Sleet stepped backwards.
"What has happened to you?" He asked in disbelief of what he was seeing.
Purple didn't seem to hear him.
Chasidy looked on fearfully. She didn't know which was more frightening, the fact that Purple was about to go on a killing spree, or that Zim was lying in a pool of his own blood only a few feet away, and that Red was doing the same on the other side of the room.
Zim's robot had seemed to shut down completely. Chasidy didn't know if that was what SIR Units were programmed to do if their owners were killed, but it was certainly what GIR did.
She pulled the little robot onto her knees and shook him gently.
He woke up, and promptly started crying.
Chasidy tenderly patted GIR on the back, trying to comfort him.
Purple took another step forward, and Sleet took another backward. Thick black bolts were coming off Purple's body, and dancing across the metal floor.
Chasidy's eyes went wide when she saw.
"Black Lightning…" She whispered, drawing GIR's attention. "Some bad things are about to go down."
Sleet was thrown back by one of Purple's bolts. He recovered, only to see Purple dash towards him and pin him to the wall by his neck.
"You're choking me!" Sleet gasped.
"Is there a reason I shouldn't?" Purple hissed. "Your blood on this floor will be the last thing you see. But before that happens, you have something to tell me."
Sleet winced and struggled to breathe, as Purple's grip grew tighter.
"How did you make yourself taller?" Purple growled.
Sleet took a ragged gasp of air, and coughed. "I stole equipment from Alcotech and used it to reverse the effects of the drugs then buffet their reversed effect!" He said quickly.
Purple's eye twitched and he tightened his grip, causing Sleet to gasp in pain again.
Purple spun around and flung sleet into the far wall.
"You took everything from me." He hissed. "You took everything! My friend, my job, my life! And you feel no remorse for any of it!"
Sleet pushed himself into a sitting position on the floor where he had landed, and glared at his aggressor.
"There is no remorse! YOUR LIFE IS IN MY HANDS AND I WANT YOU TO DIE!" Sleet roared, pulling out the cannon remote one final time.
The blast of blue light sped towards Purple at a phenomenal speed, but the enraged Irken didn't move.
Sleet grinned smugly as the beam struck Purple's side, but it vanished when the result of the impact became visible.
Purple was still standing.
He had a semi-transparent blue shield around him, which dissipated at a subtle hand gesture from Purple.
Slowly, purple walked towards Sleet, who was frozen in terror for a few moments. When he recovered, the blue-eyed Irken bolted over to where Chasidy and GIR were sitting, scooped the girl up, and held her against his chest with one arm wrapped around her shoulders.
"Don't make another move Purple!" Sleet ordered. "Or the girl will be the one to pay!"
Chasidy coughed. Sleet was squeezing the air out of her lungs.
"Purple!" She gasped.
Sleet laughed. "It's your choice, old friend."
"Don't you dare harm her!" Purple growled.
"I'll dare if I want. And harming her will be the result of your disobedience." Sleet hissed as he squeezed Chasidy tighter.
She winced.
"That's enough!" Purple cried. He fell to his hands and knees and hung his head. "Don't… don't hurt her any more."
Sleet held back an eruption of laughter. "Do you yield?"
"I do."
"Purple… no!" Chasidy gasped.
Sleet laughed cruelly.
"You were always weak." Chasidy felt Sleet's grip tighten. "The girl should have stayed on the mud ball planet where she belongs. But now, she will die."
Sleet's grip tightened, and Chasidy cried out in pain.
"NO!"
Sleet loosened his grip and Chasidy slumped over his arm, breathing heavily. She glared up at the alien holding her.
She coiled her legs up and kicked the taller creature in the mid-section as hard as she could.
Sleet dropped Chasidy as he fell backward. Chasidy landed not far from Purple, who shuffled over and helped her off the floor.
"You okay?" He asked.
"I'll live."
Sleet climbed to his feet and growled. "Insolent human."
Purple's black eyes glinted and he whirled on Sleet.
Sleet didn't have time to even gasp, as Purple jumped high into the air, and exploded into a fearsome creature of black and white lightning, and dived at him.
There was a blinding flash of light, and a blood-curdling scream was all that could be heard above the electric crackling.
When the light dimmed, Sleet's charred and disfigured body was lying on the ground, and Purple was standing over him; shoulders hunched and back arched.
"Purple?" Chasidy said quietly.
Purple didn't move. No one did. Neither trace of movement nor flicker of sound could be detected in the room for a long time.
When the still silence was finally broken, the one who broke it, was someone new.
The new comer was not an Irken, but he was still quite tall by their standards. His skin was a pale blue, and instead of hair, he had several curved dull spikes, and his eyes were a deep shade of purple. He wasn't dressed exceptionally elegantly, but elegant all the same.
He strode straight past Chasidy and GIR, and headed straight for Purple. He stopped behind the tall Irken and smiled sadly.
"Purple, we meet again." He said quietly.
Chasidy could have sworn she heard a 'PING' noise, seconds before Purple spun around in a rage, screamed "YOU!" in a voice most unlike his own and slammed the blue-skinned creature into a wall, holding him by the scruff of his shirt.
Although it was obvious that he was in mortal peril, the blue-skinned creature remained calm.
"I know you're angry with me Purple." He said. "But the fight isn't over yet."
"Sleet is dead." Purple said in a low growl.
"True. But that isn't the only fight. There is still the matter of Red's recovery."
Purple's eyes softened.
"But…" He turned and looked at his friend who was still lying on the floor. "Isn't he…?"
"Dead? Not yet. Perhaps after he has been given medical attention, I will explain everything."
Slowly, Purple lowered the blue-skinned creature to the floor.
Gently readjusting his shirt, the blue-skinned creature pulled out a communicator and switched it on.
"Can we have a med team in here please?" He said into the communicator.
Seconds later, a team of assorted creatures came in, all of them wearing a medical symbol.
They rushed over to Red, and instantly bound his wounds. They attached a small device to his pak, which whirred slightly.
The blue-skinned creature looked over at Chasidy, who was watching with interest.
"So what is your name?" He asked.
Chasidy seemed shocked that she was being spoken to. She opened and closed her mouth several times, but seemed to be at a loss for words, regardless of the fact that it was a very simple question.
The blue-skinned creature smiled.
"I see. My name is Anocian, and do not worry, young one. You have no need to worry for Red. I have the best medical staff in the galaxy."
He turned to Purple when Chasidy nodded. "So my friend. Are you ready to hear what I have to say?"
Purple nodded. The two of them took up seats in the centre of the room, while Chasidy offered her help to the medical staff, who graciously accepted.
A/N: The next couple of chapters may take a while to come up because I am still writing them. I will, however, do my best to finish them as soon as possible.