Well, no one seems to know how Anjinnl's father is. I am slightly disappointed but maybe I wasn't as obvious as I thought I was. Hm.

Well anyway this is the third part or book #5.

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Hi, my name is Marco. If you want a last name then don't hold your breath because you won't be getting it any time soon.

I guess I'll tell you just a little bit about myself. Well my Mom dead a few years back. She went out in our boat and there was a storm. The boat was found not only with the safety line frayed but the bottom nearly ripped off.

My Dad took Mom's death really hard. He quit his job as a software designer for some company that I can't remember the name of at the moment, and even then I might not tell you so you can't track me. Now he works as a janitor for some company and drinks when he's not working.

I've thought about leaving the Animorphs for some time but for now I don't know how to tell them that I want out.

I'm a thoughtful person. Last night I saved an older man from muggers by morphing into a gorilla and chasing the guys off.

At the moment I'm in school in a boring History listening to something about the Salem Witch Trials. Or at least that's what I think the teacher's talking about.

Finally the bell rang and I nearly raced out of the classroom.

It took me only a few minutes reach the lunch room.

I sat down at the same table as Jake and Tobias. "Max feels like he needs to go home." Jake said as he ate his macaroni and cheese. "How about Anji?" I asked. "She wants to stay and finish high school here." Tobias answered.

"How does Bromly feel?" I asked. "He isn't sure." Jake said.

I nodded.

So, Ax wanted to go home. I couldn't say that I was surprised. Someone needed to tell the Andalites what had happened. Arbron didn't feel that he should abandon us and Anjinnl was better with computers then both Aximili and and Arbron.

At that moment Cassie and Rachel walked by our table. "Tobias, I was wondering since you're great at math if you could help me with my math homework?" Rachel asked. Tobias nodded and Rachel smiled. "Thank you," she said and then walked away with Cassie.

I turned in time to see Tobias bit into his hamburger that was saturated in A1 Sauce.

"There are two things that I don't get about you Tobias." I said. "Oh, and what are they?" he asked. "Number one: your method of flirting. Aren't you suppose to flirt with the girl by asking her if she needs help with her homework?" Tobias shrugged. "How am I suppose to know if she needs help with homework unless she asks me?" he asks.

"Fair enough," I concurred.

"And number two?" Tobias prompted me gently. "How can you stand to have that much A1 Sauce on your hamburger?" I asked.

Tobias stared at me for a few minutes before smiling. "I like the taste." He answered. "Besides my Dad thinks that Dr. Pepper tastes similar to muddy water."

Both Jake and I laughed at the thought of anyone making muddy water into soda.

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The next day we met in the woods were Arbron, Anjinnl and Aximili lived. Aximili was saying something about watching TV would help them learn more about humans. And Anjinnl was saying something to him along the lines that they could learn more about humans by going to school then watching Soap Operas.

"Aximili wishes to return to our home world and let our superiors know what happened." Arbron told us. "It is a logical choice seeing that you need an experienced leader and Anjinnl is a gifted computer technician we will need her here to help monitor Yeerk Transmissions and any suspicious activity among your people."

Anjinnl smiled a bit. The little I knew about the Andalite people females were not considered warriors and should stay at home or far away from a battle field. So this must be a boost for her confidence to know that she was considered valuable here.

"Aximili and Anjinnl are going to build a distress beacon to get a Bug Fighter to land. Once it lands we will destroy those on board and then Aximili will take it back to friendly space and give the report.

"Seeing that I don't trust Aximili not to blow our cover in some way I need someone to take Anjinnl to somewhere that sells electronic devices so that we can begin." Arbron told us.

"I can take her to the Mall." Tobias said. "There's a Radio Shack there that will have all sorts of stuff that might be needed." "And Rachel and I can go with them." I said quickly. "It would be less suspicions for a girl to not have another girl with her." I quickly said.

Rachel stared at me but Tobias bobbed his head in agreement.

Arbron smiled. "Then it's agreed then. The four of you will go and get the compatible equipment. As soon as possible.

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Two hours later we walked into the Mall and headed for Radio Shack. Rachel and Anji were talking about which boy actors that they thought were cute and which style of clothes would suit Anjji the best.

We reached Radio Shack in no time and entered.

Anji took what felt like hours reading the electronics componates before selecting a few here and there.

I distracted myself by looking at the remote control cars and similar things.

Finally Rachel came over and said that it was time to hit the food court.

We sat down at a table with some food: nachos, cinnamon buns and some fries. Anji took a bite out of a cinnamon bun and started gagging

"It's a sugar rush." Tobias said. "Leilani gets them when Mom tries to limit her intake of sweet stuff.

We finished our food without further incident and at Rachel's insistence we hit a few clothing stores. Needless to say Rachel left with several articles of new clothes and Anji left with nearly an entire wardrobe.

We returned to the Scoop in the woods and Ax smiled at the sight of the stuff from Radio Shack. "This should suffice to make what we need to make a transmitter. All we need now is a subspace transmitter." He said happily

"Well I doubt that we can find one at Radio Shack." I said sarcastically.

"Well," Arbron began, "you told me that Chapman contacts Visser Three so he would need one in order to do that.

"However, we can't do it the same way that you spied on Chapman. We would need to be able to get in unseen and get out the same way since the subspace transmitter is about the size of the vegetable that you call a 'pea'."

Cassie suddenly smiled.

"Ants are small and they can carry heavy things so we could get in and our unseen."

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Any takers on the identity of Anjinnl's Father?