Chapter 11: Trapped
Dib P.O.V.
Walking into the test room alongside my dad trying to keep myself calm through all my excitement. My dad punched in the code to the door and opened it letting me inside. I stepped in and gasped at the figure across the room.
It was no doubt an irken sitting on the bed but she seemed a little off. Her head shot up and she stared at me with fear in her eyes
"So son? Do you think you can communicate with it?" dad asked me.
I nodded and stepped towards the irken. Dad left me in the room with the little girl. She began panting and shaking with every step forward I took. I bent down to her eye level and she stared at me with fear written all over her face.
"St-Stay away from m-me…" she whispered.
I tried to remain calm knowing that if I scared or angered it too much I could end up losing my head. I backed up a few paces and opened my mouth to speak.
"It's alright. I won't hurt you." I said calmly.
She tried to pull the shackle off her leg and run but she only seemed to be hurting herself.
"No! I won't let you take me!" she shouted.
I saw tears in her eyes as she curled up into a ball. It was very odd behavior for an irken. She seemed a little less violent then the ones I'd met before. Granted I've only met two irkens face to face but they were a very vicious race. Judging by her size se seemed like only a child or smeet as Zim has said their called. I wasn't that experienced with little kids other than my little sister. But she could always handle herself and if I tried to help I always got punched kicked or anything else she could do.
While the girl cried in front of me I walked up to her. Even though my footsteps echoed through the room she didn't notice. I sat down on the hard bed next to her and she looked up at me. She screamed and tried to run but fell onto the floor chained down by her left leg.
I finally noticed how beat up she was. She had bandages on her that were falling off some her skin was bruised and covered in scabs and her clothes were a little torn up. She still even had parts of a disguise still on. Her antennae stuck up through the wig which was full of tangles and dirt and her eyes were puffy with dark ring under them. I helped her off the ground and she backed up as far as she could.
"I won't l-let you kill me."
? P.O.V.
"YOU FOOL!" I screamed.
"How could you let this happen?! They should have killed you years ago! You worthless defect!" she winced with every insult as I tried to vent.
"No matter. I can still fix YOUR mistake. Go prepare the ship. I'll go deal with this myself." I ordered.
The smeet nodded and ran off. She was young and I should be giving her a bit of slack but I couldn't miss this chance because of her.
"The little bug will be dead soon anyways." I muttered.
Lily P.O.V.
He was going to kill me I knew it! Mommy warned me about him and now I was going to die. My eyes started welling up with tears again. I tried to wipe them away but they kept coming. The boy stood up and came closer to me. I tried to run but I fell again. The boy walked towards me and I tried to get away but I couldn't get my foot out. The boy grabbed me and I screamed.
"LET GO! LET ME GO!"
I blindly swiped at his face. I felt something move in my Pak and heard the boy scream in pain. I landed on the floor and saw the boy had a huge bleeding scar across his face. I noticed a metal leg from my Pak dripping with dark red blood. It retracted and the boy looked at me in shock. Men burst into the room and grabbed me. I kicked and screamed but they took me away.
Dib P.O.V.
I stood in the bathroom washing down the cuts on my face.
I couldn't believe that girl. She thought I was the threat. Well I probably was but I didn't want to be. That girl had gone through hell and back from what I could tell and I wanted to help her.
I pressed the Band-Aid up against my cheek and stepped out of the bathroom.
"I hope you're alright son but that was in the name of science!" my dad said.
"From your interaction with it we've changed its test chamber accordingly."
I gulped. "Meaning?"
He pointed at the screen showing the security camera in her room. The girl was sitting against the wall her arms and legs chained to it. There was a blinking metal collar around her neck and a weird lock on her Pak. The camera had no sound but I could still hear her crying.
"But she didn't really do anything wrong. She was just scared." I protested.
"We can't take chances son. Who knows what this creature is capable of?"
I would've argued more but he was right. Irkens were very dangerous and that cut could've been intentional. I sighed and tried to find something else to look at. No matter what I tried to focus on my eyes always drifted back to the security screen. Eventually I had to try and ask to see the girl again.
"Uh…dad?"
I was cut off by the floor suddenly shaking. I lost my balance and felt to my knees. "What's going on?!"
Dad turned to another scientist.
"There's something shooting at the building." He reported.
"Send out some of the air drones." He said back. "Son, you keep an eye on the security cameras." He told me running of with the other scientist.
I nodded and sat down in the chair. Looking back at the screen I saw the girl shaking even more than before. Another explosion shook the room and the camera cut out. I couldn't help myself I ran from the room and down the hall to where the irken was being kept.
This wasn't good.