Animorph Successors

[Darth Revan]

Garrett drove into the driveway of Ben's father's estate. He exited his car and went up to the main entrance. He knocked on the door, and a butler directed him to the stables in the back of the estate. Garrett found the stables and went inside. He found Ben, Chad, and Tora already there.

He nodded his head upwards as a greeting. "What's up?"

[Cloudbreaker]

"Temrash?  Okay, cool," Ben said to Chad.  "And no, I haven't been swimming.  I have this suit on incase we decide to do some morphing.  I brought extras if anyone needs one."  Ben pointed to an unused horse stall where he stashed the other suits.

He greeted everyone else similarly as they arrived.  At least their group was punctual.  "What do you say we get right down to business?  I suppose it would be a good idea to know what morphs everyone has so that we know what all we have to work with when planning missions.  Or at the very least we will know what new morphs we will need to acquire when planning missions.  I myself have a hippo morph, a condor morph, and a horse morph.  How about you?" he asked the person standing closest to him.

[Darth Revan]

"I have a Black Panther and a Black Mamba snake, as you well know. I also have a Cooper's hawk and you recently found out about the Secretary."

Garrett's eyes went dead and his posture changed. His voice lowered an octave and his eyes became challenging.

"I have a dog, German Shepard. I as well have a Cooper's Hawk and I have a Human morph as well."

((Team, meet Arrin. I'll wait for reactions before I have him introduce himself.))

[Chad32]

"Oh boy." Chad said as he realised Garret was a controller. "I'm not even going to ask why you have a Yeerk in your head, Garret. As for morphs I have a German shephard, a Tabby Cat, and a Gorilla. I actually own the dog I have a morph of, but I left him home for now. The cat was a neighbors, and the Gorilla is for anti Yeerk people who decide they want to push me around because they're bigger then me. That is until I gain a few hundred pounds and push them to the ground with one finger."

[KitsuneMarie]

Ertoran was looking increasingly like a caged bird. As they began speaking about their morphs--and as Garrett revealed the presence of the Yeerk in his head--she knew that it would be impossibly hard to maintain her secret much longer. I do not yet trust these people, she thought, slowly shaking her head. What if one of them belongs to the very cause against which we are supposed to be fighting? It could be any of them. It could be all of them. She surveyed those gathered in the room with mounting suspicion.

When Chad finished speaking, she murmured, "I have no battle-worthy morphs. I will acquire some firepower at my first opportunity, Ben." Turning her head, she indicated she was done talking about this subject.

[Terenia]

Raya hung back from the group, much like she did while at the mall, feeling increasingly uncomfortable. When the fact that Garrett was a Controller was revealed she took an involuntary step backward, her face blanching.

<Stop it, act normal!> Marisol scolded. Raya quickly gained control over her emotions, putting on a blank face.

<He's....a true Yeerk,> Raya said, <that's impossible. I would know of him if he was not a nothlit.>

<Evidently we missed a few,> Marisol said tersely, <just act normal.>

"Yo tengo dos," Raya said out loud, speaking softly, "at least, two that can be used for battle. Wild boar and mountain lion."

[Darth Revan]

Garrett shook his head and put his hand to his temple, "Wow, I haven't done that in a while." He looks at all the shocked faces. "I told you I knew for a fact they all weren't nothlits. That was Arrin. I saved him while they were in the process of making him a nothlit. I snuck in and pumped each guard with venom and we got out of there. He's been living as a my cousin, Kyle, from the East coast ever since."

[Cloudbreaker]

Ben was stunned.  He did not think that any actual yeerks existed on earth that weren't nothlits.  Other than Visser One/Three of course, but he was locked away tight.  So when Ben found out that not only were there still real yeerks out there, but that one was also in their team of animorphs, he didn't know just how he was supposed to react.  He barely even took note of other peoples' responses to his morphs question.

"Wha?  How?"  Ben just hear Garrett explain, but that didn't stop him from asking anyway.  He leaned against the wall.  "Wow, okay, that was unexpected.  Are there any other big secrets that people need to get out in the open?  Because I don't know if my body can handle going through something like this twice," he half-joked.  As if anyone would be able to match that secret.

[Darth Revan]

Garrett looks at Ben, "Sorry man, I couldn't just come out and say it in the middle of the mall. Besides, I'm not usually a controller, but Arrin didn't feel comfortable being out in the open."

[Chad32]

"Sorry man. I don't have anything that tops that." Chad said with a small laugh. "So how do you plan to start us off, Ben? What are we going to do, exactly?"

[Terenia]

Raya bit her lip, eyes on the floor. Suddenly she felt an urge to replace her hat and sunglasses, as though that would make her more invisible to the small group. She risked a glance up, eyes darting from one face to the other. Ben had a point...if one of the group had a secret so large, what was to stop the others from hiding similar secrets? Raya had been certain that she was the only true Yeerk in the group, and now this. What were the others hiding?

"I have no secrets," she mumbled, giving Garrett an awkward, almost apologetic look.

<The cat's kind of out of the bag,> Marisol said, <why don't you tell them?>

<Simple,> Raya responded, <if this Arrin fellow truly is a Yeerk - a true Yeerk - then how the others react to him will determine my approach. For all we know these people may decide to attack him later and hold him until Arrin is starved out. We need to ensure that they are trustworthy and their intentions are true before we reveal ourselves.>

Marisol said nothing to that, but Raya could read her emotions perfectly.

<You trust far too easily,> Raya said with a snort.

[KitsuneMarie]

Ertoran looked to Raya as she seemed to make herself smaller. That woman... she thought, frowning at her, I am willing to bet she has as many secrets as I. Following suit, she said nothing with regards to her species or background. I will tell them before a mission, she told herself, looking back to Ben. No until then will it matter. "Nor do I," she chimed in, shaking her head. "Do you have a first mission in mind, Ben? Then I will know what type of morph I should acquire."

[Darth Revan]

After Ben's request for other secrets to be revealed, he looked to both Tora and Marisol expectantly. He knew everyone had skeletons in their closet, and hoped that if he revealed his Yeerk still retained its original form, it would inspire them to reveal themselves in turn. Alas, they wouldn't follow suit. Garrett caught Marisol's almost apologetic gaze. His eyes narrowed, though it was not his place to out others' secrets, he felt that if they were to put each others' lives in each others' hands, all cards should be on the table.

He then looks to Tora, who also had a guilty look about her face. When she tried to derail the current topic, Garrett spoke up, "Nuh-uh. You two, spill. If we're to trust each other, if you expect me to put my life in your hands, and the life of Arrin, I expect full disclosure. Tora, we don't care if you're an Andalite; Marisol, what do you have to be scared of? We're here to save the lives and maintain the rights of Yeerks. Do you really think we would fault you for having a Yeerk? I live with a morph-capable Yeerk, Chad lives with a nothlit Yeerk, you don't exactly have too many reasons to stay in the closet."

Garrett's leg begins to twitch and it kicks out in a seemingly random direction, causing Garrett to fall. "Gah! Dammit Arrin." Garrett begins to talking out loud to no one. "... Okay, okay. I'll go." Garrett stands back up and composes himself. "Arrin wants to meet you personally. He finally realizes that hiding in the shadows is no way to instill trust." Garrett half yells to Arrin about his choice to hide in his head. Though he had intended the comment for Arrin, he had hoped the comment had reached Marisol and Tora too.

Garrett moves to one of the empty stables and walks into it, disappearing from view. Moments later, two men exit the stable; one as expected, was Garrett, and one who was slightly shorter than him. He had blonde hair, green kind eyes, and an athletic build, almost gangly, but defined enough to show his has an outward strength. He's wearing a black spandex costume that looks like the black Spider-Man suit. He and Garrett join, or rejoin as in the case of Garrrett, the group's little circle. He gives a curt nod to everyone and says, "Hello, I am Arrin," he takes a deep breath, "Arrin-821. Nice to meet you."

[Chad32]

"Likewise." Chad said politely. "I don't know if you'd want to stay away from Temrash or not. If he finds out, he'll try to convince you to go nothlit. As for the Andalites, he just never liked them. Probably never will."

[KitsuneMarie]

Ertoran's eyes widened and then she took a step towards Garrett, standing in the most aggressive stance she had ever shown around them. "What on Earth gave you the impression I was an Andalite? And yes, I understand that we must protect each other, but what reason do either of us have to trust you? If you put you and your Yeerk on the line, that is a matter of your own foolishness; it in no way obligates either of us to tell any secrets--secrets that we don't have!"