Jake

I stayed at Cassie's house after the others left. Her parents called with news that they would be late, and that Cassie was to make her own dinner. It was only about five o'clock, so I stayed and watched a movie with Cassie. We watched Star Wars: Episode One. It was cool. Now I know where Marco got the name Obi for Obony. After the movie, I walked home - I wasn't sure if Tom was home and I didn't want to risk anything.

Tom was home, so were my parents. They had wondered where I was, but they weren't worried, yet.

The next day was Sunday, so I had another day to do something fun. Not with two Andalites new to human morph. I feel asleep thinking of things to do tomorrow, and was rudely awakened by my phone ringing loudly in my ear.

"Yesss?" I said around a yawn.

"BEWARE, BEWARE OF THE YEERKS!"

Now I was fully awake. "Hello? Hello?" I said to a dead line.

So much for a quiet Sunday.

Rachel

Jake called me early on Sunday with a startling message.

"Rachel, one of our, uh, friends called. He told me something that I wanted to share. It's really, uh, funny."

Not, I added silently. When we are on the phone about Yeerks we try to talk in code. Tom or another Controller might be listening. I quickly called Cassie while Jake called Marco. Tobias came over and I told him. He flew back to Ax, Obony, and Alanna to tell them that there would be another meeting.

I morphed to bald eagle and launched out of my window. I met up with Jake and Marco, and together we flew to Cassie's barn. Ax, Tobias, Obony, and Alanna were already there talking. We demorphed and Jake stood in front of us all, running his fingers through his hair. I could tell that he was upset.

"Okay, guys, last night, really late, I got this phone call. And whoever it was said, 'Beware of the Yeerks!' As you can imagine, we need to check this out. I was wondering if Ax could maybe try and figure out what phone the call was made from."

‹Maybe,› Ax said. ‹I could certainly try. But, Prince Jake, would it be safe for me to go to your house, even if I was in human morph?›

"Hmm. Good point. Well, Ax, you have gotten a lot better about how you sound things out and stuff. Maybe Tom will be out today. Let's go then. In fact, I think he had a meeting of The Sharing today. Yeah, it'll be okay."

‹Could we perhaps bring them?› Ax gestured to Alanna, who was right beside him, and Obony, who was watching Cassie help an injured bird.

"Yeah, sure why not?" Jake agreed.

"Cool," I said. "Now, for the real problem. Should we bring Marco? I don't think your parents would want a dirty, ugly monkey in their house."

"You're right. But maybe they also don't want their house totally wrecked," retorted Marco.

He was referring to the time when I developed an allergy to one of the animals I acquired and morphed spontaneously. I had morphed to elephant in my room (not on purpose) and my room had fallen into the kitchen. Guess houses nowadays aren't made for elephants.

"Hey, guys, cut it out," Cassie said. She doesn't like fighting. "We don't want to set a bad example for our, ahem, guests."

Jake sighed, but it wasn't an I-give-up sigh. It was more of an okay sigh. "Yeah, we're all going."

I morphed to bald eagle once again, and the two female Andalites acquired an osprey that Cassie had in the barn. Then we all flew to Jake's house.

Ax demorphed and quickly morphed to human, as did Obony and Alanna. Ax knelt on Jake's bed and examined the phone. He punched a few buttons. Then he hit redial and handed the phone to Jake.

"There, Prince Jake. When you hold this up to your ear and press the button 'phone', it should tell you the address and phone number of the phone the call was made from. Phoooee. Nuh."

"Remember, Ax, don't do that." Jake held the phone up to his ear as he pressed 'phone'. We could hear a slight murmer as the mechanical operator told Jake the address and phone number. Jake scribbled on a note pad. Then he hung up and showed us the information.

"4021 Redwood Street, 282-1085," Cassie said. "Take the whole pad. If Tom comes back he could figure out that there's something there. And when he goes and

finds animals. . ." She didn't finish. We knew what could happen. And it couldn't happen.

For the third time that day, I morphed to bald eagle. We all went home, except Jake. We couldn't spoil our Sunday. The mission was set for Tuesday.