Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Fan Fiction & Art => Topic started by: SuperBlue on March 12, 2011, 01:59:19 AM
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Ok. Soooo...I found out I would be taking a creative writing class next year. And what better way to prepare for that than to write a fic in a forum with at least 3 english teachers. This one has been a brainchild of mine for a while now but I never got to actually writing it until I got some positive feedback from fellow RAFians who said they liked the idea. Fair Warning: I am faaaar from being a great writer :P Hell, I wouldn't even consider myself to be a decent one. But the creative writing teacher @ my school also happens to be my AP english teacher now and she's probably the biggest hardass you'll ever meet so I might as well get the hang of writing now so I wont fail this class. So, without further ado, read and enjoy:
RAFamorphs #1: The Start
My name is Richard. That's my first name, obviously. I can't tell you my last name. It would be too dangerous. The Controllers are everywhere. Everywhere. And if they knew my full name, they could find me and my friends, and then . . . well, let's just say I don't want them to find me. What they do to people who resist them is too horrible to think about. Sounds familiar, right? Well it should if you happen to be a member of my forum. If not then I'm afraid you may have lost your sanity to a talking Seal holding a vacuum cleaner......you haven't? Well...then you REALLY aren't a member of my forum. I guess things would be a little easier to explain if I start from the beginning then. You see, six or seven years ago, I started an online community known as “Richard's Animorphs Forum”. It started off pretty simple, just a few book nerds discussing their love for a series that's been dead for years. But as the years went by, I watched my tiny little forum expand into what it is today: The Largest Animorphs community in World. I'm so renowned that even the writer of Animorphs is a member of my forum! Now, with 3770 members, RAF's fame is beginning to reach otherworldly proportions. I know what you're thinking. “What does this have to do with the story?” right? RAF's fame actually has EVERYTHING to do with this story. Me starting this forum and helping it grow into what it's become now.....was probably the biggest mistake of my life...scratch that, what you're about to read about, how I single-handedly endangered the lives of hundreds of people, was without a doubt THE biggest mistake in anybody's life. It all started about a week ago in RAFchat.....
[20:57:47] Richard: hey
[20:57:54] Terenia: …..
[20:58:10] Goom: Whoa! Richard? On RAFchat?
[20:58:43] Richard: Yeah yeah. I know. It's like a sign of the apocalypse or something :P
[20:59:57] Goom: Lol
[21:01:00] Terenia: lmao
[21:02:08] Richard: So what's up?
[21:02:10] Estrid: HI RICHARD
[21:02:24] Goom: Not much. Just having an Animorphs convo in here for once
[21:03:10] Phoenix004: You'd think we'd have more of those on here...
[21:03:19] Richard: Well this is an Animoprhs forum isn't it?
[21:03:30] Terenia: Animorphs? I thought this was a bottle cap forum!
[21:03:40] Goom: lol Yes Teach. This is a bottle cap forum
[21:03:55] Phoenix004: Lol
[21:04:01] Estrid: Ha ha! Bottle caps?
No. You don't need to get your eyes examined. We're really having a conversation about bottlecaps, this randomness is the part of RAF that most of us have come to love the most. In fact, we were having so much fun, we never even stopped to question the odds of all five moderators winding up in the chat at the same time. The next 3 hours were a typical RAFchat. We had a bit of a debate about Animorphs, mostly the ending. That's when things got...weird
[24:58:02] Goom: Yes, the ending left a lot of plotholes unanswered but that's what made it so good. It gave the readers a chance to make their own speculations.
[24:58:15] Phoenix004: No way. It was just KA being a lazy writer and wanting to end her series off as quick as possible so she can could move on to Remnants
[23:58:20] Terenia: Lazy? No. The Ghostwriters were lazy!
[23:58:30] Phoenix004: And KA's laziness is what gave us the ghostwriters :dull:
[23:58:35] Richard: I actually agree with Mike. The ending was completely rushed and made it perfectly clear that KA had stopped caring about Animorphs and wanted to move on to bigger and...arguably better things
[23:59:23] Estrid: Bigger? Better!? Didn't one of the characters in Remnants airlift himself on rollerblades via fart? :facepalm:
[23:59:30] Goom: …..I don't remember that
[23:59:32] Estrid: I may not have read the book in years but I vaguely remember somebody farting on skates and being lifted off the ground :dull:
[23:59:34] Goom: So....you guys think you could write a better ending than KA?
[23:59:40] Terenia: Yes
[23:59:40] Estrid: Hell yeah!
[23:59:42] Phoenx004: Aren't I already in the process of doing that now? Lol
[23:59:55] Richard: I'm not much of a writer but I probably could
[23:59:59] Anonymous: How convenient...
Just then, the chat made that little beeping noise it makes when somebody enters and the name, Anonymous, appeared at the top of the online box
[00:00:00] Phoenix004: ???
[00:00:00] Estrid: Aaaand there goes our mods only conversation
[00:00:00] Terenia: Um...I think our awesomeness broke the RAFclock
[00:00:00] Anonymous: No, sorry. That was me actually me
[00:00:00] Terenia: Lol right
[00:00:00] Anonymous: Pardon the intrusion but I couldn't help but overhea......over read....your interesting conversation
[00:00:00] Goom: Any conversation with Richard in it is bound to be interesting
[00:00:00] Terenia: Yeah, you're new here so you don't really know yet, but Goom and I are the only mods who regularly visit RAFchat
[00:00:00] Anonymous: Oh I know. And I'm far from new.
[00:00:00] Anonymous: Can I let you in on a little secret?
[00:00:00] Terenia: …..er....ok
[00:00:00] Goom: Sure, why not?
[00:00:00] Anonymous: ...I'm the real reason for RAF's existence
[00:00:00] Phoenix004: Lol really now
[00:00:00] Anonymous: I'm serious. I'm also the reason you're all assembled here today. Mike, Kat, Jessi, Kevin, and Richard. In a way, I am your RAFfather
[00:00:00] Estrid: How the hell do you know our names
[00:00:00] Anonymous: Oh, I know many things about all of you, Kat. Oh and by the way....
[00:00:00] Anonymous: [00:00:00] Estrid [»] Terenia: What a charming psycopath <<<<< I don't really appreciate being talked about behind my back.
[00:00:00] Terenia: …..
[00:00:00] Estrid: Wait...what...how!?
[00:00:00] Anonymous: By the way, I've taken the liberty of taking Speedy off your hands for you, seeing as you wont have much time to fix his dinner now.
[00:00:00] Estrid: …..Dude! WHERE IS MY TORTOUISE!? HE WAS RIGHT NEXT TO ME JUST A SECOND AGO!
[00:00:00] Anonymous: You know how Speedy is. Always moving :P
[00:00:00] Richard: Who the hell are you!?
[00:00:00] Anonymous: I've already explained who I am. I am the real genius behind RAF.
I tried to tell this creep off but everytime I touched my keyboard I got shocked
[00:00:00] Anonymous: I'm sure you're all dieing to speak to me, but I don't have much longer before I must depart and I still have to deliver my message to you all. So until I finish, you will be unable to touch your computers
“....What the hell is going on!?” I thought “How is he doing this!?”
[00:00:00] Anonymous: I have a little...propositio n for you all. When Kevin mentioned you all being able to write better than the lovely Mrs. Applegate, a wonderful thought popped into my head. How about I give you all the chance?
He can't possibly mean...
[00:00:00] Anonymous: That's right, Richard. I'm giving you all the chance to make your own adventures in the wonderful world of Animorphs! Granted there may be some unexpected twists down the rode. But if done right, the end result should be all of you making an ending that would please the fans who have been raging about it since #54 was published.
Make our own adventure? He wants us to write a fanfic?
[00:00:00] Anonymous: Funny you should mention fanfics *winks to Blue*
“Get out of my head!” I snapped, trying my best not to let this guy know how scared he was making me “And Blue's not even here!”
[00:00:00] Anonymous: So true. Forgive me, I was merely breaking the fourth wall. And I heard that, Jessi! You oughta watch your language when talking to somebody who has the power to change your life forever :D So what do you say, Rich? Would you and your friends like to partake in my little challenge? I've unlocked your keyboard so you all can answer
[00:00:00] Goom: I'm in
[00:00:00] Phoenix004: I already have a fic but I doubt you'll be giving us much a choice
[00:00:00] Estrid: GIVE ME BACK MY SPEEDY, YOU F-
[00:00:00] Estrid [»] Estrid: I am away!
[00:00:00] Anonymous: I'm sorry, I had to disconnect her. Her language is really atrocious. You should hear all the nasty things she's thinking about me.
[00:00:00] Terenia: If I do this, do you promise to leave us all alone
[00:00:00] Anonymous: I swear on my life. After this is all over, you will never hear from me again
[00:00:00] Terenia: Then I'm in too
[00:00:00] Anonymous: And then there was...Richard
I gulped. He was just asking us to write a new ending, right? New big deal, it's been done a million times.....but why was I so scared? That was actually a really dumb question. I know why the hell I'm scared. Whoever this guy is, he's just read my mind twice, kidnapped Estrid's Tortoise without her even seeing, and turned all of our computers into electric fences. I wanted to say no. I REALLY wanted to say no.
[00:00:00] Anonymous: Tick tock, Richard
But what would happen if I did? Would this mystery person magically show up next to me...and kill me? Write a simple fic or risk pissing this guy off?
[00:00:01] Richard: ….Count me in
As soon as my finger lifted off of the “enter button” my computer exploded in a flash of light. I tried to scream but my mouth wouldn't budge, in fact I couldn't even feel my mouth, or the rest of my body for the matter. The light seemed to go for an eternity before I finally blacked out. I couldn't open my eyes but I could feel again. I was lying face down on what felt like a hardwood floor. A part of me wanted to open my eyes and see where I was and whether or not I was alone. But another part of me stayed fearful. I wanted to keep my eyes closed and pretend I didn't just make a decision that I would later come to regret.
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I'm glad you decided to start this Blue, looks like a promising start. Obviously it's hard to tell early on, but you seem to have the written our characters quite accurately, except for how I feel about the end to the series. I used to hate it, but over time I've come to realise there wasn't really a better way to do it.
Looking forward to seeing more of this, will chat to you about it next time I see you around.
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I love RAF fics! The only part that didn't feel real to me was the bit where the mods are taking about the end of Animorphs. I love this otherwise and would love to read more.
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I like it so far.
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Yeah that argument about the ending was mostly there to set up your little deal with "anonymous" I know that's probably not how you guys really feel about it
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Great job Blue! :D
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March 11, 2011
San Diego, California
12:01 am
Team #31:
You know that feeling you get when you get when you just wake up from a deep sleep and find yourself not knowing where in the world you are? Well take that feeling and multiply it by 100 and you got how I feel. I looked at the clock on my phone with half opened eyes and blurred vision (all the lights being off didn't help much either) I couldn't exactly make out the numbers yet, but I could see a big “AM” on the screen.
“Oh God” I sighed
I hate waking up before the sun on the weekends. Knowing full well I had at least a few hours left of sleep I could be getting, I laid my head back down on my pillow and tried to go back to sleep. After making no progress in the past 10 minutes, I finally realized why I had woken myself up so early
I sighed again and got out of bed. Too lazy to turn the lights on, I put my hands on the wall and felt around for the door, finding it only after stubbing my toe several times and tripping over what felt like another bed....but that couldn't be. My room only has one bed.
“Geez, I must really be out of it” I said to myself
Once I finally left my run, I felt around for the hallway light switch but to no avail. So I put my hands to the wall again and repeated the process until I was three doors away from when I started.
“Finally” I said, opening the bathroom door
After doing my....business....I went back to my room. I crawled back into bed but...something was off....suddenly there was less room...and I could feel something...lightly breathing on the back of my neck. My eyes shot open. My first reaction was to kick whatever the hell was in my bed
WHAM
THUMP
“OUCH! What was that!?”
“Who's there!?” I asked with my fists balled
“I should be asking you the same thing” I heard somebody with a light southern accent respond
I darted out of bed and went for the light switch next to the door. I gasped as I got a full view of...what totally wasn't my room. For one thing it was a lot bigger and cleaner. There was a a small television resting atop a shelf with a VCR and several VHS tapes and one of those closets with a sliding door right next to it. Each wall had shelves hanging from them, the shelves either carried photographs of people I've never seen before, books that I didn't know existed, and video games that I didn't know were still being sold. And my blue walls and hideous orange carpet were replaced with white walls and a light blue carpet. But the strangest thing about this bedroom, was the fact that there was not one, not two, but three small beds in different corners of the room. Two were empty. But one, in the corner where the TV is, had a large...heavy breathing...lump under the covers. I looked at the bed closest to the door, there was a boy with really short brown hair, sitting on the floor rubbing the side of face with a large bruise on it. There was something really familiar about him but I couldn't figure it out until I heard him speak again.
“...this isn't my room....” he said in a confused tone
Ok, I've definitely heard that voice and that accent before. But where....and then it hit me...
“Uh....Cody?” I asked
“Yeah” he answered “Wait..how do you know my name?”
“It's me...Blue” I said
Cody raised an eyebrow and started looking around the room again, as if he didn't hear what I just said. But..there was no way he could Cody. Cody's like 19 and this guy didn't look much older than 12 or 13. If anything, he looked like he could be Cody's son.
“Oh, I get it” He laughed “I'm having another RAF dream”
he sighed “I normally have these things when I fall asleep on RAFchat”
“If you're dreaming than wouldn't a kick to the face have woken you up?” I asked “I mean, if pinching wakes somebody up then a kick should have made you jump out the bed and do triple somersaults with one hand tied behind your back”
Cody looked less amused and rubbed his eyes. He obviously still wasn't completely awake
“You can't be Blue. You're voice is different” He said
Now that he mentioned it...my voice did sound liked it lost some bass. I noticed the closet had a mirror on the door. I walked over to it and got a closer look at myself. I didn't look much different...but I was shorter and I did look significantly younger. Cody pushed me aside and examined himself. He kept rubbing his eyes and looking back at the mirror. He repeated this for a good two minutes before finally asking....
“What is going on!?”
“I have no idea. One minute I fell asleep in my room and in my bed and the next....”
“AAAAH!”
A high pitched scream from the other side of the door made Cody and I jump backwards.
We opened the door and ran to the one across from ours. We heard muffled yells and commotion coming from the other side.
“Who are you!? What are you doing in my....wait...this isn't my room” a voice on the other side of the door said in a....Wisconsin accent?
Cody and I looked at each other
“You don't think....?” I started
I slowly turned the knob on the door and gently pushed it open. Inside was an almost exact replica of the room Cody and I had just left only the carpet was pink instead of blue. And there were two beds instead of three. In the center of the room were two girls who also looked about 12 or 13. They both had brown hair but one was wearing glasses and her hair was longer and a lighter shade of brown. They were both on the floor panting and their hair was wild and going off in different directions like they had just been fighting.
“Er...hello ladies” Cody said
“Who are these guys!?” The long haired girl said
“Hold on a minute...I know that voice too....” I thought
“Why am I in a house full of kids!?” The Wisconsinite said
“Jess, it's me, your Codykins!” Cody said with a wide grin
Jess' jaw dropped. I guess it occurred to her too that this kid really looked like Cody
“C..Cody!?” She asked
“Broken Cody?” The long haired girl asked
“Broken Cody” I said “And I'm Blue”
Both girls' mouths hung open. I grinned at them both, knowing exactly who the other girl was.
“Blue!?” She exclaimed
“Yep. What up, Sealsis?”
“Wha...how did...where are we!?”
Before any of us could answer her, a boy with reddish brown hair casually walked into the room with a drousy look on his face
“Hey, could you guys keep it down? It's 12:00!” He said
We all just stared at him. Nobody moved or even blinked. We just stared at him. How could this guy just casually walk up to four people he didn't even know and ask them to be quiet? Doesn't he wander what these people are doing in his house...if this is his house
“Er...who are you?' Sealie asked, finally breaking the silence
“Ben” he said, while walking back to the other bedroom
The four of us shared similar looks of astonishment before we all called:
“Demos!?”
“What!?” he called back from the other room “I'm trying to sleep!”
“Ben, get your scrawny butt in here!” Jess demanded
With a loud groan, Demos shuffled back into the room
“Don't you know who we are?” I asked
“How could I not? You're all so loud.”
“And you don't wander why we've all woken up in a strange house? Or why all of us but Sealie are suddenly years younger?”
“Too late to wander” he said, leaning on the wall “I'll get on it in the morn...”
CRASH
Sealie screamed and jumped on the bed as large rock, wrapped in a piece of paper, flew through the window. Cody picked the rock up, unwrapped it, and read whatever was written on the paper
“It's some kind of map...and a crudely drawn one at that” He said, closely inspecting the paper
All of us, minus Demos who went back to sleep, walked over to Cody and took turns trying to figure the paper out. He was right, it was a map...but a badly drawn one. It looked like a three year old did with a crayon. On one side of the paper, there was a picture of a small house with the words “You are here” written inside it. On the other side there was what looked like a bunch a forest with a blue square in the middle of it. A yellow line connected the two sides and the words “3 miles” was written above the line.
“Ok...what is this?” I asked
“I think we're supposed to follow it” Cody said
“Right because walking three miles to the middle of a forest in our pajamas is totally not gonna get us killed” Jess sarcastically pointed out “While we're at it, why don't we have a picnic with the serial killer who will most likely be waiting for us when we get there?”
“It's better than staying in here. We don't know what kind of weirdos might own this house.” I said
“Agreed” Sealie said “We'd probably be safer outside then we would in here”
Jess sighed and rested her forehead on her palm
“Fine” she said
“Then it's settled” Cody cheerfully exclaimed “Blue and I will look around this house for some flashlights, and you two ladies will meet us outside in about 5 minutes. After you wake up sleeping beauty of course”
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((This is delicious. Please keep writing. :) ))
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Very entertaining first meeting Blue, nice work. :)
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Good job, Blue! :D Can't wait for more.
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Awesome start, Bluesie! I love it! :) There's a proper air of mystery about the whole thing too.
((But remember, I have contacts now. :) I do put them in a little while after I get up, though...))
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Not your voice Blue! You wonderful voice!
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Yes, Rad. my horribly deep voice is no more :P probably not a good thing cuz I hated my voice when I was 13 too
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Love this, Blue! Keep writing! I think you pinned Jess down pretty well. :D I can just see her exasperation as everyone else goes off on a three mile hike/adventure. :P
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I think the worst thing about finding myself younger for me would be being younger. I have to live 18 years to get the right to vote and I ain't giving it up.
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March 11, 2011
San Diego, California
1:45 am
Team #31:
- Cody's POV
“Are we there yet?” Demos asked
“Does it look like we're there yet!?” Blue answered
“How 'bout now?”
“Jess!” Blue called
“Got it” Jess said before slapping Demos in the back of the head
That was the looongest three mile walk through a quiet suburb I ever had in my life. Things started out nice with Blue and I finding five flashlights conveniently placed at the front door. But that was about as far as our luck got us. Demos complained and fell asleep in the middle of the street a few times and we had to stop Jess from turning around and going back “home” every five minutes. Blue and Sealie were pretty quiet for the most part, though both of them considered turning back around with Jess. The map wasn't much help either. You try finding your way somewhere with just this to work with:
(http://i439.photobucket.com/albums/qq118/RAFsims/Untitled.png)
“So, any ideas on what we're supposed to looking for once we get there?” Demos asked, skeptically
“With any luck, maybe some answers” Jess said “I'm not exactly thrilled at thought of being a kid again”
“Oh come on, Jess! Where's all your childlike wonder!?” Blue cheerfully asked
“What childlike wonder. I thought we've already established that Jess was born an adult” Demos laughed...before Jess hit him again
It was nice, seeing some friendly banter between my fellow RAFians. It helped get all our minds off of how scared we were.
“Uh...guys” Sealie said “I think we're here”
We all stopped. Sealie was right. We made it to the edge of whatever neighborhood we were in. You know those places you drive by in with a bunch of houses under construction? Areas with mountains upon mountains of sawdust? With half finished streets? That about sums up where we were. But beyond this little construction complex was a forest the sorriest excuse for a forest I ever saw. The construction really took its toll on what was left of all of the trees(the ones that weren't already turned into lifeless stumps)
“This place is a disaster” Jess said
“Well...on the bright side, these houses look like they'll turn out nicely once they're finished”
That was Blue, of course. Jess and I both couldn't resist the urge to punch him in both arms after that.
“So..I guess we should go on in” Sealie suggested
“Um...yeah, I guess so” I agreed “Everybody stay close to each other and keep your flashlights on at all times”
We walked in silence. The only sounds that could be heard were our footsteps against the fall leaves and the occasional owl or cricket. As we got deeper into the woods, we realized that not all of it had been affected by the construction. In fact, after walking around for a few minutes, we found ourselves surrounded by tall, considerably healthy trees. We couldn't even see the sky anymore.
“AH!” Sealie jumped and pointed her flashlight behind her
“Chill out Beth” Blue said “It was just a frog”
Blue pointed his flashlight in the same direction Sealie pointed hers, revealing a tiny frog jumping out of some leaves it had got caught under.
“Oh..yeah....sorry”
“It's alright. If it makes you feel any better, I'm terrified of frogs” Blue laughed
“So does anybody know where we are..or what we're looking for?” Jess asked
“Your guess is as good as mine” I said “I'm just waiting for something....abnorm al”
“You mean our current situation isn't abnormal enough for.....”
Before Blue could finish his smartass remark, he was cut off by what sounded like...distant talking.
“Shhh!” I put my finger up to my lips, signaling everybody to shut up
We all stopped in our tracks and tried to figure out what we were hearing
“It has to be somewhere around here” a distant voice said “The ship crashed around this general area!”
“The Visser is gonna kill us! It's bad enough we let the Andalite kill himself before we had a chance to infest him. But now we have no idea where he hid the Escafil Device.”
My eyes widened and I looked back at the others, each wearing a similar expression to mine.
“...oh sh**” Blue whispered
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:awesome:
Lots of hitting. :P
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Yes. we are a violent bunch :P
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So fitting, though. :D
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Really Brilliant work!
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Moar?
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Dont rush lol I update whenever I can
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Take your time Blue, you're doing well so far.
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I love the drawing, it made me LOL.
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Quiero mas! Quiero mas!
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If i'm lucky it'll be up tonight or tomorrow
Post Merged: March 30, 2011, 10:29:35 PM
Please forgive any typos you may run into. I finished this at like 11:30 pm and will literally be going to sleep right after this post. They will be fixed once I'm more...awake
March 11, 2011
San Diego, California
2:02 am
Team #31
- Demos' POV
“No! No no no! Hell no!” Blue whispered “We need to leave, now!”
“What?” I protested “We finally find something interesting and you wanna leave?”
“Interesting? We're in the middle of a dark forest at two in the morning and there are some weirdos out there claiming to be controllers! And you find all this interesting?” Jess asked
“Well.,,,.yeah”
“Well you can stay with your interesting psychos. I'm going back to that house we came from...assuming the owners aren't some crazy kidnappers” Blue said as he walked away
“Wait up” Jess called “I'm coming with you”
“Actually...I think I wanna go back too” Sealie admitted “Sorry Demonbro, but I think we may be in a bit over our heads now.”
I looked at Cody “Are you leaving too?”
“No. I'm actually just as interested as you” Cody laughed
With the others gone, taking their flashlights with them, the forest definitely became a lot darker. We kept a steady pace behind the two supposed controllers, making sure they didn't notice they were being followed. Luckily they brought flashlights with them too so Cody and I could turn ours off, leaving us practically invisible to them...well.....unl ess they turned around....
One of the controllers growled “How hard could it possibly be to find a glowing Blue box!?”
“Maybe he buried it?”
“Please. He was just some dumb cadet. He wouldn't be smart enough to bury it”
“Don't underestimate the Andalites. There's a reason only one of the has ever been infested. They're a very crafty bunch.”
“Not the ones we fought back in space. There had to have been only fifty of them and yet they thought they could take on our whole armada!”
The controllers laughed
“Forty-nine other Andalite fools! All shot down on to this Godforsaken planet. I wander how long they'll survive. That is, assuming the other forty-nine Vissers don't find them”
“Who was the one we caught?”
“You didn't hear the Visser gloat about it? It was Prince Elfangor's brother, Aximilli. Speaking of Elfangor, did you hear Visser 1's troops in Delaware found what was left of him after his ship crashed?”
“Yeah. I hear Visser 3 is pretty pissed about Visser 1 finding him first”
I had to slap my hand over my mouth to keep from gasping. Cody and I both stopped in our tracks. There's no way these guys are just some freaks who think they're controllers...I think they might be the real deal. And if what they're saying is true, there are fifty Vissers on this planet, ready to completely dominate the earth, with no Animorphs around to stop them.
“Um...maybe we should leave now” Cody suggested
“No way. We're in too deep. We gotta keep going. Now hurry up before we lose them.”
Despite almost every part of my body telling me to turn back, I continued to trudge forward. I half expected Cody to ditch me like the others but I guess his gut was telling him the same thing as mine. The fate of the world might rest solely on whether or not we stay.
“Hey..look! I think we found it!”
Sure enough, a few feet ahead of them, there was a bright blue glow against a tree, poorly hidden under what looked like a pile of leaves
“W...we...WE FOUND IT!” The controller said, apparently overcome with joy
They ran to the tree and picked one of them bent down and picked up the morphing cube. They embraced each other in celebration before the one with his hands free pulled out what I'm guessing was a dracon beam.
“Visser 31 said to fire this into the sky when we found it, right?”
“Yeah! Go ahead and fire it up! They'll be here in a matter of minutes, along with our promotions!”
The Controller pointed his dracon beam up at the sky and pulled the trigger. A pillar of light shot up from the barrel of weapon and slowly faded away after a few seconds. After putting the gun back into his pocket he looked at his partner and smiled again. I don't understand why they're so excited. If they're Visser is anything like V3 then he'll probably kill those two and take the credit for himself.
“We can't just let them hand that over” Cody said
“I'm way ahead of you!”I grinned
Before Cody could even ask what I had planned, I had already dropped my flashlight and was making a beeline towards those two controllers
“Hey, what the f.....ARGH!”
The controller holding the box fell to his knees in pain after I kicked him in the shin. As soon as the escafil device left his hands, I picked it up and ran as fast as I could.
“Ugh...DAMMIT BEN!” I heard Cody shout as he caught up with me “You couldn't think of anything else!”
“Oh I'm sorry. Did you have anything better in mind?”
“Well...no...but they're gaining on us, and I'm not exactly Mr. Track Star! And did you forget they called reinforcements!?”
“Oh come on, how fast could it possibly take for their reinforce....”
“DUCK!” Cody screamed
Before I could even stop running, Cody tackled me to the ground. I started to get up and keep running but then a large, dinosaur-like foot stomped in front of my face. I gulped as I looked up and looked into the face of the seven foot tall Hork Bajir towering over me.
“Er..I'm guessing this is why you attacked me” I panted
“Yeah...now uh...how bout we...”
TSEEEWWW!
A Dracon beam was inches away from hitting Cody in the face, signaling us to get up and keep running. How we avoided that Hork bajir was beyond me but now it was chasing us along with about six other human controllers, all firing at us and missing by mere inches. We swerved and ducked and dodged but they were persistent. Eventually we reached the edge of the forest, a cliff that had to be at least 30 feet high and with a huge lake below it. Cody and I looked at each other and then back over the cliff.
“No! No way in hell am I....” Cody started
TSEEEWWW!
Another shot went right over our heads. I didn't care how much time Cody needed to think about it, I grabbed his arm and pulled him over the cliff with me
“AAAAAAAAAAH!” we both screamed as we hit the water
We landed a lot harder than I had expected. I was dizzy....I needed air....I couldn't let go of the cube.....My head was spinning too fast, I couldn't breath, and my vision started to blur...well...even more blurry than it already was since I was underwater. Before I blacked out, I could feel somebody tugging on my arm, I felt my body being pulled upward and soon....
“C'mon Ben! Breath!”
I felt something slam hard on my chest, making me cough up all the water that had been built up inside of me. As my vision came back, I could see Cody kneeling over me, soaking wet. We weren't in the forest anymore but it was too dark to know for sure where we were. I tried to sit up but my head was killing me.
“W...where are we?”
“We're in a cave.” Cody explained “I don't know how long we can hide out here, though. I've been hearing Dracon fire for the past five minutes and it's getting closer. So get up and get yourself together, we may have to run soon.”
I finally managed to sit up but my clothes were so wet and cold. I could barely move. I looked over at the Blue box sitting next to Cody and sighed in relief. For a second I thought I might have dropped it back in the lake.
“So how long are we gonna stay here?”
“I don't know. We might end here all night if they don't find us. But if they do...”
Cody's last words were drowned out by some weird cross between a snort and a growl that came from behind me
“...what the hell was that?” I asked
I looked at Cody, whatever color was left in his face vanished instantly and he had this look on his face like somebody just pulled a gun out on him
“B...Ben!” He stuttered “W...wha..whatever you do, don't panic...”
“Why? What's wrong”
“Turn around...verrrry slowly”
I did as he instructed and turned around just enough to see directly behind me. What I saw filled me with more terror than any kind of Hork Bajir, dracon beam, or even the Yeerks. I could outrun them. But there's no way I could possibly outrun the large mass of black fur that was the bear whose cave we just entered.
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IT'S A BEAR!!!!!!! :awesome:
Okay, seriously though, really good post. So, do these two controller dudes have the morphing power now too? And I'm diggin' the alternate storyline so much.
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Yay, I loved it! :awesome: Hurry up and post more :P That's all I can say. And...this is sounding really interesting!
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Great chapter Blue. Wait, what do you mean Ax is dead?! :O
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Yes. Ax and the other 49 Andalites are dead. They either died in the crash or killed themselves to escape being infested but we'll get to that later
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Does that include Elfangor?
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Yes
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Lovin' the story-line, but I'm already missing Ax.
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March 11, 2011
San Diego, California
2:17 am
Team #31
Cody's POV
Demos' mouth hung open at he sight of the bear. Both of us just sat there, our fear kept us from running away. It's a good thing too, cause if we left this cave we'd be attacked by all of those controllers again.
Grrrrrrrr....
The bear let out another growl and raised it's paw in the air. At this point I was so scared I thought I was gonna pee myself. I closed my eyes and prepared for the inevitable...
thud....
there was a small noise like something heavy hitting the ground....I...I was still alive. I opened my eyes and noticed Demos slowly crawling towards the bear.
“B...Ben! What are you doing!?” I whispered
He ignored me and got closer to the bear, examining it, poking it, putting his face mere inches away from its. After a while he turned around to face me.
“It's asleep” He said quietly
My breathing steadied a little, knowing the bear was fast asleep. This was definitely the best news I've heard all day. But that still didn't help out our current situation. How were we gonna make it back “home” with the controllers looking for us? And did Blue and the others make it back in one piece?
“So....what now?” I asked
“No idea. We could make a run for it...but the odds of us making it back to the house is...well........ye ah. Maybe we should just stay here for the night.”
“With a bear that could wake up any minute!?”
Demos shrugged
“You have any better ideas?” he asked
“Do you?”
“I...I might....But....”
Before he could finish, we heard a faint voice outside the cave. It was far away but close enough for us to hear it.
“Keep looking! They have to be around here somewhere! If we lose those brats then Visser 31 will have ALL our heads!”
Demos and I exchanged worried looks. We both knew that if we didn't think of something fast, we'd be dead meat. It was only a matter of time before they found the cave. I was about to suggest we run for it but then I noticed Demos making his way back to the bear.
“Um...what are you doing”
He ignored me and rested his right palm on the bear's side. He just stood there, petting the bear for a good minute before turning to face me.
“I have an idea...but it's a little risky” he said
“How risky?”
“There's a good chance you could die”
“...why?”
“Cause in a few minutes, there's gonna be two bears in this cave”
“What are you....” I started to ask before I noticed the glowing blue box sitting next to me “...no...no way!”
“You have a better idea?”
“I..no but...”
I tried to think of a better plan but I was too late. Demos' reddish brown hair was already growing darker until it was completely black. His hair wasn't the only change. Black hair was spreading from his hair all the way to the rest of his body. He actually looked kind of silly, try and imagine a short werewolf wearing green t-shirt and gray sweatpants. The hilarity only lasted a few seconds though, before I even had a chance to laugh at how ridiculous he looked, he started growing and his fingers and toes became long dark gray claws. His ears moved to the top sides of his head and rounded into almost perfect circles and his mouth stretched out into long muzzle.
Riiiiiiiiiip...
The last thing to change was his size. He grew in both height and mass and by the time he reached 6 feet, his pajamas were reduced to torn rags and he was still getting taller. It took a full two minutes but he was finally done and the exact replica of the sleeping bear was towering over me.
I gulped “Uh...B..Ben...?”
He didn't respond. He just looked at me with his large black eyes. He stepped forward and I tried to back away but tripped. I thought he was tall before but now that I was on the ground, he was like a skyscraper.
“Ben...you still there?” I said, my voice shaking from fear
He bent down until his face was inches away from mine and flashed his huge teeth. He raised is paw and, with surprising speed, slammed down on the ground next to me, narrowly missing me by about 3 inches
“<Gotcha!>” I heard Demos' voice say inside my head
My heart skipped a few beats. Next thing I knew, all my fear and turned into anger and I punched Demos hard in the nose. He responded with a loud roar that echoed through the whole cave.
“<Ouch! What was that for!?>”
“You scared the crap out of me, you @$$!” I yelled, ignoring the sheer awesomeness of me punching a bear in the nose “We're being chased by aliens and you wanna play around!?”
“<Keep your voice down before you wake the real bear up>”
“Hey I think I heard something” A voice outside the cave said
“Crap! They're getting closer” I panicked “Well Ben, I hope there's more to your plan than just this”
“<As a matter of fact, there is>” he said “<Lie down next to the real bear, get as close to him as possible, and hide the cube in your shirt or something>”
“What?”
“<Just do it, and hurry!>”
Not bothering to question him any further, I grabbed the cube and stuffed it up my shirt before lying down on my side next to the real bear.
“Alright now what” I asked
“<Now shut up and don't move until I say it's safe>”
I was about to ask him what he meant by that but before I could, I found a large mass of black fur squeezing me into the bear next to me. I was sandwiched between two HEAVY bears. Every part of my body was shrouded in black fur. I couldn't talk, I couldn't move, I couldn't see. I could barely breath(and the cube pressed up against my stomach didn't help either) I tried to speak but Demos' fur got caught in my mouth.
“<Just stay still! I know you're uncomfortable but this is better than me trying to fight my way through all those controllers>”
After a while, I heard muffled footsteps and voices in the cave.
“Do you see anything” A voice said, though I could barely hear it with all the fur in my ears
“Nothing, just two bears.”
“<It's the same two controllers we took the cube from>” Demos explained to me “<They have three Hork Bajir with them>”
“Let's go. They couldn't have gotten far. We looked in the lake when they jumped in and didn't find any bodies so they must have survived”
I heard footsteps the controllers start to walk away but then....
“Wait a minute....there were two of them...they have the escafil device...and there are two bears right here.”
“C'mon man! They're two human kids. There's no way they'd know how to use it”
“We don't know for sure they were humans. There could have been more Andalites aboard Aximilli's vessel. They could be right here in front of us, pretending to be a couple of sleeping bears”
“Please. As arrogant as those Andalites are. If they were really in front us, disguised as deadly animals, they'd think they could fight us off. They're too proud to hide from us”
“...Maybe you're right. Let's just go”
The footsteps started up again until they slowly grew fainter. I stayed wedged between the two bears for a few more minutes before Demos finally felt it was safe for me to come out of hiding.
“<Let's hurry up and get out of here. I don't know how much longer I have in this morph>”
“Then why don't you just demorph now?” I asked
He pointed his snout to the rags that used to be his clothes, thank God the Yeerks didn't notice those.
“...Oh...”
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That bear is going to be seriously confused if he wakes up right now! :XD:
Cool chapter Blue, looking forward to seeing more. Oh, and when you use < > for thought speech, you don't have to use " " as well.
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amazing im officailly a fan. You swear alot for a group of 13 year olds dont you?
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Real 13 year olds are worse, unfortunately :dull: Sealie is the exception though :D
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Yeah I know some kids that say some dirty stuff. I dont though.
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Hey, I never swore as a thirteen year old! I was a good girl. :)
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back in the 90s and 80s if you swore they'd padlle your bare butt until it bleeds.
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Maybe all the 80's movies I've seen are historically inaccurate but there were some REAL mouthy kids in the 80's! Some reminded me of the kids on South Park(.....ok maybe not that bad lol)
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Nobody is as bad as the South Park kids! ::)
I had something of a reputation for not swearing at school, which was weird because I did swear. I guess I just didn't swear in front of people I didn't know maybe?
Anyway, I don't see a problem with the 13 year olds swearing (as long as they don't over do it), especially since they aren't really 13.
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I remember once when I was 13 I said the word '****', to myself, under my breath, and felt like a terrible person the rest of the day.
......I was kinda lame.
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Are you a christian? Because I think that might have been a feeling of sin.
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I remember once when I was 13 I said the word '****', to myself, under my breath, and felt like a terrible person the rest of the day.
......I was kinda lame.
...that is pretty lame...
Are you a christian? Because I think that might have been a feeling of sin.
Lulz, That's never stopped me :P
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lol
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I still feel a little bad...but it's wearing off. :P Reminds me of a conversation I had with my brother the other day after he had dropped the F bomb a couple of times.
Me: Don't you ever worry you swear too much?
Bro: I used to....but now I don't.
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Expect new Chapter tomorrow if I don't get a lot of homework on the first day back from break
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ok then....
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:2cents: *raises
hand paw* I still use stupid words like 'crud monkeys' or 'fish sticks' or (my current favorite) 'sweet mother of pearl' in place of more offensive terms. Although, I did let loose a few appropriate words when I got in that hit and run....
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You know if I was a 20 year old man then suddenly I was a 13 year old the next day I'd probably be pretty freaked out about the concept of "PUBERTY AGAIN! EEK!" thing.
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Real 13 year olds are worse, unfortunately :dull: Sealie is the exception though :D
I don't swear either...but back on-topic.
Love the story, Blue! Can't wait for the next chapter!
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I cant wait for it.
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I'm sorry guys. I know I said the new chapter would be today but I had an..er...unexpected track meet(seriosuly! Who schedules a meet on the first day back from Spring Break? And why was the only one who didn't know about it?) Anyway, I'm just now getting home/eating/showering and it's 10:12 and I have homework that still needs doing. So....yeah, the chapter is postponed
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its cool
Post Merged: April 28, 2011, 06:09:55 PM
you know I have a suspicion that you wrote that "im not a very good writer" thing to attract even more praise.
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I'm really not a good writer. My english grade proves it
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Your english teacher is a retard then.
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She's actually not that bad. Just really strict.
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If you drug her coffee she'll probably be less strict and give you a better grade.
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or her strictness could go into overdrive and I fail the class(which I'm in danger of doing already)
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well if you drug her enough you could convince her that the UN has passed a law saying an A is a failing grade
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I didn't save the newest chapter! Thanks to the RAFtime warp it's gone forever!
Oh wait..... *ctrl+z*
March 11, 2011
San Diego, California
3:30 am
Team #31
Jess' POV
“W...w...we made it” Sealie panted, as she bent over and held her knees.
“Ye...yeah” Blue gasped, leaning against the front door of the house we had woken up in a few hours earlier “What was all of that about?”
“What do you think it was about!?” I snapped “Those guys that Demos and Cody decided to follow, obviously had backup.”
Okay, so we were making our way out of the forest, minding out own business. Just a bunch of lost teenagers walking through a forest at 2 in the morning. No danger, right? Well, you know...except for the guys with guns that started chasing us. Long story short, they had us running through that entire forest before we made it to the construction site we cut through to get there. I'm not entirely sure why they stopped chasing us but one of them did shout something that sounded like “Stop, we found the brats with the device!”. So now Demos and Cody have more guys chasing after them. Lucky them :dull:
“Do you think we should have just left Cody and Ben like that?” Sealie asked
“What else could we have done?” I responded “If we went back to help them, we'd probably end up getting killed. You saw how much those guys wanted that...whatever it is'
“Uh...I think we all know exactly what that 'whatever it is' really is” Blue said
“Oh no! It's bad enough I've woken up as a child in a strange house, walked three miles into some godforsaken forest, and almost got killed by a bunch of psychopaths! I refuse to believe we're in some kind of science fiction book”
I turned the knob on the door. Good, it was still unlocked, like we had left it. There were two cars in the driveway so somebody had to be home and we were gonna get some answers out of them.
“Alright.” I said “We go in, find the people who live here, and beat the answers out of them, if necessary. Got it?”
Blue and Sealie nodded. I slowly creaked the door open and the three of us tip toed inside. Sealie closed the door, gently behind her as we walked up the stairs. We walked down the hallway, opening door after door. Each room, completely empty. Finally we reached the door at the very end of the hallway. Blue tip toed closer and put his ear to the door.
“I don't hear anything” he said
He checked the small crack under the door
“There aren't any lights on”
“Open it” I said
“Er...I'd actually feel better if somebody else did” He replied, nervously “I volunteer Jess! She is the oldest after all”
“Don't be such a baby, it's a door.”
“Yeah! And who knows what's on the other side?”
I sighed and walked up to the door
“The whole point of us doing this IS to see what's on the other side”
I turned the nob and slowly opened the door. It was a large bedroom with a light brown carpet, white walls, and a television standing in front of a king sized bed. An empty king sized bed.
“Well, whoever live here obviously isn't home”
“So what now?” Blue asked
“I guess we just wait for Ben and Cody to....”
“AAAAH!”
Blue and I turned around and saw Sealie a ground with a tall man standing over her. My first instint was to pound the living daylights out of this guy but I was scared stiff. The only movement I could make was letting go of my flashlight. Blue on the other hand....he ran into the bedroom, slammed the door, and I could have sworn I heard some clicking noises on the other side so I'm pretty sure he looked us out too. What a man :dull:
The man knelt down in front of Sealie, who screamed and started kicking him and the face but no matter how many kicks to the face he took, he didn't flinch. Finally, gaining enough courage to move, I picked up my flashlight, slammed it down on the man's head.
CRASH!
No, that wasn't the sound of his skull cracking. That was the flashlight breaking into a bunch of tiny pieces as if it a truck had been dropped on it.
“Look, can you guys chill out for a few second” he said, in a surprisingly calm voice
He gently lifted Sealie's ankle and examined it for a few seconds
“Why is it so swollen?” He asked
“Er....I...twisted it like an hour ago” She replied
Now that I tihnk about it, Sealie was limping a little on our walk back over here. She must have twisted her ankle when we were being chased.
“Come on. We're gonna get some ice on it” He said before picking her up
While he wasn't looking me, Sealie game me a confused look, like I was supposed to know what was going.
“You can tell your friend to come out now. The lock doesn't even work” He told me “Once you get him out, meet me downstairs so my wife and I can explain things to you guys”
I watched him carry Sealie away before I went back to the door Blue had hidden behind and kicked it as hard as I could. It slammed open so fast, I thought it was gonna snap off its hinges.
“Blue!” I called “Come out, you coward! The guy isn't gonna kill us....at least I think he isn't.”
I watched Blue slowly peak from under the bed. He looked around for a while, I guess to make sure I wasn't lying or something. I rolled my eyes and pulled him from under the bed by his ear.
“Ow ow ow ow ow! You didn't have to grab me by the ear” He complained
“I wouldn't have had to if you weren't such wuss! Thanks for saving me and Sealie, by the way” I said, sarcastically
“Oh...er...you're mad, huh?”
“Lucky for you, I'd be angrier if he turned out to be some crazy serial killer. Now come on, so we can meet him and his wife”
“Wha...”
“Don't ask”
We walked down the stairs and opened the first door we saw. It looked like the living room, complete with three couches, a television, family photos, and other random pieces of furniture you'd expect to find in a living room. Sealie was lying down on the largest couch, with a zip-lock bag full of ice on her ankle. Across from her was a couch where a skinny, balding, middle aged man with short dirty brown hair sat with a slightly plump woman with long black hair.
“Well. That was quick” The man said “You two can have seat next to your friend'
Blue and I exchanged nervous looks before sitting down next to Sealie. The couch was big but not large enough for a three of us with Sealie lying across it so I had lift Sealie's leg and gently put it down on my lap. The three of us still didn't have a lot of room but we all fit now.
“Ok. Now that we're all here....” the woman started
“Actually, they aren't all here.” her husband interrupted “Where are the other to boys?”
“Cody and Ben?” I asked “They're uh.....we kinda left them back in the woods a few miles from here”
“Oh...well....with friends like you guys, who needs enemies?” He laughed
“Hey! We didn't wanna leave them for dead!” Blue said “It was either that or stay and get killed with them!”
“Oh they aren't dead.” The woman said “They couldn't be. Crayak wouldn't let his players die before the game even began.”
Blue and Sealie's eyes widened in shock. They both looked at me but I was just as dumbfounded as they were.
“Wh...what do you mean?” Blue asked
“Exactly what I said. You didn't think you'd make it through a forest full of controllers alive without a certain somebody intervening, did you?”
“....Again, what do you mean!?” I demanded
“Maybe we should start from the beginning” The man said “But first we should introduce ourselves. My name is Erek King. This is my wife, Sarah.”
“Yeah, and I'm James Brown” Blue joked “You really expect us to believe.........”
Before Blue could finish, this weird...static-like noise filled the room and the man and his wife started to fizzle and flicker on and off like a broken television before they disappeared completely. In their place, sat two human sized robots that resembled dogs, standing on their hind legs, otherwise known as, Chee. The three of us stared in awe at the two androids that just materialized in front of us. We were at a loss for words.
“Yeah. That's the kind of response I expected” Erek said “Now. Where was I?”
“You were explaining the situation to them” Sarah answered
“Righr, right. So...where do I begin....I suppose it'd be best to start at the end. And by the end I mean, the end of #54.”
“Animorphs #54?” I asked
“The one and only. You see, after Jake rammed the Blade Ship, killing himself, Marco, Tobias, and the others on board 'The Rachel', Crayak grew bored of the direction the game was going in and decided to try his luck in ruling a new universe. The Universe he chose was one where the war with the Yeerks was just a simple children's book series, yours. Eventually, the Ellimist caught wind of Crayak's plan and followed him. When the Ellimist confronted him, Crayak claimed that the only reason the Ellimist won their last game was because of the age old theory of light always overcoming darkness. He said the fact that the Animorphs represented the light, was enough for them to always come out on top.
“That's stupid” I said “How can just being 'good' guarantee victory?”
“But that's the thing. Neither one of them knew if this was the case or not. So they decided to redo the game. Only Crayak would be on the side of the Animorphs and the Ellimist would side with the Yeerks”
“A being of Darkness siding with the light, and vice versa?” Blue asked
“Pretty much. Only they decided to make things more interesting. The concept would be the same, a group of teenagers going up against an alien armada, but with a few major changes.”
“Such as....?” I started
“For one thing” Sarah cut in “The game would take place back in the Animorphs Universe, but Crayak would be allowed to pick his players from your universe. Which meant that he could pick people who were already familiar with the first game. In order to choose worthy candidates, Crayak's minion, the Drode, established several Animorph-based communities to pick out the true fans of the series. One by one, the communities slowly started to disappear as the franchise died. After 6 or 7 years, only two remained.”
“The Animorphs Fan Forum” Erek said “And...well you all should know the other”
“RAF....” I whispered
“Correct. When the time came to choose, Crayak ultimately decided that Richard's Animorphs Forum would represent him. But then the time came to choose again. Which RAFians would he use. He went though a list of all of the active RAFians, all of you had qualities that would prove useful to him but he couldn't decide. That is until he found a way to make the game more...interesting. ...”
“What could be more interesting that kidnapping people in their sleep and whisking them away to another universe” Sealie asked, coldly
“He and the Ellimist talked it over and decided that Crayak would the most active RAFians, old and new, and split them all into fifty teams. Each team would be put in a different state.”
“Fifty!?” Blue asked
“Yeah. And, in exchange, the Ellimist was allowed to put one Visser in each State. One Visser for every team of RAFians. Each team will be given the task of driving the Yeerks out of their state, giving Crayak a point for each success. If they die trying well...the point goes to the Ellimist. Whoever has the most Victories by the end of the war, will rule over your Universe and the loser must leave, never to be heard from again.”
“What if both sides have twenty five victories?” I asked
“In the event of a tie, the game would start all over again, but with different teams.”
“So we're on Crayak's side?” Blue asked “Well we might as well lose on purpose so that maniac doesn't get control of our universe and screw it up!”
“Crayak only wants to rule over your Universe.” Sarah explained “He has no intentions harming it in any way. Your Universe, since it lacks any life other than the ones on earth, is just trophy to him.”
“Plus” Erek added “If you all just decided to lose to the Yeerks so Ellimist wins, you'll all die in the process. It seems pretty pointless to die to save a Universe that will never be in any danger. Wouldn't you agree?”
“Anyway, before the game could start” Sarah continued “Ellimist and Crayak had to reset the Animorphs' Universe as well as making a few changes, one of them was obviously bringing 50 Vissers to Earth and have 50 Andalite ships, all containing escafil devices, crash in each state. And then they had to take the RAFians from their Universes, age them down to the exact same age the Animorphs were, and hire chee 'parents' to help the RAFians fit into this new Universe”
“Wait...what!?” I asked “Parents!?”
“Yes. Sarah and I will be posing as your adoptive parents for as long as you remain in our Universe. As far as everyone outside of this house knows, you're normal teenage siblings. Unfortunately for you all who are adults, this means you'll have to go back to middle school”
Completely forgetting I had Sealie's injured leg on my lap, I shot up and was about to speak out in protest, but I was interrupted by a sudden knock at the door.
“Who could that be” Sealie, who had rolled on to the floor because me, asked “It's almost four in the morning?”
“I think I know who it may be.” Erek said, resuming his holographic form as he walked to the front door
Blue and I followed him and watched him open the door, revealing a soaking wet and shivering Cody, with the morphing cube wrapped tightly around his arms.
((I was gonna close the "Open Office" window, since it's been open ever since the chapter was posted, but decided not to for some reason. THANK GOD))
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what did you change?
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I deleted it so I could write a paper for english. I had push ctrl+z a few times and it came back
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hahaha, that's awesome Blue. I was so worried it was gone!
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Still what did you change
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Who said I changed anything
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I for some reason had the impression of an edit
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Lucky save there Blue. I'd go nuts if I lost any of my work (as I have done with paper notes in the past). Don't you keep a copy of your full story saved in Word? If not you really should in case The RAFture repeats itself. :P
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I would probably throw myself off my house if I lost my fanfic. But I live in a one story dwelling so id probably just end up breaking an arm.
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Just lettin you guys know I didn't forget about this. Now that I'm on summer vacation, I can get updates in faster. In fact, you guys should expect one later today
*goes into writing mode while also waiting alone in RAFchat for somebody to talk to while I write like I normally do*
it's heeeeere
March 11, 2011
San Diego, California
3:30 am
Team #31
- Blue's POV
“Cody? What happened!?” I asked
“We were...ambushed...c ontrollers.....look ing for us......” Cody panted “We got the box.....”
“Where's Ben?” Jess asked?
“I'm right here.”
We saw Ben poke his head out from one of the bushes next to the front door.
“Um.....why are you hiding in bush?” Jess asked
“Bear's aren't very good at fitting into kid sized clothes” Demos laughed
“Wha....” Jess started
“Just got get me a change of clothes! It's really uncomfortable in here!” he complained “I have branches in places I'd rather not talk about”
“Don't worry” Erek said “I'll get him something to wear”
Waiting for Erek to walk up the stairs and completely out of sight, Cody finally asked....
“Uh....who is that?”
“We'll explain later.” Jess said “Why are you wet and why is Ben....streaking?”
“You want the long explanation?” Demos asked
“It'd be nice if you could shorten it” I suggested
“Well, it started after you guys left us for dead....” Cody started
Before Cody could finish his story, Erek came back down the stairs and handed me a white undershirt and black basketball shorts.
“Give these to Ben while I go take another look at Beth's ankle”
“Er......Ok”
I walked outside and handed Demos his new clothes. Jess, Cody, and I turned the other way as he changed into them and Cody continued his story.
“Well, after you guys left us, we swiped the morphing cube from those controllers, they chased us, we jumped off a cliff and into a raging river, then we took shelter in a bear cave, Demos acquired the bear, morphed it, we lost the controllers, and found our way back here” Cody explained
“So you either walked all the way back here as a full grown bear or with no clothes on? Without attracting any kind of attention?” Jess asked “How'd you manage that?”
“Well we just counted on nobody being out this late” Demos said “I'm done by the way”
“Good, let's go back inside” I said
We walked back into the living room, where Sarah was still sitting in the exact same spot, with her hologram turned off (Demos and Cody jumped at the sight of her and started to say something but Jess just told them that she'd explain later) Erek, in his natural form, was wrapping a bandage around Sealie's ankle.
“Hey guys” Sealie said “Nice to see you're still alive”
“No thanks to all of you” Demos laughed “What happened to your ankle?”
“We ran into the same controllers that were after you guys” I explained “Sealie twisted her ankle”
“Oh...so I guess we've all had a rough night” Cody said
“You don't know the half of it” I said
Jess turned to the two androids
“Do you guys mind giving us a little alone time so we can explain to them what happened” she asked
“Of course” Erek said “Come on Sarah. We should be getting to bed anyway”
“We don't sleep, dear” She said, dryly
“We can always pretend to like we normally do”
Sarah assumed her holographic form again, rolled her eyes, turned the hologram off and followed Erek out of the living room. After making sure they were gone, Jess and I took our seats next to Sealie again, while Cody and Demos sat on the couch across from us.
“So...what's going on!?” Cody asked
We explained everything that happened after we left. From meeting Erek and his wife to Crayak and the Ellimist's new game. As expected, they were shocked and tried to cut us off a few times but Jess...rather threateningly...tol d them to save all the questions they had until we were finished.
“So that's about it” Sealie explained “And it's not just us. There are RAFians all around the county who, as we speak, are going through the same thing”
“So all this time, RAF was just way for Crayak to assemble his own personal lackeys?” Cody asked “Great. We're an army of Drodes”
“I'm not too keen on working for Crayak either. But if we don't fight, the Yeerks will take over.” Jess said
“So what? It's not even our Universe”
“But who says we get to go home if we lose?” I asked “Saving this universe could be our only way back to ours.”
Cody looked defeated. I could tell he was trying to think of any other reason why we shouldn't be doing this. I tried the same thing when I found out. But there's no other way. It's not like we have the means to get home ourselves.
“How could you aren't saying anything?” I asked Demos
“Because you're right.” he answered “Besides, it's too late for me to turn back now. I can morph.”
“I really don't like this” Cody said “We don't even know if this will get us home”
“But we do know that pissing Crayak off wont get us home” Jess said
“Well” Cody said, putting the blue box on the coffee table separating the couches we sat on “I can't argue with that logic.”
He rested his hand on the top of cube
“I'm in.”
Sealie, trying her best to not to move her leg too much, leaned off the couch and put her hand on one side side of the cube. Jess and I followed. I was expecting some surge of electricity or something to surge through me after touching the cube. But nothing really happened. The cube got a little hot but other than that, I didn't feel any different.
“So how do we know if it's working?” I asked Demos
“I don't know. I was running for my life when I got the power so I didn't really notice any amazing feeling or anything.”
“I guess we should test it out then” I said, taking my hand off of the cube
“Yeah” Jess agreed “But let's wait till the morning. I'm exhausted”
“Amen to that” I said, standing up
Sealie slung her arm around Jess' shoulder and used her as a crutch so she could get up the stairs. Demos, Cody and I said good night to the girls and walked up to our own room. Too tired to say anything other than “good night” the three of us practically threw ourselves on to our beds. I don't know about them, but I felt myself drifting off to sleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
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nice job blue looking forward to it
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Awesome story! I just have one thing to say, which is really more of an observation than a critique. Isn't one of the rules of the Ellimist/Crayak's original game that they always must allow sentient beings a choice? That they cannot coerce them to do anything against their will? Obviously, this story is about a different game, so it is entirely possible that the rules are different too, but it simply occurred to me that this is something that neither the Ellimist or Crayak would have been allowed to do previously.
Or . . . maybe you've already thought of this, and there is actually another way out that the characters have not yet discovered?
Anyway, whatever the case may be, this is a great story and I look forward to reading more!
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I actually never thought of that....thank you for bringing that up
*does some thinking*
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so we'll call that a BBSU
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or something that will be explained in future chapter BEFORE it becomes a BBSU
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until fixed it is sorry blue :P
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No, no, even if he doesn't 'fix' it, I still wouldn't call it a BBSU. Like I mentioned in my earlier post, Crayak and Ellimist started a new game, so who's to say they're still playing by all the same rules?
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Different set of rules cool. you know creating universes for a game could be cool. Picture making an entire dungeons and dragons universe with a 20 sided dice shaped moon *drools*
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Lol I think that was the nerdiest thing I've ever heard
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So Seal isn't going to try morphing to fix her leg so she can sleep pain free?
My only observation....
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now THAT is a BBSU but it can easily be explained as her being too tired to look for something to acquire
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This is so cool, I love it so much!
I love how cynical the cynical people are, and how realistically it portrays the characters!
Also, I'm all for the "new game, new rules" idea.
Alternatively, in chapter one, all the mods were talking to anonymous crayak. when they said yes to the choice, THAT was them accepting the adventure, and allowing crayak/ellimist to use them.
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Now who said Crayak was "anonymous"?
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So your saying that their may be ANOTHEr super powered black hole living being involved in this GA-ASP
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That...
[spoiler] or...you know...it could have been the Drode :dull:[/spoiler]
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didnt seem to be much taunting going on there though which is what hes known for
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He was taunting them. Especially when he took the tortoise
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what kind of sick fool steals a tortoise anyway?
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The same sick fool that taunts a child for not knowing whether or not their mom is dead or still a controller :XD:
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could that count as durect interference to directly steal a tortoise?
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could that count as durect interference to directly steal a tortoise?
The rule is not to interfere with sentient creatures. So, unless estrid's tortoise is sentient, I don't think it counts.
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Either way, the game hadn't even started yet and he only took it to mess with Kat
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Sorry I havnt read ALL the books but I have gotten the general gist of them.
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“This....is.....insane!” I said, completely out of breath
I watched my other three companions on the ground, all burnt in several places and gasping for air. There was a faint blue glow from under Goom's shirt. I sighed in relief, he managed to keep the cube safe.
“Is everyone ok?” I asked
Mackenzie rolled on her back, still trying to catch her breath. She looked at me and nodded “I'll be fine....just never...ran that much before...”
Dino, who was now casually leaning on the chain link fence separating us from the power plant, gave me a thumbs up “I'm good.” she said
I looked at Goom, he laid on his side, completely motionless, if you couldn't hear his quiet breaths you might have thought he was dead. I nudged him with my foot
“Goom....come on, buddy, we gotta keep moving”
No answer.
“Is he ok?” Mackenzie asked
“He's still breathing” I answered “He probably just fainted. Guess I gotta carry him all the way back to....”
“LOOK OUT” Dino screamed
TSEEEWWW!
Those same noises, that I had become too familiar with, filled the air as a beam of white light narrowly missed the side of my face.
Mackenzie and Dino immediately got back on their feet and sprinted out of sight. I wanted to follow after them but Goom was still unconscious AND he had the morphing cube. I started to get up and drag him but tripped before I could had the chance to stand up completely. I looked behind me and into the eyes of the Hork Bajir, whose clawed hand had torn through the fence and latched itself onto my ankle.
“Crap.” I said, my voice shaking with fear
The Hork Bajir turned its snake like head and started making a bunch of high pitched incoherent sounds, probably in its native language, and I could have sworn, between its shrieks of triumph, I heard it shout “I HAVE TWO OF THEM”
March 11, 2011
San Diego, California
11:45 am
Team #31
Sealie's POV
I sat upright in bed, sweat running down my face as my eyes adjusted to the sunlight. That dream...was it even a dream? I remembered every detail like it had really happened and I remembered everyone in it: Goom...Mackenzie(Faerie)...Dino....and...my brother......
“Oh my God...” I whispered to myself
I remember waking up right as he and Goom were about to be captured by the Yeerks. There's no way it was just a dream...but how was I able to see it?
“Jess!” I called
I looked over at her bed. Empty. Then I looked at the clock hanging on the wall. It's almost noon, no wonder she's not in bed. I started to hop out of bed but the sharp pain in my ankle came back and I found myself on the floor, flat on my back.
“Ow ow ow ow ow ow!”
After putting my contacts in and getting dressed, I limped over to the boys' room. I knocked and waited for a response but to no avail, so I opened the door and, just like Jess' bed, the room was completely empty.
“Great. Am I the only one who slept the whole morning away?” I asked myself
Just then, a familiar smell swept through the hallway. My eyes watered at the sheer buttery goodness that passed through my nose. After everything to happen to me in the past few hours, I still couldn't help but delightfully squeal:
“WAFFLES!”
Limping as fast as I could, I followed the smell to its source, which lead me downstairs (that was a pain in the neck) and into the kitchen, where Demos sat with plate of steaming hot waffles and Erek wrapping another plate up and putting it on the counter before he noticed me standing at the door.
“Oh, good morning Beth” he said
“Hey.” Demos said before practically shoving his food down his throat
“This plate's yours, if you're hungry”
“Yeah. Thanks” I said, grabbing the plate from the counter and sitting next to Demos “Where are Blue, Jess, and Cody?”
“Blue and Jess went out with Sarah” Erek answered “She's showing them around the town. And Cody's around here somewhere. I'm sure he'll turn up eventually.”
“Oh..ok...so, what's on the agenda for today?” I asked Demos while enjoying the BEST WAFFLES EVER
“No idea” he said after finishing his plate “I guess you guys need to find some morphs. Sarah said she was gonna show Blue and Jess where the zoo was.”
“And what about you?”
“I already have my morph”
“You're gonna need more than a Bear.”
“Yeah but as long as I have my battle morph I'm in no rush to get anything else.”
“You know, we do have a dog” Erek said “That's always a useful morph”
“A chee with a dog. Big surprise” I joked
After I finished my breakfast, I volunteered to do the dishes while Demos and Erek went to look for Cody. I don't know why I didn't notice last night but this house actually is REALLY big. Not big enough to be a mansion or anything but you can tell Erek and Sarah must have pretty decent jobs. After finishing the dishes, I remembered the whole reason I was looking for Jess or Blue or any of my fellow RAFians. I still needed to tell them about my dream.
“Curse those waffles and their power to make me forget my worries!” I said to myself
Just then, a large dog, it looked like a Siberian Husky but with a lot more fur, came trotting into the kitchen, probably looking for some leftovers.
“Hey there, fella!” I said, petting the top of its head “I'm sorry but you missed the waffles”
<Oh darn, and I reeeally wanted more>
I jumped. That voice...it definitely came from inside my head. I stared at the dog and it looked at me back with that goofy permanent grin that dogs always wear.
“C...Cody?” I asked
<Bingo!>
“But how...when did...you're a husky!”
<I'm actually an Alaskan Malamute.> He corrected <A little bigger than a husky and the fur is a lot fluffier>
“Whatever, you're still adorable!” I said, petting him behind his ear
<Quit it! These dog instincts are hard enough to control without you petting me in Bingo's favorite spot>
“Whose?”
<Bingo. That's the dog's name.>
“Oh. So Erek and Sarah only have one dog?”
<That's what I was wondering. You'd think there'd be a kennel full of them inside a Chee's house. Especially one as big as this.>
“I see you've met Bingo” Erek said, scaring the crap out of me
“Jeez! Do you like...not make any noise when you walk into a room?”
“Sorry. I suppose this is the second time I've snuck up on you. Thank God Jess isn't here with a flashlight this time.”
“Hey Erek” Demos said, walking into the kitchen with a dog, who I'm guessing is the real Bingo, by his side “I can't find Co......I thought you only had one dog”
<He does>
Demos jumped at the sound of Cody's voice in his head. He then looked at the two dogs like he'd be able to tell which was which just by looking at them.
<I'm the one next to Sealie>
“Oh! ok. For a second I thought I spent the past 10 minutes rubbing your stomach”
“I can only imagine how awkward that would have been” I laughed[
“We're hoooooome” I heard Sarah call
<MASTER'S HOME!> Cody shouted as he and Bingo raced out of the kitchen
“Aaaaw! Hi cuties” That was Jess
“Erek” Sarah called “We went shopping! Come help with the bags.”
“Sure, honey!”
“Come on Demos, we're gonna go help to” I said, noticing him trying to sneak out of through the back entrance.
“Damn!” he said, before following me out the door
We walked into the anteroom, where Jess was snuggling with two extremely happy dogs, and Blue and Sarah were carrying piling up plastic bags next to the stairs.
“Wow” I said, noticing the large pile of bags “You guys REALLY went shoppping”
“We had to now that we have people here who actually need to eat” Sarah said
I started to go outside to help carrying the rest of the bags but Sarah stopped me and said I shouldn't be doing any work with ankle still messed up
“No, really! I'm fine” I assured her
But she insisted I sit in the living room and wait for the others to finish
“Just let me morph and my ankle will be all better”
“You'll have plenty of time to morph once Blue and Jess show you what they've bought”
After waiting for what felt like an eternity, Blue and Jess, carrying “Sports Authority” bags, enter with Demos and Cody, now human, trailing behind them.
“I didn't know they had another dog” Jess said
“They don't. That second one was Cody” I told her
Jess dropped her bag and gave Cody a death glare.
“So...you just sat there and let me snuggle you....”
“I...uh..sorry” he said “You gotta admit it was kinda funny. And you did call me 'cutie' “
Jess picked the bag back up and started whacking Cody with it until he ran out the room.
“Jerk” She hissed
“Anyway....” Blue cut in “While we were out, we picked up a little something for everyone. Something to help fix the 'clothes problem' when we morph”
“Oh great. Brightly colored bike shorts and leotards” I said, sarcastically
“Oh hell no! We're not gonna represent earth, looking like a bunch of circus clowns like the first Animorphs did” Blue snapped “If we have to run around in skintight clothing, we can at least look somewhat normal with these.”
Blue emptied the bag on to the coffee table, revealing 5 black shirts (http://s7ondemand1.scene7.com/is/image/TeamExpress/1201166) all with the same logo on them. Jess emptied her bag and showed us the matching pants (http://www.hex-pad.com/images/810-blackmed.jpg), that kinda looked like long underwear.
“Uh...what are those?” I asked
“Compression gear. Athletes use them.” Blue answered “They feel like you're wearing spandex but they don't look nearly as ridiculous. You could wear these in public and nobody would look twice at you because they'd think you're about to go jogging or something.”
“Awesome” I said “So we have something to morph...now we just need something to morph into”
“Well that's our second surprise.” Jess said
“While we were out, Sarah showed us the closest zoo” Blue explained “It's only about an hour walk away from here...”
“And...” Jess chimed “Tonight, it closes at 10.”
“You're suggesting we break into the zoo to go touch a bunch of potentially dangerous animals?” Cody said, walking back into the room
“You have a better idea? Or are we gonna fight the Yeerks as dogs?” Jess asked
“You have a point but do we actually have a plan? Or are we just jumping into their cages and hoping they don't tear us apart?”
“Oh don't worry. Jess and I thought this out and I think we've come up with something that should make everybody feel safe about what we're about to do...well...everybo dy but Demos....”
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nice adding a little bit of mystery and worry into the equation
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OH GOD BRO :o
I hope everyone's alright! But awesome so far! :D
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So what state are you in?
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...random question is random
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it just ocurred to me that it wasn't said
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Oh...you're talkin about the group in the beginning? It wasn't said on purpose
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Ok another quipe isnt their only supposed to be 47 vissers?
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no. 50 states = 50 Vissers
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but in the books theirs supposed to be 47
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are there? I asked somebody and they said there was never a revealed definite number of Vissers
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hmmTheirs a new thread about what YOu would do if you were in charge of the invasion and it says that your any one of the 47 vissers
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Just got caught up. +1! I'm really diggin' this still. I'm so excited seeing a glimpse of a second team. How cool!
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Again, with the new game I think the rules are a little twisted. In the books, the Animorphs aren't dead either, so....:P
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I must say this is really cool and Im really eager to see who are in the other teams. Perhaps a few could be entirly made up of the GESB players? Just a suggestion if you want it.
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Must all vissers be in america? why not UK, iceland, greenland, bermingham, ireland, anything else?
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Because the invasion was mainly focused in America. Plus I dont think anybody wins if your stuck in greenland
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I finally got around to reading the last chapter! Awesome as usual (of course the fact that I'm in it helps :awesome: ), please write more!
EDIT: I would just like to state for the record, though, that I would never ever leave you behind like that, Goom.
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Awsome so far.
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((Author's note: I haven't been to the real San Diego Zoo, so other than the sign, I have no idea what it really looks like))
March 11, 2011
San Diego, California
10:00 pm
Team #31
- Blue's POV
We spent most of the day planning out our late night trip to the zoo, starting with getting the write morphs to sneak in and out. It was Sealie's idea to use birds that were common enough to go unnoticed. The only problem was, we had no idea how to catch one. Birds were relatively easy to find in the county but every time one of us tried to sneak up on one, they'd fly notice us and fly away before we were even 3 or 4 feet of them (the weird looks we were getting from people who saw a bunch of kids, trying to tackle birds, didn't really help much either)
Eventually, Jess got mad and chucked a large rock at a nearby tree, hitting a small branch and causing an robin and its nest, to fall out. Taking advantage of the opportunity, the five of us acquired the half dead bird (with a chipped beak from the rock) and left it to its fate.
After finding out the zoo closed at 10, and we still had a few hours to spare, we went over the plan a few more times, changed into our morphing outfits, and waited. After a few episodes of old 90's shows (one of the best parts about being sent back in time) 10 o' clock finally came around. We said our goodbyes to Erek and Sarah, who wished us all good luck, and headed into the girls' room, as their window was facing the direction we'd be going in.
“Ok” Jess said, opening the window “Everybody knows what we're doing, right?
“Yeah” We answered
“Good. Let's make this quick. Just an in and out kind of thing. We have no idea what kind of security system this zoo has. There may cameras so I got these to keep our faces hidden”
Jess opened one of her drawers, pulled out five black ski masks (http://www.retailstinks.com/store/images/T/black-onehole.jpg), and handed one to each of us
“I don't know if these are tight enough to morph with the rest of our clothes so we'll have to carry them as we fly” She explained
“Would we be big enough to carry these while we fly?” Demos asked
“Only one way to find out” Cody answered, with with a feather-like pattern growing on the side of his face
“Ok. Everybody take Cody's lead” Jess ordered
“Who's gonna close the window?” Demos asked
“We're in a gated suburb community in the 90's and there are two super strong androids in the house. What's the worst that could happen if we leave a window open?” I answered before getting a clear picture of the robin in my mind.
Dark gray feathers sprouted on my arms and spread to my shoulders, head and back. While red feathers spread from my stomach to my neck. My legs than became thin black twigs and my toes melted together and separated into talons. As I started to shrink, I looked at the others to see how they're morphs were going. Demos and Cody, who have already morphed before, seemed to be getting the hang of it quicker than the rest of us, as they seemed to be finished, except for a few minor details like patches of brown hair in their feathers and skin colored bird legs. Jess' morph was more or less complete but, to my amusement, she still hadn't shrunk, making her a 5 foot tall Robin. She kinda reminded me of the giant chicken from “Family Guy”. Sealie was moving surprisingly slow compared to the rest of us though. She had a few feathers here and there and she was definitely smaller but she still looked more human than bird.
<What's up?> I asked her, now that I'd finished morphing <Why are you taking so long?>
“I'm sorry.” She apologized “I'm just having a little trouble concentrating. I actually have a lot on my mind right now, but I'll tell you guys once we're out of here”
We waited for Sealie, who took an extra two or three minutes, and flew out the open window. Flying wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. It's easy once you let the bird mind take over for a little bit. The only real problem was the fact that we were doing this at night. Robins have pretty good eyesight but they were built for flying at night like owls are. The fact that we were carrying ski masks, which aren't all that light to a robin, didn't help much either.
<How's everyone doing?> Cody asked
<I'm fine> Jess answered
<These eyes kinda suck at night but I'm alright> I said
<I'm good too> Demos said
<Actually, I have something to tell you guys> Sealie said
She told us about this dream she had earlier this morning where Guy, Faerie, Dino, and Goom were on a team together and the Yeerks captured Guy and Goom, who was unconscious and had the escafil device hidden under his shirt. Everyone stayed silent for a while after she finished her story. I was at a loss for words. I mean, it was good because we knew that what Erek and Sarah said about other RAFian teams was true...but Guy, Sealie's older brother, and Goom were either dead or turned into controllers.
<Are you sure this wasn't just an ordinary dream?> Jess asked
<I don't know> Sealie answered <I want to believe it was just a dream but I've never had a dream that was so...real>
<Whether it's real or not, there's nothing we can do about right now> Demos pointed out <We don't even know where they are>
<Ben's right> I said <If it is real then the best thing we can do for them now is to beat the Yeerks here and then move on to different states until we find them>
After establishing that we couldn't do anything to save any other team at the moment, we flew in silence for a few more minutes before Jess and I spotted something familiar
<We're here> I said, noticing the large sign with a Panda Bear, Giraffe, elephant, Polar bear, and gorilla painted on it. Above the Elephant's head were the words: “World-Famous San Diego Zoo”
Before landing, we got a quick bird's eye view of the place, looking for somewhere to demorph in case the zoo had security cameras.
<I think I see a restroom> Jess said <Let's demorph in there.>
We followed Jess through the open archway of a tiny building with a men's restroom sign next (http://) to it. As expect from a public men's room, it smelld like defecation and vomit, and the brown tiled floor(that kinda looked like it used to be white) was wet with what I'm 90% sure wasn't water.
<We couldn't have picked a cleaner spot to do this in> I asked as I began to demorph
<It's better than doing this out in the open> Cody said
<Out the open? Nobody's here!>
<We don't know that yet.>
After we finished demorphing, we reluctantly put on our ski masks, which were wet from whatever was on the floor, and walked out of the bathroom. Luckily, not far from us a large map of the zoo, telling us where each animal was located.
“Alright” Cody said “I think it'd be best to get better bird morphs first, then we'll do battle morphs, and then we get the hell out of here”
“Can't we just look around and see what we want” Sealie asked
“No. We aren't not sightseeing.” Jess answered “Maybe we can come back some other time but right now we're just getting the morphs we need and then we're leaving. We still don't even know if this place has security guards or cameras or something so the longer we stay here, the more danger we're putting ourselves in”
We followed the directions on the map to a large building with a sign over the door that read: “Birds”. Inside we saw lots of tropical and colorful birds separated from us by glass windows. There were parots, birds of paradise, pea****s, ect. None were the birds we were looking for though. After looking for a few minutes, we came across a door with the words “Birds of Prey' hanging over it.
“There we go” Jess said
We went through the door and into the room that was exactly identical to one we were just in only it a bunch of hawks, buzzards, owls, and eagles on display.
“Ok...new problem.” I said “How do we get past the windows?”
“We can't break them” Cody pointed out “So..I guess we could...”
Before Cody could finish, we heard a small tap on on one of the windows. I turned around to where the sound was coming from and saw Demos standing on the other side of one of the windows with his hand resting on a bird with the words “Golden Eagle” on a sign sticking to the window.
“D...Demos!?” I asked “How did you...”
“Employees only entrance” He answered
I slapped myself on the forehead “Duh! ….but when did you...”
“While you guys were looking at the tropical birds”
“And you didn't say anything because....”
“I wanted to surprise you guys” he laughed
After, he finished acquiring the bird, he left through an almost invisible hole in the wall, we then waited patiently while he found the doors we came in through.
“Well thanks a lot” Cody said “We were supposed to all do this together”
“Yeah but my way works better. I don't know if you noticed but I just acquired a pretty big bird. Now we can use our battle morph plan here too.”
In case you're wondering, the battle morph plan was Demos using his black bear morph to subdue the animals we needed to acquire for our battle morphs, so we wouldn't get hurt. Doing the same thing for the birds actually wasn't a bad idea.
After praising Demos for his brilliant idea, and after we waited for hi to morph the eagle, we wandered through the exhibits looking for birds we wanted to use as our regular flying morphs.
“Oh! I think I want that one!” I said, pointing at the White-tailed Kite with excitement
“Ok, Go with him” Jess told Demos
<Got it> He said, flying off of Jess' shoulder
I followed Demos through a door that read “Employees Only” inside, was a big hallway with door with different labels on them depending on which bird was on the other side. We had to do a bit of walking(or in Demos' case, flying) until we made our way to the door labled “White-Tailed Kite”
<Well, here it is> Demos said <Unlike the eagle, that Kite isn't asleep so acquiring it wont be easy>
“Isn't that why I have you”
<Yeah, I meant it wont be easy for me. I have to hold the thing still for you!>
“Quit complaining” I said, turning the knob on the door “You're a lot bigger than it, so it shouldn't be too hard”
And I was right. As soon as I opened the door, Demos swooped in and took down the bird before it had time to react. The only problem was keeping it still. Demos kept knocking it down but it kept coming back up. Sure he could have pinned it down with his talons but we don't want to leave any visible signs of damage on them in case the employees notice tomorrow.
“Come on, Ben. You're like twice its size”
<You wanna try this?> he asked
“I would but I don't have anything to morph, you were supposed to be helping me with that”
<You know what! Screw being gentle> Demos yelled before sinking his claws into the bird's chest
“Ben!” I protested
<Hurry up and acquire it before it dies>
“Alright, alright” I sighed, walking to the Kite, which was slowly starting to calm down
I put my hand on it's wing, the only part that couldn't hurt me or wasn't pierced by a golden eagle talon, and concentrated on the kite's DNA. As I acquired the bird, I noticed it's breathing became more and more...faint
<Are you done? I think he's dead>
“Yeah” I said, lifting my hand off the now dead Kite “I think I got it”
<Good. Now I just have to do the same thing, three more times> Demos grumbled
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Nice I like the new chapter. You have to admit that really was a good plan.
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Blue, do you have something against birds? :P
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Blue, do you have something against birds? :P
Yeah, and you seem to enjoy leaving animals for dead.
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Lol yeah I noticed. We're just looking for the easiest way to get things done. No Cassies around to tell us what we're doing is wrong XD
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That should help pretty well
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I believe I commented on this chapter on Skype but it just occurred to me that I forgot to leave a comment here. Great chapter, as usual! Hopefully they are able to acquire their battle morphs without killing everything in the zoo, lol.
No Cassies around to tell us what we're doing is wrong XD
Suddenly I like your story even better! :D
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Lol Cassie is awesome though. She's just misunderstood
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!sdrawkcaw ruoy ,eulB yaY
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You mean "sdrawkcab"?
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no. :( I specifically meant wackwards
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March 11, 2011
San Diego, California
11:10 pm
Team #31
- Demos' POV
“Um....Are you sure you have it pinned down hard enough” Cody asked, nervously
<Yes! Now hurry up and acquire it!> I said as I lay on top of the large cat
Cody gulped and held his hand out in front of the bobcat.
“RRRRRRRRRRRWOOW!”
“AH!” Cody yelled, backing away from the it.
“Stop being such a baby and touch the damn thing!” Jess demanded, safely behind a fence separating her and the others from the faux bobcat habitat.
“Yeah Cody!” Blue chimed in “It's bad enough you guys took forever to even find the cat! Just walk up and touch it! It's not that hard.”
“Well if it's so easy, why don't you come over here and do it!?” Cody asked
“I already did. We're waiting on you and Jess.”
<Uh..no hurry or anything but this guy is starting to scratch and...it kinda hurts>
Not sure how this happened, I could have sworn I put all my weight on this thing's back so it couldn't move. But somehow it rolled over on it's back so our faces were literally inches away from each other and then it started to claw and bite at my face and shoulders.
<AAAAH> I yelled in my head while, at the same time, letting out a painful roar with my bear mouth <CODY! HURRY THE F--- UP!>
Startled by both my roar and the bobcat's, Cody fell backwards, landing on his butt. The color was slowly draining out of his face as he looked the snarling cat in the eyes right before it sank its teeth into my nose.
<CODY! I'M GONNA KILL IT IF YOU DON'T GET OVER HERE IN 3...2....>
“AAAAAAAAH!” Cody yelled, leaping at the bobcat, grabbing it by the ears and acquiring it while, at the same time, pulling it's head away from my face.
Now normally, that would have been a very dangerous and VERY stupid thing to do. But lucky for both of us, even the most vicious and bloodthirsty animals become docile when they're DNA is being acquired. The bobcat made a soft purring noise as Cody laid it's head softly on the ground.
“You can get up now” he said “As long as I have my hands on it, it should stay calm.”
I did as he said and hopped off of the bobcat. As soon as I stood upright, I felt a rush of blood run down my face. I tried my best to rub it out of my eyes but my clawed hands made it hard for me to do that without accidentally scratching myself.
<Ok> I said while demorphing <You already know the drill, right? When you let go of the bobcat's ears you gotta run like hell!>
“Yeah” He said “I know”
“Seriously once you let go, that trance wont last any more than 10 seconds” I reminded him, now some sick bear/human abomination “You remember how Sealie almost didn't make it right? And I'm pretty sure that's faster than her's so you gotta freakin' book it! Seriously that thing will kill you!”
“You aren't helping!” Cody snapped
“Ok! Ok! Sorry. Just letting you know” And on that note, I ran as fast as I could to the others and gave Cody an encouraging “thumbs-up” once I was safely behind the fence separating us from that beast.
“You think he'll make it?” Sealie asked
“I don't know...that is a freakin bobcat” Blue said
“You got away just fine. And I'm pretty sure your battle morph is faster than a bobcat” Jess reminded him
“....I guess I got lu...”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!”
“Oh! Look he's doing it!” Sealie cheered
We watched as Cody sprinted toward us. He was halfway there when the bobcat snapped out of its trance and chased after him.
“Come on Cody!” I yelled “Just a little more”
BAM!
He hit the gate, separating us from the bobcat, so hard that he fell over. Meanwhile, the cat was getting closer with each passing second.
“CLIMB!” Jess screamed
Cody scrambled to his feet and started climbing up the gate the bobcat had finally reached him and jumped up to swipe his claws against his prey. Luckily, Cody was high enough for the cat's paw to miss his foot by a mere few inches. He continued to climb the 12 foot gate until he reached the other side, where we caught him when he jumped off, like the others did for me.
“That....that...Ohmygod!” Cody said between gasps for air, before falling on his side
“C'mon! We gotta keep moving.” Jess said
After I helped Cody up, we made our way to the last exhibit so we could fine Jess' battle morph. We made our way to African grasslands replica to find what she was looking for.
“Why are we back here?” Blue asked “Don't you think we woulda found it while we were getting my morph?”
“No. Yours doesn't hang around water like mine does.” Jess said, pointing to a makeshift waterhole, occupied by sleeping flamingos, and antelopes
“Well I don't see it.”
“It's probably sleeping in the water” She claimed, climbing the tall fence separating us from the fake habitat “Coming, Demos?”
“Yeah yeah. I'm coming” I answered, following Jess
As we made our way to the waterhole, while carefully avoiding any animals that might be sleeping (or hunting) in the tall grass, I went back to my black bear morph. The animal Jess had in mind wasn't normally violent but it's no pushover either. We'd be in a lot of trouble if we were to accidentally provoke it.
“Well....we're here” Jess said nervously “....You go first...you know 'cause....bear's like the water.....”
<Whatever> I said, walking into the cold water till it went up to my waist, while making sure I didn't wake up anything that might be sleeping in this....lake....wat erhole.....? Whatever, we're gonna call it a lake. <Come on, Jess. The water's fine....just don't step on anything....>
“How about you find the thing first?” Jess suggested “No use going in and it's not even there.”
I sighed <And how am I supposed to find it?>
“No idea”
Wanting to get out of here as fast as possible, I took a deep breath and plunged myself under the water. Bears may be able to swim but their sight underwater is about as good as a human's. I could see stuff but it was all blurred. The only things I could make out were the fish and the sandy bottom of the lake.
<I don't think it's here> I told Jess even though I wouldn't be able to hear her answer
I stood up straight and began to walk out of the water wen my clawed toes suddenly struck something...leather y? I tried to pull my foot out of whatever it was but my claws were in there pretty good. With no choice left, I quickly yanked it out.
“What the hell was that?” I thought
I put my face underwater to see what I got my foot caught in but the minute my eyes hit the water, they were met by nothing but...red?...blood? The only thing I could see was a hue gray blob and it was....moving...
<Oh my God!> I said, standing upright again and making my way out of here
SNAP!
“ROOOOOOOOOAR” I bellowed as something long and sharp sank itself into my arm
<Jess....I think I found it>
The last thing I heard was Jess' scream before the hippo, with its teeth firmly latched onto my arm, jerked its head back, taking me underwater with it. My first instinct was to swipe my paw across the beast's face. Unfortunately, being underwater slowed down my movements, I struck the hippo but it wasn't hard enough to do any real damage. The bear's lungs weren't built for being underwater for long periods of time and all the struggling I was doing was helping my situation. My vision started to blur even more than it already was and my head felt like it was on fire. Air! I needed air! Without thinking, I breathed in a bunch of water.
“Oh God!” I thought “Is this really how I'm gonna die? Drowned by a hippo just because so somebody else can pet it?”
I couldn't stay conscious any longer. As I blacked out I listened to the peaceful sounds of the lake, what I thought would be the last sounds I'd ever hear.
Until......
“RWERRRRRRRRRRRROW!”
Before completely blacking out, I caught a flash of yellow zoom past my eyes and felt one final, painful, tug at my arm.
“Ben.....Hey....Wake up! BEN!”
My eyes slowly opened. I saw Jess standing over me, tears falling off her face and on to my snout. I looked at what used to be my left arm. All that was left was a blood stump. It was gone but at least I was alive. Alive and....still a bear...? Still a bear!?
<Jess! How long have I been out?> I panicked
“Settle down” I heard a familiar voice say “You've only been unconscious for half an hour”
<B...Blue?>
He smiled “The one and only.”
<Wha...what happened?> I asked, while demorphing
“After the hippo dragged you under, I screamed for help” Jess explained “Even if the others heard me, I didn't think they'd be able to make it until it was already too late. Thank God, Blue was already on his way down to meet us.”
“Yeah. I came to tell you guys that there was an actual hippo exhibit around the corner. It would have been a lot easier and safer if you had just gone there.”
<Wait...the hippo. Jess did you....>
“Yeah.I got it. Blue beat it up pretty bad to get it off of you. I had to acquire it before it died.” Jess answered, pointing to the dead hippo at the edge of the lake. I shuddered at the sight of my arm still in its mouth.
Once I was fully demorphed, I thanked Blue and the three of us got the hell out of there. After climbing the fence back into the zoo, we saw Sealie and Cody sitting cross legged on the ground, playing what looked like poker but with animal faces on the cards.
“Where'd you get those?” I asked
“We took 'em from the gift shop” Cody said, casually
“You stole them?” Jess asked, with a hint of outrage in her voice
“Oh don't get all preachy” I laughed “We just murdered a hippo”
“You guys killed it!?” Sealie asked
“Well Blue did but I acquired it before it died”
“I thought we agreed not to leave a trail of dead animals” Cody sighed
“Well it's not like I had a choice. The thing was drowning Demos.” Blue said, defending himself
“Whatever. Just don't be surprised when this catches the Yeerks' attention. Now let's hurry up and get out of here before we kill something else.”
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Ok Blue I like the story, but seriously man you need to cut back on the animal killing. I'm not gonna go all Cassie or PETA here, but there has to be some limit to the amount of killing. Like I said I'm not gonna go all preachy, but if this type of animal killing continues then I wont be able to keep reading.
I'm sorry, but I felt the need to express my opinion. Take it or leave it.
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What is wrong with saying that a hippo was killed in a fanfiction. It's not a real animal.
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Perhaps it is the fact that I like animals. I'm not a animal lover like Cassie, but I still find it wrong to kill an animal that is only acting on instincts. Also Blaze I said I was just expressing my opinion and you could take it or leave it. You obviously wouldn't mind killing animals which guarantees the fact that I would NOT team up with you in a fight against the Yeerks. You can joke all you want and find the slaughter funny, but I don't and if you don't like me for that than I don't care.
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Im not joking. I honestly don't see anything wrong with it. I love animals but I also love cheeseburgers. I understand the need to kill them for food, and sometimes for self defense.
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*sigh* both of you cut the crap. There's a reason Blue does everything.
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The major downside of killing animals is that the yeerks might be on the look out for those animals now. To through them off the trail you might want to kill a few more.
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So the solution to killing animals is to kill more animals? Interesting.
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The major downside of killing animals is that the yeerks might be on the look out for those animals now.
This
There's a reason Blue does everything.
there's another reason but Rad got the main one
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So the solution to killing animals is to kill more animals? Interesting.
Exactly. Although I believe that also the definition of madness
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... Is this still active? Or no?
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I desprately want it to be.
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Yep, me too. Read it all, buuuuut... To much animal slaughter. Makes them seem ruthless, which animorphs arn't to real animals. Just yeerksies ;).
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I think Blue's been pretty busy lately--his laptop got stolen, I know that--and he's been doing a lot of RAFsimming lately. I'll give him a nudge and remind him about this. :D
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Animal slaughter adds a sense of drama
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:-\ Didn't know that. Killing things adds DrAmA, whatever that is. :P
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Let me put it this way. Would silence of the lambs have been as good without the silent hordes of sheep slaughtering each other?
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???
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Joke.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I don't get it. ;D Im funneh. Not really, but I am random. And possibly insane.
DA PIGEONS RETURNETH!
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I actually forgot about it. I'll post a new chapter when I get the chance but I don't know when that'll be
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HOO RAY FOR BLUE-RAY!
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Oh that's what I'm calling him from now on. "Here comes Blue-Ray"
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I'm great at coming up with funny nicknames. Like Blue-ray! :)
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OMG did this seriously win fanfic of the year? I didn't even realize it was nominated! To celebrate, a new chapter will be up this week. Maybe even two.
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As a loyal reader. I thank you.
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March 12, 2011
San Diego, California
12:13 am
Team #31
Sealie's POV
The flight home was relatively quiet. I guess nobody really felt like talking after our successful first mission was pretty much a disaster. We went in there to simply acquire some morphs for upcoming battles and ended up there longer than expected and left tired, wet, and with the blood of several animals on our hands. I guess you could call it a bittersweet victory. And there's definitely no way those animals will go unnoticed, especially since one of the corpses has a severed bear arm in its mouth. But I guess we'll have to worry about those consequences later.
We flew back home in our new bird morphs. Demos and Blue had their Golden Eagle and White Tailed Kite, respectively. Jess was a bald eagle. Cody was a Great Horned Owl. And I was a Snowy Owl.
<So...> Blue said <Y'all are being awfully quiet.>
<What's there to talk about?> Demos asked
<I dunno...something. This awkward silence is killing me?>
<Well we're almost home. So just get used to the silence for about five more minutes>
Demos isn't really in the best of moods after almost being killed by a hippo and then seeing his severed arm in said hippo's mouth. Not to mention being mauled by a plethora of other animals so he could help the rest of get our own morphs. Sure his wounds healed but the kind of pain he must have endured wont be forgotten and it's left him in a bit of a sour disposition. He'll have to get used to it though, we all will. I'm sure this will be nothing compared to what's in store for us in the future.
<Here we are> Jess said, flying through the bedroom window we had left open
I was the last to get inside and by the time I had perched myself on the windowsill, the others were already demorphing. I quickly followed suit and within about a minute or so (Wow, we're really getting good at this speed morphing :P) We were all fully human....and fully sleepy.
“Well boys, I've had a fun night on the town with you all but I need my beauty sleep” Jess said
“Yeah yeah. We're not exactly wide awake either” Blue said with a weak laugh “Good night ladies”
As soon as the boys had left for their own room, Jess was already in her bed, sound asleep. I sighed and hopped in my own bed. Though I was a little reluctant to go to sleep at first...what if I have another dream...or vision...or whatever that was? Unfortunately, the sandman got the best of me and I was sound asleep within minutes.
March 12, 2011
San Diego, California
1:00 am
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Team #5
Guy's POV
I lay wide awake in bed, the only other sounds were Goom's snoring and the sound of the train station a few blocks away. I wanted to go to sleep as easily as Goom but these last tow nights have been the most stressful of my entire life. I bet you're wondering why I'm still alive right? Well as I'm sure you're already aware of, the other RAFians and I are apart of Crayak and the Ellimist's sick struggle for my universe. Normally Goom and I would have been as good as dead but Crayak was “generous” enough to let the Andalite who had crash landed at that Power Plant survive long enough to help us out. He was badly wounded but the fact that he was able to fight off two Hork Bajir so Goom and I could escape meant that he could have probably been saved...well...befo re the other controllers came and dracon beamed him into a pile of blood, guts, and burnt fur....It wasn't a pretty sight but he bought Goom and I enough time to get out of there with the Blue box.
After returning to the townhouse we had woken up in that same night, we were greeted by Michelle and her “7 year old son” Joseph. Of course the two are really Chee, posing as a fake family for Goom and I. As for Dino and Mackenzie, they lived a few houses down with their own Chee “parents”. The next day was completely dedicated to acquiring morphs. I don't wanna spoil anything but we've all managed to get a hold of some pretty impressive battle morphs. But morphs wont be enough. All of are considerably intelligent but I still fear we wont be as crafty as the original animorphs. We don't have any tactical geniuses like Marco, we aren't zoologists like Cassie, and right now none of us are as impulsive as Rachel. So I guess we'll have to make due with our own unique qualities. Who knows? Since we're not dealing with Visser Three here, we may not even need to be like the other Animorphs. But what if this Visser isn't a complete idiot like V3...what if he or she is just as smart as Visser 1?
“Ugggh” I groaned “I'm thinking too much.”
I tossed and turned for what felt like forever but to no avail. I just couldn't sleep after everything that's happened. Eventually I got tired of trying to be tired and went tip toed downstairs to watch TV in he living room. If anything good came out of all this, it was that I'd get to enjoy some good ole fashioned 90's television again. But it seems somebody already beat me to it. As I walked into the living room, I saw a little boy with short dark brown hair, lounging on the couch in front of the TV. Joseph noticed me standing at the entrance and smiled.
“Can't sleep?”
“I've had a lot on my mind.”
“I'm sure you have. It's not everyday you're involuntarily thrust into an intergalactic war based on a children's book series.”
“No kidding....Do you normally keep your hologram up when nobody's around?”
“Not really. But I've taken to keeping it on so you and Kevin can tell Michelle and I apart.” he said before turning off the hologram.
It's weird seeing a Chee switch in between their normal and holographic forms, of course. But it's even weirder when said Chee was just barely 4 feet tall a second ago. And that cute, energetic little kid voice he had, became a lot calmer and like 100 octaves deeper. The only thing I can compare it to is foamy the squirrel turning into Patrick Stewart. It's like he not only hit puberty but proceeded to beat it to a bloody pulp until it vomited testosterone all over him.
“So. Is there anything in particular you wanted to watch” He asked, making room for me on the couch
“Not really” I sighed and sat beside him
We sat in silence and flipped through the channels. I forgot the downside of living in the 90's. There's barely any channels and nothing's gonna be on at 1 in the morning. Eventually we both got bored of trying to find something to watch so we spent the next hour talking about random stuff. He asked what it was like living almost two decades in the future and school and what I wanted to do with my life. Just general chit-chat. And then the conversation drifted over to my family....and I remembered Beth. I didn't really feel like talking after that....
“I think I'm gonna go to bed now....”
“Oh I'm sorry. I forgot your sister is also....”
“No. It's ok. I'm just really tired.” I lied
Without saying another word, I trudged upstairs and back into bed. Goom was still asleep. I started to think about Beth. Is she alright? Who is she teamed up with? What if she doesn't even have a team? What if she has to work alone....All of those thoughts and more raced around in my head until I couldn't take it anymore and forced myself to go to sleep, which turned out to be a lot easier than I thought it would be....I blame going almost two nights without sleep....
March 12, 2011
San Diego, California
9:20 am
Team #31
Sealie's POV
“Sealie!” I heard a disembodied voice call “Sealie wake up”
The voice kept calling and nudging me but I wouldn't move. I wanted to keep dreaming. Justin was alright! But I wanted to know more!
WHAP!
I felt a hand make contact with the side of my face and my eyes shot open. Jess stood over me, looking about as awake as I was.
“What? It's Sunday! I'll go to church next week...”
“Get up. Blue was just in here. He said Erek found another group of RAFians.”
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Cooooool. Man I love this.
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There are two things that sucked in the 90's. Crappy TV shows and *Shudders* Boy bands. *Epic Shudder* :P
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dont forget gilr bands. The spice girls are definitely controllers. If you remember where that's from. you get a cookie
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Girl bands weren't crappy because they made teenage boys drool as well as other things. Such as cover their bedroom walls with the posters of said girl bands.
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Girl bands weren't crappy because they made teenage boys drool as well as other things. Such as cover their bedroom walls with the posters of said girl bands.
....how many boys did you know with spice girls' posters hanging on their walls?
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Well I wasnt one of them. ((I was more into Britney Spears and Christina Aguilara)) However I can think of about a dozen or so of my male classmates who had a magazine pic of them tapped on the inside of the door to their locker. Dont ask how many of the girls had N' Sync pics cause I think all of them did. :dull:
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Blue, you need to write in an encounter with the spice girls, similar to the original animorphs encounter with Hansen.
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Man, I usually hate fanfic but this is great and i want more.
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I just realized that this takes place in the 90’s but I’ve been putting 2011 down as the date. Sooo yeah…. fixing that from here on. I might go back and change that in the previous chapters when I’m not in a lazy mood :P
March 12, 1996
San Diego, California
9:20 am
Team #31
- Blue’s POV
Erek had been up all night contacting his chee friends around the country. So far we’ve found three other RAFians teams. Sakki, Blaze, and Tobias are in Miami. Terenia is by herself in Pittsburg. And Tony, TobiasMasonPark (aka Goose), KingHyrule(aka Lucas), and his brother, Nick, are stationed in Seattle. Nick’s technically not a RAFian but he’s a regular on RAFskype so the Drode lumped him in with the rest of us.
“Is it true!?” Sealie asked as she made her way down the stairs and joined the rest of us in the kitchen “Did you really find other RAFians!?”
“Yeah, I’m on the phone with some right now.” I said, setting the home telephone to speaker “Say hi guys. You’re on speaker.”
“HEY!”
“HI”
“SUP”
“Wait a minute.” Sealie paused “Is that…..Tony!?”
“It is. How you doing, Sealie?”
“I’ve almost been killed by controllers, two wild animals. Other than that I’m pretty good.”
“Good to hear. I’m just here with Goose and his cousins. We got our battle morphs last night and I’m pretty anxious to try them out.”
“TT!” Jess called “You guys are so close to us! We should team up.”
“We should.” Tony agreed “But I don’t think we’re supposed to leave our states until we win.”
“Actually he’s right.” Erek chimed in “Once you clear your area of Yeerks, you’re more than welcome to go over to Seattle and help them out. But until then you’re limited to just moral support.”
“I should have figured as much.” Jess sighed
“It was the Ellimist’s idea.” Sarah said, apologetically “But to make up for it, he’s also forbidden the Vissers from helping each other regardless of if they win or lose in their respective states…so there’s that I guess.”
We continued to make small talk and exchanged strategies with the other team for about an hour before we ended our conversation. Jess and I sighed in relief. Tony and his teammates are close to us. They were our RAFskype buds before all this got started so we were happy to hear they were all safe and adjusting to this new universe.
“Well now that that’s over, how about we focus on here.” Demos suggested “What’s gonna be our first move?”
I shrugged “We gotta find a Yeerk Pool, I guess.”
“We’re going to school tomorrow. Isn’t there always a Yeerk pool entrance under schools?” Sealie asked
“We’ve only see one school in the series. And that was a different part of California.” Jess responded
“Well then we should split up and look for signs of a Yeerk Pool entrance.” I suggested “We’ll fly over the city and look for….something.”
Everyone else halfheartedly agreed. It wasn’t like we had anything else to do. After breakfast (Seriously, Erek needs to sell his waffle recipe) we split into up and flew around town, looking for anything that might be a Yeerk Pool entrance. To be honest, I was only half focused on finding the Yeerk Pool. This was my first time flying in the daytime and I was enjoying it. I’m normally afraid of heights but for some reason watching the busy streets of San Diego from thousands of feet up in the air didn’t make me feel scared. I actually felt pretty calm. It might have been the White Tailed Kite’s instincts that kept me from feeling fear, hell I could have just gotten over my fear of heights myself. Either way, flying is awesome.
<Enjoying yourself?> I heard Sealie’s voice ask, as a snowy owl flew towards me
<I guess I am. Have you found anything?>
<Absolutely nothing> She sighed <Then again, I never expected to find anything from up here anyway.>
<Oh?>
<Yeah. In fact I’m happy I ran into you because I have a plan and I need someone to tag along.>
It was at that moment that I noticed the mouse squirming in Sealie’s talons. <Is now really the best time for a snack?>
<Ha ha. Very funny. I’m not gonna eat the mouse. We’re gonna acquire it>
<….Why>
<Look down and tell me what you see>
I did as I was told and surveyed the area we’d been circling over for the past couple of minutes. A large red brick building, parking lot, soccer field, flag pole in front of the door, Football field across the street; Yep, this was definitely a school.
<Oh I see where you’re going with this.>
<I just hope I’m right. Let’s hurry up and land. I’m not sure how much time we have left in these morphs.>
We landed on the roof and began to dimorph (while making sure the mouse didn’t get away). Once we had finished, Sealie carefully picked the mouse up by its tail and began to acquire it. Almost immediately it stopped squirming and screeching and went limp.
“Your turn” She said, handing me the mouse
As reluctant as I was to touch that….thing…..I nervously held my hands out for Sealie to drop the nasty little fur ball in them. No sooner had she done this did the mouse snap out of its trance and tried to escape again. But I was too quick for him and clapped one hand on top of the other.
“Oh this is sooooo nasty!”
“Shut up and acquire the thing already.”
The mouse eventually stopped struggling as I acquired it, just as it had done for Sealie. Once I was finished with it, I gleefully chucked it over my shoulder and looked back to make sure it got far away from me.
“That was disgusting.” I complained
“Oh don’t be such a baby.” Sealie laughed, already starting to morph “We’re gonna go in through the air vents, ok?”
“Got it”
<Don’t morph yet> She warned, now more mouse than human <I need you to stay close and make sure I don’t do anything stupid until I get control over the mouse’s instincts.>
“Right”
I crouched down over the little brown mouse that was once Sealie. She wasn’t trying to run away, she didn’t squeak, she didn’t even move. I raised an eyebrow and held my finger out; preparing to poke her and make sure she was still alive. But as soon as my index finger came within an inch of her back, she let out a loud squeaking noise and made a beeline for the opposite direction.
“Dammit” I sighed “You could have lost control in an animal that’s easier to catch.”
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It's nice to see this starting up again! :D
Too bad the teams can't join forces, though. Dumb Ellimist. :P
Looking forward to seeing what happens next! Lol, Blue, if you can hardly stand to touch the mouse, how're you going to react to morphing it?
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We'll have the chance to help other RAFians once we clear our own state of the Yeerks or kill the Visser, whichever comes first. So there just might be a team-up in the future. Not all Vissers are powerhouses like Visser 3 so things aren't completely hopeless. If I recall, the Visser in MM3 was quite stupid.
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They're in a city in Seattle? And now Sakki and I are stuck in the same place, under the same roof. Lord have mercy.
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They're in a city in Seattle?
Oh ****! Thanks for pointing that typo out to me.
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"A city in Seattle" sounds like a great underground band.
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They wonder the time because none of them are Andalites... Unlike the original Anis.
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Indeed. No more:
"[insert number here] of your hours"
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Which got annoying after the 8th time.
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I just read this and this is freakin' AMAZING! Deserves Fanfic of the Year for sure, you got my vote! Keep 'em coming Blue! :)
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Lol it already won fanfic of the year last year. Let somebody else have it :P
((expect a new chapter tonight))
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What a lovely thing to return to. :D
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S...Sssss.....SEEEE EEEEEEEEEALIE!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Ultra-Super-Mega-Action-Ice-Cream-Banana-Split-Sundae-Chicken-Jedi GLOMP*
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*gets Ultra-Super-Mega-Action-Ice-Cream-Banana-Split-Sundae-Chicken-Jedi GLOMPed*
I...I can't even try and beat that. XP
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I know I said the chapter would be up today but then two things happened:
1. I remembered I have Pokemon Black 2 and started playing that for five hours straight
2. My favorite cousin is over my house right now
So the chapter will be up either late tonight or tomorrow. Sorry :P
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I'll be up till midnight. I can wait.
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I'm only gonna get confused with time zones, so just as long as it's coming out, I'm happy :)
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It's 1 in the morning. I'm waiting.
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And you're gonna keep waiting -___-
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March 12, 1996
Seattle, Washington
11:15 am
Team #42
- Tony’s (Unknown User) POV
As I flew over the city in my Red-headed Woodpecker morph, I couldn’t help but feel a small twinge of jealousy as I looked up at Nick, who went to the zoo without the rest of us and acquired a Peregrine Falcon. I say “looked up” because the rest of us only had smaller birds and therefor couldn’t fly nearly as high or as fast as him. Ever since we got here, Nick’s kept to himself, rarely talking to the rest of us and spending most of his time wandering around town all alone. And it was during one of his little adventure that he found the zoo and decided to go in by himself, when it was closed of course, and acquire as many as animals as he could. This included his falcon, a snake, a wolf, and a grizzly bear (the last two he only acquired because he snuck into the security room and stole a tranquilizer gun) It’s friggin insane. The when we first got here he was freaking out and we had to keep him from having an emotional breakdown but then once our Chee explained to us how we could go home, he suddenly went into “Silent commando” mode.
<So nutcase> Lucas taunted <Remind us again why you decided it’d be better for you to go and get all the cool morphs without us>
Nick ignored him. That actually might have been a warning sign that things weren’t exactly alright with him. Normally the two would go back and forth until Blue or I broke up their little “sibling fights”. But all Lucas has been doing since we got here is making fun of and insulting Nick but he’s only said something back once.
<Are you feeling ok> I asked him in private thought-speech
<I’m fine.> he said bluntly
<Are you really? You haven’t been yourself. I was expecting you to freak out through all this but you’ve been surprisingly calm. Not even your brother’s been able to affect you.>
<I’m just…really focused on getting out of here. That’s all.> Nick sighed <The more animals we get. The more prepared we’ll be. The more prepared we are. The better chance we have of winning. And if we win, we get to go home.>
<Alright fine; I understand. I was just a little worried about you.>
<Yeah, Jordan said the same thing. It’s funny how you guys are showing more concern than my brother.>
After that train wreck of a conversation was over Nick showed us to the nearest zoo, which was closed on Sundays. We demorphed in a nearby restroom (grossest place ever, by the way) and wandered aimlessly until Goose came across an animal he thought looked interesting.
“Hey, what about that?” he asked, pointing to the rhino exhibit
“Is that what you want?” Nick asked
“Yeah, sure”
Nick shrugged and began to morph into his bear “Okay then, let’s get this over with.”
It was at that moment that I realized why Nick had gone ahead and gotten his morphs without us. He wasn’t being a selfish loner. He was actually looking out for us. He risked his neck to get his morphs so that when we got ours, he’d be there to back us up. That’s a pretty genius plan, if I do say so myself.
<Alright, let’s go.> he said, directing Goose to the employees only entrance
Lucas and I watched Nick and Goose through the class window on the other side of the rhino’s….room? I’m gonna call it a room just because I don’t know what else to call it. Display case came to mind but it’s an animal, not a trophy. It’s just a big square room with hay on the floor and a big glass window for spectators to stare at the big guy. Anyway, it was asleep so it didn’t take long for Goose to acquire it and then get the hell out of there. He didn’t even really need Nick but having a grizzly bear ready to kick ass for you is still comforting. Next up was Lucas, who decided on a Lion morph. This would be a million times more difficult. Not only because the lion was wide awake, but also because he was kept in a faux habitat, complete with his own harem of lionesses.
“Are you…are you sure about this?” I asked “There’s gotta be like five lions in there. I don’t think a bear is gonna be enough.”
“It won’t be just a bear.” Goose said as a rhino horn grew from his nose
“That might not make much of a difference.”
Lucas was shaking “Yeah….I don’t think I want the lion anymore.”
“We can come back after Tony gets his battle morph.” Goose suggested as he reversed his morph
“Actually…I don’t know if the thing I had in mind can take down a lion…..in fact I think lions hunt them.”
“Even better” Goose laughed “You’ll be our distraction.”
We made our way to the second part of the African exhibit, the part reserved for the herbivores. Using the rope ladder we found in the security room, Nick, Goose, and I climbed down the large concrete wall that kept the visitors out. After a little….mishap….where Nick forgot to demorph before attempting to climb the down; I surveyed the area and looked for my “prey”. Zebra? No. Antelope? Hell no! Wild boar? Those aren’t even herbivores! What the hell are they doing here?
“Do you see it?” Goosed asked
“Not ye….THERE IT IS!” I yelled, quickly covering my mouth as the buffalo, startled by all the noise, ran deeper into the grasslands
Goose started to morph “I got him.”
Nick had already finished morphing <How strong are these things?>
I answered “Well from what I’ve read about them, they normally travel in herds and it takes several lions just to take down one of them.”
<…Oh my God. JORDAN!>
<I know!> He said, already chasing after the buffalo <Get it before it reaches its herd.>
“He can get him. A charging rhino can move up to 35 miles per hour.”
<How do you know all this stuff?> Nick asked
“When you have as much free time as I did before all this, you learn a lot of things nobody ever really cared about.” I sighed
“HOW’S IT GOING?” Nick called from atop the wall
<We found the buffalo> Nick explained <But it ran away so now Jordan’s chasing….>
<I GOT THE BASTARD!> Goose cheered
<Where are you?>
<Just keep going straight. I’m in front of the watering hole.>
<Alright. Come on Tony before we lose it again.>
<Not likely. I sorta…..tackled him....he’s out cold.>
Riding on Nick’s back as he ran on all fours, we made our way to the watering hole where we found Goose resting his humungous leg on the collapsed Cape buffalo (there were also a bunch of zebras and antelopes freaking out at the presence of a rhino and grizzly bear in their habitat)
“Nice job, Goose.” I said before resting my hand atop the buffalo’s head
<It was nothing. This guy’s fast but nothing that big can outrun a charging rhino.>
Goose took his weight off the buffalo’s side as I finished acquiring it. He and Nick tried helping the buffalo back up on its feet but it was no use. Goose probably broke one or two of its legs. Doing all we could for the poor thing, we turned around to make our way back to the safe side of the zoo. That is until….
<Uh…guys> that was Lucas’ voice <I’m flying over you all right now and I see a big group of wildebeests coming your way.>
<What?> Nick asked
<Look behind you.>
And sure enough, on the other side of the waterhole, we could make a big black blob that was on its way towards us. As it got closer I could now make out exactly what it was. It wasn’t blob at all and it sure as hell wasn’t a pack of wildebeests. It was the herd of Cape buffalo that we were trying to avoid running into. Unsure of how they’d react to see us near an injured member of their group, we slowly back away from the unconscious buffalo before Goose yelled….
<RUN!>
Without thinking, I hopped on Goose’s back and held onto his horn for dear life as he went into “charge mode” and made a beeline back to where we started. To our surprise, Nick was having no trouble keeping up with us.
“Don’t wait until we get there before you start demorphing.” I instructed “Do it now so we can hop on the ladder and get the hell out of here.”
Nick and Goose did as I told. Nick was completely human by the time we reached the wall and was already making his way back up the ladder. Because I was on his back, Goose made an effort to demorph slower so he could still sustain my weight. He was halfway done by the time we reached the wall and once I was halfway up the ladder, he had already started climbing.
“That….wasn’t….fun….” I said, catching my breath as I finally made it to the other side
<You wanna know the messed up part?> Lucas laughed <You did all that running and panicking for nothing. They didn’t even try to chase.>
Unaware of where Lucas was, I settled for just glaring up at the sky “You’re just now telling us?”
<I thought you could use the exercise. Especially Nick. His bear morph is a fatass.> he answered, perching his tiny pigeon body on Goose’s shoulder
Once again, we were shocked at Nick for not taking his brother’s obvious bait. If that weren’t so worrying, I might have actually been a little proud that he’s finally learned to ignore Lucas when he’s being an obnoxious jerk.
“Let’s go.” Nick ordered “Let’s get the lion and leave already.”
<Who died and made you the leader?>
Nick once again ignored Lucas and started walking to the other side of the African exhibit. Goose and I exchanged worried looks before following him.
“Are you guys can do this?” Lucas asked as we reached the lion exhibit “I thought you said buffalo were a lion’s prey.”
“They are but that’s only when it’s several of them teaming up on one buffalo.” I answered “These buffalo actually kill more lions than the lions do them.”
“Yeah, you heard Buffy the Lion slayer.” Goose joked “We got your back, Lucas.”
Lucas gulped as he looked at the lions relaxing on what looked like a replica of “pride rock” from the Lion King “I guess you’re right….let’s get this over with.”
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Nick is kinda like Tobias
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Don't insult Nick like that
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Theirs a massive leap between emo loner and strong silent type.
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Are you still doing this? it was getting really good.... :)