Bruno
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Post by Bruno on Sept 7, 2010 19:09:23 GMT -5
After seeing Charles's nod, Bruno said, "Alright, but what did we do? Why are we in trouble?" Bruno figured it would be best to play dumb, just in case it was for some unknown reason.
"We - I mean I, will tell you in a little bit. Just please come with me for now." The zookeeper looked a bit nervous telling Bruno what to do, but not nervous enough to let them go all together.
Bruno looked over at Charles and shrugged, then followed the zookeeper and leashed hyena. If it turned out that they needed to get away, Bruno could probably take out the zookeeper pretty easily. The hyena too, if it decided to cause trouble, since it had a muzzle on. But if they resisted now and the guy called in security guards, they might not keep the upper hand.
After a little bit, they turned away from the main paths and started heading to one of the buildings that was normally off limits. Bruno was confused. Shouldn't they be headed to the security office or something? Turning to Charles, Bruno asked him quietly, "Why are they taking us here?"
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Charles
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Post by Charles on Sept 7, 2010 20:13:50 GMT -5
With the question that was asked being answered very vaguely, Charles became a little more paranoid about what this whole situation was about. This was becoming one of those days where he wanted to just get back in bed and forget that he was supposed to be a responsible adult in this crazy world.
Charles was trying to figure out where they had slipped up today that might have put them on the zoo's hot list. Bruno had been keeping watch for him during the rhino escapade, but that didn't mean that there weren't cameras in the exhibits to keep an eye on the dumb kids. If he were in charge, then cameras would have been the first thing that he had put in the works for obvious reasons.
The guy had started leading them down some alternate path to an area that was for personnel only, which seemed odd to Charles because the security people were usually near the front of the zoo. From what Charles could make out, they were going in the opposite direction of it.
"Why are they taking us here?"
He looked back at Bruno and tried to be as quiet as humanly possible. "I have idea why, but this guy seems to be walking both sides of crazy street. If you know what I mean." Charles did not like anyone who changed their pronouns at the beginning of a sentence from plural to singular. It made him think of people with multiple personality disorders or something.
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Bruno
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Animorph of Hemington
I'm more lackadaisical than cantankerous, but mostly just farouche.
Posts: 104
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Post by Bruno on Sept 8, 2010 3:32:45 GMT -5
Bruno wasn't sure if crazy was the right word to describe this guy, but there was definitely something off about this whole situation. He decided not to risk replying back to Charles and continued walking in silence. Before long they were at the small building. It definitely wasn't the security office. The zookeeper unlocked the door, turned on the lights, and let Bruno and Charles in before entering himself with the leashed hyena still by his side.
"This... Why are we in here?" Bruno couldn't help but to ask. They were in what appeared to be a small garage where presumably some of the park's vehicles were stored. It was empty now, however, and all the doors were closed.
But Bruno quickly forgot his question as he noticed the zookeeper taking the muzzle off of the hyena. "What are you doing!? Why did you bring us here!?" Bruno was now genuinely worried.
They finally received an answer, but not from the zookeeper.
<<Because you acquired me, you big brute.>>
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Charles
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Post by Charles on Sept 9, 2010 15:43:14 GMT -5
Charles 'spider sense' began to tingle when they entered the garage, which only increased as the hyena's muzzle came off. He began looking around for a weapon, when the hyena answered Bruno's question, which was very odd. "Cor Blimey!" was the only expression that Charles could come up with at first.
It took him a few minutes to regain control of his senses enough to start thinking of a question to ask the zookeeper. "I am a little confused. What the heck is going on here exactly? I think some clarifications are in order."
The zookeeper looked at Charles and began to open his mouth when he was interrupted by the apparently rude hyena. <<You keep quiet and let me handle this. I am the only one who can truly help.>>
The hyena looked up at Charles and Bruno, and Charles could of sworn that he was trying to look nice.
<<You see I am a nothlit Yeerk so I knew when the big one of you touched me, and I require your assistance with something of an urgent manner.>>
Charles looked at Bruno if he was buying any of what this hyena was saying because this was all pretty strange even by their new standards of weird. In his mind, he was wishing for a pocket guide to everything Animorph related that he could keep with him at all times, but that was not going probably not going to become a reality for several years.
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Bruno
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Animorph of Hemington
I'm more lackadaisical than cantankerous, but mostly just farouche.
Posts: 104
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Post by Bruno on Sept 9, 2010 20:46:02 GMT -5
Bruno was shocked at first. He actually took a few steps backward involuntarily, he was so stunned. What is going on? he wondered. Luckily Charles had the good sense to ask some questions.
Apparently this was no mere hyena, which explained the odd behavior after Bruno acquired it. But apparently the hyena needed their help with something, which made Bruno nervous.
"What sort of assistance?" Bruno finally managed to ask.
The hyena looked to the side, almost as if he were thinking something over. Bruno felt so awkward talking to a hyena that he began to shift uneasily.
<<Alright, so here is the deal,>> the hyena finally said. <<I don't know what kind of people you are, I just know that you are morphers. Er, at least the big guy is. And if the little guy wasn't in on the secret before, he is now. But regardless, I don't know wether it would be better to ask nicely for your help, or to blackmail you. So I'll do both. Please help me, or else I'll out you two as morphers to the community. So, promise me that you will help?>>
Bruno did not like the situation that he had gotten himself into at all. He looked over at Charles and tried to send him an, "I'll do it if you do," look.
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Charles
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Post by Charles on Sept 9, 2010 22:34:28 GMT -5
Charles was getting the feeling that the theme song for the Outer Limits was going to start playing in a moment because this was beyond belief the weirdest thing to happen. He was glad that Bruno took up the part of questioning the said nothlit.
<<I don't know what kind of people you are, I just know that you are morphers. Er, at least the big guy is. And if the little guy wasn't in on the secret before, he is now. But regardless, I don't know wether it would be better to ask nicely for your help, or to blackmail you. So I'll do both. Please help me, or else I'll out you two as morphers to the community. So, promise me that you will help?>>
"Well given that kind of choice, then I guess we have no other answer than yes." Charles was actually sort of glad that the hyena had made a statement like that because it justified the one that he was about to makes, so it didn't seem so harsh. "But if you are just messing with us, we are going to find out whether a hyena can take a rhino."
After that brief but tense moment, the hyena started to explain what was going on. << Here is what I need help with. I have found out that some of my fellow yeerks are still roaming around inside of human hosts. They are planning to do something in the city that they say will bring about a new war between the Yeerks and the human race.>>
Charles stood there taking in what the yeerk had just said to them, and only came up with two questions. "How do you know this? And do have anything more to go on than that because it is not like we can go out, pick up a newspaper and find evil, yeerk minion wanted?"
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Bruno
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Animorph of Hemington
I'm more lackadaisical than cantankerous, but mostly just farouche.
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Post by Bruno on Sept 9, 2010 23:30:35 GMT -5
<<I know this because they approached me,>> the hyena-yeerk said. <<They knew I was a nothlit, and that I had a body that would be useful for various tasks. Namely battle, or at least guarding hosts while their yeerks are in the pool. So one night another nothlit yeerk snuck in and asked me to join them. To "help the cause," as he put it. Pff, I said it was suicide and wanted none of it. I liked the situation I had here. Andrew,>> he said, motioning toward the zookeeper, <<my former host, was able to arrange my stay here.>>
"So, why didn't you tell someone? Why not call the police?" Bruno asked.
<<You think I'm an idiot!? Don't you know what kind of a panic that would cause? Not just here, but across the globe? Everyone is under the impression that yeerks in their natural form are extinct here on earth. I don't want the discovery of another invasion to destroy what little we as a species have left. Can you imagine the yeerk witch hunts and widespread paranoia that would arise?>>
Bruno hadn't thought of it like that. People would go crazy if they thought there was a possibility that the yeerks were back. The hyena was right. They couldn't go to the authorities with something like this. At least not the normal authorities.
"So where do we find this band of non-nothlit yeerks? And nothlit yeerks too, it seems."
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Charles
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Post by Charles on Sept 13, 2010 20:49:35 GMT -5
Charles was looking at the hyena as if something seemed really off about him. How did other yeerk nothlits know that he was one of them if Bruno and him hadn't? Some things just didn't add up in his head, but he would figure them out later. He was waiting on the guy's reply to Bruno's last question as it seemed to be the most relevant one to the conversation.
<<Well, that is the tricky part about all this because I don't know. You see because I said no, they didn't fill me in on all the details.>>
Charles could swear that if a hyena could look pathetic than this one would be taking it to a whole new level because that was a weak answer to him. "Well I guess that means there is not much we can do at this point, so I guess we can go home." Charles started to turn to leave, but was stopped as the hyena made a growling sound at him.
<<I am not through speaking yet. The one who came to talk to me said he would give me some time to think about it and come back to ask again, so I figured...>>
Charles was growing very impatient with this whole deal as it seemed like this hyena/yeerk was just trying to mess with their heads instead of giving them a straight answer. "You figured that we could what? Follow him back to his hideout and storm the fortress so to speak?" He meant it to be sarcasm, but the more he thought about it the more he liked the idea.
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Bruno
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Animorph of Hemington
I'm more lackadaisical than cantankerous, but mostly just farouche.
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Post by Bruno on Sept 13, 2010 21:08:28 GMT -5
<<That could certainly work,>> the hyena replied. <<Although I suppose I will have to let the two of you figure out the details. He said he would be back after a week's time, and that is two days from now.>> The nothlit looked over at the zookeeper, and the zookeeper headed over to open one of the garage doors.
<<Now I am through with you. Exit through the employee driveway. Oh, and please do not disappoint me. It is in your own best interests.>>
Bruno had many more questions he would have liked to ask, but right now he figured he had better leave while he had the opportunity. He headed toward the open garage door as the zookeeper started putting the muzzle back on the informant.
"Wow. What was that?" Bruno said to himself, referring to the entire situation. He felt like he had just stepped out of the Twilight Zone.
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Charles
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Post by Charles on Sept 14, 2010 16:16:55 GMT -5
Charles did not like the fact that the yeerk was acting like they were a resource that could be told used in whatever way possible. It seemed to be a bit demeaning to him, but he figured that was the way most Yeerks were. There was nothing that he could personally do to change that, so Charles just let it leave his mind as if it were some useless fact that someone was trying to tell him that didn't give him any vital information.
He followed Bruno out of the room and figured that they were going to have something like a war council to plan their next move. Charles figured that this was going to be a difficult mission given the fact that it was technically their first one.
Bruno had said something to himself, but Charles decided to answer it anyway just because it seemed like something to do. It also helped him to make the situation seem like reality instead of a dream.
"I do believe that was us getting drafted by a Yeerk to stop other Yeerks, so that he can continue his peaceful existence on our planet. But I could also have been day-dreaming most of it."
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