
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.
