Thanks Saffa.
Now, for the rest of this chapter....
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Tobias was a casualty in this war. If you stay in morph for over two hours, you end up becoming a nothit, or a person stuck in morph, forever. Tobias was able to regain his morphing ability from and all-powerful being known as the Ellimist. The Ellimist also gave Tobias the ability to morph back into his human form for two hours at a time. He could just morph human and stay in his body for over two hours, but he doesn’t like the fact that he wouldn’t be able to help us.
/Marco, go in and help Ax with any Controllers snooping around. Rachel, after a minute, go and follow him. Then I’ll come, and Cassie and Tobias will follow,/ I told my team.
I watched silently as an osprey, then bald eagle flew in through the window. I turned and spilled the air from my peregrine falcon wings. A peregrine falcon can dive at speeds up to one-hundred miles an hour. It was exhilarating. All too quickly, the window popped in front of me. I flared, killing my speed and almost breaking my wings in the process. I landed and quickly demorphed.
The first thing to happen was for my beak to melt and re-form into my human mouth. Then, i started growing. I shot into the air while the rest of me changed. My wings became arms, my eyesight dulled, and my feathers flowed together and turned back into my pink, human skin. The whole time I was changing on the outside, my insides were moving around and placing themselves back into their normal positions.
I was wearing my bike shorts and a tight t-shirt. We haven't exactly figured out how to morph street clothes and shoes yet. Anytime one of us tries, the clothing usually ends up shredded.
I looked around to see Marco, my best friend, Rachel, my cousin, and Ax, our very own Andalite
aristh. We watched as Cassie, then Tobias flew through the window. Cassie demorphed while I laid out our plan.
"Alright, everyone, go roach and spread out, but keep within thought-speak range. Tobias, I want you to fly around and watch for any sign of the Kandrona from outside, and keep an eye out for back-up," I told them.
Rachel looked at me questioningly, "What are we gonna do when we find the Kandrona?"
"Destroy it. We're scrapping the scouting mission. We may not get another opportunity like this. Find it, regroup, and destroy it." I looked each of them in the eyes, including Ax, "Don't take any stupid risks. We can't risk the fact that one of us might get caught or killed. You all know the risks." The Yeerks don't realize that we are all just human kids. They think that we are are Andalites. If they find out that we're human, we wouldn't last very long. Us and our families would be caught and infested, and then there
really wouldn't be any hope for Earth.
We all started morphing to roach.
Morphing is always unpredictable.
I first started to shrink. I was about a foot tall before my skin turned into the roach's hard exoskeleton. Then the extra legs popped out of my chest. I felt all of my organs shift as my bones dissolved and were supported by the exoskeleton. Antenna sprouted out from my forehead and my vision changed from human to roach. After I had finally shrank to the right size, the rest of my body became fully roach. Finally, the roach brain bubbled up next to my own, and I quickly gained control over it.
Six ****roaches quickly skittered off into different directions.
/Try and find a way to the first floor. That's probably where the Yeerks are building the Kandrona,/ I instructed my team.
Taking my own advice, I ran to what looked like a giant hole in the wall, which my human brain understood as a doorway. I took my best guess and turned left, only to fall for what seemed like forever.
/Guys, if you turn left through the doorway you'll hit the stairs,/ I called after I landed, unhurt.
I dashed forward again and again as I practically flew down the stairs. After finally hitting the floor, I stopped. Four other roaches ran down the stairs and past me, trying to find the Kandrona. I took off along the wall, where it would be less likely for me to get stepped on.
A roach doesn't exactly 'hear'. It senses vibrations with its feet and antenna. I was searching for where the vibrations were strongest, when I felt someone walking through the room I was in. There were two of them and they were talking about the Kandrona. It took me a second to translate the vibrations into words.
"... need to finish it. Visser Three will have our heads if we don't finish it soon," one of them said.
"That's no problem. I'm just worried that we'll still be attacked by those Andalite bandits. We don't need the Kandrona destroyed," the other replied.
"Don't jinx us, or the Visser will have both our heads," the first scolded.
After a moment's hesitation while they pondered that thought, they both walked off towards where the Kandrona was being built. My roach legs motored off as I followed as close as I dared. The stairs had led out into a small room, and the two men opened a door leading into a hallway. i dashed under the door and listened as they opened a second door off the hall. The construction noises then became considerably louder. Quickly enough they closed it, and I was left to round up my team.
/Guys, I found it,/ I called out. /We need to work our way back upstairs to demorph and morph to battle morphs. We're taking down that Kandrona. Today./
/All right!/ Rachel said enthusiastically. /Let's kick some Yeerk butt!/
I spun around and skittered back to the stairs. I worried about Rachel sometimes. This war has seemed to turn a mall rat into a psychotic war goddess.* I wondered what would happen to her if the war suddenly ended, but I didn't have time to wonder for long. i arrived back at the stairs and, like it was nothing, ran straight up and across the steps again and again.
I made it back to the room we were first in and demorphed back to human. As I became almost completely human, I noticed another rapidly changing form, growing a few feet away from me. By the time I was fully human, there were three more, rapidly changing forms around me and Cassie, standing by my side with Tobias on her shoulder. Cassie has always been our fastest and best morpher. Soon I was looking around at my friends, all human, except for Tobias and Ax.
"Tobias, I need you in the sky again to watch in case the Yeerks call for back-up. Okay, everyone else, battle morphs," I said as I concentrated on my tiger morph.
I concentrated and watched as strips appeared on the tiger DNA and watched as strips appeared on my skin, then became three-dimensional fur. my knees reversed directions and I fell forward on to my newly formed paws. My tail sprouted out behind me, and my teeth grew longer and sharper. My ears climbed to the top of my head, and finally, all of my senses sharpened.
/Okay, guys, move out!/ I called, and soon there was a bear, gorilla, wolf, and Andalite following me down the narrow stairs, straight into a line of Hork-Bajair.
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*I hope you guys get where I'm going with this...
There you go. the entire chapter one..... Now I'm really tired.... I'll get the rest of it for you guys later... And yes, I realize this is probably one of the longest chapters I will ever post.... So. See ya around!! *falls to the ground asleep*
