Arbron slithered out the Blade ship with the other Taxxons. He kept back just enough to be able to control the hunger, but not too far for the Yeerks to suspect anything. When it was over and Elfangor was dead, he separated himself from the others and went deeper into the empty buildings. At this moment he noticed the man. Even though Arbron did not know him, he had something familiar that made him curious. He quickly burrowed a tunnel into the ground and followed the stranger.
After about an hour they had reached the woods and the man hid behind a big tree a short distance from the path while Arbron watched him from a spot where the other could not see him. After two minutes, an Andalite emerged from behind the tree, an Andalite that had just died one hour ago. Before he could stop himself, he called out: "Elfangor, is that you?" The Andalite immediately looked shocked, his stalk eyes moving in all directions.
Arbron came out of hiding and slowly moved towards him, while he continued talking: "Elfangor, it is me, your old friend Arbron. Please do not attack. I am here to help you." Elfangor slowly calmed down and let him come closer. Arbron stopped about five metres away from his friend, but before he was able to do anything else, he heard a voice in his head, that was not Elfangor`s. It simply said: "I will give you the same chance I gave your friend. You were not supposed to become stuck in morph, so I will undo this, if you agree to stay on Earth with your friend and the others you will meet soon and do your best to fight the Yeerks." Like Elfangor before him, Arbron did not have to think for very long, before he agreed.
Then he suddenly found himself change back to Andalite. It was really good to be out of the Taxxon body and to have his hooves again. He had been stuck as a Taxxon for so long that he had almost forgotten how it had been. He spent several hours just standing on the grass to remind himself that it was not a dream, while Elfangor told him everything that had happened since he had been left behind on the Taxxon homeworld. The pain of his friend over losing Loren and his son had made him sad as well, but at least Elfangor had given the change to have a family for a while, even though he had been forced to return to the homeworld and missed seeing his son grow up. After the story had been finished, they sat there in silence until it was night and they had to find a place where they could stay in their natural forms without accidently being spotted. They finally found an old barn in a field that looked like it was going to collapse soon. It had definitely not been used a long time, but the door was halfway closed, so they hid in a dark corner on the side where the door was.