Tobias was slightly impressed. He'd gotten good reports from Jet's shrink, Jet had been on time and everything...it was a good improvement, he thought. Now maybe he'd leave that Animorph crap alone. As the class settled in nearly a week later, he wrote in big letters across the chalk board.
It read: Hork Bajir. Wear workout apparel tomorrow for class, bring good shoes.
"Alright...today we're going to start on the subject of Hork-Bajir," he listed off, starting as everyone was still pulling out their notebooks and such.
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This week had been a boring hell. There was not much to do involving the Animorphs case. He had forged many reports for Tobias from his "shrink". He knew Tobias wouldn't fall for it much longer, but it wouldn't be relevant in about thirty minutes.
Jet sat in the class and watched as Tobias lectured the class. He yawned and wrote down notes efficiently, checking his watch much more often than would be normal. He then raised his hand and waited for Tobias to call on him. Once he was called on, he asked, "Umm, Tobias, sir… Do you think a Tiger and a Gorilla could take down a Hork-Bajir?"
That was part one of his signal. Once the question was answered, said Tiger and Gorilla would burst through the door, which Jet had conveniently chose to sit as close as possible today.
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Of course, Tobias was pleasantly unaware of such an ambush, heh. As Tobias called on and then listened to his question, he couldn't help but do his best to try and not roll his eyes.
"Well, Mr. Brooks, that would be an interesting topic of discussion. If it were a wild tiger or gorilla, they'd have a limited amount of reasons to be fighting a Hork-Bajir. A caged one even less so. If we're bringing up my least favorite subject again, however, that is an entirely different answer from both, and that is yes. But let's say a Hork-Bajir got too close to a wild tiger. It would have to be a really pissed off, dying, starvingly hungry tiger, of it would have to get too close to the female's young. The thing most people don't know is that tigers don't attack anything human-like, and Hork-Bajir have the same stance as a human might, according to what scientific American magazine says tigers look for, so there ARE limited circumstances as to where you'd see this happening, such as the tiger being emaciated and starving to death - starving tigers HAVE been known to go after humans. Don't let fictional TV shows tell you that perfectly normal, well-fed, capable hunting tigers will, out of the blue, attack a human. Or in this case, a Hork-Bajir. Any other questions about this before I move on?" he inquired.
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"No, none at all," Jet said as the doors behind him and slightly to his left (Tobias's right, in case you all were wondering) nearly flew off their hinges. A big, black, black Gorilla and a Siberian Tiger quickly and dramatically entered the room.
The students all turned to look at them, some were scared, others were amazed, and the rest were just really freakin confused.
The two animals approached Tobias and stopped next to him, being nearly toe to toe with him. They both then transformed in a pretty gross looking development into human adults about Tobias's age.
"Actually," The one who had come from the Gorilla, Marco, spoke up, "I gotta question. I believe Jet over there mentioned Gorillas in his question. Why didn't ya mention me, Bird-Boy?"
