Prologue:
We are in a ship. It is cold, and very crowded. My Irken-mother is holding me. I like it when she holds me; it makes me feel better. We are going very fast through space. I look out the window. There are so many stars. So many more stars than I could see on Irk.
I am on a ship to escape. To escape Irk. To escape the tyranny of the Tallest and the Irken Empire. We all are. My mother and I and Bob (aka, Table-Headed Service Drone Bob) are the only Irkens. No. Bob and her are the only Irkens. I am something else, no one knows what I am. I have long hair that is red like the color of mother's eyes. My eyes are blue, but only part way; the rest of them are white, then a bit of black in the very middle. I am peachy- white, and my body is shaped differently.
The others here are beings that were slaves to the Irkens. My mother started a plan to escape secretly. She rescued all the slaves in our section of Irk! However, we all know one thing: we are not out of the fire yet. The other Irkens can still capture us. We are all very, very frightened. But we have eachother. We have medical experts, strong ones that can fight well, and plenty of provisions. We should be safe, but we don't know. So for now we are afraid.
"Mother, how much longer until we reach earth?" I ask her.
"Hmm, lets see... We've been on the ship for about 3 and a half months, so it should only be about 2 and a half more." She says, smiling. "As long as there are no complications..." She mutters worriedly. Then it is like everyone hears her, and they all go silent. They all exchange nervous glances, then look at her. She smiles weakly. "Well, so far so good... And everything is in order... So we should be fine." She says, trying to be reassuring. Everyone else just nods weakly, trying to be reassured and confident, or at least look it. My mother doesn't even seem confident. Somehing must be worrying her.
"Mom... What's worrying you?" I ask. It makes me worried when she is worried; but I would like to know what we are worried /about/.
"Well..." She sighs deeply, then tries to look calm. "Nothing. Everything is fine. Why don't you sleep now?" She is trying to change the subject.
I know everything is not okay. I can sense it; she is worried. But I haven't slept in a while, and I don't want to worry her more. So I squeeze through the crowd and go to my small cot. I pull back the thin, plain white sheets and lay down, placing my head down on the flattened pillow. When I do this, I realize how I tired I am. So I close my eyes and bring my little toy close to me. It is of a little creature. I don't know what, but it's cute. It's pink, and it's fat. It has big, round eyes. It is soft, and squeaks when I squeeze it. Soon I am asleep.
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I am awakened by screaming and yelling, and my mother's voice.
"Zera! ZERAAAAA!!! Wake UP!!" She sounds very scared. I jump out of bed quickly, my toy flying across the room with the force of it. I want to go to, but my mom needs me. Now. So I run to her.
She is at an escape pod, holding the door open for me. Bob is already in there. I scramble in as fast as I can, and mom jumps inside, slams the door, and goes to the controls in one fluid motion. Her eyes are wide and her breathing is hard. Her antennae are twitching. It is the same with Bob. He is silent, as usual. But I can tell he is terrified. So am I. I look through the back window of the escape pod. I am looking at the ship we were on. There is a ship behind it. It shoots something. Then there is lots of light and heat. It is blinding me. It is burning me. It is also very, very loud. I am covering my ears and screaming. So are mom and Bob. But we cannot hear eachothers screams. We cannot see eachother; our eyes are shut tightly. Then, suddenly... Silence. There is nothing. The ship is gone....
....So are the other escape pods. We are the only ones left. The ONLY ones. THE ONLY ONES! Three... Out of hundreds. Hundreds of lives lost. In only a few minutes. I turn to mom. Although she is looking straight ahead, although she did not see, she knows. We all do. We are silent, thinking of all the lives lost just now. About the reamins of the ship and the pods. About how there would be no trace of them; they had been vaporized. Zapped out of this world. They are gone. All of them.
"We have failed" Mom says quietly, still looking straight ahead, manuevering around the pods' remains. "We have failed!" She concludes, louder this time. "WE HAVE FAILED!!" She is screaming now. As tears the color of their eyes begin to fall from them, I cry as well. The hot tears run down my cheeks, clinging for life for a moment, then slip off and spash to the cold, hard ground. I cannot believe it; we had been doing so well... Our plan was so good. And all of it, lost, gone, blurring in my mind like my tears blurring my eyesight. Is there any hope? We have no medicine. it is easy to get diseases in space. We don't have much food. We are alone.
Just two Irkens and a mysterious girl, fighting for their lives to reach sanctuary. And I fear... I fear that the Irken ship is after us now. Suddenly, panic awoke in me.
"MOTHER! THE ENEMY SHIP! GO FASTER, BEFORE IT GETS US!" I scream, trying to make her hear over her own sceams. I think she hears, because she then stops screaming. She looks at me through a glaze of scarlet tears in her eyes, with tears like blood running down her cheeks. She looks lost. She looks like all hope is lost. I've never seen her this way. She was always happy. Always confident. But now, now she looks different. She does not look like my mother, and it frightens me.
She turns and presses some buttons. 'Sending Transmission' is now a screen next to her, along with a bar that is filling up.
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"Transmission!" Blared Zim's computer.
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Mysterious: Whaddaya think? I really must know, because your reviews are the fire that ignite my quickness in uploading! \m/^.^\m/
We are in a ship. It is cold, and very crowded. My Irken-mother is holding me. I like it when she holds me; it makes me feel better. We are going very fast through space. I look out the window. There are so many stars. So many more stars than I could see on Irk.
I am on a ship to escape. To escape Irk. To escape the tyranny of the Tallest and the Irken Empire. We all are. My mother and I and Bob (aka, Table-Headed Service Drone Bob) are the only Irkens. No. Bob and her are the only Irkens. I am something else, no one knows what I am. I have long hair that is red like the color of mother's eyes. My eyes are blue, but only part way; the rest of them are white, then a bit of black in the very middle. I am peachy- white, and my body is shaped differently.
The others here are beings that were slaves to the Irkens. My mother started a plan to escape secretly. She rescued all the slaves in our section of Irk! However, we all know one thing: we are not out of the fire yet. The other Irkens can still capture us. We are all very, very frightened. But we have eachother. We have medical experts, strong ones that can fight well, and plenty of provisions. We should be safe, but we don't know. So for now we are afraid.
"Mother, how much longer until we reach earth?" I ask her.
"Hmm, lets see... We've been on the ship for about 3 and a half months, so it should only be about 2 and a half more." She says, smiling. "As long as there are no complications..." She mutters worriedly. Then it is like everyone hears her, and they all go silent. They all exchange nervous glances, then look at her. She smiles weakly. "Well, so far so good... And everything is in order... So we should be fine." She says, trying to be reassuring. Everyone else just nods weakly, trying to be reassured and confident, or at least look it. My mother doesn't even seem confident. Somehing must be worrying her.
"Mom... What's worrying you?" I ask. It makes me worried when she is worried; but I would like to know what we are worried /about/.
"Well..." She sighs deeply, then tries to look calm. "Nothing. Everything is fine. Why don't you sleep now?" She is trying to change the subject.
I know everything is not okay. I can sense it; she is worried. But I haven't slept in a while, and I don't want to worry her more. So I squeeze through the crowd and go to my small cot. I pull back the thin, plain white sheets and lay down, placing my head down on the flattened pillow. When I do this, I realize how I tired I am. So I close my eyes and bring my little toy close to me. It is of a little creature. I don't know what, but it's cute. It's pink, and it's fat. It has big, round eyes. It is soft, and squeaks when I squeeze it. Soon I am asleep.
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I am awakened by screaming and yelling, and my mother's voice.
"Zera! ZERAAAAA!!! Wake UP!!" She sounds very scared. I jump out of bed quickly, my toy flying across the room with the force of it. I want to go to, but my mom needs me. Now. So I run to her.
She is at an escape pod, holding the door open for me. Bob is already in there. I scramble in as fast as I can, and mom jumps inside, slams the door, and goes to the controls in one fluid motion. Her eyes are wide and her breathing is hard. Her antennae are twitching. It is the same with Bob. He is silent, as usual. But I can tell he is terrified. So am I. I look through the back window of the escape pod. I am looking at the ship we were on. There is a ship behind it. It shoots something. Then there is lots of light and heat. It is blinding me. It is burning me. It is also very, very loud. I am covering my ears and screaming. So are mom and Bob. But we cannot hear eachothers screams. We cannot see eachother; our eyes are shut tightly. Then, suddenly... Silence. There is nothing. The ship is gone....
....So are the other escape pods. We are the only ones left. The ONLY ones. THE ONLY ONES! Three... Out of hundreds. Hundreds of lives lost. In only a few minutes. I turn to mom. Although she is looking straight ahead, although she did not see, she knows. We all do. We are silent, thinking of all the lives lost just now. About the reamins of the ship and the pods. About how there would be no trace of them; they had been vaporized. Zapped out of this world. They are gone. All of them.
"We have failed" Mom says quietly, still looking straight ahead, manuevering around the pods' remains. "We have failed!" She concludes, louder this time. "WE HAVE FAILED!!" She is screaming now. As tears the color of their eyes begin to fall from them, I cry as well. The hot tears run down my cheeks, clinging for life for a moment, then slip off and spash to the cold, hard ground. I cannot believe it; we had been doing so well... Our plan was so good. And all of it, lost, gone, blurring in my mind like my tears blurring my eyesight. Is there any hope? We have no medicine. it is easy to get diseases in space. We don't have much food. We are alone.
Just two Irkens and a mysterious girl, fighting for their lives to reach sanctuary. And I fear... I fear that the Irken ship is after us now. Suddenly, panic awoke in me.
"MOTHER! THE ENEMY SHIP! GO FASTER, BEFORE IT GETS US!" I scream, trying to make her hear over her own sceams. I think she hears, because she then stops screaming. She looks at me through a glaze of scarlet tears in her eyes, with tears like blood running down her cheeks. She looks lost. She looks like all hope is lost. I've never seen her this way. She was always happy. Always confident. But now, now she looks different. She does not look like my mother, and it frightens me.
She turns and presses some buttons. 'Sending Transmission' is now a screen next to her, along with a bar that is filling up.
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"Transmission!" Blared Zim's computer.
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Mysterious: Whaddaya think? I really must know, because your reviews are the fire that ignite my quickness in uploading! \m/^.^\m/