Cten's glitch!
Cten laid down on the couch, Zim over her. "Does everybody remember when she was sick?" Char, Nemo, and Zena were the only ones in the living room with Zim and Cten, who was passed out on the couch now. They nodded. "Well, that wasn't a sickness. Someone sent a virus to her PAK! That caused her to get sick, making us think that it was a sickness, just to cover up the fact that it was a virus. Just like viruses on the computer, this has invaded her PAK. Soon she will start glitching..." Zena raised her hand. "What Zena." "How bad will it get?" "That's the problem, I don't know. Now can I finish?" Zena nodded. "Good. As I was saying, she will start glitching, then just as any old computer virus, cause her PAK to shut down." Char raised her hand. "Yes, Char?" "Who would do this?" "Well, she did get sick shortly after..." Zim looked at them. "Call the Tallest! I think I know who it was!"
The Tallest appeared on the screen. "What now Zim?" "My Tallest, remember when Cten was sick?" "Yeah, so?" Red said, annoyed. "Well, that was a virus. And we think that Tak had infected her with it." Purple dropped his soda. "Why would she do that?" "The same reason she's in the Irken Asylum." Cten twitched then got up, her eyes blood red. "Zim!" Zim got an 'oh-shit' look on his face then turned to the screen. "My Tallest! You must find Tak and get her to tell you the deactivation code to the virus! I have to go!" he shut off the screen.
Cten was in a cage, a chain around her ankle. Her eyes were normal purple now, but she looked kinda confused. "Why do I have to be locked up?" Zim turned around. "Just a precaution, just incase you glitch again. Now, Char will be watching you while I go to the equipment room and grab a few things. Char, if she glitches again, just tazer her. That'll make her pass out." Char nodded. "What? Don't you dare tazer me!" "Too late!" Char held a tazer in front of Cten's face. Cten scooted to the back and sat with her legs crossed. "I'm hungry. Can you get me some waffles?" "I can't leave you alone. You might glitch again." "Fine. Trek!" Trek popped out of an air above them. "What? Me and the others are playing hide and seek!" Gir burst the door open. "AH FOUND YEW!" Trek turned around and used her jets to fly back through the air vent, Gir following not to far behind. A waffle got dropped through the vents and right into the cage in front of Cten, she picked it up and started chewing on it.
Zim had Cten's PAK and was playing around with it, Zena next to him looking at her watch. "It's been nine minutes." (A/N: If you didn't know, Irkens cant be more than 10 minutes without their PAK.) Cten was asleep in her cage, which was now in the far corner of the lab. "Okay." Zim walked over to Cten and poked her with one of his spiderlegs. Gir came running through the house and grabbed her PAK out of Zim's hand. "Got it!" Trek Kiki and Kiwi were on the other side of the lab. Gir put the PAK down on the ground. "Now, who owes me ten monies for CUPCAKES!?" Kiki ran away as Trek and Kiwi looked at each other and opened up their heads, reaching in there to look. Trek looked around then used her jets to run away, leaving Kiwi to pay. Zena looked up from her watch. "Ten seconds! Get it on!" "It's half way across the room!" said Zim as he was running, still about ten feet to go. "Well use your spiderlegs! Five seconds!" Gir and Kiwi looked around, whistled innocently, and scooted away. "Dammit Gir!" "Three..." Zim grabbed the PAK. "Two..." Zim ran as fast as he could on his spiderlegs. "One..." Zim was half way back. "No!" "Zero..." Zim stopped; he was two-thirds the way there. "No! No, no, no, no, NO!" He punched his fist through the nearest screen, shattering glass all over the place, a few pieces cutting his face, and some stabbing into his hand. His face twitched with anger, pain, and agony. "No..." he whispered to himself. Zena walked over to Cten, feeling her face. "She's too cold to be a live. I'm sorry, Zim." "Its all my fault! If I hadn't let Gir get it from my hand, or if I had gone a bit faster! Its all my fault!" he punched his other hand through another screen, once again shattering it through his fist, stray pieces of glass cutting his face, he twitched. "NO!" he turned to Zena. "GET OUT!" Zena sniffed and started to cry, and then Zim realized what was going on. Zena fell on her knees, her hands up near her face to catch the tears she was gently crying. Zim walked over to Zena, gently holding out his hand to put it on her shoulder. "Zena..." he said softly. Zena pushed his hand away and ran off, still crying. Zim sighed and walked over to Cten. "Come on, sis, you're tough, you can make it." He looked over to where he dropped her PAK. He walked over to it, picking it up. He opened it, and there it was, a little metal bug, Tak's name in Irken, and a little green light, blinking, marking its success of Cten's death. "You." He reached his hand in there, pulling it out. He tightened his fist, crushing the bug. He then took the PAK and walked over to Cten. he unlocked the cage and pulled her out. He turned her over, looking at the two metal holes in her back. He placed the PAK on her back. The tubes didn't move, signaling she was gone. "Cten." he screamed, punching the ground with his fist, and then he couldn't take the pain. He started to cry, turning Cten over and crying, holding her closer.