The Separation by K.A. Applegate

Author:K.A. Applegate
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

Mean Rachel

<We would require enormous amounts of power,> Ax said. <And the two Rachels would have to agree. And there would be a definite possibility that both halves of Rachel would die in the process.>

“Unacceptable,” Cassie snapped.

“What is acceptable?” Marco asked. “The present arrangement? A pathetic whiner who’s made up of all the fear and self-doubt and indecisiveness and airheadedness that hide way down inside of Rachel? Or the psychotic killer, the rage machine that Rachel has managed to keep under control for so long?”

Psychotic? Was Marco saying I was crazy? Crazy? Why? For wanting to annihilate my enemies? For standing up for myself? For taking no bull?

He was going to regret saying that.

“That’s not all there is to it,” Cassie said. “I think the split goes beyond that. I don’t think Mean Rachel is capable of long-term thinking. Nice Rachel is, but she’s not capable of short-term focus. Rachel busted in last night with no idea what to do. No plan. She was just reacting. But Nice Rachel laid out a shopping trip yesterday that was like a general planning an invasion.”

Marco said, “Strategy and tactics. Long-term, short-term.”

“We can’t use either of the Rachels we have,” Jake said.

I began to demorph. I was just beginning to grow when I realized what Jake had said.

Couldn’t use me?

Couldn’t use me?

I’d use them! I’d use them till they cried for mercy!

I was growing fast now. I was sitting atop a gate. The rough-textured wood was receding beneath me.

<She’s here!> Tobias snapped.

At that moment I lost my balance and fell from the gate edge. I fired my wings, but they were already melting. I hit the floor. I was too small to be hurt by the fall and I kept demorphing.

<You’re MEAT, Marco!> I shrieked.

“She’s out of control,” Cassie said sadly.

<Shut up you tree-hugging moron!> I screamed. <I’ll take you down, too!>

I was growing, growing! Bigger and bigger. Human first, then I’d morph to … but wait. No! I’d made a mistake! In my human form I would be vulnerable.

I was vulnerable!

NOOOOO!

“Ax?” Jake said quietly.

I saw huge hooves moving swiftly closer. I knew what would happen! They would kill me while I was weak. They had to! It’s what I would do, they had no choice!

<Don’t kill me, I didn’t mean it!> I wailed.

“No one is going to kill you,” Jake said.

<Yes you will. Let me live! I want to live! You can’t hurt me. You can’t kill me. Weaklings! Fools!>

All the while I was demorphing, growing, becoming more and more human. Although I was still mostly fly when the wimp showed up.

“Aaaaahhhhhhhhh!”

She screamed.

I lunged for Marco.

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