Chapter 6
8:30 the next morning began like revelry at a boot camp. First down in the ship was of course Gaz and Zim. While Dib was out getting Zita on the way Devi and Johnny came in and set themselves up in their quarters on the ship. Zim began to prep the ship by starting the power care and warming up the engines.
A voice from behind him startled him a bit.
"Zim how along are from takeoff." Gaz came up behind him and sat down on the passenger seat.
"If your brother and his mate return in due time, I wouldn't expect any more than six minutes." They sat there in silence for a few seconds awkwardly until Gaz broke the silence.
"Did you enjoy your time here on Earth well for the small amount of time that you been here?" He did not really understand why she was asking him this perhaps to provoke conversation and break silence.
"For what it has been Gaz human my whole reason for my presence here is a complete lie. You above all know that and what that means to me, as to my feelings toward this planet it's like this. It's a shit ball Gaz human this place deserves to be destroyed. Although this place has a lot of beauty in it there are some redeeming qualities about it." Throughout the conversation Zim was keeping his eyes on the monitor not looking at Gaz.
"Yes Zim this planet is a complete shit hole but like you said there is beauty here (holding up her Game Slave) and it's the shit. By the way Zim why of all things to do for a peace offering why give me a most coveted video game?" Zim flabbergasted by her question he turned to look at her staring into her hazel eyes covered slightly by her violet hair.
Caught completely off guard by this Zim did not know how to answer the question. Harmonizing to him Gaz was the head of the Membrane household and most deserving an offering. Maybe that wasn't true in the depths of him Zim always found Gaz a bit alluring like a most feared female Irkin. The way she was at school every student and most of the teachers feared her as she was evil incarnate. Finding that very attractive to him that a single female could produce mass fear Zim kept his distance from her out of profound respect.
"Well I always saw you interacting with one so I got you one." Gaz turned her head to a side like a dog that heard a funny sound.
"You studied me at school that's fucking stupid."
"Uh no Gaz human no, it was simply a general overview of the days procedure." Very quickly Zim recovered from that comment.
"So answer the question Zim why you got me the Game Slave 3 and how did you get it, it was all sold out everywhere and it was the collector's edition." She looked into Zim's eyes, good god those eyes they burned holes into his.
"To acquire the object I went to the company that makes them and killed a worker and stole the game from him." A smirk appeared on Gaz's face at the conclusion of the comment.
"You killed a worker to get me a game that's pretty fucking brutal." a smaller almost invisible smirk appeared on Zim's face.
"I guess I consider it an even trade after I moved in you told me something that changed me and kept me from leaving and disappearing into the void of space."
"What, I just told you that you can master your own destiny and how you should not let anything or anyone rule over you." She looked at Zim very intensely wondering what he was getting at.
"Yes, it's just that without you saying that to me and keeping me company probably saved my life. To totally and truly answer your question I guess I kind enjoy your planet now that you have said that." She moved a little closer to him.
"Gotta say this Zim you are an idiot and a bit of a failure but you defiantly have a way with words." For a long time Gaz had a bit of a crush on Zim ever since he used to beat the shit out of Dib on a regular basis. Emotions to Gaz, showing them other than anger was useless to her. For some reason her emotions came out in front of Zim like compassion for example.
Moving a bit closer to Gaz, Zim's two hearts began beating out of control. Romance was the main thing that Zim had no experience with Irkin coupling was just an arrangement to produce more soldiers. When he read about human courtship it was completely strange to him. Now they were inches from each other Zim heard of a activity that humans do often and he also caught Dib and his mate Zita doing at a time of privacy, they called it kissing an act to where you put your mouth hole against your mates mouth hole. Guessing it was something proper to do Zim decided to give it a try.
Just as their lips were about touch the little robot Gir ran up behind them.
"MASTER, MASTER IT'S THE DIB HUMAN AND HIS MATE ZITA WE CAN LEAVE NOW!" They divided from each other and looked back to each other and gave each a small smirk.
When Dib and Zita entered the ship Gaz walked back to her quarters and closed the door. Not saying a word Zim started the engines.
"How are we going to get out of here Zim I understand that the inside here is limitless from the device but the outside if we leave we will destroy my house." Dib sat down next to Zim scratching his head but Zim looked at him like he was ready to talk to a child.
"There is an application with the space distortion device that when I set it to overload it will explode… (Dib began to get ready to start yelling at Zim) wait Dib human the explosion can be directed and is harmless. Think of a wormhole going through a planet that is what we are going to do. With that we are going to use the planets gravity to propel us out into space near the speed of light."
"Oh that's pretty fucking cool Zim."
"Yeah I suppose it is so get yourself buckled in back there so we can get the fuck out of here." Dib went into the back with everyone else and buckled in. Moments later they all felt like they were falling but where just standing still.
Blinding light filled the entire ship from the windows then a second later there were in open space heading to a supply station. Putting that ship in auto pilot Zim walked to the back of the ship to the others. Sitting down around everyone he began to recap the entire plan.
"Ok here is what going to happen first we are going to a supply depot. Forewarn yourselves most of the creatures at the rest areas are very hostile so just keep your distance from them. Keep this in mind in all honesty I didn't mean for this to happen if you all just want to stay there and acquire a residence here. Don't worry about pay they will listen to me for I am Irkin you don't need to come with me and die most likely…" Both Dib and Johnny stopped him in the middle of his sentence.
"Look man we wouldn't be here if we didn't want to. You are different now and we know that and you know that we trust you and I and everyone else here is proud to call you my friend we will die together if we need to."
"Yeah and don't worry I don't die very easily Zim."
"Thank you Dib and Johnny human that meant more than you know. For now I guess I will go to rest for it will be a while until we get there good evening." Zim said as he went off to bed.
Zita walked over to the food counter in the meeting area to grab a toaster strudel.
"Does anyone else want one?" everyone passed they all knew in the bottom of their hearts that their time is wearing thin.
"Well I guess we will go out with a bang huh Dib." Devi said as she held her face with her hand.
"There has got to be some other races out there that hate the Irkins." Zita said while munching on her pastry.
"I don't know honey I just don't know perhaps all the other races just accept defeat perhaps all other races are under developed and can't hope to defeat them."
"Maybe we can influence others on this space depot to our cause it has been done before like in the Lord of the Rings." Zita said letting her geekyness show yet again Dib and everyone smiled at this.
"You have my bow." Devi said pretending to have on in her hand and holding it up in the air.
"And my AXE." Johnny said doing his best Gimly impression they all laughed.
"That's not a bad idea but what about Zim they won't help us if he is an Irkin." Devi said going back to holding her face with her hand.
Gir entered the room and jumped up on the table.
"Me and my master dress up if we do not want to be seen one time he dressed as a hobo." The silly little robot suddenly made a lot of sense to them.
"Dib babe are you thinkin what I'm thinkin." Grabbing his fiancé and kissing her he knew just what to do.
"Zita you read my mind, Devi get your clothes and get Gaz we have a disguise to make." They all dispersed leaving Gir alone in the room with the half eaten pastry.
"MR. PASTRY MEET MY MOUTH." Gir gobbled it up and pranced out of the room.