Seth

I paced my room, seething with barely controlled anger. I just couldn't stop myself; I was peeved to the core. Everything I had just seen.... everything I had done... I felt sick to the stomach.

I knew Phoebe was using us. I knew it. Didn't give a damn about us...

Before I knew it, I was clenching and unclenching my fists, as well as grinding my jaw like I used to when someone picked a fight with me at school. If Sean hadn't been there with me each time.... I would have done something I knew I'd regret later on.

But this... how could anything compare to this? I… my father was attacked savagely, by the bodies of his own friends! People he trusted and held dear.... now, they were working for the enemy. Yeerks... I wanted to kill each and every one of them with my bare hands!!!

Before I knew it, there was a beep at the door.

"What?" I snarled, then the door opened and Sean stepped in. He looked.... well, he didn't seem as angry as I was, which just made me feel even worse....

"I know what you're afraid of Seth. I am too. But beating ourselves up about it isn't going to help us" He said firmly. That's when I lost it. I grabbed Sean's shirt collar and rammed him up against the nearest wall.

"Aren't you the least bit worried about them. For all you know.... for all we know.... mum could be dead. And you're here... telling meto calm down?! You should be more upset about this than just lecturing me about...." I never got to finish, because at that moment he grabbed my arms, twisted them around, turning me around, then body slammed me and sending me crashing to the ground with a loud 'oof!'. Before I could get up and throttle him, he sat on my back. Just sat on me! His legs pinned my arms to the ground, and from where he was sitting, my legs were useless.

I screamed and swore and 'carried on' as Sean put it for about a full ten minutes, before I gave up and started fighting for breath, the anger in me almost completely burned out.

"Had enough?"

"No"

"All right then. I won't let you up until you're calm"

"Get off me Sean, before I decided to..."

"To what Seth? Shift? Sorry, but I'll just shift with you, and neither of us will come out the better from it"

"Since when did you get all philosophical and crap?"

"Since my brother decided to go AWOL on me"

"I'll show you AWOL once I…"

"Seth? I'm not letting you up"

"All right, all right" I took a few deep breaths to calm myself, knowing on some level that Sean was right. I might have been the daredevil, but Sean was the one who knew how to use what, and when. He knew what I needed right then, and he was doing everything he could to calm me down.

Finally, when he was a hundred percent sure I was calm (and not trying to trick him) he let me up, and we both sat on the bed. I sat on the left side, he sat on the right. We weren't facing each other, but then again the two of us never really needed to look at each other to know one another's facial expressions to certain things.

"What if she's dead?" I asked him, looking at the door.

"I don't know Seth. I.... I don't want to think that, at least not just yet"

"But you can't deny that it could have happened"

"I'm not, I just... I don't want to give up on her, and in fact any of the parents, just yet"

"I hope dad's ok"

"Yeah"

I smiled "Hey, if we get through this, and… and ever make it back to earth... why don't we have a party?"

Sean laughed "You're on bro"

We sat in silence for a few minutes, before there was a knock on the door.

"Enter" I said, and I found that it was Nicole.

"Nikki! What's the ma-"

"Meeting in one hour in my quarters. Any later and I'll slice you ears off" With that, she turned and left Sean and I to stare at each other and shrug.

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So, we met Nicole in her quarters. All of us. Even Kay.

It felt a little crowded to me, but I just leaned against the wall and tried not feel like it was closing in on me. The room, I mean. Past events made me sort of jumpy and panicky about the room.

"Well, now that we're here Nikki, want to tell us why?" Cody asked, folding his arms against his chest. I noticed he and Toni weren't far off. She still seemed a bit edgy and not like herself, but she was trying not to let it show too much.

Nikki, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, now looked up at all of us. The look in her eyes made me shudder inside.

"I have a plan. And I don't care how many people in this ship we have to knock out to do it. We're going through with this, all of us"

"Uhh… want to tell us exactly what this plan is before we run off into certain death?" Megan asked, rolling her eyes. A sharp look from Nicole stopped her.

Nicole took a deep breath then continued "To take out the Blade ship once and for all"

"Say what? Nicole, have you lost your mind??" Michelle cried, and Nicole shook her head.

"I'm serious guys. The Blade ship is the Yeerks weak point, and I want it gone. Destroyed. Whatever"

"She's right" I said, the reality hitting me like a speeding train "The Blade ship started this invasion, and to me it seems it's been on the map a lot since then. We take that out, then who knows what might happen to the invading forces?"

"Okay, reality check here" Cody spoke up, rubbing his forehead "Seth, you said that thing was massive, right? Much bigger than the ship we.... than the ship that the resistance destroyed?"

"We helped stop it" Megan muttered.

"Now how, tell me, how the freakin' hell are we supposed to take that down? The only defences we have are morphing and shape-shifting, and only maybe a weapon or two if we beg for it"

"Which will be like slapping a croc with a fly swatter to kill it" Elfangor put in.

"Right. Not to mention the fact that this ship probably couldn't take us on in a fight, and that's really low in my opinion"

"Well, I didn't say I was finished now, did I?" Nicole snapped, looking at Cody. I frowned, but shut up anyway.

"Ok then. I've talked to that guy Dustin at length, and... and he told me there's a chance they've found an old, small, Andalite cruiser in the wreckage. It's a bit bent out of shape, but they think they can fix it"

"You're getting somewhere with this, but the problem is I don't see where" Toni said, and when Nicole gave her death stares she just shrugged and ignored it.

"My point is" Nicole went on "Is that we can use that to help us take down the Blade ship"

"So what, we just ask them to hand us over the...." Nicole cut Alex off.

"No. We don't. We steal it from them when they're finished fixing it up"

(I do not understand) Kay said.

"Look, I don't know about you guys, but I am sick of that.... of Phoebe and the others controlling our every movement. I feel like a pawn, and frankly, I'm sick of it. If we're the only hope this damn planet has, then I say we start making our own decisions"

(Nicole, I do not think that is wise, to…)

"Look, are you with us or not Kay?" Nicole snapped, and he fell silent. It was a tense moment, before he bowed and said,

(I will regard you as my temporary Prince. Or…Princess. I will follow you, until you tell me otherwise)

This seemed to make her feel better. She smiled and nodded at him.

"Thankyou Kay. Now, are we all in this, or not?"

"I'm in" Elfangor.

(I must go for my brother's sake) Aerionna.

(You will need someone to guide the vessel. I will do so) Kay.

"Let's go kick Yeerk butt" Toni.

"I'm with her. They'll pay for coming here" Cody.

"I'm in" Michelle.

"Me too" Megan. More reluctantly than her twin.

"Well, I have to keep an eye on these two" Alex laughed. To me, I knew it was fake.

"Might as well" Sean, sighing like it was all so hard. That just left me.

"Well?" Nicole said as they all turned to look at me. I tensed a little, but then I remembered....

"For mum and dad, I'd do anything. Let's go kick butt, and send the Yeerks packing"

Nicole smiled, satisfied.

"Good, then it's settled. The moment they have that ship fixed Kay, tell us. Because after that, there's no going back"

Okay, I know. Bor-ring!

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