By animeninjaNIPPON
A small, silver robot with baby blue eyes emerged from the tank. He took one look at his infatuated audience, screamed, and dove back into the folds of velvet.
"He may be shy now," Zim stated, "but in just SEVEN DAYS…" He clenched his fists in childlike relish. "…I will make him a man."
"Do you mean you'll make him into a man, or you'll make a man for him?" Dib inquired, pushing his way to the front of the crowd.
"In just SEVEN DAYS…" Zim hopped over to the tank and called out in a sing-songy voice, "Oh GI-IR…"
Gir popped his head out of his hiding place.
"Didn't he used to talk?..." Dib remembered some interesting (if pointless) conversations he'd had before with Zim's metal minion, back in what now seemed like a former life. Arguing with Zim was futile, though.
"Gir," Zim continued, "look at all these people." He gestured to the crowd. "They've COME to celebrate your BIRTHDAY!"
The little robot smiled and waved. Someone in the crowd inhaled sharply with awe. Dib stared on in blatant confusion.
The "unveiling" was immediately interrupted by the buzz of an electric scooter. "What in the NAME OF DOOKIE –" Zim began.
"Hot PATOOTIE!" Tak cried. "It's HIM!"
"YYYAAAAHOOOO!" A green-haired boy in a maroon shirt rolled in on the scooter.
"Iggins!" Tak exclaimed. Zim grabbed her by the shoulder.
"Stay AWAY from him, TAK," he warned, narrowing his ruby eyes. "He threatens to DESTROY our peaceful life of HEDONISM!"
"You don't tell ME what to do, Zim!" She ripped away from him in favor of joining Iggins. Through tightly clenched teeth, Zim uttered, "Oh really?"
Everyone else gawked at the recent arrival, not quite sure what to make of him.
"C'mon, don't you guys DANCE anymore?" Iggins asked, stepping off his scooter as Tak rushed to lean on his shoulder. In response, the spotlight was redirected onto the rebel couple as they burst into song and dance. The rest of the crowd followed in their lead.
"So," Zim mused, "the traitor has returned to us…" He broke into the mob and the music came to a halt.
"You BETRAYED us!" Zim screeched, pointing an accusing finger at Iggins, who carefully backed away.
"I came back," he protested anxiously.
"You KNOW how we DO things." Zim backed Iggins toward a room with an open door. "You left…"
"No, Zim!" Tak shrieked.
"SILENCE!" Right before Zim and Iggins disappeared into the dark room, Dib saw Zim brandish a laser gun from his PAK. The door slammed shut.
"H-Hey, wait a minute – NOOOOooo…" Iggins' screams of agony caused Gaz's normally squinted eyes to widen in shock. A rivulet of blood streamed out from beneath the crack in the door, and Zim came out, his boots making squishing sounds from the crimson substance beneath them.
Dib went pale. "Did he just…"
"Iggins left us," Red explained. "You're not supposed to leave."
"He broke the rules," Purple added.
Zim brightened as if the unpleasant scenario never took place. "In just SEVEN DAYS, Gir! I will MAKE you a MAN!"
End of part six