The Revolution Chronicals
#2: Under Rated Danger Specialist
By:DeathGrip
I took a deep breath and
raced through the shadows.More spy work. Possibly suicidal spy work.I wasn't
worried.
{It's been a,loong
rebellion,and there's no reason to believe, that this fight will be better
than the last.Sometimes I just don't think I can live with this peace and
its past,}I sang
quietly,making the words up as I went,out
of boredom,{And it's one more spy down in the can-yon,And it's one more
fight with evil dudes.It's been so long since I've had a free day,guess
I should.} I hummed it along as I went,eventually changing evil dudes to
diesel fuel and spy to fly and canyon
to atom and down to found, just for the laugh.I needed to laugh if I was
on an assasination mission.I was.
So I laughed.
I trotted over to the
fortress wall,reviewing why I had to kill Frascero. He and Galadidi were
going to sign a short term peace treaty to destroy the rebels.Short term
*peace* treaty to *destroy the rebels*.What does that mean?Trouble.Since
I'd saved Hasifara in his dungeon and hacked into his computer(long story),he'd
been extra cautious.There wasn't a single Andalite alive who didn't know
Dagadia.I didn't know it,but soon there
would be a need for Sinia.And *she'd*
be the one every andalite feared
the wrath of.
So I was slinking along
Frascero's scoop/fortress's wall,looking for the entrance.Total embaressment:I
fell through it.I opened my pack. Three high power explosives.
{Lessee,}I said,walking
down the tunnel,{There sould be a doorway...here.} I stepped into the transport
room.I set the explosives to detonate in ten minutes and shipped them to
the fuel/weaponry storage room.And I ran out of there. I ran.No questions
asked,no answers given.And exactly ten minutes later, wha-BOOM!The entire
scoop exploded!I was ten miles away in a forest and I still fell from the
explosion!Wait...NO!The
forest was on fire!I ran hard and fast.Meadow?Just
as bad!Lake?Yes!I took a deep breath and dove in.
Too bad I forgot what
lives in Andalite lakes. It was like I was in an anti-gravity, bottomless
pit with blackness below me,and above me the sky was on fire.And I
was running out of air.
Something brushed against
me.Something big.Something big and spikey.I looked in all directions.Nothing.The
sky had cleared,though.I kicked my legs and started toward the surface.Suddenly,I
felt pressure.As if something huge were coming toward me.I turned a stalk
eye down and...
{YYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!}I
screamed in pure panic.It was a flaar!A living,breathing,meat eating flaar!
They were supposed to be extinct!I switched positions as fast as I could
and got out of the monster's way.Those teeth were as long as I was!What
could it eat that didn't die out fast enough for it to die of starvation?
Sudden movement!A school
of Lagae-lanterns swam over to my left, multiplying as they swam.Each was
as long as I was and bright pink.Of course!The spiked,puffer fish looking
flaar swam straight through the school.You couldn't even tell by the fish.They
just kept multiplying.I jerked and swam
up toward the surface.My head popped up.The "lake" was a mile wide!Possibly
as deep,if not deeper.In other words,it could hold
millions of Lagae-lanterns,and at least
seventy of the forty foot flaars.
{Janaar golath!}I exclamed.I
suddenly didn't want to share any ground with those. . .those. . .those
monsters anymore.I saw the jagged triangular dorsal fin of a *flaar*,and,not
even ten feet from the shore, I swam to the bank.I realized how fast it
got
deep.I shook myself off.My pack!I must
have dropped it when I jumped.I walked around the lake for a bit,then found
it tangled in derbis just under the surface.I untangled
it and checked the contents.Soggy,but
all there.The few things that could be harmed by water were tightly sealed,so
no damage had occered.
I set all the contents
on the grass,picked up the pack,and wrung it out. I stuffed everything
in it and hoisted it on my shoulder,turned around, and walked away.My stalk
eye caught a flaar halfway out of the water before the lake was out of
sight. I got back to the base,reported to Jaradara,and went over to the
sick bay for a checkup,as usual.I didn't tell Jaradara about the flaar,I
told him a school of Sani sharks,after which I was named,had attacked me.He
bought it.
{Hey,if it isn't my
little under rated danger specialist!}Lofara yelled, jogging up to me.
{Hi,Lofara,how's the
leg?}I asked,glancing at his back leg,which a lucky shot with a slicer
had gotten.
{It comes and goes,}he
commented lightly.{Dagadia,what was it?Really? It couldn't have been Sani
sharks.}
{It was,}I persisted.
{No one survives one
of their attacks,}he pointed out.
I shrugged. {I guess
they weren't hungry.}
{Dagadia,they're always
hungry.I studied them for years,remember?}
{It was Sani sharks!}I
practically yelled.
{You wouldn't be reacting
like that if it was.Besides,Sani teeth could never have put that scratch
in your shoulder.I can see it in your eyes, Sinia,what was it?}
{How'd you know?}I
asked.Lower,more a threat than a question.
He laughed.{Remember
Paradol?Me.I'd recognize you for your dark, holtarian look and your manner
anywhere.What was it?If you're ashamed to admit it,I won't tell.}
I was shaking from
the stalk eyes down,but I got a grip on myself.{It's not something I'm
ashamed of,just something I'd rather analyze.}
{Sinia,what.Was.It?}
{Flaar,}I said as fast
as I could.
{What?}he asked.{I
didn't hear you.}
{I told you,}I said.{I
told you once.That's the limit.}
I walked off.And as
I did,I heard him mutter,< Hasn't changed a bit. >
My "talk" with Lofara
had left me a little unnerved.I slept on it.
The next morning Jaradara
was pounding on my door. < Yeah? >I asked.
< Lofara killed
himself.He changed your files to the name Sinia-Lotrai-Notimash and screamed
you were a traitor to Golai,a traitor to your owner,a traitor to your friends
and you should die.Dagadia,what. Did.He.Mean? >
I sighed.No way around
it,so I told him the whole story.
< SHE'S MY PROPERTY!!!
>Golai screamed.< MINE!SO GIVE HER BACK!! >
Jaradara argued back
the whole story.But he wouldn't win this round.I knew it.We'd discussed
how to handle it.I could.He could.But I still wasn't looking forward to
it.
< Oh, fine.Just
take her! >Jaradara screamed,racing out of the room.
Golai hussled me off.
I got 60 tail lashes
to the back.It didn't hurt,really.I had worse. Then I was back as a slave
warrior.Next battle I was on the front lines of,right next to Golai.He
hadn't let me out
of his sight.Wait...wait...NOW!I put all
my power into my tail and THWACK!His head went rolling.But right
then the other army attacked.I backed down.I didn't need this fight.I barely
got out in time.Then a wave of warriors swept up behind me.
I didn't need this
fight.I didn't.I didn't.Right behind me, RIGHT BEHIND ME!!!! My brain scrambled
a mix of emotions and thoughts I didn't bother to unscramble.But one didn't
need unscrambling.
GET OUTA HERE!!
I sped.Maybe fifty
miles per hour at the most.I was running full speed, not looking behind
me.I didn't have to.I could hear all the Andalites crashing through the
forest.
They are after me.They're
after me.AFTER ME!!!NNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Run,run,run.Run in circles.Run
in panic.Run around and behind and left and right.Just run.
I ran in circles and
led them over a forest I knew so well.Over a continent I knew so well.I
led them over to Galadidi's scoop by a stroke of ingenious luck.Galadidi's
scoop has MASSIVE protection.Massive. M-A-S-S-I-V-E.There were fivehundred
guards all
around the scoop. With shredders.And tail
blades. Oh,yes.
< CHARGE!!! >I screamed
in open thought speak,racing to the blackest piece of forest I could find.It
worked.Most of the hundred warriors after me thought I was still in front
of them.They clashed with Galadidi's troups.
It was so bloody.So
brutal,I could hardly bear it.But I didn't have too. I'd seen it from the
warrior's eyes on an ambush. Far,far too many times.
I went back.To the
rebel base,that is.Not Golai's.I had no reason to be there.I was so tired,I
dragged my hooves right past Jaradara till I hit my quarters. By the time
he got there,I was passed out.
< Did everything
go as planned? >Jaradara asked the next morning in the passage.
I removed the hot,damp
cloth from my face.< As well as not expected. >
He laughed.< The
branch jumped right out in front of you? >
< More like the
tail blade.I led them to Galadidi's scoop,and,well, use your imagination.
>
He looked a little
more troubled.I put the cloth right back on my gash,running vertically
across my eye.I could still see out of it though.
I sighed.< I can
see anything on the blackest night.But seeing something coming at me,on
the blackest night of the year,in the blackest woods on the Andalite Homeworld,that's
kin of,maybe,just a little bit much. >
He laughed.< That's
more like you.Any visual problems? >
< None.Just avoided
the nerves since I grabbed it. >
He took a good look
at the wound.< Must've gone sideways when it hit your face, otherwise
it'd be a line,not a diamond. >
It was going to be
a scar.I knew it.But it was a very intresting scar because it was the mark
of the Lardraw.The Lardraw is a class of Andalite predators,much like earth's
big
cats.Except ours have different, more
intresting features.Having the mark of one means you have the traits of
one.
Jaradara must have
been reading my thoughts.< Well,you're very Lardraw-like, >he commented,then
took off.
I winced.I'd put my
hand up to the wound with out the cloth. It was painful,but it was worth
it. Gari,it was worth it.
Coming Nex: Revolution Chronicals #3: Fire
Under Water
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