My name is Brett, I wish I could tell you my last name, but I just can't. I don't know who you are. This could be in the hands of anyone. If I'm dead than that doesn't matter, but I'm planning on the rare case that I'm still alive. What I can tell you is why I'm writing. I want future generations, hopefully free ones, to know what happened, how it happened. It all started on a warm night, summer was ending but it wasn't going out without a fight, we were hanging out in front of the torture/brain washing facility known as our high school.

"I'm telling you Naruto is way cooler than avatar." I said walking down the street with my three best friends Guy, Omar and Mike. I was addressing Mike who had been trying to convince me of the contrary for at least a half an hour. I had one headphone in my ear, the other hanging loose at my side. "Any character from Naruto could kick any character from Avatar's ass." I said as Perfect Teeth by Motion City Soundtrack played in my right ear.

"You idiots," Guy chimed in"it's all about Fooly Cooly."

"That show doesn't even make sense." I responded. "Good music though." I said as the song changed to I Think I Can by The Pillows.

"You three are such geeks." Omar said shaking his head.

I can't tell you what any of us look like because, as of the date that I write this, we are all still alive and I can't put them in jeopardy.

"You're one to talk tennis-boy!" exclaimed Mike, as Omar was the captian of the tennis team at school.

"Tennis-boy?" Guy

"Leave him alone Guy, it was the best he could think of." I replied feigning sympathy.

"What are you guys talking about." said Elizabeth, Lizzy for short, walking up behind us with her friends Sophie, Becca and Tori. We hadn't expected to meet up with them, but we were all friends from school and heavily into dram and theater so it wasn't one of those painfully awkward situations.

"Not much." I said, "Are you taking advanced drama this year." I felt that while we were all here, i might as well try to make conversation.

"Yeah," she said, "But if the teacher's a flake again I swear that I'm going to-" but she was interrupted by Sophie

"Hey, what's that?" She asked pointing to a light in the sky.

"I don't know," Answered Becca, "an airplane?"

"No," I answered, "it's not the right color." It seemed to be getting bigger and bigger. "LOOK OUT!" I screamed and pushed everyone out of the way as huge flying saucer came crashing down towards us.

The doors opened and a strange creature came out. "Hurry," it said, "take the cube."

The creature that looked like some kind of mutated blue centaur, it had the body of a horse, the torso of a man with seven fingers on each hand, four eyes, two on it's face and two protruding from it's head on stalks, and a long tail with a blade on its end. It was holding out a glowing blue box.

"I came here to warn you that the yeerks are coming back, but they intercepted me. That cube will give you the power to turn into any animal you touch. You must use this power to fight the yeerks just as your predecessors did."

"Wait, what? What's going on, what are yeerks?" Becca asked

"There's no time, take the cube!" the creature demanded staring at the red light with all its eyes. It was then that I realized that the creature had no mouth and was communicating with some form of telepathy.

"Not until we get some answers!" yelled Guy

"THEY'RE COMING!!!" It screamed and their voices melded into an argument. I could not tell what anyone was saying, all I knew was that the red light was getting bigger.

"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" I screamed and silence fell. And then the light was larger than the moon, and I could see the outline of a ship visible in the night sky

A red light appeared in the sky. "There is no time, you must go. I'm sure more of my people will be here soon now leave this place" The creature said, "Hurry!"

All eight of us ran to my jeep and crammed in the large car as the red light finished its decent. And I pulled around to the back of the school and killed the head lights. We could see them but I was confident that they could not see us.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the brave warrior prince Zerek," Said a cold voice that, for some reason, reminded Brett of the character Megatron from Tramsformers. As before, the voice was in our heads and I looked to see another mutated centaur step out of the ship. Just then I saw two more sets of headlights pull into the lot. Four men got out of each of them. The friendly alien identified as Zerek turn so that he forced the other five o turn away from us. I had to help him, he was out numbered five to one; the good guys are always out numbered. I pulled out my pocket knife, unfolded the blade.

"Omar," I said turning to face him. e was n the very middle between Tori, Sophie and Becca, Mike and Guy were on the floor, Lizzy was riding shotgun, "If anything goes wrong, drive out of here without me."

"Why me?" he asked

"Because you're the only other person that can drive." And I opened my door as quietly as possible. Lizzy grabbed my arm.

"What are you going to do?" she asked.

"Something stupid." I replied.