Tallest Black

Chapter 1

You have found the story of Tallest Black. An Invader with a clouded past. No one knows her real name or where she even came from (she did not originate on Irk). She was a wonderful leader and stayed tallest for many years, until she disappeared one morning. No one has found her body, yet.

Zim and Dib were zooming along in the sky. They were had given up trying to kill eachother a long time ago and had made a truce. They were going on vacation together. Gir was in the back of the ship, sleeping with his rubber piggy. Dib was looking out the window at the land below. Zim had taken his disguise off after they had left the city. "So, where are we going?" Dib asked. "Somewhere on this planet that I've researched and I think that you will like." Zim said as he set the destination. Dib looked at what he typed in. "Sombra Island?" Dib said out loud. "I looked it up on a Government computer and saw that the island was unpopulated by you humans. It also said that it had wonderful beaches." Zim said putting the ship on auto-pilot. "It is unmarked on regular human maps." Dib was confused. "But you burn when water touches you. Why would go to a place surrounded by it!" Dib said. Zim leaned back in the pilot chair. "I just won't swim." He said smiling. Dib smiled and shook his head at Zim's remark. Dib turned to the window again and watched as the land started to disappear from sight and water took it's place.

A few hours later, they had arrived at the said island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The ship landed and Dib got out. He looked around at the beautiful meadow in front of him. The beach wasn't that far away. The grass swayed in the wind and made a peaceful scene. Zim then came out with a small device in his hand. Dib looked at him with a confused look. Zim threw the device out in front of them and everything you'd need for camping popped out, except for a car. Dib smiled. "Oh how original." He said. "It is." Zim said picking the device up. "It gives you anything you need." Dib looked slightly impressed, Zim knew he was faking it. "Don't give me that look." Zim smiled. "What look?" Dib said, straining to hold back laughter. Zim rolled his eyes and went inside the huge and already-put-up tent. The tent was the size of a small room and had looked like one too. Half of the room was decorated Dib's way and half was decorated Zim's way. So the room was half-black and blue and half-red and green. Dib entered the tent with Zim and was shocked with all the room. "Why does this seem bigger inside than out?" he asked. "'Cause it is." Zim answered, walking to his side of the room. Dib walked to his bed and sat on it. Zim's bed looked a lot like his only it had red and green sheets. "I thought Irkens didn't need to sleep." Dib said smirking. "I want to, so shut the hell up." Zim said also smirking. Zim laid down on his bed and shoved his face into his pillow. Dib also laid down but faced the ceiling. A few minutes passed before anyone said anything. "So what will we do today." Dib said. Zim turned his head toward him. "I don't know, exploring." "Alright, I'm up for that." Dib said. He got up walked toward the tent's entrance. "Come on." He said motioning to Zim. Zim got up and went outside with Dib. "I wonder what Gir will do when he wakes up and can't find us?" Dib thought out loud. "I'm sure he'll be fine." Zim said looking around the meadow. Zim started to walk to the West a bit. "Where should we go." He said to himself. He looked around, remembering the map he had studied so well. He turned to Dib. "Caves or beaches?" he asked. "Caves." Dib said, not caring about which one to go to. Zim then started to walk past Dib. "The caves are over here then." Dib followed Zim. "Why don't we take the ship." Dib said. "It's not a far walk. It's only, what, a quarter-mile?" Zim asked himself. "What!" Dib complained. "Oh come on, Dib! You humans are so lazy!" Zim teased.

After a bit of walking, the grass started to disappear and rocks had started to replace them. Then caves started to appear. The biggest ones reached a height of probably 40 feet high. Zim saw a huge 40 foot one and wanted to go inside. But Dib was sitting down, resting, and Zim knew that they shouldn't separate. "Come on, Dib-stink. Get up!" he half-joked half-teased. "Zim, please don't say you're gonna call me that on this whole vacation." Dib moaned. "No. Now get up. This one seems interesting." Zim said. Dib sighed and followed Zim in the cave.

It was dark and moist. Water dripped from the ceiling and it had many passageways. Zim and Dib stayed close together so as not to get lost. They got to a large chamber with some light and the two began to look around. Dib was looking at wall decorated with crystals. Zim was shifting through a pile of rocks. He then saw a strip of ripped black cloth. He picked it up and examined it. It was much different then human cloth yet it closely resembled Irken cloth. It looked like the cloth that a Tallest would wear… He dug through the pile faster and came to another piece, only more of it was still buried. Zim pushed the rocks away from that area and saw that the cloth was part of a whole outfit that was still buried. He dug through the pile as fast as he could and finally he hit the jackpot. He found a part of someone's still buried body and it was hand. But not just any hand, it was the hand of a Tallest. Zim could tell that by the piece of clothing covering all but the fingers of the hand. The style was ancient though and the color of it was black. Only one Irken Tallest wore black. Zim couldn't believe it. He had found the body of the famous Tallest Black.

"Hey, Zim. I found something." He heard Dib say. "What did you find." Zim dug toward the head in caution. He dug to her armor and he stopped to feel it. It smooth despite being under rocks for thousands of years. He dug up to her neck and carefully pushed the rocks off her face. Her face was not scratched at all. Her expression was peaceful. Zim seemed to tremble at the sight of the Tallest. He touched her green skin. It was soft, she had always kept it that way, and cold. "Tallest Black." He whispered. "Zim?" Dib looked over at Zim who was shaking with fear. Dib stopped what he was doing and went over to him. He kneeled down next to him and put his arm around his shoulder. "Are you alright!" he said franticly. Zim pointed to the Tallest body. Dib stared shocked. "Who is that?" he whispered. "Tallest Black." Zim mouthed. "What." Dib said. "Tallest Black." Zim said.

Just then, at the sound of her name, the Tallest opened her jet-black eyes. She looked toward Zim. Zim stopped trembling and just stared, eyes bugging out of his head. He then fainted in Dib's arms. Tallest Black pushed the rocks off her and sat up. Her armor shone in the little light as if it had been polished. Dib stared at her as she got up and dwarfed him in size. Still holding the fainted Zim, Dib stood up bravely. Black looked down on him and touched his shoulder. She smiled and Dib could tell that she was thankful for being wakened. She touched Zim's shoulder also and lifted his head toward her. She took him out of Dib's arms and cradled him in her own. She put her finger on his chin and he opened his eyes. He stared at her like a ghost. She smiled and tickled under his chin. Zim laughed and tried to push get away from her finger. She played with him as a mother would do with a child. Dib looked on, shocked. This was so not how a Tallest would act. She stopped tickling Zim and looked into his eyes. Zim forgot about how she was a Tallest and curled up in her warm arms. Zim looked up at her with content-filled eyes. "You remind me of my brother." She said in a snake-like voice. Dib looked at her with surprise as she spoke in that voice. He finally spoke up. "Is that how you talk?" he asked. She turned to him. "Yes." She answered.

She then, without warning, scooped Dib up in her arms with Zim. She seemed to float out of the room and to the entrance of the cave. Her black eyes met Zim's and she immediately set off to their camp. Dib looked at Zim with a confused look. "She can read minds by just looking into someone's eyes." he said to him. Zim felt at home with the Tallest. Dib did too. He felt so at home that it was kind of scary to him. She made no noise as she basically warped across the island. She set the two down at the campsite.

Just then, Gir came out of the ship. He looked at Black with his cute blue eyes. Black smiled at the cuteness. "Who is she!" Gir said. "I am Tallest Black." She said. Gir looked her over. "Are you emo!" Gir said. "Gir!" Zim snapped. "That's ok." The tallest said. She turned back to Gir. "No, are you?" she said. "No." Gir said. Black saw the rubber piggy that Gir was holding. "What's that." She said pointing to the pig. "This is my newest piggy! His name is Oinker!" Gir said holding out the pig. Black had done this many times with her little brother, it was a new stuffed animal every time. "O' really?" she said. "Ja really!" Gir said. "No wai!" she said. She was the only Irken who ever spoke internet slang. She did it very well too. Zim and Dib just stared as the Tallest behaved like a child. Just then, "I'm hungry." Said Dib. Zim looked at him. "That was sure as hell random…" "Yeah." Dib said. They were silent. "Where are we going to get food?" Dib asked. "That's a brilliant question." Zim said. Dib looked at him with shock and fear. "You mean to say that we have no food!" Zim looked back calmly. "Oh no. I didn't mean that. I meant that your question was something that even I would say." Dib looked away. "Oh…" Zim walked to the back of the ship and fiddled with a compartment above the engine. "In fact," he said, opening the compartment. "We have enough right here." Dib walked over to him and looked in the compartment Zim had just opened. It was filled to the brim with food, both human and irken alike. Dib could tell that they were going to be full tonight.

The fire was going and Gir was all ready cooking a hotdog on a stick over it. The night was young and stars shone bright unlike the new moon. Zim was trying to impale a hotdog on a stick but kept failing and almost taking his hand off. "Dib, your human customs are so hard to follow! I can't get this hotdog on the stick!" he snapped. Dib sighed and rolled his eyes. "Let me help you." He said getting up. He sat behind Zim and took his hands. He moved them as he would and successfully impaled the hotdog. Tallest Black saw the two and tried to hold back laughter. It came out as a hack-snort. Zim and Dib looked at her in confusion. The two then realized what they were doing and blushed severely. Dib was pressing his chest into Zim's back and Zim was holding Dib's hand and leaning his head on his neck a little. But the two liked it so much that they didn't want to stop. Dib let go of Zim's hands and, instead, put them around Zim. He dug his face into Zim's neck and breathed in the irken scent. Zim leaned his neck toward Dib a bit and put his hand Dib's hands around his waist. He put his other hand around Dib's big head. Gir just stared stupidly. "Master, why is Dib eating your neck?" Gir asked. Tallest Black secretly pulled the battery-charged ratio and put in a CD with romantic music. She then turned it on and turned up the volume. Zim eyed her somewhat dangerously. She giggled silently. Dib looked up at Gir. "I'm not eating his neck. Although I bet that he would taste good, I wouldn't eat him." He said. Zim smiled and picked up the stick with the impaled hotdog on it. He held it over the fire as Dib dug into his neck again, this time silently kissing it. Only him and Dib knew what he was really doing. Zim smiled and closed his eyes, still keeping a killer grip on the stick so it wouldn't fall into the fire. Black giggled as the two sat there with each other in their arms, content with sharing their warmth. Dib began to inch up his neck, toward his mouth. Zim smiled. "Not now, Dib! In the tent, when the others are asleep." He whispered in Dib's ear. Dib got the message and reluctantly got off of Zim, sitting down beside him. Zim looked around at everyone else.

"So, Black," Dib said breaking the silence. ",where are you going to sleep tonight." Tallest Black looked at him and yawned. Irkens never yawned. Their respetory system didn't allow it. "I'll sleep with Gir." She said petting Gir's head. "He seems cuddly enough." Zim was about to object when the Tallest put up her finger as a quiet symbol. "Number one, screw you, I'm Tallest, I can do whatever the hell I want. Number two, see number one." She said. Dib smiled at her comment. "Alright, your Tallest." He said.

It was after dinner and the four of them called it a night and went to bed. Black was in the backseat of the ship with Gir in her arms. She slept peacefully and so did Gir. But Irkens didn't need to sleep, Black, however, did for she wasn't an irken. She was human, just like you and me.