JAKE
It's been about an hour since my infestation took place, and I guess to all the Yeerks it was kind of a big deal. After Redyrt 682 gave Visser Three all the information I possessed on my team and exited my head, a lot of people who I knew were slaves came to see me. Then finally, after a while of stares and doubtful looks from classmates, my brother came in flanked by two guards.
I guess he was free because when he saw me, his eyes began to water. I looked up at him as the cage door open and the guards roughly pushed him inside, and stood up. For a while, we stayed that way. We stood there and kinda stared at each other for a few minutes, neither one of us saying a word.
Then, Tom took the initiative. "Jake," he whispered, his voice lined with regret. "I'm so sorry. I never meant for this to happen, I… I just wish I could have tried harder you know?" That was all we needed to break the tension. In a moment, we forgot the war and hugged each other.
After all, he was still my big brother and I was still his little one. And after all the years of desperation, I missed him. So we sat down hugging each other and crying until all of our tears were gone. And after that, I just laid there, listening to his heartbeat as he rocked me back and forth telling me it would all be okay in the morning. Then he left.But he was wrong, and things didn't get better.
Instead, they got worse.
I had fallen asleep early that night. I was exhausted, for it had been a long day of running away. However, the guards thought it would be funny to wake me up at two in the morning as a practical joke.
Ha-ha.
I didn't get back to sleep. The sounds of screaming hosts being infested kept me awake. I'd never been to the Yeerk pool at night. And I guess I'd always thought that the hosts stay awake, yelling at the guards. But I guess that they are people to, and everybody needs to sleep.
It grew quiet, and the silence scared me. Dark shadows played on the wall like some sort of nightmare. And since I was caged very close to the pool, they were the shadows of things that scared me the most. Since I didn't go to sleep, I cried. I cried until the moon slowly turned into the sun. I cried right up to the point where the guards had to yell at me to shut up. Right up to the point to when I didn't listen to them, and they shut me up themselves.
I guess I had to learn one thing about the Yeerks during my stay.
They do things either by force or by punishment.
The guards told me that they were having a celebration sometime around noon, and that I was to come. So I did. At 11:20, they took me out of my cage and dragged me all the way there. In the center of a very large crowd, stood the visser in human morph. He had a smug expression on his face and he laughed when I was brought to the front of the crowd and thrown by his side.
He quickly grabbed me by my shoulder and inserted something into it. Something hard and sharp that dug into my skin like a needle. I punched him hard in defense and he let go of me. I hit the ground and rolled to my feet, focusing on the tiger.
I would bring these bastards down one by one.
I looked down and saw that nothing was happening. I wasn't growing fur and my bones weren't shifting.
I wasn't morphing!
I concentrated harder and still nothing happened. The visser threw up his head and laughed evilly.
"Don't you get it little Jake?" He asked me. "You aren't morphing because you can't. And it's all thanks to my new toys! Say hello to the Morph Command!" He laughed as he pointed to the device in my shoulder. To my surprise it wasn't there anymore.
"Yes, Jake." Visser Three snarled. "It's already sunk into your blood stream." I couldn't take it, I wasn't about to become his pet! I lunged at him.
He saw it coming and stepped aside. He beat me good after that. Every time I hit the floor, the Yeerks cheered madly.
Visser Three tore out a couple of my ribs and broke the rest of them and let them poke out of my chest, staining my shirt a lovely shade of red. He then demorphed to Alloran's body and cut of my right arm at the elbow and proceeded with slicing my spine in half rendering me incapable of using my legs. He cut almost every part of my body and when he cut my stomach, I thought I was going to die right there.
I was busy vomiting up blood when he began to address the crowd. I didn't really feel like listening, however his voice was in my head so I had no choice.
My fellow Yeerks! Today is the day that we finally repay the souls who have suffered because of this… murderer. He began. I would like to do something that will let the council know how deeply regretful I am for not stopping this beast sooner.
He shot out with his tail. It connected squarely with my jawbone and I fell backwards as my head exploded in stars. Or maybe I was flying forward. I couldn't tell anymore. All I know is that as I lay there, I realized that this was what was going to happen.
For the rest of my life.
