Marco, Tobias, and Rachel try to raid David's house in bird of prey morphs. Unfortunately, it fails miserably. Tobias is knocked unconscious, Marco is attacked by David's cat, Megadeth, and he and Rachel both get shot at by David with his BB gun. The next day at school, David tells Marco his seemingly ridiculous story about trained robber birds, and discusses his plan to sell the blue box online. In addition, he tells Marco that someone has already responded to his online notice and wants to buy it. Marco knows that the interested party is Visser Three, and he immediately skips the rest of the schoolday in order to stop the automatic email David has set up (which contains his contact information and his address) from going out. Unfortunately, they're too late, due to David's computer's clock being an hour fast. Marco acquires Spawn, David's contraband, defanged cobra. Visser Three storms into David's house with a team of Hork-Bajir. A fight ensues between the Yeerks and the Animorphs, destroying David's house. Rachel, in bear morph, rams David out the window, and the Animorphs retreat. The Yeerks withdraw with David's mother and father.