Tolerance

Have you ever wondered why Zim is the way he is? While working together on a project about the holocaust Dib learns how cruel Irkens can be and of a hell Zim had to escape.

Dib rushed around his house trying to hide anything Zim would mess with. He looked at the clock and swore when he saw that Zim was going to be there any minute. Dib groaned when he heard the doorbell ring. Dib opened the door. He didn't look at Zim just told him, "Come in and don't touch anything" Zim walked into the house and pulled off his hood. He wasn't wearing a disguise. "Oh what are you trying to expose yourself now?"

"Shut up Dib-Human I don't want to be here just as much as you don't want me here" Zim replied sitting down. Dib noticed that Zim's antennas where down flat against his head, and he seemed a little down. "Now I have been researching about this 'Holocaust' or whatever you humans call it and-"

"What are you sorry that you didn't think of it sooner?"

"Zim would never do such a thing"

"I thought you wanted to take over the world? Wouldn't it just be easier to but a bunch of humans into camps and kill them one by one?"

Dib expected Zim to grab Dib by the collar and slammed him into a wall but Zim just sat on the couch. "Zim would never do such a thing after what I have gone though"

Dib stared and Zim and continued to mock him. "What could you have possibly gone though that was so horrible"

Zim slowly sat down on Dibs couch. "There was once a time in Irken history referred only as the 'great sorting' Irkens that were defects meaning too short, that didn't have the right color eyes or skin, and other full alien races were all sorted into this category. They were then sent to Hobo 14 and I Dib-stink was among them." Dib slowly slipped on the couch next to Zim. "Your Holocaust killed a few million. The Great Sorting killed Trillions. I watched innocent smeets die. I watched people die simply because that were from the wrong race" Zim started to choke up. "I was the only one who escaped. Everyday I pray that this is the worse thing the tallest can do to me. I'm not here to take over this planet; I'm just here until the Tallest can kill me. They shut down my base and Gir. They're sending someone to kill me. By the time you hear this I will be dead"

Dib was confused, so he tried to put his hand on Zim's shoulder and his hand went right through. The hologram then faded away. Dib stood shocked. He looked at his hand. It was in that moment that he realized how cruel Irkens could really be