Disclaimer: Don't you know that K.A. Applegate owns the Animorphs and I own Sarah, Hope, Alexandria, Josh, and Bade by now?
~~Josh~~
It was the day after our little trip to the zoo. The news said we were just a bunch of vandals.
They were half-right.
Our next target: the yeerk pool.
We were at my house. My guardians weren't home at the moment so we could be out of morph.
Hope kept moaning, "Great, now they know they're more Animorphs."
"I don't think it will damage our element of surprise much," Sarah observed. I believed Sarah. She seemed good at this kind of stuff.
"They'll still have time to prepare," Bade pointed out.
"I have to agree with Sarah on this one. They don't even have any solid proof that we aren't andalites." Alexandria said. I had to admit she had acted pretty well.
I was listening to both sides. The argument was heating up.
"If we don't do something fast, we'll be doomed before we even get started!" Bade said on the brink of screaming.
"Can't we just chill for a bit!" Sarah whined.
"Look," I said calmly, "It doesn't matter, what's done is done. Let's concentrate on our attack plan."
Hope rubbed her temples, "You're right Josh. Let's concentrate on our attack."
"I say our plan of attack should be to stay home and watch cartoons." Sarah suggested.
Everyone laughed except Hope. Hope barely chuckled. She was in a very serious mood.
"I think we should attack the yeerk pool." Hope told us all.
"I've heard those things are just too big. I don't think we could." I said.
"You didn't hear me through. I say we attack the yeerk pool and free Ax," Hope said, not bothering to use his full name. I won't either.
"Why?" Bade asked with a shrug.
"It could give us a huge advantage in the war. But that's not all I want to do."
"What?" asked Alexandria.
"My parents are controllers." She said and looked down.
So, that was what was going on, I thought.
"So, we free Ax and your parents and then haul butt." Sarah summed it up.
"Well, that and we could do some major damage." Hope added.
"How?" I asked.
"Well, what if we freed everyone and then caused the yeerk pool to collapse." Alexandria offered.
"How do we get everyone out?" I asked.
Sarah snapped her fingers, "The fire alarm!"
"What about it?" Bade asked.
"What if we started a small fire and caused them to evacuate everyone with a yeerk in their head. Then we free the caged people, set a couple dracon beams to explode, and made the yeerk pool collapse?" Sarah explained.
Hope thought for a moment, "It could work," She said finally.
I stood up, "How do we make sure everyone gets out?"
Hope sighed, "Josh is right, there's no way. Except…"
"What?" Alexandria asked.
"Well, the yeerk pool would probably be underground, right?" Hope started.
I sat back down and said, "Yeah, and?"
"We could grab some dracon beams and shoot them at the ceiling above the yeerk pool itself." Hope finished.
Everyone let it sink in for a minute. Finally, Bade spoke, "Oh I get it. The rocks will topple into the pool and kill lots of them."
I nodded. There was very little chance that anyone would get hurt with that plan.
"Sounds good," Sarah said, "I'll suppose I'll be doing the blasting."
"Your morph has opposable thumbs," Alexandria said.
Hope clapped her hands together, "Okay, it's a plan."
I spoke up, "Couldn't we just fire the dracon beams into the pool and boil them. Or maybe we could set one to explode and throw it into the bottom."
Sarah agreed with me, "The boiling plan would work better."
Hope nodded, "Okay, we're going with Josh's plan to boil them."
"Then we set all the involuntary people free," Alexandria chirped.
"So, now we have a plan." Bade said.
"Let's do it!" Hope said. She was starting to sound like Rachel in some ways.
"Okay, now that that is over, what else is there?" Sarah asked.
"Just out of curiosity, what bird of prey morphs did everyone get?" I asked.
"Golden Eagle," Bade volunteered.
"I now have a Sharp-shinned Hawk," Alexandria told me.
"Well, I got a Cooper's Hawk as my morph." I said.
"Me gots a gyrfalcon." Sarah said.
I laughed, "You know, if it wasn't for the war that would look out of place." That was the truth. The yeerks sort of wrecked the ecosystem so it never gets as warm as the planet used to. A lot of Artic animals now make their home nearer to the equator.
"I didn't know that," Sarah told me.
"What did you get, Hope?" Alexandria asked.
"A Red-tailed Hawk," Hope admitted.
"Just like Tobias." I smiled.
"Aren't Red-tailed Hawks protected by law or something?" Bade asked.
"Yup," Hope answered.
"Do we need anymore morphs before we go to the yeerk pool?" I asked.
"We could probably use some insect morphs," Hope said.
Sarah shook her head, "No bugs."
"Bugs are the best way to sneak in," Alexandria sighed.
"I don't want to turn into a bug."
"I don't want you to have a mouth but sometimes we don't get what we want."
"Alexandria is right, they are the best way to sneak in," Bade said.
"Any other morphs we could use?" I asked.
"The zoo is out, so no, not unless you want to try and get some Hork-Bajir and andalite morphs." Hope informed us.
"So, we're all set for morphs."
"Yup, should be."
"So, what do we do now?" Sarah asked everyone.
"Well, we've got a plan, so we'll mark a few yeerk pool entrances." Bade told us.
"Okay, but we need to find out Ax's feeding schedule and hope that Hope's parents feed on the same day." I said.
"Uh-huh. So, our best idea would be to do it in teams I guess." Alexandria suggested.
"Okay, we'll do this is three groups. Group 1 will be Sarah and Alexandria. They'll follow my step-brother and find out some of the entrances to the yeerk pool. Group 2 will be Josh and Bade. They'll investigate C.A.R.E. I'll be by myself. I'll follow my parents around and find out when Visser One feeds." Hope switched into her leader mode.
I didn't tell anyone how I felt that we were killing millions of yeerks for no reason whatsoever. I didn't voice my moral disagreements.
Instead, I remained quiet.
There was nothing else to talk about, so we all morphed and left.
A/N: Okay, I know that was sort of dumb, but that was all I could think of. Please review.