Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Animorphs. I just own the new characters Joshua, Ben, Jessie, and Jimmy.

Chapter 10

We returned to the cave, and rested. We slept the whole day away. We were that exhausted from the morphing we had been doing. I was woken up next mourning by Jessie.

She was really excited about getting our plan in operation. Her behavior puzzled me for a few seconds before I realized why she was so excited. If our plan worked we would free her brother from the Yeerks. She woke up Ben and we headed to get some food.

We managed to get some food and while eating Ben asked what we would do if Jimmy had some bodyguards with him. I replied, "That shouldn't be a problem, we'll be able to spot them. Now you need to acquire your new morph."

"Yeah, alright," Ben agreed and he left our hiding place to acquire his new morph. A couple of minutes later he came back and said, "I got it."

"Good, let's get out of here," I said.

We morphed to bird of prey form and flew to the forest. We landed in a clearing well away from any humans and demorphed. It was time for me to test my spider morph.

Jessie had said that it would be easier to control an animal's instincts if you prepare for them before hand. I was preparing for whatever kind of instincts a spider would have. I felt assured that it would just be instincts like find food and avoid predators. Simple basic instincts.

I focused on the Black Widow Spider. I felt myself shrinking. I was quite calm during the shrinking after all every morph I'd done so far had been small, but now I was getting very small.

Now the bad part started. My skin turned black and started to harden. Extra legs appeared while the rest of my limbs were still human. Then my mouth split into the jaws of a spider, and that was the where I lost.

If I could have screamed I would have. I quickly reversed morph returning to human form. I dropped to the forest floor.

"Are you okay?" Jessie asked.

"Oh, yeah, sure," I said gasping.

"Maybe somebody else should morph the spider," Ben suggested.

"No, I'll do it." I gasped.

"All right," Ben said.

I waited a few minutes before I got to my feet and tried again. This time I closed my eyes. I felt the changes start again. I didn't shrink at first. My arms and legs became spider legs. I fell to the dirt, unable to support my still human body on those legs. Then I started to shrink. I felt my skin turn into an exoskeleton. My bones were completely disappearing. My eyes were suddenly open again. I was seeing in all directions so I could see the rest of the morph complete itself. The extra legs finally appeared. An abdomen grew from my rear and my face was completely transformed into the gross features of a spider.

The Black Widow's instincts came welling up. It wanted to build a web and catch prey. I tried to clamp down on its instincts. I fortunately was able to control it.

(All right, I'm fully morphed.) I said.

I felt vibrations, but I couldn't figure out what they were. The spider's instincts were to avoid vibrations as it could indicate a threat. I was running away before I could control these instincts. Fortunately I did before the spider got too far.

Once again I heard the vibrations and I realized it was probably Jessie or Ben talking, but I couldn't make out the words.

(I can't hear you guys. This spider can't hear sound. It can only feel vibration.) I said. (Try morphing I can still understand thought-speak.)

After a minute or two I heard Jessie's thought-speak voice say. (Can you hear me?)

(Yes.) I replied, seeing her massive Kestrel morph. My eyesight wasn't the best, but I could still see.

(All right, Ben's going to try saying something and you try to understand it.) Jessie explained.

(All right.) I replied.

I felt more vibrations but I still couldn't make heads or tails of the words.

(What did he say?) I asked Jessie.

(He said, he feels like squishing you.) Jessie said.

(Oh, very funny.) I said.

This continued for about an hour or so until I could finally understand what he was saying.

"All right, that should do it," I said demorphing, glad to resume my human form.

"Yeah, now all we have to do is wait," Ben said.