Hey, I'm jumping into it here, before I forget.
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credit for the name Raika (rye-ka) goes to my friend Bex and credit for the name Skirple comes from Lithium Muse
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Raika kept a watchful eye on the hybrid "science experiment" that was also her tallest's offspring.Because of the DNA printout and the human contamination, she knew it wasn't a natural-born smeet but it was part human... which implied...
No. Absolutely not.
The Tallest would never allow it. Such a smeet would be killed.
Still, the child was adorable. For the moment she played on the floor with some cloth blocks that had been scavenged from a human preschool. It would have to do until the computers were fully up and functional.
She was spelling words that she had possibly never heard. An exceptionally intelligent Smeet, for sure. Because of her DNA incontinuity, she might never make it up among the ranks of the Irken military, but then, even civilians learned military tactics. Either way, she would be a fighter.
Raita tossed her another book and she tossed it aside in favor of a rock. Perhaps she wasn't as intelligent as she'd thought at first.
"No, don't chew on that..." Raita muttered to herself.
She went over to the smeet and pried the piece of earth from her mouth. Meanwhile, her blocks spelled "Deoxyribonucleic".
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Maize was not stupid.
She was intelligent enough to know this. But even though she had so far learned that books were interesting, so were the rocks at her little feet. And so was the floor. And so were the bolts and rivets in the very walls here. The whole place was fascinating.
She was only just born, but even so, words and pictures flooded her mind. Words she hadnever heard spoken but "heard" nonetheless. People, human and Irken, that she had never seen before yet felt she knew somehow and tactics and phrases that she shouldn't know yet. These things fascinated her to no end.
So far, the nice nurse lady who had been watching her hadn't said much. But what about the big tall giant that had come to see her before? So tall he seemed to reach the sky above her... She had fallen over trying to oggle his face and she giggled at the memory. Who was he?
She looked around, her large head swiveling on her little neck, and saw a piece of paper hovering on the edge of a desk. She clumsily got to her feet and took her first steps.
It was nothing monumental; she could walk from birth. Nonetheless, she felt unsteady on her little feet.
She reached the paper and read it. It was bigger than her face. So that was what deoxyribonucleic acid was... DNA, everything living had it... but hers was different. She wasn't quite sure yet... but she could learn.
She could always learn.
Raika didn't notice the smeet toddle into the other room; she was busy reading a human magezine, tsk tsking at the various articles. Ridiculous. It was good they were being wiped out, really.
Maize, meanwhile, found the stairs tricky. She knew the pronciple but her legs were just too short. She was too little. She noticed the air getting colder on her skin, too and she shivered.
Down the stairs, her jaw dropped. Lights. Buttons. Flashing... thingies! She was in a plaroom!
"Ooooh..." she said to herself.
She toddled over to the nearest chair and tried climbing up, but to no avail. Finally, fed up, she extracted mechanical spider legs from her backPAK just by wanting to. NEAT.
This place... she didn't EVER want to leave this world.
The moment she got up into the chair, however, she decided this thing wasn't fun at all... it was scary.
Two strong, robot arms with wicked pointed claws grabbed her and strapped her to the chair and another arm placed a sort of helmet over her head. She couldn't see! What was this??
Unaware she was doing it, she began to cry. They were remarkably similar to a human cry, but older sounding, not so newborn.
"Sit still, Irken smeet," said a soothing male voice. She didn't know who it was but she quieted down. She had been followed!
But when she peeked from underneath the helmet, all she saw was a pearly blue-white shadow of an Irken. He smiled and waved. She laughed and waved back, not knowing any better.
The helmet was replaced and she stared straight ahead, but she could tell the shadow was still there; he was really cold and he kept explaining things to her, how the thing she was wearing was an education helmet, it would teach her all she wanted to know.
"Who are you?" she asked innocently.
A freezing hand closed itself over her tiny one and she jumped. So cold!! She didn't like it.
"Zim."
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Mona didn't feel right. Despite what she'd said about Maize, she still didn't feel right. She really couldn't be a mothe, biological or otherwise, but the little smeeby was kinda cute... and she was all alone on a foreign planet... the firstborn smeet on a foreign planet called Earth.
She at least deserved to be visited and told the truth, that somewhere out there, not far away, she had someone she could rn to and talk to if she wanted, that she was never alone on this fabulous planet called Earth.
Her resolve quickened, Mona pulled on a clean, spare uniform given to her by the Tallest and, also grabbing a black trench coat (it was cold despite the daylight) she made her way to the Smeetery.
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It hadn't been hard to find, to be honest. All she had to do was follow the screaming.
She burst through the front doors and down the stairs two at a time to see something impossible.
A shadowy, smoke-billowy Irken stood there, talking to little Maize, who sat in a chair, restrained and positively shaking in terror.
"Someone!!" she screamed so loud it hurt.
She didn't know if it could be maternal instinct if she had never given birth or been there for the development, but something clicked in her mind and she ran forward.
"No!!"
She halted only for a second. The smoky figure was obviously some sort of hologram or a ghost or something... but then why could she touch it?
She didn't understand it much but she grabbed the restraints holding Maize's hands down and broke them. The helmet fell off ehr head and the frightened Irken child jumped into her arms. She buried her face furiously into Mona's Commander uniform and she was not surprised to feel her trembling.
She turned to the smoke figure, but he had gone.
She brought Maize upstairs to the nurery but found no sign of a guardian. Little did she know, Raika sat shaking like a leaf in a darkened closet, scared senseless.
With nothing else to do about it, Mona took Maize to her place for the night.
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PLEASE REVIEW!! next chapter up as soon as I get permission to borrow a certain character!
What's Zim up to now??