A/N: Sorry this took so long to post. I've been having troubles with the computer. I hope the wait was worth it.
Disclaimer: K.A. Applegate owns the Animorphs. I own Sarah, Bade, Alexandria, Josh, and Hope.
~~Sarah~~
My job was to investigate Hope's brother Cory. Well, while Alexandria was sitting on her butt flipping through the channels on her TV, I was thinking up a plan to single-handedly save Earth, end world hunger, and finding a date.
Do you think Hope will believe that?
I didn't think so either.
Okay, so maybe it was me who was sitting on my butt flipping through the channels on my TV. And maybe it was Alexandria who was thinking up a plan and trying to end world hunger by taking the bag of chips away from me. But I was finding a date, not very successfully.
"Hi Randy." I said into the receiver of the phone.
"Uh, hi. Who is this?" he said. Whoops. I had forgotten that I was supposed to be Samantha.
"Sorry, wrong Randy." I slammed down the receiver. This was going to take some getting used to.
I turned the channel on the TV again.
"Uggh, you could be helping me Sarah!" Alexandria said from the table.
"I could, but I won't." I replied.
Alexandria's guardian walked into the room, "I need to go to the store Melinda. I'll be back in a couple of hours." She said and went out the door.
"Whew, I'm glad she's gone." Alexandria said as she closed the blinds.
I nodded and demorphed. Alexandria did the same. Once I finished, I flexed my fingers, savoring how good it felt to be in my own body.
"Hope is lucky, she's got talent." Alexandria moaned.
"Nah, I don't think she does." I told her.
"What do you mean? You've seen her morph."
"I think it has to do with the necklace. Somehow not only is she able to morph it, but it helps her in her morphing ability."
"How do you know?"
I explained, "When I was morphing last night, I touched the necklace on accident. When it was still around Hope's neck, I morphed faster and much better than I usually do."
"Oh." Alexandria said as she searched through the fridge.
"So, what do we do know?" I asked as I put my feet up on the couch.
"Isn't it obvious? We plan how we're going to spy on Cory." Alexandria said as she sat down on the couch with a slice of pizza in her hand.
"Why don't you plan? You seem good at that sort of stuff."
"First of all, leadership and planning are Hope's department. Second of all, I need your help."
"Why?"
"I don't know anymore. Now, the best way is if we get to know Cory personally. Maybe if one of us flirted with him."
"Is he cute?!" I blurted out.
"I don't know. We get him to invite us to a C.A.R.E. meeting and follow him when he feeds."
"C.A.R.E.! Isn't that where controllers are from?!" I screamed.
"Is it just me, or are you very annoying?"
* * *
All we had to do was follow him around and he'd show us where some of the entrances were.
Easier said than done.
We had forgotten one very important fact. Cory goes to a different school than Alexandria and I do. His school also happens to get out an hour earlier than ours does.
Don't worry, it gets harder.
We also couldn't be seen. And we couldn't risk going to a C.A.R.E. meeting.
Could we?
All we had to do was bump into Cory at the food court, get him into some idle chit-chat, and go to a C.A.R.E. meeting. We'd then demorph and remorph into our respectable bird of prey morphs and watch him.
Her plan was probably going to get us killed.
Maybe we should have run this by Hope first, but she was busy with her parents plus she had to iron out all the little details of our trip to the Yeerk pool. So I brought it on myself to point out everything that could go wrong.
"And what if they decide to infest us instead." I said to Alexandria.
"Shut up," she said absentmindedly.
"Or maybe he'll go into a building and we won't be able to follow him."
"Didn't I just say shut up?"
"Perhaps he won't leave us alone so we can't get away to morph."
"Would you please shut up?"
"Oh, I know! We'll lose him by the time we're finished."
"SHUT UP!" Alexandria screamed at me.
Do you think I got anywhere in life with me shutting up when I was told to?
"Why?"
Alexandria rubbed her temples in annoyance, "Is it like, your goal in life to make mine miserable?"
"Of course, did you think I had another reason for living? Being an Animorph is just a hobby."
"Look, it's very simple. But I have been listening and you are right, our bird of prey morphs won't work and there is a possibility that he won't go to the meeting to feed so I've got a new plan."
Shoot. Way to go Sarah. Now her plan was definitely going to get us killed.
"What we are going to do is go to the C.A.R.E. meeting as planned just in case he does feed. But we're going to follow him around everywhere in our bird of prey morphs. If he goes into a building, we'll morph small things like bugs and maybe even rodents and spy. Also, if we could maybe keep tabs on some of his other friends, we could get a whole list of entrances." She finished.
I thought about it for a moment. It could work, if we played our cards right and didn't lose him. It was a simple plan really.
Maybe too simple.
* * *
It's amazing what you do in war.
I wasn't assassinating someone. Blood was less creepy than this guy. I'm serious, Cory will never every need to morph because he is already a pig. So it made me want to die when I realized I had to flirt with him.
Two words: Major gross.
I had gone into the food court and spilled a drink on him. After acting like I was actually sorry and didn't mean to do it, I got him to let me buy him some grub.
It didn't take long to convince him to take us to a meeting.
"You'll love it here." Cory said for the millionth time on the way there.
You will if you love being infested by aliens. I thought-spoke privately to Alexandria.
She laughed out loud.
"Hey! What's so funny?" Cory said with a creepy smile.
"Nothing." Alexandria replied nervously.
"Oh. Well, we're here." Cory told us.
I stared out the window. Kids playing. Adults talking amongst themselves.
Yeerks.
All these people were actors. Incredibly good actors. They were puppets for parasites.
I looked at Alexandria. She nodded oh so slowly. I turned back and got out of the car.
C.A.R.E. Controllers Are Returning to Earth. I thought it was funny at the time.
Now, if we weren't careful, we would be one of them.
A/N: My next chapter is what was happening to Bade and Josh when Sarah and Alexandria were planning their mission and stuff. Please review.