The Decoding Begins
Authors Note: Thank you PoisonTears for leaving me such a nice review, you made me all tingly! As well as everyone else who did! Thankee! Now, back to our story.
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A searing pain was welling up in Ari's right arm and left hand. She twitched as she dozed fitfully. She was in a land entirely of candy; she could even smell the sweet scent of bubblegum and chocolate mingling together. (Although it actually didn't smell good, but they're both good.Mm, chocolate)
Ari's eyes snapped open as a drop of cold liquid splattered onto her forehead. Her eyes met Gir's as he noisily sucked a brainfreezy then stared openmouthed at her while she slept. Rubbing the sticky chocolaty blob off of her forehead and grateful it missed the two triangle shaped locks of blonde hair that always stuck off her forehead, Ari glanced around again.
"Gir, where am I?" she asked with interest. She had never seen such a place before in her life, buttons and levers were everywhere, the computer screen was busy playing the Scary monkey show, and scientific looking alien equipment littered the surface of the counters.
"Location is Recovery Wing, third floor of secret base, Sir!" said Gir, his eyes flashed red for a moment but quickly returned to blue again as he said "Want some!?" and shoved his brainfreezy rather close to Ari's face.
"No..I'm good, thanks."
"Jus a lil sip?"
"No."
"Pleeese? Sip?" as his eyes began to water with tears.
"No Gir, no si-oomph!" said Ari as the straw was shoved up into her mouth. Ari sighed, giving up and sucked on the straw before it was yanked out of her mouth. Ari struggled to swallow the chocolaty mass of bubblegum now in her mouth.
"Like it!?" Gir cried out loudly as Ari nodded her head forcing a smile before jumping out of the container she slept in and running to a trashcan and spitting the whole thing out.
"Wha was that?" said Gir behind her a few feet.
Ari, not wanting to hurt the robots feelings, (Something's not right in that sentence..) threw out the first excuse her mind could think of. "That was just..my spine."
"Ohhhhh. Okeedokee! Lets go eat waffles!" screamed the robot as he tugged on Ari's bandaged hand.
"Gaaahhh! Ow! OW OW OW OW OW!" Screamed Ari as the robot continued to tug on her hand. Zim probably had heard the commotion and entered the room from the couch elevator.. thing.
"Gir! Stop harassing the human and clean up the pile of mud upstairs."
"My waffles!" yelled the robot so turned on his jets and flew upstairs.
"Showoff." Zim muttered.
"How are your cuts?" Zim asked, well, it sounded more like a command really but Ari ignored that.
"They'll heal soon enough, but I won't be doing anything very active for a while. I can start decoding the plans now if you want, but it will be much easier if you tell me how far your technology has gone, these plans are all based on what you could do with Human science, not..yours."
"Its Irken for your information." Zim puffed up his chest a bit. "The fiercest race of invaders ever to see the light of day, we have conquered over 12 galaxies, and that was just operation impending doom! Soon, all of the races of the Galaxy will serve the Irken Empire! Muawww-Hahahaha!" yelled Zim triumphantly although a hint of insanity was present in his voice.
"You do realize I'm standing right next to you." Ari said as she put a finger to her ear to make sure it still functioned right.
"Oh uh, whoops. Anyway, tell me more about your human 'science'. And I want to know about 'beaches' and 'sub-weighs' and everything! Begin spilling your information juices to Zim!"
Ari walked over to the couch and sat down, Zim followed and the long conversation began.
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Gir heard the doorbell ring as the little robot sat amidst the pile of dirt and filth Zim had told him to clean up 2 hours before. "Puppies!" giggled the robot as he bounced into his disguise and opened the door only to find no one was there. He glanced down and saw a fluttering piece of paper with a rock on it.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" Gir squealed as he picked up the envelope and ripped the top off. He shook the envelope roughly until a small piece of paper flew out saying, "Absence of Skool, day 24. Please refrain from skipping Skool and call ahead to inform us if your poor doomed child is sick and won't be able to participate in the rest of the doomed classes activities."
"Yay!" Gir remembered when the first on of these arrived when Zim stayed home because of Keef Zim said to eat every one. Gir hastily shoved the paper into his mouth and chewed happily.
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"So your saying that creation of living creatures can be accomplished through body forming prior to the creatures existence? So you could literally design your own monsters as long as the bone structure and muscles all worked together? That's really amazing." said the astounded girl as Zim proudly announced,
"That's nothing, you should see our weaponry!"
"Well, I think you've got a good idea about Earth now, Subways are modes of transportation, Most people aren't as suspicious as Dib, Humans DON'T Have robot slaves, humans live to about 70 years old, and that the FBI isn't actually a government law enforcement agency designed to fight aliens. Yeah, I think we went over most of the important stuff." Ari closed her eyes as she sat on the couch comfortably, watching Zim out of the corner of her eye.
"You still didn't explain why your doing this." Zim said simply as he held a screen that had written down all they had said.
"What, helping you? That's an easy question, I'm tired of humanity, it thinks it is the highest and most intelligent of all the races, prides itself for knowing the most and crushes down the smaller species that are forced to live below it. So I want to escape from it. That's all."
"You know, you can be very weird at times." said Zim quirking an invisible eyebrow.
"Won't the school be suspicious if BOTH of us are missing? And once Dib finds out about this, he's not going to like it very much." Ari said lamely as she tightened the bandages that encased her arm.
Zim's red eyes narrowed at his name. "And how, exactly, would Dib find out?" his voice was silky yet murderous.
"Please Zim, you can't stay here the entire time, the school will send someone over, and if you don't trust me and we go to school with me wearing a glowing collar that's not going to look very normal now is it?" Ari scratched her nose for no reason. "I guess you'll have to trust me sooner or later, before the entire plan is ruined due to your stubbornness to trust a human. A human who has nothing to lose and nothing to gain from this, while you could become King of the world in a matter of months. Think about it Zim.." Ari took out her sketchbook and began doodling more monsters while Zim pondered what she had said.
"I would be given the respect an Almighty Tallest would only receive!" he said quietly to himself. Ari's non-visible ears (hidden under her thick blonde hair) heard this. "You'd be the what?"
"Who are the tallest?" asked Ari innocently. Zim gasped.
"I forgot to give you the honor of saying who the Almighty Tallest are! They are the leaders of the entire Irken Empire, with a height over 6 earth feet!"
"Zim, most humans grow to be 6 feet tall."
".....Well um...THEY ARE STILL ALMIGHTY AND POWERFUL! Even the smallest of smeets can recognize their awesome omnipotence!"
A low snuffling sound could be heard by Ari, as she had fallen asleep on the couch. Zim frowned but hesitantly pulled a blanket over Ari and went off to look for the plans. When she woke it would be time to get down to business..
It was a glorious sight, as Ari sat atop a mug winged beast. Humans ran in every direction as gigantic monsters chased them down, smashing buildings and destroying things and they went. Two dark figures loomed in the background watching, one with dark purple eyes and one with deep red. Zim was below Ari on another monster as he headed off in another direction. Two other strange figures rode monsters, underneath her flying creature she struggled to see their faces but everything went black as a horrible smell filled the air.
Ari choked and coughed in her sleep as the stench of tacos infiltrated her sweet dream. Blinky slowly, she opened her eyes to none other than Gir. The little robot had left a taco in front of her face while she slept, thinking her hair would eat it.
Before Ari could wonder where the troublesome robot was, something moved up her pants leg. Eyes widening in shock that something cold and greasy was slowly inching up her leg was more than terrifying as she slowly stood up, Gir's head popped out of her more-than-loose pants. Zim slowly walked into the room sipping a cup of something when he saw the scene.
"Gir, what are you OH MY TALLEST! WHATS GOING ON HERE?!?" Zim screeched as Ari yelled; "GET IT OUT OF MY PANTS!"
"I's riding in da Kangaroo's pouchy!! Weeeheehe!!!" Gir pulled out a quarter and dropped it into Ari's pocket, thinking it was a coin slot.
Gir's horrible greasy hands had begun to drip now onto Ari's pants where the little robot lost his grip and tumbled down the leg and promptly got stuck halfway. Ari started hopping on one foot and trying to shake the little monster off of her while Zim stood there and watched dumbfounded.
After a good 3 more minutes of madness, Gir finally was kicked out with extreme force from Ari's pant leg where he quickly got up and made a run back for it. Luckily for Ari, Zim made a dive towards the maniacal robot and managed to shut him off. Followed by that was a rather embarrassing silence as Ari began to take off her slimy dripping pants.
"What are you DOING?"
Ari stopped unbuttoning her pants halfway as she was struck with, 'What the hell AM I doing???"
"Sorry, I don't know what happened, usually I'm always alone so I really don't care where I change..Sorry if your scarred for life now..Do you have a bathroom?" Ari knew that question sounded stupid and that she now looked like a slut taking her pants almost off without noticing when Zim interrupted her thoughts.
"Uh, yeah but the toilets upstairs and the showers in my lab. Don't ask why." he said quickly, remembering when he had to build a new shower in the lab for water and glue testing.
"Oh..kay. Could I maybe use your shower? I'm horribly..cheesy now and feel the need to scrub myself."
"Sure yea, ok. I'll lock the lab doors until your done so Gir doesn't interrupt you..The little robot had turned back on of his own accord and was casually rummaging through Ari's bag.
"Thanks a lot Zim. Wow, this feels weird actually talking to other...things." Ari said embarrassedly as she grabbed her bag and took Gir out of it before she walked upstairs. She looked at Zim with a clueless expression.
"Oh, sorry. Elevator, Take Ari to the Main Lab!"
"Da kangaroo went bye bye.." said Gir sadly as he glued his feet to the floor.
Ari felt odd as she stripped off her horrid taco smelling clothes and wrapped the shower around as far as it could go, which was about 3/4 of the circular rack. The only open part was facing a blank wall anyway and the doors were locked so she didn't feel very "exposed"
As Ari stepped out of the shower she tried to rub the water from her eyes while getting her towel from her bag until a confused and surprised noise came from the wall. Until she opened her eyes.
A picture of the two tallest appeared on the wall, which was indeed NOT a wall but a transmission screen. Ari's blue eyes began to twitch.
Slowly she turned away and promptly ripped the shower curtain in front of her as she put on her towel. She ripped the curtains back again to face the tallest in her towel.
"Um..This never happened." said Tallest Red oddly.
"Deal." said Ari as she walked out of the room.
Authors Note: Thank you PoisonTears for leaving me such a nice review, you made me all tingly! As well as everyone else who did! Thankee! Now, back to our story.
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A searing pain was welling up in Ari's right arm and left hand. She twitched as she dozed fitfully. She was in a land entirely of candy; she could even smell the sweet scent of bubblegum and chocolate mingling together. (Although it actually didn't smell good, but they're both good.Mm, chocolate)
Ari's eyes snapped open as a drop of cold liquid splattered onto her forehead. Her eyes met Gir's as he noisily sucked a brainfreezy then stared openmouthed at her while she slept. Rubbing the sticky chocolaty blob off of her forehead and grateful it missed the two triangle shaped locks of blonde hair that always stuck off her forehead, Ari glanced around again.
"Gir, where am I?" she asked with interest. She had never seen such a place before in her life, buttons and levers were everywhere, the computer screen was busy playing the Scary monkey show, and scientific looking alien equipment littered the surface of the counters.
"Location is Recovery Wing, third floor of secret base, Sir!" said Gir, his eyes flashed red for a moment but quickly returned to blue again as he said "Want some!?" and shoved his brainfreezy rather close to Ari's face.
"No..I'm good, thanks."
"Jus a lil sip?"
"No."
"Pleeese? Sip?" as his eyes began to water with tears.
"No Gir, no si-oomph!" said Ari as the straw was shoved up into her mouth. Ari sighed, giving up and sucked on the straw before it was yanked out of her mouth. Ari struggled to swallow the chocolaty mass of bubblegum now in her mouth.
"Like it!?" Gir cried out loudly as Ari nodded her head forcing a smile before jumping out of the container she slept in and running to a trashcan and spitting the whole thing out.
"Wha was that?" said Gir behind her a few feet.
Ari, not wanting to hurt the robots feelings, (Something's not right in that sentence..) threw out the first excuse her mind could think of. "That was just..my spine."
"Ohhhhh. Okeedokee! Lets go eat waffles!" screamed the robot as he tugged on Ari's bandaged hand.
"Gaaahhh! Ow! OW OW OW OW OW!" Screamed Ari as the robot continued to tug on her hand. Zim probably had heard the commotion and entered the room from the couch elevator.. thing.
"Gir! Stop harassing the human and clean up the pile of mud upstairs."
"My waffles!" yelled the robot so turned on his jets and flew upstairs.
"Showoff." Zim muttered.
"How are your cuts?" Zim asked, well, it sounded more like a command really but Ari ignored that.
"They'll heal soon enough, but I won't be doing anything very active for a while. I can start decoding the plans now if you want, but it will be much easier if you tell me how far your technology has gone, these plans are all based on what you could do with Human science, not..yours."
"Its Irken for your information." Zim puffed up his chest a bit. "The fiercest race of invaders ever to see the light of day, we have conquered over 12 galaxies, and that was just operation impending doom! Soon, all of the races of the Galaxy will serve the Irken Empire! Muawww-Hahahaha!" yelled Zim triumphantly although a hint of insanity was present in his voice.
"You do realize I'm standing right next to you." Ari said as she put a finger to her ear to make sure it still functioned right.
"Oh uh, whoops. Anyway, tell me more about your human 'science'. And I want to know about 'beaches' and 'sub-weighs' and everything! Begin spilling your information juices to Zim!"
Ari walked over to the couch and sat down, Zim followed and the long conversation began.
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Gir heard the doorbell ring as the little robot sat amidst the pile of dirt and filth Zim had told him to clean up 2 hours before. "Puppies!" giggled the robot as he bounced into his disguise and opened the door only to find no one was there. He glanced down and saw a fluttering piece of paper with a rock on it.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" Gir squealed as he picked up the envelope and ripped the top off. He shook the envelope roughly until a small piece of paper flew out saying, "Absence of Skool, day 24. Please refrain from skipping Skool and call ahead to inform us if your poor doomed child is sick and won't be able to participate in the rest of the doomed classes activities."
"Yay!" Gir remembered when the first on of these arrived when Zim stayed home because of Keef Zim said to eat every one. Gir hastily shoved the paper into his mouth and chewed happily.
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"So your saying that creation of living creatures can be accomplished through body forming prior to the creatures existence? So you could literally design your own monsters as long as the bone structure and muscles all worked together? That's really amazing." said the astounded girl as Zim proudly announced,
"That's nothing, you should see our weaponry!"
"Well, I think you've got a good idea about Earth now, Subways are modes of transportation, Most people aren't as suspicious as Dib, Humans DON'T Have robot slaves, humans live to about 70 years old, and that the FBI isn't actually a government law enforcement agency designed to fight aliens. Yeah, I think we went over most of the important stuff." Ari closed her eyes as she sat on the couch comfortably, watching Zim out of the corner of her eye.
"You still didn't explain why your doing this." Zim said simply as he held a screen that had written down all they had said.
"What, helping you? That's an easy question, I'm tired of humanity, it thinks it is the highest and most intelligent of all the races, prides itself for knowing the most and crushes down the smaller species that are forced to live below it. So I want to escape from it. That's all."
"You know, you can be very weird at times." said Zim quirking an invisible eyebrow.
"Won't the school be suspicious if BOTH of us are missing? And once Dib finds out about this, he's not going to like it very much." Ari said lamely as she tightened the bandages that encased her arm.
Zim's red eyes narrowed at his name. "And how, exactly, would Dib find out?" his voice was silky yet murderous.
"Please Zim, you can't stay here the entire time, the school will send someone over, and if you don't trust me and we go to school with me wearing a glowing collar that's not going to look very normal now is it?" Ari scratched her nose for no reason. "I guess you'll have to trust me sooner or later, before the entire plan is ruined due to your stubbornness to trust a human. A human who has nothing to lose and nothing to gain from this, while you could become King of the world in a matter of months. Think about it Zim.." Ari took out her sketchbook and began doodling more monsters while Zim pondered what she had said.
"I would be given the respect an Almighty Tallest would only receive!" he said quietly to himself. Ari's non-visible ears (hidden under her thick blonde hair) heard this. "You'd be the what?"
"Who are the tallest?" asked Ari innocently. Zim gasped.
"I forgot to give you the honor of saying who the Almighty Tallest are! They are the leaders of the entire Irken Empire, with a height over 6 earth feet!"
"Zim, most humans grow to be 6 feet tall."
".....Well um...THEY ARE STILL ALMIGHTY AND POWERFUL! Even the smallest of smeets can recognize their awesome omnipotence!"
A low snuffling sound could be heard by Ari, as she had fallen asleep on the couch. Zim frowned but hesitantly pulled a blanket over Ari and went off to look for the plans. When she woke it would be time to get down to business..
It was a glorious sight, as Ari sat atop a mug winged beast. Humans ran in every direction as gigantic monsters chased them down, smashing buildings and destroying things and they went. Two dark figures loomed in the background watching, one with dark purple eyes and one with deep red. Zim was below Ari on another monster as he headed off in another direction. Two other strange figures rode monsters, underneath her flying creature she struggled to see their faces but everything went black as a horrible smell filled the air.
Ari choked and coughed in her sleep as the stench of tacos infiltrated her sweet dream. Blinky slowly, she opened her eyes to none other than Gir. The little robot had left a taco in front of her face while she slept, thinking her hair would eat it.
Before Ari could wonder where the troublesome robot was, something moved up her pants leg. Eyes widening in shock that something cold and greasy was slowly inching up her leg was more than terrifying as she slowly stood up, Gir's head popped out of her more-than-loose pants. Zim slowly walked into the room sipping a cup of something when he saw the scene.
"Gir, what are you OH MY TALLEST! WHATS GOING ON HERE?!?" Zim screeched as Ari yelled; "GET IT OUT OF MY PANTS!"
"I's riding in da Kangaroo's pouchy!! Weeeheehe!!!" Gir pulled out a quarter and dropped it into Ari's pocket, thinking it was a coin slot.
Gir's horrible greasy hands had begun to drip now onto Ari's pants where the little robot lost his grip and tumbled down the leg and promptly got stuck halfway. Ari started hopping on one foot and trying to shake the little monster off of her while Zim stood there and watched dumbfounded.
After a good 3 more minutes of madness, Gir finally was kicked out with extreme force from Ari's pant leg where he quickly got up and made a run back for it. Luckily for Ari, Zim made a dive towards the maniacal robot and managed to shut him off. Followed by that was a rather embarrassing silence as Ari began to take off her slimy dripping pants.
"What are you DOING?"
Ari stopped unbuttoning her pants halfway as she was struck with, 'What the hell AM I doing???"
"Sorry, I don't know what happened, usually I'm always alone so I really don't care where I change..Sorry if your scarred for life now..Do you have a bathroom?" Ari knew that question sounded stupid and that she now looked like a slut taking her pants almost off without noticing when Zim interrupted her thoughts.
"Uh, yeah but the toilets upstairs and the showers in my lab. Don't ask why." he said quickly, remembering when he had to build a new shower in the lab for water and glue testing.
"Oh..kay. Could I maybe use your shower? I'm horribly..cheesy now and feel the need to scrub myself."
"Sure yea, ok. I'll lock the lab doors until your done so Gir doesn't interrupt you..The little robot had turned back on of his own accord and was casually rummaging through Ari's bag.
"Thanks a lot Zim. Wow, this feels weird actually talking to other...things." Ari said embarrassedly as she grabbed her bag and took Gir out of it before she walked upstairs. She looked at Zim with a clueless expression.
"Oh, sorry. Elevator, Take Ari to the Main Lab!"
"Da kangaroo went bye bye.." said Gir sadly as he glued his feet to the floor.
Ari felt odd as she stripped off her horrid taco smelling clothes and wrapped the shower around as far as it could go, which was about 3/4 of the circular rack. The only open part was facing a blank wall anyway and the doors were locked so she didn't feel very "exposed"
As Ari stepped out of the shower she tried to rub the water from her eyes while getting her towel from her bag until a confused and surprised noise came from the wall. Until she opened her eyes.
A picture of the two tallest appeared on the wall, which was indeed NOT a wall but a transmission screen. Ari's blue eyes began to twitch.
Slowly she turned away and promptly ripped the shower curtain in front of her as she put on her towel. She ripped the curtains back again to face the tallest in her towel.
"Um..This never happened." said Tallest Red oddly.
"Deal." said Ari as she walked out of the room.