disclaimer--see chapter 2

warnings--mild swearing

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Chapter 13—wake up call

"Hey, bitch, wake up," I heard, then saw the sun through the trees.

"Huh?"

"Finally! Hey, bitch, your boyfriend says hi."

The voice was Silver's, but the tone was nasty. I was instantly awake.

"Well, slug, I could have had a better wake-up call, but then so too could you have. Either you aren't scared that your Visser can't find you here or you're hiding it. Either way, you're dead. Hey Silver, I know you can hear me. what a Valentine's day, huh? Don't worry about it, we'll make up for it when the Yeerk is dead. I wonder if he'll last as long as Eslak did," I said.

I got up and stretched and headed to the middle of the valley, where I met up with Toby, Tobias, Erek, Estrid and Aximili.

((The others are still sleeping—they fought until about midnight. I see the Yeerk is awake,)) said Aximili.

"That he is, and rude as anything. Wakes me up saying 'hey bitch your boyfriend says hi.' I have a feeling he'll be a little less cooperative than Eslak was," I smiled ironically. My stomach grumbled.

Aximili was astonished, looking at me.

((What sound was that?))

My cheeks reddened.

"My stomach reminding me that I'm hungry," I explained.

((Oh.))

"Anyone bring food?" I asked.

"Actually, yes," said Erek, pulling out a fast food sack.

I opened it and saw a little juice carten and a breakfast burrito.

"Ooh, my favorite! Thank you, Erek!" I said, ripping off the wrapper and eating the burrito.

((Ax, she has you nearly beaten on the record for eating a burrito,)) Tobias said.

((Well I would have finished it faster, but she took the wrapper off beforehand. The wrapper is hard to chew through, like paper plates,)) Aximili said thoughtfully.

I downed the juice before I began laughing at the picture that thought created.

((He is morphing something small,)) Estrid warned, looking at Silver.

"That's what the mesh is for, Estrid," I said, looking calmly over at him. He morphed a rodent, went through the bars and demorphed.

((I believe he is going to morph something large to get through the mesh,)) Aximili said, raising his tail-blade.

Sure enough, he sprouted white and black fur.

"That's what we're here for, Aximili," I said, morphing quicker than Silver could.

He ripped through the mesh and found himself surrounded by two Andalites, a tiger, and many Hork-Bajir.

He went rodent again, crept back into the cage and demorphed.

((Aximili?)) I asked, and he knocked Silver out, ((Erek, can you put up a hologram around him so that he thinks he's somewhere else? He'd probably be more tranquil.))

"If there's a lake or a pool of water around here, I can make him think he's at the Yeerk pool. Maybe he'll even leave to feed, in a day or so," Erek said.

((That's a good idea, but it gives me a better one. Aximili, what do you think?)) I asked.

((A good idea. Don't expect me to play Visser 3.))