Uhhhhhhh….Chapter…11?! DOOM
A/N O.K. got some awesome review-age. Thank you…Next Chapter, hope ya'll like.
"General Zim" A soldier began. "We have yet to…" He stopped when he saw the sight.
Zim was on his knees in front of his dismantled robot. He could barely hold back his tears.
"…G…Gir…" He mumbled between little sobs. The robot remained motionless. The eyes were wide open, and the jaw was slacked. Zim reached his hand out and fixed the robots position so that he lay straight and his eyes were shut.
Zim then tore the front of a dead enemies shirt across the room, and laid it over his robot. It didn't completely cover him. He let out a sigh of sorrow and frustration. The soldier remained shocked and speechless until Zim acknowledged him.
"What do you want?" He said depressingly. The soldier snapped back to reality.
"Oh, right, Sir we haven't received word from General Tak and her crew yet about the conquering of the Massive." He reported. Zim didn't move from his position.
"I will open a direct line to her myself and find out if she needs assistance." Zim responded.
"Yes…sir…" The soldier started. "…ummm…Sir, do you need, a larger…tarp? To cover him better." He spoke nervously. Zim turned his head so he could see the soldier. To his surprise, it was the same one who had tragically found out about his daughters death, that very day.
Zim saw this, and his heart sank low. His body wanted to break down in tears, but he wouldn't do it.
"Th…That would, be nice of you…" Zim spoke, finally processing the question. The soldier saluted, and started to turn around when Zim called him. "Private…" The soldier stopped. "…Thank You." Zim saluted back. The soldier nodded, and went out the doorway.
After he left, Zim looked for Taks frequency on his radio. He picked it up and tried to reach her.
Meanwhile…
Tak stood motionless next to her team, with her hands above her head.
"Arrest these Defects, and prepare them for execution." A voice called from the center. Tak immediately recognized it.
The team was escorted off. A soldier went for Tak but was interrupted by the same man. "You! Drone, leave the purple one. I want to speak with her." He ordered.
"Yes Master Dween!" He stated, and exited the room.
Tak never looked at the man, But she knew who it was.
"So…She started. "The mighty Dween is a big, bad, General now." She spoke in a very obvious sarcastic tone.
"Funny, I was going to say the same thing about you." He spoke. "We simply are Too much alike." He said with a creepy smile. Tak rolled her eyes. (Not that you could tell)
"You know, back at the academy, you were my best student…or you could have been, if it wasn't for your constant tantrums, That is if you can even call them that." He said now looking out the window. "But your CORD fixed that, didn't it?"
"You could be a valuable asset to the victory of our Tallest." Dween kept talking. "In fact, If you join us, I could get you a job as an invader, just like you've always wanted." He finished. Tak laughed a little bit.
"And what do you find funny, might I ask?" He spoke through his teeth. She giggled once more. He turned around and saw her with spider legs out, no guards around at all.
"Wow, you're stupid. I could have killed you several times already." She said. Dween was shocked at what happened next. Her whole team walked out of the back, spider legs out. He backed up to the window.
On the other side of said window was a recognizable ship. Tak took her attention off of Dween for a minute, and looked at the ship.
"Hey…wait a minute! That's My--" Before she could finish, the ship flew directly into the bridge similar too how Tak did.
BOOM! CRASH! EXPLODE!...Again!
Everyone held on with their spider legs, until the emergency shutter came on. Dween however, was sucked into space where he popped like a firecracker.
The ship sat still. All of the soldiers set their spider legs to Laser. The cockpit slowly opened. A shady figure sat inside. He stood up.
"DIB!" Tak yelled in extreme astonishment.
"huh…Who The Hell Called Me!!..." Dib yelled. "Was It You! or Was IT YOU! Way in the back!" He pointed. Everyone turned around, and saw a weird farmer holding a cow by the leash. (hehe repeated joke) They were all perplexed and disgusted, and turned back to Dib.
"Yea…That's Dib alright." She shook her head. "Please, nobody hurt him, he's just a crazy earth boy." She told them. She then walked up to him. He was still pointing at the farmer.
"that...farmer…huh? Oh, Hey Tak!" He spoke. "I haven't seen you, since you tried to destroy earth with a giant weenie…Pump, Thing."
"Sure whatever, Why are you here?" She changed the subject.
"Oh yes, I Am here on a great quest. I have traveled for many months to get here. My soul purpose for this journey, is too…" He paused. Tak Raised an eyebrow. "…wait, Why am I here again?" he asked himself. Tak smacked her for head.
"Oh Yeah, I'm Here To Destroy Zim Once And For All!" Dib yelled with his hand in the air like he was holding an object of unrivaled power. She looked at him, astonished that he had actually gotten crazier, since she saw him last.
"Well…….Anyways, let me explain to you our current position, After I destroy the armada." She said. Dib sat there.
"Umm, o.k." he responded. As Tak walked over to the console, she heard a signal coming in on her officers radio. She stopped, and closed her eyes.
As they closed, they opened in an empty conference room. She looked around, and saw know one.
"Tak" said a familiar voice from behind. She turned to see Zim standing there.
"Oh, Zim. What do you need?" She asked.
"You had yet to contact us about the conquering of the Massive." He said in a bland tone. Tak noticed his voice.
"It went a little unusual, but we have control over the Massive, and are about to destroy the armada…" She paused for a moment. "…are, you alright Zim?" She asked, sounding a little worried. Zim let his head sink a slightly.
"It…it's Gir." He said.
"What, is he hurt?" She sounded a little more concerned now.
"No, he…he didn't make it through the last battle." He spoke in a small voice. Tak gasped and covered her mouth with her hands. She felt a tear running down her cheek, although it could not be seen in the Officers Communication Room. (OFCR)
She reached her hand out to Zim for a second, but remembered he was a hologram there so she retracted it.
"Zim…I'm, sorry." She spoke, shuddering a little.
"It's ok. I have to go. I just wanted to know if you were alright." He said.
"Sure…" She responded, and he disappeared.
Tak opened her eyes, and walked with aggression to the console marked Gun Control. A few buttons later, every gun not pointing at the planet went off at the same time.
A large fury of explosions engulfed the Massive, as all the ships around it were destroyed. Down on the planet, this was truly a sight to behold. All around soldiers cheered as half of their enemies military force was destroyed. Zim didn't cheer. Neither did Tak. She walked by her team.
"Everyone! Stay Here, you will need to fly the Massive back to HQ." She ordered them.
"Where are you going?" Skooge asked. Tak hesitantly responded.
"They need me planet side…" She half explained. Skooge seemed satisfied with that.
"Hey, weren't you going to tell me about what's up with all the war, and the leaving Earth, and stuff?!" Dib chased after her.
"Damn-it! Just ask one of these guys here, they will tell you everything." She said, and walked into the teleporter that was in the back of the room.
"Zim is in pain right now, and I need to see if I can help…" She thought to herself.
She no longer bothered with trying to shake the thoughts of having feelings toward Zim like she used to. She Did, have emotions for him. They had always been there, but she just didn't know if she should acknowledge them.
On the planets surface, she noticed a large group of irken soldiers cheering in front of a building down the street. She walked over and once there, she was immediately noticed.
"Hey Look Everyone! It's General Tak, The One Who Blew Up The Armada!!" Yelled an overjoyed soldier. She noticed all of the soldiers rush to gather around her. She pushed past them all, and went into the building.
Tak saw Zim standing over a blue tarp in a small control room. She walked in and got his attention.
"…Zim…" She said in a sad tone. He turned around.
"Hey Tak" He said blandly.
"Where is He?" She asked. Zim pointed to the tarp on the floor.
She saw the outline of Gir laying under the heavy blanket. She felt so bad for Zim, But when she looked at him he showed no signs of emotion towards the whole situation at all. She walked up to Zim so they were side by side.
"Why don't you let it out?" She asked. Zim looked confused. "You're feelings…You don't get mad anymore, you don't cry, you scarcely change your expression unless you're talking." She explained.
"Those things are hardly appropriate for a soldier Tak." He tried to respond.
"Zim, just because you're a soldier, doesn't mean you have to be a robot." She said. "If you don't feel Anything, you could hurt yourself more than help." Zim was now looking at her. She still looked at Gir.
"Zim, locking your emotions away is not the means of making you a better soldier. It isn't healthy, and it's painful to anyone who sees you do it." As she finished she rested her head on Zims shoulder. A tear fell from her eye, and one fell from his.
"Tak…I'm sorry." He said, starting to open up more. "I guess I let the job get to me. I can't imagine how many people I may have hurt." Zim now started to feel pain well up inside him. "All of this, and now Gir…It was my fault." He said, falling to his knees.
"Zim, it wasn't your fault" Tak said getting on her knees, and hugging him.
"I sent him in alone, not thinking of the consequences." He sat there for awhile before standing up with Tak. They stood up straight and saluted to Gir. "We won the battle…but lost a Hero." Zim said. Then he called a retriever, to come and pick up the body.
An hour later…
Everyone was on there way home. Enough soldiers stayed back under the command of an officer. Zim flew back on Taks ship, with some of her crew. The rest was piloting the Massive back to the base.
They arrived home to see an unbelievable spectacle. HQ was under attack.
End of Chapter 11
HaHaHa! I END this chapter here now. I would have had this one up earlier, but I got writers block…so anyway, I hope it is liked, this chapter has not a lot of action in it. Also, I was critiqued awhile back for having soldiers show emotion. I didn't want to say anything because it plays a part in the story later.