Animorphs #25 - The Extreme by K. A. Applegate

Author:K. A. Applegate [Applegate, K. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0439051185
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Published: 2015-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

We crouched low, skulking wolves.

TSEEEEEEW! The horizon filled with a blinding green light.

About four tons of rock upslope from us became four tons of gravel.

Ka-BOOOOM!

It was gravel rain! Rock hail.

I've been shot at by Dracon beams before. They're plenty scary. These things were about ten stages past scary.

<Holy!> Jake yelled. <What are those things?>

<Dracon assault cannons,> Ax replied. <They are used for attacking hardened ground facilities from orbit.>

<I am so out of here!> I cried.

<Forget the rocks, hug the shoreline,> Jake said. <They want a chase, we'll give them a chase.>

We took off along the dead rock and slush shoreline.

The Venber followed. Sliding along on their ski feet, pushing themselves forward with those massive forearms, they followed. Every few minutes one of them would stop and take a shot with its assault cannon, blasting the already lifeless scenery.

<Spread out,> Jake said. <One well-aimed shot could kill us all.>

We ran and ran down that shoreline. One good thing about being a wolf is the ability to run for hours without having to stop. A wolf can run all day and all night.

The Venber kept after us. They were bigger, they were stronger. We were faster. And they couldn't match our endurance.

But unlike the six of us, the two alien ice monsters didn't have to demorph every two hours.

<This makes no sense,> Ax said as we ran. <The Yeerks could not possibly infest the Venber. The Yeerks would freeze. They must be controlled by some other means. Unless, of course, the Yeerks managed to find a method of keeping themselves from freezing inside the Venber's body.>

<Whatever,> Rachel said. <Point is, we're out front. I don't even see them anymore. Maybe they've given up.>

I turned to look over my shaggy gray shoulder. I couldn't see the Venber. Couldn't smell them, either, despite the wind blowing from behind us.

<No way they gave up,> Tobias said. <We have to keep moving.>

<So says the flea all nice and warm in his honey's back fur,> I muttered.

<What did you say?> Rachel demanded. I guess she was shocked that I'd dare to make any remark suggesting she and Tobias were more than just friends and Animorphs. Like that was some big secret.

We slowed our pace a little. My footpads were numb and swollen. Frostbite. Again. I couldn't feel the tips of my ears.

<We need to find somewhere to demorph and remorph,> Jake said. <What's our time?>

<We have twenty of your minutes left,> Ax replied.

I swear he emphasized "your" minutes. We trotted back over to the rocks that continued to follow the shoreline all the way to eternity.

We ran on till we found a deep, steep-walled alcove. It was still cold as the dark side of the moon. But at least the wind was left behind to howl and moan impotently.

We huddled around Cassie, trying to keep her warm as she demorphed first. Then we took turns demorphing and remorphing, huddling together like a litter of newborn puppies.

Weird. A bunch of wolves pressing flank to flank. It was a strange and kind of wonderful experience.

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