Puppet: Soldier

By What Ever

On a near-future Earth, humanity is still rebuilding from the failed invasion of the Puppeteers, a mind-controlling, amoeba-like race of creatures that tried to take over “for their own good.” Suddenly, a race of aggressive, Foosball playing, chicken nugget eating lizards muscle their way through dimensional portals all over the planet in a bid for world domination. It’s up to Mike, an average guy, and his Puppeteer side kick, a blob who is “fed up with the way that human/Puppeteer contact was handled,” to repel the lizards while Humanity still controls the Universe foosball championship, and the world chicken nugget supply is safe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: What Ever
• Release date: Apr 27, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301281381

What Ever

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Puppet: Soldier

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Whatever

Copyright 2013 by Whatever

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Table of Contents

Previously

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Previously

Earth is invaded by a race of creatures that have the ability to control a human like a puppet; hence they are called Puppeteers or Puppet Masters. Physically, the aliens resemble puddles of mercury, hence the other name for them: The Blobs. The aliens are capable of reproducing by dividing in two. Because of this, and because a person hosting a Puppeteer is very difficult to distinguish from a normal person, the invasion spreads exponentially.

Mike is converted while having lunch at a Burger King. Unlike most hosts, he finds possession to be a positive experience. Alice, a woman who is also hosting a Puppeteer, has a similar experience.

Scientists in the US government discover that the aliens are very sensitive to encephalitis, a disease that infects the central nervous system. The condition is spread from the host to the Puppeteer, where it proves to be almost 100% fatal. The US unleashes a virus that effectively wipes out the alien presence, though it also results in 50 million human deaths worldwide.

Mike finds that, without the presence of his Puppeteer, he sinks into depression. As a result, he volunteers with the Planetary Defense agency to be a host to an alien, so that humanity can gather additional information about the Puppeteers. PD is an organization that the world’s governments have formed to combat the alien menace in the wake of