Alternate universe setting.
The main protagonist is a newly born yeerk on earth , he is like a foil to the animorphs.
Visser One has been executed, for a reason, she dies by breeding with 2 other yeerks. Visser 3 killed cassie, along with other events, factors, making the other animorphs evil or rather causing them to cross the moral event horizon to develope a "kill the yeerks" at all cost mentality. The remaining animorphs destroyed the yeerk pool where visser one bred killing most of the newly born yeerks, A newly born yeerk by chance infested the nine year old darwin the son of visser one. The newly born yeerk never has the chance to develop the yeerk language or get a glimpse of yeerk culture. The yeerk is nameless, has a childlike innocent personality, with a good heart,in darwin's body. The yeerk mostly lets darwin control the body and they do fun things together, video games and stuff. The yeerk is so moralistic that he refuses to help darwin cheat on any of his quizes, but helps him study by correcting his mistakes in science but since humans make errors in their textbooks according to andalites, it ends up making his answers wrong and grades long, but helpful offering advice on how to ask a girl out for ice cream by reciting shakespeare, and other poems.
Here's the summary:
cassie gets killed, animorphs goes yeerk genocidal, bombs yeerk pool, newly born yeerk escapes infested Darwin, befriends him and basically lets his host have free control most of the time. Young yeerk is childish, innocent curios about humans and their culture, does not have knowledge of yeerk language or culture, Darwin being free most of the time lives his childhood at last and has fun bonding with the young yeerk developing a older brother younger brother bond. young yeerk becomes interested in comic book heroes villains, humans, his own people, aliens. Young yeerk learns of andalite bandits and finds way to gain a edge against their ability to morph into anything, he absorbs information from various hosts with different stations skills and philosophies, gaining knowledge as well as experience in life and their emotions and feelings, making him more creative, cunning and a bit less innocent. the young yeerk becomes a great inventor having knowledge of alien technology from the yeerks, as well as having human ingenuity and creativity with good planning skills and experience. knowing the atrocities of his people they destroy things they consider useless and that the animorphs won't solve he problem (not without a every yeerk is dead scenario) He travels the world to know more about it and tries to find a third option to the problem without betraying his people and harming humans.
Here are some story ideas
- Darwin and the yeerk lead normal school lives, normal for them, the yeerk using his knowledge erases with ease the nude images of his fellow classmate from being released into the internet by bullies. helping frogs escape from being dissected, using his vast knowledge of the law and system to defend a couple of people from corrupt corporations in a lex luthor kind of way. pretends to be super hero who heals the terminally ill with his vast array of technology.
-Discovering more of the world around him , looking at the best and worst in humanity and comparing the way humans live with the way yeerks live their lives.
-Darwin and yeerk traveling around the world, helping people whenever he cans with his vast knowledge and technology and of course his abilities to infest as a yeerk. like catching a terrorist and capturing bid laden, filtering out water for third world countries, and turning lands in africa fertile. under the pretense of doing the work of the sharing to promote it.
- prevent disasters by warning people to evacuate before a natural disaster strikes or outright defeating it.
-setting up markets around the world and monopolizing the economy
- meeting taylor
- bonding with alborn the taxon,
- helping the minions of visser 3 survive his wrath after a animorph raid.
-rescuing host bodies that are about to be destroyed by visser 3 because they suffered to much damage from a animorp attack.
-Prevent visser 3 from convincing the counsel of a all out attack against earth.
-stopping the animorphs from contacting help from the andalites for to avoid war thus more casualties.
- stopping the animorphs from destroying the yeerk pool
- finding a cure for a virus spread by ax in the yeerk pool which is fatal for yeerks.
- finding out about alloran's disgrace for his killings of the hork bajir
- searching for darwin's parents and his (yeerk) heritage
- using his ingenuity and devices he must prevent a enraged chee from going on a killing spree.
- try to get the counsel of 13 to remomov visser 3 for his incompetence and his selfish, sociopathic attitude and his tendency to kill someone for annoying him
- one on one confrontation with jake regarding their beliefs and philosophies
- finding the time matrix befriending a child his own age of the the Mercora foiling the plots of the animorps in destroying her species, and saving her species from utter annihilation somehow with his ''third option'' scenario without damaging the time line.
- finding the nonthlit david
- saving controllers hold by the animorphs who want to starve the yeerks out
- discover the secrets of the morphing cube, being a nonthlit
- discover the secrets of zero space and the nature of crayak and ellimist
- capturing a animorph and learning about many things, including their own lives.
- and many others
