you?"

The man shrugged, eyes closed, and leaned far back in his chair. "It's not important, but..." He opened his eyes, now a fiery red. "I am the One."

A chill went through my heart. Whatever this thing was, it's not human. It's face just exuded evil like a runner would exude sweat. But then, all uncertainties were cast aside as the face started to shift and melt. Shift into a much more familiar face.

Ax's face. Then a wide red mouth split open across the bottom of its face. It laughed. "Soon you will all be mine."

Oddly calm, I reached for the weapons console. Then I noticed that they were out of our range, but we were in theirs. and their shields had been enhanced.

A lose-lose situation. But I smile crossed my face. Everything was clear now. My mind was completly back to normal. No, it was better than normal. I was seeing the bright line from A to B, and then through the entire alphabet all the way to Z.

Marco stared at me, a look of horror on his face. "I don't like that smile."

I turned to Tobias, sitting at the main console. I had a plan.

"Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade Ship."