Chapter Ten

disclaimer: do not own animorphs claimer: i don't know if i own counterparts but i own Lyzah, her counterpart and all of the kids

Time stopped. The impostor was on his knees, the knife on the ground near his open hand. He had blood all over him.

I saw my father, not the image that the impostor had taken earlier, but my real father. He was running towards me, his feet in midair. He was still far away, in mid-morph, his arms wings, still more human than bird, tears running down his human face.

I saw the real Marco in mid-morph also, running from the other side of me. He had hung hairy arms and legs but everything else was normal. He still had the wounds on his chest. His face was in pain, trying to fight it so he could morph and destroy the impostor.

I saw the Marco from my universe a bit behind my father. His skin was blue, his mouth gone, two stalk eyes beginning to emerge and he had the tail of an Andalite. I saw traces of tears that stopped flowing when his eyes became those of an Andalite and the expression of pain. I wasn't sure why he was in pain, though.

My friends... Calliope, Enceladus, Thalia... The Andalite twins had their tails arched for battle, Thalia trying to morph into some kind of battle morph but failing. They were all coming to try to help me.

I cried. Everyone that could came to help me. They all came for me... "Tell me, Ellimist..." I whispered. "Did my life really matter?"

There were a few minutes of silence.

YES, LUNA. YOUR LIFE MATTERED.

"Good. Good." I closed my eyes...

-original/universe-

"I'm next." I said suddenly, Kala no longer having control over me.

The group turned to stare at me. I even felt Kala staring at me, though he was in my head.

"What do you mean, 'I'm next,' Lyz?" Rachel1 asked me.

"I'm next." I repeated. "He's going to curse me next. He knows that I can somehow figure out what he's doing to the others. He's going to get rid of me next."

Cassie1 opened her mouth to speak but I disappeared.


He had taken me.

-captured/place-

I was alone. He left Kala behind. I wonder who's willing to have Kala in his/her head...

((My daughter,)) Elfangor said. He sat down next to me. ((You still live,))

I was not going to be fooled. "Shut up, impostor." I turned away from him.

((Lyzah,)) He said. ((What has gotten into you?))

"My father never calls me 'Lyzah.'" I stated. "You're an impostor."

((I'm your father, Allyzah,)) He corrected, but his mistake was made. There was no way I would give in...

"How did I die?" I asked suddenly.

((What-)) He began.

"Even my father knows how I died. I told him myself. If you truly are my father Elfangor, you would know without me remembering... More or less, with me awake." I said. The impostor didn't see the wall through all the mist around us, but I could since I had already begun to morph hawk. "Tell me how whenever you're ready." I finished my morph and...

I'm falling inside the black.

-POV change-

HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO GET HER OUT OF MY WAY WHEN SHE WOULDN'T EVEN LOOK AT ME UNTIL I TOLD HER HOW SHE DIED?! THAT-THAT... HUMAN WAS IMPOSSIBLE! SHE EVEN MADE HERSELF UNCONSCIOUS! HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO READ HER MEMORIES AND SEE HOW SHE DIED NOW?!

I exhaled. OK, no need to get a tantrum, (censored). Just make yourself a Yeerk and get into her dumb, primitive human head. Now... To become a Yeerk she'll trust...

-POV change/ original universe-

Cassie1 picked up Kala in her hands as Cassie2 got a bowl full of water for him.

"I don't expect anyone is willing to have him in their head, right?" Anily asked. Rhetorical question. So of 

course no one answered.

((I've had enough of being a Controller, even if Kala is in the Y.P.M.)) Aling stated.

"Let! Go! Of! Me!" Someone yelled. Everyone looked for the source of the voice, which yelled and was followed by a loud thud.

The group looked at each other. Four of them quickly ran to where they thought the voice was- Cassie1, Anily, Jared and Tobias1. They caught a glimpse of a blond female groaning as they ran there.

It's Mom!! Anily thought. She ran faster.

"It's me. I'm here," A male voice said.

The voice stopped the four dead in their tracks.

The female's voice whispered, "Marco?"

"Two," Marco2 replied, smiling.

Cassie1, Tobias1, Anily and Jared entered the area where the female and Marco2 were in.

Marco2 turned towards them. "Hey. You two must be Jerome' and Anehta's counterparts."

"Counterparts?" The twins wondered.

"You know, the doubles." Cassie1 replied.

Tobias1 nodded. "And that does not happen to be my twin. Her human counterpart."

The woman stared at the other four. "Cassie? Tobias? Jerome? What are you doing here?"

"One, I am not Jerome. Two, you're in the wrong universe." Jerome- um... (eyes glancing left and right.) I did not just call Jared Jerome. - Jared stated.

She furrowed her brow. "OK... Who are you?" She asked Anily.

"I'm Anily, Jared's twin sister." Anily said. "This would be your alternative universe and you would be my mom's counterpart."

The woman continued staring at them. "OK, Marco, what trick are you having them doing and why did you have this girl do it too?"


"Obviously, Linda is confused." Marco2 said. "Linda, this is not a trick. We are in our alternative universe, their universe. This girl would be the counterpart of my Andalite daughter. Remember I showed you that hologram of those three aliens? The smaller purple one would be the counterpart of Anily. Jerome would be Jared's counterpart. And Cassie and Tobias here? These aren't the ones that you know. I know them because a while ago, we all got stuck in a black hole together. I was a Controller. A person with a Yeerk- sort of like a slug- in their head. I'm sure that if both a one and a two of a person were in front of you at the same time you'd understand." He opened his mouth to say more but then all eyes fell on the twins.

"What?" They wondered.

Their uncle answered. "Look at your hands."

The twins showed a look of confusion but looked. Anily gasped and almost fainted.

Their... Their skin...

It was clear and they were fading away.

"Dad!" Anily cried and grabbed Marco2 even though he was the counterpart of her father. "No!"

Then they were gone.

Into the Captor's hands.