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"Okay, now that we're all here, Marco, maybe
you could tell us
why
we're all here," Jake said.
"I have some news," Marco began. "Actually,
Tobias and I have some news."
I glanced up at Tobias, sitting in the tree.
Of
course he showed no expression. He just fixed his
piercing gaze on Marco.
Marco swaggered just a bit as we formed a
circle around him.
"It's a tale of initiative and courage and,
yes, brilliance," Marco began.
"No, no, no. Just tell us, Marco," I
snapped.
"Don't try to milk the suspense."
"Okay," he said with an easy laugh. "My
fellow Animorphs . . . and visiting alien
...
we have
found a way into the Yeerk pool."
The
entrance to the Yeerk pool?" I echoed.
"Where? How?"
I looked around at the others to see their reactions.
See, we had already invaded the Yeerk pool in an
effort to save Jake's brother, Tom. Not
a happy memory.
I saw Cassie shudder.
"Ax is the only one who wasn't there for our little
vacation in the Yeerk pool," Marco said. "As
the rest of you know, the Yeerk pool is in a huge
underground cavern. It's practically a small city
down there. It's under our school, but it's so big that
it also runs beneath the fire station, a couple of gas
stations, and most of the mall."
Ax nodded. less-than Yeerk pools are generally

large and elaborate. They are an important part
of Yeerk life. The centers of their lives, really.
The pools are, for the Yeerks, what forests and mead
ows are to Andalites. greater-than
"Tobias and I have been working out a pattern
of surveillance," Marco went on. "For the last
week, we've followed our very favorite
human-Controller, Assistant Principal
Chapman, everywhere we can. Tobias tracks him from
the air. Then I follow him when he goes into a
building."