Zombies of the Science Fair by Bruce Coville

Author:Bruce Coville
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2020-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12 [TIM]

ZOMBIE-BRAIN

All right, you’re probably wondering why I zapped myself with the Suggestibility Ray.

First, I was so upset with Jordan that I wasn’t thinking entirely straight.

Second, what I had thought would happen was that if I kept a suggestion in my mind as I used the ray, the suggestion would still be in place once the ray took hold.

So I told myself, “You are going to be smart and strong!” then blasted myself with a full-strength dose of suggestibility.

My theory was screamingly wrong. As soon as that purple ray hit me, I felt my energy start to slide away. I couldn’t move or speak. I had no control of my body. It was one of the most terrifying things I have ever experienced… as scary as when Pleskit and I were being held captive by Mikta-makta-mookta and she was going to empty our brains. My brain wasn’t empty, but I felt as if the connection between it and my body, it and my willpower, had been severed.

So I just stood there, holding the ray gun, unable to move or speak.

When Pleskit first tried to suggest things to me, nothing happened. By zapping myself I had made myself the Suggester. Only I couldn’t suggest anything.

Fortunately, when Pleskit got very stern, his orders somehow got through the fog of my brain and I responded to them. My theory is that this worked because he had already used the ray on me a couple of times, and that had some leftover effect.

It was incredibly frustrating to be trapped inside a body I could not control. I knew who I was and what I had been, but it didn’t seem to make any difference. Now I was just a zombie, with no willpower, no ability to change anything, to move a muscle on my own.

When Pleskit ordered me to squat, I squatted. When McNally picked me up and put me in the carton, it didn’t really bother me.

That’s just the way things were.

McNally closed the box.

It was dark. I felt like I should be afraid, but since no one had told me to, I couldn’t manage to summon up the emotion.

McNally picked me up.

I heard a door open, then close behind us.

“That’s a relief,” said McNally.

“Look!” cried Linnsy. “What’s that?”

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