M&T 2 The Meeting
By: Maggie
MAGGIE
My name is Maggie. The daughter of Elfangor. Anyway, you already know
about the Yeerks so I'll spare you. But you don't know about me. I've fought
the Yeerks all my life. I do have the morphing power but that's not what
I usally use to fight. I'm half Ellimist. I don't have magical powers
and I am not a mind reader. I am stronger than anything on Earth-or
off it for that matter. I can fight Hork-Bajir, Andalites, and anything
else you want to
throw at me. I am smarter than any Andalite
(But don't tell them that or they'll just get there "I'm so arrogant
I can't look down at you little things" aditude) I've been in Europe
for the past 2 and a half years. You might be wondering how I get
all my information on the Yeerks. Well, the Chee have a net of information
that I break into time from time. I can access any file except the
one marked "Andalite Bandits" The Chee don't know I exist.
The idea of Androids living among us never
fails to creep me out.
I'm on the last hour of my flight to America and I can't wait to see my
twin brother, Tobias. He better be there waiting for me at the Airport.
TOBIAS
I had called a meeting to tell everyone about Maggie. I felt like I
should tell them in my meadow, I felt more at home. Once everyone was there
I told them, or I tried to.
< Hi everyone, I need to tell
yo-- > I started
"Bird-Boy its Saturday. You have
to sleep in on Saturdays." Marco whined
"Shut up Marco...Tobias?"
I felt nervous all of a sudden,
< Well, I have a twin sister, her name is Maggie. She's been in Europe
for all this time but she'll be home at Five o'clock tomorrow. > I let
out in a long thought. The others sorta stared at my
for a second.
"Tobias? Why didn't you tell us
about her sooner?" Cassie questioned
Marco looked like he was about
to yell but Jake cut him off.
"Where does she fly in?"
< In New York City on USAir.
>
"If we can get on a train early
on tomorrow we could make it."
< No, No > I quickly objected
"No way!" Rachel said "I'm not missing
my first chance to see a relative of Tobias'"
I would have smiled if I could have
< And if you just have to shop you'll just have to deal with it? >
Rachel winked up at me "I'll just
have to sacrifice the time."
Cassie spoke up "I hate to say this
but I can't go. My Mom and Dad are making me do a family thing." She made
a face "There's no way I can skip out."
"Neither can I." Marco looked up
at me "Sorry"
I exclaimed, I little harsher than
expected.
Jake raised his eyebrows and shrugged
"If you want."
RACHEL
I was pissed at Tobias. Why didn't he at least tell me? We're close...very
close. Suddenly I heard the familiar taping at my window. < Rach? Can
I come in? >
I closed the book I was reading
and opened the window. "Hi" I whispered
< Hi >Tobais answered < Listen
Rachel...if your mad that I didn't tell you all about Maggie > he trailed
off.
"No, Tobias" I said "I'm mad that
you didn't tell me about whats-her-name."
< Maggie. >
"Whatever. And now you won't let
us go with you? Why?"
< Because, because... >
I realized what he was doing now.
"Oh my god. You are thinking about trapping yourself as a human Aren't
you?" Tobais' only response was looking down at my desk. "Tobias, go to
human." Once he was to human I gave him a big hug. I know it was
selfish but I was glad that he was thinking this way. "You have clothes
for when you get there?"
"Yeah. Listen Rachel-"
I cut him of "No Tobias, don't pick
for us or the Yeerks. Do what you want to do."
"Bye Rachel."
"Take care of yourself Tobias."
MAGGIE
I was going to kill him. I get here and guess who's not here? That's right
Tobias. And its more than that. He's missing, none of our friends know
where he is. They figured he ran away. And our super-duper guardians are
clueless too. Thats it I told myself, I'll kill him. Just as soon as I
figure out that he's safe I'll kill him. Sure I got in on Saturday and
not Sunday like I was supposed to but who cares? TOBY'S missing! I was
at Bloomingdales spending money like anything....there is no emotional
problem shopping cannot solve. Marcy, my best friend was looking at me
worriedly "Ummm..Maggie? Are you OK?
"No, I'm not 'ok' Marcy, my brother
is missing!! My brother!!!
"Omygawd! TOBIAS"
"Yeah he's missing."
"No! Tobais! He's over there!!!"
TOBIAS
I went to Bloomingdales looking for Maggie, where else would she be? Then
I heard Marcy scream "Tobias" and saw Maggie running towards me. She jumped
up and gave me a big hug. "You're alive?!" I smiled, I hadn't realized
how much I had missed her until that moment. I held her out at arms length.
She look older. But she was still Maggie. Green hair, dirty-blonde hair.
"Good to see you again Maggie"
"Yeah. Now," She smacked me in the
back of my head, "Where have you been for the past two years?"
Oh..ummm.." I glanced at Marcy she
mouthed the words good luck "Here and there, I stayed with friends" And
in a tree I added silently.
"Tobias, I don't buy that but I
really don't care. You need a hair cut and new clothes. Let's do it."
MAGGIE
Ok, Ok I admit it what I said earlier sounded totally like a Valley Girl
but I was looking for an excuse to talk to Tobias alone, without Marcy.
And he did need a haircut. After all that
we went home. I walked in and almost immediately Tobias asked if he could
use the bathroom, and he kept on checking the clock. I think that sounds
a little suspicious, don't you? And then, about two hours after that he
did the same thing. I was beginning to think it was Visser Three morphing
Tobias to trap me, like he did a while ago. I crept over to the door
and looked in the peep hole. I saw Tobias half morphed. That's when I started
to scream.
TOBIAS
Whoops! I was guessing that Maggie saw me half demorphed. I finish and
run back outside. Maggie had really wide eyes."My god, you can morph!!!!"
She managed to stutter out. That surprised me "Yeerk?" "No! Yeerk-fighter."
We both stared at each other for a moment.
"This is what we call a breakdown in communication"
Maggie said dryly
"How long have you been fighting?"
"All my life, and you?"
"Two and a half years"
"Wow! I can't believe the Ellimist didn't
tell me, Crayak too for that matter."
"You know.."
"Yeah, you see I'm half Ellimist which
makes me really strong and smart but I also have the morphing power. And
Crayak hates me but he is sort of a blabbermouth. You see Tobias, I've
fought the Yeerks and Crayak all my life. Now you tell me your story."
"Well, I'm stuck in Morph as a Red-tailed
Hawk and then the Ellimist gave me back my morphing powers. I fight with
Rachel, Jake, Cassie, Marco, and an Andalite named Ax. And Ax is our Uncle
because Elfangor is our father."
"Oh I knew about Elfangor. So you all
are the "Andalite Bandits? That's good. I really don't like Andalites much.
One thing, would you like to be human again, with the morphing powers?"
AX
I was worried about Tobias. I was also a little mad. I would have liked
to know that my brother had a daughter. It was Monday and all Animorphs
were in school. None of us had heard from Tobias and were all worried.
I wondered if he had found Maggie yet. She sounds like an interesting person
from what Tobias had told us. Just then two humans walked on to my scoop.
On pure instinct I whipped my tail at them. Amazingly the female caught
it and threw it back at me. It was then that I realized that one
of the humans was Tobias, although he looked older and the other looked
a lot like Him. That must be Maggie.
MAGGIE
"Yeah you're right Tobias, they'll accept me with open arms" I said jokingly.
I put out my hand, "Nice to meet you. I'm guessing your Ax. I'm Maggie."
< Tobias? What have you done? She knows
everything now! >
"Ok, first of all you can ask me things.
Second I already knew about everything. I've been fighting the Yeerks
all my life and I'm half Ellimist. I also did something you could never
had dreamed of, I gave Tobias back his
morphing power and aged him those two
years that he had missed out on." I'm sorry but I told you that I didn't
like Andalites much.
Ax managed to let out a < Oh. >
Tobias smiled (he caught on to face expressions
pretty fast). "Ax, she's telling the truth. I'm totally human again with
the morphing powers. We bought an apartment and we're having our stuff
moved down."
RACHEL
After we had gotten out of school Ax had asked us to come to Cassie's Barn
for a meeting. "Ax, what's this all about?" I asked a little annoyed
< Tobias is back with Maggie. And >
"And he's human with the morphing powers."
A voice said behind me. Tobias! I ran up to him and kissed him before registering
what he had said.
"What? How? Is that Maggie?" I asked pointing
to the girl next to Tobias.
This girl was beautiful! And looked almost
exactly like Tobias except she was a she and was short with green eyes.
The girl-Maggie grinned "Yes I am. And
you must be Rachel." She nudged Tobias. In a stage-whisper she said "Wow
Toby, you're right. She is pretty."
Tobias blushed. Then I noticed something
about him. He was older, and had I nice haircut.
Tobias looked down at me "Maggie has fought
the Yeerks for a long time. She is half Ellimist and gave me my morphing
powers back as a human."
"And I aged him a few years." Maggie smiled
"You gotta love me."
MARCO
Wow! What a babe! I mean wow. Anyway Maggie and Tobias got all settled
in and went back to school. But not our school. Noooooo..... They couldn't
risk Chapman seeing them. Rachel and Tobias were all lovely dovey
and all I got was looking at the goddess Maggie.Jake decided that she was
part of the team so we told her all of our secrets. Even the Chee, which
made Maggie us about how she had broken into the Chee's network over the
years.
M&T 3 The Entrance
JAKE
Crayak suddenly appeared in front of us and
grabbed me. "If I do not
get Elfangor's children now, Jake will
die."
Maggie stepped forward "I don't
think so Crayak honey." Then she hit Crayak
square in the jaw and sent him
reeling. Cassie grabbed me and gave me
a hug.
Just then Maggie did-well lets
just say it wasn't pretty. Crayak flew
into a
vortex....And took Tobias with
him.