They'd split into two groups, since for a fly there was a lot of ground to cover – really, even for a human there would have been a lot of ground to cover – and while he'd been about to volunteer to go with Jake, Cassie had been quicker. He, Rachel, and Marco had been put in the same trio, and then their two groups had split off from each other so that they would be able to find out what the Yeerks were doing at least a little faster than they would have if they'd all stayed together.
Finding out that thought-speak had a limited range, while it was a useful thing to know, wasn't really the best thing that could have happened at a time like this. Still, as he, Marco, and Rachel all searched their assigned area, Tommy found himself wondering what was happening to the three of them. Jake, Ax, and Cassie were far enough away now that none of them were able to communicate with them at all, so Tommy was left with his worries.
The fact that none of the three of them had actually managed to find anything – nothing that smelled like it might have been a Yeerk pool, no overheard conversations that might point to where the Yeerks might have been operating from – made him in particular all the more anxious. In a way, the sounds of shouting and gunfire from the general direction that Jake, Ax, and Cassie had all gone in was almost a relief.
Almost, of course, since it wasn't as though he wanted his friends to be in that kind of danger.
He and Marco morphed into the lion and gorilla that they had both acquired before their first raid on the Yeerk pool, while Rachel morphed into the wolf she'd acquired just before they'd all gone out to find the Yeerks' air and water transport ship, since the halls of the hospital they were currently in wasn't quite large enough to allow an elephant to charge through the halls. The three of them set off, heading for the sounds of gunfire and yelling.
Heading for the place everyone else was trying to get away from.
