Animorphs: Ressurection

[Estelore]

<Tell him the 'truth.' You found us snooping in the armory instead of in the mess hall where we're supposed to be, and now you are about to escort us out and back to our quarters.  Keep his eyes on you.>

Reli waited for an opening, her Shredder set to stun, her tail poised to knock out the Hork-Bajir Shaun was acquiring. The timing on this had to be exact, or the Hork-Bajir speaking to Dru would hear her strike, and there would be no saving the situation.

Our one great bit of luck is the apparent lack of cameras in the armory. If this place had been monitored, it would already all be over.


((OOC: Okay, guys, we're about to leave. If you decide to turn this into a fight scene, you can, but try not to end it with any of us dead just yet, hey? It's too early for a sweeping cavalry arrival to rescue our characters, so they're on their own on that ship.))

[Underseen]

<Shaun, I am the Hork-Bajir standing by you. Okay, guys I have a plan, play along. If I hurt any of you please don't get mad.> I told my group. I ducked on the floor and swept my tail, causing Shaun to fall on the floor. I put my clawed talons on top of him and with my left hand I reached into my holster and put the muzzle of the dracon beam on Relis' head. With my left arm I put Chris in a hold putting my arm blades around his neck. I then had all three of my teammates as 'hostages'.  The Hork-Bajir Shaun acquired got out of his trance at that moment. "What happened, sir?" He asked me. "You!" I stopped, startled by my Hork-Bajir voice. "You were being useless as always! I am escorting these, filthy human and Andalite to their quaters, I don't need you here!" I  spat at the poor Hork-Bajir. "Y-yes sir!" he replied. After he turned around I got off of Shaun and fell in step by him. In one lightning quick movement I hit the flat my arm blades on his neck, causing him to pass out. I picked him up and took the card key off my belt and put him in the armory too. I reached my hand out to help up Shaun. <Again, sorry about that.>

[gorillaman16]

"Its ok. We all have to do what we have to do." I said as I walked over to the table and took a shredder off of it. I searched the room for anything else that might come in handy. Nothing really stood out to me that would be usefull. "We need to find a way to get off this ship."

[Underseen]

"Maybe you should morph Hork-Bajir too, so we can go unnoticed." I told Shaun, slightly slurring my words. "I doubt anyone will be able to notice that we are humans in morph."

[gorillaman16]

Dru was right so I started my newly acquired morph. First came the lizard like scales that covered my body then I grew to like seven feet tall and the tail grew from my tailbone. My feet went next turning dinosaur like. My arms grew in length and my fingers grew pointed nails and I lost one. My face changed next but the weirdest part has yet to come though the blades. Blades started growing  out of everywhere on my body. Finally I am the Hork-Bajir.

<I need a holster for my dracon weapon.> I said as I started looking for one. I tried on many until one fit my size. <Okay lets go.>

[Cobra (Gymn)]

Events moved too quickly. I wasn't able to react to either Hork-Bajir quickly enough. I was surprised when Dru grabbed me. I pulled against his hand but couldn't budge. When he let go I stepped aside. "Let's not do that again." I grabbed a gun off the table. It was a Dracon. Then I knelt and acquired both Hork-Bajir. I would be ready next time. I morpher to Hork-Bajir as quickly as I could and then left the armory. "Let's go."

[Underseen]

"We should leave now." I told Chris. I was going to start walking, when the belt holding the holster for the dracon beam started to vibrate. I jumped a little, startled by it, and started to feel around in the belt until I found a earbud-headset made for Hork-Bajir. I put it in my small hearing hole. "Farush, we need for you to return to the control room you should have finish feeding and it is time for you to fly the ship." A Hork-Bajir sounding voice said. "Um, Yes. I am on my way." I spoke into the headset. I looked back at my friends 2  Hork-Bajir and an Andalite. <Should I go up to the control room? I don't even know how to fly a ship!> I told them.

[gorillaman16]

<The risk is huge but if you dont they will get suspicious and start searching for him. If we are lucky they might not search for him and think he blew his shift. The call is up to you your the one in his body.>

[Cobra (Gymn)]

"I think they'll notice that you're not him if you go. I think we should go back to the mess and pretend that nothing happened. We don't want to have to fight the entire ship." I said in my new, Hork-Bajir, voice.

[Underseen]

The belt kept on vibrating and it was starting to annoy me. "Farush, you need to come now! You never had to leave in the first place!" The female Hork-Bajir said on the microphone. I wanted to say 'Farush is knocked out stop bothering me!', but I kept my cool. <It must be urgent for them. I don't want them to think something is up with him.> I said in thought-speak so it wouldn't come off in the microphone.

[Estelore]

Reli resisted the urge to groan as these events unfolded, but she decided to go with it for the moment... as long as Dru's luck held out.

<Chris, if we go back toward the mess, we will be on camera again. Farush was only down here because he saw us on the monitors from the bridge. At this point, the best we can hope is to commandeer the ship- not likely to work- or to find an escape vessel of some kind and pray to Sky that we're near a planet with a breathable atmosphere. We have morphed and incapacitated two of their crew, one of whom is a ranking officer and one of the pilots. They have no choice at this point but to treat us as hostiles, even if they were not already. They will separate us, prevent us communicating, and beyond that I have no idea what they will do, because I do not know what their plans for us were in the first place. From this point onward, our best hope is to keep moving away from where they expect us to be... which means either we play our way to the bridge and actually try to seize the ship, again, not a good idea, or we run away from the mess as far as we can and hope there are escape pods.>

Reli eyed Dru again. <Also, if you are going to actually draw a weapon on a hostile Andalite, do it well outside tail range, or you won't have hands. I can see you no matter where you walk relative to me, and I can move much faster than you can, even in that Hork-Bajir body.>


Reli knew they had just a few seconds left before Farush's absence put up more red flags for the bridge crew.

<What will it be, fellows? Do we try to escape, even if there turns out not to be a way off the ship, or do we stage a very ill-advised hostile takeover? At this point, it is all I can do to keep any of us alive, so I suppose I might as well leave our choice of poison to the three of you to decide.>

[Underseen]

<I think I should go up and pretend to be Farush, if I don't do it soon they will probably think somethings up with him. On the other hand if we leave we will be off this ship for good, but the chances of us getting somewhere safe is low.> I saw some people eye me as I stood there. <We need to choose a plan fast. I think my first option is better for helping us live, so I say I pilot the ship.> "I ran into some Humans I will come up once I am done with them." I said into the headset and then clipped it back into the belt.

[Cobra (Gymn)]

"I say we go for an escape vessel. We can't fight the entire crew. I still say they'll know that you aren't Farush if you go up there." I was worried that I would be out voted and we would attempt to storm the bridge.

[Estelore]

<I agree that if we try to masquerade as Farush and crewmembers, it won't last more than a few seconds- definitely not long enough to actually pilot the ship. There's more to pretending to be somebody else than just morphing them, especially on a ship where morphing technology is well-understood.>

Reli looked at Shaun.

<Even so, the vote is decided by you.>

[gorillaman16]

<Dont storm the bridge its too dangerous none of us need to die on this ship.> How will we avoid being noticed by anybody?