Okay, so I finally opened up Microsoft word. Happy? J I am, my guild is doing great! 17 members! Yay! Don't forget to join… It's on Neopets, and my screen name is Arayah.

The Encounter (Gah, I'm stalling, it's been so long I need to get back into the habit of writing. Oh yeah, my shift key isn't working right, if a letter isn't capitalized, 'tis not my fault. Also, I have never been to New York. I wish I had put the setting in Nebraska. Oh geez, here I go again… Oh, and remember, it's an AU (alternate universe) Jake doesn't know thing.)

Oh a disclaimer, my first one! Okay, I own Animorphs. Yes, and please excuse me, I'm late for my compulsive lying class….

"No"

Click. Another channel was flipped.

"No" Jake muttered again, and prepared to change it once again.

"Hey midget, I was watching that!" Tom laughed.

"That was a documentary about beds." Jake said, eyebrows raised, "What level have you sunk to?"

"It's better than anything else on this motel TV…" Tom mumbled.

(A/N, this is now switching to first person perspective, Jakes.)

I sighed. Dad had gotten the bright idea to go to some stupid business meeting. Who cares, right? Not this time, this one happened to be taking place in New York, and Dad decided that the Big Apple might do some good for us.

Boring.

I flipped the channel again, and decided this was semi-interesting. It was a news report, with some lady going on about something….:

"We have exclusive footage of the most hair raising event in human history!" The lady said, in a dramatic voice. She was standing in front of a massive space ship, gesturing toward it every few seconds, as if to be certain it was still there.

"Just twenty minutes ago, this marvelous space craft crashed here in Central Park. What happened, you ask? You will have to wait until ten o'clock, when we will run a complete story. Meanwhile, we have a witness that saw the ship crash! Isn't that right, Mr. Harrison?" She said, herself, and the camera turning to face a 36 year old man.

"That's right Ms. Jones, I saw da whole darned crash. Fell right out of the sky, it did. Saw da whole thing!"

"What exactly did you see . . . Mr. Harrison?" She said.

"I was just trying ta open me car door, ya know how stubborn the darned things can be now, don'cha'?"

"Yes, what happened?" She said, begining to look irritated.

"Well, as I was sayin', I kinda look up, and there was this big ole' white thing. So I get all scared, thinkin' it's some asteroid that will kill ev'body. Well, as I kinda look at it I see it's a goin' to da park. So I run, and then when it seemed all safe, I came back, and I found you!"
 
"I see, well as you all see here, this crash was probably an accident." She gestured toward the ship once again. "You see here," She said, pointing to the gaping shredder burns. "Some unknown kind of laser, probably, hit the ship here, damaging it, and thus, it crashed." She smiled. And thus was one of her favorite phrases. "But the question remains, are there still live creatures in this ship? Are they all dead? Are the alive, but too badly injured or knocked unconscious, thus not being able to greet us?" She said a deep, spooky voice.

Suddenly, a commercial appeared. "Oh come on." Tom yelled, "what a load of crap!"

"Are you sure? Why would they be putting it on the news channel?" I wondered.

"Probably some July April fools trick, or some promotional for the park…" He trailed off.

"There's only one way to find out." I grinned.

"No way, you heard Dad, we're not supposed to go out the door!" I protested.

"The door? There are other ways of getting out. Come on, Jake, he won't be home for at least six hours, and if it's real, just think of what we'll see!"

I began to see what he meant. What if it was real? What if there were really bug-eyed aliens inside? It was a once in a lifetime chance.

"Let's do it." I said, and went to go get my shoes.

Fooled ya! It's not over yet! Let's get to the Andalites…

Crud. I'm not sure how I will start it. Okay, maybe not. I will just give you background for this fic.

All the people who signed up to be in this fic will get a part, first come, first serve. Amy Angleblade will be like the co star, next to Jake, maybe bigger, we'll see… I'm going to have Jake (we'll see if tom will be there) and Amy kind of meet up, then together they will run into the Andalites,  I have a lot in store for the Explorer crew! Lol… Some of it is quite funny. To me. I've never written humor, so I don't know how you'll take it.  Gr, if I stop now, I don't know how ling it will be until I start, so here it goes!

I think.

The Encounter (I said this helped, didn't I? Same Andalite pov. Titani is a female.)

Are you sure this is a good idea? I asked Titani.

Of course! They have every reason to assume we're just normal humans.

But they'll see us come from the ship! That will sure convince them. I said, almost laughing at the absurdity of her plan.

Nonsense, Noolin (that sounds familiar….) will project a hologram of something else, of course!

If this goes wrong, I call captain.

If this goes wrong, I'm not sure you'll ever be able to pilot the ship again, I'm still not quite certain of their capabilities. Remember, don't confuse ability with appearance…

Don't go around quoting Darange around me! I've heard his sayings too many times.

Fine, then you know we'll be fine. It's simple, we morph human, scan the area for anything that could help repair the engine, and go back.

If you're certain. I muttered, and then I began to morph General Doubleday.

This time, it's real. I'm not sure of the feedback I'll get, so I won't put a long authors note here.