I decided that this will cover some of the events of book #16 with several twists. If you forgot this will be narrated by Arbron.

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I am Arbron-Bantec-Deromar, I am an advanced scout you could say for my people that Andalites in the war against the Yeerks. My job usually is to blend in, watch for Yeerk activity and report to my superiors if I see any.

Over a year ago I traveled from my home world to the planet Earth to investigate possible Yeerk activity. If we didn't find any Yeerks in orbit than I along with a few others would have stayed to blend in with the humans to wait for them to come.

But the Yeerks had been waiting for us. The attack had begun moments after we exited Zero Space and moved closer to Earth.

Because I had had some training flying fighters I had been asked to take part in the space battle. It had been slaughter.

Before I had left the GalaxyTree I had ordered my fighter's computer to search Earth for any hint of Andalite Technology that hadn't been altered by the Yeerks. I had hoped to discover what had befallen my friend Elfangor years ago when he had vanished on Dezè. I know that at one point on Dezè that he had been with Prince Alloran and in the company of the two humans that had been infested with Yeerks. I had feared that Elfangor had been taken by the Yeerks but none of our spies reported that he had been taken or reported the presence of two new alien hosts.

After he and the two humans failed to show up among the Yeerks I had slowly created a new theory that somehow Elfangor had escaped with the two humans while Prince Alloran had somehow been captured. It didn't make complete sense seeing that Elfangor had to have known by that point since both humans had been infested. And since the Taxxon Resistance had reported that he and Prince Alloran had boarded the Jahar together with Chapman and Loren inside there was little to no way that Elfangor could of have escaped the Yeerks unless Prince Alloran had been taken while they were retrieving the Matrix.

I had just witnessed the a Visser's Blade Ship destroy the GalaxyTree when my fighter informed me that it had found what could be Andalite Technology but it appeared to be in pieces.

I decided then and there to take my chances and land. I had a human morph and could speak the human language English, which is spoken or at least understood in many countries on Earth, and learn just how long the Yeerks had been on Earth and how dug in they were.

I have no idea why I decided to give the five humans that saw my ship the powers to morph. Some of it might had to do with the fact that I knew that I would be fighting the Yeerks with no backup. I am no warrior even though I trained briefly as one. Elfangor and I had been training as spies or something of the like when Elfangor had gotten in his head to be a warrior and begged me to join him. We hadn't trained long before I had decided to return my training as a spy.

They have been a help to me. They are young but are learning.

We have used the Morphing Power to morph into dangerous animals to fight the Yeerks. For the humans it is necessary since they have no natural weapons or defenses I do it to blend in further. As long as the Yeerks believe that the human children are young Andalites the safer they will be. If the Yeerks ever were to learn the truth it would be game over for everyone as Marco would put it.

Afterwards as I waited for the time to come to meet them at the beach I searched for Chapman and Loren. I found Chapman and learned that he was a Controller. Unfortunately I don't know if this is because he was returned as a Controller or if Elfangor had managed to return Chapman to Earth with no memories and Chapman had later been infested when the Yeerks arrived.

I have still been unable to locate Loren. A war had been mentioned in passing that he had been involved in but sadly I can't remember the details. The only hint I have found was a girl fitting her general description had been abducted and taken to Mexico only to make the journey back with an orphan that had been taken about the same time as she had been.

I had hit a dead end as humans put it.

I had been looking through the information on the Yeerks progress that I had slowly gathered over the time I had been on Earth. The Yeerks were indeed everywhere; in government offices, the police, military and the general populous.

However I had discovered that two other warriors had survived the battle in orbit: Gafinilan-Estrif-Valad and Mertil-Iscar-Elmand. Mertil had lost his tail blade when his fighter crashed and since Gafinilan was ill and taking care of Mertil I didn't feel that I could ask him to help with much. He had told me that he would keep his eyes open for any kind of trouble.

Originally I had hoped to blend in more easily with the human race but with so many different things to worry about it was almost impossible. Anjinnl and Aximili were just able to slip through cracks and attend school while it would be much harder for me to move around.

Anjinnl does well on Earth away from those that judge her for what happened to her father. No one taunts her or is needlessly cruel to her. She would have gone far back home if she hadn't had a cloud of suspicion hanging over her.

/Prince Arbron!/ Anjinnl's Thought Speech call suddenly cut through my thoughts.

I looked away from my work as she flew in as a Goshawk and landed on a chair that hadn't been put away from the last meeting we had at the Scoop.

/What is it?/ I asked her, noting that something was bothering her.

/Jake found something he thinks we should all see. We are supposed to meet at Marco's./ She told me.

I quickly hid the papers in a safe and sealed it before I morphed into a younger male human.

The Scoop has been redesigned to look like a simple cabin to help keep suspicious humans away so I must put away anything that would cause suspicion.

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The journey to Marco home took longer than I had hoped but soon we were all gathered in his room near the desk where his computer set.

"What did you find Jake?" I asked once everyone settled in. Humans tend to like getting comfortable before potentially long conversations start.

Jake took a deep breath and I knew it most likely wasn't good. Living with a Controller is a double edge blade, while you can pick up useful information you could be endangering yourself if you slip up or if the information was purposefully leaked to smoke us out.

"I know it wasn't smart but I was curious to know if anyone else knows about the Invasion or the Yeerks so I just googled 'Yeerk' and several websites came up. Most of them appeared to be ramblings of crazy people with very basic information but one of them had a lot of information including an excellent sketch of a Hork-Bajir. I didn't dare look any further and asked Anji to help erase my browser history so Tom can't see it." Jake explained.

I was immediately on high alert. I could understand the Yeerks maybe ignoring the ramblings of a few former Controllers or something of the like but to allow that much information to be out there for anyone to discover?

It didn't feel right.

"Show us." I gently prompted.

Anjinnl stood first and put the safeguards in place and then stood aside as Jake took the chair and typed in the needed information. It took some time but the site soon was being displayed on the computer screen. Jake was right. The information was beyond the ramblings of someone that was insane but someone that knew what they were saying. It talked about the Yeerks and what they were, their habits and what they wanted. It even had a list of how deeply entrenched they were on Earth; of places they were and were not.

It was troubling.

"Click on the pictures." I gently commanded.

Within a few seconds we were looking at highly detailed sketches of Hork-Bajir, Taxxons, Leeran, Mak and many other species that the Yeerks had either conquered or were interested in, there were ever a few Andalites. One of them was unmistakably Prince Alloran and one I thought looked a lot like Anjinnl.

I glanced at Anjinnl and noted that she was stiff.

"Someone knows a little too much." Rachel muttered.

"Could it be a trap?" Cassie whispered softly.

"It might be." I responded.

"We should check out the message boards." Tobias suggested.

Jake quickly clicked on that option and soon we were looking at boards with different titles from the habits of some of the aliens to ways to spot Yeerk activity.

Quickly checking on all of them revealed that nearly all of the boards were started by the same person: WateryMoonArtist.

"What kind of name is that?" Rachel asked softly. "Why not choose 'WateryArtist' or 'MoonArtist' or some other kind of variation?"

"Maybe they are talking about the moonlight reflecting on water or it is supposed to sound dreamy." Cassie suggested.

I admitted silently that it was an odd name but Cassie did have a point and humans could be odd creatures. 'WateryMoonArtist' wasn't the oddest or most bizarre name on that site and the few times that I had been on the Internet I had seen some interesting ones.

"I thought I saw something back on the main page." Marco spoke after a moment. "I think it said 'designs'."

Jake went back and sure enough there was a link labeled 'designs'. He clicked on it and before our eyes were easily dozens of highly detailed sketches of ships, equipment, weapons and buildings. In that moment I was grateful that we had redesigned the Scoop but now fear was settling in me.

I remembered all too well in that moment what Anjinnl and Aximili reported to me what Prince Alloran had warned them about when Aximili had attempted to assassinate Visser Three. He had told them that the Yeerks were on Nyumbani and this just might be proof of that.

We all quickly searched the site and learned that it apparently belonged and was run by 'WateryMoonArtist' but there was no other information. We had figuratively hit a wall for a moment.

"We could visit the place where the site's information is stored and get the information from there." Tobias stated.

"I mean Web Across America isn't too far away and I have enough money in my shoebox that those of us with IDs can buy tickets and those that don't can be our carryon pets." Tobias stated.

I was silent as I considered it.

"What about school?" I asked.

"We can go in two days; Teacher Workshop Day." Cassie put in. "Only our families will know we aren't around and we will or can just give them the same spiel about being at the Mall or with someone else."

I was silent for a minute before I nodded in agreement. It was already silently acknowledged that Anjinnl, Aximili and I would be the ones that would be morphing into animals that humans kept for pets for the trip.

"Everyone, prepare for the trip and get what you even think might be needed for this trip." I told them.

In a few days we would be getting some answers. I just hoped that the information would be helpful and that it would lead us closer to the truth.

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You might have noticed a few differences between what Elfangor had to say about his and Loren's journey back to her home and what little information that Arbron uncovered. I thought that since Elfangor had said he had runaway from a cult that they might have bent the truth about him so the cult couldn't find him. I mean if he made them sound dangerous enough people might have been willing to cover for him.