It was about eight in the morning and nobody was up, the entire house was quiet and still. Light poured into Zim's room and he opened one eye, great, another cheerful morning. The first thing he noticed was that he was cold, he wasn't sure why but he was. The next thing he noticed was that it felt like something was missing. He sat up and yawned, stretching his arms while he did so. Then he noticed something else, the egg was gone.
Zim quickly scanned the room and about screamed before his eyes fell upon the floor. At first he wasn't sure if he was hallucinating or if he was just slowly going insane. On the floor was Gir, holding the egg and curled up into a ball with a heavy blanket over him. Zim looked down at the foot of his bed and noticed he was missing a blanket so what he was seeing must have been real.
Gir shifted in his sleep and clutched the egg a little tighter, then rolled over to his other side and sneezed. Zim smiled and slowly got out of bed, making sure to be quiet so he didn't wake Gir. Once he was up and got control over his balance he walked over to his robot and sat down beside him, covering him back up with the blanket.
Zim couldn't help but think that the little robot looked absolutely adorable at the moment, in fact he looked like a small child. Just as he thought this Gir opened his eyes and let out a big, tired yawn. He rolled his head over and looked up at his Master, smiling and still holding onto the egg for dear life.
"Good morning, Gir. Sleep well?" he asked. Gir yawned again and nodded his head, now sitting up and stretching his arms. Once he was done he picked up the little egg and set it in his lap to keep it warm and cozy. Then he looked back up and smiled.
"Master, when is da baby gonna come out?" Zim smiled back and thought for a moment before answering.
"Soon." he replied. Gir cast his gaze back down at the precious object in his possession, to him it was the most sacred thing in the whole wide world.
Purple was wandering the halls of the Massive looking for Red, he hadn't seen him all day, or for the past week so he must have been up to no good. Purple must have looked in every inch of the ship but for some reason he hadn't been in the right place at the right time. He would ask every Irken he saw if they'd seen Red but not one of them had given him the answer that he wanted.
Just as he began to loose hope it was as if an angel had been sent to him. Purple just happened to pass a cirtain weapon specialist in the north east main hall.
"Zink! Oh thank Irk, I need your help!" Zink stopped and bowed to her Tallest before greeting him.
"Hello my Tallest, what did you need me for?" she asked sweetly, even though she wasn't at all happy. Purple escorted her out of public and over to the wall.
"I was wondering if you had seen Red lately." he asked, looking down at who was hopefully his prayer answerer. Zink stood and thought for a moment before smiling.
"You know, I did. I think I saw him in the amunations storage facility, why?" Purple looked aorund and waited until everyone was gone before he dared to say a word.
"Listen, you can't tell anyone about this do you hear me? I overheard Red and guard Tik talking about an atomic bomb to destroy Earth." Zink gasped and almost lost it.
"What!? Well, we gotta tell Tiz!" Purple shook his head.
"You can't tell anyone remember? This is just between us!" Zink frowned and crossed her arms for a second before she got a brilliant idea. She smiled and looked back up at her Tallest.
"But Tiz is a technition, maybe we can get him to help work on the bomb but secretly plant a virus in it so nobody knows and then it wont work." Purple grew very surprised.
"Zink, you're a genius. Wait... I didn't know he was a technician, I thought he was pilot." Zink giggled an shook her head.
"He is but he's also a technician. If we can get somebody to trust him he can work on the bomb with them and when they aren't looking he can plant a virus in it. He's really good at making untraceable viruses ya know." Zink smiled and stood up straight and proud that she could be such a big help to her Almighty Tallest.
"You are a saint! Thank you. Oh and uh, go tell Tiz, we'll need him. See if he can meet me in the south west food court at midnight tonight okay?" Zink nodded and ran off to find Tiz while Purple went off towards the storage facility.
Red was conversing with a welder when a very angry looking Tallest Purple barged in, interrupting their little conversation. Red looked over and smiled at his co-Tallest as he walked over and glared at him.
"Purple, what are you doing here?" he asked as innocently as he could. Purple's glare didn't falter as he spoke.
"I could be asking you the same thing but I already know." Red looked at him as if he were confused but he was a terrible actor.
"I don't what you're talking about, I'm just down here for business." Red scoffed and dropped the act, Purple must have known but there was nothing he could do about it.
"If by buisness do you mean making an atomic bomb to destroy the Earth with?" Red growled and glared back at Purple.
"Who told you about that!? That was classified information!" Purple only laughed at Red's stupidity, he reminded him so much of Gir sometimes, it was almost sad actually.
"That's none of your concern and I'm putting a stop to this little charade. You have already gone far enough, I think you should just back off and leave the humans alone!" Now it was Red's turn to laugh.
"Do you actually think that I would pass up such an opportunity? I think not and you can try all you want to stop me but I must warn you, you will not succeed but only fail and cause the Earth to fall to it's doom. Well, I must be leaving, chaio!" and with that Red left to his quarters. Purple was so mad right now he could spit fire.
Zim was pacing the floor, thinking about anything and everything he could to take his mind off the egg, it was unnerving him. It wasn't supposed to hatch for another week but lately it's been moving quite a bit. It could be that because Aneera was half dragon and they're eggs hatched sooner than Irken eggs did but still, he didn't like it.
Aneera walked in from the kitchen after she ate breakfast and sat in the couch to watch Zim. It wasn't before long until she got bored and laid down, still watching as he paced the room.
"Zim, what are you doing?" she asked, trying not to fall asleep. Zim stopped and looked at her, couldn't she that he was busy pacing?
"I'm thinking." Then he started pacing once more and went back to thinking about whatever it was he was thinking about. Aneera sighed and stood up, then began walking over to Zim who had now stopped again and was watching her come towards him. When she was close enough she wrapped her arms around him, lead him over to the couch and set him down next to her.
"Now, I'll ask you again, what are you doing?" Zim sighed, he answered this question, what was it? Ten seconds ago? Or did he imagine it? Was it all in his head, was it all a figment of his imagination?
"Thinking." he answered again. Aneera looked away, wrapped her arms around his neck and rested her head on his shoulder.
"I try, I really do. But sometimes, sometimes you just... you... you know what I mean?" He looked down at her and had this weird look on his face, like he didn't understand a word she just said.
"No, I don't. All I was doing was thinking. I'm a little unnerved right now, that's all." He placed an arm around her and smiled silently to himself. She, however, looked back up at him and scowled.
"About what?" As if it wasn't obvious enough. Besides the atomic bomb that she didn't know about the only other thing to worry about was the egg. Did she not know that or was she just so blind that she didn't notice? No, she wasn't blind, that couldn't be it and she was relatively smart. Maybe she knew but wanted to make sure? Whatever it was Zim didn't want to be asked that question because it reminded him of it.
Zim looked over to the other end of the couch to where the egg was. Aneera peered over him to see what he was looking at and immediately saw it. The egg was shaking and moving a little but more than it should have been. He was hoping that it would be an Irken and not a crossbreed, not that there was anything wrong with that but it might not do so well in society for being born and raised on Earth without being a full Irken.
"Master, Master! Guess what!? Me's and Minimoose found a muffin!" Gir screamed as he came running in from the kitchen. Zim looked over at him and looked at him kind of funny, he was in the kitchen, you might find a muffin in there! Because this news didn't interest Zim the slightest bit he ignored the robot and looked back down at his quivering little egg.
"Squeak!" Now Minimoose was entering the living room with a not so enthusiastic look on his face. He floated over and hovered next to Gir who was now starring at the egg in absolute amazement. Minimoose looked at it too but didn't find anything special about it so he decided to look at something else.
"Hey Master, when is da baby gonna come out?" Gir gazed up at his Master who seemed to be paying him no mind. The little android scowled and tugged at Zim's uniform to get his attention. When Zim looked down and Gir was sure he had his Master's attention he tried again. "When is da baby gonna get here?"
Zim thought for a moment, this was a tough question to answer, being that Zim didn't really know the answer. It was either going to be in about a week or very very very soon but he wasn't sure what to tell Gir. If said something like "I don't know" than Gir would get mad and because he was so close to the egg he might break it on accident which would be bad.
"I'm not exactly sure but I would say in about a week." Gir frowned again, he wanted the baby to be there now because he was so tired of waiting for it that he thought he might loose it if he had to wait any longer. Just then, as if to answer his prayers, the most amazing thing happened.
The egg started to wiggle a little bit more, then it started to shake and every eye in the room was watching it carefully, waiting to see what was going to happen. After wiggling and jiggling a little bit more it stopped. Not like it slowly stopped but it just suddenly jerked itself upright and sat there. When everyone thought it was done a small yet visible crack appeared on one side, then it began to travel all the way around until something pushed it off, revealing something that none of them thought that they would ever see.
Aneera: Dun dun duuunnnnnnn!! I know you guys already know what it is, but hey, I picked the PERFECT stopping point huh?
Zim: Sigh, so let me guess, it's going to hate me isn't it?
Aneera: Don't call the poor thing IT!
Zim: Well then what DO I call IT!
Aneera: You'll find out in the next chapter!