Disclaimer:
Web page, please. That is where it is located. And Red and Purple might be out
of character, since I really don't know that much about how they act.
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Purple hovered back and forth, rubbing his head. Red stared at Shai and ZIM, and finally spoke.
"Not
long ago, an girl named Shai was assigned to steer this ship." Red gestured to
Shai as he said this.
"Unfortunately,
you almost crashed us into a nearby planet and also managed to completely
destroy the steering mechanisms at the same time," Purple said as his
expression grew dark for a moment.
Red
sighed. "But when you came before us after the, ah, incident, I decided
we should just assign you an information gathering job far away. I was feeling
merciful that day," he stated, slightly smiling at Shai.
Purple
cocked a nonexistent eyebrow. "I thought that was the day you had too much of
that rat blood liquor from Blorch," he commented, and quickly caught a glare
from Red. He snickered.
"So
we assigned you a SIR and sent here off in the same direction as you, ZIM." Red
glanced at Purple, signaling that it was his turn to talk.
"Now,
as far as we can tell from the SIR's report, you, Shai, not having even marginal
proficiency with technology of any kind, pressed something and sent you both
careening out into space," Purple explained. "As you were about to crash into a
planet, you ran for cover in the nearest place. The SIR tried to find a safe
place to land, but you still crashed."
Shai
had slumped down onto the ground as she heard the tale, but the Tallests
continued. "When the SIR came back online, it saw a human female sitting,
dazed, in front of it. Apparently you hid in the disguise maker in your ship,
and it had activated during the crash. But the SIR did a scan on you, and apparently
you had amnesia. And, if that didn't beat all, an abnormal, crash-related side
effect of the disguise maker was that you had taken on the female form of the
nearest human." Purple stopped and hit Red, letting him continue.
"And
here's the part that confuses even us," Red began. "After that, the SIR
salvaged some components from your wrecked VootRunner and created a device
unlike anything seen yet. The SIR decided that until some hapless Irken came to
this planet, Earth, for it did not know of ZIM, the best way to keep you safe
was to move you in with a human family. It used its device to create memories
for you and the nearest human family." The Tallest halted for a moment,
catching his breath.
ZIM
stared at Shai while the silence ensued. "Dib?" he murmured quietly.
Purple
looked at Shai, who was rubbing her eyes. "And there you are. Judging by your
expression, it looks like your amnesia is gone." The tale was finally
completed.
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Dib
slowly took off the headphones. He stared into the night sky. ZIM hadn't been
to Skool that day, so Dib had gone over to his house, and ran into the green
dog, without its dog head on, that had chirped, "Master isn't home!" Realizing
that ZIM might have gone off to call an alien army, Dib had grabbed his radio
and headed for the roof.
"My
own cousin," Dib murmured, then corrected himself. She hadn't been his cousin.
A SIR, whatever that was, had altered his mind. Maybe it was something like
that small thing that had been prancing around at ZIM's house.
Hearing
that a new transmission was coming through – they were talking again – he
slipped the headphones back on and listened intently, all the while outrage
that a thing like ZIM could have masqueraded as his cousin welled up inside of
him.
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Red
and Purple had thought for a short while about this. Shai, who had now fully
recovered from her amnesia, was standing before them expectantly.
"Invader
Shai, after consideration, we have decided that because of this ordeal, you
shall have a job on this ship," Purple said to her, and her eyes sparkled.
"You
shall be in charge of organizing the SIR's in the equipment room downstairs.
You will be working with another, can't remember who, exactly. Anyway, just get
down there," Red commanded.
Shai
saluted and grinned. "Yes, my Tallests! I shall not disappoint you!" she said,
and left the roof, determined to do the best job she could, and maybe she could
be a real Invader someday.
"ZIM,
you're going back to Earth, stay where you are," Red said, and touched some
keys on a nearby console.
"While
I'm still here, my Tallests, I want to ask: When will the armada get the Ear-"
Before ZIM could finish the last word he was sent back to his lab on Earth.
Purple
turned to Red. "Is our armada completed made up of people like ZIM, or
something?" he asked.
Red
shrugged.
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I
hope I explained that right. It might've been confusing. If too many of you
don't get it (I didn't get it when I drew it) I might do another chapter
that's in a simpler form. This is the last chapter. If I continued this
further, I would screw it up. I hope you enjoyed it.