Was chapter 9 the end of Zim? Will Ileen find new hope? Will Gir ever eat Waffles or tacos again? Does Computer Miss Zim? The only way to find out is to read chapter 10!

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CHAPTER 10

A NEW BEGINNING

Ileen cried herself to sleep that night. Gir had curled up next to her. But then, almost out of nowhere, there was a small, ever so quiet thud. Ileen blinked her eyes open in a flash and listened, not taking her head off Zim's chest. Thud…….thud……thud….thud….thud…thud…thud…….thud…thud… pretty soon, the time in-between them became steady. Then words that sounded like it was all a good dream said, "reactivating… reactivating…. reactivating…reactivated." The words came from Zim's PAK. Ileen lifted her head and stared in utter shock as Zim's pinkish eyes slowly began to open. And his chest began to rise and fall, at first slowly but then up to a normal rate. His fingers twitched ever so slightly, and he made a small, almost silent grunt. Gir looked up and climbed onto the table. His blue eyes lit up with pure and unbendable joy. "Master!" he cried happily, hugging Zim, who's eyes flew open with the shock of being squeezed so tightly. "Gir…?" he managed to choke out the word, almost as a question as if he couldn't quite remember the robot he built out of broken parts. Gir let go and watched Zim with a cute smile on his face. "Ileen?" he asked, his eyes wandering toward her. "Im here." She whispered, unable to make her voice louder. "Suuure. Check who they are, but what about me? I have feeling too ya know!" the Computer protested. Zim seemed to laugh at Computer's comment. "Hey! Don't laugh at me!" Computer continued to protest, noticing Zim's reaction. "I see you laughing still." Computer said annoyed. But then Zim stopped laughing and flexed his hand in and out of a fist, as if he was testing how it worked. He blinked a few times and turned his head to look around.

ZIMS POINT OF VIEW:

He looked around. He was in his base. But where was Dib? And Lard Nar? Where was the Resisty? Where was everyone? How did he get here? "Whe-where is Dib? Or Lard Nar and the Re-Resisty? How'd we g-get here?" Zim asked, looking at Ileen's purple eyes, and how they lit up in the gloom. "Gir and I brought Dib back to his house, and Lard Nar and the Resisty I think are still on Vort." She said. Zim blinked again then yawned. Ileen helped him sit up and was careful not to touch his wounds that most likely weren't healed yet. She stopped when Zim winced in pain. He gasped with how much his injuries hurt, even now, after he came back from the dead. He lay back down as fresh, green blood spilled out of his chest wound. Ileen ran over to a bucket that was on the floor (A/N- why there was a bucket there or how it got there, I don't know. But I can't have this story to depressing! Something good has to happen!) She pulled a first aid kit, though Zim had no idea why the first aid kit was in a bucket in the PAK repair room. "hehehe! It still here! It likes it here!" Gir laughed like a dranged monkey. Gir must have hid it there when he was playing 'hide and find' with Minimoose. Zim thought. Ileen ran back toward Zim and moved his uniform out of the way and took the old bandages off, revealing a nasty scar that Red had left from the laser/taser. It stretched all the way across his chest and was very deep. There was dried blood incrusted along the edges and it stung unbearably when the air touched it. Ileen quickly wrapped the new, fresh one on it and Zim sat up a little so she could get it behind him. It still stung when it was rewrapped, but not as much. "Okay, don't try to stand or sit up for a while." Computer said. "I don't want blood everywhere." It continued. "You don't care about that and you know it!" Zim said, a little of his old spark back. "Still, don't sit or stand." Computer grumbled. Then Dib fell through a hole Zim forgot was there. How'd that hole get there, anyway? He wondered as Dib looked back up from where lying, dazed on the floor. "Hide me! Gaz is trying to-k" he started, but then saw Zim. "What? How is he alive? I thought…" he began, staring at Zim. "He came back." Ileen said the joy unable to stay out of her voice. "He came back from death. He's alive."

…………………………………………………………………well, I don't think that was too depressing, like all the others! I think that was a happy chapter! Zim came back to life! Sometimes it takes only the power of another's heart to really heal someone's wounds…