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[Qwerty the Charliecorn]

"Well, while you two have fun with your feline vs. canine debate, I'll be looking for a bathroom." I noticed a door just down the nearest hallway, and I assumed that was the bathroom. It was one door down from where we were holding Alistair.

I stood and walked to the bathroom. The hallway was rather dark, and I almost tripped over a small box of papers along the left wall. There wasn't a light switch anywhere in sight.

I opened the bathroom door, stepped inside, and closed it behind me. It was about the size of the average public bathroom. Toilet against the left wall, sink on the right with a small towel-rod hanging at the side. The walls were a light beige. I knew they probably used to be white.

"Hey." I nearly jumped out of my skin at the sound of a muffled voice behind me. I spun around. No one was there.

"Hey," the voice repeated, louder. Of course. The walls were paper-thin. It was Alistair.

"What do you want, Yeerk?" I spat. I heard muffled laughter, and clenched my fists furiously.

"Tell my sister I need to speak with her." Silence. He wanted to speak with Ais? I wasn't sure. Was this a trap? Would he suddenly jump out of his room and attack as I made my way down the hall?

I ignored the thought and headed back into the main lobby. "Ais, your brother wants to speak with you."

[Leonardodavinci]

"Probably... whatever. We'll see, if I need another morph, then I'll get one." I said.

I was then surprised by Leah entering the room. "Alistair's up? Thats odd..."

[Estelore]

"I'll speak to him, but I think that maybe we ought to go together. I don't feel like getting strangled twice in one day."

[Leonardodavinci]

"It would be nice if you weren't strangled, I think" I said as I got up and headed for the door. "As well, it would help to have a translator. I mean, the accent I can handle, but the vernacular I can't understand at all."

I held the door open, waiting for the ladies to leave the room.

[Qwerty the Charliecorn]

I stood up and made a show of being the first to leave the room. I wasn't afraid of Alistair, or more importantly, his Yeerk. It was a worthless little slug. It was pathetic. But when I found myself standing in front of his door, I stepped aside, allowing Ais and Edward to step in front.

[Estelore]

I sighed with exasperation. This was going to be a LOOONG three days, I feared.
I stepped through the door, turning on my heel to face them both as soon as I was clear of the doorway.

"I can definitely translate, though I think that you don't WANT to hear about half of what we say."
The others followed me, once I'd broken through the stigma of the moment. I approached Alistair's door.
I knocked.

"Ali, we're coming in. If you try to strangle me, I'll make you sorry for it!"

"I don't doubt it, sister." His voice was only slightly muffled by the thin walls.

The door resisted me a bit, but I shouldered my way into the room.

"Alistair, why was there a chair propped under the doorknob? You know that that only works with 'pull' doors, right?"

"Uh...yes...."

"Yeerk, if you're playing dumb to trick us, it en't going to work."

"Who are ye' calling Yeerk, Yeerk?"

"Alistair, ye' great lummox, tell me true, do ye' think that a Yeerk would choose a host that only had a cat morph?"

"How am I te' know that ye' don't have more morphs than THAT?"

"If I'd had more morphs, don't ye' think that I would've used them by now? Now, what is it that you needed to see me about?"
I pulled myself back together, along with my accent.

[Leonardodavinci]

I grinned, and shook my head. "Always with the Scottish accent... The one accent in the world thats harder to decipher than ****ney..." I entered Alistair's room, with Ais in front of me. "So Alistair, do you have any morphs?"

[Qwerty the Charliecorn]

"You, be quiet," he snapped. "And that's beside the point. Ais, I want to make a bargain. You turn them over to us," he said, gesturing to Edward and I. "And we will not infest you." Alistair reached into his right pocket and pulled out a small, sliver object--a cellphone.

"You called for reinforcements?" I exploded.

(I'm sorry, this doesn't count as god-modding, does it? If so, I can just delete this post.)

[Leonardodavinci]

(nope, not godmodding... merely moving the plot forwards!)

I cursed. "Damn it! Ais, can you obtain DNA from a morph of something else? Like, if I morph wolf, would Leah be able to morph that? We need animal power right now." As I asked this question, I began looking for a way out.

[Estelore]

(Nope. It's all good. The action has been slacking, and this will speed things along. Remember, I was leaving it to the rest of you to decide Alistair's loyalties, anyway. Toomin has said that he's leaving for an indefinite time, so we're just going to act like he isn't in the action, right now.)

"We didn't search him for a cell phone. Oh, clever, we are." Of course, Alistair and Edward hadn't searched ME, either. I pulled out my Swiss Army knife, which I'd kept with me since we left the caves.
In a flash I had the knife at his throat.

"Yeerk, do you REALLY want to dial that number? It will be SO much EASIER for all of us if you just drop that phone right now. I don't WANT to have to carve up my twin brother, but I'll not hesitate if you decide to be stupid. Alistair understands, I'm sure. He'd do the same for me, if the situation were reversed."

The phone slid out of his hand and clattered to the floor, lying open. I pointed to the number on the screen.

"Someone write down that number. It might be useful. Then, destroy the phone. It probably has tracers on it."

I answered Edward's questions, finally.

"Well, Edward, morphing doesn't really work that way. You've got to acquire the DNA directly from the organism. Also, to answer the other question, Alistair can morph Golden Eagle, cat, Rhinoceros, and Lion, as far as I know, but he has several more that I DON'T know, I'm sure...."

[Leonardodavinci]

I sighed. "Great, a lion? We might have a feline/canine face-off soon enough" I commented as I copied down the number, and crushed the cell phone beneath my foot. "In the meantime, are we going to get out of here before the Yeerks come, or are we staying to fight?"

[Estelore]

"Sorry, brother."

I flicked the knife closed and bashed the side of Alistair's head with the smooth metal base. He slumped, unconscious.

"I think that right now, we should hit the zoo. Quickly. First, though, I need to raid the medicine cabinet, if they have one."

I found the bathroom next to Ali's room, and, sure enough, there was a medicine cabinet. I pulled open the cabinet, and, naturally, there was some Tylenol 3 sitting right there on the shelf. How convenient.
Wait. Why would ROBOTS have TYLENOL?

Ah, worry about it another time.

I also found a can of RAID under the sink. Good.

I returned to the room where the others were waiting. I held up the bottle.
"This stuff has codeine in it. Alistair had to take it when he broke his arm a few years before we could morph."

I walked over to Alistair's unconscious form and popped two of the pills into the back of his mouth, rubbing his throat until he swallowed.

"He'll be out like a light for just under an hour. Let's go."

I took a chair and blocked the door, this time from the outside, and sprayed the entire door-frame with RAID.

He'd have to morph BIG to get out, and the Chee would notice.

[Qwerty the Charliecorn]

I smirked. "Not this time, Yeerk," I muttered, leaving the room while Ais sprayed the doorframe with something called RAID. I began tapping my foot impatiently, anxious to get out of this place as quickly as possible. The longer we spent there, the more likely the Yeerks were to find us. I had only one morph, and as much as I wanted to fight, I knew a small insect wouldn't do a lot of damage. When Ais finished spraying, I turned to her.

"Ready to leave?" I asked.

[Leonardodavinci]

I looked at my watch. "I know I am... You know, I don't have to go write my exam... if you need me to fight, I'll be there." I said as I left the room. I thought to myself Ouch... RAID? But if he has his other morphs, he doesn't need to use only bug... it would be easy for him to get out... I continued walking, holding the doors open for the ladies.

[Qwerty the Charliecorn]

The roads were no longer empty. People now filled the side walks, some walking quickly, others casually taking their time. We would blend in easily. I made certain that Edward and Ais were near as we made our way into the crowd. The last thing I needed was to get lost.

"What kind of morphs are we going to need? Something big and dangerous?" I asked.