The Ghost part 6

The week past as slowly as ever. I was glad, I really didn't want to see a person I loved put in to the ground. But knowing F. B. I would not have to. She had been cremated and her ashes would be spread over a lake up in the mountains she always used to go to when life was not going her way (which was not often). A perfect Yeerk trap. They could kidnap the plane or take Mrs. Kats (F. B.'s aunt) after it landed in a remote air port. Or they could just take her before it took off. So many ways she could be taken, and I HAD to find all of them. There would only be a few people in the plane during the spreading. The other mourners would be on the shore of the lake watching. Mrs. Kats had asked F. B. closes friends to ride in the plane. That lead to a new thought, ( one that I did not need at the moment) what if they had already made her a Controller? And plan to make the rest of us one on the plane?
During the course of the week I was sent to the consolers office not once not twice but THREE times. I guess some of my teachers were worried about me, gee I wonder why? They asked me how I was handling the loss and if it brought up any feeling left over from my mom's "death." I told her the normal things like yes I was sad but no I could live. The night before the spreading, we got together at Cassie's barn to make finely planes.
"Marco your to watch Mrs. Kats before, during, and after the service. Battle morph just in case what you said comes true. Even if you can't find a place to hind. Since your going on the plane you'll be the closes of us." Jake said giving out our orders. "Tobias, your to stay with a plane, I think it's most likely the Yeerks will try to kidnap the plane. Tobias did you check out the pilot?" Tobias has be doing his normal servileness. Checking out all the people that were involved in this. "Rachel, Cassie and I will be on the shore with the rest of the people. Ax I want you in bug morph with Marco just In case he gets in to trouble he cannot handle." Ax said in his normal "must do what ever Jake said" tone. This "planing meeting" was going better then most of them went. Normally we would show up ready for battle and make planes from there. But there was something wrong. There was no crying about it, no second guessing. We were to get in, get it done, and get out. But F. B. was a friend not some person we had never met before and would never see again. "She deserves more then this!" I yelled not knowing really why I had. "Marco, what are you talking about?" Rachel asked. "F. B. was a friend, she needs to be shown more emotion about her passing then this." Had I really said that? When my Mom had died I really could not remember crying (May be I was to young to really know what was happening) . Then when I became an Animorph, I had be come used to the fear of loosing a friend on every mission.
Marco," F. B. would not want us crying for her, she would want us doing what she asked of us." Cassie said, again playing the peacemaker. And she was right, F. B. was not one for tears but one for action. As she would say "It's time to get going."