Book 36-The Mutation "A) Contact the Chee and alert them to be ready to take our places.  B) We carry out round-the-clock surveillance on the vicinity of the Yeerk pool.  C) We acquire the killer whale." "Easy.  ABC.  Just don't mention, D) we chase a super-sub into the ocean, and E) try to destroy it before, F) they reach an alien spacecraft in the middle of, G) a bunch of unexploded bombs and shells that may get set off when the Yeerks try to, H) fry us with their Dracon beams." "You're always so negative.  Look on the bright side:  maybe the unexploded shells will, I) blow up the Yeerks, not us." --Jake, Marco, Rachel <That smell/taste is most likely coolant.> <Ah.> <Or possibly the waste from the onboard sanitary facilities.> <I vote for coolant.> --Ax, Marco <Jake?...They're gilled.>  -Cassie <And webbed.  Feet and hands.>  -Jake <And the eyes.  They're oversized.>  -Tobias <Not a bad body on that one.>  -Marco That earned him stares from all of us. <What?  I can't compliment a fish girl?>  -Marco <We come here chasing Yeerks and we end up with this?  Is this good luck or bad luck?>  -Cassie <It's our luck.> -Rachel <I suppose my DNA was not good enough to improve this pathetic species.> "Don't complain.  You wouldn't have liked the extraction process." <I am not afraid of needles.> "They use the entire body.  Grind it up and process it, and stuff whatever is left." <Ah.  Well, they are merely mutated humans.  One can only expect so much.> --Ax, Cassie <I'm glad you're okay, Tobias.  I hate it when you don't get taken prisoner with us.> <Yeah, well, I was worried about you, too.> --Rachel, Tobias