I tried Ashley's perspective, and I think it worked out pretty good! :D Now I'm gonna try Cam's… not sure how this is gonna end up.

Cam

((Ashley? Ashley?))

Great. The little prick had fallen out of thought-speak range. Jeez, she was annoying. Not sure why I was calling her a little prick, though, when she was actually older than me. But I was much more mature, I was sure of that.

I flew back to the others, and, exasperated, said ((You guys, we lost Ashley.))

((She'll be fine. She's 15, after all. She can handle herself.))

((Right, mom. Like she did in Florida?))

((Do we have to bring that up? Cam, she was 13 then. Two years changes people.))

((Fine. Whatever. Hey! I see a cheetah!))

The hard part about acquiring new morphs is that you have to be in your natural form to do it. My mom flew down and demorphed first, then demorphed into a cheetah. That way, the casual onlooker wouldn't be surprised to find, say, a wolf in a cheetah cage, but I'd have protection in case something went wrong.

I demorphed and walked up to the big cat. It stared at me, jittery. It sprinted about halfway across the cage. It's a good thing the Garden were closed. Things could go very bad, very fast around here. We cornered it, and, before it could get away, I pressed my hand against its body. And then I demorphed into an owl and rejoined the others.

When we got to them, they had just finished demorphing. Ax was in his normal Andalite body, when we overheard a kid say "That was sick! Somebody find a stick to poke it with!"

Yeah actually doing Ashley's was pretty fun so I'm gonna stick with that in this chapter.

Ashley

I woke up to find Henry Cook poking me with a stick. That sounds very wrong, but it was true!

((He… Henry?))

He turned around. "Who said that?"

Oh, snap. I forgot I was in owl morph. But… how long had it been? I had to get up. I stretched my wings and flew away like nothing happened.

Yeah. About that. That's BS.

My flipping wing was broken! I cursed silently. Crap, crap, CRAP!

I tried doing the whole "waddle thing", but that didn't work out well.

Henry's friend Bryce came over and blocked my way. What the screw?

Oh no. I'd heard about this new trend at my school were people throw pebbles at birds to get them out of the sky. Mainly because that's our school's rival's mascot, some kind of bird. I don't remember what.

But… I'm a great horned owl! I'm pretty sure those are on the endangered species list! I'm… Oh, that's right. Great horned owls are their mascot. Wait. WHAT?

I tried to fake being an adult and scaring them off. The Gardens were technically closed, so…

((Hey. What are you kids doing?))

Henry looked around. He didn't see anyone. He took out a… a KNIFE?

((I mean it, you kids are trespassing on public property!))

Henry got up again and looked around. "I don't see anyone, guys. So I guess until somebody actually stops us we can just keep going."

Oh no. Oh crap. .

He lifted up the blade of his knife…

"Hey! What the hell are you doing?"

Uncle Jake!

"What do you think, old man?"

Whoa. Henry was a little biotch.

He held his knife up. "You want us to kill you instead? Because I'm considering it."

And then, out of nowhere… "Ax! Go!"

An Andalite leapt up from the bushes and whipped his tail blade.

FWAAP!

FWAAP!

FWAAP!

The knife was knocked from Henry's hands. The other two "fwaap"s were warning strikes.

Henry and the other boys ran off. I stared at Ax, who looked particularly heroic in the dim light.

((It's been nearly 2 hours since you morphed human.))

((Ashley, you had us worried sick! Holy crap, did I just say that?))

((Sorry, mom. The bright side is that I know what I want my battle morph to be now!))

((What?))

((An Andalite. A frolis manuever of Ax and Estrid.))

Ax did one of those mouth-less Andalite smiles. ((A nice choice, I might add.))

((Go back to your cinnamon buns, Ax,)) Marco chimed in.

((We will be obtaining cinnamon buns?))

"You're kidding, right Marco?" Jake asked.

Marco just laughed.

"Right?"