The Discovery (Animorphs)

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Animorphs 20: The Discovery
Author	K.A. Applegate
Cover quote	Get ready. There's a brand-new Animorph...
Illustrator	David B. Mattingly
Narrator	Marco
Pages	153
Release date	1998
Previous Book	The Departure
Next Book	The Threat

The Discovery is a science fiction novel for young adults in the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate.

• New Morphs: Marco- Cobra, David- Golden Eagle, Cockroach

After failing miserably to chat up a girl at his locker, Marco is stymied to find a boy carrying a blue box. Elfangor's blue box. The morphing cube. The Escafil Device. Marco introduces himself to the new boy, David (named for the cover author), and lamely tries to buy the Box off him. He fails. Marco tells Jake about it, and they both appreciate the seriousness of the situation. But that's not the only surprise in store for them. Erek the Chee tells them that a group of G8 representatives are gathering at the Marriott Hotel resort on the city coast to discuss the problems in the Middle East. Erek also tells them that the Yeerks are plotting to infest each leader, and soon the most powerful nations in the world would be under Yeerk influence. The biggest problem is that one of these heads of state is already a Controller. Now the Animorphs need two plans: one to retrieve the Blue Box, and another to stop the Yeerks from taking over the world.

Marco, Tobias and Rachel try to raid David's house in bird of prey morphs. Tobias flies into a window and is knocked unconscious. Marco fights David's cat, Megadeth, and Rachel is forced to abandon the Blue Box while being shot at by David with his B.B. gun. The operation is a humiliating disaster. The next day at school, David tells Marco his seemingly ridiculous story about trained robber birds, and discusses his plan to sell the Blue Box to the highest bidder. Marco immediately knows who will be David's first client: Visser Three. Marco is uneasy with David's strange personality, but decides that he must be saved, and that the Blue Box must not fall into the Visser's hands.

During school, Marco takes Ax with him to stop David's e-mail from being sent. Unfortunately, they're too late. Marco acquires Spawn, David's contraband, defanged cobra. Visser Three storms into David's house with a team of Hork-Bajir. A fight ensues between the Yeerks and the Animorphs, destroying David's house. Rachel, in bear morph, rams David out the window, and the Animorphs retreat. The Yeerks withdraw with David's mother and father.

The Animorphs are unsure of what to do with David. Marco and Ax decide that they cannot spare David, given his strange behaviour. Tobias votes to take him in out of moral concern, while Rachel and Cassie decide that David might be their ticket to recruiting more Animorphs. With Marco and Ax outvoted, they reveal to David the Yeerk invasion and give him the morphing power.

From the very beginning of the debacle, David displays his eagerness to kill, and disobeys Jake's orders. David also does not seem concerned enough about his parents being Controllers. On the way to the Marriott resort, David indiscriminately kills a crow.

As they near the resort, they spot the Blade ship taking the Marine One helicopter hostage. The Animorphs, fearing that the Yeerks have captured the President of the United States, enter the Visser's ship. There, they realize that the Visser had not captured the President, but the Chief of White House Protocol, 'Tony'. The Visser plans to morph him. The Animorphs are then discovered in cockroach morph, and end up falling out of the Blade ship, down into the ocean...

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