Finally, he reveals that his plan requires a large-scale human military force as a diversion. Secondly, he orders Tobias on a reconnaissance mission, to determine the origin of a pillar of smoke the three saw earlier in the city. First, he orders Marco to establish contact with the Chee (the King house has been destroyed by Bug fighters, but the underground complex has been left undamaged). Jake begins to formulate a plan to infiltrate and capture the Pool ship. Toby instead suggests capturing the Pool ship, in order to control its weapon systems and free the Hork-Bajir onboard.
However, Cassie's, Marco's and Rachel's parent(s) argue that any mission to destroy the Pool ship would be too dangerous, as Visser One would expect an attack - the Pool ship is too valuable a target for the Animorphs to resist.
If the Pool ship can be destroyed, the Animorphs would almost surely win the war - without a food source, the Yeerks would starve. In the free Hork-Bajir valley, the Animorphs and their families have a council of war. Visser One plans to use the Pool ship to sustain his forces until a new Yeerk pool can be completed. The answer is soon apparent: the Pool ship, the "Mother of all targets", is landing on Earth. However, Marco realizes that both the Animorphs and the Yeerks are way past sending messages. Initially, Jake believes that the complete and total devastation is a message to the rest of the world a threat, should anyone try to resist the Yeerk's sudden sledgehammer tactics.
A squadron of jet fighters attempts to engage the Bug fighters in air combat, but they are quickly neutralized by the Yeerks' superior weaponry. Tobias, Marco and Jake, in various bird forms, watch helplessly as huge swarms of Bug fighters begin to destroy the Animorphs' hometown with Dracon beams, while a news helicopter films (the Yeerks let the copter film they want the citizens of Earth to fear them). The ground-based Yeerk pool has been destroyed, and without any source of Kandrona to sustain them, the Yeerks require another source of food - and fast.
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