Animorphs: Ressurection

[Estelore]

<Of course.>

Arhareli drew her tail down below her belly, keeping the blade flat against her own body, preventing any possibility of Reyna getting hurt while she climbed off.

<I apologize for the rough nature of the ride, but thank you for being so cooperative a passenger. I will wait with you until you are ready to join the others.>

[BaronConall]

At Mesa's command, all the doors open, save for four. Through a stroke of luck, each one contains a docked vessel, ready for departure.

By this time, Ehruf has finished demorphing but is far too weak to to morph again to heal his wounds.
<Quick! We must get inside!> Ayrow says, moving towards the first open door.

I similarly start moving after Ayrow, still demorphing.

Kage, however, seems to be slowly coming back to reality and slowly turns to look at Reli. "They think Hork-Bajir are Andalites." he says, with a hoarse chuckle, before his eyes roll back into his head. Kage collapses.

"Woah, woah, WOAH!!!" Jim crys, chasing after Kage as his body crumbles to the ground. He reaches his side just as he finishes demorphing. At that moment, the Kelbrid that had been beside Kage, the one he had slammed into the wall, snaps its' eyes open, both four fingered hands flying out out and planting itself firmly on Jim and Kages chests.
The feeling is like electricity racing through his body.
"AAAAAHHHHH!!!" Jim cries out in a mixture of terror and pain.

[warren_bearclaw]

Kage slumps to the ground, and Marty is pulled off balance before he lets go. He quickly rights himself, and before he can even lean over to help hoist up the Hork-Bajir, the Kelbrid grabs both Kage and Jim, who'd run up to help when Kage had fallen. His comrades are obviously in intense pain, and it appears to be electrical, or something to that affect. He instantly reacts by taking hold of the Kelbrid's wrists and tries pushing it away from his friends, hoping to seperate it far enough to disrupt the contact between its hands and his friends.

[gorillaman16]

Shaun hears the scream and goes running off to see what happened. He sees Kage on the ground and Jim in the grasp of a Kelbrid. <Marty let go of that thing you arent in a morph it will kill you!> Shaun then starts running towards the Kelbrid and lowers his shoulder to knock him off of Kage and Jim. <Yes i got him. He will not escape us all alive.>

[Gumby]

Kage went completely ballistic and the door snapped open to expose several parked ships. Suddenly, the Kelbrid next to Kage had its eyes shoot open. It reacted immediately, and promptly shoved its hands on Kage and Jim's chests.

Their reaction was terrifying, they began to scream in pain. Fisher panicked and, using his crude shiv, leaped on the alien and furiously began stabbing it in the back. Terror and adrenaline filled his body, heavily impairing his aim. Several stabs punctured, but only shallowly and the rest slid off the cursed slime. With a twist of its body, the grotesque creature shoved him off into a wall.

Baxter, with a frantic yell, also jumped to his friends aid and began stabbing. He did better, sinking the blade deep into its back, but flick of its tail flung him into a wall with a crash.

((Fisher rolled four and Baxter got six))

[Estelore]

<NO! Shaun and Chris, can you get the others out of here?>

Reli darted toward the Kelbrid that had partially skewered Jim and Kage. Before she could get there, Fisher, Baxter, and Marty were already attempting to restrain and damage the Kelbrid. A fiercely protective anger flooded Reli's mind and she charged on the side where Jim was still being attacked.
<Release them!>
FWAPP! FWAPP! Her blade cleanly half-removed the creature's left hand at the wrist, then on the return strike it got stuck fast in the bones of its right arm.

Her voice alternated between detached and venomous.
<Lucky for me, my blade is bone, and Andalite bones->
She pulled hard, freeing her tail.
<-do not->
FWAPP! The flat back edge of her blade struck the Kelbrid's neck, just below the jaw, and she slowly lifted him against the wall, pinning him.
<-conduct electricity. I was going to leave you alone, but you decided stupidly to sneak-attack my colleagues. Bad form.>

Reli twisted her tail, embedding the blade in the Kelbrid's neck. She pulled back her tail, releasing the Kelbrid to slump to the floor, then started walking toward the exit hallway.

<Please move quickly, people; I feel it unwise to linger here.>

What a sucker-shot. I understand and accept the nature of warfare, but nothing about that resembled fair play. Maybe I just subscribe to a more idealistic sense of etiquette in combat... either way, what good would it have done, really, for me to kill him? This ship has cameras, so there will be record of this. His reports alone are meaningless. He was outnumbered. He had no reason to try to fight; he knew what I did to the last of his group. I don't know, maybe it's some 'to the death' cultural idiocy. Regardless, one thing is certain: I will never again count on enemies to put self-preservation first.




((Rolled 8 for getting to the Kelbrid in time to do anything at all, then 10 for disarming and killing it. Used the prescribed method of counting the second of two rolls as the luck/success roll. Maybe her actions border on show-offish, but remember she is a show fighter, and she was raised with the ethics of regulated competition between equals in a society that considers unnecessary altruism/bravado incredibly stupid.))

[Horsefan1023 (Seal)]

Mesa was about to enter the ship and help the others, but a horrifying scream reached her ears.  She ran back outside.  The Kelbrid!  It was doing...something to Jim and Kage.  She was looking around frantically to try and help, but Reli quickly handled the situation.  She started helping Ehruf inside the nearest ship.  We seem to be in some strange world, Mesa said to Reli after catching her thoughts.  Where extinct creatures live and Andalites are portrayed as vicious.  I say we count on nothing here.

[Estelore]

<Agreed. Although I don't think I terribly mind being considered vicious. Psychological warfare may even be on our side in this.>

Reli leaned against a wall, nearly ready to drop with exhaustion. Fighting normally wouldn't be an issue, but hunger and morphing fatigue were making her usual muscle burn more like an all-consuming inferno.

She waited for the others to catch up, mentally begging the Sky to let them get to the escape safely, with no more events between here and there.

[gorillaman16]

Shaun bounded into the ship not wanting to demorph unless he had to.

Wow i could really get used to being a gorilla, wait what am i saying im a human not an animal no matter how much i like the feeling of having all this power.

[BaronConall]

The Kelbrid collapses, dead. It's attack the result of some sort of final death spasm. Kage remains unconscious while Jim falls back in shock. "I'm okay. It felt like some sort of electrical thing, but I'm ok."

At the sound of the screams, I stop, looking out of the doorway.
What happened? I ask, finishing demorphing. Is everyone ok?!

[Gumby]

A few bruises aside, Fisher and Baxter were fine. Fisher exhaled deeply as he shook all over, buzzing from the bolt of sheer adrenaline of combat. He turned his head shakily and gave Baxter a good hearty slap on the back.

"Thanks brotha, I owe you one when we get back." Baxter hmphed that.

"Yeah, you mean if we get back. Now let's try and get back, and get the hell on that ship!" Fisher nodded in rapid agreement.

"You're sure as hell right. Okay guys, on the ship!" Mesa had used her creepy psycho sense to open the doors and Fisher and his team piled inside, except or Johan who stood on the outside, scanning the corridor for any more possibly attacks. He waved urgently at the other, his lean frame quaking in fear of another Kelbrid encounter.

"Come on, let's go!"

[Estelore]

Now I only need to get Chris and Reyna out of here, and we can be off this cursed deathtrap. I hope the escape ships have room to move.

[Horsefan1023 (Seal)]

The Kelbrid did some kind of final attack on Jim and Kage, she said.  Kage is unconscious.  Shaun, can you help me get him in here?  Privately, she added, Be careful of what you want.  Having the power of another animal is exhilarating, yes, but remember Tobias, the Animorph. 

[BaronConall]

<Final attack?!> Ayrow calls, running to the entranceway. <Did it touch their chest?!>

[Estelore]

<Yes! Does that have some meaning to you that we should know?>