| Book 26-The Attack My name is Jake. Who am I? Sometimes I wonder. "And when the first dinosaurs walked we...we had become much as I am today." "You'd become a girl with braces?" "The Andalites could do with some of the human sense of humor...And if the Yeerks had any sense of humor at all, they wouldn't be the scourge they are." --Ellimist, Marco "I'm either honored or ticked off, I don't know which. Oh, wait, I do know which and it's not 'honored.'" --Marco "You know I don't run from a fight--" "To a fight maybe." --Rachel, Marco "Excuse me? Like Andalites are badder than we are? What are we, wimps? Me in gorilla morph, you as you, let's go. We'll see who kicks whose butt." -Marco "Yeah, that would be the sensible thing to do. You two fight." -Cassie "Okay, then, forget me and Ax. You and Rachel, both wearing bikinis." -Marco Rachel calmly stuck out her arm and grabbed a handful of Marco's hair. "What was that you said? I must not have heard you correctly." -Rachel "I refuse to answer on the grounds that you may tend to snatch me bald." -Marco <I'm starting to see Rachel's point. Why would the Elllimist ask for help from this clown college?> --Tobias "Well, Andalites have the power to mind-meld with people. They can look right inside their thoughts and know if they're lying, and if you are lying, they make your head explode." --Jake No one cracked a smile. Although Marco had to struggle. <Now Ax is a Vulcan?> --Tobias <Ax! Do it! Morph, right now!> <No! I can't run again!> <Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill. You call me "prince" and you act like you mean it and I am giving you a direct order. Morph. Do. It. NOW!> --Jake, Ax I had to get back. But I couldn't stand thinking about what I'd find. I couldn't live without them. Couldn't. --Jake At least Cassie and I provided Marco with material. It took him precisely three seconds after I parted from Cassie, embarrassed and amazed. "What, no kiss for me? No? I guess I'll have to turn to Rachel." "Gee, Marco, what do you think the odds are I'll kiss you? Slim, none, or I'll-break-both-your-arms?" --Jake, Marco, Rachel "My people! At last I have a true homeland!" --Rachel "They shop? That's it? They shop?" --Jake <Someone must buy what is created in the great factories and small craftworks.> --Guide "Exactly." --Rachel <The economy cannot function without people to buy things.> --Guide "Guide, you are finally making sense." --Rachel "You did well." "Did well? Did well? We kicked butt on the meanest gang in the galaxy, whupped Crayak the Big Nasty, saved the Iskoort, which I'm still not sure was a good thing, and planted a little sensitivity time bomb in the Howlers, and that's it? Job well done, and 'Oh, by the way, here's your insides to look at again as we zip though inside-out world'?" --Ellimist, Marco |