Chapter 6
ZIM
"Good morning Mommy and Daddy!" Zia said jumping up and down on our bed.
I sat up and unplugged my charging cord.
"Hey sweetie. Happy Birthday." Gaz said sitting up.
I grabbed her, tickled her, and said, "Now how old are you today? 20? 50?"
She laughed and said, "Silly Daddy I'm 8 today!" She smiled.
I heard a slight clank in the kitchen, and followed by, "Mastah Zia! I got you somethin!"
I yelled, "GIR we're in here."
The small robot ran in with a plate of waffles.
"Oh no." Gaz and I said at the same time. "Don't worry, Mimi helped him. Right Mimi?"
She moved like a shadow in to the room. "Yes madam, how you know?"
Zia shrugged her shoulders and began to eat the waffles.
"Why don't you take that to the kitchen sweetie." Gaz said.
Zia held her waffles and used her PAK legs to get to the kitchen.
"I never thought of doing that." I said.
"She seems to have like a sixth sense when it comes to tech." Gaz said getting out of bed.
"Is that normal for Irkens?"
I said, "No, well none that I have ever met."
I heard Zia yell, "Dad! Come here! The Tallest are at the door!"
I pressed a button and my clothes came on.
I ran to the door, "Hello My Tallest, what can I do for you?"
Red responded, "We would like to see the city today."
Zim looked at Zia and back up at The Tallest, "I'm sorry but could we do this tomorrow?"
Purple glared at me, "What could be more important that showing us the city?"
Zia stepped up and said, "Today is my birthday!"
They raised a eyebrow, "Birthday?"
I explained, "A birthday is celebrating one's birth and honoring them for living another year. This is her 8th year."
They both went, "Oooooooo."
Red spoke, "I suppose we could see the city tomorrow, but we want to see these festivities."
Zia grabbed two pieces of paper an handed to them.
"What's this?"
Purple said looking at the small drawings of them and the word "party" written in Irken on them.
"These are invitations, I made them for you. I drew you guys on there but, Dad is much better at drawing."
We looked at Zim.
She grabbed our hands and brought us in front of a painting on the wall.
"See, Dad is a really good artist." They stared at the painting I did at the talent show long ago.
"Zim...This is...unbelievable..." said Red looking at the painting.
Gaz stepped out of her room, with her usual black dress and red leggings on, but instead of wearing her gray long sleeve under shirt, she wore a grey under shirt that had a t-shirt look to it.
"I see you have, brought in our guess, Zia." Gaz said.
Zia smiled and nodded.
Gaz pulled out a box with blue wrapping paper, "Your grandpa couldn't make it, he had some importaint work to do, but he did send this."
Zia grabbed the box and ripped off the paper,
"Oh wow!" she smiled pulling out a pair of glasses and gloves.
"It's grandpa's virtual game system!" she said.
"Didn't he say that it wouldn't be done for months." She asked.
Gaz replied, "He told you that so you would be surprised."
She smiled.
The Tallest looked at me.
"Zim? Can you come outside for a second?" said Purple.
I nodded and went outside.
"Zim! We need a present! What do we give her?"
Zim smiled, "She likes just about anything, I'm giving her a voot I built."
They looked in awe.
Then GIR and Mimi ran by with Zia running behind them yelling, "GIR! Give me my new game back!"
Purple smiled and said, "I got it!"
He whispered to Red.
Red smiled and said, "Perfect idea Purple!"
It was time for the party.
Gaz, Zia, and I made our way to the clearing.
I blindfolded Zia so she couldn't see her present.
I removed her blindfold, as soon as Zia saw my present she screamed with joy.
She ran up to the light pink voot and looked at the irken lettering that read, Zia.
Zia looked at me and said, "Dad! You made this! For me?"
I smiled and said, "Happy Birthday Zia."
The Tallest, Tak, Dib, Tagien, GIR, and Mimi came up almost at the same time.
They saw Zia looking at the voot.
Red's eye twitched a little bit and he said, "He built her a voot."
Tak walked up to me and said, "Glad you got it done in time."
They each sat their presents on the table and sat down at the pinic table.
Zia pulled out a box from her PAK and opened it.
She walked up to our guest and said, "I know it's my birthday, but I wanted to give you all these, to say thank you."
She handed out braided charm braclets to each guest each a different color.
Purple looked at the braclet that Zia gave him and said, "Did you make this for me?"
She smiled, "Yeah, I made them all yesterday. Yours is purple, with candy shaped beads on it, cause you like snacks."
She turned to Red and said, "Yours is red, with little planets, stars, and a crown, cause you like ruling the planets."
Purple took the braclet and put it on, smiled, and said, "It so small and shiny! I like it."
Red took the braclet and put it his pocket and said, "Thank you Miss Zia."
Gaz brought out the cake and said, "Ok, time for cake!"
The Tallest smiled at this, their only weakness, food.
Everyone took a piece of cake, and began to eat.
Purple ate three pieces of cake and asked, "What favor is this cake?"
Zia responded, "It's called hot fudge cake."
"It's my favorite. " she said taking another bite.
Purple smiled.
Red ate the cake and put his attention on his holo-phone.
I stood up and said, "Ok, when you finsh your cake why don't we open your presents."
She took a few more bites and ran over to the table with all the gifts.
She pulled up the gift from GIR and Mimi first. She pulled of the wrapping revealing a two jackets. One looked like GIR's diguise, the other looked like Mimi's.
She put on the GIR one and said, "Thank you two!"
GIR shoved more cake into his mouth, Mimi wave over at her, trying to get control of GIR.
She pulled over Tak, Dib, and Tagien's present which was in a bag. She pulled a out a strange device. Dib walked over, "This is a pair of headphones designed for, Irken's in mind. Give it a try."
She placed the device on her antennas and smiled, "I can hear music!" Zia laughed in delight.
It finally came to the Tallest's present. She pulled of the wrapping paper and opened the box. She squealed with joy. "Oh my God! Look what they gave me!" she said.
She pulled out a unactivaed SIR unit.
I think everyone but, Zia and the Tallest, were shocked.
Purple hover forward, toward Zia, "Say hello to your own SIR study unit. This new model learns from it's owner and protects them. Now, when I activate you need to tell it your name, tell it to be a boy or a girl, give it a name, and choose a color."
She jumped up in joy as Purple activated it.
It glowed red in the eyes.
Zia stepped forward and said to the SIR unit, "Hello, my name is Zia Emily Nekri."
The unit responded, "Owner Identified."
Zia spoke again, "You are a female unit."
The unit adjusted it's voice to an female british accent, "Comand recived Miss Zia."
Zia thought for a moment and said, "Your name is Nina."
She took the comand and nodded.
Finally, Zia said, "Nina, your light color is a light purple."
Her lights shifted to the light shade of purple color of Gaz's hair.
Nina look at Zia and said, "Protocol now in place."
"Hello Miss Zia, I am Nina, you're personal SIR study unit. What shall we do?"
Zia looked at Tagien, GIR, and Mimi.
"Your first comand is to play games with Tagien, GIR, Mimi, and I."
Nina smiled and said, "Ok."
They ran off chasing after the two other SIR units and Tagien.
"She got a voot and a SIR unit in the same day." Gaz said.
"I have no idea on how we are going to top this next year." she said with a smile.
I looked at the Tallest and said, "Thank you two. You made her day."
Gaz smiled, "You two aren't as bad as you were, so I owe you thanks."
I turned to Zia who was running around, playing with her friends.
Today, was her day and there was nothing that could change that.
