I guess I wasn't always a hawk. I was born human, and--I could morph then, too, but I'm still not sure how. But my friends and I, we were going to use our powers to go to the Yeerk pool. Which is pretty much the worst place in the world.
The Yeerks, they're-- they're trying to take over. They crawl into people's ears, they take over their minds, their bodies. And we were down there, trying to save people. People who are screaming, crying, begging for help and--