Chapter 9
"Alright" I said "I'll tell you what you want but only if you let my friends go." "Agreed." Ulisic said. "What should I do first?" I asked. "I'll try to explain this so that your feeble human brain can comprehend it. First you give me the names of the worlds and I will enter them into the computer mainframe." He said pointing to a computer terminal that had previously gone unnoticed. "Okay." I said and as I listed off names to him I started having flashbacks to my own experiences there. When I got to Kromagg Prime he told me to stop and said that would be enough. "Now what about my friends?" I asked. "I am a Yeerk of my word you and your friends are free to go," he said. I ran over to Wade and the others. "How did they capture you?" I asked "They came disguised as room service shortly after you left; they said that if we ever wanted to see you alive again we would come with them." Professor Arturo said.
Hours later we were back at Cassie's barn explaining our recent situation to the Animorphs. "Okay" Jake said. "Now we know that the Yeerks are capable of communicating between realities. But the question is how?" I believe I may have an answer Prince Jake. Ax said. As some of you may recall many months ago I attempted to contact my home world using your primitive radio telescope as a transceiver. "I remember." Marco said. "You nearly cost my father is job." Well regardless I believe that the Yeerks have somehow found a way modify if not amplify my original design to encompass the other realities. "There's only one problem with that" Rachel pointed out. "Visser Three would never knowingly use anything if he thought the so called Andalite bandits had something to do with it." "He probably thought that it was one of his people trying to do him in by contacting the Yeerk home world." Cassie said. Well now that we know how they're doing it, how do we stop them? Tobias asked. "I think we should try to sabotage their efforts. Ax can you get us access to the computer at the observatory?" I asked Yes I can. "Good." I said "And once we're in can you sneak in a computer virus." I could but it would take some time. he said. "Well now that we at least have a plan I suggest that we proceed again tomorrow so that we can regain our strength and replenish our supplies." The Professor said. "Okay." Jake said "Does everyone know what to do?" he asked, nine heads nodded in tandem. "Good, as for now everyone go home and try to get some rest. We'll meet at the Chandler tomorrow." Jake said.
We all turned to leave, Ax stayed behind to morph into a bird so he could fly back to the forest unnoticed. Just before he left I approached him and asked if we could talk. Not now. was his reply, but he told me to meet him in the forest later that night after he had eaten. I agreed and set off back to the Chandler to get what little sleep I could manage. I woke up hours later and glanced at the clock, it was 11:40pm. I got dressed, grabbed the Timer and left a note on the door explaining to the others that I had stepped out for a while but I would meet back here shortly.