A/N: This is going to be a collection of Animorphs What If stories I will be writing. I will be taking most of my ideas from reviews, so please let me know in the reviews what type of what if stories you want to see.
Since this site doesn't allow author notes to be posted as individual chapters, I'm doing a story to go along with it.
I hope you enjoy.
What if Jake joined the Sharing?
"Hey! Jake!" Tom called after his little brother as he was walking out the door to go to school.
Jake turned around, mildly annoyed. "What is it, Tom? I'm already gonna be late. I really don't feel like being even later because you decided you felt like chatting."
Tom smiled. "No. I'm actually just telling you one quick thing. You know the Sharing? That group I just joined? Well, there's a meeting tonight. Want to try it out?"
Jake thought for a minute. Then, he decided, "Sure. I'll be there."
"Sweet!" Tom exclaimed. He gave Jake a smile and said, "You know, there are tons of girls at the Sharing."
That somewhat helped convince Jake. Even though he was really only interested in one girl at the moment.
The meeting was great. Jake had such a good time there.
He told Tom this.
"Of course you did, Midget." Tom said while patting Jake on the back. "You should really think about becoming a full member at some point."
"What do you full members do?" Jake asked.
"Well, we plan events and stuff. We cook the food, choose the locations, and all that stuff."
"It's not just a whole bunch of work?" Jake asked.
"Nope. It might sound like that to you at first, but it's actually not like that at all."
"Okay. I'll come to more meetings and eventually I'll think about it."
Jake sat in class, hardly able to pay attention. It had been four months since Jake had joined the Sharing. He'd become an associate member a while ago, and today he was finally being asked if he wanted to become a full member.
Of course Jake said yes. He'd heard all about how great it was from Tom. Tom wasn't like most older brothers. They were really close.
Jake couldn't wait until school let out and he could go to the Sharing.
The moment had finally come. Jake was met at the entrance of the Sharing building by Hedrick Chapman, his school's Assistant Principal. He was also a full member of the Sharing like Tom.
"So I heard you want to be a full member." Chapman said.
"Yeah." Jake replied.
"Well, there's someone you should meet."
Chapman lead Jake into the building where usually only the full members hang out.
He opened the door to an office. A smiling man was sitting behind a desk.
Jake felt like there was something off about this man.
"This is Mr. Visser. He's the President of the Sharing. Mr. Visser, this is Jake Berenson. He's looking to become a full member."
Mr. Visser shook Jake's hand, and he said, "It's nice to meet you, Jake."
Jake couldn't help but think that Mr. Visser's cheerful tone seemed a little bit forced.
"What makes you want to become a full member?" Mr. Visser asked.
"My brother Tom is one." Jake replied. "He says it's so much fun and I'm kind of curious."
"Ah, yes, Tom. He's such a nice young man." Mr. Visser said.
"Should we take him to the Initiation room?" Chapman asked.
"Yes." Mr. Visser said.
They lead Jake down a hallway to a room with a lock on the door.
Mr. Visser took the key out of his pocket and unlocked the door.
They walked in.
"There is one thing you need to know before you join us." Chapman said. "And this is going to sound crazy. But there is a silent alien invasion spreading through your planet. We are called Yeerks. What we do is crawl through the ear of a host, flatten ourselves around the brain, and take control. We are parasites in our natural forms. We are blind, deaf, and don't have very good bodies. We take the bodies of other species. All the full members are controlled by Yeerks."
"What? Is this some kind of joke?" Jake asked.
"No, it is not a joke, human." Mr. Visser sneered.
"You see that tub of liquid?" Chapman asked, pointing to a tub with some sort of sludge in it. It looked like there was something swimming in it.
"There are Yeerks in there."
Jake believed them. "I don't want to do this anymore." Jake said.
He turned to leave, but Mr. Visser grabbed onto him.
Chapman and Mr. Visser dragged Jake to the tub.
Jake kicked and screamed but it was no use.
His head was dipped underneath the water, and a Yeerk crawled inside.
It took control of him.
You have a very interesting mind.= It said. =Surely you must know that it is pointless to resist me. I own you now. You are my slave.=
Get out of my head!= Jake screamed at the Yeerk.
No, human. I am Ithrik three-five-nine of the Sulp Niar pool.=
Ithrik 359 was a cruel Yeerk. He enjoyed torturing Jake.
This continued without any change. Ithrik would go to the Sharing, then come home and pretend to be Jake, while his pool brother, Temrash 114 would do the same with Tom.
This continued for two months. Until one Friday night at the mall.
Jake—Ithrik—was at the mall, maintaining his cover.
He was hanging out with Marco, just like Jake used to do.
Inside his head, Ithrik was torturing Jake with fantasies of Marco, his parents, his cousin Rachel, and other people he cared about being infested by Yeerks.
Ithrik moved Jake's eyes to look at his watch. "I think it's getting late. We should probably head home."
They were leaving the video game arcade when they ran into Tobias, who was one of Ithrik's potential recruits.
He actually met Tobias when he had his head in a toilet, and these two big guys were holding it down and laughing as they flushed.
Jake had told the creeps to step off. Tobias was really greatful. Jake had told him about the Sharing. Tobias had been going to meetings for the last two weeks or so.
They decided to all walk home.
They ran into Rachel and Cassie.
"You guys going home?" Jake asked Rachel. "You shouldn't go through the construction site by yourselves, you know, being girls and all."
Rachel got a bit mad at Jake for that. But Cassie managed to calm her down. Cassie had a crush on Jake, who just happened to be Rachel's cousin. Despite her best efforts, Rachel knew it.
They decided to walk home through the construction site.
Ithrik ran home.
He had pretended to show fear when the Yeerks came and Visser Three ate the dying Andalite, but Ithrik was secretly excited.
Prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul had been wrong. There were now two Controllers with the morphing power.
Ithrik came running in, a big smile on his face.
Jake, however, wasn't quite as happy as his Yeerk.
"What are you smiling at?" Jake's mom asked as she walked down the stairs.
"Nothing." Ithrik said in Jake's voice. "I just had fun with Marco. We ran into Tobias, Rachel, and Cassie."
"Ah. Cassie." Jake's mom said with a look of understanding in her eyes.
Gd. Your mother thinks I am smiling because I now have a girlfriend. She will never know the truth. Well, she will find out once we have her infested.=
No! You will never have my parents!= Jake said.
We will see about that.=
"Hey, Tom!" Ithrik called as Temrash walked in the doorway, no doubt coming home from the construction site.
"All right. I'll be up in my room."
You won't tell him.= Jake said. =Please don't. They'll be infested.=
That is the point, human.= Ithrik said.
Ithrik did, in fact, tell Temrash everything. He demonstrated it by acquiring and morphing Homer, Jake's dog.
They immediately contacted Visser Three.
He instructed them to slowly convert the team. Tobias would most likely be first. Then Marco. Then either Rachel or Cassie.
When Tobias showed up at Jake's house, incredibly excited that he'd morphed Dude, his cat, Jake just said, "I believe you. I morphed Homer last night."
Then, Jake said, "Why don't we just relax at the Sharing for a while. It will give us plenty of time to decide what to do next."
They did just that.
Tobias was brought to the Yeerk pool and infested with a Yeerk named Gishtul 718.
Ithrik explained everything to Gishtul.
They returned to Jake's house.
Eventually, they all went to Cassie's barn, where she was almost spotted morphing by a Controller police officer.
It wouldn't have mattered, since there were already two Controllers there.
Jake invited Marco over to play video games.
Marco came and Tom played for a while, but then he got bored.
Marco turned to Jake and said, "I think Tom's a Controller."
He wasn't expecting Jake's reaction. "Hey, Tom! Get back in here! Marco suspects! We should take him now!"
Tom walked into Jake's room.
They both brought Marco to the pool, and he was infested by Yamdrin 431.
From there, it was very easy to infest Rachel and Cassie.
Tobias and Cassie started hearing a voice of an Andalite calling to them in the ocean.
They went down there and infested Ax.
Now there were two Andalite-Controllers.
The Yeerks continued their invasion.
They got the morphing cube from a boy named David, allowing them to make more morph-capable Controllers.
The Yeerks eventually won the invasion.
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