Rain, rain go away. Come again another day.

This one more chapter after this and then it's on to the third part which is book five.

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It took a few days to get started because of school and many of us didn't want to answer any awkward questions like why weren't we in school and everything.

Lucky for us there was a Teacher Workshop Day or something like that so we got Friday off. We all headed to the beach as inconspicuously as possible. Instead of meeting on the actual beach we met in the woods about a mile from the ocean next to a river.

We quickly stripped to our morphing outfits and hid our clothes in the bushes before walking into the river to morph; I fell into the water face first during the process.

Once we were all in morph we headed for the ocean. It wasn't hard to find out which way was to the ocean seeing that I could tell where the water was saltier.

I noticed that the dolphin was a fun loving and always wanted to play almost the second we got out into open water. I started a game of tag which we all joined in; it lasted some time before Tobias asked which direction we needed to head in.

I felt guilty for using up so much time in such a manner but Arbron said that it wasn't a big deal; everyone had fun every so often in morph and lost track of the time.

We swam for about twenty minutes before we could tell that there was trouble nearby. Curious we headed for it.

I got an image from my echolocation: a whale and sharks.

Before I could think the situation through I torpedoed towards the nearest shark. I quickly realized my mistake afterwords. I was now separated from my friends and surrounded by sharks.

Lucky for me my friends joined in as well. I could hear my friends whooping and screaming as we took on the sharks.

Finally the sharks fled. /That will teach you to not only pick on other animals but to fight with us!/ Rachel yelled after them.

/Where's Marco?/ Jake suddenly asked. I quickly looked around and discovered that Marco was indeed missing. Then I sent out some clicks and got back an image that froze my guts: Marco was seriously hurt.

We quickly swam over and after some gentle coaxing he demorphed and with the help of Jake and Tobias as humans he floated on his back

It was then that I got the impression from the whale that it-no- he had seen something stranger a few days ago. Something that didn't belong on the ocean floor and flashes of blue and purple, racing across and around the thing on the ocean floor.

/Where?/ I asked, curious. Then somehow I knew how to get there and how far away it was. I felt part of me sink inside. It was pretty far. The round trip would take more then a day. And there was no way that all of us could do that without making someone or more suspicious.

I talked to everyone else and we all decided that we needed to go home and think of a better plan since there was no way that Arbron should go alone to get these two young andalites a lone.

What if the Yeerks found him and killed him?

I relayed the information back to the others and Jake morphed back into a dolphin. Marco hesitated before morphing but he wasn't any worse for wear and then Tobias morphed back.

With that we swam back to the river where we had left our clothes and demorphed and Arbron morphed into a human.

With that we swam for the river, demorphed and headed home.

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We all knew that Marco was shaken. His mother had died a few years back, a boating accident, and they had never found the body. Marco's dad went off the deep end; he quit his job at some company or other and sits around most days and drinks.

Even though I haven't lost anyone I can still imagine how it must feel to loose a loved one. That is why I decided to go and speak to him.

Marco answered the door and slipped out without opening the door much.

I listened to him express concern about his dad if he was to disappear. "You don't have to come this time." I told him.

"I would feel bad." He said after a few moments of silence. He then stared at an empty, leaf filled pool below several floors down. "Besides I feel almost as if we owe it to these two. I mean they could help us so much if we can rescue them and then no one else would have to loose a loved one."

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The next day we met in the woods behind my house. I had several cages with seagulls in them. Seagulls would draw less attention then our birds of prey morph; for some reason Tobias thought that birds of prey were funny.

We acquired the seagulls and then I released them.

"The plan is to find a ship, a tanker hopefully or a non passenger ship as the least to take as close as possible to the Dome." Jake said. "That way we can demorph and rest a bit before we have to remorph."

Arbron nodded. /We will need time to rest between morphs so that we don't get worn out. Anjinnl doesn't have a lot of experience morphing so she will need to rest in between morphing./

With that we morphed into seagulls.

As we flew to the the beach everyone commented on food that was in dumpsters and that random people were holding. /A stuffed crust pizza!/ Tobias cried excitedly. /Doritos./ Marco said reverently. /Thai food!/ Rachel commented, sounding a little excited. /French Fries!/ Jake piped in. /A sandwich!/ I nearly shrieked.

Arbron just laughed at our excitement until he saw a Red Lobster with seafood in the dumpster.

We flew over the beach and continued to fly until not only we reached the shipping channel until we saw a tanker, thank God, going in the general direction of the Dome.

We landed and demorphed.

We waited for hours.

Tobias started telling stories about one of his sisters, Leilani to help pass the time. His first story was how she had learned how to change the settings on the family computer and learned how to work it better than maybe their father. The second one was about how she had tried to yank their younger sister, Hoshi, out of a baby/toddler swing.

"She was shrieking and what not. Leilani grabbed Hoshi by her feet and tried to pull her out of the swing. Hoshi just smiled and when Leilani let go of her feet Hoshi knocked her over by putting her feet on Leilani's shoulders and pushing off. Leilani fell onto the floor in tears."

Tobias finally had to stop telling stories when it was his turn to check out how close we were to our destination.

/We mind as well get off./ He sent us. /The ship is altering course and this is as close as we are going to get./

Tobias flew back and demorphed.

Marco was the first to morph since he didn't know how to swim. When he got to a certain point we pushed him off.

Rachel carefully balanced herself on the railing before doing a perfect swan dive. "Show off!" I yelled after her.

Tobias was next; he did the Vulcan hand thing at us and then took a running leap. We watched as he fell towards the water.

Arbron sighed, he was nervous, before doing what Tobias had done: a running jump.

It was just me and Jake now. We shared a look. "We can jump together." He suggested. I nodded , we climbed onto the railing and then both of us stepped into thin air.

I couldn't stop the scream that came from my throat as I fell. I quickly switched gears and pictured the dolphin in my mind.

When I hit the water I sank under the surface. I could feel the ship moving not too far a way. I could dimly see the others around me morphing. Only Marco was fully dolphin.

After we were all in morph we swam in the direction of the Dome.

/I recognize the seascape./ I reported. /We are really close./ /That is good./ Arbron said as we swam.

/We're going to want to get air and breath deeply before diving./ I told everyone.

We surfaced and paused for a few seconds. In the distance was a helicopter flying low to the ground and a line of some type was dragging from it. /They're searching for the Dome./ Jake commented.

We dove and headed more or less straight down.

We swam for several minutes without seeing anything of interest. /How much – oh!/ Rachel's voice suddenly said.

The rest of us caught up with her, curious to know what she saw. When I saw it too I mentally gasped. It was shaped like a plate with a more or less clear dome over it.

We followed Arbron to a hatch and he pressed a button with his beak.

/I have already told them that I am here with friends./ Arbron reported. /We must hurry. I need air./

We swam into the airlock and once Arbron pressed the other button the outer door closed and the water began to drain out.

Once the water was low enough we began to demorph. By the time the water was finished draining we were all in our original forms.

We all watched as Arbron then pressed another button and the door into the Dome opened. I saw beautiful blueish grass and strange trees.

Then I saw them. They were standing a short distance away and watching us closely. They were both smaller than Arbron. They were different then each other; the slightly smaller one's fur had purple mixed in with the blue and the blade at the end of the tail was shaped like a scalpel instead of a scythe.

I wondered if the smaller one was Anjinnl seeing that there were several differences between this one and Arbron and the other one.

Arbron must have been speaking privately with them and vice versa because there was visible reactions from all of them.

Finally Arbron turned to us. /Everyone, these are Aximili and Anjinnl. Aximili, Anjinnl these are Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Marco and Tobias./ He said in introduction.

Marco did the Vulcan hand thing. "Hi, welcome to Earth." He said brightly. Tobias stuck out his hand and slowly the smaller one reached out and they shook hands.

/We shouldn't stay long./ Arbron said after a few minutes of silence. /The Yeerks are searching for the Dome at this moment./ Aximili and Anjinnl did something unusual with their eyestalks.

/Do you have morphs that can swim?/ Arbron asked. /We captured a rather large swimming animal a few days ago when it swam near the Dome. We caught it and acquired it/ A feminine voice reported. /That is good./ Arbron said.

/We will stop the Yeerks from laying this planet to waste./ Arbron said. I felt uneasy. Arbron had told us the fate of planets that Yeerks had invaded but hearing it again was unsettling.

/We won't all fit in the airlock so we will have to morph in groups./ Arbron said after a moment of silence.

Arbron sent us humans into the airlock to morph. It didn't talk long for us to morph. We swam out and waited for a bit before Arbron and two sharks swam out.

The dolphin brain nearly flipped out.

Then something happened that shook me out of my fear: the water seemed to explode.

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