Hello! And welcome to the sequel to my story 'Irken in Love'. If you have not read the original story you may be confused at some of the personality changes that have happened for our favorite characters. I know I would have been. That's why I wrote the other one first! Haha! Method to my madness.
Anyway I hope you enjoy this. First rule to my stories: I don't know where it's going until I get there. So if you think you know what's going to happen then you're a much better guesser than me.
Sit back! Relax! And enjoy!
Chapter 1 - 6 o'clock Waffles!
It was around 4AM when Zim awoke, but the earth star was shining brightly into his eyes. That wasn't a surprise though. The only time the moon avoided that star was during a lunar eclipse. He had stopped on the planet's orbiter for a short rest. A star in the local quadrant had recently been sending out large amounts of microwave activity. This had led to a rise in in calls for the rescue and repair service he ran. His earthling partner had created a program to track the output of the problematic star, thus allowing him to avoid sustaining damage to his own ship.
It had been two years since the two of them had gone through the earth ceremony called a 'wedding' and Zim hated every minute that kept him away from her. The only reason he had not rushed home after this last job was the clocks on his home side of the planet. Kam worked hard at the earth labs and he knew she needed all the sleep she could get.
Irkens didn't require the amount of sleep that humans did, but he found the time to be a relaxing habit. It gave him time to organize his thoughts which was an incredibly difficult thing for him. Zim wasn't like most Irkens, as he constantly had to remind himself. He was a Defective. This meant the programing on his I.D. PAK was flawed. And a good PAK was everything to an Irken.
Zim stretched his stiff muscles. He'd been gone for two days. A call had come in from a Vort supply transport ship. The effects of the over-active star had prevented their systems from seeing that asteroid on the side of the ship. It had scraped away a part of their hull. Zim had been forced to fly full speed in order to reach them before the ship imploded.
He missed home. He decided to wait one more hour then return just before the humans normally awoke for their daily morning rituals.
5:54AM Zim docked the Voot Cruiser in the roof of their apparently-small earth dwelling. He hoped he hadn't woken Kam but knew, with how loud docking was, he probably had. He grabbed some broken/spare parts he had gotten from his latest job and took them down to repair deck 5 where he fixed his various robots. Not in the mood to attempt any repairs he took the elevator back up to the dwelling's entrance/kitchen.
Kam was sitting at the kitchen table poking at her waffles. She didn't even notice he had come in. Zim came up behind her and hugged her.
"Oh hey you're back." She said giving him a kiss on the cheek. "How'd it go?"
"Ok. I towed them to a nearby planet so they could balance the ship's atmospheric pressure. From there they pretty much had the tools to do the rest."
"So what'd you get this time?" She was referring to how he was paid. With Zim banished from the Irken empire, and most of the universe running on the Irken monitory system he had to come up with an alternative method of payment.
"Enough fuel cells to run this whole planet for 20 years and some spare robot parts."
"Did they have the one you needed?"
Zim shook his head. GIR needed a new adapter for his artificial intelligence chip. Until Zim found one the poor little robot would just sit in the repair room collecting dust.
"Aww. I'm sorry hun. Well anyway, Dib called yesterday. He says he needs to talk to us about something."
"If it's another ghost I swear I'll use that hallucination ray, and put the setting so high that the monkey actually realizes he's insaneā¦"
Kam just laughed and told Zim even if he tried, it probably wouldn't work. While Kam got dressed Zim got himself ready with his disguise. When they were both ready, they left their abnormal home and headed over to Dib's house. Zim smiling the whole way hopeful he would get to use the ray he had stored in his PAK.
I've gotten a little too obsessed with writing lately. I can't help that I find it fun and relaxing! Gah! I should really do some homework! Or sleep... sleep is good too.
Side comment. I made the picture for this story. I know "Don't Brag!" But I want to! I had fun making that! I drew it in my sketchbook then messed with it on my computer and got awesome colors. Leave a message if it looks good!
Chapter 2 comming soon!
