My name is Tobias Fangor. I know what you're thinking: I just told you my last name. Normally I wouldn't. Let me just tell you this, right now: My life is not normal. In fact my life is about as far away as you can get from 'normal'. I live in such an abnormal life that when I watch TV I get upset. There's all these perfect families with perfect lives and if there is a problem it's nothing a little family conference can't fix. I wish a family conference could fix my problems. But my problems are more than 'Oh no! Jimmy got beat-up! My problems are the Yeerks. They're worse than monsters-under-the-bed and problems at school combined. The Yeerks are aliens. For real. The Yeerks take over people's minds. They crawl inside the person's ear and wrap their slug body around the brain. That's my life now. In my old life I had the typical work it out with a family conference problems. One problem: No family. My parents had died when I was really little. I used to live with my aunt and uncle who passed me back and forth between them. Used to. Now I'm a red tail hawk. Now no one wants me. No wait. That's a lie. My friends want me. My friends are Jake our natural leader, Cassie our tree-hugging animal lover, Rachel Jake's cousin who role models Zena, and Marco our sort of funny sort of annoying comedian. Now you're probably wondering why I'm a red tail hawk who has relatively normal friends. Well the truth is this: My friends aren't normal. Take all of the stuff I told you and put it into a war against evil aliens. My friends are what you get. We can all morph. If you look that word up in the dictionary it says to change form or something like that. So let me paint a picture of what has happened to me. We can all morph. If you look that word up in the dictionary it says to change form or something like that. So let me paint a picture of what has happened to me. Imagine five normal kids. They take a short cut home one night and meet an alien. The alien gives them the power to morph. His name is Elfangor. Elfangor is an Andalite. Andalites are like a hybrid with a deer a scorpion and a human. So any way these kids get the power to morph but they have to fight alien slugs. One more problem. There's a two hour time limit. If you pass that time limit you stay in morph forever. Got it? Now imagine these kids finding an Andalite kid. This Andalite is Aximilli. He's Elfangor's little brother. We call him Ax. Pretty complex stuff huh? Well think about all that stuff then throw in normal life. School. Friends. The mall. So now you know what my life is like. You would think that not knowing my parents wouldn't matter to me but I didn't even know my dad's name. So you would imagine that I would want to find out. Right?