Chapter 7.here we go! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I hate
typing, and I have been too busy with stuff. Indeed, the "stuff" rules me,
and you, you and YOU!!! HAHAHA! Sorry again.I be crazy.
Dib solemnly marched down the hallway in front of the red suited guard that led him. His thoughts wondered from himself, to Zim, to back home. Did his sister or father even know he was gone yet? His thoughts consumed him so much that he barely noticed when the guard stopped him at a certain door and led him inside.
The voice of the altoron leader finally shook him from his thoughts. "Hello human," he said, "I hope your stay with us hasn't been completely disagreeable."
"My name's Dib." He muttered, "and why do you care if it's disagreeable or not?"
"Okay.Dib.we care because we know what it's like to be greeted and assaulted by a completely different species. It can be quite a shock."
"Then why don't you find another planet!?"
The altoron leader thought, then started to stare at his fuchia sphere in his hand. Finally, he looked up. "Because.we can't. You have no idea how long we have been away from a planet, our home, and how far we have traveled. The chances for finding a suitable planet were a million to one, and your planet is the ONE. If we leave, we won't ever find another planet and most likely, we will die. Don't you understand? It's you or us, and as my people's leader I won't let it be us." He said all of this while twirling the sphere in his hands; the light from it twinkled in his green eyes.
For a moment, Dib truly did understand, but quickly knocked it away. After all, this was still the human's planet by right.
Then, the leader closed his eyes in complete concentration and held the sphere towards Dib. Dib still had his hands behind his back and so couldn't reach out. He surely would have if his hands had been free. After a moment, the sphere went from fuchsia to green and blue. The colors then started to become definite shapes, and the sphere became a perfect little model of the earth. It rose off the leader's hand and hovered. It started to spin, going faster and faster, then it turned red, almost burning Dib's eyes. The spinning slowed, and almost stopped, to show a new planet not of blue and green, but of orange and purple. The altoron leader opened his eyes, looked at the globe, and smiled. The other altoron faces around him also radiated pleasure and nearly teared up at the site.
"This, is our home to be." The altoron leader said while grasping the sphere and making it turn back to fuchsia.
"That's really nice, but you still can't." Dib said, fighting his own emotion.
The leader's face turned stern. "You may want to stop us, but you can't. At this very moment, our scientists and pilots are sending our native plant life down to earth while cloaked. The plants will be invisible, and will soon alter the air so to kill earth's native inhabitants and leave the door open for us to move in. Earth won't know what hit it!"
"No, no, NO! You can't do this, do you know how much life there is on earth? You would be killing thousands and thousands of plant and animal species for one specie; you! That just isn't logical!"
The leader put on a grieving look. He didn't want to.but he had to. It was us or them, he kept telling himself, trying to stop from feeling guilty. He turned away from Dib to face the window, and looked down at the slowly rotating earth.
"I'm sorry Dib, but we can't have you going back to earth and telling the humans of our plan, and we can't have you jumping around the ship either. Our only option is to have you executed with the irkan in two hours. It will be quick and painless. Guards, take him to his cell.":
"Then why did you tell me your plan in the first place!?" Dib yelled as he was pushed out the door.
Zim hurt all over. This species wasn't as weak as he had previously thought. The altoron guards had been trying to get out of him what he knew about earth and the irkan empire. He hadn't said a word, and he was paying the price for it. At least they hadn't broken anything yet, he thought.
Dib was pushed into his cell and immediately tripped over a small metal blockade on the way in.
"Ahh!" He said while landing harshly on the floor, "What the hel-..oh, it's Gir."
Gir had been sleeping on the ground and awoke when the boy flew over its body.
"I been waitin' for you a long time." It squealed, "I couldn't find an explody machine, but I did find this." And Gir pulled out Dib's backpack. "It was feelin' kind a sick, so I made it all better!"
"Gir! This is GREAT! You even recharged the battery! Oh my God, tacos really DO make you work!"
"What!?"
"Never mind, let's just get out of here!" Dib halfway yelled as he activated his backpack's laser and cut the cuffs behind his back, then melted a circle in the wall big enough to climb through. Dib took one last look into the cell, took a picture, and jumped through the hole with all intentions in the world to kick some altoron butt!
```````` Okay, how you like? I will try to be motivated enough to put the next one up soon, but its hard to be motivated when you don't get reviews. Hint, hint.
Dib solemnly marched down the hallway in front of the red suited guard that led him. His thoughts wondered from himself, to Zim, to back home. Did his sister or father even know he was gone yet? His thoughts consumed him so much that he barely noticed when the guard stopped him at a certain door and led him inside.
The voice of the altoron leader finally shook him from his thoughts. "Hello human," he said, "I hope your stay with us hasn't been completely disagreeable."
"My name's Dib." He muttered, "and why do you care if it's disagreeable or not?"
"Okay.Dib.we care because we know what it's like to be greeted and assaulted by a completely different species. It can be quite a shock."
"Then why don't you find another planet!?"
The altoron leader thought, then started to stare at his fuchia sphere in his hand. Finally, he looked up. "Because.we can't. You have no idea how long we have been away from a planet, our home, and how far we have traveled. The chances for finding a suitable planet were a million to one, and your planet is the ONE. If we leave, we won't ever find another planet and most likely, we will die. Don't you understand? It's you or us, and as my people's leader I won't let it be us." He said all of this while twirling the sphere in his hands; the light from it twinkled in his green eyes.
For a moment, Dib truly did understand, but quickly knocked it away. After all, this was still the human's planet by right.
Then, the leader closed his eyes in complete concentration and held the sphere towards Dib. Dib still had his hands behind his back and so couldn't reach out. He surely would have if his hands had been free. After a moment, the sphere went from fuchsia to green and blue. The colors then started to become definite shapes, and the sphere became a perfect little model of the earth. It rose off the leader's hand and hovered. It started to spin, going faster and faster, then it turned red, almost burning Dib's eyes. The spinning slowed, and almost stopped, to show a new planet not of blue and green, but of orange and purple. The altoron leader opened his eyes, looked at the globe, and smiled. The other altoron faces around him also radiated pleasure and nearly teared up at the site.
"This, is our home to be." The altoron leader said while grasping the sphere and making it turn back to fuchsia.
"That's really nice, but you still can't." Dib said, fighting his own emotion.
The leader's face turned stern. "You may want to stop us, but you can't. At this very moment, our scientists and pilots are sending our native plant life down to earth while cloaked. The plants will be invisible, and will soon alter the air so to kill earth's native inhabitants and leave the door open for us to move in. Earth won't know what hit it!"
"No, no, NO! You can't do this, do you know how much life there is on earth? You would be killing thousands and thousands of plant and animal species for one specie; you! That just isn't logical!"
The leader put on a grieving look. He didn't want to.but he had to. It was us or them, he kept telling himself, trying to stop from feeling guilty. He turned away from Dib to face the window, and looked down at the slowly rotating earth.
"I'm sorry Dib, but we can't have you going back to earth and telling the humans of our plan, and we can't have you jumping around the ship either. Our only option is to have you executed with the irkan in two hours. It will be quick and painless. Guards, take him to his cell.":
"Then why did you tell me your plan in the first place!?" Dib yelled as he was pushed out the door.
Zim hurt all over. This species wasn't as weak as he had previously thought. The altoron guards had been trying to get out of him what he knew about earth and the irkan empire. He hadn't said a word, and he was paying the price for it. At least they hadn't broken anything yet, he thought.
Dib was pushed into his cell and immediately tripped over a small metal blockade on the way in.
"Ahh!" He said while landing harshly on the floor, "What the hel-..oh, it's Gir."
Gir had been sleeping on the ground and awoke when the boy flew over its body.
"I been waitin' for you a long time." It squealed, "I couldn't find an explody machine, but I did find this." And Gir pulled out Dib's backpack. "It was feelin' kind a sick, so I made it all better!"
"Gir! This is GREAT! You even recharged the battery! Oh my God, tacos really DO make you work!"
"What!?"
"Never mind, let's just get out of here!" Dib halfway yelled as he activated his backpack's laser and cut the cuffs behind his back, then melted a circle in the wall big enough to climb through. Dib took one last look into the cell, took a picture, and jumped through the hole with all intentions in the world to kick some altoron butt!
```````` Okay, how you like? I will try to be motivated enough to put the next one up soon, but its hard to be motivated when you don't get reviews. Hint, hint.