Chapter Eight

Chapter Eight

Do not own Animorphs

"Marco?" Thalia stared at him. "How..." Her hand jotted up to her head and she moaned in pain.

"Thalia, are you OK?" Marco asked.

She nodded. "I'm OK. Just dizzy. Now I better morph so I don't die from these wounds-"

"Thalia? What wounds?"

Thalia quickly looked at her arms, legs, and felt her face. No blood, no cuts. "I..."

A sharp, high yell echoed around them.

-Original/Universe-

Anehta yelled in pain. She was covered in blood and cuts.

She fell down to her side, clutching her head.

"How did this happen?" Aling asked no one in particular.

The Captor switched Anehta' and Thalia's places. A Stsimille stated. The switch did not effect the wounds. The wounds stayed in this place, but on Anehta instead of Thalia in the other place. It had felt pity for them so it explained what had happened.

Anehta groaned in pain again. Aling sang softly and brushed Anehta's hair. When Anehta's whimpering slowed down, Aling asked the Stsimille, "How? Why? How did he do it, and why did he do it?"

Even I do not know. He is in another dimension than I. A more powerful dimension. Though I am nearly superior than him in every way, I cannot access any of his information that he does not want to be known. The Stsimille admitted.

Aling was shocked, like everyone there. The Captor, the lesser, could keep information from a Stsimille, one more powerful than the Captor? For sure Marco would be saying "Now I've heard everything" now.

That was what everyone was waiting for. When it had been a while, they turned to where Marco was standing.

"Marc!"

Hey, even though she didn't really want to end up marrying him, he was her husband. Lyzah had every reason to wonder what happened to him.

-Captured/Place-

He was just about to say "Now I've heard everything," like everyone had expected, but then he found himself away from the others. Instead, he ended up saying,

"Bull shit," because he found out he was most likely switched with someone in the dimension that the Captor had taken their counterparts.

"Marco?" Someone wondered.

"Huh?" Marco turned around and saw... "Tobias?" He looked up and down at Tobias. When did Tobias get to change out of the black clothing the Stsimille had changed them into?

"When did you dress into black?" Tobias asked him. The reverse of what Marco was thinking.

"When did you change out of black?" Marco inquired.

Not really getting them anywhere. For sure you already know what this is.

"Dad?" A girl walked up to Tobias.

Loren? Marco thought. What was she doing here?

The girl turned to Marco. "Marco? I thought I just saw you with Jerome..."

"Jerome?" Marco was confused. He didn't know anyone named Jerome... (A/N: Don't remember if the note about Jerome was sent to the mall or the Scoop- or even if it was sent at all.)

"You know, your son? My cousin?" The girl stated.

"Luna, I think this Marco is the one from the other universe." Tobias2 said.

"Shit." Marco said under his breath.

-Original/Universe-

In Marco's place, was a boy that looked a lot like Jared- and Marco.

"Jared. Stay away from your counterpart." Lyzah ordered since Jared was about to touch Jerome to see if he was still alive.

There was a bump on Jerome's forehead, as if he had been hit hard with something. His eyes were closed and there was some bruises on his wrists. Seemed like he

had been in a struggle. His hands were clenching and then unclenched. That was why Jared was going to see if he was alive.

"Is he...?" Aling wondered. She was his... actually, what would she be? Mother-in-law? No... I don't know.

"I don't know," Rachel2 replied as she leaned over his chest. "I don't know,"

-Captured/Place-

Tobias2 sent Luna to see if she could figure out who Marco was switched with.

"I can't believe this!" Marco muttered.

"Tell me about it." Tobias2 replied.

"So, do you know who the Captor is?" Marco inquired.

Tobias2 shook his head. "No. We all had a talk with the Captor, but I think he made it so he could see in the glass room but we couldn't see him."

"Have you thought of who it could be?" Marco asked. "Such as you-know-who?"

Once again, Tobias2 shook his head. "The other Marco was suggesting that you-know-who may be the way out of here. Well, unless a Ellimist or Stsimille can't help."

"I suggested that?" Marco couldn't believe that.

Tobias2 nodded. "To Aling. Your exact words were, 'I don't really know, A.L.R. Do you think the Ellimist or Stsimille will help?' Then you said in thoughtspeak, 'Or Crayak, if needed?'"

Marco stared at Tobias2, confused. "Was my counterpart alone with Aling or were you with them?"

"No, I wasn't there." Tobias2 replied.

"So either my counterpart or Aling told you?" If he says no, then this is not Tobias2. Marco thought.

"They didn't tell me." He stated.

Marco's eyes opened wide. "You're- you- you're not Tobias!"

-Original/Universe-

There was a groan coming from the boy.

"He's alive! He's alive!" Rachel2 stated.

Jerome sat up, then felt the bump and winced. "What happened?" He turned to Lyzah, suddenly. "Mom?"

"No, I'm her counterpart, Jerome. My name's Lyzah, not Leslie. You and my husband, or your father's counterpart, switched places. He's now in your place," Lyzah quickly explained.

He nodded slowly and quickly morphed and demorphed... Or, at least, he tried to.

A marsh hawk shrieked loudly and they heard a sorrowful voice saying, ((No!))

-Captured/Place-

"Dad?" Luna called out. She looked around the place and saw Marco knocked out. Hard. "Marco!" She knelt down next to him. "Oh god. What happened?"

Marco weakly pointed past her. He was wounded in several places, all severe and bleeding badly. "He did it." His voice was angry and harsh.

"Who?" Luna turned behind her and followed his finger. She gasped.

He was pointing right at her father.

"No!" She said in unison with a sorrowful thoughtspeak voice.

-Original/Universe-

Everyone tried to figure out a way to get Jerome demorphed. Even Anehta, forgetting her wounds and pains.

"What in the world happened? Why can't you demorph when you barely been in morph for twenty minutes?!" Aling wondered.

"We think we know," Cassie1 muttered.

Everyone looked at her, and at Cassie2 who was with the one who had been talking to her.

"What is it?" Jake1 inquired.

"The Captor- he's putting a curse on everyone who had been brought here." Cassie2 glanced between everyone who had been captured besides Anehta and Jerome, who had been cursed already. "Then he may curse all of our counterparts as well."

Those who still read my stories, can you tell me who "Tobias2" is? And who do you think would be cursed next? Already know that curses are mean and such, but we were out of ideas.

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A-K-W