NOTE: I do not own any of these characters. They are the copyright of Animorphs by K.A Applegate, and that isn't me sorry!

Cassie

I love to walk in the forest. I love everything there, from the animals to the trees. This was one of the few places I could be alone. Get away from the others Animorphs, the Yeerks and even the Hork-Bajir. I respect the Hork-Bajir. They gave us a home, a sanctuary after everything we have been to. They just seem to have changed. But maybe that was me.

The other Animorphs and I. We used to have our morals, those lines that we never crossed. I used to love all of them. Marco, always smiling, stands in the barn arguing with Rachel. Rachel, beautiful, stubborn and headstrong. She was my best friend, and always will be. She changed alot when she met Tobias, though we were still great friends. She would be sitting on a hay bale, listening intently to the mission at hand. Then she would say those three words that would make us smile and give us some courage

"Let's do it"

Ax would be pacing around the barn, staring at the various animals in the cage. What is this he would always be asking me. He was always so interested in the human race and the way we lived. When he became a human, all he would do is eat Cinnamon buns and cigarette butts. He was very strong and he seemed like the strongest of all of us. Then. He was the shorm of Tobias. Tobias would always be in the rafters, watching out for any Yeerk spies. He always seemed a bit odd. I know him alot better now, and know that is just him. He seemed the most like me and seemed to know me the best of all the Animorphs. Apart from Jake.

Jake was the one standing in the centre of the barn, facing all of us with a serious expression on his face, explaining the outlines of the mission. He seemed perfect to me then. Deep brown eyes looking intently upon me. Waves of brown hair glittering in the afternoon sun. Most of the time I wasn't even listening to him. Then he would always snap me back into attention as he said

"Cassie"

I was interrupted in my thoughts when Jake showed up behind me.

"Oh, Jake, you gave me a fright"

He ignored the comment.

"Cassie, we need to talk"

"What?" I said snappily.

"Cassie, I don't know how to say this. I hoped never to say this to anyone. But if the plan doesn't work, then it will be on my head"

I suddenly felt really scared. I saw a mixture of intensity, pain and sadness in his eyes. I sat down on a log and prepared myself.

"You know what the plan is. You know what we have to do. There are so many things that could go wrong. So the truth is I need you to get onto the Blade Ship. I need you to stay on Tom's Yeerk and kill him if necessary. Do whatever it takes. I trust you with this. I tried to find another way. Ax could not leave, we need him for negotiations. Tobias, we need as a lookout. Rachel will be there to fight on our side. Then it was between you and Marco. I trust you more".

I barely comprehended what he said. His mouth was moving, but all I could think was Jake trying to kill me. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't.

"Jake, I don't think I can do this" I said cautiously "Maybe Marco would be a better idea. I just can't do it".

A horrible look came onto his face.

"You need to do this. You do what I say. You have made too many mistakes anyway. With your morals, I am sure you could make the decision; the human race or you".

I felt tears start to well up in my eyes. How could he do this? He used to be so kind; he never used to be like this. I knew I had to do it. If I didn't, the human race would either die or be infested. He knew that I would do it. My tears began to fall.

Jake just walked away.

******

When I got back to camp, my parents knew something was wrong. They made up an excuse and took me to the side. My mum said to me

"Cassie, what's wrong"

"Nothing" I replied. I knew my parents weren't convinced.

"Cassie" my mum said softly "You know you can tell us anything now....."

"Mum" I screamed "You don't understand! You never will. I never want to see you again".

I burst off. I started to cry again. I might never see them again, and my last words were that. I thought that maybe I could go back. Say goodbye to everyone. Apologize to my parents. I knew I couldn't do that. It would be too hard. I walked away towards Jake's old house. I didn't look back.

******

I got onto the Blade Ship. I morphed into a fly and got into his car. He was used to us being cockroaches, but he had not seen us in fly morph before. He did not even notice me, or at least the Yeerk didn't. As I went into the Blade Ship, I looked through fly eyes at the ground. Maybe my last look at Earth. I flew quickly into the ship.

As I was in the ship, I wondered about what to morph to get around the ship. I thought about staying in my natural form, but I knew that was too risky. I decided that the Hork-Bajir could be good, but I decided at the last minute to go Taxxon. They had much better eyesight than the Hork-Bajir. I just had to find a place to morph after I was a Taxxon and into a battle morph.

I didn't know what to morph. I did not have a very large selection of firepower in my morph. I could go wolf, or Hork-Bajir. I had no idea what to morph. Hork-Bajir seemed to risky. They would be good if we were against Taxxons, but it would be too hard against other Hork-Bajir. Wolf was too small. I was thinking hard, which wasn't easy as a Taxxon. Suddenly, a Human-Controller came up to me.

"Why aren't you working!" the man asked "If the Andalite bandits get here, then we're in trouble. Then it'll be on your head"! I obediently turned and went back to work. However, my mind was on other things. I had decided what to morph!

A voice went off in my head.

Cassie, can you hear me? It's Tobias. Get off that ship now!

Cassie, it's time to do your job Jake thought speeched to me at the same time.

Sorry Tobias I said to him.

After I went into the shadows and morphed human, I went straight to my next morph.

Two eye stalks busted out of my head. My lips stuck together and melted, leaving me with no mouth. Two legs popped out of nowhere. I grew a pair of hooves. Soon I was completly morphed, apart from my fur. I must have looked horrible. Blue fur quickly covered my body. I was an angry Andalite, ready to fight.

I burst out of the shadows, and slaughtered the nearest Hork-Bajir with my tail. I trampled the next few Taxxons to come my way. My tail cut through a Human Controller, slumping dead on the floor. There was a large group of Hork-Bajir between Tom and me. I was a skilled morpher. I knew what to do. I quickly morphed partway out of Andalite. The Controllers were looking at me confused. I picked up the Dracon from one of the dead Controllers and shot them all down. I morphed all the way back to Andalite and slowly approached Tom.

"Are you really going to kill me?" the Yeerk in Tom's body asked. "Moral Cassie? I must say I'm surprised you killed them all". Tom just looked at me with a sick smile. "Cassie, the weakest link? Who nowone likes? Who Jake sent because he hated you"! I looked at Jake. He was expressionless. As I looked at Tom's Yeerk, it suddenly reminded of Jake. I couldn't believe a Controller would remind me of Jake. That was when I realized I did not love him anymore. I did not love Jake anymore. I hated him. All of these thoughts were running through my head. Tom's Yeerk started laughing. An uncontrollable anger began to seep through me. More Controllers started coming in.

My tail blade sliced and chopped Tom's head off. I laughed. I trampled and beheaded at least 20 Controllers.

Ha I cried out.

Suddenly, there were no Controllers left.

I heard a funny sound coming from a TV monitor at the front of the ship. I looked through. There were my friends staring at me. Jake's face was still expressionless, his eyes were dead. As soon as I looked at Ax, he turned all his eyes away from me. Rachel looked at me in disgust. Marco had a look on his face that I could not decipher. Tobias was looking at me with sympathy.

The impact of what I had done suddenly hit me. As I demorphed to human, the tears suddenly started again. I fell onto the ground. I had no energy anymore. I hated myself. I hated Jake. What had I done? Where have my morals gone? What's happening to me? I knew we had won the battle for Earth, but the war never ends. I couldn't stop death. That is what kept me going. I was stupid. I was fooling myself. The world will never change.

I was the weakest link. I didn't deserve to live after what I had done. Even the others had stared at me, shocked by what I had done. I had kept the group stable, never letting them lose their compassion, not letting them forget who I was. I had let them slip. I had let myself slip. I cost them too many battles. I grew an Andalite tail. I turned to Jake.

"I hate you"

She slammed the tip of the tail down, instantly killing her. The others stared in shock.

******

Rachel and Tobias married. The last three words she said before she died impacted everyone deeply. Tobias ran away to the deepest part of the forest for many years for a while. Rachel ran all across the world for a while. Rachel got a call one day from Tobias and instantly came back. Just six months later, they were married, living in Rachel's old house. Tobias morphed a human for two hours, and stayed that way forever. Rachel was a general in the Army, a way to keep fighting, while Tobias became an environmentalist.

The human race did not like the idea of aliens invading their planet. Whenever they thought of aliens, they thought of the Yeerks. The Andalites took this as a personal offence, and there was a war of an ugly kind between the Andalites and humans. After a few months, the Andalites left with the Hork-Bajir, who got given passage with them as long as they helped fight the cause. Tobias lead a project and the Taxxons did get their various snake forms.

Ax didn't want to go back home to the Andalite home planet, he was happy exactly where he was, in the Hork-Bajir valley. Before the war ended, he brought his parents to Earth with him. They lived happily alone in the Hork-Bajir valley with his parents. They hardly ever left there. Eventually though, they got human morphs and became nothlit humans. They then got some money from Tobias and Rachel, building a computer business. They became famous.

Jake didn't care. His eyes were always blank. The world seemed like a movie to him, he saw it happening, but took no part in it. He was angry about the war, and how it did not change much. He never mentioned Cassie again. After those three words, the remaining Animorphs looked at him like he was the Grim Reaper. After the ship landed, his friends left him and never said another word to him. He moved to New York. After the war waged and destroyed that city, he moved to England. After a suicidal attempt, he was admitted to a special mental institute, padded so he could not fight his way out with a morph. He lay in that room for the rest of his days.

Marco cared about Cassie. They were good friends, and he had relied on her many times in the past. He was devastated. He looked at Jake that day with hate burning in his eyes. He never saw him again. He said goodbye to the other Animorphs, never saw them again either. He strove to find a way to bring Cassie back to life. After searching many years, he found a way to go back into the past. Nobody really knew what he found. It could have somehow found another Time Matrix; he could have found something else. Without another thought, he went back into the past. Nothing changed. He never came back. Maybe he died, maybe he was happy somewhere else, we will never know.

NOTE: Sorry it was a bit OOC, the inspiration just struck me and I had to write it. I would love some more review though (constructive if you do not mind). Tell me who you want next. Marco? Ax? Tobias? Hope you enjoyed it.