"People of the planet formerly known as Earth…you are unaware of this at the moment, but your planet as you know it is undergoing an Intergalactic Invasion…"
Ten years ago, on the 24th of November, 2000, a group of five humans and a blue alien organized a broadcast message that had been, by means formerly unknown by every political government on the planet, beamed to every television and radio station of every country, on every continent on Earth. This group, really composed of children no older than sixteen or seventeen years of age, had sent a warning; parasitic aliens, known as the Yeerks, had enslaved the human race, and said human race has been undergoing an Invasion since the late sixties. Initially, the entire broadcast was denounced as a hoax; a clever hoax that had been orchestrated by some admittedly intelligent children.
On the evening of the 24th of November, a mere six hours after the "Hoax", six spaceships– later identified as Bug Fighters– flew over my home town in California; as well as countless towns and cities over the known world. I was out with my current girlfriend for a night on the town when the first spaceship flew over our heads, only to be followed by three more. It had been broadcasted on every news station on the planet: "These are not your father's Aliens" Alexander Bratford had announced, wearing a look of pure fear upon his face.
The morning of the 25th of November, a second warning had been broadcasted…but not by a group of war-tired teenagers, aimed at saving the earth from our invisible enemy, the Yeerks. No, this new messenger, who bore a similar resemblance to the blue alien that had been a part of that rebel group, the Animorphs– later identified as an Andalite– sent us an ultimatum; surrender to the Yeerk Empire as Voluntary Hosts, or be taken by force. Naturally, everyone had panicked, and nobody was ready to denounce this message as a clever hoax.
I have been fighting as a member of the Rebellion for six years of the ten year War for Earth, between the parasitic Yeerk Empire and its host bodies– which included Hork-Bajir, Taxxon, Gedds, Humans, as well as a single Andalite– and the Human race. The War was officially declared by the United Nations on the 1st of December, and has henceforth been known as "The Night of Action". I can safely say that the War for Earth did not truly begin until the Andalites got involved a year after that meeting of the U.N. And it is because of advanced technology of our Blue Brothers in Arms that the human race had lasted a year of fighting. The Resistance, otherwise known as Freedom Fighters and the "Alternamorphs", was only established once the Free World Leaders and the occupying Andalite forces determined the Free Military from that of the Yeerk controlled forces; roughly two years after the 1st of December, 2000.
The first three years of war, with all of its hysteria and lack of organization, were possibly the worst few years in the whole of history; man was fighting against man– or, at least those originally believed to be men– neighbours became suspicious of other neighbours and family members, and then there were those god-awful raids.
Six months into the war, the people of Earth became a smidge desperate, and decided that the best chance of survival was to adopt an "every man for himself" mentality, and chaos ensued. The raids lasted a mere six weeks before the Andalites had managed to get things back into order, and even then not even the Andalites could repair the massive damage to property, least of all the psychological damage suffered by the humans. The Yeerks had brought us all into a cruel war, and morale had declined substantially after the first brutal year of the War for Earth.
Eventually, the entire planet had been split into Free and Yeerk Controlled: every country, of every continent– whether poor or developed– had been split into Free and Seized, and had been spearheaded by two official heads of government. In my home country of the United States, we had been ruled by President Lawrence Fields, a free republican who held the firm belief that, "With strong and frequent prayer, the Lord will provide". Meanwhile, the Yeerks were lead by a political figure known as Visser 49, whose host body had been a female woman named Marlene Plight; America had finally gotten a female president. To be honest, seeing to as how both Fields and Plight had both been incompetent, and both had been driven by devotion to their faith or empire, I'm not to sure which one of us is better off– humans or Yeerks?
Eventually, it had been agreed upon by the Animorphs– those teenagers who had attempted to warn us of the Invasion– and the occupying Andalites, that the Free Military should be given extra powers, in addition to the Andalite technology they had been given; thus, the Military had been given the ability to morph. That power, however, had been restricted to the Military up until the third or fourth year of the War for Earth, when the Rebellion had been devised as a means of extra manpower; but really we were recruited for suicide missions. Regardless of our position in this war, as puppets used to carry out missions too risky for our precious Soldiers in Arms to carry out, we had been given this power to morph.
My name is David Alexander Matherson, and I am an Alternamorph.
