Finally done with it, I had to fight my age old nemesis, the dreaded writers block, at first but it all end up okay LOL
Disclaimer-because I can XP
"Alright, I'll go…" Words he'll soon both thankful for and regret… strange combo huh?
Dib, wanting to meet the person who would actually LIKE Zim at all, decided to ask if he could tag along with them... for someone… anyone to like Zim... Like that…. Chills ran up his spine thinking of Zim doing anything of that fashion, I think I barfed a little.
"Could I come, I want to know what's going on with alien meetings happening on MY home planet…" He crossed his arms expectantly.
"No, filthy worm baby!" Zim exclaimed… at least he would have if Skoodge hadn't clamped his hand over his mouth and spoke first.
"Sure, at least one inhabitant of this world should know what's going to happen if something's not done." Skoodges sentence ended in confusion on what he meant for both Zim and Dib.
"Wait what?" Dib broke the silence that had fallen.
"This world and more are in danger, But, She said that she has a plan to stop it all. She's going to explain everything that's going on, I'm not even completely sure myself. So we've just got to go to her base she's made in an empty field not far out of the city. It's somewhere out past the forest." He explains as he walked over to his voot signaling for them to follow him, they all climbed in just as he finished.
"Weehehehehe!" Gir laughed hopping in onto Zim's lap who patted the sweet little robot on his head.
In all the confusion that is Skoodges appearance night fell and Skoodge had to turn his voots headlights on to see. He flew over houses then taller buildings within the city. Flying high until they came to the forest, Skoodge lowered the Voot steadily.
They were silent the whole flight, even Gir. A sense of foreboding filled both Zim and Dib. Dib because he was worried about the information he'd receive might mean the ending of humanity; For Zim it was because he'd have to face his mate, don't get him wrong he loves her, but she can be scary when she wants to be.
After a short while they came to what seemed to be an abandoned warehouse in the middle of nowhere on the other sides of the forest showing up over the horizon no lights were on.
It was just where Skoodge said it was over the forest, Dib took note to make sure he could find his way back here if the need arose.
"So, what's your mate like Zim?" Dib tried to start a conversation.
"Why bother asking, you're about to find out…" Zim replied unenthused at his attempts at being social with him at that moment, when he was freaking out on the inside at having to face his mate. He was about to be freaking out on the outside too. If Dib didn't keep his mouth shut, Zim's stress would be all over his face in the form of bruises and bite-marks, not to mention a black eye.
"Alright sheesh…" He instead turned to Skoodge.
"About how much longer until we get there?" He asked.
"In no time at all, literally…" They had just landed and Dib felt like an idiot.
"Oh, guess I wasn't paying attention just now heh…"
Zim was seriously freaking now, darting eyes, hunched into a sitting up fetal position holding onto his knees and his quivering lips spoke of his fears. She may be his lover, no doubts about that (Zim you dog you lol) But his fear of her, FOR her, was overwhelming.
His biggest fear was, 'what if she cried?' He hated it when she cried, it tore him to shreds.
Ever since the accident, the accident that was his entire fault; her tears, her screaming, how she reached for him despite her pain. He could never get it out of his head, out of his mind. He made her lose her eye, she could never see with that eye again and he still felt guilty about it 25 years later.
He flashed into the moment it happened He couldn't remember exactly what they argued about, something stupid obviously, and his fault.
He was being dumb; he insulted her for some reason. She got really angry then and slapped him right across the face paralyzing him for a moment while she left and he stared after her in shock. When she was out of sight he got furious thinking 'How dare she slap the mighty ZIM!' He didn't know how much his words hurt her; she was going off to cry in her bed chamber…
He went back to the dumb thing he'd been doing that she'd tried telling him not to, because it was too dangerous. 'The chemicals are too unstable she says' He scoffs 'The mighty Zim can handle anything I tell you anything!' He mixed the vials that she had taken away from him earlier trying to stop him 'From getting himself killed, only a professional should handle these serums' she had said before.
The concoction bubbled. 'HA! This is so easy a smeet could do it' He commented just before it overflowed onto his glove, he screamed, "Ahh It Burns!" and out of instinct threw the beaker. It flew forth and splashed on his work table, breaking the other containers like acid, melting the glass and part of table.
He lost his trail of thought, explosions happened and fires had started and he found himself on his partially melted desk. He'd tripped and fell, an explosion getting his head knocking him down was the cause of his sudden blackness and his antennae smashed, lying unconscious on his table.
He woke on the floor to hear screaming next to him, but the screaming sounded distant his hearing was messed up and there was ringing in his head. He looked down after getting up, holding his head from the pain echoing in his head. What he saw made him regret every word he said to her, her eye was slowing losing its color.
Tears streaming out of both eyes, the tears in the afflicted eye seeming to cause even greater hurt, she screamed. Her right hand flew out; he knew it was looking for him to hold she was so scared. Even though this was his fault she still looked to him for comfort… to hold her, that's what he did.
He picked her up and got her out, guilt riddling every step. Her struggling in his grip telling him how much pain she was in, how much pain and suffering he'd caused her 'Why didn't I just listen to her?', the thought made him cringe. 'Why am I so stupid?' Was his first thought when they told him that her eye couldn't be saved, and he cried not saying a word, thinking over and over that he didn't deserve an irken like her when all he did was hurt her.
He didn't even care that the Tallest said that he wasn't good enough to have his hearing repaired, he didn't care about hearing. It's not like he could before. He didn't even use his hearing back when he did have it, if he had, he would have listened to her and this wouldn't have happened, he wouldn't have hurt her.
It hurt even more because she stayed with him, she still smiled his way, and she still held him close when she wanted comfort, it was worse when she held him to help comfort him from his own pains.
'It's fine really, I've still got one good eye Zim, it's not like it was my 'favorite eye' or something.' She wiped another of his tears away.
'It's not fine, it was my fault! ...I hurt you; I'm just a defective Irken moron who doesn't deserve you.' He turned away from her hand like her touching it would cause her pain.
'You are a moron Zim, but you're MY moron, and don't ever forget that, and never say that you don't deserve me,' she brought his face back to hers gently and swiped the newest tears away, but this time by kissing them away.
'Have you forgotten how I was the one who asked you to be my mate first or something?' She giggled at his flushed face, it was tradition that the male asked the female, but he could never work up the courage, so she did it for him... In public, everyone stared, she had planned it all of course, it was her favorite pass time to embarrass him, and she said it was cute when he blushed.
"Zim, earth to Zim…" Dib sighed thinking. 'Better idea' he muttered to himself then yelled in Zim's face. "IRK TO ZIM!" He snapped his fingers, bringing Zim right out of memory lane and straight back into the present.
"WAAH!" Zim screamed, surprised and looked around, remembering where he was after a moment of composing himself as best he could.
"Come on guys!" Skoodge called from the entrance of the building, "They should be waiting inside for us!"
"So, do they know I'm coming?" Dib asked walking up beside him, Zim lagged behind a little.
"No, I WOULD have told them ahead of time but my communicator is down in my voot and my personal pack communicator is broken because of a certain human who TACKLED ME…." He said trying to keep his voice even.
"Oh heh right, sorry about that." Dib, again, felt like an idiot.
"Come on Zim, you'll have to face her sooner or later!" Skoodge called because Zim was walking so slowly.
"When you say 'sooner or later' do I get a choice?"
"No Zim, it's a figure of speech and you know it, stop avoiding it!" He called as if he knew Zim would ask that.
The moon shone through the dusty windows, how could this place be an alien base? Dib thought, wondering just where the meeting was.
"Here we are," Skoodge answered Din unvoiced question. He opened a lone door to a high tech elevator and they went down. This was just like Zim's base, but ten times bigger; it took up the whole of the field even to the forest, Dib gaped at the enormity of the base.
"Sorry about the delay and for the extra member…" Skoodge glanced at Dib like he was a setback, which, in this case, he really was.
"What! I said I was sorry!" He whined.
Zim was looking everywhere but straight ahead, pretending he was just looking at the interior of the room and paying great attention to a large wire running along the length of the roof. Anything but looking at her, anything but facing her pitch black eye that he'd caused. If she wasn't mad at him already she was now, he just knew it.
After waiting for a moment she decided to take care of the conversation before chewing Zim out for faking death, and now he's avoiding eye contact.
"Yes, well as long as we're all here I should start to explain what's going on, but first I would like an explanation of this human being present, for him even knowing about this."
"Well, you see, I've known about aliens for a long time, and I just want to know what's going on, it's my home after all…" Dib was suddenly sheepish.
"I thought there should at least be one inhabitant of this world that knew what was happening." Skoodge added.
"I trust your judgment Skoodge, and you're sure you want to know, it may come as a big shock." He just nodded confidently.
"Well, the tallest are planning to send all defects, a.k.a all the overly short irkens to earth, banishing them all here. Then, after two or three years have passed, Depending on when they complete Operation Impending Doom 2, they will blow up earth to kill us all." Zim didn't look at her but still gasped.
"But, why would they do that!" Dib yelled, walking up and slamming his hands onto the overly large oval meeting table.
"It's all to celebrate Zim's death…" She stood while she whispered, looking down. Zim clenched his eyes shut; Gir stayed silent, squeezing Zim's hand to say that he was there for him.
"Wait, why are you here then, you're not short at all, you're as tall as me?" Dib accused, though he sounded quite baffled.
Zim's head snapped to look at his mate, she was indeed taller, but he could tell it was her because of her left eye. His vision went black and he fainted.
Everyone's eyes went wide, especially Zim's mates good eye, her black stayed neutral, having no feeling left to move.
Tenn was the first to ask the question.
"What just happened?"
"Wow, I haven't seen Zim faint since that day when I asked him to be my mate…." She slowly started speaking, giggling out her sentence.
"He fainted from the shock of me being taller, Skoodge, didn't you tell him?"
"I guess it must've slipped my mind." He admitted honestly.
"Well, now I'll have to wait to tell you my plan, I don't like repeating myself too often." She said walking around to where Zim was and lifted him and Gir up, cradling them like two children.
"I guess I'll take this as an opportunity to show you all to your living quarters for the night." She motioned for them to follow, Dib walking right up and fell into stride next to this surprisingly tall irk.
"So, about you being tall…?" He asked awkwardly.
"It's more newly acquired, I used to be even shorter than Zim, I've created a serum that makes irkens taller, it's all part of the plan." They walked on for a bit more.
"So, I'll have to find you a room, if you plan on staying for the night." She glanced over to Dib with her good eye; luckily he was walking on her right side.
"Sure, not like anyone will notice that I'm gone, they never pay attention to what I do…"
"Okay then…" she could hear the true meaning behind his words, no one cared.
"Hey," Dib turned to her, trying to get away from those awkward words he said not long ago.
"What do you seen in Zim?" He asked the question that had been nagging him for a while.
"What don't you see?" Was her answer and all it did was confuse him.
Gir climbed onto her head and started humming, she giggled.
"Oh wait!" He stopped, "I just realized I didn't introduce myself I'm Dib, you?"
"It's Zexi, nice to meet you Dib." They shook hands.
See what I did there! XD Her name rhymes with sexy, because that's what she is!
thank you all for liking my story, i had no idea that this story would be such a hit!