Chapter 13
"Is That What It Is Called?"
"...........................uhhhhhh...............(cough cough)....I'm alive?"
Rogue was face down on the ground of the gray, dry planet. She sat up on her knees, and struggled to open her eyes. There was alot of kicked up dust in the air from the crash. She slowly opened her left eye to see the dull gray landscape. She then gazed up at the planet's red sky. She coughed again and stood up to dust off herself. But then something ran across her mind. She shot her head back to see the voot cruiser almost complete buried in the dusy ground from the inpack. The whole ship was fine, except that the glass bubble in the front was compeletly shaddered. I last thing her could remember was going through the glass the moment they hit the ground. She started to franticly look around the area. Something wasn't right.
"Where's Zim and Gir?" She asked herself, not caring one bit about that other unexpected crew member. "Zim! Zim, can you hear me!?" Her voice echoed across the plain. She called out agian, but again, no answer. "Come on! This isn't funny!"
Just then, her Irkin eyes caught something about ten feet away on the ground. It looked like a mound of dust was moving towards her! Rogue immediately, out of instinct, stood in defence mode, placing her hand on her laser. The dust mound moved closer to her. She backed away, not knowing what it was. The mound then stopped about a feet in front of her, and the crazy little robot Gir, popped out of the dust and yelled, "Surprise!"
"Gir!" Rogue said, almost feeling like grabbing him and giving him a quick hug. But Gir jumped into her arms anyway, and sqeezed her. All she could do was smile at this. But then, her smile disappered at the fact the Zim wasn't with his SIR.
"Gir, have you seen Zim anywhere?" Rogue asked. The little robot let go and looked up at her.
"Ummmmm..........nope."
Rogue looked back at the crash and noticed the large dust mounds all around the ship.
"Maybe...."
She ran over to the mounds and started to dig one up.
"What you doing?" Gir asked sweetly.
"I'm trying to find Zim. He made be under all is dust!" She answered.
"I HELP!" Gir said, and he too started to dig.
The two dug into the gray dust as fast as they could. Rogue was much more dedermaned then Gir, who thought it was one big game. She was so into it, the dust that was getting in her eyes, and making them water, wasn't slowing her down at all.
'You better not be dead!' She thought to herself. She then reached deep into the dust, and felt something. "I think I found him!" She suddenly said. With one good yank, Rogue unearthed what she thought was Zim, but instand, in her hand was a very famlier black tuff of spiky hair. And attached to that, was the Dib human, fithy with dust. He suddenly came to, and started to squirm around from the pain of his hair being yanked on.
"OW! HEY!! LET GO!!" Dib shouted, thrashing around. Rogue scowled at the wigglying earth worm baby.
"Oh, it's only you." She said flatly. She let go of his hair, and he fell face first in the dust. He scrambbed up and coughed out the dust of his throut.
"What was that for!?" He shouted.
"Quit your stupid wining!" Rogue said. "Since your still alive, why don't you help me find Zim?"
Dib blinked a few times and looked around at where they were. Rogue went right back to digging. The earth boy stood up and brushed out the dust in his hair. Rogue then turned and gave him a sinister glare.
"What did I just tell you!? Help me find Zim!" She shouted.
Dib took his atention away from where they were and scowled at the female alien. "Why should I help? I refuse to help anyone that is of "Zim's" kind. And futher more..." He was quickly cut short as Rogue rushed over at super speed and grab the boy by his shirt, and look at him right in the eye.
"YOU are going to HELP me find Zim, because I SAID so, so don't MOCK me." She said though grited teeth. At that moment, she looked scarier then Gaz and Ms.Bitters put together! Dib slowly nodded his head "yes", and Rogue once again dropped his to the ground. He quickly got up, and began to dig.
A few mintues later, Gir suddenly shouted out from a few yards away. "I FOUNDED HIM!!" Rogue shot her head up and ran to Gir. Dib, still not too happy about the situation he was in, stopped digging and went over. As they got there, Gir was sitting next to a half buried Zim. The robot poked at his Master's green head, and he slowly sat up with a dazed and confused look on his face, and a bump on his head. Rogue stood over him, relieved to see he was alive. Dib sharpen his eyes at this, thinking otherwise.
"Zim, are you alright? Can you stand?" Rogue asked, waving her hand in front of Zim's unreponsing look. He then suddenly fell back in the dust. "Zim!" Rogue kneeled down and started shaking him. A really bad feeling shot though her. She lowered her head to his to listen to see if he was breathing. Just as she did, Zim shot open his eyes, and his and Rogue's face were closely looking right at each other. The sudden shock of this caused the two to scream and jumped back from one another.
"Rogue!" Zim said caughting his breath.
"Zim!" Rogue said back, the same way.
".......I'M GIR!!!" The crazy little robot suddenly shouted. He then started to play in the dust, making "dust angels".
Zim stood up and dusted himself off, and rubbed the bump on his head. He then noticed Dib standing a few feet away. He grit his teeth at him, and mummbled, "Great, HE had to survive!" Rogue let loose a sigh of relef. Zim looked at her with a curious look. She looked at him, and showed a smirk. "I'm glad your okay." She said.
Zim raised his eyes slightly, and then said, "Yeah, um, it's good to see that your fine too."
The two then looked around to the planet. It was so lifeless looking. No plant life, no moving life, nothing.
"Where are we anyway?" Rogue asked.
Zim kneeled down to the ground, and picked up some of the weird gray dust, and sort of examed it. He then reached into his pack and took out a small scaner and scaned over the sample. "This planet's surfuse has very small traces of plant life in it, but it all too small to grow back." Zim said. He stood up and dusted off his hands. "In other words, there USED to be life here, but it's all gone now."
"There must of be a war or something here." Rogue said. "The only thing here thats useful now is air to breath, lucky for us."
"Hey! What are you talking about?" Dib shouted from behind the Irkins. The two looked back, and then wished that WAS no air on the planet, then the human wouldn't have survived!
"It's not YOUR business, HUMAN!!" Rogue shouted.
"I think it's my business to see if you two are ploting anything!" Dib shouted back, still thinking that they were up to something to take Earth.
Rogue then turned to Zim and said, "He is always this stuipd?"
"I HEARD THAT!" Dib said.
"WHY DON'T YOU COME OVER HERE AND SAY THAT!!" Rogue shouted.
"THATS ENOUGH!!!" Zim shouted. "We don't have time to fight here. We have to get back into space, and towards Irk, on the double."
"That reminds me..." Rogue said. "...why don't you just destroy him right now?"
Zim looked at the Dib human with shapened eyes. "That would be nice....but I would like it even more if it was done on the planet that with be MY. That, or making him my slave when I'm ruler. I'm still thinking about that."
Rogue looked at him with a raised eye. "Oh, I get it, a sweet victroy."
Just then, the two started hearing a click sound coming from the where the human was standing. Dib was taking snapshots of the planet's landscape. "Oh yeah, I forgot." Rogue said. "He took a photo of me just before we crashed."
"Really." Zim said with a glare at Dib. He stomped over to the human, which was too busy taking photographs. Dib then turned and saw Zim right in front of him. Zim went to snach the camera, but Dib quickly pulled it away. He tried to snach it again, but again, Dib pulled away. "The camera, NOW Dib!" Zim said.
"Uh....no." Dib said sarcastic like.
"CAMERA!" Zim shouted.
Dib suddenly then snapped a photo of Zim, and started running. Zim rubbed his eyes from the flash and began to pursuit Dib. The two ran in and around the crashed ship, yelling and exchaning insults. Meanwhile, Rogue and Gir watched this, and Rogue suddenly couldn't help but laugh at how childish the two looked. Gir too started laughing, although he didn't know WHAT was going on, as usual.
As the chase went on, Dib would turned around from time to time, and snap another photo of his green rival. Each flash was geting Zim more and more ticked.
"CEASE WITH THE PHOTOS HUMAN!!" Zim shouted loudly. Dib just laughed at him. But then, he suddenly tripped over something, making him fall flat on his face. He sat up and looked back to see Rogue standing with her leg streched out. Zim finally caught up him and demanded the camera once more. Dib looked up at Zim, and then Rogue, both with serious faces on. He grit his teeth and tossed the camera to Zim. Zim caught it, and slamed it on his knee, breaking it in two. "When will you ever learn "Dib"? The camera thing is getting really old." Zim said.
Dib glared at him. "It wouldn't take much to expose you and Rogue you know!"
Just then, Rogue put her hands on her hips, and started to stare at him with slanted eyes. Dib backed away a bit from her. "What?" Dib asked, starting to get alittle nervous. Then in a flash, Rogue grab Dib's feet, hung him upside down, and shook him up hard. Out of his pockets came two more cameras, a small tape player, an small video camera, and something that looked like the thing he tried to use on Zim the very first time they met. Rogue then dropped the boy on his head. "Wouldn't take much, uh?" She said.
Zim and her then stepped on all of Dib's little "spy stuff", breaking it all in tiny pieces. Dib made a fist and slammed it on the ground. Yet another attempt failed. "You won this one "Zim", but the battle is not over!"
"Will you just shut up." Rogue said with a scowl. "If you think about it, it's YOUR fault that we crashed!"
"MY fault?!" Dib yelled. "It was Zim's stupid robot, not me!"
"You made me and Zim leave the controls, which MADE Gir mess things up!"
"NO IT DIDN'T!!"
"YES IT DID!!!!"
As the two kept arguing over the matter, Zim just stood there and shook his head. He turned to the crashed voot cruiser. He walked over to it, leaving the two yelling ones, and looked over the full extant of the crash. He tried to start up the ship's computer, but no respose. 'The glass AND the computer has to be fixed before we can take off again.' He thought with a tired sigh. He then tried to deploy his metal legs, but that too was not working. He disconneted his backpack from himself to see it too has taking damage. He held back an outbust. He looked back at Rogue and the human again, still yelling and screaming at one another, and Gir was now watching them with a smile, like it was a show or something. Zim could just feel a headache coming. 'Why must this be!' He thought, heading for the back of the ship, to get some tools.
~ It was now about two hours later. Zim was working on the cruiser's computer system, Rogue was helping him by replacing the glass covering with a extra one they found in the back, Gir was still playing in the dust, now trying to make a little dust town for his rubber toys, and Dib was scowling on a rock about ten feet away from the two Irkins.
'You really did it this time, Dib.' Dib thought to himself. 'Who knows what evil plan their thinking up, and you don't have ANYTHING on you to proof it! If I even get back to Earth alive, Dad will kill me for taking his cameras, which "Zim" and "Rogue" broke! I'm trapped with the enemy on some unknown planet with a good chance of never seeing home or even Earth again!' He then started to hit himself in the head, saying outloud, "Stupid, stupid, STUPID!"
"That looks like fun!" An familer voice say from behind Dib. He spun around to see, of course Gir, standing with a dusty rubber piggy. Dib knew now dumb Zim's robot was. He just gave it a glare and turned back around. He watched the aliens work on the ship, and thought if there was still anything he could do to find out want their up to before it was too late.
"Curses!" Zim said working on the computer. "Half of the wires got fired from the fall. This might take a while."
Meanwhile, Rogue was doing to finishing touches on the glass bubble with Irkin like welding tool from the outside of the ship. "One last blast here and.......done!" She stepped back to take a look. "All fixed." She then opened it, and looked inside at the still working Zim. "How's the computer system?" She asked wipping some sweat off her forehead.
Zim looked up. "The glass is all repared?"
"Yeah, it's as good as new." She said tapping on it. "But what about the computer?"
"It's a mess." He answered with a sigh. "And I'm not sure when it will be ready! Some of the wires are completely fired, and it looks like this piece is broken too."
"It that blasted human's fault!" Rogue said with cluched fists. "Now I know why you hate him so much, he's a pest!"
"ALL humans are pests, just to let you know." Zim said. "And this isn't the first time he's interfered. He's done it many times before."
Rogue glared and Dib far off. The boy noticed and glared back, like he does with Zim. She then hopped out of the ship, and streched out her arms. Zim popped his head up from his work and looked at her. "You can take a break Rogue." He said.
Rogue turned her head at him. "No, I was going to help you with the computer. You need help, right? I was just streching my-"
"No, it's fine." Zim said. "I think you worked hard enough. I can helded the rest. It was a big help too, thanks."
Rogue just looked at him. Zim noticed her staring. "What?" He asked.
"Do you really mean that?" She asked.
"Mean what?" He asked back.
"That your...you know...thankful." She said.
Zim cocked his head abit. "Of course, you helped, right? What, is something wrong?"
Suddenly, Rogue showed a very light, very small little smile on her face. "It's nothing. It's just that, when I was growing up, training, I never really knew when or when not people were really thankful of me or not." She turned and headed somewhere near off to relax. She then whipered under her breath, "Thanks Zim." As she did, again she could feel heat coming from her face, and this time, she didn't really mind it.
She walked a little aways from the crash site. She then found a good size stone, sat on it, and just started thinking. She let a heavy sigh escape from her chest as looked up at the planet's red sky. She thought about the Tallest, this new mission, but most of all about...Zim. She breathed in a breath of air and closed her eyes, trying to clear her head of the matter, but with no luck. 'Why the heck do I feel like this all of the sudden... I'm not supost to feel, well, "floaty" inside... am I?' She suddenly felt a small smile play on her lips, as she saw in her minds eye.
"Zim...."
"Nooooo, I'm Gir! G-I-R." A very familler, very chipper voice said sweetly. Rogue felt her heart like organ jump into her throat as her eyes shot open, only to see the little SIR standing infront of her, a cute smile across his face, and his little pink tonge sticking out of the corner of his mouth.
"Gir." Rogue breathed out in a sigh. The little robot's smile grew into a grin as he jumped onto the rock next to Rogue.
"Yeah...Gir...I'm not "Zim" silly." He said looking up at her. Rogue couldn't help smiling back at him with a small chuckle.
"Hmm...sorry Gir, my mind was in another place." She said.
Gir looked at her a little confused. "I didn't think a mind could go anywhere without the head being with it." He said cocking his head and looking up at her sweetly. Rogue's face went blank for a second, but she smiled and giggled abit.
"Nevermind." She chuckled, watching him as he pulled two of his many rubber piggys out of his otherwise empty head and started happliy playing with them. Rogue rose an eyebrow as she watched Gir hug the toys to his little chest. "Uh, Gir? Can I ask you something? She said, curiousness in her voice. Gir looked up and smiled, still holding his piggies to himself, and squeeked in responce. "Uh...why do you hug them like that?" She asked, still not clear on the whole "emotion" subject.
Gir stared blankly at her for a second, then looked at the piggies and smiled widey. "Because there piggies, and I LOVE my piggies!" Rogue looked at him for a second before responding. "Love?" She asked, as Gir made the little toys dance with one another. "Whats that?"
The twisted SIR looked up from playing and giggled. "You don't know?" He asked with a grin. Rogue slowly shook her head, frowning. Gir held one of his piggies out infront of him, and took a deep breath. ""Love" is when you REAAAAAALY like something, and when you you wanna think about it ALLLLLLLLL the time.... LIKE MY PIGGIES!" He explained and then looked at her.
Rogue's eyes went wider. "Think about it all the time...?" She asked in a muttered tone. Gir nodded. She thought for a moment. "But...what happens when you "love" someone?"
Gir stood up and thought for a second. "Weeellllll......" He began. "When you REALLY love someone, your supost to kiss them!" He said with a small matter-of-fact tone.
Rogue's face went blank. "What's a........kiss?" She asked more confused now then before.
"A kiss is this!" Gir said smaking the two piggies faces together. "Like that!"
Rogue leaned back alittle. "Oh....." She said still alittle confused, "You mean you smack your face to their's?"
Gir hummed in thought and then nodded quickly. "Sort of, you get really close to them and then go "Mmmmwa"! Thats a kiss!"
Rogue thought for a while, taking in his little words of wisdom, then a thought stuck her. "Gir, how do you know all of this?" She asked scepticlly.
Gir looked up with a LARGE smile and spoke. "The T.V. told me!"
Rogue smiled at the SIR, who just resently grew to like and stood. "Well..." She signed. "Now that I know what that is, we should probubly head back to the voot cruiser and see if Zim needs any help now with the repairs."
Gir nodded. "Kay!" He jumped off the rock, put the piggies back in his head, and skipped along with Rogue.
"So....is that what it is called?" Rogue muttered.
"What?" Gir asked looking up at her.
Rogue shook her head. "N-Nothing." She said with a small smile. Gir shugged and continued walking with Rogue. She looked down at the little robot and then spoke.
"And Gir?" She said.
Gir looked up in responce. "What?"
"If Zim asks, we didn't talk about this, okay?"
Gir smiled. "KAY!"
~ As the female alien and the robot got back, they spotted Zim now sitting on small rock outside the ship, fixing some part to it. Zim lifted his head from his work to see the two walking towards him.
"Were did you go off to?" He asked.
Rogue looked at him for a moment before answering that. "Um....I was just...talking to Gir." She said, with a slight feeling of heat coming to her face once again. Zim's eyes widened at her, causing Rogue's eyes to do the same to him. "What?" She asked.
"Your face is doing that, that " redness thing" again." He said pointing to his face for affect.
Rogue put her hand up to her cheek, and then just slightly smiled. "You know, I really don't think it's something to worry about." She said with a little grin. Zim looked at her strangely. And then, he looked down at Gir, who started to do a little "we know something you don't know" whisle. He raised one of his unseeable eyebrows, and looked up at Rogue again.
"I don't know what Gir as been telling you, but if I were you, I'd still kept an eye on that." He said. He then went back to his work.
Rogue just smiled again. She then went over and sat on a rock next to Zim. Her face still felt warm. She sighed and streched out her limbs, and asked, "Were did that human go anyway?"
Zim stopped working again and pointed to the back of them. She looked back to see Dib, still sitting in the same place as before, watching them with narrow eyes. "He's been "spying" on me ever since." Zim said. "He's too scared to come over here now that he doesn't have those little toys of his."
Rogue rolled her eyes. "What a stuipd lifeform." She muttered.
Meanwhile, Gir cocked his little tin head to the side and looked at "Master" and Rogue, then at the Dib human. "Master?" He asked in a cute voice. "Why is your friend allllll the way over theeerrrrreeee?" He pointed at Dib.
Zim shot his head up at Gir with a angry look. "Gir! Thats the enemy! He has NOTHING to do with us, got that!?"
Gir cocked his head to the other side. "Then...why do you and him alway go to SKOOOOL all the time?"
"Gir, how many times have I told you that human and I are NOT FRIENDS!!!" Zim shouted slamimg his fists. Gir stepped back from his angry Master. He made a pout face and then looked at Rogue, who was feeling a little sorry for the SIR. Suddenly, Gir perked up and spoke again.
"Buuuut, ROGUE is your friend, RIIIIIIIIIGHT?"
Zim perked his head up to Gir, and then to Rogue. He sort of stared at her for a moment. "........I guess,.....yes, in a sence, you can said that. She's one of OUR kind, NOT the Dib."
"I agree with Zim." Rogue said. She looked back at the human boy and deilvered an another glare to him.
Gir stood his ground, still not quite understanding why his Master is so grumby all the time when it comes to Dib. He walked away from them, going into his own little world for a brif moment. He then suddenly snapped out of it, like he always does, and looked towards Dib. The boy looked back at the robot, and then away at it with a scowl. But Gir didn't stop looking. 'Hmmmmmmm........" He thought. He skipped over to him.
"HELLLLOOO!" The SIR cooed. Dib backed away at it's weird little greeting. "HOW ARE YOOOOU?" Gir asked.
"What do you want?" Dib said with a confuse look. "Oh, I get it. Zim send you over here, didn't he? What, does he want to know if I'm scared right now? Huh?"
Gir shooked his metal head "no".
"No?" Dib said with a raised eyebrow.
"Noooooooooo!" Gir said sweetly. "Why do you and Master not like each other?"
Dib's face went blank for a moment at the robot's unexpacted question, but it then suddenly turned serious. "How stupid does Zim think I am!? This is some alien trick, right?!"
As he say that, the robot suddenly started to stare at him, completely silence, not saying a word to his question. Dib started to sweat, thinking it was going to attack him or something like that. Gir inched alittle more towards him, still blankly staring. Dib backed up again, but as he did, he fell backwards off the rock, onto the ground. Gir looked down at him, and started to giggle rapitly. Dib quickly scramble up, and slowly started to walk away from the crazy little SIR. But Gir ran infront of him, blocking is way, and just WOULD NOT STOP STARING AT HIM. Dib, slightly getting more nevous of this weird situation, started to quickly walk backwards, away from Gir, but Gir just followed. Walking became running backwards, and then before long it was a chase. The robot began to chase the Earth child, for who knows what, around the area, and then they headed towards Zim and Rogue.
The aliens' heads immediately shot up at the sight of the two. At first, they didn't think they would have ever seen something like that. But then, it was posably the funniest thing they have seen in their lives, the SIR chasing the screaming worm monkey know as Dib. Both Zim and Rogue were laughing so hard, it was almost to the point of tears. Almost.
The crazy chase finally ended when Gir jumped on Dib's back, throwing him to the ground, right infront of Rogue and Zim, still laughing. Gir sat up on his back, and lightly put his finger on his head.
"TAG! YOU IT!! I WIN!!!"
"GET HIM OFF OF ME!!!" Dib shouted, struggling to stand up, but Gir wouldn't move. Zim and Rogue were still cracking up.
"ZIM! GET YOUR CRAZY ROBOT OFF ME!!!" Dib commaned.
Zim slowly contaned his laughing and cleared his throut. "No, I think I want Gir to stay right there, so I can kept an eye on you, so you don't try anything dumb. Want do you say Rogue?"
Rogue too finally stopped laughing and said, "I think thats a great idea."
"You rotten alien....." Dib muttered under his breath. Gir once again reached into his head, this time, taking out a rubber moose, and started sucking on it'd head, like a loipop.
~ Rogue yawned and streched her back out, looking over at Zim as he now worked on his backpack device in silence. She sighed silently and looked around the planet.
They had been there for a few hours now, and the planet's sun was starting to go down. Dib had retreated back to his rock after Gir lost interest and fell asleep in a pile of his piggies and moose toys, and Zim had been completly silence ever since another argument with Dib.
Zim looked up to Rogue, and cocked his head.
"What?" He asked with a look of confusion. Rogue looked down, realizing she was staring at him for the longest time. "Nothing..." She said glancing up. Zim looked at her for a moment before noticing something.
Rogue looked REALLY tired. Her anntena's were drooped back behind her head and he could tell she was on the verge of falling asleep, due to that fact that her eyes were bearly open.
"Rogue?" Zim asked, the sound of someone speaking made her eyes open fully. "Hum?" She looked at him in responce. "You should really get some sleep. We still have alot of repairs to do on the voot crusier and we need to start imediately tomorrow when the sun's up." Rogue looked at him for a moment.
"Are you sure?" She asked. "Yes." Zim said looking back at his pack. "I won't need your help until then, get some rest." He said as he continued working on his pack.
Rogue shrugged a little and yawned. "Okay..." She said shirfting a little in her seat and closing her eyes, "G'night." She whispered, not sure if he heard her or not. Zim looked at her for a moment, he continued on with his work...but, suddenly, the Irken soilder felt a slight weight on his shoulder.
He looked over, his own tired eyes perked as he saw that Rogue, already fast asleep was leaned over, with her head on his shoulder. Zim jumped a little.
He was about to lift her up off his shoulder, but stopped, looking at her face, to see a tired, but, suprisingly a small smile on her face. He felt Rogue sigh, then let his shoulders droop.
He looked back at his pack and again went back to work, but, he noticed something. Just like Rogue at times, HE had the 'redness thing' on HIS face.
TO BE CONTINUED........................
RogueStar: (Screams cutely) AHHHHHHHHHHH! I smell some fluff! First, I would like to give a HUGE thanks to the great Aoi Jade for helping me on this chapter. She's the one who did the fluff! ^-^ PLEAZZZZ tell me what you think of THIS one! Me AND Aoi Jade worked hard on it. I'm not QUITE sure when the next one will be up, whats going to happen is........hey, wait! I'm not telling you all that YET! You'll all are just going to have to wait for chapter 14! Thanks for being REALLY good at waiting for me readers. ^-^
"Is That What It Is Called?"
"...........................uhhhhhh...............(cough cough)....I'm alive?"
Rogue was face down on the ground of the gray, dry planet. She sat up on her knees, and struggled to open her eyes. There was alot of kicked up dust in the air from the crash. She slowly opened her left eye to see the dull gray landscape. She then gazed up at the planet's red sky. She coughed again and stood up to dust off herself. But then something ran across her mind. She shot her head back to see the voot cruiser almost complete buried in the dusy ground from the inpack. The whole ship was fine, except that the glass bubble in the front was compeletly shaddered. I last thing her could remember was going through the glass the moment they hit the ground. She started to franticly look around the area. Something wasn't right.
"Where's Zim and Gir?" She asked herself, not caring one bit about that other unexpected crew member. "Zim! Zim, can you hear me!?" Her voice echoed across the plain. She called out agian, but again, no answer. "Come on! This isn't funny!"
Just then, her Irkin eyes caught something about ten feet away on the ground. It looked like a mound of dust was moving towards her! Rogue immediately, out of instinct, stood in defence mode, placing her hand on her laser. The dust mound moved closer to her. She backed away, not knowing what it was. The mound then stopped about a feet in front of her, and the crazy little robot Gir, popped out of the dust and yelled, "Surprise!"
"Gir!" Rogue said, almost feeling like grabbing him and giving him a quick hug. But Gir jumped into her arms anyway, and sqeezed her. All she could do was smile at this. But then, her smile disappered at the fact the Zim wasn't with his SIR.
"Gir, have you seen Zim anywhere?" Rogue asked. The little robot let go and looked up at her.
"Ummmmm..........nope."
Rogue looked back at the crash and noticed the large dust mounds all around the ship.
"Maybe...."
She ran over to the mounds and started to dig one up.
"What you doing?" Gir asked sweetly.
"I'm trying to find Zim. He made be under all is dust!" She answered.
"I HELP!" Gir said, and he too started to dig.
The two dug into the gray dust as fast as they could. Rogue was much more dedermaned then Gir, who thought it was one big game. She was so into it, the dust that was getting in her eyes, and making them water, wasn't slowing her down at all.
'You better not be dead!' She thought to herself. She then reached deep into the dust, and felt something. "I think I found him!" She suddenly said. With one good yank, Rogue unearthed what she thought was Zim, but instand, in her hand was a very famlier black tuff of spiky hair. And attached to that, was the Dib human, fithy with dust. He suddenly came to, and started to squirm around from the pain of his hair being yanked on.
"OW! HEY!! LET GO!!" Dib shouted, thrashing around. Rogue scowled at the wigglying earth worm baby.
"Oh, it's only you." She said flatly. She let go of his hair, and he fell face first in the dust. He scrambbed up and coughed out the dust of his throut.
"What was that for!?" He shouted.
"Quit your stupid wining!" Rogue said. "Since your still alive, why don't you help me find Zim?"
Dib blinked a few times and looked around at where they were. Rogue went right back to digging. The earth boy stood up and brushed out the dust in his hair. Rogue then turned and gave him a sinister glare.
"What did I just tell you!? Help me find Zim!" She shouted.
Dib took his atention away from where they were and scowled at the female alien. "Why should I help? I refuse to help anyone that is of "Zim's" kind. And futher more..." He was quickly cut short as Rogue rushed over at super speed and grab the boy by his shirt, and look at him right in the eye.
"YOU are going to HELP me find Zim, because I SAID so, so don't MOCK me." She said though grited teeth. At that moment, she looked scarier then Gaz and Ms.Bitters put together! Dib slowly nodded his head "yes", and Rogue once again dropped his to the ground. He quickly got up, and began to dig.
A few mintues later, Gir suddenly shouted out from a few yards away. "I FOUNDED HIM!!" Rogue shot her head up and ran to Gir. Dib, still not too happy about the situation he was in, stopped digging and went over. As they got there, Gir was sitting next to a half buried Zim. The robot poked at his Master's green head, and he slowly sat up with a dazed and confused look on his face, and a bump on his head. Rogue stood over him, relieved to see he was alive. Dib sharpen his eyes at this, thinking otherwise.
"Zim, are you alright? Can you stand?" Rogue asked, waving her hand in front of Zim's unreponsing look. He then suddenly fell back in the dust. "Zim!" Rogue kneeled down and started shaking him. A really bad feeling shot though her. She lowered her head to his to listen to see if he was breathing. Just as she did, Zim shot open his eyes, and his and Rogue's face were closely looking right at each other. The sudden shock of this caused the two to scream and jumped back from one another.
"Rogue!" Zim said caughting his breath.
"Zim!" Rogue said back, the same way.
".......I'M GIR!!!" The crazy little robot suddenly shouted. He then started to play in the dust, making "dust angels".
Zim stood up and dusted himself off, and rubbed the bump on his head. He then noticed Dib standing a few feet away. He grit his teeth at him, and mummbled, "Great, HE had to survive!" Rogue let loose a sigh of relef. Zim looked at her with a curious look. She looked at him, and showed a smirk. "I'm glad your okay." She said.
Zim raised his eyes slightly, and then said, "Yeah, um, it's good to see that your fine too."
The two then looked around to the planet. It was so lifeless looking. No plant life, no moving life, nothing.
"Where are we anyway?" Rogue asked.
Zim kneeled down to the ground, and picked up some of the weird gray dust, and sort of examed it. He then reached into his pack and took out a small scaner and scaned over the sample. "This planet's surfuse has very small traces of plant life in it, but it all too small to grow back." Zim said. He stood up and dusted off his hands. "In other words, there USED to be life here, but it's all gone now."
"There must of be a war or something here." Rogue said. "The only thing here thats useful now is air to breath, lucky for us."
"Hey! What are you talking about?" Dib shouted from behind the Irkins. The two looked back, and then wished that WAS no air on the planet, then the human wouldn't have survived!
"It's not YOUR business, HUMAN!!" Rogue shouted.
"I think it's my business to see if you two are ploting anything!" Dib shouted back, still thinking that they were up to something to take Earth.
Rogue then turned to Zim and said, "He is always this stuipd?"
"I HEARD THAT!" Dib said.
"WHY DON'T YOU COME OVER HERE AND SAY THAT!!" Rogue shouted.
"THATS ENOUGH!!!" Zim shouted. "We don't have time to fight here. We have to get back into space, and towards Irk, on the double."
"That reminds me..." Rogue said. "...why don't you just destroy him right now?"
Zim looked at the Dib human with shapened eyes. "That would be nice....but I would like it even more if it was done on the planet that with be MY. That, or making him my slave when I'm ruler. I'm still thinking about that."
Rogue looked at him with a raised eye. "Oh, I get it, a sweet victroy."
Just then, the two started hearing a click sound coming from the where the human was standing. Dib was taking snapshots of the planet's landscape. "Oh yeah, I forgot." Rogue said. "He took a photo of me just before we crashed."
"Really." Zim said with a glare at Dib. He stomped over to the human, which was too busy taking photographs. Dib then turned and saw Zim right in front of him. Zim went to snach the camera, but Dib quickly pulled it away. He tried to snach it again, but again, Dib pulled away. "The camera, NOW Dib!" Zim said.
"Uh....no." Dib said sarcastic like.
"CAMERA!" Zim shouted.
Dib suddenly then snapped a photo of Zim, and started running. Zim rubbed his eyes from the flash and began to pursuit Dib. The two ran in and around the crashed ship, yelling and exchaning insults. Meanwhile, Rogue and Gir watched this, and Rogue suddenly couldn't help but laugh at how childish the two looked. Gir too started laughing, although he didn't know WHAT was going on, as usual.
As the chase went on, Dib would turned around from time to time, and snap another photo of his green rival. Each flash was geting Zim more and more ticked.
"CEASE WITH THE PHOTOS HUMAN!!" Zim shouted loudly. Dib just laughed at him. But then, he suddenly tripped over something, making him fall flat on his face. He sat up and looked back to see Rogue standing with her leg streched out. Zim finally caught up him and demanded the camera once more. Dib looked up at Zim, and then Rogue, both with serious faces on. He grit his teeth and tossed the camera to Zim. Zim caught it, and slamed it on his knee, breaking it in two. "When will you ever learn "Dib"? The camera thing is getting really old." Zim said.
Dib glared at him. "It wouldn't take much to expose you and Rogue you know!"
Just then, Rogue put her hands on her hips, and started to stare at him with slanted eyes. Dib backed away a bit from her. "What?" Dib asked, starting to get alittle nervous. Then in a flash, Rogue grab Dib's feet, hung him upside down, and shook him up hard. Out of his pockets came two more cameras, a small tape player, an small video camera, and something that looked like the thing he tried to use on Zim the very first time they met. Rogue then dropped the boy on his head. "Wouldn't take much, uh?" She said.
Zim and her then stepped on all of Dib's little "spy stuff", breaking it all in tiny pieces. Dib made a fist and slammed it on the ground. Yet another attempt failed. "You won this one "Zim", but the battle is not over!"
"Will you just shut up." Rogue said with a scowl. "If you think about it, it's YOUR fault that we crashed!"
"MY fault?!" Dib yelled. "It was Zim's stupid robot, not me!"
"You made me and Zim leave the controls, which MADE Gir mess things up!"
"NO IT DIDN'T!!"
"YES IT DID!!!!"
As the two kept arguing over the matter, Zim just stood there and shook his head. He turned to the crashed voot cruiser. He walked over to it, leaving the two yelling ones, and looked over the full extant of the crash. He tried to start up the ship's computer, but no respose. 'The glass AND the computer has to be fixed before we can take off again.' He thought with a tired sigh. He then tried to deploy his metal legs, but that too was not working. He disconneted his backpack from himself to see it too has taking damage. He held back an outbust. He looked back at Rogue and the human again, still yelling and screaming at one another, and Gir was now watching them with a smile, like it was a show or something. Zim could just feel a headache coming. 'Why must this be!' He thought, heading for the back of the ship, to get some tools.
~ It was now about two hours later. Zim was working on the cruiser's computer system, Rogue was helping him by replacing the glass covering with a extra one they found in the back, Gir was still playing in the dust, now trying to make a little dust town for his rubber toys, and Dib was scowling on a rock about ten feet away from the two Irkins.
'You really did it this time, Dib.' Dib thought to himself. 'Who knows what evil plan their thinking up, and you don't have ANYTHING on you to proof it! If I even get back to Earth alive, Dad will kill me for taking his cameras, which "Zim" and "Rogue" broke! I'm trapped with the enemy on some unknown planet with a good chance of never seeing home or even Earth again!' He then started to hit himself in the head, saying outloud, "Stupid, stupid, STUPID!"
"That looks like fun!" An familer voice say from behind Dib. He spun around to see, of course Gir, standing with a dusty rubber piggy. Dib knew now dumb Zim's robot was. He just gave it a glare and turned back around. He watched the aliens work on the ship, and thought if there was still anything he could do to find out want their up to before it was too late.
"Curses!" Zim said working on the computer. "Half of the wires got fired from the fall. This might take a while."
Meanwhile, Rogue was doing to finishing touches on the glass bubble with Irkin like welding tool from the outside of the ship. "One last blast here and.......done!" She stepped back to take a look. "All fixed." She then opened it, and looked inside at the still working Zim. "How's the computer system?" She asked wipping some sweat off her forehead.
Zim looked up. "The glass is all repared?"
"Yeah, it's as good as new." She said tapping on it. "But what about the computer?"
"It's a mess." He answered with a sigh. "And I'm not sure when it will be ready! Some of the wires are completely fired, and it looks like this piece is broken too."
"It that blasted human's fault!" Rogue said with cluched fists. "Now I know why you hate him so much, he's a pest!"
"ALL humans are pests, just to let you know." Zim said. "And this isn't the first time he's interfered. He's done it many times before."
Rogue glared and Dib far off. The boy noticed and glared back, like he does with Zim. She then hopped out of the ship, and streched out her arms. Zim popped his head up from his work and looked at her. "You can take a break Rogue." He said.
Rogue turned her head at him. "No, I was going to help you with the computer. You need help, right? I was just streching my-"
"No, it's fine." Zim said. "I think you worked hard enough. I can helded the rest. It was a big help too, thanks."
Rogue just looked at him. Zim noticed her staring. "What?" He asked.
"Do you really mean that?" She asked.
"Mean what?" He asked back.
"That your...you know...thankful." She said.
Zim cocked his head abit. "Of course, you helped, right? What, is something wrong?"
Suddenly, Rogue showed a very light, very small little smile on her face. "It's nothing. It's just that, when I was growing up, training, I never really knew when or when not people were really thankful of me or not." She turned and headed somewhere near off to relax. She then whipered under her breath, "Thanks Zim." As she did, again she could feel heat coming from her face, and this time, she didn't really mind it.
She walked a little aways from the crash site. She then found a good size stone, sat on it, and just started thinking. She let a heavy sigh escape from her chest as looked up at the planet's red sky. She thought about the Tallest, this new mission, but most of all about...Zim. She breathed in a breath of air and closed her eyes, trying to clear her head of the matter, but with no luck. 'Why the heck do I feel like this all of the sudden... I'm not supost to feel, well, "floaty" inside... am I?' She suddenly felt a small smile play on her lips, as she saw in her minds eye.
"Zim...."
"Nooooo, I'm Gir! G-I-R." A very familler, very chipper voice said sweetly. Rogue felt her heart like organ jump into her throat as her eyes shot open, only to see the little SIR standing infront of her, a cute smile across his face, and his little pink tonge sticking out of the corner of his mouth.
"Gir." Rogue breathed out in a sigh. The little robot's smile grew into a grin as he jumped onto the rock next to Rogue.
"Yeah...Gir...I'm not "Zim" silly." He said looking up at her. Rogue couldn't help smiling back at him with a small chuckle.
"Hmm...sorry Gir, my mind was in another place." She said.
Gir looked at her a little confused. "I didn't think a mind could go anywhere without the head being with it." He said cocking his head and looking up at her sweetly. Rogue's face went blank for a second, but she smiled and giggled abit.
"Nevermind." She chuckled, watching him as he pulled two of his many rubber piggys out of his otherwise empty head and started happliy playing with them. Rogue rose an eyebrow as she watched Gir hug the toys to his little chest. "Uh, Gir? Can I ask you something? She said, curiousness in her voice. Gir looked up and smiled, still holding his piggies to himself, and squeeked in responce. "Uh...why do you hug them like that?" She asked, still not clear on the whole "emotion" subject.
Gir stared blankly at her for a second, then looked at the piggies and smiled widey. "Because there piggies, and I LOVE my piggies!" Rogue looked at him for a second before responding. "Love?" She asked, as Gir made the little toys dance with one another. "Whats that?"
The twisted SIR looked up from playing and giggled. "You don't know?" He asked with a grin. Rogue slowly shook her head, frowning. Gir held one of his piggies out infront of him, and took a deep breath. ""Love" is when you REAAAAAALY like something, and when you you wanna think about it ALLLLLLLLL the time.... LIKE MY PIGGIES!" He explained and then looked at her.
Rogue's eyes went wider. "Think about it all the time...?" She asked in a muttered tone. Gir nodded. She thought for a moment. "But...what happens when you "love" someone?"
Gir stood up and thought for a second. "Weeellllll......" He began. "When you REALLY love someone, your supost to kiss them!" He said with a small matter-of-fact tone.
Rogue's face went blank. "What's a........kiss?" She asked more confused now then before.
"A kiss is this!" Gir said smaking the two piggies faces together. "Like that!"
Rogue leaned back alittle. "Oh....." She said still alittle confused, "You mean you smack your face to their's?"
Gir hummed in thought and then nodded quickly. "Sort of, you get really close to them and then go "Mmmmwa"! Thats a kiss!"
Rogue thought for a while, taking in his little words of wisdom, then a thought stuck her. "Gir, how do you know all of this?" She asked scepticlly.
Gir looked up with a LARGE smile and spoke. "The T.V. told me!"
Rogue smiled at the SIR, who just resently grew to like and stood. "Well..." She signed. "Now that I know what that is, we should probubly head back to the voot cruiser and see if Zim needs any help now with the repairs."
Gir nodded. "Kay!" He jumped off the rock, put the piggies back in his head, and skipped along with Rogue.
"So....is that what it is called?" Rogue muttered.
"What?" Gir asked looking up at her.
Rogue shook her head. "N-Nothing." She said with a small smile. Gir shugged and continued walking with Rogue. She looked down at the little robot and then spoke.
"And Gir?" She said.
Gir looked up in responce. "What?"
"If Zim asks, we didn't talk about this, okay?"
Gir smiled. "KAY!"
~ As the female alien and the robot got back, they spotted Zim now sitting on small rock outside the ship, fixing some part to it. Zim lifted his head from his work to see the two walking towards him.
"Were did you go off to?" He asked.
Rogue looked at him for a moment before answering that. "Um....I was just...talking to Gir." She said, with a slight feeling of heat coming to her face once again. Zim's eyes widened at her, causing Rogue's eyes to do the same to him. "What?" She asked.
"Your face is doing that, that " redness thing" again." He said pointing to his face for affect.
Rogue put her hand up to her cheek, and then just slightly smiled. "You know, I really don't think it's something to worry about." She said with a little grin. Zim looked at her strangely. And then, he looked down at Gir, who started to do a little "we know something you don't know" whisle. He raised one of his unseeable eyebrows, and looked up at Rogue again.
"I don't know what Gir as been telling you, but if I were you, I'd still kept an eye on that." He said. He then went back to his work.
Rogue just smiled again. She then went over and sat on a rock next to Zim. Her face still felt warm. She sighed and streched out her limbs, and asked, "Were did that human go anyway?"
Zim stopped working again and pointed to the back of them. She looked back to see Dib, still sitting in the same place as before, watching them with narrow eyes. "He's been "spying" on me ever since." Zim said. "He's too scared to come over here now that he doesn't have those little toys of his."
Rogue rolled her eyes. "What a stuipd lifeform." She muttered.
Meanwhile, Gir cocked his little tin head to the side and looked at "Master" and Rogue, then at the Dib human. "Master?" He asked in a cute voice. "Why is your friend allllll the way over theeerrrrreeee?" He pointed at Dib.
Zim shot his head up at Gir with a angry look. "Gir! Thats the enemy! He has NOTHING to do with us, got that!?"
Gir cocked his head to the other side. "Then...why do you and him alway go to SKOOOOL all the time?"
"Gir, how many times have I told you that human and I are NOT FRIENDS!!!" Zim shouted slamimg his fists. Gir stepped back from his angry Master. He made a pout face and then looked at Rogue, who was feeling a little sorry for the SIR. Suddenly, Gir perked up and spoke again.
"Buuuut, ROGUE is your friend, RIIIIIIIIIGHT?"
Zim perked his head up to Gir, and then to Rogue. He sort of stared at her for a moment. "........I guess,.....yes, in a sence, you can said that. She's one of OUR kind, NOT the Dib."
"I agree with Zim." Rogue said. She looked back at the human boy and deilvered an another glare to him.
Gir stood his ground, still not quite understanding why his Master is so grumby all the time when it comes to Dib. He walked away from them, going into his own little world for a brif moment. He then suddenly snapped out of it, like he always does, and looked towards Dib. The boy looked back at the robot, and then away at it with a scowl. But Gir didn't stop looking. 'Hmmmmmmm........" He thought. He skipped over to him.
"HELLLLOOO!" The SIR cooed. Dib backed away at it's weird little greeting. "HOW ARE YOOOOU?" Gir asked.
"What do you want?" Dib said with a confuse look. "Oh, I get it. Zim send you over here, didn't he? What, does he want to know if I'm scared right now? Huh?"
Gir shooked his metal head "no".
"No?" Dib said with a raised eyebrow.
"Noooooooooo!" Gir said sweetly. "Why do you and Master not like each other?"
Dib's face went blank for a moment at the robot's unexpacted question, but it then suddenly turned serious. "How stupid does Zim think I am!? This is some alien trick, right?!"
As he say that, the robot suddenly started to stare at him, completely silence, not saying a word to his question. Dib started to sweat, thinking it was going to attack him or something like that. Gir inched alittle more towards him, still blankly staring. Dib backed up again, but as he did, he fell backwards off the rock, onto the ground. Gir looked down at him, and started to giggle rapitly. Dib quickly scramble up, and slowly started to walk away from the crazy little SIR. But Gir ran infront of him, blocking is way, and just WOULD NOT STOP STARING AT HIM. Dib, slightly getting more nevous of this weird situation, started to quickly walk backwards, away from Gir, but Gir just followed. Walking became running backwards, and then before long it was a chase. The robot began to chase the Earth child, for who knows what, around the area, and then they headed towards Zim and Rogue.
The aliens' heads immediately shot up at the sight of the two. At first, they didn't think they would have ever seen something like that. But then, it was posably the funniest thing they have seen in their lives, the SIR chasing the screaming worm monkey know as Dib. Both Zim and Rogue were laughing so hard, it was almost to the point of tears. Almost.
The crazy chase finally ended when Gir jumped on Dib's back, throwing him to the ground, right infront of Rogue and Zim, still laughing. Gir sat up on his back, and lightly put his finger on his head.
"TAG! YOU IT!! I WIN!!!"
"GET HIM OFF OF ME!!!" Dib shouted, struggling to stand up, but Gir wouldn't move. Zim and Rogue were still cracking up.
"ZIM! GET YOUR CRAZY ROBOT OFF ME!!!" Dib commaned.
Zim slowly contaned his laughing and cleared his throut. "No, I think I want Gir to stay right there, so I can kept an eye on you, so you don't try anything dumb. Want do you say Rogue?"
Rogue too finally stopped laughing and said, "I think thats a great idea."
"You rotten alien....." Dib muttered under his breath. Gir once again reached into his head, this time, taking out a rubber moose, and started sucking on it'd head, like a loipop.
~ Rogue yawned and streched her back out, looking over at Zim as he now worked on his backpack device in silence. She sighed silently and looked around the planet.
They had been there for a few hours now, and the planet's sun was starting to go down. Dib had retreated back to his rock after Gir lost interest and fell asleep in a pile of his piggies and moose toys, and Zim had been completly silence ever since another argument with Dib.
Zim looked up to Rogue, and cocked his head.
"What?" He asked with a look of confusion. Rogue looked down, realizing she was staring at him for the longest time. "Nothing..." She said glancing up. Zim looked at her for a moment before noticing something.
Rogue looked REALLY tired. Her anntena's were drooped back behind her head and he could tell she was on the verge of falling asleep, due to that fact that her eyes were bearly open.
"Rogue?" Zim asked, the sound of someone speaking made her eyes open fully. "Hum?" She looked at him in responce. "You should really get some sleep. We still have alot of repairs to do on the voot crusier and we need to start imediately tomorrow when the sun's up." Rogue looked at him for a moment.
"Are you sure?" She asked. "Yes." Zim said looking back at his pack. "I won't need your help until then, get some rest." He said as he continued working on his pack.
Rogue shrugged a little and yawned. "Okay..." She said shirfting a little in her seat and closing her eyes, "G'night." She whispered, not sure if he heard her or not. Zim looked at her for a moment, he continued on with his work...but, suddenly, the Irken soilder felt a slight weight on his shoulder.
He looked over, his own tired eyes perked as he saw that Rogue, already fast asleep was leaned over, with her head on his shoulder. Zim jumped a little.
He was about to lift her up off his shoulder, but stopped, looking at her face, to see a tired, but, suprisingly a small smile on her face. He felt Rogue sigh, then let his shoulders droop.
He looked back at his pack and again went back to work, but, he noticed something. Just like Rogue at times, HE had the 'redness thing' on HIS face.
TO BE CONTINUED........................
RogueStar: (Screams cutely) AHHHHHHHHHHH! I smell some fluff! First, I would like to give a HUGE thanks to the great Aoi Jade for helping me on this chapter. She's the one who did the fluff! ^-^ PLEAZZZZ tell me what you think of THIS one! Me AND Aoi Jade worked hard on it. I'm not QUITE sure when the next one will be up, whats going to happen is........hey, wait! I'm not telling you all that YET! You'll all are just going to have to wait for chapter 14! Thanks for being REALLY good at waiting for me readers. ^-^