-" "com and we came out alive," Marco finished. "Yeah, that too," Jake agreed with a grin. "That's a very important thing to do." "Next time we'll-was I began. "com next time?" Marco cried out in mock horror. less-than There will be a next timeeagreater-than Tobias said. less-than There will be a next time until the Andalites return. greater-than Don't; miss Animorphs 3 The Encounter T hey had missed the deadline! It was too late. Too late, and they would all be trapped. Like me. Forever. less-than MORPHFFGREATER-THAN I screamed as I closed in on them. . . . less-than Morph back! Nowffgreater-than Maybe the clock in the truck was off. Maybe five minutes one way or the other wouldn't matter. There! I saw them. Four wolves moving relent lessly toward the distant city. less-than Morph! Nowffgreater-than I screamed as I shot like a bullet over their heads. less-than How much time do we h8greater-than Marco de manded. less-than None. greater-than That got them going. I landed, exhausted, on a branch. Cassie was the first to begin the change. Her fur grew short. Her snout flattened into a nose. Long, human legs swelled and burst from the thin dog legs. . . . less-than Ahh hhffgreater-than I heard Rachel cry in my mind. Her morph was going all wrong. Her human hands appeared at the end of her wolf legs. But nothing else seemed to be changing. I looked, horrified, at Marco. His normal head emerged with startling suddenness from his wolf body. But the rest of him had not changed. He looked down at himself and cried out in terror. "Helowl. Yipmeahhh!" It was an awful sound, half human, half wolf. This was worse than I had feared. I figured they could be trapped as wolves, like I had been trapped as a hawk. But they were emerging as half-human freaks of nature. They were living nightmares.
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