District 10...

When you read this Chapter, DO NOT think of Non-Humans!

"What are you doing here, little Smeet?" Toby asked.

"My mommy went up to heaven a long time ago and my daddy's missing. So I went out looking for him. You don't think he'll be made at me, do ya?"

Toby and Dib stared down at the Smeet. She looked at them with her big Green eyes. Dib couldn't help but smile, as he found her very adorable. He walked over and crouched down next to her, bringing himself to eye-contact. He put her hand on her shoulder and smiled.

"What's your name?" he asked.

"My name is Sema!" she giggled. She noticed Dib's Irken features. Her face broadened and she came up and hugged him. He was very taken back at this. He tried to pull her off, but she was clinging to his jacket.

"Your one of the Humans! But your also an Irken! Are you a superhero?"

"A…A…Superhero?" he asked confusingly, "No. I'm not."

"Aw" she said disappointed. But then her head shot up again, and she stared directly at his face, "Well, I still like you!"

Dib was feeling very confused. He tried to take her off of him again, but she was determined to stay on. She climbed up him, going to his head. She grabbed his scythe part of his hair. It felt soft, so she kept playing with it. This caused her to laugh. Dib, oddly enough, couldn't help but smile.

"She seems to like you…" Toby said to him.

"Say, umm, Sema, would you mind getting off my head?"

"But it so BIG! Dat's a superpower, right?"

"No! And my head is NOT big!"

"Yes it is! It's so nice and soft! What your name, mister?"

"Uhh, Dib. My name is Dib Membrane."

"Huh. Well, you a neat guy, Dib!"

"Well, um, thank you!" he said, not quite knowing how to deal with an Irken child on his head.

She jumped down off of him and ran around in circles.

"It funny" she said while running, "How funny life can be. Isn't it? Humans are mean to Irkens, and Irkens hate Humans, but only because they hate them back, and now, you a Human and an Irken! You a Hurken! Or a Irkman!"

Dib thought this was adorable, and couldn't help but to display a toothy grin. Sema continued to run around, and then she dashed over back to the junk pile. She grabbed a bunch of random stuff and started to combine it into something, while talking.

"…So maybe now there won't be any meanie kind of words or actions between Irkens and Humans! Well all get together and sing, and dance, and have picnics all the time! What do you think, Dib?"

She turned around and presented him with something. It was many candy wrappers molded together with Irken writing on it that had two blue strings attached on each side, making it so he could wear it around his neck.

"Um, what's this say, Sema?" he siad, pointing to the Irken writing on the "medal".

She giggled.

"It says Peace! In Irken! You know, I must be the first Irken ever to write that word! Irkens don't believe in peace, they just want power!"

"Hmm. So Humans and Irkens seem to have a lot more in common then they realize" he mumbled.

"What?" she asked.

"Oh, um, nothing…"

"Well, do you like your present?"

"What?"

"Your present, silly!"

"Oh, yeah, I love it! Gonna wear it all the time!" He said awkwardly.

"Yeah! Cool! Glad you like it!"

He smiled down and looked at it. He lifted above his head and drooped it on his neck. This pleased Sema and she ran up and hugged his boot. She then let go and ran back up to the piles of garbage from which she had just emerged from.

"Well, I gotta go!"

"What do you mean?" Toby asked, "It is dangerous for a Smeet to be wondering around the District this late at night…"

"But I got's to find daddy!" she whined.

"Sema" Dib spoke, "Why don't you look for him tomorrow? When there is a less likely chance of being killed?"

"But I wanna find daddy!" she wailed, tears forming in her eyes. Dib sighed.

"Okay. Where was the last place you saw him?"

"He said he was going to the meanie human's food stands…"

"You mean the Nigerian gangs?"

"Yeah, dem! But he told me not to come! Then the other meanie Humans came.-"

"Who were they?"

"I couldn't figure out how to pronounce their name, but it said something like…I…C…G…"

Dib suddenly felt a burning feeling deep with in his stomach. And it wasn't bodily functions. It was guilt. Guilt because he knew how her story would end.

"And…T-T-Then w-w-what?" he asked, even though he knew that ICG probably just shot right then and there.

"Well, I raced out to see if daddy was okay, but I had to stay hidden. And then I saw the other meanie Humans loading daddy into their truck. Some man whose face I couldn't see because of his goggles and lab coat mouth hood said it would be a great live target for his son to practice on with the weapons, but I don't get what he meant…"

Dib then felt like he was going to kill himself. He had killed her father. When they forced him to try and fire the Irken weapons, that Target Irken was her father. Dib had to sit down. He felt horrible. Also, the morphine was starting to kick in, so he felt a little woozy. He rested his head in his hands, and cried a little. Toby stared at him in pity, knowing what happened.

"…So have you seen him?…" she asked. Dib looked up at this little Smeet and couldn't do it.

"No." he lied. He felt the worst kind of guilt in the world. Sema sighed a disappointed sigh.

"Sema" Toby said sadly, approaching her, "Perhaps you should stay with us for the night."

"But I want to find my daddy!"

"Well, uhh," Dib stuttered, "We can always look tomorrow!"

"Well….Okay. You promise?"

Dib felt like crying again. They would never find him. He was dead. Killed by him, himself! Even though those Scientists forced him to fire the gun, he still killed him.

"Now come on" he said tearfully, "Lets get you inside…"

He grabbed her hand and they began walking towards the door.

***

Tak sat on the couch. She had wondered why Dib had gone out there after Toby. She had heard some yelling and didn't know whether she should go out there and see if everything was alright. But, she had gotten tired from all the pain-killer drugs Toby had given her for her hand, So, she laid on the couch, arm over her eyes.

Suddenly, the door swung open and Dib and Toby walked in. She lifted her head up off the couch. Although she would not admit it, she was very excited to be sharing the couch with Dib…

"Toby? Dib? What-" she stopped though once she saw the little Smeet holding Dib's hand.

"Oh my god! What's that Smeet doing here?!" she asked.

"Relax Tak, we did not kidnap her or anything, we found her. She has lost her father and does not know where he is…" Toby said, acting for Sema to make her think that her father was missing and not dead. Dib felt even worse.

"Yeah! So they said to stay with you guys!" Sema said smiling. Tak smiled back. She was as cute as a button.

"EL!" Toby yelled, "El, darling, would you mind coming out here?"

El came out of the room, yawning.

"What is it-" she stopped in mid-sentence as she saw Sema, "Hello, little one! What are you doing here?"

"I can't find my daddy!" she said. El's face turned sad.

"Well, I'm sorry to hear that! Do you have any idea where he is?"

"EL" Toby whispered, "Her dad was taken by the ICG. But she doesn't know he's dead…"

"Oh my god…"

"I know, but do not tell her, yet. I do not wish to see her cry… We offered her a place to stay tonight, would you mind if she slept in the room with us?…"

"No. You have the most weapons, so if someone comes you can protect her…"

She then turned back to see Sema.

"Well, um, I'm sure you will find your daddy tomorrow. In the mean time you should get some rest…"

"Yes. You can sleep in our room. I will use some of the extra blankets to make a comfy little bed for you."

"Thank you!" she said happily, skipping off. The two lead her in the room and shut the door. Dib just sat on the couch, a blank expression on his face. Tak looked at him wearily.

"That's a cute kid" she said to him. He nodded, tears forming in his eyes.

"Dib? Are you okay-"

"I killed her father."

"What?"

"When ICG had me…They…forced me…to test out Irken weaponry….And they needed a moving target….so they brought in an Irken…I begged them not to make me do it…but…they…did….and that smeet Sema said her father was abducted by ICG…talking about how he would be used as the target…and she's so young…she doesn't even know…"

He broke down crying.

"It's all my fault!" he wailed, but quiet enough so his friends in the other room couldn't hear, "I'm a murderer!"

"Dib! She said crying, "Don't talk like that!"

"But I am! I am!"

"No, you're not! ICG is! Your innocent!"

"If I only could've taken the pain from the taser!"

"Come here" she said hugging him. "Oh Dib, Dib, Dib, Dib." she said trying to comfort him. He sniffed and sat up. They were once again face-to-face, "Oh…Dib" she then said passionately as they advanced, once again getting caught up in the moment. They closed their eyes, ready for their lips to meet. And then…

RING! RING!

They were interrupted as his cell-phone rang. They moved back, not knowing how to cope with what happened to each other. Dib answered it and brought it up to his ear.

"Hello?" he asked.

"Dib?" a familiar female voice said.

"Z-Z-Z-Zita?"

Tak's heart sunk.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah…Zita, why are you calling me?" he asked. He wasn't rude about it, but he sounded hurt.

"Because…I want to say…I forgive you…"

"What?"

"It's not your fault you're like this. It's those damn Irkens that gave you that disease. All I want is for you to be safe, now come home to me, and we'll get past thi-"

"No." he said sternly.

"What?"

"Zita. I don't think our relationship is going to work."

"What!?" she asked, sobbing.

"You forgive me!? I'm the one who should be forgiving you! Because you did something wrong!"

"What do you mean-"

"You hung me out to dry! Once I became like this, did you stick by my side? NO! You didn't! You thought I was a freak! You don't truly love me! In fact, I think the only reason you ever started dating me was because I was right about the Irkens!"

Zita's voice became speechless. But then, it got angry.

"You freak! You ARE a freak and you'll always BE a freak! You were a freak in Skool and you're a freak now! I-"

"Goodbye Zita."

"No! Wait! I didn't mean it-"

But he had already hung up his phone. He hung his head down low and sighed. Tak was proud of him. She patted him on the back.

"You did the right thing, Dib."

"Thanks, Tak. Even when I was dating her, I didn't really get the feeling she liked me. The only thing that gave me comfort was-"

Suddenly he remembered something. Something that he liked to carry all the time.

"OH MY GOD!" he yelped, patting himself all over, "Where is it!? Where is it!?"

"Where's what?"

But Dib jus shut everything around out. He kept searching, and searching. Talking to himself the whole time.

"Could it have come off when I fell off the cliff!? No! Yes! It could! Oh lord, come on! Where are you!?"

"Where's what?" Tak asked again. Suddenly, Dib felt in his back pocket and sighed in relief. He pulled out a photograph and looked at it dreamily. From where Tak was, however, she couldn't see what the picture was.

"What's that?" she asked suspiciously. Dib became self-aware at what he was doing and put his arms behind his back.

"Nothing!" he said nervously.

"Come on, what's that picture of?"

"I don't know what you're talking about!"

"Yes you do!"

"NO! Please don't-"

But she grabbed the picture from him. At first she was smirking that she had gotten a small victory, but then her face started to go solemn.

"Dib?" she asked.

"Yes?" he answered nervously.

"Why do still have this picture?"

She faced it towards him, and it turned out it was the same picture of him as a kid eating lunch with Tak as a "kid" in her human disguise.

"Uh…I…Um…"

"…Even after I betrayed you, you still kept it?…"

"Well…yeah…"

"But…But…why?"

"Because…"

"Why?"

"Uh, um, because…"

"Why, Dib?"

Dib couldn't take it. He charged in and kissed her. At first she was shocked, but she really liked it. She rapped her hands around his neck as he continued to kiss her. They let their tongues explore each other's mouth, and his hand made it's way up her leg. She stroked his antennas, which twitched in delight. He laid on the couch, with her on top of him. She took off his glasses and put them on the floor. Their kissing was just innocent delight…for five seconds…she took his trench coat off…and everything else, and he did the same with her. He grabbed the blankets that were on the couch, and covered themselves. He laid his hand on her waist, and she moaned in delight. He fiercely stroked her antennas, and she playfully kissed him on the face. It got more intense…and intense…and intense…they rolled all around the couch doing it. They prayed that Toby, El, and Sema couldn't hear them.

"Oh Dib, Oh Dib, Oh Dib, Oh Dib, Oh Dib, Oh Dib, Oh Dib, Oh Dib, Oh Dib, Oh Dib!" she moaned, grinning.

They kissed and kissed and kissed and kissed and kissed. It got more and more intense each time. They were getting the best night of their lives.

***

However, little did they know, Dib's recent phone conversation was monitored by some people he really wanted to get away from.

"Okay" Prof. Membrane said, listening to the past conversation between Dib and Zita on his head phones, "Trace the call."

"Okay. Just a second" A geeky looking man answered. He swung his chair around and bumped his knees. It was a small monitoring room. He pressed some buttons on the keyboard before spinning back around and saying "D 10."

"Excellent. I want troops there. I want my son captured" he said, talking to another person.

"Will do. I can catch 'da boss…" The horrible voice of Nigera spoke.

And… Authors' NOTE!: Well, this turned out to be a GREAT chapter. Hopefully I've satisfied you fellow DATR fans. Anyway, I want you to review. Just one after you've read this. I think I've earned it. Sema is so cute I just want to kill myself.