I must say, Ngrey that is a pretty interesting review you wrote out. I did write this entire story out already and edit each chapter before I put it out there. It may still have a lot of bugs in it, but I don't claim to be perfect. Professor Membrane will be explained in a later chapter. I promise you this, but once again, interesting review. I liked it.
When eating the pizza I know how you tend to engorge yourself in it.
The smell of this circular dish as it enters the atmosphere that surrounds you makes your mouth water.
You know in the back of your mind it is a fattening dish no matter how little you top on it.
It is such a joke when people top a diet drink with their pizza hoping that will help them some.
No it won't, but if it will curb that guilt away than go ahead.
I won't do that.
I'll eat as much pizza as I desire.
Drink whatever I want.
Is it healthy?
Do you want me to say yes or no to this?
I won't satisfy you like that because I'm not that type of person.
I had a friend who wanted to deny it for so long, but he finally relented.
He snagged the slice out of my hand in his desire for more.
Want. Need. Desire.
All the same, but used in different contexts of varying degrees.
It all depends on who you are.
Satisfaction belies on each one of us on all different levels.
Don't let someone tell you what will satisfy you.
You are the one who decides what satisfies you the most.
Choose for yourself.
Choose what you want/need/desire on your own pizza.
Somehow this is what Dib thought about as he sat in 1st period. A post that Gaz wrote herself when she was 14. It may have seemed juvenile to some, he was sure, but it did have that underlying meaning under it. He was keeping himself with his head above water in this whole deal. There was no way he will lose his sanity. He still had hope and determination. He felt he would see her again. Hopefully soon.
Zim wandered into class just as the bell rung as he seemed to sadly sit down in his seat after regarding the empty desk behind him. Dib could have sworn he spotted him touching the desk briefly, but it could of been his own imagination. Zim seemed to be on auto-pilot, just like himself.
3rd period, was Torque making snide remarks after the whole school heard that Gaz wasn't returning. Dib noticed Zim barely containing himself as he started to drag his claws against his desk surface. No one else noticed, but him it seemed. Dib was her brother, so he got it more than anyone. Dib tried to ignore it. Torque was below him. He wasn't worth it.
At lunch, Dib found Zim hiding out around the wall just sitting down against it as he fiddled with something in his hand. Dib wandered over and sat down.
"Surprised your here." Dib said lamely.
"Same to you."
"Graduation is just around the corner and I've been accepted to college so once this is done, I'm out of here."
"Will you return?" Zim inquired as Dib now noticed he had a miniature disc in his hand.
"Maybe. Who knows? I'm Gaz's only family really. She does know what college I've been accepted into, so hopefully..." He trailed off.
"Hopefully." Zim mimicked. "Still no trace of her. I'm still looking."
"Thanks. Same here." Looking towards the school yard, Dib made a sound. "It is like a blood bath in the rumor mill. Stupid idiots.
Quirking his invisible eyebrow ridge up, Zim snuffed. "I'm part of it too."
"Yeah? How?"
"Well apparently her and I have been a secret couple all this time and I got her pregnant so her dad was so embarrassed that he shipped her off to have it." Zim wanted to take his stupid contacts off to rub his eyeballs to remove the extra irritation he was feeling. "In the process of finding this disc and hearing that piece of idiocy, I get asked out by the same person who reported it."
"The cheerleader?"
"The very stupid same." He replied before holding up the disc. "I'll view this later at my base." Just in case Dib wanted to say something about wanting to view it, he passed him a tiny note that was attached to it. "She had enough time to record this and write this out."
Reading it, it was something only for Zim's eyes only. "Zim? Something more happened between both of you, didn't it?" Dib asked cautiously.
"I won't rest until I find her, Dib. She deserves a good life, not what has happened to her."
Zim didn't say it, but he felt it with how he weighed those words that he spoken. Zim fell for his sister at some point. That was probably why he helped protect her.
In his base, he placed the disc into another drive on his computer to read it. It showed the inside of her room with a bag clearly packed behind her. Her eyes clearly showed how much crying she did as she stared into the view finder.
"I feel like shit just leaving your place like that, Zim. I wrote you a note and I still feel like shit. You may think of your base as protected, but how many times have we got in there with incredible ease? Thing is, I won't risk having anything happen to someone I..." She wiped a tear away from her face. "I won't risk anything happening to someone I really care about. Funny how I thought you were annoying at first, but I found myself enjoying having you around. Couldn't wait to see you. I liked smiling with whatever thing you say. To me, I find you special. I didn't think you thought the same of me. I thought, how could you? I'm human. You view as below you so I didn't bother."
"I made a mistake one day in my powers. I did use them to defend myself, but in the process I got carted off for two years. Got experimented on. Also brainwashed as you can see to the point I was a zombie. I was man-handled by this one doctor." She makes a painful groan as she clutches her head. "I'm not allowed to talk about it. Ow! They torture me when I try." Crying out in pain, she took deep breaths in and out to calm herself before re-focusing on the camera.
"I'm so glad that you were my first. Thing is, I always wanted it to be you. Zim, I have no clue where I'm going, I just know that I'm smart enough to cover my own tracks. Maybe one day I'll be able to fight against this, but right now the stuff they have in my system is so fresh it acts like a poison. I'm sorry if I don't make sense to you." Another pain went through her body. "I have to leave, I feel them coming for me. I love you, Zim."
The video cut off with Zim raising himself up to his feet looking as if flames lighted up behind him to show the full anger of what he was going through.
Retribution will one day be his.
