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Okay, onto the sensational, Chapter Ten:
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We split up. Rachel charged them with me behind her. Jake, Cassie, and Ax went left, and Marco and Tobias banked right. The Controller army was already prepared for our attack.
((GO!)) Jake screamed as the Controllers ahead opened fire. I took a hit to the shoulder, but it was nothing in comparison to what kind of damage Cassie took.
((I'm- hit bad))
((Fall back, Ax, take the lead!))
((Yes Prince Jake))
I charged at the Controller who hit me and tore a gash into his face. Another tried to corner me, so I leaped and ripped out his throat. The familiar scene of death and destruction filled my field of vision yet again, but oddly, I was no longer indifferent to it.
I must have taken out five Controllers before a Hork-Bajir sunk its wrist blade into my side. My body surged with pain as it loomed over me, ready to tear me limb from limb. Then a tiger, wrought with cuts tackled him and tore open its body.
I'm glad Jaguars don't go down easily, because I was hurt pretty bad. From what I understood, Cassie was taken away by Jake, Marco was still fighting along with Rachel, but Ax was immobilized after a Hork-Bajir knocked him out. Tobias was covering Cassie and Ax.
Hurriedly, I took cover behind a cubicle and demorphed, then remorphed to Andalite again. I realized hand to hand combat wasn't working to well, so I be-headed a Human-Controller and seized his Dracon Beam. I think you can guess what I did then.
I took aim and picked off the remaining Controllers. My aim was improving from the last gunfight. The remaining Controllers aborted and fled to the upper floors, whilst we, the Animorphs, were left in a battle scarred office with several near-dead Taxxons that were trying to eat themselves.
((That was easy)) I said.
((Crap, Cassie, demorph now!)) Screamed Jake as Cassie demorphed and healed her wounds.
"I'm okay guys, just a little soar." She assured us, and then she remorphed to wolf.
((Okay, now that that's taken care of, we are on the first floor. We need to make our way to the elevators, then from there we have to get to the upper floors and destroy the Kandrona. Then, we power down the Bug Fighter plant several floors below the penthouse. After that we need to raid the weapons storage and destroy whatever is left of the building. If we get the chance, we should also check up on that supposed yeerk pool beneath the site. Are we clear?))
((Yeah, let's do it.)) Rachel.
With that said, we all demorphed and remorphed our battle morphs, myself leopard seal. Its instincts were fairly easy to control, because all it wanted to do was take a nap, but I saw documentaries about what they can do, and believe me, you don't want to get on their bad side.
We tore through the wrecked office and went down a fairly large entrance hall. We met large Controller resistance here from a squad of blue band Hork-Bajir. Visser Three must be in the building somewhere.
After getting rid of the Hork-Bajir, the others moved on to break through a barricade the surviving Controllers from before managed to make in the time that we took to dispatch the Blue Bands. I myself moved onto a knocked out blue band and acquired him, I mean come on, wouldn't you?
After remorphing the Jaguar, I helped them knock down the barrier. After seeing us, several guards took out their dracons and fired at us yet again. This was a big operation, because from what I understand, security wasn't this tight in other Yeerk operations.
After Rachel got rid of the security team, we made our way to the elevators on the other side of the lobby. After walking inside, I pressed the button marked Floor 37: Penthouse.
The elevator ride was brief, so we only got the chance to have a short period of relaxation before the sliding doors opened to reveal a large circular chamber with the Kandrona in the center. It looked like a large metal cylinder with assorted buttons and switches and monitors built along the outside. Surrounding the massive machine was several squadrons of human Controllers. Strange that this area had the least amount of security personnel. Maybe they didn't believe anyone would make it this far. Or maybe they were just stupid.
They seemed surprised to see us, so I was happy to explain to them our business here in the most suitable way. In other words, I lunged at them before they had the chance to kill us and let the Jaguar handle the rest. Now for the Kandrona.
Rachel, Marco, and I morphed to our heaviest morphs and rammed the Kandrona. This is similar to the mission that Rachel told me about, when they destroyed the first Kandrona, so I guessed that the Yeerks learned from their past mistakes and heightened security this time. It didn't work, but you can't blame them for trying. After about the twentieth time, we ripped it right off its supports and toppled it over. It began to malfunction and then it shut itself down. Ax made sure that its wreckage was unsalvageable, then we went back into the elevator and demorphed. We remorphed and pressed the button labeled Floor 32: Machinery Production.
When the elevator reached its destination, we ran out into the passageway. The production plant was big enough. We discovered it was a large open area spanning several floors, with a control room at the far end, an assembly line in the center where robotic arms were manufacturing Bug Fighters, and a Garage beneath the arrival deck to store the ships until they were needed. There was a drop shaft near the control center, and a large automated door, probably for the bug fighters to exit the facility. This was a huge operation, and yes, it was all inside a supposed office building.
We clambered down from the platform, knocking out various technicians and maintenance workers. Security here was nonexistent so getting to the control tower was easy enough. When we got there however, we realized that only Ax could know what buttons and switches to press before the system could shutdown. We led him to the console where he began to work on encrypting the mainframe on the computer.
((This might take some time, Prince Jake)) Ax said, ((Wait- oh, this is unfortunate.))
((What now?)) Marco.
((The silent alarm has been triggered. Security strike teams will arrive in mere minutes. I can hack the computers, but you will have to make sure I do not die.))
((Easier said than done.)) Marco again.
((You'd think they'd have learned by now.)) Said Rachel, ((Lets do it.))
((Again)) I added.
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