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<Books 37-39>
- “Better the evil you know than the evil you don’t know.” ~ Tobias, Book #37 pg. 25
- “People want their leaders to act the way they wish they could act themselves.” ~ Jake, Book #37 pg. 32
- “Somebody grab me a Laa-Laa doll when we’re inside, okay?” Marco said. “I really like that little yellow one.”
I gave him a look. You know the one.
“What?” he said defensively. “I’ll send the manager a check tomorrow. Even though he’s a Yeerk. It’s not like I’m going to steal it or anything.”
“Uh, Marco, you do know Teletubbies are for preschoolers, right?” Cassie said.
<“Eh-oh, Laa-Laa,”> Ax said. <“Big hug.”>
<Okay, that does it, Ax,> Tobias grumbled. <We need to think about turning off your TV.>
[Page 43]
- “Too bad there’s no door. Rachel? Marco? Ax? Make a door.” ~ Jake, Book #38 pg. 10
- “In a world where slugs can take over entire civilizations, anything is possible.” ~ Marco, Book #38 pg. 25
- “Ax,” Cassie said. “I think you have what is commonly known as a crush.”
<A what?>
“A feeling that makes it hard for you to see the truth, if the truth is unpleasant,” she explained.
“Yeah, you know, like the way Cassie can’t see that Jake is really just a pinhead,” Marco said.
Prince Jake threw a horse comb at Marco that Marco dodged. Marco and Prince Jake are best friends. This sort of behavior appears to be typical of male friendships.
[Page 26]
- “Sometimes the simplest solutions are the most effective.” ~ Ax, Book #38 pg. 51
- “Revenge is pointless and immoral.” ~ Cassie, Book #38 pg. 54
- “War is one thing,” Cassie said now. “Murder is another. What do we gain by helping Arbat and Aloth assassinate the visser?”
I spoke. <By Andalite custom, the murder of a family member must be avenged. Perhaps together, Arbat and Aloth and I can succeed where each of us alone has failed.>
“Sounds like a plan to me,” Rachel said.
“It’s a terrible plan. Don’t help him, Ax,” Cassie begged. “Alloran is still alive. Where there’s life there’s hope.”
“Great cliché,” Marco sneered.
<An Andalite warrior would rather die than serve as a Yeerk host,> I said.
<I guess it’s a live-free-or-die thing,> Tobias said quietly. He sat on a rail overhead.
“Well, it’s just cowardly,” Cassie insisted, putting her hands on her hips. “The easy way out. If you’re dead, you don’t have to fight for your freedom, do you?”
[Page 56]
- “In reality life seldom comes in simple shades of black and white. The choices in the real world, the choices we most often face, are all in shades of gray.” ~ Ax, Book #38 pg. 84
- “If the price of freedom is the loss of an entire sentient species, then perhaps the price is too high.” ~ Ax, Book #38 pg. 121
- “These are my people. Anyone who believes in freedom, anyone who resists tyranny, anyone who pursues peace is ‘my people.’ Andalite, Hork-Bajir, or human.” ~ Ax, Book #38 pg. 127
- “Let’s get something to eat, man, I’m starved,” Rachel said.
“Anything but McDonald’s,” Tobias said.
“What, the mouse hunter is getting picky about burgers?” Marco said.
“No, that’s not it.”
Prince Jake raised an eyebrow. “Tobias? Is there something you need to tell me?”
Tobias shrugged. “Well, you know, I saw Yeerk reinforcements pouring into the Community Center so I knew you guys were in trouble, right?”
“Right. So you went for Gonrod.”
“Exactly. I asked him if we could burn through into the Yeerk pool. He said, ‘Maybe, but only at the thinnest point.’ Anyway, late as it was, even the night cleanup crew was gone...”
“No,” Prince Jake said. “You didn’t. You did not obliterate a McDonald’s.”
“Like it was never there,” Tobias said with a laugh. “The Yeerks will fill the hole before anyone realizes what’s down there underneath the ground, but if we want burgers, I’m thinking Burger King.”
[Page 147]
- <And don’t forget about the buffa-human,> Tobias said.
“That one’s easy,” Rachel said dismissively. “We just have to get rid of it.”
“But he’s already acquired human DNA,” I protested.
“So what? You’re saying if we kill it, it’s murder?” Rachel asked. “Come on, Cassie, it’s not a human any more than I’m a bear or you’re a wolf—”
“Or I’m a big monkey,” Marco added.
Silence.
“Okay, so maybe Cassie does have a point,” Jake said, obviously trying not to laugh.
“Nice,” Marco smirked. “Very nice, Prince Jake.”
[Page 48]
- <One minute we’re watching this whale the size of a FedEx truck dropping out of the sky and we’re thinking, Uh-oh, she’s not big enough to take down that helicopter and live through it—>
<You weren’t thinking it, you were screaming it,> Rachel said sweetly.
<Screeching like a bad set of brakes,> Jake teased.
<Emitting a loud and continual series of high-pitched shrieks similar to an unauthorized entry into a Dome ship air lock,> Ax added.
Silence.
<Well, it was an accurate comparison,> Ax said defensively.
<Yeah.> Marco giggled. <But it sure wasn’t funny, Ax-man,> he said, poking his sleek head up out of the water and giving one of those crazy, Flipperesque cackles.
<Your humor is highly overrated,> Ax muttered.
<It certainly is when Marco uses it,> Jake said.
<Anyway,> Marco said loudly, <here you are falling through the sky, and all of a sudden BOOM—>
“A gull got sucked into the helicopter’s engine. But that was nothing compared to the ant-Cassie that almost killed me back in the woods with its pincers.” I stopped. “The buffalo saved my life.”
<You had an aunt who tried to kill you with her pincers?> Rachel said, giving me a playful nudge. <Boy, and I thought Tobias’s family was bad.>
“Not that kind of an ant,” I said crossly.
<I know,> Rachel said. <Geez, where’s your sense of humor?>
<Probably caught back in the Dome ship’s air lock with Ax’s,> Marco muttered.
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- <Cassie, why don’t you morph to dolphin and let’s all get out of here,> Jake said, noticing my quaking. <I’m done with this day at the beach. How about you guys?>
<Your wish is my command, Prince Jake,> Marco said.
<Then I wish you’d be quiet,> Jake drawled.
<Ha-ha!> Ax said. <Ha!>
We all looked at him, amazed.
<That was, I believe, the appropriate response to human humor, correct?> he said calmly, then dove and, within seconds, had powered his sleek dolphin’s body up out of the water and high into the air.
<I quit,> Marco said, groaning. <If Ax is gonna “ha-ha” after all of Jake’s feeble jokes from now on, I swear I quit.>
But he wouldn’t and we knew it.
None of us would.
No matter how bad the odds.
Or the humor.
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