Chapter 16
The "ROGUE" Project
"All units! I REPEAT! ALL UNITS!! Head down to sector D-17 now! That hairless, big-headed THING as been last seen there!" Purple's voice continued to shout through the loud speaker as the whole Massive reposed. "GET ALL YOUR BUTTS DOWN THERE, AND KILL IT!!! KILL IT!!!"
"They get it! Shut up and turn the micophone off!" Red said over the speaker.
~ Swarms of Irkin soldiers flooded the halls of the great ship, all heading towards one place. Every area of sector D-17 was soon crawling with them within a matter of minutes, all with Irken laser armaments.
Down one hall, two soldiers scaned the surroundings carefully, waiting for anything to catch thier eyes. Suddenly, one of thier sets of antennas shot up, and both turned around fast to see a shadow run by quickly.
"HALT YOU!!! One of them shouted. The other immediately fired a warning shot near the shadow. When it didn't stop, both went right after it. But of course, we ALL know who that shadow thier chasing is, right? -_-' As they ran, light from the ship's walkways on the wall hit the darken intruder, and the two soldiers finally got a good glips of Dib.
"STOP WHERE YOU ARE!!!" The soldiers shouted, and began to start firing REAL shots. Feeling the heat from the missing lasers zoom merely inchs away for his head, the Earth boy immedately began to run faster for his life. Lucky for him, the soldiers were not as good as aimers as they should be. Suddenly, two more Irkin soldiers who were also roaming the area, spotted the chase, and joined in with the other two. Now Dib had four of them after him! The lasers continued, and the boy pushed himself to run faster. Suddenly, right ahead of him, he spotted a "fork in the road."; the hallway was spilt into two ways. He thought quickly, and decided to turn right, which lead him to a dead end wall. Dib suddenly had the sick realiztion that if he tried to turned around now, the Irkins would have him trapped! He could hear them coming ever closer, shouting out, "We got it now!" He frantically looked around what little area he was in, but all there was was wall, and a air duct in the celling, which he couldn't reach. More fear began to build up in him. He suddenly felt so helpless. He pressed his back to the wall, and just frozed at the thought of the incoming doom that was coming for him. The running steps of the soldiers were just about to turn the corner, and Dib's heart felt like it was in his throut. But just before they did, in a flash, Dib felt a pair of hands grab him on his shoulders, and quickly lift him up, right into the celling duct. Just as he got into it, the soldiers got around the corner, and were shocked and dumbfounded by not seeing the big-headed intruder anywhere. One of them then hand gestured to go the other way, thinking that maybe Dib actually went that way. With that, the Irkins soldiers turned and went away.
A still slightly shaken Dib watched from the duct as they gone away and the coast was now clear. He then let out a hard and long sigh, thankful to still be alive.
"Oh MAN, that was way too close!" He said wiping some nervose sweat off his forehead. He took the moment to catch his breath from the running. But it then hit him......
"Hey...how did I get up here anyway??" Being scared out of his mind there of a minute made him forget about that. Just seconds after he said that to himself, he suddenly heard something that SOUNDED like a low, angery, growling noise from behind. Instant chills went down Dib's spine as he slowly turned his head to see what it was.
The vent way was dark, but he could make out two figures kneeling there. And then a smaller figure came from behind one of them, with bright, blue, round glowing eyes. (Hee hee ^-^) It's blue light lit the vent, and Zim and Rogue's ANGRY, gritted teeth faces were visable to Dib.
The Earth boy's already wide eyes got a little wider at seeing the two aliens. He didn't know what to be more surprised at, the fact that they were surely the ones that saved him (They used their metal legs for that.), or that maybe he wasn't really saved in the first place!
Zim and Rogue, at the same time, slowly lifted a angery, trembling Irkin finger at Dib, and hissed, "Yooooooou........"
"Hey! Now wait a minute!" Dib said waving his hands in a stop gesture, thinking on now to get out of THIS one.
"SHUT UP!" Rogue said in her dark, angry tone. She was so much holding back from blasting the boy away. Zim was pretty much ticked too. Both thier glossy gem like eyes were quivering with thier most darkening hate towards Dib.
Zim went up to Dib, grabbed him by the rim of his T-shirt, and looked him straight in the eye. "Your MORE idiotic then I could EVER have GUESSED!!" Zim said rather loudly. "WHY are you not in the steel box!? HOW did you get out in the first place?!"
"Yeah, you should be in there right now shurggling to breath!" Rogue butted in. (^-^ Hee, I AM evil!)
Dib made a grin, showing no fear towards the two angry ones, and pushed Zim away from his person. "If you REALLY want to know, I noticed that one of the sides of the box was loose, and I was able to kick it off. Once out, I rubbed agained a sharp piece of metal from the box, cutting the ropes, and freeing myself." He spoke in a somewhat proud tone.
"And THEN you just got out of the ship in front of all those guards?!" Rogue said. "Yoooou IDIOT!"
"You DO realize that you were WAY over your head, DIB." Zim said. "Then again, I shouldn't be surprise. Your just as mindless and stubborn as the rest of your MEATHEAD kind."
"I told you we should of just let those guards take care of him!" Rogue said to Zim.
"I've sworn to myself that I WILL destory HIM and his dirtball planet!" Zim said. "However, it is SICK with the fact that we DID save him, BUT if he did get caught, they could have used him to find us!"
"True." Rogue said with a thinking look.
The Earth boy suddenly had a thought himself. He's so used to tracking and following Zim, that he SORT of forgot where he was when he got out of the ship, PLUS he didn't have anything to defend himself. "Okaaay, so maybe that WAS alittle stupid." He said loud out to himself.
"Brainless, big-headed, no good, meatheap." Rogue mubbled under her breath. "NOW what do we do? Thanks to DIB, we didn't have TIME to get what we were looking for back in that computer room!"
"Get what?" Dib asked.
"Keep your mouth trap shut, or I'll MELT it off." Rogue threaten.
"You know, there is no real threat with him." Zim said to Rogue. "He has no "Earth spying toys" on him to prove anything anyway."
"Oh yeah." Rogue said with a little grin, remembering when she and Zim smashed all of Dib's camaras and junk.
"Still, NOW we have to sneak around REALLY quietly." Zim said. "They must have soldiers all over the Massive now."
"Looking for a RAT." Rogue said with sharp eyes towards Dib. "I say we just THROW him in front of some soldiers, and see now quickly it takes them to DISMEMBER him." Dib suddenly felt a chill at Rogue's statement, fearing abit that Zim might agree with her.
Zim didn't show it, but it WAS a temping thought to him. But......
"Now is not the time for that Rogue." Zim reposed. "I....hhhHHAATE..to say this...but, we will watch the DIB child, and make SURE we don't get caught because of HIM!"
"You hear that, human?" Rogue said right in the boy's pale face. "Try ANYTHING once, and your target practice for me!" She patted one of her laser gems for effect.
"Now, how are we going to carry this out with the current situation?" Zim said to himself. The Irkin crossed his arms in a thinking manner. After about two minutes of that, he then tried to ponder by rubbing his chin. And when THAT didn't work, he tried hitting his head repentedly with both fist, in which Dib thought was kind of funny looking, letting out a couple of snickers.
"I SAID don't TRY anything!" Rogue suddenly hissed to Dib, with laser humming lowly.
"I WASN'T! I was just laughing! Jezz!" Dib said, backing away from the quite unstable female alien.
While the human and Rogue were starting to mix up another argument, Zim suddenly halted from his self-inflicting head hitting, which Gir was getting quite a little kick out of. His antennas shot up. He threw a "SHHHH" to the two fighting ones. A faint sound of foot steps came to thier to ears, followed by voices.
"More soldiers are coming this way!" Rogue whispered.
"WHEEEEE! MORE PEOPLE!" Gir cooded loudly. Zim slapped a hand over the crazy robot's mouth, and signaled Dib and Rogue to move out. The Earth boy and girl Irkin just threw each other they glares and then followed Zim and Gir.
About a minute then passed before they stopped to rest, not hearing anything out the air duct walls. Zim planted himself down to take a quick breath. Rogue stood up with her antennas sightly twiching in the air, making sure they were safe and alone.
"They'll find us for sure if we don't think of something quick." Rogue said, staying calm in the situation.
"We SURPRISE THEM!" Gir brusted out, NOT gettng the danger they were all in at all. (Duh! ^-^)
"No, Gir." Zim said, correcting his SIR. "We stay OUT of sight until we fix all this! Understand?"
"...Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......" Gir dragged on and on. After about a good thirty seconds of that, Zim just rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"Alright Zim! I've had it!" Dib suddenly announed, stomping up to him. "This time, I WANT to know! WHAT are you and Rogue up to!? Whats going on here?!"
Zim's eyes began to twich with irratation to the boy's stupidity and butting in. He grit his teeth, and let loose an Irkin like growl, and then said in a ticked off tone mixed with hissing, "...FFFIINNE!!! I'll tell you if it will make you shut that hole in your head that your kind calls a MOUTH!!" Dib, after wiping the spit Zim sprayed in his face when he said "FFFIINNE", stood his ground and began to listen to what he's been wanting to hear for a while.
~Meanwhile....~
In the main control room, the Tallest sat in thier seats, commanding more Irkins to keep combing the ship for the quote "rat" unquote. (Hee Hee ^___^)
"They better find that THING soon." Red said. "For all we know, it could be a spy for one of the Operation Impending Doom 2 planets."
"It's SOOOO UGLY!" Purple said with a quiver. "All...pale and...and big- headed!"
"Wimp." Red blurded under his breath. But then, a thought struke him. "Hey, has anyone seen Rogue lately?"
"Uh, Rogue?" Purple said. "..No, no one has seen her since she came back."
"That's weird." Red said. "Normaly, she reports in, and then comes right to us to see if we need anything else. This isn't like her." Suddenly becoming a little suspicious, Red swung his big clawed hand out and brought a little control panal up. He pressed a few buttons, bringing a screen up on the panal with abunch of numbers and names on it, the report files. He scrolled down the names, not seeing any recent reports made by Rogue, not even the one she was suppose to make right after she spoke with the Tallest. At seeing this, Red narrowed eyes. "Something isn't right there."
He rosed from his seat, and made an announcement to be heard. "To all soldiers! Those who don't have the intruder RAT in their sights, atempt to locate Rogue and begin her to the main control room. This is a DIRECT order!"
"Hey, speaking of orders..." Purple said. "...somebody go get me a big-o- bag of chips!"
~Back to Zim & Rogue~
"..And THATS the STORY!! HAPPY!?" Zim finished explaining anything about anything about what him and Rogue were doing to Dib. Dib stood in silence for a brief moment, soaking in all he just heard. He turned his head towards Rogue, who has been standing right behind him the whole time, still watching him like a hawk. Taking in what Zim told him, he didn't really see it till now that Rogue did look a little different then the other Irkins, with her extra long antennas.
"Weird." The boy said in a thinking stance.
"Whats "weird"?" Rogue asked rudely.
"You have all that physical power and your better then your own kind, but you can't remember a thing about your past? Don't you think you would have some memories or clues?" Dib asked curiosely.
"Why would YOU care at all?" She said coldly.
"I don't know...it just that..on Earth, people can get something like that, and I was just....." Dib trailed off abit.
"Man, you humans are not only stupid, you asked too many questions too!" Rogue snapped. "Questions your not even sure why you asked in the first place!"
"He's like that." Zim said, adding in his two cents.
"Well, questioning FINALLY got you to tell me what you and Rogue are doing." Dib said with a little smrik.
"Continue it anymore, and I'll LET Rogue take care of you." Zim said all dark like.
Keeping quiet for a second, Rogue crossed her arms and leaned on the vent walls to rest her back. She looked down to see Gir mimicing her, just for the heck of it. It did make her smile though. Just then, with her mind relaxed from Gir's cuteness, she suddenly remembered something importent.
"The file!" She suddenly said outloud, catching Dib and Zim's attention.
"What file?" Dib asked.
"NO MORE QUESTIONS!!!" Zim shouted to him.
"I'll ASK QUESTIONS IF I WHAT, ZIM!!" Dib shouted back, in his face.
"SCREEEEEEEEEAM!!!" Gir suddenly screeched loudly, JUST because his Master was being loud. It got them to shut up though. (Hee Hee....^-^) Thier attention then turned to Rogue. She actived her right cybrog arm, and brought up the file she hacked off from that big computer from before. A hologram screen shot up from her violet wrist gem. The very first words in the file were in big bold Irkin letters.
PROJECT ROGUE
The file itself didn't seem to be very long, to Rogue's surprise. But no matter, she began to read outloud with Zim, Gir, and a still too curiose for his own good Dib listening along.
"....Irkin Impire Year number 127OOZ007. The war between the Irkin race, and a nameless race from the far ends of the cosmos was nowhere near it's end. By order and leadership of Almighty Tallest Teal, a secret and importent task was carried out to stop the enemy once and for all. In the safety of a far off abandoed planet, the project went under way.
The ROGUE Project (PROJECT ROGUE), the name taken from a forgotten Irkin word for "Ultra Warrior", was finally completed by the Irkin Impire Year number 219OOZ029, with the war still at it's worse. Through the time and patience, the perfect fighter was finally born, an Irkin with fighting abilitys that no other Irkin within countless life times could measure up to. In honor of it's importents, Almighty Tallest Teal rightfully named the young one....."
The female alien slowed down, and then finished the sentince with Zim and Dib looking over her shoulder at the screen.
"......Rogue..."
The three were all speakless in his or her own way by this revelation.
"..........Tallest Teal..." Zim then said to break the sudden quiet. "She was the Almighty Tallest before Purple and Red today. She ruled through many battles and wars, winning every one of them. ....I wasn't even ALIVE during her ruling!"
"How long ago was this war anyway?" Dib asked.
".....A LOOONG ago." Rogue said, still staring blankly at the hologram screen. "In your Earthy time, it would have been........well over 1,000 years."
"AN 1,000 YEARS!!!" Dib said in amazement.
"The war alone lasted for about 500 of those years, and, of course, the Irkins WON that war too." Zim said. "But history never said anything about a "secret weapon"."
"Because, the key word is SECRET." Rogue said. "If this file is right, then, I helped defend and win a war! But..." Her face went into blake mode again.
"That could be the part of your past you don't remember." Dib said.
"Will YOU stay out of THIS?!" Rogue suddenly snapped.
"Man, SORRY!" Dib snapped back. "You know, your more hostial then Zim!"
"And don't YOU forget it." Rogue said darkly. "Why you being SOMEWHAT helpful all of the sudden anyway?"
"Don't bother asking him, Rogue. He isn't worth WASTING your breath over." Zim said. He then had a quick thought. "Hey, why are you being helpful?" (- _-')
"I'm not being HELPFUL." Dib said with a sharp glare.
"Yeeeeees you aaaaaaaare!" Gir cooded to him. "Helpful like a...like a.....CHICKEN!!" This comment was followed by around of looks from the others.
"ALRIGHT! ENOUGH of this POINTLESSNESS!" Zim said. "That file is SURELY the answer to Rogue's past, and I'm betting the Tallest have some knowlege of it as well."
"Whys that?" Rogue asked. "It was locked away in a computer system that's only for info on Irkins soldier and invaders. If the Tallest know about it, they would have put it in a safer place, right?"
"They could of been atemping to hide the file in a place where no one would of thought looking." Zim asumed. "Think about it, if you knew before about your TRUE power and...and stuff, they must of FEARED that you would overpower them!"
"I WOULDN'T of overpowered them back then..." Rogue said, putting the file away in her arm's panal gem with a seriose face. "...but I'd do it NOW."
"Also, I hate to say this, but do to the currunt situation, I doubt we can get to any other computers to hack." Zim said. "We need a new plan."
Just then, the loud speaker outside thier air duct hiding place brusted out with an announcement that was ordered a few minutes ago. "BY ORDER OF THE ALMIGHTLY TALLEST, ALL SOLDIERS LOOKING FOR THE INTRUDER, KEEP A EYE OUT FOR ROGUE. FIND HER, AND BRING HER TO THE TALLEST IMMEDATEALLY."
"Did you heard that?" Zim said to Rogue.
"Why are the Tallest look-" Her eyes rosed in realiztion. "I never reported in!"
"So?" Dib said. Rogue delivers a evil look to the boy.
"They know I ALWAYS report in after I come back from a mission." Rogue said. "And since I forgot to it this time, they might have got wind of something!"
"I didn't do it!" Gir said to Rogue's "wind" saying. (Get it?)
"Aaaagrrrrrrraaaahh! THIS IS YOUR FAULT!!!" Rogue said pointing a finger to Dib.
"Not THAT again!" He said.
"STOP IT!" Zim said to the two. "I JUST had a GREAT plan."
"And what's THAT?" Dib asked in bit of a sarcasic tone.
Ignoring his remark, Zim pulled Rogue aside, and started to whisper something in her nonseeable ears. The more he whispered, the more Rogue began to get a evil, yet happy look on her face, and it was towards Dib.
"Gladly!" Rogue said ALL evil like when Zim was finished. She started to made her way to the human, who in turn started to back away.
"What are you up to?" Dib asked, carefully eyeing Rogue, getting ever closer to him. "Lo..look, I'm warning you..." But before Dib could finish, Rogue suddenly brusted towards him, pushing him to and through another nearby vent gate. He fell to the ground with a loud thud, catching the attention of two soldiers nearby. Rogue then jumped out of the vent hole, right infront of Dib and the soldiers.
"Rogue!" The two soldiers said at seeing her.
Dib scrambled up, eyes fixed on Rogue. "Whats the big-"
"I've found the RAT!" Rogue suddenly announed outloud for the two other Irkins to hear. She then leaned over Dib, and whispers in a devius voice, "..Run."
Not getting ANYTHING she and Zim were trying to pull, Dib responded quickly to Rogue's command, ESPECIALLY when the two soldiers began to open fire! "GET 'EM!" Rogue yelled out, and started to chase him down.
Meanwhile, still in the vent ways, Zim dawned the soldier outfit again, and took the sack out from before too. "Now to meet Rogue at the meeting point." He said. "In the sack Gir!" The robot obeyed, for once, and Zim began to make his way deeper into air duct ways.
As that happened, Rogue was in hot pursuit of Dib, the two Irkin soldiers following close behind. Rogue then started to fire shots towards him, but her shots seemed to strway. Dib suddenly took note of this.
'She's missing me?' He thought to himself as he saw each of her beams flying PASSED him.
The female Irkin was indeed missing her "target". 'Your LUCKY I'm missing on PURPOSE, DIB.' She thought griting her teeth.
Suddenly, as the two turned a corner, from a open ceiling vent, Zim jumped down infront of Dib, causing him to screech to a halt. Zim had the sack over his shoulder, containing Gir. The boy quickly looked back to see Rogue too coming to a stop.
"What the HECK is going on?!" Dib shouted at both of them.
"Here, hold this!" Zim gave, or rather, threw the sack with his robot in it at Dib, who just caught it without thinking. Just then, the two soldiers came around the corner, seeing the three.
"The intruder has STOLEN some secret equipment!" Rogue said, pointing to Dib.
"WHAT!?!" Dib shouted.
"He's got it in that SACK!" Zim said.
More confused now then ever, Dib immedateally high tailed it. The soldiers went to chase him.
"Wait!" Rogue said to them. "Me and this SOLDIER (Zim) right here will take care of him! Go inform the others AND the Tallest!"
The soldiers nodded and went away. Zim and Rogue then went after Dib on thier own.
"Part one of your plan was perfect!" Rogue said to Zim as they ran down the halls.
"Of COURSE it was!" Zim said. "Now all we have to do is CATCH Dib."
"I HAD the chance to SHOOT him!" Rogue groned.
"We need him ALIVE right now." Zim said. "He's going to help us get to the TALLEST!"
"Still, I COULD OF SHOT HIM!!" Rogue shouted.
~Meanwhile, the Tallest sat within the control room as the two solider came brusting in with Rogue's message.
"Why didn't you two bring Rogue HERE?" Red asked. "That's was a command!"
"S-sorry, my lords." One of the soliders said. "Rogue said she and another solider were going to take care of-"
"What OTHER solider?" Purple asked while munching down on the bag of chips he requested earlier.
"There was a solider with her when we found her." He said. "They caught the rat trying to get away with some stolen stuff!"
"Stolen STUFF?" Red said confusely.
"Secret equipment sirs!" They both said.
""Secret" equipment?" Red said. "We don't have anything SECRET on this ship."
"You sure?" Purple asked with a mouth full a chips.
"YES, I'm SURE." Red said sarcasicly. "And if Rogue said she would get that rat, then she wouldn't need any HELP. She could get rit of it all be herself. Hmmm...YOU!" Red pointed to one of the Irkins at the controls of the ship. "Locate Rogue on one of the hall moniters!"
"Yes sir!" The Irkin responed. After about a few minutes.... "We FOUND her."
The huge screen bleeped on with Rogue and the "solidier" running down the long hallways, chosing in on Dib with the sack.
"......Hey, I don't remember seeing that solider anywhere before." Purple said.
"Me ethier." Red said with a sharp look. "Close up on that solider, NOW!"
"YES SIR!" The controler said.
The screen then zoomed in on the unknowned solider. The Tallest stared at it for about a good minute or so.
"Hm.....kind of short, an't he?" Purple said with a cocked head.
"Short?" Red said with perked eyes. Then Purple's eye did the same. They looked at one another with the same thought coming to mind.
"You don't think...." Purple said.
The more Red thought about it, the more it was making sence why Rogue didn't report in. "Who ELSE do we know that's that SHORT?"
TO BE CONTINUED...............
RogueStar: UH OH....me thinks that something BIG is about to happen soon! How, I know not alot of people are reading this, but to the one person and FF.net bubby that has been and will read this right to the very end, pureVENOM, YOU ROCK GIRL!!! ^-^ I hope this chapter will hold you off until I get the URGE to type up the next one! The next one will be a bit of a turning point in the story, at lease I hope thats how it'll turn out, so STAY TURNED FOR CHAPTER 17, COMING IN THE NEAR FUTURE TO A COMPUTER NEAR YOU! (Hee Hee ^-^) LATER and ROGUESTAR OUT!!
"All units! I REPEAT! ALL UNITS!! Head down to sector D-17 now! That hairless, big-headed THING as been last seen there!" Purple's voice continued to shout through the loud speaker as the whole Massive reposed. "GET ALL YOUR BUTTS DOWN THERE, AND KILL IT!!! KILL IT!!!"
"They get it! Shut up and turn the micophone off!" Red said over the speaker.
~ Swarms of Irkin soldiers flooded the halls of the great ship, all heading towards one place. Every area of sector D-17 was soon crawling with them within a matter of minutes, all with Irken laser armaments.
Down one hall, two soldiers scaned the surroundings carefully, waiting for anything to catch thier eyes. Suddenly, one of thier sets of antennas shot up, and both turned around fast to see a shadow run by quickly.
"HALT YOU!!! One of them shouted. The other immediately fired a warning shot near the shadow. When it didn't stop, both went right after it. But of course, we ALL know who that shadow thier chasing is, right? -_-' As they ran, light from the ship's walkways on the wall hit the darken intruder, and the two soldiers finally got a good glips of Dib.
"STOP WHERE YOU ARE!!!" The soldiers shouted, and began to start firing REAL shots. Feeling the heat from the missing lasers zoom merely inchs away for his head, the Earth boy immedately began to run faster for his life. Lucky for him, the soldiers were not as good as aimers as they should be. Suddenly, two more Irkin soldiers who were also roaming the area, spotted the chase, and joined in with the other two. Now Dib had four of them after him! The lasers continued, and the boy pushed himself to run faster. Suddenly, right ahead of him, he spotted a "fork in the road."; the hallway was spilt into two ways. He thought quickly, and decided to turn right, which lead him to a dead end wall. Dib suddenly had the sick realiztion that if he tried to turned around now, the Irkins would have him trapped! He could hear them coming ever closer, shouting out, "We got it now!" He frantically looked around what little area he was in, but all there was was wall, and a air duct in the celling, which he couldn't reach. More fear began to build up in him. He suddenly felt so helpless. He pressed his back to the wall, and just frozed at the thought of the incoming doom that was coming for him. The running steps of the soldiers were just about to turn the corner, and Dib's heart felt like it was in his throut. But just before they did, in a flash, Dib felt a pair of hands grab him on his shoulders, and quickly lift him up, right into the celling duct. Just as he got into it, the soldiers got around the corner, and were shocked and dumbfounded by not seeing the big-headed intruder anywhere. One of them then hand gestured to go the other way, thinking that maybe Dib actually went that way. With that, the Irkins soldiers turned and went away.
A still slightly shaken Dib watched from the duct as they gone away and the coast was now clear. He then let out a hard and long sigh, thankful to still be alive.
"Oh MAN, that was way too close!" He said wiping some nervose sweat off his forehead. He took the moment to catch his breath from the running. But it then hit him......
"Hey...how did I get up here anyway??" Being scared out of his mind there of a minute made him forget about that. Just seconds after he said that to himself, he suddenly heard something that SOUNDED like a low, angery, growling noise from behind. Instant chills went down Dib's spine as he slowly turned his head to see what it was.
The vent way was dark, but he could make out two figures kneeling there. And then a smaller figure came from behind one of them, with bright, blue, round glowing eyes. (Hee hee ^-^) It's blue light lit the vent, and Zim and Rogue's ANGRY, gritted teeth faces were visable to Dib.
The Earth boy's already wide eyes got a little wider at seeing the two aliens. He didn't know what to be more surprised at, the fact that they were surely the ones that saved him (They used their metal legs for that.), or that maybe he wasn't really saved in the first place!
Zim and Rogue, at the same time, slowly lifted a angery, trembling Irkin finger at Dib, and hissed, "Yooooooou........"
"Hey! Now wait a minute!" Dib said waving his hands in a stop gesture, thinking on now to get out of THIS one.
"SHUT UP!" Rogue said in her dark, angry tone. She was so much holding back from blasting the boy away. Zim was pretty much ticked too. Both thier glossy gem like eyes were quivering with thier most darkening hate towards Dib.
Zim went up to Dib, grabbed him by the rim of his T-shirt, and looked him straight in the eye. "Your MORE idiotic then I could EVER have GUESSED!!" Zim said rather loudly. "WHY are you not in the steel box!? HOW did you get out in the first place?!"
"Yeah, you should be in there right now shurggling to breath!" Rogue butted in. (^-^ Hee, I AM evil!)
Dib made a grin, showing no fear towards the two angry ones, and pushed Zim away from his person. "If you REALLY want to know, I noticed that one of the sides of the box was loose, and I was able to kick it off. Once out, I rubbed agained a sharp piece of metal from the box, cutting the ropes, and freeing myself." He spoke in a somewhat proud tone.
"And THEN you just got out of the ship in front of all those guards?!" Rogue said. "Yoooou IDIOT!"
"You DO realize that you were WAY over your head, DIB." Zim said. "Then again, I shouldn't be surprise. Your just as mindless and stubborn as the rest of your MEATHEAD kind."
"I told you we should of just let those guards take care of him!" Rogue said to Zim.
"I've sworn to myself that I WILL destory HIM and his dirtball planet!" Zim said. "However, it is SICK with the fact that we DID save him, BUT if he did get caught, they could have used him to find us!"
"True." Rogue said with a thinking look.
The Earth boy suddenly had a thought himself. He's so used to tracking and following Zim, that he SORT of forgot where he was when he got out of the ship, PLUS he didn't have anything to defend himself. "Okaaay, so maybe that WAS alittle stupid." He said loud out to himself.
"Brainless, big-headed, no good, meatheap." Rogue mubbled under her breath. "NOW what do we do? Thanks to DIB, we didn't have TIME to get what we were looking for back in that computer room!"
"Get what?" Dib asked.
"Keep your mouth trap shut, or I'll MELT it off." Rogue threaten.
"You know, there is no real threat with him." Zim said to Rogue. "He has no "Earth spying toys" on him to prove anything anyway."
"Oh yeah." Rogue said with a little grin, remembering when she and Zim smashed all of Dib's camaras and junk.
"Still, NOW we have to sneak around REALLY quietly." Zim said. "They must have soldiers all over the Massive now."
"Looking for a RAT." Rogue said with sharp eyes towards Dib. "I say we just THROW him in front of some soldiers, and see now quickly it takes them to DISMEMBER him." Dib suddenly felt a chill at Rogue's statement, fearing abit that Zim might agree with her.
Zim didn't show it, but it WAS a temping thought to him. But......
"Now is not the time for that Rogue." Zim reposed. "I....hhhHHAATE..to say this...but, we will watch the DIB child, and make SURE we don't get caught because of HIM!"
"You hear that, human?" Rogue said right in the boy's pale face. "Try ANYTHING once, and your target practice for me!" She patted one of her laser gems for effect.
"Now, how are we going to carry this out with the current situation?" Zim said to himself. The Irkin crossed his arms in a thinking manner. After about two minutes of that, he then tried to ponder by rubbing his chin. And when THAT didn't work, he tried hitting his head repentedly with both fist, in which Dib thought was kind of funny looking, letting out a couple of snickers.
"I SAID don't TRY anything!" Rogue suddenly hissed to Dib, with laser humming lowly.
"I WASN'T! I was just laughing! Jezz!" Dib said, backing away from the quite unstable female alien.
While the human and Rogue were starting to mix up another argument, Zim suddenly halted from his self-inflicting head hitting, which Gir was getting quite a little kick out of. His antennas shot up. He threw a "SHHHH" to the two fighting ones. A faint sound of foot steps came to thier to ears, followed by voices.
"More soldiers are coming this way!" Rogue whispered.
"WHEEEEE! MORE PEOPLE!" Gir cooded loudly. Zim slapped a hand over the crazy robot's mouth, and signaled Dib and Rogue to move out. The Earth boy and girl Irkin just threw each other they glares and then followed Zim and Gir.
About a minute then passed before they stopped to rest, not hearing anything out the air duct walls. Zim planted himself down to take a quick breath. Rogue stood up with her antennas sightly twiching in the air, making sure they were safe and alone.
"They'll find us for sure if we don't think of something quick." Rogue said, staying calm in the situation.
"We SURPRISE THEM!" Gir brusted out, NOT gettng the danger they were all in at all. (Duh! ^-^)
"No, Gir." Zim said, correcting his SIR. "We stay OUT of sight until we fix all this! Understand?"
"...Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......" Gir dragged on and on. After about a good thirty seconds of that, Zim just rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"Alright Zim! I've had it!" Dib suddenly announed, stomping up to him. "This time, I WANT to know! WHAT are you and Rogue up to!? Whats going on here?!"
Zim's eyes began to twich with irratation to the boy's stupidity and butting in. He grit his teeth, and let loose an Irkin like growl, and then said in a ticked off tone mixed with hissing, "...FFFIINNE!!! I'll tell you if it will make you shut that hole in your head that your kind calls a MOUTH!!" Dib, after wiping the spit Zim sprayed in his face when he said "FFFIINNE", stood his ground and began to listen to what he's been wanting to hear for a while.
~Meanwhile....~
In the main control room, the Tallest sat in thier seats, commanding more Irkins to keep combing the ship for the quote "rat" unquote. (Hee Hee ^___^)
"They better find that THING soon." Red said. "For all we know, it could be a spy for one of the Operation Impending Doom 2 planets."
"It's SOOOO UGLY!" Purple said with a quiver. "All...pale and...and big- headed!"
"Wimp." Red blurded under his breath. But then, a thought struke him. "Hey, has anyone seen Rogue lately?"
"Uh, Rogue?" Purple said. "..No, no one has seen her since she came back."
"That's weird." Red said. "Normaly, she reports in, and then comes right to us to see if we need anything else. This isn't like her." Suddenly becoming a little suspicious, Red swung his big clawed hand out and brought a little control panal up. He pressed a few buttons, bringing a screen up on the panal with abunch of numbers and names on it, the report files. He scrolled down the names, not seeing any recent reports made by Rogue, not even the one she was suppose to make right after she spoke with the Tallest. At seeing this, Red narrowed eyes. "Something isn't right there."
He rosed from his seat, and made an announcement to be heard. "To all soldiers! Those who don't have the intruder RAT in their sights, atempt to locate Rogue and begin her to the main control room. This is a DIRECT order!"
"Hey, speaking of orders..." Purple said. "...somebody go get me a big-o- bag of chips!"
~Back to Zim & Rogue~
"..And THATS the STORY!! HAPPY!?" Zim finished explaining anything about anything about what him and Rogue were doing to Dib. Dib stood in silence for a brief moment, soaking in all he just heard. He turned his head towards Rogue, who has been standing right behind him the whole time, still watching him like a hawk. Taking in what Zim told him, he didn't really see it till now that Rogue did look a little different then the other Irkins, with her extra long antennas.
"Weird." The boy said in a thinking stance.
"Whats "weird"?" Rogue asked rudely.
"You have all that physical power and your better then your own kind, but you can't remember a thing about your past? Don't you think you would have some memories or clues?" Dib asked curiosely.
"Why would YOU care at all?" She said coldly.
"I don't know...it just that..on Earth, people can get something like that, and I was just....." Dib trailed off abit.
"Man, you humans are not only stupid, you asked too many questions too!" Rogue snapped. "Questions your not even sure why you asked in the first place!"
"He's like that." Zim said, adding in his two cents.
"Well, questioning FINALLY got you to tell me what you and Rogue are doing." Dib said with a little smrik.
"Continue it anymore, and I'll LET Rogue take care of you." Zim said all dark like.
Keeping quiet for a second, Rogue crossed her arms and leaned on the vent walls to rest her back. She looked down to see Gir mimicing her, just for the heck of it. It did make her smile though. Just then, with her mind relaxed from Gir's cuteness, she suddenly remembered something importent.
"The file!" She suddenly said outloud, catching Dib and Zim's attention.
"What file?" Dib asked.
"NO MORE QUESTIONS!!!" Zim shouted to him.
"I'll ASK QUESTIONS IF I WHAT, ZIM!!" Dib shouted back, in his face.
"SCREEEEEEEEEAM!!!" Gir suddenly screeched loudly, JUST because his Master was being loud. It got them to shut up though. (Hee Hee....^-^) Thier attention then turned to Rogue. She actived her right cybrog arm, and brought up the file she hacked off from that big computer from before. A hologram screen shot up from her violet wrist gem. The very first words in the file were in big bold Irkin letters.
PROJECT ROGUE
The file itself didn't seem to be very long, to Rogue's surprise. But no matter, she began to read outloud with Zim, Gir, and a still too curiose for his own good Dib listening along.
"....Irkin Impire Year number 127OOZ007. The war between the Irkin race, and a nameless race from the far ends of the cosmos was nowhere near it's end. By order and leadership of Almighty Tallest Teal, a secret and importent task was carried out to stop the enemy once and for all. In the safety of a far off abandoed planet, the project went under way.
The ROGUE Project (PROJECT ROGUE), the name taken from a forgotten Irkin word for "Ultra Warrior", was finally completed by the Irkin Impire Year number 219OOZ029, with the war still at it's worse. Through the time and patience, the perfect fighter was finally born, an Irkin with fighting abilitys that no other Irkin within countless life times could measure up to. In honor of it's importents, Almighty Tallest Teal rightfully named the young one....."
The female alien slowed down, and then finished the sentince with Zim and Dib looking over her shoulder at the screen.
"......Rogue..."
The three were all speakless in his or her own way by this revelation.
"..........Tallest Teal..." Zim then said to break the sudden quiet. "She was the Almighty Tallest before Purple and Red today. She ruled through many battles and wars, winning every one of them. ....I wasn't even ALIVE during her ruling!"
"How long ago was this war anyway?" Dib asked.
".....A LOOONG ago." Rogue said, still staring blankly at the hologram screen. "In your Earthy time, it would have been........well over 1,000 years."
"AN 1,000 YEARS!!!" Dib said in amazement.
"The war alone lasted for about 500 of those years, and, of course, the Irkins WON that war too." Zim said. "But history never said anything about a "secret weapon"."
"Because, the key word is SECRET." Rogue said. "If this file is right, then, I helped defend and win a war! But..." Her face went into blake mode again.
"That could be the part of your past you don't remember." Dib said.
"Will YOU stay out of THIS?!" Rogue suddenly snapped.
"Man, SORRY!" Dib snapped back. "You know, your more hostial then Zim!"
"And don't YOU forget it." Rogue said darkly. "Why you being SOMEWHAT helpful all of the sudden anyway?"
"Don't bother asking him, Rogue. He isn't worth WASTING your breath over." Zim said. He then had a quick thought. "Hey, why are you being helpful?" (- _-')
"I'm not being HELPFUL." Dib said with a sharp glare.
"Yeeeeees you aaaaaaaare!" Gir cooded to him. "Helpful like a...like a.....CHICKEN!!" This comment was followed by around of looks from the others.
"ALRIGHT! ENOUGH of this POINTLESSNESS!" Zim said. "That file is SURELY the answer to Rogue's past, and I'm betting the Tallest have some knowlege of it as well."
"Whys that?" Rogue asked. "It was locked away in a computer system that's only for info on Irkins soldier and invaders. If the Tallest know about it, they would have put it in a safer place, right?"
"They could of been atemping to hide the file in a place where no one would of thought looking." Zim asumed. "Think about it, if you knew before about your TRUE power and...and stuff, they must of FEARED that you would overpower them!"
"I WOULDN'T of overpowered them back then..." Rogue said, putting the file away in her arm's panal gem with a seriose face. "...but I'd do it NOW."
"Also, I hate to say this, but do to the currunt situation, I doubt we can get to any other computers to hack." Zim said. "We need a new plan."
Just then, the loud speaker outside thier air duct hiding place brusted out with an announcement that was ordered a few minutes ago. "BY ORDER OF THE ALMIGHTLY TALLEST, ALL SOLDIERS LOOKING FOR THE INTRUDER, KEEP A EYE OUT FOR ROGUE. FIND HER, AND BRING HER TO THE TALLEST IMMEDATEALLY."
"Did you heard that?" Zim said to Rogue.
"Why are the Tallest look-" Her eyes rosed in realiztion. "I never reported in!"
"So?" Dib said. Rogue delivers a evil look to the boy.
"They know I ALWAYS report in after I come back from a mission." Rogue said. "And since I forgot to it this time, they might have got wind of something!"
"I didn't do it!" Gir said to Rogue's "wind" saying. (Get it?)
"Aaaagrrrrrrraaaahh! THIS IS YOUR FAULT!!!" Rogue said pointing a finger to Dib.
"Not THAT again!" He said.
"STOP IT!" Zim said to the two. "I JUST had a GREAT plan."
"And what's THAT?" Dib asked in bit of a sarcasic tone.
Ignoring his remark, Zim pulled Rogue aside, and started to whisper something in her nonseeable ears. The more he whispered, the more Rogue began to get a evil, yet happy look on her face, and it was towards Dib.
"Gladly!" Rogue said ALL evil like when Zim was finished. She started to made her way to the human, who in turn started to back away.
"What are you up to?" Dib asked, carefully eyeing Rogue, getting ever closer to him. "Lo..look, I'm warning you..." But before Dib could finish, Rogue suddenly brusted towards him, pushing him to and through another nearby vent gate. He fell to the ground with a loud thud, catching the attention of two soldiers nearby. Rogue then jumped out of the vent hole, right infront of Dib and the soldiers.
"Rogue!" The two soldiers said at seeing her.
Dib scrambled up, eyes fixed on Rogue. "Whats the big-"
"I've found the RAT!" Rogue suddenly announed outloud for the two other Irkins to hear. She then leaned over Dib, and whispers in a devius voice, "..Run."
Not getting ANYTHING she and Zim were trying to pull, Dib responded quickly to Rogue's command, ESPECIALLY when the two soldiers began to open fire! "GET 'EM!" Rogue yelled out, and started to chase him down.
Meanwhile, still in the vent ways, Zim dawned the soldier outfit again, and took the sack out from before too. "Now to meet Rogue at the meeting point." He said. "In the sack Gir!" The robot obeyed, for once, and Zim began to make his way deeper into air duct ways.
As that happened, Rogue was in hot pursuit of Dib, the two Irkin soldiers following close behind. Rogue then started to fire shots towards him, but her shots seemed to strway. Dib suddenly took note of this.
'She's missing me?' He thought to himself as he saw each of her beams flying PASSED him.
The female Irkin was indeed missing her "target". 'Your LUCKY I'm missing on PURPOSE, DIB.' She thought griting her teeth.
Suddenly, as the two turned a corner, from a open ceiling vent, Zim jumped down infront of Dib, causing him to screech to a halt. Zim had the sack over his shoulder, containing Gir. The boy quickly looked back to see Rogue too coming to a stop.
"What the HECK is going on?!" Dib shouted at both of them.
"Here, hold this!" Zim gave, or rather, threw the sack with his robot in it at Dib, who just caught it without thinking. Just then, the two soldiers came around the corner, seeing the three.
"The intruder has STOLEN some secret equipment!" Rogue said, pointing to Dib.
"WHAT!?!" Dib shouted.
"He's got it in that SACK!" Zim said.
More confused now then ever, Dib immedateally high tailed it. The soldiers went to chase him.
"Wait!" Rogue said to them. "Me and this SOLDIER (Zim) right here will take care of him! Go inform the others AND the Tallest!"
The soldiers nodded and went away. Zim and Rogue then went after Dib on thier own.
"Part one of your plan was perfect!" Rogue said to Zim as they ran down the halls.
"Of COURSE it was!" Zim said. "Now all we have to do is CATCH Dib."
"I HAD the chance to SHOOT him!" Rogue groned.
"We need him ALIVE right now." Zim said. "He's going to help us get to the TALLEST!"
"Still, I COULD OF SHOT HIM!!" Rogue shouted.
~Meanwhile, the Tallest sat within the control room as the two solider came brusting in with Rogue's message.
"Why didn't you two bring Rogue HERE?" Red asked. "That's was a command!"
"S-sorry, my lords." One of the soliders said. "Rogue said she and another solider were going to take care of-"
"What OTHER solider?" Purple asked while munching down on the bag of chips he requested earlier.
"There was a solider with her when we found her." He said. "They caught the rat trying to get away with some stolen stuff!"
"Stolen STUFF?" Red said confusely.
"Secret equipment sirs!" They both said.
""Secret" equipment?" Red said. "We don't have anything SECRET on this ship."
"You sure?" Purple asked with a mouth full a chips.
"YES, I'm SURE." Red said sarcasicly. "And if Rogue said she would get that rat, then she wouldn't need any HELP. She could get rit of it all be herself. Hmmm...YOU!" Red pointed to one of the Irkins at the controls of the ship. "Locate Rogue on one of the hall moniters!"
"Yes sir!" The Irkin responed. After about a few minutes.... "We FOUND her."
The huge screen bleeped on with Rogue and the "solidier" running down the long hallways, chosing in on Dib with the sack.
"......Hey, I don't remember seeing that solider anywhere before." Purple said.
"Me ethier." Red said with a sharp look. "Close up on that solider, NOW!"
"YES SIR!" The controler said.
The screen then zoomed in on the unknowned solider. The Tallest stared at it for about a good minute or so.
"Hm.....kind of short, an't he?" Purple said with a cocked head.
"Short?" Red said with perked eyes. Then Purple's eye did the same. They looked at one another with the same thought coming to mind.
"You don't think...." Purple said.
The more Red thought about it, the more it was making sence why Rogue didn't report in. "Who ELSE do we know that's that SHORT?"
TO BE CONTINUED...............
RogueStar: UH OH....me thinks that something BIG is about to happen soon! How, I know not alot of people are reading this, but to the one person and FF.net bubby that has been and will read this right to the very end, pureVENOM, YOU ROCK GIRL!!! ^-^ I hope this chapter will hold you off until I get the URGE to type up the next one! The next one will be a bit of a turning point in the story, at lease I hope thats how it'll turn out, so STAY TURNED FOR CHAPTER 17, COMING IN THE NEAR FUTURE TO A COMPUTER NEAR YOU! (Hee Hee ^-^) LATER and ROGUESTAR OUT!!