A Tale of Ari-Chapter Eight
Hours slowly passed, as wire upon wire had been painstakingly reconnected and melted back together, the chip was all that was left, as Ari downloaded and uploaded information from Zim's stored memory backup chip (luckily, it hadn't been damaged). Time seemed to stand still as Ari paused to wipe the hot liquid from her eyes once more, it burned as it coursed down her face.
The dark form of Ari let out a sigh, placing the hot melting-tool down where it belonged, its job finished at last. She (with the computers help) placed Zim on a large hovering table as she brought him upstairs to an unknown level of the house where she had never been. She opened the doors, one with what looked close enough to a bed (and asking for the computers knowledge to make sure) she placed Zim's still motionless body under the covers.
She swallowed the lump in her throat that had returned, laying Zim's head on the greenish blue pillow as she smoothed the black and purple Irken signed blanket over him.
Slowly, she crept back downstairs to where the couch was with the TV. Gir was being fixed as best as he could by Zim's computer, so she had nothing else to do, except worry. And wait. She hugged her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them, and for the first time in over 7 years, she broke down and cried.
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"Heh, what happened to you?" Gaz smirked, glancing away from her gameslave 2 as the door clicked shut.
The bleeding and battered Dib scowled, but ignored the mock in her voice by answering anyway. "I got into a fight with our new sister you could say. . ."
Gaz's eyes widen as she almost dropped her gameslave 2. "What the- ohh yeaaa, we have a sister now don't we? I keep forgetting, nothing has changed since they got married, I thought that Ami was dead." she calmly explained, the buttons on her gameslave being rapidly clicked once more.
"Its Ari." he said, grimacing, he would not soon forget her name, hearing the word just made his heart beat a little bit faster, he blushed in shame.
"So wait, when did you see her?" More buttons being clicked in the background. . .
"Gee Gaz, did I have these when I woke up this morning?" he said, his voice dripping with sarcasm as he gestured towards the bruises and cuts all over his body.
"How should I know, I try NOT to look at you. . .But she did get you pretty well. . ."
"Thanks for your support Gaz. And she had a sword and knives too! I'm grateful I'm alive after what she did to me, I'm surprised she didn't rape me or anything."
Gaz stared at her brother for a second. "Girls can't rape guys. . .It just. . .doesn't work…And besides, the rumors are that Ari or whatever her face is, is going out with Zim, but that's just what the preps say. . ."
"How would YOU know what the preps are talking about? And that rumor is bullshit, Ari wouldn't go out with an alien, that's just. . .stupid." he said, pausing as he tried to find a better word.
"Hey, don't blame me because your jealous, it was horribly obvious you liked her in the first place. . ." Gaz smiled evilly. "You could have made a cute couple." she sniggered, although using the word Cute was against a self rule she had set, it was worth it this time.
"Whatever Gaz, I'm going to go look for those crates of band-aids we had."
"Shhhh Dib, I'm busy slaughtering some pigs, come back later when-wait, just don't come back at all."
Dib shook his head as he went upstairs to change his blood soaked clothing and find some jumbo-sized band-aids. And his spare glasses.
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((AN)- AHHH, emotions! I CANNOT do emotions, I did my best all my life NOT to use emotions, and now I have to! Argh! Sorry if it sucks and is worse than usual. . .Warning, they're all touchy and kissy. . .Ew love.))
Red and Jaz had migrated from the couch to a more secluded spot, Jaz's room.
"You jerk." Jaz said as she kissed Red lovingly, she was pinned into a corner of the large couch like bed in Jaz's room. It was often that these little insult wars would break out between them, but they were just for fun most of the time.
"Bitch" said Red as he broke away only for a moment, his eerie two fingers ran down her back while the other acted as a rest for her head.
"Jackass" came from Jaz, followed by more breaking away, Red pouted before they continued, unbeknownst to them poor Purple lay traumatized as they made out.
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Umi threw the Crack-bat at Purples face. The hideous horned pumpkin sized spider with wings hissed furiously as Purple screamed through the gag.
"STOP STEALIN MAH COOPCAKES!" Umi yelled to Purple who was now being attacked by a blood sucking monster, reeking of Cupcake and trapped by a raving semi lunatic. When he got his hands-er-fingers on Red. . .
Umi gasped as he realized that it was Purple and NOT a crazy Muffin maker man in the closet, he made a long complicated bow. His Black and silver cloak billowed as he shut his dark silver eyes, wiggling his antennae to Purple in salute.
"My Tallest! So pleased you're here! But why of all things are you in my cupcake lair? Your not a burglar, and your certainly not smelly, so you can't be a zombie now can you? YOUR NOT A PICKLED FOOT IN DISGUISE RIGHT?" Umi spazzed out.
"Great, why couldn't this be one of the days where he was sane? Well, more sane than crazy at least." Purple thought to himself sadly.
Purple indicated the gag in his mouth, speaking through Anetar in the end was the only way to get Umi to understand. Purple's antennae moved back and forth violently, the precise length forwards and backwards, sideways and down was an emergency was to communicate silently.
Umi seemed to apologize as Purple's gag was taken off of him. "Sorry my tallest, my antennae have been acting up lately and I haven't learned all of the antennae signals yet. . .ISN'T THAT GREAT?" Umi screamed happily, his overlong antennae twitched with excitement. "Lets go have a tea Party!!!!" He helped Purple up, and grabbing the noose-like rope that still hung around Purple's neck, he led him through the hallways jabbering crazily. Purple sighed and looked back at the closet hatefully to see the large orange spider-bat thing fly out and go around the corner opposite of them. He gulped.
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Zim's eyes fluttered slowly, what had just happened? (He looked around him to find small toys and stuffed animals adorned his bed, Gir must have been in his room again.) All he could remember was he had wandered past an alley when someone grabbed him, the rest was just blurry images of. . . Dib! Now he could remember, Dib had come along and. . .His head throbbed as he placed a gloved hand to it, feeling a large bandage wrapped around his head.
He smelled Irken pancakes. . .How was that??? He looked over and was surprised to see a plate of blue pancakes with bits of purple in them. "Computer- run a scan to check for poisons and edibility!" Zim coughed for a second, this was taking a lot of energy for some reason.
The results were announced by the electronic voice from his ceiling. " Identification-Pancakes. 100% Poison, no toxins found."
Raising a nonexistent eyebrow, he slowly reached over and ripped a piece of it off. It was still warm, which meant it must not have been there long. He popped it into his mouth and chewed slowly, the bits of purple tasted like apple to him. (Everyone likes apple pancakes!)
Footsteps up the stairs slowly perked his antennae. He craned his neck to see out the crack in the door, not knowing what he was trying to see. Slowly creaking open, Gir walked in fully functional, and looking better than ever with a smiley face band-aid on his forehead for fun.
Smiling like a happy little moron, he pranced over, a tray strapped to his head with other Irken foods. Zim felt like he hadn't eaten in weeks, he ravenously ate most of it as Gir stood patiently by his beside.
After his hunger had ceased a bit, Gir gave Zim a happy hug and proceeded to skip out the room. Zim sighed and laid his head on the pillow behind him, but his peace was soon interrupted yet again, but this time is was by a shadow in his doorway.
"Ari?" Zim asked confusedly, temporarily forgetting why she was there. "Ari, what happened?" His memory flooded back, millions of questions inside him burned to be asked, he looked at the shadow, its fierce blue eyes burned, but seemed to soften and return to their normal mixture of dark and aqua blue.
She quietly walked to his bedside and sat down carefully on it. "Zim. . ."
Without warning of any sort, she leaned over and hugged Zim, not in a tight or painful way, but a warm loving hug it seemed. Zim looked shocked, but he didn't try to push her away.
She broke away, her eyes glassy. He didn't bother to ask what that was all about. "Ari, WHY is there a bandage on my head. . .and why do I feel like I got hit with a voot cruiser???" He paused, rubbing his hand over the bandage tenderly.
Ari's eyes darted back and forth for a moment before she answered him. Her voice wasn't its usual steady flow of words, it was quieted and sounded unlike her. "Something happened with Gir, he malfunctioned and exploded or something, he's ok now, but we were all affected by the blast. You might not remember, the explosion messed with your memory chip a bit, the computer repaired it though. . ." Ari cringed on the insides, she had lied millions of times before and she was unaffected, usually it gave her a sense of happiness that the fool had believed her, but this was different, why did she feel bad?
"Ohhh kay then. . .Um," he bit his lip, struggling with the next word. "Thanks. . .By the way where did the food come from? You didn't poison me or anything did you?" He smiled, it eased Ari's guilt.
"Your computer gave me all these recipes, so I decided to try some alien cooking, I hope it wasn't too awful. . ." She smiled embarrassedly to Zim.
"No, they were actually pretty good, how did you know I liked-?" he left off about the pancakes as Gir walked past the room riding a puppy wearing a cowboy hat. Ari and Zim both made wry faces at this in silence until Gir had passed and they heard a door shut.
The two looked at each other for a moment before bursting out in laughter.
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If looks could kill, Umi would have been a zombie by now, as he sat sipping a cup of bubbling lilac looking liquid. Purple sat, retied to a chair. His noose lay tied around a nearby bedpost, and his hands were still tied.
"UMI! Get me out of this-THIS THING!" He glared hatefully at the horribly pink and frilly hat that had been tied around his head, complete with a disgustingly matching equally frilly pink dress. (I don't know HOW he got it on him, but it probably resulted in Purple being more traumatized then he needed to be)
"And let me go! I NEED to see RED! I also need a very large gun. . ." he said, sidetracking himself as he thought about how to get revenge on his co-tallest.
Umi put on a look of fake sadness. "Aww, wassamatter? Purpley no likey?" Whether he was insane or not, this started to piss Purple off greatly.
"NO, I DON'T LIKEY, ME NO LIKEY! GET THIS FRICKING THING OFF OF ME!" He shouted, rocking back and forth in his chair. Unfortunately, Umi had been spacing off, and until he heard a faraway BING, he was still spacing off.
"MY BABIES, THEY'RE BURNING!" Umi leaped off his seat as though it had been set afire. He dashed out of the room, after the scent of cupcakes. Purple stopped rocking the chair as he left, but it was too late, he had gathered too much momentum and flipped over onto his back.
The tallest sighed, when he heard an all too familiar flapping sound enter the room. . .
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Red and Jaz lay on the bed relaxed, their make-out session seemed to have ended. Propped up against pillows of all sorts, the two sat in each others midst, enjoying the "quality time".
"Damn he's hot. . ." thought Jaz.
"Damn she's hot…" thought Red.
Ok, so they WEREN'T enjoying the quality time, its all good.
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Skoodge and Ed played "rock em, sock em Tallest" They pulled the strings controlling their arms, seeing who could deliver the biggest punch to the others face. Suddenly, before Ed could stop him, Skoodge yanked the string with all his might, Purple's fist went flying on a collision to Red's face.
The crappily built dolls head exploded off his shoulder, right after the cameras had rolled, it was the daily tallest interview time. The crowds gasped as everyone witnessed "Red's" head fly off his shoulders and hit the ground, it promptly combusted into flames for no reason. The crowd was immediately hushed in seconds as they all watched in horror.
Someone broke the silence and screamed, "GET HIM MEDICAL ATTENTION" and the rest was uproar. No one noticed Skoodge and Ed scamper off the platform and disappeared into the crowds. When the emergency squad realized that the tallest were puppets, an immediate roar of fury arose from the crowd.
"Quickly! Send a search party out for the tallest! I want every single galaxy searched! Every planet, every black hole, everything! The Tallest have been kidnapped!
---------------------------HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEATHER!--------------------------------------
(A/n- Happy Birthday Heather, aka Jaz! September 24th! If people send her emails wishing her a happy birthday, I'll post the next chapter sooner! The more the faster! Invader jaz8642@aol.com!!!!)
Ari's figure lay asleep on the couch, Zim stood down on his lab working the controls, talking to his computer and Gir.
"I don't think the Ari human is telling me everything, I remember Dib being there, but everything is hazy. . .Computer! Recap on the events that happened here in the last week!" his sharp voice cut through the air like a knife as the computer announced it.
"Hmmm, so she did bring us back here, but that has nothing to do with Dib. . .Oh Gir? Gir come here, I need you to tell me something." he smiled sweetly as the small robot pranced happily over to his master.
"Gir, what happened when we went to the park?"
"I saw a birdy." he said bashfully, rocking back and forth on his feet. "It was a MOMMY! I got a neaty bandy aid too! See!" Gir pushed his band-aid, it sunk inwards, his antennae sunk down and his head opened up. Zim suddenly got an idea.
He took out Gir's memory disk, letting the little SIR slowly shut off, a SIR could only operate for 5 earth minutes without its Memory disk. With Gir off, the doors locked and Ari asleep, Zim placed the chip into his computer and watched the untold events unfold.
His eyes widened as Gir's video played on.
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