Chapter 7

A small osprey was racing against time and mentally sighed in relief on finding his prey. Marco landed near by and shattered the stand off between a mentally pissed of Rachel, a frozen Sam who was reaching for the Dracon ray, and Jack who aimed the zap gun at all of them.

'As much as I'm enjoying this stand off we don't have time. Jake we have five incoming a few miles out and closing fast.'

Jake whipped his head around and found Marco fluttering in place but shot off as soon as he got his orders. "Go back and keep an eye on them tell me when they are a half mile out. Rachel stay here with the Andalite and keep them off our trail." Jake grinned wickedly at his cousin. "Try out that new morph, maybe you'll like it better then the elephant. The rest follow me, we can sort this out at the colony. Report back when you're done."

Jack and the Professor found themselves eyeing the kid Jake whose eyes had sharped into cold slits, their weapons lowing at the orders that came from Jake's mouth. They were reasonable after all.

A faint. 'On it fearless leader Prince Jake.' came back on the breeze. Jack and Sam were still trying to get over the voice speaking in their heads when Prince Jake rolled his eyes as he eyed the rest.
"Anyone know how to ride a horse?"

Tom groaned at the question when Sam responded "Yes sir."

Jack started to snicker but had to go puke in the bushes when Jake and Rachel started morphing as Sam wincing a bit, looking green but her scientist eyes taking it all in.

Gafinilan-Estrif-Valad had lowered his tail blade in complete shock as Tom called out weakly, "Wait I have a better idea."

Tom couldn't hold off the shudder he gave when his plan was approved by his little brother. Five minutes later all but Tom, Gafin and 'call me Jack' were racing away towards safely, a herd of one horse with a human, rest birds of prey.

"Are you sure that these are like you?" Jack said as he waited behind a tree as Tom acted like he was hurt, which considering what happened didn't take much.

"Some of them, others kill on sight I'm sorry to say. They don't care about humanity being free. They're selfish bastards, we'll see who comes. I'll try and point them out."

Author's note - I have the next chapter outlined, I just need to write it. No promises on the timeline of writing.