Once they'd all decided on their next course of action – a fairly audacious-sounding plan, since they were going to be trying to somehow invade the Yeerks' supply-ship while it was taking in supplies at the lake and then attempt to shut down the cloaking device somehow – Tommy found himself more than a little unsettled by just how they were going to be making their way onto the ship in the first place. This would be the first time that any of them had morphed into something that lived in the water.
Not the ocean, of course, but it was still strange to think about morphing into something that lived in the water.
He hadn't been expecting to hear from any of his fellow Animorphs until the weekend, considering the fact that they wouldn't be able to go out to the lake where they were going to need to camp out while they waited for the Yeerks' supply ship to arrive, but when Rachel came swooping in to find him. She'd morphed into the bald eagle that the both of them had acquired, and she sounded worried.
When she told him that Tobias had disappeared, after seeming to have gone more than a little crazy at the gymnastics rally that Rachel and some of her classmates had been participating in together, Tommy had quickly followed her to somewhere that the pair of them would be able to morph into the eagles that the pair of them had acquired earlier. Once the pair of them had taken off, Rachel led him to the forest bordering Cassie's family's barn.
That was where Tobias had seemed to be headed, at least according to everything that Rachel had told him.
The pair of them searched for as long as they could, calling out to Tobias as they circled over the forest, but no one answered. There wasn't a single sign of where their friend and fellow Animorph was, and even after the pair of them were forced to leave – both to avoid being trapped in their respective bird morphs, Tommy found that he couldn't get the thought of where Tobias might have gone out of his mind.
He'd heard that Tobias didn't really have much family to speak of, which made him feel closer to him than any of the others; neither of them seemed to have much in the way of blood family they could count on, for one thing.
