Chapter 5
I tried to turn back, I didn't want to see these creatures, no matter how tasty they looked. But I still could not move a muscle on my ten foot body. The Yeerk moved my legs up the ramp into a small, slightly rounded ship that looked something like a young Taxxon. We stopped in front of the two creatures who I was told were called Hork-Bajir.
"S-so you are Sub-V-visser 24?" One of them stammered, obviously scared. He wasn't accustomed to having a new type of host running around.
He nodded my head strangly and pushed back the two Hork-Bajir. We scuttled through a small corridor into a room. There was a large Hork-
Bajir standing at a control panel, muttering something I didn't understand. Suddenly he turned and headed towards us. The Yeerk pulled my body back in a scared, defensive position, but resisted running away. The Hork-Bajir placed a small device on the side of my head. I felt a strange tingle and then nothing.
"This is a translator Taxxon host, it makes it so you understand us,
and we understand you." He said calmly.
(I'll automatically translate it.)
"Visser, I have enslaved this Taxxon, I do believe they have the capabilities of spacecraft control. Their claws are very precise and accurate, it would be perfect for the blade ship!" The Yeerk exclaimed for me happily.
"Don't tell me something I already know Sub-Visser!" He snapped. "And especially don't give me suggestions."
I was shaking furiously. But I wasn't scared in the least. It was the Yeerk who feared this 'Visser'. I could gobble him up in three bites.
I laughed in my head.
{Why so scared Yeerk? As long as you don't defy him he won't kill you.
He can't kill you. You're important to this mission. Feel good about this.} I ranted. What Afron didn't know is that I was going through his mind as well, reading all of his thoughts.
{That's not my problem...he won't kill me, he'll kill you. I'm not scared for my life, I'm scared for my rank, I wish to be ahead of this lunatic so I may kill him. He was my closest friend until he got promoted.}
That's what I hadn't thought of, I was expendable, not him.
I tried to turn back, I didn't want to see these creatures, no matter how tasty they looked. But I still could not move a muscle on my ten foot body. The Yeerk moved my legs up the ramp into a small, slightly rounded ship that looked something like a young Taxxon. We stopped in front of the two creatures who I was told were called Hork-Bajir.
"S-so you are Sub-V-visser 24?" One of them stammered, obviously scared. He wasn't accustomed to having a new type of host running around.
He nodded my head strangly and pushed back the two Hork-Bajir. We scuttled through a small corridor into a room. There was a large Hork-
Bajir standing at a control panel, muttering something I didn't understand. Suddenly he turned and headed towards us. The Yeerk pulled my body back in a scared, defensive position, but resisted running away. The Hork-Bajir placed a small device on the side of my head. I felt a strange tingle and then nothing.
"This is a translator Taxxon host, it makes it so you understand us,
and we understand you." He said calmly.
(I'll automatically translate it.)
"Visser, I have enslaved this Taxxon, I do believe they have the capabilities of spacecraft control. Their claws are very precise and accurate, it would be perfect for the blade ship!" The Yeerk exclaimed for me happily.
"Don't tell me something I already know Sub-Visser!" He snapped. "And especially don't give me suggestions."
I was shaking furiously. But I wasn't scared in the least. It was the Yeerk who feared this 'Visser'. I could gobble him up in three bites.
I laughed in my head.
{Why so scared Yeerk? As long as you don't defy him he won't kill you.
He can't kill you. You're important to this mission. Feel good about this.} I ranted. What Afron didn't know is that I was going through his mind as well, reading all of his thoughts.
{That's not my problem...he won't kill me, he'll kill you. I'm not scared for my life, I'm scared for my rank, I wish to be ahead of this lunatic so I may kill him. He was my closest friend until he got promoted.}
That's what I hadn't thought of, I was expendable, not him.