-Marco-
Great. Rachel was a blind, paralyzed fly on the floor of a probably traitorous Andalite's quarters. I made sure the door to our room was locked, and morphed gorilla so I could use thought-speak.
-Rachel?- I asked
-What?- she asked sounding tense.
-Maybe you can wait until Ganlor leaves and then just demorph.- I suggested.
-How am I going to know when he leaves? - She asked, -I can't see or move.-
-I'm going to cut some wires to make them think we need to drop out of Z-space for awhile. Hopefully they'll call Ganlor to the bridge when that happens and you'll be able to get out. For now I guess you'll just have to wait. - I said.
-OK,-
I knew Rachel probably wouldn't like that plan, but what could I do? If she morphed while he was in there, she'd blow our cover for sure. Luckily, I'd seen some large rodents chewing on the wires in the docking bay when we searched it. I'd just have to acquire one, morph it and chew apart the specific wires required for calculating Z-space travel. I'd studied the specs for this ship, so I knew how they worked and approximately which wires I'd need to cut.
So as I started going about this plan, Rachel said. -Marco?-
-Yeah Rach?-
-Be careful.-
-I will.-
I smiled as I made my way down to the docking bay. She was worried about me. Ganlor was in with Rachel and the other two Andalites were on the bridge, so I knew it was pretty safe to be walking down the hallway. I went into the docking bay and found one of the rodents to acquire, then quickly morphed it.
Morphing is never probable. This time, I ended up with a 2 foot long naked tail sticking out of my otherwise normal body. Yuck! And as I began to shrink, brown fur began to cover my body. My face elongated and my legs shrunk. Within a few minutes, I was a foot long rat, essentially.
"Boy, am I glad these aren't native to Earth!" I thought. It's pretty freaky to see a foot long rat! I guessed they must be native to the Andalite homeworld. They were pests, and I knew the Andalites wouldn't suspect us if one of them were to chew through a wire. So I did.
The first one made all the lights go off. Whoops, that wasn't the idea. Then I found the wire I was looking for – to the Z-space computer. I chewed through it and the ship lurched. I felt a whooshing as it dropped out of Z-space and couple minutes later, I heard the thought-speak announcement I was waiting for. -Commander Ganlor-Sirbabial-Raynier to the bridge immediately.-
I quickly demorphed in the dark docking bay and made my way back to our quarters. Then I put on my outer clothing and walked up to the bridge.
"What happened?" I asked innocently. I looked out one of the windows. "We're not in Z-space anymore!"
The Andalite looked at me with one of its stalk eyes, never taking its main eyes off of the computer screens. -We are trying to locate the problem right now. Something appears to have happened to the Z-space computers. The trip will be continuing shortly. Nothing for you to concern yourself with.-
"Ok." I said turning around. Ganlor was there, looking at the computer screen. -What are you doing here?- he asked.
"I was just finding out why we're not in Z-space anymore." I said heading back toward our room.
After I was back in the room, I morphed the giant rat again so I could talk to Rachel. I told her to get out - that Ganlor wasn't there anymore.
As the rat, I snuck down the hall to Ganlor's quarters to make sure Rachel got out ok. She was human coming out and saw me. "Ugh!" I heard her whisper. "That's the biggest rat I've ever seen!"
-C'mon, hurry we've got to get back to our quarters so they don't think we're suspicious of anything. - I said,
"Why are you a giant rat?" she whispered as she quietly ran down the hallway.
I didn't answer her yet. I'd explain when we got there.