It took a year and a half to find a new pair of eyes that wouldn't fall out. Then on top of that they sent him to an institution so he could 'become less hyperactive' for Five years! He eventually came to realize that no one liked him to much, he tried to keep the ever optimistic attitude that he had always had outside, but now a a days even he only half believe the words he said, he wanted to be optimistic, but the ever present 'people are shit' constantly reasserted itself into his life.
First his fathers suicide, then his mom blaming it on him and trying to kill him, and her ending up in the insane asylum in the process. It was always like that for Keef, he was the toilet for life to constantly shit in. Girls never looked at him, he had no friends, all his fellow freaks hit puberty and mutated into popular kids, even gretchen with her braces, pigtails, and horrible posture became a tall long haired bombshell of a young woman. And here he was a lanky, wirey, near girly looking teenaged boy, but he was content, even if he lived the rest of his life alone, he was able to rest easy, why? because at the moment he was in his safe place.
He was in the woods. Here he was unreachable, the whole world was separate from him as he laid back in a small clearing, watching the stars, a small smile on his face as he thought of nothing in particular, he was in pure content, he was nearly close to falling a sleep,ready to dream of what he wouldn't remember.
And then suddenly, a crash startled him from his near slumber. in a blurred state Keef had now stumbled to where he saw red glowing, where once previously was a small creek ran,now laid a large crater with smoke billowing up out of it. His eyes widen as he saw a large firey metal scrap heap at the bottom of the crater, he saw a small black blur speed out from the wreckage, his head shot to the side as he tried to catch sight of what it was. The blur ran behind a bush as keef followed not noticing the shadow following him. Keef walked up to the bush very slowly in the event that whatever was behind it, was easily spooked.
He slowly grabbed the branches on the bush and quickly yanked at it to find."A...cat?" WHAM! suddenly he had been jumped and was now under the weight of another person, "stay away from my robot!" the person screamed in a distinctly feminine voice while she pressed what appeared to be gun into the back of his head
"I-I wasn't going to do anything!" Keef yelled in fear as he felt his capter grab at his shoulder and turn him around, what he saw made him gasped in complete shock. It was a girl alright, but it wasn't a normal girl, this girl had green skin, dark purple eyes that had no white or iris, and antannae. She, for lack of any better word was an alien.
Keef was whimpering in absolute fear, his only hope for living past the night was that this alien girl decided to spare him and leave him alone in the forest. "You have two choices" the girl stated clearly as she pressed the gun hard into his forehead. Choices are never a good sign, "you can either A. help me do what I want, or B. refuse, and be shot." she stated calmly.
Keefs mind raced, This girl was an alien...he still couldn't get past that. Here he was in the presence of extraterrestrial life...as if his life wasn't already messed up, and on top of all that he was now threatened with death, "I'll do anything you want" he said in fear and desparation.
"Good..." the girl said sweetly, pulling the gun back from his head, "now get up." she said as she grabbed him by the hand pulling him up forcefully.
"what do you need me to help with?" he asked as the alien girl placed the gun somewhere out of his sight
"I want to kill the abomination of my home world" she said gritting her teeth that shown zipper-like in the moon light
"wh-who" Keef said shakily as he watched the girls robot walk up beside them
the girl told him " I want to kill Zim"
"Zim!" Keef choked out "but...he's my friend" he was lying, he hadn't had any contact with Zim in years.
"NO!" she yelled "Zim is walking destruction and anyone who becomes involved with him shall surely fall into a world of misery!"
Keef eyes went wide, he became deadly silent silent.
"Truely, if you've known him you'd notice a fall out with good karma" she said as though seeing the memories of pain flash through his eyes.
then, at that momemt in his head, from those very words, something clicked
everything in Keefs life
his eyes,
the therapy,
his dad,
his mom,
...his life...
all of it had gone horrible after Zim had offered him his friendship on that faithful day many years ago.
Zim had ruined his life with out reasonable cause.
He shouldn't be allowed to do it to anyone else.
This feeling...overwelming sadness...no...Excruciating rage.
Zim had to die.
Keef looked into the eyes of his new acquaintance " I'll help you kill him."
The girl smiled "good" the girl took his hand and shook "my name is Tak, pleased to make your acquaintance"
"K-Keef" he introduced himself, his mind shocked at what he just agreed to do
"You are going to be my liason" Tak announced "anything I need to know you will tell me, is that clear?" she asked eying him curiously
"Y-yes" Keef said nervously
"Goood" Tak said with a near sickeningly sweet tone "do you have a dwelling?"
Dwelling was another word for home, Keef reminded himself subconciously "sorta.." he lived in an abandoned shack that he was lucky enough to find still had electricity and running water.
"Take me to it" Tak demanded.
The house itself looked very small, the windows were boarded up which made ventilation of the house very difficult, the door had creaked open loadly "please ignore the messiness" Keef said as they walked into the empty house past the sign with the house adress 777, keef was still a bit nervous about helping an alien "I don't normally have guests" the inside looked less disgusting, but a layer of dust coated most of everything in the room and a keen eye could see a couple the few cockroaches running about in the dark spots in the main living room.
"how long have you lived here?" Tak asked evaluating the inside of the structure.
"about a month" keef said shutting the door and locking it, something the previous owner (luckily) did not do when he left.
"and it's safe to inhabit, right" Tak said surveying a few of the holes in the roof that let in the moonlight from outside
"the only thing I really know about this house is the previous owner was somewhat of an artist type" keef paused for a moment trying to recall a few things he found out when exploring the house "I think he may have also had a few psychological issues"
"you humans tend to always have individual issues, don't you?" Tak said tonelesly walking through the house surveying all that she could find
"I suppose" Keef walked fast to keep up with her "though I think this guy might have had more..." Keef thought for the apropriate word "antisocial issues" recalling the particularaly grizzly sights he'd found while down in the basement, as they walked into the kitchen room of the old shack "I come here when I need to sleep mostly" he said as he eyed the boards the were nailed up to the door leading to the basement "only place I got at the moment".
There was an extended pause of silence interupted on by the very quiet grumbling of Keefs stomach
"Are you hungry?" Tak asked, staring at Keef oddly her sight lined towards his torso.
Keef put a hand over his stomach "a little" another louder stomach grumble proved that 'a little' was an understatement
"well I beleive it's time to eat" Tak said looking at Keef "where is the closest fast food place?"
"I-I don't have any money" keef said stammering, Then out of no where Keef was knocked off balance before falling on his rear-end by the familiar cat
"There you are MIMI," Tak said to the Cat as she kneeled down to get eye level with MIMI "did you get what I asked for?"
MIMI's disguise flickered away to her Normal robot form as she saluted, five Bills of money, a one dollar bill, a five , a ten, and so on
Tak took the money presented to her "thank you MIMI" she patted the robot on the head before standing back and pulling a device from out of the device on her back.
"Whats that?" keef said
"this is a curency duplicator" Tak explained sliding a five dollar bill into a slot on the device, a moment later several five dollars bills spat back out into her hand "let's go to eat, then we will go find Zim"
They went to crazy taco," so uhm...how are you gonna...you know, blend in" keef asked akwardly as they sat down at restraunt booth, he asked the question mostly to break the silence between them, Tak had taken on a human disguise that was well...it was very attractive. Tak had taken on an appearance that had a very casual elegance to it, blue hair framed her face very nicely, her face had a very human but very intimidating look, in appearance she was a girl who you could talk to, but you had to give yourself one mean pep talk to do so.
"I already have a cover" Tak interrupted Keefs thought as she took a bite from her burrito "perhaps you've heard of the Mega Weenie corporation?"
Keef thought back to several years ago " I recall" he paused " the news said thar the founder died and that the company folded in on itself" Keef mentioned akwardly somewhat afraid of how Tak would respond.
Tak gave a look of slight distress, appearing to be in extreme thought for several seconds before returning to a more normal look "well then, I suppose I'll need find a better cover for myself when I can."
Another moment of silence occured "so...uhm how did you mange to uhm" Keef paused Gesturing with his hand at Tak's disguise.
"It's a holographic image projector" Tak answered "allows me to look like anyone I want" she paused for a second " I can change my looks if you'd like.." she calmly stated.
"N-no-no...uhm no I'm fine with that look...uhm, I like it" Keef stammered his face red from embarrassment as he rubbed the back of his head, "So, why exactly do you want to kill Zim?"
Tak inhaled a moment, she knew that question was going to come up "Several year's ago I was supposed to take a test" she started "it's essentially my species form of an employment evaluation exam, before I got ready to leave to take the test Zim caused a large energy black out, and cause a large pillar to fall keeping me stuck in my appartment." Tak paused a little try to keep herself calm, her voice had been slowly elevating with anger "and so that meant I couldn't attend the test, so I was assigned as a janitor on a junkyard planet,"
"Ouch." Keef said emphatically.
" It took me several years, but I built a ship, and a robot, and made way to find Zim, to get rid of him" Tak continued her voice pressing much empahsis when ever she said Zim's name "I found out that ZIM was the reason for my misfortune, I found out that ZIM Cause the black out, and that ZIM caused me to miss the test, and worst of all" she screamed out the next offense "HE WAS A DEFECTIVE!" She stood up, slamming her fist down on the table, her breathing heavy, fast, and angry. She looked around, people were staring at her, She sat back down trying to calm herself taking a moment to recompose herself, " I failed my original plan that was originally showing Zim how easily I could take over his planet, however it failed and I ended up stuck in space, floating for several million miles. I managed to find my way back to our leaders, they subsequently banished me, telling me I was a defective and a failure for not being able to kill such a pathetic irken such as Zim, they sent me off to die in my ship with very minimal fuel, but I did find a refueling station" she said finishing her story " and I came back here, I'm banished, but I won't rest until I kill Zim."
about fifteen minutes passed and they had now managed to get the food they ordered and were eating, most of the people in the restraunt had now left as it had gotten close to closing time "tell me about yourself" Tak said.
"M-me?" Keef asked.
"yes, I told you about me" Tak stated "now you tell me about you."
"uhm, well" Keef started off, he held his hand behind his head "well, uh, I met Zim back in the fifth grade, he said he wanted a best friend" Keef was looking around the building nervously " I was never really had too many friends, so I took the oportunity, I was kinda different back then" he closed his eyes a bit to get a better grip on the memory " I guess Zim thought I was a bit of a nuisance, but I kinda didn't know how to take a hint, he lead me up a building and I tripped" Keef held his head tight the memories getting more vivid "when I woke up...I was in the hospital" his voice shook a little "m-my eyes, my eyes were gone! I was freaking out, It was dark, I was screaming, but they sedated me, they kept giving me new eyes" Keef was shaking now " but they kept falling out" keef stopped trying to get a hold of himself.
Tak had a concerned look as the boy infront of her started breathing hard, she grabbed at his hand trying to calm him down, he slowed down now " then..they found me eyes that worked, gave me therapy and fed me meds to keep me normal for a year or so" Keef calmed down, his hand squeezing Taks gently, his eyes open slowly " a-and then..they let me leave."
" you seem like you've had a rough life" Tak said quietly sympathy in her voice
"and then I got home..." he trailed off remembering what him and his mother saw. "I don't want to talk about that" he said quietly.
"that's perfectly fine" Tak said " some things are best not shared" she said some of her own bad memories coming to mind before going away again, Tak Moved back her hand leaving Keef's as she pushed her food away before standing up,"let's go take care of Zim."
They stood before the tall green house, it was big. "How are we going to do this?" Keef asked nervously as the stood just outside the fence.
"You're going to distract him" Tak said as she pressed a button on the implant on her forehead hidden by the disguise "I'll do most of the work, so don't worry too much" Tak finished talking before her body became invisible.
"O-o-okay" Keef said as he looked at the house, he took a deep breath as he started walking up the path leading to the door, he felt himself being watched, he was slightly aware of the larger than normal sized lawn gnomes watching him as he approached the door, he took one more deep breath before knocking at the door.
Minutes passed before a click came from the door "WHO DISTURBS ZIM AT THIS-oh." Zim trailed off a bit "Keef...what the hell do you want?" he said his voice quieted down a bit.
Keef's mind raced he hadn't thought of an excuse,"uhm, yeah, Zim, I ran into a bit of a problem, and I was wondering if I could stay over here for the night?"
Zim looked at Keef, as though running an inspection on him in case he was up to some sort of trick "Sure, but only tonight" Zim stated "Zim's parent's are away and they'd probably freak if they knew I had a guest here" Zim opened the door the rest of the way in allowing Keef entrance
Keef knew Zim was lying, he probably didn't have parent's, he didn't think he had parents. He worried in his mind hoping Tak managed to get inside, "you can sleep on the couch" Zim pointed to the sofa before walking off "try not to be noisy or anything"
Keef looked around the room, what was taking Tak so long, he sat down on the couch trying not to bring much attention to himself "thanks Zim" he sat there in silence for a while wondering what was going to happen, suddenly there was a loud Scream.
Keef ran to the kitchen to find Zim knocked on the floor as Tak Sat over him, punching his head in. "This! is! for! Ruining! Our lives!" Tak yelled punching harder each time Zims face starting to bleed as Tak's fist began to get covered by blue splatters of blood. She kept punching, the noise started as thwacking sound and as the screaming and shrieking got quieter it started changing into a squishing squick noise, Keef gagged as the pungent odor of irken blood began filling the room, he let out a yelp of disgust as one of Zim's eye rolled out of his head and stopped at his foot.
Tak stood up from the disgusting mess, her hand now blue all over, bits of the blue blood stuck to her face as her disguise flickered off. "That almost makes him dead" She said turning the corpse over onto it's front
"You mean he's not dead all the way?" Keef said completly disgusted at the Sight of Zim's busted open face, blood streaming all over the floor, bits of brain matter showing, a nearly inaudible groan came from what was left of his mouth.
"this is keeping him alive" Tak stated pointing down at the back pack like device Zim always had on his back " his pak is gonna keep him alive so long as it's attached"
Keef nearly puked up his burrito "y-you mean-"
"Try not to think about it too much." Tak said as she placed her foot down on zim's lower back, pulling, the pak coming off with a loud wet ripping noise "you look like you're gonna puke enough as it is" she said the pak shuddering as she held it like one would hold a small animal " last thing I want is the smell of human bile mixing with that of irken brain gunk"
"what are we gonna do about that?" Keef asked pointing at the pak.
"This" she said pulling what looked like a small disk shaped magnet and placing it against the pak, a loud metallic whine pierced out from the pak before slowly dying down again "there, now the Galaxy is rid of Zim". And for a few seconds both teens were silent, Keef having no idea what to say while a freshly dead corpse lay face first on the floor.
"Master?"
I present something new for you guys to chew on, I found this pairing grew on me as I read the story "of food and drink" (that story is far more light hearted than what this is) something inside me made me enjoy the fic for reason I still don't totally comprehend. But alas, No one has done anything with this particular pairing, just about three fics and that's all, which is rather sad. So I made something of my own :D Yes, there will be a bit more angst-ish type stuff in the next chapter, but expect the over all darkness to drop down for the middle-ish part of the plot after chapter 2, I'm not gonna give everything away, but I'm just gonna say This should be quite a fun story.