Man, I was getting tired of the rain but the sun likes me a little too much; makes me feel lightheaded and maybe that's because I don't drink enough water.
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/Depth Charge./ Tobias said. /They've found us./
/Swim for land!/ Arbron yelled. We complied.
We had been heading for land for a few moments when something appeared over head. A Blade Ship.
A few minutes later there were splashes. /Uh guys, we've got company./ Marco said. He sounded fairly worried.
/What is it?/ Arbron asked. /I think we've got Taxxons behind us./ Marco reported. /Those worms can swim!/ Rachel demanded.
/Yes, they can swim. We may have to kill them./ Arbron informed us.
/Can these morphs fight?/ Aximili asked. /Yes, your morphs are usually seen as cold blooded killers./ Jake replied.
/In a few minutes we will turn around and fight them./ Arbron told us. /Yes, my Prince./ Anjinnl said.
We swam a little further before stopping and turning around.
Since the dolphin isn't naturally violent I tried to see the Taxxons as sharks. It sort of worked.
/Charge!/ Arbron ordered.
/This is for Sparta!/ Marco yelled.
/Sparta?/ Anjinnl asked. /Tell you later./ Tobias said.
With that we sped at the Taxxons and plowed into them. The one I hit exploded like a watermelon that had been thrown onto the floor; I would have thrown up if I was human.
In a few minutes the remaining Taxxons were feasting on their injured and dead fellows.
We quickly took off again before they could remember that they were supposed to kill us.
We had only been swimming again for a few minutes when something big hit the water.
A strange noise that didn't sound like anything I have heard before and the dolphin brain didn't seem to know it either.
/A mardrut,/ Arbron said after a few moments. /How in the universe did he acquire one?/ /I can't imagine that he could have come anywhere in the entire system without someone knowing./ Anjinnl said. /Between the patrols and other things it would make it impossible to land. His face is well known./ /Do you even know what he looks like?/ Aximili nearly demanded. /No,/ Anjinnl replied, /after all I am just a lowly computer technician./
/Is that snark?/ Marco asked, curiosity and amusement thick in his thought speech.
/Just swim!/ Arbron ordered.
I'm not sure how long we had been swimming when he spoke. /I'm coming for you my Andalite friends./ He said.
Both sharks seemed to waver, as if something was bothering them. /We faced him once without Arbron and we survived./ I told Aximili and Anjinnl.
/You've faced him and lived?/ Aximili asked. /I honor you./ /Thanks,/ Marco said. /But I'd trade that honor for a boat with a motor just so we could get away!/ He nearly yelled.
Meanwhile Visser Three just kept gaining on us and we were beginning to tire.
/Should I capture you and have you infested or should I just eat you? I'll decide your fate soon./ The Visser said.
It was then that something occurred to me: a whale was singing nearby and the song sounded familiar. Maybe, just maybe this was the whale that we had helped a few days ago.
/Help us!/ I cried out to the whale. /There is something chasing us that would see the oceans and land laid to waste. We are the only ones that stand between him and the planet./
Part of me knew that it was hopeless but I had to try to get help for us.
/We won't make it to safety before tiring./ Arbron said softly. /I will stay and fight him while the rest of you get away./ /But Prince Arbron, you are the highest ranking member of our military here./ Aximili protested. /Then you know why I must do this./ Arbron said.
With that Arbron stopped and turned around. The rest of us made the same decision at the same time. We stopped and turned around.
Good-bye, Mom and Dad. I thought. Good-bye grandma and grandpa. Good-bye to all of my family there are too many of you to say good-bye too one at a time. Good-bye Midnight and Brownie, I should have given you a better name but I was only six.
/I've decided what to do with you my Andalite friends. After such a long chse I am hungry./
We charged and he charged.
Then somethings moved beneath us. All of us stopped and watched as the shadowy things came up higher and higher.
/It's whales!/ I cried.
/Whales?/ Aximili asked. /Whales are mammals that live in the Oceans of the Earth. The are the largest mammals on the planet./ Anjinnl sounding smug.
/Enough!/ Arbron told them, annoyed
We watched in some amusement as Visser Three hurried away from us and the whales. Finally Marco and Rachel started laughing. /Whales are mostly harmless idiot!/ Marco jeered to us
The whales came back and I felt some satisfaction from them and that they wanted us to protect the Earth.
They allowed us to demorph on them to rest before remorphing.
We swam up the same river that we had used last time and demorphed. We waded to shore and opened the back packs that we had left there the night before with extra clothes for Aximili and Anjinnl.
Once on shore Rachel started to sort through the clothes until she had two piles of clothes for our new allies.
Anjinnl was the first to start morphing into a human. When she was finished a girl that looked Asian stood there wearing a leotard that was tighter then Rachel's and mine.
"It was the only one that remotely fit me that was taken from the Skrit Na and given to my group" Anjinnl explained.
Rachel handed her the pile of clothes that was for her. "Do you need any help?" she asked Anjinnl. "I might, we were taught how to dress properly by humans that have been captured and placed in zoos but they might have taught us wrong for amusement." Anjinnl said.
Rachel and I took her a short ways away after telling the boys to assist Aximili in getting dressed.
I was impressed with Anjinnl as she dressed. She either knew where the clothes went or was able to make a good guess as to where this or that article of clothing went. Rachel and I only had to correct a few times and that was because she didn't understand exactly how to put it on, like socks.
I helped her tie the sneakers that we had brought, they were close enough to the size of her morph's feet so that her feet wouldn't get pinched or be sliding around in them.
After we finished we returned to see how Aximili, Arbron and the boys were doing. Jake and Tobias were shaking their heads and Marco looked like he wanted to start laughing. Arbron on the other hand looked worn and vaguely amused.
Aximili had put his clothes on in the right places but incorrectly. He had put his socks on his hands and put both the pants and shirt on backwards and the socks weren't on correctly either.
Anjinnl smiled.
"I've seen worse." She pronounced after a few seconds.
Arbron gestured to Aximili and Anjinnl. "I'll take you to our temporary Scoop." He told them. They nodded and followed him out of the wooded area.
We watched them leave before dressing ourselves and hurrying back to our homes.
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That night I flew to the Gardens and slipped into the dolphin tank at first all I did was play with them as a human before I morphed into a dolphin and swam with them.
I hadn't felt more at peace since before we took the shortcut into the abandoned construction site.
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This is the end of this book. The next part will be the fifth book.
I decided that the time line will be flexible so they make references to movies that weren't out during the publication of the books. Some of it is that I don't quite remember the movies that came out during that time frame. The rest of it is for some amusement value. I mean don't tell me that none of you got a kick out of Marco yelling 'This is for Sparta!'
And I'm not sure if a depth charge would have been realistic but it seemed to fit.
Oh and if anyone can tell me why Anjinnl's father isn't talked about I will update ASAP!
