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[004] My little blue friend

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.]

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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.

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?

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

Khaji Da is is not designed for aural penetration.

No kidding!

... Oh. I guess that makes sense.

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

...What's a Yeerk?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

[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.

[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?

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.

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?

Apologies, David Harris. Neither species are in Khaji Da's database.

...Seriously?

Seriously.

... Uh, don't worry about it, dude. It's cool. [And it's still a little bit freaky being addressed by an unseen alien who knows your full name.]

Maybe they just don't exist in your world. Kinda like the Terminators from John and Sarah's world.

[Yeah. Someone basically downloaded the network when Jaime was asleep. When Tiny Computers Get Bored...]

Maybe. Alternate realities, or something like that.

Perhaps the Reach have not encountered them. Yet.

I'm pretty happy with the idea that mind controlling slugs don't exist back home, actually.

Jaime Reyes is happy in his denial?

Yep.

[Just don't tell him that. If he was freaked out before...]

So what's the deal with you Reach guys? Uh... those Reach guys? This is kinda confusing.

They... you... whatever. Reach kinda seem like the Yeerks.

[grin] Khaji Da's Reach technology, but I'm human, and we've both pretty thoroughly renounced Reach citizenship. With extreme prejudice. Don't worry about it, though. We know what you mean.

Khaji Da's purpose is similar to 'Yeerks.' Khaji Da is Jaime Reyes' friend. Khaji Da will not take over Jaime Reyes' free will and motor functions without consent.

...This is atypical of Infiltrators.

... Yeah. I was kinda guessing that it'd be, you know, atypical.

Does he have to come out to feed every so often? The Yeerks... I think they do, but I don't know the details, except it involves something called a Yeerk Pool.

Khaji Da is not an organic life form, and does not require feeding.

...What he said. We're pretty attached... basically all the time, unless something's really, really wrong.

Wow. That's gotta be... kinda creepy. So much for privacy, huh?

[He wants to ask if Jaime could ever make Khaji Da leave if he had to... but he's kind of afraid to ask.]

Preeetty much. Privacy is something other people get. It was a little creepy at first, but I'm basically used to it by now.

[Yeah. And... uh. No. Lucky for him, Khaji Da is a nice guy.]

No offense, dude, but... that's pretty messed up.

[It also sets a dangerous precedent David's entirely not comfortable with. Before now, he'd just assumed that Barge denizens were human, or at the least humanoid. If a parasite like this Khaji Da got in, though, that theoretically means a Yeerk could do. There could be Controllers on the Barge.

There's a jolt of shock as he realizes there could be Controllers on the Barge, there could have been this whole time, and he'd have never known.]

...Yeah, probably. But I don't really think there's a way for this whole thing not to be messed up, so we do the best we can.

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