Ceta de Cloyes

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The majority had spoken, they had no choice now. Little did they know there hadn't been much in the way of options, in fact there were only two; either they all gained the power and took up the fight, or they all died when the Yeerks came. Blowing up the ship would significantly hamper the Yeerk effort by dealing a large amount of damage to the city and wrecking their recruitment pool, but if the humans joined then they became too valuable to sacrifice. Unlike himself.

Images quickly shot from the Andalite's mind to the humans', showing a rapid fire rundown on the morphing ability, from getting samples to the actual morphing process, consequently including a wide variety of alien lifeforms. With the images came a basic understanding of the morphing power's capabilities. (Refer to the first post of the OOC for the morphing power's rules.)

<There is not much time, we must work quickly.> The alien beckoned them forth with one hand, and lifting up the cube with his other. He snatched the nearest human's hand and held it down onto the cube's glowing face. Then the next, he left them no room for protest, and kept a steady presence in their minds as he pushed words and knowledge about the cube- <The Escafil device.> and how to morph- <...no more than two hours...,> <...you must concentrate to achieve the morph...> which didn't give them a chance to really speak.

<The Yeerks will be here soon, if they find me gone they will never stop looking. You must take the device-> here he let go of the device after the last of them, a somewhat panicking Kaden, acquired the power, forcing the glowing cube into his hands. <-and you must fight for your world. You cannot let the Yeerks gain control of 7 billion hosts; the galaxy would never surv-> he paused, hearing something they couldn't. <You must go now! Quickly! Do not allow yourself to be captured, your power must not fall into the hands of the Yeerks.> His eyes swiveled on their stalks to the device, <Do not let the device fall into the grasp of the Vissers.> His now free hands shot out to the panel he'd been using to support himself and began fiddling with the wires within it. He peered down at his work with his stalk-eyes, but his face-eyes remained glued to the others, a fierce gaze demanding his orders be followed to the letter.

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posted finally. I left the issue of bandaging his wounds up to you.

quick question, would there be fragments of hull material on the ground I could grab. Alien hull armor blades would be pretty nice.

@TheUnknowable

The mind-vision things happened for a reason :P they gave the needed information very quickly. Now, why would I rush...? :D

Better be quick about it, though you'll have a chance. ish.

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Kade choked when a panel from the corridor popped open, spewing hot thick air into his face that smelled vaguely like grass. He then promptly sneezed. Again. What a day to be sick huh? Hopefully the ship's strange atmosphere and... ecosystem? There were little bugs in the grass, like aphids but... foggy and small- anyway, he hoped the fumes from the ship and the smoke from the fire didn't make him even more sick, the last thing he needed was to die from an alien version of the common cold or smoke inhalation, not that the smoke was that bad inside the ship, it was mostly alright, escaping through the cracks and fissures of the frame and glass, but the many different smells and gases made his over-sensitive nose hurt.

"What happened here?" He asked with concern once he'd managed to catch his breath. Of course, obviously the ship crashed, but why? How? This alien did not seem surprised to see them, which meant he must have known about their species and the planet right? He must have been around Earth for a reason, a reason that most likely did not include crashing, not to mention the horrible hole that speared through the rear of the ship, marked with burns that were probably not from the crash itself. Was it shot down? Was the government on their way right now to do a Roswell or something?! Not that he knew anything about Roswell except there was something alien-y that supposedly happened...

<Yeerks.> The alien answered both questions at once, <they invade your planet even now, inhabiting your leaders and enslaving your race.> The alien sounded... pained? Disgusted? There was a note of grief there- at least it sounded so to Human ears. Minds. Whatever. Then came the images. A slug like creature small and fat, and an Andalite- how did Kade know that name? The Yeerk crawled through the blue alien's ear, and took it over, becoming a host for the parasite. There was another image, a scene really, but more, ideas and concepts as easily conveyed as sight and sound, of the same happening to a Human. Then another, a natural pool, squirming as Yeerks wriggled around within, and then climbed out into a passing stone-like four-legged creature's ear. The Yeerk pool, three days and then it returned. A space battle, a ship- this ship, fighting against others, quicker and more numerous and-... Humans, curious and coming forward, were they Controllers? Free? They asked questions no Yeerk would have asked, free Humans then.

The mental visions ended quickly, as if no time had passed at all, and it hadn't. With a start Kade realized the last vision was of him and the others, but then his mind caught on what he had just seen. The Yeerks were here! Invading his home! What- what was- how were they suppose to- what was he supposed to do?

<Will you fight?> The Andalite asked, drawing itself up slightly, though it could not reach it's full height- or even stand. His voice was a challenge, demanding they say yes, but at the same time it was a question...

A question Kade wasn't sure how to answer. He didn't want to be a Yeerk slave, but he wasn't exactly a violent person... he hesitated unsurely in the back of the group of humans.

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<Snipped quote by Gisk>

Canonically I know they didn't keep it at first but it was rediscovered later and that for it to work someone who already had morphing abilities had to be touching the cube along with those wishing to gain the power. I think it would make sense for them to keep the cube to protect it from falling into yeerk/controller hands though.

@Helo

Yis this is correct. :D I'll post tomorrow defniitely, sorry if I'm going too slow for some people. D:

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(Slight ooc ship, to add to the tension and mystery and emphasize the sheer technological advantage the Andalites have.)

The shell of the ship was impossibly hard, and radiated a chill that shouldn't be there considering it had been a flaming ball from space just moments ago, but even still the ship was in quite the state, and the door popped open with 'thunk' sound. It wasn't a large ship, but it barely fit into the category of 'fighter' being smaller than an airplane, but still managing to take up a decent amount of the lot. It was a wonder no one had been crushed, or that none of the debris had fallen far enough to cause damage to the mall itself, or even any of the cars. The ground was thoroughly destroyed though, huge cracks and crumbling asphalt spread out like some giant spider's web.

A voice like a bell suddenly made a noise that might have been a groan of pain, but it was alien, and most surprisingly, not at all physical. It was a sound in their heads, and it was unlike anything Humans had heard before... or so they thought. Andalites had visited this planet before, and more recently the Yeerks had appeared, their voices were eerily like the Andalites' thought-speak, not that any of the people gathered there knew that.

The blue inner light now shown clearer, but it was no less dim, as if it only barely had the power to stay lit. It illuminated their faces, each one peering to get a look at the interior, but it was nearly empty, except for a corridor that lead straight into the circular center of the ship, where the light was coming from, but only a faint mix of colors could be seen; a green circle that seemed almost like a carpet, but was in fact shortly trimmed grass, genetically modified to be nutritious and densely packed, looking almost like an excessively soft bed of green carpet, and the light metals of the walls were dented and decorated in asymmetric black lines, but most concerning was the dark splatters of metallic looking dark blue liquid, which was not paint or spilled alien fuel, but Andalite blood.

From the end of the hallway, the inner portion of the ship could be seen, cast in that eerie dim blue light. The ground was grassy, and seemingly undamaged, except for the odd dark splatters, and the central area was near empty. The back wall was covered in screens, all dark now, and the front had just as many, as well as numerous panels and control systems, some of which were flickering holograms, the clearest of which was a globe of Earth with a golden marker indicating San Francisco. These were but footnotes however, for the real eye catcher was the blue alien slumped over the side of the controls. He had six limbs, built almost as if a centaur had been the template, but with a scorpion-like tail, a mouthless face, and an extra set of eyes on stalks. With one arm the alien held itself up from totally collapsing, but remain slumped, in it's other hand was a glowing blue cube, which was the source of the dim light.

As they came closer, the alien's head swiveled to look at them, a horrific gash across his face and terrible burns all down his right side. He weakly curled his tail closer to himself, holding the blade on it over the cube in his hands. "Controllers?" He queried softly, but the tone was only because of his fatigue, even weak and defeated the alien practically hissed the words in a venomous combination of anger and grief.

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@TheUnknowable@Helo Accepted!

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@TheUnknowable Sounds good, just do me a favor and read the first post of the IC so we're on the same page.

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C'mon you guys! Posty posty!

@Hjalti Well I don't see why not, but there's no reason we all shouldn't just cram in any and all morphs we can get our hands on. Just in case they turn out to be useful later. :P I should probably add an extra box in the character sheet for later editing where everyone can add a list of their morphs. Just to keep them straight.

I'll be sure to mention a panther in the San Fran Zoo though.

_{also totally getting a normal jagsy and theres nothing you can do to stop me ;) muahahahha}

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The ground shook from the force of the small space ship's crash into the parking lot behind the mall, but there was no noise, no sparks or fire, just a rumble through the earth. Then the ship's systems began to fail, and it uncloaked for any passerby to see, suddenly smoke was billowing into the night sky and small fires blinked into existence. The whirl of some kind of machinery roared lowly in the background.

The mall on the south west side of the city was not often visited anymore, so naturally it attracted those not in the mood for dealing with crowds. It was nearly closing time however, and anyone who didn't care that it was a school night was attending party on the north side, or hanging out on the docks on the bay. Most people would have no reason to be out so late, and those who did had no reason to be there, but fate conspired that the mall was not nearly as deserted as it should have been...

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Kaden was sick. That was the only reason he was currently going on a shopping spree at the cheapest place in town, instead of killing off his brain cells at Tiana's party. He'd already bought some meds, but if that's all he'd wanted he wouldn't have come all the way out here would he? No, he'd also had a slight candy binge, buying a bag full of sugary sweets to cheer himself up, and of course a new hat; this one a black beanie with a brim. It was an odd hat, but that's why he bought it.

He was ready to start heading home, after stopping outside to get a movie from the redbox, when he nearly fell from the backlash of the crash. Between the displaced air hitting him like a wave, and the ground trembling from the impact, Kade's heart picked up speed, thinking it must have been an earthquake or a plane crash, but it there was nothing.

He glanced at the other people around the mall's back, wondering if they had felt the same thing he had, but then his thoughts stuttered to a halt when the ship's cloaking field failed. The metallic remnants of the space ship were not easily confused with anything of earth. The Andalite fighter had a thick atmosphere, more like the Andalite homeworld's one, but the thick air was rapidly escaping from cracks in the glass and gashes in the body. One particular gash was particularly door-like, and shuddered as if trying to open further. The lights around the ship were numerous, blues and reds and greens and yellows, but they were beginning to flicker out in droves. After a moment, even the low hum from within the ship sputtered out, and all that was left was a dull inner light shining from the doorway, as if beckoning him to enter.

Kaden simply gaped in astonishment.

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@Nallore Accepted! Working on a post now, why dont you guys move yours chars to the tab?