

Later that day, Jake's older brother Tom expresses a similar interest in the teenagers at the construction site and presses Jake for information. He asks if they know anything about it, and the five of them realize that the police officer is a Controller. The five kids meet at Cassie's farm, where a police officer arrives and informs them that a group of teenagers were sighted setting off fireworks in the abandoned construction site the previous night. The next morning, Tobias visits Jake and informs him that the previous night was not just a dream he had already morphed his pet cat, Dude. The group escapes shaken, but more or less unhurt. The five human teenagers hide and watch, but are discovered and chased by the human and Hork-Bajir Controllers. The Yeerks, led by Visser Three, arrive to kill Elfangor and eliminate all traces of him and his ship. Elfangor warns them to never stay beyond two hours in a morph, or they will be trapped in that form forever. To combat the Yeerks, he gives the humans morphing ability: the power to become any creature they touch by absorbing the creature's DNA. Elfangor tells them that more Andalites will not come to Earth for a year or more, and by then, Earth will already be completely taken over. The human controllers are still self-aware but the Yeerk in their head has complete control over their body and what they say and do. The badly injured alien pilot, an Andalite named Prince Elfangor, emerges from the ship and explains to the kids that the Earth is being invaded in secret by a race of aliens called the Yeerks, a slug-like parasitic species who infest species through their ear canals and take complete control of the human's body, turning them into what is called a Controller. While taking a shortcut through an abandoned construction site, an alien spacecraft lands nearby.

On the way out, they meet Rachel and Cassie, who are together, and Tobias - all kids from their school-and decide to walk home together. Young teenagers Jake and Marco leave the mall one evening. And they must use that power to outsmart an evil that is greater than anything the world has ever seen. Now Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Tobias and Marco have the power to morph into any animal they choose. He and his friends are told the human race is under attack, but they're given the chance to fight back. Here's where Jake's story gets a little weird. He may even tell you about what happened when they realized the "light" was only a plane - from another planet. He may tell you about the night he and his friends saw the strange light in the sky.
