The First Journey (Alternamorphs)
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Alternamorphs #1: The First Journey is the first book of the Alternamorphs series, a spinoff of the Animorphs
series. It involves a second-person narrative so as to allow the reader to actually take part in the story. It lies outside of the regular Animorphs continuity.
, and #11: The Forgotten
. The book narrates from your point of view, as a sixth Animorph (Ax does not consider himself to be one of the "Animorphs"), and you are able to choose your morphs as the story progresses.
The book opens up with the reader ("you") riding their bike around the abandoned construction site. You join up with the Animorphs, witness Elfangor's demise at the "hands" (mouth) of Visser Three
, and pedal furiously home. The next morning, Marco comes to your house to explain that they have all started acquiring morphs, and that they plan to investigate a Sharing meeting that evening. A correct choice by the reader of a ferret as their first morph leads to Ms. Humphries, your next-door neighbor with a lot of ferrets and cats, taking you along with her to The Sharing meeting, as she is also a Controller. Ms. Humphries puts you down near a volleyball net, and you call to Cassie for help. She lets you escape and demorph with only a few minutes to spare. When you suggest that everyone could do with some better morphs than just lizards, dogs, cats, and ferrets, Rachel agrees. Cassie leads everyone to The Gardens to get some better morphs.
You all split up when a security guard with a golf cart chases you, and you find yourself inside the giraffe exhibit. You acquire the giraffe, then re-enter the hallway. After two animal handlers leave a tranquilized female hyena, you enter and acquire her DNA. As you leave, you are caught and detained by park security. You morph Princie, one of their dogs, and lead the team astray by not following your (human) scent, leading them to Ms. Humphries' house, and rubbing your sweatshirt (left outside earlier) over everything in the neighborhood before running home.
Knowing that you have to meet up with the rest of the Animorphs in their trip to the Yeerk Pool, you decide on a morph to sneak in with. A failed choice of the K9 police dog leads to you being recognized by Finley, the taller police officer. After the Animorphs battle and escape from the Yeerk Pool, Visser Three kills you with his eight-headed, fireball-launching alien morph.
A correct choice of a ferret morph has you hiding in the elevator leading down to the Yeerk Pool, one of many entrances. Some people take notice of you, and are about to get rid of you, when Jake's brother Tom spots you and recognizes you as one of Ms. Humphries' pets. He says they shouldn't touch "it", because "Chapman said to take no chances."
At the bottom floor, another Controller presses a series of buttons on the elevator, making it go past where normal people should be able to get to. The elevator opens up, and you descretely follow the Controllers down a staircase to the giant cavern that holds the city's main Yeerk Pool. You see mulitple hosts (human and Hork-Bajir) in cages, a woman re-infested, and Tom being put into a cage. You also see Cassie about to be led to the loading pier.
Running in her direction, Tobias spots you and you tell him that you all have to save Cassie. Then you run to Jake, Rachel, and Marco, who haven't morphed yet, and Jake tells you to demorph behind a storage shed. Rachel tells you to rest and wait for them. A few minutes later, a male human-Controller, a Hork-Bajir, and Taxxon find you. Rachel, morphed as an elephant, rescues you, and you all run to save Cassie. You morph into the hyena and kill a Taxxon. Marco is a gorilla, Jake is a tiger, and Rachel is still an elephant.
Events transpire much as they did in The Invasion
, with Marco unlocking cages, Cassie being rescued and morphing into a horse, and Visser Three
entering the scene. He morphs into a giant eight-headed, eight-armed, and eight-legged creature that breathes fireballs, and Tom tries to attack the Visser. You all escape into the school hallway, run outside, and demorph.
A few months later, Ax has joined the group, and you are in your kitchen at home when you start having flashing visions of being in a jungle. You ride your bike to Jake's house and tell him what's happening. He remembers the events of Book 11, but even though the rest of you were there too, you don't remember it. Now it's your turn to be having the flashes instead of Jake. Suddenly, the Sario Rip flash takes you all into the rain forest, and Jake distinctly remembers being there in The Forgotten. He leads you to a downed Bug fighter, saying that you guys have to take the onboard navigating computer before Visser Three comes back. Cassie recalls being on the Bug fighter shooting Dracon beams at Visser Three's blade ship, and Jake notes that the last time a Sario Rip happened, he had to die and he doesn't want to do that again.
Ax and Jake decide that this second go-around means that they should do things differently. Jake decides to have Ax disable the computer instead of taking it, to make it look like it happened in the crash. You all decide to morph parrots and fly through the jungle. You see human- and Hork-Bajir-Controllers destroying the rain forest, and Polo's tribe spying on the Hork-Bajir. You all land on their shoulders, and Cassie demorphs first. She reveals her human head and retracts her bird tail first, to give the appearance of being an animal spirit. She communicates with the small tribe by way of dirt drawings. Through these drawings, she conveys that the Hork-Bajir (diablos) are the enemy to be fought, and that she and her (bird) friends need to get on board the Blade Ship with the tribe's help. She arranges to meet up with the tribe again just before dusk
.
As chameleons, you all make your way to the Blade Ship. When you sneak on, Ax suggests you split up to avoid attention. After some brief arguing over whether you guys should kill Visser Three in "this timeline" and what it might mean, Visser Three boards and orders both the Blade Ship and the fixed Bug fighter to start up. Both ships rise, and before you all can attack, the ships fire at each other, closing the Sario Rip when the Dracon beams intersect. You are suddenly back in your hometown (as a human), albeit a year too early.
You are at a bus stop with Rachel and Marco. Suddenly, Marco's mom drives up to the curb, and she offers Marco a ride home. You and Marco are shocked at this because (at least in the proper timeline), Marco's mom is "dead" - rather, the host of Visser One
. Suddenly, Visser Three comes running to attack Eva as a Pit Bull. You morph into a giraffe to attack the Visser. The second you kick him, you are suddenly back in your own home in the kitchen. You run over to Jake's house, where he and Ax are eating licorice sticks and pizza like they were when you first ran over there before the Sario Rip.
Ax and Jake figure out that Visser Three had tried to use a Sario Rip to his advantage to go back in time and kill what would be his rival's human host. They go into a detailed explanation of exactly what transpired in the Sario Rip and why certain individuals remember what they remember, or why they did what they did. Jake concludes by saying that it's good that they've restored the correct timeline, and that "there will still be more battles to fight." You add "But first, there's pizza." This is the winning ending.
* Due to the Sario Rip effect, none of these morphs are usable (within the context of this story) after the Sario Rip is over/has been closed.
Because these morphs got you killed, they are not listed as morphs used.
Failed morphs:
Animorphs
Animorphs is an English language science fiction series of young adult books written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic. Five humans, Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias, and one alien, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill , obtain the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They name...
series. It involves a second-person narrative so as to allow the reader to actually take part in the story. It lies outside of the regular Animorphs continuity.
Plot summary
This book loosely follows the plots of Animorphs books #1: The InvasionThe Invasion (Animorphs)
The Invasion, published in 1996 and written by K. A. Applegate, is the first book in the Animorphs series. It is narrated by Jake.-Plot summary:...
, and #11: The Forgotten
The Forgotten (Animorphs)
The Forgotten is the eleventh book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is narrated by Jake.-Plot summary:Jake spends a day having strange flashbacks of himself in a rainforest, which leaves him disturbed....
. The book narrates from your point of view, as a sixth Animorph (Ax does not consider himself to be one of the "Animorphs"), and you are able to choose your morphs as the story progresses.
The book opens up with the reader ("you") riding their bike around the abandoned construction site. You join up with the Animorphs, witness Elfangor's demise at the "hands" (mouth) of Visser Three
Visser Three
Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at...
, and pedal furiously home. The next morning, Marco comes to your house to explain that they have all started acquiring morphs, and that they plan to investigate a Sharing meeting that evening. A correct choice by the reader of a ferret as their first morph leads to Ms. Humphries, your next-door neighbor with a lot of ferrets and cats, taking you along with her to The Sharing meeting, as she is also a Controller. Ms. Humphries puts you down near a volleyball net, and you call to Cassie for help. She lets you escape and demorph with only a few minutes to spare. When you suggest that everyone could do with some better morphs than just lizards, dogs, cats, and ferrets, Rachel agrees. Cassie leads everyone to The Gardens to get some better morphs.
You all split up when a security guard with a golf cart chases you, and you find yourself inside the giraffe exhibit. You acquire the giraffe, then re-enter the hallway. After two animal handlers leave a tranquilized female hyena, you enter and acquire her DNA. As you leave, you are caught and detained by park security. You morph Princie, one of their dogs, and lead the team astray by not following your (human) scent, leading them to Ms. Humphries' house, and rubbing your sweatshirt (left outside earlier) over everything in the neighborhood before running home.
Knowing that you have to meet up with the rest of the Animorphs in their trip to the Yeerk Pool, you decide on a morph to sneak in with. A failed choice of the K9 police dog leads to you being recognized by Finley, the taller police officer. After the Animorphs battle and escape from the Yeerk Pool, Visser Three kills you with his eight-headed, fireball-launching alien morph.
A correct choice of a ferret morph has you hiding in the elevator leading down to the Yeerk Pool, one of many entrances. Some people take notice of you, and are about to get rid of you, when Jake's brother Tom spots you and recognizes you as one of Ms. Humphries' pets. He says they shouldn't touch "it", because "Chapman said to take no chances."
At the bottom floor, another Controller presses a series of buttons on the elevator, making it go past where normal people should be able to get to. The elevator opens up, and you descretely follow the Controllers down a staircase to the giant cavern that holds the city's main Yeerk Pool. You see mulitple hosts (human and Hork-Bajir) in cages, a woman re-infested, and Tom being put into a cage. You also see Cassie about to be led to the loading pier.
Running in her direction, Tobias spots you and you tell him that you all have to save Cassie. Then you run to Jake, Rachel, and Marco, who haven't morphed yet, and Jake tells you to demorph behind a storage shed. Rachel tells you to rest and wait for them. A few minutes later, a male human-Controller, a Hork-Bajir, and Taxxon find you. Rachel, morphed as an elephant, rescues you, and you all run to save Cassie. You morph into the hyena and kill a Taxxon. Marco is a gorilla, Jake is a tiger, and Rachel is still an elephant.
Events transpire much as they did in The Invasion
The Invasion (Animorphs)
The Invasion, published in 1996 and written by K. A. Applegate, is the first book in the Animorphs series. It is narrated by Jake.-Plot summary:...
, with Marco unlocking cages, Cassie being rescued and morphing into a horse, and Visser Three
Visser Three
Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at...
entering the scene. He morphs into a giant eight-headed, eight-armed, and eight-legged creature that breathes fireballs, and Tom tries to attack the Visser. You all escape into the school hallway, run outside, and demorph.
A few months later, Ax has joined the group, and you are in your kitchen at home when you start having flashing visions of being in a jungle. You ride your bike to Jake's house and tell him what's happening. He remembers the events of Book 11, but even though the rest of you were there too, you don't remember it. Now it's your turn to be having the flashes instead of Jake. Suddenly, the Sario Rip flash takes you all into the rain forest, and Jake distinctly remembers being there in The Forgotten. He leads you to a downed Bug fighter, saying that you guys have to take the onboard navigating computer before Visser Three comes back. Cassie recalls being on the Bug fighter shooting Dracon beams at Visser Three's blade ship, and Jake notes that the last time a Sario Rip happened, he had to die and he doesn't want to do that again.
Ax and Jake decide that this second go-around means that they should do things differently. Jake decides to have Ax disable the computer instead of taking it, to make it look like it happened in the crash. You all decide to morph parrots and fly through the jungle. You see human- and Hork-Bajir-Controllers destroying the rain forest, and Polo's tribe spying on the Hork-Bajir. You all land on their shoulders, and Cassie demorphs first. She reveals her human head and retracts her bird tail first, to give the appearance of being an animal spirit. She communicates with the small tribe by way of dirt drawings. Through these drawings, she conveys that the Hork-Bajir (diablos) are the enemy to be fought, and that she and her (bird) friends need to get on board the Blade Ship with the tribe's help. She arranges to meet up with the tribe again just before dusk
Dusk
Dusk is the beginning of darkness in the evening, and occurs after twilight, when the sky generally remains bright and blue. Civil dusk is when the earth has rotated enough that the center of the sun is at 6° below the local horizon...
.
As chameleons, you all make your way to the Blade Ship. When you sneak on, Ax suggests you split up to avoid attention. After some brief arguing over whether you guys should kill Visser Three in "this timeline" and what it might mean, Visser Three boards and orders both the Blade Ship and the fixed Bug fighter to start up. Both ships rise, and before you all can attack, the ships fire at each other, closing the Sario Rip when the Dracon beams intersect. You are suddenly back in your hometown (as a human), albeit a year too early.
You are at a bus stop with Rachel and Marco. Suddenly, Marco's mom drives up to the curb, and she offers Marco a ride home. You and Marco are shocked at this because (at least in the proper timeline), Marco's mom is "dead" - rather, the host of Visser One
Edriss 562
Edriss 562 is a Yeerk that controls Marco's mother Eva. For most of the series, her rank is Visser One. She is the subject of the novel Visser, which describes her rise to and dramatic fall from power...
. Suddenly, Visser Three comes running to attack Eva as a Pit Bull. You morph into a giraffe to attack the Visser. The second you kick him, you are suddenly back in your own home in the kitchen. You run over to Jake's house, where he and Ax are eating licorice sticks and pizza like they were when you first ran over there before the Sario Rip.
Ax and Jake figure out that Visser Three had tried to use a Sario Rip to his advantage to go back in time and kill what would be his rival's human host. They go into a detailed explanation of exactly what transpired in the Sario Rip and why certain individuals remember what they remember, or why they did what they did. Jake concludes by saying that it's good that they've restored the correct timeline, and that "there will still be more battles to fight." You add "But first, there's pizza." This is the winning ending.
Morphs
| Morpher | Morphs Acquired | Morphs Used |
|---|---|---|
| You | Ferret Ferret The ferret is a domesticated mammal of the type Mustela putorius furo. Ferrets are sexually dimorphic predators with males being substantially larger than females. They typically have brown, black, white, or mixed fur... , Giraffe Giraffe The giraffe is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest of all extant land-living animal species, and the largest ruminant... , Hyena Hyena Hyenas or Hyaenas are the animals of the family Hyaenidae of suborder feliforms of the Carnivora. It is the fourth smallest biological family in the Carnivora , and one of the smallest in the mammalia... , K-9 Police dog Police dog A police dog, often referred to as a "K-9 dog" in some areas , is a dog that is trained specifically to assist police and other law-enforcement personnel in their work... (Princie), Parrot Parrot Parrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three families: the Psittacidae , the Cacatuidae and the Strigopidae... *, Chameleon Chameleon Chameleons are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of lizards. They are distinguished by their parrot-like zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, the possession by many of a... *. |
Fly (fail), Hamster (fail), Ferret, Hyena (fail 1st and 3rd times), Giraffe (fail 1st time), Police dog (fail 2nd and 3rd time), Monkey (fail), Parrot, Parasol ant (fail), Chameleon, Poison-arrow frog (fail), Jaguar (fail) |
| Jake Jake Berenson Jake Berenson is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists from the science-fiction book series Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate. Until the penultimate book of the series, his last name was never revealed, and he was known only as Jake... |
Golden Retriever Golden Retriever The Golden Retriever is a medium-sized breed of dog. They were historically developed as gundogs to retrieve shot waterfowl such as ducks and upland game birds during hunting and shooting parties. As such, they were bred to have a soft mouth to retrieve game undamaged and have an instinctive love... (Homer), Green Anole Carolina anole The Carolina anole is an arboreal lizard found primarily in the southeastern United States and some Caribbean islands. Other common names include the green anole, American anole and red-throated anole... , Siberian Tiger, (female) Parrot*, Chameleon* |
Golden Retriever, Green Anole, Siberian Tiger, Parrot, Chameleon |
| Rachel Rachel (Animorphs) Rachel is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series Animorphs. Her full name is never explicitly mentioned in the books, but her relation to her cousin Jake Berenson through their fathers makes it most likely to be Rachel Berenson, if it was never changed or hyphenated.-Biography:Before the... |
African Elephant, Parrot*, Chameleon* | African Elephant, Parrot, Chameleon |
| Tobias Tobias (Animorphs) Tobias is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series Animorphs written by K.A. Applegate. His surname is never mentioned, but had the Ellimist not altered time in order to take his father, Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, back to his old life, his full name would have been Tobias Fangor, the... |
Cat Cat The cat , also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felids and felines, is a small, usually furry, domesticated, carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and for its ability to hunt vermin and household pests... (Dude), Red-Tailed Hawk Red-tailed Hawk The Red-tailed Hawk is a bird of prey, one of three species colloquially known in the United States as the "chickenhawk," though it rarely preys on standard sized chickens. It breeds throughout most of North America, from western Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West... |
Cat, Red-tailed hawk |
| Marco Marco (Animorphs) Marco is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series, Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate. His last name is never mentioned.-Biography:... |
Gorilla Gorilla Gorillas are the largest extant species of primates. They are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Africa. Gorillas are divided into two species and either four or five subspecies... (Big Jim), Parrot*, Chameleon* |
Gorilla, Parrot, Chameleon |
| Cassie Cassie (Animorphs) Cassie is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate. Her last name is never mentioned, although she referred to it as being "nice" in The Secret.-Biography:... |
Horse Horse The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today... , Parrot*, Chameleon* |
Horse, Parrot, Chameleon |
| Ax Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series Animorphs.-Biography:Aximili is a young Andalite who becomes stranded on Earth when the Andalite Dome Ship GalaxyTree is shot down by Yeerk fighters... |
Human ("offscreen"), Parrot*, Chameleon* | Human, Parrot, Chameleon |
| Visser Three Visser Three Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at... |
Pit Bull American Pit Bull Terrier The American Pit Bull Terrier is a medium-sized, solidly built, short haired dog whose early ancestors came from England and Ireland... * |
Antarean Bogg, Eight-headed fire creature, B'heeon (failed morph choice timeline only), Lerdethak Lerdethak The Lerdethak is a fictional creature from the Animorphs book series, specifically Animorphs #11: The Forgotten and The Hork-Bajir Chronicles.... , Pit Bull |
Because these morphs got you killed, they are not listed as morphs used.
Failed morphs:
- FlyFlyTrue flies are insects of the order Diptera . They possess a pair of wings on the mesothorax and a pair of halteres, derived from the hind wings, on the metathorax...
: (You) - HamsterHamsterHamsters are rodents belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae. The subfamily contains about 25 species, classified in six or seven genera....
(Hamlet): (You) - Parasol antTexas leafcutter antAtta texana is a fungus-farming ant species of the genus Atta, found in Texas, Louisiana and northeastern states of Mexico. Common names include town ant, parasol ant, fungus ant, Texas leafcutter ant, cut ant, and night ant...
: (You and the others) - MonkeyMonkeyA monkey is a primate, either an Old World monkey or a New World monkey. There are about 260 known living species of monkey. Many are arboreal, although there are species that live primarily on the ground, such as baboons. Monkeys are generally considered to be intelligent. Unlike apes, monkeys...
: (You and the others) - Poison-arrow frogPoison dart frogPoison dart frog is the common name of a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae which are native to Central and South America. These species are diurnal and often have brightly-colored bodies...
: (You and the others) - JaguarJaguarThe jaguar is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, and is the only Panthera species found in the Americas. The jaguar is the third-largest feline after the tiger and the lion, and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The jaguar's present range extends from Southern United States and Mexico...
: (You and the others)