List of Animorphs books (21-30)

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Contents 1 Animorphs 21: The Threat 2 Animorphs 22: The Solution 3 Animorphs 23: The Pretender 4 Animorphs 24: The Suspicion 5 Animorphs 25: The Extreme 6 Animorphs 26: The Attack 7 Animorphs 27: The Exposed 8 Animorphs 28: The Experiment 9 Animorphs 29: The Sickness 10 Animorphs 30: The Reunion

[edit] Animorphs 21: The Threat

• Copyright date: 1998
• Number of pages: 158
• Cover art: Jake morphs into a golden retriever.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Cover quote: The newest Animorph has a secret. And it's not good...
• Narrator: Jake
• New Morphs: Jake- Dragonfly, David- Lion, Flea, Seagull, Random Male Secret Service Controller

After falling from the Blade ship, the Animorphs are snagged from mid-air by Rachel and Tobias, in their respective eagle and hawk morphs. They land on the beach, needing a plan to infiltrate the Marriott resort. Jake becomes aware of the tensions between David and Marco, and is disturbed by David's unnecessary excesses. The team morphs to seagulls, and spy out the compound, crawling with security agents armed to the teeth and accompanied by dogs. They're zapped by a man wearing sunglasses with weak Dracon beam emitters built into them. Jake directs them to leave.

Upon his return home, his parents tell Jake and his brother Tom that their obnoxious cousin, Saddler, was gravely injured in a car accident, and that they were leaving town to spend time with the crippled child's parents. Jake is presented with the opportunity to advance his plans. Unfortunately, that night, David disappears from Cassie's barn. Jake morphs his dog, Homer, and tracks David's scent to an inn. David had morphed his golden eagle, smashed the window with a rock and entered without paying. Jake warns him of the implications of this action. David doesn't hide his contempt, but leaves with Jake, anyway.

Cassie formulates a plan to infiltrate the resort. Jake morphs a dragonfly, while the other Animorphs, with the exception of Tobias, morph fleas and latch onto Jake's body. Tobias guides them to the hotel. Inside, Jake tries to find the banquet hall where the speeches and infestations will take place. Inside an air vent, he is caught in a spider web. A terrified David demorphs, and the others follow suit. Cassie is crushed. He releases them, and they begin demorphing. Marco is stuck mid-morph, as a giant flea. They begin to despair, but Cassie guides Marco and enables him to demorph. Jake inspects the banquet room, and notices the number of holograms in place. Here they discover how the Yeerks plan to infest each world leader. They return to the barn, and Cassie explains why the Visser is in personal command of the operation. Now the Animorphs need a plan to thwart it. They return to the resort, knock out the guards, morph them, and reenter the banquet. Soon they realise they'd been deceived, and had fallen into Visser Three's trap. David is frightened and turns against the Animorphs in order to preserve his own life. It isn't long, though, before they discover that the Hork-Bajir surrounding them were just holograms. They take the Visser hostage, and withdraw. The Animorphs, now disgusted with David, try to plan their next move.

But during the night, David returns to his old home in eagle morph. Jake and Ax pursue him, only to find that David had apparently killed Tobias. David explains that the Animorphs weren't treating him as an equal, and that he'd have to take matters into his own hands. Enraged, Jake engages David, only to be ambushed by Hork-Bajir. Ax rescues Jake, and escape. David then leads Jake to the mall, and they each morph their battle morphs, lion and tiger respectively. After a brief duel, David severs Jake's carotid artery, leaving him to bleed to death...

[edit] Animorphs 22: The Solution

• Copyright date: 1998
• Number of pages: 152
• Cover art: Rachel morphs into a rat.
• Cover quote: A mistake has been made. His name is David.
• Narrator: Rachel
• New morphs: Tobias, Ax, Cassie - Elephant, Marco - Rhinoceros, David- Human(Saddler), Human(Marco), Orca, Rat

After having a bizarre dream, Rachel is woken by Ax. He explains Jake's express orders to summon Rachel. That decision bothers her, but her qualms are silenced when Ax breaks her the news of Tobias's probable death. Rachel is willing to do what Jake expected her to do. They fly to Marco's house. Ax tries to fly through his window, but is promptly knocked out by Marco. Or rather, David in Marco's morph. Rachel allows David to morph to golden eagle, and leads him on a chase through town. Rachel plans to lure him into the power lines, electrocuting him. But David outmaneouvres her, and almost kills her. Fortunately, David is attacked by a hawk, which turns out to be Tobias.

Relieved that Tobias is alive, the Animorphs plan how to trap the traitor. At school, they're surprised, though, when David, in Marco's body, demands the Blue Box, threatening to betray their identities to the Yeerks. Cassie tries to reason with him, but to no avail. Making no progress, David leaves, with Rachel in pursuit. In a secluded spot on the school grounds, Rachel tells him that even if David betrays them, she'd still have time to make short work of him and his parents before she would be silenced by the Yeerks. David tries to attack her, but she pins him down. Having made her threat, she releases him. And Rachel becomes enraged with the way Jake is manipulating her violent tendencies.

The Animorphs formulate one final attempt to doom the Yeerk's plan to make controllers of some of the G8 leaders. They morph dolphins and travel to the shore of the Marriott resort. Then they morph elephants and rhinoceroses, and ravage the resort huts the heads of state reside in. They leave a screaming Visser Three in 'Tony's' morph, and retreat into the ocean. The plan is a success, but they encounter David, in orca morph. Here David accuses Rachel of threatening to kill his family, and Rachel is hurt by her teammates' silence. After an exhausting battle, Cassie morphs into a humpback whale and drives David away.

Rachel collapses in her bed, but is almost immediately pestered by her sister, wanting some comfort regarding Saddler's grave condition. Rachel walks into the bathroom, and is confronted by an invisible David. He challenges her to a personal war, which she accepts. Rachel then accuses Jake of not standing with her against David, and that Jake thinks she is a sociopath. At the hospital, the family visits their dying child. It becomes apparent that he is far from dying; he'd somehow miraculously made a full recovery. Jake immediately suspects David. He mocks Rachel and Jake, demanding the Blue Box. Rachel and Jake reconcile, and then begin concocting a scheme to beat David at his own game.

The Animorphs have a mock discussion about a Blue Box that breaks into smaller pieces, and Rachel pretends to have been morally defeated by David, being mocked by Marco the whole time. They meet David at a Taco Bell, and agree to lead him to the Blue Box, allowing him to abuse Rachel some more. Rachel and David fly to the abandoned construction site, with the other Animorphs following close behind. David traps the Animorphs as cockroaches in a Pepsi bottle, and he and Rachel morph rats. They venture into the pipes to retrieve each 'piece'. David soon figures out the Animorph's elaborate trap, and tries to escape. He is stopped by Rachel. The gate closes on the fake piping the Animorphs had designed, and David is doomed.

Rachel and the other decide to let David be trapped forever as a rat. Cassie had plotted out all of David's emotions, gauged his inflating ego, and knew the sociopath would select Rachel as his victim. Rachel and Ax carry David out to a desolate rocky outcrop a mile offshore, and leave him, his pleading and cursing trailing behind them.

[edit] Animorphs 23: The Pretender

• Copyright date: 1998
• Number of pages: 154
• Cover art: Tobias (red-tailed hawk) morphs into a rabbit.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Cover quote: Tobias is about to discover the secrets of his past...
• Narrator: Tobias
• New Morphs: Tobias- Rabbit, Visser Three- Human(Aria, mixed DNA of random Controllers), Kaftid

Tobias has been having bad luck with his hunts. Every time he'd dive on the rabbit litter to pick off a hapless youngster, he'd suddenly envision himself as the prey with the shadow of death swooping at him. To make his situation worse, another red-tailed hawk is aggressively moving in on his territory. He doesn't have the will to deal with the threat once and for all. So he resorts to picking dead carcasses off the road.

He stops by at Rachel's house. She tells him that a long-lost cousin, Aria, has been searching for him. Chapman, too, is interested in his whereabouts. Tobias suspects a trap. Rachel tells him that his father had left him his will, which was to be read out on his birthday. Tobias meets his father's lawyer, DeGroot. The lawyer tells him the father he knew may not have been his real father. Tobias is puzzled. He also tells him that Aria wants to meet him at the Hyatt hotel. Tobias left the practice, and found himself being followed by a Yeerk agent. Rather than meeting with the Animorphs at the barn, he flies to the Hork-Bajir colony.

There, Toby Hamee, Jara Hamee and Ket Halpak's seer daughter, tells Tobias that a baby Hork-Bajir, Bek, is missing. It is then that a disbelieving Tobias discovers that the Hork-Bajir regularly leave the valley to free more of their kind. Back at the barn, Tobias must deal with his friend's thinly-veiled pity for him, and decide to pair him with Rachel to inspect Aria. At the hotel, Aria leaves in a cab, and stops over at Frank's Safari Land and Putt-Putt Golf, a dodgy roadside zoo-slash-amusement park. It's there that they find Bek, locked in a miserable cage alongside a bunch of very depressed animals. They find Aria talking to the owner, Frank, who wants to make money of his 'alien freak'.

Tobias and the others storm the place and try to take Bek, tearing down that miserable little place in the process. But the Controllers were ready for them, and Tobias encounters Visser Three in a hideous Kaftid morph, who thinks Tobias is Ket Halpak. The Visser assails Tobias with an acid attack, forcing him to release Bek in pain. The rescue fails, and the Animorphs and the Yeerks withdraw.

Tobias constantly wonders if he could ever live life as a human - with Aria. He wonders if she's a Controller. He and Ax return to the Hyatt, and witness her saving a little girl. Tobias assumes this means she's not a Controller, but Ax is doubtful. Tobias swings by Rachel's that night, and engage in a hot debate about Tobias's humanity. The next day, the Animorphs and the Hork-Bajir plan their attack on the new Yeerk Dracon cannon facility out of town.

The Animorphs and the free Hork-Bajir allow themselves to be captured. Tobias, in flea morph, jumps out of the cage, morphs a Hork-Bajir, and opens the cage. A quick fight between the Hork-Bajir-Controllers and the freedom fighters results in the latter's victory. As they climb up to the Yeerk Dracon cannon, Tobias spots Aria in a helicopter. Only then does he make the connection. He faints just as the Animorphs and the free Hork-Bajir escape, having pointed the weapon at the ground, with minutes remaining to fire. The facility is destroyed, and Bek is saved.

Now Tobias must engage Aria on his own. He goes to the testament-reading, and discovers that his father was in fact Elfangor, the Andalite prince. Tobias gives nothing away, instead jeering that he was left no money and accusing Aria of merely seeking his inheritance. Only after he returns to his hiding spot does he break down. Later that night, he flies to Rachel's where she lights him a candle on a birthday cake.

The next day, Tobias kills the mother rabbit, morphs her, and brings the baby rabbits under his protection from the rival hawk.

[edit] Animorphs 24: The Suspicion

• Copyright date: 1998
• Number of pages: 154
• Cover art: Cassie morphs into an anteater.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Cover quote: What counts is on the inside. Most of the time...
• Narrator: Cassie
• New Morphs: All - Anteater, Visser Three- Anteater

Jake comes over to Cassie's barn, where Cassie and Rachel see a "toy" spaceship attached to the waterpump where Cassie had been hiding the blue box. While they watch, it detaches itself and flies away. The animorphs immediately hold a meeting and decide to go to goodwill to try to retrieve the spaceship that Cassie had seen earlier attached to the waterpump and donated assuming it was a toy. While there, the spaceship starts shooting at them and demands that they surrender and bring them the blue box. It flies away and they realise that it is headed back to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic to retrieve the Escafil Device. Since it is a spaceship, it can travel much faster than their bird morphs, and when they get back, they discover to their dismay that the waterpump was cut open and the spaceships have stolen the blue box. There are some flashes and Tobias, Cassie, and Marco are significantly smaller. They decide to pretend to surrender to the Helmacrons which are the aliens that are aboard the spaceships. They morph to flies and escape. They discover that they are at a sharing meeting. The other Helmacron spaceship had lured the rest of the Animorphs there in an attempt to steal the blue box. During the meeting, the Helmacrons attack, indiscriminantly shrinking everyone at the meeting. Upon seeing the blue box, along with Visser Three's gentle prodding, all the controllers start trying to grab it and there is lots of chaos. Cassie morphs into a whale in order to crash the ship. She and the other animorphs eventually end up on Ax who is the only animorph remaining unshrunken. Visser 3 and many controllers also end up on Ax, also shrunken. Ax, in harrier morph, flies over to the Gardens where they all acquire and morph anteaters, which unshrinks them while in morph. The Animorphs, Controllers and Helmacrons reach an agreement and everyone is unshrunken. Before the book ends, Marco and Cassie give the Helmacron males a bit of a pep talk, and it ends with the Helmacrons, male and females, squabbling with each other.

[edit] Animorphs 25: The Extreme

• Copyright date: 1999
• Number of pages: 146
• Cover art: Marco morphs into a polar bear.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Cover quote: So many Yeerks, so little time...
• Narrator: Marco
• New Morphs: All- Seal, Polar Bear

Marco fails to get together with a girl named Marian. His sense of humour and her taste in classical music just aren't compatible. Later, Erek tells Marco the Yeerk's plan to manipulate US satellites to beam Kandrona rays into swimming pools, turning each into a Yeerk pool. That way, Controllers won't have to travel to the Yeerk pool, and the Animorphs would lose their advantage over them. The Yeerks are conducting their latest scheme in the Arctic Circle.

The Animorphs hitch a ride on Visser Three's Blade ship. On board, they discover cryogenic tubes with strange creatures inside them. Their presence is discovered by the Yeerks, and they're forced to morph their battle creatures. Jake orders a distraction, and Marco rips open the control panel to open the ship's hatch. Rachel, with all her grizzly bear might, manages to make a single, tiny crack in one of the specimen tubes. A nitrogen-like mist spills out, freezing every living thing it touches. A nasty fight ensues, and the Animorphs bail out.

Bailing out into the frozen tundra, the Animorphs find themselves freezing to death. They morph wolves, but they need energy to keep going. They find a polar bear had just killed and partially consumed a seal. The Animorphs eat the remains. Much to their surprise, not even Cassie has any scruples.

Soon the Animorphs find themselves pursued by the creatures Marco had observed in the tubes. They morph seals to escape them, but are attacked by orcas in the freezing depths. They also find two seal pups - the pups of the seal they'd just eaten. Regretfully, they leave them to their fate.

Ax tells the chilling tale of the new aliens, the Venber, a species from the Andalite moon Venbea, that was wiped out centuries ago by a race known as 'The Five', melting them for computer semiconductors. Not only that, but the Yeerks have cloned them by cross-breeding them with humans, giving them their new humanoid shape.

Later, they come across Derek, a young, jocular Inuit, and his 'buddy', Nanook the polar bear. Derek tells them about the people with the satellite dish, and how they're even worse than the American and Canadian elite who shoot wildlife from helicopters for the testosterone rush. The Animorphs are presented with an opportunity to acquire the DNA of a native animal, and so they attack Nanook. After pinning him down, they each acquire him, and morph him.

The Animorphs, in their new polar bear morphs, advance on the Yeerk base. They encounter the Venber, engaging them in a brutal battle. They lure the remaining Venber into the hangars, where the above-zero conditions cause them to melt. The Animorphs then steal a Yeerk Bug fighter, and Marco immolates the Yeerk base. Soon to be intercepted by the Blade ship, they morph birds and ditch the alien craft over west coast airspace, and fly home. Marco's never been more appreciative of a hot, hot shower.

[edit] Animorphs 26: The Attack

• Copyright date: 1999
• Number of pages: 145
• Cover art: Jake morphs into a Siberian tiger.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Cover quote: Change is necessary...
• Narrator: Jake
• New Morphs: Jake- Howler

When the Animorphs go to see a performance of the "Lion King", the Ellimist freezes time and appears to enlist their aid. It tells them there is another force more powerful than it, the Crayak, who wants to be able to control the entire fabric of time and space. The Ellimist reveals that this creature is the blood-red eye Jake saw when the yeerk in his head died in "#6 - The Capture".

The Ellimist tells that when Crayak first appeared, they waged a long, brutal war that destroyed a large portion of the galaxy. The war was damaging to both of them, and they realised that they must have a much more subtle battle, comparable to a chess game. All the times the Ellimist has helped them (showing them the location of the Kandrona, freeing Jara Hamee and Ket Halpek, giving Tobias his morphing power back, twisting time to make sure Elfangor gave the Animorphs the morphing power) have all been small moves in this game, all helping the Animorphs gain an advantage over the Yeerks.

This time there's an alien race the Crayak wants to destroy, and the Ellimist can't let that happen. Whether the aliens, the Iskoort, survive will be determined by setting seven of the Ellimist's warriors against seven of Crayak's Howlers, the race that destroyed the Pemalites and will destroy the Iskoort if they win, on the Iskoort home world.

The Animorphs choose Erek King as their seventh person, and they are taken to the Iskoort world, a huge metropolis miles above the ground. The whole area is basically a huge marketplace, where anything can be bought or sold, while the Iskoort turn out bizarre and grating, but not actually evil. The seven enlist a young Iskoort trader named Guide to show them around.

Eventually they run into one of the Howlers. Even alone, it proves to be completely superior: it can be hurt and smacked around, but it's a lethally dangerous combatant and heals its wounds immediately. They barely survive the fight, while the Howler is left unharmed. Regrouping, they buy copies of Howler memories from Guide, in exchange of pledging copies of their own memories should they survive - such items would make Guide fabulously wealthy so far away from the human and Andalite spheres of influence. Erek watches the memories, and all the massacres the Howlers have committed. They work out that the Howlers were created by Crayak, and that they have collective memories, giving them each thousands of years of battle experience. There are no memories of the Howlers ever being defeated.

Around this point it's revealed that the Iskoort are all Yeerks. Violence is narrowly averted as the Iskoort turn out to be an offshoot or a lost colony of some sort that has made its own host bodies and moved from being parasitic to symbiosis for a peaceful way of being. Should the two races ever meet, the Yeerk would gain an option to end their conquest.

After several narrow escapes, Jake and a Howler both fall off a building towards the ground below. Jake acquires the Howler and quickly morphs to falcon, pulling to safety with a spiteful quip as the Howler plummets to its death. Back atop, Jake reunites with the others. Cassie runs up to and kisses him, prompting Rachel to say that "it's about time".

Jake morphs the Howler with the others under strict orders to kill him if he loses his mind to the instincts of a superpredator. He finds no such things. Instead, he discovers that Howlers are little children. They're manufactured, they have a lifespan of three years; they find killing a fun and exciting game. Since Jake has no memory of the death of the Howler he killed, Crayak must erase any memories of defeat that the Howlers get.

The Animorphs make the memory-recordings, while Erek and Guide join in. When the Howlers next attack, the Animorphs use Howler-Jake to stun one of them and force the entire memories of eight beings into the impossible purity of its mind, along with the knowledge that the non-Howlers are real beings. Crayak is forced to destroy all six Howlers before the memories can reach the rest of the race, but one memory remains, that of Cassie kissing Jake. The contaminated Howlers are essentially ruined.

The Ellimist wins, the Iskoort live. Taking his warriors back to their own planet, the Ellimist reveals that the day's actions will save an entire race in months, when the Howlers will try to kiss their enemies instead of killing them. In three hundred years' time, the Iskoort will meet the Yeerks.

The following night, Jake tries and fails to turn his dreams from the child he sent to its doom.

[edit] Animorphs 27: The Exposed

• Copyright date: 1999
• Number of pages: 154
• Cover art: Rachel morphs into a giant squid.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Cover quote: They thought they'd seen it all. They were wrong...
• Narrator: Rachel
• New Morphs: All- Giant Squid, Tobias- Sperm Whale, Rachel- Sperm Whale

During a shopping trip with Cassie, Rachel discovers Erek having problems: his hologram malfunctions. Barely managing to get him away in time, they discover all of the Chee have problems with certain aspects of their technology, owing to interference with a Pemalite ship hidden in the ocean. Of all the Chee, two are currently still in danger. One is hidden in a flophouse, but the SWAT team - with a Yeerk member - are about to raid the house. After rescuing this Chee, they decide to travel to the bottom of the ocean, but are unable to do so. None of them have either morph that could help: a sperm whale or a giant squid. However, a sperm whale conveniently beaches itself (!), so Rachel and Tobias acquire it and dive to find a squid. Upon finding and battling one, the group all acquires it and release it, and then dive to the ship. They notice several Yeerk ships en route to the Pemalite ship as well, following the signal. Reaching it first, they infiltrate it and fix the Chee programming, but then a self-destruct sequence is initiated too. The group is confronted by a being called the Drode, an aide of sorts to Crayak, who threatens them all. He shows some bizarre fondness for Rachel. The Yeerks also emerge into the ship, and the group must stand and fight them before allowing them to gain control. But as the battle reaches a climax, Erek appears - to the shock of the Drode - and activates a violence-dispeller. The Yeerks and Animorphs are forced to leave the ship.

[edit] Animorphs 28: The Experiment

• Copyright date: 1999
• Number of pages: 139
• Cover art: Ax morphs into a cow.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Cover quote: Change is a good thing. A very good thing...
• Narrator: Ax
• Summary: The animorphs find out from Erik that the Yeerks have taken control of a meatpacking plant and a laboratory. They acquire chimpanzees and infiltrate the lab. They don't find very much information so they Tobias and Ax morph steer to go to the meatpacking plant. After they get there they break into a room with humans in cages. The computer tells them that it is an expirement designed to destroy the free will of the human population so that the Yeerks can take over easily and the animorphs finally find out on page 127 what has been on the back of the book the whole time. On the next page, Cassie tells them it is impossible to destroy free will, and less than three pages after they find out what the whole point of the book is, the scientist confirms that the experiment is a total failure and they all go home.
• New Morphs: All-Chimpanzee Tobias-Bull Ax-Cow and Bull

[edit] Animorphs 29: The Sickness

• Copyright date: 1999
• Number of pages: 152
• Cover art: Cassie morphs into a Yeerk.
• Cover quote: Cassie is about to make a change for the better...
• Narrator: Cassie
• New Morphs: All except Ax- Eel, Cassie- Yeerk, Aftran- Humpback Whale

Cassie and Jake are dragged along by Rachel and the others to the school dance. They have a few good laughs when Ax's unfamiliarity with human culture scares away some of the crowd. The laughter stops, however, when he morphs involuntarily. It soon becomes apparent that Ax is suffering from an inflamed Tria gland - much like the lymphatic tonsils in the human mouth. Unlike humans, though, this gland is located at the back of Ax's brain. If it bursts - it will cause irreversible damage to the brain, as well. Cassie hides the sick alien in her barn - and Erek the Chee erects a hologram around them both.

At the same time, Mr. Tidwell, one of Cassie's teachers, informs her that Aftran has been captured by Visser Three. She will be tortured, and will thus be forced to divulge all of her secrets; including that of Cassie and the Animorphs. Cassie endures her friends' thinly-veiled blame, but they decide to act. They form a plan to enter the Yeerk pool via the facility's extensive piping system. Tobias brings them eels to morph. The children morph and enter the pipes, but Jake falls ill from Ax's virus. The plan fails, and they return to the surface - through a fire hose and into a burning building!

That night, Cassie has a bad dream. In the morning, she discovers that Rachel is ill. Mr. Tidwell reveals he shares control of his body with Illim, a Yeerk, and that he is a member of the Yeerk Peace Faction. He tells her the time and location of Aftran's interrogation. Marco and Tobias fall ill the same day.

Cassie is all alone, and she needs to infiltrate the Yeerk pool, so Illim allows her to acquire his Yeerk DNA and take control of Mr. Tidwell. Cassie and Mr. Tidwell enter the enemy stronghold, and she is disgorged into the Yeerk pool. She finds Aftran's cage, and manages to take control of a voluntary host. She rams the Visser, who drops Aftran. Cassie leaves the little girl, dives back into the pool, morphs her osprey, and carries Aftran away, pursued by Visser Three, who has morphed an eyeball with tentacles.

Back at the barn, Cassie learns that Ax is in crisis. She allows Aftran to enter Ax's head and tell her the location of the Tria gland. Cassie makes her incision, and pulls the gland out. Cassie saves Ax's life.

A few days later, the other Animorphs have recovered from the illness. Aftran is safe, but the Animorphs need to keep her alive outside the Yeerk pool. They allow her to morph a humpback whale - on the condition that she stay a nothlit.

[edit] Animorphs 30: The Reunion

• Copyright date: 1999
• Number of pages: 156
• Cover art: Marco morphs into a cockroach.
• Cover artist: David B. Mattingly
• Cover quote: Marco must make the ultimate sacrifice...
• Narrator: Marco
• New Morphs: Marco- Human(Mr.Grant)
• Summary: Enjoying a day to skip school, Marco unexpectedly runs into his mother, and discovers she is hiding in an office building, planning to find the Hork-Bajir colony. Marco, Tobias and Ax confirm this on a late-night visit, in which they negotiate a deal with Visser One. Marco begins to formulate a plan that will destroy Vissers One and Three, and free his mother, and make the Yeerks believe they have destroyed the Hork-Bajir colony. The plan goes well for the most part, but a few miscalculations reveal to Visser One that at least one of the guerilla fighters is human and there is a misconception that Jake and Cassie have died. When the Animorphs spring the battle between the two Vissers, Visser Three is forced to retreat and Visser One is believed to have perished, though not before realising that Marco is one of the warriors.

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