Chapter One
A/N: Well. New story. Okay, actually it's by me and my classmate. I give her a few ideas, she sort of phrases them. Sorry bout my other story, the book that I wrote it in is with my classmate, and it's the hols now. I have to find a free day to collect it... time line: about a year earlier than in my other story. I should let you know that my friend types every thing except for the author's note.
Disclaimer: All NEW human characters are mine. Kelbrids are half KA's and half Galaxytree's. The plan to capture the Andalites and the new Andalites are half mine half Galaxytree's. Further on, the original Animorphs' adventures are half mine half Galaxytree's.
-hL (those are my initials :p)
You know about the Animorphs? Oh, come on. Of course you do. You know about Jake, Tobias, Rachel, Marco and Ax, five kids and an alien who were saddled with an amazing responsibility.
Save the world.
Save the world from a bunch of parasitic aliens who are, well, parasites. They don't look like much, in fact, they look like grey slugs. Squash one beneath your foot and it wouldn't even fight back.
Oh no. They do something much, much worse.
They burrow into the ear canal of humans or aliens. They wrap themselves around the brain, adjusting themselves to every crack and cranny of the cranium.
And they take control.
That's the definition of Controller. A mindless slave of these aliens, Yeerks.
The Animorphs fought a pitched battle with the Yeerks over a period of five years. They did it by turning into animals.
That's Animorphs. Animal morphers.
In the beginning, no one knew about the Yeerks. No one knew that there was life outside Earth.
The Andalites, another alien species, hate the Yeerks. They tried to stop them reaching Earth. However, they lost.
An Andalite fighter was shot down over Earth. It landed in a construction site. Where five kids happened to be walking home at the time.
Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, an Andalite prince, crawled from the wreckage. Wounded, dying, and knowing that Earth had no chance otherwise, gave strictly guarded Andalite technology to the children, who had witnessed it all.
The power to morph.
The power to touch an animal, acquire its DNA, and to become that animal.
But the Yeerks knew where Elfangor was. They followed him, led by Visser Three (now Visser One). Visser Three murdered Elfangor.
Visser Three. The only Yeerk ever to infest an Andalite. The only Yeerk with the power to morph.
Elfangor died as a hero. The children watched, grieved-and began their new lives as Animorphs.
There was no going back.
Over the duration of the Yeerk war, five years, the Animorphs fought the Yeerks as well as they could, joined by Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthil, Elfangor's little brother, while they waited for help from the Andalite home world.
Many unhappy, tragic things happened to the Animorphs. Tobias, one of their number, became a nothlit, the Andalite term for someone who has been in morph for over two hours, and, as a result, become trapped in morph. Marco, who had always thought that his mother was dead, found that she was actually host to Visser One, leader of the invasion. His enemy.
Ultimately, Rachel was killed on a suicide mission to take out one of the last pockets of Yeerks-the leader of which was Jake's brother, Tom.
One people knew about the invasion which had been going on under their noses, the Animorphs became instant celebrities. Visser Three was in prison. Everything was fine and dandy, but none of them, with the exception of Cassie and Ax, were happy.
Jake blamed himself for the death of Rachel, Tom and countless Yeerks.
Tobias mourned Rachel, whom he had loved.
Marco was upset about Rachel, and tried to forget his grief by immersing himself in fame and fortune.
And Rachel-well, Rachel was dead.
Ax, who had gone on board a Yeerk ship, was missing in action, so Jake rallied the surviving Animorphs, except Cassie, and, together with Ax's follower, Menderash, and two humans called Jeanne and Santorelli, set off secretly to find them.
Nothing more was ever heard of them.
A/N: Like it? Things are going to take a surprising turn...review if you want the next chappie! (Grins evilly)