Chapter 1
After Sam's little escapade, we were all on the edge a bit. That day that he was cured, I could feel something wrong. Once again, I couldn't quite place it, but I knew something was wrong. It just didn't feel right. Sam was acting funny. I dismissed it because how had just been through a life altering dilemma.
So I didn't worry about it.
But let me back up just a few days. Five days ago, we learned of a yeerk operation to use a hospital to recruit hosts. It was a good plan, but we decided to bust it up. That was what we Animorphs were here for.
But Sam went ahead and tried to do it himself, without us. We figured he would to as much, but we were still surprised by the result.
When he went in, he was shot in the chest. It knocked him out long enough to have him fall into the yeerk pool they were using for the new hosts. While he was in there, a yeerk managed to slither into his head.
At first, he was in too much shock to do much of anything, he did manage to wake up and try to trick us all. It almost worked, but I managed to slow him down. He got away, but by the end of that day, we caught up to him and managed to subdue him long enough to kill the yeerk in his head.
You see, during this time, the yeerk used Sam to not only blow up a hospital parking lot, but on the same day terrorize the mall, and cause a ruckus in a gun shop. The yeerk almost managed to succeed in using Sam as an ultimately destructive force.
By the time he woke up, the yeerk didn't have enough time to get to a yeerk pool and it died. After that, Sam was pretty angry. He was disappointed that we couldn't contain a single person. He disappeared and was not to be seen since that day.
In fact, that was just earlier in this day. The day my story starts.
I was simply touring the town to blow some time. We had all been almost defeated and it was time to take a break. I know, we were saving the world and such, there was no time to try and take a break. I understand that, but we had no leads, and we sure as hell weren't going back down to the yeerk pool just to destroy a hundred replaceable yeerks.
We were going to take a break. And besides, we had Tobias watching after Sam long enough to make sure he didn't do anything stupid like try and get revenge the hard way and try to single-handedly take out the entire yeerk pool.
That could be disastrous.
Anyways, I was enjoying a nice walk on the town. No real destination, just like going to the mall. Half the time I have no clue what I want, I just browse. That was what I was doing, browsing the town.
I did the usual, I went to get a bite to eat. I went to radio shack I did this and that, wondering what kind of things Ax could to with the many electronics to make my already superior entertainment system even better.
Ax was the guy you needed if you needed something electrical. With the aid of a few plugs and a few hours time, he was able to make a complete electrical system that NASA would envy.
How do I get this money? Well, I used to work, with the aid of Whitney, but I quit there. Ax was an excellent hacker and was able to syphon lots of money from rich people and put it in our accounts.
Whitney was the hacker that made me a fake ID, but she couldn't do that. Bill Gates? Come on, rest assured, he has a pretty impressive firewall, but nothing Ax couldn't get by.
And as for the house, we live in a shack in the woods. We have it divided so I have half and sam has half. Tobias is in the bell tower during the cold or stormy nights, or else he is in his own tree at the end of the meadow that is attached to our house.
I like that tree as well. I climb it and read.
Ax also lived in the clearing, closer to the house. We are a good hour's walk through the forest before we got to any civilization, like Cassie's barn.
Inside the house, me and sam each have our own halves. There is no real border, though. It is one open room. The door on one wall, the kitchen and stuff on the opposing wall. Me and sam each had a room on the left and right wall. In it we have our bed, out dressers, and our entertainment systems.
Like I said, Ax worked with the electrical supplies to make us have only the best. Our computers had one terabyte shared between the two, and easily the fastest internet connections known to man.
We each had our own TV, VCR, DVD, and video game. I had a PS2 and Sam had an X-Box. We often debated which was better.
But I guess it didn't matter. It was all in fun.
I was at radio shack seeing if there was a stereo I liked. I Was looking to get one so big it would keep us both happy. I guess that wouldn't be a goo idea, though. If hunters or anyone near heard us, we were junked.
I scrapped that idea and simply decided to consider portable CD players. That would be easier to live with, but not as fun when we were actually at home. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.
I did eventually pick a CD player I liked. It was actually an MP3 player. Well, an Mp3 disc player. I Thought that was better than actual MP3 any day, but that's my opinion.
I bought it with my bank card and was off. Sm has one of my bank cards, but I was cautious. You never know what a psycho could do, and I may at any time need that.
I continued to walk down the street and towards the mall, the place where all this started, with the crashed and mortally wounded andalite prince named Elfangor....
But I won't go into that. I bet you have heard it a million times before. Probably getting sick of it. But that was where it started, anyway.
I didn't have any CD's, so I couldn't listen to it on the way. And the worst part was that now that I had made a purchase, I had to walk home instead of morphing. It was a pain, and seriously don't ask how we got everything in the house there. Let's just leave it at, Sam was very tired that day, and so was I.
But meanwhile, I was thinking of a different way to hurt the yeerks. I know, I wanted to rest, but only long enough to formulate a plan of attack. We couldn't be waiting in the shadows all the time, waiting for the yeerks to make the next move. I personally wanted a first strike.
But don't get me wrong, I don't want open war, we would lose in the course of a day.
Cassie would say the opposite. She would probably say that we needed to do as little as we could. We didn't need to start fights like they did. That would make us no better than they were.
I, of course, would have to argue. I think that we were here first, and even though we are far from a perfect species, this is our planet. They are invading, we have the right to defend ourselves.
Rachel and Sam both agree. Jake and Marco tend to stay out of out arguments. They were the main thinkers. Jake was the all round boss. And Marco is his right hand tactician. The two of them were smart together.
Though Sam and Whitney seemed to be a good pair as well. Sam was able to plot and formulate without remorse to the infinite degree, and Whit was there to point out details and add a little sensitivity to the plots Sam devised.
Ax, on the other hand, was immune to the whole concept. He thought that this was his war too. It isn't his planet so I would have to disagree, but I would rather have his kind on our side than against us.
Tobias was also a thinker. Whether he was thinking strategy or lonesome thoughts, we didn't know. Tobias happened to be a good friend of mine, but we had actually grown apart a bit. He was more interested in those in society. Maybe it was a way to get back to reality.
Who knows.
After Sam's little escapade, we were all on the edge a bit. That day that he was cured, I could feel something wrong. Once again, I couldn't quite place it, but I knew something was wrong. It just didn't feel right. Sam was acting funny. I dismissed it because how had just been through a life altering dilemma.
So I didn't worry about it.
But let me back up just a few days. Five days ago, we learned of a yeerk operation to use a hospital to recruit hosts. It was a good plan, but we decided to bust it up. That was what we Animorphs were here for.
But Sam went ahead and tried to do it himself, without us. We figured he would to as much, but we were still surprised by the result.
When he went in, he was shot in the chest. It knocked him out long enough to have him fall into the yeerk pool they were using for the new hosts. While he was in there, a yeerk managed to slither into his head.
At first, he was in too much shock to do much of anything, he did manage to wake up and try to trick us all. It almost worked, but I managed to slow him down. He got away, but by the end of that day, we caught up to him and managed to subdue him long enough to kill the yeerk in his head.
You see, during this time, the yeerk used Sam to not only blow up a hospital parking lot, but on the same day terrorize the mall, and cause a ruckus in a gun shop. The yeerk almost managed to succeed in using Sam as an ultimately destructive force.
By the time he woke up, the yeerk didn't have enough time to get to a yeerk pool and it died. After that, Sam was pretty angry. He was disappointed that we couldn't contain a single person. He disappeared and was not to be seen since that day.
In fact, that was just earlier in this day. The day my story starts.
I was simply touring the town to blow some time. We had all been almost defeated and it was time to take a break. I know, we were saving the world and such, there was no time to try and take a break. I understand that, but we had no leads, and we sure as hell weren't going back down to the yeerk pool just to destroy a hundred replaceable yeerks.
We were going to take a break. And besides, we had Tobias watching after Sam long enough to make sure he didn't do anything stupid like try and get revenge the hard way and try to single-handedly take out the entire yeerk pool.
That could be disastrous.
Anyways, I was enjoying a nice walk on the town. No real destination, just like going to the mall. Half the time I have no clue what I want, I just browse. That was what I was doing, browsing the town.
I did the usual, I went to get a bite to eat. I went to radio shack I did this and that, wondering what kind of things Ax could to with the many electronics to make my already superior entertainment system even better.
Ax was the guy you needed if you needed something electrical. With the aid of a few plugs and a few hours time, he was able to make a complete electrical system that NASA would envy.
How do I get this money? Well, I used to work, with the aid of Whitney, but I quit there. Ax was an excellent hacker and was able to syphon lots of money from rich people and put it in our accounts.
Whitney was the hacker that made me a fake ID, but she couldn't do that. Bill Gates? Come on, rest assured, he has a pretty impressive firewall, but nothing Ax couldn't get by.
And as for the house, we live in a shack in the woods. We have it divided so I have half and sam has half. Tobias is in the bell tower during the cold or stormy nights, or else he is in his own tree at the end of the meadow that is attached to our house.
I like that tree as well. I climb it and read.
Ax also lived in the clearing, closer to the house. We are a good hour's walk through the forest before we got to any civilization, like Cassie's barn.
Inside the house, me and sam each have our own halves. There is no real border, though. It is one open room. The door on one wall, the kitchen and stuff on the opposing wall. Me and sam each had a room on the left and right wall. In it we have our bed, out dressers, and our entertainment systems.
Like I said, Ax worked with the electrical supplies to make us have only the best. Our computers had one terabyte shared between the two, and easily the fastest internet connections known to man.
We each had our own TV, VCR, DVD, and video game. I had a PS2 and Sam had an X-Box. We often debated which was better.
But I guess it didn't matter. It was all in fun.
I was at radio shack seeing if there was a stereo I liked. I Was looking to get one so big it would keep us both happy. I guess that wouldn't be a goo idea, though. If hunters or anyone near heard us, we were junked.
I scrapped that idea and simply decided to consider portable CD players. That would be easier to live with, but not as fun when we were actually at home. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.
I did eventually pick a CD player I liked. It was actually an MP3 player. Well, an Mp3 disc player. I Thought that was better than actual MP3 any day, but that's my opinion.
I bought it with my bank card and was off. Sm has one of my bank cards, but I was cautious. You never know what a psycho could do, and I may at any time need that.
I continued to walk down the street and towards the mall, the place where all this started, with the crashed and mortally wounded andalite prince named Elfangor....
But I won't go into that. I bet you have heard it a million times before. Probably getting sick of it. But that was where it started, anyway.
I didn't have any CD's, so I couldn't listen to it on the way. And the worst part was that now that I had made a purchase, I had to walk home instead of morphing. It was a pain, and seriously don't ask how we got everything in the house there. Let's just leave it at, Sam was very tired that day, and so was I.
But meanwhile, I was thinking of a different way to hurt the yeerks. I know, I wanted to rest, but only long enough to formulate a plan of attack. We couldn't be waiting in the shadows all the time, waiting for the yeerks to make the next move. I personally wanted a first strike.
But don't get me wrong, I don't want open war, we would lose in the course of a day.
Cassie would say the opposite. She would probably say that we needed to do as little as we could. We didn't need to start fights like they did. That would make us no better than they were.
I, of course, would have to argue. I think that we were here first, and even though we are far from a perfect species, this is our planet. They are invading, we have the right to defend ourselves.
Rachel and Sam both agree. Jake and Marco tend to stay out of out arguments. They were the main thinkers. Jake was the all round boss. And Marco is his right hand tactician. The two of them were smart together.
Though Sam and Whitney seemed to be a good pair as well. Sam was able to plot and formulate without remorse to the infinite degree, and Whit was there to point out details and add a little sensitivity to the plots Sam devised.
Ax, on the other hand, was immune to the whole concept. He thought that this was his war too. It isn't his planet so I would have to disagree, but I would rather have his kind on our side than against us.
Tobias was also a thinker. Whether he was thinking strategy or lonesome thoughts, we didn't know. Tobias happened to be a good friend of mine, but we had actually grown apart a bit. He was more interested in those in society. Maybe it was a way to get back to reality.
Who knows.