Ahoy-hoy people! Thanks for all the reviews! "I feel. . .odd" lol. Yea, hopefully my original idea for this story will come back soon before I screw it up too much. . .eh. Anyone who knows HTML please help me, I'm lost. . .In an enchanted forest, look, I'm Popeye! Wait no, I'm a bunny, now, that can't be, because I'm both! BUNNY POPEYE, AWAY!
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Zim glowered at the computer as he removed the Irken Pak stabilizer from his back, it was like a temporary Pak, for when you were upgrading or removing things from your ID Pak that would take more than 10 minutes. He had put his ID Pak back on, but discovered that the horrible feeling was still there.
"Computer! Why didn't you delete the flirking emotion!?" His voice was exasperated and confused sounding as well as angry.
"I'm sorry Zim, but I did delete some of it, there seems to be er. . .quite a lot."
"What do you mean? Are you assuming something about the Ari human-?"
"Uh, no comment."
"Computer!"
"Fine, I think you DO like her then! There, I said it! Hahaha-"
Zim's jaw protruded as he made a wry face at this, glaring at the mass of wires that covered his ceilings, his face burned with embarrassment.
"I do NOT like the human, can you imagine me, liking her!?" he turned and walked up the stairs, not noticing how dark it had gotten, and he had a job to do.
"I think she likes you too. . ." came the quiet whisper of the computer from the lab. Zim turned, poised to shut the door. His eyes widened just a bit when he heard this, but quickly remembered what he was coming upstairs to do.
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A bruise rapidly formed on Ari's leg as she stumbled and fell onto the dusty path. Already aching and exhausted from running all day, the black cloaked figure staggered to her knees and continued walking. It was well into the later hours of the night, which meant no one would be awake when she reached her destination.
"Never thought I'd see the day that I'd be forced to do this. . ."
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The looming shadow that was Zim stood before the door to his room where Ari usually slept. The doorknob seemed to throb with an unpleasant fiery sensation, scorching his fingers as they hovered above it. Pushing a small button on a black object in his hand, a kinda of black beam shot up from it, slowly going from a misty color to a solid black as it became a black sword. Biting into his lip he hit the keypad for the room settings, he typed in something in Irken and the room was enveloped in a yellowish smoke.
"This should knock her out, but I don't know if it will kill her. . ." a voice chimed into his self thoughts. "Ahh, but that's what the sword is for Zim, one quick stab, or if you need to work off some stress you can make it many stabs! One stab two stab three-" He shook his head, the heavy wave of guilt hitting him again. Why did he feel so bad? He had experimented on tons of humans before, their end much more grisly then hers would be.
Zim recapped on that days events for a moment, Ari had been spending most of her time in that room all day since she came down to the lab. She was probably drawing again more monsters again. He really had liked her drawings and all, she was quite the artist-
"Your doing it again Zim! You've got a job to do!" screamed the voice in his head, he glanced down as the yellowish smoke that had been sitting in the room for a good 3 minutes now, was beginning to seep under the cracks of the door.
Praying to the Tallest for good luck, he wrenched open the door, the smoke started clearing out immediately as he did. Coughing, he made his way over to his bed. He could see a mass of blankets, she was sleeping.
Gripping his deadly blade tightly, his gloved hands shaking, he approached the mass of covers. The voice in his head screamed "NOW!" and with the adrenaline rushing through his veins, he swung the blade in a semicircle pointed to the bed.
His blade only sliced through sheets and fabric.
"What the-? She's not here!" He scrambled around through the blankets, looking around, as if she had shrunken down to a tiny size and was lying dead somewhere hidden.
He did find something though.
Zim held a small doll, about six inches long in his hand, it was styled like Ari's Indiana Jones doll he had so rarely been allowed to glimpse, the same scary blank wide eyes, same nubs for legs and arms, but it had odd fabric for its hair, that was almost real feeling, and it wore miniscule clothing identical to Ari's, the exact type of fire shirt and baggy black pants, it even had the two spikes of hair on its round head.
He flipped it over, something wet touched his skin as he did so, something red was on the dolls chest, if it had a neck it may have been there too, and he noticed it the ends of its arms were dipped in it too. Zim's eyes widened as he realized what it was.
"Blood. . ." it was a whisper, barely audible, even though no one was around he needed to say it.
The liquid was staining the soft cotton that filled the dolls body. He noticed the doll's chest was slit open, exposing the white fluffy cotton inside that had been stained red.
Zim made a wary face as he dipped his index finger and thumb into the slit, widening it a bit as he felt something hard inside its soft body.
Extracting it from the doll carefully, he unfolded the red stained note's corner.
It read in Ari's messy scrawl,
See you around Zim, sorry I wasn't a good enough human for you. Keep the doll, or throw it out, doesn't matter to me. The ray is finished and fixed, the chip is inside Gir's left lens cap, I was going to surprise you but guess I won't get the chance now. I'm off to go do a common human thing now, but I'll miss you.
With Love,
Ari
He shoved the doll into his pocket as he ran out of the room.
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Her shoes dug into the ground as she climbed higher and higher off of the trail to her favorite spot. She cursed to herself as she fought her way through the sharp bushes and trees to get to the closed path she was aiming for. A ripping sound issued froth from her pants as the belt loop caught on a branch. She ripped the fabric chunk off her pants completely and continued on. By the time she reached the narrow path, the moon had begun to sink down into the mountains, soon the sun would be up.
"Hmmm, that means its almost. . .what like five?. . .Eh, that's alright, I should be done before seven anyway."
Brushing away some early fall icicles and holding her cloak close to her body as the chill early autumn winds whistled through the air, they were a lot stronger higher up.
She climbed over a thick branch and managed to evade the sharp needles as she found herself at her destination spot when she turned around.
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Zim ran up to the roof and got into the voot cruiser, he spied Gir playing with the designer model of a sir unit's program, it would have been Ari's present, but he knew if he didn't catch her now there wouldn't be anymore birthdays for Ari.
A thought struck him. Where the hell was she?
"Look my lord! I hast madeth a beasty!" said Gir as Zim was frantically thinking about where she was.
Zim cast a cold stare down at Gir, the screen showed a cat like creature Sir with large slightly curved and pointed rabbit ears, large paws with for feet, no nose, just glaring red eyes on its cat-like face, and to top it off it had a long whip-ish tail with five spikes coming off of it in a row. The two large ruby colored eyes shone for a second as Zim got an idea.
Leaping down from the cruiser to where Gir was, he skidded to a stop at the machine.
"This HAS to work!" he muttered excitedly to himself, pressing buttons all over the keyboard.
"Whatcha doin' with my beeeeesty?" asked a curious voice in the background.
"Gir, I don't have time to explain, but-damnit, where's the skills option? Oh wait, never mind here it is- I've got to go get Ari, do you know where she went?"
Zim was tapping keys rapidly as he chose skills for the demented Sir he was hastily creating, he would dispose of it after, but for now it was just what he needed. Setting the skills on
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Senses, sight-10
Senses, hearing-10
Senses, taste-0
Senses-smell-10
Senses, touch- 0
Durability of body- 8
Defenses- Max
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He scrolled down through the screen, typing this and that, setting it to be the perfect tracking creature, all was well until he came to the last question.
Attitude-0100101101011
Zim checked the time after typing in "Happy, pleasant to be around, quiet." in binary, but his dropped guard was all Gir needed to screw something up.
"Weeee! I is smart mastery!" he exclaimed and began rapidly playing with the computer keys. Gasping, Zim wrenched the robot away and began fixing the mistakes. Only one went undiscovered.
Smashing his palm into the create button, a large grid came down from the ceiling and slowly the metal structure of the sir unit was built, metal pieces phased onto its body as the shape of the creature grew. The last thing it needed was the outer skin layer, a thick yet short furred texture stretched over the body of the thing and then a chip was placed in the back of its head.
Before the Sir could speak its first word, Zim grabbed it and put it in the voot cruiser, as it was still dark he could fly it, and he probably wouldn't need his disguise.
As the voot fly into the night sky, the computer wondered to itself when the Sir;s chip would kick in, as normal Sir machine chips would operate the Sir temporarily, for about a human hour until the main chip would be activated enough to take over. Meaning that the Sir Zim had with him was really just a mindless slave with no attitude or personal anything. The computer also wondered why he wanted the Sir to be moody, quiet, hateful, wild, and obsessive with things. "He must have had a good reason or else he wouldn't have picked 0100101101012 for the attitude. . ." murmured the computer to Gir who waved madly to the speck in the sky.
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Ari glanced out at the mountains around her own, the cliff edge she stood on was iced over with early frost as she viewed the masses of earth and rock. This was her favorite place to go when dad was still with her.
"This is our spot. . ." she quietly spoke to herself. Sitting on the edge of the cold overhang, she pondered how she should do this.
"I've got a knife, and I've got a sword, and I've got a cliff. And if I really wanted to use it I've got my borrowed gun from Zim." More murmuring thoughts as she fondled the sharp dagger in her hands. Exposing her wrists for the first time, a strong wind kicked up and the cloak flew up with her sleeves.
Sighing at the scars that adorned her wrists she only became more depressed.
Something roared a little ways away from her, probably about 200 meters, it sounded a bit like a wounded animals cry.
"We are alike then." thought Ari. "I think I'll watch the sunrise, so I can do this on my birthday."
And with that she laid down with her hands behind her head to wait for the sunrise.
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"Come on, Come on!" urged Zim, his mind racing as well as the vootcruiser, the sir was sticking its head happily out of an open crevice in the window, after sniffing the doll madly it kept staring in the direction they were supposed to go. He had been doing this for over 45 minutes and the sky was beginning to get light, he'd have to stash the cruiser and walk.
"I don't know how he's doing that if he has no nose but as long as I find Ari…" came the random thought in Zim's head.
Suddenly the Sir started hissing and sputtering, it attacked the window with such force the cruiser shook in the air.
"Quit it!" screeched Zim as he hurriedly landed in (and on) a patch of secluded trees.
Screaming with insanity the wild Sir Unit sniffed the doll once more, it was addicted to the bloody scent. It leaped out of the Cruiser as soon as Zim opened the door and began racing up a dirt path. Zim followed it blindly in the dark, trying to tell it to shut up before they were noticed, too late.
An old man came out of the house, Zim barely got on his contacts and wig before a bright light was shined in his eyes.
"No hiking' this mountain! Its closed ya hear!? We got some rabid animals up there, me thinks it's a few coon's that might've infected 'em, I hears their calls I do. . ." the old withered man trailed off looking at the mountain top.
And with that he wandered back into the house leaving a very confused and incredulous looking Zim standing there.
"Okayyyyyy. . .That was pointless." said Zim as he stumbled through the darkness trying to find the crazed Sir.
Wild scuffling noises and snapping branches stopped as Zim found the robot stock still, growling menacingly at a beaten dirt path where there were dusty footprints in the fading moonlight leading off of it. He also noticed a piece of Ari's pants, ripped and torn. He may have secretly hoped somewhere deep inside of him that she was okay. . .
"Just like Ari, always take the harder way out. . ." he murmured to himself and the android who despite his large ears clearly wasn't listening, or perhaps he didn't care. Zim guessed the scent of blood had worn off, or he lost the scent as the Sir turned his back on Zim and walked away.
Zim ran panting through the woods, he skidded to a stop as he saw the trademark two spikes of golden hair wavering a bit in the light. A smile of relief broke across his worried face as he made his way towards her.
"Ow!" he hissed as a sharp pain jabbed into the side of his face, sharp tree needles jammed themselves into his green tinted skin.
Ari whipped around, a noise in the bushes behind her snapping her concentration, the gun clicked as she held it by her side. Her feet slipped for a split second on the cold icy ledge, she regained her balance quickly.
"Who's there?" she whispered, her breath making a misty cloud in the early morning light.
Zim stepped out from the bushes slowly, his cheek pocked with green marks where the needles had pierced his skin before being hastily ripped out.
"Its just me."
An incredibly odd look of wonder and sadness came over Ari's face, like she was disappointed but amazed he had come. She laughed to herself and hung her head, her chunks of blonde hair covering her face.
"Its not supposed to happen like this. . ." barely audible to Zim.
"Ari. . ."there was a pause, Zim's eyes gave Ari a strong piercing look. "Step away from the edge."
"Its all wrong. . .Your not supposed to care Zim." She took a shaky step backwards, bits of ice fell off from the edge of the cliff as she did.
"Ari! Please! I. . .I do care, I swear on my life. . .Why else would I come all the way out here for a stinking human?"
"You tell me." came the sullen response from the figure who stood so close to the edge, one slip and it would be a thousand meters to the cold frozen ground.
Zim stuttered for a moment, not knowing what to say. Swallowing the lump in his throat, he softly spoke one of the hardest things he'd said in a long time… "Because I think. . .I love you. . ."
Something shone in Ari's eyes as she looked up at Zim with an appreciative smile.
But that was soon replaced by a look of terror.
"Zim! Look out-!" was all she could manage to say before a monstrous creature burst through the bushes towards the two, Smashing Zim out of the way. The alien landed with his back against a tree as the creature advanced on Ari, her slightly bleeding wrists attracting it towards her. The beasts ears flattened against its head, its long claws pounding the ground as its massive furred body roared, bits of foam and spit flew everywhere as the creature's eyes rolled in its head, teeth marks from a smaller animal adorned its muzzle.
"Its rabid. . ." murmured Ari as it slowly made its way towards her, the 7 foot distance wouldn't make that a very long trip. She whipped out to her displeasure the gun, as her sword lay in its sheath away from her side.
Firing a round or two into the beasts thick fur, the recoil pushed her steps back a bit, her left foot sliding down the steep ledge, she quickly retracted her leg.
Zim watched in horror as the bear roared, icicles falling from the nearby tree branches. Drawing his black energy sword, he paused as a blue something leapt madly over towards the bear. A thing with rockets in its feet. . .
The blue and darker blue striped Sir unit viciously ripped at the bears eyes, the scent of blood urging it on again, the slashes on its muzzle bled freely and encouraged the robot on. One though was on his mind, "Kill".
The bear collapsed in pain, its head landing inches away from Ari's trembling feet. All was silent, and only the sound o the android cat tearing at the bear's flesh could be heard.
But that was soon accompanied by another more terrifying sound. The sound of the small ledge cracking under the new weight of the bear. Slowly looking downwards at her feet, small cracks appeared in the solid stone, slowly chipping and cracking into even more fragments of the rock.
One last look at Zim was all she was allowed before the cold hands of gravity pulled her body along with the bear and the Sir's down into the cold abyss of the canyon.
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Worst Cliffhanger ever! Lol, sorry for the awful chapter! I'm making it up as I go with the ending in mind. That's the way to write a failure! I mean, masterpiece! Yea yea, no Jaz or Umi etc in this one, I had to get this out of the way, so nyah! Plenty of them and bad pickup lines in the next though! WooooOOOOoooo! Aw great, I have to go to jesus class, see ya!