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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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< 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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