Gaz awoke in an empty room. A gold light seemed to resonate from everything, leaving no shadow.
She quickly skimmed through the possibilities. This wasn't something she would dream about and both Zim and Dib would have chosen a different color scheme or at least leave her with pizza and a gameslave. The only option was that something happened to her.
"Ahh good," purred a voice. "You're awake."
Gaz growled. She could pick that voice out of a crowd.
***not there***
Dib was amazed that Zim's ship could fit all of them comfortably. It was as though the ship had grown to fit them.
Of course this wasn't as interesting as seeing the wonders of his own solar system.
"Wow! Look! It's Jupiter's great red spot! And over there! Neptune! And that thing! I think it's a comet! It looks really different when it's not close to the sun. And hey! Do you see that, Zim? I think it's a"
"SILENCE!" Zim's claws would have decimated any Earth substance, but only scratched the control panel. "Great Irk! You're worse than GIR singing the doom song! Opps…"
"I'm gonna sing the doom song now!" GIR exclaimed. "Doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom!"
Dib watched, confused, as the Irken desperately scrambled around the ship, searching for something to distract the singing robot. "Why are you freaking out over a song? It is pretty repetitive and all, but I still think you're over reacting."
"The doom song is continuous singing for approximately six months straight."
"I'll look over there."
***scene change!***
"The creature is so like us yet so different," mused the voice of the Meekrob. "Gaz, we are going to run some tests on you to see how alike we are."
The hybrid snarled. "Not without invoking my wrath."
Black flames leapt around Gaz as her eyes glowed purple. She knew all of the weaknesses of the ship and its inhabitants. She felt that something close by was in pain and inwardly grinned, reverting to her original form.
"Be quiet." She wouldn't need her gameslave to have fun.
***I gotta come up with something to say in these scene change things.***
The two males sighed in relief. GIR munched happily on a dusty sucker in the corner. Dib suddenly realized that he had no idea how long it would take to go wherever they were going.
"Do you even know where that ship that took Gaz is going?" Dib asked.
"To the Meekrob home world, of course," Zim scoffed at the human's stupidity.
"Which is where?"
"Not far away from your planet, actually. Planet Meekrob lies in a solar system on the fifth arm of a galaxy you call Andromeda. We'll get there in maybe a week."
Silence reigned as Dib's large head absorbed what Zim just told him.
"WHAT?" the sudden loud sound caused Zim's antennae to lay back. "Andromeda is billions of light-years away! Even at the speed of light, we would both be dead long before we ever got close to it! And since even you say it's impossible to exceed the speed of light, I don't see how it's possible that we could ever get there in a week."
Zim's antennae flicked in annoyance. "We won't be going anywhere near the speed of light. First, we'll go through this wormhole which will drop us off at a planet with the fuel we'll need and then we'll go into 4D mode."
"Wormhole? What wormhole?"
The swirling energy of a wormhole appeared and sucked the ship in, giving Dib the typical queasy feeling one gets when traveling through wormholes.
After a few minutes, the ship zoomed out of the swirling blue covered in some sort of slime. Dib was trying to erase all memory of what had just happened.
"It's actually very common for wormholes to go through…," began Zim.
"DON'T ever talk about what we just had to do through," Dib's fingers squeezed the bridge of his nose, attempting to have some affect on the headache he was developing.
The ship sailed to a golden yellow planet. Zim gestured dramatically towards it.
"Welcome, earth-smell, to Arrakis."
The voot runner skimmed above the rolling surface, scanners beeping and searching. Suddenly, the ship turned, causing Dib to fly to the side and hit GIR. He rubbed his temple and pressed his face against the window to see a sea of green sand.
"What is that?" the boy said in awe.
"Spice," Zim answered simply.
Outside the cockpit, an antenna rose from the top of the cruiser and formed a radar dish at the end. A long tube curled from the bottom of the voot and started to suck up thousands of gallons of green sand, spitting golden sand from the front of the shuttle.
After only a few minutes, the radar began to beep wildly. Panicking, Zim pulled away from the green sand just as it seemed to disappear into a black cavern. The higher they flew, the more Dib could see of what they were running from.
"I'm going to have nightmares about worms for the rest of my life," Dib gulped.
This process went on multiple times until it eventually occurred to Dib to stop looking out the window if he still wanted to use his underwear ever again.
"Dib! You smell!" Zim pointed out. "Cleansing items are in the back."
"Subtility isn't one of your strong points," muttered Dib under his breath, as he rose to go to the bathroom. "I swear that wasn't there a second ago."
Minutes later, Dib was out of the bathroom, pouting, and the ship was full of fuel. Zim had just finished duct taping GIR to the side of the ship.
The Irken gave the poor three dimensional human no forewarning about traveling in the fourth dimension.
Recently I got a review that told me that I have not updated this story for about one and a half months.
This is more or less my thought process as I read this:
Oh! Review! … Hmm… that's a long time *smiles contentedly then realization dawns* wait…what story was this to again? Feelings…hmm I don't seem to…Oh wait! I remember that one! Yeah…*happy thoughts* wait…I should update!
Yeah, that's about it. Sorry it took so long to come up with what should happen in this chapter. I'm not promising that it won't happen again.
I did not make up Arrikis. That comes from a really good book from someone called Frank Herbert. It's called Dune and you should read it 'cause one of your teachers may one day force you to and it's always a good idea to be ahead of the game. It is a nice sci-fi though…
Yeah I'm done now.
