The Underground (Animorphs)
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| The Underground | |
 Rachel morphing into a bat |
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| Author | K. A. Applegate |
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| Cover artist | David B. Mattingly |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Animorphs #17 |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Scholastic |
| Publication date | March 1998 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 164 |
| ISBN | 0-590-49436-8 |
| Preceded by | The Warning |
| Followed by | The Decision |
The Underground is the seventeenth book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is narrated by Rachel.
[edit] Plot Summary
The Animorphs see a man jumping out of an office building, and save him. Rachel finds out he has been talking about Yeerks, so the Animorphs go to talk to him. He tells them that he is a Controller, and the Yeerk inside him doesn't need Kandrona Rays because he ate Maple and Ginger Instant Oatmeal, which seems to give Yeerks to ability to survive without Kandrona Rays. However, there is a downside. The oatmeal is extremely addictive and makes the Yeerks who eat it go crazy and only able to control their host some of the time. The Animorphs decide to dump a bunch of oatmeal into the Yeerk pool, which would cause thousands of Yeerks to go insane.
Unable to enter the Yeerk Pool the normal way because of a new invention called the "Gleet Bio-Filter", which doesn't allow creatures besides Humans and Yeerks to enter the Yeerk Pool, they spend a week digging through the ground as moles. Upon entering the Yeerk pool, they are attacked by two hunter robots and Rachel falls into the Yeerk pool. She morphs an ant, gets out, steals a dracon beam and disguises herself as a human-Controller. She learns that Ax and Tobias have been captured and there is a large amount of Maple and Ginger Instant Oatmeal near the Yeerk pool.
When Visser Three comes, she throws the oatmeal into the pool and gives the dracon beam to Marco (who, being in gorilla morph, has hands). Visser Three decides to sacrifice the Yeerks in the pool in order to catch them, so Rachel throws him in too. Visser Three starts to morph giving them no chance to escape, so Marco shoots open the barrels of oatmeal in the pool. Then he collapses the tunnel and the animorphs escape as moles.
[edit] Morphs
| Morpher | Morphs Acquired | Morphs Used |
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| Jake | Mole | Peregrine Falcon, Cockroach, Seagull, Cockroach, Fly, Mole, Bat |
| Rachel | Mole | Bald Eagle, Dolphin, Seagull, Cockroach, Fly, Mole, Bat, Ant, African Elephant, Gorilla |
| Tobias | Mole, Bat | Fly, Mole, Bat |
| Cassie | Mole | Osprey, Mole, Fly, Bat, Wolf |
| Marco | Mole | Osprey, Seagull, Cockroach, Fly, Mole, Bat, Gorilla |
| Ax | Mole | Northern Harrier, Human, Fly, Mole, Bat |
| Visser Three | 'Pteradon Creature' |
[edit] Trivia
- This book has one of the longest titles out of all of the books in the series.
- This is the fifth book to feature a cover morph that was not acquired in the book. The Animorphs (except Tobias) acquired bat morphs in the tenth book, The Android.
- The front cover quote is, "There's nothing to fear but the Yeerks themselves....", a reference to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's famous quote "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
- The inside front cover quote is, "There's nothing to fear. Batgirl is here...."
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