Tallest Black

Chapter 2

Zim laid in his bed, thinking about the day's events. He had discovered the now living body of Almighty Tallest Black. Wait till the Tallests find out about this. He thought. Zim smiled at the thought of the Tallest confronting Black. She was a legendary 9 feet and 3 inches tall. Tallests Red and Purple were about 5 to 6 feet or so. The small video played in his head.

Tallest Purple laid down on the couch in the Tallests suite. Red then burst in the room, paranoid. Purple sat up. "What's wrong?" he asked his friend. Red paced around the room and looked toward Purple. "Zim is back, and guess who he just found." Red said in a tone filled with fear. "Who." Purple asked, confused. "Tallest Black!" "What!" "Exactly! She was supposed to be dead thousands of years ago!" Purple got up and went over to Red. "But, it's impossible how she came back to life! Those aliens, they killed her and brought her back to the empire and displayed her corpse for all to see! After kidnapping her, that is…" Red looked toward the floor and his antenna drooped , lost in thought. "I know, it said so in the legends." His antenna perked up as remembered something he had learned when he was a smeet. "It also said in the legends that they took her body away and no one has found it! Tallest Black's partner in reign, Tallest Kez, said that any one who found her body would be declared as Tallest beside her or after her, if she died before Black was found!" Red looked at Purple with wary eyes. "This means-" "That Zim could be declared Tallest beside us!" Purple finished his sentence. "Yes." Red sighed. Purple tried to create plans on how to kill Zim at Red's comment. He started pacing. "We could kill him! Eject him into space in a distant galaxy! Shoot him! Stab him! Pry his pack off! We can't let him be a tallest! He'd ruin the empire!" Purple almost yelled, zooming around the room.

Zim could just see the image… He smiled and laughed evilly in his head. He knew the Tallest would have to let him reign. Tallest Kez had put it in the law. 'If any irken, short or tall, would find an irken tallest, they would reign. But it had to be stated that there was a search out for the tallest in order for it to work. The tallest needing searching doesn't need to be alive, for we would give them a proper ceremony to their deathbed. The reigning Tallests have no power with or against this law, this law cannot be changed or erased to fit a Tallests' or an irken's wishes.' That is what the law stated. Zim couldn't wait for his next electronic meeting with the Tallests…

Black laid on her back inside Zim's ship, Gir curled up in her arms. She cradled him like a child would a teddy bear. Thoughts streamed through her head. What would the irkens do? Who were the current Tallests? What would they do when she returned? Who they give their throne to her? What would they do when they found out she was human… After a Tallest returned from a trip or from being kidnapped, they doctors always checked the Tallest's blood. They had never checked her blood before and human DNA was recognized as well as irken DNA in their computer. Irkens wouldn't risk their pure bloodline being messed up by human DNA and would destroy any trace of it. They would take out the human DNA in an irken, but there was so much in Black that it would kill her to take it out. They would have no choice but to murder their own Tallest.

Tears formed in Black's tear ducts. She let them loose and they flowed down her green skin. Her skin didn't burn, for she was mostly human. Her chest heaved as she sobbed and she put her hand on her face, closing her eyes. Gir was wakened by the noise she made. He looked up at her with confusion. "Why are you crying?" he asked, tilting his head slightly. Black looked at him through her fingers. He tried to wrap his arms around her to comfort her as best as he could. "I don't wanna die, Gir. I can't let them kill me." Black sobbed as though talking to herself. "Who's gonna kill you?" Gir asked with more confusion. Black didn't answer him, though. Instead she picked him up and put him on the floor, she then sobbed louder than ever. Gir, for once, knew what to do. He scurried toward the front of the ship, opened the door and scurried to the tent just outside, Black's sobbing was heard from inside the ship. Gir was getting Zim.

Zim sat up in his bed talking to Dib. The two were just getting into a good conversation when they heard the door to the ship open and someone sobbing their eyes out. Zim heard a squeaking noise and knew it was Gir running to them. Sure enough, Gir tripped on the tent flaps and fell in. He got up quickly and scurried over to Zim, pulling on his master's clothes. "Master! Black is sad and she won't stop crying! She says that someone is gonna kill her! Who is it! Master! Who is it?" Gir cried franticly. Zim looked at Dib with a let's-go-quick look on his face. Dib got the message and followed as Zim went out of the tent. The three of them, Zim, Dib and Gir, could hear Black sobbing in the ship. Zim rushed inside, for fear that the skin of his Tallest was burning off as I speak. Dib followed close behind, dragging Gir along. Zim was the first to find Black, she was curled up in a ball on the couch he had installed in the back. Tears were scattered in puddles on the couch and Black was the source. Zim was surprised not to see her steaming though. He sat beside her, avoiding the tears as best he could, and tried to calm her by speaking to her. "What's wrong?" he asked, sounding like a therapist. She sat up, her back still facing him, and was hunched over her lap. "When I go back, they're gonna kill me!" she choked out through her sobbing. "Who's gonna kill you." Zim replied gently. Zim was wonderful in battle, but he could be quite gentle at times. "The empire!" Black half-wailed half-sobbed. "They'll kill me when they find out I'm human!" Zim then stopped dead, his jaw slight dropped. He couldn't say a thing. Almighty Tallest Black was human! The Almighty Tallest Black! Human! He couldn't move, he was so shocked. The greatest and tallest irken leader in invader history was actually a human.

That was when Dib entered the room. He saw Zim partly paralyzed, Black sobbing her eyes out and immediately knew that something was wrong. "What happened." He said. Zim still couldn't speak, therefore he couldn't tell Dib what had happened. Black looked at Dib. Tears ran down her face. Dib sat in front of her. "What happened to Zim." Dib stated. Black saw Zim partly paralyzed from her confession. She then looked back at the human. "I told him my secret." She whispered tears slowly escaping her. "And what's that." Dib somewhat asked. Black hesitated for about 10 seconds. "I'm human." Dib was shocked, but not paralyzed as Zim had been. He had wondered why he felt so attached to her! She was human too! Black began her story. "I was one of the Egyptian palace servants back when your 'Jesus H. Christ' was born."

I'm sorry I wasn't on FFN for a long time! New chappy is coming! 'The days of Old ' That's what it's called. R&R!