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Post-Rescue Meeting [Closed]

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Cassie felt a little better at having Jake tell her to get a meeting going. He may not have made some choices she fully agreed with lately when she came to Stacy, but he was still their leader and it was familiar.

Using the comm rings she contacted Tobias and Marco. She included Ax and Jake so they could know what she said, but she didn't think at the time to include anyone else even though Loren and Elfangor had helped watched over Tom/Iniss as well.

Hey guys... we need to meet up here, something happened. She wasn't sure just how safe the comm rings were so she didn't say too much. They should remember that it was her shift and she still had about a half an hour left on it. They would know where 'here' meant.

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Tobias's comm ring wouldn't fit well on his claw, but he'd figured out how to wear it on his leg. It reminded him of a bird band, which he could take or leave, but at least he could keep in contact with the others when out of thought-speech range.

< All right. On my way > he called before he took off.

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Ax had his comm ring hooked on one of his talons. Thanks to the very advanced technology it was constructed with, fortunately, it didn't weigh very much.

< Where should we meet? > he asked.

Marco, however, was further away - he'd been trying to get some actual sleep, for once.

So much for that idea.

Alright, alright, I'm coming, he said through the rings, before starting to morph osprey. Somehow, Marco had the sinking feeling that Cassie didn't have good news.

Where Tom... used to be, Jake announced flatly, landing a few feet from Cassie. He demorphed facing the wall, hardly moving as he rose up from bird legs to human. ...Stay alert.

She watched as Jake landed and demorphed while she waited for the others to show up. She didn't worry about keeping an eye out to make sure no one saw, unsure if it was worth keeping it secret here and knowing that Ax was still in the sky. She waited until he was completely demorphed before she decided to say anything. "We'll find another chance..."

It was hard to think of a response to that, so Jake took an extra couple of seconds before he turned. The idea of another chance was appealing, but he couldn't let himself think that way.

"Our priority now has to be Iniss." Not Tom. Not Tom. "We need to find out what he's learned from us in the past few days." Jake tried to think back to their conversation, wondering if he'd said too much, confident in their imminent victory. "Either way, we can't let him go free."

< ...Interesting, > said Ax over the comm rings. < If we would prefer to have this discussion in more familiar surroundings, I believe that I have located Cassie's barn. >

By now, Marco had morphed osprey and was in the air, flying through Stacy's corridors. But he nearly fell out of the air when he heard Ax.

<Woah! Back up,> Marco said, talking through the comm rings as well. <Did you just say Cassie's barn? What the hell is Cassie's barn doing here?!>

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"Cassie's barn?" repeated Jake, as he turned to look at Cassie wide-eyed. "Is that even possible?" Maybe it wouldn't erase the mistakes of the past few days, maybe it wouldn't set everything right again - but from here, it sure looked like the next best thing.

<All right, change in plans,> he commed with a slow grin. <Meeting in Cassie's barn!>

Cassie was in a little bit of a shock until Jake talked to her. It felt like a long time since she'd last seen her barn. "My barn..." Almost as soon as the words were out of her mouth, she started morphing. < Ax, where is it? > She asked through the rings in case he was out of range.

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Ax gave them directions and landmarks as he investigated the barn. All of the cages were empty, but the barn itself seemed undamaged and from a near-familiar time period -- neither new and fresh nor old and decayed.

< It appears to be a safe meeting space, > he concluded.

When Cassie was fully morphed to her usual Osprey, she took off. She still wasn't too familiar with the ship but the landmarks helped with finding the location of the barn. Even from her height in the sky, she was able to tell that it was hers after spending years in it, it was a familiar sight.

She landed next to it and demorphed. Almost as soon as she could, she touched the door, the walls. Walking inside, she touched as much as she could. It felt like a long time since she was last in here and with this new situation, it was a comfort to at least have this.

Of course it was also confirmation that the worlds had to have been destroyed. Yet again she was washed with the thoughts of everything just being gone.

By this time, Marco had managed to haul enough butt that he could actually see the barn. Which actually was Cassie's barn and not some weird hallucination of Ax's.

<You guys here yet?> he called out. <Man, this is insane! Even Cassie's house is here! ...Hey, do you reckon there could be some Snickers or something left in there?>

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Snickers. Mmm. That would be nice--

Jake shook himself of the thought. <Any idea how this happened?> he asked as he neared. It was funny how the barn, the house looked so familiar even through a falcon's eyes these days. If he didn't look too closely at the surroundings, didn't think too hard about recent events, Jake could drift overhead almost peacefully as he took in the welcome sight. Cassie wandering through her old house seemed to complete the picture, and Jake almost expected to hear the sound of animals as he landed in front of the barn.

Sure, they could probably have done this meeting in Cassie's living room or something - they sure didn't have to hide from her parents anymore, and he'd better not say that thought aloud - but it just seemed right. Despite his exhaustion, Jake forced himself to one last demorph, wanting to push open that door with his own hand and, just, sit on a bale of hay or something.

Ax was waiting inside, already demorphed and still inspecting the barn.

< Stacy and her previous crew have also abducted various landmarks, as you can see from the rest of the City, > he said. < We do spend a great deal of time here, perhaps it became important enough after the war to become a major landmark. >

<Cassie, your barn is a major landmark,> Jake called, as he finished the demorph; despite the serious situation, he couldn't help but grin at the thought. Going in felt like coming home, like it was just another day, another meeting. Strange that planning out a deadly mission should feel normal by comparison, but Ax was here, the others were coming, and it could have been any old day on planet Earth. Now if only he could screw his head on right, maybe they could figure out a plan...

<Hell yes Cassie's barn is a landmark. You know your parents have to keep everyone away with a force field? And security cameras. Lots of security cameras.> Marco said as he flew into the barn. Landing on a stack of hay, he started to demorph.

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She entered her barn, looking around. It was familiar but different at the same time. No animals. Rachel wasn't here and Tobias hadn't arrived yet. It was... too quiet.

"At least they were able to stay there," she spoke with a small smile anyway. She had been unsure how the war ended. If either Tom or Rachel had survived. Marco didn't talk about it, and Cassie wasn't sure if she even wanted to know.

< As soon as Tobias arrives, we should decide what we should do about Tom, > Ax said. < The rest of the crew would be sympathetic to us if we tell them that he's a Controller, but everything would be out of our control after that. Not to mention that Stacy will likely not look kindly on an attempt to kill someone she may consider crew. >

"More importantly, what did Iniss find out about us from the last couple days?" No longer in the mood to joke, Jake glanced quickly around the room. "Everyone think back. We all thought we had him, so maybe we got careless, we didn't think too much about what he'd know if he got away."

In hindsight, it had been stupid to let Iniss see all their faces. He had to be suspicious by now, why Stacy had picked up a bunch of kids instead of the so-called Andalite bandits. If he so much as suspected...

"Iniss is from a time when the Yeerks still think we're Andalites. If he knows too much... priority one has to be stopping him, not... not anything else."

Now fully demorphed, Marco's now human stomach had sunk. He knew this couldn't have been good news, but from the way Ax and Jake were talking...

Tom was gone. The Yeerk was gone.

Marco cursed. For once, he didn't feel much like joking either. "How the hell did he get away?" He demanded. They'd planned this, watched Tom like hawks - literally. They'd covered every possible angle. How could one Yeerk with an average human host get away from that?

He tried to focus, thinking of everything the Yeerk could know. "However he got out, he doesn't know we can morph," he said. "Back when I was pretending to be a Controller, I made up some story about there being a human resistance. He's gonna think we're just part of that. Considering how likely the Andalites are to give away their technology? The last thing he's gonna think is that we can morph."

< Dani -- the girl who is apparently "half ghost" -- came across him and took him from us, > Ax explained. < I didn't see where she took him, but we should act quickly before she tries to turn the rest of the crew against us. >

Once everything was explained, most of the crew probably wouldn't have a problem with them. But explanations took time, and Ax would prefer to do so before people started attacking them.

"Good thinking, Marco." Human resistance. He didn't think he'd said anything to contradict that, and he couldn't afford to second-guess himself now. "If no one else has said anything different, then let's go with that."

As long as Iniss didn't know their most important secret, Jake could still tell himself that it wasn't that bad, they didn't need to do anything... drastic.

But Ax was right as well. There was no telling what they were up to now, Iniss and Dani, with Tom caught in between them. "I'm... not sure what our options are," he admitted. "Is there anyone we can get on our side, who'd believe us if we told them what Iniss - Tom - is? We'd find them faster with more eyes, and we need to find them before we can - " What, Jake? Kill them? " - do anything about them. Do we know anything about Dani's motivations?"

"Half ghost? How the hell can you be half ghost?!" Seriously, he knew everything on this ship was insane, but this was taking the cake.

"As far as Iniss knows, the Yeerks have pretty much won in 'the future', we're all part of the small number of humans who managed to escape infestation and are part of the resistance, and he's Sub-Visser Seventeen. He might wonder how much of that is true now that he knows I'm not a Controller, but he's not going to have any way of proving otherwise.

"And the guys here know what Yeerks are. Ax-man, didn't a bunch of them attack one time, before the rest of us woke up? No way are they going to like having a Controller around."

< Yes, Yeerks attacked the crew some time back, > Ax said with a nod of his head. < Several people were infested and the Yeerks attempted to control Stacy by blowing up a portion of her brain. That also would have erased her memories of our home universes. The rest of the crew has no reason to be fond of free Yeerks running around the ship. >

"So we tell them there's a Yeerk onboard, they won't be happy. They might not have reason to believe us, but they're going to want to be safe instead of sorry." Jake blew out a deep breath. What was safer than a dead Yeerk? "This sounds like our only option. We can't find them on our own, and we need to. What if Iniss and Dani aren't alone? What if there are other Yeerks out there? A mini pool somewhere on the ship? We can search all day, but... we just don't have that kind of time."

Marco nodded, agreeing with Jake's plan. "We can't risk the Yeerk manipulating anyone else. He's already got this ghost girl under his thumb. But there's still only one of him - he can't go up against the whole ship. Even with some freaky dead girl on his side. Once they know what he is, I'm betting they'll keep a close eye on him."

< Assuming that we can trust the Yeerk who shot and destroyed the Kandrona, there aren't any other pools on board, > Ax said. < Or anymore Kandrona. But Marco is correct, the crew will keep a very close eye on him once they know. They are decidedly not fond of Yeerks. >

"Any other--" Jake cut himself off, shaking his head. "I'm glad it's gone, but how did it get up here in the first place? Don't tell me Stacy put it in." The more Jake got to know this 'Stacy', the less he trusted her. Considering his first introduction to her was as a disembodied voice speaking to his naked, goopy body, that didn't speak well for her.

"Fine. We make an announcement. Beware of Yeerk, but try to put your phasers on stun." He frowned down at his comm. "Can this reach everyone on the ship? Even - " Tom " - if we have no idea where they are?"

"Everyone gets a communicator. Course, some people might be stuck in the stone age - hell, they might actually be from the stone age - and not have a clue how the things work. But you'll reach everyone who reads it."

< You can also set it to not send a particular message to someone or multiple someones, > Ax said. < Tom and Dani may hear about it from someone they know, but you don't have to send the message to them as well. >

It was tempting to hide the message from Iniss. Even more tempting to hide from Tom, hide the fact that his brilliant plan was essentially to sic an entire shipful of people on his own brother, with no idea how these people might treat the host body of their enemy, or if they'd even spare a thought for it in their fear and old anger.

"Tom should be warned," he said quietly. "His Yeerk is... calculating. Maybe with everyone and the Flintstones after its neck, it'll decide the safest thing to do is make a deal with us. At least we want Tom alive. The rest of the ship might not care."

"Stacy will still protect him, remember?" Marco reminded Jake. "And I'm betting that Iniss won't be going anywhere near the city now that he knows Stacy has no influence there."

"Either way, he's going end up hearing about this anyway," Marco said, shrugging.

< The rest of the crew is well aware of what it means to be a Controller, > Ax said. < I doubt that they would seek to do damage to your brother -- and any that do would certainly be punished. > He shifted a little, performing an Andalite smile in such a manner that it was almost a human smirk. < However, the Yeerk doesn't necessarily know that. I can show you how to lock messages later. >

Jake let himself be won over by their reassurances, even let something like a smirk come to his face as well. It was nearly as alien as Ax's, but it was enough.

"Well, if we've discussed enough life-and-death for one day, you guys have got to show me how to use this thing right. And all the comm slang. I don't want to come across like Cassie's mom when we're making the announcement."

Marco rolls his eyes. "Dude, you are so pathetic," he teased. "Come on, it's not that hard to work."

But he moved over to help Jake with the communicator anyway.

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Post-Rescue Meeting [Closed]

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orz I'M SORRY I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THIS GUYS /faaaaaail

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moving along (gah for icon?)

LOOK, THE BARN IS BEHIND HER!

Re: LOOK, THE BARN IS BEHIND HER!

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sorry I thought she was already in the barn >.<

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