A/N: Readers: FINALLY!
------ Me: Yeah yeah… Just read the damn fic:P
To Kharina. Spent all night writing this just for you! Enjoy!
In Hate
By Sinister Shadow
"The Middle of Nowhere"
Visser Three
( What? ) I exclaimed.
Everything was dark. I don't know what had happened or even how it had happened.
The last thing I remembered was a huge explosion. And then… nothing. Well, yeah, there was something. There was snoring.
" Huuuuuuuuuuurk… chhhhhhhhh…"
( What the -- )
I spun around and found myself face to face with a human guard, sitting hunched over on a chair, evidently fast asleep. His flashlight, batteries low, lay crashed on the ground at the guard's feet, casting off an eerie glow in the strange room.
I felt a somewhat violent hand on my shoulder.
" Visser Three?"
I jumped. ( YAAAH! )
I turned around and looked at my attacker, which was, obviously, Visser One.
… Why oh why did I have to get stuck here with her? Of all people!
Guess it's just my luck.
( Don't do that! ) I exclaimed. ( I almost wet myself! )
" Well that's always nice to know," Visser One muttered. " Now where the hell are we?"
( As if I know? ) I yelled, spreading out my arms in exasperation.
She didn't reply to that. She stood up and walked over to the guard, examining him from head to toe. Then, to my surprise, she started frisking him. Over the arms, under the arms, legs, stomach, everything. She was very good at it. I watched in awe as she pulled a virus vial, a portable sensor, a microchip, as well as many useless things from various pockets and clothes.
" What is this then?" she said tentatively as she reached his right shoe.
She took off the shoe and jerked back.
( What is it? ) I exclaimed.
She quickly pulled a large object out of the shoe and threw it in my direction. I examined it from afar, and it only took me about three seconds to realize what it was…
… An Andalite shredder. Here. In this room.
Which could only mean one thing…
( The Andalites have captured us! ) I shrieked to Visser One. ( That explosion I heard a while back was probably just a diversion for them to get us all unconscious in order to get us into their ship. )
" And, bad news, this guy is obviously an Andalite in morph," she said, pointing disgustedly at the guard. " Can't believe I touched him."
She glared at me.
" This is all your fault," she said accusingly.
( My fault? ) I yelled, indignated. ( How is this my fault?)
" If you and your dope of a brother hadn't dragged me in your room, I wouldn't even be here!"
Visser Three snorted. ( Well that's considerate, ) he said sarcastically. ( Thanks a lot, Visser One! I get to perish by the hands of the Andalites while you get to relax in your gold bubble bath. Sure. )
She walked over and slapped me across the face. I frowned.
" You think I care about you?" she exclaimed. " T.E. is going to FREAK! He's going to put "Missing" posters with my picture everywhere where there's a place to put them. He'll organize a search party. He'll offer rewards! Everyone is going to go into a frenzy and we can't have that!"
( Yeah, yeah… ) I said. ( And my P.A. will be looking for you too. Now the real question is, what do we do? We can't exactly just jump out the window, unless you'd like to die. )
" Dying will be better than falling to the Andalites," she spat.
( Well, ) I got up and walked towards the door. ( You do what you want. I for one don't feel like having my body ripped apart by suffocation. )
She didn't reply. I didn't really care.
( Anything's better than staying here with this fricking snoring Andalite guard, ) I pointed out.
---
I guess she got the point.
A few moments later, with the help of Visser One's professional frisking abilities, we managed to get the guard's key card out of his underwear. Visser One almost threw up.
" Next time we get captured by Andalites, remind me to bring a pack of rubber gloves," she said, just completely grossed out. " Now let's get out of here."
Easier said than done. Need I mention that the Andalites are in fact a very precise species? It took us literally about a half hour of playing with the cursed key card (which, for bonus, had also been down some guy's pants) until we finally got it right.
I dropped to my knees, thanking the lords as the door slid open at last.
" Get up, you moron," Visser One whispered as she walked gracefully out of the room.
I stood up and followed her. ( How can you be graceful at a time like this? ) I exclaimed privately. ( Huh? HOW? )
She didn't reply. I decided to take advantage of the silence to observe the landscape around me. We were in a wide, brightly lit hallway with no doors or windows. The walls were a nice, calm orange. Like the sky of the Andalite homeworld. Of course. The Andalites are a claustrophobic species. They need everything to look as much like a vast open space as possible so that they can forget they're actually stuck in a tight ship, closing in on them from all directions.
Under our feet was a wide selection of blue Andalite grass. I wasn't used to this type of rich grass, of course, with all the time I'd spent on Earth. But my host seemed to like it…
( Now that's grass, ) Alloran said, as I fed while walking. ( It's nice to eat real food after months and months of putting up with those filthy Earth weeds… )
( Alloran, will you shut up already? ) I exclaimed.
He didn't, of course. But I did my best to blot out his annoying voice as well as I could after that.
Suddenly, Visser One, who was still leading the way, stopped abruptly. I copied her, standing stick-still until she looked back at me.
" Someone's coming!" she exclaimed.
I listened closely. She was right! The faraway sound of many hooves could be heard on the soft, grassy floor.
I looked around frantically. We were too far away from our cell to even think about making it back in time. But what else was there to do? There were no doors, no windows, nothing! What was I supposed to do in a case like this?
Morph! I yelled interiorly. Something small!
Yes, yes, that was it! I would morph the fly, a small Earth insect, and hope to the lords that this ship didn't carry the Andalite equivalent of a Gleet BioFilter…
I started concentrating my mind, and felt the changes begin… The first thing that happened was the shrinking. I got smaller, shrinking, shrinking, shrinking --
No! my mind shrieked.
I immediately reversed the morph. What was wrong with me? The Andalites were getting closer and closer by the second. By the number of steps I heard, I could easily tell that there were at least five or six of them.
So why did I stop the morph?
Visser One would have turned me in anyway, I reminded myself. Fly or Andalite.
But yet there was another reason that I didn't understand. I couldn't leave Visser One alone to face the Andalites. She was in a simple human host, with no natural weapons. They would slaughter her. Or torture her. Or…
In any case, only I'm allowed to do that.
And besides! Who knew what she would tell them if they tortured her? (I knew very well that Visser One would never crack under the pressure… but hey, it's as good an excuse as any for reversing the morph!)
My heart started pounding. The footsteps were getting nearer and nearer.
" What are we supposed to do?" Visser One exclaimed in a whisper, jerking her head back to look at me.
I shrugged sadly. ( There's nothing we can do. Hope for the best. )
She rolled her eyes and turned away. At that moment, the first Andalite turned the corner of the hall before us. Followed by two more. And then another two.
Well, I was right in a way: There were five of them.
Not that that was much of a consolation.
( Yeerks! ) the first Andalite snapped. ( Stop right there! Not one movement. )
They ran up to us and surrounded us on all sides.
( So you thought you could escape, did you? ) the first one, obviously their leader, sneered.
" Yes, actually we did," Visser One said snidely. " That is, before you interrupted."
( I didn't think we could, ) I said completely irrelevantly.
They all looked at me.
( Abomination! ) one of them spat.
Surprisingly enough, Visser One came to my defence:
" Hey wait a second mister Almighty," she sneered. " Why don't you check yourself out before calling anyone names, huh?"
The guy frowned.
( Okay, that does it, ) said the Andalite leader. ( I think you two need some time apart. )
At his words, two of the Andalites behind him rushed up and grabbed us by the arms, putting a sheath on my tail blade so that I remained defenceless, and starting walking us in the same way we had been going. We walked for just a little while until we turned the corner and saw an entire hallway filled with numerous cells.
( Welcome to your new home, ) the leader said to us.
The Andalite holding Visser One threw her in a cell halfway down the corridor. I got the cell right next to hers.
We couldn't see each other. And somehow, I felt lonely already.
And what was worse than that was that the cell facing me was occupied by a fat Leeran-Controller who looked like a gigantic toad.
Alright, well, hope you enjoyed that:) Anyways... Yeah, I know the ending was kinda weird, but I just couldn't resist. Okay well I'll be sure to update a bit sooner next time... Please read and review!