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Disclaimer: Are you kidding me? I'm just a poor teen from Texas… I A) would be richer if I owned Animorphs, B) would be named Katherine instead of Alexandra, B) would have this published, and C) don't have the money to buy Animorphs. It all belongs to K. A. Applegate and Scholastic, unfortunately. Unless, of course, they were to be nice and give it to me for my half-birthday coming up… (Hey, it's the only holiday I can think of! And it's not really a holiday, but oh, well.) And you know what's really sad? This coming Tuesday, May 14th, will be the memorial of the one-year anniversary since I read #54. *Cries* Can you believe that it has actually been that long? Maybe Scholastic will give me Animorphs for that! *Smiles dreamily, and is dragged off by the nice men in white jackets*
Book #57 – The Unbeatable
Chapter 1
My name is Marco. Marco the Magnificent, Marco the Animorph, Marco the Tallest, Funniest, Cutest Guy Ever. All those names apply to me.
Well, maybe not the part about me being tall, but you get the idea.
But now, I give myself a new name. Marco the Hater of Annoying All-Powerful Beings.
Let me back up a bit. The story began six and a half years ago, when I was at the mall with my best friend Jake. There, we ran into another kid from school, Tobias, who Jake had stood up for a few months before when some bullies had tried to stick his head in the toilet. We also ran into Jake's amazingly beautiful but amazingly psychotic cousin Rachel and her best bud Cassie. We decided, very stupidly, to go home through the abandoned construction site nearby. Usually we didn't go near there, because psycho killers and axe murderers hung out in it. But we found out that our big danger that night actually came from the stars, in the form of parasitic slugs. But now I'm getting ahead of myself again.
As we went through the site, a spaceship crashed in front of us, and our lives changed forever.
Pretty dramatic, huh?
Anyway, out of the ship walked an alien. An Andalite, to be exact. He was dying from wounds he got in a battle in orbit. As quickly as he could, he told us about the Yeerks, parasites from another planet, who wanted us.
No, not our land, our resources, our ideas, but our bodies. Our senses.
You see, Yeerks in their natural states are nothing more than gray slugs. However, they have the ability to creep into your ear and take over your body. When you walked, it was the Yeerk moving your legs. When you talked, the Yeerks moved your lips. When you breathed, the Yeerk controlled how fast and how much and if you breathed at all. On top of all that, they could read your memories like a book, and read your thoughts as you thought them. Because of that, the Yeerks could pass you off as yourself, without anybody ever suspecting that an evil alien was buried in your brain. And no one would ever suspect that it was that same alien that betrayed your family and friends, forcing them to become Controllers as well. No one could hear you scream
The Yeerks had an empire. The completely conquered the Gedds, the Hork-Bajir, and the Taxxons. There were a few Leeran Controllers, Garatron Controllers, and other species. And there was one Andalite Controller, called Visser Three. The Abomination. Leader of the Yeerk invasion of Earth.
Anyway, after the dying Andalite told us all that, he gave us a weapon to fight them. He gave us the power to morph into any animal we touched.
And then he made us run away. We hid, and then saw the last few minutes of the Andalite's life. We saw him eaten by Visser Three.
You see, morphing is an Andalite technology. And because Visser Three had an Andalite body, he could morph. He had acquired monsters from all over the universe. And with one of them, he ate the Andalite, Elfangor.
After that, we fought the Yeerks for three years. Soon into the fight, we were joined by Elfangor's little brother, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, also known as Ax. Surprisingly, the six of us kids were able to inflict some major damage on the Yeerks. Basically, we kicked butt. Towards the end, we even managed to destroy their base on Earth, the Yeerk pool, where they fed.
Three and a half years ago, we defeated the Yeerks, but at a terrible price. Rachel was killed, after killing Jake's brother Tom, who was a Controller. The ship that they had both died on, the Blade ship, got away with some renegade Yeerks.
Jake spiraled into a horrible depression, and Tobias disappeared. For them, life sucked.
It wasn't nearly as bad for me, Cassie, and Ax. Cassie started studying to become a veterinarian, something she had wanted to do all her life. She was also helping out the president and the colony of free Hork-Bajir on Earth.
Ax became a prince, in charge of his own ship The Intrepid. He finally made it out of his brother's shadow.
I became rich. I had my own television series, and I dated beautiful girls who never would have even looked at me before. I was able to do anything I wanted, and everybody knew me.
All of us still missed Rachel and Tom though, as well as the missing Tobias and the old, happy Jake.
But unless you've been living in some sort of hole for the past three and a half years, you already know that. You already have heard all this, because everybody on earth knows it. The new parts of this story only started not long ago.
A little over six months ago, an Andalite name Menderash came to Jake, saying that he was the only known survivor of The Intrepid. Ax had been kidnapped by the Blade ship, and brought into Kelbrid space. The Kelbrid headed an empire in a nearby galaxy, and the Andalites and the Kelbrid had a treaty saying no Andalite or Andalite ship could go into Kelbrid space, and vice versa. The Andalites wanted Jake to go rescue Ax and prevent a intergalactic war, but they couldn't say that without breaking the treaty.
Jake brought me, Tobias, Menderash in human morph, and two of his morphing students to rescue Ax. We finally found him. He had been absorbed by some all-powerful being called The One. Absorbed, meaning he had taken over Ax's body and mind, torturing Ax day in and day out with old memories, twisted into unrecognizable nightmares. We couldn't escape them, so we tried to destroy them by ramming the Blade ship.
Right before we were about to hit it, it was vaporized by another ship's beam weapons. Ax suddenly appeared in our own ship. We met with the inhabitants of the other ship, and nearly died from the surprise of finding Rachel, Tom, Cassie, two of the people we knew from earth, and the son of Visser Three's host body on board.
There had been a Sario Rip, or rip in the time-space continuum when Cassie decided to come rescue us, allowing her to go back in time and rescue Rachel and Tom.
Anyway, we tried to go home, but met up with some Kelbrid, also known as Garatron, who turned out to be distant relatives of the Andalites. They had met The One, and were trying to kill us for bringing an Andalite ship, two Andalites, and an Andalite trapped in the morph of a human into their space. They refused to listen to the fact that they were related to them.
While trying to escape the Garatron, we met with my current girlfriend Sandra and a colony of Murkra, an alien race we thought had died out sixty-five million years ago with the dinosaurs. Surprise, surprise.
Turns out, the Garatron didn't like the Murkra, either. They shot us down onto another planet, the Hork-Bajir homeworld. The One began absorbing Hork-Bajir left and right, and Jake, being all noble and such, decided that we had no choice but to try and get rid of The One. During a fight with the Garatron on our way to meet The One, Santorelli, one of Jake's students, was killed. We finally met The One, and just as he was about to absorb us, Rachel and Tobias kissed, showing love. Apparently, The One is so evil that love destroyed him, and so we were alright.
But then, as we were about to start jumping up and down for joy, Drode, the helper of Crayak, appeared.
During our battles with the Yeerks, we met two other all-powerful beings. One of them, Ellimist, was good, and the other, Crayak, was evil. They had a sort of chess game against each other for control of the galaxy. Of course, they could never directly intervene with us mortals, even if they did so all the time.
Drode said that The One had been the only thing keeping Crayak from becoming more powerful than Ellimist, and being able to expand into other galaxies and such. So we were faced with a new, even more powerful evil all-powerful being taking over the universe.
Now, let's just look at what all-powerful beings have done for us in the past, shall we? The Ellimist has helped us a few times, but he also refused to bring Rachel back to life when he had the power to do it, he took Tobias' dad from him and erased Tobias' mom's memory, he confused us multiple times, and sent us into a nightmare world where we had to chase a Yeerk who had found the Time Matrix. Long, complicated story, there.
Crayak has tried to get Rachel to kill Jake, tortured Rachel mentally, tortured Jake mentally, tried to kill us with six members of the race he created for the simple reason of killing so that he could kill off the Iskoort, which are another alien race, helped the Ellimist send us to that nightmare world, and he's now trying to take over the universe.
And finally, The One, who absorbed Ax, tried to absorb me and my friends, did absorb a bunch of Hork-Bajir, and betrayed Captain Bavaritun Larumian Hartar by absorbing a bunch of Garatron.
None of them have been very nice to us.
And that is why I, Marco, hate all-powerful beings. They're just plain annoying.