Project 59 by Bonez aka HappyNoodleGurl Chapter 36

Zim looked up at the tall figure of Lain----the emotionless expression of such a beauty was cruel, knowing that underneath it all there was Raye, lighting up the darkness with her radiant smile somewhere below the steel. This was the first time he had seen or met 59, and the only reason Tallest Red had brought her was because he didn't want her out of his sight.

"Zim, despite of all the-----uhh------"destruction" you've caused in your past, finally you did something right for Irk. Good for you," he said with a sneer. Zim wiggled his anteannas in salute, and plastered a fake grin on his face. "Thank you my Tallest! I, afterall, am ZIM! I only live to please you and Tallest Purple, after all you did give me, ZIM!, this wonderful task of-----" Cutting him off, Red sighed.

"Yeah, yeah whatever Zim. Ya know, we were gunna kill ya, but that can wait til you screw up next time. Hmm, yeah......I don't want to start killing just *yet,*" he said, with Zim ignoring the obvious remark Red just gave. "Of cooooourse my Tallest, how will we kiiiiiiill! Oh, it will be massive! Massive like a moose, my Tallest, like a giant MOOSE!"

Kia never took her eyes off of 59. As Zim rambled on to Red, she stared into the deep, red holes that were supposed to be Lain's eyes. How strangely she found herself lost in them-----how when she stared into the crimson void, she saw everything her heart desired. This, Kia knew, was not a good sign. This kind of pleasure was one that somebody weak-minded could get hooked on, like a drug.

Yet, even though Kia could stare a hole into her, Lain never moved her gaze from Red. She saw everything Zim ignored: the way Red's claws brushed against her milky flesh, when he took his piercing stare off of Zim and gazed at her gingerly, and the way his eyes were glossed over everytime he stared at her.

But, her Tallest couldn't be in love with a machine? Could he? She didn't quite know, and when they left the room, Zim's fake smile faded and he sunk to the floor on his knees. With his head down, Kia could've swore he was about to cry-----but, he never did.

"Kia?" he asked in a cracked voice. She jumped at hearing her voice, and replied. "......Yes?" Never shifting his eyes from the shagged, violet carpet, he smirked. "I......want you."

Kia's eyes got wide with surprise. Had he just said what she thought? Yeah, so she knew he wanted her, yet he'd never come out and admitt it freely! I mean, Zim had an ego the size of Russia.............

"Zim......." was all that could escape from her lips as he slowly got up and turned to meet her. She gasped at his lonely expression; his lowered anteannas. "Kia, you've always been so beautiful to me. You've saved my life more than once, yet I never gave you the gratitude you so rightly deserve. The way I truely feel about you."

For some reason he put aside his petty ego and immature claims and just started talking like an intelligent, romantic Irken would. He watched her expression, and absorbed it all like a sponge. He didn't know what was going on-----maybe it was a glitch in his Pak? Who knew? But he for this moment, he took Kia's head into his palms and hungerly placed his lips upon hers, tongue slithering into her mouth tasting the Irken he wanted so very badly.

And though she returned his eager kisses and mouth tricks, one verse of a song that Irken Superstar Xu sang at #1 last year started playing in her head over and over again as their green bodies pulled closer, absorbing the heat they were creating around them.

When I left,

I thought it was for good.

But nothing is to stay

in this world of new.

And even though I claim you not,

How could it be denied,

that I love you so?

Oh yea......

Yeah.......

I want you.

Everyone knew that Xu wrote that song for Red-----all except him, that is. Xu was madly in love with the Tallest Red, and though her elegant, rare deep blue eyes always tried to hide it, she couldn't stop them from glossing over when they talked.

So Xu sat in her chambers on the Massive, humming her song "Crimson-Colored Thoughts" as she straightened out her silky white dress. Staring in what an we would call a mirror (their mirrors are holographic projections of themselves bouncing off of a steel plate on the wall), she frowned at her reflection.

Here she was: a young Irken adult (about 24 on Earth) who had the rare gift of getting to be different, and yet she was still unhappy. She must have been the first Irken ever to be able to sing, and not be a Tallest that is. She had males who worshipped the very ground she walked on, willing to give up their very life if she was in one ounce of danger---- ----and yet, the one person she felt that strong for didn't even know she existed.

Sighing, thought about how much she cared for Tallest Red. The truth was, that Xu had never had a physical or mental attraction for any male: Irken or otherwise, except for him. She loved his personality, and boy did he have a body!

Blushing, she thought of acting upon the forbidden act of mating. Okay, so everyone knew that if you're an Irken, then you must take up some other physical form to mate, right? Wrong! Actually, they still had their organs--------they just hadn't been used in so long that most the race forgot. A thin piece of skin seperated her hole inbetween her legs, and infact if she hadn't been blessed with learning how to read books, she never would've even knew she HAD one!

Although, there is a law that was lost with the memory of the sexual organs: You must never reproduce. That's it. She remembered studying it on her free time, just out of curiousity. After the new Technology Revolution, the Irken race lost all reason to mate and reproduce. When all the new technology was created by ancient Tallest Yuushi (the longest living Tallest back when the Irken Revolution first took place), his scholars invented a ways of cloning: and for some reason after this was spread throughout Irk, he made a law that no Irken could practice the art of mating.

No one knows why, and that's a question that has plauged Xu for quite some time now. After all, she was a very smart Irken. But, even thought laws forbid, a smirk creeped across her face. She wanted to mate with Red, and wanted to soon.

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A/N: Whoo, this chapter ended faster than I thought. Just thought I should let you know that Xu was more than just a 1-time character, so that's basically where this chapter came from. Also, that's my version of Irk History 101, so there's a brief inside about why they can't mate ^^ Well, I'm gunna go now okies? R&R!

Bonez