Chapter ?: Leader
"Full emergency power to the engines." I said, my heart ached as I spat the words out of my mouth. But it was the only thing we could do, and I knew that it was the right thing. "Ram the blade ship." By the way, my name's Jake, Jake Berenson. You might have heard of me, according to Marco I'm "bigger than sliced bread." I was the first human to ever hold negotiations with an alien nation, I out smarted them, and I won the war. But in the process I lost two very big parts of my life. I had ordered my cousin to kill my brother, she succeeded but in the end, she died in vain. I killed my cousin, I signed her death warrant when I pulled her aside in the Hork-bajir valley that day…she had died, she hadn't been able to live her life the way she deserved and it was all my fault…
Mendorash hit the control panel furiously with his new human hands and the next thing I knew we were on our way to our deaths. I hated to admit it but I had been ready for this for such a long time. I had killed my brother, my cousin and 17,000 helpless, sentient creatures. I was Jake the Yeerk Killer. That was what The One had called me, perhaps it was right, and maybe I was Jake the yeerk killer, murderer to yeerks, Alloran's equal. It was war, I had to do what I felt was right and in the end it cost me something to dear to me, it cost me most of my humanity.
After that moment I spent the next three years moping around my parent's house…my parents were freed after the andalites had evacuated all yeerk ships…I didn't have to tell them what happened, they already knew, and I was the reason why they only had one living son. They knew this and yet to my amazement, accepted me back into their lives, and acted like this had never happened. Of course there was the anniversary of Tom and Rachel's death…
I spent more time at the memorial than I had at home. I would go in there after hours, the guy at the gate would let me in, he felt bad for me, he pitied me and I could see it in his eyes. I would sit there staring at the memorial, and at the sunset. I couldn't even bring myself to talk to her; I couldn't bring myself to do anything but sit there.
I didn't bring my life together until after Visser One's trial. Marco, Cassie and Ax showed me that there was something to do besides just sitting around feeling sorry for myself. I listened to them and I took that teaching job for the government.
All I could think about was Cassie as I stood there, waiting for death to welcome me into its arms so I could once again be with Rachel, and be with Tom. I didn't hear Tobias, Marco, Jeanne, Santorelli, or Mendorash as I stared at the view screen, at "The One" as it called itself. It looked at me and smiled. It changed form within a second and I saw my cousin Rachel standing there, looking as beautiful as ever. But I knew better than to fall for those tricks, I knew that it wasn't Rachel, there was no way in hell that that monster was any part of Rachel.
"Rachel the barbarian…" A voice echoed through my head, but I was already too far-gone to acknowledge it. "Jake the yeerk killer, welcome home." I saw The One's lips snicker as I looked out into the hollow pit of space. "Goodbye Cassie." I mouthed as white overtook the hull of the Rachel and everything vanished. "Goodbye…"
I woke up with my face in the dirt. I heard Marco complain about how we were supposed to die or something but I ignored him. I normally wouldn't but as I looked in front of me…I had thought that I had died and gone straight to heaven although I thought to myself that I deserved to die and live an eternity in hell for everything I had done…
I looked in front of me and saw an angel. She was even more beautiful than I remembered her. She looked the same as she always had…besides the fact that she didn't have her usual overalls on that were usually covered with some sort of poop. But even then, when she would be at her worst she was still beautiful to me. She would always be Cassie.
"Hi…" She whispered. I was just about to run to her. I was just about to run up to her and to tell her how much I missed her, and how much I had wished that she had come with me. I was just about to tell her everything, and ask her to never leave me, to stay with me forever, to marry me.
"Hey, is someone up there?" Marco said while gazing up at a hill that covered the valley and a good portion of the sun. I regretfully turned to look at the hill. There was a figure emerging from the top of it. I couldn't make out who it is yet, if I knew them but it was definitely a human, or it was at least in the form of one.
She stumbled down the steep slope as Cassie walked up next to me and slid her hand into mine. "Whatever this is, where ever we are…" She whispered softly. "We'll face it together…" Her words echoed through my mind as I saw the girl come further down the hill and closer and closer to us.
I'm just trying to inform you that you will be getting really sick of these Attention Reader things and that I'm not going to repeat the meeting scene AGAIN, so if you got complaints…er….euh…yea keep them to yea self!
