Chapter 7: The Real Story
That night, Red sat in his room still bandaged up. He was wondering if Purple was in the mood to talk. The two didn't say too much to each other since they got in. His left eye kept twitching as he thought what it must have felt like when he gave Zim his black eye. He began to think about everything he did since Zim arrived. He only picked on Zim because he was tiny, but now he was just picking on him for anything he did. And actually he had no idea the irken would ever save either his or Purple's life. He wanted to know more...he needed to ask Purple. He painfully got up and walked across the hallway to see if Purple was busy.
"Purple...can we talk?"
Purple opened the door and Red forgot that he had blackened both Purple's eyes making him look like he was squinting all the time. Purple looked upset again.
"Oh...hey Red!"
"Can I come in?"
"Sure!"
Both sat on Purple's bed where Purple was eating a bag of donuts. This time the brothers saw how much damage they had given to each other. Purple offered a donut to Red and took it politely. Usually they would stuff it into their mouths at once but this time they took bites slowly.
"Are you still mad?" Purple asked.
"No...and...I shouldn't have been in the first place. I wanted to apologize for fighting you and giving you a hard time." Red said.
"I forgive you, and I'm sorry for not telling you about what me and Zim were doing!" Purple said.
"It's okay, mabye I did go too far in messing with Zim. Can you see?" Red asked.
"Yeah, just swollen, but I'm good!" Purple said. "But Zim asked a good question...why did you defend him?"
"That principle is hard to talk to. He always made our life miserable. It just didn't seem right to have another person, even Zim, to wind up becoming a victim." Red explained. "By the way, you think now you can tell me how you got into that explosion in the first place?"
"I guess I could...well..." Purple began to tell from the beginning.
A few years ago...a much younger Purple was eating more donuts in a bag while walking down a sidewalk. He had gone out for a little walk since he was bored at home. As he kept eating, he drops one and it rolls towards the nearbye building where it all happened.
"Oh no! I can't lose one single donut! Come back!" Purple whined chasing after it.
Meanwhile...a ship was flying crazily through the air while the irken inside was trying to gain control. He started heading towards the building that Purple was at just now picking up the donut.
"What's that?" Purple asked looking around hearing the ship.
The irken actually launched herself out of the ship while it collided with the building igniting a giant explosion. The building was blown to pieces and Purple was caught in it. He was smashed by a few pieces of the building and burned slightly when flames engulfed the mess. Purple's PAK was instantly damaged and he gets bruised and bloodied when he lands on the ground hard. The landing was hard enough to possibly break his jaw but it didn't. His vision blacked out more as another explosion was heard. That's when he met Zim. Zim and GIR ran outside to take Purple to their lab for repairs. All Purple could remember was going into the lab, but blacking out again when GIR knocked him out. Later he remembers seeing his house getting closer and closer.
"Is this the place?" Zim asked.
"Y-y-yes!" Purple struggled to say.
He could see Zim walk to the porch, knock on the door, and run.
"Take care irken!" Zim said before retreating into the night.
Red opens the door surprised.
"Hey Purple where have you been?" Red asked oblivious to the truth.
"I...got attacked...or something...I don't remember much!" Purple groaned since his memory had been mostly wiped.
"Hmm, you probably just ate too many donuts!" Red teased bringing Red inside.
"Who do you think that irken was?" Red asked.
"Who knows! We probably never will. But whoever it was...I will pummel him!" Purple snarled.
"Just wait till we become the "Almighty Tallest". Then mabye we will get a chance." Red smirked.
"So...what do you think about Zim now? Plan on hanging with him now along with Tenn and Skoodge?" Purple asked.
"Mabye...depends!" Red said taking another donut.
"You know, I bet during Zim's first days, he secretly wanted to be just like us!" Purple said.
"Really? How?"
"Well, one day I snuck into his house when he wasn't there. I found a list of things he wanted to do before he dies. And well, there was one crossed out...and it was to become an "Almighty Tallest"." Purple said making Red gasp.
"Poor kid, at this rate...he'll never be! But...who said anything about not being the "Almighty Shortest"?" Red smirked.
Purple never thought about that...he wondered if that would be allowed.
"Yeah, I guess that doesn't sound too bad!" Purple agreed. "Uh...how long until our injuries are gone?"
"I have no idea."
"Aw!"
Meanwhile, Zim layed on his bed with his legs crossed in the air deep in thought. He felt slightly embarrased that he was suspended from school for a week, but he felt happy that the Tallest stood up for him. He always knew Red could change his ways no matter how hard he tried to resist. He glanced over to the list of his things to do. He read each one over and over and kept passing the scribbled out one. But as he went down the list again, he looked at the scribbled out thing.
"As if!" Zim said sadly.
He balled up the piece of paper and threw it out his window. Little did he know, Purple and Red had seen him do it. When Zim left his room, Purple scrambled out his window and picked it up. He felt worried now, Zim seemed to be giving up everything on the list. However as he looked at the list, there was a check next to "Get a girl", "Go to parties" and "Make a ton of friends". Purple took the note back to the house to show Red. It actually made a tear fall out of Red's good eye. He looked at Purple and made the best serious look he could make at the time.
"Purple, we are going to help him!" Red sneered.
"But how?" Purple asked.
"By making him popular like us of course. Just wait until we go back to school. By the way, we need to figure out who was that irken who let their ship simply blow up a building and nearly kill you. It just doesn't make sense, who would fly a ship around at night?" Red asked.
Purple's swollen eyes seem to pop open at that question.
"Uh...Red...I think I may know someone who actually owns a ship because I heard...she's...rich." Purple said. "I need to make a call."
Red watched as Purple began to call someone. Red could tell Purple was serious about this. He listened as a female voice came over the phone.
"Purple...it's been awhile..."
"Listen, we need to meet somewhere private...tonight. How about that alley...across from Zim?" Purple suggested.
"Sure...I've been wanting to speak to you for awhile...and don't bring your dumb brother."
Red tried to resist yelling and covered his mouth.
"Alright then..." Purple said before hanging up.
About an hour later...Purple snuck his way over to the alley across from Zim's house. He wore a purple hoodie to cover up his injuries. He could see a pair of dark Purple eyes in the alley. The female stepped out of the dark to show that she was nearly the Tallest's height.
"Purple...so we meet again..."
"It has been awhile...Tak...we need to talk." Purple sneered.
"What is it this time, another failed mission to steal from a donut factory?" Tak teased.
"No, but...I've been meaning to ask, you still own a ship right?" Purple asked.
"I used to...but it got destroyed." Tak sneered. "What about it?"
"Do you ever recall crashing that ship into a building?"
"I ejected and escaped before the crash but I did see two explosions."
"SO YOU WERE THE ONE WHO NEARLY KILLED ME!" Purple accused.
"Hah, only a fool like you would be near a crash...what were you doing, eating donuts?" Tak teased again.
"SILENCE! I nearly died, and if it wasn't for Zim-"
"Did you say Zim?" Take cut him off.
"Yeah, he lives right there remember?" Purple pointed out Zim's house across the street.
Tak suddenly bursts into laughing.
"What's so funny, the fact you almost killed me?" Purple snarled.
"No, but the fact that it was me who got him transported to your school. He was so annoying...the fact that everyone thought he was better than me. More smarter and stronger. I hated him, so I had to get rid of him by "forcing" the principle to take out Zim. I was sure you two would have killed him by now." Tak explained.
"Kill him? He's our friend!" Purple snapped. "Sure, we roughed him up a bit on the first day, but we grew to like him." Purple snarled. "And you better leave him alone."
"AAAAAHHHHH!" Came a shriek.
Purple and Tak turn to see Zim and GIR standing on his front porch horrified at seeing Tak.
"TAK? YOU'RE STILL...HERE!" Zim yelped. "GIR, WE GOT TO GO BACK INSIDE! RUN!"
Zim and GIR ran back inside shutting and locking the door refusing to come out. Tak rolled her eyes.
"I'm not worried about Zim anymore, that's all behind me...or is it?" Take smirked.
"Oh please, you're obviously over it or you would have done something a long time ago." Purple shrugged.
"That's where you're wrong, I thought he was dead! But now I see that's he's alive and still annoying. Looks like a may be able to use Plan B." Tak said smirking.
Purple slammed her into the wall hard and looked dead in her eyes.
"YOU LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Purple sneered.
"I never said WHEN I would get revenge...but that kid will pay. I see your brother left his mark on ya!" Tak smirked seeing how swollen Purple's eyes were.
Purple gritted his teeth when Tak pulled out a huge smirk.
"I think Zim's been through enough." Purple snarled.
"Whatever, Zim is not really a big deal to me anyway, besides, I got better things to do like building a new ship so I can take off this miserable planet and take over others." Tak said preparing to leave. "Then...I may come back here...but not for Zim...mabye for that robot of his."
"GIR? Why GIR?" Purple asked.
"I believe with a few modifications I could turn GIR into a killing machine. But that plan is far away from now! By the way before I go, I think you should tell Zim to get out of his lab!" Tak warned before taking off.
"WHAT?"
Purple was confused. Once she was gone, he could faintly hear a ticking noise. He gasped and ran towards Zim's house.
"ZIM! GIR! GET OUT NOW!"
But it's too late, the bottom left side of Zim's house exploded causing Purple to fly into the road. The house erupted into a fiery blaze. Red heard this and bolted out of the house to see what happened. Once he got there, several other irkens including Skoodge and Tenn had already arrived. Purple looked frantically around for the two. And finally, he found Zim lying on his back with GIR on top of him like he was sheilding him. GIR was awake but Zim was knocked out again. Apparently GIR could sense the bomb planted by the house and gotton Zim out of there just in time saving his life. Zim was okay, just a bit burned. Of course Purple didn't think that.
"ZIM!" Purple screamed.
Nearbye, Tak peeked around a corner and smirked.
Of course, her peeking was caught by Purple who gave her a venomous stare. Tak responded by sticking her tongue out and running away.
"You'll pay for this Tak, I swear on my squeedly spooch!"
To be continued...
Will Tak get caught? Will Zim be okay? Will Purple get his revenge? Stay tuned for the final chapter!
