LightningZero5 said:
I gave up on the series long before it ended. Could someone summarize what happened in the last few books? I need to know the ending!
In Visser, Visser One finds out who the "Andalite bandits" are, and she is put on trial for being too soft on humans (it was her idea to do a slow invasion unlike one by force like Visser Three wanted). Visser One refuses to shoot and kill her son (one she'd had with another host body) who had become a controller. She refuses to kill him... I can't remember what happens in the end, I think she was sentenced to Kandrona starvation.
The final 10 books were a story arc, and this is how they went:
#45, The Revelation - Marco's dad has been working on what would become Zero Space. Marco, who doesn't want to lose another parent, has the Chee fake his and his dad's deaths, as Marco and his father go into hiding with the Hork-Bajir. Later we discover the former Visser One has been sentenced to death of Kandrona starvation. When the Animorphs go to rescue Marco's mom (who's been badly beaten), chaos ensues, and the former Visser One manages to escape, only to be crushed by one of the Animorphs (think it was either Marco or Ax).
#46, The Deception - Visser Three becomes Visser One, and plans to manipulate the humans into starting World War III. They end up on a sub, fighting the Visser. Ax threatens to blow up the Animorph's hometown (which is where many, many Yeerks live), and the Yeerks back off.
#47, The Resistance - Jake knows that eventually the valley of the Hork-Bajir will be found by the Yeerks, and that their resistance will come to an end. Meanwhile, a parallel story of Jake's ancestors is being told, who fought overwhelming odds against the confederacy. Well, Jake was right, and the Yeerks invade the valley. The Animorphs fight them off, suffering Hork-Bajir casualties.
#48, The Return - David is back. He and a couple other guys have captured Cassie in an airless glass box unless Rachel becomes a rat nothlit like David. She morphs into a rat, and David's guys give Cassie some airholes in the box. Meanwhile, we find out the Crayak and the Drode are helping David, and using him to get to get to Rachel. The Crayak gives her a super powerful form (looks like Wolverine) to help fight against Visser One (by twisting reality), and messes with her mind so she can join the Crayak's side. Rachel breaks free when she realizes Cassie is not Cassie, but the Drode. She convinces David's guys to let her go, and she demorphs. David pleads with her to kill him, that it would be more merciful than letting him live. The book ends with us never knowing what happened to David, and Rachel contemplating on what was the right thing.
#49, The Diversion - The final Tobias book. The Yeerks are now starting to realize that the "Andalite bandits" might actually have been humans all along, and Visser One is pissed. The Animorphs decide it's finally time to let the cat out of the bag to everyone. Cassie's parents and Rachel's parents go to live with the Hork-Bajir and Marco. Meanwhile, Tobias finds Loren, who is blind, and doesn't remember anything- not Elfangor, not Tobias. Tobias gives her the morphing cube, allowing her to morph and demorph, so she can see again. She still doesn't recognize her son though. Elsewhere, Tom has kidnapped Jake's parents as hostages, knowing that he now has leverage to bargain with.
#50, The Ultimate - The Animorphs decide to swell their numbers despite what happened with David. They go to a children's hospital and recruit a great deal of new Animorphs. Those who had birth defects still had them, but those who had become paralyzed or blind were now cured. The leader of the new Animorphs (a total of 17- in addition to the original 6) was James. Tom shows up and reveals that Jake's parents have been made low-ranking controllers, so it wouldn't be a problem if they were killed. In a battle between Visser One and the original Animorphs, Tom is able to find the morphing cube, and decides to keep it for himself. Jake, bloodied and dying after a battle with Visser One as a tiger, lumbers after Tom. Cassie follows Jake. Tom turns and points his dracon beam at Jake, threatening that he'd kill him. Cassie, as a wolf, bites Jake's leg, allowing Tom to get away. Jake blames Cassie for this, and pretty much ends their relationship for a bit.
#51, The Absolute - Jake sends Marco, Ax, and Tobias to see if the Governor is a controller, and if not, to make the Yeerk threat known. Long story short, it becomes known, and the quiet war is over.
#52, The Sacrifice - The Andalites have found out about the situation on Earth, and are planning to quarantine/kill everyone so the Yeerk threat stops there. Needless to say the Animorphs and Ax are pissed since the fight they've been fighting so long is being ignored. They decide to take matters into their own hands and destroy the Yeerk pool.
#53, The Answer - This is it, part one of the final story. Jake strikes a deal with Tom to turn on Visser One in a blade ship of his own. Jake also finds Arbron (Elfangor's friend stuck as a Taxxon from The Andalite Chronicles), and convinces him and the Taxxons to help the Animorphs defeat the Yeerks. He gives a final order to Rachel, and she disappears for the entire book. Jake asks Cassie if she would marry him if they survived this, and she says yes. In the end, there are battles with Taxxons vs. Yeerks, Hork-Bajir vs. Yeerks, and the new Animorphs + Tobias, Jake, Cassie, Marco and Ax vs. many, MANY Yeerks as they try to infiltrate the Pool ship. The decoy Animorphs are all killed off, and Ax flushes the Yeerks in the Pool ship into space, and disables the engines. It's about this time Tom shows up on a telescreen (from his own blade ship), mocking Visser One, and telling him that the Andalite fleet will be there any moment. And the book ends with Jake saying, <Rachel... Go.>
#54, The Beginning - This book starts with Rachel. She is on the blade ship to monitor Tom. She morphs bear, and Tom morphs snake. Tom bites her again and again, but Rachel kills him. Rachel has to demorph before the venom overtakes her, and she sees Tobias on the other end of the telescreen. She tells him that she loves him, and behind her, a crewman of Tom's says, <You fight well, human> before killing her in a single blow. Rachel sees the Ellimist, and asks him if she mattered. He reassures her that she did, and her time-space strand disappears into nothingness.
A couple weeks later, Rachel and a polar bear's body have been found, jetisoned into space. Rachel is cremated and Tobias interrupts the funeral, taking the urn to spread the ashes.
Years pass. Visser One has been put on trial. Jake is depressed about what happened to Rachel and Tom. He started a band which wasn't that successful, and wound up teaching at a military school instead, with the morphing technology. Marco has become a huge celebrity. Cassie and Jake have broken up, and Cassie has a fiancee named Ronnie who helps her take care of the Hork-Bajir. Ax gets his own ship and crew. Tobias has become old as a hawk, and a recluse, having lost everyone close to him.
Ax gets captured by this being called "The One," so Jake rounds up Tobias, Marco, two of his students, and I think the two Andalites who reported with this news to save him (he doesn't want to ruin Cassie's life). The remaining Animorphs use a new Andalite ship they name "The Rachel" to go into space. There, they see Ax, as The One (can't remember the details except it had a huge red mouth), in the Blade ship Tom stole from years prior. Out of options, Jake gives a final order:
"Ram the Blade ship."
