DISCLAIMER: Same as usual. I didn't write 'em. K.A. Applegate the Great did. Here's chappie 2. Sorry if the text is all jacked up, but I'm usin' Wordpad, so it would be. Love yas all! Enjoy!

Chapter 2 Tobias

"I'm very big in the gonads!" Marco was saying in an English posh accent to Jake, who was trying to eat some cereal and choking with laughter on it.

"Man, shut up and sit down!" Jake swigged some orange juice, then began to choke on it too, spitting it out, laughing, as Marco began to walk snootily around.

"My name...is Ballus-Maximus-Gooberrr, WAR PRINCE Ballus-Maximus-Gooberrr." Then "Sup Tobias! Sup Ax!"

"Goo-" Jake was laughing, redfaced, trying to say 'Good morning.' He attempted again. "Good-" He broke off, shaking with silent laughter again. He shook his head. Never mind.

I laughed too, and Marco sat down, grinning, satisfied with himself. Man, I hadn't seen Jake laugh so hard in such a long time.

Jake was doing okay now...he was, well, alive anyway.

He finally calmed down and shoved Marco out of his way. Marco grinned at us.

"So what are you natives doing here?"

I'm not a native. I said. I demorphed to hawk again.

We came to chill. Ax informed him.

"Chill awaaaay!" Marco said. Jake pushed by and threw his cereal out on the grass outside the scoop, by the side of the scoop.

"Marco was just about to take his PROZAC!" He turned and yelled into Marco's ear jokingly.

"I don't need it. Got my weed." Marco joked. "Got my WEED! YI!"

(Oh, yeah, there's got to be some weed around here somewhere.) I joked, smirking.

"The Andalites probably use it for 'medicinal purposes'." Marco retorted.

I laughed.

"I smoke my space weed to enlarge my GONADS!" Marco announced loudly. We busted out laughing. Even Ax.

Marco looked very pleased with himself now.

"Vell, I gotta go take a vinkle!" Marco announced in a Swedish accent. He got up and ran behind the scoop to the huge ship perched behind it.

The Rachel.

Well, she had to go somewhere while she needed repairs right?

Her whole front end had been smashed in the collision. Jake said it was a miracle she was still in one piece, even if she was huge.

We managed to get authorization from the Andalites to land her here, since all the space ports were full now.

Jake and Marco were using the Rachel to store food, clothes, and use the bathrooms on.

"Man." Jake said. "I need a shower."

(Gee. Thanks for that info, Fearless Leader.)

"Don't call me that Bird Boy." He joked. He went off into the Rachel too.

Ax sat comfortably outside the scoop. I rested too.

(So.) I said. (Have you chosen yet?)

Ax sighed. I was talking about the choice of either staying here, or coming back to Earth with me and what was left of the other animorphs. Ax still hadn't decided.

(I do not know Tobias.)

I left it at that. No use bothering with that now.

Santorelli came bounding out. Santorelli had gotten a broken leg too. And a busted shoulder.

He had since healed, of course.

"Ax! Tobias! Hey!"

(Sup Santorelli! I said.)

(Yes. What is up Santorelli? Good morning to you.) Ax said.

"Nothing much. Just woke up."

(How's Jeannie?)

"Better."

Jean had collided with the control panel during the fight. She had been in a coma for a few hours, but came out and demorphed of her injuries. She was still a little weak though. An Andalite nurse often came by to have a look at her. I hadn't met the doctors or nurses yet. They had a different nurse for each day, really.

Santorelli, Ax and I went into the ship. We walked to the area that was the dining hall. Jean sat at the table, eating Cheerios. Menderash was lazily reclining at some control panel seat. "Hey guys!" I said, now human. The sight of Lucky Charms made me oddly hungry for some. I sat down at the huge circular metal table Jake had created by welding a thick flat metal disk to a thick metal cylinder to the floor. I poured myself some cereal. I grinned at my companions. Jean's hair was a mess. Santorelli looked half asleep too, and sat, yawned, and wiped the sleep from his eyes. Ax resigned himself to resting in Andalite form on the floor.

Jake came in and sat down at the table. I munched away happily. The Lucky Charms were so...sweet. I hadn't tasted sweetness in my mouth in a long time. Except maybe for the predatory sweetness of blood, but I won't go into that.

Jean, having finished her breakfast, got up. "I'm going to go take a shower." She went down a passageway to her bathroom.

"So what's the plan, big Jake?" I asked.

Jake sighed. "I don't know. What exactly do you mean?"

I motioned to all of us. "What about everyone? Being here, I mean. How are we getting back to Earth?"

Jake sighed again. "Well. We got...what...Menderash!"

Menderash woke. "Yes Prince Jake?" He asked sleepily.

"What do we have left to do for the Rachel to be in flying condition?"

Menderash seemed to sigh. "More than I can count right now, Prince Jake. The main computer was damaged in the collision. I couldn't even begin to tell you if half the files can be recovered, or even if they exist anymore. If we do fly this ship again, it may have to be manually all the way; with someone steering at all times-"

"How long would we need to get the Rachel the way she used to be?"

Menderash seemed to almost laugh. "In prime condition! That would take...months. Three, maybe four months. Maybe even six."

"Ah hah!" Jake said.

Marco came dancing in a moment later. He had a shower cap on, and a towel around his waist.

"I just took a show-er! I just took a show-er!" He sang. He began to shimmy around the room.

"RRRRRRRRAI! YAI YAI!"

Ax stared, though he was beginning to shake with laughter. Jake rolled his eyes. I was trying not to choke on little milk covered rainbows and pots of gold, as I tried to hold back my laughter. Menderash opened one lazy eye, then turned his head to stare in annoyance mixed with fascination and amusement at the dancing, rubber duckie squeaking lunatic before him. Marco continued. Then, to our shock, he ripped off his towel! He threw the two rubber duckies he was holding, one hitting Jake in the back of the head, the other landing in my cereal bowl. "WAHOOO!" He screamed, running down the same passageway Jean had gone down only minutes earlier.

"Oh man!" Jake said standing. "Jean!"

I tried not to laugh. "She'll have finished her shower by now."

We listened. We could hear fading singing.

"I just took a show-er! I just took a- AAAAH!"

We sat, all snickering, including Menderash, who was now sitting up looking interestedly towards the passageway.

Silence.

Jean came in a minute later, looking refreshed and showered, her hair wet, but also looking very shocked and embarrassed.

"You okay Jean? We heard you scream." Jake said softly, looking a little worried about her.

"Oh! A hahahahaha!"

"What!" Jake asked, beginning to grin.

"Oh a la la! That wasn't me! That was Marco screaming!"

We all exploded into laughter.

"I swear that sounded like a woman screaming!" Jake said, laughing.

I pushed my cereal away. There was no way I could eat now. I was laughing way too hard.

We heard a tapping on the side of the open doorway of the ship. Jake looked up.

"Yes?"

"Oh! Hello!" Jean said, moving over to the doorway. "Come in please!" She turned to us. "It's my nurse!"

The andalite slowly stepped in. I thought it was an unusually built male until I saw the tail blade. The female andalite came in and her stalk eyes swiveled and looked around. She kept her main eyes on Jean.

(Hello. )She said, in open thought speak to all of us. (I am L'Ainishikaa- Cheshn Naksut-Namuni )She said, softly.

Hope you guys enjoyed that one! I'm working on Chappie 3 and almost finished, so don't freak out yet! Love yaz! Now please go review! Me likee da review!