Chapter Fourteen
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Erin tried to stay as still as possible as Red untied her hands and ankles. And she tried not to fall over as he helped her up a second later. In her head her mind was screaming: ZIM'S IN TROUBLE! STAY FOCUSED! But unfortunately...she was too distracted. Erin stood before the Tallest. Although…she was feeling slightly weak kneed standing before Tallest Red.
Purple was busy examining the snack pouch that she was still wearing, as he had noticed a bag of chips inside the belt.
"Pur, she's not a vending machine", Red pointed out, frowning slightly.
"Oh…" Erin exclaimed at once, she looked down at the snack pouch. Which...she had forgotten she was still wearing it. She unbuckled the belt and handed it to Purple, "Here, you can have it!" She remarked.
"Gee, thanks Erin!" Purple replied happily and then went to sit down, as he started opening it.
Red turned back to Erin. Though, they tried to look any where else but at each other....which was rather hard.
"So…uh…do you wanna get a soda?" Red asked.
"Okay", Erin replied.
"Hey! Weren't we trying to figure out what that Time…Variable…Space…Field…Thing was doing just floating there?" Purple asked, looking up from the snacks he was eating and blinking his purple eyes.
But unfortunately Red and Erin had left the bridge and hadn't heard him.
"…why am I not surprised?" Purple decided out loud.
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…Zim's Voot Cruiser was coming closer to the Variable Time Stasis Field. Zim, naturally, had noticed this death trap and tried to fly around it but the cruiser seem unable to break free of it's gravitational pull, and slowly but surely was being pulled towards a variably HORRIBLE doom! With them in it!
"What the heck is wrong now?" Dib asked, noticing Zim pushing the buttons on the console.
"The cruiser is being sucked into that Time Stasis Field, THAT'S what, Dib-stink!" Zim exclaimed, eyes narrowing angrily.
"Isn't that the explodey thing that made you explode?" GIR asked, pointing at the green ball.
"Yes! And unfortunately we could be blown to pieces if we get sucked into it!" Zim replied, biting his lip in frustration.
SFX: French Voice: TWO…SECONDS…LATER…
"This CAN'T get any worse", Dib remarked, folding his arms and frowning deeply.
The cruiser was stuck inside the Time Stasis Field. They were being knocked left and right around the cruiser as GIR screamed happily and Zim tore at his antennae, howling in pain while Dib's glasses knocked around, bouncing here and there almost as quickly and with as much fervor as GIR's body.
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…"Yes, our planned worked!" Tak said cheerfully. "I can die happy now!" She admitted.
"Wonderful!" Darth replied, clasping his gloved claws together. "Now let's call the Tallest and tell them we have Zim trapped!" He added, nodding eagerly.
Tak smirked as she punched in the transmission code, which the Tallest had designated to be 1…2…3…4…5.
…which was stupid. The same sort of code an idiot puts on his luggage lock.
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…"Sir, we have an in-coming transmission on that channel who's code is the same as your luggage lock." the communication officer said, turning around.
"Urh du ewuh uh." Purple said, stuffing a doughnut into his mouth.
"Huh?"
"Tuh dah ewah ohn."
"Huh?"
"TURN THE VIEWER ON." Purple said, finishing the doughnut by swallowing it down, half-finished. HOO boy, he'd feel THAT in the morning.
Tak came on the screen a moment later, grinning proudly with MIMI on her shoulder and Darth and Felix to the right.
"My Tallest, I have…hey…wait! Where is the other Tallest?" Tak asked, blinking in surprise.
Purple and the deck crew looked around the floor and around the bridge.
"Uh…" Purple trailed off, his mouth full of another doughnut. "Well…you see…er…"
BGM: Crickets chirp
And then it happened. That perfect moment in which all maledom unites for a single reason. The "Synchronized Guy Lie".
"Well you see, Tallest Purple was hungry." The first communications officer said.
"And so Tallest Red got him a bunch of doughnuts." Another spoke up.
"But now Tallest Purple is THIRSTY." A guard said.
"And there's no soda machines on THIS part of the ship." Another remarked.
"So Red went to go get me a soda. I told him I want an orange soda." Purple spoke. "And that's why he's not here." He finished, shrugging.
"…he and Erin are making out, aren't they?" Darth inquired.
Purple sighed and looked over at a communications officer. They flicked on a holo-vid screen that showed off Red and Erin. The two kissed each other gently. They were in a room with very dimmed lights...it was kind of a romantic setting. Their sodas sat untouched on a nearby table and Red was ever-so-gently removing Erin's clothes and soon everyone would see her bra in three…two…one…
SFX: Siren
"…BIG time." Purple remarked, eyes going wide as the holo-vid screen was shut off a moment later.
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… Red was now looking at Erin, and both were now VERY close to each other. Red calmly raised the soda up…it was now in a fine crystal glass. "So then what happened?"
"Then he placed me in a snack bin and I ended up with you." Erin explained.
"Wow…quite the story." Red admitted. He smiled at her. "You know, I'm glad you feel you can talk to me about this."
"Yeah, you know, Zim and Dib shrug this sorta thing off, to them, it's like…" She struggled to find the right words. "…like an occupational hazard or something! It can be hard to talk to them."
"So Darth actually went inside your HEAD?" Red inquired. "Hmm. Tell me…" He grinned a little. "What did he see?" He asked softly, gently holding her cheek.
"Nothing you don't know already, silly." Erin said gently.
But the truth was, he'd seen a LOT more than what he already knew. He'd looked her over and had not just seen right INTO her, but THROUGH her. There hadn't been any defense at all, and she had felt so…violated, so…FRIGHTENED.
"I was scared." She admitted quietly. "I started to think about losing Zim and Dib…I started to think about losing YOU…" She looked up into his eyes, crying a little.
"It was like my heart was breaking." She whimpered, crying into his chest.
He gently held her close, patting her back. "Erin…" He said quietly, softly. "I can fix that."
He kissed her deeply then…and that was it. She was not afraid, she was not unhappy, she was no longer anxious or worried…there was a simple bliss going through her.
She was safe.
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