Chapter 1

My name is Tobias. I can't tell you where I live...for a few reasons. For one thing, I don't live in a house. My only home is a meadow. Also, if I told you the name of the nearby city I would be endangering the lives of my friends. See, They're out there. Who's They you ask? They are the Yeerks. They enter your head through the ear canal. They take over your brain, and in doing so, take over your body.

We have the andalite's gift. We can absorb the DNA of a living creature and temporarily turn ourselves into an exact copy of that creature using its DNA coding. I say temporarily because if you stay in that form, that "morph" as we call it, for more than two hours there's no getting out. I would know. I am a normal kid deep down, but on the outside I am a red-tailed hawk. I kill to eat and try to find the line between animal and human. I gained back my morphing abilities from the Ellimist, the omnipotent being.

So we, We, the resistance, the only things standing between earth and the Yeerks are four somewhat normal kids, one Hawk-bodied freak, and an Alien called an Andalite.

Chapter 2

We once had a problem in our little team. His name is David. He attempted to kill us off one by one while we were in morph. Rachel almost killed him, but couldn't do it in the end. We haven't seen him in a while. Now we've decided to give it one more try. We are going to create the Auxiliary Animorphs. That's why we were at Cassies's barn, she runs a wildlife clinic with her Dad there. We had invited most of our cousins, those of us who had cousins anyway. They didn't know what they were coming to but we had to have a back up plan. If they refused to join us we would have to subdue them and take them back to the Hork-Bajir valley, we could never let them be captured after that.

As people started arriving they seemed to notice that some others were there that they didn't recognize. Jake, or leader, had foreseen this possibility and put up balloons and other various things that would make it look like a party. After about half an hour had passed the music was turned down and Jake was standing on a mound made up of bags of horse food.

"Hey everyone,"he said, "you may have wondered what this is about, it's not a party if that's what your thinking. This is something way more serious, it about freedom and being united."

"Hey," said one of the kids, "lets get on with this! It's just a party!"

"Look bud," said Rachel, getting somewhat annoyed, "do you know who the hell your talking to?"

"Enlighten me."

Marco sat there for a second thinking of how to say this, but then lost his patience and said with exasperation, " THAT, is Jake, that is the guy who makes it possible for you to sleep at night. THAT's the guy who makes it possible for you to have not seen the eyes of the most disturbing creatures in the galaxy.

Chapter 3

Needless to say that pretty much lost all seriousness that anyone in the crowd had. People were getting close to the exit. Jake looked at me and nodded. I swooped down in front of the barn door and started to morph. Morphing is never normal, never played out the same. I was going from red-tailed hawk lookout in the rafters to boy on the ground. First I started swelling, going from a few pounds to forty pounds. Then I lost the beak to have it replaced with a nose, at the same time the feathers were elongating, separating out into fingers. On my head there was hair growing. Eventually I was standing where I had been two minutes ago, but much, much different. Everyone was dead silent, they looked like they were going to faint, then Jake spoke again:

"Now this is what we, Marco, Rachel, Cassie, and I can do, and what Tobias here could do, and can do again. Now we use this power for good."

He went on to tell our story, how we walked through the construction site, how we got the power to morph, how we had used oatmeal against the Yeerks, how we had made David one of use and what had happened to him. Jake went through the story of the free Hork-Bajir, the Helecroms, the Vissers, and then got to the continuing "game" of Crayack and the Ellimist.

"So," said Jake, "is anyone willing to take on this power and fight with us?"

I expected most to say no, but the idiot from before said, "I'm in, I wanna kick down some alien ass!!"

This guy obviously watched too many movies and stuff but hey, this was going to be a super hard core army so we needed all the help we could get.

Eventually we had convinced all of the crowd to join our little army

Or so we thought.

Jake went through explaining the time limit. He told us how the recruits were going to obtain battle and stealth morphs. Some people asked more questions and got the answers. We left that night ready for anything.

Again, or so we thought.