good gods leave it to rachel to call escape via controller shirt a victory. and then call the shirt cheap lmao

oh of course i shouldve guessed the yeerks have a contraband locker full of oatmeal duh. amazing. hopefully no one goes nothlit this time

oh good cassie's okay it's girl mission time. and man does cassie not wanna do this based on how quick she was to realize how helpless the yeerks are in the pool.

god i love them. they're so sweet to each other in the face of mortal danger every time.

thAt's what hurts Rachel?! i get it, trunk is very sensitive but you got your wing burned off like 5 pages ago and no reaction at all!

Now that was quick thinking Rachel nice one involving Visser. Did he chop off your trunk on the way to the splash zone?

ah yes. running headfirst toward her fears again i see. no way it's that easy to survive falling tons of rock but sure. fair enough

oooooookay that's a lot to unpack Rach. guess it's an attitude still prevalent in the 90s? Because Cassie seems like the only one who responds semi-normally. i would say im surprised this book is focusing on suicide but im not surprised at anything dark in this series anymore. plus he probably has a yeerk in his head, just a hunch

oh nice callback to her house still needing repairs since the alligator allergy one haha

yep. yeerk infested. impressed that he managed to override the will of the yeerk to try to die tho? and talk about it on multiple news channels somehow. maybe its dying

yeah crazy how those helpful coincidences happen to u guys so often huh? gotta thank the Irony gods (Author) occasionally guys

i love her so much.

Ooooh my god only Applegate could remember that tidbit about tarantulas on bananas and weaponize it against our little protags. the poor things omgs that is so unfair.

Tobias to the rescue folks omg gross

HA. okay Marco is actually normal sometimes lmao.

I know these kids do half baked plans at best but what is the plan after getting in? it's not like they could talk to George unless through thought speak...oh. hm. there's an idea.

damn. some pretty good lines in this conversation.

I didn't know she was capable of a cynical laugh. 'And all the rights and wrongs, and all the lines between good and evil, just go wafting and waving and swirling around, don't they?'--god poor Cassie. i love that each book weighs them all down just a little more over time. painful.

I'm ruthless at times. But even I have enough sense to know the words 'we have to win' are the first four steps on the road to hell.

I think Jake should have the final say since he has Tom to think of, but in the end it might be a moot point. How could the Animorphs as such a small group, get enough yeerks to ingest it? there will always be too many for this plan to work for real. especially since they're likely to just make the people in charge of the oatmeal flavor discontinue it or something. even if they can eat it in the yeerk pool without a host.

God Rachel's dreams are terrifying to read like this. somehow worse than if the narration had just written out the dream in italics.

oh no not the gleet biofilter

oh okay cool straight into the yeerk pool. it feels like napalm or nerve gas or something but it also seems way less awful than getting controllers to eat it

the way it just became so reflexive to her so quickly. ouch u poor terrified kids. this is going to be horrible for her. why can only one mole dig at a time anyway?

Oh, babygirl

i just wanna shake them all individually and say 'you don't have to prove anything!' but how else would the story/war progress *sigh*

splat on the concrete girl? geez

ok i know ur not scared of the bats but like...rabies.

it is cute that they keep joking about the oatmeal being instant

you should just go home, guys you don't even have the oatmeal!