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Animorphs Section => Animorphs Fan Fiction & Art => Topic started by: Nateosaurus on July 01, 2008, 04:42:33 AM
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[Authors Note: Well, here goes, my first chapter of "The New" not sure if I'll keep that name, but eh, it'll do for now.
Not everyone has replied to me asking if they can be in it or not yet, but hopefully that'll be done soon.
This is an Animorphs x Heroes crossover. No real spoilers for Heroes, I doubt there will be for a while.
And yes, I did steal some lines from Animorphs, I can't help it..]
Chapter One
The Shortcut
My name is Claire. Just Claire. I can't tell you my last name or where I live because its too risky. Anyways, enough about that, I’m just gonna cut straight to the story.
Six months ago, me and my friends all discovered we had super powers. We weren’t all friends back then, but we found each other, became friends.
But this story really begins on a normal summers evening. My friends Rachel, Ken, Anna and I were hanging out at the park, making movies to put on youtube, something we liked to do in our spare time.
“No, not like that!” Ken was saying. He was the director, of course.
“Fine.” Rachel said, rolling her eyes. “Hey wasnt Mike meant to meet us here?”
“Yea, thats what they said.” I replied. “Maybe they’re just late.” I looked up into the sky, seeing a peregrine falcon fly by. I sat there staring into space, forgetting everything else.
“Earth to Claire?” Ken said.
“Oh, sorry.” I focused back in on the real world.
“You guys! We’ll never get this done in time if you guys don’t pay attention!”
“Hey guys, can I join you?” Anna’s cousin, Jen, came walking over to us.
“Hey Jen. Sure you can, Ken’s really frustrated so we’re probably going to go now.” Anna said.
“Alright let’s go.” I said. My phone beeped at me, I had a text message. “Oh, it’s from Mike. He says that he got distracted because he ran into Issam. And he says to meet up with them at the mall.”
“Well Claire, I am not walking all that way.” Anna said.
“It’s only a 15 minute walk!” I exclaimed. “Fine. I’ll teleport us in.”
I grabbed Anna’s and Ken’s shoulders coz they were the closest. Just because I could teleport, all my friends used me as their taxi. Ken grabbed Rachel’s shoulder and Anna grabbed Jen’s hand. If anyone saw us, we would look extremely odd. I glanced around to make sure no one was around. I concentrated, closing my eyes. I opened my eyes and we were standing in the far end of the car park.
“I hope no one saw that.” I glanced around. I thought I saw a person running behind a nearby car. I went over to have a look, I could have sworn I heard footsteps, but there was no one there. “Huh.” I muttered.
“Hey guys.” Mike walked over to us, he had been waiting at the entrance with Issam, they both were drinking milkshakes.
“Thanks.” I said, reaching out to grab the milkshake but he quickly put it behind his back.
“I knew you were going to do that.”
I rolled my eyes. “That’s not fair, that’s using your powers for personal gain.” Mike had precognition.
“It’s plenty fair.” He replied. We all started to walk home when I saw a shortcut through the construction site.
“Hey, how about we cut across the construction site?” I said to the others.
“Can’t you just teleport us home?” Ken asked.
“Man you guys are lazy! We can walk you know.” I rolled my eyes at them. Even though it was getting slightly dark, I still just wanted to walk.
“Hey, who’s that?” Mike asked. “What’s that light?”
In this distance, there was a strange light. It looked like lightning, but it was summer and it was good weather.
“Hey, I know that guy.” Mike said as we walked closer.
“Yea, I think I do too.” I replied. “He went to school with us, right, he was the year below us? Tyler right?”
“I think so.”
“Hey, Tyler!” I said loudly.
“Who are you?” He asked.
“You were doing that, weren’t you? The lightning?”
“Don’t know what you’re talking about.” He shrugged.
“Tyler, who are you talking to?” Two other guys came walking towards us.
“No-body, I was just leaving.”
Suddenly everything went quiet. There was wind blowing the trees a second ago, but now nothing moved. I looked up in a tree, seeing a squirrel frozen in time.
“What’s going on?” I asked. I realised there was a girl standing next to Tyler who wasn’t there before. “Who are you?”
“I could ask you the same thing.” She replied. I resisted the urge to roll my eyes, and instead I introduced myself and the rest of the group.
“Well I’m Tyler.” Tyler said. “This is Estelore, Tim and Nehal.”
“Now, which one of you can stop time?” I asked.
“You didn’t do it?” Mike asked me.
“No, it wasn’t me.”
IT WAS ME.
A voice came from everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
“What’s going on?” Rachel asked.
Tyler was forming a ball of electricity in the palm of his hand, Anna was getting ready to freeze the owner of the voice, and Jen had a fireball ready to throw.
NO, TYLER, ANNA, JEN. THERE IS NO THREAT.
“He knows your names!” I hissed.
DO NOT BE AFRAID. I WILL APPEAR IN A PHYSICAL FORM YOU CAN UNDERSTAND.
The air in front of us shimmered oddly, and the air seemed to open. Suddenly a boy was standing in front of us.
“I am an Ellimist.” He said, speaking with a normal voice.
“Um, Don’t you go to my school? And isn’t your name Adam?” Tyler asked.
Adam nodded.
“So what do we call you? The Ellimist?” Rachel asked.
“No. Call me Adam if you wish. My father, he is The Ellimist.”
“Riiight that makes perfect sense.” Tyler said sarcastically.
“I’ve come to tell you something important.”
“You’re not about to tell us you’re from the future, right?” Issam asked, raising an eyebrow.
“How about you tell us who and what you are, let’s start with that.” Jen said.
“You cannot begin to understand what I am.”
“What do you need to tell us?” I asked. “What do you want with us?”
“I want you to decide”
“Decide what?”
“The fate of your race. The fate of the human race.”
“Thats all? Just the fate of the human race? Don’t you have anything more challenging for us?” Tim asked.
“We do not interfere with the private affairs of other beings-“
“I call this interfering.” I said.
Suddenly, without warning, he did it again. He opened space again. Suddenly we werent in the construction site anymore.
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Haha! Classic, Claire.... good job :)
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Great first post Claire! I can't wait to see how our characters develop (especially mine!) ;)
So are we going to be able to use our powers when in morph? I guess we shouldn't be able to, but it would be cool if my character could predict his opponent's move in a fight or something...
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This is great Claire. Awesome.
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sweet, im comic relief haha
this is awesome, keep it up
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I'd love it if we could keep our powers in-morph. An invisible Polar Bear = Bwa-ha-ha-ha!!
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No way, that's unrealistic. The whole superpowers thin gin HEROES is all about genetics. And you take on a different genetic code when you morph. So it would make sense that you couldn't use your powers in-morph.
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Thanks Tyler. I was thinking about how cool it'd be, but seeing a bull run around shooting electricity out of its horns? like, what the hell :P It'd be a bit weird, ya know?
Glad you guys like it :)
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No way, that's unrealistic. The whole superpowers thin gin HEROES is all about genetics. And you take on a different genetic code when you morph. So it would make sense that you couldn't use your powers in-morph.
Unfortunately, I have to agree. As much as I'd like to see my character predicting his opponent's moves in a fight, it wouldn't make sense for us to have animals shooting fire at Hork-Bajir or anything like that.
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That would be weird...er than it should be.
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Chapter two
The discovery
“Hey, is that me?” Anna asked, pointing.
“What are you showing us?” Mike asked.
THE DAY YOU DISCOVERED YOUR TALENTS
“How-“Nehal began to ask.
WATCH
It was so weird, we had been standing in the middle of a construction site, and now in the middle of Burger King. Crew were walking past us like we werent even there.
“That’ll be 5.95” Anna’s voice rung out.
“Thats not me, I swear.” Anna said, looking embarrassed.
“Looks like you.” I whispered back to her, nudging her with my elbow.
“Well I quit, I don’t work here anymore.”
“Ssshh guys.” Ken said quietly.
“Anna, can you go to the freezer, get a box of fries?” Someone asked Anna. She was dressed in her Burger King outfit, it was pretty funny.
Anna sighed. “But I hate the cold! Alright, I’ll do it.” She walked off into a separate room. We didnt even need to move, because suddenly we were in the freezer room too. I didnt see how we could all fit in the room, but somehow we did.
“Hmm, is the freezer even working? It’s not that cold in here.” Anna asked to herself. She went over to the thermostat, which was the right temperature. She shrugged, and picked up a box of fries, walking out of the freezer. We followed again, we were back near the front counter.
“Anna, aren’t you cold?”
“No, why?” She answered.
The girl in front of Anna pointed. Anna’s hand was covered in ice, frozen.
There was a huge flash of light, and suddenly we were gone.
“I’m just going to the mall!” Nehal yelled. We were out the front of his house, he was just leaving.
Nehal walked outside, it was sprinkling lightly with rain. “I hate the rai-“ He said, but the rain suddenly stopped. “Right.”
We appeared in the shopping centre, without moving. Nehal was now leaving the shopping centre, a bag in his hand with the milk inside. It was raining again.
“Stupid rai-“ He began to say. The rain stopped again. “That’s weird.” The wind blew a five dollar note from Nehal’s hand. “Stupid wind!” The five dollar note stopped blowing away, and became still. Nehal shook his head. “Oookay.”
There was another flash of light, and we were now at the video store nearby my house.
I saw me browsing through DVD’s and Issam walk by with a stack of DVD’s in his hands. Ah I remembered this. I walked straight into Issam, knocking the DVD’s out of his hands.
“Oh, sorry! I didn’t see you there!” I said, but there was no reply. “Um, hello?” He wasnt moving, just paused. I looked at the DVD’s, they were floating in the air. “What the? Did I just freeze time?” And then suddenly he moved, the DVD’s fell to the floor, scattering everywhere. I was staring with my eyes wide.
“You alright?” Issam asked me.
“Sorry.” I finally said. “I didn’t see you there.”
“It’s fine.” He replied. He looked at the DVD’s.
“Want some help?” I asked.
“Sure, why not.”
I bent down and picked up a couple of the DVD’s. Issam reached out, about to pick up a movie when it zoomed into his hand.
“Did you just see that?” Issam whispered.
Another flash of light and we were standing in Ken’s bedroom, he was sitting on his bed listening to music and reading a book.
“Ken!” His brother rushed into the room. He waved his hands to get Ken’s attention.
“What is it?” Ken asked, taking the earphones out of his ears.
“Don’t worry about it.” His brother said, and started to leave.
“Mum got me what for my birthday?” Ken said.
“Huh? I didn’t say anything.”
“Yes, you did. You just said that Mum got me a video camera for my birthday!”
“I didn’t say a word. How’d you know that?” His brother asked, looking confused.
Another flash of light.
We were in a school classroom, filled with computers. Tyler was sitting at the back of the class, talking to friends.
“There’s something wrong with my computer” A guy next to Tyler said.
“You tried turning it on?” Tyler said, reaching over and pressing the button.
“Yea.” The other guy said. “Can you help me fix it?”
“Why can’t you do it?” Tyler asked, but he grabbed the cord, making sure it was plugged in correctly. A small amount of electricity came out of his hand and hit the power point. There was a bang and the computer started hissing, electricity shooting through the air.
Another flash of light.
We were now standing in the middle of a busy road, near a zoo/amusement park called The Gardens. Mike walked past, stopping at the zebra crossing, and pressing the button for the lights. Rachel happened to stop at the same lights, looking as if she was about to cross the road.
Rachel stepped out onto the road.
“Watch out!” Mike yelled, running over to her, and pulling her back off of the road.
“What the heck?” Rachel said. A second later a car zoomed past the two of them. “How did you know that car was coming?”
“I don’t know.”
Rachel looked down at her watch. “Oh crap I’m late, I gotta hurry.” She ran across the road, really, really fast. She stopped on the other side. “What just happened?”
Another flash of light
We were at Jen’s house, Anna was rushing through the door.
“Jen, Jen, you’re not going to believe this!” Anna said.
“What is it?” Jen asked. She was cooking something over the stove.
Anna sat down, looking out of breath. Jen looked back at the pot on the stove, turning the heat down. Suddenly the fire flickered higher, out of control.
“Jen, you’re on fire!” Anna shouted.
“I am?” She asked, looking down at her hand, there was fire surrounding it, yet nothing was burning.
Another flash of light and we were in the city.
Tim was walking along, trying to move out of the way of people coming in the opposite direction, of course none of them moved for him.
“Sorry” Someone mumbled, bumping into Tim.
“That’s it.” He said, and he started to walk, not getting out of the way of anyone, he bumped into a tall man but walked straight through him. “What the heck?”
“Hey!” The tall man said angrily.
Tim ran for it, running into people but just passing straight through.
Yet another flash of light.
We were in the city still, but a different part.
Estelore was sitting on a chair at Starbucks. A guy ran past, grabbing Estelore’s schoolbag.
“Hey!” She yelled, running after him. She easily caught after him as he turned down an alley way. She kicked him in the shins and he fell down.
She began to walk away, but the guy got up to follow. Estelore turned back to look.
“Give me your money!” The guy said.
Estelore rolled her eyes, until he pulled a knife out of his pocket. Estelore looked shocked, and then disappeared.
“What the hell?!” The guy raged. “Where’d you go?”
One more flash of light, and we were back to the construction site.
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Ooh, very dramatic :)
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That was really good. My part was actually something that could happen...Kind of something that did happen, too...Weird.
But, yeah. Great job.
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I blew up a computer. ^-^
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Nice. I kicked butt. I actually DO take karate, and the eye-roll was perfectly timed.
You have no IDEA how true-to-life that was. There actually HAS been, in my REAL life, an incident of backpack-grab and shin-kick. The eye-roll in THAT case was due to the fact that I don't carry any substantial money on my person, EVER, 'cause I know how easy it is to lose it. I'd definitely be in a Starbucks for a Vanilla Bean Frappucino, (the ONLY good thing there, and definitely the BEST!!) so everything about me has been astonishingly plausible.
Claire, are you psychic?
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Claire, are you psychic?
Nope, that would be Ken ;)
But I'm glad it turned out well, I was starting to think you might not like it.
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Claire, are you psychic?
Nope, that would be Ken ;)
But I'm glad it turned out well, I was starting to think you might not like it.
Hehe...Good point.
But, you did get something close to my life too...You're starting to scare me.
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Didn't you know? All girls are psychic! ;D
Already told you over MSN, but I'll say it again. This fic is awesome! I saved Rachel from being car splattered! Yays! :)
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[Authors Note: KA, please forgive me! :P I stole some Animorphs lines, to make it easier to write.]
Chapter Three
Stopping the Animorphs
“Why did you show that to us? And how did you show that to us?” Anna asked.
“To make you believe.” Adam said simply, back in a normal human form.
“Right.” I said.
“You all need to do something for me. You need to stop 5 young teenagers from walking through this construction site. You must stop them.”
“I don’t get it.” Tim said.
“You and me both.” I muttered.
“Go, now and stop them.” Adam said, as he disappeared.
“Anyone else as confused as I am?” I asked.
“Oh yea.” Issam replied.
“Do you think those are the kids we’re supposed to stop?” Ken asked, pointing at a small group of people coming our way.
“Probably.” Anna said. “What do we do?”
“Hey you kids!” Tim yelled. “Get outta here!”
They continued to walk through the construction site, quickening their pace.
“Blahahahahaa!” Tim yelled insanely. 4 of the kids took off running in the opposite direction. One girl, with long blonde hair didn’t start running, so a tall boy with brown hair came back, pulled on her arm and they were outta there.
Tim laughed. “Well, they’re gone now.” He looked back at us, we were all distracted by a light in the sky.
“What’s that light?” Estelore asked, she was pointing at the sky.
I looked at the others. I knew what I thought it was. A spaceship. I didn’t want to be the first person to suggest it though.
“It’s a UFO!” Mike said loudly. Phew. Now he looked like the crazy one.
The light in the sky got closer, it did look like a UFO, it wasn’t at all like the flying saucers you might hear about, it was about the same length as a school bus. The front end was a pod, almost the same as an egg. Extending from the pod was a long, narrow shaft. There were two crooked, stubby winglike things, and on the end of each wing there was a long tube that glowed bright blue.
It looked so cool. At the end of the spaceship, there was a mean looking tail that curved up and forward, coming to a point that looked as sharp as a needle.
“I think it’s about to land!” Tyler said.
None of us moved. I couldn’t speak for the others, but I knew I was scared, but at the same time I just wanted the damn thing to land and get this over with.
“It’s stopping.” Rachel said.
“You think we should run?” I asked.
The ship finally began to descend.
“It’s coming right at us!” I shouted. I really just wanted to run away, but I was stuck, I couldn’t make myself move.
I went silent, as the spaceship landed closeby.
“Should we go and try and talk to it?” Anna suggested.
“You go first.” I replied.
“I’ll go.” Tyler said, walking towards the spaceship. Finally the rest of us decided to follow behind him.
“Do you think they’ll speak English?” Mike wondered.
“Only one way to find out.” Issam said.
“Please come out. We won’t hurt you.” Jen said loudly.
<I know.>
I froze. Okay, I had definitely heard someone say “I know” only... there hadn’t been any sound. I looked at the others.
“Did everyone else just hear that?” Ken whispered.
We all nodded at once, slowly.
“Can you come out?” Nehal asked.
<Yes. Do not be frightened.>
“We won’t be.” Tim said.
“Speak for yourself.” I muttered. The others laughed nervously.
A doorway appeared in the side of the pod. I was totally hypnotized, staring at the spaceship. Something started to step down some stairs, toward us. It looked like someone had crossed a human, a deer and a scorpion together. The alien was covered in blue and tan fur, had an upper torso that looked human, four legs, no mouth, and eyes popping out of the top of his head.
The craziest thing I had ever seen in my life.
“Holy frittatas.” I muttered.
“Hello.” Estelore said to the alien.
<Hello.> He replied.
“Hi” We all said back.
To my surprise, the alien staggered. Tyler and Tim tried to help him stand up, but he fell out of their grip.
“Look, he’s hurt!” Anna cried. She was pointing at a burn that covered the aliens right side.
<Yes, I am dying.>
“Can we help you? Call an ambulance or something?” Nehal asked.
<No. I will die. This wound is fatal.>
“No! You can’t die! You’re the first alien to come to Earth!” I don’t know why I was so upset.
<I am not the first. There are others, many others.>
“Other aliens? Like you?” Tim demanded.
The alien shook his head from side to side. <Not like me.> Then the alien cried out in pain, a silent sound that echoed in my mind.
<Not like me. They are different.>
“Different how?” Anna asked.
I will remember his answer forever.
<They have come to destroy you.>
No one suggested that he was lying to us, we all just seemed to believe him.
<They are called Yeerks. They have no body, like yours or mine, they live inside the bodies of other species>
“Like... worms?” Issam asked, raising an eyebrow.
I almost burst out in laughter despite the situation.
The alien closed his eyes, and seemed to be concentrating. An image popped into my head of a grey-brown, slimy thing like a snail without a shell.
“I’m guessing that’s a Yeerk.” Rachel said.
<They are almost powerless without hosts. The Yeerks are parasites. They must have a host to live in. In this form they are known as Controllers. They enter the brain and are absorbed into it, taking over the host's thoughts and feelings. They try to get the host to accept them voluntarily. It is easier that way. Otherwise the host may be able to resist, at least a little.>
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And, of course, Rachel stays. That was kind of funny. And the Classic Elfangor scene.
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haha that was funny, loved how i scared them away, yea classic rachel
loved the chapter of everyone getting the powers too
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I just read it and I love it!!! I kept smiling when I was reading it :D
When you're narrating about people I picture them and how I think they look like (from pics or from their discriptions) but when you talk about me I still picture the Rachel from the series XD
Great job Claire :)
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[Thanks for all your feedback, guys! You all rock! Now I know you all know this story, about the Yeerks and whatnot, but yea it's necessary. So in the next chapter, we'll go get some morphs, sound good? :P]
Chapter Four.
Gaining more power
“They take over human beings?” Tyler asked.
<We had hoped to stop them,> the alien continued. <Swarms of their Bug fighters were
waiting when our Dome ship came out of Z-Space. We knew of their mother ship and were
ready for the Bug fighters, but the Yeerks surprised us - they had hidden a powerful Blade
ship in a crater of your moon. We fought, but . . . we lost. They have tracked me here. They
will be here soon to eliminate all traces of me and my ship.>
“How can they do that?” Nehal wondered.
The alien seemed to smile with his eyes. <Their Dracon beams will leave nothing behind but
a few molecules of this ship, and . . . this body> he said. <I sent a message to my home
world. We Andalites fight the Yeerks wherever they go throughout the universe. My people
will send help, but it may take a year, even more, and by then the Yeerks will have control of
this planet. After that, there is no hope. You must tell people. You must warn your people!>
“No one would ever believe us.” I said sadly.
<I don’t have much time> The alien said. <Go into my ship, You will see a small blue box. Very plain. Bring it to me, quickly.>
I looked at the others. I thought it would be cool to go and get it, but I was kind of scared at the same time.
“I’ll go.” Mike said.
<You will find the box->
“It’s okay, I know where it is.” Mike said, and he walked off into the spaceship confidently, but I was sure he must have been scared too.
Mike came back a few seconds later holding a box. “What does this thing do? Does it shoot lasers?” He handed it to the alien. “Here’s your box.”
<Thank you. There is something I may be able to do to help you fight the Yeerks.>
“Um, we actually... have super powers.” I said lamely.
The Andalite stared back at me.
“Um.. you know, like Spider-man?” I said.
“Claire, you’re an idiot.” Issam laughed.
"What, just because he's from the planet Krypton or whatever, he might still know what Spider-man is."
<I can give you a power. A power unlike any other. It is a piece of Andalite technology that the Yeerks do not have,> the Andalite explained. <A technology that enables us to pass unnoticed in many parts of the universe - the power to morph. We have never shared this power. But your need is great.>
“So what do you mean by ‘morph’?” Ken asked.
“You’re the mind-reader.” I said to him. “Shouldn’t you already know the answer?”
<You will only need to touch a creature, to acquire its DNA pattern, and you will be able to
become that creature. It requires concentration and determination, but, if you are strong, you
can do it. There are . . . limitations. Problems. Dangers, even. But there is no time to explain
it all . . . no time. You will have to learn for yourselves. But first, do you wish to receive this
power?>
“This is nuts!” Tim muttered.
“Yea that’s for sure.” I said.
“What’s that?” Rachel asked, looking up at the sky.
<Yeerks.> The Andalite said, and I could feel his hatred. <There is no more time. You must decide.>
“Well, let’s do it.” Estelore said.
<Each of you, place your hand on the sides of the square.>
“Um, isn’t there too many of us?” I muttered.
<There is no time.>
We all put our hands on the square, but we ran out of room fast.
<Do not be afraid.> The Andalite said.
Something that was similar to a shock seemed to run through me. It was very weird.
<Go now,> the Andalite said. <Only remember this - never remain in animal form for more
than two of your Earth hours. Never! That is the greatest danger of the morphing! If you stay
longer than two hours you will be trapped, unable to return to human form.>
“Two hours.” Mike repeated.
The Andalite was now staring up at the sky with his main eyes.
Something else was up there with the Bug fighters.
<Visser Three! He comes.>
“What? What’s a Visser?” I asked.
<Go now. Run! Visser Three is here. He is the most deadly of your enemies. Of all Yeerks he
alone has the power to morph, The same power you now have. Run!>
"No, we'll stay with you," Rachel said "Maybe we can help."
Again it was as if the alien was smiling at us with his eyes. <No. You must save yourselves.
Save yourselves and save your planet! The Yeerks are here.>
We all looked up and sure enough, the two red lights were sinking toward us.
And they had been joined by a third ship, far larger, black as a shadow within a shadow.
“What are we supposed to do? How do we fight them?” Anna asked.
<You will find a way, now go!>
“He’s right, come on , run!” Jen yelled.
We all ran and hid behind a small half built wall. We saw weird monster-like aliens getting out of another spaceship, they were covered in spikes.
<Hork-Bajir Controllers.> The Andalite said weakly. <The Hork-Bajir are a good people, despite their fearsome looks,> the Andalite said. <But they have been enslaved by the Yeerks. Each of them now carries a Yeerk in his head. They are to be pitied.>
Our attention was drawn away by a new form that crept and slithered out of the Blade ship.
<Taxxon-Controllers,> the Andalite said. I knew he was trying to tell us all he could, even to the end. Trying to prepare us for what we were up against.
<The Taxxons are evil.>
“They look it.” I muttered. They looked like massive centipedes, gross.
They had dozens of legs that supported the lower two thirds of their bodies. The top third was
held upright, and there the rows of legs became smaller, with little lobster-claw hands.
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Ooo, exciting :D
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Jah. I had a Rachel moment, too! (book-Rachel, not Touquie-Rachel)
Wild! I find this terribly amusing.
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Nice use of my power again Claire, even though it was subtle. Looks like we're finally getting to the good stuff eh?
Oh, and it's possible Elfangor may have known about Spiderman due to his time on Earth. Maybe he read them for a laugh! ;)
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Haha...Spider-man....Good chapter, Claire.
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Is it possible for me to get offended at myself for called you an idiot, than it is for you being called one? Hmm...
Good fic so far. I'm enjoying it ;D
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Great so far Claire! Only looks like it'll get better!
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That's what I was thinking, when she said spiderman, that he'd get it.
Okay, see, and this would be the point where I'd jokingly go "I wonder what crispy-fried taxxon looks like" XD sorry, had to say it...considering I'm the pyro of the group...
Keep up the good work, Claire
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hey I promised I'd read your fic Claire...i really like it! :)
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[You guys all rock, I'm sure I mentioned that, but your nice comments are making my day! :) I hope you guys can put up with my Australian grammar and spelling, even though the fic is set in California. Hehe, I can't believe I said "Burger King." They are Hungry Jack's over here. Anyways thats not the point.. On with the story, Jen there's something in there for you, you'll know it when you read it. I added your line as well. Tyler isn't in this chapter much, he requested something that shall be revealed soon enough. Okay, no more talking! More story!]
Chapter Five
Meeting Visser Three
A bunch of Hork-Bajir and Taxxon Controllers swarmed out of the ship, they were everywhere.
"I wonder what crispy-fried taxxon looks like" Jen whispered. I tried not to laugh.
They all seemed to stand at attention, and then he appeared.
<Visser Three> The Andalite said.
Visser Three was an Andalite. Or at least, he was an Andalite-controller.
"What the…." Rachel said. "Isn't that an Andalite?"
<Only once has a Yeerk been able to take an Andalite body.> The Andalite said. <There is only one Andalite-controller. That one is Visser Three.>
Visser Three walked confidently toward the wounded Andalite. There was something about him that seemed evil.
<Well, well.> Visser Three said.
<What have we here? A meddling Andalite?> Visser Three looked more closely at the Andalite's ship. <Ah, but no ordinary Andalite warrior. Prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, if I am not mistaken. An honor to meet you. You're a legend. How many of our fighters have you shredded? Seven, or was it eight by the time the battle ended?>
The Andalite didn't answer. But I had the feeling maybe it had been more than eight.
<The very last Andalite in this sector of space. Yes, I'm afraid your Dome ship has been completely destroyed. Completely. I watched it burn as it fell into the atmosphere of this little world.>
<There will be others,> the Andalite prince said.
The Visser continued to taunt the Andalite, but Elfangor struck without warning.
His tail whipped up and over, so fast you couldn't really see it. The Visser twisted his head aside. The Andalite's tail blade missed the Visser's head by a bare half-inch. But it sliced into his shoulder. Blood - or something like blood - sprayed from the wound.
<Aaaaaarrrrrgh!> I could hear the Visser's howl of pain in my head.
At the same time, a blinding beam of blue light shot from the tail of the Andalite ship. It sliced into the nearest Bug fighter. Hork-Bajir and Taxxons scattered.
They destroyed the Andalite’s ship.
The Visser began to change, grow much larger. He turned into a huge monster-like creature, I wanted to look away but I just couldn't.
He picked the Andalite up, raising him high into the air. The Andalite struck again and again with his tail, but each strike was like a pinprick against such a creature.
Ugh, I couldn't take it anymore and I threw up.
"We have to get out of here!" One of us yelled, I was too distracted to see who it was.
Everyone got up and ran, Rachel tugged on my hand to get me to move.
Two Hork-Bajir were right behind us!
"I don't think so!" Issam shouted, using his telekinesis to make one of the Hork-Bajir trip. The Hork-Bajir stumbled into the other one, and they both fell to the ground.
"Nice job." I said as we continued to run.
We ran and ran, I lost the others but didn't care, I continued to run, out of breath.
Somehow I made it home, I barely even remember it.
The next morning I was woken up by strange voices in my room.
"Claire, Claire! Wake up!" The voices said.
I groaned and rolled over. "Gimme ten more minutes, Mum" I mumbled.
I heard laughing. "This isn't your Mum, now get up!" The voice sounded like Anna.
Suddenly my bed was freezing, so overly cold!
"Ahh!" I said as I leaped out of my bed.
I looked around, seeing Rachel, Jen and Anna in my room.
"What are you guys doing here?' I asked. "Now I'm freezing, thanks a lot Anna."
Jen made a small fireball in her hands, making the room warm.
"Thanks, that's a bit better." I got up out of bed.
"I see you slept in your clothes too."
"What on Earth are you guys wearing?" I asked, the three of them were wearing weird shorts and t-shirts. "Last night… Did it really happen?" I wondered.
'Oh yea." Jen said. "Watch this, and don't freak out."
"I won't." I replied.
"That's what they said." Jen said, jerking her thumb towards Rachel and Anna.
She closed her eyes for a second, and her mouth and nose began to stretch out, turning hard and beak-like.
"Ahh, what are you doing?" I cried.
Jen began to shrink, getting smaller and smaller, feathers were growing all around her body.
In a matter of minutes, she was a bird. To be more specific, she was a ****atiel. Her pet ****atiel named Orsino.
"Or..sino? Jen, you just morphed into your bird." I said slowly.
Jen flew up into the air, landing on my shoulder. <I did? Well I didn't even notice> She said, laughing in my head. That was so weird.
"Close your mouth, you're letting flies in." Rachel said to me.
I closed my mouth and shook my head. "Have you guys tried this yet?" I asked.
"Yea." Rachel said.
"I have too." Anna replied. "I morphed into my cat, Sprite."
I shook my head again, as Jen flew down to the ground and began to morph back to herself.
"Come on, Claire, the others are waiting for us downstairs. Grab some tight fitting clothes and put them on, and meet us down there." Jen said.
"Oookay." I muttered. I got changed into a pair of bike shorts and a cookie monster t-shirt I had for a year or so. I ran downstairs to meet up with the others.
"Mum, Dad, I'm going out" I shouted.
I met up with the others in my front yard, all of them wearing atrocious outfits, but mine was too so I didn't say anything.
I looked at everyone, realising someone was missing. "Where's Tyler?"
"We can't find him." Estelore answered.
"Right oh."
"So Claire, do you have any pets?" Issam asked.
"Yea, A dog.. why?"
"You want to try out morphing?"
"Morphing.. Um, I suppose.'
We went through the gate, and into my backyard.
"Prince!' I called. "Princeee!"
Finally my dog came up to me, dusty and dirty.
"Be warned, guys. He likes humping people's legs." I warned, as he sniffed out at everyone. "Now, what do I do?"
"Just touch the dog, concentrate on him, and you'll acquire him." Mike answered.
"You've all tried it?"
"Yea, most of us." Tim said.
I did what they told me to do, I concentrated on my dog. He went into a sort of trance, not moving very much.
"Okay, now concentrate, think about your dog, think about Prince." Jen coached.
I shut my eyes, thinking about Prince. I opened my eyes, feeling the changes began.
"Whoa, whoa!" I said. My skin was changing, I was growing black fur all over my body. My face changed first, becoming like a dog. My mouth sprouted outwards and I found I couldn’t talk anymore.
I fell down on all fours, my arms and legs shortened, becoming dog's legs, I could feel a tail sprouting out of my… well you know where tails are.
I was Prince. I was my dog. And boy was I HAPPY! It was overwhelming. I barked. How odd.
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Hehe...Jen morphed Orsino. That was cool.
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Haha, Prince is humpilicious
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1. Hungry Jacks...eegads...ho rrible name change from Burger King. I can hear the aussie accent right now ...
2. THANK YOU! Haha, I was dying laughing at this whole thing, 'cause you know if given the chance, this little thing asleep on the desk in front of me is the first thing I'd morph ;) My family now thinks I'm completely psychotic 'cause I really did laugh at my computer screen, and point, like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread ::) I'm a dork, I know.
Very good chapter!
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[Hey, who wants to be the leader? Coz I don't. I'd get you all killed. Any suggestions? Oh and Nehal, wherever you are.. lol, I don't have your morphs yet...]
Chapter Six.
Learning to morph
It was so weird, I was seeing everything so differently and it kind of freaked me out. I looked up at the faces of my friends, getting lost in the morph. The real Prince barked and sniffed me, confused. I trotted along happily. I looked around, seeing an open gate. Without thinking, I raced outside.
"Ahh! Get her!" Someone shouted, and the others chased after me.
I went along the footpath, sniffing things. A person walked by with shopping bags. I had lost control of the morph.
"Oh man, Oh no!" Rachel said.
"Someone stop her!" Anna said.
That snapped me back to reality. I stopped what I was doing. In case you can't tell, yes, I was humping some random person's leg.
Tim grabbed me. "Sorry, this isn't our dog, it's the neighbours!" He apologised.
"You got control of your morph yet?" Mike asked, as we walked back into my yard.
Once it was safe, I concentrated on myself again, growing taller, losing fur, getting my arms and hands back, and I stood up.
I smiled sheepishly at everyone.
"Sorry guys!" I said.
"And so you should be." Anna said, and started to laugh. Soon enough everyone was cracking up laughing.
"I'll never live this one down, will I?" I asked.
"Alright guys." Mike said, in all seriousness. "I acquired AJ, my rabbit, this morning. We've all acquired animals, but haven't all morphed yet. I think we need to go to someone’s house and try it out."
"And we'll need strong morphs too. Big morphs." Issam said.
"But we have super powers." I said.
"Yea of course we do, but we can't let the Yeerks find out about us. It’s too dangerous."
"So off to my work then?" Mike suggested. "Since I work at the Gardens, a zoo and amusement park, I'm sure you all know it."
"Shouldn't we find Tyler?" I asked.
"We went to his house, his parents said they had no idea where he was."
"Okay, well we need him to come with us. Maybe we don't have to do this all straight away. I think our first priority should be to find Tyler."
"What, are you the leader now?" Ken asked.
"No… Hell no." I said. "I'd be terrible. You guys don't have to listen to me, I was just suggesting it. Because Tyler is one of us now, we need him here with us."
"She's right." Mike said. "We'll split up. Where does Tyler like to hang out?" He asked.
"I'm going with Estelore." I said. Me, Estelore, Jen and Mike went one way, while the others split up in two more groups, and we went looking for Tyler.
We swung past his house, but he wasn't there yet again. Estelore said he worked at a dog shelter, or dog hotel, whatever you want to call it. Where owners drop their dogs off for the night, and they get looked after.
"So you think Tyler will be here?" I asked as we walked in, seeing a bunch of dogs everywhere.
"He should be." Estelore replied. A dog, a Saint Bernard to be exact, came over to Estelore.
"Friendly dog." Mike said, patting the dog.
"Yea. He seems to like Estelore. Are you a dog person or something?" Jen asked.
"Can I help you guys?" A man came up to us.
"Is Tyler working today?" Mike asked.
"Yea. The last I saw of him he was around the back. It's that doorway over there. Go straight in." He pointed at a door and then walked off to do some other work.
We went through the door, the saint Bernard walking with us.
I looked down at the dog, wondering why it was walking free.
It ran off around the corner, so I decided to follow it.
It grew taller suddenly, an almost four foot tall dog. The legs changed first, becoming human legs. A dog with human legs. Now that's something you don't see everyday.
"Tyler?" I asked.
"Hey Tyler!" Estelore said, she came up behind me and gave Tyler a hug. "Where are your glasses?"
"I don't need them anymore." He grinned. "I've been morphing dogs all day!"
"We've all been looking for you." Mike said. "When do you finish work?"
"Oh, I'm not actually working today. I said I'd volunteer because I wanted to get some morphs." Tyler said.
"Okay, we had better go meet with the others at The Gardens. We said that even if we didn't find you that we'd meet there." Jen said.
I teleported the others to The Gardens and we met up with the others.
"Okay guys, follow me." Mike said. We followed him to a door that read "Employees only."
"We're not gonna get caught back here are we?" I asked.
"I sure hope not." Mike replied. "I like my job."
"What animals are back here?"Anna asked.
"Big cats. Who wants a big cat morph?"
"Ooo I do!" I said excitedly. Then I realised that I'd have to get in a cage with a lion, and realised how freaky that was.
"Who's going to go first? I really want the Liger to be my battle morph, he's only been here about a month, and he's so cool."
"You can go first then." Jen said.
Mike went up to the door that said "Liger exhibit." He paused for a second, and then walked inside.
"Oh geez. He's going to die." I muttered.
A few minutes later, Mike was back, with a smile on his face. "Well that was easy. He went into a trance straight away."
Because his encounter went well, I rushed to the Lion exhibit. "I'll be right back guys." I walked into the exhibit. I couldn't see the lion anywhere. I hoped he was sleeping. Oh please say he was sleeping.
"Grrrrrr" I heard behind me. I gulped and turned around.
The Lion was staring at me with its golden brown eyes. I stared back, I could barely move.
He lunged!
"Aahhhh Don't eaaaaaaaat meeeeeeeeee!" I yelled, as I teleported out of the way.
I teleported again, right next to the Lion. I put my hand of it's back, acquiring it. Luckily it went into a trance. Phew.
I left the exhibit and met up with the others.
"He tried to eat me!"
"I had no problems." Anna said, coming out of another door. "I went and acquired a leopard!"
Ken appeared from a door to my left, and Tim a door further along the hallway.
"What did you guys choose?" I asked.
"Black panther. Man are they cool or what?" Tim grinned.
"Tiger." Ken answered. He was smiling too.
"Okay guys, what about you?" Mike asked the others.
"Polar Bear!" Estelore said.
"I was going to say that!" Rachel said.
"Alright, so two polar bears. Let's go." Mike led the way to the area where the bears were.
"Let's go in at the same time." Estelore suggested, and she walked in the exhibit with Rachel close behind.
"Ooo Black Bear!" Jen said, walking into another exhibit.
"Hey, where would the bulls be?" Tyler asked Mike.
"And how about the Gorillas?" Issam asked.
"We'll go there once the others are back. Nehal, what morph do you want?"
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Ooo, now Claire's humpilicious!
Cool chapter :)
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lol nice one
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Kinda' funny: I AM a dog person. Dogs are addicted to my presence. ;D
Yaay! I hugged Tyler! :happy30: :hug2:
This is FUN STUFF!! Nice, Claire!!
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Ooo, now Claire's humpilicious!
Hahaha! Good one! I actually half expected that to happen after she mentioned how "active" the dog was, since she would get the same instincts when she morphed it. Either that or I really can see the future! ;D
Great chapter Claire, I'm glad I seem to have a more active role now that I'm the guy who can get you all into The Gardens. As some of you know, I do work at a zoo, but it doesn't have big animals like that. I;d love to work at a place like The Gardens though. That would be awesome!
I honestly don't mind who the leader is. As long as I make sarcastic comments occasionally and get to use my power in cool ways, then I'm good. :P Of course, I won't object to being made the leader either.
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Haha...no, Claire, you never WOULD live that down, mwahaha!
I'd volunteer to be the leader, but I dunno if you want someone who plays with fire having all the power ;)
This keeps getting better and better...hehe.
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Ooo, now Claire's humpilicious!
Hahaha...Nice.
Yay! Chapter good! I mean Good chapter....
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I've always found myself stuck in a semi-reluctant leadership role in all my activities at school and volunteer work, so I could plausibly lead, but I'll not mind it if someone else leads.
I am an extraordinary planner/strategiser, though. I'm good at thinking ahead and beyond.
This is all so terribly interesting!
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Yay, budding relationship between Estelore and Myself! ;D
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You know it!
Thanks, Claire!
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:barf:
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Ken, you really need to resolve those nausea issues....
Also, we should probably reserve our posting about it for the OTHER thread, so as to stop interrupting the continuity of the story.
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Haha okay guys, yea you better start posting in the other thread.
You're out of control! :P
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Will you hurry it up and post another chapter then? ;) kidding lol...had to though
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That was amazing I can't wait to see what happens next!
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Will you hurry it up and post another chapter then? ;) kidding lol...had to though
Haha...Agreeing.
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LOL, great chapter Claire. Humping something is always hilarious, haha ;)
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I agree with Est and Claire. Discussion should be kept to the other thread or the Fanfiction Feedback thread.
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[Gah, I was in a mental block with my idea about the Yeerk Pool, About to start writing the flashback, and my brain gave up on me! So, I'm improvising.. Nehal, sorry but I can't wait forever for your morphs, so Osprey is now your bird morph, hope you don't mind.
Oo Edit: I just thought of some cool ideas for the next chapter, guess we won't be going to the Yeerk Pool just yet... Oh and guys, as much as I love your feedback, could you please remember to post it in the other thread, so the story doesnt get too interrupted, thanks!]
Chapter Seven
Bird morphs
We all met up at Tim's house, he had a big garage in his backyard that was great for meetings.
Ken told us about the Yeerk Pool, he said he had read Elfangor's mind and learned a lot about the Pool.
After discussing that, I realised we needed bird morphs, since we had to walk around everywhere, and flying would be simpler.
"I think we need bird morphs." I said to the others. "This running around from place to place is getting ridiculous."
"This girl from my school.. whats her name... Cassie that's it, her parents have a a barn filled with sick and injured animals." Ken told us.
"Well we can't exactly sneak in there, and do you even know where she lives?" I asked.
"Um.. I kind of forgot." Ken admitted.
"Alright, theres this place near my house, exotic birds and stuff. We'll go there first and if we don't all find a bird morph, we'll check out Cassie's barn." Issam suggested.
"That's a great idea." Tim said.
"Hey, can't I just use Orsino as my bird morph?" Jen asked.
"Bird of Prey would be more useful, faster, stronger than a ****atiel." Mike said.
15 minutes later we were at the bird place, looking around.
"You need some help?" A woman with a falcon sitting on her shoulder came out from a side room.
"Ken, check if shes a controller." I heard Anna whisper in Ken's ear.
He seemed to be concentrating. "She's not" He whispered back.
"Wow, nice bird." Issam said. "Can I pat him?"
"Sure go ahead. He's a peregrine falcon and his name is Sam." The woman smiled as Issam patted the bird.
He must have acquired it, because the bird seemed really calm. Ken walked over and patted the bird too.
"Sam really likes you guys." The woman said.
"Hey, isn't this bird Australian?" I pointed at a really gorgeous bird.
"Yea, thats a Wedge-Tailed Eagle."
"Ooo can I pat him?"
"Actually it's a she. I name all of the birds here, she's called Nicole."
"Right. So can I pat her?"
"Since you guys seem nice, I'll let you." She opened the cage for me, and I reached in. The bird didnt seem to mind at first, but got a bit agitated, moving away from me.
I finally got to touch it, and patted it gently. I concentrated on the bird, acquiring it.
Mike chose a Harris Hawk, Rachel chose a White Bellied sea eagle, Tyler chose a Crested eagle and Estelore chose a Harpy eagle.
The others couldn't find any that they wanted to acquire, so we left to go to Cassie's farm.
We snuck in, luckily no one was around. We had seen a man in a truck leaving earlier, so we came at a good time.
"I like this bird." Jen said, pointing at a bird in a cage. "Red Tailed Hawk." The bird had a broken wing.
"So if you morph it, it won't have a broken wing right?" I asked.
"Yea, it shouldnt be hurt, since I'm just acquiring the DNA." Jen replied. We found a set of keys and opened the cages that we needed.
Tim acquired a Golden eagle, while Nehal chose an Osprey and Anna chose a Common Black hawk.
"Well we all have bird morphs now, this will be a lot easier." Tim said.
"We should get a seagull morph while we're here." I pointed at a couple of cages, where three seagulls were sitting.
"Good idea, they are everywhere and less suspicious." Jen said.
"Yea, shouldn't we practice flying or something?" Anna suggested.
"Yea, for sure." Mike agreed.
"It's Morphin' Time!" Tyler yelled.
"I can't believe you just said that." Estelore said, shaking her head at him.
I concentrated on the Wedge-Tailed Eagle. My arms were itchy all of a sudden, feathers were sprouting on them, they stretched out and became giant wings.
"Claire, that looks awes-" Tim began to say as his face stretched out into a beak.
Estelore had started to shrink before any other changes began, it was a weird sight to see.
Tyler had giant talons as his feet and Mike was almost all bird, just his head hadn't changed.
Now I was shrinking, and my legs and feet were the last things to change, must have looked really weird.
I looked at Jen and suddenly wished that I hadn't. She had no feathers on her arms yet, it looked like a bone was sticking out. Gross, but I couldn't look away at first, until the feathers began to grow.
Once I was finished, I looked around at everyone, I had an urge to flap my wings and fly away from all the noises around me, and the other birds.
<Don't lose control of the morph again Claire> Anna said, making everyone laugh.
<I knew I'd never live it down> I said. If I was human I would have rolled my eyes.
<Hey, I have a question. How do we fly?> Nehal asked.
<I have absolutely no idea> I admitted.
<The bird knows how> Mike said simply.
I flapped my wings awkwardly, and eventually I got off the ground and flew out of a high open window. The others flew out the same place as me, Tim only just fitting with his morph being larger than ours.
<This is awesome!> Issam yelled excitedly.
<I know! Wooooo hoooooo!> Anna shouted.
None of us were shutting up. We kept yelling about how cool it was. We flew over our houses and all around town.
<How long has it been?> I asked nervously. I didn't want to get trapped as a bird, can you imagine if that happened?
<One hour, 13 minutes.> Mike answered. He had the bright idea of strapping a watch to his left talon. He would have looked suspicious though.
We stopped on the roof of a fast food joint and demorphed. Mike demorphed quicker than any of us.
"How'd you demorph so quickly Mike? And you looked alot better than us, we make morphing look gross." I said, making a face.
"I don't know." Mike shrugged.
"I'm hungry, aren't you guys?" Tyler said.
"Yea. But look at what we are wearing, we can't exactly walk into McDonalds looking like this." I gestured to our clothes.
"You're right." Jen nodded in agreement.
We remorphed to seagull to be less suspicious and flew to our homes to have lunch.
We all said we would meet tomorrow, after we had all finished with school and work and family commitments.
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[Okay, here goes, into the world of other peoples POVs...I decided to go with Ken's and Tim's POV, there will be more of Ken's soon, and others too..
Edit: Sorry this is a shorter chapter, I didn't realise since my Word isn't working on my laptop..]
Chapter Eight.
The blue box
KEN'S POV:
I was at school when I saw him. A kid holding the blue box. He had blonde hair, and brown eyes, and a look on his face that suggested he had an attitude. I freaked out and started to walk over to him, but another boy stopped him.
"Hey David, I told you to hide the box, man."
"Sorry Terry." David said sarcastically.
Terry had dark brown hair and brown eyes, and was wearing a Coca Cola baseball cap. They looked similar, like they could be related or something.
I decided I had to talk to them, so I did. "Hey, what's that box? I could.. uh.. pay you for it?" I searched in my pockets for money, finding only 3 dollars.
"Uh, no thanks." Terry said, looking at David.
"Wait, it looks really cool, you sure I can't buy it from you."
"Sorry man, we're not interested." David replied, and with that they both walked away.
TIM'S POV:
My phone went off as I was leaving work. It was a text message from Ken saying "Guys, we have a problem. We need to meet up earlier. Anyone who can come, meet me out front of my school."
I got home, put down my bag and everything and opened my window. I morphed to Golden Eagle and flew to meet with Ken.
Issam, Ken, Estelore and Rachel were all there.
"Hey guys." I said once I demorphed. "What's going on?"
"Some kids at Ken's school have the blue box!" Rachel answered.
"What blue box?" I asked.
"You know, the morphing cube, that Elfangor showed us." Ken said. "The guys are called Terry and David."
"Ah, of course. How did they get it?"
"I read their minds. They found it at the construction site."
"Well I could go to the kids locker, phase in and get it. Easy." I suggested. "And if needed, Issam could use his telekinesis."
"Good idea." Issam said.
We went back in the school yard, looking for Terry and David.
Estelore made us all invisible, I hadn't known that she could do that, but it was cool.
Finally we found Terry and David, they were cutting class and were standing in a hallway at their lockers.
"You gotta keep it hidden. Or you'll have more kids asking about it" Terry said to David.
"I know, I know." They both walked towards us, but of course couldn't see us.
Once they were out of sight, I walked up to the locker and walked inside it. It was a small locker, but it didn't worry me.
I phased back out almost straight away.
"It's not there. Rachel, go and stop them before they get too far away!"
Rachel nodded and used her super speed to go and catch up to the guys.
We followed, much slower behind her. We stayed invisible, Rachel was the only one who could be seen.
"What do you want?" David demanded.
"Nothing, I just want to talk." Rachel said. Suddenly I heard Ken's voice in my head. He was projecting his thoughts to us.
<In the bag, The cube is in David's bag.>
Issam used his telekinesis to lift the bag into the air and in his arms.
"Hey, what are you doing?!" Terry asked.
"Here, Rachel." Issam said, and Rachel zoomed off with the bag.
"Who said that?" Terry asked, looking around.
"You shouldn't have done that, that bag had valuables in it." David warned.
"We know." I said, making Terry and David glance around, trying to see the source of the voice. "Boo."
"Ah, so the girl has some invisible friends huh. Well that's just perfect." David said.
He came right up to me, about to punch me in the face.
"He can see us?!" I shouted.
"Yea, I can see you." David said smugly.
I punched him first before he could do anything. I felt bad for about a second, since the kid was half my size.
"Hey, what's the matter with you?" Terry asked, running to David's side. Pretty sure he was unconscious too..
"Uh.. sorry?" I murmured.
Well, Terry soon got his comeback. He must have had a power too, coz he was suddenly jumping all over the place crazily like a squirrel on steroids, and then it all went black.
*Authors Note: Yes, David has a power. He can see heat signatures of living things.. basically. It's not very strong and very limited, but I thought you guys ought to know.
Yes, Terry has a power. How to explain it I don't exactly know. He effects gravity around him, making him be able to jump better than the average person, but it's also limited.
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[Glad to see you were surprised by David. And ugh I'm on my laptop again with no Word.]
Chapter Nine:
Controllers in the family
ISSAM'S POV:
After we dragged Tim out of the school hallway, we decided it was time to go home.
Rachel had zoomed off ages ago, she was going to hide the box without telling us where it would be.
We splashed some water on Tim, and he finally woke up, asking what had happened.
We walked our separate ways home, I considered flying but decided just to walk. I ran into Tyler and Mike, who were discussing who would win in a fight between Batman and Spiderman.
"Spider-man." I said, interrupting their conversation.
We walked past the community centre.
"Hey, here's a free flyer." Some guy was standing on the corner handing out flyers to people as they walked past.
"Sure." I looked at the flyer in my hands. "The Sharing?"
"What's that?" Mike asked.
"It seems it's kind of like the boy scouts." I replied.
"Never been into the boy scouts." Tyler said.
I threw the flyer into a nearby bin.
"Hey, isn't that Ken's brother?" I asked the others, as I saw Ken's brother walking out of the community centre.
"Yea, CJ I think."
KEN'S POV:
I was laying on my bed with music in my ears, but nothing I did would make it stop.
I could hear my Mums thoughts, my sisters thoughts, everyones thoughts! even the neighbour next doors thoughts! It wouldn't go away! I groaned and put a pillow over my head. I could still hear everything!
<Dinner Time> I could hear my Mum thinking it, but since she was downstairs I couldn't hear her actual voice.
I took the music out of my ears and went downstairs to have dinner. I had a massive headache that wouldn't go away, everyone thought way too much!
CJ walked through the door a few minutes later and I was putting the spaghetti in my bowl.
<The Sharing... great idea.. got me this host.. convince.. family to join.. brother...>
Hang on one moment.. That wasn't my brothers thoughts. I concentrated on my brothers thoughts, trying to ignore everyone elses.
<Nooo! Not my family, not Ken! Please, I'll do whatever you want, leave my family alone.>
Oh no, Oh god no. My brother.. a controller? No! This couldn't be happening! I nearly dropped the bowl I was holding.
"I'm gonna go eat this in my room." I mumbled as I raced up the stairs to my room.
I put down the food and started to pace my room. I kicked at the clothes on the floor angrily.
I pushed all my books off of my desk. I was so angry!
I sat on my bed with my face in my hands, until I started to hear my brothers thoughts, he must have come upstairs.
"Hey, Ken!" He shouted to me.
I quickly hopped into my bed and pretended to be sleeping, trying to block out his thoughts.
My brother soon left the room, realising I was "asleep".
I soon discovered I had tears running down my face. I reached over to pick up my mobile phone and dialled Anna.
ANNA'S POV:
I sat in the kitchen, watching the news. "Heads.. ripped open" The reporter said about some murder that happened recently in Los Angeles.
"Why are you watching that, Anna?" my Mum asked.
"Oh, its news." I replied.
The phone began to ring, so I reached over and picked it up before my Mum got the chance.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Anna, this is Ken, can I come see you?"
"I'll ask." I held the phone receiver. "Hey, Mum can Ken come over for a little while?"
"It's a bit late..."
"It's only 6!" I protested.
My Mum shook her head.
I coughed and said bird quietly into the phone. I went up to my room, and Ken flew in through the window about 10 minutes later.
"Hey. What's wrong?"
"My brother...he..he's... a controller." He replied sadly.
"Oh my god!" I said, giving Ken a hug.
CLAIRE'S POV:
Two birds flew in my window, I was startled. "Whoa!"
I looked more closely at them. "Anna.. and probably Ken, right?" I lived closeby to Anna so I wasn't totally surprised why they were both here.
<Yea> They answered, and demorphed.
"What's going on?" I asked.
"We need to call a meeting, but we can't meet at my place, since... my brother.. and Anna's Mum won't allow it, so can you call the others?" Ken said breathlessly.
"Sure, no problems."
"Oh no." Ken muttered. "It's happening again, I can hear everything! Stop thinking guys!" He put his hands over his ears.
"Are your parents home?" Anna asked me.
"Just my Dad, but I think he's sleeping."
"He's... not sleeping Claire. Oh man.. Oh no.. not him too.." Ken said.
"Huh?" I asked, confused.
"Your Dad... my brother. Both of them are controllers."
"No! I don't believe you, not my Dad, never!" I almost shouted.
"Quiet!" Anna hissed, rushing to put her hands over my mouth.
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Chapter Ten
Sylar kills
Meanwhile...
DAVID'S POV:
Me and Terry were walking home. We just cut into an alley way.
"I told you to hide that box" Terry was raging. "Because of you, some idiots have it."
"Shut up, man." I shouted back. "How was I supposed to know that would happen?"
"Hey, who's that?" Terry asked, pointing at the end of the alleyway.
"How should I know." I said, rolling my eyes. I turned to look. It was a man wearing dark clothing and black cap, and he was walking towards us.
"It's just some guy, who cares?"
"It's not just some guy, he's freaking me out." Terry said nervously.
"He's probably some drug dealer, let's just ignore him."
The guy came closer to us, we walked a bit faster to go past him as he stood still.
I turned back to look to show that I wasn't afraid.
"Hey dude, what do you want?" I demanded.
The man stayed silent.
Suddenly I was slammed against the fence behind me.
"Holy $%@^" Terry shouted, and started to run.
"Hey man don't just leave" I yelled.
The man turned to look at Terry, waving his hand slightly. Terry slammed into the fence next to him and crashed to the ground.
My eyes went wide, as the man turned back to me.
"Who are you? What do you want?" I fumed. I tried to fight the guy, but I couldn't move. "What are you doing?"
He grabbed me by the throat, and with his free hand he pointed at me. I screamed as he started to cut my head open.
TERRY'S POV:
I heard my cousin screaming, but I could barely move. I finally managed to stand up.
"David! Noooo!" I shouted when I turned to look at them both. It was disgusting.
I started to run, but I was frozen in place by the crazy guy.
I turned around to look at him, that was about all I could do at first.
I leaped into the air and jumped over the guys head, landing behind him. That was hard though, and tiring, my power wasn't really that strong.
I ran towards a fence beside me, getting ready to try and jump it, or at least climb it. I started to climb it, and fell back to the ground. Crap!
The guy must have had telekinesis or something, because somehow I knew he was doing this. He walked over to me, and pointed his finger at me the same way he did to David.
"Aahhhh!" I felt my forehead being cut open.
ESTELORE'S POV:
I was walking home with Tyler, about to cut through an alleyway.
"What the hell?" Tyler said, pointing at a guy lying on the ground closeby without the top of his head.
"I think we should get out of here." I said quietly. I grabbed Tyler's arm and made us both invisible.
"The guy's still over there!" Tyler was still pointing. A man wearing dark clothing had just killed another boy.
"Okay, yea we definately have to get out of here."
We walked away, quickening our pace. Tylers phone made a noise in his pocket.
"It's Claire. We need to meet up at her house, her backyard to be exact. It's important."
TYLER'S POV:
We walked into Claire's yard about 20 minutes later. Everyone was scattered around the yard and were talking amongst themselves.
"Some guy killed some kids in an alley way." I told the others.
"Who killed who?" Claire asked.
"Some guy.. killed these two kids, a guy with blonde hair and a guy with brown hair. One looked Ken's age and one was about Rachel's age."
"Oh my god, you mean Terry and David? We just got the morphing cube from them." Rachel said.
"Well they're dead." I said.
"Their heads... were ripped open." Estelore cut in.
"No way! I heard about that earlier, on the news. Some guy in Los Angeles killed two people two days ago. A man and a woman.. The only survivor was their daughter.. Molly Walker I think her name was." Anna told us.
"That's pretty heavy." Tim said.
"Why did he kill those guys? I don't get it." Claire said.
*Authors Note: This chapter takes place at the same time as the last post. Around 5:00 or so, thats why it says meanwhile at the top of the post.
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Chapter Eleven
A message from the future
RACHEL'S POV:
"Okay, so why was this meeting called?" I asked.
"There's something I need to tell you all." Ken said. "My brother, CJ, he's a controller. It happened recently too, because he wasn't a controller yesterday. Claire's father is also a controller."
"And I have no idea when he became a controller." Claire added.
"Okay, we need to think of how or when they became controllers." Issam said.
"Yea.. Well my brother.. he's been hanging out with.. wait! He joined some group a week ago. He said something about becoming a full member.. and I heard the Yeerks thoughts.. something about The Sharing giving him a host.. my brother."
"The Sharing?" Tyler asked. "Didn't we walk past them or something?"
"Yea, they were handing out flyers.. I should have kept it." Issam considered.
"So we need to find out who these people are." Nehal said.
Tim nodded. "Yea, thats a good idea."
"Right okay then." I said. "How do we exactly go about doing this?"
"We need a plan for starters." Jen said.
"For sure." Anna agreed.
"Oh guys, Oh my god, I can't believe I didn't mention this earlier." Ken said suddenly.
"What, what is it?" I asked.
MIKE'S POV
"The Yeerk Pool. The Andalite, Elfangor. I read his mind, and I learned all about the Yeerk Pool." Ken continued to explain about the Yeerk Pool.
"Okay, first things first, the Sharing, we infiltrate." Issam suggested.
"I think we-" Tyler started to say, but then he froze.
"Tyler?" I asked. I looked at everyone else, realising they weren't moving. I looked at Claire, thinking that she must have done it with her powers, but she was frozen too. I heard a noise, so I spun around to look.
"Claire?" I asked, completely confused. Claire was standing there, her hair different, a bit longer I guess, she looked older.
"Hi Mike." Claire said.
I looked back at the Claire that was frozen. "How are you doing this?"
"I come from the future. I have a message for you." She told me.
"The future? Seriously?" I smiled. "Well what's it like?"
"I can't tell you Mike."
"Oh, and why come to me? Why not your younger self?" I pointed at the frozen Claire.
"I can't risk the space/time continuum. I thought it would be best to come to you."
"So, you said you had a message for me?" I asked.
"Yes. Save the Andalite, save the world."
"Andalite? What Andalite?"
Future Claire went on to explain that there was an Andalite in trouble at the bottom of the ocean that needed help.
"Not only the Andalite, but you need to save a cheerleader."
"Hang on, what?"
Future Claire explained that a cheerleader would be attacked in a couple of weeks at her high school Homecoming game in Texas.
It was information overload, and I was so confused.
"Just remember. Save them." And with that she disappeared and everyone was moving again.
"-should get bug morphs." Tyler finished.
"Wait! Claire! I don't understand!" I shouted at nothing.
"What?" Claire gave me a strange look.
"You just came from the future. I have to save a cheerleader, and an alien." I said seriously. "And you had a sword!"
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Wow, this fic is moving by so fast! Can't wait to see how it all ties in ;D
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[Okay, I decided to continue rotating between POV's, its getting a bit easier.. So I thought we'd get to the sharing in one post, but apparently not. I promise, I promise Russell will be in the next post, and if I say that once more without it being true, you can smite me XD....]
Chapter Twelve
Fly morph
NEHAL'S POV:
"Okay, so I came from the future?" Claire asked slowly, and then she grinned. "That's awesome."
"I don't get it." I muttered.
Mike went on to explain everything "Future Claire" told him. It was a bit hard to believe at first.
"Okay, so we need to save an Andalite, as soon as possible, and we need to save a cheerleader in just over a week." Mike finished.
"Oookay" Anna said.
"Like I was saying, guys, we need bug morphs." Tyler insisted.
"That's a good idea." Issam nodded.
"Where are we gonna find some bugs? You think Cassie might have some in that barn of hers?" Tim said.
"Yea, I'm sure." I laughed. A fly zoomed past at that very moment. What are the odds?
"How are we gonna catch a fly?" Jen asked.
"With great difficulty." Claire said. "Wait, I've got an idea. Hang on a second."
CLAIRE'S POV:
I froze time, making everyone stop moving, including the annoying fly. I picked it up out of the air.. gross.
I made time go back to normal.
"Got him." I said, and started to acquire the fly. While it was still in the trance, I passed it to Mike, and everyone acquired it.
"I don't wanna morph a fly!" Tyler whined. "I'd rather morph a scorpion!"
"Yea, we can get other morphs when the moment arises, but for now, flies should be fine." Mike said.
"The flyer said that the next Sharing meeting was tomorrow. Starting at midday." Issam said.
"Should we practice our fly morph?" I suggested.
"Yea, who wants to go first?" Tim asked.
JEN'S POV:
"Not me." Anna said.
"I'll go." I shrugged.
I concentrated on the fly, and soon enough I started to shrink. My eyes changed, it was like looking through a thousand TV screens. I was glad I was small by the time extra legs protuded through my chest, and I grew a weird mouth that looked oh so disgusting up close.
"Gross." I heard Rachel say.
"Where'd she go?" Claire asked.
"She's there!" Mike exclaimed.
"Don't lose her!" Issam said.
"Jen? You in control of your morph?" Nehal asked.
"No, she's in search of dog poop." Tyler said.
<Yeeeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaah!> Jen exulted. <This is great, guys!>
"What are you doing?" Estelore asked.
<Man, this thing flys like a rocket, come on guys, you have to try it out.>
Everyone else morphed to flies. Not a very nice sight to see, but it was really fun once you actually were a fly.
<Whoooooooo hoooooooo!> It was insane.
After some more flying practice, we all went back home. We had to get up early and meet up in the morning, and then we were going to go to The Sharing.
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Chapter Thirteen
The Sharing
KEN'S POV:
The next day, I met up with the others at Issam's house as his house was close to the community centre where the Sharing meeting would be held. I started to hear everyone's thoughts again.
"Oh mannn" I muttered.
"What's up with you?" Anna asked me.
I tried not to think about everyone elses thoughts, but it just wasn't working.
<First time I changed my underwear for the week> Rachel thought.
<I wonder if Ken knows that I like him> Anna wondered.
<Did I leave the oven on?> Jen thought.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I yelled. Everyone looked at me, surprised at my outburst. "Sorry, Mind reading went crazy."
"Alright guys. Time to morph bird. We are three blocks away from the community centre, and flies can't fly that far without getting lost." Mike said.
"Wait, I have an idea!" Claire said.
"Yea?" Rachel said.
"How about one of us morphs bird, and the others morph to fly and catch a ride." Claire suggested.
"Sounds good." I shrugged.
CLAIRE'S POV:
"Alrighty. I volunteer to be the bird. I'll demorph behind a dumpster there, and meet up with you guys later." I said.
Everyone morphed to fly, as I morphed to seagull. <Everyone ready?> I asked.
<Yea> Everyone chorused.
I flapped my wings and flew out a window, the others all on my back somewhere.
<We're here> I said, landing out the front of The Sharing a few minutes later. <The doors open, quick, get in there!>
I flew off to a side alleyway near by, demorphed and then remorphed to fly.
MIKE'S POV:
<Okay guys, I think the private Sharing meeting is through those doors. There's a security guard, they wouldn't have him standing there for nothing> I said.
We were right on time, the meeting was just starting, there were kids and adults floating around the room, but only a select few went through the double doors.
I cringed (well, not literally, I was a fly) when I saw Ken's brother CJ join the private meeting. There was no sign of Claire's Dad.
<Hey guys> Claire said as she flew up to us. <You are there, right, I'm not talking to myself am I?>
<It's us> Jen answered.
I focused in on the meeting. "....the day has arrived. It is time to strike the decisive blow in the invasion of Earth"
<Oh geez> Tim muttered. <Think they have enough ego?>
<Man I can barely see what's going on> Issam said.
<Me either> I tried to focus my eyes on the speaker, but it was hard to see at such a distance. All I could tell was that several men had arrived, and were marching through the room.
<I'm flying a bit closer, I'll be careful> Claire said, flying away, at least I was sure it was her flying anyway.
"My brothers-in-arms!" A loud, booming voice said. "I present to you, our leader. Visser Three."
TYLER'S POV:
<What? He has a human morph?> I asked.
<Looks like it> Claire said, since she was closest.
"I see that some of you are surprised. Surely you know I can morph a human, as well as any other body." A new voice said. I was surprised to hear such a young-sounding voice.
<Well this just sucks, he has a human morph!> Mike said.
<If only we could see him better> Jen murmured.
<I have an alright view of the guy> Claire said. <He's probably high school age, but he looks a bit older. He has short brown hair, and brown eyes>
<Could be anyone> Tim said.
"This mission has two parts. The first part is that we have discovered that select human hosts have super-human abilities, including the host body I am in now." Visser Three said. "The Sharing is a great place for us to get hosts, but this way some select Yeerks will have the chance of having a 'super human' host."
<Oh no!> Anna said.
<This is big news. They know about people like us?> Mike added.
<Hey! I realised where I know the Visser's voice from! A guy from school.. Russell! And Claire's description matches him too.>
<Seriously?> Issam asked.
"The second part is that there are a few facilities, that run under the facade of "Primatech Paper". These people are dedicated to finding these 'super humans'. The most important facility is the one run in Texas, but we've managed to relocate some staff here in this state. All staff shall be infested, and then we will begin our quest on finding these people with abilities."
I moved away from the wall I had landed on earlier and went to join Claire.
<It IS Russell> I said, peering at Visser Three curiously.
RACHEL'S POV:
<Ken, can you find out the location of the Yeerk Pool?" Jen asked.
<It's not working, my power isn't working!>
<We don't have much time left, it's time to go.> Issam said.
We all flew out of there soon after that, we had heard all of the meeting, everyone was starting to leave anyway.
We met up on the roof and began to demorph.
"So Ken, why didn't your power work?" I asked him.
"I have no idea." He replied.
"We need to find out where that facility is. And we need to be extra careful with our abilities, especially me and Ken" Claire said.
"Yea." Ken nodded. "I'll try my power now." He closed his eyes, concentrating. "Okay. I have the address. I have the address for the Texas one too."
"That's where the cheerleader is." Mike said, grinning at the expressions we all made. "Well it is."
"Okay, well we are too early to go save the cheerleader" I said, trying to keep a straight face.
"What next?" Estelore asked.
"We go back to the Gardens, get Nehal his battle morph." Mike said. "I'll go with him to get the morph."
"Okay, and after that, we should find more info about this company." Tim said.
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[I know it's been a while guys, but you can forgive me right :P Three days on a train, I couldn't post then, and the other days I was getting settled in. So heres a post, yays!]
Chapter Fourteen.
The Yeerk Pool
JEN’S POV:
We broke up the meeting, Mike and Nehal flying off to the Gardens to get his battle morph.
Ken told us he also heard the Yeerks talking about a re-infestation happening tonight at the school. A bunch of people, controllers, were going to the Yeerk Pool to get Kandrona Rays, since Yeerks needed Kandrona Rays every 3 days to live.
So there was a chance we’d be able to do some good, and stop this from happening.
We met up later on at Ken’s house. He lived the closest to the school, just a few blocks away.
“What morph are we gonna use?” I asked the others. “Fly again?”
“I don’t want to go fly again.” Anna said. She pointed at the ground. “How about a spider!”
“You’re going to morph a spider? What, a fly freaks you out but a spider doesn’t?” Tyler asked.
“Well we can’t always be flies all the time, we should all get other bug morphs too.” Anna said, reaching down and acquiring the spider.
CLAIRE’S POV:
We morphed to bird, flying over to the school as fast as we could. We hid close to the door, in a bunch of bushes. From there we morphed to fly, Anna complained at first but morphed fly too.
There was a line of people walking into the school and down the hallway towards a janitors closet – The entrance to the Yeerk Pool.
I was a bit scared of what was down there, and what it would be like. But I knew we had to do this.
We flew down to the closet, and down a long bunch of stairs.
And then we heard the screams. I swear, I will never forget the sound. Fly’s eyes were fairly terrible, and I couldn’t see very far ahead of me, but I could see people in cages, screaming, yelling, crying. There were some Taxxons and Hork-Bajir scattered around the place too.
<Holy crap> I muttered.
<Let’s find a place to demorph, I can’t see a thing> Mike said.
Through a series of tunnels nearby, we found a small area that was covered by surrounding rock. We’d be safe there, but not for long.
ISSAM’S POV:
We demorphed back to our human selves, the noise was terrible.
“I really wish I was deaf right about now.” I said.
“Can’t argue with that.” Tim agreed.
“We have to save those people. Far out, I would hate, I would hate for that to be me over there.” Anna said, shaking her head slowly.
I saw Claire and Ken looking at each other. I knew what they were thinking, they were thinking of Claire’s father and Ken’s brother, hoping they could save them.
“I wonder if..” Ken started to say, but fell silent.
“What is it Ken?” Anna asked.
“It’s okay. I used my power, he’s not here.” Ken said.
“Alright guys, what do we do?” Nehal asked.
“Use our battle morphs?” Estelore suggested. “And kick some Yeerk butt?”
Everyone laughed quietly and nervously.
“Let’s do this then.” Claire said.
I morphed into a gorilla. Black fur started to grow on my skin. I looked at the others as they morphed to a bunch of different fierce animals.
Horns sprouted out of Tyler’s head, and I thought about how fitting that was.
I would have laughed but my face was now fully gorilla.
<Well aren’t we a fierce bunch> I said.
TYLER’S POV:
<Let’s go!> I said, as I led the way towards the Yeerk Pool.
<If anyone sees my Dad, you have to tell me> Claire said.
“What the heck?” A controller yelled, running towards the Yeerk Pool and away from us.
<Stop him!> Mike said quickly.
I charged at him, tossing him over my head with my horns. Suddenly someone started shooting some sort of laser beams.
<Ahhhhh!> I shouted, my leg felt like it was on fire!
<I’ll get him for you Tyler!> Jen said, she was right next to me, a Black Bear. <What’s going on!> She cried. <My powers!>
<I can’t use mine either!> Claire said.
<Same for me.> Mike muttered.
<Well this just sucks.> Anna said.
In the time it took for us to have that small conversation, 7 Hork-Bajir came around the corner, with a few taxxons behind him.
I charged at the Hork-Bajir, knocking three of them down in a row.
<Well that was easy.> I said. One of the Hork-Bajir got up, and slashed me across my back <Arghh!> I shouted, and impaled the Hork-Bajr on my horns.
I looked around me, seeing a lion, a liger and a tiger fighting side by side, Claire, Mike and Ken.
I saw a grizzly bear charging at some Taxxons, and a gorilla punch a Hork-Bajir in the face, knocking it to the floor too.
<Estelore!> I yelled. <Behind you!>
Estelore, as a polar bear, got slashed across her back, and growled loudly.
I rushed over to help her.
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Chapter fifteen.
Escape!
CLAIRE’S POV:
Through the corner of my eyes, I saw Estelore go down. I was about to go help her but I was a bit busy myself. Tyler went to her instead.
<Claire! Your Dad!> Jen yelled.
<What? Where?> I replied, turning to look for him when a Taxxon came out of nowhere. I lunged at it, easily defeating it.
I could see my Dad, he was in one of the cages with the other hosts. It was one of the saddest things I had ever seen.
<I’m the only one with hands, you guys keep up your distraction, I’ll try and free the hosts!> Issam shouted, walking fast towards the cages.
<Aaaaarrrrggghhh!> Anna screamed suddenly.
I lunged at the Hork-Bajir next to her, which had just slashed Anna’s back left leg right off. Rachel appeared at my side, helping me to attack the Hork-Bajir that surrounded Anna.
Anna fell to the ground, unstable on only three legs.
<Anna!> Ken shouted, but he was distracted by a Hork-Bajir.
<Aaaaahh!> Issam yelled from his place near the cages. Visser Three was standing next to him, and had used his tail to sever three of Issam’s fingers.
Visser Three looked furious. <Andalites?> He wondered.
<Don’t say anything, we can’t let him no we’re not Andalites> Mike warned.
<We have to get out of here! Anna’s hurt bad and Tyler and Estelore are now in pretty bad shape> I said urgently. I wanted to help my Dad, but I knew we wouldn't get the chance today.
<We don’t have much time left either.> Tim added.
NEHAL’S POV:
<Alright let’s move it!> Jen said.
<Yea> I agreed. With my grizzly bear morph, I didn’t have very good vision, and could only see what was right in front of me.
Issam picked Anna up, putting her on Ken’s back, the easiest way to get her out of here.
We rushed towards the exit, I noticed it was a different exit to the one we had started with.
<Stop them!> Visser Three shouted angrily.
Tyler was at the front, clearing an exit through the Hork-Bajir and Taxxon controllers who dared to try and stop us. His bull morph was definitely coming in handy.
We made our way outside of the Yeerk Pool, and we seemed to be in a hardware store. We made a bit of a mess as we stampeded out of the store, Bill’s Hardware. The Hork-Bajir and Taxxons couldn’t follow us of course, but a few Bill’s Hardware staff were after us, as well as a couple people from the Yeerk Pool.
We quickly lost them as we ran into the woods nearby. We demorphed as we ran, stopping at a small clearing.
Anna was unconscious.
“Anna, wake up!” Ken shouted. “Demorph!”
Slowly but surely she began to demorph, all injuries gone.
Ken gave her a hug, they both looked really relieved.
“Let’s never, ever do that again.” Claire said, leaning against a tree.
“I agree.” I nodded.
TIM’S POV:
“We better get out of here. We’re close to the hardware place still, we gotta move.” I said urgently.
“Uh… guys?” Rachel said nervously.
“What is it?” Jen asked, as we all turned to look.
Standing in front of us was a small pack of wolves. Five of them, staring at us hungrily.
“Aw man” Issam muttered. “We fight Hork-Bajir, Taxxons, and Visser Three, and now a pack of wolves?”
We slowly backed away, but the wolves followed us.
“Okay we’re gonna have to do something!” Mike insisted. “We can’t hurt them, obviously, they’re just defending their territory.”
“I’ve got an idea, a crazy idea.” Issam said, grinning. “Get ready to acquire them” He used his telekinesis, making the wolves come right towards us. He grabbed the one in front, the Alpha male and acquired it.
We all acquired the wolves. “What now, they’ll just eat us now instead.” Tyler said.
“Nah they won’t.” Anna said. She made some ice appear in her hands, and she threw it in the direction of the wolves feet, making them frozen in place.
“You know I could have done that right?” Claire said. “Now they’ll be stuck there for longer, waiting to defrost.”
We all laughed as we morphed to birds and flew out of there.
<They’ll be fine> Anna said with a laugh.
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Chapter sixteen
Saving the Andalite
MIKE’S POV:
I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night. I was having a nightmare about the Yeerk Pool when it was interrupted by an Andalite, caught in a spaceship in the ocean. I reached for the phone but stopped myself. It was 3 am and I knew everyone would hate me for calling this late.
I finally fell back asleep, having more dreams about the Andalite calling me. At 6:30 am, I couldn’t take it anymore, I called the others. They all complained about being woken up at such an early time, but they agreed to meet me at my house.
About 20 minutes later, everyone had arrived.
“Why’d we have to get here so early?” Tim yawned.
“The Andalite! I had a dream last night, I know where he is!”
“The ocean, right?” Ken said. “I think I had the same dream.”
“What are you guys on about?” Jen asked.
“I had a dream, and in the dream, an Andalite was calling me, stranded in the ocean. A few miles west of the local beach.” I explained.
“Okay then, why did just you two have the dream?” Nehal asked.
“Well it does make sense, Mike with his precognition and Ken with his telepathy.” Claire shrugged.
“Yea, exactly.” I said. “We need to go to the Gardens. I have the perfect morph for us.”
We flew over to the Gardens soon after that. We waited until 8, when it opened.
“Hey Mike!” A woman walked by. “I didn’t know you were working today.”
“I’m not.” I replied. “I actually came out to see the dolphins. My friends think they’re really cool, so I thought I’d show them the real thing.”
“Well alright then. As you know, we have six dolphins here. Ross, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, Rachel and Joey.” Eileen said. “You guys wanna feed them a little?”
“Sure.” I said.
Eileen left us with a big bucket of fish.
“Gross.” Rachel said.
We went over to the dolphins, and gradually we all had acquired one of them.
“Time to go save the Andalite.” Ken said.
KEN’S POV:
The beach was a bit crowded, so we went to the river instead. We morphed to dolphin and raced towards the ocean.
<This is a lot similar to being a dog> Tyler said.
<Yea, the same kind of HAPPINESS that comes with it> Claire agreed.
We were leaping around happily for a while, getting a bit lost in the minds of the dolphins.
<Okay guys, we’ve wasted enough time> Jen said seriously.
We managed to snap ourselves back to reality.
<I can hear him. We must be getting close> I told the others. I could just barely hear the Andalites thoughts. He sounded scared. I would be too if I was him.
<I see something!> Estelore almost shouted. She was far ahead of us in the water.
<How long have we been swimming guys?> Anna said nervously. <We wasted a lot of time playing around>
<We don’t have much more time. I think we can make it, its not far> Issam said.
<That’s… That’s awesome!> I said, finally seeing the spaceship on the ocean floor.
Everybody muttered their agreement.
The spaceship was round, and huge! I had seen glimpses in my dream, but nothing as cool as this.
There was a huge dome, clear glass or something. Inside the dome were trees and grass, it looked like a park.
The grass was more blue than green, but still close enough. Some trees were orange, blue and green and looked similar to many vegetables.
<I’m running out of air> Tim said.
<Here’s something> Mike swam up to the dome and pushed a red panel with his nose.. beak.. whatever you call it.
We all swam in to an outer door. There was a second red panel, leading towards the rest of the dome.
<Let’s morph> I said, realising the water was beginning to drain from the small room.
“We made it!” Tyler said once he was finished morphing.
“Yea. Time to press the button and go in?” Nehal considered.
“Okay. Do it.” Jen nodded.
Mike was the closest, so he pressed the button. The door slid open. I had a glimpse of.. something. A bright flash of light and suddenly I was unconscious.
ANNA’S POV:
I woke up, and glanced around my surroundings. The ocean was above me, I was staring straight up. I saw Rachel lying next to me on my right, still unconscious. Ken groaned and opened his eyes, he was to my left. I looked the other way.
“Aaahh!” I said, seeing an Andalite standing above me, pointing a gun at me. It was almost the same kind as the ones the Yeerks had in the Yeerk Pool.
<Don’t move. I stunned you to see what you are, but if you move I will destroy you>
“Whoa, hold up!” Ken said. “We’re here to help you. I heard you calling.”
The others began to wake up all around me.
“Whoa, that’s not Visser Three is it?” Tyler asked, as he woke up.
<Do not mention that name!> The Andalite said.
“Ookay, no worries.” Tyler replied slowly.
<You. You said you heard my call. How did you hear it? What are you?> He directed his question towards Ken.
“I’m a human. A person of Earth.” He answered. “I’m not sure why I heard it. I guess its because I’m telepathic. ”
<Explain>
“I heard your call too!” Mike said excitedly. “I have precognition.” He looked proud.
The Andalite looked somewhat confused. <I asked for an explanation>
“Oh, sorry.” Mike said.
“We have special abilities.” I explained. “We all can do extraordinary things that most other humans can’t.”
“That’s how I knew about you. Because of our powers, I knew we had to save an Andalite.”
<How do you know of Andalites? From what I have learned, your species does not travel the stars.>
“We knew an Andalite. We were with him.. when he was killed.” Rachel said sadly.
<Who was this Andalite?>
“His name was long, almost too long to remember. I know the first part was Prince Elfangor.” Issam told the Andalite.
He jerked as if he had been hit. <No one could kill him! He is the greatest warrior ever! Who? Who killed him?>
“The one you don’t want us to mention.” Claire replied.
He lowered his weapon, holding his head high. His tail sagged to the floor.
<He was my brother. Did he die well?>
“He died protecting us, fighting the Yeerks to the end.”
<So. Do you fight the Yeerks or serve them?>
“We fight them.” I said.
<With your “extraordinary abilities”?> The Andalite asked.
“Not only that.” Mike said. “Elfangor gave us the power to morph.”
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[Special thanks to book 4, of course. I added titles to each chapter.. Coz I felt like it, got the idea from Mike]
Chapter Seventeen
Ax is saved
JEN’S POV:
<Elfangor gave you that? It is never done! The situation must have been very bad if he gave you the power to morph!> The Andalite said.
“The situation is badder than you think.” Mike said. “The Yeerks know you’re here.”
<What is your plan?>
“To get you out of here of course” I said.
<You came only to rescue me?>
“Yea.” Tim replied.
<You would be tired after this last morph. We will rest.>
“Hey, what’s your name?” Anna asked. “I’m Anna, this is Tim, Mike, Jen, Claire, Issam, Nehal, Rachel, Tyler and Estelore.”
<I am Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthil>
“Whoa.” I muttered.
“Ax. Pleased to meet you.” Tyler said.
<Who is your prince?> Ax asked us.
We all looked around at each other.
“We don’t really have one.” Issam replied.
<You do not have a leader?>
“Not really, no.” I said.
“We have to go!” Mike said. “The Yeerks are coming!”
“What, right now?” Rachel asked.
“We have about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. We have to leave.”
“Hey, I have a dumb question.” Tyler said, jerking his thumb towards Ax. “How do we get him out of here?”
“Aw crap. I don’t suppose you can swim, Ax? Swim really well?” Anna asked.
<I would not swim in this body. I have acquired an Earth sea creature that passed by> Ax replied.
“Great. Let’s go.” Claire said.
We went over to the exit hatch and began to morph to dolphin. Ax caught my eye, he looked extremely weird while morphing. I finally realised that he was a shark.
TYLER’S POV:
<Heh, great choice Ax. You chose a shark?> I said.
<We’re running out of tiiiime!> Mike reminded us.
We high tailed it out of there, once we were far away we looked back. The Yeerks had started to arrive, but we were at a safe distance.
We demorphed at the river soon after that. It was cold so we put on some extra clothes we had left hidden in some bushes.
“Okay, so what do we do now?” Jen asked.
“The woods.” Estelore said. “The best place for Ax would be the woods.”
“How do we get him there? I think he’s kind of noticeable like this.” Claire gestured towards Ax.
<I must morph>
“Yea, but into what?” Rachel asked.
He reached over and touched my arm. <With your permission>
I felt a bit sleepy, as if I was going into a trance. Then I realised that he was acquiring me.
“Wait a minute, you’re going to morph Tyler? You can do that?” Tim asked.
He went over to the others and acquired them too. He started to morph. I can tell you now that it was the strangest thing I had ever seen.
“Maybe we should give him some privacy? I mean, he can’t morph clothes can he?” Anna said.
“Is he going to be a boy or girl?” Mike wondered.
“Let’s not look anyway.” Jen said.
“There’s an extra pair of shorts and a t-shirt in the bag. Put them on, alright?” Issam said.
He was wearing the t-shirt as shorts and the shorts on his head. Great.
“Are you male or female?” I asked him.
“I chose to be-be-be-be male. Male because I am male. Male. Is that a good choice? Ch-oy-ce.” He looked surprised because he had a mouth.
“Male is fine. Girls, turn around, we need to adjust his clothing.” I said.
We took him to a small meadow in the woods. We thought he’d be safe there for a while, hidden in the trees. We told him not to go anywhere until we came back for him.
CLAIRE’S POV:
It was a week since we had saved the Andalite, a real proud moment for us. We had finally decided that the oldest of us, Issam and Jen, would now be our leaders. We definitely needed a leader at this point and it would be easier with two of them, hopefully.
I was in my room playing cards with Jen, Issam and Mike when my Dad came home from work early. My friends decided they would leave early, just in case my Dad got suspicious, but I doubted that.
“Claire bear? You home?” My Dad called out to me.
I watched my friends fly out of the window and called back to Dad. “Yea”
“Good.” He walked through my door. “Listen, I need to talk to you about something.”
“Yea? What is it?”
“Well to start off, I have a new job.” He said.
“Really?” I sat down on my bed.
“Yes. I now work at Primatech Paper.”
My eyes went wide, but I shrugged it off and tried to look normal. I forced a laugh. “You’re going from university lecturer to paper salesman?”
He looked annoyed for a second, then he was my Dad again. “I’m still keeping that job, it was part time anyway. The point of this conversation is that for my new job, it requires me to go to Texas.”
It was getting harder to keep a straight face. “Texas? How long will you be gone?”
“Not long. But you’re coming with me. Same with your mother. She really wants you to go.”
I felt as if I shouldn’t go. There was a good thing about it though, I’d see what the company looked like in Texas, and maybe be able to do some damage to the Yeerks, but not alone.
“Can I take a friend or two?” I asked. “Or would that be too expensive?”
“The trip is already paid for. You can bring up to two friends.”
“Thanks Dad.” I gave him a hug, because it’s what I would have done if he wasn’t a controller and suggested we were going on a family trip to Texas.
Once he went downstairs, I quietly called the others for a meeting in Ax’s meadow.
Authors note: My Dad is a TAFE lecturer in real life. It's like university but a bit different, but I know it's easier to write Uni lecturer. Just thought I'd mention that, lol.
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[Sorry about the delay of posts! I've been in a mental blank... Enjoy!]
Chapter Eighteen.
Texas
RACHEL’S POV:
“Texas? You’re going to Texas?” Tyler said.
“Yea, and I can bring two of you guys.” Claire said.
“Well who gets to go?” I asked.
“To make it fair, and easier, I think two people close to my age should be the ones to go. Estelore, you’re 17, and Rachel, you’re 16. Closest in age.”
“But, I’m 19.” Mike pointed out. “So are Nehal and Tim.”
“Yea, but you’re guys, and my parents might think it’s weird.” Claire said.
“Yay! I get to go to Texas!” I said excitedly.
“And we’ll keep in contact, we’ll teleport here to talk to you guys, and maybe even teleport you guys to Texas if we need you.”
“Better start packing then.” Estelore said.
The next day I walked over to Claire’s house, Claire’s parents took us to the airport. The flight was a few boring hours.
ISSAM’S POV:
“Okay guys, just because three of us are going to be in Texas for the next few days, doesn’t exactly mean that we get a break.” I said to the others. We were having a meeting at Tim’s house. I had seen a report on the news that the others had to hear about.
“They’ll be in Texas in about an hour.” Tyler said, looking at his watch.
“You miss Estelore already?” Anna nudged Tyler.
“Guys.” I interrupted. “I called this meeting because something bad has happened.”
“Is Sylar back?” Mike asked.
“No, I don’t think so, anyways. Haven’t you guys seen the news? It’s all over it!” I said.
“Just tell us what it is!” Tyler said impatiently.
I put a newspaper down on a table in front of the others.
“WANTED” It read, with pictures of four people on the front page.
“Who are these people?” Anna asked.
“They’re people like us. People with abilities. It says here they killed five people in a hostage situation downtown yesterday.”
“How do you know they’re people like us?” Jen asked.
“Well it doesn’t say that in the newspaper, but it does say that the five deaths can’t be explained. One guy was burnt alive, but not by fire. By acid.”
“Holy –“ Tim said.
ESTELORES POV:
“Dad, can we go? There’s only so much paper we can look at without going insane!” Claire complained to her Dad.
“Yea, okay, fine.” Claire’s Dad replied.
“Yes!” Rachel said. “I mean.. that’s..good..”
“Alright, let’s go then.” I said.
The three of us walked around the corner inside the building. We were at Primatech Paper. Claire’s Mum had escaped about 15 minutes ago, she left to go to a nearby book store. We had decided to stay, so we could find out more information about the company.
We turned another corner, searching for an exit.
Claire slammed into a girl coming from the opposite direction.
“Oh, sorry!” She apologised.
“It’s alright.” The girl replied. “Hey, you wouldn’t happen to know where.. my Dad is would you-“
“Is he tall with horn rimmed glasses?” I interrupted. “Yea, he’s back that way.”
“Oh, thanks. So, who are you guys, you don’t work here do you?”
“Yea right.” Claire laughed. “My Dad does though.. sort of…well he really works at the Primatech Paper in California.”
“What’s your name, anyways?” Rachel asked. “I’m Rachel, this is Claire ad Estelore.”
“Oh really? My name’s Claire too. I had better be going, I just need to get something from my Dad.”
“Sure, don’t let us hold you up.” I said, and with that we walked away.
Finally we found an exit door. I couldn’t use my invisibility in the building, as there were cameras everywhere.
We all turned invisible once we were free from the cameras. Basically the easiest explanation is that I bent the light around us, so that we were invisible to the naked eye. We went back into the building to find Claire’s Dad.
UNKNOWN POV:
“Hurry up!” I said quickly. “Just open it up!” I said to my friend, the code cracker and safe opener of the group.
“Okay, okay, I got it!” She said finally.
“About time. The cops are probably already on their way.”
We grabbed the cash and ran to join the others. I stepped over a dead body as we left the bank, getting into our getaway car.
“Alright, so we split the cash between us all. Four shares.”
MIKE’S POV:
I concentrated extremely hard on the photographs in the newspaper. I had to try and figure out what they were planning next. I had never tried to use my power in this way, usually I could only use it to find out future events concerning me, and only a few minutes into the future.
“It’s not working.” I said finally.
“You’re sure you can’t find them?” Tyler asked.
“I’m sure.” I sighed.
“It’s time to move!” Jen said hurriedly, walking into the room. “There’s a bank robbery downtown. The robbers got away with a few million, and the cops don’t know where they are.”
“What, and you do?” I asked.
“Yes. Anna called me, she spotted them going to a warehouse. She followed them in hawk morph. Morph to bird, we are going.”
We morphed to bird and flew towards the warehouse.
CLAIRE’S POV:
After following my Dad for a while, finally he went to a secret part of the facility.
In one of the rooms there was a girl about our age sitting there.
“We can’t just leave her there!” I said.
“She’s probably a controller.” Rachel whispered back.
“We need Ken. I’ll teleport back and get him.”
“How will you know where he is?” Estelore asked.
“I have no idea. I’ll just try a few places, I’ll find him, I’m sure.”
“Someone’s coming!” Rachel hissed. We hid in a janitors closet. Not fun, I can tell you.
Authors Note: The unknown POV is Shanker. Shanker, Jayne, Tony and Rob are the baddies. In the next post, their powers will be revealed, and we shall fight! Any suggestions for powers for them will be appreciated, I've only chosen one of their powers. Shanker's power. and I have some possibilities.. but I'm not sure yet.
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CHAPTER NINETEEN:
Meeting new enemies
ANNA’S POV:
I waited for the others to get to the warehouse before I decided to do anything. It would be too risky to go in by myself.
Finally the others had arrived. They told me that Ax had decided to sit this “mission” out, that was probably a good idea.
“What are we gonna do? Just storm right in?” Tyler asked, raising an eyebrow.
“That’s a good question, Tyler.” Mike said. “What is the plan?”
“I’ll go in first.” Tim said. “I’ll phase inside the building.”
“I’ll go with you, I’ll be able to help you see what’s coming.” Mike said.
“And I suppose I should too?” Ken asked.
We talked amongst ourselves for a while, trying to devise a plan that wouldn’t get one of us killed or something.
After a lot of discussion, we had a plan in place.
SHANKERS POV:
“We need to get a new hideout, man this place is a total-“ Rob said.
“I’d like to see you find a better place.” I said, stepping on a passing by ****roach.
“Do you hear something?” Jayne asked all of a sudden.
“Hear what? I don’t hear anything.” I replied lazily.
“Hi there.” A male voice said.
I turned to look. “Where the f*** did you come from?” It was like he had just stepped out from the wall.
“So. You guys are those bank robbers and murderers, huh. You don’t look like much. By the way, I’m Tim, and I’m going to give you a chance to hand yourself in to the police. That’s the easy way. If not, I’ll try the hard way.” Tim said.
“Brave words.” I sneered. “Well I’m going to give you one chance to get the hell out of here.”
“Alright, you asked for it.” Tim said calmly. “It’ll have to be the hard way then.”
“You and what army?” Tony laughed.
“Oh. You want to meet them?” Tim grinned, walking back towards the wall behind him. A minute later a few more people walked through the wall.
KEN’S POV:
“So Ken, what’s the verdict?” Tim asked me.
“They’re not controllers.” I said quietly.
I was trying to get as much information from them as possible, reading their minds, because I knew we were all expecting a fight.
One of them started to laugh. He stretched out his hands, grinning.
“Shanker, what are you doing?” The only girl of the group said. I read her mind and learned the names of all of them. Shanker, Tony, Rob and her name was Jayne.
“I think you know” Shanker said, and he threw out his arms in a dramatic gesture, shooting something towards us.
“Holy hell, DUCK!” Tim yelled out suddenly.
I fell straight towards the floor. I looked behind me, at the wall. The wall was rotting away, like it was covered in…
“Acid!” Mike said.
“You were supposed to warn us of these kinds of things, Mike!” Issam shouted.
Mike, Issam, Tim and I were the only ones who had came in to the warehouse. The others were our back up. We all started to stand up again, keeping our eyes on Shanker and the others.
“I’m sorry!” Mike said.
“I think you should leave.” Rob warned.
None of us moved, just stood there staring.
“He said, HE THINKS YOU SHOULD LEAVEEEEEE!” Tony shouted. It was the loudest thing I had ever heard. I dropped to the ground again, covering my ears with my hands. I glanced at the others, who were doing the same thing.
<Back up! We need BACK UP!> I screamed in my head to the rest of us still outside. <Call Claire! We need them as well>
CLAIRE’S POV:
We were still hiding in the damn janitors closet. My phone began to ring.
“Would you shut that thing up?” Rachel hissed.
“Okay, okay!” I said, and answered the phone. “Hello?”
“Claire! It’s Jen! We need you guys here straight away”
“Where is ‘here’?” I asked quickly. Jen told me where she was. I concentrated on the place, grabbing Estelore and Rachel by their arms.
We all teleported to the warehouse where Jen and the others were.
“You could have given a warning!” Estelore said.
“Sorry. The call sounded urgent.” I said.
“Well, let’s go in.” Anna gestured towards the warehouse.
“Tyler!” Jen said. “You know what to do.”
He formed some electricity in his hands and sent it shooting at the wall. We all stepped through, and it was a surprise to see Mike, Issam, Ken and Tim lying on the floor, holding their ears.
“What happened to you guys?”
“I’ll tell you.” Tony grinned. “THISSSSSSSSSSSSS” He screamed.
“Holy crap!” I shouted. “That is loud!”
I concentrated and teleported to a place behind the guy who was screaming. I punched him in the face, but he just screamed back at me, knocking me off my feet.
A blur rushed past me. Rachel. She sped past all the villains, knocking them off of their feet.
“How do you like THAT?” She said with a grin on her face.
Rob pulled out a gun, but Issam used his telekinesis to throw it to the other side of the room.
SHANKER’S POV:
I considered my options. I was standing quite close to a guy I didn’t know. He hadn’t spoken or done anything since he had came in the warehouse. I lunged at him and stood up.
“Alright, nobody move!” I shouted. I had wanted to say something like that for a while. I grinned, placing my hand around the guys neck.
“Nehal!” One of the girls shouted.
“Go ahead, try something.” I looked at one of the girls, who had teleported earlier. “Try and teleport. You think you can do it before I kill him?”
She just looked at me.
Suddenly something fell from the rafters. A light fitting, and it was fell straight on Nehal’s head. I think it was supposed to hit me or something. I shrugged. “I think you missed.”
“Ah crap” The telekinetic one said.
“You know, I don’t think this is very fair.” I said. “All of you.. against us four.” I turned to Jayne. “I think you’re needed.”
Jayne nodded back at me, and suddenly there was 2 Jayne’s standing there. Then there was 4, 8, 12, 16.
“Think you got enough?” I asked sarcastically. “And Rob? Are you just gonna sit there in the corner doing nothing, or actually do something?”
He glared back at me and turned to one of the intruders. He got ready to use his power against them.
Authors Note: Yes, Ken can use thought speak while not in morph. Because you've all seen mind-reading before, and I wanted to make it a bit different, and yea he has the ability to thought speak without being in morph.
Oh, and I use Shankers POV alot because out of the villains, I know him best.. So yea it's easier. I probably won't use the other POV's...
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CHAPTER TWENTY
A fallen comrade
Claire’s POV:
Anna was in danger. The guy called Rob was about to use his powers, I couldn’t wait for that!
I teleported over to them both. I grabbed Rob’s arm and teleported away.
I opened my eyes, expecting to see the outside of the warehouse, but that’s not what I saw. I was in my house. Ah crap.
”Where the hell are we?” Rob demanded.
I looked around, confused. I was standing in my kitchen. I looked at the calendar, just to check it out.
Oh no. Oh no oh no oh no! It was 6 months ago! I teleported back 6 months!
“Claire? Is that you?” I heard my Mum call me. Ah crap again. I grabbed Rob’s arm again and teleported away.
Now we were in a park or something. I had no clue where I was, I wasn’t thinking straight.
“Now where are we?” Rob asked.
“I don’t know!”
“What do you mean you DON’T KNOW?” He shouted. “Take me back, now!”
“I should just leave you here! You and the rest of your crew, you’re killers.” I said. I got ready to teleport away.
MIKE’S POV:
“Where did Claire go?” Anna asked.
I looked around wildly, but couldn’t see her anywhere. I knew she had teleported, but where?
“Where the hell did Rob go?” Tony asked.
“There’s no time for that!” Shanker yelled. He pointed randomly at me. “You’re gonna die!”
I looked behind me, hopefully he wasn’t talking to me. Darn, no one was behind me.
“Me?” I asked, pointing at myself.
Shanker started to run towards me, but as I knew it was coming, I calmly stepped to the side. He tripped over Nehal’s fallen body. He was probably unconscious. I leaned down to check his pulse. He was alive.
“Nehal? Nehal?” I called.
Shanker had turned back towards me. As he got closer I punched him quickly in the stomach and had to dodge as one of the Jayne clones ran towards me.
Another 3 clones came at me, but I knew what each one was going to do before they did it.
“Nice try!” I chuckled as they continued to miss. “Rachel! Behind you!” I shouted quickly. There were Jayne clones everywhere!
SHANKER’S POV:
I quickly shot some acid straight at the guy closest to me. It passed through him and hit a Jayne clone, who fell to the ground screaming. Jayne absorbed the clone back into herself.
I glared at him and tried to shoot it again, but he just phased through it again.
I looked around, seeing an unconscious person on the ground. It was that guy from before.. Nehal, that was it.
While everyone else was distracted I edged closer, ready to shoot the acid at him.
“No!” Mike shouted, shoving me. I lunged back at him. I placed my hands on his arm, and it started to rot away.
“AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!” Mike screamed, rolling on the ground.
“Mike!” Jen yelled, as she was the closest. She grabbed Mike’s other arm and started to drag him away.
I looked back at my other victim and sent the acid towards him. In a matter of seconds the body was gone, vaporised by my acid. Nehal was dead.
I was suddenly kicked in the stomach by someone, I turned to look and got shocked my electricity. A fireball was sent my way from someone.
“Miss me?” Mike asked, punching me in the face.
“Impossible!” I yelled. “Your arm!” His arm was perfectly fine, not enough a mark.
CLAIRE’S POV:
I concentrated, about to teleport, when at the last second Rob grabbed my arm.
I opened my eyes. I was at the warehouse, but there was no one fighting. And the warehouse looked different, almost new.
“Are we back?” I wondered.
“Load those into the truck!” A male voice said loudly. He walked over to us. “Who the hell are you two?”
“Uh, no one.” I said, teleporting outside of the warehouse, leaving Rob by himself. I sat down, trying to concentrate on getting back to the warehouse where my friends were. Rob came out of the warehouse a minute later.
“That’s it, if you’re not going to take me back…” He said.
A second later my head was spinning. He was using his power against me!
KEN’S POV:
I punched a Jayne clone, knocking her out. I punched two more.
Tony came out of nowhere and yelled in my ear. I fell to the ground clutching my ears. It was bad enough I had to listen to their thoughts, let alone the loud screaming voice that he had.
Jen came to my rescue with a fireball aimed straight at Tony. He fell to the ground, rolling to get rid of the flames. He rolled over some acid, and started to scream.
“Holy crap” I said, not wanting to look as his flesh melted away. I’d never get THAT image out of my head, that’s for sure.
“You killed him!” A Jayne clone said. Probably the real Jayne. “For that you die!” She rushed at me. Wait, me? What did I do?
I kicked her in the shins, since I was still on the ground. She awkwardly fell to the ground.
“Let’s get out of here!” Shanker yelled. “We’re wasting our time.”
“What about Rob?” Jayne yelled back.
“He can handle himself!”
“I don’t think so!” I said, standing up and getting ready to punch Shanker. He turned to look at me and laughed.
Okay, so he was bigger and older than me, so what? No reason to laugh at me.
He moved his arms in a dramatic gesture and shot acid at me. I ducked, but some of it landed on me.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH” I screamed, and ran outside the warehouse. Mike had followed me.
Through my screams he was talking to me. “Morph and demorph, come on, you can do it!”
I focused on morphing, I didn’t care what I was morphing to. Ah, the pain finally stopped as I morphed to bird. I demorphed quickly. Mike was standing in front of me, shielding me. Jayne was standing there, with Shanker. I hoped that they hadn’t seen me morphing.
Authors Note: Yep, I dragged it on, and Rob still hasn't discovered what his power is. Perhaps in the next one you'll find out.. muahahaha
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Love the whole books. Just needs a certain someone in it. Or else, :sylar:
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Love the whole books. Just needs a certain someone in it. Or else, :sylar:
Uh thanks..
I have another thread for comments, if you could please post in there instead..
Animorphs x Heroes fic (http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,448.210.html)
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CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
Power Trip
MIKES POV:
I turned to Ken, reaching out my hand. He took it and I pulled him up.
“Impossible.” Shanker said. “I shot acid at you. How are you still breathing?”
“Just lucky I guess.” Ken said with a grin.
“But.. there’s no mark. No mark at all. Even though you ran screaming out here. Tell me your secret!” Shanker demanded.
The others started to come out of the warehouse to join us. Some of them were a bit bloody and bruised, but morphing would take care of that.
“You’re outnumbered.” Tyler said.
Shanker looked at all of us and then back at Jayne. “Come on, let’s go. We’ll get them next time.” We watched them leave, standing there in silence.
“I can’t believe Nehal’s dead.” Anna said finally.
“Yea.” I said sadly. “There’s no body.. What are we going to tell his family?”
“Not looking forward to that.” Jen said.
“I wonder.. I wonder if Claire’s alright.” I really hoped that she wasn’t dead too.
“I’m sure she’ll be okay.” Tim replied.
CLAIRE’S POV:
I was freaking out and seeing things.
“You idiot!” I shouted. “Now I can never get you back to normal time! We’re both stuck here because of you!”
I was hallucinating. I looked at Rob, but his face melted together, turning into a million different colours. It felt like I was high, not that I know what that’s like or anything…
I saw Elfangor dying. “No!” I shouted again as Elfangor got eaten again and again. Visser Three morphed into a huge creature and picked me up and ate me. My Dad was at the Yeerk Pool being infested. A taxxon lunged at me, preparing to eat me. A Hork-Bajir lunged at me, preparing to slice and dice me. A lion, my battle morph, lunged for my throat.
“Stop! I’ll take you back, I’ll take you back!” I continued to shout, but I could no longer see Rob. “STOP!” I yelled for the last time. I looked around, I could see a tree, a bird landed on the tree branch. The only problem was, the tree was bright purple, and the bird a strange shade of blood red.
I stood up, looking around. Everything was fading back to normal. I saw Rob, and lunged at him, punching him in the face.
”What the hell’s a matter with you? What the hell did you do to me?” I yelled.
Instead of replying, he just shoved me.
“Forget taking you back. I’m leaving you here.” I said, getting ready to teleport away.
I concentrated, and then opened my eyes. I was back at the warehouse.
“Guys!” I shouted happily, lunging at the closest person to hug them.
RACHEL’S POV:
“Erm.. can’t breath!” I muttered.
“Sorry.” Claire said, ending the hug.
“Claire! Look out behind you!” Mike shouted.
Claire teleported away before Rob could punch her.
“How did you get here?” Claire demanded.
“Well, for one, you teleported from over there” Rob pointed at a park just down the street. “So I followed you. Now what have you done with-“
I used my super speed to rush past him and punch him, knocking him to the ground.
“Isuggestthatyouleave” I said really quickly. Oops. “I mean, I suggest that you leave.”
“Yea, your partners had the right idea. They’re gone.” Issam said.
“And you’re just by yourself, against all of us.” Tim added.
“Alright. Okay. You’ve told me.” Rob said. Instead of leaving, he shut his eyes.
“What are you doing?” Claire asked.
“Oh, you’ll see.” He said with a grin.
“Aaaaaah!” Claire yelled, falling to the floor. One by one we all fell to the floor.
“What’s… going… on….” I said, as everything melted away.
KEN’S POV:
I couldn’t help but freak out, just like everyone else. I was seeing images of my brother being infested, and I was back in the Yeerk Pool, seeing things I really didn’t want to see.
I concentrated really hard on Rob’s thoughts. It was hard to do but I managed it. I felt a trickle of blood coming from my nose. I ignored it and stood up.
“Your power won’t work on me anymore.” I said.
“Oh really?” He asked. He focused on me, I could hear his brain working away, thinking thoughts of hate towards me. “So out of all of them..” He gestured towards my friends. “..You’re the one who can stop me. Sure thing, Twiglet.” He laughed.
I shook my head slightly. He was gonna pay for underestimating me, that’s for sure.
He took a swing at me, but I knew it was coming as I was paying attention to his thoughts. I ducked and he missed. I punched him in the stomach quickly.
He swung again, twice more, missing each time.
I punched him in the face, giving him a cut lip.
“So what’s your power anyway?” Rob asked.
I didn’t waste time answering. I swung again, knocking him to the ground. I stood over him and concentrated.
<You’re going to get up right now, and walk away. You won’t turn around, you won’t come back here. You’ll stop your mind games on my friends first.> I sent my thoughts towards him.
He looked confused, but stood up and walked away. My friends began to stand up. I helped Anna to her feet as she was closest to me.
“Whoa, how’d you do that, Ken?” She asked.
“I think.. I think I used mind control..” I replied.
“We seriously have to go.” Claire said. “We have to get back to Texas. Oh and Ken, we need you for something. I’ll teleport you there and back. First, we need to morph.. Ken.. you realise your nose is bleeding?”
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CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
Ashes to Ashes
RACHEL'S POV:
After morphing and losing our cuts and bruises, it was definately time to get back to Texas.
Claire teleported us back, just me, Estelore, Ken and herself.
"So what is it guys, what do you need me for?" Ken asked us.
We were invisible, thanks to Estelore, so it was safe for us to wander the halls of Primatech Paper.
"Ssshh" Claire whispered as we turned a corner and walked quietly past two Primatech employees.
Once we were past them, Ken muttered. "They were Yeerks."
"Of course they were, if they work here. Now come on, we need to get through that door." Estelore said.
"I'm on it." I said quickly, and ran with my super speed to stop the door ahead of us from closing, as a Primatech employee came out and walked towards us.
We stood in front of a room. A small room, containing a bed, a sink, a toilet and a person. Seriously, a girl about Claire's age was sitting there on the bed, looking pretty sad. We could see it all through a window on the outside.
"So Ken. Is she a controller?" Claire asked.
I concentrated on her thoughts. "No." I shook my head. "She's not. But.. oh man.. someones coming. Claire, I think it's your Dad. Oh man.. He's with some guy.. Noah Bennet.. and they are planning on infesting her. Now."
"Ah crap, we gotta do something!" Claire said.
"We can't. Claire, we don't have time!" I told her.
"I don't care. I'm not leaving her like this." Claire said, and then she disappeared. She teleported into the room with the girl.
"Hey, you okay? I'm here to help you. What's your name?"
"Ash. I'm Ash. Who are you?" The girl replied.
"I'd love to go into details, but I'm afraid we can't. No time, you see." Claire grabbed her arm and teleported into the room with us.
KEN'S POV:
"Whoa! Did we just teleport?" The girl called Ash said excitedly.
"Yep. Come on guys, grab my arms or something. We have to leave." We teleported, just as Claire's Dad was opening the door to come in.
I opened my eyes, we were back home.
"Holy crap!" Tim's voice rang out.
"Geez guys, you gotta give us warning." Anna laughed. The others were having a meeting.
"Good timing to be having a meeting." I said.
"I think I was the only person not to freak out." Mike said. "Love my precognition."
"Anyway guys.. we kind of have an announcement."
"Yea?" Tyler asked.
"This is Ash." Claire said, introducing Ash.
"Hi." She said.
"Listen, me, Rach and Este really have to get back to Texas. But anyways, she'll have to stay with one of us, until-"
"Where are we?" Ash asked.
I replied, telling her the state we lived in.
"No way! I live here!" Ash said excitedly. "It's okay, I can go home."
After we sat and explained morphing and the Yeerks and all that, Ash didn't sound as excited. She sounded a bit worried.
Some of us went with her to her house, and luckily her parents weren't controllers.
CLAIRE'S POV:
"We're leaving Texas!" my Dad announced.
"Okay then." I replied, trying not to hide my excitement. I didn't really want to stay in Texas any longer, I wanted to go home, since now we had another member of the group.
Later that night, we took a plane home. I was itching to teleport home but of course I knew I couldn't.
The next day, after getting a good night's sleep, I called everyone for a meeting. I tried to teleport to Issam's house, but I wound up in Texas. I was having some trouble with my teleporting, but I had no idea why. It was frustrating.
"Dammit!" I said, kicking a fence nearby.
I started to walk, just so I could clear my head and try and teleport again. I looked around, seeing no one. I tested out my power, teleporting a few steps in front of me. It worked. I smiled to myself, until I saw someone across the road looking at me. Oh.. crap.
A black guy. I started to walk away, but it was too late.
I woke up in a small room. Oh god.. this was Primatech Paper. I was at Primatech.
JEN'S POV:
"Alright Ash, you ready to try morphing?" I asked her. She looked a bit worried.
"I guess." She answered. "So I just touch the animal?"
"Yep. What animal do you want to try first?" I asked again. We were at my house, just me, Ash, Anna and Mike. Everyone else was busy. We were supposed to meet up this morning, but everyone had to raincheck at the last minute.
"How about your bird?" Ash said, reaching out to pat Orsino.
"Sure." I smiled. "Good choice. I like her already!" I said to Mike and Anna.
"I'll take you to get your battle morph soon, okay?" Mike said to Ash.
"Battle morph?"
"Yes. Unfortunately having the Yeerks around means a lot of fighting." Anna sighed.
"Ah, of course. I can't believe I was a second away from becoming one of them." Ash muttered.
"Hey, I'm just curious, but why were you there?" Mike asked.
"I'm not sure. I think I used my power in public, and they saw me. I was kidnapped and woke up there."
"Your power?" I asked.
"Well, you guys are just like me, right? I mean.. I saw Claire teleport. That's how she saved me. My power is super strength."
I went on to explain about everyone's powers to Ash. She was definately excited about it, thats for sure.
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CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
The Capture
CLAIRE’S POV:
“Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap!” I said, trying to open the door to the room. I tried to use my powers but they weren’t working. Dammit!
A few minutes later, someone came into the room. They were dressed like a doctor, with a long white coat. Oh crap, Oh crap, Oh crap!
They were holding something. A little canister. Oh man, I knew what that was. I had seen some of them down in the Yeerk Pool.
He walked over to me.
“Hey man.” I said, getting his attention. “You dropped your pocket!” I said quickly.
“What?” He said, looking down at the floor. Idiot.
I kicked him in the stomach and ran out of the room, straight into a security guard. Ah crap, I just can’t catch a break. The guard held my arms behind my back while the doctor guy held something to my ear.
My ear went numb as a Yeerk crawled into my ear. I struggled, trying to use my power and trying to escape, but nothing worked. Finally I got my left arm free and touched my ear, but it was too late.
Suddenly I could no longer move. <Nooooooo!> I yelled in my head.
“It’s alright.” My voice said. “I’m-“
I was interrupted as the doctor slumped to the floor, and a second later the guard was down too. They were dead.
“Surprised to see us?” I looked up, seeing Shanker and his buddies.
The Yeerk searched through my memories. “What are you doing in Texas?”
“I have my connections. I’m actually here to help a friend. What are you doing here?” Shanker demanded.
“Leaving.” The Yeerk said.
<Get out of my head!>
<Why would I do that? When I’ve just discovered your ability. Teleportation> The Yeerk concentrated and suddenly we were in the woods.
<Let’s go see your Andalite friend, shall we?>
<Noooo! You leave my friends alone. I’ll never let you!>
<Ken. Telepathy. Mike. Precognition. They will be problems>
<Shut up! Get out of my head, you filthy Yeerk!>
MIKE’S POV:
<What is that creature?> Ax asked me.
“It’s a squirrel, Ax-man” Tyler replied.
“So how are you settling in, anyway?” I asked.
Me, Ax and Tyler were in the woods together, just seeing what Ax had been up to lately.
<This place is fine>
“A lot different from home, huh?” Tyler asked.
I checked my watch. Oh no! I had to get back home, my Mum needed me for something.
“I have to go, guys. Catch you later.”
“Later.” Tyler replied.
I started to run out of the woods. Out of all of us, I lived the closest. I would have flown but I didn’t want to have to worry about finding a place to demorph at home.
I got to my street 20 minutes later. Yes I lived the closest, but it was still a fair way to walk.
I was glad to be finally near home. I got a flash of an image in my head. Claire was about to teleport over here. I really loved my power.
Claire appeared in front of me a minute later.
“Hey Claire.” I said. “What’s going on?”
She smiled at me, but there was something different about her. She was about to tell me something.
My eyes went wide as I realised that she was a controller.
“Yeerk!” I practically shouted, but she grabbed my arm and teleported me away. I was too shocked by the fact she was a controller that I didn’t see it coming until it was too late.
“I knew you would find out.” The Yeerk told me. “I was ready for it.”
“Shut up Yeerk. Claire, it’s alright. We’ll save you.” I said, not wanting to talk to the Yeerk. “Where did you take me?” I demanded.
We teleported again, this time we were in Ken’s room. He walked in, with a surprised look on his face.
“Guys” He said, shutting his bedroom door. “What are you-“
“She’s a contro-“ Mike started to say.
“Controller.” Ken said quietly.
Claire.. no, the Yeerk started to laugh and reached out to grab me and Ken’s arms. With our powers, we both knew what was about to happen, and moved out of her way.
“That won’t help you forever!” The Yeerk snarled.
CLAIRE’S POV:
<Nooo! Stop it!> I shouted at the Yeerk, to no avail. The Yeerk was becoming frustrated with trying to get close to Ken and Mike to teleport them away, but they kept seeing it coming.
<There’s no way you can get to them, they will always see you coming> I said smugly to the Yeerk.
<Oh really? Well I found what I was looking for. Stopping time?> The Yeerk said, and stopped time.
Ken and Mike froze, no longer moving at all.
The Yeerk put a smile on my face. “That’s better.” The Yeerk grabbed Mike and Ken’s arms and teleported.
We were in a dark place, I wasn’t sure where. Ken and Mike were back to normal.
“Oh crap!” Ken said.. “Where in hell are we?”
“I don’t know. New York maybe?” Mike wondered.
“What happened here?” Ken asked.
We looked around, seeing New York as a wasteland. Buildings were destroyed, and there were no people around.
<I think we’re in the future> I said.
<I can read your mind, every thought you have. You don’t need to tell me>
<But I want to tell you> I said. I tried to move my eyes, to look around New York, but I couldn’t.
<Yes that’s right, The Yeerk said.
<Do you have a na-> I tried to ask.
<Yes. I have a name. Adanac 349-> He stopped talking, hearing Ken and Mike talking quietly.
“Take us back home, Yeerk.” Ken said. He looked troubled. Probably because he could hear my thoughts, and they were not fun at all.
“Actually, I don’t think I will. I think I’m going to leave you two here, and go back and take the others to Visser Three.”
“You really think so?” Mike asked. He looked at Ken and nodded.
KEN’S POV:
“Don’t worry Claire. It’s gonna be okay.” I said, concentrating on the Yeerk’s thoughts. He/She was ****y and arrogant. It was hard to classify the Yeerk as a gender. I didn’t think it really had one.
<You will get out of my friends head, right now> I sent the thoughts to the Yeerk.
I couldn’t believe it. The Yeerk started to crawl out of Claire’s ear.
“Where is it? WHERE IS IT?” She cried. “Kill it!”
“Mike, get her.” I said. The Yeerk was now on the ground, and Claire was frantically trying to step on it.
“Wait!” Mike said. “Claire, stop!”
“It has to die! It knows everything about us!”
“Yea, but let’s get to that later. We’ll acquire the Yeerk.” Mike leaned down to pick up the Yeerk.
“There’s no way I’m touching that thing.” Claire said.
I reached over and acquired it once Mike was finished.
“Okay, okay, I will. But once everyone is done, I am killing, and I mean killing that yeerk. I’m gonna roast it, I’m gonna..” She continued to babble on about ways to kill the Yeerk.
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CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
What the future holds
MIKE’S POV:
“Okay, so you going to teleport us back now?” Ken asked Claire.
“Actually, I think we should stay here a bit longer.”
“Why?” Ken asked.
“Yea, I don’t like this place” I said.
“Well we’ve obviously done something wrong here. I mean, New York is a wasteland. I think we should-“ The sound of Claire’s voice was drowned out as a spaceship, a bug fighter, flew over our heads.
“Holy crap” Ken said, once it had passed.
“You got that right.” I agreed.
“I say we don’t go in that direction.” Claire said. “Where are we, anyway?”
We were on the roof of a building, but that was all I could tell. We found a stairwell and used that to get out onto the street.
There were no people around, anywhere.
“Ken, you picking up any stray thoughts?” I asked.
He shook his head. “Nothing.”
We walked for a while. Eventually we came to a place which looked like it was point of origin for the bomb.
“Whoa.” The three of us said simultaneously.
“I’m getting some thoughts” Ken said, looking troubled. “I have some Yeerks, some terrified hosts.. and a couple of free hosts. I think there’s a fight happening. It’s nearby, its..” He pointed at a bunch of people running our way, fighting.
“Why won’t you just die!” One of the free hosts shouted and turned to us.
“No way!” Ken said.
“You?” The person said. “Ken? But, that’s impossible! Oh, Claire, of course. You must be the reason he’s here.” He turned back to the Yeerks and helped his partner to kill them. They were both armed with swords, knives, dracon beams and guns.
“Is that who I think it is?” I whispered.
“Yea. It’s Issam alright. Just, older.” Ken said.
Issam came over to us. “You guys look so young. What time are you from?”
We told him, and asked what time we were in. It was 3 and a half years since the bomb went off, so almost 4 years from the day we were in back home.
“I’m surprised you guys aren’t..” Issam’s friend muttered, but Issam stopped him from talking.
“Who’s that? He’s not one of us, is it?” Claire asked.
“You don’t recognise me?” Issam’s friend laughed.
“Well why don’t you just tell us who you are? Or we can just have Ken do that.” Claire said.
And with that, he struck with his sword at Claire, a fatal blow to her head.
I screamed out her name, but it was too late. He pointed his sword towards me and struck my stomach.
I fell to the ground, the last thing I heard was Ken yelling and running towards me as I was struck again by the sword.
KEN’S POV:
“Who’s that? He’s not one of us is he?” Claire asked.
“You don’t recognise me?” Issam’s friend laughed at us.
“Well why don’t you…” Claire said, trailing off as Mike finished her sentence.
“Well why don’t you just tell us who you are? Or we can just have Ken do that.” Mike said. As he said it, he stepped towards Claire, pushing her out of the way.
He punched the guy in the face, knocking him backwards.
Issam smiled and turned to Mike. “Of course, you saw that coming.” He pointed his index finger at Mike. Mike was lifted into the air.
Mike was choking and coughing, his hands around his throat.
“No!” Claire yelled.
I concentrated on Issam’s thoughts. <Let Mike go. Let him go now>
At the same time, he pointed at me, making me fly several feet through the air.
Claire teleported and grabbed me midair, teleporting us back to the ground.
“You okay?” She muttered, but didn’t wait for a reply as she teleported us to Mike.
When I finally opened my eyes, we were in another part of New York. We were in an empty street in front of some apartment buildings.
“I thought you said he wasn’t a controller?” Claire asked me.
“He wasn’t!” I said. “I can’t believe it, him and his friend were attacking us.”
Claire snapped her fingers. “No way. I know who that was!”
Because I could read her mind, and Mike knew what was going to happen, we all spoke at the same time. “Rob.”
“Hello, Claire.” A familiar voice said. We all turned to look. It was Claire, but she was different. Older. Her hair was tied back and kind of short, and she had a few noticeable scars. She was wearing some sort of costume, all black.
FUTURE CLAIRE’S POV:
“Hello, Claire.” I had said. The three of them just gaped at me.
“What are you doing here?” I asked, raising my eyebrow.
“Uh.. you’re me…” Claire said.
“Yes. Your powers of observation are just astounding.” I said, with a hint of sarcasm.
“HEY!” A voice shouted from a far distance away.
“Time to move. They’ve been tracking me a while now.” I said, grabbing Claire, Ken and Mike’s arms.
We teleported to an apartment building on Reed Street, what was left of it.
“Hiro.” I said. “They found me, twice today. They are getting better at tracking. They’ve joined forces with more people like us, former controllers.”
“Who are you?” Hiro asked Mike. “And you, you are Ken, correct?” He turned to Ken.
“Yea” Ken nodded.
“I’m Mike.” Mike said, looking a bit confused. “Why do you know Ken and not me.”
“You really don’t want to know.” I said sadly, staring at the floor.
“What happened to us? Where are Jen, Anna, all of the others? Am I not alive in this future?” Mike asked.
“I can’t tell you.” I replied.
“Yes you can.. Future me. You have to tell us, we can fix all of this.” Claire said.
I smiled. She was just how I remembered me being at that age. But it didn’t matter anymore, everything she knew would change soon. Me and Hiro, with our time travel abilities, had been trying for a very long time to change the past, and every time we did, it seemed to end up worse.
It was my fault, I hadn’t helped my friends when I was supposed to, and because of that, Anna, Mike, Estelore, Jen, Rachel and Tim had died when the bomb went off.
Me, Ken, Issam, Jen and Tyler were the only survivors, but not for long, Tyler and Rachel was killed not long after and Ken died a year ago.
“What happened?” Claire asked softly.
I explained about the ones who had died in the bomb blast. “The world is a terrible place now.”
“Who killed Tyler?” Mike asked.
“And me, for that matter.”
I told them, but they stared back at me in disbelief.
“No way.”
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[Okay, people. This chapter might be a little confusing. Feel free to ask questions in the other thread if you need to. I know I would. That's the point, you guys need to be confused. If you're not, I didn't try hard enough. Also, yes I only used two POV's because that's how it ended up.. sorries to those of you who haven't been in it in a while and whatnot. Now, enough yabbering, READ, MY PRETTIES! ;D]
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
To be evil.. or not to be evil.. that is the question.
CLAIRE’S POV:
“You have to leave.” Future Claire said.
“My teleporting has… been.. a bit off lately…” I replied.
“What are you, sour milk?” Future Claire said, raising an eyebrow.
Future Claire was weird. Not sure I liked her as much as I liked myself. Now that just sounds weird…
“I’ll take you back, if you need me to?” Future Claire suggested.
“No, I should be fine.”
“You don’t sound very confident.” Ken muttered.
“Shuddup.” I replied, and grabbed his shoulder. Mike grabbed onto my arm at the same time. “Later, Future Me. By the way, you’re weird.”
The last thing I saw was her smile as we teleported away. We ended up in the woods back home, right in front of Ax as he was grazing.
<What!?> He said, sounding startled.
“Sorry Ax” I apologised.
<You have been gone for two whole Earth days> Ax said.
“Two whole days?!” Ken said. “My Mom’s gonna kill me!”
<We devised a plan to cover your absence during those days.>
“Hey, is it just me or did you call them ‘Earth’ days?” I asked, but was interrupted by Anna’s voice.
“KEN!” She ran up and kissed Ken.
“Oh geez” I said, looking at Mike. “Get a room you two.”
“Where have you guys been?”
I turned to look at Issam, who had spoken. I lunged at him. “Traitor!” I shouted.
Someone was pulling me back, away from him.
“What the heck are you doing?” Jen demanded. I pushed her arm angrily.
“I’ll tell you.” I answered. “Issam here wants to kill us all.”
“What are you talking about?” Issam asked. “I’m not a controller, remember.”
“Cut the crap.” Ken said. “Mind reader, remember?” He pointed to his head. “I feel like an idiot for not noticing this earlier.” He looked as if he was concentrating. “That’s odd.. It’s not working..”
<Can someone please explain all this hostility?> Ax asked.
“Yea, guys, what’s going on?” Ash asked, sounding concerned.
ISSAM’S POV…. So far as you know.
“We came from the future. And we discovered that Issam is a traitor. He was with that Rob guy, and he killed...”
“Finally figured it out, eh?” I said finally. There was no point denying it now, they knew, and plus Ken was a telepathic.
“So you’re not pretending anymore?” Mike asked. “How could you do this, man?”
“I haven’t done anything to you.” I shot back angrily.
“Yet.” Ken muttered, loud enough for all to hear.
I glared back at him. And while they were sitting there thinking, I ran off. I wasn’t ready to fight all of them at the same time.
Rachel sped by me, easily beating me. She stuck out her foot, and down I went. Very dignifying.
“I don’t want to have to hurt you, Rachel” I warned.
“Neither do I, but I guess I have to.” She said, giving me a super speed punch to the face.
It'd be so much easier if I had Issam's telekinesis... but instead I backhanded her in the face. Now that I was male instead of female I didn't realise how much my strength had changed. She fell to the floor, looking EXTREMELY shocked.
Without looking back, I ran away again. I’m not a coward, so don’t be thinking that I’m being cowardly. I did what I had to do.
I could hear them calling Rachel’s name.
A second later Claire and Jen teleported in front of me. I knew why it was the two of them and not any of the others. Jen and I were the so called leaders of this little group, and Claire was my longest friend of them all.
“How could you do this Issam?” Claire asked quietly.
“It’s a long story. Besides, whatever I did in the future hasn’t been done yet.” I pointed out.
“But you’re going to do it. And that’s the problem.”
Jen looked troubled. She started to form a fireball in her hands. I smiled as she threw it at me.
“I really don’t wanna do this!” Jen yelled. “I’m sorry.”
I ducked as she prepared to throw the fire towards me. Suddenly the fire disappeared. I didn't stop to chat about it, I just ran off again.
Finally I found a quiet place to rest, and get my mobile phone out. I dialled a number quickly. “It’s done, guys.”
“Good job, Kat.” Said Shanker’s voice on the other line. “We’re in Texas now, we’ll be back there in a few hours, we are at the airport, so you have nice timing.”
“Thanks”
“So they bought it?” Shanker asked. “Because we need this to work. Issam has to be trusted.”
“They bought it. They seriously think he’s gonna go crazy and kill them all. I don’t know how this helps him to be trusted.”
“You know the plan Kat. Stick to it, and everything will go fine. Find Issam, and complete phase 2 of the plan.” Shanker replied. “See you soon.”
I looked up, seeing a young Asian teenager standing in front of me. “Are you the one?”
He nodded in reply. “Yea. I’m Sakae.”
“Good. You can help me with this.” I said, still sitting on the ground. “You gonna help me up or what?”
He smiled. “You sure you want me to help you?”
“What did I just ask you?” I said, puzzled.
“Okay.” Sakae said, grabbing my outstretched hand and pulling me up.
I sagged to the floor suddenly, feeling like my energy was being sucked out of me.
He let me go and I stumbled, feeling very strange. I looked at my arms, realising they were back to normal. I wasn’t impersonating Issam anymore, I was back to normal. “What did you just do?” I demanded.
“How about I just show you?” And then he shape-shifted in front of me, turning into me. “Thanks, this power’s not so bad.”
“They didn’t tell me you stole other people’s abilities! They said you cancelled other abilities!” I was slightly outraged that I hadn’t been told.
“Oh, that is my ability. To cancel other abilities, but that’s not all. I absorb abilities, and keep them for a short while. You’ll find that your power won’t work right now, because I’m basically telling it not to.”
I gave him a slightly blank look. I admit, his power was cool. I wanted it, but shape-shifting was enough for me.
"Aren't you going to thank me?" He asked. "I did save your life back there. I stopped you from becoming a marshmallow."
[Authors note #2 Wooo, yea.. that was intense. Confused? Me too.. my brain is all over the place right now. Last I heard it was in Europe.. wait thats not the point.. Hee hee hee.. Anna and Ken kissed... omg.. hee hee... oh, and yes, Sakae aka Morfowt is in it, and a villain, who knew? And just so you know, no Issam did not backhand Rachel in the face, okay? lol.. remember, if you've read it all, then you know it was Kat, aka Estrid. Hope you enjoyed. Now comment in the other thread, MY PRETTIES! If you don't, I'll sic Ken on you and you'll have to comment! muahahaha]
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ok, I'm slightly confused, I better read all of it, but not right now, cuz I don't have enough time. this weekend, i'll read it. Like my ability.
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((So so so sorry I took so long with this one. I was on hiatus because of a mental block. Anyways, I had a huge brainwave (Rachel, you been pooping again?) lol.. so yea.. enjoy.))
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
Because I lack the creativity to come up with a better title...
KA-BOOOOOOM!
JEN’S POV:
“Oookay, what just happened here?” I asked, directing my question at Claire, Ken and Mike, who had just come back from the future.
Claire started to explain. It was a long story.
“Okay, so Issam is going to turn evil and going to kill.. some of us?” I asked, not really believing. “Why would he do this?”
“I have absolutely no clue, hey if we’ve been missing for 2 days…” Claire started to say.
“Two and a half days, actually.” I corrected.
“Oh, well if we’ve been gone for 2 and a half days, what’s the date?”
I told them.
“Oh, really? We have less than a week now, to save the cheerleader!”
“Um guys?” Ken muttered. “What are we gonna do about this Yeerk in my pocket?” According to the others, Ken had kept the Yeerk in a mindless state for that entire time, so it could not escape.
We all acquired the Yeerk, and Claire grabbed it off of me.
“It’s. Going. To. Die.” She said slowly. She dropped it to the ground and stomped on it several times. We all looked away.
I wasn’t sure what to feel. I’m sure that if I had been through that, I’d want to kill it badly too.
“We have an important issue right now guys.” I said. “If Issam has gone traitor, this is a seriously big deal. He knows everything about us all.”
We all agreed to meet up later in the day, unfortunately life got in the way sometimes.
I was close to home when I saw someone sitting on my fence. As I got closer I realised it was Issam.
“What are you doing here?” I called. I stopped in my tracks.
“Why do you sound so surprised to see me?” He looked puzzled.
“Um…” I said. “You’ve forgotten that you attacked us earlier?”
“What?”
“You know, we all trusted you, how could you just stab us in the back like this?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” He walked over to me.
“Traitor!” I shouted. I formed a fire ball in my hand. I didn’t really want it to come to this.
“What the hell are you doing?”
“I’m sorry, Issam. But you attacked us, that’s your fault.” I said as I threw flames towards him.
He leaped out of the way and into my front yard. He continued to run into my back yard, so I followed him, pulling my mobile phone out of my pocket and dialling the first number in my address book. A for Anna.
“I need help! Get to my house right now!” I shouted, hanging up the phone. “Would you stop running?”
“What do you want me to do?! You’re trying to roast me!” He yelled back.
He got to the end of the backyard and prepared to climb the fence.
I threw flames at him, but with his telekinesis he shot them back at me, but it seemed as if he was just trying to divert them away from me.
ANNA’S POV:
I was at Ken’s house, with Claire and Rachel when Jen called me, needing help.
“Well it’s a good thing I’m here then.” Claire said, and teleported the four of us to Jen’s house.
The first thing we heard was the deafening screech of a fire alarm. There were flames around the back of the house and flames on the neighbours house.
“Holy crap” I said. Soon ice formed from my hands, going up my arms. I shot it at the flames, freezing them all and putting them out.
“Jen!” Ken shouted and ran over to her. She was on the ground.
“Is she..” I began to say, but I was interrupted as Jen sat up and started coughing loudly.
“Where the hell is Issam?!” She said, looking around wildly.
“There’s nobody else around here.” Ken said. “I can only hear you guys.”
“No! Issam!” Claire yelled. “Holy crap, Jen, you killed him?! I know he attacked us, but you killed him? I’ve known him the longest out of all of us, I have to go back… I have to stop this.”
Issam was lying on the ground, he must have been thrown several feet, it looked like a bomb hit in the backyard.
“Claire, wait!” I yelled as she disappeared into thin air. It was annoying when she did that.
CLAIRE’S POV:
“Claire, wait!” was the last thing I heard before I teleported away.
I was in Jen’s backyard, the same place I was standing earlier. But it was different, there was no evidence of fire. I left the backyard and teleported to Ken’s house.
I watched as Anna, Ken, Rachel and the younger me walked into the house. I didn’t want her to catch me, it could mess things up. I didn’t have time to worry about that though. Jen and Issam were in danger of killing each other in just a couple minutes.
I teleported inside the house, going straight to Ken’s room. The four of them chose that moment to walk into the room.
“Holy crap, give me a heart attack.. Claire…” The younger version of me said. “What are you doing here?”
“I’ve come to stop a… friend of ours being killed. We have to get to Jen’s house, Issam is in trouble.”
“He’s turned villain now, why should we help him?” Anna asked.
“We can’t just let him die! I have the power to stop this, I’m not going to let him die.” And with that, I grabbed Ken, Rachel and Anna’s arms and teleported to Jen’s house. The younger me followed.
“Listen, younger Claire. It’s really confusing having you around, and I don’t want to mess this up, okay? Go home, please. It’ll be like this never happened in a few minutes.” I hoped so. It was too weird having two Claire’s exist in one place. Really freaky.
We ran to the backyard, leaving the younger Claire behind. Jen and Issam were fighting. Well, it was mostly Jen fighting. It seemed as if Issam was trying NOT to hurt Jen, even though she was almost kicking his ass.
They heard us approach, when Rachel stepped on a branch and broke it. They turned to us, startled, and Issam stumbled backwards, hitting a barbeque grill behind him.
“Oh, s***” I yelled as the gas was turned on. Jen had fire in her hands. It combined with the gas and there was a bright explosion. I flew through the air and fell to the ground. I could see Ken next to me, on fire and looking quite dead.
My whole body hurt, and I realised that I was on fire too. I screamed, and the last thing I saw was something like a white light, before it turned into darkness.
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CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
Russell's awesomeness ;D
CLAIRE’S POV:
“Listen, younger Claire. It’s really confusing having you around, and I don’t want to mess this up, okay? Go home, please. It’ll be like this never happened in a few minutes.” Future me said.
She had run into the backyard with the others, leaving me standing out in the street, confused as all hell.
I considered teleporting home, but just as I was about to go, there was a big flash of light. The ground shook as Jen’s backyard was exploding.
I stopped time and ran to the backyard. There were flames everywhere, frozen in place. I said a few curse words as I saw my friends scattered around the place. I looked down at my own dead body and retched.
Disgusting.
“Jen!” I shouted and ran over to her, helping her stand up. She was in better shape then the others, since she was immune to fire.
“This is all my fault, I have to go back again.” I said to her, and it was like watching a DVD. Basically I pressed rewind.
I watched as Jen sat back down, got thrown backwards through the air, as well as Ken, Rachel, Anna and myself. The flames all went back into Jen’s hands. Everyone started running backwards out of the backyard.
It was extremely weird yet extremely cool to see.
I tried to change time so that no one would have to die. I tried five times and each time my friends died, each time ended in that single explosion that killed them all.
I froze time and sat outside Jen’s house in the gutter.
Every time I tried to save my friends I ended up killing them. This time travel stuff sucks.
“Dammit.” I muttered. I finally realised that I had an idea. It was the only choice I had left.
I rewound time again, going back to the start. I waited for Jen and Issam to show up and run into the backyard. At the last second I teleported them away, down the street and away from where the explosion was happening.
I was launched through the air and fell to the ground. It all went black.
RACHELS POV:
I met up with the others at the morgue. Claire was dead. None of us could believe it.
“This wasn’t supposed to happen.” Jen said sadly. “She saved me…”
After a long time of us saying our goodbyes to Claire, we left the morgue.
We were walking through the woods, all of us, with Ax.
“Wait, stop! I hear somebody, well I hear their thoughts…” Ken said hurriedly.
We all crouched down and hid behind some bushes and scrubs. A boy ran towards us at top speed, going past us and continuing to run away from us. Soon enough two people and two Hork-Bajir controllers ran after him.
“Holy crap!” I muttered.
“The guy, he’s not a controller. He’s free, he escaped. He’s Visser Threes human morph! His name is Russell, and he’s 18.” Ken revealed.
The boy stopped running in a clearing not too far away from our hide out. The human-controllers and Hork-Bajir stopped.
“Enough of this!” Russell yelled.
“Let’s morph.” Jen said. “We could get caught just sitting here. Battle morphs, now. Let’s go.”
Russell raised his arms, and the trees around him began to sway.
<What the hell is he doing?> I wondered, as all of us tried to creep closer, still not being noticed.
Russell’s eyes went wide when he saw us, and slightly nodded.
We knew he had a power, which Visser Three would also have. He was there in his human morph, one of the human controllers we could see.
ISSAM’S POV:
“Are you sure this is going to work?” I asked.
“Trust me, this guys power never fails.” Shanker replied.
I had met up with Shanker and his crew after the explosion. I had been betraying my friends, helping Shanker for a while now. And now Claire was dead. I hadn’t wanted that to happen.
Shanker knocked on the door to someone’s house.
“This better work.” I said.
The door opened, it was just some guy. “You ready?” Shanker said. He had already spoken to the guy on the phone earlier.
“Yes.” The guy answered. He has a slight Jamaican accent.
We drove to the morgue in silence, I had no idea what to talk about. I just hoped this worked.
“Are you sure this will work?” I finally said.
“For the last time, yes. I’m sure, isn’t that right, Rich?”
“Do not call me Rich.” Richard said.
Soon enough we arrived at the morgue and went inside. It was shut, so Shanker put some acid on the doors to let us inside.
I searched for Claire’s name. “This is it.” I pulled out a drawer from the wall, it revealed a person in a bag. I unzipped it and it was Claire.
She looked just like I saw her last, except she was burnt along her face and her clothes were scorched black.
“Okay. It is time.” Richard said, holding his hands out on Claire’s forehead.
A few seconds later, Claire sat up and coughed, looking around at us.
CLAIRE’S POV:
I coughed violently as I sat up. “What the hell just happened?!”
“Claire! You’re alive!” Issam said.
“Oh it’s you. The traitor.” I laughed.
“Hey, me and Shanker organised this. Without us you’d still be dead. Thanks to our friend here you aren’t.”
“Yea I know.” I said. “I missed you guys. Playing nice was starting to get annoying.”
“Let’s get out of here. We have things to do. We need to meet up with Kat and Sakae soon.” Shanker said. “Rob and the others are already there.
RUSSELLS POV:
I was slightly nervous, using my power against Visser Three like this.
The Andalites Visser Three called “Andalite bandits” happened to be close by, so I was less worried after that.
The trees around me swayed, and soon they took a step towards Visser Three. He did the same to the trees around him, but I had more experience with the ability. I used my power on a log next to Visser Three. The log stood up and slammed into Visser Three, knocking him to the ground.
He slowly stood up, and the Andalites took the chance to start fighting.
A bull ran straight into the Hork-Bajirs, knocking them off their feet.
Visser Three began to morph, so I used the opportunity to continue to use my ability. Every inanimate object around him became animated, attacking him. He continued to morph, eventually stopping as a small bird. He flew away, no matter how hard I tried to stop him from getting away.
The other human controller was long gone, ran away when the bull came along.
The Andalites turned to walk away from me, but I didn’t want to be left in the middle of the woods.
“Wait.” I said.
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CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT
Actually going to save the cheerleader? I don't believe it! ;)
RUSSELL’S POV:
It was a few days after the Visser Three fight, and I still could not believe it. I was living in an Andalite’s scoop in the middle of the woods, and the Andalite bandits were a group of super powered humans, just like me.
It was interesting living with an alien, I had already lived with a Yeerk in my brain for a little while, but I went through a lot to escape the way I did. Visser Three made the order to have me be killed, so the Yeerk controlling me left me for another host.
I could barely remember it, the fighting and the escape. I didn’t want to remember it. The only thing wrong with Ax was that he was a TV hog.
“There’s this car show on now, you mind?” I asked impatiently.
He started talking about “These Messages” so I just walked out of the scoops and went for a walk through the woods.
After sitting on a log for ages, the others came. We had scheduled a meeting today.
“Okay, first things first. We lost two of our members, but gained two recently. These villains need to be taken care of. Second thing I need to mention is the saving of the cheerleader which Claire told us to do. Do we still need to do this? I mean, future Claire seems like she isn’t a villain, but who knows? What does everyone else think?” Jen said.
“I think we save her. I mean, we have to get to her before they do. Or the Yeerks.” Tim replied.
“Good idea. So, you guys said Claire was a teleporter? How are we going to get there without being able to teleport?” I asked.
“We start driving.” Jen said, dangling her keys in her hand.
We had to take three cars, as only two of us knew how to drive, Tim and Jen, but I could make cars become animated so I didn’t need to how to drive.
ROB’S POV:
It was a week after Claire had risen from the dead. She and Issam had told us all about the Yeerks. We may be villains, but we didn’t want to be infested by aliens.
We found an old abandoned apartment building, which we were using as a headquarters.
“So, what now?” Claire asked. “I didn’t join you guys to just sit here and do nothing. We need to go save this cheerleader, and the Yeerks are out there.”
“You sound like you want to change your mind.” I said.
Shanker raised his eyebrow. “If you want to leave, then leave.”
“Listen to me, if we go to Texas, maybe we can stop Sylar. He’ll kill us all if we don’t. He’s dangerous, but all of us against him? We can stop him.”
“Fine. We’ll go to Texas, and probably run into your old friends. When do we leave?”
“Tomorrow. It happens tomorrow.” Claire said.
“Alright. Jayne? Jayne? What’s with you, everytime I say Jayne, you take so long to turn around, like you don’t know your own name.”
“Oh, sorry.” Jayne turned around.
Shanker looked impatient. “Just get the others, we need to leave tomorrow.”
MIKE’S POV:
“Okay. Thanks.” I said as I walked out of a gas station in Midland, Texas.
Ken had decided that he needed waffles before we went to save the cheerleader, which was in a couple of hours.
We walked into the diner and found a table, while Ken and Anna went to order food for us all. The diner was pretty quiet, only a couple of girls talking at the front, and an Asian man who looked lonely.
For an hour, we just waited, with not much else to do in such a small town.
A bit later on, I heard a man speaking to the Asian man from before. He hadn’t moved from the diner since we got there.
“You have a power? Super strength? Teleporting, like Hiro?”
“Guys, guys, quiet.” I muttered. “Ken, check them out, are they Yeerks?”
He concentrated, but then shook his head. “No, they aren’t.”
We listened in to their entire conversation, and when the other man said “I know where the cheerleader gets attacked, I have to stop it.” I stood up and walked over.
“Excuse me, but I couldn’t help but overhear you. You need to save a cheerleader? That’s why we are here. A girl, who can teleport through time and space, well her future self told her to save a cheerleader.”
“You’re serious? This.. this sort of happened to me too.”
“Oh thank God for that. I figured you’d think I was crazy!” I laughed.
“I still do. But I need to save her, can you help me?”
“Sure. I’m Mike by the way.” I held out my hand, and he shook it.
“I’m Peter.”
All of us met up outside and told Peter our names. A few minutes later we started driving towards Odessa. Peter took a taxi there.
Finally we made it to the high school. It was quiet and dark around this side, because there was some sort of celebration happening, homecoming I assumed.
“Ahh!” Peter muttered, his hand flying to his head. One of his hands was covered in ice, and then the other hand was covered in fire. “What’s happening? Do you all have abilities, like me?”
“What are you doing?”
“I absorb other peoples abilities, and now I’m absorbing all of yours, what are they?”
I explained to him everyone’s powers.
“Great, just great.” He said, falling over and hitting the ground hard.
“Um.. what the heck just happened?” Tyler said.
“Maybe he absorbed too many abilities. Let’s get him in the car, he’ll be safe there while we save this girl.” Russell said.
Tim and Ken started to help him up, but Ash picked Peter up like he was a piece of paper.
“Still can’t get used to the whole super strength thing.” Tim smiled.
“You guys again.” A voice said from close by. We whirled around to see the group of villains standing there, including Issam and Claire.
“Here to save a cheerleader? Didn’t think it was your style.” Jen said. “You got some extra villains on your side now, huh?”
Two new girls stood close by. Ken informed us of their names, Kat and Terenia. “Seen Sylar around, by any chance?” Kat asked.
“Of course… you’re here to find Sylar!” Ken said. “You want him to join you? Good luck with that.” He added sarcastically.
“We don’t have time for this!” Claire urged. “Let’s go save her.”
“I’m not done here.” Shanker said.