Book 21-
The Threat


<What's bothering you?>
<Well, I'm in a cockroach body, just fell out of the bottom of a spaceship belonging to brain-stealing alien slugs while trying to save the President of the United States, was rescued by a girl who is temporarily a bald eagle and a guy who's permanently a red-tailed hawk...and yet, it all seems normal somehow.  Like, okay, that's just to be expected.  It's finally happened, hasn't it?>
<What's finally happened?>
<I've gone insane.  Deedly, deeedly, deedly, loopy! Nutso! 
Insane in the mambrane.>
<Yeah, well, keep it together.  The entire human race depends on us
winning this battle.>
<Poor human race.>
--Jake, Marco


<Hey, Tobias.  If a seagull eats chicken, is that like cannibalism, or something?>
<That depends.  Extra crispy or regular?>
--Marco, Tobias


<I'm slithering.>
--Marco


<...Get Rachel.  If David's killed Tobias, we may have to do a terrible thing, too.  Get Rachel.>
--Jake