I may have genuinely never read whatever the hell "Alternatmorphs" is. Let's find out. Cover is somewhat familiar. Oh! The choose your own adventure. Okay. I probably read it. Man, tagline, I do not WANT to be the sixth animorph. I saw what you did to your LAST newbie. ~~~ But things have gotten worse. We need backup. A new Animorph. We’ve tried this once before and it didn’t work out. At all. We’re going to try again. they even acknowlege the fact that so far the WORST case scenario is fates worse than death if i dno't work out. cool. huh... despite that intro this is an Alternate Timeline, where you're there with them at the crash, rather than a recruit. smart move. ferret ferret ferret its actually kind of fun that the choose you own is links you know... this almost makes me want to rewrite the first Wanderer fic, the one that was magnus archives fanfiction... into a choose your own adventure. all this "you" and speedrunning canon details so we can get to where you are in themm. giraffe and hyena morphs seem non optional. seems like being a k9 dog would be useful? a rampaging hyena might get put down, and a giarraffe would be tranqed and returned. but a dog just, is a dog. ~~~ dammit it lost my place. gotta find again. gues i should record page numbers too now page 19 "good morph choice, you deserve to procede" sends me to page 22 a new choice, how to infiltrate the sharing ferret connects him to his weird controller neighbor. could be good, if they think she just left one behind could be bad, if they think he's an andalite bandit (and thus was near that neighbor) dog morph seems useful, but easier to notice? ferret it is, page 23 score, they notice me but know im a controllers pet so don't care theres not an awareness of the "andalite bandits" yet this one, i think, isn't as well written as most lots of 'this is how some other char is feeling' writing that 'i' would have no way to know it IS neat tho, that hyena morph isn't anything we've tried before wait...what? tobias wasn't trapped down there for more than two hours? he's escaped with everyone else? or was that a different time... ah, and now a time skip. i think they just forgot about tobias being stuck. wait. of all things they are giving me the jungle one that was all "jake is special" with time bullshit? THAT is the one they think i want? wait okay they aren't doing that. instead its a NEW sario rip. okay. a sario rip within a rip ```“Think about it, Prince Jake,” Ax continues. “You have been given a second chance. Last time, you made mistakes. What I mean to say is, you made good decisions, but things went wrong.” ``` okay i find this v v lame. this is just a time travel fix it fic with a Your Name Insert. like, cringe is dead, etc etc, but i didn't see a reason that the complex plot needed "fixed". i am *absolutely* not going to make marco be an ant again at this choice point. a moneky might be able to open doors and move quickly. parrots would have good eyes and mobility. bad at sneaking in a blade ship tho. monkey it is. page 34 ~~~ rip, my first death. oh well. parrot it is. i am NOT trying to .... oh! that's WHY its this book! because i'm literally in a time loop repeating things over and over. and it resets at my death. okay, thats p clever actually. well, in ANY case, until i exhaust all possibilities, im not putting anyone back in ant morph. okay, parrot was okay because we had a better vantage point. now we need to sneak onto the ship. at first glance, chameleon makes sense? but they aren't exactly fast. but a frog is bright colored on purpose, and a jaguar is not exactly stealthy on metal so. lets go. page 37 is my anchor point we went too far back in time. oh shit. marcos mother is 'alive' again. wait they're letting us try a morph? we can't do that... we can't morph yet, right? this is before elfangor. um. i guess a hyena can fight off a pitbull? nope, got shot by a cop, shouldn't have picked somthing so dangerous. probably wouldn't shoot a dog? nope, visser three is a better dog. welp. time to go weird: giraffe. book complete.