[IC] Appointments

[ura_no_ura]

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[guerrilla_morph]

Today. Before sundown.

I'll see you there.

action forever;

[ura_no_ura]

[ When you tell Kakashi a vague time like "before sundown", he obviously won't show up until the sun's long past the horizon and there's only a faint orange glow in the distance. ]

[guerrilla_morph]

[ Marco has his lesson learnt pretty early on. When the sun was set he was ready to take off, thinking that the whole Alliance thing was just a giant joke, that no one is really doing anything with this thing.

It was went he was about to turn around when he sees the guy. Marco can only raise an eyebrow when he saw the mask. ]

Hey.

[ Marco dressed himself warmly enough, with a heavy jacket and heavy boots for the unpredictable end of winter. ]

[ura_no_ura]

Yo.

[ Kakashi waves at the kid as he approaches, dressed simply in his uniform, a scarf wrapped around his neck. It hasn't been so cold lately that he's needed to wear the winter cloak.

He approaches, stopping a couple of feet away from the boy. ]

[guerrilla_morph]

[ There is a pause as Marco seizes the man up. Then, he shrugs, as a teenager wont to do, glancing around warily. ]

So how is the registration going so far? Got any new recruits?

[ Marco can't say he feels entirely comfortable with even talking about joining this Alliance. He never joined anything back home, not at school or anywhere else, excluding the Animorphs. (And even then the Animorphs never counted; it's not like he wanted to get into killing alien slugs as a hobby or career choice.) Volunteering to be a good-doer is more of Cassie's deal, not Marco's. In some ways Marco is a solitary kind of a guy, despite his easy, socializing manner. ]

[ura_no_ura]

Plenty of people have volunteered. Though, you look like you might be one of the younger ones. How old are you?

[ While Kakashi's no stranger to children in war, as he was one himself, if he can avoid putting younger children on the front line, he'd much prefer it.]

[guerrilla_morph]

Oh yeah?

I am several years away from legally getting some alcohol right about now.

[ Translation: too damn young. ]

[ura_no_ura]

[ Quirks a brow slightly at that. ]

What is the legal age of drinking in your world?

[guerrilla_morph]

Twenty-one.

[ A pause, and then - ]

I'm fourteen, okay?

[ He lets out a huff, visible in the cold air. ]

But if you have seen the things I've done, you would've offered me a drink anyway.

[ Not that Marco would take it. He has seen first hand what the bottle can do, and he's not going to be like his Dad at his worst. No way. ]

[ura_no_ura]

[ There's a quiet moment of consideration as Kakashi looks the boy over. At fourteen, Kakashi was already an ANBU captain, so he knows just how lethal some fourteen year olds can be. Knows just how much experience they can have in war. He nods. ]

Why don't you tell me a little about your experiences? And your name.

[guerrilla_morph]

[ The guy's a poker player who is allowed to wear a mask - Marco really can't get a good read on him at all. ]

Marco.

[ He paused for a moment, trying to figure out what to explain it. No matter how much he wants to interject some stupid Star Trek references in his explanation, he's been here long enough to know that no one is going to understand him and more importantly, they aren't going to take him seriously. So he does his best Jake impersonation and soldiers on: ]

Me and a few others are a guerrilla group who are trying to slow down a secret invasion of aliens that try to take over human beings as their host bodies, and that includes world leaders so they can mess with the system to infest more humans. We were given the power to basically turn into any living creature we can touch. For the most part we use it to sabotage any operations like destroying supplies and stuff like that. Just trying to slow the whole invasion down until reinforcements from outside forces arrive.

[ He shrugs, his breath visible in the cold air. ]

Or, at least, we're hoping reinforcements will come. From what I'm from, the human race is still haven't tried galactic travel yet and the ones that fight the Yeerks from infesting any more races are kinda spread thin across the galaxy, and our best hope is they might come within a year. Hopefully.

[ura_no_ura]

[ Kakashi isn't sure what Marco means by "alien," but an invasion, he can understand. From what Marco describes, these aliens are parasites that take over human hosts, and the invasion is one predominantly concerned with the infestation of human bodies.

What a horrible thing to have to fight. ]

Are you able to turn into other human beings as well?

[guerrilla_morph]

I could. We don't really use it that way often since it can be a risk.

[ Marco decides not to explain the moral reason why the Animorphs don't morph sentient beings. Maybe later, if Marco feels comfortable about talking the technicalities. ]

Not to mention morphing people here is a little useless - the wings they sewed on their back don't change at all. If I morph you right now, it won't take long for people to know you well can notice the wings are different.

[ura_no_ura]

Would those wings also end up being copied over onto other creatures as well? For example, if you were to morph into a wolf or something along those lines, would you have wings?

[guerrilla_morph]

Yeah. They will be smaller or bigger depending on the animal, but they will still be the same. For birds it will be a little hard to notice, but it's there.

[ura_no_ura]

Hmmm, so it'll still be very obviously you, for anyone who is familiar with your wings.

[ That could be a bit of a limitation. ]

[guerrilla_morph]

It's a serious flaw, I'll admit. Back home I can just morph some bird and look at some outdoor meeting and no one will the wiser. Here it is a little tricky, and some of the things I can do easily are just not an option any more here, like morphing people. Not if anything requires not to blow my cover. Fighting is something I can do, but that's a last resort for me. All of my morphs are not suited on an open battlefield.

[ Marco shrugs. ]

My resume is kinda shoddy thanks to the wings, sorry.

[ura_no_ura]

[ The kid looks like he's beating himself up about it pretty hard... Kakashi sighs after a moment. ]

I think you can still be pretty useful, especially if you have the ability to fly. Up in the air, it won't be noticeable if you're a bird with four wings or two. Would you be able to perform recon? Or maybe morph into even smaller creatures, such as an insect, to infiltrate a building?

[guerrilla_morph]

[ It's less on beating himself up and more showing his frustration at the whole thing. The Animorphs aren't Power Rangers by any means, but Marco knows his limitations. It's his thing, really, to use the limitations and not just work around them, but work with them. Except this time, there is no real way to get around the wings, and there is nothing he can do to make any real advantage to them. ]

Birds and insect morphs are just fine.

And there's another thing: in morph, I have something called thought-speak. It's basically I can talk to you in with my thoughts, within a certain distance.

[ura_no_ura]

So, telepathy is essentially your main method of communication when you're morphed. How far is this distance?

[guerrilla_morph]

I don't know, exactly. Maybe one or two kilometers? It depends. Long distances if there is nothing between us. But if I'm underground, it'll be faint. It kinda works like a radio. But it also works like the messages on the journals: I can contact you privately and no one else can hear it, or I can make it public.

[ura_no_ura]

So, are you able to broadcast to a large group of people at once?

[guerrilla_morph]

If I want too.

omg totally lost track of this thread

[ura_no_ura]

That could be very useful. Is it very taxing?

It's cool!

[guerrilla_morph]

What, thought-speak? Nah. Morphing can be, depending on the animal.