[004] My little blue friend

[beetleboyblue]

The guys are... kinda cute. Annoying, but still... kind of cute.

Jaime Reyes' shoelaces are tied together.

...Okay, so they're a little mischievous.

This is the twelfth time Jaime Reyes' shoelaces have been tied together.

They're a lot mischievous.

Tiny flying destroyers. Proton canon?

No! No proton canons! You're just cranky because they stole the cinnamon roll we got at breakfast.

Khaji Da wants Cinnabon.

It was homemade. It was better than Cinnabon.

...Jaime Reyes is not helping.

[OOC: Italics are Khaji Da, who bargelings can hear now for a limited time only! His voice has kind of a computery sound, and is completely distinct from Jaime's.]

Comments

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

... dude, why is there an Andalite with you?

[Because what else but an Andalite would be rhat crazy about Cinnabon?]

[beetleboyblue.livejournal.com]

What's an Andalite?

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

A blue alien with a Cinnabon fetish.

[beetleboyblue.livejournal.com]

...

What do they look like?

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Isn't there one with you?

Uh... blue centaur kinda things, with four eyes, no mouths, and nasty scythe-blade tails.

[beetleboyblue.livejournal.com]

Uh--no. That's not... No blue centaur things here.

Reach. Not Andalite.

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

.. Did it just talk to me? [How many Cinnabon-loving aliens can there be?]

It said something about reach. You heard it, right?

[beetleboyblue.livejournal.com]

[You have no idea, David.]

Uh--yeah, he did. Usually I'm the only one that can hear him.

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Where... is he? [He's turning the communicator upside down, squinting, as if expecting Jaime's unseen friend to be lurking in a corner.]

Is he invisible?

[beetleboyblue.livejournal.com]

Not... exactly.

...Most people find this part really weird.

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm a teenager that can turn into animals. There's not a thing you're gonna tell me that can weird me out.

[Famous last words.]

[Private]

[beetleboyblue.livejournal.com]

He's an artificial intelligence that's fused to my spine. Normally when we talk? I'm the only one that can hear him.

Tiny destroyers have caused Khaji Da's voice to become amplified.

...It sounds weird.

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

He's fused to your spine?

[Yikes, but that sounds painful.]

Hey! Alien thing! Khaji Da! Why the spine? That sounds painful. Couldn't you just go in his ear?

[Private]

[beetleboyblue.livejournal.com]

Gyah! Ow! My ear? I really don't think he'd fit!

Khaji Da is is not designed for aural penetration.

No kidding!

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

... Oh. I guess that makes sense.

[He sounds kinda sheepish.] That's the way the Yeerks do it.

[Private]

[beetleboyblue.livejournal.com]

...What's a Yeerk?

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

They're... okay, picture a big yellow slug with antennae. Now picture that this slug can crawl into someone's ear and wrap itself around their brain. Fuse with their brain and take over their body. And there's no way to make it leave.

That's a Yeerk.

[Private]

[beetleboyblue.livejournal.com]

That... sounds completely terrifying, actually. Like something out of a horror movie. These things are real?

...Jaime Reyes, Khaji Da was not much less terrifying.

Yeah, but you're not in my brain.

Technically.

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. They're plenty real.

[And they're in both of his parents. :c]

I thought at first your Khaji Da was like them. But I'm guessing he lets you keep control of your own body. Yeerks don't do that.

... And he's also got a sense of humor.

[Private]

[beetleboyblue.livejournal.com]

That is... one of the most horrible things I've ever heard of. At least with Starro, you don't know what's going on.

[:(]

Yeah, he's... not like that. He can, but we try to keep that to life and death situations.

Heh--yeah. We've been working on that.

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's... pretty messed up. They've already traveled through the universe and enslaved a bunch of other alien races too. Big nasty centipede-things and things that look just like the Wild Thing monsters, except deadlier.

[Aaaaand because he doesn't want to touch that topic, he goes for the shameless subject change.]

So what's he let you do? I might've just been hearing that wrong, but I coulda sworn he mentioned something about a 'proton canon'.

... Is that what I think it is?

[Private]

[beetleboyblue.livejournal.com]

[Subject change is go. These Yeerk things sound like the Reach, except maybe a bit more terrifying.]

It's pretty much exactly what you think it is. That's the "destroy with extreme prejudice" option. Usually, we try to go a little less "wipe things off the face of the earth" and more "apprehend so the bad guys can face trial."

He's just really annoyed about the cinnamon roll.

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

[As far as he can tell, the Reach aren't so bad. But the only one he's seen to judge them on so far is Khaji Da.]

Holy shit. So he's some kind of machine? Or does he just like, teleport weapons to you whenever you need them?

No wonder you're alright with being here. Who'd ever fuck with you with a power like that?

[Private]

[beetleboyblue.livejournal.com]

He's... complicated? Definitely mechanical, but I'm honestly not sure where all the spare parts come from.

The physics are too complicated for Jaime Reyes' comprehension.]

Considering I don't even cover basic physics in school until next year? Yeah.

[Private]

[sixthanimorph.livejournal.com]

Huh. I bet Jake's pet Andalite would get it, but I sure as hell wouldn't. I'm not even in high school yet.

I wonder... hey! Reach thing! Khaji Da! You know anything about Yeerks or Andalites?