Deep inside the depth of the Blade Ship, there is a sealed room that subordinates are not allowed to enter. It is adjacent to the Visser's personal quarters, and strange noises, deep grunts and shrill squeals, can occasionally be heard through the walls. Three Hork-Bajir are always assigned to the room, but none of them will tell their fellows what is inside the room. Everyone has come to believe that it is something horrible, a private torture chamber, or lab for experimentation too cruel to even think of. They never even entertain the thought of entering.
At least once in every three day cycle, Visser Three will enter the room and seal the door behind him, with the instructions that he not be disturbed unless Andalites are attacking. Nothing else could be important enough to disturb him.
For when Visser Three is in the sealed room, out of the eyes of his subordinates, free to let his foulest, most corrupt self be reveled without concerns about propriety, he reaches out with his Andalite hand, past the heavy bars of a cage, and…
strokes the head of his most recent pet. The shepara purrs beneath his touch. The small creature, captured on a moon around the Sstram planet, is venomous to most creatures, but the Visser has raised this one since it was a hatchling. He supposes he will acquire it when it grows to maturity, but he will keep this one around all the same.
He passes the shepara's cage and greets his Mortrons. Jarex and Larex passed away many years ago, but their spawn had produced another strong specimen, which he had named Starex. Again, he already had the morph, but there was something satisfying about having the actual creature, about seeing it rotate its wheels in greeting.
His menagerie was fully stocked and well-tended by the Hork-Bajir controllers, but he still tried to visit as often as he could. These were his pets, and they needed his company.
He leaves the menagerie and immediately snaps back into the composure that comes with his position of authority. He cannot have his subordinates thinking him weak or foolish. It is a small preference of his, and, he liked to believe, his only weakness.
When he destroys this world, he will have his own planetary zoo, and no one will dare laugh at him or his pets.