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-This is a Mature Story (if in content if not plot)
-It's a The Avengers/Aliens fanfic
-It's a Bruce Banner/The Hulk fanfic

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Animorphs Re-Read: #5 The Predator (Chapters 13-16)

Chapter 13

Now that Ax has the Z-Space transponder he is able to build the distress beacon rather quickly. Marco says that wherever they set the trap can't be connected to them. This makes sense as they don't want to endanger their families since Visser Three might make the connection that the 'Andalite Bandits' are actually human. Except for Ax.

While it is smart to think like this, it makes planning a little more difficult.

Tobias thinks of a place, but Ax will need a bird morph so he can get there. Cassie, again, acts like a drug dealer while she says what she has available. It is really like Cassie is the drug dealer of morphs in the Animorphs series.

Ax, when asked if he minds morphing a bird, says that he admires Tobias' red-tailed hawk morph. It's a cute moment to me as it's like he has a crush and/or he is looking at Tobias like a nephew before knowing Tobias' lineage.

Marco makes a joke about foot odor being a human's natural weapon when Ax mentions a problem he finds while he is in human morph.

Jake decides Saturday should be the day the plan goes down. Marco then remarks on how he used to be afraid of Taxxons and Hork-Bajir, but now he's more afraid of ants. The ant morph does stick in Marco's mind and yet it won't be the worst horror in the series.

The group still has yet to find out about Crayak for crying out loud! Or about what happens in the second Megamorphs book!

After Jake and Marco leave together, they start talking about normal things. Marco is stalling from telling Jake something and Jake knows it. Marco finally says that this is his last mission and that no one can guilt him into staying on the team.

Marco has held on even when he's been reluctant. I wouldn't ever quit the Animorphs but dying for Marco isn't about him dying. It's about how his Dad would be even more lost. The reluctant Animorph isn't selfish, he just has a strong tie to his father.

Jake tells Marco that he has done enough. That's friendship there as Jake is probably not happy that he's losing one member of his team so the fight against the Yeerks will be harder.

Marco explains how they've had so many close calls already and that at some point one of them is going to die. Except Rachel. Rachel will never die.

Marco's plans for Sunday will probably be leaving flowers on his mother's grave. He says that a year from now he doesn't want his father leaving flowers on his grave.


Chapter 14

The chapter starts off with the gang flying and Ax getting excited over his Northern Harrier morph. I don't think he's been this excited since he's tasted a cinnamon bun. Then Ax and Tobias have a sort of dick measuring contest. But, instead of dicks, they're comparing their eyesights.

Marco's bird morph is an Osprey. That's the continuity error from #3 The Encounter saying hi!

Marco says that they should give up the mission and, instead, spend the day just flying around. Cassie tries to have a lighthearted reply and fails. Her reply shows that everyone thinks that the mission will go bad. Except maybe Ax because of Andalite ego and him never having fought an actual battle before.

They arrive at the location, circle around to make sure no one is there, land, and then demorph.

Marco, yet again, brings up that he wants morphing outfits like the X-Men have. He always does this and my headcanon of TobiasXMarco post war is Marco finally able to make a team outfit for Tobias. Which Tobias wears just to keep Marco happy though he is really embarrassed.

But then it hits Marco that this is his last mission with the team. He shouldn't be joking around like he usually does. He then wonders if Jake had told the others. He assumes Jake told Cassie but Rachel and Tobias don't know.

The gang goes to a good spot and they're about to morph their battle morphs. Everyone except Ax who would just keep his Andalite form. Before the gang morphs, Ax activates the distress beacon.

Rachel morphs elephant and I am reminded that she hasn't yet acquired her famous Grizzly Bear morph. She acquires that morph in #7 The Stranger and that becomes her battle morph from then on. So through the majority of the series her battle morph isn't an elephant.

Once the group finishes their morphs they argue who would win in a fight. They're teenagers so this makes sense. They're joking before a battle they might die in. Not even a big battle, but the possibility of death is still there if something goes wrong.

Marco makes a joke, after Ax says that when the war is over Andalites will come to Earth just for the morphs, and starts to explain it to Ax. I find this interesting since a lot of people comment how the group never tries to explain anything to Ax. EVER.

Here Marco starts to explain but is interrupted by the distress beacon going off and alerting the others to the Yeerk's arrival. The gang gets into position.

Marco sees the Bug fighter and says a version of good-bye to Ax.


Chapter 15

The Bug fighter lands and a Hork-Bajir Controller steps out. Again it's brought up that the Hork-Bajir are really good species according to Prince Elfangor. But the other Animorphs are all on the fence about that. This is because the Hork-Bajir look like predators.

Marco says that if Klingons were real that they would be afraid of Hork-Bajirs. How did I not pick up that Applegate was a Trekkie when I was younger? Seriously, take a shot whenever there's a Star Trek reference.

Ax tells the group what Controllers will be inside the Bug fighter, but they already know. This isn't their first fight.

Marco notices that the Hork-Bajir Controller is acting suspiciously. Jake either doesn't notice or doesn't care and orders the group to attack. Maybe Marco didn't have enough time or else he isn't sure so doesn't bring it up. Either way, the group attacks.

Tobias is the first to attack!

As the group attacks the Controller, Marco gets even more suspicious. He thinks that the Hork-Bajir has given up too easily. We get a reason why Marco doesn't say anything to the group: he has a job.

But if he thinks this is

then why not say something? If he thinks it's a trap he should warn the others before the shit really hits the fan.

And the trap is sprung and they are all surrounded. HOLY FUCKING SHIT, MARCO! YOU ARE STUPID! NEXT TIME YOU THINK IT'S A TRAP SAY SOMETHING! GODDAMMIT!

The Animorphs look at their options and realize that they aren't going to be getting away from this. When Tobias says he can't get away either I think he's lying. I think he's tired of watching his friends get into danger while he is away safe. So he can get away but chooses not to fly away this time.

Rachel says there has to be a way out but Marco knows that's not the case. He knows there are some things you can't get out of.

Visser Three makes his entrance. He brings up a big problem with Ax's plan: the Yeerks change their frequencies from time to time for instances like these.

Did this NOT occur to anyone? Hell, when they heard that the plan had been done before they should've worried. So did everyone trust Ax because he's an Andalite?

Jake tells Ax not to talk with Visser Three. The reason being that the group wants to keep the fact that the majority of them aren't Andalites. Since if the Visser learned they were humans...you get to see what would happen if the Yeerks figured out they aren't Andalites later on in the series.

Visser Three shows he's a cat person by complimenting Jake's tiger morph. The Visser then announces that he will be showing off the Andalites to Visser One.

Marco isn't too far gone to realize that Visser Three is afraid of Visser One.

Rachel thinks they should just make a break for it while Marco says that they should stay alive because there's hope that way. Rachel points out how hopeless their current situation is.

The group stays still and Marco would be facepalming if he could.


Chapter 16

The Animorphs are lead into the Blade ship. Marco comments on the fact that they were fools to ever try and resist the Yeerks. That Visser Three is correct in all his insults. Of course this isn't surprising coming from Marco, he is the reluctant Animorph. He never had any clear feeling of them winning before this incident. Fits that he wouldn't have hope now.

Marco wants to feel angry but, instead, feels numb. He has a sense that he's just dreaming.

He thinks of his Dad at this moment. I think that's very telling of his character. He really cares for his father and wanted to stop fighting so he didn't die. Since, if he died, his father would have no one left to help him hold on.

When Marco says it'll be just like when his Mom died...yikes! You'll see my reasoning for that yikes shortly.

Since Marco does have a role in the group, he makes a joke and the others sort of laugh.

Cassie comes up with the idea if they demorph Visser Three will see that they aren't human and let them go. Marco knows the plan would never work but doesn't demean Cassie for thinking it. Since when you're in danger you don't think clearly and your mind will reach to anything. Even if the idea is shit.

Jake shoots down the idea saying if the Yeerks find out about them being human that they may go after their families. Hey, Jake, at least you won't have to worry about Tom!

A window just appears and they look down at Earth. I've always seen pictures of Earth from space as beautiful. But Marco describes that it looks like a dying hope. Marco looks at Earth and sees it as free...for now.

Ax remarks that the Yeerks opened the window so that they would all despair.

The Animorphs look at the mother ship. Ax describes how the ship works. Very VERY interesting information.

Rachel asks why people can't see the Yeerk ship and Ax mentions the cloaking system. A cloaking system that blocks the ship from both radar and sight.

Cassie remarks how she always wanted to see Earth from space and Ax apologies for getting them caught. Marco, as well as me, wants to yell at Ax. Because it IS his fault for not thinking ahead. Yes, he's a kid who didn't pay attention in school, but not thinking of a simple flaw to the plan? Oh, and never mind the shit he caused back in the mall. Because HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

But Cassie is the one to answer and says what the whole group feels deep down. Down below all the hate they want to yell out. Cassie brings up that Ax and his people were just trying to save Earth and them being caught isn't his fault.

We'll see later in the series why I think Andalites are assholes for the most part.

But Marco still has a harsh comment for Ax and says it.

Marco sees the crew of the mother ship through the window. Besides the usual Controllers being talked about, two or three other species are mentioned. However, they aren't given names.

Marco has a moment of hope when he sees human but reality quickly hits him. They are Controllers, not actual humans.

Jake asks Ax for the morph time. When Ax says how long they've been in morph, Tobias suggests just attacking the Yeerks since they'll become nothlits soon, anyways (well, besides Ax of course who would probably become the second Andalite Controller).

I believe Tobias is suggesting attacking since he knows how hard being a nothlit can be. Even with people to provide emotional support. So him saying to attack may be him believing they can escape but not before the others become stuck in morph.

Jake says not to attack since they still need hope. Marco gets jealous when Cassie comforts Jake. He doesn't like that he has no one like Cassie, aka a bf or gf, to provide him comfort. Come on, Marco! You have bird-boy! You two can get nasty now that you're about to die!

I'm not ashamed of the image that I just put in your head.

Marco and Rachel agree that they had put up a good fight before being caught. That them being caught wasn't because they had given up. Well...it was Marco's final mission but he still gave it his all.

Marco notices that the Controllers are wearing different uniforms. So they were on two different sides. Ax says that he remembers his brother, Elfangor, saying that each Visser had his/her own personal army. I like that in the series Ax doesn't know everything. Mainly because he didn't pay attention in class.

Visser One arrives and Visser Three says that he has captured the Andalite bandits. But Marco doesn't care about what Visser Three is saying. All he cares about is Visser One.

Because he has just found out his mother isn't dead. She's the host of Visser One.

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Whedon, What the Fook

revrezner and I talk about the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "Turn, Turn, Turn", Joss Whedon, and other things.

The Surprising Death of Mockingjay

Warning: MAJOR Spoiler Below

The Hunger Games is a wonderful trilogy of books. It follows the adventures of Katniss Everdeen as she's unwillingly made into the symbol of a rebellion. The third book in the trilogy is my favorite and has one of the saddest events of the entire trilogy. Hell, Collins took a huge chance doing it and I really hope the movie adaptation keeps it or else I'll be as mad as I was at the end of the Cujo movie adaptation.

The event that caused me so much pain, but I love it anyways, is Prim's death.

I enjoy her death for a few reasons:

1.) You didn't see it coming.

My favorite type of deaths are the ones you don't see coming. This makes it so that the death is so much more painful. If you see a death coming you are able to prepare yourself. You're able to put on armor so that the death doesn't hurt you as much as it could've.

Prim wasn't someone you expected to die. She was Katniss' sister and she was on the safe list. ESPECIALLY since this is a Young Adult book.

2.) Her death meant something.

A death can hurt you and be wonderful, but what really makes a death special is when it means something. When all your tears aren't in vain.

Prim dying caused Katniss to make her first real decision in the entire trilogy (not counting her decision to volunteer in the first place). In that I mean it wasn't organized by one side or the other in order to use her. Katniss is unique as she's a hero that doesn't mean to be a hero but keeps getting pushed into the role while all she cares about is her family (but that's a story for another post). So when Prim dies that leads her to killing President Coin.

3.) It was beyond heartbreaking.

With any death, to really effect me, it needs to touch me. It needs to touch me and pull my heart out. Then I have to like the extreme pain for some unknown reason. Maybe since I read depressing stuff a lot and love it when I finally feel something.

Prim was someone I didn't want to die. I wanted her to live so when the war was over Katniss could find peace in her sister. Katniss started her whole journey because she wanted to keep Prim safe. So Prim dying is ironic in that the whole reason Katniss did everything was lost to her by the end.

So I really REALLY hope that Prim's death is kept in the movie adaptation. Prim's death IS important. She helps push Katniss' story forward in that if Prim didn't die President Coin could still be alive to make President Snow's reign seem like Christmas. Prim's death also shows that not everyone gets out of war alive.

Star Wars: Red Harvest (Joe Schreiber)

Title: Red Harvest

Series: Star Wars

Author: Joe Schreiber

Released: 2010

Rating: 3/6

Basic Plot: The era of the Old Republic is a dark and dangerous time, as Jedi Knights valiantly battle the Sith Lords and their ruthless armies. But the Sith have disturbing plans—and none more so than the fulfillment of Darth Scabrous’s fanatical dream, which is about to become nightmarish reality.

Unlike those other Jedi sidelined to the Agricultural Corps—young Jedi whose abilities have not proved up to snuff—Hestizo Trace possesses one extraordinary Force talent: a gift with plants. Suddenly her quiet existence among greenhouse and garden specimens is violently destroyed by the arrival of an emissary from Darth Scabrous. For the rare black orchid that she has nurtured and bonded with is the final ingredient in an ancient Sith formula that promises to grant Darth Scabrous his greatest desire.

But at the heart of the formula is a never-before-seen virus that’s worse than fatal—it doesn’t just kill, it transforms. Now the rotting, ravenous dead are rising, driven by a bloodthirsty hunger for all things living—and commanded by a Sith Master with an insatiable lust for power and the ultimate prize: immortality...no matter the cost.
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The Horror Elements
Let's start off with the good stuff. There is one reason to read this book and it's for the killer zombies. The times it focuses on the zombies and lovely death scenes this book shines. If it was a movie it'd be a glorious b-horror movie. I admit I read it because I wanted to see how zombies would fit into the Star Wars universe. And they fit in fine. Problems arise when focus is given to the characters.

The Characters
The characters all do what they need to do. The big bad is out to do whatever for the sake of immortality, there is the student that is the best and wants even more power, there is the brother that is out to rescue his sister, and all the rest can be named by their importance to the plot. This doesn't mean the characters are godawful. I felt myself caring for some and they do what is needed in this type of story. So I didn't mind.

The Length
The length of the book is good for what it is. The pacing doesn't slow down so that the plot can't linger too long on any one sub-plot. This makes any defects of the novel easy to glance over since so much gory glory is happening. While having the characters given more depth would've been great, the fact is that this novel is telling a type of story that doesn't need that.

Final Thoughts
Rojo Trace, aka Hestizo Trace's brother, has something strange happen to him. He gets hit on by a woman who has a thing for banging Jedi, I guess. But it's only one scene and not commented on that much. Just glanced over and I had to stare at that part for a good five minutes before moving on. That was the biggest WTF moment of the novel. If you don't like zombies or gore, I wouldn't recommend reading this book. But if you're a Star Wars fan and have to read and see everything in the Expanded Universe, you'll have to read this no matter what I say.

The Eternal Heart: Fragile Package 1

 Ever since John Connor had announced the fact that he had decided to stay with Katherine and not be with me, things had become harder for me. When I had a moment to think I would think of all that could’ve been and how it couldn’t be now.

But whenever I focused on Resistance business I forgot about my feelings for John, if only for a little bit. I’d focus on not getting myself or my fellow Resistance fighters killed. I practiced and exercised more than I needed to. However, I never pushed myself past my limits. I didn’t want to be in a battle and be too worn down to continue.

John still gave me private lessons and those had become less awkward as time went on. But our glances at each other never went away. I doubted my feelings for him could ever go away. However, I didn’t interfere with his marriage and he would try to set me up with someone from time to time. I would never go out with someone other than John, though, so his attempts were useless.

I had mixed feelings about going on the simple mission with Katherine, Barnes, and Star.

Katherine was John’s wife and was still uneasy about John’s feelings towards me, but I still felt I had to protect her. If she died then John would never forgive me.

Barnes and I had become closer. By closer I mean that he kept his hate of me to a bare minimum when I was around him.

Star was the only one I didn’t have any bad feelings towards. Kyle Reese and I had been on a mission or two together so I had learned to trust his judgment. When I had first met him he had said he loved Star. I trusted his opinion and was going to make sure Star came out of her first mission safe.

I finished getting ready and headed to the chopper. I waved at some of my comrades and they nodded back. I was glad that they had opened up to me more. At least I didn’t get the feeling that they would try and kill me the first chance they got.

Upon arriving to the chopper I saw my team members. Barnes was standing close to Katherine and having a conversation with her. This didn’t surprise me at all since he was one of John’s most loyal soldiers. Plus he had another reason.

I controlled the grimace that tried to come to my face as I looked at Katherine’s round belly. It was a painful reminder of how intimate John was with her. Barnes nodded at me and Katherine continued to ignore me.

It was then I looked at Star who was nervous. It had always been hard to read her, almost like she was a machine herself, but I could tell she was uneasy.

“Hey.” I said to her as I walked towards her.

“Hi.” She replied and looked me directly in the eyes for a second before she got too afraid and looked away.

“You fought against the machines since you were young.” I told her. “You and Kyle managed to stay alive until you ran into John.”

“I know I’ll survive.”

“Then why take so long to go on a mission of your own?”

“I’ve been on guard duty. I’ve been to every training session. Hell, I’ve helped train new recruits from time to time.”

“But you’ve never been on a mission of your own.”

Star looked at something that was on the opposite side of the hanger from me. Like Barnes she had dark skin, but unlike Barnes her hairstyle was different. It was poofy. Since I didn’t have memories from before Judgment Day, I didn’t know what to call the hairstyle. But it was nice.

“What’s the reason?” I asked. “I know it’s not because you’re scared of dying.”

“I don’t want to be in charge.” Star whispered and looked around to see if anyone else was listening. “If I do good I’ll be told to handle people’s lives.”

“It’s not a good feeling.” I said, even though I had only been in charge of a mission only once before this. And that was only because my commander had died on the mission. “But if you don’t want responsibility, it means you’re less likely to do something stupid.”

“So I guess that means giving you power is bad.” Barnes said as he walked up behind me.

“Hey, at least I’m not you. Means I can’t do too bad.”

Star hid a smile and I looked at my group.

“Get in the chopper, we need to head out quickly.” I told them.

“It’s only a scouting mission, we don’t need to hurry.” Barnes replied.

“Yeah, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be danger.”

With that Barnes and Star went in the chopper and Katherine joined me in the cockpit.

I checked that the chopper was going to work throughout the scouting mission and avoided Katherine’s gaze when I could. It was like she was trying to kill me with a look.

“You know I had to convince John to allow you on this mission.” I told her, trying to bring her to my side.

“John didn’t mention that to me.” Katherine countered.

“Because I managed to convince him before he said something to you. I told him it was only a scouting mission and that the twins won’t be in danger.”

“How did you know I was going to have twins?”

“John told me. He was really excited about the news.”

“What else does he tell you?”

“Stuff I pretend to be interested in.”

“But I’m not going to give birth for a week or two, John shouldn’t be worried.”

“Tell John that.” I said as I took off.

I felt the tension in the cockpit ease. I knew Katherine didn’t like me, but she had to know that John trusted me. He trusted me but wasn’t going to leave her for me.

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Catherine Weaver's Allegiance

One of the bad things about Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TSCC) being cancelled was that there were a shit load of questions left unanswered. Now I'm aware some series end on a cliffhanger on purpose (looking at you, Animorphs), but this wasn't the case for TSCC.

One of those unanswered questions was who Catherine Weaver is really loyal to. Now some people may think that she has to be a good guy as the plot twist in the finale points to that. But that's really not the case. There is no clear answer as to whether her ultimate goal is to help John Connor past his usefulness to battle Skynet.

Let's look at what has been shown in the series:

In Weaver's backstory we see that she was going to be asked by John to join the Resistance. She was put in a case to prevent her from escaping. When she was let out by unsuspecting Resistance fighters she didn't show any regret in killing them. So she isn't loyal to the Resistance as a whole.

And why was she put in a case in the first place?

Was it just a test by the Terminators Against Skynet?

Or are the Terminators Against Skynet split into groups themselves? Some having different end goals than others?

Maybe one group of the Terminators Against Skynet decided that the Resistance should have the help of the T-1001 but didn't want to leave it to chance. So they would lock her up in the case and then she'd be let out at a place where it would be either she joins or dies?

When Catherine Weaver is in present day she does seem to relate to humans but also puts John Henry's well being above her 'daughter's'. Near the very end of the finale, Weaver says for James to take care of Savannah but earlier in the series she made a remark that Savannah came second to Henry. So Savannah had only a limited time of being useful before it didn't matter if she died.

From a story Jesse Flores tells Derek Reese in Season 2, it is my headcanon that Weaver rescues Derek at one point and so Derek knows what she is but hasn't told anyone. He hasn't even told Jesse.

So Weaver being a good guy isn't certain. All that is certain is that she's against Skynet which means she may be okay with John dying once he's not useful to her anymore.