Suddenly, the screen changed and showed Zim and Barg's faces. Below their faces was a chart. On Zim's side of the graph, there was one point, since he was the one who pressed the button on the beacon. So thats how one of them was going to get out. Whoever presses the button first out of the three realms, will be able to make it out of the arena...alive.
"Give up now, Barg! you know how this is going to end! so why not give up now?" Zim asked as he continued to climb the mountain. His two fingers on each hand were beginning to freeze and werent helping him at all. Zim felt his fingers slipping and he began to fall.
"No!" he screamed. Gir quickly acted and made his little arms stretch around Zim's waist and become a climbing harness. Barg growled at Zim and continued to climb. He was already way ahead of Zim.
"I will NOT give up to a miserable being such as yourself! I have had just about enough of you!" With that, Barg used his PAK to zap the side of the mountain. Instantly, the mountain began to break, and icy boulders began to fall toward Zim. Zim gasped and quickly pushed a button on his PAK. A pink bubble like force field formed around himself and Gir.
Unfortunately, The force field was very weak, and the boulders crushing down upon it was not helping. Gir and Zim grunted in pain and tried clinging to the side of the mountain. The ice monsters fleed from the shaking and the boulders coming down and hid back into their ice caves. The lava monsters below roared from the ice that came down into their lava home and began to chuck chunks of lava at them.
The war between fire and ice began to create white, hissing steam all around the realm. The mountain began to melt from the horrible lava. Finally, Gir couldnt hold Zim up much longer. His feet slipped and they both began falling through the air. "Nnooo!" screamed both Zim and Gir. Zim felt his back slam up aginst the jagged mountain's side, thus scratching his PAK. Barg laughed as he watched Zim and Gir fall, then continued on to the beacon at the top. He pushed a button on his PAK, activating his robot legs and began going up faster.
"Aaaahhhhh!" screamed Zim and Gir as they flailed their arms through the air. Suddenly, something began to spin around them. Their bodies gradually slowed down till they stopped in mid air, then came into one of the caves in the side of the mountain near them. Gir and Zim collapsed inside the cold cave and held their heads. They looked up and noticed four familiar figures.
Spleen, Splinkie, Binx and Zooch. Zim's eyes widened in shock. "H-how did you guys get in here?!" he asked. He thought the arena never allowed others to come in. Binx silently pointed to the ground in front of them where an opened man hole like cover was.
"This cover is under the arena. Its where they send out the creatures and all that," said Splinkie as he showed him his arm where he got bitten by one of the creatures to prove his point. Zim nodded. Then Binx, Zooch and Spleen came over to Zim and hugged him. Zim sighed and let them hug him.
"What happened in the war?" he asked after they stopped hugging him. The four aliens exchanged glances before turning back to Zim. "It was a stalemate. No side won. Everyone mostly killed everyone," explained Zooch. Spleen nodded. "Then we saw you on the screen and decided to go help you," he said, then smiled and stuck his tongue out. Zim nodded and began to rub his chin deep in thought.
"Well, right now, I need to get to the top, and we have ice monkeys and lava pigs fighting outside," he explained. Spleen smiled. "We have a faster way," he said. With that, he began walking deeper into the cave. Zim, Binx, Gir, Zooch and Splinkie followed.
...
On the jumbo screen, Gaz could see that Zim and Gir were still alive and were now inside the mountain. Her eyes widened a bit when she noticed theat there were more then two bodies inside the mountain. Others noticed this too and began to question it. How were there more bodies in the mountain? Were they ice creatures?
Gaz didnt have time to wonder about that, all she wanted to know was how they got inside the arena in the first place. She looked down and noticed the side of the arena and a door, slightly ajar. She got up on the balcony again. Zingo growled and came back to get her again.
"Im not going to warn you again!" he shouted up at her. Gaz turned, causing Zingo to freeze in his spot. He felt a horrible disturbance in himself. Gaz glared at him with rage. "Dont you dare try and stop me you pea sized freak," she growled. Fire lit up around her, causing Zingo to tremble in fear. Skoodge stared up at Gaz in horror and stayed in his little corner where he decided to stay in.
Gaz lifted her hand, which made Zingo fall to his little creature bagan to cry and plead for mercy. "Please dont kill me!" he screamed and clasped his hands together. Gaz lowered her arm. With that, the strange fire extinguished itself out and she jumped from where she was and did a front flip through the air toward the door at the bottom of the arena.
She landed on a couple guards who were guarding the place and simply walked off of their knocked out bodies and walked through the door into the complicated brain of the arena.
...
Barg defended himself from the ice monkeys with a laser pointer, making them think that it was fire. They scurried off and hid in their ice caves. Barg, now a frozen ball of ice, melted the ice with his PAK that heated up, then began to dissolve the ice. Barg winced from the stinging heat on his back, but relaxed when it went back to its original temperature and looked up at where he was. He was only ten feet below from the beacon! Barg rubbed his hands together evilly.
"Excellent, now I'll be ale to get out-" he stopped when he heard a strange sound below him. He jumbed away, just in time as a hatch opened and appeared Zim. Barg growled and pointed at Zim. "You!" he screamed. Zim blinked and turned his head around and looked at what Barg was pointing at. The he turned back.
"What?" he asked, giving the small Irken a confused look.
Barg growled. "I thought you died...again!" he snarled. Zim smirked. "You cant kill me, I'm prepared," with that, he lifted the gun from his holster and aimed it at Barg's face. Barg gasped and took a step back. Just as he did, he slipped. Zim smirked.
Suddenly, before Zim could pull the trigger, an iceball came hurtling toward Zim, thus knocking the gun right out of his hand. The gun flew throughthe air and landed in betewwn two jagged ice rocks. "Gah!" screamed Zim as he gripped his cold hand in his two green fingers and looked over. The ice monkeys were beginning to surround them. Barg quickly got up and began to make his way to the top. Zim jumped out and tried getting the gun.
The ice creatures began to crawl closwer and closer to Zim as he struggled for the gun. Splinkie, Zooch, Binx, Gir and Spleen piled out from the opened hatch and rubbed their arms as they stood near the top of the mountain. Then Spleen saw Zim about to be attacked by the ice creatures.
"Zim!" he called and began running to him.
Zim finally grabbed the gun, but then saw six dark shadows form over his curled body. He turned his head and gasped in horror. The ice creatures screamed angrily and reared back to ice him. Zim closed his eyes and waited for the impact. Suddenly a strange cry was heard. Zim opened his eyes and saw Spleen at the top of a jagged part of the mountain, holding colorful posicles. The ice creatures turned and gasped.
"Popssssiicllleess!" they screamed delightfully. Spleen chucked them at the creatures, then commanded his PAK to give out more. Zim got up and ran past the ice creatures over to Spleen, then they both began to run toward the top.
Splinkie, Binx, Gir and Zooch were seen at the top, fighting to keep Barg in place. Barg slipped out of their grasp and scurried up to the beacon. Zim growled and pushed a button on his PAK.
Nothing happened.
"Eh?" wondered Zim as he looked over to his PAK. It was fizzing out blue sparks, and the sides were broken. His PAK was dying. Zim suddenly felt very weak and began to cough. He couldnt breathe properly all the sudden. He looked back up at Barg, just as the little Irken made it to the top of the beacon. Barg grinned down at Zim. "You are a challenging opponent, Zim, I'll give you that, but you will never be a great one," he said and pushed the button.
With that, the ice creatures, lava monsters, and mountain began to disappear into glowing blue code and vanish into thin air. The aliens hovered in mid air over the arena. The screen above them instantly gave Barg one point. Now they were tied. Barg grinned as the codes began to form around him in a huge blue blur. Another set of codes began to form around Zim's weak body as well. The codes began to form and create shapes around the two Irkens.
Gradually, the arena was beginning to create itself into an uneven red rock element landscape. Desert like mountains were seen from the distance. Splinkie, Binx, Zooch, Gir and Spleen's feet touched the red rock ground and looked back up at Barg and Zim, who were still waiting for the codes to complete their cycle. Barg grinned as he flexed his arm. Instantly, a robotic arm ten times the size of his own arm began to take shape. Then, long, robotic legs began to form around Bargs little stubby ones.
Barg dropped down to the gound with a loud boom! causing the ground to shake and the aliens and robot to fall to the ground. Finally, the robot chest and head formed over the rest of Barg, completing the robotic battle suit. Zim's finally completed in mid air, and collapsed to the ground. Zim groaned inside the thirty foot tall battle suit and breathed heavily.
Barg walked over in his towering robot suit and lifted Zim from the ground to his eye level. "This is what I've always dreamed of, Zim. Being tall, being like the other Irkens and not looked down upon...now, I can live my dream...while I kill you," with that, He lifted his other robotic arm to the stomach of Zim's battle suit. Instantly a huge blast of enery rocketed out from the robot hand, thus hurling Zim hundreds of yards away and landing in a metal heap a good distance away.
Zooch, Splinkie, Spleen, Binx and Gir all gasped and ran for cover behind a huge boulder. Barg grinned and stared down at the little aliens and robot as they cowered in fear from him. This was more like it. This was what he always wanted for himself. To be tall...and to be feared...