Chapter 4
Rogue Revealed
"...YOU!" Zim yelled, pointing his finger at the uninvited Rogue.
"Who were you expecting in the first place?" Rogue asked in her cold tone.
In truth, Zim was hoping Dib was the intruder. He was suddenly struck with the reality that he was scared out of his mind right now. This human female wasn't "normal", as to terms to what is normal on Earth. He shook the thought off in his mind, not wanting Rogue to see that.
"I KNEW there was something not right with you! Who are you?! What do you want?! Why are you here and how did you get in?!
Rogue looked at Zim sharply for a few moments, saying nothing to his questions. A weak smile then came across her face and she let out a eerie laugh which made Zim's skin crawl.
"How did I get IN?" She said in between laughings. "Your stupid looking lawn gomes are so slow, it's pathetic! And your SIR is so outdated, not to mention DUMB. All I had to do was knock on the door!" Rogue narrowed her eyes into a glare. Zim looked down at Gir who only gave him the "who me" look before smiling.
The invader shook his head at Gir and looked back up at Rogue. "That still doesn't answer my other questions!" He said. "Who are you and what do you want?!"
Rogue only stared at him more before speaking, colder than before. "My purpose here is simple." She said. " And it won't matter after I'm through with you!"
Zim eyes widened, he didn't dare to admit it, but his insides were trembling.
Rogue raised her arm, focusing only on Zim. Slowly, a violet colored gem appeared on the back of her hand. It began to give off a glow, starting from violet, to crimson red.
Zim's eyes only widened more when he realized what it was. Gir on the other hand, was oblivious to any danger. The little robot shuffled forward, staring at what he thought was rather pretty.
"Oooooo!" He squealed. "TIS' PRETTY!" He was only inches away from the gem. The "pretty" gem started to make a humming noise.
Zim's antennas shot up, knocking his human wig right off his head. He jumped foward, grabbing Gir by his one little antenna and yanked him back.
"DUCK!"
Zim dove away as a blast of energy fired from the glowing jewel. Instand of hitting Zim, the laser blast hit the wall behind the irkin and SIR unit.
"YAHOO!" Gir squealed, still not acknowledging that he and his master just bearly got thier heads blown off.
"Hold STILL!" Rogue shouted. her gem started to warm up again.
Zim shot his eyes around this sudden dangerous situation. He remembered the elevator that was right behind them. He grabbed Gir again and dove into it. "ELEVATOR!" Zim said in a near shriek. "TAKE ME TOP SIDE, NOW!" The doors closed quickly and shot up towards the house, leaving Rogue standing in the dark.
With a sneer across her face, she just slowly stepped back into the shadows.
Zim felt beads of sweat pour off of his face. He could feel his insides twisting and bunching into a ball. As the elevator contiued it's ascension, Zim looked down to see what Gir's reaction was to the situation, only to see the little robot dancing about to the elevator music, humming the tune as it went along. Zim reacted with a hopeless sigh.
'Who IS this ROGUE?!' He thought to himself, knowing Gir couldn't care less at the moment. 'Those lasers came straight from her hands! I didn't know humans were into implanted weaponry...are they??'
Zim's focus was suddenly broken when he felt the elevator jolt a bit. Even that was enough to get Gir's attention. "...What was that??" The robot asked.
Unknown to Zim and Gir, Rogue was now on top of the elevator. She looked at the powerful cable with a cold smile. Raising her hand up and bringing it back down, in a karate chop, she snapped the cable in half.
Zim felt the elevator stop, then felt it slip, and start to plummet back down to the lower levels of the base at insane speed.
"WE'RE FAAAALLIN'!!!!" Gir squealed, not morbid fear, but more in a joyful sense.
Zim felt the knot in him suddenly get tighter as he know Gir was right. Looking around franticly, he tried to see a possible way out. The irkin remembered the four lasers in his pack. He quickly whipped them out and blasted a hole through the side of the falling elevator wall. As they continued to drop, he continued to fire away in a smooth beam. He then grabbed Gir by the arm and leaped out of the hole just before the elevator went crashing to the final ground level.
Zim took in a well needed breather as he and Gir looked around at what level they jumped onto. Zim knew right away that they were in an uncomplete level of his base. There were still half completed walls, unconnected wires hanging from the ceiling and right in the middle of the floor, was a HUGE hole that went deeper than Zim knew. The alien was still not sure what to turn it into, so it remained unfinished.
It didn't take Zim long to realize that Rogue wouldn't be too far behind, and he had a good feeling now what made the elevator fall like that.
"What am I going to do!?" Zim said in a panic, still thinking about the near fatal fall. He looked around the level in the making. There were alot of uncompleted sections, where Rogue could come out of, her being able to snap the elevator cable was enough for him to know that she could do alot more damage than that if provoked. Zim looked around, trying to spot where the insane human would come out. He could feel the sweat on his face again.
"Gir, be on full alert!" Zim said. "We're in a very dangerous situation here! Do you understand?"
For once, Gir was understood. His big metal eyes turned from a light blue to a crimson red, he saluted. "Yes Sir!"
Zim removed his human eye contacts, hoping that would help him spot out anything out of place. A hushed quiet loomed over the area. He stood alert, ready for anything. Surprisingly, so was Gir. He stood right next to Zim, carefully scanning the walls. Seconds went by, then minutes, but Zim knew better, he wasn't about to fall for anything right now.
'Comon....show yourself...' Zim thought making a fist. A few more minutes seemed to pass by like hours.
Suddenly, Gir's eyes perked up. He pointed to one of the walls. "I HEAR something!" He said in a usual high pitched tone.
Zim spun around quickly to see the wall Gir pointing to. His antennas immediately picked up some sort of vibration. "Good work, Gir!" Zim said, glad that Gir was working just like a SIR should. But then, Gir turned and pointed at a different section of the wall. "Nooooo, it's over there!" He then pointed to the opposite wall. "No, wait! Over there! No...there!...hummm, THERE!"
"GIR! Make up your mind!" Zim shouted, thinking he was playing another game. But then he too started picking up numerous movements, coming from all over the walls, just like Gir said.
"WAAAAAHHH!!!" Gir cried out. "I CONFUSE!!"
"Could she be doing this on purpose? To confuse us?!" Zim said to himself.
Just then a voice came echoing out of all directions of the room.
"Ain''t you the smart one."
Zim's body froze with fear. Gir on the other hand, just said cheerfully, "Hey! That was the pretty gem person!" Zim was so afraid, he felt like he was gonna be sick. Suddenly, the vibrations in the walls stopped.
It was silent for about a minute. The feeling in the air was thick with the sense of a hidden trap. It was something that was beginning to get to Zim.
Suddenly, the invader's antennas went straight up as he picked up a new vib, coming from right above.
He looked right up and saw a shadow coming straight down. It landed and stepped into the light of the room. It was Rogue, her face fixed in a evil scowl, colder than the ones she's been giving Zim all day long.
Zim took a step back, swallowing hard, and trying to keep himself from trembling as Rogue came closer and closer to him with every step he took back.
"Now listen," Rogue finally said, raising the laser up to a firing position. "Why don't you make this easier for both of us and STAND STILL!" The gem powered up even faster than before and fired at Zim. Thinking quickly, he releashed his spider legs and just missed the blast. Rogue showed her teeth and lunged forward after Zim, and the chase began.
Zim jumped from one uncompleted wall to another, trying to dodge the lasers that Rogue kept on sending one after the other. As this continued on, Gir was standing still, watching from the ground in amazement.
"OOoooOOoo! PRETTY LIGHTS!" Just then, a blast came only inches away from hitting him, but, he neither flinched nor moved out of the way.
Zim continued to run for his life, moving out of the way of every blast. He jumped from one side of the wall to another, only this time one of his spider legs slipped, and he just bearly caught himself before falling. He re-adjusted his hold on the wall and looked up, only to see a giant blast coming straight for him. Zim cocked his head to the side, just missing the blast as it drove deep into the metal wall. The blast had gotten so close to hitting him, a small burn was left on his cheek.
He looked up again to see Rogue now right in front of his person, hanging from one of the cords that hung from the ceiling. she glared at him in a locked stare. Zim felt his heart-like organ jump into his throat. Rogue still had the laser aimed inches away from his face.
She flashed her creepy smirk. "Tell me Zim...are you scared of me?" She spoke in a tone that could make your skin crawl. "Do you think you can honestly get away...? I've handled more difficult missions than you before...and I've FINISHED every one of them."
Zim's eyes scanned the area. The humming with Rogue gem started to quicken. Just then, he remembered the large, uncompleted floor in the mddle of the level. That hole had quite a drop.
'It might just work...' He thought looking back at Rogue.
The gem was now fully powered up as Rogue got ready for one final blow. But just before she could do so, Zim dropped from the ceiling, and landed right in front of said hole.
Rogue let a small growl escape from her throat as she dropped down as well. The two now watched each other, about three feet apart.
"THERE'S NO USE TRYING TO RUN!" Rogue yelled, her face hot with anger. Zim perched himself up on his spider legs, ready to put his little plan into action. Rogue focused on Zim, this time aiming to charge at him and to not only blast him, but to knock him into the hole, which she has just noticed herself.
"This ends right now, Zim!" Rogue ran forward and got ready to attack. But just as Rogue charged at him, Zim rose straight up into a jump and locked himself to the ceiling. Rogue couldn't stop in time. She ran right into the deep drop, and disappeared into the darkness.
A still silence befell the area. Zim let out a long sigh, and dropped from the cable he held from. He went to the hole's edge and peeked down. It was too dark to see the bottom, but he couldn't see Rogue.
"VICTORY!!" He cheered out.
Gir then came walking over to him with his cute grin. "LET'S GO BAKE MUFFINS!" The SIR squealed happily.
Zim folded his spider legs back into his pack. He couldn't stop grinning himself. "This just shows Gir that NO human can stop ZIM! Not even the laser hand ones!" Feeling more then proud of himself, he and Gir turned to exit the uncompleted area.
But a eerie sound suddenly made Zim stop in his tracks. It was the sound of metal clanging up against the wall from the pit.
Zim slowly turned around. That knot came shooting back. Slowing coming out of the hole was Rogue, her face showed nothing but anger, spider legs of her own coming out if her back. Her headband now gone, and two long antennas poking through her blackish blue hair...
TBC.......
Rogue Revealed
"...YOU!" Zim yelled, pointing his finger at the uninvited Rogue.
"Who were you expecting in the first place?" Rogue asked in her cold tone.
In truth, Zim was hoping Dib was the intruder. He was suddenly struck with the reality that he was scared out of his mind right now. This human female wasn't "normal", as to terms to what is normal on Earth. He shook the thought off in his mind, not wanting Rogue to see that.
"I KNEW there was something not right with you! Who are you?! What do you want?! Why are you here and how did you get in?!
Rogue looked at Zim sharply for a few moments, saying nothing to his questions. A weak smile then came across her face and she let out a eerie laugh which made Zim's skin crawl.
"How did I get IN?" She said in between laughings. "Your stupid looking lawn gomes are so slow, it's pathetic! And your SIR is so outdated, not to mention DUMB. All I had to do was knock on the door!" Rogue narrowed her eyes into a glare. Zim looked down at Gir who only gave him the "who me" look before smiling.
The invader shook his head at Gir and looked back up at Rogue. "That still doesn't answer my other questions!" He said. "Who are you and what do you want?!"
Rogue only stared at him more before speaking, colder than before. "My purpose here is simple." She said. " And it won't matter after I'm through with you!"
Zim eyes widened, he didn't dare to admit it, but his insides were trembling.
Rogue raised her arm, focusing only on Zim. Slowly, a violet colored gem appeared on the back of her hand. It began to give off a glow, starting from violet, to crimson red.
Zim's eyes only widened more when he realized what it was. Gir on the other hand, was oblivious to any danger. The little robot shuffled forward, staring at what he thought was rather pretty.
"Oooooo!" He squealed. "TIS' PRETTY!" He was only inches away from the gem. The "pretty" gem started to make a humming noise.
Zim's antennas shot up, knocking his human wig right off his head. He jumped foward, grabbing Gir by his one little antenna and yanked him back.
"DUCK!"
Zim dove away as a blast of energy fired from the glowing jewel. Instand of hitting Zim, the laser blast hit the wall behind the irkin and SIR unit.
"YAHOO!" Gir squealed, still not acknowledging that he and his master just bearly got thier heads blown off.
"Hold STILL!" Rogue shouted. her gem started to warm up again.
Zim shot his eyes around this sudden dangerous situation. He remembered the elevator that was right behind them. He grabbed Gir again and dove into it. "ELEVATOR!" Zim said in a near shriek. "TAKE ME TOP SIDE, NOW!" The doors closed quickly and shot up towards the house, leaving Rogue standing in the dark.
With a sneer across her face, she just slowly stepped back into the shadows.
Zim felt beads of sweat pour off of his face. He could feel his insides twisting and bunching into a ball. As the elevator contiued it's ascension, Zim looked down to see what Gir's reaction was to the situation, only to see the little robot dancing about to the elevator music, humming the tune as it went along. Zim reacted with a hopeless sigh.
'Who IS this ROGUE?!' He thought to himself, knowing Gir couldn't care less at the moment. 'Those lasers came straight from her hands! I didn't know humans were into implanted weaponry...are they??'
Zim's focus was suddenly broken when he felt the elevator jolt a bit. Even that was enough to get Gir's attention. "...What was that??" The robot asked.
Unknown to Zim and Gir, Rogue was now on top of the elevator. She looked at the powerful cable with a cold smile. Raising her hand up and bringing it back down, in a karate chop, she snapped the cable in half.
Zim felt the elevator stop, then felt it slip, and start to plummet back down to the lower levels of the base at insane speed.
"WE'RE FAAAALLIN'!!!!" Gir squealed, not morbid fear, but more in a joyful sense.
Zim felt the knot in him suddenly get tighter as he know Gir was right. Looking around franticly, he tried to see a possible way out. The irkin remembered the four lasers in his pack. He quickly whipped them out and blasted a hole through the side of the falling elevator wall. As they continued to drop, he continued to fire away in a smooth beam. He then grabbed Gir by the arm and leaped out of the hole just before the elevator went crashing to the final ground level.
Zim took in a well needed breather as he and Gir looked around at what level they jumped onto. Zim knew right away that they were in an uncomplete level of his base. There were still half completed walls, unconnected wires hanging from the ceiling and right in the middle of the floor, was a HUGE hole that went deeper than Zim knew. The alien was still not sure what to turn it into, so it remained unfinished.
It didn't take Zim long to realize that Rogue wouldn't be too far behind, and he had a good feeling now what made the elevator fall like that.
"What am I going to do!?" Zim said in a panic, still thinking about the near fatal fall. He looked around the level in the making. There were alot of uncompleted sections, where Rogue could come out of, her being able to snap the elevator cable was enough for him to know that she could do alot more damage than that if provoked. Zim looked around, trying to spot where the insane human would come out. He could feel the sweat on his face again.
"Gir, be on full alert!" Zim said. "We're in a very dangerous situation here! Do you understand?"
For once, Gir was understood. His big metal eyes turned from a light blue to a crimson red, he saluted. "Yes Sir!"
Zim removed his human eye contacts, hoping that would help him spot out anything out of place. A hushed quiet loomed over the area. He stood alert, ready for anything. Surprisingly, so was Gir. He stood right next to Zim, carefully scanning the walls. Seconds went by, then minutes, but Zim knew better, he wasn't about to fall for anything right now.
'Comon....show yourself...' Zim thought making a fist. A few more minutes seemed to pass by like hours.
Suddenly, Gir's eyes perked up. He pointed to one of the walls. "I HEAR something!" He said in a usual high pitched tone.
Zim spun around quickly to see the wall Gir pointing to. His antennas immediately picked up some sort of vibration. "Good work, Gir!" Zim said, glad that Gir was working just like a SIR should. But then, Gir turned and pointed at a different section of the wall. "Nooooo, it's over there!" He then pointed to the opposite wall. "No, wait! Over there! No...there!...hummm, THERE!"
"GIR! Make up your mind!" Zim shouted, thinking he was playing another game. But then he too started picking up numerous movements, coming from all over the walls, just like Gir said.
"WAAAAAHHH!!!" Gir cried out. "I CONFUSE!!"
"Could she be doing this on purpose? To confuse us?!" Zim said to himself.
Just then a voice came echoing out of all directions of the room.
"Ain''t you the smart one."
Zim's body froze with fear. Gir on the other hand, just said cheerfully, "Hey! That was the pretty gem person!" Zim was so afraid, he felt like he was gonna be sick. Suddenly, the vibrations in the walls stopped.
It was silent for about a minute. The feeling in the air was thick with the sense of a hidden trap. It was something that was beginning to get to Zim.
Suddenly, the invader's antennas went straight up as he picked up a new vib, coming from right above.
He looked right up and saw a shadow coming straight down. It landed and stepped into the light of the room. It was Rogue, her face fixed in a evil scowl, colder than the ones she's been giving Zim all day long.
Zim took a step back, swallowing hard, and trying to keep himself from trembling as Rogue came closer and closer to him with every step he took back.
"Now listen," Rogue finally said, raising the laser up to a firing position. "Why don't you make this easier for both of us and STAND STILL!" The gem powered up even faster than before and fired at Zim. Thinking quickly, he releashed his spider legs and just missed the blast. Rogue showed her teeth and lunged forward after Zim, and the chase began.
Zim jumped from one uncompleted wall to another, trying to dodge the lasers that Rogue kept on sending one after the other. As this continued on, Gir was standing still, watching from the ground in amazement.
"OOoooOOoo! PRETTY LIGHTS!" Just then, a blast came only inches away from hitting him, but, he neither flinched nor moved out of the way.
Zim continued to run for his life, moving out of the way of every blast. He jumped from one side of the wall to another, only this time one of his spider legs slipped, and he just bearly caught himself before falling. He re-adjusted his hold on the wall and looked up, only to see a giant blast coming straight for him. Zim cocked his head to the side, just missing the blast as it drove deep into the metal wall. The blast had gotten so close to hitting him, a small burn was left on his cheek.
He looked up again to see Rogue now right in front of his person, hanging from one of the cords that hung from the ceiling. she glared at him in a locked stare. Zim felt his heart-like organ jump into his throat. Rogue still had the laser aimed inches away from his face.
She flashed her creepy smirk. "Tell me Zim...are you scared of me?" She spoke in a tone that could make your skin crawl. "Do you think you can honestly get away...? I've handled more difficult missions than you before...and I've FINISHED every one of them."
Zim's eyes scanned the area. The humming with Rogue gem started to quicken. Just then, he remembered the large, uncompleted floor in the mddle of the level. That hole had quite a drop.
'It might just work...' He thought looking back at Rogue.
The gem was now fully powered up as Rogue got ready for one final blow. But just before she could do so, Zim dropped from the ceiling, and landed right in front of said hole.
Rogue let a small growl escape from her throat as she dropped down as well. The two now watched each other, about three feet apart.
"THERE'S NO USE TRYING TO RUN!" Rogue yelled, her face hot with anger. Zim perched himself up on his spider legs, ready to put his little plan into action. Rogue focused on Zim, this time aiming to charge at him and to not only blast him, but to knock him into the hole, which she has just noticed herself.
"This ends right now, Zim!" Rogue ran forward and got ready to attack. But just as Rogue charged at him, Zim rose straight up into a jump and locked himself to the ceiling. Rogue couldn't stop in time. She ran right into the deep drop, and disappeared into the darkness.
A still silence befell the area. Zim let out a long sigh, and dropped from the cable he held from. He went to the hole's edge and peeked down. It was too dark to see the bottom, but he couldn't see Rogue.
"VICTORY!!" He cheered out.
Gir then came walking over to him with his cute grin. "LET'S GO BAKE MUFFINS!" The SIR squealed happily.
Zim folded his spider legs back into his pack. He couldn't stop grinning himself. "This just shows Gir that NO human can stop ZIM! Not even the laser hand ones!" Feeling more then proud of himself, he and Gir turned to exit the uncompleted area.
But a eerie sound suddenly made Zim stop in his tracks. It was the sound of metal clanging up against the wall from the pit.
Zim slowly turned around. That knot came shooting back. Slowing coming out of the hole was Rogue, her face showed nothing but anger, spider legs of her own coming out if her back. Her headband now gone, and two long antennas poking through her blackish blue hair...
TBC.......