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"The mall was a zoo. Wall-to-wall people. Old people moving real slow. Married people with squalling babies in big huge strollers. High school kids trying to look cool. Mall police trying to look tough. Good-looking girls carrying bags from The Limited. Your basic Saturday at the mall."
―Marco[src]

This unnamed mall was a shopping mall in California that was often frequented by the Animorphs and housed hidden entrances into the Yeerk Pool.

History[]

This mall, situated in California,[2] was the local mall in the Animorphs' hometown. In 1995,[3] the Yeerk Empire began their invasion of Earth.[4] By 1997,[5] the Yeerk Empire successfully constructed a Yeerk Pool underneath half of the city[6] and added a handful of secret entrances within the mall, such as a secret passageway behind the mirror of a dressing room at The Gap.[7]

One Friday night in 1997, five thirteen year olds[8] – Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie and Marco – were at the mall. While Jake and Marco played video games at a store that sold games and comic books[6] Cassie accompanied Rachel as she went shopping.[9] The five teenagers, now known as the Animorphs, revisited the mall on Monday after school, sitting at the food court and discussing their plans as Jake ordered and ate nachos.[6] Due to the mall's concrete, buildings and cars, the parking lot gave off good thermals, which was useful for Tobias as well as the other Animorphs when they were in bird morphs.[10] Less than a month later, Rachel's gymnastics class was holding an exhibition at the mall, where a crowd gathered to watch the girls in leotards perform. Tobias, who had been trapped as a red-tailed hawk, tried to commit suicide by diving down and hitting the glass doors of the mall's entrance, although he survived as someone opened the door. Flying through the mall and taking stock of its many stores, Tobias shot past Rachel, who recognized him. He attempted to collide with a wall but flared his wings at the last second when Rachel called out to him. He then shot up towards the skylight in order to hit the glass and end his life; however, Marco, who was on the second floor of the mall near the gymnastics exhibition, threw a baseball at the skylight, shattering it and allowing Tobias to survive and escape.[11]

On a Saturday, Jake and Marco went to the mall, bringing Ax, an Andalite who had joined them, with them. The plan was to go to Radio Shack, as Ax needed parts to build a Yeerk Distress Beacon. Ax's first visit to the mall caused him to be overwhelmed by the sense of smell that he was receiving in his human morph. As Jake and Marco entered the mall, they wondered where Radio Shack was and contemplated looking at the map. Ax, unable to resist the smells, took off from them and got onto an escalator, which took him to the second floor. Jake and Marco then spotted him and gave pursuit; Jake initally ran, but Marco advised him not to run since the mall police would think he had stolen something. The two slowly made their way to the escalator. Upstairs, Ax had followed a strong scent and arrived in front of Starbucks, where he saw people waiting in line. Mimicking them, he waited in line patiently and overheard a person in front of him ask for a double latte. The clerk then asked Ax what he wanted, and Ax repeated the order he had heard. Jake and Marco then caught up with Ax and Jake paid for the latte. They then guided Ax towards Radio Shack, where he found most of the parts he needed. When Jake went to pay for it, Ax began to smell another strong scent and told Marco that he believed it was connected to the sense of taste he had just experienced. Ax then threw his Starbucks cup at the Radio Shack cashier, and when Marco ran up to apologize, Ax ran out of the store to follow the scent.

He made his way to the food court, where he began to eat other people's food off their tables in a mad rush. This caused the people eating to leave, although Ax's antics caused other mall-goers to surge towards the food court to watch him. Jake and Marco followed the surge and arrived at the food court, where they saw people point and laugh at Ax. A mall cop then tried approaching Ax as Ax bit into a cinnamon bun from Cinnabon and relished how he had finally found the source of the scent. As more mall police arrived, Marco yelled at Ax to run. While trying to flee from the mall police, Ax, who struggled with the two legs he had in human morph and the inability to look behind him without turning his head, began demorphing. This caused many mall shoppers to scream and run as they saw him; while some mall police were stunned as well, at least one of them recognized him as an Andalite, causing Marco to realize that some of the mall police were Controllers. Marco and Jake then ran with Ax as they escaped from one of the mall exits, with mall police still behind them. As city police officers sped up towards them, the three ran into a nearby grocery store.[12]

On a Friday after school, Jake went to the mall with Cassie and Rachel in order to buy his mother a birthday gift. Rachel redirected them to the second floor of a department store, where she found a silk blouse that was originally thirty-three dollars but was on sale for $17.50. As she celebrated the savings, Jake inquired how he was saving when he was only planning to spend fifteen dollars, to which Cassie responded that Rachel used a different math when it came to shopping. Rachel then left them to check something in the Juniors department and told them that she would meet with them later at the food court. Jake and Cassie discussed their upcoming plan to morph into flies to infiltrate the Berman Clinic[13] before Jake paid for the blouse[14] and the pair went to the food court to meet Rachel.[13]

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Trivia[]

  • In the 2011 Relaunch reprint, B. Dalton is replaced with Barnes & Noble. This is because the reprints attempted to modernize the setting and references, and B. Dalton had since gone out of business.
  • In the original version of The Predator, released in 1996, Ax's double latte from the mall's Starbucks costs $2.95. In the 2011 reprint, Ax's double latte costs $3.55.

Gallery[]

"Someone took a picture of me? Not cool. Do you see what I'm wearing? I'm Spandex-boy. Totally not cool."

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References[]

  1. ↑ According to #54: The Beginning, it is in California. VISSER also reveals it is mid-sized coastal city, with series co-author Michael Grant describing the fictional city as a blend between Orange County and Long Beach.
  2. ↑ The Beginning
  3. ↑ In VISSER, Edriss 562 launches the invasion of Earth and fakes the death of her host, Eva. In #1, Eva is said to have died/disappeared two years prior. As #1 takes place in 1997, this places Eva's disappearance, and the beginning of the invasion of Earth, in 1995.
  4. ↑ VISSER
  5. ↑ The Andalite Chronicles is said to take place 10 years after the 1966 Yeerk exodus of The Hork-Bajir Chronicles and 21 years before Elfangor met the Animorphs. This places it in 1976, meaning the Animorphs met Elfangor in 1997.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 The Invasion
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Stranger
  8. ↑ The Answer
  9. ↑ Back to Before
  10. ↑ The Visitor
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 The Encounter
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 The Predator
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 The Capture
  14. ↑ Jake just leaves the store without any indication he paid in the 1997 version. In the 2012 reprint, this is fixed.
  15. ↑ Replaced with Barnes & Noble in the 2011 reprint.
  16. ↑ The Exposed
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