Authors Notes Thingers: Right, I am back. This one isn't as long as
the others, it's a bit of an experiment. Tell me what you think, and I
might keep things in Ben's POV for a few parts. Thanks for the reviews, I
need them to inspire me to write more now, especially since I realized this
wasn't finished, like I thought it was. ^_^
The School--Part Three
A slug lived in my brain. Now, as a bona-fide, one hundred percent certified GEEK, I have done a lot of role playing in my time. In some twisted part of myself, I was excited about being sucked into a real-life RPG. Until of course, I realized it wasn't a game. My name is Ben, and I imagine you believe me to be crazy at this point. I am not. Allow me to inform you that I am perfectly sane, and that your world is what is not. Your world is infested by parasitic slugs that call themselves Yeerks. They take over the human brain, like Frenrack 216 of the Sulp Niar Pool did to me. He entered through my ear canal, shortly after I had arrived at the Academy.
At first it seemed like a dream come true, I was living out one of my biggest fantasies. Well, except that I was no longer in control of my actions. Any of them. And when they took my family, I realized then, that this was not a fantasy. This was not a dream; this was not a game. It all changed over one Visit Weekend. A young man by the name of Marco was staying in my room. Now, I must admit here that this boy seemed like the type I might be annoyed by on my own, but Frenrack disliked him beyond belief.
The Yeerk walked my body to class, and sat down and forced me to look like I was paying attention to the lecture. It was a discussion on Newtonian physics and post-modernism, so of course I was interested. I may as well learn what I can while stuck with this Yeerk, I thought.
Why bother? he sneered at me mentally. You think you are so smart, and yet you couldn't keep me out. Your 'logic' has yet to lead you to a solution for this problem.
I didn't bother to try and hide my lowering self-esteem from him. He knew about it, played on it. He knew which buttons to press, because my brain was like a map for him. He had gone on and on about how I was worth more as human being with him inside me, I would never be able to procreate without him, because no girl would ever want to be near me. His discussions of my insecurities regularly made it complicated to plan escape.
Humph. You know there is no escape. Nothing you can do. I don't control you, I AM you.
I simply ignored him, and attempted to hear what Professor Ganglin was saying. Except I couldn't ignore him. He was right. There was very little point in continuing to learn. I would never be in control of my own actions again. I pushed my emotions back, trying to stay logically, only to have a flow of them surface again. I hated this Yeerk, I was helpless. Useless, except as a body, to be used however they saw fit. Logic, logic, I told myself.
Useless logicFrenrack taunted.
Useless logic. I wondered to myself.
Frenrack had heard about the Andalite Bandits of course. Just about every Yeerk involved in the earth project had, I'm sure. And at this point, many of the lesser Yeerks had their doubts about these "Andalites" identity. Mine was one of them. Which was unfortunate when the boy Marco began screaming in his sleep.
"The Yeerks are coming!" I heard him shout. I tried to stay asleep, but Frenrack moved my body over to the bed and told the boy to shut up. Inside my head he was absolutely giddy.
I bet he's one of them. One of the "Andalite" bandits, in morph...or not
I sighed, well. I mentally sighed, only Frenrack could make my body sigh. Perhaps he just heard the word from a friend, perhaps is already one of you, you are jumping to conclusionsI told him, my thought voice dripping with logic.
We'll see...useless boy, we'll see.
I wished right then, more than I ever had that I could warn the boy, Marco. Just in case...just in case. Frenrack closed my eyes and chuckled to himself.
Thought you said I was jumping to conclusions?
I also wished I could groan.
The School--Part Three
A slug lived in my brain. Now, as a bona-fide, one hundred percent certified GEEK, I have done a lot of role playing in my time. In some twisted part of myself, I was excited about being sucked into a real-life RPG. Until of course, I realized it wasn't a game. My name is Ben, and I imagine you believe me to be crazy at this point. I am not. Allow me to inform you that I am perfectly sane, and that your world is what is not. Your world is infested by parasitic slugs that call themselves Yeerks. They take over the human brain, like Frenrack 216 of the Sulp Niar Pool did to me. He entered through my ear canal, shortly after I had arrived at the Academy.
At first it seemed like a dream come true, I was living out one of my biggest fantasies. Well, except that I was no longer in control of my actions. Any of them. And when they took my family, I realized then, that this was not a fantasy. This was not a dream; this was not a game. It all changed over one Visit Weekend. A young man by the name of Marco was staying in my room. Now, I must admit here that this boy seemed like the type I might be annoyed by on my own, but Frenrack disliked him beyond belief.
The Yeerk walked my body to class, and sat down and forced me to look like I was paying attention to the lecture. It was a discussion on Newtonian physics and post-modernism, so of course I was interested. I may as well learn what I can while stuck with this Yeerk, I thought.
Why bother? he sneered at me mentally. You think you are so smart, and yet you couldn't keep me out. Your 'logic' has yet to lead you to a solution for this problem.
I didn't bother to try and hide my lowering self-esteem from him. He knew about it, played on it. He knew which buttons to press, because my brain was like a map for him. He had gone on and on about how I was worth more as human being with him inside me, I would never be able to procreate without him, because no girl would ever want to be near me. His discussions of my insecurities regularly made it complicated to plan escape.
Humph. You know there is no escape. Nothing you can do. I don't control you, I AM you.
I simply ignored him, and attempted to hear what Professor Ganglin was saying. Except I couldn't ignore him. He was right. There was very little point in continuing to learn. I would never be in control of my own actions again. I pushed my emotions back, trying to stay logically, only to have a flow of them surface again. I hated this Yeerk, I was helpless. Useless, except as a body, to be used however they saw fit. Logic, logic, I told myself.
Useless logicFrenrack taunted.
Useless logic. I wondered to myself.
Frenrack had heard about the Andalite Bandits of course. Just about every Yeerk involved in the earth project had, I'm sure. And at this point, many of the lesser Yeerks had their doubts about these "Andalites" identity. Mine was one of them. Which was unfortunate when the boy Marco began screaming in his sleep.
"The Yeerks are coming!" I heard him shout. I tried to stay asleep, but Frenrack moved my body over to the bed and told the boy to shut up. Inside my head he was absolutely giddy.
I bet he's one of them. One of the "Andalite" bandits, in morph...or not
I sighed, well. I mentally sighed, only Frenrack could make my body sigh. Perhaps he just heard the word from a friend, perhaps is already one of you, you are jumping to conclusionsI told him, my thought voice dripping with logic.
We'll see...useless boy, we'll see.
I wished right then, more than I ever had that I could warn the boy, Marco. Just in case...just in case. Frenrack closed my eyes and chuckled to himself.
Thought you said I was jumping to conclusions?
I also wished I could groan.