Disclaimer: I don't own Animorphs, or any of the animorphs charaters, or the yeerks, or any of the other elements from the actual Animorphs series. However I do own Joshua, Ben, Jessie, Jimmy, and Sub-Visser One.

This is a story that takes place along side the actual Animorphs series. This book takes place sometime between books 3, or 4.

Chapter One

My name is Joshua. I'm your average, everyday, ordinary kid. I have brown hair and eyes. Or at least I may look that way. If you saw me walking down the street you wouldn't give me a second look. But if you were a controller you would know what I was.

It all started one cold dark rainy night. Ben, my best friend, and I were heading home. The rain suddenly picked up it been just drizzling and suddenly now we were being drenched.

Ben has black hair and brown eyes. He is also rather athletic.

"Let's get out of the rain," I said. We headed for a tree. We stood under it waiting for the rain to let up. I shivered. The rain and the cold night would probably give a cold or something.

In a few seconds Jessie and Jimmy showed up. They were brother and sister. Each had blonde hair, and blue eyes. Jessie was a year younger then Jimmy.

"Hi," they both said.

"Hi," Ben and I said.

Ben and I knew Jessie and Jimmy from school. We occasionally ran into each other at school, but we weren't a group or anything. They kept to themselves pretty much. I was rather shy and Ben was the only friend I had at school. Ben was a little more social then I was.

"What are you guys doing out so late?" Jessie asked.

"We were out shopping for some comic books," Ben said. "What are you doing?"

"We were attending a meeting of the Sharing," Ben said. "Hey, maybe you guys should join."

"No, sorry. It isn't exactly my thing." I said. The Sharing was a kind of boy scouts thing except that anybody could join. They had games and activities. They also cleaned up the neighborhood.

"Maybe," Ben said.

"It's not my thing either," Jessie said.

"You should really reconsider," Jimmy said.

I was about to say "No," again when something caught my eye. Out of one of the buildings came something that looked like a horse, but where a horse's head would be was the upper part of a human body. He was very strange looking.

Behind it came five men each holding what looked like a gun. They raced after the creature.

I glanced at Jimmy on his face was an expression of hatred as he glared at the creature running toward us. He saw me looking at him and his expression changed to one of amazement. The others all looked amazed as well.

As the creature got closer I could make out more of his features. He had two stalks on his head. On the tip of the stalk was an eye. The stalks moved around enabling it to glance in all directions. His normal eyes were almond shaped and had a bright green color.

He had no mouth. Instead he had three vertical slits on his face. He also had a tail.

The men chasing the creature weren't catching up. In fact, the creature was escaping.

One of them shouted, "Get those kids. There can't be any witnesses."

"Run," I shouted. I spun around to run. As I turned I saw the others turning to run as well. Except for Jimmy who hesitated then turned and ran.