Chapter 11
Membrane Tower
Inside Dib's building stair case Dib and Zim were running at an evenly fast pace to see what the cause of the faint blue light was. Once to the top of the stair case there was a tore apart body with a hand on the door. "Dad must have had our family level on lock down." Dib rummaged through his pocket before he pulled out a keycard. He quickly swiped the keycard through the slot and the heavy metal door clicked open "WELCOME DIB MEMBRANE." Dib slowly opened the door and saw nothing out of place, with the exception of the broken glass, the blood on the floor, and the bullet casings from when X attacked. Dib whispered "Dad?" Zim whispered back "Dib, if your father was shot, why would his first choice be to stay here?" Dib replied sharply. "Because he made this section of the building himself, in the family section there are automatic doctors that will help you if your in trouble." Then a loud sound made then be quiet. "What was that?" Dib whispered in an even tinnier voice. Zim didn't wait, he got up and slowly moved to the lobby of the family level. Dib and Zim looked to the stairs to see the blue light coming from the lookers area. There on the middle of the floor stood a homemade device, it had four lamp posts with wires plugged into their sockets, running into the plain of a table into a metal pole and attaching into a television set. "Well that explains the light." Zim said, then another noise made them turn, standing there was Dib's father, with a cloth covering his bullet wound. "Son…" He whispered. Dib yelled "DAD!" as he ran over and they hugged each other. Zim smiled but stopped when Dib's father turned his attention to him. "Who are you?" Zim giggled under his breath for a short second before power marching to Dib's father and shaking his hand very hard. "Hello Mr. Membrane! I am Zim, your son obsesses over my existence while I am still dating your daughter." Dib's father merely blinked as Dib and Zim burst out laughing. Then Dib's father asked Dib "What is happening?" Dib replied "Then Armada dad, they are here! I came to get you to safety!" As Dib's father got up he asked "To where? Ever since those lizards came here no place has ever been safe." Zim looked to Dib "He has a point, what if it isn't as safe as you say it is?" Dib looked at Zim "It will be, we have to have faith." Then they hard the door bang open again and standing in the doorway was Byron. He growled softly holding his Vortian axe stained with Irken blood. Zim whispered into Dib's ear "I'll grab his attention, you get your father downstairs and to the group." As Dib and his dad moved Byron swung his axe making a huge gash in the wall. "HEY!" Byron turned as Zim kicked him in the face. As he fell back into the wall Dib and his dad rushed down the stairs, Dib had accidentally dropped something near the door. As Byron got up he grabbed Zim and threw him into the family couch. Zim got up stealthily but noticed the moment Zim was thrown Byron turned to the door. "Not today!" Zim yelled as he got out his shotgun and aimed at Byron's head. "Your right," another voice called out and a gun cocked to Zim's head ",not today for you Byron." Byron grunted as he walked down the stairs. Then Zim made a side kick seeing his attacker was X. X aimed his pistol and fired a shot at Zim which missed. As he fired two more shots Zim managed to see what he was firing. He seemed to be firing sleep darts. "Sleep darts huh? Whoever your master is, he sure must want me alive." X grinned "That's an understatement, our client wishes to have my prey alive. He states soon when you realize who he is, the whole universe will be his game board." Zim gasped as he fired more sleep darts at him which he managed to dodge. Zim then rolled on the ground to punch X in the face, while X stumbled backwards Zim took out his shotgun. Before Zim could fire it, X grabbed it and hit Zim in the face with it. Once on the floor X dragged Zim to the second family story. Zim got up and punched X over the machine making the blue light. Blow out. As the machine rolled out the window it dangled from a single wire. X and Zim tackled each other as they rolled around on the floor fighting, kicking, and clawing each other. Then X got on top of Zim, their faces were an inch away. "Our client will be very happy. He sends a message: once the rooks fall earth will be ours, once the pawns will be in their places the queen will have no choice but to assimilate." Zim gave a strange look to X "What?" X simply smiled as he got up and jumped out the window. Zim slowly got up and looked to see no X. Zim went to the stair case to inspect what appeared to be one of Dib's water guns. Then it hit him. "Byron!"
Going down the stairs into the more abandoned offices Dib set his father down. "My wound…it burns!" Dib's father cried out as Dib ripped off the bandage, it had nearly healed but was now open again and bleeding. Then a loud bang caught Dib's attention for there standing in the doorway was Byron holding his axe. Dib took out one pistol, he left the other for Zim upstairs. Dib fired 5 shots into Byron's chest but it seemed to be nothing to him. He swung his axe making a gnash on Dib's arm. "AAAAA!" Dib yelled in pain as Byron stepped past him to his father. "No you don't!" Dib fired more shots and Byron turned around again picking up Dib as he dropped his gun on the floor. Dib could see the distorted flesh and scars on Byron's face as he let the axe slide down further in his hand he was about to end it. "HEY!" Byron turned to Zim holding the old axe Dib got Irken DNA from. "Let go of my friend!" Zim swung upwards on Byron's face making him howl in pain, the old axe that was dried with blood on it now had new Irken blood on it. Byron held a hand on his face covering the wound, then Zim kicked him out the window as he fell 70 stories down. "Let's get moving." Zim said. Once they finally reached the ground, Byron was nowhere in sight but they could care less. After a long time they met up with the survivor group. "Dib!" Tak yelled "We can't get in!" Dib ran to the door and pounded on it "BOOTIE! I know you can hear me! Open the door!" Dib's father went to the door. "Son….let me hack into it…" Dib moved aside to let his father access the door's lock pad. Zim turned to see the Reptoids coming their way, as well as some soldiers coming the opposite direction noticing the humans first. As Tak and Zim cocked their weapons at both directions Dib looked at the heavy metal door. "Please…these people need you." For a second all Dib could hear was explosions and gun fire as well as unholy screeches. Then the door opened as two SEN combat guards stood there and helped them in, once Tak and Zim got in all that was left was Dib and his father. "Come on." He said right before an Irken sniper shot from a building shot a battery through Dib's father "DAD!" Dib yelled as the two guards grabbed him and pulled him into the base. Gaz who was watching was crying again for the death of someone who had loved her. Tak stared shell shocked. However it was Zim who acted taking out a medical kit from his backpack and taking out a sedative. He ran over to Dib and stabbed him in the neck with it making him pass out while dragging him back into the base. Once the doors shut the last thing Zim saw was the dead corpse of Dib's father.
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