GalaxyDancer's "Crush"

Chapter 06: Kids Do The Darnest Things

Author's Comments:

And they're off! Lin's gonna drag poor Zim into a few very unpleasant experiences, giggling all the while. And though she may be just a pathetic little deluded eight-year-old human girl, she has a grip as firm as a . . . a . . . something with a firm grip! Heh . . . well, that's about all I can say about this chapter, other than it's my favorite 'cause it's so funny.

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And so she took him with her everywhere she went. The first stop was the amusement park, which proved to be one of the most horrible experiences of his life.

Lin kept her fingers locked tightly around Zim's wrist. She happily skipped onto the first ride she saw, which was an innocent marry-go-round. She pulled him up onto a strange creature that looked most like a squirrel, keeping him in front of her while she hugged his back. He tried to escape, but her grasp was too tight. She was too strong for him.

The ride started and Zim looked panicked. He had no idea of how things like this worked. Well, sure enough, he found out. It started spinning, slowly at first, then faster, and faster, until it was spinning out of control! Then all at once it stopped, jerking everybody forward.

Zim looked rather nauseated as he climbed off with Lin still holding onto his arm, which was becoming sore.

Lin ran over to an ice-cream parlor and got two ice-cream cones, both strawberry flavored. She started licking one, and handed the other to Zim, who stared at it like it was infested with parasites. He glanced at her, and she pointed behind him excitedly. He looked over his shoulder, but didn't see anything interesting. When he looked back, she pushed his hand up, causing him to shove the ice-cream into his mouth. Lin giggled, but Zim had tears in his eyes as he screamed. He tried to run away from her, but only pulled her arm a little ways with him. She felt him trying to get away, and only walked close to him and nuzzled her head close to his chest.

Spying another fun ride, Lin screeched and dropped her ice-cream in excitement. She ran over to it, with Zim right behind her. He had seen what she was looking at, and was screaming so much that he began to cry, a very degrading action for an Irken Elite Soldier. Still, it got him nowhere, as Lin dragged him into the front seat with her anyway.

An automatic buckle strapped over both of them, keeping them in place. And then the ride began. Zim was petrified with fear as the roller coaster climbed incredible heights to get to the top. He had ceased his wailing for the moment. It paused at the very top just long enough for Zim to put his arms around Lin instinctively and gulp, then lunged forward, sending Zim screaming bloody murder like he had never screamed before. Lin only had on a gigantic smile.

Loop after loop, twirl after twirl, faster and faster it went. Zim continued to scream until around the end, when he couldn't stand it any longer.

The ride slowed to a stop and everybody got up to leave. Zim wearily climbed out of the first car and Lin let go of him for a moment to look at something. He slowly walked forward, feeling incredibly dizzy. He made his way to the closest trashcan, to which he leaned over it and vomited from dizziness. He felt like his head was spinning.

Lin dashed back over to him and grabbed his Pak, purposely disconnecting it from him. She quickly gained his attention, and only giggled as he looked back at her with wide eyes. She raced around him and the trashcan, heading for the Ferris Wheel.

Zim felt energy slowly being drained from him and internally, his life clock began. He ran after her, screaming at the top of his lungs, "Lin! Wait! This isn't funny! I need my Pak to live! Without it, I'll die in ten minutes! I'm serious! Come on, stop!"

Lin was running all around with his gray and pink Pak, laughing innocently while holding it close to her heart. Back and forth, here and there they ran, Zim shouting out pleads and threats all the while.

"I'm not kidding," panted Zim after some five minutes, so tired from running without extra energy that he felt he would collapse soon. He had used up half of his time chasing the girl, who was now only a few feet in front of him. "Give it back, or I'll . . . I'll . . . make waffles?"

Lin giggled cutely. "Okay!" she said happily, not caring about or understanding what he had meant. She walked up to him and handed it to him.

Zim snatched it out of her hands, looked it over for scratches, then sighed of relief. He placed it on his back, and it restored the connection between his almost completely worthless body and his amazing, personality-containing energy supply. He felt life flowing back into him. This sudden rush of energy, along with giving him the strength he needed to survive, also reminded him of how much he despised Lin.

"You!" he cried while pointing at Lin, who was right in front of him. "You could have killed me! How dare you mess with anything belonging to Zim?"

Lin giggled again. "You're so cute!" she said. She blew him a kiss.

Zim stared for a very long time, wondering what to say. Finally, he blurted, "Stay away from me, horrid Lin-monster! Or I shall have to take more drastic measures than I already have!"

Without warning, Lin skipped a half step closer to him and hugged him tightly. He screamed.

"Cute little Zimmy . . ." said Lin, snuggling him.

Zim was panicking. He looked around, trying to think of something fast. Finally giving up caring about the risk of exposing what he was, two long tentacle-like wires shot out of his Pak and jammed into opposite sides of Lin's head, pulling her away from the Irken and suspending her in the air.

Lin didn't like this. She tried to pry the wires away while kicking her legs as fast as she could and grunting, but her feeble attempts at detaching Vortian-designed equipment were in vain, for she was only human and humans were weak and powerless at this age.

Zim was sweating, but was much more calm than he had been. He gritted his teeth. "Now leave me alone! I have no desire to be ANYWHERE near you!" And with that, the two wires emitted a high-voltage electrical charge into her head, causing her to scream and thrash about. When the electrocutions ceased, she was silent, half charred black and her hair a mess. She fell to the ground smoking when the wires detached from her and retracted back into Zim's Pak.

Zim paused for a moment, wondering for no less than a split second if what he had done would result in consequences, then let go of the thought and ran off, retreating to his base to plan on how to destroy the Dib.