Chapter 4

"Yo Reed!" I yelled, slamming on his front door with my fists. His mother answered.

"Oh, hello, Ty," she said. She seemed kind of suprised by my appearence. Oh yeah... I was not wearing any clothes... oh well. "Reed is in his room, eat... I mean, come in." She was acting kind of strange... she was probably a controller, I decided.

I walked into the house, and up the steps to Reed's room. I had taken this path at least once every week. Except today it was more important.

"Reed!" I said, bursting into the room.

"Oh, hi, Ty..." He said awkwardly, shoving something under his bed. I couldn't see what it was, but it looked familiar... "Listen, I've been meaning to talk to you... but first, where's your... umm, clothes?" I grabbed a pair of his shorts and shirt. They were a little tight, but oh well.

"Hold on," I said, holding up my hand to him. "Me first. Listen man, we need to go somewhere else to talk about this." I grabbed him arm and pulled him all the way downstairs with me. "We're going out," I told his Mom.

"Wait, no so fast." She said, blocking the door. "Where?" She asked.

"Oh, to the, uh, Yeerk pool, y'know, heh... I'm hungry and all..." I stuttered. She looked at me closely.

"Haven't you already fed today?"

"Uh, yeah, b-but, those portable ones taste like crap, you know..." I said.

To my suprise, she nodded in understanding. When we got out of the building, we ran a couple blocks. "Phew, that was close," I said.

"Yeah," said Reed. "So, you're a Controller too?"

"Huh?" I said.

"You heard me..."

"Oh, right." I said. Oh man, what was happening? Reed was a controller?

"What's your name? I'm Texag 567."

"I'm... umm..." I said. "Attan... 665..."

He peered at me. "You're not a Yeerk." He said.

"You got me." I grinned. Then I dropped to the ground, and kicked at his legs. He fell over, and I pinned him to the ground. I was much stronger than him.

"He, chill!" He said. "I'm in the Resistance... the Yeerk Resistance."

I ignored him. He was lying, there was no more Resistance. Wait... Reed was a Controller? "You're coming with me," I said, yanking him up off the ground. I grabbed the Dracon Beam hanging at his waist and pointed it at his head. Then I grabbed his communicator and blasted it with the Dracon Beam.

This was a pretty amatuer Yeerk. I had been taught all the things that I was doing in school. He should have known that.

Reed/Texag swallowed.

"C'mon!" I shoved him onto the back of my scooter, with me in front. I kept the blaster in case he did anything wrong.

I was going to see Gyp... hopefully she hadn't become one too.