The Decision (Animorphs)

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Animorphs 18: The Decision
Author	K.A. Applegate
Cover quote	Change a little. Change a lot. Just change...
Illustrator	David B. Mattingly
Narrator	Ax
Pages	161
Release date	1998
Previous Book	The Underground
Next Book	The Departure

The Decision is a science fiction novel by K.A. Applegate in the Animorphs series.

• New Morphs: All - Mosquito, Jake, Ax, Marco, and Cassie - Leeran.

The Animorphs discover that Hewlett Aldershot the Third has been run over by controllers and is being kept secretly in a hospital where he is heavily guarded. They decide to morph mosquitoes with the theory that they can acquire him by sucking his blood without being in their natural forms where the yeerk guards might notice them. When they do, they are somehow transported to Z-Space. Right before they suffocate, they are rescued by an Andalite ship heading for the Leera where there is a Yeerk invasion underway. Unfortunately, the commander of the ship is a traitor and the ship gets blown up. The animorphs head across the major landmass of Leera to try to find friendly Andalites. Tobias mysteriously disappears and the rest go over the ocean. Rachel disappears and the rest meet some Leerans who they acquire. Then they get told that the Andalites have planted a bomb but that they need to go to activate it and Cassie disappears. Marco dispears and they meet a Leeran-Controller who reads their minds and discovers their plans. When they get to the bomb, Jake disappears leaving Ax alone. He activates the bomb but a bunch of armed Hork-Bajir appear to disarm it. The Hork-Bajir fires at him but he disappears right before the beam hits him. The bomb goes off right after he disappears. Somehow all the Animorphs arrived back to the hospital where they were before they got sucked into Z-Space.