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Chapter 11: Can't Believe

Tobias' POV

I was flying out in the forest watching for any sign of Yeerk activity.

I've been assigned to do this sort of thing quite often since I didn't need to worry about the time limit.

It's been a couple of days since I had told Jake about the blur that me and Cassie saw. So far we haven't found anything. It could take weeks before anything shows up.

It's not like I've been looking at the ground the entire time. I was also looking at the sky. Another reason that I get assigned on missions like this is because I have the most experience spotting bug fighters that are cloaked. They are pretty easy to spot. You just need to know what to look for. The telltale shimmer of the air around the fighter for one thing.

I was flying over the forest. At the time I was pretty far away from the town. When I saw a kind of glint in the distance. Curious I flew over towards it.

What I saw took my breath away.

(Oh my God.) I said.

I was flying over a large field. The ground was churned up in places. There were patches of grass that had been burnt. Huge trees were piled up looking like a giant had picked them up and piled them up ready to make a bonfire. Then I spotted what had made the glint that led me to the field. It was a bunch of giant crystals. Some of them were over 8 feet tall and 3 feet thick. Something told me that it wasn't a natural thing. If there was a giant crystal formation deep in the forest then the city would be using it as a tourist spot. By what I could see that damage was a couple days old.

I made sure to remember the area and I flew as fast as I can to Ax's scoop. Today was Jake's turn to survey the place that me and Cassie saw the blue blur. Normally I would have to fly all the way to his house to report what I had and hadn't found.

When I made it to Ax's scoop, I found Jake sitting and waiting for me. I screeched to get his towards me and asked me as I landed.

"Anything Tobias?"

Even though I could use thought speech when I was out of breath. It still took me a while to answer. (Yeah Jake, I found something.)

He quickly stood up and asked me. "What did you find? A camp? A ship? Where did you find it?"

(It's something really freaky.) I said. (I can't really describe what I saw. But I can show you where it is.)

He shook his head. "No I gotta be heading back home. I'll tell the others that you found something and that we will meet here tomorrow after school."

(Alright Jake.) I said before taking off. I didn't want to stay out when it got too dark.


The next day we headed out. I led them to the field and showed them what I found.

(Oh my God.) I heard Cassie say.

(Yeah that was my first reaction too.) I said.

They all landed and demorphed. I stayed in the air and kept watch for anything.

I watched from above as they split up looking around the field. Cassie and Rachel stuck together so did Jake, Marco, and Ax.

I circled the field keeping a lookout when I heard a scream. It was so unexpected that I faltered falling a good fifteen feet before I caught myself. I looked down to see that Rachel had fallen and Marco was laughing like crazy.

From what I could see, she had slipped on some kind of goo. It wasn't like the goo from teenage mutant ninja turtles. It was a lot darker and didn't glow.

I could see Ax walking over to where Rachel slipped and pick some up with his tail , getting a closer look at it.

I continued to circle the field when I saw a glitter in the trees. When I got closer, I could see that there were several small crystals that were stuck in the trees. They looked like the same kind of crystals as the giant ones. I flew over to one of the giant chunks, where Jake, Marco, and Ax were taking a look at it.

Landing on the crystal I said.

(Hey guys, look over at those trees.) I pointed in the direction with my wing.

They walked over and I took off from the crystal, going back to keeping a lookout.


We were bak at Ax's scoop and Jake was discussing what we were going to do next.

"I'm glad that we didn't need to spend too much time out flying around the forest." Said Cassie

"Yeah I have better things to do." Said Marco.

"Yeah, like what?" Asked Rachel.

"Like getting a girlfriend." He said with a straight face.

Rachel snorted. "As if a midget like you could get a girlfriend!"

Jake broke up the argument. "Yeah we were lucky. Now we gotta keep watch for anything that happens over at that field. It will be the same routine we did for surveillance at the sightings."

Then he added "Only this time, Tobias will be the one who will keep watch at the field while we scout around the area looking for more signs of whatever that thing is."

Marco groaned. "Great, so even when we found something we still have to fly around the forest."

"Shut up Marco." Said Rachel.

"We will sweep around the area for about five miles out. That should be large enough for us to find signs of anything."

"Like what?" Asked Cassie.

(Signs of bug fighters or ships landing and taking off in the middle of the forest.) Ax spoke up. (There were no signs of any ships landing or taking off at the field so we may assume that they do it from a distance.) He explained.

"I agree." I said. "They are probably landing in another field or have a kind of camp deeper in the forest. Whatever that thing is, the Yeerks are testing it out in the forest and are probably looking for us."

"Maybe we could ask Erek if they Yeerks have anything planned?" Asked Cassie.

"Yeah I'll ask him about it." He said.

The plan was sound. Like most of Jake's plans. It was just like normal surveillance, it just had a few tweaks here and there.


Unlike my time flying over the forest looking for signs of Yeerks. This time I only needed to stay in the field and just keep watch.

For the most part it was mind numbingly boring. Think of it like school only worse. At least in school you might find something interesting to do in class while the teacher talks. But watching over a empty field for hours on end provided very little entertainment.

As a few days passed I had gotten into a rhythm.

Wake up.

Look for prey.

Catch and eat prey.

Fly to field.

Watch over the field for the whole day.

Fly and report to Jake.

Go back to my field.

Sleep.

And repeat.

My free days as a hawk were never really boring. There was always the chance of me spotting some bugfighter close to a suspicious building when I flew around the city. Or I could visit Ax and watch TV. It rarely gets boring.

But now as I kept watch over the field with the giant crystal and pile of broken trees. Not able to go around and fly to wherever I wanted. I was especially bored.

The most interesting thing that I've seen so far was that a stubborn falcon was trying to land on one of the large crystals. That was weird since they would prefer staying in the trees. I know I would. But it was funny to watch. He kept on slipping, unable to get a foothold on the smooth crystal. Every time he fell off he would fly up and try to land on it again. It went on for over ten minutes

After that the falcon gave up and flew away to find somewhere else to perch on.

I heard a screech after a while and looking up in the sky I could see a Northern Harrier and Bald-Eagle circling above me.

(What's up Tobias?) It was Rachel.

(Not a lot Rachel.) I said.

(Hello Tobias.) Said Ax.

(Hey Ax-man.)

(We're headed off now.) Said Rachel.

(Alright see you guys.)

That was the only thing that kept me going crazy from boredom. The quick chats with the other's before and after their sweep of the forest.

I could have used this field for hunting to relieve some boredom and get some food out of it, but with all the destruction it would take a while for any suitable prey that ran away when whatever did this to come back.

After a couple of hours Rachel and Ax came back to the field.

(Hey Tobias.) Said Rachel. She sounded tired, but not exhausted. It was a cool day today, so there weren't a lot of thermals.

(Found anything?) I asked.

(We have found nothing yet Tobias.) Said Ax

Rachel mentally sighed. (Wish we would get lucky again.)

(I know what you mean.)

(So anything happen here?) She asked.

(Nothing. Absolutely nothing.)

(Alright. We're leaving now.)

(Sure.) I said and watched them stop circling and head off back to the town.


Pretty much that is what had happened the next few days. It was only until saturday came that something came up. Well I don't normally keep track of the days, but I just knew that it was a saturday.

On weekends the unlucky person would go out with Ax and sweep the forest for the whole day. That unlucky person was Marco.

(Why is it that I get the unlucky draw?) Marco asked.

(You're just unlucky like that. All your luck gets spent on missions and there's nothing left for everything else.) I said

(Yeah, yeah Tobias. See you later.)

(See you later Marco, Ax-man.)

(We will be back by 12:00 of your time.) Said Ax.

(Alright.) I said and watched them fly off.

To be honest I didn't think that anything would have happened that day, but I was quickly proven wrong.

A little over an hour and a half after Marco and Ax left I saw something appear at one side of the field.

I was so surprised at the sudden sight of it that I almost fell off my perch.

At first I thought that it was a Garatron that had appeared. But it wasn't. I have never seen anything like it. It looked like one of those velociraptors from Jurassic Park. The ones that ate the cow in seconds.

But it wasn't brown, it was blue. Well there were some parts of it were blue. It looked like it was wearing a kind of jumpsuit which was black and white. It's tail was much larger than the ones from the movie and was striped with black and blue. At first I thought it's face was just a kind of screen, but when it slid up revealing a reptilian face. Made me think that it was a helmet.

I was almost tempted to fly off and find Marco and Ax to show them the creature. But something inside me told me to stay put and keep watch over it. So i did.

Then the alien-velociraptor disappeared and I panicked I started to look around the field. Then I found it, it was standing in front of the large chunks of crystals. It was as fast if not faster than the Garatron. It chilled me thinking that if this thing was faster than the Garatron then we would be in serious trouble. It would be faster than Marco in his snake morph and we wouldn't be able to kill it.

Then I began to think that something was off. The alien-velociraptor may be super fast, but it couldn't be the thing that piled up the trees or made those giant crystals. It was too skinny to even lift one of those trees.

I thought that there might be other creatures that would soon come after the alien-velociraptor, but something shocked me even more. The alien-velociraptor started to morph! The scene of the alien-velociraptor morphing made me loose my grip on the branch I was perched on. I quickly flapped my wings getting my balance back on my perch.

Its skin started to become change color. Its limbs grew thicker, its tail was shrinking. It went from a crouch-like stance to a more upright position. It began to grow and it's skin looked like it was hardening then it became shiny. Large spikes grew from it's back. When the alien-velociraptor finished morphing it looked like a man. But it's head was shaped differently and it had those large spikes jutting out of its back. Its skin, if you could call it that, looked like it was the same color as the crystal it stood in front of. Then from the far distance I could almost hear the sound of broken glass craping against each other. It wore a kind of jumpsuit that was black on one side and white on the other.

I watched it as it put a hand on the large crystal. Then the crystal started to sink into the ground! It was slowly followed by the other large crystals. When they all sank in the ground any evidence of them was gone. Did this thing have telekinesis? Then I saw it kneel in the ground and four crystal poles shot up. After it inspected them the crystal alien walked over to the pile of trees.

It looked over them and dragging one out it looked over to the crystal pole that it had made. Then it's arm reshaped itself into a blade and it hacked at the large tree. It's crystal appendage seemingly unaffected by the abuse it received.

It did the same thing to several trees. When the crystal alien looked satisfied it stood and looked like it was ready to morph. At first I thought that it was going to turn back into the alien-velociraptor, but what it did next almost made me feint.

It's blue-green crystal body was turning red. Two small arms grew under it's main ones. It grew even larger and the spikes on it's back started to shrink back into its body. When it was done the previous crystal alien which previously was a alien-velociraptor was now a large red four-armed, four-eyed alien. I could see all four of its arms were large very muscled, rippling under its bright red skin.

It carried all of the freshly cut wood that the crystal alien had cut and carried everything back to the crystal poles with ease. Now that was the alien that piled up those trees. When it arranged the wood on the poles it demorphed back into the crystal alien and then it walked away from its work.

I watched as like before its hands reshaped themselves and this time instead of a kind of blade they made a kind of spiky end. Like when you break a small dry branch and the fibers make several small sharp points. I guessed what was going to happen and I was right.

Several small crystals shot themselves, as in literally shoot to the arranged pieces of wood. They embedded themselves in the target and some even completely tore through the wood and continued to fly before embedding themselves in the trees behind the target.

Then it dived to one side, rolling like a military soldier. It punched the ground and a large crystal quickly grew in front of it like a shield. It stood up and shot at the target over the crystal and it ducked again. The crystal was sucked back into the ground as quickly as it was brought up.

That went on for a few minutes. Then the crystal alien morphed again this time into something I thought was impossible.

Large cracks appeared on its body then the cracks started to glow. Its crystal-like skin was turning into something like rocks. It's head caught fire as it morphed. It shrunk becoming shorter and it's skin was turning red.

Its body was red, about as tall a a full grown human. It's hands and feet looked like they were made of red hot metal. Its head looked a bit like a skull and was was covered in flames. Kinda reminded me of Ghost-rider

The grass that it stood on caught fire and burned as the previously alien-velociraptor, crystal alien, four-armed alien, now flaming alien stared at the target that was mostly covered in holes and small crystals.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There standing in the field was a alien that was on fire.

Then is quickly shot a fireball. Yes a fireball, at the target making it explode into splinters. He shot several more until all the targets were destroyed.

Then I looked up at the sky on the other end of the field. I could see two birds heading for the field.

(Oh crap.) I said.

Authors Note: I'm sorry if the conversations are repetitive. I want the story to advance bit by bit with each POV. I kinda want to have the opinion of each Animorph and Ben for each situation.

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