Book 55: The Controller

Author's Note: You should read book 54, The Beginning, before reading this, or the story won't make much sense.

Disclaimer: The characters all belong to KA (Applegate).

Chapter one

My name is Tobias.

"Ram the blade ship," Jake commanded.

"This is so INSANE! Here you are, going to ram into the blade ship and causing my death!" Marco obviously. "Have you given that a thought?"

Shut up, I told him.

"Um...Jake," Santorelli said. "All the power has been drained by the blade ship..."

"Surrender to me Jake, the yeerk killer. You can't do anything now!" The One said gleefully.

"Menderash, what do you suggest?" Jake asked, still weirdly calm.

Guys, just surrender. I have a plan, I interrupted in private thought-speak to Jake and Menderash.

What do you mean by that? Menderash thought-spoke back to me.

"What do you suggest Menderash?" Jake repeated his question.

"Do whatever you want," Menderash said with great reluctance.

"Now what, Jake?" Jeanne asked with a hint of fear in her voice.

"We'll surrender," Jake answered.

"I see you've finally come to your senses," sneered The One. "Latch their ship with mine," The One commanded Efflit 1318.

The Rachel shook from a slow impact. The blade ship had latched on, and we were on our way to save Ax.

Ax's full name is Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill. He had told me many times that I was his shorm. That's an andalite word for someone who is closer than a friend. It turned out Ax was actually my uncle, and his elder brother, Elfangor, was my father. Nobody knew who was more surprised, Ax or me. I really had to help him.

Since your reading this, you should already know all about the yeerks. You should know that they enter your head through your ear canal and take total control of you. You should know that once, we, Rachel, Marco, Jake, Cassie, Ax and I, were the only people fighting for earth.

You should know that the yeerks killed Rachel. You should also know that Jake called us on a mission to get the yeerk, namely who they called The One, out of Ax's head.

It has been quite awhile since we heard of the yeerks. We thought we had defeated them, but no, some of them had to escape. I wish I could just settle down on Earth. I'm quite old for a red-tailed hawk, and I might have only a few more rears to live... Okay, it's time to stop dreaming. Back to the story.

We boarded the blade ship. Marco, Jake, Menderash, Jeanne, Santorelli and me. Five people. One alien. Just like before...