Disclaimer: I don't own Animorphs, or any of it's plot. Obviously. All I own are the characters Joshua, Ben, Jessie, and Jimmy/Sub-visser one.

Chapter 3

"Why did you do that?" Jessie said.

I suddenly realized something. When Jimmy had first seen the andialite running toward us his expression had been one of deep hatred. He had hesitated when we decided to run from the controllers. Jimmy was not acting normal. Jimmy was a controller.

Jimmy turned the laser on us. "One wrong move and I vaporize you." He said.

I then did something either really brave or really stupid. I ducked and pushed myself forward. I hit Jimmy and knocked him back. I tried to grab the laser, but Jimmy raised it and whacked my head.

I fell back. My head was throbbing. Jimmy raised the gun again and cried out in pain. The andialite had brought his tail up and slashed Jimmy's leg. Jimmy fell to the floor. Even as he fell the andialite struck again hitting Jimmy's stomach.

(You have to get out of here grab the cube and hide it.) the andialite said weakly. (Don't ever stay in morph for more then two hours, or you will be permanently stuck in morph, and beware of Visser three. He is the only yeerk with an andialite host body. The only yeerk who can morph.)

I picked up the laser and then the morphing cube.

"What about you?" I asked the andialite over Jessie's sobbing.

(The wound is fatal I'll die.)

"Let's go," I said.

"Yeah, all right," Ben said.

"Let's go," I said to Jessie.

She got up still sobbing and followed us out the door. We walked out of the junkyard ignoring the rain falling around us. We reached the exit and walked awhile together. I had gotten rid of the laser back in the junkyard. We came to my house. We stopped and stood there awhile before I said

"Don't tell anyone, not even our parents what happened back there. Okay?"

"Okay," Ben agreed.

Jessie just nodded her head.

"All right tomorrow is a Sunday so let's meet up at Ben's house around two o'clock," I said.

Everybody agreed and I went into my house and then Ben headed for his house, which was a couple of blocks away from mine. I didn't where Jessie's house was but it was probably on the way to Ben's, as she was following him.

I went in using the spare key, which was hidden under the welcome mat. My parents had left that night for a business party. My dad worked as a stockbroker. My mom was a housewife. My little brother was home but my parents had made him go to bed early, so he should still be asleep.

I turned on the dining room lights and made my way into the living room and then up the stairs to my bedroom. I shut the door and turned on the light. I then looked around for a place to hide the cube. I remembered a loose floorboard under my bed. I pulled the floorboard out and put the cube their then replaced the floorboard.

Now I was going to try my first morph. My cat, Tigress, a female calico, was curled up at the foot of my bed. I gently picked her up and held against my chest. I then focused on her and I felt myself absorb her DNA. As I did she became calm and seemed to fall asleep again.

I then set her down and let her out of my room.

I then focused on her DNA. I felt a tail grow out of my butt. I started to shrink and grow fur. Then the cat ears formed on my head while I still had my normal human ears that soon disappeared. Whiskers grew from my face. My nose forced outwards along with my mouth forming the cats face. I then fell forward on all fours as my legs became those of a cat. I looked down and saw my hands were now paws. The morph was complete.

The cat's hearing was much better then my human hearing. I could hear my little brother snoring in his room down the hall. I could hear crickets chirping out in the yard.

The sense of smell was improved. I could smell another cat that had been in the room. The cat smelled exactly like me.

I then realized that the cat mind seemed to be in their with me. Right now it was wondering how a cat with exactly the same scent as itself could have been in here. The cat wanted to explore the smell.

I walked over and sniffed where the cat scent was strongest. It gave me a rush of information. The other cat was female. It was declawed.

I suddenly realized the cat brain had been controlling me. I quickly regained control and decided to see how well the cat could move.

I jumped on my bed, and jumped onto my dresser. Then jumped off again.

I felt my retractable claws. Even though Tigress' had been removed by surgery her DNA was unaffected by it.

I began to demorph. I grew and my feet reversed direction. So my feet were still completely cat but were facing the way a humans would. I finally came out of morph completely naked. I guess in the excitement of turning into a cat I hadn't noticed I lost my clothing.

I quickly put some on. While wondering if it were possible to morph clothing.

I then heard what I thought was my parent's car pulling in. I glanced at the clock and realized that it was too early for them to be home. I looked out the window I saw more and more cars pulling in. People got out and began to race towards the house. The yeerks had found me.