Disclaimer: I don't own Animorphs, it's characters, or the Yeerk invasion idea. I just own Joshua, Ben, Jessie, Jimmy, and Sub-Visser one.

Chapter 2

The blue and tan creature was heading toward the junkyard. That would probably be the best place to hide with it's wrecked cars, motor homes, and other pieces of junk.

"Head for the junk yard," I shouted.

The others did as I said. We lost the blue creature as it was too fast for us to keep up to. However the men chasing us were gaining.

We reached the junkyard rather quickly. It was only a little while way from where we had started. The creature had disappeared by now. We ran through the yard dodging around piles of junk. We still didn't lose our pursuers.

We turned a corner and found ourselves surrounded by huge piles of scrap metal. There was no way out except the way we came in and our pursuers were coming from that way so…

"There's no way out," Ben said.

Our pursuers appeared. Each was carrying a futuristic looking ray gun. All five appeared to be in their early thirties. They were wearing normal everyday human clothing.

"What do we do with these four?" one of them asked.

"We take them to the yeerk pool of course," the leader said.

"I don't mean to point out the obvious but we lost the andialite and the morphing cube. I don't think Visser Three will forgive us for that even if we gave him a thousand new host bodies," another said.

Quite suddenly from around the corner emerged the blue creature. It quickly moved toward the man closest to it and slashed him with a blade on his tail. "Uh," he said before falling to the ground. The men started to turn bringing up their weapons.

They never had a chance. The creature's tail moved like lightning. It took down two more. It then pivoted on it's front legs, swinging it's tail around at another human. He then fell on top of his ally how was still standing. Then while he was occupied with pushing his comrade away the creature swung it's tail and took him out.

(Come, we don't have much time.) the creature said with a voice that seemed to be in my head. It was like he wasn't saying actual words but was sending his thoughts to us.

"What's going on?" I asked it.

(I shall explain, but first we must hide they may have reinforcements coming.)

It turned and walked away. We followed it. He led us to an abandoned motor home.

"What are you?" I asked him.

(I am an andialite.) he replied. (I am an alien. I am here to save your planet.)

He then explained about the yeerks. How they were a parasitic species that could crawl in through the ear of a creature, flatten itself out over the brain of it, and then control it totally utterly.

(They are nothing but gray slugs in their normal form.) he explained. (Every three days they drain out of their hosts to absorb nutrients in the yeerk pool. If they go for three days with out swimming in the yeerk pool they die inside their host.)

(They have enslaved the entire hork-baijer species. Large bladed creatures that had been rather peaceful before the yeerks turned them into the shock troops of their empire. They also control the taxxons although they all became controllers voluntarily. They are similar to the centipedes of Earth.) the andialite explained.

(The andialites fight the yeerks however our numbers are spread thin trying to stop them. We were arriving on earth to fight the invasion here. We had expected the yeerks to have their bug fighters and the yeerk mothership but they caught us by surprise. They had hidden a blade ship in one of the craters of your moon.)

"All right. But how come nobody has noticed the yeerks?" I asked.

(They have excess to their hosts every thought so they can easily pass for that host and no one will realize that they are being controlled by a yeerk.)

"Yeah, but now that you are here you can fight the yeerks, right?" Jessie asked.

(No, they destroyed our ship. I may have been the only one to escape alive.) he said.

We all stared at each other. Jessie looked scared. Ben had an expression of disbelief on his face. Jimmy looked thoughtful as if he was planning his next move.

I actually believed the andialite. This was definitely real. It wasn't a dream. This was real we had been chased by human-controllers, rescued by an andialite, and were now hiding in a motor home. There was no way this was all a dream.

(I can give you some power to resist the yeerks.)

"How?" I asked.

He went into another room of the motor home and came back carrying a glowing blue box. (This is called the escafil device. It can give any one who touches it the power to morph into any animal they can touch. To become any animal you have acquired all you have to do is focus on that animal and you will become it. Perhaps we can work to stall the yeerks until the andialites return.)

"And when will the andialites return?" Jimmy asked.

(It depends upon the current formation of z-space it will probably take a year.)

"A whole year?" Ben asked.

The andialite nodded his head.

"I'm all for acquiring this morphing ability. If it's the only way we can fight the yeerks." I said.

Ben nodded. Jimmy did as well. Jessie looked reluctant.

"What can the four of us do to a whole empire of brain stealing aliens?" she asked.

"We have to fight back," I said "We can't just let them take over the planet. After all we were here first."

"All right," Jessie said.

(Reach out and touch the cube.) the andialite instructed.

We each did. Four human hands touched the cube and then a fourth blue hand with too many fingers the andialite's. I felt an electrical shock go through my body. (It is done.) the andialite said.

(I must hide the cube.) he said turning to the room he had come from with the cube.

Then a bright yellow light hit the adialite in the back. It burnt a hole in his back. He collapsed to the floor.

"Die andialite scum!" Jimmy screamed.