-Yawns then blinks- WHY?! WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?! … Know what? Don't answer that…
The tallests watched Dib as he shifted uncomfortably.
Purple closed one of his eyes as he studied the boy, "Hey… you're not hiding ZiM behind your big head, are you?"
The human blinked, then glared, "I wouldn't hide ZiM behind my head even if he had asked!!"
Dib turned to Tak and Skoodge and they shook their heads in disappointment.
Dib's eyes widened as he turned back to the tallests, "I mean, MY HEAD'S NOT BIG!!"
Tak and Skoodge then smiled to themselves, standing up to face their leaders.
Tak saluted firmly, her eyes engaged with theirs, "Sirs, it is with the greatest honor to receive your presence."
Skoodge shrugged and waved, "Umm… hi?"
Red hovered past Dib, who was now going rabid with seething anger, turning to Tak, "Where's ZiM? We only flew out here to see his death."
GIR jumped to the floor with a 'clank', "Master no feel good!! You no see master!!"
Purple's PAK handed him a popped bag of popcorn, "But… I made popcorn to eat while watching him suffer."
Dib came out of his rabid state to watch the argument, but found himself greatly amused when the tallests attention suddenly fell on Skoodge, the poster boy for Irken galactic conquest forced into banishment.
Red's voice boomed throughout the house, "Do you know how long we've been waiting for this?! If you had just done the deed, we wouldn't have had to fly out here!!"
Purple joined in, flicking pieces of popcorn at both Skoodge and GIR, but the little robot had taken the opportunity to wise up and eat the pieces that fell near him.
Skoodge batted a piece away from his face, which, in turn, fell into GIR's waiting mouth, "How would you like it if you were told to kill your co-tallest? You were asking me to kill someone I've known since smeethood!!"
Tak stepped between her leaders and the large Irken, "Look, my tallests, none of that is an issue anymore seeing as ZiM won't be here much longer."
Dib sighed, and the Irkens turned to stare at him.
Red glared at him, "You have something to say, human?"
Dib thought for a moment. Yes, he did have something to say. Something along the lines of 'Holy moose leavings!! So!! Many!! ALIENS!!'. But he was wisely bottling up that comment in case it made them leave. He also had wanted to ask if he could leave and never be bothered with this situation ever again.
But as the young human boy opened his mouth to answer, there was a power shortage and amidst the darkness he found himself say, "You guys don't turn all nasty and thirsty for blood in the dark do you? Cause I would really like to leave if you do… I really would…"
Tak's dark figure walked up to Dib, her eyes shining, "Dib, that is an awful thing to say."
The human shrugged, reaching into his pocket for a small pen-flashlight, "I know," he turned it on and the light gently floated out of the pen.
Dib guided the light towards the windows and pulled at the window screen until it pulled itself up, allowing natural light to filter in, "There, that's better."
One of the computer screens pulled itself out of its little hiding place, and 'yawned', "Skoodge? ZiM's doing stuff and it's draining my power reserves… Can you stop him or something? I wanted to sleep for a bit longer."
Skoodge raised a 'brow', "That's… all you ever do, though."
The screen put itself away, but the computer voice lingered, "Whatever."
The large Irken sighed, turning to Tak, "I'd better go check on him. I'll be right back-"
Purple hovered after him, "And we're coming with you!! I didn't pop this corn for nothin'!!"
Skoodge turned to give his best evil eye, but Tak stopped him, "Maybe it would be best if my tallests stays here for a bit and indulged themselves in some Earth programming? I'm sure GIR could show you two how the TV works…"
GIR gasped and jumped for the remote, "This button turns it ON!! And THIS button turns it MONKEY!!"
Skoodge slinked away from the living room and to the toilet where he had hoped to get down to the labs as fast as possible. As he stepped into the device and flushed, he found this to be a most difficult task.
The toilet did not respond…
NO!! NOT THE TOILET!! … R&R's please, and maybe toilet will work again??
