Chapter 50
Chapter 50
Pinkie Pie
“You took that?” Illusion’s eyes went as big as birthday cakes as he looked at the parked Yeerk Ship. “You? All alone?”
I giggled and leaned on his shoulder (which was really comfy, it turned out). “No silly, Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow, Fluttershy, and all of Prince Jake’s friends helped as well. I mean, you saw us all leave together, and that ship is so big inside. I mean, it looks big on the outside, but inside is even bigger. What with all the hallways and rooms and passageways.”
“That what I mean. You twelve take ship by yourselves.” Illusion seemed stunned by the news. “It take half of all warrior Changelings to take ship.”
“Naw, it was easy!” I said, grabbing a plate and holding it out to him. “Here, try a cupcake! I made them myself.”
Illusion gave a weird hiss of surprise, which ended up startling a group of Changelings above him, causing them to nearly drop the weird lizard monster they were carrying. But I knew nothing was gonna happen, ‘cause my tail wasn’t twitching.
These last few days had been nothing but work. Changelings had been buzzing in from everywhere, bringing Yeerks from all corners of Equestria and loading them onto the ship. Except for the ponies, because they couldn’t leave all their friends and families behind - especially when they didn’t have any control over what they did. If that was the case, then all of my friends and I would be tossed out because of that time Discord made our memories all wonky and our personalities mean, lean, and very obscene.
But Princess Celestia is a super-nice leader. So when she and Luna arrived, she had us all use the Elements to unfreeze the ponies so she could talk to them. They got this really fair deal, all things considered: the Princess would let them all go home if they agreed to leave the poor ponies they’d infested then and there. Luckily they all agreed without much trouble, most likely because of the Princess’ super diplomacy, and some Changelings escorted them all inside the ship. Aximimimily said that all the little Yeerks were going to be put inside one of their indoor pools for transport. I wonder if the Princesses could install indoor pools inside of our carriages — it’d make travel at least ten times more fun! I could hold the world’s first moving pool party!
A flash of white to my side caught my eye and I turned, smiling as Sweetie Belle did this really funny hobble-walk out of the ship. A guard walked over to support her, but he was pushed out of the way by Rarity as she came running in, scooping Sweetie Belle up and hugging her tightly. They just sat there in the middle of the path for a while, holding each other, tears streaming down Rarity’s face and messing up her carefully applied eyeliner. It was a little hard to see Sweetie Belle, but I was pretty sure she was crying too. Part of me wanted to go over and cheer them up, but I knew it was best to leave the two of them alone for a while. I could always throw them a ‘Your sister’s back to normal’ party when we got back to Ponyville.
“Lot of love between white pony,” Illusion said, leaning slightly towards them.
“Yeah,” I sniffled.
Not too long after the last pony had exited the ship came Twilight, Marco, and Aximimimimily, came walking out and talking amongst each other. Shining Armour was beside Twilight, and he gave her a quick hug before joining the others. She looked like she was about to cry, or maybe she already had. It wasn’t a sad cry, more like a happy one — which made sense, seeing as she got her brother back and all.
Illusion was still super excited to see Rarity and Sweetie Belle back together, so I decided to bounce over to Twilight and see what’s up (besides the sky, of course).
“Hey there, everypony, what’cha been up to inside?”
<I have infected the onboard computers with a virus that will wipe their memory approximately twelve hours after launch,> Ax said. Well, not really said — since he doesn’t have a mouth. <Also, I’ve instructed the ship with an automatic course to the closest sector of Yeerk Space. It is unlikely they will discover your planet again in the near future.>
“And a good thing too,” Marco said. “I mean, I like you guys and all, but if it came down between humanity and you, you’d win.”
“Is this because we have magic and powered flight?” Twilight inquired.
“No, it’s because all the girls of the world would want to keep you, so the guys would be suckered into letting you win.”
I couldn’t help but giggle when he’d finished, with Twilight quickly joining. “D-does that mean you think we’re cute?”
Marco stuttered something, but I couldn’t hear what he said since I was laughing even harder.
<I must admit, Miss Sparkle, that you managed to get the process organized quite efficiently,> Ax said once Twilight stopped laughing. <I estimate that all the local controllers will be freed within two hours.>
“Thank you, Ax,” Twilight’s face suddenly developed a small frown. “But I don’t understand why you wouldn’t let us free the humans as well.”
“It’s too risky,” Marco answered. “The Yeerks would notice if all the human controllers they’d sent here were to suddenly go missing. Plus, if they got re-infested on Earth, then they’d know who we are, and that’s the end of us.”
Twilight opened her mouth as if to protest, but Marco held up one of his hands. “I know what you’re gonna say, but it won’t work. We’re talking a couple hundred humans, maybe a couple thousand. I dunno, I never counted. That’s nothing compared to the several hundred thousand back on Earth, and even then I’m guessing. We simply have no way to count them without exposing ourselves. Not to mention getting them back to Earth with us.”
I sagged, suddenly feeling unhappy. “Oh. I thought it was over...”
Ax swerved one of his stalk-eyes towards me. <For you, it is.>
Marco sighed. “Seems like it’s never over for us, though.”
Twilight looked at both of them with a sad smile. “Well, you were able to help us fight the Yeerks, so I just know you’ll end up winning in the end.”
I perked up, my mind racing with ideas. “Ooh, and when you win you can come back here and we can celebrate.”
Marco gave a small chuckle, but not a happy one. It wasn’t sad either, more like amused. “Sure Pinkie, we’ll just have to convince Jake to let us return.”
<We should inform Prince Jake that we’ve completed our tasks,> Ax said.
“Ooh, I’ll come with you!” I said, bouncing. “I think he was talking with Princess Celestia.”
<And I assume you know where she is as well?>
“Yep,” I pointed a hoof over to the town of Dodge Junction — which is really fun to say. “I saw her head that way not too long ago. Come on!” I began bouncing towards the town, glancing over at the large group of free ponies, all of whom were learning to walk on their own again.
The guards keeping the townsponies away from the ship let us pass without any trouble. I guess Aximimiimimimi was well-known enough to not need any questions. Or Twilight. Or maybe even myself.
“This has been one crazy adventure,” Marco said. I turned around, bouncing backwards so I could listen to him better. “Though it feels nice to actually get a tangible win for once.”
I stopped bouncing in mid-air as my eyelid fluttered and my ear flopped over, then landed back on the ground so my hoof could stomp. I giggled and looked around, twisting my head this way and that. “Oooh, somepony’s really excited!”
<Tell me, Twilight,> Ax began. <Does your neck contain a spine, muscles, ligatures, and such?>
“Of course we do.”
<Then how, by Ellimist’s beard, can her neck do that?!>
I saw Marco’s eyes go wide and look at me. “Well, you did it. You finally broke Ax.”
I looked over at Ax, then back at Marco. “He doesn’t seem broken to me.”
Marco sighed, burying his face in his hands. “That isn’t what I mean...just forget it.” He looked around. “Town this small, you’d think we could find one giant white pony a lot easier.”
“She’s over there,” I said, pointing to where the Princess was speaking to a group of guards busy keeping a crowd of ponies back. “Prince Jake is probably there, too. And maybe Luna.” I gasped. “Oh, that’d be so cool to see so much royalty in one place!”
Marco was about to speak, but something else seemed to catch his eye. Not too far away from us was a rather inconspicuous looking bush, with a pair of binoculars poking out in the direction of the Princess.
“Hey, is that pony hiding in that shrub?” Marco’s face took on a suspicious frown. “An escaped controller?”
One of Ax’s stalk eyes — see, I knew he wasn’t broken — swerved in the direction of the bush. <She appears to be spying on Prince Jake.>
“Well, that’s not very nice,” I said. “Nopony should go snooping on royalty.”
Twilight just rolled her eyes and walked over to the bush. “Um, excuse me, but what are you doing?”
The pony gave a startled yelp and leapt backwards out of the bush in a streak of minty green. She looked around wildly before focussing on Twilight and smiled awkwardly. “Oh, um, hello...I was just, uh, birdwatching...”
“Oh really?” I said, getting in between Twilight to look Lyra straight in the eyes. “Then you should have been watching the sky instead of royalty, because as of this moment, Prince Jake is not a bird.”
“I’m sure Jake will love knowing he’s got a stalker,” Marco muttered.
“I’m sorry,” Lyra said, practically throwing herself at our hooves (or whatever Marco has now, feet?). “But I was right! I knew Prince Jake’s natural state was a human, so I couldn’t just let this opportunity pass by! I didn’t mean any harm; I just wanted to observe him! You’re a scientist, right Twilight? You understand!” She stopped babbling for a few moments and finally seemed to notice Marco, which made her eyes go even wider, which was really really funny, actually.
“What? Is there something on my shirt?” Marco asked.
“You’re a human,” Lyra said, amazed.
“And you’re a unicorn,” Marco retorted.
“And I’m Pinkie Pie! That is Twilight, and this is Aximimimily!” I giggled, popping up behind Ax’s neck and grabbing his head. “Say hi, Aximimimi!”
<Pinkie, stop that.>
Lyra gasped as she looked at Ax. “You’re a...what are you?”
<I am an Andalite,> Ax said, though for some reason he sounded irritated. <Please, you are preventing us from meeting with Prince Jake.>
“Andalite,” Lyra said slowly; I giggled. It’s fun to play with words, too. “Where are you from? Do you live with the humans? Is there a human that can fly? Can you do magic?”
“Look, Lyra,” Twilight said suddenly. “We have important matters with the Princess and Prince Jake, and it really can’t wait any longer.”
“Oh, OK, I get it,” Lyra said, looking upset. I frowned as well, then hopped over to her.
“Awww, it’s OK! There’s going to be a party later, and you can talk to us there! I’m sure Marco would love to spend some time with you.”
Lyra’s head swerved towards Marco. He groaned, and gave a small nod in reply. After that, the four of us left Lyra — giddy as she was — and headed over to the Prince and Princesses. Marco seemed flustered for some reason. I guess he could have been worried about making the wrong impression, like I did with the buffalo. Maybe I should throw a ‘learn about pony culture’ party for the humans. Twilight could help me decide what things to teach first.
Prince Jake and Princess Celestia were talking when we approached, so Princess Luna was the first to spot us. She trotted over, smiling widely.
“We must congratulate you on your fine work,” she said once she was close enough. I opened my mouth to speak before remembering that she was a Princess and bowed. Twilight bowed alongside me, and even Marco and Aximimimily gave their own human and Andalite versions. It made me think of how different humans must be. Maybe I could throw another party later and Prince Jake could tell us about humans!
“It was no problem. We do this kinda thing all the time,” Marco said, smirking.
“Yes. Prince Jake has informed us of some of your ventures,” the Princess continued. “From what we have learned, it seems that you rarely get recognized for your deeds. Our Sister has thus insisted you remain until We may thank you properly for your actions in the past week.”
“I think a fifty-foot statue would be perfect,” Marco mused softly. “Carved from marble, informing all the world of my heroic deeds.”
“Yes, Marco, I’m sure sitting around on your butt all day watching TV is really heroic.”
I turned around to see Rachel walking up towards us, Rainbow flying at her side.
“Oh, Rainbow!” Twilight exclaimed. “Your wing feeling better?”
“Ha, yeah. Still a bit sore, but it feels so good to be airborn again.” Rainbow flexed her wing and gave a sly grin to Rachel. “Should be right as rain by the time we’re back in Ponyville.”
“We are pleased that you are not gravely injured, Rainbow Dash,” Princess Luna said, at which point Rainbow belatedly noticed her and did a mid-air bow. Princess Luna smiled and nodded towards Marco and Aximimimili. “Once your business with the Yeerk ship is concluded We would like to invite you to Canterlot for a proper send-off.”
“Send off?” Rachel turned to the Princess. “You mean we’re finally heading home?”
Princess Luna smiled. “In due time, but first, there are festivities to be had”
Just then my mane exploded outwards in a rain of confetti, plus one noisemaker that got stuck. I giggled and smiled. “Ooh, we’re gonna have a party!”
“With respect, Princess, we really don’t have time for that,” Marco said. “Who knows what Visser Three and his bunch have been up to on Earth with us gone. We need to get back as soon as possible.”
“An understandable plight,” Princess Luna replied. “Yet the warrior who never lowers his sword often finds he can no longer wield it.”
“You certainly can’t fight all the time without ever taking a rest,” Twilight piped up. “And I think you’ve earned at least a day of relaxation for what you’ve done here.”
“I am inclined to agree with my student,” Princess Celestia said as she came in beside Princess Luna. “How well do you predict you will perform in your home directly after liberating ours?”
<I am very sorry, but we simply cannot delay,> Aximimimimi said, the sourpuss. <Every day that we are not on Earth is another day that the Yeerks stand unopposed.>
“Aww, come on, Axi!” I pouted. “All work and no play makes you a dull somepony. You need to loosen up and have some fun!”
Ax was about to say something — at least, I think he was. Hard to tell without a mouth — but Prince Jake beat him to the punch.
“Don’t worry, Ax, it’s only going to be for one more day. Besides, we need the time to repair some of these leftover ships for the trip home.”
Ax’s eye seemed to relax a little, but he didn’t say anything else. Probably because he finally saw how important it is to relax. I mean, he’s a really smart Andalite, but the littlest things always seemed to slip right by.
His left stalk eye seemed to notice something, and swerved over the Princesses’s heads to look. I decided to follow it; since Axi thought it was more important than the Princesses, it must be something really impressive. And it was, kinda. I guess it all depends on if you count two Changelings buzzing beside their Queen impressive. I guess seeing the sun through the holes in her legs was pretty neat. I even saw Applejack and Cassie walking side by side through one hole, and in another was Fluttershy with Tobias sitting on her back.
Chrysalis landed nearby, her guards flanking her, and nodded at Prince Jake. “Your Highness. On behalf of myself and my subjects, I would like to offer you my sincerest gratitude for your part in liberating my hive from those vile worms.”
Prince Jake didn’t respond at first — no doubt blown away by the rarity that was the Changeling Queen acting humble!
“Hey!” Rainbow interjected. “We helped too, you know!”
“Rainbow,” Twilight hissed. “Show some restraint.”
Chrysalis narrowed her eyes and snarled. “Very well, I concede the point,” she said through gritted teeth. “You have my thanks as well, Bearers of the Elements of, ugh, Harmony.” Rainbow smiled triumphantly, grinning from cheek to cheek.
“Have your Changelings nearly completed their collection of the controllers?” Celestia asked, breaking up the uncomfortable silence.
“Just about. I still have a few patrol groups looking to see if we might have missed some, but the majority are all here.” Chrysalis turned to look at the Princess, a wry grin snaking its way across her face. “So, if you'll permit me, Celestia, I should be returning to my hive.”
Princess Celestia nodded, her gaze never wandering far from Chrysalis. “Of course. Do travel safely.”
“I’m sensing some bad history between them,” Marco muttered to Prince Jake, who hushed him.
“Quiet. Let’s try not to interfere any more than we have, ok?”
“That ship, my friend, has already sailed.”
I couldn’t help but giggle. “We’re nowhere near the ocean, Marco.” I thought for a moment then gasped loudly. “Oooh, unless you want to get on another airship!”
“Oh no, I’m not doing anymore flying unless it’s with my wings,” Rainbow said.
Chrysalis grinned a little at Dashie before turning to her soldiers. Then, with the precision of a well trained marching band, they took off and flew high into the sky. Then there was this really loud buzzing, and the sky went black as an entire swarm of Changelings followed after their queen. I squinted as hard as I could, looking for Illusion, but couldn’t find him.
The sky was soon empty of Changelings, and I frowned. “Aww, he didn’t even say goodbye...”
Rachel walked over to me. “It’s alright, I think they got the idea.”
I looked up at her and smiled. “You won’t leave without saying goodbye, right? I can throw you a ‘Come Back Soon’ party!”
Princess Celestia stepped forward, smiling. “All in good time, my little pony, but first I have something special planned for our human saviors back at Canterlot.”
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20 bits it is a stain glassed window.
Did this really need to be done? Honestly.
Wouldn't Equestria's location be saved in whatever passes for a Yeerk Imperial Database?
While this ship came from Earth, one would think the location of an easy conquest would be saved elsewhere too...
And the Ellimist hasn't appeared to erase these game breaking morphs yet...
Unicorns, Pegasi, Changeling Queens, and one massive Dragon would probably not fit in the game plan for earth...
First off, great falling action chapter.
Secondly, gifatron.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/its_a_trap.gif
Lel
3457737 I think it'd be the other guy (can't remember his name) or Discord who'd remove the morphs
3457831
Krayak
Yeerk ship begins to leave the system.
Princess Celestia "accidentally" moves the sun in its path.
Oops!
I'm late to the party and haven't started reading yet, but I can say this with confidence: they've done everything there is to do. Pack it up, go home. The spaghetti is in full flow with this bunch.
Onward to reading.
The whole 'Yeerks dont have coordinates' thing seems kind of nonsense. There'd be backups. That's the big flaw I see here.
Equestria was never really in danger. If the Yeerks had one, the resulting chaos and disharmony would have freed Discord. I'd like to see them try and keep Equestria when they are up against the Madgod.
Victory lap time.
Awww, its getting close to ending....I think this was the first story at FimFiction that I ever read.
It will be sad to see it end.
3457831
If not Ellimist then Krayak.
They are playing divine chess and Earth is the board.
And game breaking things are not allowed.
3458097
Ah the smell of sequel...
Or traditional Animorph logic...
Plan fails once, clearly any repetition or variant is ignored as an option.
3458868 Exactly; I just think it won't be Ellimist because he tries to cheat in their favor (for his own goals, that is) and Krayak seems to oppose Ellimist and his favored pawns and would likely try to argue that it is unfair, etc. Discord may do it to keep Equestria safe (if he isn't a statue, that is)
Well, at least they're safe and happy again.
Airborne.
... Or are we?
Man, I can't believe we're almost at the end of the ride...
3457737
If it does happen, I'm willing to bet he would conveniently forget about Tobias and his new phoenix morph. Completely by accident, naturally.
3457731
You're on.
I'm guessing a princess is infested, and that this is leading up to a last-minute gambit.
As for the coordinates thing everyone else is questioning, Ax did put in an actual virus, so it might simply spread, searching out specific data so as to be ignored by the larger yeerk firewalls.
In my humble opinion, I do believe the Ellimist would prevent any wiping of these morphs, simply because he would cheat in the Animorphs' favor, as _Checkmate_ said.
3458868
I don't think these new morphs will be erase. My thinking :
These new morphs are all magical creature, so require a magical world to be accessible. (Their world is in the center of their solar system!)
Since Earth is not a magical world, morphs will not be accessible.
I might be wrong and the author choose to erase them just 'because'.
You dirty reader.
No no, don't try to deny it i know what you were thinking
3462456 brown chicken brown cow.
3465622
Exactly
3469489 No I did not.
3462456 ooh is she going to alicornify them? ;p
3472598
Exactly
Aww... it's almost over...
3472207
Is that a trick question?
Changelings transform in a second, if that, and don't need to return to their original body to switch. Morphing has neither of those advantages.
Thought it was all over for a moment there, but looks like there's going to be even more fun! Yay!
This is a truly awesome tale and it makes me hope for even more sweet crossovers like this on the site or even an epic sequel. I highly enjoyed reading this.
3459501 I agree. Ax is smart enough to do that and, when it comes to messing with Yeerks, can often be far more ruthless then the others.
If a Princess is infested then i hope it's Celestia and i hope it's by Visser Seven. I would love for her to have pulled off another subterfuge as, to be honest, she just did not strike me as all that cunning and intelligent. I prefer villains to be a bit harder to beat then she proved to be.
3476266
But Rainbow squished 7 underhoof.
3479286 She squished someone claiming to be 7. How do we know it was actually her?
3481984
Because Twilight knew.
3482475 Feh. Perhaps. It'd still make for a nice twist, though.
3457731 That's not even a bet. It's a sure thing that it's going to involve a stained glass window. That's Celestia's #1 reward.
3458167 Screw seeing the Yeerks vs Discord, I wanna see Ax's reaction to Discord.
3481984
And if she's gotten to Visser without being a powerhouse the way 3/later1 was. As such, 7 probably got there via cunning and sneaky tactics, so I wouldn't put it wouldn't put it past her to have decoys deployed told to 'monologue and rant' if anything goes wrong. It wouldn't surprise me if the Yeerks are actively taking notes from Earth's media and the Evil Overlord List in particular, except for 3/later1 because he's an arrogant jerk.
3457737
I'm predicting one mass memory-wipe. One for the planet, another for the Animorphs. As much as I'd hate an ending like that, it's the only way to keep it cannon to the Animorph's original story besides taking away their morphs. In the war they had to fight they'd have needed every weapon-morph they could get their hands on, and magic or faster-than-sound travel n the air would definitely have fallen into that category.
3465622 TUCKER!
3458167
Discord was freed because the Elements had found new bearers, weakening the seal. There's no indication that simply a lot of chaos would be enough to free him. And even if he did get loose, by then there'd be tons of pony/changeling/whatever controllers who'd already left Equestria and on their way to help conquer other worlds.
3459501
The ship is heading to Yeerk space, that virus will never even get anywhere near the computers on Earth for one that have copies of the coordinates. And that doesn't even take into account the very basic possibility of non-networked computers. Or some controller writing it down on paper!
3496614
If the ship has no connection to the Earth ships, then there's just as small a chance for them to have no copies of the coordinates.
See previous idea.
The Yeerks were shown in the books to be notoriously unimaginative. They could only steal technology, they very rarely made their own. It's highly unlikely they would've thought to physically write it down, any more than the crew of the Enterprise would, without specific reasons to. Heck, most modern humans wouldn't think of it.
3506967
Umm... what? I really can't make much sense of this sentence. Visser Seven called Visser Three on Earth, asking for troops to complete the conquest of Equestria. Do you really think the Yeerks on Earth would send off their troopships without keeping a single copy of the coordinates of the place they just sent them off to? I know the Yeerks aren't overly bright, but there are limits. For the same reason, I doubt Visser Seven failed to report the location to higher authority.
This makes no sense.
Fair enough.
The main point stands however: the only way Equestria will be safe is if all copies of the coordinates the Yeerks possess are lost. The odds of the virus accomplishing that are minute. Chances are overwhelming that there's at least one copy somewhere Ax's virus can't reach. If nothing else, the controllers that originally found it will be able to give them a rough idea of where to look. The potential prize is well worth the effort.
3507021
It's also shown in the first off-world main story book (I can't remember which # it was) that they did have inter-ship communications of the automatic style. The 6 had to become taxxons for the first time to burrow out, then they snuck aboard the bug fighter they needed to get home in and used the automatic systems to get Earth's coordinates from the fleet's banks.
Also, we'll have to assume Ax knows what he's doing, and let it go for the sake of the story.
Unless a sequel to this turns up, with some uninfested ponies making it to Earth...
Which I doubt will happen. More likely, it'll be a 'Leapfrog' type virus, jumping from one ship to another along the way to find as many ships as possible. They probably network constantly to update their starsharts and such, as the galaxy is not a static place, the way earth's geography is.
Also, sorry for not being clear with the initial statements, I meant that if the ships being sent back, which were the ones requested for more controllers to use in the invasion, weren't going anywhere near Earth, then it's just as likely that there's no other ships with the coordinates immediately banked. Again, unless they're all networked automatically for quick updates during their passing time, allowing them to pass info without specifically 'talking' to each other, and therefor being able to pass a directly-input virus into their systems.
Also, if this is the part of the storyline I think this is from (around the time that the Visser controlling Marco's mother gets squashed, the Hork-Bajir are released, the resistance begins recruiting more, etc. which all happens within a few months of each other, all of them being before the same summer vacation) then the Yeerk hierarchy is about to be completely tilted, and the Yeerks will have a bigger set of problems on their pseudopods.
3507092
You mean that there are no more ships near Earth that have the coordinates? Well, sure, but what about computers not on a ship? There's the communications systems that Visser Seven used to call for reinforcements, for one thing. It probably kept a record of the call. The order also probably passed through quite a few other systems. And even if those were somehow all infected as well, there's always the possibility that it was backed up to offline storage between then and now. And you'd never know for sure whether you got all of them.
And that's just on Earth. The Yeerks there were probably one of the last to hear. There's no telling who Visser Seven told before then. For all we know she posted the coordinates on Space Facebook.
It is extremely unlikely that one virus could infect everything it needs to infect to insure Equestria's safety. If nothing else, if one virus could have that much penetration, it would also be a walk in the park to cripple the entire Yeerk empire overnight. Obviously, that hasn't happened, so...
I guess we'll just have to write this one off and file it under Acceptable Breaks From Reality or maybe under Possible Sequel Hooks.
3507330
It's a delaying tactic. If Tobias has morphing bck, they're far enough into the series to know that they've tied up a massive part of the Yeerk forces on Earth alone, simply by the sheer amount of comparative bodies to process.
I mean, when a Yeerk first mentioned Earth to his superior, his controller got slapped because his superior thought he was lying about the population estimates.
The Hork-Bajir had roughly a few million when the Yeerks got it. And it was the most populated planet, period, until Earth.
Kinda makes me wonder if Applegate wasn't trying to make an overcrowding argument somewhere in all of the series...
3510634
Don't quite follow. What's a delaying tactic? The virus? How would that work?
I remember hearing about that, wasn't it something along the lines of "surely you mean six million, Subvisser?"
3510945
They just need to prevent the Yeerks from paying as much attention to that planet while they battle them on Earth, because the Yeerks have put nearly 80+% of their population into Earth's takeover, and they still don't have enough Yeerks. It's one of the reasons they're going for the willing Controllers route for Earth, rather than just forcing them into infestation.
Pretty much. The Yeerks had close to three billion total individuals at the end of the series, and that was tied between the numerous species they had already taken, and the Andalites apparently numbered less than 500,000 individuals. If Humanity had spaceflight, we would be the Ravenous Insect Swarm of the Animorphs universe, especially with our expansionist tendencies.
Eesh, now that I think about it, the Yeerks had no idea what can of worms they opened, did they?