Chapter 6
"…So, did…you…ever…have…antennas?" Daxter asked again.
(Antennas? What are you talking about? And what's that growing on your head?) Arbron had fallen to the floor of the tech room and was turning blue.
"Huh?" Daxter reached up to his head and then saw hands, human hands! "Gah!" Then saw Arbron. "Hey buddy, you ok, you look a little blue!"
(Ok? My legs have disappeared.) He started growing a tail. While that happened, Daxter then noticed his tail was gone, and then saw himself like it was before he turned into an ottsel! Only now he was a little taller.
"Yahoo! I have clothes!" He started doing a little dance.
(Clothes? What are clothes?) Arbron now looked very much like Alloran. (And what are you?)
"I'm an elf! Uh, you look a lot like the Alloran guy!"
(You mean…) Arbron stretched out a thin arm. (I'm an Andalite again! The Yeerks' technology was able to revert us!)
"Callanadash skirreeta!" Skreeg exclaimed.
"Translation?"
(Congratulations. Thank you, Skreeg, and congratulations to you, Daxter. How long were you stuck?)
"Erm, I think three or four years? I don't know, considering I have had a lot of adventures and lost track of time!"
(Okay. So…I couldn't fit in the Visser's spacesuit as a Taxxon, but I think I can try and solder the hull.)
"All right! Whoot, whoot! Let's hurry!"
Arbron stepped into the spacesuit, which was too big for him but not by much. Skreeg helped give him the soldering tools. (I should be back soon.)
Ten minutes passed. Daxter was growing impatient. "Do you think he's done yet?" he asked Skreeg, even though he couldn't understand him.
"Kaleek?"
"Exactly!"
The spaceship abruptly powered on and they hurtled back towards the Taxxon homeworld. (Must have spliced a wire,) Arbron apologized, rushing around the ship.
"Yeeahh! We're going to die!" Daxter said waving his arms around.
"Nishashreel!"
Daxter didn't hear Skreeg and was still running around until he figured out that they landed.
(Oh here we are again,) Arbron stumbled to his hooves. (But nobody's moving!)
They opened the door and Daxter saw Jak. Jak looked up with his mouth gaping. He was surprised to see Daxter like he looked four years ago! He was speechless.
"Skirch akree shonlim slakard?"
(Why are none of the Yeerks moving?) Arbron translated.
"Let's just say I kicked the Visser's ass," Jak told him.
(Lucky bum!) Arbron laughed. Jak laughed along with him.
"Come on, let's leave this dump!"
(Climb on in.) Arbron entered the spaceship. Jak followed.
"So how did you guys change?"
(Some Yeerk technology.)
"Are we leaving, or what!" Daxter asked them.
(Do you want to stick around?)
"No, to tell you the truth, I want to get outta here!" Jak then let the time flow normal again.
"I love it when you do that!" Daxter told Jak.
The Visser dove out of the water. (What?) He demorphed, (Aristh Arbron? What are you doing here? And as an Andalite?)
"I thought you said you beat him?" Dax asked Jak.
"Uhh…" Jak stammered.
"Run!" Daxter screamed heading back into the ship.
Skreeg was already powering the ship up, ready to get out of there.
"Come on you guys!" Daxter shouted to them.
(You wouldn't retreat from me, would you, honorable creatures?) the Visser laughed.
"I think it's your turn to run!" Jak told him.
(You can leave,) the Visser told Jak. (I'm going to destroy Arbron like I destroyed his friend.)
(You wouldn't have killed him,) Arbron said. (Not before humiliating him first.)
(So I will humiliate you. And then infest you.) The Visser morphed again.
"Huh?" Jak asked, not leaving.
(The Visser wants me to become a Controller-have a Yeerk in my head like you had in yours. It will never happen.) Arbron struck at the Visser, who now towered over them both.
"How does he get so big?" he asked doing a dark bomb.
(The creature he's morphing is naturally huge.)
The dark bomb knocked some of the wind out of the Visser, who staggered backward.
Then Jak took a punch. While they were fighting, Daxter was panicking.
"We're all gonna die!"
"Sritakkeeet!"
"Whatever! I sometimes which I can understand you!"
While Jak and Arbron were fighting, they were starting to get tired.
"We probably should head back to the ship, shouldn't we?"
(Yes.) Arbron retreated toward the ship.
"Daxter, get us out of here."
"Hate to burst your bubble buddy, but I don't think anyone knows how to work this ship!"
(I do,) the Visser laughed.
"Uh, oh, here comes tub-o-lard. What do you want now?"
(I should think you've figured that out!)
"Jeez, can't you people just leave us alone and mind your own beez-wax!"
(Because your minds are prime real estate.)
"THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WORTH! JUST PROPERTY! WELL I'M NOT GOING TO LOSE IT WITH ALL THE WORK I'VE BEEN DOING!" Daxter just about had it with this guy. Jak was covering his ears because Daxter was so loud.
While Jak was covering his ears, the Visser attacked him. Jak quickly turned into Light Jak and put up a shield. Arbron swung his tail at the Visser. Daxter went up behind the Visser and shouted in his so-called ears. "All right tub-o-lard, how do you work this thing!"
(Why should I tell you?)
"Because I'll do this!" He then stuck his finger and stuck it in his ear.
(Stop it!) The Visser raised his tail blade. (Press the black squares on the top row in reverse order.)
Jak was still in shock, but looked over to Arbron. "You do it, you know it better than me."
Arbron tapped the keys. (Coward…)
"Galstee Varissst?"
(Good question…why is the engine emitting strange puffs of smoke?) They looked over at the Visser, who waved some troops over.
"Er…what's going on?" Daxter asked.
(He lied to us,) Arbron seethed.
"Hey, what's the big idea? You want me to do that thing again?..." Then Daxter thought of an idea. "Arbron, you have any missles?"
(No, sorry.)
"Oh great! Does anyone have a plan B!"
(Run for your pathetic lives?) the Visser suggested.
"Fair enough! Ruuunnn!" He ran straight out.
"Daxter! Get back here! There is no way we're running away after getting this far!" Jak yelled.
The other Yeerks fired lasers at them.
Daxter was screaming and somehow managed not to get hit.
Jak took out his Vulcan fury and fired back at them.
Arbron leapt in, tailblade poised. Other Yeerks sizzled under the fury.
"Ha, ha! Eat my shorts!" Daxter shouted at the Visser.
(No thank you.)
"Hey Arbron, got any plans? I'm running out of ammo," Jak told Arbron.
(Skreeg, come over here!) Arbron said something to him privately.
"Darresh nak!"
(Nope…no plans.)
"Maybe we could just figure out how to take off instead of just standing around here!" Daxter screamed.
(I don't think Jak wants to leave.)
"I'm not done with Visser yet…Let's finish this, no army," Jak told Visser Three.
The Visser didn't respond; he just started to morph.
"Hey Arbron, I think we should get out of the way!" Daxter said. Meanwhile, Jak also transformed into Dark Jak.
(Good idea.) Arbron and Skreeg got into the ship.
"Ok, what's this button do? Or this one? Everyone press all the buttons!"
"Shartree brin!"
(Skreeg does not want you pressing buttons.)
The Visser reached out a tentacle at Dark Jak. Dark Jak dodged it and went behind the Visser; he jumped on its back and took a deep slash.
The Visser roared and tried to shake Jak off. Jak hung on tight.
"Hey look at Jak!" Daxter shouted.
(What?) Arbron asked.
"Look!" Dax pointed to where the fight was. The Visser was flipping all over the place.
(How can you be that heavy?)
Jak was just barely hanging on and started climbing up the back.
The Visser howled and started demorphing.
"What do you mean by heavy! Hey! He's winning!" Daxter shouted.
(I think he just is weighing on the Visser…and if he demorphs, it'll only be more relative mass!) Arbron celebrated.
"I have no idea what you mean, but come on Jak!...Hey Arbron, ever been in a bar? You should come to my place and we can celebrate!"
(How about after we finish?) The Visser finished and quickly started shrinking into a bug.
"I sure hope Jak has either good eyes, or good sense of hearing or scent…"
The Visser began to crawl among the other Yeerks, escaping from Jak.
"Hey! Coward!" Daxter shouted. "Come back here and fight like a man!"
The Visser didn't respond.
Dark Jak changed back and switched the Vulcan fury to blaster and ran after the Visser and took aim and shot.
An explosion ravaged the pool. Hork-Bajir, Taxxons, and Gedds were blown to atoms. There was no sign of the Visser.
"Yeah!" Jak shouted jumping up and down and did a little dance.
(Congatulations.) Arbron smiled with his eyes. (Skreeg, is the spaceship working?)
"Sreesh!"
"Let's go home!" Jak told Daxter.
"Hey, you guys gonna come with us? Free drinks for everyone!" Daxter asked Arbron.
(I'd like to visit my homeworld first,) Arbron told him.
"Alrighty then, you're welcome to visit Haven City!" Daxter told them waving goodbye.
All of a sudden they were glowing and disappeared leaving Arbron and Skreeg behind.
"Kiteesh?"
(I'm not sure we'll ever find out.) Arbron entered the ship. (Next stop, Andalite homeworld.)
Oh my gosh! I can't believe Ember Nickel and I are actually done!
Daxter: Yeah!Free beer for everyone!
ASW: Daxter!
Daxter:What?
ASW: Never mind