When Tobias had called him, telling him that Jake was locked in battle with Visser Three and could use the extra help, Tommy quickly morphed into his lion form and leaped out from behind a broken, tumbled wall that he'd used for shelter while he'd demorphed from the barn owl he'd acquired back at Cassie's barn the last time he and the rest of the Animorphs had been there.
(Tommy, get Rachel out of here!)
(Right!)
Picking up Rachel as gently as he could, considering their respective shapes, Tommy ran as Jake turned back to attack. The sounds of running Hork-Bajir and Taxxons, followed quickly by Jake's roaring, gave Tommy a brief moment of relief. Right up until he started hearing the sounds of thundering footfalls from behind him.
(Andalite!) Visser Three shouted, stomping determinedly towards them in another giant, monstrous alien morphs. (You won't get away so easily.)
(Tommy, I really need to demorph soon,) Rachel said, as Tommy ran as fast as he could away from Visser Three and the giant, three-legged, rock-skinned alien that he'd morphed into.
(All right, I'll see if I can distract him,) he said, as he let Rachel down so she could get into one of the smaller, more secluded areas within the scattered debris of the construction site.
Even as he said that, Tommy was fully aware that he wasn't going to be able to do anything but distract Visser Three; his lion's claws would never be able to penetrate that creature's rocky hide, the sheer size difference would all but ensure that Visser Three would crush him if he slipped up. Still, if the only thing he could do was distract Visser Three, he'd make sure that Rachel would have the time she needed to demorph and get to safely.
No matter what ended up happening to him in the process.
