AN: 'Sup, I'm back. Sorry I haven't been able to update my other story, but I've had writer's block and a couple other problems. Like school. Anyway, I've also been writing a book. Yay! Well yeah, see you at the bottom of the page. (Maybe)

ANItiger13

Disclaimer: I don't own animorphs.

Family Twists

Chapter 1

Jake

My name is Jake. I can't tell you--wait a minute, you know this, right? Well, if you don't I guess I can give you a brief description. My friends and I, the Animorphs, are fighting the Yeerks. The Yeerks are slug-like parasites that crawl into your brain and take over your mind and your body. It's horrible. I know. I was one, but I'm not gonna go into that. My brother's one, and so is my best friend Marco's mom. But, I think I'll stop talking about the Yeerks now.

That word I said before, Animorphs, that's me and my friends. Marco, my best friend since we were in diapers, coined the term. It's short for animal morpher. Or, as Marco put it, " Idiot teenagers with a death wish". I suppose that's what we are. I mean we do fight against death every single day. We're the only people who can stop the Yeerks.

We being, Marco, who I mentioned earlier, my blonde, beautiful cousin, Rachel, our animal expert, Cassie, Tobias, our resident nothlit and Ax, the andalite.

Whoa, I said brief earlier, didn't I? I guess I should stop before I change the meaning of brief. Anyway, we were meeting in Cassie's barn today. The meeting hadn't started yet because someone was late. Guess who?

"Where is that little dork?" Rachel asked," I swear if he doesn't get here soon-"

"Your anger will blow up the barn?" Cassie suggested, I grinned.

"Shut up, Cassie!" Rachel...bellowed.

"God Rachel! You know the sound barrier could sue you for breaking it,right? Good thing your mom's a lawyer." Marco joked from the doorway. And, of course Rachel was on him almost immediatley. She walked over to him and lifted him right off the ground! Which, acctually, isn't a surprise.

"WHOA! C'mon Rach, calm down." Marco said.

"YOU LITTLE DORK! I'VE BEEN SITTING HERE, BORED OUT OF MY MIND, BECAUSE YOU FAIL TO KNOW WHAT THE WORD PUNCTUAL MEANS, AND YOU EXPECT ME TO CALM DOWN!" Rachel, obviously, was furious.

"Look, Rach I had to run some erands for my dad.'Kay?" Marco said.Rachel put him down.

"It took you an hour?!"she asked.

"'Kay, fine, I ran into this totally hot babe at the 711," We all groaned. Here comes one of Marco's famous "hit on a girl,but ,gasp, got turned down" stories." Guys, c'mon, at least let me finish. Anyway,I go up to her and say ' Can I borrow your phone number, I seem to have lost mine' so she smiles takes out a napkin and writes something down. So I'm standing there thinking 'awsome I just got this smoking hot babe's number' then she hands me the napkin and walks out of the store. Then, I take the napkin, look at it and you know what it said? GET-LOST." he said finishing his story."I mean, I even used my best pick up line. What did I do wrong?"

We all look at him for a second, then burst out laughing.

"C'mon it's not that funny!"

( Your right, it's not funny, ) Tobias thought-spoke. ( It's just really pathetic! )

"Is that seriously your best pick up line?" I asked him, still laughing.

(Why do lines need to be picked up?) Ax asked.

"They don't it's-oh, never mind." Marco said, grumpily." What was this meeting about, anyway?"

"Okay, okay," I cleared my throat as the laughter died down."Alright, I heard Tom talking on the phone, and he said the Sharing is meeting at that big tech place down town."

"Well, what are they doing?" Cassie asked.

"I dunno. He lowered his voice and all I heard were the words 'mind', 'switch', 'machine' and 'ready'."

"Well, why don't we go in, smash this machine, and get out?" Rachel.

"Yeah,Rachel, that makes alot of sense," Marco said, very sarcasticly." Let's go in and smash something we know nothing about."

"Actually, Marco, that's exactly what I was thinking." I said. Rachel smirked at Marco, who was sitting there with his mouth open.

"Well, you definatly don't need a DNA test to know you guys are related" Marco.

"Well then, Let's do it!" Guess who?

" We're doomed."

TSEEEEW! TSEEEEW!

( Watch out! ) I yelled, Tobias swerved to the right, and the dracon fire missed him by an inch.

We were in the tech building and, like every run in with the Yeerks, it was CHAOS. Marco and Cassie were taking on like twelve Hork-Bajir. Rachel was making her way to the machine. Ax was fighting of three Taxxons and a Hork. Tobias was attacking a Taxxon that was going after Rach, and I was fighting a Hork and a Taxxon.

( Guys, I'm there! ) Rach yelled.

( 'Kay! SMASH IT! ) I yelled back.

She brought back her Grizzly paw and smashed it.

Suddenly, there was this big flash and I blacked out.

Gasp Cliffie! What happens? What was that flash? Why did Jake black out?Will Marco ever get a date? (probably not)What am I having for dinner?Find out in the next chapter! (and um... review... please.)