DAVIDI looked around and I hate to admit it, but this was a pretty nice scene. I guess nature could be beautiful sometimes. After wasting some time examining the scenery, I answered the hunter.
"Well, since you need transport, why not meet them outside the nearest...I don't know, air base or whatever. I don't know how the whole spaceship thing works, who's allowed to own them, fly them, that kind of thing." I hadn't exactly been around after the war so apart from being aware that Andalites visited the planet, I was in the dark. "I can pass on the message if you want to pick a place to go."
RACHEL #2 - WITH DANIELI closed my eyes for a moment and then managed to receive some memories from my temporary copies.
"There's a young woman, a girl and another guy. I think he's kind of like you." When this soldier pointed out something very obvious, I wanted to smack myself in the forehead for not even thinking of teleporting everyone to the same place. Instead, I nodded, smirking. "That would be sensible. If you want..." I wondered how much I could do. "...I could send you to the nearest place where a ship is located and then send the others along. They haven't been quite as fully briefed as you yet." I felt myself borrowing power from the Ellimist and I focused on the man next to me. "As soon as you're ready, think of the place you want to go and you should end up there." I hoped he would be ready soon, I was already feeling some kind of strain from concentrating so hard.
RACHEL #4 - WITH CITRUSI waited for the girl to look at me and she did. She greeted me pretty happily and I wondered whether the Ellimist was thinking of boosting morale when he picked such a cheerful girl. I almost felt bad that he'd picked her for such a dangerous mission, but I'd been barely a teenager when my own mission had begun when we encountered Elfangor years ago. She offered me a seat and I shook my head politely.
"Sorry, I'm not staying. I'm here to tell you that you have been chosen for something. A mission that's pretty important. The Animorphs...you know them, right? Well, they ran into trouble while up in space and they've been captured by a dangerous being. This being can absorb other lifeforms and if it can steal their knowledge, it will find out that Earth is full of people who know a lot of things about a lot of subjects. The being needs to be destroyed before it can turn on Earth and the Animorphs need to be rescued...and you're one of the people chosen for this mission." I wondered whether she'd accept or turn it down. I'd understand if she wasn't up for this.
RACHEL #1 - WITH FISHERI looked down at the guy as he stepped forwards. Whatever I might have thought, he had guts. I could understand him shouting at a random girl interrupting his life, but even when she turned into a bear, he wouldn't suddenly turn tail and run.
<Get whatever items you need to bring with you. I expect that the ship you're going to steal will be fully-stocked so you probably won't need to worry about packing food. Just bring whatever is necessary.> Weapons, clothes, whatever he thought he'd be using for this whole thing. I suddenly had an image in my head of a fully-equipped soldier standing next to me. <And it looks like one of the people you'll be travelling with is all ready to go. He'll find wherever you need to be to get a ship so you can get off Earth. I...think I can send you to him once he's there.> I realised that the image was a memory of one of my temporary copies. As the original one, I should probably demorph- it wouldn't do for me to turn up as a bear outside an air base and make people think that a morphing terrorist was on the loose. I focused on myself, the familiar blonde hair and slightly tall frame that excluded me from being considered a good gymnast. I began to get closer to the floor and suddenly this guy was taller than me again. As my arms and legs shrank and my eyes went from small and dark to normal-size and blue, I started to think about how I'd be teleporting people around some more.
