A prisoner in my own mind

Sydney Moya

© 2014

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Synopsis

Ashley touches an alien artefact one day and an alien invades his body with incredible results.

Chapter One

“Make sure you’re back before 7, your granny’s coming for dinner,” said Lorna Smith as her 16 year old told her he was going to his friend’s home.

“Ok,” said Ashley as he hurried out of the house.

Gaming with Marco was every bit of fun as he’d expected it to be so much so that he’d lost all track of time. It was now a quarter to seven

Ashley cursed his tardiness. He’d lost all track of time playing FIFA 2014 at Marco’s, his best friend’s house and wouldn’t make it home before 7pm in time for his Nan’s arrival. His house was at the end of a cul-de sac and fifteen minutes from Marco’s. There was a short cut through an undeveloped thicket that would cut his travel time by at least ten minutes. He was loathe to use it as he’d been warned time and again not to use it in the evening but his desperation won out and he felt he had no other recourse if he was to get home on time.

As he hurried though the brush he didn't really pay much attention to where he was going and before he knew it he had stumbled over something and landed face first on the turf.

“F***!”

He stood up gingerly, hoping he hadn’t been injured in the fall. He breathed out a sigh of relief. No scratches anywhere just a bruised ego he realised. He looked at where he had tripped to see what it was that had caused his fall.

It looked like a rock; its tip which had brought him down was jutting out of the ground and on closer inspection it appeared quite smooth. His curiosity got the better of him and with all thought of tardiness momentarily forgotten he knelt down to take a closer look.

He placed his hand on it. It was quite smooth like glass in fact. Satisfied he lifted his hand but it wouldn’t move. He was stuck to the rock.

“What the..?”

He made another attempt to remove his hand but nothing happened. He then decided to use his other hand to pull himself off but when he tried to do so nothing happened. He couldn’t move his hand. He tried his foot, same thing, nothing happened. He turned his head but it refused to turn. It was like his brain was sending instructions which weren’t getting to his muscles. Terrified Ashley screamed but no sound came out of his mouth.

The rock he was stuck too suddenly pulsed and a bright light came from it, engulfing him. That was the last thing he remembered.

When Ashley regained consciousness he was back in his own bed. He had no idea how he’d got there. He tried to get up but his body wouldn’t obey him.

“What’s going on?” Ashley thought.

He wasn’t prepared to hear another voice answering him back.

“I have acquired your body for the regeneration of my race,” something said to him.

Now hearing voices in one’s head is never a good sign.

“Am I going nuts, I can’t be hearing stuff too,” Ashley wondered.

“No Ashley Morgan Smith. That stone you fell over was my life pod. By touching it you awakened my consciousness and as you are an organism advanced enough I have seen it fit to use your body to regenerate my species. I have full control of your body now and have confined you to a section of your brain. I believe your species is the most advanced on this planet which wasn’t the case when I first arrived,” said the voice which sounded a lot the disembodied voice of Jor-El in Smallville Ashley thought.

“Oh that is because it seemed an appropriate reference. I can sound like anyone you want to hear,” said the voice.

“Who are you and you can’t just take over my body, it’s mine,” said Ashley indignantly.

“I am Aspqryxtallwhfhgyni’gjkhiyuythdeb from the Ghjy ukkhis’dngvrytjgn Home world,” said the voice.

Ashley cringed as the name was said in a series of high pitched screams and low guttural grunts.

“As you can see it is not pronounceable in your language so you can call me Jav,” said the voice, “as to your second question I am within my rights to take your body as you are of an inferior species,”

“Human beings are not inferior” said Ashley immediately.

“Then why is it that I found it so easy to take over your body? Any decent race would have neural defences but you have none and only use a fraction of your brain capacity. You are clearly quite primitive. To me you are similar to the horse’s your race rides. Though the gulf in our intelligence is much greater than the one between you and a horse,” said the alien factually, without the slightest hint of sarcasm Ashley surmised.

“Sarcasm, how fascinating,” said Jav, “this concept is unknown amongst my race.”

“Are you reading my mind?” Ashley said.

“In a manner of speaking yes, I have gone through your mind and discovered everything you know which isn’t much I suspect but for a juvenile it is to be expected. However I will fill these gaps in my knowledge of your race by using this internet you think has the answer to everything,”

“What do you want to do with me?” Ashley asked.

“I will reproduce myself using your body. I will give birth to a child who will have another aspect of my consciousness,” said Jav.

“Give birth? I’m not a girl mate,” said Ashley indignantly.

“Yes, you are the wrong sex. You humans are very strange but that can be rectified,”

“Rectified,” said Ashley confused.

“Yes, according to your biology teacher Mr Perkins males like you have an XY chromosome combination which is what made you male which I suspect is a gross simplification but it is easy enough to convert the Y to another X and remake your reproductive system using certain cells in your body which can be as easily altered as it was to take your body. I will have to acquire more information so that no one is alarmed when you become a girl,” said Jav.

Ashley was stunned into silence.

“You can’t do that!” he finally said

“Well I’ve already begun; I have started reducing your testosterone production and increased your oestrogen production,”

To be continued