Jakes Decision Chapter 7
Marco
It was such a beautiful day. I mean, I know I'm not exactly the guy who notices that stuff. That's really more Cassies thing. But it struck me. It was later that afternoon after the thing at the school. I was at Jakes house, sitting on his back porch on one of the chairs, just starting out at his backyard, The green summer grass, the beautiful blue sky, and such and ugly, ugly conversation.
"How would they search for him?" I said.
We were talking about something neither of us was comfortable. Kidnapping, and torture.
"Now, that's not Animorphs talk," you say? Well wake up, this is war, and these are just some of the ugly things you have to learn to do. We were desperate, and running out of time. We couldn't let the Yeerks get the new Ground Based Kandrona up and running. And we knew that the Yeerks were working just as hard to get it up. But we were out of time. It had all gone wrong, Ax had been seen looking for secret documents about it and the Yeerks knew we were onto them. For all we knew they could have it up right now. So now we were out of options to. And out of plans. But we couldn't give up, because if they win, we, you, everyone is finished. Period. Fear is a funny thing...Terror isn't.
So there was our problem. There was nothing we could do to stop them. But we had to stop them. So, now we were discussing the plans that neither one of us wanted to admit having made. Kidnapping a Yeerk. Torturing it until we found out where the Kandrona was. And we couldn't leave it alive either. So then cold blooded murder. I've killed before. But that's in battle, and as horrible as that is, you can still face yourself in the mirror. It was him or you. But murder. And torture, and kidnapping. But like I said, this is war.
"Bug fighters, probably." said Jake.
"And Taxxons, to track him...
We should do it in the City. They can't walk Taxxons down Main Street."
Even as I said it, I almost regretted it. Doing it in the City would make it almost as hard for us as it did for them. We'd have to snatch a controller and get them out of the City in morph. Then came the...unpleasant part.
But that was why Jake had come to talk to me. He knew that there was something about me, something inside me, that let me...made me see the unpleasant part, made me see the plans others didn't, or didn't want to. But that's because I understood what war was.
So we agreed. That night we would have a meeting, and if no one could think of a plan, we would have to propose ours. Either way, the mission was scheduled for tonight. I spent all the rest of the day staring up at the beautiful blue sky, while inside I desperately hoped someone would have a better plan, because if not, what we did to David would be nothing compared to what we were going to have to do.