Welcome to Barbed Wires! Part two, to An Irkin Halfbreed! And I know now... that I spelled the whole thing wrong! My bad... but anyways, yeah... oh! I'm so so soooo sorry LilXsandXkitten, I forgot to mention in the last chapter of An Irkin Halfbreed, she's the one who came up with the idea of Zim getting his memory back. ;;; awhoops! Anyways... ENJOYYYYY!
Chapter One: Stomping and cheering...
Zim's eyes opened as he realized he couldn't see anything. Only a small space was in the little box he was in, but the rest was pitch black to him. Closing his face in near the box, he looked out and saw where he was. As Renlia promised, he was going to be put to the test. The survival test. He couldn't see the track well... but so far it just seemed like an isle of dirt and two large metal doors up ahead. As he heard the crowd's stomping and cheering, Zim also heard Renlia speak up on the microphone. He turned around, "Well... seems that Renlia let out her wild side for the occasion..." Zim said, looking at her strangely. Apparently she was. Renlia's long red hair was raised in a pony tail that was messed up and made it look spiked. She wore punker clothes, like a black sleeveless top and skirt with fishnet stockings and combat boots with fingerless gloves on her hands. She looked as if she were the star of a rock concert. But that's just for her appearence, Renlia didn't like her old teenage clothes, but they were better than nothing...
"HELLO MEEKROB!" she cheered into the mic. "HOW ARE WE DOING TODAY?" The whole crowd screamed. Zim found them out of character.. But then again he didn't know what they did in their daily lives here. It was like a monster truck rally. Everyone was screaming. Just like before when Caline was almost dead...
"Let's give our fellow Irken, ZIM, a warm welcome!" she said as she signaled the guards.
Zim gave out a yell as the door he was leaning on flew open and he tumbled out onto a dirt terrain. He quickly gathered himself to his feet and looked around. He was in a narrow strip of ground, walls on both sides of him, very tall and out of his reach, the crowd hanging over the walls and throwing things at him. One was a pair of underwear...
"EWWW!!!" Zim screeched, kicking the old boxers off him. Once Renlia began to speak again, Zim paid no attention. All he knew was that his fate lie behind the large metal doors up ahead in the trail he was on, and he knew he had to go through them. Renlia's voice trailed off as did the screaming of the crowd when Zim went behind those doors. Once they closed the crowd's screaming cheered louder as two large screens turned on above the doors Zim just went through, showing him going through the corridors of a dark hallway with metal walls and doors, a faint blue light grew up ahead. Zim's eyes grew wide as he tried to adjust to the darkness. His antennas picking up sounds from everywhere, buzzing chainsaws, wood cutters, everything from each door he passed. But he decided to go strait, to the blue light that lie up ahead. Even though he had no clue what it went to...
Gir sat there chained to a wall. His antenna hang low as he heard the cheering. What was he to do? Gir's smile wasn't there as he usually smiled like the sun would never die. Zim's fate being said through that microphone a few stories upstairs wasn't good. Neither was it delightful to his little mind, if his master were to die, what was his purpose? If he didn't follow Caline... if he never even met her this would have never happened to him. Nor would it to Zim... Gir's eyes narrowed at the thought as he turned red. It's all her fault. It's all her doing. It's all her, her existence in this universe, her life that was always replaced with innocent ones to be on the line. Gir pulled on the shackles and chains, "ALL HER FAULT!" he yelled in his SIR unit's voice. He struggled with the chains and pulled on them, wondering what she was doing now. Laughing at Zim's death? No... she couldn't be... Zim killed her. He did kill her didn't he? She has no chance to survive, his mechanical leg went through her pak. It pierced her life force. She can't survive... can she? If she did... Gir would be happy. So if she wasn't sent to hell by Zim, that was good to Gir. That way he could send her there himself...
But that was Gir's lucky day...
Fain beeps rose and fell, just a few buildings away. Caline lie there on a bed, clenching the sheets with her claws out of pain. Heaving and coughing for breath as the doctors did their best to keep her alive, but that didn't help with that large wound in her stomach going all the way through her. All these machines helped her to breathe... helped her to live... if anything were to happen to the machines Caline would die. Her clenched claws loosened as her eyes widened, hearing her voice on the television across the room.
"Let's give our fellow Irkin, ZIM, a warm welcome." Caline heard Renlia shout. She listened intently to the words she spoke. All the events happening. When Caline's claws clenched the sheets again she began to hear Renlia say, "It appears that Zim's heading the wrong way if he wants to live. Instead of taking one of the doors, he's going strait? He doesn't know, that what lies ahead is the pit of chain whips and razor floors!" the crowd began to stomp and cheer again. Caline's chest rose off the table as she tried kicking herself into a stance. Her eyes closing as she struggled against the weight of the doctors' arms pushing her back down. Caline's eyes opened as she didn't stop struggling and she screamed and yelled at the top of her lungs, "DON'T GO TO THE LIGHT! ZIM PLEASE DON'T GO! DON'T GO, DON'T GO!!!!!" One of the doctors grabbed a needle and shoved it in her neck, knocking her out putting her to sleep. "Don't go... Zim, don't go... please, please don't go..." her voice trailed off and the beeps went back to normal. Her eyes closing and her claws letting go of the sheets. "Don't... go." she heaved one last time before her voice was completely trailed off. She was now asleep. The doctors sighed with relief and began walking around the room and slipping glances at the television, watching to see what happened next. Caline's eyes, closed as they were, flinched with worry. Even in her dreams she knew what was going on. And it wasn't good.
Zim's antennas perked up to the sound of razors spinning fast, like they're cutting wood. His eyes dared not look forward nor did he, but it was too late to go back. Each step he took caused a field to activate behind him, so if he needed to retrace his steps, he couldn't use his pak, it would be completely deactivated. And he needed it to live at that moment. Zim kept taking slow steps so to be cautious nothing bad would happen when he least expected it. But to his surprise, when he came to what made that ear splitting sound, he looked at a long, long, long hallway trailed with blood. But on the ground were chainsaws running extremely fast on the ground, while chain whips spun fast in the center of the hallways, also from the ceiling. But the gap between the poles supporting the chains as they whipped around was big enough for Zim to float through. Thinking a little, he decided to use his pak's shield. As it formed around his body, the wings shaped from his pak and he began floating in the gap's direction. Just one problem, right before he went through the shield was too large, he bumped right into the poles and jerked back, letting go of the shield and got whipped back where he started. But the field was activated. Zim felt his pak die on the spot. Thinking fast, he ran along the walls ducking and dodging, but began to fell.
Back at the hospital, as she sensed all of this immediately, Caline shot up. Her eyes were wide with fear, "ZIIIIM!!" she screamed out loud.
Zim could've sworn he heard Caline's scream, her voice calmed in a way. As his eyes that had the expression of calm grew to hatred at the thought of Renlia, he extended his mechanical legs on one of the chains and allowed him to be flung all the way down the hallway. As he landed on his rump and stood up turning around to look at the track, he began to study it. It appeared that the way for the Meekrobian to survive is for them to suck some of the energy out of the saws and chains and run down the hallway while they were limp. But the Meekrobian usually didn't make it before the energy was regained... Turning around and proceeding forward, Zim began to think back. When he was rescuing Caline the first time... the Irken he was assigned to rescue but never did. Tenn. As Zim walked he wondered about Tenn. Had they saved her? Where is she? Why couldn't they use Tenn instead anyway? Caline's not full human, what made her so special? Renlia's plot needed Caline's ability though... because she needed to go to earth and have a normal appearence. But a normal Meekrobian could do that. Here's the twist... Caline's job was to get permission to go on the Massive... a Meekrobian wouldn't stand a chance, for they'd be find out once they go through the DNA scanner, that's where Caline comes in handy. But why Caline? Why did Renlia put HER through the torture. He wouldn't let Tenn get hurt either but it just didn't make sense. Tenn is Irken too... and Renlia's plan didn't seem to come in order to him.
Caline watched the TV in fear, not moving another muscle. She knew things about this planet. The course is only two stages long, but the stages are rough. Zim almost died in the last stage. But the next one would be tougher. Renlia's words echoed through her antennas from three days before...
You'll have to die... to live.
It all made sense now... her eyes quivered as she forced back a tear. Zim didn't get it though... he didn't get it...
No he DIDN'T get it... Zim didn't see it, but he walked right into a drop... one that led him into another dirt terrain. As a few dim lights flickered on he looked around. It was rocky too... lots of blood and past soldier's guts were spread everywhere... Things Zim wish he'd never see in his life were scattered around. Heads, rotting flesh, all of it... his eyes draining, his skin pale he was scared. What was this? Zim took a step back as a soft rumble grew and grew until it swallowed the whole room into a rumbling state like an earthquake. Zim looked around. Die to live? Die to live... Die to live... Zim didn't get it. He ran behind a rock as a huge beast similar to the ones in Caline's nightmares, but even larger crawled it's way out. All of it's beady eyes shifting around, knowing that a presence was just entered. As it raised it's head to sniff the air for the scent of a young Irken... Zim swore he felt his heart leap out of his chest. What was that thing? As he peered around a rock the monster had spotted him and lunged towards him at incredible speed. Zim just barely dodged it but a rock that had flown up from the monster's impact on the ground landed on him.
"No! Stop you hideous beast!" cried a voice. Zim looked across the room, where a torn up Meekrobian stood. His chest was heaving up and down. It was then Zim knew that this Meekrobian had been hiding from the beast in the dirt terrain to hid his scent. The monster roared and slowly crawled it's way towards the Meekrobian, his fangs stretching forward and barely touching his neck. It was all a threat... a huge threat... Zim watched this in horror. The Meekrobian took a rock that was clenched in his hand and threw it at the largest eye mounted on the beast's head. The angry animal roared and flung around, rearing its head up. It's long, thick tail flung around the Meekrobian who was at least proud to last a minute in that point of the test. The tail tightened its grip like a python. Zim winced as he watched the poor Meekrobian having it's guts squished out. The monster then took the limp body and ripped it in half, taking both sides of the head into it's mouth and flinging it around like a puppy does with it's first catch. Some of the chunks of flesh shot out and rained onto the floor as did blood. Zim thought he was going to barf, for that made him realize the rotting stench of the past Meekrobians laying around here just rotting in this hell. His eyes narrowed as he looked at the beast. It swallowed the Meekrobian by now, but it had seen Zim's antenna's from behind the rock. The monstrous creature lunged again, but Zim was aware this time. He leapt high in the air, pushing off the mechanical legs in his pak for support. The monster's tail whipped up instantly and wrapped around the mechanical legs. As Zim was flung into the monsters mouth in an instant he was being chewed up.
Caline thought she'd have a heart attack... Gir listened by the voices above him... he still blamed her for it all. Caline's eyes quivered, the tears running down her eyes from watching this. Watching it all.
While he had the chance of being put together, Zim planted a bomb from his pak onto the monster's tongue. Then laid perfectly still. The monster got bored, not being able to feel him struggling. It spat Zim out and peered at him. Zim, not even a breath came from him... The monster turned around, walking back towards the cave it emerged from. Zim finally got it... Die to live. You had to play dead! Zim smiled to himself but holding his breath still. As he heard a huge explosion and the cave collapse, he started breathing again. Looking at the cave he made sure the huge thing was dead. Taking another look at it, he shrugged like all of it was nothing and walked out. Renlia's voice sounded somewhat frustrated on the microphone. She threw the voice contraption into the audience and glanced at Zim. Zim had his hands on his knees, bending down and breathing hard like he had ran a mile. The crowd cheered little but still gave him a hand. Renlia looked below at Zim, a look that meant he wasn't finished. As a human Monique made her way to Renlia she whispered to her. Zim looked at them both with anticipation. "Take Zim to the chambers... the dungeon chambers..." Zim growled and was about to say something til' a figure in a black cloak grabbed both of his hands and held them to his back. The claws clenching them so tightly he thought they would break. As Zim was pushed to the dungeons and thrown into his Chamber the figure turned around. "What are you doing here..." The figure turned around, the hood over the head the whole time, the shaded blackness of it's shadow seemed to fade a bit. Zim took a deep breath and looked at the floor, "Answer my question... Tak."
Yup! Surprised entry? I thought it would be... Anyways I'm proud to say that I finally got this one done! You know how long it took?! About two weeks... xD I know, I know... I'm lazy... at times...