A/N: Hi, I'm back again after a whole year, can you believe it? I'm editing all of my chapters and once I'm done with that, I'll update a new chapter.

The Andalite Chronicles: In Loren's POV

Chapter one: (TAC time line: A few weeks before TAC takes place)

Prologue

On a day that seemed like any other, Loren Hunter was walking alongside the river that ran a couple hundred yards away from her house. She never could have imagined that her life was about to change forever, yet not change at all, in the next couple of minutes.

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"R. E. S. P. E. C. T, find out what it means to me! R. E. S. P. E. C. T., takin' care of T.C.B." I belted out as I walked along my river. Man, Aretha Franklin was something! Wish that I could sing like that. It was a mid-afternoon summer day and I had nothing better to do than to walk in the sun and soak in its warmth, something I certainly had no objections to doing.

I was so busy singing that I didn't notice a huge shadow that started to descend over me. I finally noticed it because it blocked out the sun, taking away my sunlight. I looked upwards to see what could be blocking it, but I couldn't see anything.

"Weird. Some kinda eclipse?" Nah, it would've been all over the news this morning if that had been the case. I continued looking upwards and I swear I felt a heavy, warmwindsweep overme. Not the normal kind of wind though, it felt as though it was coming from a helicopter.

I started to walk a little faster, away from the wind. "I know I should've gone to the movies today."

BOOM!

Theshock of the noisemade me trip over my own feet. Iimmediatelyleaped up, adrenaline pumping, and spun around, trying to locate the source of the noise,but didn't see anything out of the ordinary."Who's there?!" I shouted.Nothing answered. The woods were nowdeathly quiet. All the chirping sounds of the birds and sounds ofthe other animals were gone.Only thesounds of the rushing water of the river remained.

"Just go home, Loren, go home. GO!" I told myself, but quietly.

But I couldn't, my feet were planted down in the ground. My mind was screaming for me to get the hell out of there, but I felt that I had to stay. Whatever it was that was coming, I would see it.

Then, out of nowhere, I saw a giant cockroach scuttle out from the trees towards me. "Oh my god!" Okay, I've seen it, now I can run!

I started to run, but then something else caught my eye. It looked like a gray animal that had four legs. It made some squeaky noises and had something that looked like one of those phasers that you see on Star Trek.

I stopped, staring at it. Again, I felt this incredibly big urge like I had to stay. I had to stay. When my departed senses came back, I started to run away again, but the gray thing pointed its gun at me and I saw a flash of green light.

TSSEEEWWW!

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I slowly came into consciousness, the darkness fading and I opened my eyes, but immediately closed them again because of the brightness. Instead, I tried to get up but I was tied down onto something. My eyes flashed opened and I cried out, "What the hell is happening?! Get me out!" Memories flashed by, a green light, giant cockroach, the warm wind--

Agiant cockroach came into the room and scuttled towards me.

"AHH!!! Get away!" Help! Somebody, help me!!!!"

"It's no use."

It was a voice, a human voice. Oh, bless you God!

"Who are you? Please, help me!" I cried out. I struggled against whatever was holding me down but it was no use.

"They'll untie you soon, they just wanted to look you over without you struggling for awhile."

"What's happening? Where am I? Who are you?" My voice was still high in fear and nervousness but I was slowly regaining control of myself.

"My name is Hedrick, and we've been kidnapped by aliens." His voice seemed to have a dull edge to it, as though he almost didn't care.

"What?! This is serious shit! You have to get us out of here!"

Hedrick laughed. "'Get us out of here'? Sure, that would be a good thing to do, if we could!"

I was starting to dislike this guy. "Are you sure we've been kidnapped by aliens? Maybe it's all a mistake." Yeah, that was it. Wake up, Loren!

He scoffed again. "Yeah, sure, these giant cockroaches and gray four-legged animals sure aren't aliens and those windows over there sure aren't showing outer space."

My mind was reeling. Was it true? Had I actually been kidnapped by some extraterrestrial? Of course I'd believed that there was other sentient life out there, but I didn't expect them to come kidnap me! Oh, my god. What about Mom? She's gonna go crazy.

"Oh, my god."

"Yeah, that's right. We've been kidnapped by aliens who are taking us away. Might as well wave bye-bye to Earth while you still can." Hedrick sounded bitter and who wouldn't? But the fact that he was giving up so soon was insufferable.

"Hedrick, where are you? I can't see you." My head was held down as well and I could move it just barely.

"I'm in a cage a couple of feet behind you."

"Have you tried unlocking it? Can you get out?"

"Uh, no. There's no chance, girl."

Then a pair of the gray-legged creatures came in. They seemed to have some sort of intelligence as they seemed to be talking in a different language. The giant cockroach just scuttled about doing nothing, as far as I could tell.

As they came near me, I shuddered. I couldn't help it. "Hey, untie me!" I called to them. They squeaked a bit more in their language and came forward. One stroked my side. "Hey! Stop that! What the hell do you think you're doing?! In my world, that's pretty damn close to molesting!"

Despite my anger, they ignored it and talked once more. After a discussion of squeaks and tweets, they undid the straps to the thing I was on. As soon as they did, I jumped up and made a dash for an exit.

TSEEEWWW!

"OW!!!" One of them had gotten me with that phaser thing in my left leg and I couldn't move it anymore. I crumpled to the ground.

"See? I told you there was no use in fighting them."