(eng) K. A. Applegate - Animorphs 49 by The Diversion

Author:The Diversion [Diversion, The]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

"Hеу." The kitchen door slid open. Cassie's father stumbled out onto the porch, clutching a coffee mug in both hands. "I want to know whose brilliant idea it was to schedule sunrise at - whoa."

He stared at Ax. Rubbed his eyes and stared again. Frowned and peered down into his mug.

"It's not the coffee, Walter."

"Sit down," Cassie said. "Both of you." She led her mother up onto the porch and planted both her parents in chairs.

And then she did an amazing impression of a wolf.

Her skin sprouted thick gray fur. Ears shifted upward and elongated. Her small Cassie nose shot out into a wolf's sensitive snout.

And her parents watched, stunned.

<I'm okay.> Cassie dropped to all fours. <I'm still me. But for a while I'm also a wolf.>

As she finished the morph, she told them about the Yeerks. About Visser One and Elfangor. About Marco's parents. And Tom. She explained morphing technology and our battle to save Earth.

And then she morphed back.

Her mother scooped her into her lap. "Baby. Oh, my baby." She stroked Cassie's hair and kissed her face, over and over.

Her father wrapped his arms around them both. "Why didn't you tell us, Cassie? We could've helped."

"I wanted to keep you safe. For as long as possible." Cassie shook her head. "But I can't anymore. The Yeerks are closing in. We have to leave. You. Me. All of us. Now."

"Now?" Her mother held Cassie's face between her hands. "Baby, I can't just leave my job, my house, and go running off to who knows where. I have responsibilities."

"No, Mom. You don't. You only have your life and your family. And if you stay here, you'll lose them both." Cassie turned to her father. "Daddy, you believe me, don't you?"

"I believe you, Cassie, but your mother's right. We can't just leave. Too many people, too many animals depend on us."

"No," Cassie repeated firmly. "Not anymore. You don't understand."

"Perhaps I can help." Mr. King seemed suddenly to appear. He'd dropped his human hologram and stood before us in his true metal-and-ivory, vaguely canine android form.

"Good Lord." Cassie's mom put her hand to her head. "What else is stashed in our barn?"

Mr. King maintained the large hologram of Cassie's yard and barn. But inside it he projected another hologram, one only those of us on the porch could see. A 3-D movie of one of our old battles. Images flashed. Cassie, in wolf morph, mangled and bleeding. A human-Controller, a cop, firing on her. Cassie jerking. Falling. Lying in a bloody, lifeless heap.

The images stopped.

For a moment there was silence.

Then Cassie's dad spoke. "We need to leave," he said. "Now."

His wife nodded.

We waited while the family prepared to leave. Cassie's dad dragged their camping equipment from the garage. Her mom packed some suitcases. Cassie threw her things in her backpack. Before she slid the backpack in the family's truck, she pulled something out so we could see. It looked like one of those square picture frame/paperweight things. The morphing cube, its blue surface hidden by photos.

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