Disclaimer in chapter 1.

(Anily) K's still speaking Russian so she doesn't know that I'm posting this.

CHAPTER TWO

"Dad, Lyz, that story about meeting your counter parts and being trapped in a black hole- is that true?" Loren asked after they had finished telling the "completely fiction, non-real, story" about the time.

((They know!)) Tobias thought-spoke to Lyzah.

She nodded. 'But how?' She thought.

((It isn't true, Lyz. I can read your memories if I wanted to and I haven't seen that memory at all!)) Her Yeerk, Kala 115 countered.

((It is too! Just let me prove it!)) Lyzah said. She asked Tobias with her eyes if they should tell them.

Tobias nodded. "It is. But Ellimist only made us remember it. When I woke up yelling 'Controller' at the end, they thought I was going crazy believing that Yeerks were still here."

"And I am still a Controller." Lyzah answered before her daughter Anily could ask the question.

First, let me back up a bit. Rachel, like before, dragged Cassie into shopping, Cassie got Jake to come, Jake got Marco, but before Marco could get Lyzah, she said that someone needed to watch the kids since they didn't want to go and none of them thought that the kids could be left alone still and that she couldn't watch all five of them herself, thus saving both Lyzah and Tobias from one of Rachel's shopping sprees. Next, right after she said this, Marco got Aximili and Kylin to come so now they were watching all seven of the kids in Aximili's family scoop. Loren and Alan, having found that note earlier in the day, asked Lyzah and Tobias to tell them their encounter with A.L.R. Which, brought us to now.

Now, back to the present, as soon as Lyzah said that she was still a Controller, everyone excluding Loren and Alan were either gaping or wide-eyed. Elfangor and Casjar tensed their tails.

"But Kala 115 is in the Y.P.M. He lets Lyz have control of herself unless they were in a Yeerk Pool because of a mission." Tobias stated but Elfangor and Casjar kept the tail blades ready.

"So everything is true?" Jared inquired, still not believing.

"Yes, at least, to us. No one else believes it," Lyzah responded.

Tobias opened his mouth but was interrupted by a shrill yell.

-/-/-/-/-

Anehta-Simetra-Deathra yelled as she tried to morph back. "NO! I AM AN ANDALITE!" She dropped to her hands and knees and wept. "Andalite, Andalite, Andalite... Anehta-Simetra-Deathra... Not a human..."

Her mother searched all over to find her and was shocked to here a "human" say that her name was Anehta. ((Anehta?)) She knelt down and pulled back the hair from Anetha's face. ((Anehta, what happened?))

"Nothlit. A weak, human Nothlit. A somebody in the body of a nobody." Anehta sobbed, not evening noticing her mother.

((You're a Nothlit? How did this happen?)) When Anehta didn't answer, her mother, aka A.L.R.- or Aling-, morphed Anehta's human father, thinking that was the only way to get something else out of her.

When Anehta noticed strong, five-fingered hands grip her shoulders gently, she looked up. "Daddy?"

A.L.R.- or her husband, depending on how you look- nodded and hugged Anehta. "Yes, it is me."

Anehta embraced Aling back, thinking it was really her father. "Daddy, we thought you left us forever."

"No, not forever. Ellimist just made me leave for a while, made me go back to Earth again and human." Aling stated, which was actually true.

"Daddy, I'm stuck." Anehta said.

"Stuck? How?" Aling asked, but having hearing what she said before, already knew.

"I'm a Nothlit. I can't go back to being Andalite," Anehta started to cry again. "Daddy, help me, please."

-/-/-/-/-

"Daddy, help me, please." The voice that had yelled pleaded.

((Who is this person? The one that is asking for help?)) Casjar wondered, feeling grief for this unknown person.

"We'll find out soon," Lyzah stated. As soon as she said that, a short note appeared in her lap. She read out loud:

"Lyzah, my daughter, A.S.D., she became a human Nothlit. She thinks I'm her father right now, but that's because I morphed him. To make matters worse, we're all captured. Our captor gave us certain thing to do to be free and right now, this is what he wanted to happen- he said that if she would be able to become Andalite even after the two hour limit, we may leave. She's been in human morph for three. If she can't become Andalite again, we'll never be able to leave. ...

A.L.R."

There was more, but Lyzah thought that it should be kept private from the kids. What the rest of the note said was:

"And if that happens, you and your daughter may die."