(Hiya, peoples! I'll be honest - I wasn't planning on going a sequel to this, but at least HALF of my reviewers said that they'd like to me write more. So, here
is the second chapter to "The Almighty Smallest". Before I go, though...I want Nickelodeon to hear our cries, so if those [beep]ity-[beep]s decide to not show
Zim AGAIN tonight, I say we all walk to our windows and scream bloody doom. [No, not bloody murder. This IS Zim we're talking about.] If they DO show it
tonight [and they'd better; I need my Zim-fix...] I say we all walk to our windows and scream bloody glee....or something like that...)
The Almighty Smallest - Chapter Two
Daedreams
beep beep beep...hmmmmmm....foooom!...
Dae stepped back and admired her work. Much time has passed since she "adopted" Zim, and now she was currently working on a new project - lasers! "So
what if I'm not that fond of Red," she mused, "Lasers ARE neat!!" She picked up the welder and started to work again.
She was assigned to repair Red's new toy - a fifty-foot nuclear-powered laser cannon designed to easily annialhate it's target with a single blast. Yea, it was
dangerous, but it was a lot better than..."mopping..." Dae shuddered.
At that moment there was a beeping sound, informing Dae that someone was present at the door. "Come in," she yelled, turning off her equipment.
A young male Irken stepped through the doorway. "Hi, Dae..."
Dae lifted her mask and smiled at who stood before her. "Zim!" she cried happily. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm bored. I was told that I could find you here."
"Oh...okay...What did you me for?"
Zim walked up to Dae. He had grown a lot since he was born. As a baby, he could easily perch atop Dae's head. Now he was nearly as high as her legs
were. He looked up. "I wanna learn."
Dae scratched her head, confused. "Learn...? But...you're in the training course, right? Everything you need to learn is taught there."
"Yes, everything I NEED to learn, not what I WANT to learn."
"But what do you want to learn?"
Zim blinked his eyes, which were full of determination. "I want to learn BEYOND the invader course. I want to explore the true powers of the Irken technology,
not just, 'Push the red button that says start'. I want - no, I NEED to study a new course in the invaders' league!!" he panted wildly as he tried to catch his breath.
Dae smirked. "And...lemme guess. You want me to teach you."
"YES!!!" Zim screamed.
"But...why ME?"
"Because you...you...dohhh..." Zim fumbled for words. Being soft was something he wasn't supposed to do, but Dae was his only true friend. "You are the only
other soul on this planet that understands me..." Zim looked away.
Dae laughed lightly. "Oh,... Zim," she put a hand on his shoulder, "Okay. I'll do it."
Zim looked up and blinked his eyes again, which were still adorably big and shiny. "You...you will?"
"Sure. Just as long as you promise not to tell anyone." She held out her hand.
Zim once again studied Dae. Sure, he'd known her forever, but every time her saw her, he felt like he was meeting her for the first time again. (Maybe cuz I
like remembering how we met...) Zim thought with a smile. Instead of grasping her hand, he jumped up as hard as he could and latched onto her left shoulder.
"I promise, Mommy."
Dae choked. God, how it got to her every time he called her that. He didn't call her Mommy nearly as often as he used to, but when he did...it all made her
life seem worth living. "g...g-Good..." she squeaked out. "Now," she said, setting him down, "This here is called a photon-nuetronic compulsion blaster..."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"...I passed it with flyng colors! The study tips you gave me really helped. Thaks a lot, Dae."
"...You're quite welcome, Zim..." Dae said quietly.
Zim looked across the table at her with alarm. "Hey, Dae, are you alright? You haven't been saying much..."
"Huh? Oh, sorry. I guess I haven't been feeling all that great lately..."
"What's wrong?" Zim asked worredily.
Dae spooned her dessert thoughtfully before answering. "You're really lucky, Zim."
Zim blinked in confusion. "Me? Lucky? Why?"
She glanced away. "Oh, you get to be an Invader, prove yourself a true Irken, and blow stuff up for a living. Me? That was me dream, Zim. To be an Invader,
but...well, life doesn't always tuen out the way you plan. Be grateful for what you have Zim, and never lose an oppertunity to do something great." Dae smiled
sadly at her young friend.
Zim sat silent. "Wow...okay, whatever you say, Dae. I'll follow your advice." He smiled. "After all, it's only led me to good places!" He ran off.
Dae blinked back tears as she watched Zim leave. "I hope it does. Any place is better off than mine."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dae walked slowly past where the old excavation site had been. It was roped off, but a long time ago it was a busy site for mining energy showls...How she
remembered so clearly. Showls were incredible sources of energy on Irk, and they were highly valuable...
Perhaps that's why the Lirnens were so eager to get their hands on them.
Dae had been working in the site by bringing refreshments and supplies to the miners. Among them was her dear friend, Rin, whom she had a HUGE crush
on, but of course, she'd never admit it. It was then, she had been talking to him, when the Lirnens attacked!
They immediately slaughtered anyone they could find outside the mine, and then threw a bomb inside it to kill off any workers. But this was not your usual
bomb. This bomb in particular spread an infectious virus that would kill anyone who breathed it.
Dae had been away from Ground Zero at the time, but the news spread quickly to where she was. Panicked, she ran to the inside of the mine, by this time
the cloud had subsided. She cried to her fallen friend, "No, Rin! Please, you can't leave me! I...I love you..."
But it was too late. Rin had already fallen victim to the virus and lay there, lifeless, not knowing how Dae truly felt. She sat there with his body for hours, weeping.
After this, Dae changed drastically. She kept to herself, never spoke too much, never wanting to get close to anyone again, for the fear of herself getting hurt,
and for fear of the other person as well.
And then Zim came along.
Try as she might, Dae could never resist his charm and cuteness. She forgot her fear of losing, of hurt. All she knew was her "son".
And then she learned that she had contracted the virus.
A small amout of it, indeed, but enough to slowly damage her internal organs. She didn't know how much longer, but she didn't have the heart to tell Zim.
"But if he finds out on his own...it'll hurt him even more." Dae gazed deeply over the skyline.
"I just don't know what to do."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Zim hummed a happy tune under his breath. He had gotten picked for Operation: Impending Doom! He opened the door to his room and examined the
variuos letters in his mailbox.
"Let's see...what to pack...what buttons to push...what planets to blow up...what---what's this?" He looked over a hastily scribbled note.
/Zim/
/Dae is is the sickbay/
She asked that I bring this to you/
/ - Purple/
"Sickbay?! For what...!" Zim recalled how Dae said she didn't feel her best. "No, DAE!!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Dae? Dae!!"
"Hey, watch where you're going!"
"Shut up and get out of my way. DAE!!!!"
Panting heavily, Zim ran into the room. Dae lay there, pale and limp.
Zim took a step back. Was she..."Dae!!"
Dae slowly opened her eyes. "Z...Zim..."
He ran to her side. "Dae, what happened?"
Weakly, Dae lifted her hand and pointed to a diary on the stand next to her. "Read that." It contained all of the info on the incident.
Zim read it, and looked up at Dae, pure fear on his face. "Dae...why didn't you tell me?"
"I didn't...want...to hurt you...I care...about you...too much, Zim..."
"But I'm leaving tomorrow! Dae, please, hold on for me..."
"I'll try Zim... I'll try..."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The next morning, Zim set out to his ship. As he got in, he was stopped by a messenger. "My Smallest..."
Zim whirled around. "What do you want?!
"It...it's about Dae..."
Zim got worried. "What about her? Is she alright?!"
The massenger shook his head sadly. "I'm sorry, sir. She...died this morning."
Zim dropped his mouth in shock. Tha messanger went on. "Her heartbeat failed..."
Zim said nothing, but got into his ship and went nuts, his rage and fear overtaking him. "You there!! Push some buttons!! And you, pull some levers!! PULL
SOME LEVERS!!!!"
"But sir," a passenger complained, "We're still on our own planet!!"
"I SAID PULL SOME LEVERS!!!!" Zim screamed, not hearing him. He had to prove himself a true Invader He had to fulfill some dreams.
His dreams.
And Dae's.
is the second chapter to "The Almighty Smallest". Before I go, though...I want Nickelodeon to hear our cries, so if those [beep]ity-[beep]s decide to not show
Zim AGAIN tonight, I say we all walk to our windows and scream bloody doom. [No, not bloody murder. This IS Zim we're talking about.] If they DO show it
tonight [and they'd better; I need my Zim-fix...] I say we all walk to our windows and scream bloody glee....or something like that...)
The Almighty Smallest - Chapter Two
Daedreams
beep beep beep...hmmmmmm....foooom!...
Dae stepped back and admired her work. Much time has passed since she "adopted" Zim, and now she was currently working on a new project - lasers! "So
what if I'm not that fond of Red," she mused, "Lasers ARE neat!!" She picked up the welder and started to work again.
She was assigned to repair Red's new toy - a fifty-foot nuclear-powered laser cannon designed to easily annialhate it's target with a single blast. Yea, it was
dangerous, but it was a lot better than..."mopping..." Dae shuddered.
At that moment there was a beeping sound, informing Dae that someone was present at the door. "Come in," she yelled, turning off her equipment.
A young male Irken stepped through the doorway. "Hi, Dae..."
Dae lifted her mask and smiled at who stood before her. "Zim!" she cried happily. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm bored. I was told that I could find you here."
"Oh...okay...What did you me for?"
Zim walked up to Dae. He had grown a lot since he was born. As a baby, he could easily perch atop Dae's head. Now he was nearly as high as her legs
were. He looked up. "I wanna learn."
Dae scratched her head, confused. "Learn...? But...you're in the training course, right? Everything you need to learn is taught there."
"Yes, everything I NEED to learn, not what I WANT to learn."
"But what do you want to learn?"
Zim blinked his eyes, which were full of determination. "I want to learn BEYOND the invader course. I want to explore the true powers of the Irken technology,
not just, 'Push the red button that says start'. I want - no, I NEED to study a new course in the invaders' league!!" he panted wildly as he tried to catch his breath.
Dae smirked. "And...lemme guess. You want me to teach you."
"YES!!!" Zim screamed.
"But...why ME?"
"Because you...you...dohhh..." Zim fumbled for words. Being soft was something he wasn't supposed to do, but Dae was his only true friend. "You are the only
other soul on this planet that understands me..." Zim looked away.
Dae laughed lightly. "Oh,... Zim," she put a hand on his shoulder, "Okay. I'll do it."
Zim looked up and blinked his eyes again, which were still adorably big and shiny. "You...you will?"
"Sure. Just as long as you promise not to tell anyone." She held out her hand.
Zim once again studied Dae. Sure, he'd known her forever, but every time her saw her, he felt like he was meeting her for the first time again. (Maybe cuz I
like remembering how we met...) Zim thought with a smile. Instead of grasping her hand, he jumped up as hard as he could and latched onto her left shoulder.
"I promise, Mommy."
Dae choked. God, how it got to her every time he called her that. He didn't call her Mommy nearly as often as he used to, but when he did...it all made her
life seem worth living. "g...g-Good..." she squeaked out. "Now," she said, setting him down, "This here is called a photon-nuetronic compulsion blaster..."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"...I passed it with flyng colors! The study tips you gave me really helped. Thaks a lot, Dae."
"...You're quite welcome, Zim..." Dae said quietly.
Zim looked across the table at her with alarm. "Hey, Dae, are you alright? You haven't been saying much..."
"Huh? Oh, sorry. I guess I haven't been feeling all that great lately..."
"What's wrong?" Zim asked worredily.
Dae spooned her dessert thoughtfully before answering. "You're really lucky, Zim."
Zim blinked in confusion. "Me? Lucky? Why?"
She glanced away. "Oh, you get to be an Invader, prove yourself a true Irken, and blow stuff up for a living. Me? That was me dream, Zim. To be an Invader,
but...well, life doesn't always tuen out the way you plan. Be grateful for what you have Zim, and never lose an oppertunity to do something great." Dae smiled
sadly at her young friend.
Zim sat silent. "Wow...okay, whatever you say, Dae. I'll follow your advice." He smiled. "After all, it's only led me to good places!" He ran off.
Dae blinked back tears as she watched Zim leave. "I hope it does. Any place is better off than mine."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dae walked slowly past where the old excavation site had been. It was roped off, but a long time ago it was a busy site for mining energy showls...How she
remembered so clearly. Showls were incredible sources of energy on Irk, and they were highly valuable...
Perhaps that's why the Lirnens were so eager to get their hands on them.
Dae had been working in the site by bringing refreshments and supplies to the miners. Among them was her dear friend, Rin, whom she had a HUGE crush
on, but of course, she'd never admit it. It was then, she had been talking to him, when the Lirnens attacked!
They immediately slaughtered anyone they could find outside the mine, and then threw a bomb inside it to kill off any workers. But this was not your usual
bomb. This bomb in particular spread an infectious virus that would kill anyone who breathed it.
Dae had been away from Ground Zero at the time, but the news spread quickly to where she was. Panicked, she ran to the inside of the mine, by this time
the cloud had subsided. She cried to her fallen friend, "No, Rin! Please, you can't leave me! I...I love you..."
But it was too late. Rin had already fallen victim to the virus and lay there, lifeless, not knowing how Dae truly felt. She sat there with his body for hours, weeping.
After this, Dae changed drastically. She kept to herself, never spoke too much, never wanting to get close to anyone again, for the fear of herself getting hurt,
and for fear of the other person as well.
And then Zim came along.
Try as she might, Dae could never resist his charm and cuteness. She forgot her fear of losing, of hurt. All she knew was her "son".
And then she learned that she had contracted the virus.
A small amout of it, indeed, but enough to slowly damage her internal organs. She didn't know how much longer, but she didn't have the heart to tell Zim.
"But if he finds out on his own...it'll hurt him even more." Dae gazed deeply over the skyline.
"I just don't know what to do."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Zim hummed a happy tune under his breath. He had gotten picked for Operation: Impending Doom! He opened the door to his room and examined the
variuos letters in his mailbox.
"Let's see...what to pack...what buttons to push...what planets to blow up...what---what's this?" He looked over a hastily scribbled note.
/Zim/
/Dae is is the sickbay/
She asked that I bring this to you/
/ - Purple/
"Sickbay?! For what...!" Zim recalled how Dae said she didn't feel her best. "No, DAE!!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Dae? Dae!!"
"Hey, watch where you're going!"
"Shut up and get out of my way. DAE!!!!"
Panting heavily, Zim ran into the room. Dae lay there, pale and limp.
Zim took a step back. Was she..."Dae!!"
Dae slowly opened her eyes. "Z...Zim..."
He ran to her side. "Dae, what happened?"
Weakly, Dae lifted her hand and pointed to a diary on the stand next to her. "Read that." It contained all of the info on the incident.
Zim read it, and looked up at Dae, pure fear on his face. "Dae...why didn't you tell me?"
"I didn't...want...to hurt you...I care...about you...too much, Zim..."
"But I'm leaving tomorrow! Dae, please, hold on for me..."
"I'll try Zim... I'll try..."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The next morning, Zim set out to his ship. As he got in, he was stopped by a messenger. "My Smallest..."
Zim whirled around. "What do you want?!
"It...it's about Dae..."
Zim got worried. "What about her? Is she alright?!"
The massenger shook his head sadly. "I'm sorry, sir. She...died this morning."
Zim dropped his mouth in shock. Tha messanger went on. "Her heartbeat failed..."
Zim said nothing, but got into his ship and went nuts, his rage and fear overtaking him. "You there!! Push some buttons!! And you, pull some levers!! PULL
SOME LEVERS!!!!"
"But sir," a passenger complained, "We're still on our own planet!!"
"I SAID PULL SOME LEVERS!!!!" Zim screamed, not hearing him. He had to prove himself a true Invader He had to fulfill some dreams.
His dreams.
And Dae's.