Alternamorphs: Prologue

My name is Roma. No last name. I won't even tell you where I live. It's too dangerous, and besides, my brother would ream me out royally. Right before the Controllers broke down the door and dragged both us and our parents off to the Yeerk pool to make us Controllers.

I can just hear you saying, "Wait. Back up. What are Controllers? What's a Yeerk pool? For that matter, is there even such a thing as a Yeerk pool?"

Well, the answer is "yes". I should know. I've been there. And as for what it is, it's where the Controllers-Maybe I should explain what Controllers are.

A Controller is someone that has a Yeerk in his or her head. Yeerks are evil, parasitic slugs that crawl through your ear and flatten themselves against your brain. Then they take over your mind and your body. They control your every movement, everything you say. You can't fight back.

And the worst part is, no one would even know you were a Controller.

The Yeerk pool is where the Yeerks feed. It's their one great weakness.

Everything in my life used to be pretty normal.

Well, before my friends and I took a shortcut through an abandoned construction site one night while walking home from the arcade.

That night changed our lives forever. That construction site was where the five of us first met the Andalite prince Elfangor, who told us about the Yeerks and gave us our one weapon- the power to morph.

Now we fight the Yeerks, alongside Elfangor's little brother Ax.

The Yeerks don't know who we are. They think we're a bunch of renegade Andalites. They don't suspect that we're mostly just a bunch of human kids.

I say mostly, because Ax is an Andalite. He kinda looks like a blue-and-tan centaur with a scorpion tail, an extra pair of eyes, no mouth, and too many fingers. And also because another friend-Anthony- was trapped in morph. Not to mention that his mom, Nancy, also fights with us.

Anthony used to be a human boy with black hair and icy sapphire-blue eyes. Now he's a peregrine falcon with the mind of a human.

I guess I should explain about the morphing.

We can morph into any creature we touch. We acquire the animal's DNA just by touching it, and from then on, we can morph that animal any time we want. But there is a downside: We can't stay in morph more than two hours we'll be trapped in morph. That's what happened to Anthony. He morphed the peregrine and accidentally overstayed the time limit.

The other four are my best friend Sam, who has reddish-brown hair and black eyes, and who really loves to work with animals, Anthony's older brother Matt, a blue-eyed blond and also my twin's best friend, my twin brother Tai, who has wild brown hair and brown eyes, and Matt and Anthony's mom, Nancy.

Together, the seven of us- one Andalite, one Falcon, and five humans-fight. We don't have much of a choice. If we didn't fight, Earth would have already fallen to the Yeerks.

But we let that happen. We'll keep fighting. Until the Andalites come, as they said they would. Until the Yeerks are defeated.

You'd better hope we win.