Chapter 1
Author's Note: Written by Samaru163 and Tricondon.
Chapter 1
Jake
My name is Jake. That’s my first name, obviously. I wish I could tell you my last name, or where I live, or the name of my school, but I can’t. It’s too dangerous. See, you may not know this, but Earth is not only inhabited by Humans any more. For a while now a secret alien invasion has been happening. They call themselves Yeerks: tiny little slugs who squeeze into your ear so they can take over a person’s body and mind. When they do this, you’re reduced to nothing but a bystander, a prisoner inside your own mind. You watch as the Yeerk goes to your school, lies to your family, speaks through your mouth and infests your friends. All while you can do nothing but scream and wail in the dark confines of your own mind. They’ve already taken countless worlds beyond our own, including the Taxxons and the Hork Bajir. And now they want us.
You might be wondering why we know about the invasion if it’s supposed to be secret. Well, some time ago, myself and some of my friends were walking home and we happened upon a dying alien. His name was Elfangor, an Andalite, a bizarre cross between a human, scorpion and a blue deer. He told us, that is me and my four friends, of the invasion. I bet you’re thinking, ‘So all we have is a bunch of teenagers against an army of advanced aliens? We’re so dead.'
Well, you’d be right, except for one thing. Elfangor, the alien, gave us one last gift to aid us in our fight: the power to morph into any animal we wish, once we’ve acquired its DNA. With this gift we’ve been able to strike major blows against the Yeerks. Not enough to drive them back, but enough to slow them down. Enough to give Earth a fighting chance.
Which is why you might find it odd that we’d leave Earth unprotected for a time as we fought a new threat. On an entirely new world in every meaning of the word.
“I still don’t understand why Erek called a meeting so suddenly. It’s not like him at all,” Marco complained as he rested against one of the barn’s old timbers. Marco’s been my best friend for as long as I can recall. Complaining is his favourite pastime, with making horrible jokes being a close second.
“If he wanted us to come so unannounced then it must be important,” Cassie said. Her parents owned the barn we were meeting in, since they use it as an Environmental Clinic. You know, they’d find injured foxes or deer or whatever and bring them back here to nurse them back to health. As such, Cassie’s grown up around animals and pretty much loves them. Having wild animals easily accessible has made it easy to acquire new morphs from time to time.
“I just wish he’d show up already. We got this call about forty minutes ago,” Rachel said. She’s my cousin, and at first may seem like your typical girly girl. She loves shopping, gymnastics and talking about guys, but pray to God that you never get her mad. Marco doesn’t call her Xena for nothing.
“Actually, you got the call thirty-seven of your minutes ago. Seven. Even. Minutes. Utes. Uuhhhtes.” Ax continued playing with sounds he found enjoyable. I should explain; Ax is another Andalite. We found him some time ago and rescued him. Andalites have no mouths and communicate via thought-speak, so whenever Ax is in his human morph, like he currently was, he gets distracted by various sounds he makes while speaking. And especially by taste.
“Ax, they are everyone’s minutes. They are my minutes, they are Cassie’s minutes, they are your minutes!” Marco cried.
“We now got the call thirty-eight of your minutes ago.” Marco collapsed into a nearby hay bale.
<Guys, someone’s coming up the path. They’ll be here in about three minutes,> Tobias said. He is what the Andalites call a nothlit, a being who is permanently trapped in morph. I probably should have mentioned that earlier. See, morphing has a time limit. Two hours in any morph, then you’re stuck. Forever. You can’t even try to re-quire a new morph. Luckily for Tobias however, he was able to regain his morphing powers. But his default form is still a red tailed hawk. From his perch up in the rafters, he could easily see the winding path leading to the barn, and was acting as lookout.
“Can you tell who it is?” I asked.
<No. If there was a bit more light, then yes, but I don’t see too well after sunset.>
I turned towards Cassie. “Are your parents due home anytime soon?”
She shook her head. “No, my mom got called in for some emergency, and dad’s out of town for a few days.”
<Well whoever they are, they’re about to come in.>
We all turned to watch the door, somewhat apprehensively. Slowly the doors opened and a kind, brown eyed boy stepped in. I relaxed, not even realizing I had been holding my breath. “Hey Erek, how are things?”
“Oh you know, same old same old,” he said shrugging his shoulders. While he may look like a normal kid, it’s really an advanced hologram. Underneath it is an ivory coloured dog like android. Erek is part of a race known as the Chee, who were built by a pacifist race known as the Pemalites. As such the Chee are unable to commit the simplest act of violence. But I’ve seen what they could do. See a while back we found a Pemalite crystal that allowed Erek to rewrite his programming, and he destroyed a whole battalion of Yeerks in around ten seconds. And I don’t mean he just beat them bad, no, they were gone. After that he decided never to go down that path again. Even so, the Chee are invaluable to us as spies.
“So what’s the word? Have the Yeerks decided to call it quits yet?” Marco asked hopefully.
A sad smile formed on Erek’s face. “I wish that too, Marco. Unfortunately, we may have a bigger problem to deal with. I overheard a touching conversation between Visser Three and another one. Visser Seven I think. They were speaking of a new planet, one that could win them the war.”
Everyone in the room perked up at that. Even the various animals in their cages seemed to quiet down. “Do you know what inhabits this world?” Ax asked.
“No, they didn’t discuss it too much. But they did say that there are lots of potential host bodies, ripe for harvesting. But there is some good news. It seems Visser Seven needs more troops to take this planet, so Visser Three is sending some ships off today.”
“And? How does this help us?” Marco responded dryly, clearly unconcerned by what Erek was saying.
“Well, a certain group of ‘Andalite Bandits’ could potentially sabotage the ships while they’re still docked.” There was an air of smugness to Erek’s voice.
Rachel practically leapt from her seat. “Well what are we waiting for? Let’s do this!”
“Yes ma’am, Xena Warrior Princess ma’am,” Marco said, and gave a mock salute. This got him a smack in the arm.
“Erek, do you know who is supposed to be on board the craft?” Cassie piped up. Erek, for his part, glanced downwards.
“There are going to be three ships that I know of. One will be stocked with all manner of weapons, while the other two will be filled with Taxxon, Hork Bajir, and Humans.” His voice was heavy with defeat. “From what I hear, there’s going to be about twenty thousand humans on board.”
Rachel spoke up again. “Well, that settles it. We have to sabotage those ships, keep those humans here on Earth.” She turned to me, looking for approval. Everyone else has appointed me their leader, and it’s usually up to me to make the calls. I hate it. Sometimes I wish I could pass the duty off to someone else. But most of the time, I can see why it was made me.
“Prince Jake, if what Erek says is true, then allowing such a planet to fall into Yeerk control will surely lead to our defeat,” Ax said.
“Ax, I already told you. Don’t call me ‘Prince.’”
“Yes, Prince Jake.”
After a moment of consideration I looked at them all. “Alright. We’ll go in, do what damage we can, and then get out.” I turned to Erek. “Do you know when the ships are scheduled to leave?”
Erek nodded. “They’re supposed to leave tomorrow, around midnight. Currently they are stationed in the mountains. A good distance from humans who might stumble upon them but close enough so they can get their troops up.”
I nodded back. “OK, then. After we finish school, we meet up here and set out.”
<I’ll fly by the launch site during the day, scout out the place for us,> Tobias volunteered. Rachel looked up at him.
“Just be careful, alright?”
Tobias swiveled his head around, looking at Rachel with those piercing hawk eyes.
<I’m always careful.>
For a moment no one spoke. Ax broke the silence first, saying that he had to demorph soon. With that, both him and Tobias headed out to the forest, with Erek departing as well. Cassie walked over to the stables, saying she had to administer some medicine to an injured raccoon. After some convincing Rachel agreed to stay with her. So that just left me and Marco to make the trek back home.
We walked in silence for a time, Marco being unusually quiet. That worried me a little, since Marco is rarely at a loss for words. “What’s up man?” I asked.
Marco sighed. “I just feel like we’re going to be really outnumbered tomorrow. And you can stake my life that they're going to be prepared for us.”
I could only nod. “True, but it’s not like we haven’t fought against impossible odds before.” I put my arm around his shoulders. “Listen, if we do get into trouble, I give you full permission to blame me.” I flashed Marco a grin, hoping I didn’t look as nervous as I felt.
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I can tell from the first line of this that you aren't basing it off post book 51, in fact I can tell that from the synopsis.... I'm wondering where in the Animorphs timeline they go to equestria...
One minor note here:
"And you can stake my life that it’s going to be prepared for us.”
The bolded word should be 'they're', not 'it's'.
Other than that, great job! Continuing to read.
i never thought any one would ever crossover animorphs and MLP i not sure i sould be happy or scared
>Currently there are stationed in the mountains
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I can't tell if this is good or bad writing
because of all the nostalgia
"Well, you’d be right, except for one thing. Elfangor, the alien, gave us one last gift to aid us in our fight: the power to morph into any animal we wish, once we’ve acquired its DNA."
I think I accidentally stole that idea by accident.
Haven't read yet, but I so will. I can already see my childhood, flashing before my eyes.. It's beautiful...
YYYAAAYYYY I am an old school lover for animemoprph! The feeling is there... I wish the author had cvontinue this amazing universe. I hope finish this fanifction! This is greatest day for me X3
HOLY SHIT, I never got to read the whole series but what I did I loved. I say I, like almost everyone else, never thought this crossover would happen, Hell yes.
Lol I have no fuckin idea what is happening. Am I the only person who picked up an animorph book just to flip the pages and look at the cool transitions? Please tell me I'm not and that I haven't missed out on something awesome.
an Andalite, a bizarre cross between a human, scorpion and a...
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I loved the Animorphs when I was in 3rd - 7th grade...
Well, from what I've read, you've kept this pretty much down pat for an Animporphs book! I still have a few laying around, and I checked.
I got the animorph feel man. I FEEL like this is a real book. That alone makes Track.
This is precious. Seriously. Animorphs and ponies? Boss.
I was just thinking that such a crossover would probably be worth reading.
Then I find this story.
I am going to enjoy the hell out of this.
meh, ive seen better
but still, i tip my hat to you.
yet its so... 90s. LIKE THE ANIMORPHS!
VERY GOOD JOB RECAPTURING THEIR PERSONALITIES, MY FRIEND!!!
Instant love.
My old obsession and new obsession merged into one.
yyyyyeEEEESSS! MUST READ NAO!
this is nostalgiac indeed., i hope and pray it will be a vaiable and awsome concept to read further, and fav , cause this was the best book series to read when i was a kid, i lierally still have all of thbe animorph books, even the hardcover ones.
This, this is amazing. My childhood mixed with MLP: Friendship Is Magic. Yes.
I know what I'm, doing for the rest of my summer
*Goes off to check out the entire Animorph series at the library.*
First, when I saw this title I thought of Power Rangers. Because that's just where my mind went. And I mean old school power rangers. Back when "Morphing" was part of the title.
But I am passingly familiar with this series as well, and I'll be damned if it doesn't sound just the books. So...I'll see if this turns out as good as I hope it will.
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...you're the second person to jump to Power Rangers.
-Tricondon
Animorphs and MLP:FIM. Two franchises I enjoy despite being well outside the target audience.
pie
I've read ALL the Animorph books, and I've watched MLP.
20,000 troops? Advanced alien weapons, space-ships, and the infestation squad?
Even if the Changelings and the other races get involved I don't think they stand a chance unless the royals get involved right from the start.
Ah... the memories. I loved Animorph, but I was dissatisfied with the ending. Anyway, love the way it's turning out!
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I torrented it in e-book form, you can find it on thepiratebay.se if you ever want to finish it.
Not sure if potentially great crossover...or disaster!
Judging from the views and likes, it seems like the former, but I will definitely read more.
810799 I did. It sucks when Rachel dies, and then very one else except Cassie at the end.
@everyone
I hope it occurs to them to try morphing into ponies. And my guess is that Marco would go brony and try it anyway.
2132348 Marco probably would go brony, now that I think about it...
1015703 I know, right? The ending was pretty lame.
When I went on the front page and saw the goddamned Animorphs, I fist pumped and thought, "Aw, HELL yeah."
I fucking LOVE Animorphs.
Hrm, standard start. One criticism: Too many typical "animorph lines" all at once. Stagger them some. Applegate didn't have Rachel say "lets do it" constantly, or have Jake always immediately object to being called Prince, etc. It's good to spread it out, make it flow naturally. I'm assuming you're not going to retread those for a while, because otherwise it gets repetitive. Ah well, we'll see. I do love Animorphs.
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If that's your only criticism, I'd say job well done.
-Tricondon
dear god this chapter was a blast to my past great work.
I must admit, you have captured the Animorphs feel quite well. And I've only read the first chapter! Bravo, good sir, bravo.
779493 Hello, department of redundancy department.
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I don't know... I rather suspect that the Elements of Harmony could make Yeerks exit their hosts(EDIT: Hosts = everything BUT Equestria natives) and lay still for a few minutes in a radius of at least miles. Or disintegrate them in a fashion that wouldn't lead to raging brain infection... well, bacterial infection, instead of macroscopic parasite.
Cassie and Fluttershy... that is going to be interesting to see. Same interests, similar virtues (Kindness), different personalities(Cassie is closer to Applejack's personality I think).
"So... umm... animals only? No plants?"
"That's right. Why do you ask?"
"Well... its just... I'd like to be a tree."
Tobias and Fluttershy... his life is suffering and feathers. She is going to take SUCH good care of him. Rachel may get (pointlessly) jealous.
Rachel and Rainbow Dash... well, that is an explosion waiting to happen. If they are rivals they are going to get themselves creamed trying to outdo eachother. If they bond especially well, they are going to get everybody else creamed.
Ax and Twilight... will geek out hard enough it could turn into a romance subplot and not feel completely stupid.
Marco and Pinkie Pie... some people say Pinkie doesn't laugh because she thinks the world is a wonderful place, she laughs because she knows it isn't, and that is how she chooses to make her stand against all the bad things that can happen. Marco is much more sarcastic, but that is basically his own approach to humor too.
I hope your not offended by this. But I so see where this is going.
And I LIKE IT!
979217 What if the Yeerks enter Luna and Celestia?
I remember when jake got infested. thankfully it died.
I've heard of Animorphs
and had the oppurtunity to read them
, but I haven't read any of them
. They do, however, seem interesting, as does the story. I shall continue reading.
Yep this is definitely faved just because it's Animorphs.
WOOHOO! YESSSSS! ANIMORPHS CROSSOVER! And not using portals like, oh, I dunno,ALMOST EVERY OTHER CROSSOVER HERE! CUPCAKE PAAARTAY!
2549060 I love that too. I even read their books!
3008641 Then we're screwed.
I do have to agree with JetstreamGW about too many running gag lines all at once at the start of the whole thing. BUT, I'm curious to see how this develops.
I had my own ideas for an Animorphs/MLPFiM crossover, two of them actually:
1. Equestria is the latest board in the Ellemist and Crayak's game, and the Animorphs have to win without compromising the masquerade.
OR
B. Elfangor lands on Equestria and the Mane Six (Maybe plus Spike) gain morphing powers to combat the Yeerks invading the land. (This idea was had before Canterlot Wedding)
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Game over squared
So, i was just randomly cruising around the featured section of this site and i came across this. I immediately thought, this is fucking Animorphs. This is an Animorphs/MLP crossover. This is going on the list'.
And i just as quickly put it on the 'read later' list, cuz that's what one does when two of their favorite fandoms gets crossed. And today i read chapter 1 and i have zero regrets about my earlier decision. Not one. Instant fave.
Thus far this is a pretty sweet fic and i'm greatly looking forward to continuing it. I thank you for bringing it to us!
OH MY GOSH, ANIMORPHS/MLP CROSSOVER!!! THEY EXIST!!!