It was very rare that an Irken was a natural born and it was even more rare that they were born on a planet other than Irk. It was bad enough that they were born at all because the current Tallest didn't believe that a proud race such as the Irkens should fall weak at the hands of a simple emotion such as love. Usually when this happened a smeet would be the result and would be followed by death should the parents ever be caught. The previous Tallest was the one who wrote out the law but it wasn't until Almighty Tallests Red and Purple came along that it came into effect. To see a natural new born smeet was both a gift yet a burden.
Although at the moment nobody in the room was worried about some stupid law, they were concentrating on the smeet that was sitting only feet away. However, this particular smeet was different than most. It's eyes were the most strangest color, they were like a mix of a turquoise slash baby blue and a pastel lime green. This had to have been the most rarest of Irken eye colors, it had only been recorded once that an Irken had such an eye color, and he became Tallest. But everything else was normal, the body was small and thin, it had only three claws on each hand and was moving. Usually smeets required a PAK to even breathe but because this was a natural born it was perfectly fine without one.
It peered at everyone in the room, not sure as to what to make of the situation, it was so small and everyone else, with the exception of Minimoose, was huge. At first it cowered back inside the larger part of it's egg shell and continued to watch everybody, but as the moments went on it realized that because it was still alive these people must be nice... to some extent.
It stood up and looked around the room, noting the weird flying moose thing. Then it looked back up at the two larger Irkens and as it leaned forward to get a closer look the egg shell tipped over and it fell out and onto the blankets that used to keep it warm. It made a small noise and made Aneera jump about halfway out of her seat.
"Is it okay?" she asked frantically, holding her hands close to her mouth. Zim shushed her and nodded his head, keeping his eyes on the smeet and not daring to look away. It slowly sat back up and stared right back at him, neither of them moving an inch.
Then Zim reached a hand out to him and held it in front of it. The smeet looked down at the large hand in front of it and grabbed it with it's own two tinier hands. As soon as it looked back up at the other the smeet knew instantly who it was looking at, it's father. Zim then reached out and picked it up, cradling the small Irken in his arms. It cooed and snuggled up to him with it's eyes closed, trying to get as warm as possible while it's mother was just sitting and watching.
The smeet opened it's eyes and saw that the other Irken was now hanging over it, smiling from antennae to antennae. This had to be it's mother so it reached out and made a grabbing motion with it's hands to show that's what it wanted. Zim smiled and handed it over to Aneera who happily took it without a word.
"Master, is that da baby?" Gir asked, watching as the two smiled and "bonded" with each other. The smeet continued to make small cooing noises and Aneera just smiled and talked to it.
"Yes, Gir. That's the baby." Zim answered, chuckling to himself as he did so. Gir smiled and sat next to Aneera as she continued to hug her child and and looked in awe at the color of his eyes as they seemed to almost sparkle in the light coming in from the window. Zim turned and watched too, still mesmerized by how unique his own child was, but he didn't really expect anything less but how could he expect anything more?
The Tallest that had that eye color was legendary and was still extremely famous was on Irk. He was known through out the universe, from the far reaches of the deepest corners of space to the center of the universe itself, he was one of the most famous beings in history. He was also considered the greatest Tallest who ever lived not only by the Irkens but by other races as well, seeing as they kept an eye on the current Tallest to see how they measured up to others, to say the least not just the Irkens were upset after he died.
"So, what are we going to name it?" Zim was snapped out of his memories and back to the present day, then looked over at his wife with a quizzical look on his face, indicating that she needed to repeat the question. "A name, what are we going to name it?" she asked again.
"Oh uh, well, nothing girlie." he answered without even thinking. She looked at him strangely and titled her head a little.
"Why not?" Aneera looked back down at her little child and smiled again when it giggled. Zim sighed, he was going to have to go over this topic again.
"Because it's a boy and the only reason I know is because of the antennae and no your little rarity can't be passed on." Aneera opened her mouth to speak but what was she going to say? What could you say to that? Well at least that meant it would be more attached to her and not Zim.
"Well before you start throwing out random names I'm going to say this: he will have an Earth name because he was born on Earth, end of discussion." Zim wanted to protest, he didn't want his son to have an Earth name, it would be demeaning to the Irken race! But then again, both of his parents were defectives and that didn't make him a normal Irken so in a way he didn't really belong to the empire.
Zim shook his head, he was an Irken weather he was a defective or not. But, how could he be a defect if he didn't even have a PAK? That was the thing that made defects defects wasn't it? So technically two wrongs can make a right, metaphorically speaking of course. That was also one more thing that made it less of a true Irken and more of an ancient Irken, which made him even more unique and special.
"Sigh, fine. But it can't be too demeaning and I have to like it okay?" he said, pointing a finger in her direction to make sure she completely understood.
"M'kay, I think I can manage." Aneera smiled and leaned back against the arm rest while still holding her little smeet. She thought of a suitable name that was native to Earth, not too demeaning to the Irken race and was something Zim would approve of, not too hard right? As she stared at him for inspiration soon she forgot all about his name and just thought of how adorable he was.
"Well?" Zim eyed her skeptically, waiting for an answer to his request. Aneera was brought back to reality and didn't realize she had zoned out.
"Huh?" She sat up and looked at Zim who just looked at her expectantly. "Oh!" The smeet still needed a name and she still didn't have one for him. Zim was still eyeing her so she thought, then got an idea.
"Why don't you come up with something?" She asked rather smartly, it was supposed to be a name that he liked so why didn't he help? Zim sighed and looked away, he was horrible with names.
"Uuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh." After that Zim just kind of had a blank, he tried to think of something but his mind was currently... out of order at the moment in that field of information. Aneera stared at him like she didn't understand what was wrong with him.
"Are you okay?" she asked, making sure that nothing inside his brain snapped or just suddenly shut down for some random reason. He looked at her and nodded.
"I'm just not good with names." Aneera scowled, apparently this was mostly up to her but she was a girl, she could do this. Although every time she looked at the little Irken her focus completely disintegrated and she was staring at him in amazement. She wanted something short and simple, something that people would remember. It also had to be something that could stay with him as he got older so it couldn't be too childish but it couldn't be too much of an adult name either.
Gir watched her think and periodically looked at the baby, already having a name in mind actually. "What cha gonna name it?" he asked, not realizing that's what they were trying to figure out.
"I don't know yet but hopfully I will today!" Zim said sarcastcally. Aneera looked at him like he had no right to be rushing her.
"I don't see you helping." she replied, making Zim scowl and look away. That's when Gir finally decided to pipe up with his brilliant idea for a name.
"Whats about Noah? Like that guy that had da big boat with all the aminals! I love that story!" Gir smiled happily and stuck his tongue out, extremely pleased with himself. Aneera eyed him and thought about it.
"Three things. One, the boat is called an Ark. Two, it's animals and three, that's not a bad name." Aneera looked back down at the little child and repeated the name in her head over and over again, it actually suited him very well.
"Hmm, it's not a bad name. At least I like it and it's not demeaning." Zim smiled and thanked Gir while Aneera refused to hand over her son when Zim asked for him.
"Please, I want to hold him!" Aneera scowled at Zim and held her child away from his reach.
"No!" she hollered, pushing him away with ine hand and hold on to Noah for deal life with the other. And poor Noah just sat there and watched as they fought over him.
"NYA!" Minimoose decided that this would be the perfect time to chime in save the poor smeet from his parents. "Squeak!" Zim sat up and looked at him and began to argue.
"But she wont let me see him and-" Minimoose scowled at him and got up real close to his face. Zim opened his mouth to say something but stopped himself before his other mini minion yelled at him.
"Squeek." he said, and floated off. Aneera looked at Zim and snickered.
"You just got told by a miniature moose!" She looked down at Noah and they both began to laugh at the now fuming Zim. He clenched his fists and right when he was about to yell at them both Minimoose gave him another "Nya" and so he backed down and forgot about it.
"Oh fine, if you want him that badly." she said and handed poor Noah over to Zim who gladly took him and smiled. Noah cooed and closed his eyes again, snuggling up to Zim for as much warmth as possible.
"Aaawwwww! He's so cute!" Gir complimented, looming over the poor unknowing smeet as he slowly drifted off to sleep. Gir continued to smile at himself and scooted closer to Zim so he could lay down on his arm and go to sleep too.
"And you still refuse to admit that you love your robot?" Zim looked over and say Aneera eyeing him, darting her eyes from him to Gir. Zim looked down at Gir and sighed, he remember when he was still a little kid and he was depressed that Aneera had left and that she yelled at him. He also remembered when he told Gir he loved him too but he wasn't about to say that he remembered that because Aneera wasn't there to witness it.
"No, I already told you. I care for him but I do not love him." She only sighed and rested her head on his shoulder, peering down at the smeet as it slept.
"What, now every body's tired?" he asked with a small laugh. Aneera lifted her head to look at him.
"Have you already forgotten that you have been claimed as the official pillow?" Zim opened his mouth to say something but wasn't quick enough, she was already laying back down on his shoulder and paying him no mind.
He sighed and watched Noah while he slept, he never thought he would ever in his whole entire life even think about being in this situation. He could remember when he was younger and first came on Earth, if he would have known what was going to happen he probably would have hid in his base and never talked to anybody. He used to hate the thought of affection for someone other than himself, it literally made him sick. But now he wondered where all that went and questioned himself as to why he had changed at all.
Wow, I never thought that I would ever be in this situation. FINALLY!! Gosh, I can't tell you how long I've waited for you! Steve!? Oh my gosh, I haven't talked to you in a long time. That's because you never think to yourself anymore! Sorry. Don't be. Anyways I couldn't help but notice that a certain someone has been introduced to life. Huh? Noah, was it? I thought you said you'd never have kids. Yeah well, things change. I remember when you were a kid, sigh, good times, good times. Like that one time where you came to Earth and that one kid tried to tell everyone you were an alien! HAHAHAHA PRICELESS!! You mean Dib right? Yeah, he was mean though, I didn't like him. But he's my best friend now. Wow, when was the last time you talked to yourself? I can't remember. You gotta inform me of those kinds of things! Well sorry, I guess than I should tell you that I got married huh? WHAT!? You did!? And you didn't even tell me!! How could you? I'm sorry okay!? Yeah well, sorry don't always cut the cheese! But I forgive you. Thank you. And anyways I-
The door bell rang and Zim was snapped out of his conversation with Steve. He slowly got up, making sure not to wake Aneera and set Noah down in her lap, still fast asleep. He then proceeded to the door and opened it, revealing a tall sixteen-year-old paranormal investigator.
Aneera: Aaaawwwwww! I really really really really really really really really really really want a review for this chapter!
Zim: That means don't review!
Aneera: Shut up!
Zim: Fine...
Aneera: Just be happy that you got something out of this chapter.
Zim: What, the moral of 'Don't ever have kids'?
Aneera: Sigh, never mind.
Zim: Finally, she shuts up.
Aneera: I heard that!