Book 40-The Other <Loyalty is all there is.> --Tobias "Let's do it.  Let's rescue Mertil and kick some Yeerk butt." Big guess who said that. --Rachel, Marco <Is it me, or does Jake sound like a deranged camp director when he talks like that?> <It's you.> Cassie.  The girlfriend.  Figured. --Marco, Cassie <Gee, Jake, have the odds ever been this bad?> <Sure.  But this time we've got the element of surprise.> "Andalite!" <Oh, crap.> --Marco, Jake "Aaaaahhh!"  The Hork-Bajir hurled himself from the top of the car. <Rachel!  It's your soulmate!> --Marco <Marco!  A little help please!  I can't turn around in here!> <Back out, Rachel.  I'll watch your, uh...> <Don't say it.  Just don't say it.> --Rachel, Marco <Nice, Rachel.  Get Mertil into a train wreck.> <You're welcome for saving your life.  Again.> <Mertil!  You okay?> <I am as I was.> Great.  Another Mr. Philosophy.  --Marco, Rachel, Mertil Anyway, for the time being, I am "the boy with the dead mother" to people on the outside.  To my friends, I'm "the kid with the big mouth and the mother stolen by aliens."  Can't get away from it...You just learn to live with it.  Jake's the responsible leader.  Rachel's the gorgeous warmonger.  Cassie's the tree-hugger.  Tobias, Bird-boy.  Ax, resident alien. --Marco