After they'd destroyed the Kandrona, Tommy found himself returning to his usual routine again, though the knowledge about Rita and what her forces were trying to do stayed with him while he tried to settle back into what passed for normality for him. It wasn't until later that Jake sent Tobias to let him know to meet with the others at Cassie's house.

"Tornado my butt, that thing was alive," Marco snapped, once the news report about the alleged tornado destroying the home of one of their fellow students had finished. "They were frightened, all right," Marco continued, as the news report continued into a summary of the day's story for anyone who might have tuned in late. "They were wetting their pants; I know."

"Hey! Look!" Cassie exclaimed, as the news reporter began moving onto the next story; something that seemed to be dealing with another disaster on par with whatever had happened to the house.

"What is it?" Jake asked.

"It's gone now," Cassie said, having stiffened in her seat when she saw whatever it was. "Are we taping this?"

Once Marco had managed to find the figure that Cassie had spotted, and they'd determined that Rachel was the one who'd almost been killed by what the news was calling some kind of second tornado – and what Tommy suspected was the Yeerks at work; something the rest of the Animorphs agreed on – and as Cassie left to call Rachel, Marco kept yelling at the TV. Tommy supposed that that kind of thing made him feel better, considering everything that was happening.