We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful.

The thing you should know is that everyone is in really big trouble. Yeah. Even you.
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Standard Animorphs blurb-segment aside, this RP is simple, really- take Animorphs, replace the characters with our own ones, and then... well, go. To join this RP, you'll probably need to have read at least a few of the Animorphs books, since people who haven't will be kinda alienated.

The roleplay will start off the same as the books- 5 kids, aged probably somewhere from 13 to 15, walk through abandoned construction site, meet the dying Elfangor, et cetera, but with changes as things go along- our group may not undertake certain missions, for example, or there'll be new stuff happening, as well as certain plots replaced (Eg. The Marco's mum plot is out, since Marco's not an Animorph.)

I know an alternate-reality RP is a bit unoriginal, but I wanted to make an Animorphs RP and this was all I could think of. Anyhoo, fill in this profile:

Name: (First name only.)
Gender:
Appearence: (Not clothes- you don't wear the same stuff day-in day-out!)
Battle Morph: (Try not to go for anything already taken.)
Personality: (Optional- you can just play it out.)
Any Controller family members?: (If yes, who?)

My character is:
Name: Ryan
Appearence: White-skinned, with plain, short black hair. He has green eyes, and is about average height.
Battle Morph: Red Kangaroo
Personality: Playin' it out.
Any Controller family members?: Depending on how many others do, I'll edit this to say yes or no.

Four people need to sign up- we'll then have the five Animorphs we need, and can go through the construction site. Also, I would appreciate having at least one girl on the team. Everyone should start in or around the arcade- you can post in 1st or 3rd person. I hope you enjoy this roleplay!
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IC: "And... Yes... WOO-HOO!" I shouted. I was in the arcade, playing Tekken 3- and I was winning! I'd practised all week at home, and now... I'd nearly beat the game! I just have to win this..., I thought. But then my finger slipped, and I lost. "D'oh!"
I checked my pockets, but I was out of money. I didn't feel like going home yet, so I walked around the arcade, looking for any of my friends.

<Hey! Jason! It's me!> I thought to myself- at the time, I didn't know he'd be able to hear it.

IC:
Lizzy went down to breakfast after thinking about things, she wasn't good at phone conversations so she decided to go to someone's house in person. She decided Jason's was the best bet because it was closest.
After eating she told her Mum she was going to Jason's and she would be back later, no specific time.
Then she was out the door, she walked a fair way from her house then ducked into an alley way and morphed into Furzy. Then she headed off down the street. Every now and then she crossed the road to avoid dogs.
She enjoyed the thrill of everything, her ears twitched at sounds from inside houses, she smelt everyhting, grass, dog, human, tree. Furzy knew a bit. She was enjoying herself until she got to the corner of the street, two more blocks and she'd be at Jason's house. Then she met the dog.

The dog owner tried to hold his Doberman back from the the ginger cat crossing the road but it broke free of their grip and charged after the unfortunate feline. Lizzy heard the barking and didn't look back, her little cat feet knew what to do. She sped up the path, she could hear the dog's steps behind her, she streaked towards jason's house, the door was open. She ignored the fact that there was another dog there and ran down the path and bolted through the door. She saw the dog and recognised it,
"Hey that's Ryan's dog isn't it?"
She wasn't sure how to do what the Andalite did but she tried her best.
<Jason! There's a friggin Doberman outside! SHUT THE DOOR!!!>
TBC

IC:
I hung up, now I had even further proof that what had happened last night had been real.
I wondered if the others made it out okay.
"Okay, I'll go to Jason's house (seeing as that's where everyone else is showing up) and see if we can find out what happened to the others.
I went downstairs, vaguely told Mum I was going out then left walking down the street, I looked aorund, every animal I saw reminded me that if I touched it and concentrated, then afterwards I could become it.
I restrained the temptation to go try and aquire a dog or a cat, I could be discovered easily if I tried to morph in an alley, but even so...
I shook it off and walked faster, what could the others be doing?

Suddenly a ginger cat ran past me at full speed, what looked like a doberman behind it.
"What the?"
I turned to watch them pelt up the path and the cat disapeared into Jason's house.
Suspiscion started to creep into the back of my mind and I ran after the dog, towards Jason's house.
TBC

Brilliant...another normal, uninteresting day suddenly turned completely heywire!

I thought I heard Ryan's voice call my name, and I paused and turned round, only to see a ginger cat racing up the pathway, a large doberman in hot persuit! Before I knew what was going on the cat dived past me into the house, and the dog tried to follow it, bumping into me with some force!

I managed to regain my balance and grab the dog as he tried to barge past, pushing the brute back out the door. "Get out of here mutt!" I growled, concentrating hard on the creature's mouth. If it decided to bite me...

Suddenly I felt a tingling sensation in my hands and the dog went limp, as though in a trance! I wondered if I had hurt it, but it seemed ok, just in a world of it's own. I quickly took advantage of the situation and pushed it back onto the porch, then I spun round to dive back into the house before it woke up. As I did I saw Jenny running up the path! Wow she'd been quick! I motioned to her to get inside the house before the doberman tried to ram-raid again.

We made it, and as the door slammed shut I heard the big dog begin to bark again. Dad popped his head out of the kitchen, a look of confusion on his face. "What's all the noise???"

"Nothing." I replied. "Jenny just came round for a visit and that dog outside tried to get in when I opened the door."

Dad raised his eyebrows. "Hm." he muttered. "If it doesn't go away soon I'll have to call the pound. Hi Jenny!" he smiled at her, before returning to the kitchen to finish his meal.

I breathed a long sigh of relief. Then suddenly I remembered the cat and the other dog! They had both ran past me as I was dealing with the doberman, and I think they might hare run upstairs! Man there'd be fireworks if mum saw them! She hated all animals!

I turned to Jenny and lowered my voice so my parents wouldn't hear. "Hey could you help me find those two animals before mum and dad do? We've got to get them out of the house!" She nodded in reply and we both set off upstairs at pace...

<Wow!> I exclaimed. <This place looks so different when you're a dog... Smells cool too! Say... that cat smells familiar...> I thought, wondering where I knew the smell from.

IC:
I nodded,
"Okay."
I followed him upstairs in search of the animals, I wondered about something, and whispered to Jason,
"Hey, what if they're Liz and Ryan, they look like their pets, I'd recognise Liz's cat Furzy anywhere. She could have touched it and aquired the morph then come other here."
TBC

IC:
Lizzy wandered around the house she was still a little jumpy from havig to run so fast. Shaking a little she looked fro Jason, as she wandered around, ti occured to her that Jason hadn't heard her thoughtspeak, she'd obviously done it wrong. Puzzling over that she turned a corner and saw Jason and Jenny walking around. Only hesitating for a second, she walked over to Jenny and pawed at her leg.
<Jenny! It's me! Lizzy! Can you hear me?>
TBC

IC:
I looked down at Furzy, only it wasn't Furzy, it spoke in my head.
<Jenny! It's me! Lizzy! Can you hear me?>
I looked down at it in shock.
"Lizzy?"
TBC

Ok, now I was getting freaked! Until now I had completely forgotten about the whole morphing deal, and truth be told last night I hadn't really believed any of it, even though I had gone along with it. I just figured it was some kind of special power that made enemies think we looked like animals or something, so ignore us.

When Jenny sugested that the dog and cat may be Ryan and Liz I almost replied "Don't be silly!" In fact I would have done had I not noticed the cat stood at the end of the landing. I was about to go and grab it, but it came bounding up to us and started pawing at Jenny's leg...

...then it spoke!

It was Lizzy's voice all right, but it just seemed to appear in my head, same as the Andelite's voice had done! I stared down in shock, my brain refusing to comprehend what my sences were telling me!

"This...isn't...possible!" I muttered, almost lost for words. "You're...a CAT!"

Zack walked outside of his house, wanting to test out his new powers. He saw a squirrel on the ground. "Well... it might work..." he said as he silently sneaked over to it. He cupped his hands over it, not letting it out of them. He felt a sort of tingle, and then he set the squirrel down. He made sure noone would see him. "I REALLY hope this works..." he muttered to himself, as he tried his new powers out.

OOC: Sorry I haven't been on recently. I have discovered the wonders of Jak II for my PS2. >.O

I barked at Lizzy loudly. <Yeh, and I'm a dog! I am sooo tempted to chase you, Lizzy...> I thought to everyone.

"Shhhhhhhhhh!!!" I hissed through clenched teeth. "We can't let mum and dad know you're here!"

We all fell silent. I held my breath, waiting for mum to come running upstairs to investigate the barking. Fortunately they mustn't have heard.

I waited a moment, then waved the others down the hall with my hand. "Everyone into my room quick." They all complied, and I shut and locked the door behind us. Then I took a deep breath, and turned to face the girl, dog and cat sat on my bed, staring at me expectantly.

"Ok I think we need to spend some time figuring out just exactly what's going on here! We need to discuss all this, and what it means for us!" I moved over to the window and opened it, letting the light in a little more. We sometimes got squirrels in our back garden, and in the past I'd laid nuts on my windowsill and sat quietly watching as they came to eat. There were none around at the moment though.

I turned to the others again, suddenly struck with a thought. I pointed at...Ryan and Lizzy, apparently...and exclaimed, "And if either of you start shedding on my bed you'll be in deep trouble!"

IC:
"Ur...Jason? I think the least of our worries right now would be wether or not they shed on your bed. Yeerk invasion force seems to spring more to mind, don't you think?"
TBC

IC:
Lizzy looked up at Jason innocently,
<Shed? I can't really help it if my fur wants to fall off.>
She shifted and revealed a few strands of ginger coloured at hair on the bed. Stepping down lightly onto the floor she looked back at Ryan;
<Hey, resist the temptation to chase me 'cause I'm really not in the mood today, one dog was enough.Oh! And you may want to get off the bed before you leave any evidence.>
TBC

I was holding my chin in my hand, deep in thought. "Ok," I started. "I think we can safely say that all that last night actually happened. This...power...that the Andelite gave us allows us to transform into animals! We need to use this power to overcome an invasion of cosmic slugs that crawl into people's brains and control them."

I paused, but the others didn't speak, so I continued. "Just what have we let ourselves in for??? We're going to be hiding from ordinery people, in case they're being controlled! We'll have to make out like nothing has changed so no one gets suspisious! We may even have to fight those other aliens we saw last night, the Hork-Bajir, or those Taxxon things, or that Visser Three guy!" I was really thinking aloud. The others seemed to be unnafected, even excited, about the changes we had experienced, but the thought terrified me! Maybe they hadn't come to terms with the implications yet, or maybe they were simply dealing with it far better than me.

"Our lives will never be the same again!" I muttered, a strainge cold feeling running down my spine as I thought about it. It sounded so creepy...so dangerous!

I turned to stare at the others, my mind feeling numb. "So...what do we do now?"

IC:
I shrugged,
"Well, first I think we should find Zack. Liz, he went with you, did you make it out alright?"
<Yep. We caught the bus.>
"Okay. So, we find Zack, then we get some powerful forms to beat up these nasties before they get us. We work it out from there I think."
TBC

(OOC: Anyone seen Amadeus recently...? I think it's his turn to post. We need more story...)

(He's probably waiting for me... <_<;;;)

A very strange acting squirrel climbed through the trees. <Wow! There's a cool view from up here...> he thought to himself. He finally reached Jason's house. He saw an open window, and, from a tree branch, he jumped inside. He saw Jason and Jenny inside. And found Ryan's dog and Lizzy's cat there, too. <Aaah! They're probably gonna eat me! I better run!>

( O.O @ all the missing posts THAT WE DIDN'T MAKE)