Mind Over Matter Plot Summary

However, since it is a series, and this will be the tenth in it (first nine were put on a fanfiction site and have essentially been deleted from history...) I feel the need to do a pretty simple base explanation of the story, how they differ, and what you learned about the characters. I still have the entire epic story in my head, and since nobody likes the X men fic or te mob one.....

So, for anyone who reads Animorphs, it’ll seem like a copy at first (because it is) but it eventually moves in it’s own direction. The series as a whole is seen as the ripple effect. You see, when you as a human drop a stone or pebble in a pond, it makes a ripple. The ripple is small at first, but as time goes on, the ripple grows, covers more of the water surface, and the waves become bigger. It’s also an example of chaos theory. A small change can trigger larger changes somewhere down the line.

For anyone who knows the WHOLE story of Animorphs, about how there were two omnipotent beings essentially playing games with reality, should get this part. Ellimist and Crayak, essentially god and Satan, play a game where they can make small changes in the world to see how they turn out. Ellimist, to the Animorphs, seems tricky and backstabby, but is in reality trying to tilt the cosmic balance in their favour, while Crayak is effectively doing the opposite, giving the bad species like the yeerks an advantage.

Now, as all we hardcore fans know, the location on earth is a really big part in the entire cosmic scale, meaning if the good guys win, the entire milky way galaxy is saved in the long run, where if the bad guys take it, then the entire galaxy is pretty much screwed. This is where my story takes place.

My story happens as a parallel to the original story, with slight variations. You see, The Ellimist and Crayak both placed one being on the planet to combat one another on earth, both human, both endowed with great potential. Gordon (that’s me) the good one, and Sam (the ‘bad’ one.), my brother/ best friend.

The good news is that as they kinda got put in an odd place, where even though Sam had homicidal tendencies, he actually grew up alongside Gordon, meaning he ended up being more good than bad, HORRIBLY tilting the scale in the good side’s favour. However, as part of the rules, they could put us here and let us play, but not directly influence us. So crayak can’t just magically change Sam to be bad.

Well, as it turns out, I, Gordon, met up with Jake, Cassie, Rachel, Tobias, and Marco before the events of The Invasion. Because of this, I was also there when Elfangor gave them the power to morph, also, since my friend Whitney wanted to be involved, I added her to the mix too. So, there’s the original 5, plus Whitney and I. Well, I wrote the books very similar to the originals in the first one, meaning next to all the events were the same, plus the length was comparable....but since I had been discovered, and my parents knew only of my friend Sam, I went home after the attack on the pool and the rescue of Cassie to find that there were yeerks taking my family away as a security measure incase I told them. So, they found me, they knew who I was, what could I do? I convinced the Animorphs to help my friend out, I just had a feeling that it would be worth it.

This is where the second half of the story happens on the first book. It’s a fight to try and save Sam from the yeerks, ending up in a fight, where we succeed, and he’s very crafty, steals a dracon beam, and almost kills the lot of us with it. We have to hold him for three days to see if he’s safe. In this time, since I no longer have an identity, I have to protect him in the woods, and we chill, sparring and all, explaining the situation. Once it’s all said and done, he’s deemed safe, the two of us go take a REALLY stupid trip back to his house to get some of his stuff, but the yeerks are there waiting, ready to ambush us. Luckily for us, some of Sam’s stuff included a couple Katanas, and he’s a VERY gifted swordsman. (He is in real life)

Oh, for anyone who doens’t know what yeerks are, they’re little slugs that literally crawl up into your brain and literally take over your mind. You’re still aware, still alive, still able to thim, but you have no control over your body they do. It’s like a prison in your own body. They’re trying to silently conquer the world by becoming part of society without us knowing. They’re succeeding.

Anyway, Sam’s deemed a threat after getting out of that particular incident, and is urged to stay our of the Animorphs’ way. Sam is reluctant, because he has just recently learned of his power....the power of telekinesis (I don’t know of it yet in the story.) So sam decides to help where he can, but that’s nothing great.

In the second book, similar stuff, Sam’s practising without anyone other than me knowing, and we have our fun. We learn about vice Principal Chapman, and since all these books are from my point of view, I didn’t go in with her when she did her scouting on Chapman through Melissa’s cat. I stayed outside with the others, scouting the area. Meanwhile, I found out that for some reason I could use thought speech outside of morph unlike the others, and I could hear the thought speech that’s not directed at me. (Thought speech is telepathy, and it’s like an email, you only send it to those who you want to send it to.)

I find this odd, but I get over it. Meanwhile, Rachel gets caught, I come back, along with Jake and the others and save the day for her. I go back to my little shack in the woods, which was the little church that was seen at the beginning of book 2, and begin to make it my home. I clean it up, make it pretty, make it home. This is where I live for the rest of the series. Sam, at this point, has evolved from making pencils and paper move to being able to move small rocks and objects.

The third book starts, Jake really dislikes Sam’s cocky attitude, but deals with it because it’s better than having conflict between Guerrilla warriors. Sam and I really start to settle into our new lives, despite being without a family (both our families were forcibly taken.) We stay out of society, only I can morph to get supplies, etc. One day, as usual, Sam and I were sparring using Bokken and martial arts, because we do that in real life, when we see the invisible ship rippling the light waves in the sky. It’s not that big a deal, until later when Sam learns how to manipulate a dracon beam with his mind, so that it has all it’s regular uses without putting him at the trigger. Using this telekinetic trick, he was able to save us all from a fishy fate in the tanks of the yeerk truck ship. We survive because of him, and Jake thanks him, but then Sam goes off to ambush a Yeerk fighter and finds out that with some concentration, he can manipulate fire. Not like pyro, but enough to make him safe.

Book 4 starts, I find out that I too am able to read the message broadcast to us by Ax, even though I have no reason to. Sam hears it faintly too, but he ignores it. I meet up with Cassie and Tobias to discuss it. Essentially, the book is the same, we do research about the messages and the mysterious wreckage washing up on shore, and we decide to check it out. We go out there on the sea riding aboard a tanker ship. We go out, find Ax in the Ocean, and save him, just as the yeerks show up.

However, on the surface, we are treated to a sight of Sam, flying in his own human form, high above the tankers and he’s using the Hork Bajir warriors’ weapons to gun down the ship. Because of his distraction, we are able to get home safely with Ax, where he meets Tobias and absorbs us all for a mixed morph. He explains to me how to do it, but I never do, because I have no need for it.

Sam returns, Jake again thanks him, but asks him not to make such a high profile and kill all the people. We discuss his powers and how he was able to make himself fly. As it turns out, he can lift with his mind the same mass as he can with his own body, which means his weight times 2.5 total. This included his own body, so when he flew, he was able to lift an additional 1.5 times his weight with his mind. This REALLY comes into use.

In book 5, we’re working on ensuring that Sam and I get a good life, as there’s now 4 of us living in the wilderness. Sam and I get a huge increase to our lives, because Ax was able to modify the energy crystal from one of the many dracon beams we’d stolen to create an essentially unlimited power supply, which we used to get a heater for the cold nights and some cooking supplies. With his and Marco’s help, we also are able to syphon some funds from rich people. You know that story about fractions of a penny being siphoned off interest calculations, we do that to a company which essentially gives us upwards of 1000 dollars a day. We soon become nice, but have to hide it because we live in a shack in the woods, it can’t look too nice or it will draw attention.

So, we’ve upgraded, and now we’re worrying about finding out Marco’s mom isn’t dead. In an attempt to make an attack of sorts, we all get caught and are taken up to the mothership in orbit, and are interrogated and urged to demorph, but we don’t. Sam goes through the worst pain, as he has to stay in human form, meaning he feels all the whips and cuts on his body. However, surprisingly enough, he lives and somehow heals, even though he can’t heal, puzzling us all. Eventually, Visser One lets us off to make Visser 3 look bad, and there was much rejoicing.

(Wow, and this is the easy to learn, essential copies of the first 5 that don’t even need explanation! The other 4 are all hugely interlinked and they start taking an odd turn, while still essentially keeping to the original story.)

So, Chapter 6 starts, and this is kind of a loosely based link to a trilogy made of 6-8. This one is Narrated from the point of view of Sam. In this one, as we all know, the hospital is opening up, and they are using it to essentially make a controller factory (controller is a word for someone who is infected with a yeerk. Oh, another point, the yeerks can read your mind like a book, meaning they know you as well, if not better than you, and they can use that knowledge to pass as you in modern society.)

So, while we’re checking out the hospital, we get ambushed, and Sam essentially stops a bullet from hitting Jake, meaning Sam falls into the mini yeerk pool and gets infected, but he heals up, but he’s still unconscious when we get the hell out of there. Sam wakes up to find himself infected with yeerk, so he feels it’s done for and doesn’t even try to resist the yeerk’s invasion, since nobody else can do it. This yeerk uses it’s knowledge of Sam’s abilities to use his body to escape the Animorphs, allowing him to get off scot free.

However, Sam quickly learns that he’s able to disrupt the control of the yeerk, and essentially tells the yeerk that he’s gonna die. Pretty much all there is to it, since a yeerk need to feed approximately every three days, and Sam can keep him from attaining that goal. Illnith, the yeerk that infected Sam, actually explains to Sam that he’s a member of the peace movement, and that he’s looking for a way to kill visser three, or somehow take him out of the picture, since nobody really likes how Visser Three does things. Sam thinks to himself that this could work to his advantage, since he too wanted Visser three out of the picture. They form a bit of a pact, and decide to try to avoid the Animorphs while looking for info on what’s going on with Visser Three.

As it stands, they uncover a bit of a conglomeration between the hospital project and some links to other takeovers in town, like the school, the sports places and such. There were also some big businesses that seemed to be involved, meaning the yeerks are pissed at the Animorphs, so they are stepping things up, trying to go a little faster. So, Illinth and sam actually go back to the pool to refresh themselves, and as they’re leaving, Gordon (that’s me!) Manages to hit Sam in the neck with a horse tranquillizer, knocking him out for three days, since that’s the only way they can keep hin under wraps long enough to starve the yeerk inside.

So, after three days, Same wakes to be free, kinda. The three days are more than up, but the yeerk hasn’t died yet, it’s still in his head (although starved a bit.) Sam convinces the Animorphs that he was able to kill the yeerk and get free when it went to feed and tell the others. Since it’s been more than three days they, believe him, and Sam decides to take a bit of a vacation, where he and Illnith may plot in privacy.

Book Seven starts, and we meet a few important...VERY important characters. This one is narrated by Me again. While scoping out the school and businesses, they are greeted by Erik the Android, who knows of them and has been watching them closely, and must warn them about the shit they caused and how they’re really doing more harm than good. Erik is a good guy, but programmed to be a pacifist, so there’s little he can do to help, he just calmly advises the Animorphs to lay low a while.

So, while they’re kinda on rest for a while, worrying about their duties, they are greeted by The Ellimist, who tells them about the future, how it’s changed, and what they need to do (keep fighting!) And then shows them a view of the future where SAM is actually in that place at the top of the yeerk hierarchy, as opposed to Rachel, and they’re calling him Illnith. Whitney is Dead, and he’s a yeerk Ruler on earth, defending earth from the likes of other races. They are all frazzled, but Gordon finds out somehow, he just knows, but also feels that he can still be trusted. It’s like an innate gut feeling, so he leaves it be.

The second time they see this alternate world, we are kinda hinted at the presence of the Kandrona rays, and we manage to convince Sam to come back to help us destroy all three of them (as opposed to the 1 that was in the actual book, that had to be changed because the yeerks have taken steps a bit further to adapt to our more aggressive actions.) So, Sam is a little disappointed to have to help, but since he has to keep up the facade that he’s normal, he willingly accepts. Illnith feels that it’s a necessary sacrifice to get what he ultimately wants. This shocks Sam, because this yeerk is being very sacrificial, not common of this species. (Remember, Illnith is part of the peace movement, and he was originally intended to be used to infest the governor at the top of this little plan of the yeerks.)

So, they succeed in destroying the Kandrona Ray Beacons, and Sam immediately goes to fill out his little manifest destiny.

Book 8 begins, Narrated by Sam, it’s pretty much all about Sam’s many attempts to capitalise on Illnith’s knowledge of the Visser’s whereabouts, and he tries to assassinate him while causing a lot of destruction on highways, in parks, and in the pool. However, after sam miscalculates and essentially causes a truck he’s riding on top of to crash into a tree, it sends him flying and he gets knocked out. This leads to him waking up the next morning (at the top of day four on the yeerk feeding cycle, meaning Illnith’s time is up.) To find that Illnith has passed on, and he once again is being interrogated...horribly, about what he knows of the ‘Andalite bandits’ (the yeerks think the Animorphs are a group of andalites sabotaging their plans vie guerrilla warfare.)

Sam gets cocky and breaks out of the blade ship, where he’s being held, and manages to get back to earth in time before his escape pod is destroyed. Sam is healthy, alone, and the yeerk is dead (or so we think.) He goes back and relays all the info to the Animorphs, so they can capitalize on knowing the yeerk’s plan, and begin to see how useful Sam really is.

This three series set, from 6-8 is to showcase what kind of abilities Sam has, and is a setup for the fourth book in this series, the one called "The Leader." The concept was that it showed a bit of Sam’s darker side, and how he was intended to be bad, Gordon knows it, but doesn’t know how. Also, Sam, throughout the course of the three books, uncovers a HUGE plot about the yeerks attempting to make their way up corporate ladders to get into the head of the governor to make all these things that they want to do legal. (Like standardized medical testing to pretty much legalize an implantation of a yeerk...in a roundabout way.)

Sam has shown his allegiance, but there is another who is involved. Since the Ellimist was able to give Gordon a boost, and actually essentially activating Gordon’s telekinesis, Crayak is able to make a small change, but since he knows he can’t Change Sam’s mind on issues, he enlists Will. Will is another one of our real world friends who wanted in on this action, and got written into the books.

So, we do our thing, researching all the candidates, learning about this plot, when we meet Will, who cons us into thinking he’s helping us, and is a friend of Erik the android’s. He gets us to essentially go to the site of this huge battle with Sam and the Animorphs, and though they succeed in stopping the huge mega plan, Whitney ends up Dying. This isn’t a big deal, but Sam kind of loved Whitney, and now she’s dead. Will (who in real life is Whit’s cousin) had said that if he managed to tip the scales, Crayak would give him a gift. Will chose his gift very selectively. He made himself a phaser, like Kitty Pryde, meaning if anything harmful was to happen to him, he kinda went....into nothingness. Objects could pass through him. Also, if telekinesis was used on him, he goes into it instinctively.

He was smart, he learned about Sam’s ability, and since telekinesis is the manipulation of matter through the mind, he needed a power that would essentially negate that, so Sam was unable to kill him if he ever found out that Will was the cause of Whitney’s death. However, since Sam DOESN’T know, after the battle, Sam and Will kinda leave together to be alone together. Sam lost his girlfriend, where Will lost a family member.

This leaves us where I am. This is as far as I got when all 9 books were deleted, both from my computer and my internet. I wanted to continue, but I wasn’t yet done with book 9, and I didn’t want to rewrite it, so I just kinda left it alone, randomly doing little side stories to occupy my taste for these characters that I came to love. None of them were any good and they all were set in a period much later, when Sam and Gordon both had developed powers to the point where they could level Cities if they wanted to.

However, at this point, their abilities are a little more grounded. The both of them have learned to abuse the telekinesis to make it look more effective than it is, but they can each lift about a tonne or two, depending on the situation. Sam is gone in exile for a while, touring the world with Will, and Gordon is left with the Animorphs to continue to fend off the invasion in America.

I’m going to start writing book 10, called - The Crystal. It’s about the pemalite crystal that allows the Chee to program themselves to not be pacifists any longer. Also, at this point, after the last book and the losses, I’ve got Whitney’s Grave out by my shack, I’ve got a complete entertainment system attached to that dracon crystal, and the Chee have set us up with holograms to make it look cruddy, so I’ve got this little mansion in the forest that nobody bugs.

I’ve got a pretty basic story for you, after that last little bit, I’m gonna cool it down a bit, the last books were ridiculously long, like 50% longer than the original books, and I need to shorten them. The first 5 were about the same length as the originals, which where about 35 000 words; whereas books 6-8 were 50 000 words, and book 9 magically made it up to 70 000 words. I need to trim them back to about 40 000 meaning I gotta keep the page length to about 50 computer pages. There’s a lot of story to get through but I can do it. Coming soon, unless I feel to need to write about something else, you’ll get my chapter one, returning to the days of modesty, where the characters couldn’t give Dark Phoenix a run for her money. Back when I was more interested in character development and storyline (there’s a huge storyline going alongside the original story) as opposed to mindless action and stupid reasons to overuse my powers. There’s still a lot to learn before you find out how I develop in this story to become the demi God I end up, alongside Sam.

I know this story is kind of what some call a Mary Sue, As Gordon can use telekinesis, can morph better than others, and has overall great mind powers, but there’s a story behind it all, there’s an explanation, and he ends up not being that much a Mary Sue, he just plays a more important role in the overall story. The Animorphs’s story of war ties in a lot with the creatures known as Sam and Gordon. Stay tuned.

Odd, this post was originally supposed to be like a page or two at the most....I put a lot more stuff into these stories than I thought. I honestly thought I could cram it all in a couple of pages.

I wonder if anyone will actually read this....7 pages long, quite a bit longer than most of my entries anymore.

Runa