"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 31 - The Conspiracy" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

You're thinking Yeah, right. That's okay. I know-I probably would have
said the same thing once.

No way. Not a chance. If it's true, then where are the troops storming
the beaches? Where are the bombs? Where's the battlefield? The RPVs and
cruise missiles?

Well, it's not that kind of a war.

2 The battlefield is wherever we are, we being my friends and I. We are
animal-morphers, given the ability to absorb DNA by touch and then morph
into that animal. It's an incredible weapon, the kind that both dreams
and nightmares are made of.

Ask Tobias, who stayed in his red-tailed hawk morph longer than the
two-hour limit and now spends his days catching and eating small mammals.

Or check in with any one of us in the small hours between night and
morning, when the nightmares come, the nightmares of twisting bodies and
mutating minds.

Like I said, this is not your standard-type war.

We're the whole army, the six of us. We get some help from the Chee, but
they are incapable of violence, so when it comes to the down and dirty,
we're it. Us, alone, against an alien empire that has already terrorized
the galaxy.

Yeah, I know. Nice odds.

Most of us learned to fight the hard way in a deadly,
on-the-job-training-type deal.

But some of us had a head start, like my cousin Rachel, who loves it
all. And Ax, whose full name is Aximili-Esgarrouth-lsthill,
warrior-cadet and younger brother to Elfangor, the An-dalite who gave us
the power to morph before he was murdered by Visser Three.

3 I know, sounds like bull, right? Sounds like maybe I need to spend
some time in a rubber room.

But it's true. Every now and then the crazy becomes real.

And this is not a clean war, if there is such a thing. I mean a war like
World War II, where thousands saw the wrongs being committed and stood
up to correct them. Where you attacked an enemy you could see, an enemy
who wore a uniform and came right back at you, guns blazing.

This isn't that kind of war at all.