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Post by Jamilan on May 30, 2009 3:26:17 GMT -5
Jamilan liked this arrangement; Nate could ask him questions, and he would respond in a non-suspicious fashion, while giving his full response in thought-speech. “Yes,” he said, an attempt at answering the question in this way. “It is rather difficult being ‘blue.’ Your watch may still come in handy; keep it for when you need it. I have M&Ms, actually; I carry a lot of food for when I desire it.”
<Male Andalites have blue fur; females are purple. Our shades variate, but aside from genetic abnormalities, we are of those colours only.> He reached into his bag, and withdrew a packet of M&M candies, and handed this to Nate. <I would rather not partake in this food at the current moment; there are already too many distractions.>
A scream put Jamilan on the alert. As he heard the thought-speech in his head, he tried to ascertain the source. However, that was unnecessary, and frustrating; he missed his stalk-eyes. <We shall stomp our feet,> he replied, and he began to do so, looking simply as though he had trouble sitting still.
The plane began to move; the announcements came on, as the Fasten Seatbelt sign flashed on. They were underway. The flight attendant and the speaker directed them to the flight safety instructions.
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Post by Nate on May 30, 2009 13:25:59 GMT -5
"Oh okay," Nate nodded, still feeling antsy. When Jamilian produced the M&Ms, he lit up. "Oh sweet! Thanks!!" He quickly tore into the package, dumping some into his hand. "Mmmm sweet sugary goodness..."
Then the woman screamed, and he glanced up, rolling his eyes. "Seriously Johnny... and I thought if anyone was gonna mess this up, it'd be me!" He popped some M&Ms into his mouth and then stomped his feet a bit with Jamilian. Hopefully Johnny could figure it out from there.
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Post by Johnny on May 31, 2009 7:23:51 GMT -5
Johnny's sensitive feet began picking up vibrations. He also heard thought-speak saying that they would stomp. So hopefully the vibrations were the stomping feet. Johnny crawled on the floor beside the wall, trying to remain as inconspicuous as possible for a wasp. He didn't want to fly in case everyone was trying to kill him.
He could tell if he was getting closer to the vibrations, since it was kind of confusing with all of the other racket in the air and the vibrations bouncing off of things. But he stayed on course because as long as the wasp was getting angrier, he was getting closer. Then, finally after an eternity, he grasped the leather of a shoe that was rapidly moving up and down. Then he jumped into the air and buzzed up, hovering in front of Nate's face.
<<Im baaaa-aaaaaack! Ya miss me?>> Johnny siad lightly before landing on Nate's nose.
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Post by Leroy on May 31, 2009 13:29:33 GMT -5
Leroy waited patiently for Johnny to catch up with them. There was not much he could do anyway. Besides, he was still busy trying to get over the fact that they were now going to a foreign country with an alien on their team.
<<You managed not to get squished?>> Leroy said happily when Johnny announced his return. It would not have been good at all if they had lost a team member before they even took off from the ground. <<Welcome back.>>
So far Leroy had felt pretty helpless as far as contributions went, and he did not expect that fact would change during the entire trip. Nope, the smoothness of this trip across the ocean would rely mostly on Nate and their new team member.
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Post by Jamilan on Jun 2, 2009 1:07:24 GMT -5
“Do not get carried away,” Jamilan laughed, a reaction he had picked up from the humans. “They are quite delicious, however. Ish. Us.” That’s when Johnny returned, in the form of the Earth insect he had morphed, and landed upon Nate’s nose, interestingly; Jamilan wouldn’t be surprised if Nate were to now cross his eyes. <That is fortunate,> the Andalite replied. <Tell me, please – at what times did you morph? I must know; I have used forty-seven of your minutes in human morph. And I must query – which of you is your leader?> As an aristh, he required a prince to follow.
Finally, the plane was beginning to move. Jamilan turned his head to the window that Nate was sitting by, to see the world passing by him. Everything closed in on him, and he shuddered, sweat dripping down his brow.
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Post by Nate on Jun 2, 2009 20:37:49 GMT -5
Nate wiggled his nose. "Yeah Johnny might want to get somewhere a bit more subtle than that," he said, going cross-eyed trying to look at Johnny. "I'm gonna be whacked in the face by one of those screaming ladies soon if they notice..."
He quickly put his finger up to his nose, trying to get Johnny to crawl onto it. In the mean time, he attempted to disguise it as nose picking. Way more fun than pretending to scratch.
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Post by Johnny on Jun 6, 2009 8:13:03 GMT -5
((I'll do a time skip. The next person can tell how they got off of the plane.))
<<Huh, just like an alien. They just appear out of nowhere and demand to be taken to our leader. And by the way guys, who is our leader?>> Johnny twisted around on Nate's nose and just stared at the finger. Then he bit it. Then he crawled up Nate's nose onto his forehead before he walked into his hair. He could take a hint that Nate would constantly be staring at his awesomeness so Johnny decided to remove himself as a distraction.
<<Don't worry about us, we've only been in morph for like, twenty minutes, wouldn't you guys say? But we can switch whenever you morph.>> Johnny settled down in the center of Nate's head and just stared at the giant hairs all around him. It was pretty unsettling. But he had nothing better to do so he started counting them.
That was how the rest of the forty-five minutes went.
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Post by Leroy on Jun 6, 2009 14:06:48 GMT -5
(I'll just skip ahead until the time when they start demorphing on the plane for the first time, instead of the end of the plane ride. Let me know if I should change anything.)
Leroy let out a tiny sigh. Well, not really. He could't really sigh since the morph he was in breathed through holes in the sides of it's body, but the point was still the same. He was trying to build up the nerve to do what had to be done next. Demorphing. In an airplane bathroom. With another person and an alien.
<<Lets get this over with,>> Leroy said as he flew down to the floor. He concentrated on his human form and the changes began. First he began to grow. He swelled up to the size of a small poodle and his body became unsegmented. Two of his legs shrivled into nothingness and the others began to soften and thicken.
Next his eyes became human. Just in time to notice that he was on the toilet and not the floor before falling off it. He hit with a thud, but his hard shell was still there, so it didn't hurt much. But now he was even more cramped. The room was small and Jamilan was standing in the limited floor space. However, there wasn't much he could do besides keep changing.
He was now the size of a large child and still mostly green. His mouth reformed, his antennas shrank, and his wings shrivled up. Leroy was now fully human, standing in a bathroom with an alien, wearing a wetsuit.
"Okay Johnny, your turn."
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Post by Johnny on Jun 6, 2009 15:57:56 GMT -5
<<That was SO gross Leroy, you know that right? Like you could forget after me telling you that a thousand times.>>Johnny complained. It was even worse because he could see it on a thousand eyes. Then he heard something that sounded like "Your turn". Mumbling out several things that sounded like "joy" and something about "two guys and an alien in a small bathroom". Then he dropped down from the ceiling and landed.
He felt his middle legs retract. Then SQUISH! He could hear his organs shifting around and growing. Then he heard the crucnh of his bones growing and his exoskeleton dissolving. His mandibles suddenly sucked into his mouth and for a few seconds, he was all gum. Then his teeth began growing as well as his tongue. Then his eyes merged together until he had two eyeballs. That was when he found out that he was on the edge of the sink.
He began to grow until he was about five inches long. Then he fell off the sink. Growing an inch for every inch he fell, Johnny was a three foot bug-thing when he landed with a crunch. With the wind knocked out of him briefly, he lost concentration and tried to breathe again. He couldn't say anything because he had no thought-speak or vocal chords. When he had enough breath, he continued te demorph.
His damaged wings shot up into his back like slurping spaghetti. His legs changed back to human and fingers began multiplying like crazy. His stinger and abdomen vanished and he was human. He stood up and took up the last bit of space in the bathroom. "Now what?" he asked Leroy and Jamilan.
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Post by Jamilan on Jun 10, 2009 2:39:13 GMT -5
<By the way, guys, who is our leader?> Jamilan twitched; no leader? No prince? They were so disorganised! This was an outrage! He needed a prince, someone to tell him what to do; he was just a lowly aristh, after all. He watched Johnny climbing Nate’s nose; he did have to admit, that must be rather...disturbing, for Nate. But, once he was safely in Nate’s hair, Jamilan breathed a sigh of relief
<Don’t worry about us; we’ve only been in morph for like, twenty minutes, wouldn’t you guys say? But we can switch whenever you morph.>
<Twenty minutes. Okay,> the Andalite repeated. And then he gave the exact time that they would morph, not forgetting to call them “your” minutes as he did.
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The time had come for their first demorph. Hopefully, it would go swimmingly; Jamilan, however, had his doubts. He was not mildly claustrophobic; he was very claustrophobic. So...he was a bit worried. When they got into the tiny bathroom, he undressed into his morphing outfit, and watched as Leroy was the first to demorph. He winced with his eyes as he watched the changes; morphing was never pleasant for all but the naturally talented.
He watched Johnny demorph, feeling the same feelings. It was particularly unpleasant when he began to grow, and that which had been developing from his tiny bug body was made apparent. He finished the process, and with the two boys in the bathroom, the Andalite began to feel the walls closing in on him; he became short on breath. “Now you two will leave the bathroom and stand watch as I demorph; my full Andalite self will not fit in here.”
Once they were out, Jamilan, his back to the door, began his demorph, feeling a sickening feeling as his organs began to shift, reasserting themselves, shaping and changing. Some would be growing where there was nothing; others would change position, shape, and function. His fingers shrunk, becoming longer and thinner, another soon growing amongst them, as well as his other thumb. His arms became thinner as this happened, and suddenly, from his chest shot two hairless, hoofless legs. They hit the toilet – which was luckily closed – with a thud, as he keeled over. But already, his long, thin torso was growing from what remained of his human one, neck following suite.
His spine grew, bones cracking as it did, and as other bones grew; those limp legs soon had structure as bone moved into them. A long tail began to extend out of his rear, and as it did, his rear pushed out, shaping itself into an Andalite’s hindquarters. He held his upper body up by placing his hands on the wall, as the ears became larger and longer, and his mouth became non-functional. His torso grew, and the final changes to his legs were done as his mouth shrunk to nothing. His hands returned to his sides, as the last change was apparent in his demorph: he could now see behind, beside, above, and below himself without looking. And the blade on his tail grew, finalising the morph.
He was fully Andalite. <The transition is complete,> he informed the others. <Keep me covered, however; I need to rest for a minute before I begin to morph human.> That was a limitation of morphing. <Otherwise, I will tire myself by rapidly morphing and demorphing.> His torso, front legs, and half of lower body were in the bathroom; his hindquarters, including the tail, were sticking from the back. He quickly tucked the tail between his legs, in case someone saw; he didn’t want someone to see such a threat.
That feeling. The world was closing in on him. He couldn’t move. The Andalite was going to suffocate. He nearly panicked, then recalled where he was. He shifted his weight nervously. And then, he began to morph back to human, sighing through his nose-slits; he hated losing his powerful Andalite body for this human one.
((OOC: Not going to describe the return to human, but I'll make him finalise, probably, next post. For now...drama, possibly, or just reactions. XD))
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Post by Leroy on Jun 13, 2009 14:11:43 GMT -5
Leroy stood guard nervously as Jamilan demorphed. All went well until his rump started sticking out of the airplane bathroom. At that point Leroy tried to puff himself up and block as much of the alien as possible.
Leroy felt so out of place at the moment that it wasn't even funny. He was standing barefoot in a wetsuit on a plane. He had a nervous grin on his face that he flashed at anyone who happened to look back at him and Johnny. And he didn't even have a ticket for this flight, so even if nobody noticed the blue alien he was trying to hide, there was a strong possibility that he could get into trouble.
"Just stay cool. Just stay cool," he mumbled between his smiling teeth. "Would you hurry up and change back?" This had to be the most nerve-wracking experience of Leroy's life thus far.
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Post by Johnny on Jun 13, 2009 16:59:50 GMT -5
Johnny had never had more fun! Well, except for that one time at the aquarium. The first part, anyway. Then, with a huge smile, he pushed Leroy gently out of the way and stood in front of the back of Jemilon ( or whatever his name was) holding a blanket spread out behind him, effectively covering the blue-clad neo-centaur, as Johnny had come to think of Andalites as.
So there he was, huge grin on his face, arms up and stretched out, barefoot, wetsuit-wearing, and amazingly awesome, when an oldish-looking lady walked (well, hobbled actually) up. This was how the next three minutes went:
Crazy Old Dinosaur Lady: "Outta my way, sonny boy."
The Supremely Intelligent Johnny: "I'm sorry ma'am, but you can't go in there. That is because I am a very smart and charming, not to mention good-looking, person and I am attempting to rescue everyone's life."
Ceasar's Grandmother: "Whaddya mean I can't go in 'er?"
Craftiest hunk in the world: "Well, my friend in there. And he had a lot[ of bean-and-cabbage casserole before we left. And I mean a lot!"
Crabby Queen of Cavemen: "Oh. I understand you incredibly handsome and wonderful young man. I'll just go back to my seat and wait because that is all little old ladies are good for. Good-bye!"
Actually, it went more like this:
Johnny smiled as widely as ever as an elderly woman walked up to him. "Excuse me young man, I need to go in."
"Why, did you eat to many prunes?" Johnny said, twisting his head a bit so he could see Leroy's reaction. Then he heard a THWACK! and a sharp pain shot up his leg from his ankle. The old lady had hit him with her cane! "OWW!" he yelped and he hopped on one foot, grabbing his wounded body part in pain. Then she said, "Now move away young-- AIIIIIII!"
Johnny watched as the woman hobbled away after a screech. turning around, he saw why. Blue hindquarters stared back, and the blanket was on the ground. He stood on both feet as he picked the blanket up again and held it in front of Gamillion again. "Oops" he said to LEroy. Then he said in a stage whisper to Jami-sometihng, "Hey, could you hurry up in there? Our cover is almost blown."
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Post by Nate on Jun 13, 2009 21:12:31 GMT -5
Nate had been sitting in his seat nervously, trying not to look too obvious while he waited for the others to return from their demorphs in the plan washroom. He had long finished the M&Ms and was still hungry, and possibly even more antsy now that he was alone without anyone to chat with. He really really really hoped the others would be back soon.
He couldn't help but jerk his head up when the yelp from the woman carried down the aisle. He quickly glanced around, trying to gauge how many people had also heard. This wasn't a random street... a scream on a plane would never be ignored. A few people were craning their heads, trying to see down the aisle in the direction of the washroom. He panicked for a second. They needed a distraction... something that wouldn't be too ridiculous and keep everyone's attention on him for the rest of the plane ride... but something obvious enough to keep people's attention away from the other end of the plane and maybe even help give an explanation for the woman's scream as well...
Suddenly he jumped up from the seat, looking downat the floor, exclaiming. "Holy crap!! A mouse!!!"
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Post by Jamilan on Jun 15, 2009 4:37:22 GMT -5
Leroy was breaking his concentration. <I am morphing as quickly as I possibly can,> he said. <I apologise.> He was not angry; he was a very understanding Andalite, in a very misunderstanding world. You had to be, with humans. The only real time his tensions would flare was if you insulted his pride. Things were going well, until someone decided she wanted to use the restroom. Jamilan could hear the sounds, and he tried hardest as he possibly could to speed up the morph, namely in his back side. Unfortunately, morphing wasn’t controlled unless you were an estreen; the first change to come about was the hair, growing in curls upon his Andalite head, looking like alien grass with stalk-eye trees growing from. A scream of pain from Johnny told Jamilan that the elder was violent...though, Johnny’s comment hadn’t been very kind.
What the old woman saw when Johnny was so unceremoniously knocked away was the rear of what might be compared to a horse or small deer; it stood on dainty back hooves, and had a limp tail ending in a sharp scythe-blade that was quickly being sucked into its owner’s hind-quarters. The woman screamed, and attention was had; luckily, the shouts about a mouse from Nate were enough to distract the plane’s populous, and the former cadet was able to complete the morph unhindered, then dress himself and step from the bathroom, a look of apology apparent in his eyes.
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Post by Leroy on Jun 15, 2009 15:45:40 GMT -5
Jamilan claimed that he was going as fast as he could, but it wasn't fast enough. At least not after what happened with the old lady. Hopefully whoever she told about the incident would just think she was a crazy old lady, but Leroy had his doubts. He was just glad that Nate was on his toes enough to come up with the mouse distraction.
Leroy saw the look on Jamilan's face when he came out of the bathroom, but he was too busy trying to get into the bathroom to react to it. Leroy wanted to get out of this awkward situation as quickly as possible. He began to morph into his green weevil form the moment he was out of sight. "We really need to come up with a better plan for next time," Leroy commented just before his teeth dissolved in his mouth.
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