The Weirdo

By:Omalon

Prologue

    Hiya' !
    mY name is Mad ... I can't tell you my last name ... HAHAHAHAHA ! Call me Madcap ! Everyone doeS .... I'm not sure why . Could it have anything to do with the fact that I hang out with a bunch o' kids who turn inta' animals ? I'm sure thats not it ! Maybe ya'd like to here this story from the Aninimorphs , or whatever they call themselves ....

Chapter 1

        My name is Jake.
        Do you want to know my last name ? To bad. I don't have a last name , as far as you are concerned . Don't get me wrong , its nothing personal , but if I told you or anyone else my
last name , I'd be dead in five minutes or less . Dead or worse than dead . Worse than dead ? There's nothing worse than dead , right ? Well , not until recently . You've probably read about slavery at one time or another . Now take that concept to a galactic scale . Then multiply it by
ten . Thats what I'm up against . What can do all of this . you ask ? Yeerks . To you that word
means nothing . To me , its become my entire life .
    Yeerks are alien .  Not ten foot tall Rancors , or little green men or whatever . They're nothing more than an over sized garden slug . Not even that oversized . If you saw a Yeerk , the first thing you would want to do is step on it . And you could . But they're not JUST garden slugs with an attitude problem . They're parasites. That means they live off of other creatures
. They are worse than your average parasite , who just leeches nutrients and food . These parasites take you . Your physical body . They make it they're own . They enter your ear , wrap
themselves around your brain , and take control . They control your arms and legs . They focus your eyes . They form the words you speak . And there is nothing you can do . You
think your family will notice ? They won't . The Yeerks can read your mind , open you memories like a book , and download the knowledge they need , like a computer . And they're after Earth . They're after you . And me . And the entire human race . There is nothing on this planet stopping them . Nothing exept me , and my friends . Five human kids , one alien . But we're not normal kids . We have a power . The ability to morph . We can absorb the DNA of any creature we touch , and turn into  that creature . But still , we're six kids . Even if we're six kids with the power to morph , we're still just six kids .
    So you'd think we'd be happy to finally get some help . Well , you'd be
suprised

Chapter 2

    It all started on a friday afternoon , right after school . We were in the mall , trying to act casual , like we didn't mean to be there together . We can't act like a group , because a
nearby controller , thats what we call a person who is infested , could be watching . So we
were wandering around the food court , me with Marco , Rachel with Cassie , and Ax and Tobias by themselves . We had already been there twenty minutes , and Ax and Tobias had been in morph to thirty so we had to hurry up . See , they would need to demorph in the next hour and thirty minutes , or be trapped in morph . Thats the one big downside of morphing
. Stay more than two hours , and you stay forever . It had already happened to Tobias , but through some interference by the Ellimist , he got the power to morph again. Me and Marco
pretended to bump into Rachel . Cassie , who had gone to the Cinnabon for a moment , bumped into Tobias and Ax , who had wandered close together . We all sat down .
    "Okay , why are we here again ?" asked Marco
    "Cassie and Tobias have something to say" I said
    "Well , theres some bird watchers moving in around the forest for a while" said Cassie.
    "Around my terratory!" Tobias practically screamed .
    "So what ?" asked Marco .
    "So it means I'll have to act exactly like a Red Tailed Hawk for as long as they stay ! That means very little going out of my terratory , and that means no more Tobias the animorph untill
these people leave ." Tobias said , after making sure no one was listening in .
    "Thats not good" said Marco.
    "No duh thats not good , Marco! Not only is it not good , its bad !" said  Tobias.
    "What are we going to do about this?" asked Cassie.
    Rachel grinned .
    "Uh oh ..... Stop grinning Rachel . When you grin like that it makes me think you have an idea , and you having an idea is a bad bad thing . So stop grinning " Marco , of course .
    "I DO have an ide--" Rachel got half way into the word "idea before being cut off by the sound of breaking glass . We looked up , to see a human figure plummeting through the sky light .

Chapter 3

    "Watch out!"
    "Someone jumped through the sky light!"
    "Hes insane!"
    "Hes suicidal!"
    People yelled so loud that I couldn't here anything else .
    "Hes wearing yellow tights and a purple fedora?!" Rachel , obviously .
    We were all staring as the seemingly suicidal man leaped through the sky light , that I myself has fallen through just weeks earlier . We stared as he plummeted down . We watched as he hit the floor . We watched as he was impaled on a large piece of glass .
    "Somone ! Call an ambulance!"
    "That maniac! He killed himself"
    "Someone ! Help him !"
    More screams rang out .
    Cassie ran toward the oddly dressed corpse .
    "What are you , crazy?!" Marco screamed after her.
    Everyone , one at a time ran after her . Marco called us insane , then followed .
    Then the guy stood up , pulled the glass out , and grinned , already healed . It wasn't some kind of illusion , there was blood on the floor . There was a hole in his costume . But he was
grinning , and unharmed .
    "Hiya' kiddos ! I'm Madcap ! And you must be the Aneenamorphs!" the guy , who called himself Madcap , said .
    "He knows?"asked Cassie.
    "This has got to be some kind of trick"said Marco.
    Ax made wierd noises .
    Rachel looked angry.
    I just stood there , in shock .
    He knew . Whoever he was , he knew about the animorphs .
    "Who are you?!" Rachel yelled .
    "I told you already ! I'm Madcap ! First name Mad , last name Cap . Or
don't you speak english ? Ooga zomway oonga toonga !" said Madcap
    Rachel looked about ready to punch him in the nose.
    "You look upset !" said Madcap " Let me help ! Think 'calm blue ocean , calm blue ocean ' . HAHAHAHA ! Huh.. don't look like its working ! I have a better idea !"  Then he got a strange look in his eyes and stared at Rachels face . Rachel fainted .
    "How did you do that ?!" I yelled " Wake her up now!"
    "Whatever you say , kemosabi !" Madcap said .
    He rushed over to a table , and grabbed a cup . Then he went to a water fountain , and filled the cup .
    "Whats he doing?"I asked
    "Whats it look like hes doing , dink" said Marco .
    It came to me right as he poured the cup of water over Rachels head . She coughed and spit and glared at Madcap .
    "If you EVER do tha--" She began .
    "Hey , why haven't the mall gaurds stopped us ? ... Or at least him ..." Marco interupted .
    "Weeeeelllll , that would ruin all of our fun , now wouldn't it !"said Madcap .
    I looked around , only to see five mall cops , stoped in they're tracks .
    "Turn them back to normal !" I screamed.
    "Okey dokey smokey!" Madcap said .
    Madcap jumped and dissapeared , and the mall cops went back to normal .
    "Hey , he left a note!" I said .
    "Whats it say ? Sa yuh . Ssssssss . Ayuh ." asked Ax .
    I read it aloud :
    " I just know we're gonna' be the bestest of friends , forever and ever , wheather you like it or not  . Love , M.C."
 

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