Here we go! Jake's reaction to the news.

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I swung my fist at Marco, but I was so upset that I missed.

"No he's not!" I snapped.

"He wouldn't have brought up the construction site if he wasn't on a fishing expedition." Tobias told me.

"Besides he goes to The Sharing which is the same place that Mr. Chapman goes to. And Arbron said that Chapman was the one who told the Yeerks about us." Marco said. "It stands to reason that he's one of them if not a high ranking one."

I just sat there. I couldn't believe that good time loving Tom was one of the enemy. Not one of the enemy, I corrected myself: Innocent until proven guilty.

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Supper was an interesting affair. I tried not to think about the possibility that Tom was one of the enemy but it kept coming back. What would I do if Marco and Tobias were right?

"Midget," Tom suddenly said. "I looked up from my plate. "The Sharing is having a meeting tomorrow night and I wanted to know if you want to go." Tom said. "Sure, I'll go." I said, this would be a great opportunity to prove Marco and Tobias wrong.

Tom smiled, but there was something wrong with it.

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The next day I went to Cassie's house with Marco and Tobias. Marco wouldn't shut up about how he had completely kicked our butts yesterday in video games.

Finally we reached Cassie's place and entered the barn. Rachel, Cassie and Arbron were already waiting for us.

Rachel was admiring a bald eagle in one of the cages, Cassie was cleaning a cage and a young man that I guessed was Arbron was in a human morph that appeared to be about our age.

The young man turned as we came in and smiled.

"Hi," he said pleasantly.

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For the next two hours we learned how to fly. It was lots of fun and we all had some good laughs.

/We need to rest for awhile./ Arbron announced. We landed and morphed back into ourselves.

/Now, we need to learn where the Controllers meet./ Arbron said. "I think that we should check out The Sharing.' Marco said. "Mr. Chapman is part of it and if it is a Yeerk front then we will learn who's a Yeerk. And if it isn't then we know to look elsewhere."

Arbron nodded. /A wonderful idea./ He stated. "They're having a meeting on the beach tonight." I told everyone. "Tom even invited me to it."

Everyone looked at each other.

"Why don't we all go?" Cassie suggested. Tobias shrugged. "My parents might have decided to do something as a family and if I don't come then Leilani might have one of her meltdowns." He explained.

Even though I didn't understand I still nodded my head. We have to put up a normal front.

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A few hours later I went to the meeting with Tom.

I talked to some kids at school and then hung out Tom, until he said something about having a member's only meeting.

I said that it was okay and that I would find others to hang out with until he got back.

Once he was gone I walking into the woods a short distance and morphed into Homer, my dog. Once I was done I trotted down the beach towards the area where Tom had gone.

A man that was sitting in a beach chair looked at me for a few seconds before turning his attention back on the beach.

/They are in that cluster of dunes up ahead./ Marco's voice said from the air. /Thanks,/ I sent back.

I closed in on the dunes and stopped to listen to see if I could hear any voices. I could, faintly. They were saying something about Visser Three wanting the missing Andalite found and quickly.

I crept closer, this time I could make out the voice of my school's vice principal: Chapman. "We still need to find out who those kids were in the construction site that night." He snapped. "Does anyone have any ideas?" There was silence for a second or two. "I think my host's brother might have been there but I didn't really get an answer out of him." A very familiar voice said.

"I doubt that your host's brother wouldn't be open with you." Chapman nearly sneered. "After all you're his favorite brother's body."

"My host's is Jake's only brother." Tom voice said coolly.

I moved away. I couldn't bare to hear anymore.

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The next day after school we gathered in Cassie's Barn. We got out our homework, ready to pretend to be doing it if one of Cassie's Parents came in.

"Every three days Yeerks must return to the Yeerk Pool to feed, if they do not they will die." Arbron explained.

We nodded and listened to the rest of the lesson. We learned about the structure of the Yeerk Empire and how they usually acted, about the races that they enslaved and tidbits about them as a people.

It was interesting. Cassie was sitting on the edge of a bale of hay, her eyes wide with curiosity.

"Couldn't we raid the Yeerk Pool?" I asked, hoping for the chance to free my brother. Arbron turned and regarded me with his two human eyes. "We could but it would verge on suicide. However, if we are to fight the Yeerks then we will need morphs in which to fight them." He said, a thoughtful expression on his face.

"We could go to the Gardens." Cassie said. "We have all sorts of animals there from all over the world. I've got a pass because my Mom works there. We can even go behind the scenes and everything." Her voice climbed with excitement.

Arbron nodded.

"Let's go then." He said.

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In the end I acquired a Siberian Tiger, Rachel acquired a Grizzly Bear and an African Elephant, Marco acquired a Gorilla, Tobias acquired an Mountain Lion and Cassie said that she had acquired a wolf that was at the WHC.

After we were done we headed into the woods behind Cassie's place and experimented with our morphs. Arbron said that it was vital that we know how to control the mind of our battle morphs. Andalites had blown their cover before losing control of their morphs and then regaining control.

It was a sobering thought that our cover could be blown by doing that.

He also said that we needed to act as much as possible like the animal we were pretending to be if it was a bird, cat or dog. Because if we were spying that could alert the Yeerks that we weren't any normal animal.

"What alerted you that the Yeerks might be invading Earth?" Marco asked. "There were reported sightings of several Human Controllers but the fact that Visser One has a Human host has been confirmed and that she reached that rank for reasons our spies couldn't find." Arbron explained. "So the Galaxy Tree was sent to investigate and if the captain thought that it was wise send a group down and stay on Earth to watch for Yeerk Activity. I was selected for my control along with a few others for the task if it came it."

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Late that night I lay awake in bed. I vowed then and there to defend Earth and free my brother at all cost.

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The next one up will be The Message. It will be posted here since this isn't very long. It will be told from Cassie's point of view.

The next part should be up sometime on Monday.