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about him. What he was. What he was doing.

At least, some of what he was doing. I had been spying on my brother. He
was rising fast in

4 the leadership of The Sharing. He was a very loyal Controller. The
Yeerk in his head had been promoted.

And he was involved in some new plan. A very big new plan.

A plan I had to stop. Even if ...

"Well, take it easy, midget," Tom said, sounding just like he'd always
sounded.

"You, too."

I waited till Tom was gone. I was alone. It was time.

I went through the house, room by room, making sure no one was there.
Then I got the little matchbox I'd hidden in my desk drawer. I could
hear a scrabbling noise coming from in side. I slid the matchbox open.

I shuddered.

It was a nice, big cockroach. Brown and glossy and about an inch long.

Its antennae waved eagerly. The roach tried to force its way out of the
box, but I held my hand over it.

I could feel the roach antennae tickling the bottom of my palm. It was
pushing, trying to get away.

I focused on the roach. Thought about it. Pic tured it.

The roach stopped moving and lay still. Not

5 dead, just quiet. The way animals always get when you "acquire" them.

I slid two fingers into the box to get a better contact with the roach.
It felt hard and dry. I shuddered.

I absorbed the cockroach's DNA pattern. It was becoming part of me. The
DNA - the ge netic pattern - of many animals was a part of me now.
Tiger. Dolphin. Flea. Falcon. Trout. Green anole lizard.

I have the power to morph. To become any an imal that I can touch. The
power was given to us, to me and my friends, by an Andalite prince mo
ments before he was murdered by the Yeerks.