Chapter 11
Preparation
"Go back to Irk?!" Rogue said confused. "Why on Irk would you want to go back to Irk?"
Zim stood his ground, with a focus look on his face, as he knew what he was talking about. He quietly folded his arms and explained.
"To put it simply," He began. "I've been thinking on the situation, and I have come to one, and only one conclusion. We're going to fly back to Irk, and confront the Tallest on this, and if we're lucky, expose them for what they have done!"
Rogue first looked at Zim with a bit of a surprise look, but then it changed to a "you gotta be kidding!" look.
"Are you out of your mind!?" She suddenly shouted out. "That HAS to be the STUPIDEST idea I have EVER heard!"
"Hey! And just what do you mean by that!?" Zim asked, suddenly losing his cool.
"What I MEAN is..." Rogue began. "...your little plan is a suicide mission! First off, think about just WHO your talking about! The Tallest themself! Sure, we now know their back stabing slime, but do you realize what they can do to use if we got caught?! I'll tell you, they could KILL us right on the spot!They have the power to do that you know. They what you dead anyway, and if they find out that I now know wants going on, they'll want me gone too!"
"Yeah, but you have forgoten one thing." Zim said.
"And whats THAT?" Rogue asked sarcastisly.
"Since they still don't know that you know,..." Zim said. "...YOU can get close enough to the Tallest without any trouble at all."
"And just HOW is that going to expose them, if you don't mind me asking?" Rogue asked.
Zim just stood there and thought for a few moments. Rogue looked at him, crossed her arms and started tapping her foot, waiting for a response.
"Well...?" She said.
"That part of the plan is still....not planned." Zim finally answered.
Rogue looked at him with a disbelief look. "What are you? HUMAN?!" She said. "Like I said, thats the stupidest idea I have ever heard.
Zim's left eye started to twich with irratantion. "IT'S A GOOD PLAN, AND WE'RE GOING TO DO IT!!!" Zim shouted out.
Rogue grit her teeth. "YOU ARE SO......(What do they call it?)......PIGHEADED!" Rogue shouted back.
The two Irkins continued to scream at each other. The argument was so loud that it caught the attention of the little robot in the kitchen. Gir peeked around the corner with a big bowl of waffle batter, and some of it was all over his little face. He cocked his head to the side as he watched to two fight.
"HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A FILTHY HUMAN EARTH PIGHEAD!!" Zim shouted at Rogue.
"IT'S WAS "PIGHEADED", AND THAT JUST WHAT YOU ARE!!!" Rogue shouted back.
"WE'RE GOING TO DO MY PLAN, BECAUSE MY PLAN IS GENUS!!!" Zim shouted.
"It's not genus, IT'S SUICIDE!!!" Rogue shouted.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!"
Rogue and Zim immediately stopped shouting at one another a turned their a attention to the SIR.
"Why you shouting ? The waffles don't like that." Gir said in a sweet tone. Then Gir just stared off into space before screaming out, "MY WAFFLES!" and ran back into the kitchen.
The two aliens looked at each other alittle confused by Gir's actions. Rogue opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came out.
"What were we arguing about?" She suddenly asked. Gir's butting in suddenly made her forget!
"Something about you saying my genus plan was stupid." Zim flatly answered.
"Oh, right, now where was I?" Rogue said.
"Just forget it!" Zim said. "This argument is pointless!"
"Look! Want I'm just trying to say is that going up againest the Tallest themself might, just MIGHT take a little more planning." Rogue said. "You don't even have the whole plan figured out!"
"The reason I DON"T have it ALL figured out..." Zim said, "...is because I well need YOUR help for that part of the plan."
"My...help?" Rogue said meekly.
"You know alot about the Tallest , don't you?" Zim asked.
"Duh! I'm their most right hand soldier. I know the WHOLE inside of their main HQ, and master ship, I have access to certain points and computer programs of both places, and.........." Rogue suddenly stopped in the middle of her sentence as it all hit her like a ton of bricks.
"With your skills and what you know about them..." Zim said, "...we could both figure out a way to get our revenge!"
Rogue looked down at the floor with a blank look. Zim's crazy plan suddenly all made sence to her. She always thought the Tallest could do no wrong, and that she could trust them. It was an Irkin's nature to feel a sence of revenge if there was a need for it. But, to take revenge on the Irkin leaders themselfs? Is that even possable? Was she agreeing with Zim's plan? Did she really want to go with it?
"I need a answer Rogue." Zim said.
Rogue lefted her head and looked at the Irkin soilder. She breathed in deep, and let out a big sigh. "Alright, I'll do it."
"Great!" Zim said. "Now, the first thing we have to do is......."
"THE WAFFLES ARE REEEEEAAAADDDDYYYYY!!!!!" Gir screamed. The little robot came skipping out of the kitchen with a HUGE plate of mishappen waffles with WAY to much maple sryup.
"Anybody want a waffle?" Gir asked all sweet like.
"We have no time for "waffles", Gir." Zim said. "We much prepared for a very importent trip. We're going back to planet Irk."
"YEEEEEEAAAAAH!................whats that?" The little robot asked, licking the sryup drippings off the waffles.
"Our HOME planet, GIR!" Zim said loudly.
Gir stared at his Master for a moment, nipping on a waffle. "..........OHHHHHHHHH, HOME PLANET! Can I bring my piggys?"
Zim slapped his forehead. He slowly lowered his hand and sighed. "Yes, Gir. You can, but don't let your TOYS get in the way of this, alright?"
"YEAH!" Gir jetted off to the lab, where he kept all his rubber toys, dropping some of the sryup soaked waffles along the way.
Zim turned to Rogue. "As I was saying..." Zim said, "...the first thing we have to do is prepare my voot cruiser for this mission. Let's see, we'll need extra fuel, and I need to tune those hyper space boosters, and...hey, that reminds me. How did you get earth in the first place?"
Rogue eyes perked up. "How I got here? Uh, well I came by ship of course."
"Then were is it? You could use your ship, and I could use mine." Zim said.
"Why can't we both ride in yours." Rogue asked.
"Mine can only hold me and Gir, why?" Zim said.
"Well, I could, but, uh, I kind of had a problem when I was coming down to Earth. Uh, it's kind of...broken." Rogue said in a bit of a embarssed tone.
"You mean you crashed!?" Zim said surprised. "Hey, wait one second, was it in brond daylight?'
"You saw my ship coming down?" Rogue asked.
"The day we first incountered each other, I saw what looked like a star falling out of the sky, when I was on my way to the skool." Zim said. "So that was you. Then, want happened to your ship?"
"It's tolaled." Rogue said flatly. "Only a couple parts are still workable."
"You mean to tell me that if you have done your job anyway, you can get off is planet in the first place?" Zim asked.
Rogue hung her head in shame. "I was going to contact the Tallest to help me get home."
Zim crossed his arms. "Well, this changes somethings."
The two both sood there, both thinking on the situation.
"We'll come up with something, but right now, lets go down to the the voot cruiser bay and get my ship ready at lest." Zim said. He then started headed towards the kitchen. Rogue looked at him from behind and suddenly felt surpurise at how Zim was really going to go with this, this crazy plan of his. And even more crazy, she was coming along. She followed him to the hidden elevater in the kitchen. On the way down to the place Zim was talking about, Rogue's mind began to race again. She couldn't stop thinking at she was going though with this, and that in one day, her whole world was turned upside down. She glaced at Zim, who had his hands on his hips as he was waiting of the elevater doors to open. Now that she thought about it, she never had a partner before, not even a SIR. She wondered if she was going to get used to it or not. She was always alone on all of her missions in the past. She was always told that that was that best way to do them.
The elevater then stopped and the doors slid open. The room was a HUGE area where Zim fixed and\or upgraded his voot cruiser. The ship was in the middle of the room on a big platform.
"Computer!" Zim called out. "Run a full scan on the voot cruiser and see what needs a tune up and see if it needs extra fuel."
The computer responed by senting out about five hovering scaning probs to check the ship.
Rogue looked around at the hugeness of the place. Wires were hanging all over the place, conneted to bigger devices. All just for the voot cruiser alone.
Suddenly, the elevater doors opened up, and Gir came skipping out with a big handful of his rubber toys. "I'm ready!" The robot called out. Zim turned to his SIR. "No Gir, we're not ready yet." He looked at all the of toys Gir had. "You don't need ALL of those, do you?" Zim asked. Gir give his Master that LOOK he gets with he's sad. Zim quickly looked away, but he then gave in. "Alright Gir, you can bring all of them." He said with a sigh.
"YEEEEAAAAH! THANKY YOU!" Gir said.
The computer then made a "beep" noise, meaning the scan on the voot cruiser was done. "SCAN COMPETED. JET ENGINES AND CONTROLS FULLY OPERATIONAL. FUEL AT MAXIMUM. CRUISER'S HYPER SPACE BOOSTER ONLY AT 48% OUTPUT. NEED
REPAIR."
"Computer, do the repairs on the boosters immediately." Zim commaned. The computer obeyed with a "blep" sound.
Meanwhile, Rogue was staring at Gir, who was playing with his rubber toys on the floor. She still didn't understand why he fooled around with those "rubber" things.
The robot looked up at Rogue with a smile and said, "You wannta play?" He then handed her a rubber piggy. Rogue looked at it, and then at Gir. Just for the heck of it, her took the toy out of the robots hand. She lighty sqeezed it, and it made a low squeak noise. She raised an unseeable eyebrow. 'What does he see in this THING?' she thought to herself. She looked down at Gir and thought about want he said the other day, about those two somewhat new emotions to her, sadness and happiness. 'Could this strange thing that he fittles with..." She thought herself, "...make him feel...HAPPY?' Rogue still didn't get it. She dropped the rubber piggy on the ground next to Gir, who was playing with a rubber moose. The rubber toy squeaked as it hit th floor, grabbing Gir's attention. He meekly pick it up, and looked at Rogue. She looked back at the robot. "What? Did I do something wrong?" She asked, wondering why he was staring at her.
"Don't you want the piggy?" Gir asked all sweetly.
Rogue looked at him kind of funny. "I don't know, do I?"
Gir sqeezed the rubber piggy as hard as he could and smiled. "Rubber piggys make you feel all good!" He explained. He then again handed the toy to Rogue. "Please take it. I have alot more of them, so you came have this one."
Rogue looked at Gir strangely. She didn't understand the meaning of giving, as that what Gir was doing. Never the less, she took the rubber toy from the robot, and after looking at it for a moment, shrugged, and opened her pack and put it in there.
"Gir!" Zim shouted out from the voot cruiser platform. The little robot stood up and saluted to his Master. "Quit fooling around, and come up here." Gir walked up to the platform and hopped up on to it.
"Gir, moniter the repairing." Zim said.
"Yes sir!" Gir said with red eyes.
"Oh, and Gir, don't try to "help" with the repairs." Zim said.
Zim then jumped down off the platform and walked over to Rogue.
"So, have you thought have anything?" Zim asked.
"What do you mean?" Rogue asked back.
"I mean your ship." Zim said. "Is it beyond fixing?"
"I'm afraid it is." She answered. "This planets gravity was a bit heaver them I thought when I was coming in, and that's how I crashed."
Zim's eyes slanted as he tried onces again to think of a way to fix the problem. Rogue just put her hands behind her head and let out a long sigh. The sounds of beeps and clicks were the only things that could be heard as the two just stood there for a minute or two, not saying anything. Gir still stood next to the voot cruiser, monitering it. Rogue looked over at the robot.
"Can I asked you something?" She said to Zim.
"What?" Zim said, still thinking.
"About your SIR. The way he acts. I mean, doesn't he, drive you crazy?" She asked.
"Yes." Zim said sharply. "Sometimes he does what I say, like right now. I've been thinking about...an upgrade or something, but his circuits is somewhat...odd, and....." Zim when on and on. Rogue just let out a another big sigh. But then, something hit her.
"Upgrade....." She looked at Zim's cruser and them thought of those still workable parts of her crashed spaceship. Her eyes widen and a small smrik came cross her face. Zim was still rammbing on about Gir's circuits.
"Zim!" She said. Zim wasn't listening.
"Hey!" She slapped him on the shoulder and he snapped out of it.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?" Zim shouted out.
"I just got an great idea." Rogue said. "What if we UPGRADED the whole voot cruiser itself, and make it bigger with the leftover parts of my ship!"
Zim looked at her with some surprise. Why didn't he think of that?!
"Thats not a bad idea at all!" He said. "Gir!"
The robot turned around and said slowly, "YEEEESS?"
"Are the repairs done?" He asked.
"Ahhhmmmm........" Gir looked back at the cruser. "YEP!"
"I want you to watch the base. Rogue and I are going to pick up a few things." Zim said.
"OOOOKAY!" Gir said. He jumped off the platform and ran towards the elevater and went up to the house. (I wonder if he's REALLY going to watch the base! ^-^)
Zim walked towards the voot cruiser. "We'll take my ship to get to.....hey, where do your ship crash anyway?"
"About a mile outside this human city, in a place full of tall green earth plants." Rogue said.
"Humans called those plants "trees"." Zim said. "Come on."
"We're going to go right now?" Rogue asked.
"Yes. I want to get all the preparations done and head to Irk ASAP." He then reached into his pack and took out his black wig and fake human eyes and put them out. "You better put your human disguise on, just incase."
Rogue pushed a button on her cybrog arm, and in a flash, she was in her disguise.
"Come on, lets go." Zim said.
"Don't push it." Rogue said under her breath. The two Irkins jumped into the voot cruiser.
"There's not alot of room in here." Rogue said wiggying around.
"I told you, there's only enough room in here for me and Gir, so try to sit still." Zim said. He pushed a button on the control panal, and the cruiser began to hover upward towards the top of the room, where a large tube was in the middle of the ceiling. The voot cruiser went all the way up the tube, and at the very top, Zim pushed another button, and the roof of his house\base opened right up. Outside, it was still daylight, so Zim turned on the silenters on his engines to avoid any attention. He let the cruiser go up as high as it could, and jetted off towards an area that Rogue pointed to inside the cruiser.
Luckly for Zim and Rogue, no one was outside when they took off. Well, no one that Zim didn't know.
Dib saw the whole thing on the other side of the block. He was heading towards Zim's house because he and Rogue didn't show up for skool. And like the paranormal expret he is, he senced that something was up.
"I KNEW it! He's up to something! Him and "Rogue"." Dib said to himself. He then got a bad feeling. "What if their getting ready to start the invasion?! I GOT to follow them!"
~ Zim and Rogue flew over the whole city and then reached the city's limits. Just outside the city, there was a desert like landscap, but just about a mile further, there was a small forest.
"There!" Rogue said pointing out. "There's where I crash." Zim piloted the voot cruiser towards the herd of trees. He then saw a small clearing right on top of the trees. Some of the tops of the tree were burned. He carefully lowered the cruser down and though the clearing, and landed in the middle of the forest, were right at the foot of where they landed, there was a reck. What looked like an Irkin ship was in pieces all over the place. Most of the parts were all burned to a crips, and the base of it was completely tolaled. Like Rogue said, it looked like only some of it survied.
Zim was taken back by the seriousness of the reck. "How in the name of Irk did you survied this?!" He asked Rogue.
Rogue looked at him with little smirk. "My Irkin body was disigned for taking this kind of punisment. I only walked away with a couple bruises from this.
"I'm impressed." Zim said.
They both exited the cruiser and looked around for any parts that were still useable. It was definitely a mess. Even the ground was burned to pich black. It made Zim think on now amazing Rogue really was. A crash like this would have killed any other Irkin in a instant.
"I found some over here!" Rogue called out. She picked up an small device with an Irkin symbol on it. "I'm glad this survied." She said.
"Hey! There's a bunch of boxes over here!" Zim called out from the other side of the crash site. Rogue came running up. There was about three or four steel boxes, some had small burn holes in them, but they seemed find.
"Oh, those were for any extra equipment, but there was nothing in them in the first place." Rogue explained.
"Why don't we just bring them back anyway. We could use them." Zim said.
"All right." Rogue said.
The two both carried all the steel boxes to the voot cruiser's carriering case in the back. For the next couple hours, Zim and Rogue sreached the area for any more parts and scraps of metal that could be used to upgrade the cruiser.
Around sundown, they found all the still workable parts and took off towards home base.
~ Back at the base, the work into the voot cruiser began. Zim planed out what the cruiser will look like after the upgrading. Rogue helped by explaining want some of the parts did, because some of the devices Zim haven't even seen before! Zim then feed the computer the info on the new plans, and computer did the rest.
As the computer was working on the cruiser, Zim stayed in the repair bay, but Rogue was in the livingroom, looking out the window at the stars. She was thinking about how this trip was going to go.
"This could possibly be my most dangerous mission of all." She said out loud to herself. "I no longer feel proud of calling those filthy Tallest my Masters." She then started thinking about Zim. She thought it was kind of odd that how him and her were getting along all of the sudden, even after that small blow up earlier. Just a couple days ago, all she thought was carriering out the job, to destroy him. But now, it felt so useless to do that. She then sudden felt angry that the Tallest almost had her kill him.
"Why am I thinking about this?" She said to herself. "I don't know why, but, it's almost like, I WANT to think about Zim. This is so strange." She glared up at the stars onces more. "I....I kind of...like thinking about him."
TO BE CONTINUED............................
RogueStar: BOOM! THERE IT IS! THE 11TH CHAPTER! Sorry for the wait, but my computer was being a tolal jerk for a good while. I really hope you all like how this is going, because chapter 12 is going to be a wropper! Stay tune for chapter 12, which is called: The Trip Begins! An Unknown Stoaway. Later! ^.~
Preparation
"Go back to Irk?!" Rogue said confused. "Why on Irk would you want to go back to Irk?"
Zim stood his ground, with a focus look on his face, as he knew what he was talking about. He quietly folded his arms and explained.
"To put it simply," He began. "I've been thinking on the situation, and I have come to one, and only one conclusion. We're going to fly back to Irk, and confront the Tallest on this, and if we're lucky, expose them for what they have done!"
Rogue first looked at Zim with a bit of a surprise look, but then it changed to a "you gotta be kidding!" look.
"Are you out of your mind!?" She suddenly shouted out. "That HAS to be the STUPIDEST idea I have EVER heard!"
"Hey! And just what do you mean by that!?" Zim asked, suddenly losing his cool.
"What I MEAN is..." Rogue began. "...your little plan is a suicide mission! First off, think about just WHO your talking about! The Tallest themself! Sure, we now know their back stabing slime, but do you realize what they can do to use if we got caught?! I'll tell you, they could KILL us right on the spot!They have the power to do that you know. They what you dead anyway, and if they find out that I now know wants going on, they'll want me gone too!"
"Yeah, but you have forgoten one thing." Zim said.
"And whats THAT?" Rogue asked sarcastisly.
"Since they still don't know that you know,..." Zim said. "...YOU can get close enough to the Tallest without any trouble at all."
"And just HOW is that going to expose them, if you don't mind me asking?" Rogue asked.
Zim just stood there and thought for a few moments. Rogue looked at him, crossed her arms and started tapping her foot, waiting for a response.
"Well...?" She said.
"That part of the plan is still....not planned." Zim finally answered.
Rogue looked at him with a disbelief look. "What are you? HUMAN?!" She said. "Like I said, thats the stupidest idea I have ever heard.
Zim's left eye started to twich with irratantion. "IT'S A GOOD PLAN, AND WE'RE GOING TO DO IT!!!" Zim shouted out.
Rogue grit her teeth. "YOU ARE SO......(What do they call it?)......PIGHEADED!" Rogue shouted back.
The two Irkins continued to scream at each other. The argument was so loud that it caught the attention of the little robot in the kitchen. Gir peeked around the corner with a big bowl of waffle batter, and some of it was all over his little face. He cocked his head to the side as he watched to two fight.
"HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A FILTHY HUMAN EARTH PIGHEAD!!" Zim shouted at Rogue.
"IT'S WAS "PIGHEADED", AND THAT JUST WHAT YOU ARE!!!" Rogue shouted back.
"WE'RE GOING TO DO MY PLAN, BECAUSE MY PLAN IS GENUS!!!" Zim shouted.
"It's not genus, IT'S SUICIDE!!!" Rogue shouted.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!"
Rogue and Zim immediately stopped shouting at one another a turned their a attention to the SIR.
"Why you shouting ? The waffles don't like that." Gir said in a sweet tone. Then Gir just stared off into space before screaming out, "MY WAFFLES!" and ran back into the kitchen.
The two aliens looked at each other alittle confused by Gir's actions. Rogue opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came out.
"What were we arguing about?" She suddenly asked. Gir's butting in suddenly made her forget!
"Something about you saying my genus plan was stupid." Zim flatly answered.
"Oh, right, now where was I?" Rogue said.
"Just forget it!" Zim said. "This argument is pointless!"
"Look! Want I'm just trying to say is that going up againest the Tallest themself might, just MIGHT take a little more planning." Rogue said. "You don't even have the whole plan figured out!"
"The reason I DON"T have it ALL figured out..." Zim said, "...is because I well need YOUR help for that part of the plan."
"My...help?" Rogue said meekly.
"You know alot about the Tallest , don't you?" Zim asked.
"Duh! I'm their most right hand soldier. I know the WHOLE inside of their main HQ, and master ship, I have access to certain points and computer programs of both places, and.........." Rogue suddenly stopped in the middle of her sentence as it all hit her like a ton of bricks.
"With your skills and what you know about them..." Zim said, "...we could both figure out a way to get our revenge!"
Rogue looked down at the floor with a blank look. Zim's crazy plan suddenly all made sence to her. She always thought the Tallest could do no wrong, and that she could trust them. It was an Irkin's nature to feel a sence of revenge if there was a need for it. But, to take revenge on the Irkin leaders themselfs? Is that even possable? Was she agreeing with Zim's plan? Did she really want to go with it?
"I need a answer Rogue." Zim said.
Rogue lefted her head and looked at the Irkin soilder. She breathed in deep, and let out a big sigh. "Alright, I'll do it."
"Great!" Zim said. "Now, the first thing we have to do is......."
"THE WAFFLES ARE REEEEEAAAADDDDYYYYY!!!!!" Gir screamed. The little robot came skipping out of the kitchen with a HUGE plate of mishappen waffles with WAY to much maple sryup.
"Anybody want a waffle?" Gir asked all sweet like.
"We have no time for "waffles", Gir." Zim said. "We much prepared for a very importent trip. We're going back to planet Irk."
"YEEEEEEAAAAAH!................whats that?" The little robot asked, licking the sryup drippings off the waffles.
"Our HOME planet, GIR!" Zim said loudly.
Gir stared at his Master for a moment, nipping on a waffle. "..........OHHHHHHHHH, HOME PLANET! Can I bring my piggys?"
Zim slapped his forehead. He slowly lowered his hand and sighed. "Yes, Gir. You can, but don't let your TOYS get in the way of this, alright?"
"YEAH!" Gir jetted off to the lab, where he kept all his rubber toys, dropping some of the sryup soaked waffles along the way.
Zim turned to Rogue. "As I was saying..." Zim said, "...the first thing we have to do is prepare my voot cruiser for this mission. Let's see, we'll need extra fuel, and I need to tune those hyper space boosters, and...hey, that reminds me. How did you get earth in the first place?"
Rogue eyes perked up. "How I got here? Uh, well I came by ship of course."
"Then were is it? You could use your ship, and I could use mine." Zim said.
"Why can't we both ride in yours." Rogue asked.
"Mine can only hold me and Gir, why?" Zim said.
"Well, I could, but, uh, I kind of had a problem when I was coming down to Earth. Uh, it's kind of...broken." Rogue said in a bit of a embarssed tone.
"You mean you crashed!?" Zim said surprised. "Hey, wait one second, was it in brond daylight?'
"You saw my ship coming down?" Rogue asked.
"The day we first incountered each other, I saw what looked like a star falling out of the sky, when I was on my way to the skool." Zim said. "So that was you. Then, want happened to your ship?"
"It's tolaled." Rogue said flatly. "Only a couple parts are still workable."
"You mean to tell me that if you have done your job anyway, you can get off is planet in the first place?" Zim asked.
Rogue hung her head in shame. "I was going to contact the Tallest to help me get home."
Zim crossed his arms. "Well, this changes somethings."
The two both sood there, both thinking on the situation.
"We'll come up with something, but right now, lets go down to the the voot cruiser bay and get my ship ready at lest." Zim said. He then started headed towards the kitchen. Rogue looked at him from behind and suddenly felt surpurise at how Zim was really going to go with this, this crazy plan of his. And even more crazy, she was coming along. She followed him to the hidden elevater in the kitchen. On the way down to the place Zim was talking about, Rogue's mind began to race again. She couldn't stop thinking at she was going though with this, and that in one day, her whole world was turned upside down. She glaced at Zim, who had his hands on his hips as he was waiting of the elevater doors to open. Now that she thought about it, she never had a partner before, not even a SIR. She wondered if she was going to get used to it or not. She was always alone on all of her missions in the past. She was always told that that was that best way to do them.
The elevater then stopped and the doors slid open. The room was a HUGE area where Zim fixed and\or upgraded his voot cruiser. The ship was in the middle of the room on a big platform.
"Computer!" Zim called out. "Run a full scan on the voot cruiser and see what needs a tune up and see if it needs extra fuel."
The computer responed by senting out about five hovering scaning probs to check the ship.
Rogue looked around at the hugeness of the place. Wires were hanging all over the place, conneted to bigger devices. All just for the voot cruiser alone.
Suddenly, the elevater doors opened up, and Gir came skipping out with a big handful of his rubber toys. "I'm ready!" The robot called out. Zim turned to his SIR. "No Gir, we're not ready yet." He looked at all the of toys Gir had. "You don't need ALL of those, do you?" Zim asked. Gir give his Master that LOOK he gets with he's sad. Zim quickly looked away, but he then gave in. "Alright Gir, you can bring all of them." He said with a sigh.
"YEEEEAAAAH! THANKY YOU!" Gir said.
The computer then made a "beep" noise, meaning the scan on the voot cruiser was done. "SCAN COMPETED. JET ENGINES AND CONTROLS FULLY OPERATIONAL. FUEL AT MAXIMUM. CRUISER'S HYPER SPACE BOOSTER ONLY AT 48% OUTPUT. NEED
REPAIR."
"Computer, do the repairs on the boosters immediately." Zim commaned. The computer obeyed with a "blep" sound.
Meanwhile, Rogue was staring at Gir, who was playing with his rubber toys on the floor. She still didn't understand why he fooled around with those "rubber" things.
The robot looked up at Rogue with a smile and said, "You wannta play?" He then handed her a rubber piggy. Rogue looked at it, and then at Gir. Just for the heck of it, her took the toy out of the robots hand. She lighty sqeezed it, and it made a low squeak noise. She raised an unseeable eyebrow. 'What does he see in this THING?' she thought to herself. She looked down at Gir and thought about want he said the other day, about those two somewhat new emotions to her, sadness and happiness. 'Could this strange thing that he fittles with..." She thought herself, "...make him feel...HAPPY?' Rogue still didn't get it. She dropped the rubber piggy on the ground next to Gir, who was playing with a rubber moose. The rubber toy squeaked as it hit th floor, grabbing Gir's attention. He meekly pick it up, and looked at Rogue. She looked back at the robot. "What? Did I do something wrong?" She asked, wondering why he was staring at her.
"Don't you want the piggy?" Gir asked all sweetly.
Rogue looked at him kind of funny. "I don't know, do I?"
Gir sqeezed the rubber piggy as hard as he could and smiled. "Rubber piggys make you feel all good!" He explained. He then again handed the toy to Rogue. "Please take it. I have alot more of them, so you came have this one."
Rogue looked at Gir strangely. She didn't understand the meaning of giving, as that what Gir was doing. Never the less, she took the rubber toy from the robot, and after looking at it for a moment, shrugged, and opened her pack and put it in there.
"Gir!" Zim shouted out from the voot cruiser platform. The little robot stood up and saluted to his Master. "Quit fooling around, and come up here." Gir walked up to the platform and hopped up on to it.
"Gir, moniter the repairing." Zim said.
"Yes sir!" Gir said with red eyes.
"Oh, and Gir, don't try to "help" with the repairs." Zim said.
Zim then jumped down off the platform and walked over to Rogue.
"So, have you thought have anything?" Zim asked.
"What do you mean?" Rogue asked back.
"I mean your ship." Zim said. "Is it beyond fixing?"
"I'm afraid it is." She answered. "This planets gravity was a bit heaver them I thought when I was coming in, and that's how I crashed."
Zim's eyes slanted as he tried onces again to think of a way to fix the problem. Rogue just put her hands behind her head and let out a long sigh. The sounds of beeps and clicks were the only things that could be heard as the two just stood there for a minute or two, not saying anything. Gir still stood next to the voot cruiser, monitering it. Rogue looked over at the robot.
"Can I asked you something?" She said to Zim.
"What?" Zim said, still thinking.
"About your SIR. The way he acts. I mean, doesn't he, drive you crazy?" She asked.
"Yes." Zim said sharply. "Sometimes he does what I say, like right now. I've been thinking about...an upgrade or something, but his circuits is somewhat...odd, and....." Zim when on and on. Rogue just let out a another big sigh. But then, something hit her.
"Upgrade....." She looked at Zim's cruser and them thought of those still workable parts of her crashed spaceship. Her eyes widen and a small smrik came cross her face. Zim was still rammbing on about Gir's circuits.
"Zim!" She said. Zim wasn't listening.
"Hey!" She slapped him on the shoulder and he snapped out of it.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?" Zim shouted out.
"I just got an great idea." Rogue said. "What if we UPGRADED the whole voot cruiser itself, and make it bigger with the leftover parts of my ship!"
Zim looked at her with some surprise. Why didn't he think of that?!
"Thats not a bad idea at all!" He said. "Gir!"
The robot turned around and said slowly, "YEEEESS?"
"Are the repairs done?" He asked.
"Ahhhmmmm........" Gir looked back at the cruser. "YEP!"
"I want you to watch the base. Rogue and I are going to pick up a few things." Zim said.
"OOOOKAY!" Gir said. He jumped off the platform and ran towards the elevater and went up to the house. (I wonder if he's REALLY going to watch the base! ^-^)
Zim walked towards the voot cruiser. "We'll take my ship to get to.....hey, where do your ship crash anyway?"
"About a mile outside this human city, in a place full of tall green earth plants." Rogue said.
"Humans called those plants "trees"." Zim said. "Come on."
"We're going to go right now?" Rogue asked.
"Yes. I want to get all the preparations done and head to Irk ASAP." He then reached into his pack and took out his black wig and fake human eyes and put them out. "You better put your human disguise on, just incase."
Rogue pushed a button on her cybrog arm, and in a flash, she was in her disguise.
"Come on, lets go." Zim said.
"Don't push it." Rogue said under her breath. The two Irkins jumped into the voot cruiser.
"There's not alot of room in here." Rogue said wiggying around.
"I told you, there's only enough room in here for me and Gir, so try to sit still." Zim said. He pushed a button on the control panal, and the cruiser began to hover upward towards the top of the room, where a large tube was in the middle of the ceiling. The voot cruiser went all the way up the tube, and at the very top, Zim pushed another button, and the roof of his house\base opened right up. Outside, it was still daylight, so Zim turned on the silenters on his engines to avoid any attention. He let the cruiser go up as high as it could, and jetted off towards an area that Rogue pointed to inside the cruiser.
Luckly for Zim and Rogue, no one was outside when they took off. Well, no one that Zim didn't know.
Dib saw the whole thing on the other side of the block. He was heading towards Zim's house because he and Rogue didn't show up for skool. And like the paranormal expret he is, he senced that something was up.
"I KNEW it! He's up to something! Him and "Rogue"." Dib said to himself. He then got a bad feeling. "What if their getting ready to start the invasion?! I GOT to follow them!"
~ Zim and Rogue flew over the whole city and then reached the city's limits. Just outside the city, there was a desert like landscap, but just about a mile further, there was a small forest.
"There!" Rogue said pointing out. "There's where I crash." Zim piloted the voot cruiser towards the herd of trees. He then saw a small clearing right on top of the trees. Some of the tops of the tree were burned. He carefully lowered the cruser down and though the clearing, and landed in the middle of the forest, were right at the foot of where they landed, there was a reck. What looked like an Irkin ship was in pieces all over the place. Most of the parts were all burned to a crips, and the base of it was completely tolaled. Like Rogue said, it looked like only some of it survied.
Zim was taken back by the seriousness of the reck. "How in the name of Irk did you survied this?!" He asked Rogue.
Rogue looked at him with little smirk. "My Irkin body was disigned for taking this kind of punisment. I only walked away with a couple bruises from this.
"I'm impressed." Zim said.
They both exited the cruiser and looked around for any parts that were still useable. It was definitely a mess. Even the ground was burned to pich black. It made Zim think on now amazing Rogue really was. A crash like this would have killed any other Irkin in a instant.
"I found some over here!" Rogue called out. She picked up an small device with an Irkin symbol on it. "I'm glad this survied." She said.
"Hey! There's a bunch of boxes over here!" Zim called out from the other side of the crash site. Rogue came running up. There was about three or four steel boxes, some had small burn holes in them, but they seemed find.
"Oh, those were for any extra equipment, but there was nothing in them in the first place." Rogue explained.
"Why don't we just bring them back anyway. We could use them." Zim said.
"All right." Rogue said.
The two both carried all the steel boxes to the voot cruiser's carriering case in the back. For the next couple hours, Zim and Rogue sreached the area for any more parts and scraps of metal that could be used to upgrade the cruiser.
Around sundown, they found all the still workable parts and took off towards home base.
~ Back at the base, the work into the voot cruiser began. Zim planed out what the cruiser will look like after the upgrading. Rogue helped by explaining want some of the parts did, because some of the devices Zim haven't even seen before! Zim then feed the computer the info on the new plans, and computer did the rest.
As the computer was working on the cruiser, Zim stayed in the repair bay, but Rogue was in the livingroom, looking out the window at the stars. She was thinking about how this trip was going to go.
"This could possibly be my most dangerous mission of all." She said out loud to herself. "I no longer feel proud of calling those filthy Tallest my Masters." She then started thinking about Zim. She thought it was kind of odd that how him and her were getting along all of the sudden, even after that small blow up earlier. Just a couple days ago, all she thought was carriering out the job, to destroy him. But now, it felt so useless to do that. She then sudden felt angry that the Tallest almost had her kill him.
"Why am I thinking about this?" She said to herself. "I don't know why, but, it's almost like, I WANT to think about Zim. This is so strange." She glared up at the stars onces more. "I....I kind of...like thinking about him."
TO BE CONTINUED............................
RogueStar: BOOM! THERE IT IS! THE 11TH CHAPTER! Sorry for the wait, but my computer was being a tolal jerk for a good while. I really hope you all like how this is going, because chapter 12 is going to be a wropper! Stay tune for chapter 12, which is called: The Trip Begins! An Unknown Stoaway. Later! ^.~