(Ok, I'm really shelling out for you people. I'm stayin' up really late in order to get this to you. And don't complain when I don't update for a while, I'm either not here, or I have nothing left to write about. But each of those is only temporary. Lots of actiony stuff in this chapter, I was wrong about the other one. And also I bring back angst! But there's some fluff at the end to make it all better. Yay for random drugs! (cough foreshadowing cough) Hope you like it!)
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"What the hell is a slither?" questioned Zim.
"I don't know," said Alter Dib, "But I sure as hell don't want to find out!" he pulled out his gun to fire at 732, but he was already in the air, looking for Slither.
732 landed on a nearby building and jumped off onto something that came into view. It was the Slither.
Slither was about 17 feet tall and was plated from head to tail in heavy scales. It had a snake-like appearance, although it had two arms and a dragon-like face. It was a monstrous beast, and it was even scarier when its long, forked tongue tasted the air. 732 was perched on one of its massive shoulders.
"Kill them all," hissed 732 to the giant beast. He wasn't too sure how long the Slither would last in these conditions. It was not one of the more successful demons the Black Clad one had created. The max amount of battle time it could stand was ½ an hour before it collapsed and died from overheating. So the clock started to tick as soon as it started fighting.
Slither whipped its tail around to try and catch the group off guard. Only Dib was too slow to evade the attack.
"Dib!" Zim quickly switched to his spider legs and caught Dib in mid-air, but wasn't quick enough to completely stop him…They both ended up hitting the side of a building, but Zim took the brunt of the blow, on purpose or not, of the building, then fell to the ground with a bunch of rubble. "Ow…"
"Zim! Are you ok?" asked Dib in a concerned tone.
"Eh…I think so…" moaned Zim, standing up on his spider legs, still holding Dib. He set Dib on the ground. "Stay here. Your in no shape to fight." And before Dib could protest, Zim was off to join the others in the fight.
20 minuets left…
Alter Zim, Alter Dib and Kumi quickly found out that bullets wouldn't help. Zim didn't know this, but he didn't need to. He fired a lazer right at one of the beast's eyes, this was very effective. The Slither reared up in pain, a blue-green blood oozing from its now useless eye. 732 had been bucked off, but soon regained his position from the air.
15 minuets left…
'The defective better hurry it up before it keels over…' thought 732. "Hurry up, Defective!"
The beast was now thrashing out at all directions, including where the wounded Dib was.
"Shit!" Zim was able to pick Dib up off the ground and avoid Slithers massive tail before Dib got squished.
"That's twice…" commented Dib.
"Shut up! If I didn't think you were a valuable asset, I would have let that thing kill you!" shouted Zim, trying to avoid the Slither's vicious tail.
'Valuable asset? Does that mean he cares for me, or he just needs me around? What does it mean?' Dib was mentally rambling. (That can't be healthy.)
"Get its other eye! Then it can easily be taken down!" shouted Zim to the others, too busy with the Slither's tail to do anything. (Not to mention protecting Dib. XD)
"I won't allow that!" 732 dive bombed Zim, snatching Dib out of his grasp.
"Dib!" shouted Zim as he tried to get Dib back, but it was futile. 732 flew out of Zim's reach, holding Dib by his trench coat.
"This human is coming back with me. He will be a suitable gift for the Black Clad one." said 732 roughly.
"Give back that human, bastard. He is for me to kill and me alone!" shouted Zim back at 732.
Dib didn't know if he should be flattered or insulted by Zim's remark…
10 minuets left…
732 just laughed, watching the little bugs trying to get Slither's other eye.
Dib contemplated a risky move to make, but he didn't know if Zim would catch him or not…'C'mon Dib, what would you rather do? Be killed in definite by this Black Clad person, or maybe be killed by falling to the ground…I'll take choice B…' In one swift movement, Dib pulled both arms out of the sleeves of his trench coat and plummeted to the ground. Zim quickly reacted as Dib hoped he would. Zim caught Dib and quickly moved back to the others before 732 could react.
"Stupid Irken!" shouted 732, "Your human friend will die, why prolong his suffering?"
Zim looked back toward the fuming creature. "Just to piss you and your creator off." He said with a grin.
"Zim! Get the other eye! You're the only one who can do it! Just like you did before!" shouted Alter Zim.
"Right!" said Zim preparing, "Someone keep the flying lizard occupied!" Zim did just as he did before. He went after Slither with his spider leg's lazer, and once again, the beast reared up in pain and was disoriented. Again blue-green blood oozed out of the wound.
5 minuets left…
The beast now lashed out in general, it could no longer see, yet it could still sense them…kinda. 732 was disgusted with its performance. It flew down to the creature and landed on its back, right below the back of its head. 732 punched the back of Slither's head five or six times before he broke through the bone. Then he shoved his claws through the pieces of skull into its brain. The creature shrieked out before falling to the ground. 732 stood on its back after he had killed the Slither, red tissue and brain matter all over his right claws.
"Consider this a warning. I can easily kill any of you at any given time, as long as my orders are to do so…" with that he flew off, Dib's trench coat in hand, back to his base to report to Evil Dib.
Dib and Alter Dib collapsed about the same time. Both Zims went to their respected Dib's side to await the voot to come. Kumi went over to 325 and checked his pulse; slight and low, but there.
"Good, he's not dead…" No sooner did she say that, the back-up voot arrived. True to what Alter Zim said it was smaller, but they were all able to fit, cramped as they all were. To everyone's surprise, neither Dib nor Zim complained about this.
Dib sat next to Zim, practically leaning on him for support. He was very tired and in a lot of pain. He finally just gave in and leaned his head against Zim's shoulder. "Zim…"
"What is it?" asked Zim softly, also exhausted.
"Thank you…for everything…" replied Dib, closing his eyes.
"Don't worry about it, earth monkey." Said Zim simply, before Dib fell asleep on his shoulder. 'Maybe…maybe that dream was a premonition, whatever that is…' he thought, feeling comfort that Dib was as close to safe as he could get.
It took much longer to get back to the base because of the load on the voot. But they did get there. Kumi took care of 325 and Alter Zim took care of both Dib and Alter Dib, leaving Zim with his thoughts.
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Almost five days had passed before both Dibs and 325 were up and moving without having much pain. Over that time all both Zims would do is pace around their rooms, worry, and let their thoughts wash over their minds.
Kumi had disappeared and joined Alter Gaz in the gaming room, and occasionally checked on the professor to see how progress was going. Alter Gaz almost never left the gaming room, except to the bathroom or shower, everything was there for her. A food machine thing was installed as well as a drink machine thingy...Even a bed was put in there for her. She only allowed herself to be pulled away from her bliss when a big battle was coming. She was considered a 'secret weapon' for whenever she fought, she killed and destroyed everything in her wake, so they tended to leave her alone.
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Dib and Zim were talking about the inter-planer devise and decided to ask the Alters about it.
"We need to know how much longer we'll be here, so we know how much time we got to finish this battle." commented Dib as they walked through the corridors.
"Yes, it we have little time, we mist finish this quick…but if it will take a while, we have time to plan an attack." said Zim.
'Plan? PLAN? Is this the Zim from my world or the one from this world? This isn't normal for him.' thought Dib as they finally made it to the Alter's room.
"Let's make sure they're in here first…" Zim opened a special slit on the door that allowed you to see into the room. The slit might have been ½ inch wide and three inches long. Zim immediately shut it and turned to Dib, his back against the door, almost protecting it in stance. His face was very flushed and seemed to bear a look of surprise and shock, and his antenna were as flat against his head as they would go.
"What is it?" asked Dib, wondering about his strange behavior.
"Uh…" stammered Zim, face flushing more, if that were even possible, "they're….occupied…"
"Huh…ohh…." It finally clicked in Dibs mind what Zim saw, his face became very flushed also at the thought. 'That's interesting…so there's hope after all…' Dib's mind began to wander to very unruly things, before Zim yanked him back to their room. (If you haven't figured it out by now, the Alters were, for lack of a better phrase, terrin' it up…if you know what I mean. ;))
"Not a word about this can ever be mentioned…" said Zim after he shut the door.
"I'm not gonna say anything…" said Dib, "Why the hell would I?"
Zim shushed him quickly, "Shhh! Be quiet! The walls can hear everything!"
"Yeah right…" said Dib. "As long as we both keep quiet, we're fine."
"You watch, we'll end up caught…I just know it…" said Zim nervously. Pretty soon, the room started to spin and they both blacked out.
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Both woke up in a dungeon-like surrounding. Their hands were chained above them and their feet chained below.
"Told you…" murmured Zim, feeling dizzy.
"Ugh, shut up…" said Dib, slightly nauseated. "Taste of pennies…chlorophorm…"
"Eh?" said Zim lazily.
"Chlorophorm, it's an anesthesia kind of thing. Leaves the taste of pennies in your mouth…" said Dib like it was common knowledge.
"Whatever…" said Zim, then silence ensued.
"We need to find out how much they know." said Alter Dib behind the one way glass, looking at the two hangin' out inside the room. (Hee hee, hangin')
"So we leave them inside until they crack?" asked Alter Zim.
"Yup." said Alter Dib.
"Genius."
Inside the room, the silence was killing Dib. Then he thought of something really stupid, but it sounded like a good idea, only because he was recently on chlorophorm. He giggled a little before he started to sing.
"I've got a lovely bunch of cocoanuts deed le lee de. There they are a standing in a row. Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head. Give 'em a twist a flick of the wrist that's what the Sherman said, hey!" Soon Zim caught on and started singing the back up. (Ok, I'm putting this part in script format just because I'm lazy, and it's easy…)
Dib: I've got a lovely bunch of cocoanuts. Dee dle lee dee
Zim: Dee dle lee dee
Dib: There they are a standing in a row.
Zim: One, two, three, four.
Dib: Big one small ones some as big as your head.
Zim: And bigger.
Dib: Give 'em a twist a flick of the wrist, that's what the Sherman said.
Zim: Hey!
Dib: I've got a lovely bunch of cocoanuts.
Zim: They're lovely!
And it went on like this once more before both girs showed up in cocoanut bras, grass skirts, and a little flower on top of their antenna, and they danced to the music.
The Alters were absolutely stunned at the scene in front of them.
"I think we used too much chlorophorm…" said Alter Zim, absolutely flabbergasted at the four of them.
"It would be safe to say, yes…" replied Alter Dib.
"It probably whipped their minds of the last few hours, so I don't think we need to keep them long…" said Alter Zim.
"I would assume so…" said Alter Dib. Then he smiled evilly and pushed a big green button that said record. "We have to get this on disk and save it. We'll have to show this to Kumi later."
Alter Zim smiled evilly as well. "You're pure evil."
"I know, that's why you love me." said Alter Dib jokingly.
"Yes, evil genius that you are…"
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(Another chapter done. I'm very relieved I could get this done before I left. Feel free to ask me any questions on where this might be heading, and giving your ten cents on everything. I am open to suggestions! But I'm really tired right now, so I'm probably gonna post this, then go burn some Sims…MONTY PYTHON ROCKS!)