How to Totally Rock!
AN: Wheee, another chapter in my story! I really enjoy writing this thing. The fact that people like this thing makes my brain squee with joy. Thanksgiving is going to be coming up soon and after that the Christmas season is gonna bitch slap us right in the face. Nothing like millions of moms across the country practically killing each other just to get the latest toy for their kids ya know? Anyway, enough with that, time for the chapter!
Disclaimer: Do I even need to write one of these blasted things every time I post a new chapter! I mean really! You should know I don't own anything Zim related. So piss off!
Chapter 14: The Invasion From Within
The group was surrounded and had no way of escaping at all. Dib looked like crap and obviously didn't seem to be doing that well. "What do we do now?" Gaz asked. "I don't know." Zim told the girl with him. "Well isn't this touching?" Roger said to the group. "You're all here once again as a big group. Too bad I'll have to kill you all." He then laughed a big evil laugh. Tak stared at Dib and realized just how terrible he looked. His face was covered in blood, he had a black eye, his t-shirt was smeared in blood, as were his pants. Her faces expression saddened even more when she noticed him feebly look up at her.
It was unbearable to look at and she felt a tear come to her face. Roger then smirked. "Kill them" he told his men. "But sir I thought you wanted to keep them alive long enough to interrogate them." Roger grabbed his henchman by the collar and dragged him over. "I do you stupid pile of shit. I just want to see if they really are as intimidating as Marshall has reported them to be." His henchman went over to the railing. "Open fire!" he shouted to them. The soldiers readied their guns and opened fire on the group. "Wait! Cease fire! Stop you freaking idiots!" Roger yelled at them. They did as was commanded. Astonishingly, the three were no longer in the area where the gunshots were pelting.
"Where did they go!" the henchman next to Roger asked with a touch of worry in his voice. Zim's voice could suddenly be heard by them, "The only people dying tonight are you guys. Oh and if you plan on praying to God for deliverance, don't bother. God called in sick today!" Suddenly one of the soldier's heads exploded like a watermelon struck with a bottle rocket. Another screamed in pain as he split in two. And yet another seemed to be ripped apart by machine gun fire from nowhere. "What the hell is going on sir?" the henchman asked Roger. "What's going on is a spectacle of blood letting I've never before witnessed. My appetites been piqued, I want to see what else they have to show before moving on to the main course." Roger told him.
Zim, Gaz, and Tak were slaying soldiers left and right at an amazingly fast rate. It was an amazing spectacle like something out of The Matrix, or a video game, or an anime. Gaz had slain several of them in quick succession with her machine guns. She took cover behind a pillar and leaned out to the side shooting several of them. She then took cover again as they continued the fire but this time with renewed vigor. "Screw this" she said as she pulled a grenade out. She pulled the pin out and threw it out at the group of guards. An explosion and screams were heard as the thing went off. Gaz then went back to taking care of the other guards.
Tak was doing really good too. She had originally been using a tactical 12 gauge shotgun. However that proved to be rather cumbersome only allowing her to hit close range targets with any major success. She had instead switched to two Desert Eagle's for maximum efficiency. She was currently jumping from crate stack to crate stack, shooting guys below her. She eventually jumped down to ground level and found a bunch of guys coming up after her. She flipped into the air twisting her body around as she shot down at the guys as she went over them. They dropped down on the ground dead as could be. "This is too easy" she muttered.
Zim was of course doing extremely well himself. He had yet to use any of his guns instead using his katana and some shuriken he had fashioned from the same metal he had fashioned his katana blade out of. They were quite effective, as he had dropped several of the guards with them. Plus as an added bonus they were reusable unlike the bullets in their guns. He had decimated, eviscerated, decapitated, and…something else with ated to them. Either way he killed a lot of people. He was currently in the middle of dicing up some bastards with the finesse of a Japanese swordsman. As he was doing this, a guard came up behind trying to get the best of him. Without even looking he flipped his sword over and rammed it backwards into the guy behind him.
He threw a shuriken into another dude's forehead causing him to fall off the walkway he was on. He then spun around and came face to face with another guard. The guard looked terrified beyond belief. "Boo!" Zim said to him before cutting him vertically in half. He then saw some guys on the walkway overhead. "I think I'll have some fun upstairs" he said. He threw several shuriken in quick succession into the nearby wall creating some steps, which he ran up and jumped off of onto the walkway.
Several of the guards then ran up to Zim. "Kill him! We can't let him get to boss!" one of the guards yelled at the others. Zim smirked and spun around twirling his katana around before throwing it into the chest of one of the guys coming at him. He then jumped onto him pulling the katana out and rebounding off. He then cut a guys arm off with him screaming in pain and silenced him by shoving his katana through the guys open mouth. He tore it out and cut another guy into several itty, bitty bite sized pieces. He kicked another guy off the walkway where the guy landed headfirst dieing on impact with the hard concrete floor.
Gaz who was currently on the same level as Zim was doing her best "Matrix" imitation as she ran along a nearby wall flipping off of it and shooting several guards with a sub-machine gun. She landed diving again firing at several more guys. She slid right next to Zim jumping to her feet and quickly reloading her gun. "This seems a bit easy to me" she told Zim. "I know" he agreed with her. "It's as if these guys are only being thrown at us for a show of some sort." Gaz said. "Like we're just playing the parts of gladiators in an arena of blood." Something clicked in Zim's head after Gaz said this.
"That's because it is a game Gaz." Zim told her. "We're being used by Roger so he can see how strong we are." Gaz growled, "Nobody uses me!" she declared. "We need to find Tak." Zim told Gaz. "Tell me something I don't know!" she yelled back as they were besieged by gunfire. Luckily the guns stopped as Tak stepped in. The guards fell down dead from gunshot wounds delivered by the Irken female. "Right on time." Zim said to Tak. "You guys should know I'm always on time" she stated to them while slinging her gun over her shoulder. "Not always, but whatever." Gaz said to her.
They then heard clapping coming from behind them. They turned around to see Roger clapping his hands behind them on the walkway overhead. "Very good. It seems you have exceeded my expectations" he told them. "You asshole! Where's Dib!" Tak shouted at him. "Oh don't worry your boyfriend is safe." Tak was seething, "He's not my boyfriend!" she yelled at him. "Oh really? You two aren't in love?" he asked her. Tak was blushing at that moment and was having trouble finding the right words to say. "Of course not! We're just friends!" she said to him. Roger smirked. He then snapped his fingers and the guard who gave the order originally came in dragging Dib alongside him.
Dib had since regained consciousness and was struggling to keep conscious. He saw everyone still there and alive. He smiled, happy to know his sister, best friend, and new girlfriend were safe from harm. 'Thank God they're okay' he thought as he looked at them. Roger walked over to Dib and turned back to Tak, "Now Tak, you tell me you don't love this boy. Do you truly mean it, or are you just saying it so your friends don't discover your true feelings that you seem to be so eager to suppress?" he asked her. Tak stared up at him and was unsure on how to answer him.
Roger, agitated by her silence, pulled a pistol out and stuck it to Dib's head. "Do you truly love him, or not? Answer the fucking question!" he shouted at her. "And answer truthfully or this boys head will have a new hole in it." Realizing she was backed into a corner she couldn't escape from, Tak had no choice. "I do love him!" she shouted at him. "Is that the truth?" he asked her. "Yes" she told him. Roger smiled cruelly, "Good answer" he said to her. Then without warning he turned his gun on her and fired. Tak was taken totally by surprise as she felt a bullet pierce her chest. She fell back collapsing on the floor hard. Dib's eyes bulged as he saw his love get shot and collapse to the floor.
"Now that she's out of the way I think I'll kill you two next!" Roger yelled at them from above. He then jumped from the walkway, which was suspended at least 50 feet from the ground landing on the hard concrete floor with a crunch. However the crunch was not his leg bones breaking but the concrete floor beneath him cracking, creating a crater and sending splinters of concrete flying into the air. Gaz and Zim stared wide-eyed at the guy in front of them. He had just jumped from a height of 50 feet and landed on his feet and instead of breaking his legs, broke the concrete.
"What the hell are you?" Gaz asked the man who had still yet to get up from his crouched position. He stood up slowly grinning as he did so. "I'm human, just like you" he said still grinning. "That's impossible! Humans can't do that!" Zim shouted this time. "Correction you idiotic pest. Most humans can't do that. However I'm not like most humans. You see I have been imbued with strength, agility, speed, and intelligence most people only dream of. I was a test subject for a special chemical called "Deep Black". An odd chemical indeed, it was devised by scientists to make soldiers stronger and more capable fighters. Imagine something a whole squad of troops being able to accomplish in a few days, being accomplished by one soldier in a few hours. Amazing really. The government though shut down the experiment due to some test subjects becoming rebellious or going insane and because they were afraid of other people like the Iraqis or the North Koreans getting their hands on it." He paused for a while, smirking at the memories that were flooding back to him.
"After the government ordered it to be destroyed, Marshall ordered that some of it be sent to him. People refused at first until he threw some money their way of course. Afterwards he was able to get both a good supply of it and was able to hire some of the scientists who made the stuff to work for him. He then began secretly making the stuff to use on some of his subordinates. However he needed the right people so he devised several tests for some of us. Those who succeeded were given a role in his empire running a certain one of his operations. Afterwards, to make sure he had powerful men as his subordinates he injected all of us with Deep Black. We became invincible. So much so that he had to put several of us in control of the same operations just so we wouldn't get any ideas of who was more important."
Roger was walking around now as he was saying this. He was circling around Gaz and Zim like a wild animal stalking its prey. "In short, I'm a very dangerous and powerful man. One you should not cross unless you have a death wish. Which, considering what you've been doing here, I think you do. Allow me to fulfill that wish." And within the blink of an eye he was in between them and threw a punch out at both of them knocking them both several feet away from where they originally stood.
When they landed they were really shaken up. "What the hell?" Zim said to no one in particular. Gaz jumped to her feet and looked around. "Where did he go?" she said as she looked around. Roger wasn't anywhere to be found at all. He had simply vanished into thin air. "Okay, this isn't good." Zim said, as they looked around guns ready. "He's either hiding somewhere else, or invisible." Gaz reasoned with the Irken boy. "But which is it?" asked Zim. "Neither" a voice said as Roger reappeared in front of Zim and kicked him clear across the room. He turned to Gaz and within a split second had gotten in front of her and had kicked her across the room too.
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As all this was happening Dib watched in horror as his best friend and sister were getting their asses handed to them. But that wasn't the worst part. The worst part was that he had to watch helplessly as his girlfriend was slowly dying in front of him and he couldn't do anything about it. As all this was happening though, he felt something weird going on in his body. Like something was coming undone or a beast of some sort was being unleashed. He suddenly went very limp and the guy holding him looked down at him with a puzzled look on his face. "Hey! You can't die yet! You still have to watch your friends suffer more!"
Roger was now standing over Gaz and Zim with a sick and twisted smile on his face. "Looks like you guys are all outta juice. Too bad, I was hoping you'd give me more satisfaction in killing you. But I guess we can't always get what we want now can we?" he said to them. There was a scream and Roger turned to look where it came from. Suddenly a ball of twisted flesh and organs fell to the floor with a sickening splat. "What the fuck?" Roger asked. He looked up at the walkway. Zim and Gaz also looked up to see what did that. What they saw amazed them. Dib was standing on the walkway and glaring down at Roger.
At least that's what he must have been doing. It was really hard to tell due to the fact were now a bright red and his physical appearance had also changed a bit more than just eye color. The scythe of hair on his head was now longer and was a blood red color. His coat for some reason had changed too. It was now tattered and resembled a cape more than a coat. "Oh crap!" Roger said. "Is that Dib?" Zim asked. "What happened to him?" Gaz stared at her brother. Something weird had done this. But what was it? Whatever it was, it didn't seem dangerous, at least not to them anyway. To Roger on the other hand, well that was a different story.
Dib then jumped from his perch on the walkway railing and landed on the concrete floor shattering it in the same way Roger did. Dib stood up and stared directly at Roger. Roger was sweating bullets as Dib stared him down. "You…you're…" Roger stammered to Dib. "Yes, a Deep Black subject too." Dib finished for Roger. "No, it can't be that was just a rumor." "Sorry Roger but it's indeed true. I too have been treated with Deep Black. I didn't know that though until just recently. It seems me seeing you shooting my girlfriend and beating the crap out of my best friend and little sister stirred something inside of me allowing me to release the powers given to me from the chemical." Dib explained.
"And guess what? I'm gonna kill you now!" Dib said shortly before vanishing in an instant. The next thing Roger knew he was hit up alongside the head and flew right through the wall. He got up from the rubble and looked around. Dib was gone. At least he was until he appeared in front of Roger and grabbed him by the collar, throwing him through the wall again. Roger skidded across the ground and got up to fight but was hit by Dib again. Dib then picked him up and threw him into the air jumping up and hitting him higher into the air. He hit Roger again, knocking him up higher. He hit him higher, and higher. Finally when he was high enough Dib appeared above him and delivered a kick to Roger's chest sending him flying with brutal force and speed into the concrete floor creating a massive cloud of dust, which blinded everyone for a short while.
When the dust settled, there was a massive crater in the floor Roger lay in it beaten and broken but not dead. Dib appeared in the crater with him and walked over to him. "There'll be others" he breathed out to Dib from behind his now broken sunglasses. "I don't care." Dib responded. He then brought his foot up and brought it down on Roger's face with a loud splat as his blood spattered all over Dib's face.
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Zim and Gaz were now standing as Dib jumped out of the crater. "Dib? Are you okay?" his sister asked him. He didn't answer still having the same appearance he did when he first began fighting Roger. He walked over to Tak's motionless body and picked it up gently. He cradled her body in his arms, as he looked her over. "Dib?" Gaz said to him. "She's still alive" he said suddenly. "But she's dying. We need to get back to Zim's base quickly if we're going to save her." He turned to them. "Dib, what's going on?" Gaz asked him. "I'll tell you later" he told his sister. "Zim!" "Yes." Zim said to Dib. "Place the detonator. And set it for ten seconds." Zim's eyes practically popped out of his head. "Ten seconds! Do you have the brain worms! That's suicide." Dib looked down at Tak's motionless body. "I'll get us out in time" he said to the other two simply.
"Okay." Zim said. He then produced the bomb and set the timer. Dib walked over to them still holding Tak. "As soon as you activate it grab onto me" he ordered the other two. Zim and Gaz nodded. Zim hit the activation button and the two latched onto Dib. Suddenly they disappeared. The timer ticked down: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. A beep was heard as all the charges in the labs exploded at once and the detonator did shortly after. Above ground in the casino the whole building shook briefly. "What was that?" a patron asked. "Was it an earthquake?" another asked completely oblivious to the real reason.
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Mimi and GIR were looking at the screen in the base. "Where did they go?" Mimi asked. "They disappeared!" GIR said quietly. "OOOHHH! Maybe they is in another dimension or something." Mimi tried her best not to giggle at the little robot. "GIR, this is serious. We don't know where they are. They just disappeared and the place blew up a few seconds later." Suddenly sirens began blaring and the computer warned, "Intruder alert! Intruders on the premises!" GIR and Mimi went to see who it was and were surprised to see the group in the base already. "What happened and what's wrong with Tak?" Mimi demanded of them. "Later Mimi." Gaz said to the female SIR unit. Mimi noticed something strange about Dib's appearance as he went by though.
They got Tak to the Medical Bay immediately and Computer said he would take care of the surgery so Zim could rest. Dib left his love to be operated on as he and the others left the room. "Now Dib." Gaz said as they left the room. "Could you please tell me what's going on?" Dib sighed. "I might as well. But I don't think you're gonna be thrilled about it."
AN: Yep, another cliffhanger people. I hope you liked this chapter. I got the inspiration behind it from Naruto and Trinity Blood two extremely awesome anime. Well hope you liked it. And remember, read and review!