Disclaimer: Chapter 1 holds the sentence or two that you search for, grasshopper

A/N: yeah this is kinda short, but, it's interesting...Only two chapters to go...

Chapter 9

So, Marco said any idea how to fight against these immensely strong and powerful aliens?

"We should probably head into the forest so we can morph without being seen," Jake replied, not really answering the question.

"How much of a chance do you think we have against these guys?" Cassie asked, "I mean, they did just trick us into believing that they were chasing us when in reality we were being led into a trap."

Cassie makes a good point, I said, but they have to have some sort of weakness, right?

"All right," Jake said as we entered the forest, "any ideas?"

"We can't take them on with brute force," Cassie said, stopping just inside the tree line, "but because of their size I doubt that they could move very fast."

We could, perhaps, try and confuse them as we did with the Veleek, Ax suggested after morphing back to his Andalite form.

The Veleek was a big dust cloud creature that Visser 3 had programmed to capture us – but that's another story.

"Okay, here's the plan," Jake began, rubbing his hands together. "Cassie, Rachel and I will go wolf 'cause we're gonna need speed, agility, and endurance for these guys. And Marco, Ax and Tobias, you will go bird and attack from the sky. The idea is not to kill but just make sure that they can't and don't attack us again. All right?"

"Let's do it!" Rachel said as she began to morph.

I took to the air to scout ahead and I heard Marco telepathically groan, but he too took flight. Marco, you think this'll work?

It better, he replied, but if it doesn't, at least the bob-stic thingy got destroyed.

I mentally sighed and kept searching for our adversaries. I finally found them a little ways further into the forest, as I turned to tell the others where I had found them I though I say something just above tree level, but brushed it off believing it to be just my imagination.

When I got back to where the others were, Ax joined Marco and me in the sky and we led the others, now fully wolf, to the attack.

When we reached the Zephryllis Rachel, Ax, and I split from the others and began to fight tow of them, pulling them slightly away from the two that Jake, Cassie, and Marco were fighting. At that point I really and truly thought that my eyes were playing a trick on me or perhaps it was from lack of sleep, but I could have sworn that those aliens got smaller as we pulled them away from the others, though not by much. Come to think of it they did seem to be a little weaker as well.

A/N: Anybody else think that Tobias should really look more carefully at things, and perhaps mention it to the others………oh well