"What the hell happened to the field?" Jake cursed. The ground was bare, and a purple color.

"Aw, man." Marco complained. "I feel so heavy!"

Tobias struggled into the air. (It was so easy yesterday.)

(Well, let us hope we can handle it.)

Turns out that they couldn't. Turns out that Graks were designed for this type of gravity, and the Animorphs were slaughtered. Lee Jordan was the quiet all game. The only cheers came from the yeerks side. Cassie and Jara Hamee were out for the count. The high point of the game was when Rachel snapped Mrs. Chapman's legs. The yeerks broke into the lead, 5 - 1.

Derek was in high spirits all afternoon, the exact opposite of Erek.

"What's up man?" Derek cheered, giving Erek a slap on the back. "Ooh, not your score!"

Ellimist had to pull Erek off of Derek that afternoon, that's how bad it was.

"Well if you had just tackled Tom, I could have made it to the touch down!" Rachel yelled at Marco later that afternoon. Jake had decided everyone needed to cool down, so he had called a timeout.

"I was busy trying to fight Flayer and the Trouncer at once, Ax!" Marco snapped. "You were hobbling forward, complaining about the high gravity, instead of getting your stupid blue ass over to help me!"

(My home world's gravity is lower than yours!) Ax cried. (It is not my fault if Andalites had the common sense to evolve on a low gravity world! Humans are so primitive that they would have evolved on Jupiter if it wasn't made of gas!)

"Shut up, all of you!" Toby yelled. "Me and the other Hork-Bajir were doing all the work, just because we could handle the high gravity and rough terrain!"

"Well where were you Hork-Bajir when I was fighting Flayer and Trouncer?" Marco demanded.

"Tobias didn't do anything all afternoon!" Jake snapped.

(Oh come on, I'd like to see you fly with high gravity and no tailwind or head wind!) Tobias hollered.

"Um, is this the wrong time to check up on Cassie and Jara Hamee?" Steve said, poking his into the door.

"YES!" everyone screamed at him. Steve hurriedly ducked his head out.

"No, Steve Stay!" Jara Hamee cried.

"Wait!" Cassie called.

"Come back in, Mr. Berenson." Toby sighed. "Check up on Melissa, too, please."

Steve crept cautiously into the room and quietly began fixing Jara Hamee.

"Oh, Animorphs!" Derek called. "It's time to lose again."

The Animorphs all trudged dejectedly out the door. Steve got a concerned look on his face.