Author Notes: I apologise for having to use square brackets instead of triangular brackets for thought speak. If anybody can give me tips on how to code triangular brackets for this site, it would be very helpful! I know the HTML code, but that doesn't seem to work when I upload chapters.

Chapter 1

My name is Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul. This is my true hirac delest. I left out years out of my memories when I transmitted them to the Andalite ship's computer. I was ashamed and I wanted to forget what had truly happened when the Ellimist showed me the universe.

When he lifted me out of that space-time continuum, I saw all twelve dimensions laid out in front of me like one of those puzzle games Loren loved to play. I saw all possibilities. I saw the possibility of five humans and my younger brother joining together to fight the Yeerks. I saw the possibility of the Yeerks winning the war and all the sentient peoples of this galaxy falling under the Yeerk Empire. I even saw a reality where we never interfered with Yeerk development, where Seerow's Kindness never happened and we had a galaxy at peace.

And then I saw something that shocked me. It was a thread of light, fragile, beautiful and almost impossible.

The Ellimist laughed at my astonishment. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THAT UNIVERSE?

I could feel it the possibility dangling before my eyes, like the beautiful grass sculpted by artists back on the Andalite home world, like the promise of caviar at the end of a long day at the office. It was bait, I knew it, but there was something about that universe. It was horrifying, yet I could feel an overwhelming surge that the universe was a happier place than the universe I had lived in for the past four years.

I shook my head. It was ridiculous. I loved Loren. I would always love her. This bait that the Ellimist was dangling before my eyes was a lie. It was impossible.

NOT IMPOSSIBLE, ELFANGOR.

I slid easily into the lines of time and could see a beautiful world. It was as if somebody had swirled Earth together with the Yeerk and Andalite home worlds but it wasn't the monstrosity that was created by myself, Loren and the Yeerk who was now Visser Three. It was a beautiful meld of worlds.

THIS COULD HAPPEN, ELFANGOR. PEACE COULD BE ACHIEVED.

My Andalite training told me that what he said was lies. The scepticism I had gained while interacting with humans told me that it was lies. But yet, my hearts were drawn towards it.

ONE YEAR, ELFANGOR. I WILL GIVE YOU ONE YEAR. AFTER THAT, YOU DECIDE WHETHER TO STAY OR GO BACK TO YOUR ANDALITE BRETHERN.

I would have whipped my head around in that typical human manner to stare at the Ellimist, but I was being whirled through time and space. The stars, planets, quasars and black holes spun around me like child's toys.

I could feel that there were trials ahead.

I felt my body twist and change back into a form that ought to have been familiar to me.

Opening my stalk eyes, I realised that I was on that planet I had seen. I was in a forest. Around me were Earth trees. I thought I could recognise conifers.

And then I blinked. I could also recognise therant trees. These particular trees weren't familiar to me; however, they were most definitely Andalite trees. I ran over and stroked the smooth bark of the tree. It was then that I saw a Yeerk pool, not two metres away from the therant trees.

I could remember seeing this world from above and thinking how beautiful it was. But now that I was down here, I couldn't see it any more. I wished that I was human so that I could curl those expressive human lips in an expression of disgust. The Yeerk pool looked so out of place. Earth trees and Andalite trees blended in together, but here and there, there were Yeerk elements, never isolated but they always stood out.

Looking up, the sky was swirled with red, gold, blue, grey and green. It was like a rainbow. A horrifying rainbow.

[WHY?] I screamed at the sky.

To my imagination, the Ellimist seemed to laugh at me.