Chapter 15
"YAAAAAAY! IRK!!"
The kicked up voot cruiser blasted though the blackness of space at great speed, finaly nearing towards planet Irk. Only one hour was left standing. Inside the cock pit, Zim and Rogue, knowing that time was now short, thought now was a good time to plan out the phases of the plan. Meanwhile, Dib was finaly awake from the last chapter, now with a huge bump on his head, still tied up and gagged, scowling in the corner of the back seat. His mind raced, thinking of some way to get out of his little tight situation, occasionally throwing a death glare to the two Irkins. For the past hour or so, he's wanted so much to shout and curse at them.
Gir sat next to the window on the other side of the back seat, blankly staring out. He suddenly slammed his tin head againest it, and began to suck his mouth to it, leaving little circles of spit on the glass. He leaned back and chuckled cutely.
Curious at what was so funny, Zim looked back at his SIR, and just raised his unseeable brow at Gir's bizzra actions. Gir returned it with a big dopy smile and a little wave of his hand. Zim turned back to his seat and let out a sigh of annoyance. Right at that moment, he felt something heavy plop on his head. Zim grit his teeth. No doubt, it was Gir. The robot looked down from at his Master. With a little smile he asked, "Are we there yet?!"
A light chuckle was suddenly heard from Rogue on the other seat. Zim looked at her for a brief moment, and then up to Gir. His eyes' shape turned from oval to slated as he said with grited teeth to Gir, "We'll be there in about an hour, GIR........Rogue and I were just plotting a BRILLANT plan for this very importent mission."
At hearing this, Dib perked up in the corner, suddenly interested at what Zim was talking about. Zim continued on.
"And as soon we finish plotting, I'll tell you what that plan is, and we are to carry it out as accordingly." Zim then fell back into his seat, with Gir still atop his head. A few more quiet seconds ticked by.
".........."
"GET OFF MY HEAD!!!" Zim yelled out. (*See "Battle of the Planets"**^- ^*)
The silence of the cock pit was suddenly broken by Rogue's laughter to Zim's sudden outbust. Dib too laughed from under his bindings. As soon as Gir hopped off Zim's green head, Zim turned and death glared his rival. Gir made his way to the still laughing Rogue, jumped on to her lap, curled up into a little ball, and proceeded to dooze off like before.
The laugher soon quieted down. Rogue wiped a happy tear from her eye, and glaced down at the already snoring Gir. After regaining his cool, Zim releashed a tried sigh and looked over at her.
"Now, where were we in the planing?" He asked. Rogue looked up from Gir to Zim.
"It was how we were going to get though and into the high security in on planet Irk, wasn't it?" Rogue replied, petting Gir on the head.
"Ah yes, that!" Zim said. "Mmm, now HOW would you get in with that many guards around?"
"Easy, lie to them." Rogue plainly said. Zim turned his head to her and made a "uh?" look.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"Exactly what I said. You and Gir can hide in the backroom, and I'll tell the guards, and the Tallest when we get to them, that I have "finished my job", and we're in! All the guards know who I am, so they'll believe anything a say. I'm used to fibbing, remember?"
"Well, you were definitely convincing." Zim said with a nod.
"..........Sorry about that." Rogue said.
"Forget it, it doesn't matter anymore." Zim said with a waved hand. "Now, after we get passed that part, it would help if Gir and I could walk around the place WITHOUT being noticed."
"You mean a disguise?" Rogue asked. "What kind? You can't walk around as a HUMAN."
"I KNOW that." Zim said. "I'll create disguises for me and Gir just for this case."
"Hey, waaaaait a minute." Rogue said with sharp eyes. "What about THAT?" She pointed her thumb at Dib. He started struggling around again, saying SOMETHING under his gag to the two. Zim thought for a few moments to Rogue's question.
"How about this..." He said. "...we put him back in one of the steel boxes, one WITHOUT burn holes, and put a lock on it. After all this, then you and I can figure out what to do with him next. That way, we'll KNOW he'll stay in one place."
"WITHOUT burn holes, uh?" Rogue said with a evil looking grin. "You think he'll have enough air?" A still silence passed by at that thought, with a sound of a chriping cricket for effect. Little snickers started to come from Zim and Rogue. The two Irkins then brusted out in a unison of evil sounding laugher. Gir suddenly woke up, rubbing his big blue eyes. He looked up at stared at the loudly laughing Zim and Rogue. Then he too joined in, not knowing why of course. Dib went all wide eyed, with a scared look.
~ 10 minutes of insane laugher later...~
"Ha, ha ha ha....wooo!" Rogue said calming down. "That was funny!" Zim releashed a couple more snickers before he could start breathing normaly again. Gir was on the floor, half-passed out from laugher.
"Okay, enough fooling around..(snicker)." Zim said. "Back to planing. We sneak in past security, don a disguise, and......uh, hmmmm."
"That's going to be to the hard part." Rogue said. "We can't just brust in on the Tallest, we could really start something. If only others knew what WE knew."
"If they did, I wouldn't be surprise if the Tallest did away with them or something." Zim said with a slanted glare. But then, his face changed as a idea struke. "But....if EVERYONE on IRK knew about it...all at once..."
Rogue's eyes and long antennas perked up, understanding what Zim was getting at. She finished his sentence by saying, "....then, the whole PLANET would be AGAINEST them!"
"IT'S PERFECT!" Zim said, standing right up in his seat. "The WHOLE Irkin ran will be on OUR SIDE!! IT'S SHEER GENIUS!!!"
"Whoa, wait one minute." Rogue said. "Is that even possable? How are we going to let ANYONE know? Or even have them BELIEVE us for that matter!"
"That's where YOU can come in!" Zim said pointing at her. "You came hack into highly secured computer systems, can't you? Well, on the streets and major buildings of Irk, there's HUGE monitor screens for showing the progess of current invader events to the public! We could use those! You get me?"
Rogue drew a smile. "YEAH! I could hack into the computers, then into a monitor, like before at your base, and then, catch them in the act of doing or SAYING something about what thier doing to you, me, and how thier wasting all those planets, and then transfer it all to the monitor screens, and BOOM! The whole planet will KNOW!!!" Rogue then stopped to breath in after all that talking all at once in one breath!
"THAT'S the plan!" Zim said in a excited tone. Just then, the passed out Gir arosed and looked up to see what all the excitement was about. Zim saw he was awake, and said to him, "Gir! The plan is complete! The plan is to-"
"YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!" The crazy SIR screamed out before his Master could finish.
"Ahem! As I was saying," Zim continued. "The plan is to expose the enemy to all of Irk! To do it, we will-"
"YAAAAAAY! IRK!!" Gir screamed again, clapping his little robot hands. (See, that's the chapter's title! ^-^)
"GIR!!!" Zim shouted with one opened eye. Rogue covered her mouth, trying to hide a slight chuckle.
"I gotted a idea!!!" Gir sais suddenly. He opened his head, and reached deep inside it. Rogue and Zim, remembering the dreaded molded flapjacks, both cringed at what Gir was going to pull out. But to thier relief, Gir took out a six pack of Cherry Poop. He took one out of it's plasic ring thing, and cutely handed it to Rogue. Zim gave a look to Gir, thinking that Rogue would surely reject the Earth beverage. But, to his surprise, Rogue took the can with no hesitation, and opened it. (Remember back in the beginning of Chapter 7? ^-~) Dib too, STILL tried, watched as Rogue proceeded to put the open soda can to her lips, and take a relativily long drink. Zim 's and the Dib's eyes went as wide as thier heads at this. After gluping the long swig, Rogue stopped and looked down at a smiling little Gir.
"Thanks Gir." She said wiping her mouth.
"Yoooooooooou WELCOME!" Gir said with a wide mouth.
"ROGUE! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING!!??" Zim suddenly shouted after over coming what he just saw her do. "THAT'S A EARTH DRINK!!! A EARTH DRINK!!!! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO!? POISON YOURSELF?!" He then tried to take the can of Poop away from Rogue, but she quickly raised her arm high and out of his reach.
"Calm down, this stuff okay!" Rogue said.
"How do you know that?" Zim said, still trying to grab the can. "That could be the POISON talking!!!"
"I DRANK it before." Rogue said. "The day I was late for the skool, when I told you that Gir kept me, he gave me a can of it, and I sort of ACCIDENTALLY had a taste of it. It's fine, I don't get sick or anything."
"Are you SURE?" Zim said, still thinking of poison.
"Would I lie to you?" She said. Zim gave her a blank slanted look. "I mean NOW, not like before!" She said to him.
"Now do you know that the liqiud is not what was making you have that unusual "reddness" earlier?" Zim asked.
Rogue looked down at the can, and thought about what Gir told her earlier on the gray planet. After a brief moment, she just smiled, and said to Zim, "I'm positive, that's NOT what it was."
Zim made a slight confused look at the fact that Rogue said that so...surely. With that, Rogue went back to drinking her Cherry Poop. When she went to put the can to her mouth, some of it spilled on her Irkin uniform.
"Awwww, you made a spill." Gir said. "I'll get that!" The hyper SIR hopped over to Dib, who moved back abit at seeing the robot coming towards him. Not really thinking, as if he REALLY thinks at all, Gir took the gag away from Dib mouth, went back to Rogue, and cutely dabbed her uniform.
"FINALY! I could bearly breath!" Dib said loudly. (That was the first thing he's said in a good while! ^-^)
"GIR! YOU UNPLUGED THE HUMAN!" Zim shouted.
"SO! You two are heading back to your home PLANET!" Dib said as he hopped over to the two aliens. (His legs and feet are tired too.)
"SEAT BACK DOWN, FILTHY WORM!" Zim shouted. "GIR! REGAG HIM NOW!"
"I WANT SOME ANSWER ZIM! RIGHT NOW!" Dib said right in Zim's green face. "I'm not scared of YOU, or Rogue! I may not have any of my cameras, but THATS not going to stop me! Earth will NOT be-"
Suddenly, Rogue came up from behind, cluched on to Dib's black spike, and lifted him up high.(again) "Man, you humans are obnoxious!" She said with grited teeth. She then reached her hand out to Gir, who still had the gag. He gave it to her, and she shuffed it back into Dib's mouth. "I'll go stuff him in the box now." She said as she made her way towards the back room, dragging Dib on the floor. He wiggled around, trying to break loose, but to no avial. He started to shout from under the gag something that sounded like, "You won't get away with this!! I'll stop you two!"
"Aw, SHUT up!" Rogue said entering the backroom, with a door shuting on it own. The sound of a metal box was heard closing, following with the sound of a big lock locking it shut. Rogue then emerged from the back, and quietly just went back to her seat. "Now maybe we can focus a little better without that human breathing down our necks!" She said.
"I couldn't have said that better myself." Zim said. "Now, onward to IRK!"
"YEEEEAAAAAAH WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!" Gir cood loudly as Zim kicked the voot crusier into a hyper jump.
*~~~~~~~~*
~Rogue looked at Zim as she jumped out of the voot cruiser.
"Are you sure you can handle it alone?" Zim asked, looking down at her. Rogue shook her head and sighed. "Don't worry about it, just get out of here and go someplace where they can't find you, I'll handle the thing with the Tallest."
Zim gave her a quick nod as he closed the glass bubble of the cruiser. Gir jumped over to the window with a smile on his face and waved madly as they took off .Rogue chuckled and waved at him slightly before they disappeared.
The smile soon disappeared from the female Irken's face as she turned around and looked at the Tallests' ship.
'Okay....' She thought, 'It's show time...'
~ Rogue walked through the launching base, and straight into the ship. She looked around the area, all of the Tallests' flunkies walking around, taking care of who knows what kind of business.
"Rogue?!" The Irken at the door said, seeing her walk in. He ran up to her and looked her over. "How did you get here, we were not informed of your arival! The Tallest said that your ship was destroyed, how did you get here!?"
Rogue narrowed her eyes and looked at him, much like the way she used to look at Zim when she was about to destroy him.
"None of that is of your consern." She said in a cold tone, "Inform the Tallest of my arival." The Irken soilder nodded and gave aquick salute before turning and leaving.
Rogue let out a small sigh.
'That was harder than I thought...' She thought, looking around, still keeping the cold look in her eyes.
"Rogue!" Red's voice all of the sudden bolted out of nowhere. She looked up to see a monitor lowering infront of her, with Red and Purple on the screen. "What a surprise....you didn't contact us with your arival."
Rogue swallowed and cringed inside, forcing herself to bow, as all the other Irkens were doing in the room.
"My apologizes my Tallest." She said looking up, "I thought it would save valuble time if I just came without notice."
Red thought a moment, then nodded.
"Did you take care of Zim!" Purple said, pushing Red out of the way of the camera.
Rogue swallowed and nodded solemnly.
"Yes Masters..." She almost had to force the words out, "He has been eliminated." Red stepped back into the veiw of the camera and smiled. "Very well done Rogue!" He said in a praising manner. "You can report in and get some rest. That is all."
The monitor then went up and out of sight, and all the Irkin workers went back to working. Rogue slowly stood up, releashing a sigh mixed with a low sounding growl. 'Before it felt honorable to bow to THOSE two.' She thought. 'But now it just makes me sick!' She snapped out of her thoughts, remembering about Zim. 'Right, I have to contact him!'
Rogue quietly walked towards to a shadowed area of the place. She quickly doubled checked around to see if anybody was watching or saw her. Seeing that she was in the clear, she then activated a small antenna in her right cyborg arm, and began to whisper something into it.
"Zim! Come in. Do you hear me?"
After a brief sound of static, a famlier voice answered back.
"This is Zim. I hear you loud and clear."
"I DO TOO!"
"QUIET GIR!"
Rogue quickly checked behind her to see if anyone heard that. "Okay, Zim, I have just talked to the Tallest, and phase one is complete. Where are you and Gir?"
~ The male Irkin was hiding behind the huge voot, which was parked in a ship parking structure just near the launching bace where Rogue was. "Right where you told me to place the curiser, in YOUR parking area." Zim answered. Gir was next to his Master, seating on the ground, playing with dirt.
"The ship parking's lot number is 171984, right?" Rogue reposed back.
Zim looked up at the number on the wall. "That's what it says."
"Good, that's my number." Rogue said. "Now, you and Gir gotta into the launching base, and then the Massive* without being noticed." (The "Massive" is the name of the Tallest's ship! It's TRUE! Go to Nick.com and see! ^-^)
"I'll create the disguises." Zim said.
"Hold that thought for a sec, Zim." Rogue said. "I was thinking, instand of MAKING a disguise... is there any guards standing near or around you?"
~ About a yard away from Zim and Gir, there stood one of the Irkin guards, obversing the incoming and outgoing ships. Suddenly, he heard something behind him, and swung around to see what it was.
"HEEEY! HOW YA DOING!?" The little robot Gir said, waving a "Hi" to the guard.
"What the...a SIR unit? Where did you come from?" The guard asked puzzled.
"WHEEEE! YOU CAN'T CATCH ME!!!" Gir suddenly made a break for it, running towards the big voot.
"Hey! Wait a minute! You get back here!" The guard began to chase after Gir, who ducked behind the curiser. As the guard got over there....
"Hey! Who are- OW! OOW! Ugh."
A few mintues later, out walked Zim, with the KOed guard's outfit on. He then reached into his backpack, and pulled out a small sack. He turned to Gir, who was poking the guard's head with a stick, giggling.
"Gir!" Zim said. "Come on, in the bag." Gir jumped up, walked over, and hopped right in. This way, Zim could simply smuggle his SIR in. He rosed his hand up that had the communicater on it to his mouth. "Rogue, I'm ready to move out. Wait for me. Zim out." Zim then threw the sack contaning Gir over his shoulder and started making his way to the launching area. He made a little "I'm just another guard" whistle as he pasted the other guards, which just all gave him a weird look.
As he got to the entrance of the launching base, two guards standing in the doorway stopped him.
"Halt! What's in the bag?" One of them asked.
Zim suddnely began to sweat, thinking quickly of a explanation. "Oh, uh, this bag? This bag here? Well, um, this is just...uh, some, broken old robot parts!"
The guards both gave a look at each other. "May we see them, then?" One asked.
More sweat dripped for Zim's head. "Uhhh, of..course!" He dropped to bag down on the ground, and was about to open it. Just as he did, he quickly whispered to Gir inside, "Defensive mode!" With those words, the sound of something metal falling apart was heard in the bag. "Have a look!" Zim said with a grin. The two guards glaced inside.
"........Looks like broken robots parts to me." One guard said to the other with a shrug.
"Okay then, you can go through." The other said to Zim.
Zim grab the bag, threw it over his shoulder, and walked right inside the launch base. Once inside, he let a huge sigh of relief escape from his chest. 'That was too close! I have to meet up with Rogue QUICK!'
~ Rogue began to start worrying about Zim and Gir. 'They should have been here by now!' She thought to herself. She started to pace the floor, while looking around the room for Zim at the same time. 'Where are you??'
Rogue turned her back and did her best to look dark and cold to the other workers passing by. It wasn't so hard before. 'Being around Zim, and I guess Gir too, sort of, changed me.' She thought. Suddenly, she felt something tap her on the shoulder. She lightning like spun around, to see a guard, with a sack over his shoulder. She quickly shook off her sudden freak out, and donned on her cold look. "What is it, "guard" ?"
"It's ME!" Zim said in a whisper tone and narrowed eyes.
Rogue's purple eyes perked. "Oh, Zim! I didn't recognize you with a guard uniform on."
"You TOLD me to knock out the guard to get it, right?" Zim asked.
Rogue snapped her forehead. "Aw man, I must be more nervose then I thought if I forgot tha-....hey, where's Gir?"
Zim plop the sack down, and opened it up. Rogue peeked into it, and raised a unseen brow. "Why is he...?"
"Gir! Pull yourself together." Zim commaned. The bag rustled around abit, and out popped Gir, red-eyed and slauted to Zim, then turned, turned blue-eyed and waved cutely at Rogue. "It was the only way I could get him in." Zim said. "Now, where to from here?"
Rogue's face went serious as she looked around the area of the Massive. The three were only in the entrance part of it, but it was just plain HUGE! All around the the walls were doors leading to places all over the ship. Also, up higher on the wall, there were air vents lining all around.
"Where are the Tallest's room anyway?" Zim asked, also eyeing around.
"Actually, there's two rooms." Rogue said. "One is the control room, where they conmand the Massive, and the other is the room where they rest inbetween ruling. I've been in the control room, but never in the other room. But I do know where both rooms are."
"I smell bacon!" Gir suddenly said.
"Quiet Gir!" Zim said, pushing him back down in the sack. He picked the sack up, and faced Rogue. "I can't carrier Gir like this for long."
"Your right." She thought for a brief monment. "I got it! We'll get into one of the vents up on the walls, and make our way to a point where we can hack into the ship's main computer." Rogue said.
"Very well, I'll make sure the coast is clear while you open one of the vents." Zim said.
The two then ran to the closest vent gate. Once over there, Zim quickly put Gir down, and looked around the room, untill all the Irkens there were not looking. "Now Rogue!" He said. The second he said that, Rogue deploded her metal legs, and jumped high in the air, towards the vent. Then with lightning quick speed, unhached it, and climbed in. She then looked back down as Zim grabbed the sack, waiting for the right moment for himself. When that came, he too jumped high up, spider leg style, and got into the vent with Rogue. To not draw attention, Rogue placed the vent gate back over the vent hole. Zim took the guard uniform off, showing his normal uniform, folded it all small like, and stuffed it in his backpack, just in case. He then let Gir out of the bag.
"Now what?" Zim asked Rogue.
"Just follow me." She said. They then begun to crawl deeper into the vent's dark ways, passing other vent gates, showing other rooms of the Massive. One room was a another ship docking area, and another was the HUGE engine room.
"Oooo, I smell something gooood." Gir said.
"We're near the ship's cafateria, that's why." Rogue said.
"Can we get a snack? PLEZZZZZ?" The robot said with big eyes.
"Gir! This mission is much more importent!" Zim said. "Food can wait!"
"Awww." Gir wined. "I could go for a taqueto too."
"A "what"?" Rogue asked.
"Don't ask." Zim said. "By the way, where are we going?"
"To a room where one of the computers that is conneted to the main computer is." Rogue said. "It's also where the I.S.D.B. is stored."
"The Irkin Soldier Data Base?" Zim asked.
"That's right." Rogue said lookind back at him. "That's where I looked to see if I could find more stuff about you."
"You really DO know this ship inside and out!" Zim said in abit of amazment. "Hey, what did MY files said about me anyway?"
"Uh, all it said was the time you messed up Operation Impending Doom 1 for EVERYBODY, and then banished to planet Food Courtia, and then......that's it. Nothing was ever added since then." Rogue said.
Rogue suddenly heard a thump sound from behind her. Looking back, she saw Zim face down on the vent ground. He slowly got up, rubbed on his now red face, and made a depressing sounding sigh.
"Zim?" Rogue said in a curiose tone. "Why did you trip like that?"
The Irkin slowly lifted his head to face her.
"Shock." Zim just bluntly said. "Just, shock. Knowing what you just told me just adds more proof that I was NEVER what I thought I was. The Tallest LIED to me, making me THINK, I was worth something! And for as long as I can remember, I was just trying to show then ALL what I could do! Be a GREAT INVADER! But THIS, is what it all comes down to! I'll show them! I'LL SHOW THEM!!! TALLEST AND ALL!!!"
Suddenlly, Zim felt his mouth become covered by Rogue's plam of her hand. She made a "shhh" sound to him, and then said........
"I know EXACTLY what you mean, Zim. Don't forget, I too was lied to, and made believed that I was something greater, and more importent." She then slowly took her hand off his mouth, and turned away. "Just remember.....your, not alone."
Zim just kneeled there for a minute as Rogue continued to crawl deeper into the vent ways. He took a moment to let her words sink in. "...your, not alone." That was true. It didn't really hit him untill then. Knowing that you knew someone else that was, and had the same thing going for them, and they tolaly understand, slightly made it not feel so bad. A small, but not too hard to notice smile suddnely appeared on the Irkin's face.
Seeing that his Master wasn't moving much, Gir went up to him, and snapped his little robot fingers in his face. Zim suddenly blinked his wide red eyes, coming one of it.
"Uh, what, who?" He said looking around, and not seeing Rogue. "Hey, where did-"
Gir tapped him on the shoulder, and pointed towards where Rogue crawled off to. Zim quicken the pace, and caught up with her, with Gir following closely behind.
"What took you?" Rogue said as she saw Zim finaly coming up. "For a minute there, I thought you got caught!"
"What? Nonsence, of course not!" Zim said. "I was just, uh, thinking about what you said back there."
Rogue glaced at him, and then made one of her little "Rogue smirks". "Oh, the thing about not being alone. Right. I meant it too, Zim." Her smirk then grew into a full smile, towards him. Once again, their glossy alien eyes met in a lock. It lasted of at lest a good three minutes. Gir just stood there, watching each of them, smiling with a flat tougne sticking out of his mouth.
"...................."
".........um,......uh,..." Zim blurted out the only words he could blurt.
"....uh, what you say?" Rogue suddenly said, eyes slightly perked.
"Say what?" Zim said, still staring on.
After about ten more seconds of this, both Irkins, that the same time, snapped themself across the face, instantly breaking the strange stare-off.
"Okay, where were we?" Zim said, suddenly all serious like.
"Right, back to business." Rogue said, same way as Zim.
"You two were SO CUTE just then!" Gir brusted out. Luckly, Zim and Rogue, right at that moment, were too caught up in talking to hear him.
"Alright, right now, we're right above exactly were we what to be." Rogue said.
"We are?" Zim said. He then, carefuly and QUIETLY, looked out the vent gate. Through the gate's teeths, there were a fairly huge room with a fairly huge computer to go with it. And luckly for them, no guards in sight.
"What are we waiting for, lets go!" Zim said.
With a quick nod, Rogue loosen the gate with a show of her strength. The three jumped down, and quickly rescaned the room. Seeing all was clear so far, Zim headed stranght for the computer.
"Okay, let's do this." Zim said looking at the computer's control panal.
"Not so fast, one more thing." Rogue said, going for the automatic door leading to the outside of the room. Zim threw a look with a raised unseeable brow. Without another word, Rogue kneeled down infront of the door, and activated her cybrog arms. Both of the gems on her wrist began to shine off a light glow. She then searched around the door, untill she found a certain spot. She placed both hands on the spot, and after a lightning quick flash of light, removed hands.
"What did you do?" Zim asked.
Rogue stood up, and deactivated her arms. "I paralyzed the door's circuits, so nobody can get in while we're in here. It should last long all enough for us to do this." She then walked over to Zim and the computer. Zim reached over, and turned on the computer's main power. The screen brighten up the room as Rogue got right to work at her hacking. Meanwhile, Gir sat the the room behind them, eating a bag of buttered popcorn. (Hee Hee ^-~)
"How long will this take?" Zim asked, watching Rogue doing her work.
"Hopefuly for us, not too long." Rogue said while attaching wires and circuits from the computer to her arms. "I really didn't what to tell you, but we REALLY better hope no one will be wondering where I am. I was supposed to report in when I got in the ship, but I completely forgot!"
"In that case, HURRY!" Zim said.
"I AM, don't shout!" Rogue said, moving more quickly. Suddenly, the computer began to show effects from Rogue hacking. The screen popped up different mini screens at lightning speed as the hacking program searched for a way into one of the Tallest's main monitors to thier areas. At the same time, Rogue was quickly scanning all the other programs that were caming up. Zim noticed her eyes rapidly looking over the screen. Without even taking her eyes of the screen, she said to him, "My eyes are fast as well as the rest of my body."
"Ohhh, I get it." Zim said.
Suddenly, just as Zim said that, a file with a strange name crossed Rogue's fast moving eyes.
"What the...!" She said, her sharp eyes growing wide.
"WHAT! What is it?!" Zim asked in sudden panic mode. Gir then just suddnely screamed at the tops of his lungs, throwing popcorn everywhere, then just stood up, and started dancing around the room. Rogue and Zim gave their weird looks at this, and then right back to the main matter.
"What's wrong!? Did they find us?!" Zim asked.
"No, it's not that at all." Rogue said, rescaning the computer. "I....saw this computer file with a familer name to it."
"Rogue, we don't have time for file browsing! If we waste time, we'll get caught!" Zim said.
"I found it again! Here, look at the file name." Rogue said as she pointed her finger to the screen where she brought the file up. The file read, "PROJECT ROGUE.....Top Secret.....Classafied....DON'T PEEK!!!"
Zim, at reading this, looked back at Rogue, who almost looked like she has just uncovered something that she has been looking for.
"Project "Rogue"?" Zim said looking back at the screen. "As in, YOU Rogue?"
"I'm.....not, sure." She answered. "You see, I've once heard that when I was born, in some way, they made me different. And that way was recorded in a file that was thought to be lost a long time ago. But THIS could be it!" She then was quiet for a moment, and said, "The truth is....I don't remember much about my past! The most I do remember was my tough, and sometimes harsh training the Tallest made me go through. But before all that, I don't even recall the the people that gave me my uniform to wear! And with what's going now right now, I'm betting the TALLEST has something to do with THAT!" She cleched her fists tight, and grited her zipper like teeth. "I HAVE to look at this NOW!"
"ROGUE! We might not have time!" Zim shouted. "But here's a idea. Can you maybe download the file into your cybrog arm's, and then check it out later, AFTER we do this!?"
Rogue thought about that for a quick moment. "Alright, good idea. Sorry, I sort of forgot about what we were doing there for a minute." She raised her left arm up, and pressed buttons to start download. But as she did, the computer spoke saying, "SORRY, PASSWORD REQUIED FOR COMMANDMENT."
"You want a password?" Rogue said with a sound of irratation in her voice. "Here's a PASSWORD!" She performed the same move she did on the door earlier, causing the computer to first make some loud "bleeps" and "click" noices, and then say, "P..PA...PASS...PASSWORD CON...CON..CONFERMDED! FILE DOWN...DOWNLOADED!"
"Thank you." Rogue said with a smirk.
"Come ON, Rogue! We have to hurry!" Zim said.
"Okay, I'm on it now!" Rogue said, going to scan the computer again. But, just as she was about to, the three were shocked to suddenly hear tha ship's alarm go off! Zim and Rogue both looked at one another, thinking that the Tallest knew their where in there! But then, the main loud speakers went off, with one of the Tallests' voices on the other end.
"ATTENTION ALL IRKEN SOILDERS!" Purple's voice said in a panic, "There is a.....giant....hairless RAT loose in the area! If you see it...KILL IT! This...creature may be armed....and dangerous! .....Well...maybe not dangerous....but....it's so ugly...look at the size of it's head!"
"MY HEAD'S NOT BIG!!!!"
*BOOM!*
Rogue and Zim looked at each other again with shock, blank looks. Fists clenched and teeth grit.
"DIB!!!!!!"
TO BE CONTINUED....................
RogueStar: MAWWWHAAAHAAAHAAA!!!!! I'M BACK!!!! NEW CHAPTER!!! YAY!! Anywho, I'm REALLLY REALLY sorry for the LOOOOOOONG wait! Computer problems, schoolwork and ALLL that happy stuff kept me from writing lately. Once again, I would like to thank the great Aoi Jade for helping me with this chapter, and hopefuly, I will get some more reveiws with this one. Now that they FINALY got to Irk, WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT!? And you all didn't think I was going to leave Dibby out of all of this, did ya. DID YA?! UH? UHH!? ..........I didn't think so. ^-^ So, please all you kind readers, R&R me, and I WILL BE BACK!!!!!!!!! HAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! ROGUESTAR OUT!!!! LATER! ^0^
"YAAAAAAY! IRK!!"
The kicked up voot cruiser blasted though the blackness of space at great speed, finaly nearing towards planet Irk. Only one hour was left standing. Inside the cock pit, Zim and Rogue, knowing that time was now short, thought now was a good time to plan out the phases of the plan. Meanwhile, Dib was finaly awake from the last chapter, now with a huge bump on his head, still tied up and gagged, scowling in the corner of the back seat. His mind raced, thinking of some way to get out of his little tight situation, occasionally throwing a death glare to the two Irkins. For the past hour or so, he's wanted so much to shout and curse at them.
Gir sat next to the window on the other side of the back seat, blankly staring out. He suddenly slammed his tin head againest it, and began to suck his mouth to it, leaving little circles of spit on the glass. He leaned back and chuckled cutely.
Curious at what was so funny, Zim looked back at his SIR, and just raised his unseeable brow at Gir's bizzra actions. Gir returned it with a big dopy smile and a little wave of his hand. Zim turned back to his seat and let out a sigh of annoyance. Right at that moment, he felt something heavy plop on his head. Zim grit his teeth. No doubt, it was Gir. The robot looked down from at his Master. With a little smile he asked, "Are we there yet?!"
A light chuckle was suddenly heard from Rogue on the other seat. Zim looked at her for a brief moment, and then up to Gir. His eyes' shape turned from oval to slated as he said with grited teeth to Gir, "We'll be there in about an hour, GIR........Rogue and I were just plotting a BRILLANT plan for this very importent mission."
At hearing this, Dib perked up in the corner, suddenly interested at what Zim was talking about. Zim continued on.
"And as soon we finish plotting, I'll tell you what that plan is, and we are to carry it out as accordingly." Zim then fell back into his seat, with Gir still atop his head. A few more quiet seconds ticked by.
".........."
"GET OFF MY HEAD!!!" Zim yelled out. (*See "Battle of the Planets"**^- ^*)
The silence of the cock pit was suddenly broken by Rogue's laughter to Zim's sudden outbust. Dib too laughed from under his bindings. As soon as Gir hopped off Zim's green head, Zim turned and death glared his rival. Gir made his way to the still laughing Rogue, jumped on to her lap, curled up into a little ball, and proceeded to dooze off like before.
The laugher soon quieted down. Rogue wiped a happy tear from her eye, and glaced down at the already snoring Gir. After regaining his cool, Zim releashed a tried sigh and looked over at her.
"Now, where were we in the planing?" He asked. Rogue looked up from Gir to Zim.
"It was how we were going to get though and into the high security in on planet Irk, wasn't it?" Rogue replied, petting Gir on the head.
"Ah yes, that!" Zim said. "Mmm, now HOW would you get in with that many guards around?"
"Easy, lie to them." Rogue plainly said. Zim turned his head to her and made a "uh?" look.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"Exactly what I said. You and Gir can hide in the backroom, and I'll tell the guards, and the Tallest when we get to them, that I have "finished my job", and we're in! All the guards know who I am, so they'll believe anything a say. I'm used to fibbing, remember?"
"Well, you were definitely convincing." Zim said with a nod.
"..........Sorry about that." Rogue said.
"Forget it, it doesn't matter anymore." Zim said with a waved hand. "Now, after we get passed that part, it would help if Gir and I could walk around the place WITHOUT being noticed."
"You mean a disguise?" Rogue asked. "What kind? You can't walk around as a HUMAN."
"I KNOW that." Zim said. "I'll create disguises for me and Gir just for this case."
"Hey, waaaaait a minute." Rogue said with sharp eyes. "What about THAT?" She pointed her thumb at Dib. He started struggling around again, saying SOMETHING under his gag to the two. Zim thought for a few moments to Rogue's question.
"How about this..." He said. "...we put him back in one of the steel boxes, one WITHOUT burn holes, and put a lock on it. After all this, then you and I can figure out what to do with him next. That way, we'll KNOW he'll stay in one place."
"WITHOUT burn holes, uh?" Rogue said with a evil looking grin. "You think he'll have enough air?" A still silence passed by at that thought, with a sound of a chriping cricket for effect. Little snickers started to come from Zim and Rogue. The two Irkins then brusted out in a unison of evil sounding laugher. Gir suddenly woke up, rubbing his big blue eyes. He looked up at stared at the loudly laughing Zim and Rogue. Then he too joined in, not knowing why of course. Dib went all wide eyed, with a scared look.
~ 10 minutes of insane laugher later...~
"Ha, ha ha ha....wooo!" Rogue said calming down. "That was funny!" Zim releashed a couple more snickers before he could start breathing normaly again. Gir was on the floor, half-passed out from laugher.
"Okay, enough fooling around..(snicker)." Zim said. "Back to planing. We sneak in past security, don a disguise, and......uh, hmmmm."
"That's going to be to the hard part." Rogue said. "We can't just brust in on the Tallest, we could really start something. If only others knew what WE knew."
"If they did, I wouldn't be surprise if the Tallest did away with them or something." Zim said with a slanted glare. But then, his face changed as a idea struke. "But....if EVERYONE on IRK knew about it...all at once..."
Rogue's eyes and long antennas perked up, understanding what Zim was getting at. She finished his sentence by saying, "....then, the whole PLANET would be AGAINEST them!"
"IT'S PERFECT!" Zim said, standing right up in his seat. "The WHOLE Irkin ran will be on OUR SIDE!! IT'S SHEER GENIUS!!!"
"Whoa, wait one minute." Rogue said. "Is that even possable? How are we going to let ANYONE know? Or even have them BELIEVE us for that matter!"
"That's where YOU can come in!" Zim said pointing at her. "You came hack into highly secured computer systems, can't you? Well, on the streets and major buildings of Irk, there's HUGE monitor screens for showing the progess of current invader events to the public! We could use those! You get me?"
Rogue drew a smile. "YEAH! I could hack into the computers, then into a monitor, like before at your base, and then, catch them in the act of doing or SAYING something about what thier doing to you, me, and how thier wasting all those planets, and then transfer it all to the monitor screens, and BOOM! The whole planet will KNOW!!!" Rogue then stopped to breath in after all that talking all at once in one breath!
"THAT'S the plan!" Zim said in a excited tone. Just then, the passed out Gir arosed and looked up to see what all the excitement was about. Zim saw he was awake, and said to him, "Gir! The plan is complete! The plan is to-"
"YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!" The crazy SIR screamed out before his Master could finish.
"Ahem! As I was saying," Zim continued. "The plan is to expose the enemy to all of Irk! To do it, we will-"
"YAAAAAAY! IRK!!" Gir screamed again, clapping his little robot hands. (See, that's the chapter's title! ^-^)
"GIR!!!" Zim shouted with one opened eye. Rogue covered her mouth, trying to hide a slight chuckle.
"I gotted a idea!!!" Gir sais suddenly. He opened his head, and reached deep inside it. Rogue and Zim, remembering the dreaded molded flapjacks, both cringed at what Gir was going to pull out. But to thier relief, Gir took out a six pack of Cherry Poop. He took one out of it's plasic ring thing, and cutely handed it to Rogue. Zim gave a look to Gir, thinking that Rogue would surely reject the Earth beverage. But, to his surprise, Rogue took the can with no hesitation, and opened it. (Remember back in the beginning of Chapter 7? ^-~) Dib too, STILL tried, watched as Rogue proceeded to put the open soda can to her lips, and take a relativily long drink. Zim 's and the Dib's eyes went as wide as thier heads at this. After gluping the long swig, Rogue stopped and looked down at a smiling little Gir.
"Thanks Gir." She said wiping her mouth.
"Yoooooooooou WELCOME!" Gir said with a wide mouth.
"ROGUE! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING!!??" Zim suddenly shouted after over coming what he just saw her do. "THAT'S A EARTH DRINK!!! A EARTH DRINK!!!! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO!? POISON YOURSELF?!" He then tried to take the can of Poop away from Rogue, but she quickly raised her arm high and out of his reach.
"Calm down, this stuff okay!" Rogue said.
"How do you know that?" Zim said, still trying to grab the can. "That could be the POISON talking!!!"
"I DRANK it before." Rogue said. "The day I was late for the skool, when I told you that Gir kept me, he gave me a can of it, and I sort of ACCIDENTALLY had a taste of it. It's fine, I don't get sick or anything."
"Are you SURE?" Zim said, still thinking of poison.
"Would I lie to you?" She said. Zim gave her a blank slanted look. "I mean NOW, not like before!" She said to him.
"Now do you know that the liqiud is not what was making you have that unusual "reddness" earlier?" Zim asked.
Rogue looked down at the can, and thought about what Gir told her earlier on the gray planet. After a brief moment, she just smiled, and said to Zim, "I'm positive, that's NOT what it was."
Zim made a slight confused look at the fact that Rogue said that so...surely. With that, Rogue went back to drinking her Cherry Poop. When she went to put the can to her mouth, some of it spilled on her Irkin uniform.
"Awwww, you made a spill." Gir said. "I'll get that!" The hyper SIR hopped over to Dib, who moved back abit at seeing the robot coming towards him. Not really thinking, as if he REALLY thinks at all, Gir took the gag away from Dib mouth, went back to Rogue, and cutely dabbed her uniform.
"FINALY! I could bearly breath!" Dib said loudly. (That was the first thing he's said in a good while! ^-^)
"GIR! YOU UNPLUGED THE HUMAN!" Zim shouted.
"SO! You two are heading back to your home PLANET!" Dib said as he hopped over to the two aliens. (His legs and feet are tired too.)
"SEAT BACK DOWN, FILTHY WORM!" Zim shouted. "GIR! REGAG HIM NOW!"
"I WANT SOME ANSWER ZIM! RIGHT NOW!" Dib said right in Zim's green face. "I'm not scared of YOU, or Rogue! I may not have any of my cameras, but THATS not going to stop me! Earth will NOT be-"
Suddenly, Rogue came up from behind, cluched on to Dib's black spike, and lifted him up high.(again) "Man, you humans are obnoxious!" She said with grited teeth. She then reached her hand out to Gir, who still had the gag. He gave it to her, and she shuffed it back into Dib's mouth. "I'll go stuff him in the box now." She said as she made her way towards the back room, dragging Dib on the floor. He wiggled around, trying to break loose, but to no avial. He started to shout from under the gag something that sounded like, "You won't get away with this!! I'll stop you two!"
"Aw, SHUT up!" Rogue said entering the backroom, with a door shuting on it own. The sound of a metal box was heard closing, following with the sound of a big lock locking it shut. Rogue then emerged from the back, and quietly just went back to her seat. "Now maybe we can focus a little better without that human breathing down our necks!" She said.
"I couldn't have said that better myself." Zim said. "Now, onward to IRK!"
"YEEEEAAAAAAH WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!" Gir cood loudly as Zim kicked the voot crusier into a hyper jump.
*~~~~~~~~*
~Rogue looked at Zim as she jumped out of the voot cruiser.
"Are you sure you can handle it alone?" Zim asked, looking down at her. Rogue shook her head and sighed. "Don't worry about it, just get out of here and go someplace where they can't find you, I'll handle the thing with the Tallest."
Zim gave her a quick nod as he closed the glass bubble of the cruiser. Gir jumped over to the window with a smile on his face and waved madly as they took off .Rogue chuckled and waved at him slightly before they disappeared.
The smile soon disappeared from the female Irken's face as she turned around and looked at the Tallests' ship.
'Okay....' She thought, 'It's show time...'
~ Rogue walked through the launching base, and straight into the ship. She looked around the area, all of the Tallests' flunkies walking around, taking care of who knows what kind of business.
"Rogue?!" The Irken at the door said, seeing her walk in. He ran up to her and looked her over. "How did you get here, we were not informed of your arival! The Tallest said that your ship was destroyed, how did you get here!?"
Rogue narrowed her eyes and looked at him, much like the way she used to look at Zim when she was about to destroy him.
"None of that is of your consern." She said in a cold tone, "Inform the Tallest of my arival." The Irken soilder nodded and gave aquick salute before turning and leaving.
Rogue let out a small sigh.
'That was harder than I thought...' She thought, looking around, still keeping the cold look in her eyes.
"Rogue!" Red's voice all of the sudden bolted out of nowhere. She looked up to see a monitor lowering infront of her, with Red and Purple on the screen. "What a surprise....you didn't contact us with your arival."
Rogue swallowed and cringed inside, forcing herself to bow, as all the other Irkens were doing in the room.
"My apologizes my Tallest." She said looking up, "I thought it would save valuble time if I just came without notice."
Red thought a moment, then nodded.
"Did you take care of Zim!" Purple said, pushing Red out of the way of the camera.
Rogue swallowed and nodded solemnly.
"Yes Masters..." She almost had to force the words out, "He has been eliminated." Red stepped back into the veiw of the camera and smiled. "Very well done Rogue!" He said in a praising manner. "You can report in and get some rest. That is all."
The monitor then went up and out of sight, and all the Irkin workers went back to working. Rogue slowly stood up, releashing a sigh mixed with a low sounding growl. 'Before it felt honorable to bow to THOSE two.' She thought. 'But now it just makes me sick!' She snapped out of her thoughts, remembering about Zim. 'Right, I have to contact him!'
Rogue quietly walked towards to a shadowed area of the place. She quickly doubled checked around to see if anybody was watching or saw her. Seeing that she was in the clear, she then activated a small antenna in her right cyborg arm, and began to whisper something into it.
"Zim! Come in. Do you hear me?"
After a brief sound of static, a famlier voice answered back.
"This is Zim. I hear you loud and clear."
"I DO TOO!"
"QUIET GIR!"
Rogue quickly checked behind her to see if anyone heard that. "Okay, Zim, I have just talked to the Tallest, and phase one is complete. Where are you and Gir?"
~ The male Irkin was hiding behind the huge voot, which was parked in a ship parking structure just near the launching bace where Rogue was. "Right where you told me to place the curiser, in YOUR parking area." Zim answered. Gir was next to his Master, seating on the ground, playing with dirt.
"The ship parking's lot number is 171984, right?" Rogue reposed back.
Zim looked up at the number on the wall. "That's what it says."
"Good, that's my number." Rogue said. "Now, you and Gir gotta into the launching base, and then the Massive* without being noticed." (The "Massive" is the name of the Tallest's ship! It's TRUE! Go to Nick.com and see! ^-^)
"I'll create the disguises." Zim said.
"Hold that thought for a sec, Zim." Rogue said. "I was thinking, instand of MAKING a disguise... is there any guards standing near or around you?"
~ About a yard away from Zim and Gir, there stood one of the Irkin guards, obversing the incoming and outgoing ships. Suddenly, he heard something behind him, and swung around to see what it was.
"HEEEY! HOW YA DOING!?" The little robot Gir said, waving a "Hi" to the guard.
"What the...a SIR unit? Where did you come from?" The guard asked puzzled.
"WHEEEE! YOU CAN'T CATCH ME!!!" Gir suddenly made a break for it, running towards the big voot.
"Hey! Wait a minute! You get back here!" The guard began to chase after Gir, who ducked behind the curiser. As the guard got over there....
"Hey! Who are- OW! OOW! Ugh."
A few mintues later, out walked Zim, with the KOed guard's outfit on. He then reached into his backpack, and pulled out a small sack. He turned to Gir, who was poking the guard's head with a stick, giggling.
"Gir!" Zim said. "Come on, in the bag." Gir jumped up, walked over, and hopped right in. This way, Zim could simply smuggle his SIR in. He rosed his hand up that had the communicater on it to his mouth. "Rogue, I'm ready to move out. Wait for me. Zim out." Zim then threw the sack contaning Gir over his shoulder and started making his way to the launching area. He made a little "I'm just another guard" whistle as he pasted the other guards, which just all gave him a weird look.
As he got to the entrance of the launching base, two guards standing in the doorway stopped him.
"Halt! What's in the bag?" One of them asked.
Zim suddnely began to sweat, thinking quickly of a explanation. "Oh, uh, this bag? This bag here? Well, um, this is just...uh, some, broken old robot parts!"
The guards both gave a look at each other. "May we see them, then?" One asked.
More sweat dripped for Zim's head. "Uhhh, of..course!" He dropped to bag down on the ground, and was about to open it. Just as he did, he quickly whispered to Gir inside, "Defensive mode!" With those words, the sound of something metal falling apart was heard in the bag. "Have a look!" Zim said with a grin. The two guards glaced inside.
"........Looks like broken robots parts to me." One guard said to the other with a shrug.
"Okay then, you can go through." The other said to Zim.
Zim grab the bag, threw it over his shoulder, and walked right inside the launch base. Once inside, he let a huge sigh of relief escape from his chest. 'That was too close! I have to meet up with Rogue QUICK!'
~ Rogue began to start worrying about Zim and Gir. 'They should have been here by now!' She thought to herself. She started to pace the floor, while looking around the room for Zim at the same time. 'Where are you??'
Rogue turned her back and did her best to look dark and cold to the other workers passing by. It wasn't so hard before. 'Being around Zim, and I guess Gir too, sort of, changed me.' She thought. Suddenly, she felt something tap her on the shoulder. She lightning like spun around, to see a guard, with a sack over his shoulder. She quickly shook off her sudden freak out, and donned on her cold look. "What is it, "guard" ?"
"It's ME!" Zim said in a whisper tone and narrowed eyes.
Rogue's purple eyes perked. "Oh, Zim! I didn't recognize you with a guard uniform on."
"You TOLD me to knock out the guard to get it, right?" Zim asked.
Rogue snapped her forehead. "Aw man, I must be more nervose then I thought if I forgot tha-....hey, where's Gir?"
Zim plop the sack down, and opened it up. Rogue peeked into it, and raised a unseen brow. "Why is he...?"
"Gir! Pull yourself together." Zim commaned. The bag rustled around abit, and out popped Gir, red-eyed and slauted to Zim, then turned, turned blue-eyed and waved cutely at Rogue. "It was the only way I could get him in." Zim said. "Now, where to from here?"
Rogue's face went serious as she looked around the area of the Massive. The three were only in the entrance part of it, but it was just plain HUGE! All around the the walls were doors leading to places all over the ship. Also, up higher on the wall, there were air vents lining all around.
"Where are the Tallest's room anyway?" Zim asked, also eyeing around.
"Actually, there's two rooms." Rogue said. "One is the control room, where they conmand the Massive, and the other is the room where they rest inbetween ruling. I've been in the control room, but never in the other room. But I do know where both rooms are."
"I smell bacon!" Gir suddenly said.
"Quiet Gir!" Zim said, pushing him back down in the sack. He picked the sack up, and faced Rogue. "I can't carrier Gir like this for long."
"Your right." She thought for a brief monment. "I got it! We'll get into one of the vents up on the walls, and make our way to a point where we can hack into the ship's main computer." Rogue said.
"Very well, I'll make sure the coast is clear while you open one of the vents." Zim said.
The two then ran to the closest vent gate. Once over there, Zim quickly put Gir down, and looked around the room, untill all the Irkens there were not looking. "Now Rogue!" He said. The second he said that, Rogue deploded her metal legs, and jumped high in the air, towards the vent. Then with lightning quick speed, unhached it, and climbed in. She then looked back down as Zim grabbed the sack, waiting for the right moment for himself. When that came, he too jumped high up, spider leg style, and got into the vent with Rogue. To not draw attention, Rogue placed the vent gate back over the vent hole. Zim took the guard uniform off, showing his normal uniform, folded it all small like, and stuffed it in his backpack, just in case. He then let Gir out of the bag.
"Now what?" Zim asked Rogue.
"Just follow me." She said. They then begun to crawl deeper into the vent's dark ways, passing other vent gates, showing other rooms of the Massive. One room was a another ship docking area, and another was the HUGE engine room.
"Oooo, I smell something gooood." Gir said.
"We're near the ship's cafateria, that's why." Rogue said.
"Can we get a snack? PLEZZZZZ?" The robot said with big eyes.
"Gir! This mission is much more importent!" Zim said. "Food can wait!"
"Awww." Gir wined. "I could go for a taqueto too."
"A "what"?" Rogue asked.
"Don't ask." Zim said. "By the way, where are we going?"
"To a room where one of the computers that is conneted to the main computer is." Rogue said. "It's also where the I.S.D.B. is stored."
"The Irkin Soldier Data Base?" Zim asked.
"That's right." Rogue said lookind back at him. "That's where I looked to see if I could find more stuff about you."
"You really DO know this ship inside and out!" Zim said in abit of amazment. "Hey, what did MY files said about me anyway?"
"Uh, all it said was the time you messed up Operation Impending Doom 1 for EVERYBODY, and then banished to planet Food Courtia, and then......that's it. Nothing was ever added since then." Rogue said.
Rogue suddenly heard a thump sound from behind her. Looking back, she saw Zim face down on the vent ground. He slowly got up, rubbed on his now red face, and made a depressing sounding sigh.
"Zim?" Rogue said in a curiose tone. "Why did you trip like that?"
The Irkin slowly lifted his head to face her.
"Shock." Zim just bluntly said. "Just, shock. Knowing what you just told me just adds more proof that I was NEVER what I thought I was. The Tallest LIED to me, making me THINK, I was worth something! And for as long as I can remember, I was just trying to show then ALL what I could do! Be a GREAT INVADER! But THIS, is what it all comes down to! I'll show them! I'LL SHOW THEM!!! TALLEST AND ALL!!!"
Suddenlly, Zim felt his mouth become covered by Rogue's plam of her hand. She made a "shhh" sound to him, and then said........
"I know EXACTLY what you mean, Zim. Don't forget, I too was lied to, and made believed that I was something greater, and more importent." She then slowly took her hand off his mouth, and turned away. "Just remember.....your, not alone."
Zim just kneeled there for a minute as Rogue continued to crawl deeper into the vent ways. He took a moment to let her words sink in. "...your, not alone." That was true. It didn't really hit him untill then. Knowing that you knew someone else that was, and had the same thing going for them, and they tolaly understand, slightly made it not feel so bad. A small, but not too hard to notice smile suddnely appeared on the Irkin's face.
Seeing that his Master wasn't moving much, Gir went up to him, and snapped his little robot fingers in his face. Zim suddenly blinked his wide red eyes, coming one of it.
"Uh, what, who?" He said looking around, and not seeing Rogue. "Hey, where did-"
Gir tapped him on the shoulder, and pointed towards where Rogue crawled off to. Zim quicken the pace, and caught up with her, with Gir following closely behind.
"What took you?" Rogue said as she saw Zim finaly coming up. "For a minute there, I thought you got caught!"
"What? Nonsence, of course not!" Zim said. "I was just, uh, thinking about what you said back there."
Rogue glaced at him, and then made one of her little "Rogue smirks". "Oh, the thing about not being alone. Right. I meant it too, Zim." Her smirk then grew into a full smile, towards him. Once again, their glossy alien eyes met in a lock. It lasted of at lest a good three minutes. Gir just stood there, watching each of them, smiling with a flat tougne sticking out of his mouth.
"...................."
".........um,......uh,..." Zim blurted out the only words he could blurt.
"....uh, what you say?" Rogue suddenly said, eyes slightly perked.
"Say what?" Zim said, still staring on.
After about ten more seconds of this, both Irkins, that the same time, snapped themself across the face, instantly breaking the strange stare-off.
"Okay, where were we?" Zim said, suddenly all serious like.
"Right, back to business." Rogue said, same way as Zim.
"You two were SO CUTE just then!" Gir brusted out. Luckly, Zim and Rogue, right at that moment, were too caught up in talking to hear him.
"Alright, right now, we're right above exactly were we what to be." Rogue said.
"We are?" Zim said. He then, carefuly and QUIETLY, looked out the vent gate. Through the gate's teeths, there were a fairly huge room with a fairly huge computer to go with it. And luckly for them, no guards in sight.
"What are we waiting for, lets go!" Zim said.
With a quick nod, Rogue loosen the gate with a show of her strength. The three jumped down, and quickly rescaned the room. Seeing all was clear so far, Zim headed stranght for the computer.
"Okay, let's do this." Zim said looking at the computer's control panal.
"Not so fast, one more thing." Rogue said, going for the automatic door leading to the outside of the room. Zim threw a look with a raised unseeable brow. Without another word, Rogue kneeled down infront of the door, and activated her cybrog arms. Both of the gems on her wrist began to shine off a light glow. She then searched around the door, untill she found a certain spot. She placed both hands on the spot, and after a lightning quick flash of light, removed hands.
"What did you do?" Zim asked.
Rogue stood up, and deactivated her arms. "I paralyzed the door's circuits, so nobody can get in while we're in here. It should last long all enough for us to do this." She then walked over to Zim and the computer. Zim reached over, and turned on the computer's main power. The screen brighten up the room as Rogue got right to work at her hacking. Meanwhile, Gir sat the the room behind them, eating a bag of buttered popcorn. (Hee Hee ^-~)
"How long will this take?" Zim asked, watching Rogue doing her work.
"Hopefuly for us, not too long." Rogue said while attaching wires and circuits from the computer to her arms. "I really didn't what to tell you, but we REALLY better hope no one will be wondering where I am. I was supposed to report in when I got in the ship, but I completely forgot!"
"In that case, HURRY!" Zim said.
"I AM, don't shout!" Rogue said, moving more quickly. Suddenly, the computer began to show effects from Rogue hacking. The screen popped up different mini screens at lightning speed as the hacking program searched for a way into one of the Tallest's main monitors to thier areas. At the same time, Rogue was quickly scanning all the other programs that were caming up. Zim noticed her eyes rapidly looking over the screen. Without even taking her eyes of the screen, she said to him, "My eyes are fast as well as the rest of my body."
"Ohhh, I get it." Zim said.
Suddenly, just as Zim said that, a file with a strange name crossed Rogue's fast moving eyes.
"What the...!" She said, her sharp eyes growing wide.
"WHAT! What is it?!" Zim asked in sudden panic mode. Gir then just suddnely screamed at the tops of his lungs, throwing popcorn everywhere, then just stood up, and started dancing around the room. Rogue and Zim gave their weird looks at this, and then right back to the main matter.
"What's wrong!? Did they find us?!" Zim asked.
"No, it's not that at all." Rogue said, rescaning the computer. "I....saw this computer file with a familer name to it."
"Rogue, we don't have time for file browsing! If we waste time, we'll get caught!" Zim said.
"I found it again! Here, look at the file name." Rogue said as she pointed her finger to the screen where she brought the file up. The file read, "PROJECT ROGUE.....Top Secret.....Classafied....DON'T PEEK!!!"
Zim, at reading this, looked back at Rogue, who almost looked like she has just uncovered something that she has been looking for.
"Project "Rogue"?" Zim said looking back at the screen. "As in, YOU Rogue?"
"I'm.....not, sure." She answered. "You see, I've once heard that when I was born, in some way, they made me different. And that way was recorded in a file that was thought to be lost a long time ago. But THIS could be it!" She then was quiet for a moment, and said, "The truth is....I don't remember much about my past! The most I do remember was my tough, and sometimes harsh training the Tallest made me go through. But before all that, I don't even recall the the people that gave me my uniform to wear! And with what's going now right now, I'm betting the TALLEST has something to do with THAT!" She cleched her fists tight, and grited her zipper like teeth. "I HAVE to look at this NOW!"
"ROGUE! We might not have time!" Zim shouted. "But here's a idea. Can you maybe download the file into your cybrog arm's, and then check it out later, AFTER we do this!?"
Rogue thought about that for a quick moment. "Alright, good idea. Sorry, I sort of forgot about what we were doing there for a minute." She raised her left arm up, and pressed buttons to start download. But as she did, the computer spoke saying, "SORRY, PASSWORD REQUIED FOR COMMANDMENT."
"You want a password?" Rogue said with a sound of irratation in her voice. "Here's a PASSWORD!" She performed the same move she did on the door earlier, causing the computer to first make some loud "bleeps" and "click" noices, and then say, "P..PA...PASS...PASSWORD CON...CON..CONFERMDED! FILE DOWN...DOWNLOADED!"
"Thank you." Rogue said with a smirk.
"Come ON, Rogue! We have to hurry!" Zim said.
"Okay, I'm on it now!" Rogue said, going to scan the computer again. But, just as she was about to, the three were shocked to suddenly hear tha ship's alarm go off! Zim and Rogue both looked at one another, thinking that the Tallest knew their where in there! But then, the main loud speakers went off, with one of the Tallests' voices on the other end.
"ATTENTION ALL IRKEN SOILDERS!" Purple's voice said in a panic, "There is a.....giant....hairless RAT loose in the area! If you see it...KILL IT! This...creature may be armed....and dangerous! .....Well...maybe not dangerous....but....it's so ugly...look at the size of it's head!"
"MY HEAD'S NOT BIG!!!!"
*BOOM!*
Rogue and Zim looked at each other again with shock, blank looks. Fists clenched and teeth grit.
"DIB!!!!!!"
TO BE CONTINUED....................
RogueStar: MAWWWHAAAHAAAHAAA!!!!! I'M BACK!!!! NEW CHAPTER!!! YAY!! Anywho, I'm REALLLY REALLY sorry for the LOOOOOOONG wait! Computer problems, schoolwork and ALLL that happy stuff kept me from writing lately. Once again, I would like to thank the great Aoi Jade for helping me with this chapter, and hopefuly, I will get some more reveiws with this one. Now that they FINALY got to Irk, WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT!? And you all didn't think I was going to leave Dibby out of all of this, did ya. DID YA?! UH? UHH!? ..........I didn't think so. ^-^ So, please all you kind readers, R&R me, and I WILL BE BACK!!!!!!!!! HAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! ROGUESTAR OUT!!!! LATER! ^0^