Okay, so "choice" wasn't quite the right word, but Ax didn't have all of the vocabulary yet. < Humans are strange. They wear artificial skin and hooves and they eat dead animals with their mouths. > And that is gross.

< Well you were acting like it, > Ax said. < And the Andalites are the only ones who can defeat them, so I'm going to be a warrior like my brother and we're going to chase them back to their home planet and make sure they never hurt any other species ever again! >