Chapter 36
The rest of the Membrane family was tossed into the back of another cargo ship. They were getting to their feet as the door closed and they started to ,ove.
"Damn it," Gaz cursed
"So much for that plan," Dib said as he held his arm. "Why would she have me use the vents anyways?"
Gaz glared at her brother. "That's how she escaped last time."
"Mom?" Asher asked when he finally found his words.
Gaz got down on a knee. "Yes?"
"What just happened? I don't understand."
Dib took a seat. "They our smarted us, kid. What else is there to understand?"
The half human turned to his mother "Is that my uncle?"
She nodded. "Dib, you wasted your life researching this stuff, what are they going to do to us? What about Zim and Fin?"
Dib shook his head. "I don't know."
"What do you mean you don't know?!" Gaz said as she clenched her fist.
"It means as I said," he said back. "I was never able to get into depths of what they do to prisoners."
Asher held onto Gaz. "Mom, are they going to kill us?"
She looked down at him. "I don't know." She got down to his eye level. "If you get the chance, I want you to get away. This isn't your fight."
"But, Mom-"
"No," she said firmly.
"But what about Dad and Fin. The Tallest took them away. Don't we have to worry about them?"
"Trust me," Dib stepped in, "at least your sister can stand her ground. against anyone that crossed her path."
Asher nodded and remembered her encounter with Tak, but why would he say that. Fin was barley able to hold her ground against the pure blooded alien.
"No if she's exposited," Gaz told her brother as she folded her arms. "She is a warrior but she has her limits. I know my daughter. She will fight till she passes out or worse."
"Then you should know that she'll be fine."
She shook her head. "Dib Membrain...I never thought that would see the day that you would over estimate an alien."
"And I never thought that I would see the day when you genially care about someone," he said back."
From that point on it was on and off again talking. That was till the ship stopped. The adult stood up, Gaz stepping in front of her son. One by one they took the three and restrained them, multiple guards on each. Being lead through a series of halls, eventually being lead to an arena. They were secured to some ground restraints. Gaz and Dib looked around them while Asher was pulling at the chains. There were so many Irkins there that it might have been the entire species to witness what was going to happen. There were cheers and hoots of excitement. The crowd's uproar rose when the Tallest entire on and over looking balcony.
"Behold," Purple said as they were enjoying the applause, "The Earthling scum that dared to attack the Irkin race."
Then half of the crowds roars turned to hisses and boos. Gaz just rolled her eyes.
"Now, entering the arena," Red continued as a hover craft entered, "the defects that turned against the Irkin race." On the craft, besides the driver and guards, were Fin and Zim. Zim was pulling at the chains, not as much as Asher was, trying to break them. Fin was glaring at everything around her with his first clenched and an occasional jerking at her chains, trying to figure out what the tallest had in mind.
"Now you have seen this done before," Red continued. "What are we going to have them do?"
"Kill each other!" he crowd nearly screamed with delight. It had been a while since something like this had happened and the last one was a sere delight.
"How are they going to do that? It's not like we want to kill each other," Dib said.
Gaz looked at him with a looked that questioned his IQ.
The guards on the craft tighten the restrains and the father and daughter were pulled to the ground. Both started to fidget wanting to stand up straight. The guards got on them and started to tap into each of their PAKs.
"And you know who we do that," Purple said existed. "We take away their will. Like how the defect said-"
"As long as I have will I have power," Red imitated and they started laughing, giving encouragement for their audience to laugh as well.
Asher looked at the two in bewilderment. How could this possible? He then looked at his dad and sister. Fin had been released from her restraints. Zim was on his hands and knees shaking before he started to laugh manically. Fin, on the other hand, was shaking, holding her head and rolled of the craft.
Zim looked at up and saw Dib, glaring at him. A look the male human hasn't seen in a long time. "Dib-Stick," he growled. He was waiting to be released from his restraints. Fin had finally stopped shaking and laid motionless on the floor her view looked on Dib. Her face remained blank to not relive what she was thinking.
"Zim," Purple said. "See the female human?"
He looked over to where Gaz was standing in the line of the other three. He started to shake his head as the memories of the two of them together flashed though his head. What he felt like he should say what he was going to say were to different things.
"What do you feel for her?" Red asked.
"N-n-nothing," he uttered. "I don't feel anything. Not for those humans, not for this Irkin."
Fin one the other got on her feet and pulled her hair into a high ponytail as if everything around her meant nothing.
"Guards," Red said with a big smile, "give the weapons."
One of the guards standing next to Dib forced a gun into his hand. One by Fin, her katana in his hands.
Fin finally looked up and saw Dib in this state. It didn't matter to her that he was restraint and that he wouldn't be able to aim and shoot properly. She grinned her teeth. "You're died!" she yelled. She looked to the side at the Irkin with her sword in one swift move, she took her katana and secured it holster. Then she began to run forward as
the crowd roared with excitement.
Zim was finally let go from his restrains and pushed off the craft.
"Get up and get her," Red purple ordered.
He got up and started to in the same direction, pushing his daughter out of the way in the progress.
The three were looking at the two in shock. What had happen when they were messing with their PAKs. This wasn't like them, not anymore.