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the water pump, turned to a level position, and flew swiftly away,
missing Rachel's head by inches.

"What was that?" Jake demanded.

Rachel shrugged. "We thought Romulan," she said.

"Jake, you know what's hidden in that water pump?"

"Of course I do." He shook his head slowly. Then he snapped into his
"leader" mode. "Okay, the weekend just got canceled. Cassie, you and
Rachel morph right now, get to the woods, and bring back Tobias and Ax.
I'll find Marco. Back here in half an hour. Go."

15

We assembled. Jake, Rachel, Marco, Ax in his own, natural Andalite body
(which is a cross between a blue deer, a centaur, and a scorpion), and
Tobias who, though he regained his morphing power, is a red-tailed hawk.

We assembled and tried to figure out what, if anything, we should do
about a flying toy spaceship.

But, really, there were only two possible things to do. One was to talk
to Ax.

"Ax, is there any way the Yeerks would use some kind of tiny,
miniaturized ... um ... flying thing to locate the blue box?" Jake asked.



16 "That would be a thing that flies," Marco added helpfully.

"Like a ... like a toy spaceship," Jake said, ignoring Marco.

Ax wondered. spacecrafts Ax kept his main eyes attentively focused on Jake, while his
stalk eyes looked at Marco and me.

Jake shrugged and looked at me. I shrugged back.

Which brought us to the one other thing we could think of doing: going
to Goodwill and finding the "toy" my dad had delivered earlier.

We morphed to seagulls and flew there. All except Tobias, who has his
own wings.

We demorphed and Rachel, Jake, and I went in. We glanced quickly around
the shelves and realized the toy we were looking for was not there.