Disclaimer: I don't own Animorphs, or any Animorphs characters or plot. I just own Joshua, Ben, Jessie, and Jimmy/Sub-visser 1

Chapter 4

I quickly ducked under my bed pulled out the loose floorboards. I took the morphing cube and set it down on the floor. I couldn't take the cube with me, but I wasn't going to leave it for the yeerks to find either.

I grabbed my baseball bat and swung it at the cube. I swung again. The cube had broken into a couple pieces and stopped glowing. I hoped the yeerks wouldn't be able to rebuild it.

I opened my window even as I began to focus on my cat morph again. I heard a crash downstairs. The yeerks had busted the door down. They would be upstairs in seconds. I climbed out the window still morphing.

My clothing wasn't morphing with me. So I tried to imagine my clothes morphing with me. It worked my shorts and shirt disappeared into my flesh as I became more catlike.

My morph was complete. My eyes were seeing through the darkness as if it were daylight. My hearing was improved. Even as I climb up to the top of my house I heard someone yelling.

The voice was familiar. It sounded like… Jimmy? But that was impossible he was dead. He had been cut in the stomach and his leg. He couldn't have survived without medical attention, but their was no way I could be hearing wrong it was Jimmy perfectly healthy and really angry.

"Capture any animal you can find! I want that human found," Jimmy ordered one of the controllers.

"Yes, sir, sub-visser."

"And take the remains of the cube back to the lab see if they can rebuild it," Jimmy said.

I leaped to the next building, ran to the end of it and jumped to the next. I climbed down to the lowest point of the roof. The fall to the ground still looked rather formidable. I looked around and saw a car parked nearby. I jumped on to it and then jumped to the pavement below.

I had to think. What would the yeerks next move be? They wanted to make all of us into controllers. So their next move would be to try and infest Ben and Jessie.

I took off toward Ben's house. Running as fast as my little cat legs would carry me. A black van with the windows tainted black so no one could see in soon passed me. The yeerks were going to beat me there.

I managed to keep the van in sight, but I was wearing out. The cat could not run forever. It tired very quickly.

I saw the van stop up ahead, right next to Ben and Jessie. Two men leaped out and grabbed them. They struggled, but the controllers were two strong, they couldn't get free. They were dragged toward the van.

I got close enough I took a leap and suck my teeth into one of the controller's legs. He let go of Jessie. The other controller was turned toward us trying to draw his gun. Ben elbowed his chest and he let go.

(Run!) I yelled. We did.