NEWMORPHER CHRONICLES

#1-The Joining

By:  Tom ???

INTRODUCTION

 
        My name is Tom. Tom what, you must be asking. Well, I can't tell you. If I did I'd have a million yeerks after me in a second. I have brown/red hair, brown eyes, and I am about 4 foot 10. I am here to tell you of the invasion.
All the main stuff is true but you don't have to believe me if you want to become a controller. Now you must think I am totally crazy. Let me explain. Yeerks are small sluglike creatures. They get into your brain and control
everything. Once you get infested you want to move your arm but you can't because the yeerk controls everything now. He would talk for you. Sleep for you. Eat for you.  The good thing is that Yeerks need to get Kandrona rays
every 3 days for survival. If not they will die. That way you might regain control and be free.  My story all started one day at school......

CHAPTER 1

                It was a dark and stormy night. Actually it was a sunny day. I just always wanted to say that. It was a Monday unfortunately. That meant school. So I got up, got my clothes on, ate breakfast, washed up, and got my bike. I started pedaling towards school. It looked just like a normal day. I got to school, locked my bike up, and walked towards the front. Then I noticed two of my friends, Tal and Mehdi. Mehdi has black hair and brown eyes. He is about 5 feet tall. Tal has brown eyes and hair. He is also about 5 feet tall. They were sitting of to the side talking about a new club called The Sharing.  I was about to go up to them and ask them when and where The Sharing took place, when the school bell rang.
                So it was time to start the usual school day. I went to my locker, unpacked my stuff, and went to homeroom. The teacher talked. Blah-blah-yatty-yatta-blah-blah. First period. The teacher talked. Yatta-blah-yatty-blah. Suddenly, my friend Chris poked me and said, "Wake up, and open your reading book before you get detention! Page 54!" So I opened up to the page and noticed we were going to read some dumb story about some black guy that went to the North pole. While the rest of the class read the story I sat there
daydreaming. I looked out the window at the bird soaring in the sky. I think it was called a red-tailed hawk. 'I wished I could fly like that. To be free and not worry about dumb school or anything else,' I thought to myself. Then finally we finished reading the story.
                So then I walked to my third period class which was Physical Education. Today we were going to play hockey. It was class verse class, and each class was split into three teams by using numbers. When all the teams were made I noticed I was a two so that meant I had to sit out the first time. Then I saw Mehdi and Tal again talking about The Sharing. I slid over to them and asked them what it was about. Tal said, "Its a cool boy
scout/girl scout thing. They meet this Saturday at noon at _____ Park" "When you become a full member your
life gets changed, forever," Mehdi said. "Sounds like a great club. I think I'll check it out this weekend."

CHAPTER 2

                The rest of the week went by pretty slow and was very very boring. By the time it was Saturday I totally forgot about The Sharing meeting at noon. My mom had to wake me up so I could go. I got dressed and ate breakfast and my mom drove me to where they were meeting. When I got there I noticed that therewas only a few of my friends there. One of them was my best friend Matt. He was walking over to where there was a full member meeting. I decided to follow him. 'No harm in that,'  I thought. I hid in some bushes while they had the
meeting. There were a lot of adults talking there talking. All of  a sudden a big black battle-ax shaped thing landed right in front of everyone! Then a door opened and a creature stepped out.' Oh my gosh, what the heck is that?' It looked like something from a Greek myth. It had a blue/tan color, and four legs. There was a normal human body, normal except for the fact that where the mouth was, there was just skin. The nose was three slits, and there was two eyes were they should be and two on stalks stick out of its head that could turn around. 'This looks like a friendly crea...I had to stop because then I saw a tail that looked like it was from a scorpion! On the end was a scythe blade. I didn't want to get near that tail because it looked like it could do some serious damage.
                < You, Ritra 374, go to the bushes over there. It looks like there is a spy. It may be an andalite bandit. > 'What the heck was that?' I thought. I just heard something but it was in my head like telepathy! Then Matt walked over to where I was and pulled me out. "Sir, this is a child. He is friends with my host. Should we make him a controller?" He said. < Yes. Go bring him to the pool and make him one of us right away. He has seen too much already. > Then Matt and a few other people dragged me to the big forest that was in my town. Matt walked up to the tree and pushed some buttons on a control panel. Then it disappeared and there was a long and dark
staircase. I really did not want to go down there. It was really dark and looked like it was from some old horror
movie. There was also this very bad smell and a lot of screaming. So I decided to scream and yell too. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. No no no no no no no no no, I am NOT going down there. Please no don't take me down there!" Even with my pleas for help they still brought me down there. All this time I was wondering
what the heck was going on. First I see some weird centaur alien thing, then my best friend and some other guys are dragging me down to some hellhole all because by using telepathy i think the centaur guy said told them too. Man, life stinks some times.
                When we reached the bottom of the steps there was a huge cavern. No wait HUGE doesn't even describe it. Gigantic is better. There was enough room to hold three super bowl games and still have space
leftover for a basketball court. In the center was a sludgy, gray, pool with little slugs swimming in it. There was two lines of people/aliens there. One had people all calm walking to the pool and dipping their heads in the water. Then they were screaming and some aliens that looked like walking salad shooters had to pull them to some cages. The other line was exactly the opposite. They shoved me at one of the lines and when I got to the end of the line I was totally freaked out. The men next to me shoved my head into the water. The next thing I knew
there was one of the slugs crawling into my ear.

CHAPTER 3

                The second I felt it going inside my ear time stopped. I mean totally stopped. I got up and walked around. I waved my hand in front of some people, they didn't budge. "What is happening here?" NOTHING
TO WORRY ABOUT TOM. "What?!?!? Who said that?" IT WAS ME. Just then a big blue/green hole opened up in front of me. Out came an outline of an old guy. "It was me. I am an Ellimist. We are a race of all-powerful  beings. I saw that if you were to escape from becoming one of them, you would have made an impact on this planet's future. These sluglike creatures are called Yeerks. As you know, they crawl into your ear. Then they take over the whole body and you can't stop them. I am going to transport you back in time to before you decided to follow Matt. This time don't do it. Then you must leave and go to the outer part of the forest where you will find  a barn. Ask the people there if you can speak to Cassie. Tell them what has happened. Also, come here. Touch
this crystal. It will activate something in your DNA that makes you psychic and have morphing powers." 'Whoa.
This is cool,' I thought. "OK, I will touch it." So I put my hand on it and I felt a tingling sensation, almost like pins and needles all throughout my body. Then everything started to go black and the Ellimist said REMEMBER WHAT I HAVE TOLD YOU.
                When I woke up I walked towards the outer area of the forest searching for the so called 'barn' the Ellimist guy was talking about. When I found it, I saw a house connected to it. I rang the doorbell and a girl, about a year or two older than me said, "Hello. Can I help you?" "Yes, I am looking for someone named Cassie. Do you know her?" "Yes, She is me." 'OK, so far, so good.' I thought. "OK. Do you know of a place where we can talk in private?" "Yes, follow me to the barn." Once we got there I saw a whole bunch of caged animals, all wild, and with some type of injury. "OK, so what do you what to speak to me about," she said. "Well, um, you see, I was at this meeting for a club called The Sharing," At that word she got a little tense. "And I followed my friend to the full member meeting, when the next thing I knew I was in this cavern, with aliens and humans. I was put on this line and two aliens pushed my head into this sludgy brown water. I felt this slug thing crawl into my ear and then time stopped. A being called the Ellimist explained to me what happened and said that I would help save the world and gave me two different powers. One to morph and the other to be psychic, although I doubt the second worked because I don't feel any different. He sent me back in time before I went to the meeting and told me to come here, find you, and tell you all of this." I then breathed deeply.
                Now she looked a little nervous and scared. She said," Um, hold on I have to call some other people to come here." 'Oh no, now she's going to call the madhouse and have them put me in a straitjacket. Stupid me.' I thought. About 10 minutes later there were 7 people in the room. Me, Jake, Marco, Rachel, Tobias, Philip, and Cassie. She explained to all of them what I told her. "So Tom, are you sure this happened?" I think Jake said. "Yes, I am absolutely sure." Then they made a huddle kind of thing and whispered about me. I think some of them had their doubts and said that it was a yeerk plan. The guy Philip kept making weird sounds with his  outh.
When they stopped the huddle Jake said, "Since we don't know if this is true we are going to have to keep you for three days in case you are a controller. 'Oh man, I can't stay here!' I though. Then for the second time that day, a big blue/green hole opened up and the Ellimist guy stepped out.

CHAPTER 4

        "It's the all mighty Ellimist again," said Marco." Who never interferes." "Yes, it is me. What Tom here is saying is true. You six must tell him everything so that he can help you fight for this planet. Tom the psychic powers do work just try it and you could move things with your hands, though speak, they will tell you about that, and read people's minds."
                "Wow. That's cool. I want to try right now." I said. " I must leave now, good-bye." Then they explained everything. They said that the Yeerks have control of the Hork-Bajir. They are seven feet tall, with a snake like head, T-Rex feet, and blades at almost every joint. They also had the Taxxons which are huge centipedes with red, jelly like eyes.  They told me about morphing,  thought speech, and everything that had happened in there life. Morphing had a two hour timelimit, and if you passed it you would never return to your original form.  Unfortunately, Tobias had passed that limit and was stuck as a red-tailed hawk. Philip was really an Andalite,
which was the blue/tan centaur thing I saw earlier. They said that the other Andalite was a Visser, Visser Three to be exact. A Visser is a type of general. He was the only Andalite-controller. They also explained about everything they could think of.
                Finally when they were done, Jake spoke up, "We are going to have to get you some morphs Tom. You'll need a fly, cockroach, dolphin, bird of prey, seagull, wolf, battle morph, and anything else you want."  "OK. Where do I get all of these?" I asked. Cassie pointed to all of the cages. "Oh." I said. I acquired all of these and a red-tailed hawk. When you acquire something the animal goes in a trance and doesn't move for about 30
seconds. "Now we have to go to The Gardens for your battle and dolphin morph." Cassie told me. The Gardens was an amusement park/zoo place. We walked over there and I got my dolphin and for the battle morph I chose a Cheetah because of their speed and strength. When we got back I had to work on my psychic powers. Since Marco was the closest to my house I worked with him.
                "OK. Think of something Marco. Hopefully I will be able to tell what you are thinking." I said. Then I concentrated and I somehow heard/saw what he was thinking. He wanted to see the new Baywatch show tonight! "Marco, are you thinking about watching the new Baywatch show tonight?" He nodded and he was kind of pale. "Oh my gosh, how did you do that? THAT'S AWESOME!" He exclaimed. " I have no idea how but I  heard/saw what you were thinking!" I said. "OK. Now I must calm down and try to grab the remote with my mind." I concentrated on a mental picture of the remote coming to my hand. The next thing I knew, the remote was lifting off the table and coming to my hand. "Wow. I didn't know I had it in me. This is soooo cool Marco, too bad you can't do it too." Marco was just sitting there dazed. I thought he was dead or something, because when I called to him he just sat there. I decided to try the thought speech power. < MARCO can you hear me? Hello? I need to know if I am using thought speech. MARCO WAKE UP > "Tom you are freaking me out. The Ellimist really did activate the powers in you. I did hear you. This is freaky." He said. "Now I might be able to tell if someone is a controller, or if they are anything! I have to go home because it is getting late. Tomorrow I will tell the others it works!" I yelled. So I got of the couch, and walked to my house, very happy, and I went to bed even more happy.

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