Leareth can make it across on his own feet without leaning on anyone, but it takes a lot of effort and willpower, and he sits down on the ground as soon as he's on the other side. Taking the Gate down lets him recoup some energy, enough that his vision stops wavering, but he's still very tired. 

...He doesn't actually have any idea where they are, right now, compared to where Matirin is and where they're supposed to be next. Maybe one of the Andalites can figure it out while he sits here and rests? 

They're not in the place where the last Gate came through, so it takes them a while; they find the nearest herd of Andalites and those call the ones expected to welcome them, and a shuttle lands about ten minutes later.

By that point Leareth is sufficiently recovered from his Gate to be on his feet when the shuttle arrives, and greet them courteously (in Mindspeech). 

They are pleased to meet him. They have a city on this continent, and intend to meet there, if it's convenient for him. 

Yes, of course, that works fine. 

So the shuttle zips off to the city. It's purpleish and blueish and greyish grassland the whole way there, with occasional herds of Andalites visible grazing; the city itself is a startling contrast, with gleaming chrome buildings stretching a quarter mile into the sky. The shuttle lands on the grassy roof of one of them. 

<Hey> Matirin says by thoughtspeech from the crowd waiting around the shuttle.

:Hey. This is a very impressive city: It...matches his aesthetic, somehow, in a way that nothing in Velgarth does. :How are you?: 

<Doing tolerably! I have told a few important people about the circumstances under which we gave you morph and they're living with it but not delightedly so probably don't show off your prowess with it. If you want to be you-with-more-Gifts all the time that's fine, we don't have a way to notice that.>

:Interesting - there is not a way to detect that someone is in morph at all? It is very obvious to Othersenses. I wonder if I could use that to develop a technological sensor. Anyway, I will be discreet: 

He's not currently in morph-with-extra-Gifts because really mage-gift and Thoughtsensing are enough for most purposes, and also Gates are exhausting. 

:Anyway, what is the plan now?: 

<Meet people, discuss plans to end the war with them. Did you have a more complicated agenda in mind?>

:...I mean, I would like to set up circumstances where the Andalites will decide Velgarth is a fellow advanced civilization and thus an exception to the laws against sharing your tech. Plotting via political agendas is not my best skill, though: 

<Don't act overawed about the electricity but otherwise I do not think it will be that complicated. I said that on your planet some people have a genetic aptitude that lets them view and directly interact with other planes, and that because of this aptitude your technological development involved interplanar technologies much earlier than standard. I said you've discovered some planes we hadn't, and developed technologies including precognition and surface-to-surface hyperspace jumping. I said that when we crash landed on one of your worlds, Velgarth, your sensors detected people in morph not because they'd been designed for that but because there are other kinds of constructs-from-other-planes in your world which they look similar to, which would have been very unfortunate if not for the fact that you'd learned of the war and very graciously offered to share your technology with us so that it could be won.>

:That makes sense: He is not, in fact, particularly awed by the electricity anymore. It wouldn't even be hard to develop on Velgarth, if not for the stupid gods. :...One of my worlds? Did you imply I had more than one?: 

<I said I'd considered it discourteous to ask anything of such great interest to the Yeerks and such limited strategic relevance to us. And that I didn't read you as concerningly expansionist.>

:I see: Leareth's expression doesn't change but his mindvoice radiates amusement. :I think Valdemar might previously have objected on 'not concerningly expansionist' but, well, those plans have been obviated: 

He has a vague background urge to hug Matirin - or morph Andalite and do some more Andalite-appropriate gesture - but he does neither of those things, and just follows him. 

Matirin has a long list of people lined up to meet with him. Many of them are scientists who want to hear all about the planes that Velgarth researchers know about and their own researchers don't, Matirin mentioned that Leareth would be reluctant to share all of the details of, for example, the hyperspace jumping, until a tech-sharing agreement of some kind had been formalized but maybe they could talk about planes just a little??

Some others are politicians who want to condemn the Yeerks emphatically and collect congratulations for the long decades the Andalites tried alone to slow the Yeerks in enslaving the galaxy.

It's hard to share details on Gates anyway without getting all of the researchers morphs-with-Gifts and several days worth of lessons in magical theory; Leareth is happy to talk about the other planes a little, and how the various Velgarth Gifts are understood to work, and what kinds of infrastructure and spell-techniques have been built on top of them. 

Leareth treads carefully with the politicians, because he's - pretty unwilling to agree verbally with them that the Yeerks, as a species, deserve condemnation, but he listens and nods and agrees that it was an awful situation where they had no good choices, and that it must have taken a great deal of skill and courage to hold off the Yeerk expansion as much as they did. 

Also there are biologists who'd like to learn about the genetically engineered intelligent creatures in Leareth's civilization (Andalites know how to do that, but have not done it, it's illegal by Seerow's Kindness these days) and then morph scientists who want to understand the morph-with-Gifts alteration, which they understand was undertaken by a Velgarth and Andalite research team.

Leareth can tell the biologists facts he knows off the top of his head about gryphons and hertasi and tyrill, and also the less-intelligent engineered species like basilisks. He says (truthfully, in his opinion) that Cayaldwin should get more than half of the credit for morphing-with-Gifts being possible at all, though Leareth helped via his extensive study in how to directly view other planes with mage-sight. Composite morphs with Gifts, and specifically the Andalite composite morph, were mostly figured out once he himself had been given morph capability for medical reasons. 

Right, about that. They're very glad the perfidious Yeerks weren't able to succeed in undermining the alliance by murdering him, of course, but they're very protective of morph what with the extraordinary effort that went into developing it and the advantages it offers in the still-ongoing war, and they hope that in the cooperative spirit in which morph was offered, Leareth will consider a tech-sharing agreement with the Andalites. 

(Matirin is so pleased with himself.)

Leareth absolutely understands the extraordinary effort that went into developing the morph capability! He can talk for a bit about his current research project of using magic to get nothlits back their original body, which has involved a great deal of him being awed by morph as a technology (but also is a useful demonstration of how valuable his knowledge is to them.) He would definitely be interested in considering a tech-sharing agreement with the Andalites, though the exact terms of it he would need to consider in more depth. 

Of course. 

Eventually he is ushered away from the open air space with all the little bobbing robots capturing video of everything, and down to some grass-carpeted conference rooms (they do not have chairs, but instead have elevated grass berms of some kind at about bench-height), where they want to talk about the plan to end the war. Will the tactics used on Earth work everywhere else? How long will it take? Matirin had thought that, given the abilities of Velgarth people to render Yeerks powerless, Leareth would want most of the not-especially-culpable Yeerks after the war was over, being much better possessed than the Andalites for options about what to do with them. This sounds good to the Andalites, except one who interjects that obviously it'd be conditional on what Leareth plans to do with them, and whose thoughts betray that she is very worried they'll do concerning genetic engineering experiments on them.

Leareth does not go into detail on what the tactics successfully used on Earth were; he says that some of them should work elsewhere just fine and some were pretty context-specific. They have detailed, if somewhat out-of-date, intel on most of the other Yeerk worlds, due to the surrendered and now-cooperative Yeerks on Earth. Using Gating or surface-hyperspace-jumps to arrive unseen should work on other worlds, and Velgarth's mindreading and mind-control capabilities will be very useful, especially as long as the other Yeerk worlds have no idea they exist. His current ideas for this mainly involve copious use of those abilities, plus maybe some cooperative Yeerks, cooperation potentially enforced via Velgarth mind-control, going in with misinformation. 

He has a preference that the less culpable Yeerks not end up dead, since they didn't choose to be born as Yeerks and can, in fact, be rendered harmless via Velgarth magic. He thinks most Yeerks would have no problem at all with the kinds of compulsions that let their hosts override them or block them from specific actions - they do value having hosts at all, but mainly for the company and the sensory experiences, being in control all the time doesn't seem to be necessary - and given that, he wants to figure out a way they can integrate peacefully with the rest of the galaxy. Earth may be a good place to start since it seems like humans may on average get along unusually well with Yeerks. Leareth is happy to take responsibility for the captured Yeerks not personally guilty of war crimes, and find a place for them that doesn't involve any kind of enslavement. He hopes that Andalites and Yeerks will eventually be on better terms, but he understands that after decades of a war as brutal as this one, this is likely to take a very long time. 

The Andalites (this is clear from their thoughts, though they mostly just make polite noncommital noises in thoughtspeech) are so delighted about a plan where the Yeerks who didn't personally do any war crimes are far away and supervised by someone else. That sounds great.