My name is Joey. That's my first name, obviously. I can't tell you my last name. It would be too dangerous. The Controllers are everywhere. Everywhere. And if they knew my full name, they could find me and my friends, and then… well, let's just say I don't want them to find me. What they do to people who resist them is too horrible to think about.

I won't even tell you where I live. You'll just have to trust me that it is a real place, a real town. It may even be your town.

I'm writing this all down so that more people will learn the truth. Maybe then, somehow, the human race can survive until the Andalites return and rescue us, as they promised they would.

Maybe.

My life used to be pretty normal. Normal, that is, until one Thursday afternoon on the school bus. I was there with Shawn, my best friend. We were talking about what we were going to do that afternoon.

Shawn and I were pretty much beginning to run out of ideas, usually one of us can think of ideas, and usually it's me, but I guess I had a lot on my mind.

You see this weekend was the Anniversary of my mom's death, she died about three years ago, I don't exactly know how she died, my dad reckons it was a car crash. My dad is a lawyer, and this weekend was the only weekend he takes off, except for Christmas and stuff like that, well, my dad is I guess kind of hard to get along with at times.

Really, it wasn't a big deal for me, I mean Shawn thinks I'm kind of sensitive and I guess at times I am, but I was used to this whole thing by now, visit Mom's grave, deal with relatives coming over, it's been happening for three years.

Well, anyway, we were completely out of ideas so we decided that we'd just stay home tonight and hook up tonight, that was when Ginny walked over to us.

"Hey boys, so you guys planning on doing anything?" She asked.

"We're thinking of just heading home." I told her.

Ginny beamed, "I was planning on heading over to the river, you know just to hang out over there."

Ginny hangs out a lot with Shawn and me, her and her twin brother, Tobias moved here about two years ago to stay with Ginny's Aunt, about a year ago though Tobias was sent to live with Ginny's uncle who lives on the other coast, ever since then she's been kind of part of our entourage.

I guess I kind of like Ginny, she's one of those girls who at first glance she's pretty then you get to know her and have second thoughts, then get to know her more and well, the results are always different. Ginny is tall with long blond hair which should be messy since she usually just quickly runs a brush through it quickly, but it's never messy it's always perfect. She has these brown eyes that are always full of excitement, they kind of remind you of a puppy.

As for what she's like, first of all, well her first week here practically every guy at school was hitting on her, and it didn't exactly end well, she started punching them in the face, she sort of got a bad reputation around school. Half the time it's like she lives in this other world, she's a huge fan of Sci-Fi, and sometimes I swear she lives it.

"So you guys want to come to?" She asked looking at me. I looked over at Shawn and he shrugged.

"Sure." He said.

Soon enough the bus stopped and the three of us got off crossing to head over to the river.

There was already two people standing near the river, it was two girls, I recognized them right away as Lindsay and Katie.

Lindsay lives right across the street from me. She's one of those girls that only wear dark colors, she medium height with dark brown hair that reaches her shoulders. She basically has this whole 'screw the world' attitude towards everyone. Shawn has a thing for her, I don't even know why especially since she hates his guts.

Katie is completely the opposite even though she's Lindsay's best friend. Katie is fairly tall with long brown hair, she's a nice girl, yeah she cares about looks, but hey most girls do.

"Hey Lindsay." I said smiling at her.

"Joey." She said giving me a cold glare.

"Shut up for a second you two!"

We both turned around she was looking up at the sky.

"Ginny?" I asked walking over to her slowly.

"Something's here…"

We all looked right at what she was looking at beneath the rubble of some trees was something that shouldn't be there.

"It's a-…" I started to say but didn't want to say.

"A flying saucer." Shawn finished.