Both weary teams returned to their cabins. The cabin was very nice. There were five three-high bunk beds, and a desk with paper and pencils. There were also two doors. One door led to the bathroom, and the other to the kitchen.

"How are you doing, Cuz?" Rachel asked guiltily. Jake and Melissa were lying in bed, groaning.

"Been better." Jake attempted to smile. "How'd we do?"

Just then the door flew open and the rest of the team came in, with Brett, Ax, and Karen on their shoulders.

"For they are jolly good fellows, for they are jolly good fellows, for they are jolly good fell-oooowwws..." They sang.

Jake smiled. "Great. How much are we up?"

"Tied." Marco said cheerfully. "Now I need to get to that shower, before I pass out. 'Cause let me tell you, that was one smelly alien Gorilla."

Everyone laughed and Marco went into the bathroom. "Holy crap!" They heard him exclaim. Jake leapt up and lead everyone into the bathroom.

It was huge. The floor was shiny white marble, and there was a plethora of toilets, bathtubs, sinks, and showers, one for just about every alien you could think of.

(An Andalite Toilet!) Ax said. (A few years outdated, but it should suffice.)

"Ah!" Toby said. "A Hork-Bajir Disposal unit. Invented by Thur-Halpak, Ket's great-great-Uncle, the twenty-second seer."

"Great." Marco said sarcastically. "I'm really happy for all you aliens. Now can you please leave while I use the human one?"

"Don't use the wrong one! No telling what could happen." Tobias laughed, and they left Marco in the bathroom alone.

Late in the night, after everyone had washed up and gone to sleep, They heard a knock on the cabin door. Rachel woke with a start.

"Who is it?" Rachel said sleepily. "Come in if you aren't a freaky alien."

The door opened and Mrs. Berenson poked her head in. "Can we come in?"

Rachel sat up quickly. "How'd you get down here?" She asked suspiciously. She reached into the bunk next to her and fingered Karen's Dracon Beam. Karen clutched it tighter.

"Erek said that spectators are allowed to see injured family members." Mrs. Berenson said.

Rachel clapped her hands and the lights came on, and Mrs. Berenson saw Rachel pointing a Dracon beam at her. "Prove it."

"Chill, Rachel." Erek stepped into the room. "It's really Mrs. B. I can check on the Visser if you really want me to."

Rachel knew nobody could morph Erek. "Alright." She reluctantly lowered the dracon beam. Then she quickly jerked it back up. "Wait. You said we."

"I.. I meant to say me." Mrs. Berenson faltered.

"Rachel, chill!" Erek said. He stepped towards Rachel.

"Backup, Erek." Rachel warned, waving the dracon beam. "Not one step closer."

Erek blurred forward and grabbed her wrist, twisting it painfully. Rachel cried out and dropped the dracon beam.

"You're not Erek!" Rachel realized. "You're Derek with an Erek Hologram!"

"How'd you get my aunt's DNA?" Rachel snapped, inching her hand towards the weapon.

Derek picked it up and threw it across the room. "Simple. Mrs. Berenson was coming to visit Jake. You really are allowed, you know. I saw an opportunity and took her to Visser. And here we are."

"Not for long, Punk!" A voice yelled from across the room. Tobias fired! Derek jerked around in time to see the Dracon beam slam into him. Derek cursed as a black mark appeared on his armor.

"Ha!" Derek sneered. "Gotta do better than that."

"Okay, I will!" Tobias snapped and pointed at the Visser. "Maybe you can take a Dracon Beam, but he can't. Get out or the yeerks loose a team member."

Derek sneered and stomped out the Cabin. Tobias kept the dracon trained on Visser Three until Derek was on the other side of the field. "Fire." Rachel hissed.

Tobias pulled the trigger.

"NO!" Jake dove from his bed and knocked Tobias's hand aside. The shot slammed into the headboard just above Marco. Marco kept snoring. "WHAT THE HELL are you doing! You little FREAK! How the hell do you dare to shoot my mom you STUPID IDOIT! WHAT'S YOU'RE PROBLEM YOU (Words removed to keep to T rating)"

Jake was shaking Tobias up and down. Visser raced out of the cabin. "Jake!" Rachel exploded. "That was the Visser in morph! Tobias was saving my life! Get in the bed before I kill you!"

Rachel tore Jake off of Tobias and threw him bodily into his bed. "We HAD him Jake." She slammed the door angrily and locked it, because Derek was trying to sneak back in. "We almost killed him."

Jake shook his head. "I'm sorry, Rachel. But he looked like my MOM. What was I supposed to do, let him shoot her?"

"No." Rachel sighed angrily and pushed Jake head onto the pillow. "But Tobias saved me. How did you get up, anyway?"

Tobias grinned. "SOMEBODY threw the Dracon Beam, and it hit me in the head. I morphed human and, well, you know the rest."

There was a knock on the door. Rachel peered out and saw Erek and Mrs. Berenson.

"GO AWAY, DEREK!" Rachel yelled.

"It's me, Erek." Erek said, sounding confused. "I brought Mrs. Berenson to see Jake."

"Oh, go away, you moron." Rachel snapped. "How stupid do you think that we are, to fall for the same trick twice?"

Erek looked extremely puzzled. "Rachel It's just me! Maybe you need some more rest."

Mrs. Berenson had tears in her eyes.

"Oh just stop it!" Rachel started to yell, then stopped. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Derek skulking around the back.

"Oops." Rachel opened the door and let Mrs. Berenson inside. Erek grabbed Derek by his rocket launcher when he tried to slip in after her.

"Hi mom." Jake said, sitting up and showing none of his former weariness. He gave her a hug.

"Steve said that he would look at that wound in the morning." Mrs. Berenson said. "You seem to all be fine. What's this violent game about anyway, and why do I see all of these mutants running around?"

There was no use hiding it anymore. Jake, Rachel and Tobias told her the whole story. She was quiet.

"So, you've been fighting these Yoorks-"

"Yeerks." corrected Tobias.

"Yeerks." said Mrs. Berenson. "All these years, all by yourself?"

Jake nodded. Mrs. Berenson grabbed them all and hugged them. "If only I had known. I'm so sorry. But I'm really sorry that Ellimist is such an idiot that he would risk the galaxy for a Hyper-Whatsit game."

"Shh." Jake shushed her. "You really shouldn't go around insulting omnipotent beings."

Mrs. Berenson kissed Jake on the forehead and started to leave. "I think everyone should know." Mrs. Berenson said. "Maybe that nice referee, Erek, will tell them-"

"No, mom." Jake said gently. "It would only alarm everyone. You can tell dad, but that's it. And aunt Naomi, if she can look up from her laptop long enough."

Mrs. Berenson smiled and left.