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Zim walked to his throne seat. The execution platform was right in front of him. All the people were out there waiting for Dib. Seated to his left was Gaz, and the right, no one who was that important in the story.
"I would have liked to see Dib suffer more, but seeing him die, will be fun." Zim thought. He looked at Gaz one more time. He was happy she joined him and couldn't wait to see her expression when Dib was killed.
Zim stood up and ordered silence. "Today we see the last of the rebellion eliminated! For years he has had a grudge against the Earthen Empire. He poisoned the minds of innocent people of the thought of rebellion! Now we are released from his evil today! He will be killed finally!" Zim shouted. The crowd cheered and cheered. "Prisoner #666A!" Zim called.
Two guards took in Dib and he was blind folded. They took off his blindfold so he could see all the people who hated him. One threw a rock at him and Dib was hit in the eye. The crowd laughed and cheered and so did Zim. Gaz was horrified but she did not display her emotions.
"People of the Earthen Empire! Cast your rocks upon this evil traitor!" Zim yelled.
Everyone in the crowd pulled out rocks and started chucking, spiking, throwing, whamming Dib with rocks. Big hard rocks, striking him almost everywhere. Dib tried to block as many rocks as possible, trying not to display his pain and anger. Then, Zim pulled out a knife. He aimed for Dib's chest, and thrusting it towards Dib. It went flying into Dib's chest and rested there. Dib slowly fell to the ground, in agonizing pain. He didn't moan or make a sound. Some guards came towards him and kicked him until he stand up and again, hardly bearing any strength at all. Zim laughed menacingly as the crowd cheered and shouted. Gaz's eyes started blurring.
Dib looked at all the people calmly, trying to remember what Kree said to him about trying to forgive Zim and all the people who hated him. He wondered did these people see his suffering, his torture, his pain? Did they see he lost his dreams, hopes, and future? Did they see that he lost his father, his sister, his best friend in the whole entire world? Did they see he had lost everything? Did they see that he was going to die from evil? Did they see he was in sadness and loneliness?
Then he figured it out. They saw every last bit that happened to him. They knew what happened to them. But they were heartless and brainwashed because of Zim. They didn't care if he died. And you know what? He didn't either anymore. There was nothing that was worth living for . . .
Two guards chained Dib up while seven other guards got their laser guns ready.
"Kill him." Zim ordered.
Dib stared into Zim's eyes, glaring with utmost hatred. Zim, wearing a malicious grin, smirked at Dib and mouthed "prepare to die, Dib, I won". Dib turned away. He didn't want Zim's face to be the last thing he ever saw. So he turned and looked to Zim's left: Gaz. He sighed. The last thing, he decided, he would see would be Gaz's beautiful happy face.
"Oh my God, he's looking at me." Gaz thought, her heart beating quicker than hawk's wings. She could hardly bear watching Dib suffer any longer. She tried to look away, but she couldn't. She just couldn't. Then, she saw Dib mouth something to her: "I love you". Gaz burst into tears.
"Ready . . ."
Zim looked at Gaz and then gasped. He expected her expression to be full of hatred and excitement but her eyes held love and pain and worry and she leaned forward staring at her brother, tears resting upon her cheeks.
"No, this can't be! She's . . . She's . . . She's feeling for her brother! Gaz would never . . ."
"Aim . . ."
Gaz jumped up. "Wait! Hold your fire!" She jumped out of her seat and ran up to a guard and grabbed his gun.
Zim stood up. "You swore your loyalty to the Earthen Empire and you promised to never help Prisoner #666A! It's time to prove your loyalty. Shoot Dib." He ordered.
Gaz looked at Zim, then at her brother. Her brother's eyes seemed to say to her, "Come, on Gaz, just shoot me. It's better off this way." Zim looked at her with love but she still saw the evil in his heart.
"Go with the Empire, shoot Prisoner #666A. He's caused you nothing but pain and sadness. Get him out of your life once and for all." Said one voice in her mind. But then another voice kept nagging her, "Could you really shoot your own brother, even for all the things he did to you in the past? Could you really shoot your own flesh and blood, your family?" Could she?
Gaz pointed the gun to Dib's heart. She was going to do it. Dib smiled and he closed his eyes, thinking, finally, after all this pain, he can die. She trembled as she tugged at the trigger and then she stopped. In her mind was the scene of the basement. She saw all the pain she had seen before. Then she heard Dib's voice: "Gaz, out of all the people in my life, you're the one who caused me the most pain to me. And . . . And I still forgive you." Tears swelled up in her eyes. She lowered the gun.
"No . . . I can't . . ."
"Gaz . . . I must have heard wrong." Zim gasped and was anxious to hear that Gaz was still with him. "What did you really say?" Zim asked.
"I said no, god dammit!" Gaz proclaimed. She looked at Zim. "Zim, I love you, but for Dib . . . . I feel a different kind of love. And I think for the second time in my life, one of those very rare moments that you hardly get from a stubborn girl like me, I'm going to stand with Dib." Gaz turned to Dib and slowly pulled the knife that rested in his chest. She threw it to the ground and hugged him. She didn't care that the blood on Dib's shirt got on hers. She just wanted to show Dib she cared.
Dib stared at Gaz, trembling. "Gaz . . . Why?"
Zim slumped back down in his chair. "Guards, seize her." He ordered effortlessly.
The guards ran up to Gaz and grabbed her painfully but Dib kicked one of them, which left Gaz punching another. She was free. Gaz took out her keys and put the key into Dib's handcuffs.
"Come on, open up." Gaz gritted her teeth. She jiggled the key left and right and finally unlocked it. "Got it! Let's go! Come on!" Gaz urged.
She ran with Dib holding the gun and they ran to a deserted street.
"Why did you save me back there? You could have been rid of me, you know it would make your life much easier." Dib questioned.
"Do you always question everything? Listen, Dib, shut up! I still have the gun, if it makes you feel any better!" Gaz retorted.
"I know, but I trust you." Dib smiled.
Gaz looked at him but every time she did, she tried to look away. She couldn't bear the sight. She saw the years of his suffering and pain. He could hardly keep up because he was weak from being beaten and all his hunger. She almost cried when she looked at him.
"So, this was your life as a rebel?"
"Yeah, pretty much. And you, were you really happy with Zim?" Dib asked.
Gaz blushed. "Maybe I was happy with Zim, but not with the things I was doing, okay? Hey, we both made mistakes."
"Hey are you saying being a rebel is a mistake?"
Zim loaded two guns. He looked up at the sky. "Even if it is one of the human weaknesses, Gaz, I love you. I'll never kill you." Then he gritted his teeth holding the other gun. "Dib, I will kill you."
Gaz and Dib were running when all of a sudden, they heard-
"There they are! Get them!" Zim yelled.
"Let's split up, Dib! They can't chase both of us!" Gaz ordered.
Gaz went to the left, and Dib, right. Zim carefully aimed the first gun at Gaz, and shot. Gaz felt something hit against her back and she fell to the ground.
Dib ran over to Gaz. "Gaz? Gaz?" he shook her but she did not wake up. "No!" He cried and cried and held her in his arms. He glared at Zim. "You killed GAZ! You KILLED my sister! You KILLED her! You, you heartless monster! You never loved my sister!"
Bursts of hatred like never before screamed in Zim's heart. He looked at Dib with detestation and hatred. "Take that back you worthless pathetic liar!" Zim shouted angrily.
"Never! You killed Gaz! How could I ever take it back, Alien Scum! Your heart has nothing but hate! If it had something else, you would have never of killed Gaz!" Dib choked in his tears.
"I did too love Gaz, human stinkbeast!" Zim hollered.
"Then why did you kill her?"
Zim whipped out another gun quick as lightning, not having to consider or think twice. "Prepare to die, Dib." And then he shot. Dib prepared himself for death after six years. Dib awaited the blow but he didn't feel anything. He looked at himself and saw that it had hit Kree's amulet, and the amulet wasn't damaged.
Dib smiled. "It is lucky." He thought. He held Gaz's hand close to him. "It's . . . It's warm!" He shouted and leaned over to check her heart. "It's still beating! She's still alive!" He picked up Gaz with all his strength and carried her away.
"Should we go after them?" A guard asked.
"No, let them got." Zim sighed. "Maybe it's better this way."
Zim walked to his throne seat. The execution platform was right in front of him. All the people were out there waiting for Dib. Seated to his left was Gaz, and the right, no one who was that important in the story.
"I would have liked to see Dib suffer more, but seeing him die, will be fun." Zim thought. He looked at Gaz one more time. He was happy she joined him and couldn't wait to see her expression when Dib was killed.
Zim stood up and ordered silence. "Today we see the last of the rebellion eliminated! For years he has had a grudge against the Earthen Empire. He poisoned the minds of innocent people of the thought of rebellion! Now we are released from his evil today! He will be killed finally!" Zim shouted. The crowd cheered and cheered. "Prisoner #666A!" Zim called.
Two guards took in Dib and he was blind folded. They took off his blindfold so he could see all the people who hated him. One threw a rock at him and Dib was hit in the eye. The crowd laughed and cheered and so did Zim. Gaz was horrified but she did not display her emotions.
"People of the Earthen Empire! Cast your rocks upon this evil traitor!" Zim yelled.
Everyone in the crowd pulled out rocks and started chucking, spiking, throwing, whamming Dib with rocks. Big hard rocks, striking him almost everywhere. Dib tried to block as many rocks as possible, trying not to display his pain and anger. Then, Zim pulled out a knife. He aimed for Dib's chest, and thrusting it towards Dib. It went flying into Dib's chest and rested there. Dib slowly fell to the ground, in agonizing pain. He didn't moan or make a sound. Some guards came towards him and kicked him until he stand up and again, hardly bearing any strength at all. Zim laughed menacingly as the crowd cheered and shouted. Gaz's eyes started blurring.
Dib looked at all the people calmly, trying to remember what Kree said to him about trying to forgive Zim and all the people who hated him. He wondered did these people see his suffering, his torture, his pain? Did they see he lost his dreams, hopes, and future? Did they see that he lost his father, his sister, his best friend in the whole entire world? Did they see he had lost everything? Did they see that he was going to die from evil? Did they see he was in sadness and loneliness?
Then he figured it out. They saw every last bit that happened to him. They knew what happened to them. But they were heartless and brainwashed because of Zim. They didn't care if he died. And you know what? He didn't either anymore. There was nothing that was worth living for . . .
Two guards chained Dib up while seven other guards got their laser guns ready.
"Kill him." Zim ordered.
Dib stared into Zim's eyes, glaring with utmost hatred. Zim, wearing a malicious grin, smirked at Dib and mouthed "prepare to die, Dib, I won". Dib turned away. He didn't want Zim's face to be the last thing he ever saw. So he turned and looked to Zim's left: Gaz. He sighed. The last thing, he decided, he would see would be Gaz's beautiful happy face.
"Oh my God, he's looking at me." Gaz thought, her heart beating quicker than hawk's wings. She could hardly bear watching Dib suffer any longer. She tried to look away, but she couldn't. She just couldn't. Then, she saw Dib mouth something to her: "I love you". Gaz burst into tears.
"Ready . . ."
Zim looked at Gaz and then gasped. He expected her expression to be full of hatred and excitement but her eyes held love and pain and worry and she leaned forward staring at her brother, tears resting upon her cheeks.
"No, this can't be! She's . . . She's . . . She's feeling for her brother! Gaz would never . . ."
"Aim . . ."
Gaz jumped up. "Wait! Hold your fire!" She jumped out of her seat and ran up to a guard and grabbed his gun.
Zim stood up. "You swore your loyalty to the Earthen Empire and you promised to never help Prisoner #666A! It's time to prove your loyalty. Shoot Dib." He ordered.
Gaz looked at Zim, then at her brother. Her brother's eyes seemed to say to her, "Come, on Gaz, just shoot me. It's better off this way." Zim looked at her with love but she still saw the evil in his heart.
"Go with the Empire, shoot Prisoner #666A. He's caused you nothing but pain and sadness. Get him out of your life once and for all." Said one voice in her mind. But then another voice kept nagging her, "Could you really shoot your own brother, even for all the things he did to you in the past? Could you really shoot your own flesh and blood, your family?" Could she?
Gaz pointed the gun to Dib's heart. She was going to do it. Dib smiled and he closed his eyes, thinking, finally, after all this pain, he can die. She trembled as she tugged at the trigger and then she stopped. In her mind was the scene of the basement. She saw all the pain she had seen before. Then she heard Dib's voice: "Gaz, out of all the people in my life, you're the one who caused me the most pain to me. And . . . And I still forgive you." Tears swelled up in her eyes. She lowered the gun.
"No . . . I can't . . ."
"Gaz . . . I must have heard wrong." Zim gasped and was anxious to hear that Gaz was still with him. "What did you really say?" Zim asked.
"I said no, god dammit!" Gaz proclaimed. She looked at Zim. "Zim, I love you, but for Dib . . . . I feel a different kind of love. And I think for the second time in my life, one of those very rare moments that you hardly get from a stubborn girl like me, I'm going to stand with Dib." Gaz turned to Dib and slowly pulled the knife that rested in his chest. She threw it to the ground and hugged him. She didn't care that the blood on Dib's shirt got on hers. She just wanted to show Dib she cared.
Dib stared at Gaz, trembling. "Gaz . . . Why?"
Zim slumped back down in his chair. "Guards, seize her." He ordered effortlessly.
The guards ran up to Gaz and grabbed her painfully but Dib kicked one of them, which left Gaz punching another. She was free. Gaz took out her keys and put the key into Dib's handcuffs.
"Come on, open up." Gaz gritted her teeth. She jiggled the key left and right and finally unlocked it. "Got it! Let's go! Come on!" Gaz urged.
She ran with Dib holding the gun and they ran to a deserted street.
"Why did you save me back there? You could have been rid of me, you know it would make your life much easier." Dib questioned.
"Do you always question everything? Listen, Dib, shut up! I still have the gun, if it makes you feel any better!" Gaz retorted.
"I know, but I trust you." Dib smiled.
Gaz looked at him but every time she did, she tried to look away. She couldn't bear the sight. She saw the years of his suffering and pain. He could hardly keep up because he was weak from being beaten and all his hunger. She almost cried when she looked at him.
"So, this was your life as a rebel?"
"Yeah, pretty much. And you, were you really happy with Zim?" Dib asked.
Gaz blushed. "Maybe I was happy with Zim, but not with the things I was doing, okay? Hey, we both made mistakes."
"Hey are you saying being a rebel is a mistake?"
Zim loaded two guns. He looked up at the sky. "Even if it is one of the human weaknesses, Gaz, I love you. I'll never kill you." Then he gritted his teeth holding the other gun. "Dib, I will kill you."
Gaz and Dib were running when all of a sudden, they heard-
"There they are! Get them!" Zim yelled.
"Let's split up, Dib! They can't chase both of us!" Gaz ordered.
Gaz went to the left, and Dib, right. Zim carefully aimed the first gun at Gaz, and shot. Gaz felt something hit against her back and she fell to the ground.
Dib ran over to Gaz. "Gaz? Gaz?" he shook her but she did not wake up. "No!" He cried and cried and held her in his arms. He glared at Zim. "You killed GAZ! You KILLED my sister! You KILLED her! You, you heartless monster! You never loved my sister!"
Bursts of hatred like never before screamed in Zim's heart. He looked at Dib with detestation and hatred. "Take that back you worthless pathetic liar!" Zim shouted angrily.
"Never! You killed Gaz! How could I ever take it back, Alien Scum! Your heart has nothing but hate! If it had something else, you would have never of killed Gaz!" Dib choked in his tears.
"I did too love Gaz, human stinkbeast!" Zim hollered.
"Then why did you kill her?"
Zim whipped out another gun quick as lightning, not having to consider or think twice. "Prepare to die, Dib." And then he shot. Dib prepared himself for death after six years. Dib awaited the blow but he didn't feel anything. He looked at himself and saw that it had hit Kree's amulet, and the amulet wasn't damaged.
Dib smiled. "It is lucky." He thought. He held Gaz's hand close to him. "It's . . . It's warm!" He shouted and leaned over to check her heart. "It's still beating! She's still alive!" He picked up Gaz with all his strength and carried her away.
"Should we go after them?" A guard asked.
"No, let them got." Zim sighed. "Maybe it's better this way."