Del was rocking a smeetly Zim, the house was deadly silent.
"Axis?" A crash came from a room in the house, "Axis, what's wrong?" Del walked into the living room, two elite soldiers were searching the house while Axis was trying to fight them off. "What's going on?"
"Nothing," Axis insisted, "the massive seems to think otherwise."
"Del, you have been summoned to the massive." A soldier said.
"No, I'd rather stay here." Del said backing away.
"That was not a request." The other soldier stated making an advance. Axis attacked him with a makeshift PAK leg.
"Del take Zim and get out of here." He shouted, Del nodded caring her smeet out the back door. A sickening crunch came from inside the house as one of the soldier as one of the guards followed her. Del cried but kept running clutching her smeet. Two other guards cut her off and carried her to a voot. She kept Zim's tiny sleeping form against her chest. Gir watched helplessly from the ground as the voot took off. He had to bury his old master as was protocol and hoped that the lady returned soon. Del was dragged to the main deck where the Tallest Miyuki was waiting for her.
"It had been a while since you ran away from you last test evaluation." Miyuki stated, "This wouldn't have anything to do with how easily your dead PAK can pop of your back, especially since you still need it to survive."
"Why couldn't you leave me alone?" Del sobbed
"I see that a defective like yourself can't understand rank. Honestly I would have left you alone, were it not for the fact you have kidnapped a perfectly capable invader."
"What are you talking about?"
"Your smeet has not been labeled a defective like yourself Del. He's perfectly fine despite that he's PAKless. We can give him a wonderful upbringing on Irk if you would just hand him over."
"But Zim is not like the others. There was no incubator when we made him. You have to promise that he'll do something great for the empire." Del said reluctantly handing over her smeet, Miyuki took him.
"Naturally, he will be very useful in the cross project."
"He'll die if you do that, you can't!"
"I can he belongs to the empire now."
"He's not the empire's smeet, he's my smeet! I have the stretch marks to prove it!" She wailed, "Please, My smeet…" She broke down, Spork came up behind her.
"Come now, the worst's over now."
"You don't understand, he'll die!" Del sobbed, "Unless…" She stood up and ran to the voots and stole a ship to head back to Irk. Gir was overjoyed to see his mistress return, but she looked so distraught. She dug through her old friend's house and growled, leaving a note on the door. Somewhere among the mess she had made her PAK sat oblivious to the fact it's owner had run off in a panicked state. Amalthia came to the forest.
"Del, is that you? I got your note after you and Gir ran out of the house. Why do you need the abyss serum?"
"The Tallest have stolen my smeet, they are going to kill him with their foolish tests. Without the serum he'll die I- You wouldn't understand."
"I do, I have a son too, I'll give it to you."
"Thank you!" Del handed the serum to Gir. "Give the serum to Zim, guard him with your life." Gir nodded and flew off, Amalthia gasped.
"Del, your PAK, it's gone!"
"Just as well, when the massive receive word that I'm dead they'll leave this planet alone. Especially since Tane's taken it off the star charts." She chuckled weakly, "Your son, what's his name?"
"Dib, yours?"
"Zim."
"I wish they could have met." Amalthia sighed as she watched her friend's life flicker like a candle. That night Zen had come looking for the abyss serum which was already halfway across the galaxy. He had killed Amalthia and searched the two corpses for any sign of the glass bottle. Someone found Axis and called the police. The three were buried and the two boys grew up on two different sides of the universe completely oblivious to how close they would become.