History Literature / Mindwarp

* EverythingIsEvenWorseWithSharks: One alien turns into a shark-monster to pursue Ashley into the water.

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In the sleepy town of Metier Wisconsin (French pronunciation: MEET-e-AY)strange things are happening. Last year, Todd Aldridge disappeared when wandering near the reservoir (formed by a meteor impact)the night of his thirteenth birthday. Some people swear they saw strange lights in the sky. Now, in rapid succession, five kids (each missing one parent who all vanished on the same night) turn thirteen, discover superpowers, their blood turns a silvery color and a shapeshifting alien shows up to capture or kill them. As the series progresses, the kids organize and fight back. They even find Todd.

* AlienBlood: literally, with the kids' silver blood. This is also the title of the second book, where that fact is discovered.
* AstralProjection: Elena can do this

* BizarreAlienBiology: silver blood.
* CerberusSyndrome: Zig-zagged. The first books set up a formula of a kid fleeing an unstoppable alien assassin. The aliens grew less threatening as the books went on, and the kids gain agency in fighting back, but they also deal with preventing the Apocalypse.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?: Six kids fighting a secret alien invasion, in which shapeshifting plays a prominent role.

* EverythingIsEvenWorseWithSharks: one alien turns into a shark-monster to pursue Ashley into the water.

* FirstPersonPerspective: all of the books, really.
* FlyingSaucer: naturally.
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler: the Omegas. After the first batch of supersoldiers failed because the subjects bonded, refused to kill and rebel, the military strived in the next group to remove the 'humane element' mercy, compassion and the ability to form human connections and loyalties. It worked.]]
* HealingFactor: Ashley

** Also Ashley's clone.
* InnateNightvision: one of Ethan's powers, crucial to surviving his final fight in the first book.

* OmniGlot: Jack
* PeopleJars: everyone captured by the aliens gets stuck in one.

* RiddleMeThis: in the second book, after several strange things have happened around Ashley, she finds a note in her locker assuring her that's not going crazy, and she really is in terrible danger, ending with the phrase 'if you set aside the why, you can find me in a year.' At first she thinks of all the people she's met or heard of named after a month, it's only later, after seeing a line of high scores in an arcade, that she realizes it was Ethan who left the note. Set aside the 'y' and find his initials, EAR. It's unclear why, or if, he thought she could solve that riddle, and why sign the note at all if he wouldn't do so openly. But it was very nice to see the hero of the first book again.
* SelfDuplication: happens to Ashley twice, once on purpose, when she's cut in half and each part grows into a complete person.

* TimeTravel: plays a major role in the series from book six on, with the final member of the team having a time-travel power.

* TriggerPhrase: Toni's (time) powers first trigger when trying on a dress, looking at herself in a changing room mirror. She travels back in time eight years for a little while, then returns to the present outside the store, and gets busted for shoplifting. Later at home, she tries the dress on again and goes back in time eight years to when she was five and her mother was still alive. After speaking together, the mom calls in five-year-old Toni and implants a hypnotic command to come back to this day when seeing 13-year-old Toni in that dress. Later, she uses her mugshot from her shoplifting arrest to escape a jam, not having learned how to time-travel on purpose yet.

* UltraTerrestrials: [[spoiler:the big twist of the series, neither the kids nor the things hunting them are aliens, they're mutant supersoldiers from the future, and the flying saucers are time machines]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: the villains' signature trick

* ReverseCerberusSyndrome: The series starts with a distinctly horror vibe, children stalked by mysterious, nigh-unstoppable attackers. While frightening things continue to happen, as the series progresses the kids gain more understanding of their enemies, and more agency, heralding a shift away from horror as they fight back effectively.

* EverythingIsEvenWorseWithSharks: one alien turns into a shark-monster to pursue Ashley into the water.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?: Six kids fighting a secret alien invasion, in which shapeshifting plays a prominent role.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: One of Elena's main powers.

* Psychometry: Elena's book begins with her trying to find Todd by performing psychometry with his camera. It works, sort of.

In the sleepy town of Metier Wisconsin (French pronunciation: MEET-e-AY)strange things are happening. Last year, Todd Aldrige disappeared when wandering near the reservoir (formed by a meteor impact)the night of his thirteenth birthday. Some people swear they saw strange lights in the sky. Now, in rapid succession, five kids (each missing one parent who all vanished on the same night) turn thirteen, discover superpowers, their blood turns a silvery color and a shapeshifting alien shows up to capture or kill them. As the series progresses, the kids organize and fight back. They even find Todd.

* AlienAbduction: Todd Alrdige, before the series even begins.

In the sleepy town of Metier Wisconsin (French pronunciation: MEET-e-AY)strange things are happening. Last year, Todd Aldrige disappeared when wandering near the reservoir (formed by a meteor impact)the night of his thirteenth birthday. Some people swear they saw strange lights in the sky. Now, in rapid succession, five kids each missing one parent who all vanished on the same night turn thirteen, discover superpowers, their blood turns a silvery color and a shapeshifting alien shows up to kill them. As the series progresses, the kids organize and fight back. They even find Todd.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: the villains