Disclaimer: I don't own Animorphs. If I did, Marco would be the leader.

Authors Note: I'd like to apologize about some problems in the last chapter. First of all, there isn't any security at nighttime in The Gardens (lucky animorphs) so no one saw Michael go in. Secondly, Michael started morphing pretty far off from the jaguar pen, so it most likely didn't see him (and it was asleep anyway).

Another thing is that there are a lot of trees in the Gardens, so naturally there are squirrels too. The birds in the sanctuary are all in cages, or were asleep, and about the morphing clothes, that issue will be adressed in this chapter so don't worry.

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Now, onto chapter six!

I landed on my front yard and demorphed. It was a miracle no one saw me, since I was butt-naked. I completely forgot about morphing clothes. To put it simply, you can't.

I went in through the back door (it's always open) and made my way upstairs. I was careful not to make any noise when going by my fathers bedroom, and walked into my room. I practically dove strait into my bed and fell into a deep sleep.

When I woke up there was a knock on the front door. Quickly, I threw on a t-shirt and some shorts and ran downstairs. When I answered the door, it turned out to be Rachel.

"Hey Rachel. Whats up?" I asked casually.

"Your late is whats up!"

"Oh. Sorry, I was out late last night."

"8:30. It's 10:45!"

"Fine, fine I'm sorry,again, so hold on while I put on my shoes."

I ran back upstairs and said goodbye to my Dad, went into my room and put on some spandex bike shorts and a small t-shirt underneath my normal clothes. My morphing outfit.

I put on some sneakers and ran back downstairs to go with Rachel. I was a bit nervous, because I'd never really spent any time with her, and now it was like we were friends on a whole new level. Thats when I noticed I was sweating. Uh-oh.

'Umm, are you okay? Your sweating more than usual." I guessed this was her take on a joke and I laughed to humor her. Then she became Rachel again.

"Hurry up. Jakes gonna kill you for being late. Your lucky I'm waiting for later."

Sheesh, is she always like this?

We made our way to Cassies barn. I was nervous. I'd probably get an earful from everyone because of what I did last night. Just freakin perfect.

We went in through the back. When we arrived everyone was sitting on the bales of hay. I could tell already this wouldn't end well.

"Well well well, look what the cat dragged in." Marco retorted.

"Marco, that wasn't even remotely funny." said Jake.

"I know, it wasn't a joke." Everyone laughed at that.

((Good one Marco.))

"Anyway," Jake began " Next time, try to come a bit earlier, I mean we are supposed to have a bit of finnesse."

((Finnesse? Es. Inn. Finne.))

"I'll explain it to you later. Anyway, with the help of the Chee, we now know what the Yeerks have been planning for the past few weeks. It turns out that one of the skyscrapers being built downtown is actually being built to house a new Kandrona, a weapons storage facility, and a Bug Fighter production plant. There is also word going around that they're building a whole new pool in one of the sub-basements."

"So I take this is bad news?" I asked. Rachel rolled her eyes again.

"Obviously. And it's our job to shut it down before it gets public. We can't risk widespread infestation, especially because the building is also being made to house offices. Middle management walks in, controllers walk out. They get fired the next day, and the next applicant moves in."

"So when do we 'intervine'? I'm ready to put a big dent in the empire." I said.

"Hey, I like this guys style." said Rachel. I blushed. "Lets do it."

"Here we go again." said Marco. "Why always me?"

"But first Michael needs a few morphs." said Cassie. Well the cats out of the bag now.

"Actually, I broke into the Gardens last night a got a few morphs. That's why I got up late this morning."

Jakes expression was priceless. If I wasn't under so much pressure, I would have taken a picture. Regardless, he was at a loss for words. He was about to say something too, except thay Rachel cut him off.

"Finally, someone has enough guts to take affirmative action." I guess this was what was on everyones minds (except Jakes) because no one argued with her. I was feeling pretty lucky.

"Okay, fine, which morphs did you get?"

"Umm, lets see, I got a Maltese Falcon and a Jaguar." I said. Tobias seemed a bit shaken up after my mentioning the Falcon. I guess Falcons and Hawks don't get along very well.

" Alright, well your going to need a bug morph, a water morph, and a nighttime morph." said Jake.

"Well," said Cassie," we have an owl with a broken wing here at the clinic, so now all you need is a bug morph and a water morph. I walked over to where the owl was. It was lying on a steel operating table. It wasn't a pretty sight, let me tell you.

I leaned over and touched the owls chest. It's light feathers brushed the side of my arm. I stared into it's big yellow eyes as I acquired it. I wondered if it knew what was happening. I doubt it, but something about it's stern look gave me the feeling that it was smarter than I gave it credit for.

After I acquired the owl, we decided to get me two bug morphs. It was decided that I'd get a fly and a cockroach. The cockroach was easy enough to find, since Cassies barn had a massive infestation beneath it, but that didn't mean that I enjoyed touching one. The fly, on the other hand, took us a half an hour to find. It was Ax who cought it. It was by his rump.

I also decided that acquiring Ax would be a good idea too. If the yeerks cought us, I could 'demorph' to andalite and take them down, as opposed to revieling that we were actually humans. After a long discussion about it, Ax let me acquire him. Now I had at least two usefull battle morphs. This was going to be easier than I thought!

Finally, for the water morph, we went to the aquarium. After sneaking past security, we walked into the dolphin area. I bent down next to the pool and reached out at the dolphin. It swam over and 'playfully' splashed me with water. I heard a couple people giggle, and I could probably guess who they were . Hurredly, I acquired the dolphin and moved on. Now it would get tricky.

I decided to acquire a shark. A Mako shark, no less. This was trouble. Marco and Cassie morphed sharks and swam after a basking Mako on the edge of the pool. After ramming it, they brought it up to the surface so I could touch it. Actually, the shark managed to graze my arm, making a gash in my arm. I winced in pain, but managed to acquire it before it went ballistic from all the blood in the water.

One morph to go.

I snuck past the others and made my way into the arctic exibit. I was getting a leopard seal. I always had a thing for seals when I was little, but that wasn't the real reason. Leopard seals are one of the most dangerous land animals on the planet. I had to acquire one. After jumping over the rail, I dove into the ice cold water. The seals were napping on the other side of the 'lake'. I got out of the water sopping wet and headed for the alpha male.

To put it simply, he was big, bad, and he knew it. He basically ignored me when I acquired him, which was good because I didn't exactly feel like dying just yet. I exited the seal exibit just in time to see my friends asking a security guard if he saw me. Tobias spotted me and told the others. They went over to me and we left the aquarium.

"Are you insane?" said Marco.

"Well, nothing bad happened, right? Calm down, I'm not an idiot, I know what I'm doing." This was twice that I disobeyed Jake, so I guessed I wasn't on his good side. I kept up our friendship by keeping open conversation between everyone. The last thing I wanted was to become a nuisance.

Jake said that we would take down the yeerk operation on wednesday. This gave me two days to practice morphing. I had school tommorrow so I had to go to bed early (summer wasn't for another week). I came home and after a small dinner with my dad I went upstairs and fell asleep.

Little did I know that tommorrow would be one of the most excrutiating days of my life.

Thanks to all who reviewed, and don't forget to this time around either.

Till the next installment,

Ciao.