Touchy Touchy **

Characters: Aloth

Other Notes: Gruesome. You've been warned.

{Now now now,} the blue man said soothingly as he stood over the other injured Andalite. He stroked the side of the fallen warrior's face. The creature trembled as sweat trickled down his face, his neck, his collar bone. It was cool in the room, the sweat coming from fear. From Agony.

Off to the corner of the small cramped medic unit was Aloth's SS64-17, the recently upgraded sniper issue shredder. Beautifully sculpted especially for the nonexistent assassination unit. Right next to him was a scanner showing the vitals of the fallen warrior, his blood pressure, brain activity, lung capacity, monitors from both hearts. One of them was flat-lined.

Aloth the assassin was doing some extra side work.

The black-ops Andalite currently held the still warm, still pulsing organ in his many-fingered hand. Quickly the average-looking, almost handsome Andalite turned around, keeping a single eye-stalk on the restrained warrior, while he placed the heart in an empty stasis cooler. The eye-stalk was more by habit than anything else because the warrior was half-living at this point and too numbed at what was happening to him. By now he realized that he couldn't escape.

This was when the whole process normally got easier for Aloth.

The assassin set to work, digging for other organs that needed immediate harvesting. The screams pierced some part of the Andalite's soul that had been easily weakened by greed.

It was a primitive sound in his mind, Aloth decided, as the images and emotions telepathically played in his mind. Slowly, as he worked, the images and everything else became disjointed as the agony the warrior was most likely in took away any coherent thought. Though everything else rolled around chaotically, the screams remained, and Aloth easily tuned them out as he recited the ritual of death.

The final heart began to flat line, and the assassin hurried to get the remaining organ out. The scanners compensated, and the warrior's head rolled. Aloth ordered the computer to expand the parameters, and the head stopped flopping around, held into place by the gravity restraints. He worked the long syringe into the base of the neck, paralyzing the specimen for good. The brain scans began to light up again, all areas marked in red this time. He used this to map out what he needed.

Slowly, he disconnected the functions just as the last words spilled out from his mind of the ritual. One-by-one, the brain map darkened, until the Andalite body became something less than a shell to Aloth the Assassin. Fortunately the training in the units applied to more than one expertise.

He finally sighed, and cleaned his hands. Aloth then commanded the ship to take off from the surface of the war-beaten planet, and notified the captain that he was on his way. There he would tell the war-prince that though the mission was successful, no one in his unit had survived.

When he reached the upper atmosphere, he realized that he had forgotten something. He pushed a button, and ejected the forgotten, emptied shell.

AN: Hey guys, sorry for the dark one, I'll try and post more light hearted ones after this... I recently reread Animorphs #38 actually at the suggestion of Alexionine, and had intended to do some drabbles on another character (though those are in the works...) I would like to write at least one more on Aloth.

I actually do intend to put a few original characters in, though they'll be spread out wide enough so one can skip them if they want to. Though if and when I do add them, they'll probably be used to expand on Andalites and their society. I'd like to think I'm much better than a creator of a Mary Sue, though my ego might be too big for my body for all I know, lol. I am also wondering which parts sound human. My worst nightmare is to make somebody OOC, my only intent is to expand on characters, simply because it's fun. I chose to write most of these in First Person because of that, actually because the narrator is human and the charas are not.

Thank you for your reviews, Alexionine, HotPinkCoffee, and Caralin942! Oh yeah, and thanks to those of you that also added my story to watch (I don't remember who did because this site doesn't have a pretty list like the reviews do, lmao)!