Chapter 3

I hopped onto my hoover-scooter and flew off towards the local Andalite Military base.

I knew what I had to do. Painful as it was, I was going to report my Mom as a controller. My Dad? Who knows.

I wasn't sure exactly what I'd say. I mean, should I say: "Your 'Defense Against Yeerks' program sucks. You know why? Because my Mom's a controller..."? No. I knew about the Andalites' arrogance.

I switched on the cruise control because I was tired of pushing on the many pedals... the scooter was designed for an Andalite.

I arrived at the police station, and opened the door. "Sir!" I yelled.

Behind the desk, a very human officer looked at me. What? I didn't know humans could be police officers... "Yes, spit it out." He grunted.

"My Mom is a Controller!"

The man's eyes widened, then went back to normal. He slowly grinned. "Well kid," he said getting up. He then flipped me around and pinned me to the floor with my hands behind my back faster than you could say "Yeerk!".

"Well kid," he repeated. "So are you."

Okay, I thought. This definitely isn't normal...

"We have a green alert," he said into his walkie-talkie. He said it very calmly.

Then it hit me. "Oh my god..." I muttered. This dude was a controller! I started struggling.

"Get off of me!" I yelled.

The Controller smiled. "Sorry bud, but no free humans around here. Visser ordered it."

I looked at him. Had they really planned this out this time? "What do you mean?" I said, deciding to extract as much information from the Controller as possible.

The Controller grinned, showing me that Yeerks seemed to have a certain extent of arrogance also. "Oh it's quite beautiful," he said waving his arm absently.

Beautiful. Now there's a word you don't hear from a Yeerk very often.

"We had planned this to the last detail. The police station was our number- one target; not the spaceport, or the military base. The police station." He said, and his smile grew. "We infested everyone within a two-hundred- yard radius of this place. We also randomly infested humans farther. We figured that nosy kids like you would discover a 'Portable Kandrona Feeder' in the fridge and come running to us." He said, spitting in my face.

Hmm, I thought, ignoring the increasing pain the pressure of his weight was forcing upon my limbs. So, the Kandrona was fake.

Just then two giant things that looked like a cross between the devil and an evil anime character entered the room. They had odd horns all over their body. Why, if I had been standing way farther away at a safe distance, they would look awesome. But, the fact was, they were standing right in front of me.

I immediately recognized them. I had seen tons of pictures of them all over the place.

They were Hork-Bajir.

Hork-Bajir-Controllers, of couse.

I quickly scanned my mind for a plan. How could I get away? Ah, yes, a perfect plan...

I looked at the Hork-Bajir looming over me. They didn't seem too focused on me, they were conversing with each other. They seemed to be waiting for something.

I decided to go along with my plan. I aquired the Police officer that was pinning me to the floor.

He fell into a temporary trance, and I shoved him off me.

In a split second I was outside, the Hork-Bajir-Controllers slow to react.

I looked for somewhere to hide. I read somewhere that Hork-Bajir didn't have exceptional eyesight.

I ducked into an alley so that it was hard for the Hork-Bajir-Controllers to follow me. I ran as fast as I could without looking behind me. I could hear them struggling to make their way through the alley.

I knew exactly where I was going: Reed's place.

It was in the suburbs, in a not-so-good down that was full of run down houses and abandoned lots. I took a left, a right, then two more lefts and peered behind me to make sure I had lost the Hork-Bajir. Then I morphed the Andalite bird Rarbill and circled around overhead when I was sure the coast was clear. I looked at the police station, where the officer and Hork-Bajir had retreated. I was sure I visser would kill them all for letting me get away, and I knew they couldn't get me out here because I was surrounded by un-infested human houses.

I dove into a dumpster behind the house and demorphed, hopped onto my scooter wearing only my underwear (hey, I didn't have time for my morphing outfit, I had changed out of it when I got home earlier). I drove in the most direct route to Reed's house.