"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 08 - The Alien (2)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

We fight them. But we're just a handful of kids
-- Jake, Rachel, Marco, Tobias, Ax, and
me. We have some special powers, but we know we
can't win this alone. We fight in the hope that someday
-- someday soon -- the Andalites will return and
help us.
It was an Andalite prince named Elfangor who
gave us our powers. He was dying. He was
desperate. He wanted to do something to help doomed
humanity.
He gave us the power to morph. To absorb the
DNA of any animal we could touch. To
become
that animal.
So we fight the Yeerks and all their
Controllers. The human-Controllers who
may once have been our friends and relations. The evil,
cannibalistic Taxxon-Controllers, those huge
centipedes with their open, gnashing mouths and foul
smell. And the deadly, dangerous, but formerly good
creatures called Hork-Bajir -- the enslaved
foot soldiers of the Yeerk empire.
And we fight Visser Three. Leader of the
Yeerk invasion of Earth. The only
Andalite-Controller in existence. The only Yeerk
who, like us, has the power to morph.
The murderer of Elfangor. A killer. A
destroyer. The creature who would make slaves of
all humans and destroy our planet.
Unless someone stops him. Unless we stop him.
Five ordinary kids and a young Andalite we
call Ax, against all the might of the Yeerk
empire.
We call ourselves Animorphs.
We're only supposed to use our power for
fighting the Yeerks. But there are times when it comes in
handy for other things.
My best friend Rachel and I were at school, in the
dark and gloomy science lab. The final bell had
rung and kids were tearing out of there at top speed,
running for the buses or their parents' cars.
You know how it is -- when the school day is over
you just want
out
of there. But I had been messing up in school
lately. See, I have kind of a busy life. My
dad runs the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic
in our barn. I help out there, taking care of injured
or sick animals. Plus the whole Animorph
thing takes up a lot of time.