Animorphs 2.0

The Visitor

A/N: This will also be short. After this, everything changes.

It had been about two years since we started fighting. Jake was our fearless leader and with my father advising us, we barely lost a battle. Our missions were successful and we were really taking a toll against the Yeerks. I missed my mother sometimes, but we did enough to honor her memory. I was proud to fight for the world that was mine. But it couldn't last forever. The Ellimist, a being of immense power, intent on ruining our lives appeared to us again. More specifically, to me.

The Ellimist appeared to me in a flash. The world around me disappeared. In the white, he spoke to me.

Hello again, Tobias.

"Why have you come?" I asked.

I've come to take you away.

"Why? You're always taking us places; maybe I don't want to go."

This is different Tobias. You don't belong here.

"Of course I do. Where else would I belong?"

Not here. This is wrong Tobias. Your world is wrong. You are supposed to have a different life, this wasn't supposed to happen.

"What does that mean? How was this not supposed to happen?"

Let me show you.

The white dissolved and I found myself in an abandoned construction site. The one where I'd seen my mom in morph. Four people stood behind me. One figure knelt in front of me. I approached him. It was me. I saw myself crouching near a fallen Andalite. I come closer. It's my father. No doubt about it. I knew those eyes. He was dying. I choked back tears. What had happened to him? Why wasn't he human? He said something to this Tobias that echoed in my head as well. He asked me about my family. I heard myself tell him the tragic story of his life.

I started shaking my head. No. This couldn't be how things were supposed to be. He told Tobias to leave. He did. Tears in his eyes. If only he knew. I came closer to my dying father. He looked so proud in this form, so great. He had not the pain or shame I saw in his human body. I touched his forehead.

<Father, I'm so sorry.> He looked up. I was shocked. I hadn't expected him to hear me.