Chapter 1
Hello, My name is Gordon. I can't tell you my last name, but I can tell you where I live. I live in the forest, just outside of the town I used to live in. It is nice, I guess. I really don't have anything to do when I come home from work, so I train for fighting. Though I have never really needed to fight that way in the real world, it is nice to keep in shape.
Me and Sam fight all the time. Just for fun. The two of us live in the house together. Sure, we get along just fine, but sometimes the company just isn't what I need after a hard day's work. You know?
So we live there mostly alone. We have a pet bird, but he doesn't stay there long at a time. He is always going out to hunt all by himself, he just recently learned how to do that. His name is Tobias. He is a red- tailed hawk. Kind of a loner, that one is. But a nice guy all the same.
We recently acquired a new attendant to our little habitat, but he doesn't stay inside for long periods of time. His name is Aximili- Esgarrouth-Isthil. Kind of an odd name, I know, but he has a reason for it. He is an andalite. An alien.
So there is our little household. Me, Sam, Tobias, and Ax (we call him that for short.) We are the Animorphs Alliance Outpost. Actually, we aren't I just made that all up. But we kind of are an outpost. Ax and Tobias are often Checking on people to know how to get back to the yeerks pool. Why, I don't know.
Now, here's where the story get's weird. We aren't the only ones in this story. There are five others. Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Whitney, and Marco. All of which fight alongside us. We fight the yeerks.
The yeerks are an alien race, Bent on the domination of the human race. Not the destruction, though. If they wanted to destroy us, they could easily do so. They have faster than light technology, ray guns, and a seemingly infinite fleet of soldiers and fighters. And they are all willing to die.
These yeerks have instead come to earth to take over us and steal our bodies. They are simply little six inch long slugs, but they are so much more than that. I can only speculate on exactly how they do it, but buy entering out brain area through the ear canal, they can attach themselves to out brain and control all neural output.
You see, the host does not die when this happens, it merely loses all control. A fate worse than death for some. But through this, they can also read your mind like a book. And since the yeerks chose the infiltration method over the guns blaring method, this is all they need to slowly take over the human race undetected. They can play the host perfectly and be like them in society. It is just that simple.
And they want our bodies. All six billion of them. They have already completely enslaved the hork bajir, the taxxons, the Gedds, all interesting races in their own. The hork bajir are seven foot tall walking lizards with blades at their wrists, neck, legs, and at the end of their long tail. Fearsome looking things, but all slaves to the yeerks, not a single free one in the galaxy.
The Taxxons on the other hand, are soft, mushy giant caterpillar looking things. They have legs like a centipede, the look of a giant yellow caterpillar, and the feel and smell of maggots smothered in dog shit, baby puke, and other putrid smelling things. You know, the ususal gross things, like rotting flesh. But that's okay, we rarely deal with them. We mostly have to fight hork bajir, they are the foot soldiers. Armed with a beam weapon at their side. A weapon that shoots beams that are incredibly destructive and explosive.
And the andalites, Ax's people, try to stop them from going further. They have tried, but obviously have failed. I do not see any progress when attempting to come and help us now that we need it.
Except one thing. One day, as ME, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, Whitney, Jake and Marco were all walking home from the mall, we encountered a fallen warrior known as Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul. He was an andalite prince, and he gave just us a great and powerful weapon. The ability to morph into any animal we can touch. Most andalites can do it, and now we could too.
Don't get me wrong, the andalites aren't born with such a power. It was a technology they made to infiltrate yeerk ranks and such. Almost as good as the yeerks, but just like any technology or weapon, it works both ways. You see, there is a slight limitation to this technology which could be the downfall of it's user. You see, when the Andalite gave us this power, he told us never to stay in morph for more than two hours and seven minutes. (Go figure, who says andalite times are the same as ours.)
So if you do, know this, you will be staying in morph forever from then until the day you die. Or until the animal's life span is over. Either way, you aren't likely to live very long.
Unfortunately, the technology has taken it's own toll on one of us. That pet bird Tobias was not really a bird to begin with. Need I say more? Didn't think so.
So, with our knowledge and power, we decided to do our part to help in this war. We have decided to fight, and with our limited power, we do quite a bit. Already we have infiltrated the yeerk pool and irritated Visser three. That is where the yeerks must go every three days to absorb nutrients or it will die. It can't feed while in it's host. Visser three is the yeerk general in charge of the yeerk operations here on earth. He has an andalite body. The only one as far as I know.
Then we spied out a known controller, and found we could do nothing to help that family. After that, we really did something that might actually put them at a little caution. We managed to destroy a ship used for transporting important substances. Like they don't have others.
Then, on the most recent bout, we captured Ax from his underwater prison. He was trapped there since the battle that stranded Elfangor on earth. He was in the dome of what he called a dome ship. Original, eh? The dome is a large grassy area that the andalites can frolic and play in when not preoccupied by intergalactic war, or something. I don't know. That's how Ax put it.
Anyway, during that battle, we were ambushed and barely made it out with Ax. Sam also helped destroy two of the Yeerk Battle Cruisers on the water. The Visser was partially occupied by chasing me, so he never really got to go after Sam. I bet he would have loved to, though.
That was fun, we all barely made it out of that one alive. Actually, Everyone but Me and sam made it out just fine. They left me behind as a sacrifice. But it was worth it, we now have an andalite friend to help us out in the tight spots.
Me, Sam, and Tobias were all forced out of society. That was just the way things worked with the yeerks. They knew who we were, so if they found us, we were dead. And if they infested us, they would find the rest of the resistance and that would be it. No more mr free guy for us.
Either way, they only found me actually. I do kind of feel guilty over that, but Sam says he didn't mind. They found me and asked my family who I hung out with when they caught them. They found that I hung out mostly with Sam and Tobias. You know, just in case I had told them about the invasion.
By the time they figured it all out, Tobias had already been stuck in morph and had already lost his social life. Not that he had one to begin with. He was kind of a loner. Always getting picked on at school, being treated bad at home. He was left between an aunt and uncle that both shunned him. It was terrible, but there was no problem with him being a bird.
So then, we thought maybe we could help Sam out. He was not with us at the time and knew nothing, so he would not give us away. Fortunately, we were wrong, and decided to go on with saving his life. We went to his house, and found he was bot there, he was at an outdoor paint ball place called area 51. Cool place, I had been there. But when we did eventually get him out of there, the yeerks left the place a pile of burning wood. A shame really.
Anyway, we had to keep him for three days before we could be sure of his loyalties. But he didn't take well to this, so we had to try and tell him we were the good guys. You see, the reason he was so doubtful was because he had known of the invasion for three years now. And he knew a lot about the yeerks. Their past, future, and weaknesses. He even knew how to use some of the weaponry. Which was cool.
How he knows this is a mystery, but it sounds pretty authentic, and has so far been accurate. He was the one who told us about the three day limit and such. He was well advised and he claims he did it by scouting. I don't see how. It would be really hard to creep up on these people. I have tried to, it didn't work. They are too secretive.
Anyway, sam knows this and now he is with us. It would seem as if he was useless, not being able to morph or anything, but he has proved his real worth. He has telekinesis. The ability to move objects with his mind. And as it seems, not only objects, but himself as well. He can actually make himself fly, which is really cool. When he uses this power, his eyes glow red, so I know when he is cheating in a fight.
He was really weak at first, but he is smart. He grew really quick. He went from only being able to move leaves and paper to being able to lift his own weight and more. The advantages to this is that is never tires as long as he can keep his concentration. So the intense concentration can make him powerful.
So Jake, our un-proclaimed leader decide that it would be safer to just have him stay off the field. Sam, being the guy he was, decided to make his own rules. He fought with us and helped us get out of many problems that we had. He was a valuable asset.
Jake was the responsible. He was probably right to keep sam away, but that was then. This is now, and Jake rarely says anything anymore.
Marco is Jake's best friend. They hang around a lot together and often play video games. Marco is definitely a critical thinker. He is the first to get us from point A to point B. Not to say I don't too, but I happen to have a different and odd agenda. He does everything straightforward, casualties aside.
Rachel and Cassie are exact opposites' though. Cassie s the environmentalist tree hugger humane vet extrodinaire. Rachel, on the other hand, made a lifestyle out of shopping and proving people wrong. You see, Rachel is Tall, Blonde, and Beautiful. But that isn't just my opinion, ask anyone at school. She is like the warrior princess. That's right, I'm talking about the famous almighty Xena. I could definitely see her fighting a war by herself with her little pupils following her around everywhere.
Whitney, on the other hand, is a very smart person. Not ruthless, but she can understand the simple concept of sacrifice and the need to fight. Doesn't mean she tries to find a reason to fight, but she definitely can fight when it is needed.
I know, I have tried to fight with her, she has a will stronger than steel. Just imagine trying to win an argument with someone who could make you change your mind about religion if you were a born again Christian. I know, she did just that. She is the best debater I have ever known. She knows all the facts without doing any sort of research, and knows how to use it indefinitely to her advantage. Very smart thinker there.
Enough about her intelligence, Whitney was almost like an exact mix between Rachel and Cassie. She tended to have a very soft spot for animals and the environment, while at the same time, she saw no reason to stop from doing what's right, even if it did hold casualties. She was short, with long black hair. Cute, though.
She was a gymnast, with Rachel. They were in the same gym club. The one operating out of the school, actually. He mother was a biology teacher at the school there.
And that's where I got my fake ID. There was a little license bureau and ID place in the basement. Apparently, they do all their own ID cards and stuff. With the help of Marco, they were actually able to make me an identity to use so I could get an official name. They hacked into the files, took my picture, and gave me a license.
I was 18 year old Josh Blanchett in normal society. Every day, when people are at school, I was working at a trucking company called DeJong's. I worked in the warehouse. I morphed into someone I acquired to work there. Every hour or so I would stay out in the warehouse when nobody was looking and demorph and remorph. It was pretty simple.
I made enough money there to keep Me and Sam in food, clothes, and have money saved up. I didn't know what for yet, but I was sure it would come in handy. To this day, I have almost a thousand dollars saved up. It was a good thing, too, or I would have ben out of luck when Ax helped us with our little problems.
You see, apparently we had more right at our fingertips than we had thought.
Hello, My name is Gordon. I can't tell you my last name, but I can tell you where I live. I live in the forest, just outside of the town I used to live in. It is nice, I guess. I really don't have anything to do when I come home from work, so I train for fighting. Though I have never really needed to fight that way in the real world, it is nice to keep in shape.
Me and Sam fight all the time. Just for fun. The two of us live in the house together. Sure, we get along just fine, but sometimes the company just isn't what I need after a hard day's work. You know?
So we live there mostly alone. We have a pet bird, but he doesn't stay there long at a time. He is always going out to hunt all by himself, he just recently learned how to do that. His name is Tobias. He is a red- tailed hawk. Kind of a loner, that one is. But a nice guy all the same.
We recently acquired a new attendant to our little habitat, but he doesn't stay inside for long periods of time. His name is Aximili- Esgarrouth-Isthil. Kind of an odd name, I know, but he has a reason for it. He is an andalite. An alien.
So there is our little household. Me, Sam, Tobias, and Ax (we call him that for short.) We are the Animorphs Alliance Outpost. Actually, we aren't I just made that all up. But we kind of are an outpost. Ax and Tobias are often Checking on people to know how to get back to the yeerks pool. Why, I don't know.
Now, here's where the story get's weird. We aren't the only ones in this story. There are five others. Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Whitney, and Marco. All of which fight alongside us. We fight the yeerks.
The yeerks are an alien race, Bent on the domination of the human race. Not the destruction, though. If they wanted to destroy us, they could easily do so. They have faster than light technology, ray guns, and a seemingly infinite fleet of soldiers and fighters. And they are all willing to die.
These yeerks have instead come to earth to take over us and steal our bodies. They are simply little six inch long slugs, but they are so much more than that. I can only speculate on exactly how they do it, but buy entering out brain area through the ear canal, they can attach themselves to out brain and control all neural output.
You see, the host does not die when this happens, it merely loses all control. A fate worse than death for some. But through this, they can also read your mind like a book. And since the yeerks chose the infiltration method over the guns blaring method, this is all they need to slowly take over the human race undetected. They can play the host perfectly and be like them in society. It is just that simple.
And they want our bodies. All six billion of them. They have already completely enslaved the hork bajir, the taxxons, the Gedds, all interesting races in their own. The hork bajir are seven foot tall walking lizards with blades at their wrists, neck, legs, and at the end of their long tail. Fearsome looking things, but all slaves to the yeerks, not a single free one in the galaxy.
The Taxxons on the other hand, are soft, mushy giant caterpillar looking things. They have legs like a centipede, the look of a giant yellow caterpillar, and the feel and smell of maggots smothered in dog shit, baby puke, and other putrid smelling things. You know, the ususal gross things, like rotting flesh. But that's okay, we rarely deal with them. We mostly have to fight hork bajir, they are the foot soldiers. Armed with a beam weapon at their side. A weapon that shoots beams that are incredibly destructive and explosive.
And the andalites, Ax's people, try to stop them from going further. They have tried, but obviously have failed. I do not see any progress when attempting to come and help us now that we need it.
Except one thing. One day, as ME, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, Whitney, Jake and Marco were all walking home from the mall, we encountered a fallen warrior known as Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul. He was an andalite prince, and he gave just us a great and powerful weapon. The ability to morph into any animal we can touch. Most andalites can do it, and now we could too.
Don't get me wrong, the andalites aren't born with such a power. It was a technology they made to infiltrate yeerk ranks and such. Almost as good as the yeerks, but just like any technology or weapon, it works both ways. You see, there is a slight limitation to this technology which could be the downfall of it's user. You see, when the Andalite gave us this power, he told us never to stay in morph for more than two hours and seven minutes. (Go figure, who says andalite times are the same as ours.)
So if you do, know this, you will be staying in morph forever from then until the day you die. Or until the animal's life span is over. Either way, you aren't likely to live very long.
Unfortunately, the technology has taken it's own toll on one of us. That pet bird Tobias was not really a bird to begin with. Need I say more? Didn't think so.
So, with our knowledge and power, we decided to do our part to help in this war. We have decided to fight, and with our limited power, we do quite a bit. Already we have infiltrated the yeerk pool and irritated Visser three. That is where the yeerks must go every three days to absorb nutrients or it will die. It can't feed while in it's host. Visser three is the yeerk general in charge of the yeerk operations here on earth. He has an andalite body. The only one as far as I know.
Then we spied out a known controller, and found we could do nothing to help that family. After that, we really did something that might actually put them at a little caution. We managed to destroy a ship used for transporting important substances. Like they don't have others.
Then, on the most recent bout, we captured Ax from his underwater prison. He was trapped there since the battle that stranded Elfangor on earth. He was in the dome of what he called a dome ship. Original, eh? The dome is a large grassy area that the andalites can frolic and play in when not preoccupied by intergalactic war, or something. I don't know. That's how Ax put it.
Anyway, during that battle, we were ambushed and barely made it out with Ax. Sam also helped destroy two of the Yeerk Battle Cruisers on the water. The Visser was partially occupied by chasing me, so he never really got to go after Sam. I bet he would have loved to, though.
That was fun, we all barely made it out of that one alive. Actually, Everyone but Me and sam made it out just fine. They left me behind as a sacrifice. But it was worth it, we now have an andalite friend to help us out in the tight spots.
Me, Sam, and Tobias were all forced out of society. That was just the way things worked with the yeerks. They knew who we were, so if they found us, we were dead. And if they infested us, they would find the rest of the resistance and that would be it. No more mr free guy for us.
Either way, they only found me actually. I do kind of feel guilty over that, but Sam says he didn't mind. They found me and asked my family who I hung out with when they caught them. They found that I hung out mostly with Sam and Tobias. You know, just in case I had told them about the invasion.
By the time they figured it all out, Tobias had already been stuck in morph and had already lost his social life. Not that he had one to begin with. He was kind of a loner. Always getting picked on at school, being treated bad at home. He was left between an aunt and uncle that both shunned him. It was terrible, but there was no problem with him being a bird.
So then, we thought maybe we could help Sam out. He was not with us at the time and knew nothing, so he would not give us away. Fortunately, we were wrong, and decided to go on with saving his life. We went to his house, and found he was bot there, he was at an outdoor paint ball place called area 51. Cool place, I had been there. But when we did eventually get him out of there, the yeerks left the place a pile of burning wood. A shame really.
Anyway, we had to keep him for three days before we could be sure of his loyalties. But he didn't take well to this, so we had to try and tell him we were the good guys. You see, the reason he was so doubtful was because he had known of the invasion for three years now. And he knew a lot about the yeerks. Their past, future, and weaknesses. He even knew how to use some of the weaponry. Which was cool.
How he knows this is a mystery, but it sounds pretty authentic, and has so far been accurate. He was the one who told us about the three day limit and such. He was well advised and he claims he did it by scouting. I don't see how. It would be really hard to creep up on these people. I have tried to, it didn't work. They are too secretive.
Anyway, sam knows this and now he is with us. It would seem as if he was useless, not being able to morph or anything, but he has proved his real worth. He has telekinesis. The ability to move objects with his mind. And as it seems, not only objects, but himself as well. He can actually make himself fly, which is really cool. When he uses this power, his eyes glow red, so I know when he is cheating in a fight.
He was really weak at first, but he is smart. He grew really quick. He went from only being able to move leaves and paper to being able to lift his own weight and more. The advantages to this is that is never tires as long as he can keep his concentration. So the intense concentration can make him powerful.
So Jake, our un-proclaimed leader decide that it would be safer to just have him stay off the field. Sam, being the guy he was, decided to make his own rules. He fought with us and helped us get out of many problems that we had. He was a valuable asset.
Jake was the responsible. He was probably right to keep sam away, but that was then. This is now, and Jake rarely says anything anymore.
Marco is Jake's best friend. They hang around a lot together and often play video games. Marco is definitely a critical thinker. He is the first to get us from point A to point B. Not to say I don't too, but I happen to have a different and odd agenda. He does everything straightforward, casualties aside.
Rachel and Cassie are exact opposites' though. Cassie s the environmentalist tree hugger humane vet extrodinaire. Rachel, on the other hand, made a lifestyle out of shopping and proving people wrong. You see, Rachel is Tall, Blonde, and Beautiful. But that isn't just my opinion, ask anyone at school. She is like the warrior princess. That's right, I'm talking about the famous almighty Xena. I could definitely see her fighting a war by herself with her little pupils following her around everywhere.
Whitney, on the other hand, is a very smart person. Not ruthless, but she can understand the simple concept of sacrifice and the need to fight. Doesn't mean she tries to find a reason to fight, but she definitely can fight when it is needed.
I know, I have tried to fight with her, she has a will stronger than steel. Just imagine trying to win an argument with someone who could make you change your mind about religion if you were a born again Christian. I know, she did just that. She is the best debater I have ever known. She knows all the facts without doing any sort of research, and knows how to use it indefinitely to her advantage. Very smart thinker there.
Enough about her intelligence, Whitney was almost like an exact mix between Rachel and Cassie. She tended to have a very soft spot for animals and the environment, while at the same time, she saw no reason to stop from doing what's right, even if it did hold casualties. She was short, with long black hair. Cute, though.
She was a gymnast, with Rachel. They were in the same gym club. The one operating out of the school, actually. He mother was a biology teacher at the school there.
And that's where I got my fake ID. There was a little license bureau and ID place in the basement. Apparently, they do all their own ID cards and stuff. With the help of Marco, they were actually able to make me an identity to use so I could get an official name. They hacked into the files, took my picture, and gave me a license.
I was 18 year old Josh Blanchett in normal society. Every day, when people are at school, I was working at a trucking company called DeJong's. I worked in the warehouse. I morphed into someone I acquired to work there. Every hour or so I would stay out in the warehouse when nobody was looking and demorph and remorph. It was pretty simple.
I made enough money there to keep Me and Sam in food, clothes, and have money saved up. I didn't know what for yet, but I was sure it would come in handy. To this day, I have almost a thousand dollars saved up. It was a good thing, too, or I would have ben out of luck when Ax helped us with our little problems.
You see, apparently we had more right at our fingertips than we had thought.