Arm: Chapter 15…. The last chapter to BtR…
Leg: ^_^ It's relatively short too… Arm and I simply suck at endings. At least, when it comes to the last chapter of a series we started and actually finished. It's always been a problem for us.
Arm: Yeah… You all know we don't own IZ, but, hey, some of you might be demented to think so…Oh and as for the contest, we're still waiting for someone to win second prize! The first prize has been taken by The Jade Dragon Empress…who read the fic when we sent it to her, and she guessed the answers correctly.
Leg: The questions are still in chapter 14, if you wanna take a stab at it!
Betraying the Rivalry: Chapter 15: The War Has Finally Ended (Leg: Dramatic title, no?)
"No! Zim! You can't (cough) give up!" Dib shouted in anguish. He couldn't believe it. Zim, surrender? This couldn't be happening! He heard Debbie laugh triumphantly and he turned to look at the screen from where he was.
"I'm glad you see things my way, Zim," Debbie stated. The robotic arms were only two feet behind Zim, close enough to grab him. "Thing is, it's too late for surrender!" Debbie shouted suddenly as the robotic arms encircled Dib and captured him.
Dib watched the scene unfold in front of him with wide eyes. He watched as Zim struggled against his metal-captures. "Zim! NO!" he shouted. Dib managed to find the energy to get up.
"So, still on your feet, huh? Well, not for lo—" Debbie was cut short as Dib ran up to her and managed to punch her nose, breaking it.
"That was for manipulating my father," Dib explained, mocking Debbie's tone of voice when she had beat him up previously. He punched her in the gut while she was still holding onto her nose. "That was for hurting me," he continued. Dib pulled out a weapon from his bookbag, the same laser beam Zim had handed him.
Debbie looked up at him through her now swelling eyes. She eyed the weapon and merely laughed. "You think that a simple toy could kill me?" she asked cockily, arching an eyebrow.
"It's not even on yet," was all Dib said as he pushed the button. The beam was bright blue. He placed it at the base of Debbie's neck. "Tell me where the disk is, and release Zim," he ordered.
"What makes you think that I feel threatened by your toy?" Debbie asked. The laser moved closer to her throat. She flinched just slightly.
"Tell me where the disk is Debbie, and release Zim…" Dib demanded again in an even deadlier tone. He didn't notice Debbie's hand was searching for something, anything to use against him. He didn't care though, and if he did, you couldn't tell.
"It's over there, on the counter," she replied finally. She didn't like the feeling she was getting from Dib. She watched him turn off the laser and turn away from her, waiting for the right moment to attack him.
"Where, Debbie?" Dib asked in annoyance. "I don't see it," he continued as he searched for it.
"Oh, it's over there, just keep looking," Debbie told him as she found her gun. She turned off the safety and aimed for Dib's head.
"Dib! Look out!" Zim shouted from the other side of the screen.
"Huh?" Dib asked. The next thing he new was the sound of a gun being fired. Instinctively, Dib ducked down, and grabbed the nearest thing to him on his way down, which happened to be the disk. The bullet just grazed his left ear.
"Fuck!" Debbie shouted when she realized that she missed her target. She turned to a screen in a slight panic. "Computer, bring Zim here to me, now!" she ordered.
Dib put his hand to his ear. He didn't even feel the bullet go through it, but he didn't care. He walked over to Debbie and kicked the gun out of her hands. "Don't you dare try that again," he hissed through his teeth.
Debbie looked down at the twelve-year-old standing before her. How could he do this to her? How could he help him? Didn't he understand that Zim was just using him to help him take over the world? She shivered as she looked deep into Dib's eyes, she had seen something she could not describe, and it made her unable to move.
"What's the matter, Debbie?" he asked her with hate all but gone from his voice. "Afraid that you've lost to a sixth grader?" Dib continued mockingly. "Release Zim like I told you to, or…" he pulled out his laser and the disk. He turned it on and sliced down the center of the disk. "That will be you."
"You…you've think you won, don't you?" Debbie asked shakily as she stared down at Dib. She quietly ordered the computer to drop Zim, and watched the little green alien walk past her and over to Dib. He grabbed Dib's free hand into his own just to spite her.
"Yes, I think we have," Dib replied as he let go of Zim's hand and walked over to Debbie, his laser still on. "But, we must get rid of you. Zim, any suggestions?" he asked, not turning away from Debbie. He learned not to turn his back to her after she tried to shoot him.
"We'll send her to Irk, as a present from me to the Tallest. I'm sure they'll just love her," Zim said as he walked next to Dib. "Besides, I'll be able to get back at them for banishing me in the first place," Zim continued with a smile.
"Banished?" Debbie asked, confused. That couldn't mean what she thought it did, did it?
"Yes. It means that I can't invade any planets. I am no longer apart of the Irken Army. Earth is completely safe from an alien invasion," Zim explained to her slowly. He said everything slowly and clearly to mock her.
Debbie looked at him in shock. No. No. This just couldn't be happening to her. She was just NOT being mocked by a little green alien. There was just no way!
"I tried telling you that, remember? But did you listen? Nooo, you had to go make a fool of yourself. You, a full-grown woman, lost to a sixth grader and a little green alien. How does that make you feel Debbie?" Dib asked loathingly.
Debbie flushed angrily at that, but she refused to do anything. She cursed to herself in every language she knew. She was a disgrace to all mankind! She could have saved the world, but instead she made a fool of herself. A little voice inside of her told her that everything that had happened was her own fault, but she pushed the voice away. That was the last conscious thought she had for a while because soon afterward she was knocked out by an Irken stun gun.
Zim smiled at Dib, but then realized how badly he was hurt. His face was a complete bloody mess, but Dib didn't seem to care. Dib smiled back at him, relieved that the threat was finally gone from their lives, that he and Zim could possibly live as normally as they possibly could. Zim searched the lab for some kind of aircraft that they could place Debbie in. Once Zim did find it, he asked Dib to help him get Debbie into it, and once that was finished, he wrote a note in Irken, punched in the coordinates for Irk, closed the hatch, and sent her off into space.
"Good riddance, Debbie," Dib said as he waved the ship good bye. He leaned his head on Zim's shoulder and sighed. "Are you sure sending her to the Tallest was a good idea?" Dib asked quietly.
"I really don't know Dib, but if it gets them back, it sounds good to me," Zim answered. "And thanks for helping me today, I couldn't have done this without your help," Zim stated as he kissed Dib on the cheek.
"Don't mention it. There was just no way I was going to let her win…. But never surrender like that again…I might lose you next time," Dib stated in an even softer voice.
Zim smiled at that. "You'll never lose me, I can promise you that," he whispered as he guided Dib out of the lab.
6 months later…(Or what happened to Debbie once she was sent out into space. ^_^)
Debbie sat in the ship, trying to sleep. She had no idea where she was going, or when she was going to make her destination. She rocked in the chair, briefly wondering how long she had been asleep before she just woke up, a few days or so ago. Suddenly the ship started to shake, and she knew she was going to be landing on some alien planet.
Debbie promised herself that if she ever survived this, she was going to go back to Earth and kick that little alien's ass. She was going to make him and that stubborn brat Dib suffer greatly for what they had done to her. She pulled out a comic book that had just happened to be in there as well and tried to read it. Debbie knew that reading could help her ignore what was going around her for a little while until the ship was rocked around even more when it landed on the planet.
She could hear hushed voices from outside of the ship. Debbie sat stock still and waited for whoever was outside of her ship to either open it up or leave it alone. Well, the ship was opened, and Debbie was greeted by a tall alien with red eyes. She nearly fainted, and when she saw the other one with purple eyes, she did. Red and Purple just stared at the human being in front of them, not knowing what they should do with her.
"Oh, look, there's a note!" Red said happily as he took it off of the inside of the hatch. "It's from a secret admirer! It's a present to the two of us!" he exclaimed excitedly to Purple, who took the note out of his hands.
"I wonder who sent us it… Oh well. C'mon, let's bring her back to the base!" Purple said excitedly. If only they knew how much of a hindrance the human would be, they wouldn't have been so enthusiastic of getting her for a gift.
Arm: ::smiles:: Well, that's it.
Leg: Yeah. What a story. It's our longest written fic. Well, our longest one that's completed. Some of our unfinished works could be longer. Anyway, can you tell us what you think?
Arm: Yeah. It would be very appreciated. We like to know what people think when we end a fic… Cuz we suck at endings to begin with… Well. Bye!