Their trip to The Gardens, somewhere that Tommy had often found himself wanting to go, and then wondering if it was even worth the time to ask his parents if they might want to come. They probably wouldn't have thought much of the amusement park that made up half of it, but there was a chance that they might've enjoyed the zoo that made up the other half. Said zoo was their current destination, nearly all of them having agreed on the point that – morphing being their only means of fighting against the Yeerks and all of their forces – they needed to have better animal forms than just Jake's dog, his and Tobias' respective eagle and hawk, and Rachel and Cassie's horse.
Oddly enough, Tobias had been the only one who hadn't been in favor of the idea, stating that he was happy with just the hawk that he'd acquired when he and Tommy had gone out to search for any clues as to where the Yeerks' main center of operations – what Tobias had said was called a Yeerk Pool – might have been. The rest of their group, Tommy included, managed to talk him around, but even so he didn't seem particularly enthusiastic about the idea. Tommy wondered for a moment why that was, but then decided that it probably wasn't that important.
Tobias was with them now, and that was really all that mattered.
Chuckling as Marco declared their group the Animorphs – idiot teenagers with a death wish, as he'd gone on to elaborate – Tommy shook his head as he fell into step with the rest of their group. Whatever else happened, he was glad to have them on his side. For however long that was going to be.
