Shortly after Pressner was defeated the inhabitants in the Resisty's ships woken up. Unknowing the fate of what happened to him, Lard Nar thought it was best to run for it, but not too far. He needed to scrub the inside of the ship down of all the bodies and see if any hidden devices were placed on board. While he ran off, he wasn't way too far away from the Massive.
Sizz-Lor had to admit, he had no clue that those ships were capable of speeding off that quickly, he gave his report to Zim and Zim's only response was, "Well you know shit will always come rolling back downhill. So he will be back soon."
Understanding that his concern now was to his potential mate, Sizz-Lor just maintained their current setting as all ships were informed to keep a look out for the Resisty.
A week later, Gaz opened her eyes to her room in Zim's base. She focused around her and noticed she was in his med bay. Glancing to her left she saw Dib with his head down and a bandage on his hand, obviously from the burn he received, but other then that he looked fine. "Hey." Her voice was weak.
Rushing to her side, he grabbed her hand and smiled. "Hey. How are you feeling?"
Sadly, she didn't wish to answer that question. "Is he dead?"
"Yes, you doomed him." Brushing her hair back. "You have been out for a week."
Closing her eyes she felt a flash of something she didn't wish to see so she opened them up again. "Not surprising." Looking around, she wondered. "Where's Zim?"
"He delivered Red to Irk for sentencing, he'll be right back. This is the only time he has been away from you." Dib replied and watched the door slide open. "Speaking of the alien himself. I'm going to tell dad the good news." Squeezing her hand, he gave her a final smile before departing. As he left he whispered something to Zim before leaving.
As Zim approached her she sat up and drew her knees up to her chest to wrap her arms around her legs. Giving him a look of utter sadness, she tilted her head to the other side to look down at the ground. She felt so horrible and when he sat down next to her to wrap one arm around her in a half hug, as he kissed the top of her head, she closed her eyes to try to will away the tears. "Zim... I'm so sorry."
"Nothing to be sorry for, Gaz. You were under his control, but not for long." He whispered reassuringly into her ear. "You proved you are stronger."
Tear rolled down her cheek. Sniffling. "I feel so raw inside right now, Zim. I feel like he ripped out my soul." Placing her forehead on her knees she started to cry really hard. Zim leaned her more against him so she can feel his warmth mixed with hers. To feel the security that is him. "How could he do that?" She muffled out as clearly as possible. "How can anyone do that to someone?" She was glad she was falling apart in front of him and not her brother. She knew he would of felt guilty for her sacrificing herself for him.
Pulling away from him slightly, they were nose to nub. "All I do is feel him inside of me, Zim. I know he is dead, but it doesn't erase the fact that I still felt his very essence inside of me."
Irkens have never taken advantage of someone in this way. They may have done so many other things, but this was one that was strictly disgusting. Horrific. He never could understand it himself why other races have felt the need to do this. While some won't within that race, there are some that will, and those deserve their punishments. Looking upon her, he knew he will be by her side always. Giving her a gentle kiss on the tip of her nose, he said. "I'm sure you do, Gazlene. We know he did that was because he was nothing but pure evil, but at least rest assured he won't do that again. I know it isn't erasing what is going on with you now, but little by little that touch will lessen."
"I just want your touch only."
Smiling sweetly to her, he said. "I only want your touch. I know you don't want your brother or your father to know the extent of what you are feeling right now. I am certain you will hold off telling him for now. I won't say a word. That is your own choice. I'm sure the same will go for your mom."
Downcasting her eyes to reflect there, she raised them back up to say. "With her, I feel I will talk to her much sooner."
"Just let me know and you can go and see her. What would you like to do for now?"
"Take a shower. A long shower. Get some sleep hopefully without any nightmares." As she looked deeply into his eyes, she felt that love from him, she knew he would do anything for her. Gently placing her hand to the side of his face, she was truly happy she had him. "Please come to my room when you are free to hold me, Zim. I know you are still so busy, but please so you can help vanish the nightmares away."
Giving her a gentle kiss, he decided to be gallant to her and pick her up in his arms. "I promise, but first I will escort you personally to your bedroom where you can take your shower."
Later, Zim was discussing the progress of the Earth's military to Tak and a few others. He decided to keep Tak down on Earth as they were more acquainted with her so far, and regardless of her rather questionable patience level, she was pretty well qualified to help out. This was an odd discussion he not only had inside his own head, but with Dib as well since he kept flipping her responsibilities every where simply because he was unsure if she would get angry and want to shut someone up permanently.
"I have to admit that the Earth's military is pretty gung ho in learning so quickly that already more then half the students have fallen asleep after reports of them studying all night long." Tak informed him then proceeded to show him a computer graphic of each region where one military excelled along the lines. "The ones in blue have been showing excellent progress. The green is showing where some improvement is still needed. While the red is... Well they may have to be regulated with just Earth military only and not going into space."
"Is there any you would like to put on board a ship right now as trainee's just to get a feel of things? To learn." Zim asked as he took a side glance at Membrane in the background playing with his hand puppet. Gaz wished to eventually introduce Dai back with her dad again, but she was nervous about it, so in a way this meeting was for him to possibly ask a question about his wife.
"I do actually. Ones that aren't huge pains."
"All right, excellent. You are doing a great job, Tak." Zim congratulated.
"I know." She said puffing herself up before wandering back upstairs to Dib's room, he assumed.
"So Zim, why is my daughter hiding?" Membrane pipped in loudly.
"She's just tired sir from using all her energy on that being." Zim replied simply.
"I'm quite aware of my daughter's power, but Dib is avoiding answering all my questions about her and it is making me feel rather perturbed."
"Sir, I would honestly love to tell you everything that happened, but she wanted to tell you herself." He began imploringly. "Could you please respect her decision there and let her come to you in her own time?"
Thinking upon it, he lowered his puppet, and nodded. "For her, yes. Zim please let her know that I love her."
"She knows that sir, but I will tell her."
Hands following the curvature of her body. His body pressed uncomfortably close to hers. She pushes and pushes him away from her, but he comes back at her stronger, wrapping himself around her. Fingers going through her hair. Now into inside of her shirt. She curses. She screams. Kicks. She hates the sound of his voice. Hates everything about him. She struggles and he keeps holding her down. Screaming. Begging. She hates begging. Screaming some more. She can't breath.
"Gaz... Gaz, wake up. Wake up, it's Zim."
Arms wrapped around her now. Arms she is familiar with. The voice she grew to love a long time ago. Giving up her struggling, she gave herself into his embrace as she began to cry. She hated feeling weak. She hated feeling hopeless. She hated not feeling her Zim. Looking at him through tear covered eyes, she gave him a deep kiss. For a moment she feared he would tell her to stop in fear of this being wrong at the moment, but he returned her kiss. Pulling back a little, she implored him not to leave her side right now in which he agreed, happy, she kissed him again as he laid her down.
There was something that was bugging Professor Membrane since he came home. As he went around his lab to look through his inventory, he noticed something was missing. Actually some of the sample was missing. He knew other aliens were in this house, but he hoped it was either his own family or even Zim who gotten a hold of it. He wished to question him while he was here, but thought the most important was his daughter.
For so many years he wanted to clone Dai again. To bring her back. But fear always came over him. Would his kids accept her? Dai already knew why he took some of her blood. He remembered how she smiled at him before she finally passed. He felt like a ghoul for taking her blood. Really it wasn't much. Just a small vial. He felt he belonged to her for the rest of his life. He didn't care what others said, this was his love. She was his best friend and lover.
Dai received an emergency notice to head to Zim's base where she instantly ran to her daughter's side to comfort her and talk to her. At first Gaz was between both her mother and Zim being held until Dai politely requested him to leave for a little bit. Dai stroked Gaz's hair and spoke to her to the early hours of the morning letting her fall asleep allowing Zim to come in and take over. Gaz's grieving wasn't done yet, but a little weight felt a little lifted from her.
"When was the last time you slept in this room?"
Turning around from his closet, he almost fell to the ground. When she approached him, she held her arms out to him.
"I know this is a shock, Alex, but it is me."
Membrane... Alex, was just in shock. Regardless what he was thinking about a while ago it was still a shock. Reaching out with a shaking hand, he touched her face, he went to trace a finger down to where he knew she had a scar. Seeing her scar, he quickly ripped his goggles off and held her face in both his hands. "My beautiful Dai? Did he bring you back to life?" He asked awestruck.
Smiling, she placed her hands upon his own, and nodded happily. "Zim and Gaz did. It was first to fool others, but turned out... I'm not a fake. More of a reproduction." She joked a little.
Wrapping her up in his arms he held onto her both happy to have her back and afraid this was a dream. "I couldn't sleep in here after you were gone."
"I'm a full Elder now, Alex so I'll be spending part time here and part time on Irk." Staring into his eyes. "Would you care to spend part time on Irk with me? I'd love it. Hell, your own daughter is an Elder now."
Explore life on another planet, even though he is married to an alien anyhow, he nodded his head to her, and selfishly hauled her into bed with him.
Ship now clean of dead bodies, Lard Nar settled back into his seat. "Resisty! The Massive will not know what will hit them once we show... Back up." Crew members turning back to their respective stations, he gave the order for them to go and meet back up with them.
"Zim."
"Yes, Gaz?"
Feeling a strange feeling in the back of her subconscious she wondered how she suddenly ended up with this feeling. "Something lame is about to show back up again."
Sorry if it seemed like it was all over the place, I was just trying to briefly tell different points of view. If anyone hasn't noticed. This is almost done.
