Watching as Shara transformed, Rachel turned to Cassie. "Give me the Dracon beam!"
Grabbing the Dracon beam from Marco, Rachel fired into the roof of the cavern, just as Shara cut down the first of the human-Controllers beginning to ascend the stairs.
"Everyone down! Cover your heads! Mole! Mole!"
As the cavern collapsed all around them, Rachel concentrated on the mole she'd acquired before all of this had begun. All around her, she could hear the other Animorphs demorphing, and even as she started digging her way up through the dirt and rocks all around them, she could hear the other Animorphs doing the same.
(Shara, you mind talking me through this?) she asked, aiming her private thought-speak at the other girl who'd been so helpful before.
(If you really need me to, Rachel,) Shara said, and Rachel could feel the other girl's warm regard as she spoke.
Even as she was forced to dig out a space large enough for herself to demorph underground, having Shara's mental voice to talk her through the process helped more than Rachel would have been willing to admit to anyone who might have asked. Once she was back in mole morph, Rachel made sure to thank the other girl for her help.
Once they had made it back into the bat cave, Rachel reached out to pinch Slade's nose shut as she caught sight of his glowing green eyes beginning to emerge from his own mole morph. After the last of their friends had demorphed and taken on their various bat morphs, the cave all around them came alive with fluttering bats.
(Must be sundown,) Cassie said.
(Yeah, but sundown of which day?) Rachel muttered, even as she, Cassie, and the rest of the Animorphs joined up with the rest of the bats on their way out of the cave.
