ODYSSEY REAPERS
By Healer
Chapter 02
DISCLAIMERS: THIS IS A CROSSOVER BETWEEN 'ODYSSY 5', 'DEAD LIKE ME' AND 'ANIMORPHS'
I OWN NOTHING BUT THE IDEA OF JOINING THOSE THREE WORLDS, THE STORY IS MINE, HOWEVER MOST OF THE CHARACTERS AND PLOT ARE NOT.
NOTE/Dialogue between/ means it is thought.
Each Chapter is narrated by a different character.
I wasn't in control of myself, just like I hadn't been in control for years now, that thing, 452, was controlling my actions, it was making me do things I would do, but that was not me
'Chuck, you left him to death!' – 452 said as angry as I would be.
'Don't you think I know Kurt! Matt was my friend but that was our best hope for survival!' – The commander replied
'Fuck you Chuckie!'
You see, I was at the time what was called a Controller, a Human-Controller. There was a yeerk inside my head; yeerks are like slugs, thy crawl into your head and take control of your body and gain free access to your memories. Only a Controller knows about the yeerks, humans don't know about yeerks, humans don't know about the invasion they have going on. There were 2 Controllers on board, Laura and me, and now Laura was injured.
'This can't be…' – Sarah said at some point
'This isn't happening' – Angela was shocked too
'Oh shit' – Chuck said
'Is that a car dad?' – Neil asked, fear in his voice.
'Well, that certainly explains why Houston isn't answering' - /That was me, it amazed me because it was actually ME, not 452/
/ 'What's happening? Viser is not going to like it' - And that was 452 talking to me.
Obviously there is no Earth to conquer anymore 452
'No kidding, I wonder if 364 knew'
I certainly doubt that, maybe they're already here, the Andalites, ain't that great/
I couldn't help being glad, yeah, I was sorry for all those innocents but maybe the Andalites had decided to destroy Earth after all, specially since every controller in the galaxy knew that Viser was there at the moment./
'I don't understand' – Young Neil expressed.
'What's there to understand Neil? Earth is gone and soon we'll all be death' – 452 replied for me
'Shut up Kurt' – Angela said.
452 was scared, there were no ships around, neither yeerk's nor andalite's. That meant it wouldn't get KANDRONA rays, even if we somehow did survived for another 3 days.
The air supply system had a dysfunction since the blast, yeerks don't need oxygen, but hosts do.
'Ok boys and girls, since our ship is broken with no real way to fix it and having no where to run and hide, I mean no more Earth to go back to…' – Chuck began. – 'We're gonna die, but we have a choice between two ways, that we'll decide by democracy…'
'There are no real options Chuck'
'Yes there are Angela' – Neil interrupted – 'We can decompress the cabin real fast and die, or real slow which would sleep us and… well you know, die?'
'This doesn't make sense. I only had two post-its'
'What are you talking about Millie?' – Sarah asked confused
'My post-its, my assignments said Matt and Laura…'
'GREAT! We have a wacko on board' – 452 said
'I'm not crazy Mr. Mendel. I'm a Grim Reaper, my job is to reap souls from bodies that are about to die.'
'Yeah, yeah, sure, sure' – I/452 replied
We didn't took seriously Millie's words, no one did, not even the yeerk inside me; it knew 364 would have to come out of Laura eventually before she died and since we all decided to sleep, it would come out of me too… it had a chance to be found by other yeerks before it's three days.
I wanted badly to be free, even if it was just for a few minutes before I died, sure, when yeerks go into kandrona pools they leave their hosts, but we are kept in cages until the yeerk is ready to take over again. They have some free willing hosts, but not me, and Laura wasn't either.
452 finally began to loose it's grip over me, I could feel it
'So Sarah, you said if I was the last man on Earth, you'd think about it, there's no Earth but I'm still here' – No answer – 'Sarah?'
When I looked at her she was already asleep, everyone was, 364 would be stuck inside Laura for a while and just then I felt 452 coming out, sliding through my ear… when I finally saw it at my feet, I had to smash it, end it's life once and for all.
I didn't think I would survive him more than a couple of minutes.
Next thing I know, we were at this huge white nothing-space all around us and the Odyssey. We discovered we could breathe there so we abandoned the ship, we carried Laura down with us… maybe the Andalites were around… either way, I didn't care, I was alive, and I was free.
'It's almost time you know, my reap is to be at 11:39pm'
As Millie said that, Ilooked the watch on my wrist and amazingly it was already 11:00
Then it appeared before our eyes, "The Seeker" he said we should call him, and he offered to save our lives…
A/N: Heys, sorry for the delay… I know I'm supposed to update sooner… I'll do my best…
This and next chapter, are short ones, actually next one is shorter…
But hey, wait for Laura's point of view.
Reviews are welcomed.