Chapter 17
In the Face of Tallest
"YOU ROTTEN TWO-TIMING TRAITOR ZIM!!!" The Dib yelled out, still being chased down by the undercover Zim, and Rogue. The trio chase had now lead them up a new sector of the Massive, Sector E-13. Dib continued to shout and rave at the two Irkins, still hanging on to the sack that Zim chucked to him, that unknownly to him, just had Gir inside. He hasn't even thought of looking inside it, too busy running for his pitaful little life. (YES! YES! I AM INSANE!!!)
"MAN, I HATE him." Rogue said irritatingly.
"FOCUS ROGUE!" Zim said, huffing and puffing. "How many more sectors do we have to go?"
"Not much farer." She answered. This is sector E. Sector F is where the Tallest are. It's just one large hallway, but it's either heavily guarded, or have highly advanced locks on the door. Once we get to F, I'll jump in, so we can GET in!"
"The DIB monkey is nothing but a PAWN for my AWSOME PLAN!!" Zim boasted. "Soon, I WILL taste the sweet SWEET taste of my REVENGE!!! MWAAAAAHAAHAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"
Zim continued his maniac laugh, not noticing Rogue looking at him with a freaked expresstion.
".....Aw, what the hey." Rogue said flatly, and began to laugh along with Zim, getting more maniac sounding along the way. The sound of both of them made Dib run faster with terror. ^-^
~Meanwhile~
"Oh, COME ON!" Purple said to Red, getting right out of his seat. "That CAN'T be HIM! He's DEAD! GONE!" Red glared at the other ruling one, knowing who he just saw on the computer screen. "I mean, THINK about it..." Purple continued. "Rogue said it herself that the job is DONE with, right? She's NEVER failed a job."
"Yeah, BUT..." Red said with slanted eyes. "...there are some things that don't seem right."
"Like what?" Purple asked.
"One, Rogue normaly contacts us before coming back from ANY "mission"." Red said with finger gestunes on "mission". "And two, she was able to GET here."
"DUH!" Purple said in a dopy sounding voice. "She has a SHIP!"
"THAT'S just IT!" Red suddenly shouted. "She contacted us some days ago to tell us that her ship CHASHED and was completely destoryed! YET, she comes back with NO problem. Is this starting to paint a picture for YOU!?"
Purple blinked a few times with the thought. "....Ok, so there's THAT, but Rogue is completely devoted to us, and we told her what we would do if she ever messed up. She's been the perfect fighter/servent since!"
"She's ALSO a perfect LIER." Red said, thinking when Rogue told them that she had eradicated Zim. "And along with that, a third thing, she seem to have waited a bit longer then usual to do the job. She COULD of FOUND OUT of something."
Purple's eyes widened a little bit at Red's words.
"And IF she DID find something out..." Red continued. "... if she retaliates, with her POWER, it could lead to some major trouble."
The tall, purple Irkin finally got what Red was talking on about. But there was one other thing. "Then....if that's all true, that soldier on the screen could REALLY be-."
Before he could finish, a Irkin at the controls had something to report.
"My TALLEST! The rat is heading RIGHT for this sector! Rogue and that soldier are STILL chasing it. What are your orders MY LORDS!!" (Geez, he's abit jumpy, ain't he. ^-^)
The tall ones gave one another a look, a quick nod, and then Red gave out the command.
"Let them come."
"WHAT!?" The controler said in disbelieve. "WHY my LORDS!? That RAT COULD be DEADLY!!"
"Just DO it." Purple said with a leader like glare. (You know, the kind of glare that TELLS you whos BOSS! hee hee...^0~)
"Y-Y-YES my TALLEST." The controler said in a quiver.
~Else Where...~
Still running, Dib was now pretty much ready to pass out. Zim and Rogue on the other hand, were still in good form. Finally, the Earth boy reached a big steel door with Irkin symbols on it that stood for "SECTOR F". He went and tried to open it, but with his ceased running, Rogue and Zim stopped him by napping him by the shoulders.
"Hold it right there, RAT BEAST!" Zim said, injoying every minute of this act.
"It's over!" Rogue said devlishly. "This is as far as you go!"
Dib's big head started to trickle sweat, he was face to face and cornered by his arch rival, and his female partner. He struggled, but the aliens' grips, mostly Rogue's grip, held him in place. He suddenly began to get that same feeling he got when those Irkin soldiers were after him. His body started to tremble, causing him to drop the sack. It fell to the ground with a tin can sound. It then began to make some movements, and out popped Gir, rubbing his metal head.
"HUH?!" Dib looked down at the contents of the sack. Gir just looked back up and wigglied his little flat tongue at him. He then glaced back up at the Irkins. "Why was YOUR stupid ROBOT in the bag, ZIM?! What does is ALL MEAN??!"
"Okay! Phase two!" Rogue said, not caring at all about Dib's questions, of course. She just pushed the boy out of the way, making him fall to the ground, and approched the sector door. Dib scrambled up, and glared all ticked off like at Zim.
"What was the POINT of YOU TWO chasing me?!" He shouted at the alien.
"FUNNY you should ask that, DIB!" Zim boasted LOUDLY. "If your KIND were good for ONE thing, it would be running for your sorry lives!" He began.
"I second that." Rogue said without stopping whatever she was doing to the steel door. Gir was "helping" by slaming his face in the door abunch of times.
"What's SHE doing?" Dib asked.
"QUIET!!" Zim shouted. "As I was saying, our plan was to USE you to get use HERE!"
"....WHAT?" The boy said with a lowered eye. "That's didn't even make any SENCE!"
"YES IT DOES, YOU LOWER LIFE MASS!!" Zim shouted, not liking when ANYONE denies his words. "Let your memory serve you for once, and recall back with those two other soldiers back there."
"Yeah, so?" Dib said. He then felt a HARD slap to the back of his head. Grabing on to the bump now on his head, he swung around, already knowing who it was. "What was that for!?" He shouted at Rogue.
"What Zim is trying to get through your big thick HEAD," Rogue began. "...is that I told those soldiers to go inform the Tallest and the other soldiers that were looking for you AND me. There for, all the soldiers STOPPED sreaching, leaving me and Zim, and YOU, to be able to head to this point with nobody else getting in the way of us! Plus, the chasing you stuff was to make it look like that I was going to "take care of you".
"Oh....HEY WAIT! How was I supposed to know all that when I didn't have a CLUE at what you two were doing in the first place!?" Dib said. However, his question went unanswered as Rogue finished her work on the steel door. It's electeric lock made some odd noises, and it slowly slid open. The female Irkin quickly readied her weapon, but to her surprise, there didn't seem to be anyone behind the door. No guards, no soldiers, just a long, LONG hallway that lead to the Tallest's main room.
Rogue took a moment and just looked down the hall, suddenly picking up a strong unright feeling in the air.
"There's no one here?" Zim then asked, he too noticing the lack of guards and what not.
"HELLOOOOO!??" Gir suddenly yelled into the empty space. Both Zim and Rogue quickly slapped thier hands over the robot's loud little mouth. But even with that outbrust, nothing.
"This does NOT look right...." Rogue said with a strong seriose tone in her voice. Zim was getting a sence as well that something was wrong. Dib, noticing the looks on his enemys faces, then realized that something wasn't right. Gir ACTAULLY got the idea, and hid behind his Master.
A seemly long silence could place, with the four just standing in one spot, Zim and Rogue fearing on the same possablity. Then, the two just turned heads and look at one another, as if they were trying to read each others minds. It lasted for about a minute. The two Irkins, not saying one word, both then place one foot into the hallway, and slowly started to walk towards the Tallest's door. Both still had the same thought running in thier minds; the Tallest knew about them all along; but they also both knew it was too late to back down, even if they could.
"Hey! What about me?!" Dib said as he then entered the hall, with Gir closely following.
The moment was now at hand for Zim and Rogue. Thier revenges were mere steps ahead. The feeling that the "tall" ones knew they were coming began to slip from the minds, like a stupid, senceless thought. Thier pace started to quicken, turning from slow walking to a mild jog, then a much faster run. Dib and Gir tried thier best to match up to the two's pacing, slowly growing more behind them.
The hallway was now echoing with the aliens', the Earth boy's, and the robot's fast steps. The Tallest's door grew closer and closer to Rogue and Zim's sight. Then, like they were both on the same wavelength, deploied thier metal legs, verted them in laser form, and together with Rogue's wrist lasers as well, fired straight at the door, blowing it wide open!
Zim and Rogue made a instant stop at the entrance. Dib and Gir finally caught up with them, with Dib catching his breath. Inside, the two Tallest were standing, well, "hovering", right in the middle of the room, with thier backs turned, looking out a large glass window. They were the ONLY ones in the room. It seemed that Zim and Rogue's hunch was right.
"TALLEST!" Zim yelled out, the surrounding walls echoing his voice all around.
The tall leaders didin't move a inch, causing Zim's, and Rogue's anger to rise. The fighter female one took in another step, fists tighted, shaking with her held back rage.
"...Tallest." She let the word pass through her lips like a curse, the sound of it without any respect nor loyalty like before towards them. It was only then Red and Purple turned and faced them, finally.
"Rogue, just WHAT do you think your doing?" Red spoked, his rectangular eyes fully fixed on her.
"Yeah, and what's HE doing here?" Purple asked pointing right at Zim. "He should be DEAD!"
"Will you calm down?" Red said with a look. "Although, he does have a point, Rogue. Why haven't you-"
"Because Zim doesn't deserve to be killed, THAT'S WHY!" Rogue said. "And nearly didn't all those other jobs I did! Those planets, those civilizations, they didn't mean a threat at all!"
Red and Purple looked at each other. "Sooo...why are you getting all upset?" Purple asked.
Rogue grit her teeth. "It was SLAMEFULL! Not just to me, but to the whole Irkin race!"
"What? Why?" Purple asked flatly.
Zim then stepped in to answer that question. "Simple! We're trained and by NATURE enjoy taking other planets and inslaving other lifeforms, but blindly blowing up them without even knowing if it would be useful is WASTING! Blowing up planets IS fun, sure, BUT ONLY if it's WORTH it and WORTHLESS, like THIS creatures mudball!!" (Points finger right in Dib's face.)
"Hey! Watch it!" Dib said back, slapping the Irkin's hand away.
"....THAT'S THE RAT!" Purple suddenly pointed out.
"Will you forget about that!?" Red shouted.
"I'M NOT A RAT!!" Dib shouted out. "Geez, what's WRONG with you people!?"
"SHUT UP DIB!!" Zim shouted.
"You KNOW that thing?" Red asked.
"HE'S what is called a HUMAN, the kind of worthless beasts that live on planet EARTH." Zim paused a brif moment. "...the planet YOU TWO send me to, thinking it would get RID of me!"
Both the Tallests' eyes went all wide and such. "....I can't believe it!" Purple said awstrunked. "He FINALLY figured that out!"
"He's not as stupid as we thought!" Red said in the same tone as the other.
"I'm FAR MORE from that!" Zim said with a glare.
"Let's get RIGHT to the point!" Rogue said. "We're here to seek REVENGE Tallest! For using me as a mere TOOL for YOUR senceless enjoyment, and for lying to Zim, making him think all those false things! I for my part thinks that he has the FULL potential to be a TRUE invader! It's wrong to not see that!"
"YOU both want REVENGE?" Red said. The Tallest suddenly just brusted out in laugher. "HA HAA HA!! That's a good one!"
"Oh man, that's TOO funny!" Purple said.
"WE'RE NOT TRYING TO BE FUNNY!!" Zim shouted out.
Red and Purple slowing quieted down to a snicker. "PLEASE Zim. YOU?" Red said. "HOW would even go about DOING that?!"
Rogue answered by saying, "We'll gather and tell more Irkins what you two are REALLY like! We'll form a rebellion againest you!"
With these, Zim and Rogue thought the Tallest were going to at lease show signs of fear towards them. But instand, they began to laugh again, more then before!
"You're as STUPID and BRAINLESS as ZIM!" Purple just brusted out.
"What?" Rogue said in a state of confusion. Same went for Zim.
"EVERYONE knows that we send Zim to Earth already!" Red said. "And they were all happy we did!"
"WHAT?!" Zim said, shocked by the words.
"Ever since the INCIDENT with Impending Doom 1 Zim, everyone wished you would just disappear!" Red continued. "You SHOULD of gotten the picture when we banished you to Food Courtdea. We ALL could care less if you just...EXPLODED or something! We were even hoping you would of crashed or something while you were flying to Earth!
This new news caused Zim to first stare off into space for a moment, which was then followed by some eye twiches.
"..Zim?" Rogue said to him. She could see that he now had a face like a souless body. He was in the same state as he was when he and Rogue first heard the Tallest talking over Zim's computer back on Earth, maybe worse. Rogue was too somewhat stunted by what the Tallest said. Suddenly, the all too familier emotion was coming up, but there was a touch of her anger in with it, her anger towards the Tallest. She turned to faced them, with a raging look in her sharp purple eyes.
"NOW what?" Purple asked her in a sarcasiced voice.
The female Irkin lowered her head, and began to tremble like a leaf.
"Oh, are you SCARED now Rogue?" Red asked. "Well, you should be. It was pointless to even think that you and ZIM of ALL people, to take an act of revenge on US! You should NEVER forget who your leaders are, got that?"
".....You slime..." Rogue said.
"WHAT?" Red said.
"....You think I'm NOTHING, but a PUPPET you can just tell what to do and what not, and just because Zim has made some mistakes in his life, some were BIG, yes, you focse on that and THAT alone, totaly igoring his true strong points!"
Zim snapped out of his blank stare at hearing that. Rogue continued.
You may be tall, BUT you both have NO consideration to the invaders and soldiers that deserve a REAL chance to show what thier made of! Sometimes....sometimes...." Rogue's words were forced out, her anger building even more. "....HEIGHT MEANS NOTHING!!"
"...Rogue.." Zim said under his breath.
"Whoa." Dib too was pretty much blown away by her words.
The Tallest, after a moment of quiet, moved in closer to Rogue, and made close eye contact, having to bent over to do it of course. Red then spoke.
"You do know what we will have to do with you, right Rogue?"
"You failed to do the mission." Purple said.
Rogue shapened her eyes. "..... And I could care less."
In the blink of an eye, Rogue deploed her spider legs, and leapped away from Red and Purple's faces, landing right next to Zim, and almost hitting Dib. ^-^
"What do you think your doing now?" Purple said.
Zim looked up at Rogue, her metal legs still out and in a striking pose. He suddenly then got what she was going to do. And at that point, it didn't sound like too bad of an idea! He too brought his metal legs out, and went into a simlier pose as her.
"Oh, now THERE'S something." Red said towards Zim. "ROGUE is one thing, but YOU Zim? You should AT LEASE be smart enough to know that you don't have a CHANCE againest us!"
"What a IDIOT." Purple said.
"ENOUGH!!" Zim shouted. "This ends NOW, TALLEST!!"
With that, both Irkins lunged at the two tall ones, Zim positioning two of his legs to strike them at landing, and Rogue warming up her lasers! And at the same time, the HUMAN (I almost forgot about him! -_^), wasn't sure if he should run or stay! And Gir, he sat right on the floor and started to wave little flags with Zim and Rogue's names on them.
"TAKE THIS!!" Rogue shouted, ready to fire.
Thier attack was just about to make contact, but suddenly, a flash of light appeared around thier targets, surounding the Tallest with some kind of energy shield! With impact, a retracting force shot from the shield, throwing Zim and Rogue right into the wall! They struggled a moment to stand, and got a good look at what just hit them.
"What is THIS!?" Zim said, rubbing on his head, which was the first thing to hit the wall before the rest of his body.
"Where the FORCE FIELD come from?!" Rogue said.
The Tallest both gave out a laugh at they failed attempt. "I TOLD you two don't have a chance!" Red boasted.
"Yeah, why did you think we have BACKPACKS as well?" Purple said. "OURS are programmed to create a powerful energy shield if anything or anyONE try to hurt us! YOU guys can't even TOUCH us!"
Zim and Rogue grit thier teeth angerly to this unforseen problem. Rogue brought her metal legs back into her backpack, but Zim kept his out. He eyed Red and Purple with a even more evil glare then he does with Dib! It was like he didn't CARE if he got rit of Dib or not anymore! All he wanted right there and now, was the ritting of the TALLEST. The pure, untanted rage towands them inside the Irkin was building ever more. His only thought now was.....
"..aaaaAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"
Zim suddenly brusted towards the Tallest again, taking Rogue by surprise! "ZIM, WAIT!" She called out.
But her words didn't reach him. It looked as if Zim was going to try another front attack. The tall ones were perpared for it. But then, instand of aiming for the front of them, Zim landed on Red's backpack! Using his spider legs, he attached himself right to it, and began to try and RIP it off! The energy shield suddenly shot up. But with the interfernce of Zim, the backpack started to give off signs of malfuntioning, and Zim started getting shocked and hit with the sparks! Purple tried to pull him off, but the shield wouldn't let him.
"ZIM!" Rogue called out.
In the background, Dib was taken back at what his enemy was trying to do. "That's CRAZY!" He suddenly shouted out. "That'll KILL him for SURE!!"
For once, the Dib human was right. It looked like Zim wasn't going to be able to take much more from it! But still, he continued to struggle with all his might!
"ZIM, STOP IT!!!" Rogue shouted loudly.
Red tried himself to get the Irkin off him, but Zim was too clamped on his pack. The flying sparks and shocks were starting to affect Red now as well.
"Don't just STAND there!! GET HIM OFF OF ME!!" He said to Purple.
Purple tried again, but with no succese. Right at that point, Zim began to show signs of weakness.
"ZIM!!!" Rogue cried out. A sudden tear raced down her face at the horrible sight. It was so much she took take. Rogue rushed towards Red, and delivered with her fist a hammering blow to his chest, breaking THROUGH the SHIELD, and knocking Red to the floor!! The force cause Zim to break loose, and slam onto the floor as well. Rogue immediately ran over to him.
"..Zim?" She said over his battered body. He didn't repond. "...Zim...please....talk to me..PLEASE...."
Meanwhile, Red, being totaly "blown away" from Rogue's attack, slowly stood back up, and looked over to where Rogue and Zim were. He then looked down at where the female Irkin stunck him. There was dent left in his chest armor. He looked over his shoulder, his pack was fried. He turned his attention back to the two that caused both damages. Still eyeing on them, he hand gestuned Purple to come over, and started to whisper something to him.
Rogue continued to try to wake Zim up, that is, hopefuly, he was ONLY knocked out.
"..Zim....come on, say something." She gently placed her cybrog hand on his face. Tears began to flow from her sharp eyes, dripping on his forehead. The few drops caused Zim's eyes to open. Rogue's face then immediately brightened up.
"..W-What happened?..." Zim said in a daze. He sat right up at seeing Rogue's teared face. She just sat there, looking into Zim's face, and eyes. She did it for at lease thirtiy seconds without saying anything at all.
"What's wrong??" Zim finally asked. At saying that, he suddenly noticed something like a glow in Rogue's purple eyes. Then before he knew it, she threw her arms around him, and brusted out in tears! Needless to said, it took Zim COMPLETELY by surprise! 0.0 This was TOTALY new for Rogue to do! It was something he'd see GIR doing! A rouge of red suddenly flashed onto his face and he just stood completely still.
Speaking of "still", STILL just standing in the same place, Dib was watching the two, can't believing what he was seeing himself! His round eyes become somewhat unblinkable at the sight. Gir was loving every minute of it, making little "kissy" noises with his mouth. ^-^
"WILL YOU QUIT THAT! I THINK I GET IT!!" Dib suddenly shouted at the robot. Gir just smiled at his angey looking face. But then, the tin bot caught something with his blue eye.
"What they doing?" He asked, pointing to what he was seeing. Dib turned his head, and saw the two tall ones quietly sneaking up on Rogue and Zim! Oddly, they both had they hand streched out for some reason. Rogue was too busy squeezing Zim to notice, and Zim was too stunted by her strange squeezing to see them as well!
Dib was suddenly in a mental fix; should he help them, or not?? He watched as the Tallest got closer and closer to them, his now TWO enemys. 'But the TALLEST are thier own KIND! It doesn't seem fair!' He thought wildly. 'And I couldn't FIGHT them!...And without Zim and Rogue, I might not get back HOME!'
"......(grrrrr)...ZIM! ROGUE! BEHIND YOU!!" Dib shouted out.
His shout snapped Zim out of it, and he just noticed the Tallest RIGHT behind Rogue! But before he could do anything, Red and Purple slammed thier large hands on the back of Rogue's head. Confusioned, she tried to turn around to see what was happening. They gripped thier hands onto her head tightly.
"LET GO OF ME!" She said, thrashing around.
"What do you think your doing?!" Zim said to them. "Let go of her NOW!"
"It SEEMS we underestmated now you two work together." Red said. "And it also seems like Rogue is ALITTLE stronger I'm we thought." He rubbed his chest armor.
"And you attacking us like this, isn't going to go unnoticed." Purple said.
Just then, a small light glowed from both the Tallest's wristbands, the ones that were on the hands that were on Rogue. She grabbed onto thier wrists and tried to push out. But suddenly, she stopped, and her arms dropped down to her sides. With that, the Tallest just let go, dropping her to the ground, face down, her body like a ragdoll.
"ROGUE!" Zim said. He went over to her side and shaked her. He rolled her over with her face facing up. The look of her face was something he didn't want to believe. Her eyes...they were open...but...they were completely lifeless............
"ROOOGUE!!!!"
TO BE CONTINUED......................
*RogueStar*: Okay, I KNOW NOT alot of people are reading this, so this after part is to my one TRUE reader, pureVENOM: I hope ya didn't get a heartattack with that last part! DON'T worry, the story ain't over! It gets BETTER, trust me! It took me FOREVER with this chapter!! I can't THINK most of the time for some reason! All in all, I hope you liked it, ya waited long enough for it! -_- Sorry about that. ^-^ Well, I better get to work on FFeds before the readers start a RIEIT or something! (Did I spell that right?) Aw well! LATER pV!!! *ROGUESTAR* OUT!!! ^0~
"YOU ROTTEN TWO-TIMING TRAITOR ZIM!!!" The Dib yelled out, still being chased down by the undercover Zim, and Rogue. The trio chase had now lead them up a new sector of the Massive, Sector E-13. Dib continued to shout and rave at the two Irkins, still hanging on to the sack that Zim chucked to him, that unknownly to him, just had Gir inside. He hasn't even thought of looking inside it, too busy running for his pitaful little life. (YES! YES! I AM INSANE!!!)
"MAN, I HATE him." Rogue said irritatingly.
"FOCUS ROGUE!" Zim said, huffing and puffing. "How many more sectors do we have to go?"
"Not much farer." She answered. This is sector E. Sector F is where the Tallest are. It's just one large hallway, but it's either heavily guarded, or have highly advanced locks on the door. Once we get to F, I'll jump in, so we can GET in!"
"The DIB monkey is nothing but a PAWN for my AWSOME PLAN!!" Zim boasted. "Soon, I WILL taste the sweet SWEET taste of my REVENGE!!! MWAAAAAHAAHAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"
Zim continued his maniac laugh, not noticing Rogue looking at him with a freaked expresstion.
".....Aw, what the hey." Rogue said flatly, and began to laugh along with Zim, getting more maniac sounding along the way. The sound of both of them made Dib run faster with terror. ^-^
~Meanwhile~
"Oh, COME ON!" Purple said to Red, getting right out of his seat. "That CAN'T be HIM! He's DEAD! GONE!" Red glared at the other ruling one, knowing who he just saw on the computer screen. "I mean, THINK about it..." Purple continued. "Rogue said it herself that the job is DONE with, right? She's NEVER failed a job."
"Yeah, BUT..." Red said with slanted eyes. "...there are some things that don't seem right."
"Like what?" Purple asked.
"One, Rogue normaly contacts us before coming back from ANY "mission"." Red said with finger gestunes on "mission". "And two, she was able to GET here."
"DUH!" Purple said in a dopy sounding voice. "She has a SHIP!"
"THAT'S just IT!" Red suddenly shouted. "She contacted us some days ago to tell us that her ship CHASHED and was completely destoryed! YET, she comes back with NO problem. Is this starting to paint a picture for YOU!?"
Purple blinked a few times with the thought. "....Ok, so there's THAT, but Rogue is completely devoted to us, and we told her what we would do if she ever messed up. She's been the perfect fighter/servent since!"
"She's ALSO a perfect LIER." Red said, thinking when Rogue told them that she had eradicated Zim. "And along with that, a third thing, she seem to have waited a bit longer then usual to do the job. She COULD of FOUND OUT of something."
Purple's eyes widened a little bit at Red's words.
"And IF she DID find something out..." Red continued. "... if she retaliates, with her POWER, it could lead to some major trouble."
The tall, purple Irkin finally got what Red was talking on about. But there was one other thing. "Then....if that's all true, that soldier on the screen could REALLY be-."
Before he could finish, a Irkin at the controls had something to report.
"My TALLEST! The rat is heading RIGHT for this sector! Rogue and that soldier are STILL chasing it. What are your orders MY LORDS!!" (Geez, he's abit jumpy, ain't he. ^-^)
The tall ones gave one another a look, a quick nod, and then Red gave out the command.
"Let them come."
"WHAT!?" The controler said in disbelieve. "WHY my LORDS!? That RAT COULD be DEADLY!!"
"Just DO it." Purple said with a leader like glare. (You know, the kind of glare that TELLS you whos BOSS! hee hee...^0~)
"Y-Y-YES my TALLEST." The controler said in a quiver.
~Else Where...~
Still running, Dib was now pretty much ready to pass out. Zim and Rogue on the other hand, were still in good form. Finally, the Earth boy reached a big steel door with Irkin symbols on it that stood for "SECTOR F". He went and tried to open it, but with his ceased running, Rogue and Zim stopped him by napping him by the shoulders.
"Hold it right there, RAT BEAST!" Zim said, injoying every minute of this act.
"It's over!" Rogue said devlishly. "This is as far as you go!"
Dib's big head started to trickle sweat, he was face to face and cornered by his arch rival, and his female partner. He struggled, but the aliens' grips, mostly Rogue's grip, held him in place. He suddenly began to get that same feeling he got when those Irkin soldiers were after him. His body started to tremble, causing him to drop the sack. It fell to the ground with a tin can sound. It then began to make some movements, and out popped Gir, rubbing his metal head.
"HUH?!" Dib looked down at the contents of the sack. Gir just looked back up and wigglied his little flat tongue at him. He then glaced back up at the Irkins. "Why was YOUR stupid ROBOT in the bag, ZIM?! What does is ALL MEAN??!"
"Okay! Phase two!" Rogue said, not caring at all about Dib's questions, of course. She just pushed the boy out of the way, making him fall to the ground, and approched the sector door. Dib scrambled up, and glared all ticked off like at Zim.
"What was the POINT of YOU TWO chasing me?!" He shouted at the alien.
"FUNNY you should ask that, DIB!" Zim boasted LOUDLY. "If your KIND were good for ONE thing, it would be running for your sorry lives!" He began.
"I second that." Rogue said without stopping whatever she was doing to the steel door. Gir was "helping" by slaming his face in the door abunch of times.
"What's SHE doing?" Dib asked.
"QUIET!!" Zim shouted. "As I was saying, our plan was to USE you to get use HERE!"
"....WHAT?" The boy said with a lowered eye. "That's didn't even make any SENCE!"
"YES IT DOES, YOU LOWER LIFE MASS!!" Zim shouted, not liking when ANYONE denies his words. "Let your memory serve you for once, and recall back with those two other soldiers back there."
"Yeah, so?" Dib said. He then felt a HARD slap to the back of his head. Grabing on to the bump now on his head, he swung around, already knowing who it was. "What was that for!?" He shouted at Rogue.
"What Zim is trying to get through your big thick HEAD," Rogue began. "...is that I told those soldiers to go inform the Tallest and the other soldiers that were looking for you AND me. There for, all the soldiers STOPPED sreaching, leaving me and Zim, and YOU, to be able to head to this point with nobody else getting in the way of us! Plus, the chasing you stuff was to make it look like that I was going to "take care of you".
"Oh....HEY WAIT! How was I supposed to know all that when I didn't have a CLUE at what you two were doing in the first place!?" Dib said. However, his question went unanswered as Rogue finished her work on the steel door. It's electeric lock made some odd noises, and it slowly slid open. The female Irkin quickly readied her weapon, but to her surprise, there didn't seem to be anyone behind the door. No guards, no soldiers, just a long, LONG hallway that lead to the Tallest's main room.
Rogue took a moment and just looked down the hall, suddenly picking up a strong unright feeling in the air.
"There's no one here?" Zim then asked, he too noticing the lack of guards and what not.
"HELLOOOOO!??" Gir suddenly yelled into the empty space. Both Zim and Rogue quickly slapped thier hands over the robot's loud little mouth. But even with that outbrust, nothing.
"This does NOT look right...." Rogue said with a strong seriose tone in her voice. Zim was getting a sence as well that something was wrong. Dib, noticing the looks on his enemys faces, then realized that something wasn't right. Gir ACTAULLY got the idea, and hid behind his Master.
A seemly long silence could place, with the four just standing in one spot, Zim and Rogue fearing on the same possablity. Then, the two just turned heads and look at one another, as if they were trying to read each others minds. It lasted for about a minute. The two Irkins, not saying one word, both then place one foot into the hallway, and slowly started to walk towards the Tallest's door. Both still had the same thought running in thier minds; the Tallest knew about them all along; but they also both knew it was too late to back down, even if they could.
"Hey! What about me?!" Dib said as he then entered the hall, with Gir closely following.
The moment was now at hand for Zim and Rogue. Thier revenges were mere steps ahead. The feeling that the "tall" ones knew they were coming began to slip from the minds, like a stupid, senceless thought. Thier pace started to quicken, turning from slow walking to a mild jog, then a much faster run. Dib and Gir tried thier best to match up to the two's pacing, slowly growing more behind them.
The hallway was now echoing with the aliens', the Earth boy's, and the robot's fast steps. The Tallest's door grew closer and closer to Rogue and Zim's sight. Then, like they were both on the same wavelength, deploied thier metal legs, verted them in laser form, and together with Rogue's wrist lasers as well, fired straight at the door, blowing it wide open!
Zim and Rogue made a instant stop at the entrance. Dib and Gir finally caught up with them, with Dib catching his breath. Inside, the two Tallest were standing, well, "hovering", right in the middle of the room, with thier backs turned, looking out a large glass window. They were the ONLY ones in the room. It seemed that Zim and Rogue's hunch was right.
"TALLEST!" Zim yelled out, the surrounding walls echoing his voice all around.
The tall leaders didin't move a inch, causing Zim's, and Rogue's anger to rise. The fighter female one took in another step, fists tighted, shaking with her held back rage.
"...Tallest." She let the word pass through her lips like a curse, the sound of it without any respect nor loyalty like before towards them. It was only then Red and Purple turned and faced them, finally.
"Rogue, just WHAT do you think your doing?" Red spoked, his rectangular eyes fully fixed on her.
"Yeah, and what's HE doing here?" Purple asked pointing right at Zim. "He should be DEAD!"
"Will you calm down?" Red said with a look. "Although, he does have a point, Rogue. Why haven't you-"
"Because Zim doesn't deserve to be killed, THAT'S WHY!" Rogue said. "And nearly didn't all those other jobs I did! Those planets, those civilizations, they didn't mean a threat at all!"
Red and Purple looked at each other. "Sooo...why are you getting all upset?" Purple asked.
Rogue grit her teeth. "It was SLAMEFULL! Not just to me, but to the whole Irkin race!"
"What? Why?" Purple asked flatly.
Zim then stepped in to answer that question. "Simple! We're trained and by NATURE enjoy taking other planets and inslaving other lifeforms, but blindly blowing up them without even knowing if it would be useful is WASTING! Blowing up planets IS fun, sure, BUT ONLY if it's WORTH it and WORTHLESS, like THIS creatures mudball!!" (Points finger right in Dib's face.)
"Hey! Watch it!" Dib said back, slapping the Irkin's hand away.
"....THAT'S THE RAT!" Purple suddenly pointed out.
"Will you forget about that!?" Red shouted.
"I'M NOT A RAT!!" Dib shouted out. "Geez, what's WRONG with you people!?"
"SHUT UP DIB!!" Zim shouted.
"You KNOW that thing?" Red asked.
"HE'S what is called a HUMAN, the kind of worthless beasts that live on planet EARTH." Zim paused a brif moment. "...the planet YOU TWO send me to, thinking it would get RID of me!"
Both the Tallests' eyes went all wide and such. "....I can't believe it!" Purple said awstrunked. "He FINALLY figured that out!"
"He's not as stupid as we thought!" Red said in the same tone as the other.
"I'm FAR MORE from that!" Zim said with a glare.
"Let's get RIGHT to the point!" Rogue said. "We're here to seek REVENGE Tallest! For using me as a mere TOOL for YOUR senceless enjoyment, and for lying to Zim, making him think all those false things! I for my part thinks that he has the FULL potential to be a TRUE invader! It's wrong to not see that!"
"YOU both want REVENGE?" Red said. The Tallest suddenly just brusted out in laugher. "HA HAA HA!! That's a good one!"
"Oh man, that's TOO funny!" Purple said.
"WE'RE NOT TRYING TO BE FUNNY!!" Zim shouted out.
Red and Purple slowing quieted down to a snicker. "PLEASE Zim. YOU?" Red said. "HOW would even go about DOING that?!"
Rogue answered by saying, "We'll gather and tell more Irkins what you two are REALLY like! We'll form a rebellion againest you!"
With these, Zim and Rogue thought the Tallest were going to at lease show signs of fear towards them. But instand, they began to laugh again, more then before!
"You're as STUPID and BRAINLESS as ZIM!" Purple just brusted out.
"What?" Rogue said in a state of confusion. Same went for Zim.
"EVERYONE knows that we send Zim to Earth already!" Red said. "And they were all happy we did!"
"WHAT?!" Zim said, shocked by the words.
"Ever since the INCIDENT with Impending Doom 1 Zim, everyone wished you would just disappear!" Red continued. "You SHOULD of gotten the picture when we banished you to Food Courtdea. We ALL could care less if you just...EXPLODED or something! We were even hoping you would of crashed or something while you were flying to Earth!
This new news caused Zim to first stare off into space for a moment, which was then followed by some eye twiches.
"..Zim?" Rogue said to him. She could see that he now had a face like a souless body. He was in the same state as he was when he and Rogue first heard the Tallest talking over Zim's computer back on Earth, maybe worse. Rogue was too somewhat stunted by what the Tallest said. Suddenly, the all too familier emotion was coming up, but there was a touch of her anger in with it, her anger towards the Tallest. She turned to faced them, with a raging look in her sharp purple eyes.
"NOW what?" Purple asked her in a sarcasiced voice.
The female Irkin lowered her head, and began to tremble like a leaf.
"Oh, are you SCARED now Rogue?" Red asked. "Well, you should be. It was pointless to even think that you and ZIM of ALL people, to take an act of revenge on US! You should NEVER forget who your leaders are, got that?"
".....You slime..." Rogue said.
"WHAT?" Red said.
"....You think I'm NOTHING, but a PUPPET you can just tell what to do and what not, and just because Zim has made some mistakes in his life, some were BIG, yes, you focse on that and THAT alone, totaly igoring his true strong points!"
Zim snapped out of his blank stare at hearing that. Rogue continued.
You may be tall, BUT you both have NO consideration to the invaders and soldiers that deserve a REAL chance to show what thier made of! Sometimes....sometimes...." Rogue's words were forced out, her anger building even more. "....HEIGHT MEANS NOTHING!!"
"...Rogue.." Zim said under his breath.
"Whoa." Dib too was pretty much blown away by her words.
The Tallest, after a moment of quiet, moved in closer to Rogue, and made close eye contact, having to bent over to do it of course. Red then spoke.
"You do know what we will have to do with you, right Rogue?"
"You failed to do the mission." Purple said.
Rogue shapened her eyes. "..... And I could care less."
In the blink of an eye, Rogue deploed her spider legs, and leapped away from Red and Purple's faces, landing right next to Zim, and almost hitting Dib. ^-^
"What do you think your doing now?" Purple said.
Zim looked up at Rogue, her metal legs still out and in a striking pose. He suddenly then got what she was going to do. And at that point, it didn't sound like too bad of an idea! He too brought his metal legs out, and went into a simlier pose as her.
"Oh, now THERE'S something." Red said towards Zim. "ROGUE is one thing, but YOU Zim? You should AT LEASE be smart enough to know that you don't have a CHANCE againest us!"
"What a IDIOT." Purple said.
"ENOUGH!!" Zim shouted. "This ends NOW, TALLEST!!"
With that, both Irkins lunged at the two tall ones, Zim positioning two of his legs to strike them at landing, and Rogue warming up her lasers! And at the same time, the HUMAN (I almost forgot about him! -_^), wasn't sure if he should run or stay! And Gir, he sat right on the floor and started to wave little flags with Zim and Rogue's names on them.
"TAKE THIS!!" Rogue shouted, ready to fire.
Thier attack was just about to make contact, but suddenly, a flash of light appeared around thier targets, surounding the Tallest with some kind of energy shield! With impact, a retracting force shot from the shield, throwing Zim and Rogue right into the wall! They struggled a moment to stand, and got a good look at what just hit them.
"What is THIS!?" Zim said, rubbing on his head, which was the first thing to hit the wall before the rest of his body.
"Where the FORCE FIELD come from?!" Rogue said.
The Tallest both gave out a laugh at they failed attempt. "I TOLD you two don't have a chance!" Red boasted.
"Yeah, why did you think we have BACKPACKS as well?" Purple said. "OURS are programmed to create a powerful energy shield if anything or anyONE try to hurt us! YOU guys can't even TOUCH us!"
Zim and Rogue grit thier teeth angerly to this unforseen problem. Rogue brought her metal legs back into her backpack, but Zim kept his out. He eyed Red and Purple with a even more evil glare then he does with Dib! It was like he didn't CARE if he got rit of Dib or not anymore! All he wanted right there and now, was the ritting of the TALLEST. The pure, untanted rage towands them inside the Irkin was building ever more. His only thought now was.....
"..aaaaAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"
Zim suddenly brusted towards the Tallest again, taking Rogue by surprise! "ZIM, WAIT!" She called out.
But her words didn't reach him. It looked as if Zim was going to try another front attack. The tall ones were perpared for it. But then, instand of aiming for the front of them, Zim landed on Red's backpack! Using his spider legs, he attached himself right to it, and began to try and RIP it off! The energy shield suddenly shot up. But with the interfernce of Zim, the backpack started to give off signs of malfuntioning, and Zim started getting shocked and hit with the sparks! Purple tried to pull him off, but the shield wouldn't let him.
"ZIM!" Rogue called out.
In the background, Dib was taken back at what his enemy was trying to do. "That's CRAZY!" He suddenly shouted out. "That'll KILL him for SURE!!"
For once, the Dib human was right. It looked like Zim wasn't going to be able to take much more from it! But still, he continued to struggle with all his might!
"ZIM, STOP IT!!!" Rogue shouted loudly.
Red tried himself to get the Irkin off him, but Zim was too clamped on his pack. The flying sparks and shocks were starting to affect Red now as well.
"Don't just STAND there!! GET HIM OFF OF ME!!" He said to Purple.
Purple tried again, but with no succese. Right at that point, Zim began to show signs of weakness.
"ZIM!!!" Rogue cried out. A sudden tear raced down her face at the horrible sight. It was so much she took take. Rogue rushed towards Red, and delivered with her fist a hammering blow to his chest, breaking THROUGH the SHIELD, and knocking Red to the floor!! The force cause Zim to break loose, and slam onto the floor as well. Rogue immediately ran over to him.
"..Zim?" She said over his battered body. He didn't repond. "...Zim...please....talk to me..PLEASE...."
Meanwhile, Red, being totaly "blown away" from Rogue's attack, slowly stood back up, and looked over to where Rogue and Zim were. He then looked down at where the female Irkin stunck him. There was dent left in his chest armor. He looked over his shoulder, his pack was fried. He turned his attention back to the two that caused both damages. Still eyeing on them, he hand gestuned Purple to come over, and started to whisper something to him.
Rogue continued to try to wake Zim up, that is, hopefuly, he was ONLY knocked out.
"..Zim....come on, say something." She gently placed her cybrog hand on his face. Tears began to flow from her sharp eyes, dripping on his forehead. The few drops caused Zim's eyes to open. Rogue's face then immediately brightened up.
"..W-What happened?..." Zim said in a daze. He sat right up at seeing Rogue's teared face. She just sat there, looking into Zim's face, and eyes. She did it for at lease thirtiy seconds without saying anything at all.
"What's wrong??" Zim finally asked. At saying that, he suddenly noticed something like a glow in Rogue's purple eyes. Then before he knew it, she threw her arms around him, and brusted out in tears! Needless to said, it took Zim COMPLETELY by surprise! 0.0 This was TOTALY new for Rogue to do! It was something he'd see GIR doing! A rouge of red suddenly flashed onto his face and he just stood completely still.
Speaking of "still", STILL just standing in the same place, Dib was watching the two, can't believing what he was seeing himself! His round eyes become somewhat unblinkable at the sight. Gir was loving every minute of it, making little "kissy" noises with his mouth. ^-^
"WILL YOU QUIT THAT! I THINK I GET IT!!" Dib suddenly shouted at the robot. Gir just smiled at his angey looking face. But then, the tin bot caught something with his blue eye.
"What they doing?" He asked, pointing to what he was seeing. Dib turned his head, and saw the two tall ones quietly sneaking up on Rogue and Zim! Oddly, they both had they hand streched out for some reason. Rogue was too busy squeezing Zim to notice, and Zim was too stunted by her strange squeezing to see them as well!
Dib was suddenly in a mental fix; should he help them, or not?? He watched as the Tallest got closer and closer to them, his now TWO enemys. 'But the TALLEST are thier own KIND! It doesn't seem fair!' He thought wildly. 'And I couldn't FIGHT them!...And without Zim and Rogue, I might not get back HOME!'
"......(grrrrr)...ZIM! ROGUE! BEHIND YOU!!" Dib shouted out.
His shout snapped Zim out of it, and he just noticed the Tallest RIGHT behind Rogue! But before he could do anything, Red and Purple slammed thier large hands on the back of Rogue's head. Confusioned, she tried to turn around to see what was happening. They gripped thier hands onto her head tightly.
"LET GO OF ME!" She said, thrashing around.
"What do you think your doing?!" Zim said to them. "Let go of her NOW!"
"It SEEMS we underestmated now you two work together." Red said. "And it also seems like Rogue is ALITTLE stronger I'm we thought." He rubbed his chest armor.
"And you attacking us like this, isn't going to go unnoticed." Purple said.
Just then, a small light glowed from both the Tallest's wristbands, the ones that were on the hands that were on Rogue. She grabbed onto thier wrists and tried to push out. But suddenly, she stopped, and her arms dropped down to her sides. With that, the Tallest just let go, dropping her to the ground, face down, her body like a ragdoll.
"ROGUE!" Zim said. He went over to her side and shaked her. He rolled her over with her face facing up. The look of her face was something he didn't want to believe. Her eyes...they were open...but...they were completely lifeless............
"ROOOGUE!!!!"
TO BE CONTINUED......................
*RogueStar*: Okay, I KNOW NOT alot of people are reading this, so this after part is to my one TRUE reader, pureVENOM: I hope ya didn't get a heartattack with that last part! DON'T worry, the story ain't over! It gets BETTER, trust me! It took me FOREVER with this chapter!! I can't THINK most of the time for some reason! All in all, I hope you liked it, ya waited long enough for it! -_- Sorry about that. ^-^ Well, I better get to work on FFeds before the readers start a RIEIT or something! (Did I spell that right?) Aw well! LATER pV!!! *ROGUESTAR* OUT!!! ^0~