Long time no read!! I read your fic way back when, and I loved it, and was so glad to see you begin to update now in 2009!! I re-read it all, still adore it, and hope that you will please continue your wonderful story!! cant wait to read the next chapter ^^

thank you for the update! i really am enjoying this story. very happy to see eric again : )

Say M?

Yay! New chapter! Glad to see the interaction between Jean and Chris. Hopefully they'll come to a kind of truce.

... and, as always, my inner fangirl was extremely pleased to see the Eric/Chris goodness! :3

Thanks for another great chapter!

After my many years of fanfiction your's is the first Animorphs one I have read. I usually stay to HP and crossovers concerning HP. Your fanfiction is excellent. It is one of a kind and has helped me revisit Animorphs and appreciate what an amazing series it was. Your fanfic has opened my horizon to other Animorph stories and I shall endeavor to read more of them.

YES! VICTORY! Needless to say, I'm glad you resumed writing. Can't wait for the next chapter.

Oh no! Pleaseplease let Chris find Orkath...Orkath is so sweet that I think you've created an extremely loveable Yeerk (oh goodness, I actually said that o.O)

-Cymru

Nice chappie! I'm looking forward to more!

i always appreciate it when you upload a new chapter onto this story, b/c i really like reading it. i just wish the updates were more frequent-- but whatever... thank you for not leaving this story unfinished.

okay yeah this story needs more reviews like NOW.

I've been following it for AGES.. and I am loving how the DEEP SERIOUS LESSONS are interwoven into a supercompelling plot, and also how the romance doesn't consume the whole story. This fic is really underappreciated, probably because it doesn't involve any of the original Animorphs characters.. but the new cast here is AWESOME.

Also for being 12 or so, this kid must be like a genius or something.

I must admit that I am enthralled with your fic. I got into Animorphs when I was in middle school, when they were still coming out in the teens, and now at 24 I still have a soft spot for everything KA Applegate created. Back to the original point, I've pretty much wasted two days at work reading this fic because it is so compelling. The characters are well developed and your choice to stage the story on the enemy side allows you to work with scenarios and characters that do not need to perfectly reflect the original work because Applegate didn't thoroughly elaborate on them. My only regret is that the story is not finished! I thought, oh, started in 2001? I shall read! I'm not exactly sure how a happy ending would look, but I really want it. Please keep writing: we're all looking forward to it!

I enjoy your characterization of Jean. Somewhat ruthless, but justifiably so. Not exactly sympathetic, but interesting. I suppose in the late 90s it's more likely she would be homophobic, certainly. Too bad, but all too common. :/

And I feel for Chris. No twelve or thirteen year old should be reasonably expected to negotiate like this, and he's doing an excellent job. He's really grown throughout the fic. He knows how to be ruthless too, now, sadly. That's one of the things about this fic that really gives it the KAA flavor. It's got that same theme of kids growing up too soon, discovering things about themselves, having to do things and make decisions they never dreamed of having to make, all while trying not to lose themselves in the process.

Jean homophobic? You'd think she'd have more important things to worry about. Still, I guess no one's perfect and here's to hoping Chris can explain everything to Eric before he gets trapped.

Going quite well so far! But I noticed a homonym issue in this chapter: "make sure that their deaths’ weren’t in vein." You meant "vain." :) Easy mistake when you're typing fast and one that's not so easily caught.

You know, this may be old, but this first chapter as definitely managed to snag me in. I love a lot of the details, like:

"He said he knew an organization that wouldn't care if I was gay, that would welcome me with open arms." - very realistic (uh, as far as brain stealing slugs infiltrating Earth secretly can be)

and:

"...I knew the joy he'd felt the first time he hit the ball in my body." - goes along nicely with other things established in the books, like sight, etc

as well as a few other nice touches.

And I think it was pretty clever using the French dialogue punctuation for thought-speak. They can't strip that out so easily.

Anyway, I'm certainly hooked and looking forward to reading more!