"Careful, Kait! Bug fighters on your tail!" Tom called over the radio.
"I see 'em!" Kaitlyn replied, swerving her fighter. "I'm ready for them."
Can't have mistakes, don't ever slack
"One mistake. That is all it takes. One of us captured could destroy the whole army." Rachel stood at the front of the room. She had to get them to understand. Newbies, mostly. The older soldiers were in battle.
"One careless motion, one misjudged attack," Marco supported. "That's all the Yeerks need."
It'll go wrong, Murphy's Law prevails
"No, no, no!" Jake put his head in his hands. The troops at Mars are taking a beating. All the other troops are busy. They're going to lose the battle. And if they get captured . . .
"Having one of those days?" Cassie asked. She startled Jake out of his thoughts.
"This is the worst it's ever been."
But we gotta save Earth, better not fail
"Come on, men and women!" Tobias encouraged. "We can do this! If we can get Mars back, maybe we can get Earth!"
"This battle is key," Melissa said. "I know we can do it. It isn't like they have the Death Star or anything."
A few of the soldiers chuckled.
"They have worse," Sara said. "They have our families. They have us!"
Expect the unexpected
"How did they do that? They just disappeared! Shredder beams go right through them! What just happened?"
"Our scientists have no idea. This was a completely unexpected move."
"We should've expected that."
Nothing will go un-affected
Marissa walked around her old garden. Everything dead. Her fish in the pool, the flowers, her tall trees. Those Yeerks just have to ruin everything, she bitterly thought. Well, we'll get Mars back soon. Then Earth, and I'll be saved. I will make it.
We can't lose sight of the light
"We have to do whatever it takes!" Marco insisted. "We can't be having all these moral qualms!"
"No. We can't become them. We fight them! If we stoop to their level, how are we any different? How are we any better? How can we be right?"
We won't lose the biggest fight
"Reinforcements are comin' in, General Jake!" Kyle reported.
"Finally! Thank heaven. We just might win this after all."
The biggest fight of our lives
"People, you may die today. But this will be the defining moment for Homo sapiens. This will be the defining moment for freedom everywhere. This may be this most important battle this galaxy has ever seen. This will be the most important war any of you will ever see. It is the biggest fight of anybody, anywhere's life. This is important, people!" Wendy told her troops.
We will survive
"We're gonna get through this, don't worry. We'll get out of here alive if it kills us."
"Nice word choice."
Aliens invading, who would've guessed?
"Our lives are insane!" Marco shouted over the Z-space radio. "Five years ago I didn't believe in aliens, Area 91, shapeshifters, or talking whales. This is crazy!"
"Talking whales?"
"Ask Cassie."
But we are the ones put to the test
"Yeah! C'mon, people, show some spirit! If we're gonna save the galaxy, ya gotta at least act interested!"
We must save all of humanity
Our mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters. Most of them slaves, trapped within their own mind. We have to save them! she thought.
Our goal's to make them all free
"People, we are going to free your families! They will be free. Free or dead!"
"Nobody deserves a slug in their head. Not even politicians. We gotta free everybody!"
"We will free them all. We will."
Expect the unexpected
Nothing will go un-affected
We can't lose sight of the light
We won't lose the biggest fight
The biggest fight of our lives
We better survive
We gotta survive
We will survive!
"We got Mars back!" Jake's voice announced over the radio, Z-space radio, TV, and intercoms. It was translated into Galrad and every human language known. It was the widest-heard announcement in all of history. Every free human and most Andalites heard it. A cheer went up. "And Earth is next!"