- Narrator: All six Animorphs
The Animorphs are scattered to the winds as a living tornado hunts them down one by one.
Tropes:
- Amnesia Episode: Rachel gets mobbed by jays when she flies too close to their nest as a bald eagle, and hits her head on a tree on the way down. She instinctively morphs to heal her concussion, but morphing doesn't fix memory loss, so she's left wandering the woods in a daze all weekend. She regains her memory after Marco hits her with a truck; luckily she's an elephant at the time.
- Amnesiac Resonance: Rachel doesn't remember how her morphing powers work, but she does remember which animal she needs to morph into to escape sticky situations when she finds herself in danger.
- Badass in Distress: The Veleek succeeds in capturing Ax and Marco, but both of them are able to work together to escape the Blade Ship.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: In Rachel's absence, Jake is the one who says "Let's do it." to a crazy plan.
- Crazy Homeless People: Rachel encounters an escaped ex-host living in the woods. At first, the woman talks to her like an annoyed store clerk dealing with a customer trying to return an item, but then becomes hostile because she thinks Rachel is a Controller trying to capture her.
- Deadly Dust Storm: The Veleek, a swarm of microscopic alien mites from Saturn, is described as a tornado with too many mouths and teeth by the narration.
- Dramatic Irony: Tobias comments to Marco and Ax about seeing a bald eagle get taken down by a flock of jays, not realizing that the eagle he saw was Rachel in morph.
- Drives Like Crazy: Marco "learned" how to drive from playing WipEout. He causes chaos across the road and terrifies all his passengers.
- Eek, a Mouse!!: To get revenge on Darlene for not inviting him to her party, Marco recruits Ax to morph into mice and chase her around.
- Flea Episode: Ax finds that he has fleas, which prompts Marco into recruiting him for his revenge prank in exchange for flea powder. Ax later solves the problem by acquiring and morphing into one of the fleas to escape from his prison cell in the blade ship.
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Touched upon when one of Rachel's flashbacks depicts Jordan complaining about how Rachel gets all the attention.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Ax in flea morph sneaks onto Visser Three and demorphs to attract the Veleek, forcing Visser Three to fend off his own pet monster.
- I Want Them Alive!: The Veleek could easily kill the Animorphs, but Visser Three programmed it to capture them instead, because he'd rather have them as host bodies for his most loyal minions.
- I'm Not Doing That Again: Marco and Ax agree that escaping the Blade Ship by skydiving, demorphing from gorilla and flea, and morphing into osprey and harrier were exciting. They also agree to never do it again.
- "Instant Death" Radius: The Veleek can shred through matter in seconds, meaning fighting it directly is suicide. Luckily, it's not out to kill the Animorphs, just capture them.
- The Juggernaut: The Veleek cannot be stopped, only slowed down by obstacles or distracted
- Kill It with Water: The bugs that make up the Veleek can be washed away by water and quickly drown. Visser Three uses water to keep it from attacking him, and the Animorphs trick it into trying to catch Cassie as she morphs into a whale over the ocean.
- Logical Weakness: The Veleek can only lift so much weight at once. While a gorilla and an Andalite are no problem for it, an elephant is heavy enough that it can only get it three feet off the ground. A humpback whale is far too much for it to even think of carrying.
- Not So Above It All: As they're falling from the sky, Ax calmly talks a screaming Marco into demorphing so he can morph into a bird. When Ax demorphs from a flea, he also starts screaming as he falls.
- Not So Stoic: Ax, who is normally The Spock, snickers deviously when he tricks the Veleek into attacking Visser Three.
- Scarily Competent Tracker: The Veleek can track the energy used in morphing, meaning the Animorphs encounter it any time they try to morph within its range.
- You Have Failed Me:
- One Taxxon-Controller says it's too difficult to keep a visual on the Veleek. It's right, but Visser Three cuts it open anyway.
- When Ax morphs into a flea, one of the Hork-Bajir-Controllers opens his cell to look for him against Visser Three's orders. Ax escapes just in time to sense said Controller being killed.
