LilManiac, no "and three, we have to keep marco from figuring out he IS an idiot" was not in the original.

Well, I don't have many more responses for reviewers, so on with the story!
Chapter three: Who cares how?

We figured we'd go for the blue box first. At that moment, it seemed the easier and more pressing task.

We were currently at a Burger King.

It was just the four human Animorphs and me. Ax would have been slightly obvious as an Andalite, and there was no way he could be trusted in human morph anywhere near salt and grease. As for Tobias, he was off scouting David's house.

We'd worked out a plan to deal with the problem of our clothes. Two of us would go while two stayed behind. Well, two if you didn't count me.

Marco broke two french fries in half. He put one short and one long in his fist.

/I hope its not Rachle and Marco going/ Cassie said to me.

/It better not be/ I responded. /Those two would kill each other./

Jake pulled the short fry.

"Looks like I'm going and you're pulling bathroom duty," Jake said cheerfully.

Then Rachel and Cassie pulled fries. I was currently detached.

/We shouldn't have been talking about Rachel and Marco not being the winners/ I said. /That's why we're now in this situation./

"You and me, Xena," Marco said.

Marco teases Rachel by calling her Xena.

"You know," Rachel said. "If I'm Xena, what's that make you?"

"Hercules obviously."

"I was thinking more Joxer. Isn't that the annoying weenie who hangs around Xena?"

"Okay, that does it!" Marco yelled indignantly. "Let's go. Come on, let's settle this once and for all."

He sat down and put his arm in the arm-wrestleing position.

Jake yawned. "Shouldn't we have a pair of live scorpions to make it interesting?" he asked.

"Or a pair of Lederthaks," I joked, receiving glares from everyone else.

Rachel grinned and accepted the challenge. It seemed to be about even when Rachel suddenly won, with a cry of "Ow!" from Marco.

"You kicked me!" he cried. "She kicked me under the table! Jake, your cousin kicked me!"

Rachel laughed. "Who cares how you win as long as you win?"

"Umm, Rachel? Please remember that the only reason we have a chance is because the Yeerks care about how they win," I said.

Jake groaned. "The two of you off alone on this mission? Instead of Dumb and Dumber it's Crazy and Crazier!"

Rachel and Marco looked at each other and then broke out laughing crazily.

"Crazy and Crazier," Rachel repeated.

"Yeah," Marco said. "But which of us is which?"

Lederthaks are those plant creatures from the Hork-Bajir home world, one of the monsters created by the Arn. Visser Three morphed one in Animorphs 11.