The Exchange

It’s getting closer to J.J.’s looming departure every day. And the fact that he’s going to California does not bode well for the team. But Oriana’s got a plan — we find him a replacement we can transfer his magic to. But a magical weapon called the Exchanger is required for this, and it’s in the realm of Magicia.

Deyon, Maurice, J.J., Aaron, Jon, Shauna, Diahandra, and I must now head off to Magicia and find the Exchanger. But when we do, and all is said and done, it won’t be over. I have a secret that’ll surely change everything. . . .

NOTES:

• This book is the fourth special edition and is narrated by all eight Battlers.
• The summary of this book is narrated by Kesse, the Orange Battler. (All Super Battler summaries are narrated by a Battler.)
• The Battlers visit the Magic World, Magicia, for the first time.
• The Battlers learn that not only Deyon will go through the Crystal Advance he went through in Book 40 — the other Battlers, at different times, will go through Crystal Advances of their own, and their Battler Crystals will ascend to the Battler Emerald level just like Deyon’s did.
• The Mutant Guerrillas return!
• This book serves as a sort of “rest period” between the previous saga, which just ended in Book 40, and the next saga, which will begin in the not-yet-written Book 41.
• This is J.J.’s final appearance as the White Battler. He gets Richard to replace him, thus marking his first appearance as the White Battler.
• This is Kesse’s final appearance as the Orange Battler — he surprises everyone with the bombshell that he’ll also be leaving for Los Angeles to attend a high school with an accelerated learning program as a result of getting a very high score on an intelligence test and being recommended to skip his junior year of high school and go straight to his senior year. He asks Jay to replace him, thus making this Jay’s first appearance as the Orange Battler.
• This is also Manchomper’s final appearance — he leaves because he just can’t bring himself to be separated from J.J. and thus decides to follow him and Kesse to L.A. in hopes of eating him there.
• J.J. gets eaten three times in this book — by Manchomper, by a Rambling, and by a fire-breathing dragon!
• Richard’s addition to the group means Aaron is no longer the youngest Battler.
• Throughout his run in the series, J.J. was eaten a total of nineteen times — eighteen of those times on-page, one of those times off-page!
• This marks the first appearance of new Mutant Guerrilla Coonskin, a mutant raccoon created to replace Manchomper.
• This is the first special edition to have a prologue and an epilogue, both of which focus mainly on Chief Manhunter.
• Kesse and Chief Manhunter finally bring some closure to their feud when Chief Manhunter gives Kesse some advice on how to tell the other Battlers his secret — and follows it up with a goodbye taste to sample what might’ve been if he’d successfully eaten Kesse.
• The Ramblings (the rope-spewing mountain rams) are based on the web-shooting horses from The Brothers Grimm.
• This is the final book to feature all eight original Battlers.

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