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Der Kopf in der Schüssel / The head in the bowl
(Opening Credit Music)
Hi. My name is Jake. I can’t tell you anything else. That would be too dangerous. The Controllers are everywhere. Everywhere. And if the knew my full name, they could find me and my friends and then… What they do to the people who defy them is horrible. Too horrible to even think about it. That’s why I won’t tell you where I live. It may be even your town. I tell you this story, so that more humans get to know the truth. Maybe the human race will be able to survive this way until the Andalites return and save us as they have promised. Maybe. Up until recently my life was quite normal. Everything started the day when I first met Tobias. Tobias was new at school and not very tough. He’s a strange guy. That’s probably why everybody picked on him. Tobias: "No! Let me Go! Help!“ "Just scream, you little fool! Because nobody’s gonna help you!“ "And if somebody does, we’ll dip him into the toilet bowl, too!“ Tobias: "No! I’m drowning!“ That was when I first met Tobias, with his head in the boy’s toilet. Two infamous bullies from our school were holding his head in and using the flush. Jake: "Hey, what’s going on here?“ "Keep out of this, Jake!“ "Just go away!“ Jake: "If I go, I take him with me.“ "Just listen, Jake, don’t spoil our fun with the little one.“ "In case you haven’t noticed by now: We are more than you, we are bigger than you and we are also stronger than you.“ "So go away or you’ll get the beating of your life.“ Jake: "That’s nothing compared with what you’ll get when Tom gets to hear about this. He’s outside on the corridor.“ "Tom? ...Okay kid, you win. But you know what you’ll get for this.“ "You’re on our black list. Next time you won't be so lucky.“ Jake: "Are you alright?“ Tobias: "Well, I’ve had more fun before. Thanks. Without you these guys would have pushed me straight down the can.“ Jake: "No, they just wanted a bit of fun. Here is a towel for your hair.“ Tobias: "Thanks. By the way, my name is Tobias.“ Jake: "Hi. And I’m Jake.“ "Tobias: "Hi Jake. Tell me, who’s that Tom, who scared these two so?“ Jake: "My older brother. He the absolute superstar in the basketball team. He gets most of he points for the high school team.“ Tobias: "Wow.“ Jake: "Tell me, have you already made plans something for this afternoon? Tobias: "Are you joking? I’m new here in this town.“ Jake: "Then just come around the mall. There’s a cool shop, which sells video games and comics. Most of he time I’m there with my best friend Marco.“ Tobias: "I’ll do this. See you later. Bye.“ |
A big credit and thanks to Eva Uihlein for providing all the translations! |