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Just Missing a Little Something [OPEN]

Finding her barn and being able to stay at her house were things Cassie didn't think would happen again until after they were done with the yeerk invasion. Arriving here only made her think that she would have to wait longer or never even see them again. It certainly warmed her to find them here, but at the same time it seemed to emphasize what must have happened on her world.

Some nights she would find herself in her barn again. Her memories before anything happened washed over her as she closed her eyes. When she opened her eyes and didn't see the usual sleeping animals or alert eyes of the nocturnal animals, she felt an emptiness.

So today she decided to wander the hydroponics. Looking at the variety of animals and vaguely wondering if she would be able to help out here. There were some animals she had never seen before, but she still felt the same connection to them.

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Marco had gotten sick of crawling through the network just so he could try and figure out who the hell all these candidates were, and decided to go for the easy option the Animorphs had always gone with when needing a character assessment - asking Cassie.

Big surprise, Cassie was out hugging the trees and frolicking with the animals.

"Tsk, tsk. The psychic tree is going to be crushed Cassie. Crushed. Look at you, cheating on it with all these other trees. Have you no shame?"

She turned around and looked at Marco when he started talking. She wasn't expecting any of the other to just randomly show up so it did surprise her a little bit, but she quickly recovered.

She tried to quickly think of a reply to Marco's joke. Rachel was always better at it than she was so she tried to think of something Rachel would say.

Unfortunately she couldn't think of anything, so all Marco got in reply was a pathetic 'no?'.

Marco shook his head slowly. "I'm disappointed, Cassie. Disappointed. And to think, that psychic tree is just sitting around all alone..."

Sidling over, Marco looked at some of the animals that were wondering around. "Man, they have some weird stuff here. I don't think I even want to know what that thing is," he said, watching some weird giraffe/bug thing eating a tree.

She smiled at the ongoing joke he made about her and the psychic tree before looking at what Marco was talking about. “After everything we’ve seen, you’re still thinking that alien things are weird… I think they look fine.” She kept her smile as she looked at it. The animals here were definitely different than those at home, but they were animals all the same and she wondered what their disposition was.

"The many other weird things we've seen doesn't change the fact that that thing is also weird."

Settling down on a nearby log, Marco got serious. "Have you met any of the people who are running in the elections?"

She looked at the animals for bit before looking back at Marco when he asked his question. Honestly, she hadn't met a lot of people yet. "No, not yet."

Beastboy had found his way to Hydroponics as a man on a mission.

As a bloodhound he was sniffling and working his way around trying to find his ultimate goal, soy beans!

Sadly for Beastboy if there were soybeans in the area he was unable to locate them, so he opted instead to shift back to his normal form and sprawl out under a tree.

"Don't eat the fruit Beastboy...whatever you do do NOT eat the fruit. It's not yours." He kept repeating over and over.

But whatever that fruit hanging above him was...it smelled so good!!! Mush was taking it's toll on him.

Cassie noticed the unmistakable green skin of Beastboy before she heard him talking, but gave a small smile anyway before looking up a the mentioned fruit. “Are we not supposed to eat it?” It did look good, but it could be poisonous to them. Or it could be strictly for the animals.

Beastboy blinked and looked shocked gazing down at his stomach confused, "Tummy was that you? Why do you have a girls voice?" He apparently hadn't noticed Cassie yet.

She laughed a little bit before walking around to sit down where he could see her. "Nope, just Cassie."

"Oh...Oh HEY!" He cheered seeing her, "I haven't seen you since you got here, how's it going?" He grinned pleasantly and sat up leaning against the tree.

"It's okay. I had to do a few things with the people I knew, but I decided to take a break here. How about you?" She asked, settling in to sitting on the ground.

"Oh you've got people here? Awesome! I'm kinda jealous." He winked playfully, "I've had to make all new friends since my old ones are...yeah." He moved on swiftly, "I just thought I'd poke around looking for something to snack on but, well I don't think the fruit here is up for grabs is it?"

She looked up at the fruit in question. "They may be for the animals. I'm assuming they would be, but I don't know." She looked back down at him. "I heard you can get real food from 'shore leave' but I didn't go on it to find out."

She paused. "Anyway, your friends may show up. I've heard that 'loved ones' may have been saved too, they just haven't woken from the pods yet. There's still another one of my friends that hasn't woken yet." She tried not to worry about Rachel too much. After all, Tom was here, alive and from a time before she was taken from, it could happen for Rachel too.

"I bought some but I dunno where I stashed it..." He scratched the back of his head sheepishly blushing. "As soon as I was on the ship again to store my food that creepy computer lady nabbed me and threw me into her crazy experiment thing."

As for his friends, "I'm kind of banking on that...I mean there are a couple of people here who know me but I don't know them...does that sound weird? It's probably weird but life is so weird lately I've forgotten what weird is like." He laughed.

"I know what that is like," she replied with a smile. "I've seen a lot of weird things, I'm hardly affected by it anymore."

"Can you change into a dog and sniff out where you left your food? How long were you gone for? It might still have your scent on it." She offered the idea, not knowing if he had tried that yet or not.

"Ah I tried that, still do every so often but I was gone for a few weeks." He sighed, "Hopefully shore leave comes around again soon. Would you believe I actually found the one shop in town that sold...well I'm pretty sure they were vegetables. It's hard to tell what's meat and what's not when it comes to alien foods. Man do I miss tofu." He lamented and one could just imagine the thought balloon above his head with a juicy veggie burger.

"There's only one shop that sells vegetables?" Cassie asked with a small frown. "You'll have to tell me where it is next time there's a leave. I think I'll go down and stock up on food too. It'll be nice to have something else to eat."

"Well there was stuff that looked like a mix of vegetable and steak but I'd rather not take any chances." He winked, "Wouldn't want to eat anything I might turn into someday." And as if to prove his point he shifted into a green chicken in a blink.

"I can understand that." In the same way he did, although he didn't know that still. Cassie did have a few exceptions, like McDonald's File-o-fish. Admittedly it was her 'guilty pleasure' as one might say.

"I've worked with a lot of animals at my dad's clinic. Both of my parents are vets, so we tend to stick with veggie things too."

Beastboy shifted back his eyes lighting up, "Your parents are vets? That's so COOL!" He exclaimed, "That's like, one of the coolest jobs in the world! Helping animals and stuff?" Despite the fact that his adopted parents were actual super heroes Beastboy couldn't help but respect people like doctors, police officers, fire fighters and the like. And his love of animals put vets very high on the list.

She smiled back. "Don't let my mom hear you say that. She'd hear 'cool' and try to connect with you." Her parents could be embarrassing sometimes, but she loved them. "But yeah, she worked as the head vet of this amusement park slash zoo, and my dad heads the wildlife rehabilitation clinic, also known as our barn. That's where I helped out at all the time.

"If they're here, in the pods, and they wake up, they probably wouldn't even leave this area. It wouldn't matter if they're alien animals, they're still animals." Truly, she felt the same way.

"Sounds like my mom actually." Beastboy laughed, "She's like totally 80's sitcom mommy at times."

"If my friends are here they'll probably wanna jump right into the fight, Cy would wanna be working with the techies, Starfire the warriors, Raven would want a nice dark corner to meditate in and Robin would be all about meeting with all those big wigs throwing their hats in to be leaders."

The Hydroponics area was different from the other areas on the ship Aftran had been to, with the possible exception of the Sensoriums; the city was nice, but here was just pure nature. It was breathtaking, really. She told herself she could do without the place, but she'd been here a number of times since it had opened up and she was starting to doubt whether or not she could actually stay away.

<You like it here,> Karen noted, and the Yeerk did her best to ignore her. The girl's opinion didn't matter.

Cassie paused when she noticed Karen. She remembered being told that Aftran was still in her and it made her feel a little weird after everything that they had went through. Still she couldn’t ignore her. She had been wanting to talk to them since she found out they were here and together. “Hello,” she started.

Aftran heard the strange voice from nearby, and turned to see who was there. She smiled a little, and replied, "Hi!" It was clear she didn't recognize Cassie.

It was very strange to see her again, knowing the two of them, but have them not remember her. Still, she had to say something else and not just look at her. This was the closest to woods they had in here and it would be just that setting in which she saw Karen and Aftran again. She knew they wouldn't do the same things as the last time. She wasn't hurt, and they weren't lost. "Do you come here a lot? It's my first real time here."

"Uh-huh, it's really pretty here." Was that Karen's opinion, or Aftran's? Even she wasn't sure. "The rest of the ship is really weird... It's like being inside a person. Like in that movie we watched in school that one time, did you ever see it? The Incredible... um..." She remembered the title, but she was playing up her appearance for all it was worth.

Without the warfare training to keep him occupied for the past few weeks while he was healing, Kang was... bored. He had the tavern, but with Hisk's help, he didn't have to spend as much time there, and he needed something physical to do, to burn off energy. So, he'd resorted to taking walks often.

This particular walk brought him to Hydroponics. The air wasn't as stifling, and the scent of actual plants and animals was a welcome change from the typical humid environment on Stacy. He noticed a herd of the fleth deer nearby, and after throwing a wistful glance their direction, he snorted. He bet they would taste delicious roasted over a fire.

Cassie wasn’t too shocked at the sight of Kang. She had seen a lot over the years and she had known better than to come to any conclusions by looks alone. She followed his gaze and saw the deer type creatures grazing. She looked back at him to make her presence known. “Hello.”

Kang nodded down at the young woman, "Ma'am. I haven't seen you around; you must be one of the newer people."

"Yeah, I just got here with the last group. Have you been here long?" She asked, looking at him as well.

"A few months. After a while, and with no sun, it all starts to blur together," Kang shook his head slightly, and held out his right hand. "Name's Kang."

Satori liked the hydroponics bay. It was painfully bright in there, but it felt more like a natural place than anywhere else on Stacy. Less alien meatwalls, actual animal life.

She was there today, too, with her alien puppy, who was gradually getting used to life on Stacy. However, in drastic contrast to Satori, Ayako was very energetic and curious, and perked up immediately when Cassie came somewhat nearby, bounding off (as well as one can bound on a host of tentacles) towards the new person she didn't recognize. Satori floated after her pet, glancing up at Cassie.

"I see you've found another new friend," said Satori, addressing Ayako before saying anything to Cassie.

Cassie squatted down in front of the odd dog looking thing. She gave it a smile. "Hello," she spoke to it before reaching out to pet it. It seemed friendly enough, and she had dealt with some pretty nasty tempered animals before, so she wasn't scared of it.

Hearing the words spoken she looked up at the speaker. She didn't recognize at first that she was still floating but Cassie stood up and smiled at her too. "Hello."

"You'll have to forgive her," said Satori, already probing into Cassie's mind out of habit. "She has a tendency to..."

The train of thought was derailed by a stray thought or memory she picked up somewhere. A certain person.

"...you're a friend of Marco's, aren't you."

After doing his standard security responsibilities such as patrolling the ship, he came to the hydroponics to rest and relax a bit. It didn't take him long to see that he wasn't alone there. A teenaged girl not that much younger than him of the African-American persuasion was looking at the animals and plants.

"Uh, hello there."

She looked away from the animals she was watching when she heard the voice and gave him a polite smile. "Oh, hello."

"I'm uh, Chris. I haven't seen you around before. Are you one of the new arrivals?" Chris gave a slight wave as he was always nervous with people he hadn't met before.

"Yeah, I just got here with the last group. I'm Cassie." She kept smiling at him. She could tell he was a little nervous so she hoped that would make him feel a little better.

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