Chapter 15
Failure
"All units! ALL UNITS!! Head down to sector D-17 now! That hairless, big-headed THING was last seen there!" Purple's voice continued to shout through the loud speaker as the whole Massive responded. "GET YOUR BUTTS DOWN THERE AND KILL IT!!! KILL IT!!!"
"They get it! Shut up and turn the microphone off!" Red said over the speaker.
Swarms of Irken soldiers flooded the halls of the great ship, all heading towards one place. Every area of sector D-17 was soon crawling with them within a matter of minutes, all with laser armaments.
Down one hall, two soldiers scanned the surroundings carefully, waiting for anything to catch their eyes. Suddenly both spun around fast to see a shadow run by around the corner.
"STOP YOU! One of them shouted. The other immediately fired a warning shot near the figure. When it didn't stop, both went right after it. As they ran, light from the ship's walkways on the wall hit the darken intruder, and the two soldiers finally got a good look of Dib.
"We said STOP!" The soldiers shouted. They began firing real shots. Feeling the heat from the lasers zoom merely inches away for his head, the Earth boy immediately ran faster for his life. Lucky for him, the soldiers were not as good as aimers as they should be.
Suddenly, two more soldiers who were just roaming the area spotted the chase and joined in with the other two. With four Irkens now chasing him, the lasers continued and the boy pushed himself even more. He spotted a fork in the road; the hallway was spilt into two ways. Thinking quickly, he decided to turn right, which just lead him to a dead end wall.
Dib suddenly had the sick realization that if he tried to turn around now, the Irkens would have him trapped. He could hear them getting closer; shouting out, "We got it now!" He frantically looked around what little area he was in, but all there was were wall. There was an air duct in the ceiling, but he couldn't reach.
The fear was building up inside Dib. He pressed his back to the wall and just froze at the thought of the incoming doom that was coming at him.
The running steps of the soldiers were just about to turn the corner, and Dib's heart felt like it was in his throat. But just before they appeared around the corner, Dib felt a pair of hands grab him on his shoulders. He was quickly lifted up; right into the ceiling duct.
The soldiers came around the corner but were dumbfounded to see the big-headed intruder gone. One of them hand gestured to go the other way. With that, the Irkens turned and went away.
A still shaken Dib watched from the duct as they gone away and the coast was now clear. He let out a hard and long sigh, thankful to still be alive.
"Oh MAN, that was way too close!" He said wiping some nervous sweat off his forehead. He took the moment to catch his breath from the running but it then hit him.
"…How did I get up here anyway?"
At that moment Dib heard something coming from down the vent ways. It was like a low, angry, growling noise. Instant chills went down his spine. He slowly turned his head towards the sound.
The vent was dark but the boy could make out two figures kneeling about a few feet away from him. A smaller figure came from behind one of them with bright, blue glowing eyes. The blue light lit the vent and reveled Zim and Rogue's faces; their fury filled, lethal, 'if looks could kill' faces.
The Earth boy's already wide eyes grew wider at the sight of the two aliens.
Slowly lifting an angry, trembling Irken finger at Dib, Zim and Rogue both hissed, "…Yoooou…"
"Hey! Wait a sec! I don't understand!" Dib suddenly blurted out. "You two just saved me! So why-?"
"SHUT UP!" Rogue shouted. "We did that so WE can have the pleasure of killing you! You messed everything up, you stupid human!"
"You think you could just leave me in that little box! Don't make me laugh!" He replied; although he was trembling in his boots right now.
Zim went up and grabbed Dib by the rim of his T-shirt. "You're MORE idiotic then I could ever have guessed!!" Zim shouted. "How did you get out in the first place?!"
Dib grinned and pushed Zim away from his person. "If you REALLY want to know, I noticed that one of the sides of the box was loose, and I was able to kick it off. Once out, I rubbed against a sharp piece of metal from the box, cutting the ropes and freeing myself." He spoke in a somewhat proud tone.
"And then you just walked out of the ship in front of all those guards?" Rogue said. "You…IDIOT!"
"You do realize that you were way over your head, DIB." Zim said. "Then again, I shouldn't be surprise. You're just as mindless and stubborn as the rest of your meathead kind."
"I voted we just leave him down there you know…" Rogue added.
"I've would have agreed to that…" Zim said. "However, my incredible brain realized he could rat us out at the last second in exchange for his pitiful life!"
"Yeeah..." Rogue said with a thinking look. "…Either way, I would have loved seeing him get shot at…"
"So true…" Zim added.
"Okay, so maybe that was a little stupid to just walk out of the ship…" Dib said loud out to himself.
"Brainless, big-headed, no good, meat-heap; that's all you are…" Rogue mumbled. "So what now? Thanks to Dib, we don't have the time to go back and try again."
"Try what?" Dib asked.
"Keep your mouth trap shut! Or I'll MELT it off!" Rogue warned.
"You're right, Rogue…" Zim said. "Now we can't get in touch with the Control Brain. The more time we're on this ship, the better the chance they'll find us. We have even more soldiers to deal with now."
"Yeah, and their looking for a rat." Rogue commented; her sharp eyes towards Dib. "Do we really have to worry about him causing too much trouble? I say we just toss him in front of those soldiers and see now quickly it takes them to DISMEMBER him."
Dib felt a chill go down his back thanks to Rogue's statement. For Zim, it sounded very tempting.
"…As much as I want to…I WANT to…" Zim reposed. "I...hhhHHAATE…to say this, but we can't."
Rogue uttered an Irken curse under his breath. "Ah, I get it. We're already in too deep to stray away from the original plan, right?"
"…Uh…right! That's just what I meant!" Zim answered. Rogue rolled her eyes. "Anyway, in the mean time Rogue, I'm placing you in charge of watching the Earth boy so he won't get us into anymore trouble."
"You hear that?" Rogue said; getting right in the boy's pale face. "You try anything once, and you become my target practice." She patted one of her laser gems for effect.
"Now, how are we going to carry this out with the current situation?" Zim said to himself. "…We could find some way to buy ourselves more time to-"
"Forget that." Rogue interrupted. "It's too risky. The Tallest are probably wondering where I am now. And I bet the Control Brain room is more guarded then before."
Zim growled under his breath. "Then we have no other chose. We have to change our plans a little…" The Irken crossed his arms in a thinking manner. After about two minutes of that, he tried to ponder by rubbing his chin. And when that didn't work, he attempted by hitting his head repeatedly with both fist. Dib found this rather humorous, despite the danger he was in. He let out a few small snickers.
"And what are you laughing at…?" Rogue hissed to Dib. Her lasers started humming with energy.
"N-Nothing!" Dib replied; backing away from the slightly unstable female alien.
Zim halted from his self-inflicting head hitting which Gir was getting quite a little kick out of. His antennas shot up. He threw a "SHH" to the other two. A faint sound of foot steps was heard followed by voices.
"We have company." Rogue whispered.
"YAAAY!!" Gir bellowed. Zim slapped his hand over the crazy robot's mouth, then signaled Dib and Rogue to move out.
"What? Me too?" Dib asked. Before he could add to that a cold metal hand clutched his shoulder and spun him around.
"We'll let you continue being alive for now human." Rogue stated. "Just keep your noise hole shut." The boy nodded his head; smart move. They headed deeper through the exhaust ways.
Meanwhile....
In the main cockpit, the Tallest were still sending announces and asking the Irkens at the controls if there were any sign of the big headed trespasser.
"Still no sign of it?!" Red shouted. "What are we paying you people for?!"
"You don't pay-" One Irken started but was abruptly interrupted when his rejecting seat send him flying through a hidden exit on the ceiling.
"…He had it coming to him." Purple declared; removing his finger from the REJECT button.
"As I was saying…" Red continued. "…Find that thing and get it off this ship!" Everyone nodded and got back to it.
"Eeeugh! Just thinking of that thing makes my skin crawl!" Purple said. "It could be carrying some kind of flesh eating bug."
"Doubt that." Red blurred under his breath. "…Hey, has anyone seen Rogue lately?"
"Uh?" Purple looked up and at Red. "We haven't heard from her for a while."
"That's weird." Red said. "She normally comes by periodically to see if we have anything for her to do."
"I know! I thought we had her trained well." Purple added.
Suddenly becoming a little suspicious, Red swung his hand out and brought a little control panel up from the floor. After pressing a few buttons a screen showed up with a little blinking light. It was a tracker signal.
"So where is she?" Purple asked looking over at the screen.
"…The vent ways?" Red's voice grew puzzled. "What is she doing in there?"
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Back in said vents the aliens plus one human continued moving. All of the sudden a tiny light flickered on Rogue's PAK. She didn't seem to notice it till Gir pointed it out.
"You gots a blinkie on yer back Rogue."
"What?" The Irken stopped and peeked over her shoulder. "…What the..? What is this?"
"You're not doing that?" Zim asked.
Rogue poked the light a few times before figuring it out. "No! It's my tracker!"
"Tracker?" Zim raised a brow.
"The Tallest placed it on my PAK in the event they couldn't contact me!"
"What?!" Zim's eye's shot up. "Why didn't you shut it off!?"
Rogue tried to turn the light off. When that didn't work she opened the top of her PAK and struggled to remove it manually. Doing so send a quick and painful shock to her and her PAK. "…Ugh…" She recovered before coming to the conclusion, "…Those liars! I could kill myself if I tried to remove this! They told me I could take it right off!"
"Your leaders lied to you?" Dib butted it.
"Not now, human!" Zim snapped. "This is bad! They'll find us in no time now!"
"How could I be so careless!?" Rogue said slamming her fist at the vent walls. "That tears it! I'm going after them!"
"What about our plan?!" Zim shouted.
"Forget it! Deal's off!" Rogue said.
"NO! We're still going with the original plan!" Zim protested. "We've come too far to-"
Rogue was up in Zim's face within seconds; staring back at him with a stone cold look.
"The deal…is OFF."
That gaze in her eyes; the look of solid determination. In that brief moment it was as if the souls of the two Irkens touched. Zim could feel Rogue's vigor surging. She was dead serious about going off on her own. Even he in all his life has he seen such liveliness in some one.
He slowly backed off; his eyes locked on the female cybrog's powerful stare. Without saying another word, Rogue went on passing Zim.
'…I screwed up. This isn't anyone's fight but mine. I don't care what happens to that minute Irken now…I don't….I…' Rogue's thoughts raced though her head like crazy. Behind her Zim looked a little shaken from Rogue's reaction to the situation.
He looked back; she was already gone from his sight. She went off to face them alone.
In the middle of all this, Dib was even more confused then before. With Rogue no longer with then, he felt now he could start asking.
"…What's this all about? Aren't you going to go after her?" The boy asked. Zim didn't answer. This 'response' surprised Dib. He asked again. "Hey, why aren't you-?"
"It's not my problem anymore!" Zim finally replied. Dib's eyes widened. The alien then started walking the way they were going before; signaling Gir to come along. They left the Dib human where he was, which he felt was a little odd.
"I don't get it…" Dib said out loud to him. "I guess Irkens are a race where it's every man for himself."
Zim stopped and turned around to face him. The human was gearing for him to strike back with some rude and crude remark. But instead of that, he got something different.
"…Every Irken's has a purpose to fulfill in their lives. If that purpose isn't meant, then their lives are seen as worthless. It's a powerful instinct that every one of us has. …Rogue is willing to risk it to meet hers; weather it was her original programming or not."
Dib didn't know what to say at that point. Zim then continued saying,
"She's made it clear; she doesn't want me to follow her…it's that simple. You happy?"
"…She's meeting up with your leaders though, right?" Dib said. "I'm not sure just what is going on, but I'm guessing your "Tallest" have done something that…I don't know…you don't like? Er something?"
"It's a long story, so just drop it." Zim answered coldly. "It's none of your business!" He pressed his back against the vent wall.
Gir looked upward at his master. He tugged on his uniform like a little child. "Where was Rogue going??" Obviously he wasn't paying attention.
Zim acted like he was ignoring his SIR. The truth was he was too deep in thought at the moment. The instant his and Rogue's eyes meant like that before there was something else he felt beside her ambition. It was a feeling in the pit of his insides; he just couldn't place it.
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Rogue has made it to the front of the Massive. She was still hiding in the vents; down beneath her the floor was crawling with guards. So far she hasn't been detected but with every passing second she was putting herself in even more danger.
And at the same time she couldn't get a certain Irken out of her head. It was beginning to cloud her train of thought. 'I can't get him involved now. I'm the one that blown my cover, not him.' She rested on the vent floor; taking a breather before she had to make her move. '…Besides…I don't care about…' In her own mind she hesitated that consideration. She mentally slapped herself out of it when more Irkens began to gather right under her. She's finally been discovered.
"HEEYAAAHH!!"
The Irken cybrog kicked the bottom of the vent open; landing on the group of guards. In the state of confusing she jumped on top of them and ran off.
"Was that Rogue?!" One of them asked.
"Yeah, but what was she doing up-"
Suddenly a few lasers were fired towards Rogue which she easily dodged. The two Irkens looked at each other puzzled. Another came up behind them saying, "Hey, we just got an order! We're to stop Rogue from reaching the Tallest!"
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A new set of alarms began to sound off through out the ship. The noise made Zim and company jump. The male Irken rushed over to the vent opening and peeked through. A flood of solders went running by towards the front.
"She's at the front! We can't let her get through!" One of the soldiers shouted as they stormed off.
"……" Zim backed away from the vent gate. That look on Rogue's face came back into his mind.
'The deal is OFF!' Those words repeated in his head. He tried to shake it off but he was having a hard time doing so. He attempted to tell himself that it was done with; she doesn't want to be followed; she didn't need any help, and she didn't want to complete their plan. But a little voice in the back of his head began to nag on one thing he wished wasn't the case.
"…I can't do this alone…"
Dib rose his head up. "What was that?" Gir looked up at his Master.
"I'm going after her!" Zim bolted off; knocking Dib over and hitting the vent wall. The rivets broke through and the human fell back first on the floor. Lucky for him the guards and everyone were gone.
"Hey!" Dib shouted back up but Zim as well as his SIR was already gone.
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Purple and Red were surrounded by a few dozen panicking Irkens; running around screaming they were all gonna die. The Tallest just sat in their seats shaking their heads.
Just outside the steel door to the room Rogue was being the source of the panic. She was plowing through the guards and security like bowling pins. A few laid slumped against the walls while others were being thrown in the air by the she-alien's vast, raw strength.
"Let me through!" Rogue shouted. She had completely abandoned the whole sneaking around thing. She was in the middle of an all out fight to get to the Tallest and it seemed like no one would stop her.
One soldier stood up; battered and bruised and faced Rogue with laser aimed. He didn't even have time to put the trigger. Rogue was over and cuffed him one more. He fell back down.
"And stay down!" She said. You could see the fury in her deep purple eyes as she walked up to the door leading to her goal. The Irkens that were left standing were to scare to pursuit her any longer. They let her pass.
"She's coming through…! We couldn't stop her!" One of the fallen Irkens spoke into his transmitter. Rogue opened the door.
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Zim and Gir raced through the halls following the trail of injured and/or unconscious Irkens. Just a few feet behind them Dib was trying to the keep up. He wasn't going to let them leave him again and make him lose the chance to get off this 'nut-ship', even if that meant following Zim into whatever he was going to get into.
Zim could finally see the end of the hall and also the doors to the cockpit closing with Rogue going through them.
"Rogue!" He called out. But when he got to the entrance it closed in his face. A 'click' sound was heard before he tried to open it up again. "She locked it!" He started pounding on the steel doors but she didn't respond.
Dib finally caught up and saw Zim pounding away and Gir joining in by whacking his tin head against it.
"What happened?" He said; catching his breath.
"She locked it. Now stay out of my business human!" Zim shouted. He tried again with the laser his metal legs were packing. He continued to fire away, just starting the melt away the steel.
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Inside everyone was huddled up in one corner of the room trembling while Rogue stood with eyes scanning the area. They stopped dead center where the Tallest were still sitting at their little seats like nothing happened.
"……" The female slowly approached them with death looming in her eyes.
"Rooogue! We were a little worried where you were." Red spoke up, but his tone of voice wasn't anything 'worried'. "You didn't show up for sometime so I gave you a ring on you tracker. I see you got your message…"
"And I can't get the thing off." She answered. "You two MADE it so I couldn't get it off without hurting myself."
"Well, we didn't want you to lose it!" Purple said. "Those things don't come cheap, you know."
"Funny…you two mentioned something about me being a little too powerful and you may not need me anymore…" Rogue got closer to them without breaking a sweat. "You two were planning on disposing of me after I came back from my mission from Earth! You can't lie to me, I heard it all!"
"She heard it?" Purple asked Red.
"……So you did." Red said. He stood up and hovered to Rogue. She stopped and tried to contain the rage growing within her. "And you've come back to beg for your life?"
"Hardly." She answered. The gems in her arms began to glow and hum. The Irken pilots huddled closer fearing the end. Purple too was a little spooked by the female's actions, but Red was doing the best at staying calm.
"You can't hurt us." He said.
"That's what you think!" Rogue lunged towards Red with arms stretched outward and fired. The shot was aimed at Red's head, but it was suddenly and quickly defected back at her. Rogue was hit in the gut with her own laser and fell flat on her back. The blast only left a burned mark on her outfit; her skin was a lot more durable then a normal Irken's. She stood back up with a confused look on her face.
"…How?!" She gazed up at the Tallest and noticed something covering his body. It was nearly invisible and like a gloss when the light hit it.
"Protective shield." Red said with a little grin on his face. "He has one too so don't get any ideas." He pointed at Purple. The other Tallest's face perked in remembering that and active his shield as well.
"Blast you…!" Rogue cursed.
"You wish!" Purple laughed.
Rogue got back to her feet and stared up at the taller aliens. Without giving it too much though she placed her wrist together. One of the Irkens in the corner let out a scream and covered his head. The Tallest's eyes grew wide as they watched the cybrog form her most powerful and destructive weapon; the Pulse Cannon.
"Wait! You can't use that here!" Purple said with sweat forming on his forehead. "The kick in that thing could blow up the whole ship!"
"You would kill yourself to get rid of us?" Red asked; doing his best not to freak out like his ruling partner. "You do know that could happen if you us that."
"I bet I would make it…" Rogue answered. She sounded dead serious, but something occurred her. Someone else was on board.
'If I fire this cannon, he would be killed along with everything and everyone on this ship…' She thought. 'I…I've come this far! I'm sure their puny shields couldn't hold up a blast from this! …But…'
The very thought of wiping out the whole ship plus crew was very unsettling to Rogue. But that alone wasn't the real reason her Pulse Cannon wouldn't fire. He was still on the ship; at least she knew he was still on, but he could have got off in the confusing. But what if he didn't?
"…ugh." Rogue defused her cannon and hung her head.
"Hm? You give up?" Red asked.
Rogue was just about to answer when a loud crashing sound made her spin around to see Zim, Gir and Dib standing in the doorway. The tips of Zim's lasers were smoking from exhaustion.
"Finally!!" Zim shouted and retracted his metal legs.
"Honey, I'm HOME!!" Gir screamed.
"BE QUIET!" Zim shouted once more.
Red and Purple's jaws dropped. "YOU! You should be DEAD!! Why aren't you dead?!" Purple yelled.
"I didn't kill him like you said!" Rogue immediately answered.
"You didn't follow your orders?!" Red shouted. "…This situation a bit more serious then I thought."
"For you two, you mean." Rogue said with gritted teeth.
"I can't believe he ain't gone!" Purple cried. Red slapped him across the face.
Zim walked up next to Rogue and shot his finger towards his leaders. "You two are about to see just how dangerous it is to provoke ZIM! I know everything now! It's all been a lie!"
The two tall alien's eyes shot wide. "You're kidding me…it finally clicked?!" Red said. He stared down at the smaller Irkens before letting out a slight snicker. "…Heheh…I guess there's a first time for anything…but that won't change the fact that you're still a annoying, troublemaking shrimp of an Irken!"
Purple busted out in laughter. "He's gonna provoke on his! What a joke!"
Zim's face grew stunned. His fist began to tremble followed by the rest of his body. Next to him the female alien noticed this and could feel for him fully. The rage once again was building up within her, but this time it was because how the Tallest were speaking towards Zim. It was doing something to her…
"SHUT UP!!" Rogue screamed. Purple stopped his laughter and Red just gazed at her with a bold look. She took a few more steps forward. "I won't stand here and let you two sorry excuses for leaders put him down! Just because you're the Tallest shouldn't let you decide how he should think of himself! Zim has more zeal for himself and his goal then anyone I've seen! One more word about him and I'll tear you apart!!"
The room was quiet for a while after Rogue's outburst. Everyone, even the human tagging along in the background was shocked at the alien's words and way she spoke them. Dib reflected on them. '…If I didn't know any better…I'd say she does care what Zim's doing…'
Zim was bowled over from Rogue's speech. Just a few minutes ago she sounded like she couldn't care less about what he did or how he would do it. But here she was, proclaiming her…was it respect? Maybe. But something else was there. It was faint, but Zim was getting an odd feeling; from the pit of his insides again.
Red finally broke the silence saying, "…What is it you see in this loser?"
"I swear…I WILL kill you if you don't clam up!" Rogue said with in a powerful tone. "DON'T test me!"
"I'd wouldn't if our lives were in danger." Red smirked and bumped Purple with his shoulder. The other Tallest gave his evil looking smile and nodded in agreement. "I guess you should be reminded of your place, Rogue. Do we have to refresh your memory?"
"Memory…?" Rogue worded out. She remembered that file Zim and she found in the Control Brain room. "…Yeah, about that. …Just what is my real memories?"
The Tallest looked at each other confused. "Just what kind of question is that?" Purple asked. "What you know and remember is all true. We didn't do anything to change that."
"Liars!" Rogue shouted.
"It's true; we've done nothing to your memories Rogue." Red answered. "…We just found you one day in a life support system."
"…Wa-what??" Rogue's eyes changed.
"They 'found' her?" Zim said to himself.
"Oh yeah, we never told you." Purple said in a sarcastic tone of voice. "It was on a salvage trip to a large floating asteroid in one of the Irken sectors not too far from here. The rock looked like it was used for some Irken ground base or something. Funny we never heard of it, but that's beside the point. During the salvage you were found floating in an outdated life support system! The date of that system was marked MR. 10205."
"…That's when Tallest Miyuki began ruling!" Zim spoke up. "That would make Rogue about…75 years old?"
"Nah, she's older then that." Red interrupted. Rogue was stunned at what she was hearing. This whole time the Tallest knew about this but they never told her. Red continued, "…At least that what the basic scan said. When we revitalized her and scanned her PAK for ID all we got was her name. Everything else was gone. Her deep encoding says she's from sometime before Miyuki, but there isn't any way of pinpointing her real age or propose."
"…Teal." Rogue suddenly spoke up.
"What?" The two leaders said.
"Tallest Teal! There's a file talking about a past Tallest named Teal! And the file was named the ROGUE Project!"
"We don't know what you're talking about." Red answered. "And further more, there was never a Tallest by that name! You must be malfunctioning."
"No!" Rogue raised her arm and brought up a hologram screen with said file. "It's right here! Some of the information is damaged, but there states a 'Tallest Teal' and even a war the Irkens fought! How can you say she didn't exist!?"
Red took a look at the screen but wasn't impressed. "This could have been thought up by anyone and placed in the main files. It's nothing but a myth; a tall tale."
Rogue turned the screen off and darted towards Red with angry eyes. "It's NOT a myth!" She jumped up at Red's eye level and delivered a roundhouse style kick. The shield protecting the Tallest suddenly cracked and warped. The attack forced itself through the shield and connected to Red's jaw.
The leader was thrown backwards into one of the control panels. Purple's face went white as he watched Red stagger back up; his hover bent broken and he was standing on his own two feet.
Zim and company were taken aback from Rogue display of raw power. One kick from her was enough to destroy a Tallest's personal barrier.
"Please don't hurt me!" Purple begged. Rogue didn't obey and started walking towards him as well. The Tallest hovered back; fearing for his life. Red was back up; touching the side of his face. There was a large bruise mark where Rogue kicked him. He was not amused anymore.
"I guess we underestimated you for your loyalty…" He stated.
"I should have never been loyal to you in the first place." She replied.
"You don't know the mess you just got yourself into, Rogue." Red said.
"You got that backwards!" Rogue shouted and activated her lasers once again.
Zim's body went tensed as he continued watching this war of words turning into something more. 'This could be it!' He thought with a sense of hope building up. His revenge and Rogue's would be fulfilled. He wanted to jump in and help but he felt that Rogue had it in the bag from this point.
"I'm finishing this!" The cybrog shouted. She bolted towards the Tallest with her gems on fire with a red glow. Purple immediately went into a panic but Red was calm.
"You've overstepped your boundaries." Red raised his claw up. Rogue PAK suddenly gave off a piercing alarm sound. The female Irken was stopped dead in her tracks. Her eyes shot wide open. Her whole body gave out and she fell before the Tallest's feet.
"Rogue?!" Zim shouted. Without thinking he ran over to take a look at her. He was right in front of the Tallest but that didn't seem to bother him. He got a good look at Rogue's face. He stepped back with a horrified look.
Her eyes were void of any life…
TBC………