Chapter 6 : Visser I

Disclaimer: I don't own Visser I or any related Animorphs characters. These belong to K.A. Applegate.

A/N: Well, originally this was SUPPOSED to be Tobias, but it seems I can't find him. So we're stuck with Visser I instead, but Tobias will be up in at the most another week, so don't worry.

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It's not like you to understand. Perhaps some of you might, but humans are essentially an ignorant species. In such a world of complexity that is Earth, my only dream was to make it better. To make living easier, simpler for all of us.

I am Visser I, and it has only been a recent promotion as well. A shame that when I finally receive the power I have been deserving of for so many years, that I must lose it again because of these ignorant humans. And children too.

This idea to shortly recount the reason behind my life is taken from the Andalite theory of 'Hirac Delest'. And I assume the Andalites will be pleased as to the Yeerk Empire finally admitting our 'technology replications'.

Andalites: The only thing wrong with the entire galaxy. The only beings we Yeerks could not eradicate from the universe. Our undoing.

I was here from the beginning. Maybe not beginning's beginning, but enough to play an important part of Yeerk history.

I started as a simple Yeerk with a simple dream. A nobody among millions of nobodies a pool designed for our simple lives. Simple? Far from it. There was just one thing. We Yeerks were parasites. We, unlike any other species in the entire galaxy, were able to enter the ear canal of other species and take over. To wrap around the brain, connecting to pulses and neurons and essentially gain full control.

It is amazing.

But it was because of a single Andalite, perhaps the only 'good' Andalite to ever enter Yeerk history. Seerow gave us space travel, he gave us freedom to leave our lands and discover world's beyond. And what better way to see another species' world than to see it through the species' eyes itself?

But all that is history.

I became Visser III when I created the so-called 'Abomination.' The first and only Andalite under Yeerk control. I was worshipped a hero among the Council. Imagine it, being praised by the highest in the Yeerk hierarchy. It is pride beyond pride.

Then came Elfangor. The Andalite I had gloated over in his death. How was I to know he had broken Andalite Law? And what I had first believed to be stranded Andalite Bandits from the fallen Dome Ship were, in fact, human youths with Andalite technology bestowed upon them. The self-titled 'Animorphs.'

We battled, their forces and mine, for years, and though I stayed ignorant of their true identities, I had never believed this could've happened. Perhaps I underestimated them, but they managed the unthinkable. They managed to break our defenses.

I have just been threatened. Release the Andalite host of face the terror of starvation.

I cannot stay. The Fugue is every Yeerks nightmare. I know I have no options left. Starvation without Kandrona Rays is described as pain after endless torture. I have seen many deaths, I have caused many deaths, and I have escaped death many times. But I do not wish to see The Fugue.

These humans say they will freeze me, that they will not kill me, despite the fact that I am the reason for this war. And yet, I know they speak truth, and although I probably will not live again to be found and revived, I cannot help but feel pity for these humans. Childish and idiotic enough to still not know the true meaning of war even now.

Because humans, even more so than Andalites, are so tightly wrapped in their issues and morals of a nice 'clean' war to understand the war is violent and terrible. War is savagery and brutality.

War IS murder.

Nonetheless, it seems these humans have won. And is also seems that the Yeerk Empire finally bows to the unthinkable.

Yeerks have never believed in hope, only that our actions bring our consequences. We have never believed in fate either, only that we are total and complete control. It is our nature to be this way. It is OUR way.

I have nothing more to say. I, Visser I, have surrendered.

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