So sorry! The other site I post on came back online and I didn't use my brain when I was trying to figure out where I had been on there. Then the sole reader there wanted to give others the chance to read and review but that doesn't seem to be happening.

Either way I am sorry that I haven't done anything until now.

Here's book thirteen!

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Hello, my name is Tobias.

Just so you know you are not getting my last name out of me so don't even try. Until the Yeerks are gone from Earth my last name will stay a secret from everyone but my friends.

When we met Arbron in that abandoned construction site we were just normal kids doing normal kid stuff in a normal place in America. Until that day I thought that thinking that I was hearing my father and other siblings talk when they weren't was one of the biggest problems that I had.

The next one after that was trying to beat Marco at whatever new videogame either he or I had: that all changed that night a year ago.

Now my biggest concerns are not getting killed or caught. It would spell doom on so many people if I was caught. My father and mother work with computer software. My dad is considered one of the best in the company; Arbron even told me that the Yeerks would find my dad useful in many ways.

My mom finds errors in software so that they can be fixed before going wherever they go.

Arbron is an Andalite Prince, a leader in their Military, he is the leader of our little group and Jake leads when Arbron is seeing how far the Yeerks have spread. Marco helps relieve stress by cracking jokes that range from hilarious to cringe worthy. There's Cassie, our expert in animals, Anjinnl, a female Andalite Computer Technician and Aximili, an Andalite Cadet, he was very awkward with pretending to be human but Anjinnl helped him fit in better; but not before threatening him with duct tape and smacking him on the head with books. And last but not least Rachel. Rachel is gung-ho about protecting Earth.

I have a crush on Rachel. She is smart, talented, really wants to help free Earth from the Yeerk Invasion and her being pretty is just the icing on the cake.

That day I had been glad to get out of the house. My mom had burnt the scrambled eggs without vegetables and Leilani doesn't like vegetables in her scrambled eggs she wouldn't eat the other ones.

Hoshi was complaining that Rio was running his hands through her hair and getting it dirty and to top matters off Hayden dumped her Cheerios on the floor.

And that was just breakfast.

When I was heading for the door to catch the bus Leilani was demanding to know who moved her sneakers; Hoshi was begging mom to wash her hair before it was time for her bus to arrive and Rio was upset because dad was telling him that he couldn't bring Indiana, our Japanese Spitz, to school for show and tell; and that went for Champ the German Shepard as well.

As I hurried for the street corner I laughed when I thought of my dad having to change his shirt because Hayden had milk and mashed Cheerios on her. But my mom was grateful that my dad was so willing to help with all of us. Apparently where my dad is from the fathers focus mostly on their sons and the mothers focused on the daughters. He said that it was superior complex.

Kids at school treat me differently because my dad is a so smart when it comes to electronics. He built the computers he uses in his office a home himself from other computers. Mixing and matching the best components until he had what he wanted.

He and Marco's dad are good friends and go way back. They went to college together and work on many of the same projects together.

I like school but after I became an Animorph I have just wanted to just go out looking for ways to strike against the Yeerks. But if I skipped school not only would it be suspicious my parents would ground me for the rest of my teenage years.

Recently I tried to talk my parents into doing home-school; it went over like a lead balloon. My mom works from home and my dad alternates between work and home. One of the points my mom brought up is that Leilani needs to have structure and going to school will do that for her.

Once the bus arrived at school I headed for my locker. If I had it my way I'd my way there would be a password on it instead of a stupid combination lock.

The hint would be the square root of five and the answer would be 'don't know, don't care'. It would be so amusing to see people trying to break into my locker by putting in the square root of five and fail.

By the way the square root of five is 2.23606797749979; or that's what my calculator said.

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At lunch I sat with Marco and Jake talking about the latest video games and consoles that were in the works.

I paused in mid-sentence when I smelt Rachel's perfume. It had a nice scent that I couldn't quite place.

I turned and smiled at the sight of her, Cassie and Anjinnl heading for us.

I slid over so that two of them could sit on the same side of the table as me. I must have had a goofy smile on my face when Rachel sat next to me because Marco smiled in a way that said 'oh, how cute'. Rachel must have kicked him from under the table because he winced.

"I have been named a Packard Foundation Outstanding Student." Rachel announced as she opened her lunchbox.

"Congratulations!" I told her with a smile.

"You deserve it." Cassie said.

"Yeah, you do," Marco began. "After all we are busy people these days." That just earned him another kick.

"You are a bright student." Anjinnl said with a gentle smile.

We were silent for a few moments as we started eating our various lunches.

"Bromly thinks he found several places that could be important at a later date." Anjinnl said after a few bites.

"He said that the car wash would be perfect for a fundraiser in the future as well as a few other places." She continued; sitting her sandwich down.

We nodded to show that we understood. Anjinnl was telling us about possible entrances to the Yeerk Pool. We had only gone down there once as cockroaches, nearly got eaten by a Taxxon, met an alien called 'the Ellimist', nearly got eaten again and then barely escaped with our hides intact. But we did learn never to morph into cockroaches while sneaking into the Yeerk Pool ever again.

The only thing that we got out of it was that we learned the location of the Kandrona and destroyed it.

We have foiled the Yeerks plans many times. They were planning to destroy the forest behind Cassie's place to find us but we threw a wrench in it; and learned that creatures with hive minds are not the ideal morphs. Take that Borg!

We sort of have a new ally the Chee; an old group of androids that have been on Earth so long that they could have helped build the pyramids.

There was some excitement not too long ago when we discovered that we could become allergic to DNA. We learned this the hard way when Rachel acquired a crocodile. For some time she couldn't control her morphing abilities

Arbron nearly tied Rachel down after we figured it out and a Chee took Rachel's place. Rachel wasn't thrilled.

After school Rachel and I morphed into our birds of prey morphs and headed for the car wash. We talked about our day and we laughed at the fact that Amelia James, the lead cheerleader, had made a fool out of herself in front of some nerdy kid.

/Tobias, we're not heading for the car wash./ Rachel said suddenly. I looked around and discovered that she was right. I was somewhat familiar with the area since my family camps in the area every so often.

I was about to try to head back in the direction of the car wash when a huge Oak Tree slid to one side. We paused and watched in confusion as two Hork-Bajir came out of a hole that the tree had covered.

We just flapped our wings to stay more or less in place as the pair looked around. /Did we just find an entrance to the Yeerk Pool?/ Rachel asked. /It appears that we did./ I answered.

Suddenly the sound of engines revving came from the hole. The two Hork-Bajir looked down then at each other before racing away.

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Once again sorry that I took so long, I fell into a slump while writing this and still not back up to snuff but by Monday I should be up and running again at full speed.