Chapter 5
We arrived what looked like a huge underground cavern. Suddenly Marco and Wade were thrown up against the wall, hanging upside down by an invisible force. "What was that?" I asked. (It was probably a form of telekinesis) Ax said. "Leerans?" Cassie wondered. "No" I said "Kromaggs. They also have a wide variety of psychic abilities." "Hey could one of you ask Carrie White to get us down from here?" Marco shouted. "Hold on" I called up to them. I turned to the Animorphs "Would one of you like to the honors." "I'll do it" Rachel said and as I looked on, she turned into an elephant and plucked Wade and Marco off the wall with her trunk. After Rachel had gotten Macro and Wade down Jake Marco and Cassie went and morphed into animals that they would be able to use against the Yeerks and Kromaggs. Ax and Tobias remained in their natural forms. Soon we were in the presence of a tiger a wolf an elephant a gorilla a hawk and an Andalite.
"Be careful, the Kromaggs can produce illusions; they could be anywhere or anything." I warned. Suddenly (Look out!) Tseeew Tseeew! I turned around just in time to see six Kromaggs materialize from the cavern walls. They were shooting Dracon beams at us. They would have hit us but Tobias spotted them first and warned us. (Everyone attack. Now.) Jake said yelling to be heard over the sound of the Dracon beams.
We fought, it didn't take long. Rachel raised her foot crushing one instantly. The other four seeing this tried to return to the safety of their illusion but we didn't let them. I turned around and saw Ax using his tail as a bullwhip, nearly decapitating one of the Kromaggs. Jake then started slashing at a wounded Kromagg and soon he went down. (Is that all of them?) Jake asked. "No the other three got away" I said. "Do you think they were Controllers?" Wade asked. (Don't know, only one-way to find out) Marco said "Oh you don't mean-" Wade began (Yep, Ax slice 'em open and see if you can find a slug) Marco said. Ax did as he was told and soon we were looking at two Kromagg corpses, their heads cut open with almost surgical precision. Both Kromaggs had a Yeerk in their heads. "Okay now that we know the Kromaggs have joined forces with the Yeerks, what do we do about it?" Remmy asked.
(Don't worry my Andalite friends; you won't live long enough for that to be a problem.) Said an unknown thoughtspeak voice. We turned around to find a group of Kromagg Controllers being led by none other then Visser Three. (So I see you have met the newest race to fall before the mighty Yeerk Empire.) He exclaimed eyeing the Kromagg bodies lying on the floor. (And it appears that you have sunk so low as to require the help of some local humans.) He said pointing to me and the other Sliders. "What do we do?" Wade asked. "We fight, and we win, or this world and countless others are doomed." I said.