Chapter 10
The Truth......What To Do Now
Zim stepped into the lab, but suddenly stopped at the sight of Rogue still strugging to undo her hacking device. She quickly turned her head and looked Zim. Zim's eyes went wide.
"Rogue! What are you doing?! What is the meaning of this?!" Zim said.
Rogue grit her teeth, and swallowed hard. "I...I can explain!" She said nervously, sreaching for the right words. Zim gave her a look that she had seen before. It was the same look he gave her when she lied to him before.
Zim walked closer to Rogue. Rogue began to grow more and more nervous. "Then "EXPLAIN"." Zim said in a harsh, angery tone.
Rogue narrowed her eyes at him, her body started to slowly shake, but she managed to shaking aim her laser at him. Zim took a step back, not quite sure what she was going to do, and deep down, Rogue didn't know what she was going to do either.
"Rogue..?" Zim asked slowly, this time speaking in a bit softer tone, as he took a slow step forward.
"Don't move!" Rogue said, her aim becoming more shakey. "I just need to know, okay?" She said through her grit teeth. "I JUST NEED TO KNOW!" Rogue's eyes became sharper as she looked at her "target".
Zim lowered one of his eyebrows and looked at Rogue. "What are you talking about?" He asked shaking his head.
Rogue closed her eyes and slowly brought her arm down, letting it limply fall on the control pannel, pushing a few buttons by accident. Suddenly, the circuits in her arm surged with electricity and soon, the monitor on Zim's computer flashed a picture of the Tallest. Both Zim and Rogue frozed at the sight of the Irkin leaders.
"My Tallest!" Zim addressed them. "What is it?" He said.
Rogue looked closer at the screen. "No, wait a second..." She said looking down at her arm, which was still wired up to the computer's circuits. "I think, I think I hacked into one of there monitors. We can see them, but I don't think they can see us..." Zim glared at her a little. "What were you doing using a hacking program on MY computer?" He asked. "Shhhhh." Rogue said. "Listen."
The two looked on and listened, they could see, even from that point of view, that the leaders weren't happy.
"I still can't believe that Rogue hasn't reported on her progress..." Tallest Red grummbled. Tallest Purple shrugged. "Well, it is possible that she got side tracked. I hear that on planet "earth" that happens alot." Purple said. "But still, Rogue should have finished off Zim by now." Red frowed. "I'm getting really tired of his oh so frequet updates on his meanless victories on that filthy planet."
Zim's eyes perked up.
"But still..." Purple began. "Sending him to that planet was a good way to get rit of him and out of our way for a while..."
"Even if it DID fail." Red pipped in crossing his arms. "Its pretty embaressing that we had to send a class A assassin like Rogue to destroy a soilder who's not even a threat to us."
"Whats the big deal?" Purple said. "She fell for it, right? Just like with those other so called "missions". The Tallest began to laugh. "Like the one in that one gallaxy, boy, that one blew up good." Red said still laughing. Purple, still laughing then said, "We told them we didn't want a peace treaty. And the people on that planet would have made useless slaves anyway." The leaders continued to laugh over the subject like it was a big joke. Red's laugher then slowly slowed down as he took a deep breath. "(Ha Ha) Yeah, it was a great idea to trick Rogue into doing all that, and then some."
Rogue's eyes went really wide.
Red continued. "I mean, she did help us with a FEW of those missions that did count, but then after that, it got so boring around here."
"Yeah, but then all we had to do to get some fun...." Purple said. "...was pick out some worthless planet with some worthless kind of people on it, and tell Rogue that they were some "threat" to us. And then watch it go boom! Man, talk about fireworks!"
"And onces shes done with "Zim"..." Red said. "...we don't ever have to worry about getting bothered by that worthless poor excuse for a Irkin again!"
"And Rogue will think she got rit of yet another "threat" for us!" They started laughing again. And then suddenly, Rogue's hacking device grew weak, and the picture went blank and turned off.
Rogue stood there, completely stoned face, still staring that the now blank screen. Zim too was in complete shock.
Suddenly, there was a loud "BOOM" that came from the kitchen, which didn't seem to affect Zim or Rogue. The elevater came down and Gir walked out, smiling from ear to ear, with some burned cookies in his hands. He took one and ate it. Then he walked over to Rogue and Zim (still in shock), and looked at his Master. The robot took another burned cookie and helt it up to Zim's shocked face. "Want one?" He said with a smile.
The smell of the blacken cookie caused Zim to suddenly snap out of it. He gagged a couple times, then stopped and refected on was he just witnessed.
"....T-This...This can't be!!!" Zim suddenly shouted out, still at a somewhat lose of words of the matter. His voice echoed through out the lab. "This JUST can't be!!! I don't understand, there MUST be some kind of mistake!!" He then suddenly stopped and thought for a moment. He looked at Rogue, who was still staring at the blank computer screen. "Wait a minute..." Zim slowly said, narrowing his eyes on Rogue. "Your REALLY an ASSASSIN?!!" It didn't hit Zim untill just then. "I get it, it all makes perfect sence now! But you know what? I still don't believe want the Tallest said!!! You hacked into MY computer! This must be some kind of TRICK! It's a trick, isn't it?! Who are you REALLY working for??!!! ANSWER ME NOW!!!"
Rogue didn't answer. She had a blank look on her face, and it looked like she didn't hear a thing that Zim said.
Zim stood there, growing more and more impatient. "I SAID ANSWER ME ROGUE!! RIGHT NOW!!!"
Just as Zim said those words, Rogue fell to her knees, and began to tremble for some reason. Zim looked at her with a glare. "No, Rogue, your acting is NOT going to help you this time. You can't trick ME anymore, so don't even try it!" Zim said.
Gir, who was still munching on his burned cookies, bend down and looked at Rogue's face. Her eyes, she did not know it, were "leaking". She then began to mumble something under her breath. "They...they...lied to me. My own Masters lied to me. I....I thought...all those other missions were for the good of our kind, and to protect them. But.......they just used me....for their own amusment?" She then had a sudden thought. "Then......." She began in a shaky voice. ".....then just how many innocent people.....have I killed....just to amuse them?!!"
Then suddenly, Rogue cryed out, in a brust of rage, and with the arm she had wired into the computer, punched the blank srceen with such power, that it instantly shattered.
Zim was stuned by Rogue's sudden action. But he still thought it was all a act. "I'm not falling for it, Rogue!" He shouted at her.
Rogue turned and looked at Zim, Zim eyes widen at the sight of Rogue's "leaking" eyes. Then without saying a word, Rogue ran to the elevater, and went up to the house. Zim stood there, now not quite sure if Rogue was faking or not! Gir walked up to this Master, chopping down on his last burned cookie. "Hey, Master..." The robot said, "...Why was Rogue crying?"
"Crying?" Zim said in a confused tone.
"Yeah, "crying" as in "SAD"" Gir said.
Zim knew what "sad" was. Gir displayed that emotion before to him before. Then it hit Zim, maybe Rogue....WASN'T faking at all! He ran to the elevater and went up the house, where he found Rogue kneeing on the livingroom floor, wiping the tears from her eyes. He noticed her looking at her wiped tears like she never saw something like it before. He then hear her say outloud, "Whats...whats wrong with me? With my eyes?"
Zim stood there of a moment, realizing that Rogue, wasn't really faking it. He knew, because of Gir, that you can't fake THAT kind of emotion. It then hit him that want he saw on the monitor, WAS true! Zim didn't know HOW to react. He just didn't understand why his Tallest would do this! He always thought he was a great invader, sure he messed up a few times in the past, but...the Tallest what him gone?! He felt like he should be breaking into a rage or something, but something was keeping him from doing so. He kept looking Rogue, still on the floor, still "crying" a little bit. He then thought of what was could be going through her head right now. 'She must have been protecting the Tallest by being an assassin all her life.' Zim thought to himself. 'To find out that shes been "used" the whole time by them, must be really hard for her.' Zim has never thought that he would see an strong Irkin fighter like this. He felt.....sorry for her.
He began to walk closer to her. Rogue suddenly looked back to see him, and jumped up and stepped back a bit. She still had some tears in her eyes. "What do you what?" She asked in a almost caution tone. "Now that you know about me, you want to kill me now, is that it?"
"Why would I want to do that?" Zim said.
Rogue looked at him with a surprised look. Her eyes then sharpen at him. "I know you want to do something, so do it! I failed my Masters anyway. If I go back now, they'll kill me."
"What do you mean?" Zim asked in a surpurise tone of voice.
"What I mean is that if I was to fail my Masters in anyway, they'll take my life away." Rogue explained.
"Are you serious?!" Zim said in a shock tone.
"Yes!" Rogue shouted at him. "Ever since my birth, I been trained to be a highly skilled assassin to protect my Masters, the Almighty Tallest. I was even geneticly altered in order to be stronger then any other Irkin!" She looked at her cyborg hands. "As you can see, to heighten my strength, I was made so I would be born with cyborg limbs, but these are basicly my weapon. The rest of me is completely organic. But I'm still very strong and fast."
"And if you fail once, thats it?!" Zim said still can't believing it.
"WHAT DID I JUST TELL YOU, YES!!" Rogue shouted angerly.
Zim cluched his fist and began to tremble. "For the love of Irk, WHY are the Tallest doing this?!" He said griting his teeth. "And all this time, I thought they could do no wrong, but this, this is just....just.......AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" He began to pound his fists on the sofa repeatedly.
Right at that moment, Gir came walking into the room. He saw Zim pounding away on the sofa. "Hey, Master!" The robot shouted. Zim stopped and looked at him. "Why are you mad at the sofa?" Gir asked in a cute voice.
Zim just looked at his robot, and then at Rogue, who was still standing, staring at Zim because of his outburst. Zim fell to the floor and put his face in his hands. It looked like he was about to cry. Gir went up to him and started patting him on the back. "Are you okay, Master?" Gir asked in a sweet tone.
"No, Gir, I'm NOT!" Zim snapped. "Just leave me alone!"
Gir stepped back a bit and whimpered out,"....O-Okay." He then quietly went out of the room, leaving Zim and Rogue alone again.
Rogue watched the way Zim snapped at his SIR. She was thinking of how that SIR might have felt. She sudden felt a sence of pity for the robot.
She looked at Zim. "......You know..."She began. "....I think, your SIR was just trying to help." Zim got up off the floor and turned and looked at Rogue. "I know he was just trying to help." Zim replied.
"Then why did you yell at him?" Rogue asked.
"I...I don't know." Zim said. "I guess for one thing, he wouldn't understand the situation, and second, I wasn't really thinking I guess."
Rogue hung her head and looked at the floor. "Speaking of the situation..." She said. "What I'm I going to do now?"
Zim crossed his arms and thought for a moment. "Well, for one thing, I have no intention to destroy you."
Rogue shot her head up and looked at him in a somewhat shock look. "Why?" She asked. "I lied to you, and tryed to kill you."
"Yes..." Zim said. "But you were fooled. So if you think about it, theres no reason for me to destroy you."
Rogue looked down at the floor again. "And since you didn't do anything wrong, I will not try to kill you again. But, if my Masters get wind of this, they'll track me down for sure! I don't know what to do!"
"Its not fair." Zim said in a low tone of voice. "We are invaders. We are trained to take over and inslave." He looked at Rogue, and thought of what she said earlier, about she was tricked to destroy all those planets, and all those lives. "Not to kill."
"Uh, what did you say?" Rogue asked.
"Nothing." Zim said. He looked at Rogue. "The Tallest betrayed us both."
"Yeah, I sort of figuered that out myself." Rogue said sarcasticlly. "I just wish I could do something about it."
Suddenly, they heard a metal sound coming from the kitchen. They looked to see Gir peeking around the corner. Zim let out a sigh. "It's okay, Gir, you can come in now."
"YAY!" The little robot called out as he skipped into the room. He when up to Zim gave him a cute look. He then looked at Rogue. He skipped over to her and started staring at her. Rogue backed away, but Gir just got closer. Rogue gave him a look.
"What do you what?" She asked.
"You were crying earlier." Gir said. "You okay now?"
"I was, "crying"? That what was wrong with me?" Rogue said.
"Yep, and now your okay!" Gir said all happy like. The robot then gave Rogue a big bear hug, which kind of freaked Rogue out. "HEY! What are doing!? Let go!" She said.
"He's just glad that your okay." Zim said. He then started heading out of the room, towards the lab. Rogue, still struggling to get Gir off her, noticed Zim walking away.
"Hey, where are you going?" She asked him.
Zim stopped and looked at her. "I'm going to the lab. I would like to be alone for a while, to think." He paused for a moment, then finished saying, "What the Tallest are doing, in my mind, goes agains all the Irken laws and powers. I now know they are not the wise and smart leaders I always thought they were. I need to be alone for a while." He headed to the lab.
"Uh, wait a minute." Rogue said. "What about me?"
Zim stopped again. "Rogue, if your wondering if I believe you or not, don't worry about it, because I do believe you. Its kind of hard not to believe you."
Rogue was speechless. Then, out of nowhere, that werid feeling came over her again. Zim went to the lab.
~ Morning came. Gir was asleep on the sofa, and Rogue was sitting next to him. Rogue stayed up all night, doing some thinking herself. As of Gir, He stayed up amost to 2:00AM last night watching late night cartoons. He then dozed off on the sofa next to Rogue.
As the morning sun was beaming through the window, Rogue took a deep breath, and put her head back closed her eyes. She opened one eye, and saw Gir slowing waking up. The little robot let out a big yawn, and gazes up at Rogue.
"GOOOOOOD MOOOORNING!" Gir cood with a big smile on his face.
Rogue stared at him for a moment before saying blankly, "Yeah, morning."
"I go get some breakfast!" Gir said jumping off the sofa and headed to the kitchen, leaving Rogue alone.
Rogue had so many thing on her mind, she didn't know where to start. Her whole world have seemed to come crashing down on her last night. And she thought for sure that Zim was going to "get rid of her", but he didn't, which really bluw her away.
'It happened again.' She thought to herself. 'That feeling. It only comes when 'he' is around. He has something to do with it. But what?'
Suddenly, Rogue heared Gir call out, "GOOOOOD MOOOOORING MASTER!!!"
"Zim is finally out of the lab?" She said to herself. "I wonder want he's been doing."
Zim quietly walked into the livingroom, and looked at Rogue. Rogue looked back at him, and onces again, that feeling came.
"Rogue." Zim said. He had a serious look on his face.
"What?" Rogue said.
"We're not going to be going to the skool today, or for a while for that matter." Zim said.
"Whys that? What were you doing down there anyway?" Rogue asked.
"I've been thinking." Zim answered. "All night, I've been thinking. And I have a plan." After a moment of silence, Zim then said, "We're going to Irk."
"What?!" Rogue said confused and shocked.
TO BE CONTINUED.....................
RogueStar: OH MAN!!!! THAT WAS A LONG ONE, UH!? But what do think? I'm sooooooooo sorry about the long wait, but if it was worth it, please tell me. I alright have a great idea for the next chapter, so don't go away! Please R&R!! Later, till next time!!! ^____^
P.S.: I would like to thank my sister, Aoi Jade, for helping me with this chapter! Aoi Jade, YOU ROCK!!
The Truth......What To Do Now
Zim stepped into the lab, but suddenly stopped at the sight of Rogue still strugging to undo her hacking device. She quickly turned her head and looked Zim. Zim's eyes went wide.
"Rogue! What are you doing?! What is the meaning of this?!" Zim said.
Rogue grit her teeth, and swallowed hard. "I...I can explain!" She said nervously, sreaching for the right words. Zim gave her a look that she had seen before. It was the same look he gave her when she lied to him before.
Zim walked closer to Rogue. Rogue began to grow more and more nervous. "Then "EXPLAIN"." Zim said in a harsh, angery tone.
Rogue narrowed her eyes at him, her body started to slowly shake, but she managed to shaking aim her laser at him. Zim took a step back, not quite sure what she was going to do, and deep down, Rogue didn't know what she was going to do either.
"Rogue..?" Zim asked slowly, this time speaking in a bit softer tone, as he took a slow step forward.
"Don't move!" Rogue said, her aim becoming more shakey. "I just need to know, okay?" She said through her grit teeth. "I JUST NEED TO KNOW!" Rogue's eyes became sharper as she looked at her "target".
Zim lowered one of his eyebrows and looked at Rogue. "What are you talking about?" He asked shaking his head.
Rogue closed her eyes and slowly brought her arm down, letting it limply fall on the control pannel, pushing a few buttons by accident. Suddenly, the circuits in her arm surged with electricity and soon, the monitor on Zim's computer flashed a picture of the Tallest. Both Zim and Rogue frozed at the sight of the Irkin leaders.
"My Tallest!" Zim addressed them. "What is it?" He said.
Rogue looked closer at the screen. "No, wait a second..." She said looking down at her arm, which was still wired up to the computer's circuits. "I think, I think I hacked into one of there monitors. We can see them, but I don't think they can see us..." Zim glared at her a little. "What were you doing using a hacking program on MY computer?" He asked. "Shhhhh." Rogue said. "Listen."
The two looked on and listened, they could see, even from that point of view, that the leaders weren't happy.
"I still can't believe that Rogue hasn't reported on her progress..." Tallest Red grummbled. Tallest Purple shrugged. "Well, it is possible that she got side tracked. I hear that on planet "earth" that happens alot." Purple said. "But still, Rogue should have finished off Zim by now." Red frowed. "I'm getting really tired of his oh so frequet updates on his meanless victories on that filthy planet."
Zim's eyes perked up.
"But still..." Purple began. "Sending him to that planet was a good way to get rit of him and out of our way for a while..."
"Even if it DID fail." Red pipped in crossing his arms. "Its pretty embaressing that we had to send a class A assassin like Rogue to destroy a soilder who's not even a threat to us."
"Whats the big deal?" Purple said. "She fell for it, right? Just like with those other so called "missions". The Tallest began to laugh. "Like the one in that one gallaxy, boy, that one blew up good." Red said still laughing. Purple, still laughing then said, "We told them we didn't want a peace treaty. And the people on that planet would have made useless slaves anyway." The leaders continued to laugh over the subject like it was a big joke. Red's laugher then slowly slowed down as he took a deep breath. "(Ha Ha) Yeah, it was a great idea to trick Rogue into doing all that, and then some."
Rogue's eyes went really wide.
Red continued. "I mean, she did help us with a FEW of those missions that did count, but then after that, it got so boring around here."
"Yeah, but then all we had to do to get some fun...." Purple said. "...was pick out some worthless planet with some worthless kind of people on it, and tell Rogue that they were some "threat" to us. And then watch it go boom! Man, talk about fireworks!"
"And onces shes done with "Zim"..." Red said. "...we don't ever have to worry about getting bothered by that worthless poor excuse for a Irkin again!"
"And Rogue will think she got rit of yet another "threat" for us!" They started laughing again. And then suddenly, Rogue's hacking device grew weak, and the picture went blank and turned off.
Rogue stood there, completely stoned face, still staring that the now blank screen. Zim too was in complete shock.
Suddenly, there was a loud "BOOM" that came from the kitchen, which didn't seem to affect Zim or Rogue. The elevater came down and Gir walked out, smiling from ear to ear, with some burned cookies in his hands. He took one and ate it. Then he walked over to Rogue and Zim (still in shock), and looked at his Master. The robot took another burned cookie and helt it up to Zim's shocked face. "Want one?" He said with a smile.
The smell of the blacken cookie caused Zim to suddenly snap out of it. He gagged a couple times, then stopped and refected on was he just witnessed.
"....T-This...This can't be!!!" Zim suddenly shouted out, still at a somewhat lose of words of the matter. His voice echoed through out the lab. "This JUST can't be!!! I don't understand, there MUST be some kind of mistake!!" He then suddenly stopped and thought for a moment. He looked at Rogue, who was still staring at the blank computer screen. "Wait a minute..." Zim slowly said, narrowing his eyes on Rogue. "Your REALLY an ASSASSIN?!!" It didn't hit Zim untill just then. "I get it, it all makes perfect sence now! But you know what? I still don't believe want the Tallest said!!! You hacked into MY computer! This must be some kind of TRICK! It's a trick, isn't it?! Who are you REALLY working for??!!! ANSWER ME NOW!!!"
Rogue didn't answer. She had a blank look on her face, and it looked like she didn't hear a thing that Zim said.
Zim stood there, growing more and more impatient. "I SAID ANSWER ME ROGUE!! RIGHT NOW!!!"
Just as Zim said those words, Rogue fell to her knees, and began to tremble for some reason. Zim looked at her with a glare. "No, Rogue, your acting is NOT going to help you this time. You can't trick ME anymore, so don't even try it!" Zim said.
Gir, who was still munching on his burned cookies, bend down and looked at Rogue's face. Her eyes, she did not know it, were "leaking". She then began to mumble something under her breath. "They...they...lied to me. My own Masters lied to me. I....I thought...all those other missions were for the good of our kind, and to protect them. But.......they just used me....for their own amusment?" She then had a sudden thought. "Then......." She began in a shaky voice. ".....then just how many innocent people.....have I killed....just to amuse them?!!"
Then suddenly, Rogue cryed out, in a brust of rage, and with the arm she had wired into the computer, punched the blank srceen with such power, that it instantly shattered.
Zim was stuned by Rogue's sudden action. But he still thought it was all a act. "I'm not falling for it, Rogue!" He shouted at her.
Rogue turned and looked at Zim, Zim eyes widen at the sight of Rogue's "leaking" eyes. Then without saying a word, Rogue ran to the elevater, and went up to the house. Zim stood there, now not quite sure if Rogue was faking or not! Gir walked up to this Master, chopping down on his last burned cookie. "Hey, Master..." The robot said, "...Why was Rogue crying?"
"Crying?" Zim said in a confused tone.
"Yeah, "crying" as in "SAD"" Gir said.
Zim knew what "sad" was. Gir displayed that emotion before to him before. Then it hit Zim, maybe Rogue....WASN'T faking at all! He ran to the elevater and went up the house, where he found Rogue kneeing on the livingroom floor, wiping the tears from her eyes. He noticed her looking at her wiped tears like she never saw something like it before. He then hear her say outloud, "Whats...whats wrong with me? With my eyes?"
Zim stood there of a moment, realizing that Rogue, wasn't really faking it. He knew, because of Gir, that you can't fake THAT kind of emotion. It then hit him that want he saw on the monitor, WAS true! Zim didn't know HOW to react. He just didn't understand why his Tallest would do this! He always thought he was a great invader, sure he messed up a few times in the past, but...the Tallest what him gone?! He felt like he should be breaking into a rage or something, but something was keeping him from doing so. He kept looking Rogue, still on the floor, still "crying" a little bit. He then thought of what was could be going through her head right now. 'She must have been protecting the Tallest by being an assassin all her life.' Zim thought to himself. 'To find out that shes been "used" the whole time by them, must be really hard for her.' Zim has never thought that he would see an strong Irkin fighter like this. He felt.....sorry for her.
He began to walk closer to her. Rogue suddenly looked back to see him, and jumped up and stepped back a bit. She still had some tears in her eyes. "What do you what?" She asked in a almost caution tone. "Now that you know about me, you want to kill me now, is that it?"
"Why would I want to do that?" Zim said.
Rogue looked at him with a surprised look. Her eyes then sharpen at him. "I know you want to do something, so do it! I failed my Masters anyway. If I go back now, they'll kill me."
"What do you mean?" Zim asked in a surpurise tone of voice.
"What I mean is that if I was to fail my Masters in anyway, they'll take my life away." Rogue explained.
"Are you serious?!" Zim said in a shock tone.
"Yes!" Rogue shouted at him. "Ever since my birth, I been trained to be a highly skilled assassin to protect my Masters, the Almighty Tallest. I was even geneticly altered in order to be stronger then any other Irkin!" She looked at her cyborg hands. "As you can see, to heighten my strength, I was made so I would be born with cyborg limbs, but these are basicly my weapon. The rest of me is completely organic. But I'm still very strong and fast."
"And if you fail once, thats it?!" Zim said still can't believing it.
"WHAT DID I JUST TELL YOU, YES!!" Rogue shouted angerly.
Zim cluched his fist and began to tremble. "For the love of Irk, WHY are the Tallest doing this?!" He said griting his teeth. "And all this time, I thought they could do no wrong, but this, this is just....just.......AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" He began to pound his fists on the sofa repeatedly.
Right at that moment, Gir came walking into the room. He saw Zim pounding away on the sofa. "Hey, Master!" The robot shouted. Zim stopped and looked at him. "Why are you mad at the sofa?" Gir asked in a cute voice.
Zim just looked at his robot, and then at Rogue, who was still standing, staring at Zim because of his outburst. Zim fell to the floor and put his face in his hands. It looked like he was about to cry. Gir went up to him and started patting him on the back. "Are you okay, Master?" Gir asked in a sweet tone.
"No, Gir, I'm NOT!" Zim snapped. "Just leave me alone!"
Gir stepped back a bit and whimpered out,"....O-Okay." He then quietly went out of the room, leaving Zim and Rogue alone again.
Rogue watched the way Zim snapped at his SIR. She was thinking of how that SIR might have felt. She sudden felt a sence of pity for the robot.
She looked at Zim. "......You know..."She began. "....I think, your SIR was just trying to help." Zim got up off the floor and turned and looked at Rogue. "I know he was just trying to help." Zim replied.
"Then why did you yell at him?" Rogue asked.
"I...I don't know." Zim said. "I guess for one thing, he wouldn't understand the situation, and second, I wasn't really thinking I guess."
Rogue hung her head and looked at the floor. "Speaking of the situation..." She said. "What I'm I going to do now?"
Zim crossed his arms and thought for a moment. "Well, for one thing, I have no intention to destroy you."
Rogue shot her head up and looked at him in a somewhat shock look. "Why?" She asked. "I lied to you, and tryed to kill you."
"Yes..." Zim said. "But you were fooled. So if you think about it, theres no reason for me to destroy you."
Rogue looked down at the floor again. "And since you didn't do anything wrong, I will not try to kill you again. But, if my Masters get wind of this, they'll track me down for sure! I don't know what to do!"
"Its not fair." Zim said in a low tone of voice. "We are invaders. We are trained to take over and inslave." He looked at Rogue, and thought of what she said earlier, about she was tricked to destroy all those planets, and all those lives. "Not to kill."
"Uh, what did you say?" Rogue asked.
"Nothing." Zim said. He looked at Rogue. "The Tallest betrayed us both."
"Yeah, I sort of figuered that out myself." Rogue said sarcasticlly. "I just wish I could do something about it."
Suddenly, they heard a metal sound coming from the kitchen. They looked to see Gir peeking around the corner. Zim let out a sigh. "It's okay, Gir, you can come in now."
"YAY!" The little robot called out as he skipped into the room. He when up to Zim gave him a cute look. He then looked at Rogue. He skipped over to her and started staring at her. Rogue backed away, but Gir just got closer. Rogue gave him a look.
"What do you what?" She asked.
"You were crying earlier." Gir said. "You okay now?"
"I was, "crying"? That what was wrong with me?" Rogue said.
"Yep, and now your okay!" Gir said all happy like. The robot then gave Rogue a big bear hug, which kind of freaked Rogue out. "HEY! What are doing!? Let go!" She said.
"He's just glad that your okay." Zim said. He then started heading out of the room, towards the lab. Rogue, still struggling to get Gir off her, noticed Zim walking away.
"Hey, where are you going?" She asked him.
Zim stopped and looked at her. "I'm going to the lab. I would like to be alone for a while, to think." He paused for a moment, then finished saying, "What the Tallest are doing, in my mind, goes agains all the Irken laws and powers. I now know they are not the wise and smart leaders I always thought they were. I need to be alone for a while." He headed to the lab.
"Uh, wait a minute." Rogue said. "What about me?"
Zim stopped again. "Rogue, if your wondering if I believe you or not, don't worry about it, because I do believe you. Its kind of hard not to believe you."
Rogue was speechless. Then, out of nowhere, that werid feeling came over her again. Zim went to the lab.
~ Morning came. Gir was asleep on the sofa, and Rogue was sitting next to him. Rogue stayed up all night, doing some thinking herself. As of Gir, He stayed up amost to 2:00AM last night watching late night cartoons. He then dozed off on the sofa next to Rogue.
As the morning sun was beaming through the window, Rogue took a deep breath, and put her head back closed her eyes. She opened one eye, and saw Gir slowing waking up. The little robot let out a big yawn, and gazes up at Rogue.
"GOOOOOOD MOOOORNING!" Gir cood with a big smile on his face.
Rogue stared at him for a moment before saying blankly, "Yeah, morning."
"I go get some breakfast!" Gir said jumping off the sofa and headed to the kitchen, leaving Rogue alone.
Rogue had so many thing on her mind, she didn't know where to start. Her whole world have seemed to come crashing down on her last night. And she thought for sure that Zim was going to "get rid of her", but he didn't, which really bluw her away.
'It happened again.' She thought to herself. 'That feeling. It only comes when 'he' is around. He has something to do with it. But what?'
Suddenly, Rogue heared Gir call out, "GOOOOOD MOOOOORING MASTER!!!"
"Zim is finally out of the lab?" She said to herself. "I wonder want he's been doing."
Zim quietly walked into the livingroom, and looked at Rogue. Rogue looked back at him, and onces again, that feeling came.
"Rogue." Zim said. He had a serious look on his face.
"What?" Rogue said.
"We're not going to be going to the skool today, or for a while for that matter." Zim said.
"Whys that? What were you doing down there anyway?" Rogue asked.
"I've been thinking." Zim answered. "All night, I've been thinking. And I have a plan." After a moment of silence, Zim then said, "We're going to Irk."
"What?!" Rogue said confused and shocked.
TO BE CONTINUED.....................
RogueStar: OH MAN!!!! THAT WAS A LONG ONE, UH!? But what do think? I'm sooooooooo sorry about the long wait, but if it was worth it, please tell me. I alright have a great idea for the next chapter, so don't go away! Please R&R!! Later, till next time!!! ^____^
P.S.: I would like to thank my sister, Aoi Jade, for helping me with this chapter! Aoi Jade, YOU ROCK!!