The Second War

Part One: The After Years

By: Falcon-Rider

    My name is Rachel. I fought a war. A war against the yeerks since I was 13. I am now 22. That war ended when I was 17. We fought a race of beings called the Yeerks, Jake the leader, Marco the Joker, Cassie my
best friend, Ax the Andalite, Nevada who joined our group in the last two years, Tobias the hawk nothlit and me Rachel Xena: warrior Princess. If you are reading this you probably already Know what yeerks are so I’ll spare you the lecture.
        Tobias and I got married when I was 18. I have a daughter now and she is Four years old, her name is Hope. Hope Faith _______.   You see I can’t tell you my last name still cause the yeerks are back. The Humans
are in space but we don’t usually leave our solar system. We have outposts on Venus, Mars, the asteroid belt,
between Saturn and Uranus and on Pluto. Jake and Cassie have their own battle cruiser, the Fenine. Marco has his own science ship the repians. Nevada has a scout ship that is the saptles, Marco and her are usually at the same place.
        Aximili is on the Pluto outpost in the Andalite NovaStar the Ally. He is the andalite representative for earth.
Tobias......... Tobias and I had a ship called the Taloonpaw. It was last year that I went on leave to visit family and Tobias stayed on the ship. The next week the Taloonpaw was destroyed by the yeerks. The Yeerks in an effort to destroy our Pluto outpost had destroyed one ship................ The Taloonpaw.
        Faith doesn’t remember Tobias very well an after Tobias..... I quit. I quit the Army, they begged me to stay and said they would give me time to get through this but I couldn’t. I took Faith and moved To Astivia a planet in the closet star system. There was a small colony of people that had left Earth and went there to live, away from Technology. There were at the time only two hundred now there is Four million humans, Three hundred thousand Andalites, One hundred Thousand Horkbajier and Two hundred non-cannibalistic-controlling-hunger-yeerk-hating-one-hive group of taxxons. Imagine a setting where it is like 1999, no wars and equal rights. That is what it is like. There is such a big population that no one noticed when they came back. Faith was in preschool and had four main friends. An andalite, a human, a Taxxon and a Horkbajier. There names were...... oh yes, They were Chelsy-Jince-Valtrix, Jason, Kavea-toloreaz and Tekser. Faith was outside when I got a message from Jake. Our planet had Telecommunication sort of like the Tvscreeen like things on Babylon 5.
        I went in and checked it. There were the normal notices and other things but the last one was from a  Anitiger1. I took the message. A picture of Jake appeared.
        “Rachel,” he began. “I want to tell you that you might be in trouble. Remember that old club that we didn’t like when we were kids? Well a club just like that only different name has formed where you are living and the Terran government will not be able to do any thing. You are on your own. I am very sorry Rach, wish I could be
there but Cassie and I can’t be there and everyone else is busy too. Oh here is a picture of my daughter and son, their twins there names are Tom and Rachel. Oh and Neva and Marco have also been blessed with a son
named Terry and a girl named .. you’ll get a laugh at this, Xena Rachel ______. Ax has a son named, Elfangor-Tobias-Yaltex. Too bad you can’t see them right now but we’ll visit sometime, I promise. Till then this is
Anitiger1, good-bye Rachel.” I sat there crying for what I had missed. Crying for Friends and Family I might never see again. Crying for something stupid that I had done that might make my daughter faith a human controller. For entering her into the Caring. I  would fight, I realized then that I would have to fight alone. For the first time that noone would be  there to save me when I fall.
 

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