The Parasite...

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(In the black hole) 'I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!' "Relax will you? Just enjoy the ride there is no going back now..." 'YOU IDIOT WHY DO YOU THINK I'M MAD IN THE FIRST PLACE! GOD YOUR SO STUPID!' "Am I really? Perhaps I just outsmarted you and made you my eternal friend?" 'GAH! I WILL KILL YOU!' "Do that and you kill yourself...such a nice cover I have..." 'But.....there is a flaw...' "Oh? And what s that?" 'If I WANT to die, then it won't be a problem!' "You won't do it kid you don't hav' the guts..." '....I will...one day...' "And then my boy, even I will congratulate you...but until then..." I felt a strange sensation and decided to look at my surroundings. With nothing to look at it wasn't much of a surprise. "What did you expect? It's a black hole not a colorful hole..." 'I didn't ask you did I?' "No need, your face of shock was all the asking I needed..." I sense a change as if we were slowing down? 'Are we slowing down?' "Heck no! That would be a short trip which don't occur in emergency moves like this...I do think we have a visitor..." 'But who?....or what?' I looked around frantically, trying to figure out this mystery. "There...." In faint movements I could just about make out a large shape...very large in fact.... "Let's go have a look shall we?"

'We are in a black hole! We shouldn't move!' "Oh excuse me! Mr.Black hole expert!" 'We could disrupt our landing! we could wind up in a sun! or worse!' "Yeah or worse we can end up next to you..oh wait I already have..." 'You annoying little-' "Enough arguing let's go...." I try to change my foot into a propeller of sorts but to no avail...'I cannot move us....' "Here let me do it..." By command of the parasite, eight legs sprouted and started to move in a squid-like fashion. "You like? I got it from you..." 'Don't remind me...' Minutes later we reached out destination. We could see the object clearer now but something was wrong. This looked very familiar..."Mhmm...you should remember it..." Getting closer I finally realized what it was...'A SHARK!?' "Aye..." 'But...but how?! We were on a beach! Not the ocean!' "Ah you see sometimes when two of my kind cross each other using this...black hole...we have to create a pocket of protection. Neither party will know we crossed each other unless something like this shows up. You see these pockets can appear anywhere..but that's why it's only used once...this poor creature has to suffer for our means of protection...OH WELL! DINNAH TIME!" My body fly at the shark and devoured it before I could object. The speed and power of my new body was simply amazing..."Mmm want to try? I know you cannot eat anymore and all..." 'What? What do you mean I cannot eat anymore?!' "I thought you knew with the running for several days episode and all that..." I used one of the arms I could control to rub what could hav been my stomach. He was right...I hadn't eaten in days..."Well you want some?" 'I wouldn't eat any of that-' The black hole ended and as I looked around in utter amazement I found myself in space...

'Ack! Guh! Auk! I'm...choking!' "Mhmm...I hear you..." 'Ack...ak....umm...I'm not choking?' "No lungs remember? GOD! Your so slow..." 'SHUT UP! Where are we?' "I don't know...but I'm going to eat the rest of this shark...mmm" 'You said your black hole will transport us randomly right?' "Mmhmm..." 'YOU IDIOT! WE ARE PROBABLY LIGHT YEAR AWAY FROM EARTH NOW!' "Relax...I have a back-up plan..." 'Oh really? YOU FOOL! WE DON'T HAVE SPACECRAFT THAT FLY TOO FAR FROM OUR GALAXY! WHO KNOWS WHERE THE HELL WE ARE!' "Ah....right...let's see.." 'IDIOT! WE ARE STUCK IN SPACE THANKS TO YOU-' (SPAK) '...' "Umm..how can I put this?.....DUDE YOU JUST GOT RAN OVER! HAHAHA!" '...but...we are...this cannot...what...?' "Let's have a look at the damage....mhmm.....mhm....mmmmmhm!" 'Bad?' "No you'll live." 'Damn you...' With my body spread like butter I found it hard to do anything but keep still..."Call the body parts back to you...use your mind...and call them..." 'Like that will work...' "Yeah I know right? TRY IT FOOL!" 'Come...to me....Come.....to....me....' I open my eyes and...I noticed a blob twitch....then another...slowly and one by one all my pieces came back to me..."Now with that settled...let's see who it was who squashed you..." 'You...are an amazing sub-species...' "SUB-SPECIES! WHY I AUGHTTA...thank you for that compliment. I'm sure all the members of the race will appreciate it..." 'Kill me now...put me out of my misery...'

"Hmm? Where did it go?" 'Why do you care?' "Hmm...look left please?" 'Whatever..' I turned my head to the left. There it sat a small...machine...it looked nothing like the ships I have seen...so much more...elegant... "Let's get closer..." 'Whatever...' Tentacles sprouted again and we started to move slowly towards the machine..."You should start trusting me more...this isn't going well for you..." 'I'll let you know when I care...' "You do that..." It wasn't long before we reached the fighter. 'What the?!' Thee fighter cockpit was intact but the pilot was dead! 'What happened?!' "I don't know..." I noticed some part of my body squeeze from the cockpit and rejoined me... 'You...you killed him?' "Perhaps..." The door of the cockpit opened and a series of alarms sounded off. They didn't last long as they were turned off somehow..."There...see? Trust me hmm?" 'You just stole a ship and killed someone we don't even know!' "One problem at a time...oh what's this? ....One million...siruis credits? What the hell is that?" 'I don't know..' "Hmm we will figure it out eventually...Let's go!" 'I cannot fly this thing...' "That's ok...I found of from that guy...he seemed to babble on and on so a little mind probe action for you....heh yeah we are trained like that..." 'Are you a solider or something?' "Civilian militia is more like it...hell the real soldiers would have taken full control and made you watch as they killed everyone you knew.......yeah they are like that...BUT! you have me so your pretty lucky aren't you?" 'Unlucky is more like it...'

'Wait wait I'm not stepping a foot in this fighter until you explain everything to me...' "Fine fine, When we went splat from this machine I was able to slide some of our body into the fighter. See getting this guy to talk was one thing, you should have heard him, speaking some foreign language like I'm supposed to understand! Heh so I had to shut him up...I filtered through his memories and found out this...siruis credit thing and how to fly this sweet looking ride...now if you please..." 'You...are immoral on so many levels...I cannot do this anymore...' "Don't get so down kid! Look tell you what you know my name, how about I learn yours?" 'THAT WON'T CHANGE ANYTHING!' "Sure it will! I'll stop callin' you kid! That will help won't it?" 'You have driven my my future home...my love...and now my world....I..I..' "I..I...you should like a broken record! Fine then! we will sit here for eternity like the umm...emotional...yeah wee new word, anyway like the emotional kid you are and we won't do anything...at all....forever..." '.....yeah...' "Oh that was sarcasm learn it well! NOW GET MOVING!" 'Don't boss me around! I've got the control of this body!' "Ugh...look kid, we aren't going to get anywhere of we keep arguing like this...I don't know how many times I've got to say it...we are stuck together! We might as well be friends..." 'How could I be friends-' "Shhh...let me stop you right there...I'm sorry ok? I gave you what I thought you wanted and I'm sorry...as for this body...my kind as a burial ritual involving space so we can lay him to rest as you would say..ok?" '...Fine...' "Geez the last thing I need is for me to be moving around and looking crazy because I'm arguing with you and no one can hear you talk back, honestly it's a curse! But regardless...let's get this over and done with..."

We sat there...for hours in a praying position I guess...not moving, not speaking or thinking just utterly silent. I was able to shift my eyes away from the dead body (without moving my head!) and was able to look at the system or galaxy or whatever we were in...It was utterly beautiful, a wondrous sight to behold. It wasn't long before I noticed the black...."Tears" falling from my eyes again, they drifted out to space and then slowly came back. With so much to take in for the past few days I finally had peace but didn't want it. Ternokune said nothing as he continued to pray I guess...but in all of this I was finally coming to terms with the new "me" and didn't like it. Hours stretched on to days and the body started to smell awful..."IT....is time..." 'What are we going to do? Wrap it in cloth or something?' "In my kind's belief's there is a place we can go to...like your heaven...we shall send him there my way...are you ok with that?" 'Sure..' I watched calmly and we approached the body and Ternokune placed a "hand" on the body. "Tern Ternokune, yerni hermu tranoko..." 'What does that mean?' "It means...By my name Ternokune, fly free brother..." 'Wow...that was....nice...' "Yup...now to finish it..." Ternokune lifted up the body. "Open wide..." 'Hey! What are you doing?!' A sick taste nearly made me sick as Ternokune as the body whole. 'Yuk! You idiot! why did you eat him?!' "It's part of the ritual...we eat our dead so that our body processes the matter and the "soul" as you call it, is released. we keep the matter for ourselves...there are more rules but then it take more time to explain, let's go shall we? A little exploration doesn't hurt does it?" 'I...umm...' "Yeah I know weird isn't it? Well I'm not from your world, your not from mine and we are not in either world but a new one...so...let's figure out where we are shall we?" 'Agreed...my name is Rundo by the way..' "Yeah I knew...but nice to meet you anyway!"

"So? What should we do first?" 'I don't know let's see...oh! Here's an idea: Let's try to figure out were we are hmm?' "Sure...where should we start?" 'Anywhere is better then here...' "Ok then let's go this way!" With quick work, Ternokune fired up the machine's engines and we were off. The place seemed to stretch on forever, and it was starting to dawn on me it might take us my normal lifetime before we'd reach anything... "Oh yeah forgot to activate the umm...cruise drive was it? Ah well here we go!" Ternokune pushed a button and we heard the engine start to build up power. "Hmm...did I do something wrong?" With a large blast we flew even faster, our body was compressed against the chair of the machine as we couldn't hold our body firm. 'Way too fast!' "Nonsense! We are doing just fine...I think!" 'Stop it now!' "Why? Isn't this exciting?" I looked over to the left scared to hell and I saw a planet I didn't notice before, it blended in with the surroundings well. 'Umm we might hit something...' "What makes you say that?" 'Well I just noticed a planet that I didn't notice before so...' I turned my-our head and looked in-front of us. 'BUILDING!' "What? There isn't an buildings in space dummy..." 'BUILDING!' "Ooooh THAT building..." With little effort we steered clear of the building. Communications speaker: "BONJOUR MON AMI! SHUT YOUR ENGINES DOWN OUI?" 'You idiot! We are sooo dead!' "Relax, they'd have to stop us dummy..." Communications speaker: "THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING MON AMI!" Ternokune: "Let's see which button here work the talky thing....oh this switch!" Ternokune flicked the switch and a small "beep" was heard. Ternokune: "Ah I guess that means it working...OI! IDIOT PEOPLE! HOW GOES IT?!" Union Course leader Terna: "This is Union Course leader Terna! Shut your engines down!" Ternokune: "Make me! Haha!" Union Course leader Terna: "Very well." Without warning we were hit and our engines stopped humming, it seems as though we were slowed. 'We are done for...it's all your fault!' "Relax kid trust me..." Union course leader Terna: "Your recklessness has been noted, you will be towed back to the station and placed in confinement until we find a punishment for you..." Ternokune: "Follow my instructions perfectly..." 'Ok..wait hell no' "Trust me kid or we are dead!" Union course leader Terna: "You cannot escape, both of you will be placed in confinement. Surrender now and we won't destroy your ship." Ternokune: "Alright alright we give up.."

We sat in place as the fighter was towed into the station. A sat in utter amazement of the sophisticated place. Fighters flocked left and right and we were moving so fast we didn't notice them. Within minutes they force-ably landed our machine and opened the door. No one was able to see us. To them it was just an empty machine and I don't think they liked it...people walked around shaking their heads in dismay. "Mon ami, I think you need a break from patrols.." "But I swear! We all heard him! Both of them!" "Relax and go have a break ok? You and your crew need it..." "Oui sir..." We slivered under the seat, as sitting directly behind it became boring for me. I needed to see these new people, perhaps they could help me? Ternokune (whisper): "Don't even think about it...remember what you are now...they will shoot first and ask later, it's the same thing I would do if one of them entered my home planet..." 'It'd your fault for this in the first place!' Ternokune (whisper): "Relax with that already we have gone over it what five times already? Give it a rest.." 'Give my life a rest he says...' Ternokune: (whisper): "Oh ookie here...a female perhaps?" 'How can you tell?' Ternokune (whisper): "I have your memory yeah? Let's go have som fun with her..." 'No, I won't betray Lucia like that..' Ternokune (whisper): "She ran out on you remember? I can control this body wholly if I want to, don't make me force you..." 'Oh really?' Ternokune (whisper): "Yeah watch me..."

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