"I could never kill you…"
Die for Me
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Stressed
The green laser cutter streaked across the darkness. Zim turned in Red's shell and watched as the laser traveled toward Red. Red's crimson eyes bulged as he turned to dive out of the way. The laser made impact and shot into his PAK. Red fell to the ground landing in the black puddle of Gaz's blood. Gaz scooted away from ignoring the pain from her own wound. The figure stepped out of the shadows with a grim look. His violet eyes were blank as he floated closer to Red. Red curled onto his side and Purple sighed.
"This is madness!" Zim shouted as he moved over to Gaz.
"Purple," Red growled as he angrily glared up at his co-ruler.
Purple didn't bother showing any emotion as he stared down at Red. Purple reached behind his back and grimaced a bit as he pulled his PAK off. It hit the floor with a loud clunk. Red's eyes widened in panic as he watched Purple calmly float in place. Red looked to the PAK and then to Purple again.
"These PAKs make us weak...they make us vulnerable," Purple calmly spoke.
"No PAK," Red whispered with a sad look.
"There's another race of Irkens who survive without PAKs," Purple calmly informed.
"You lied to me Pur," Red calmly whispered. Purple raised an antenna in confusion.
"I didn't lie to you Red," Purple assured.
"And now you're killing me," Red finished as he sighed and closed his eyes.
Purple reached to his waist and turned the hover belt off. He easily landed on his feet and then kneeled next to Red. Purple reached out and brushed some of the blood off of his face. Purple quietly gazed at the blood on his hands before he shook his head and looked back to Red.
"I could never kill you," Purple assured as he wiped the blood onto the floor.
Red's eyes thinned in confusion as he carefully watched Purple. His mind was beginning to fog as he laid there unmoving. The laser had hit the circuits that helped controlled his movements. It had also fried the power cell to a certain degree.
"We've been friends forever," Purple carefully said.
"If we were such good friends...then why are you in my way?" Red growled. He wanted to badly hurt Purple. The emotion he felt caused him to hate Purple.
"Annihilating species and tormenting a single human for fun isn't sane," Purple explained.
"Now you're calling me defective?" Red spat with a look of anger.
"Jerk," Purple angrily mumbled.
Purple pushed red onto his stomach and lightly touched the metal PAK. Red warningly growled and tried to struggle but his PAK wouldn't allow him to move. Purple pressed a certain area to the right and a small control panel opened. His then fingers ran along the buttons with Irken symbols.
"What are you doing?" Red demanded.
Purple ignored him and slowly pressed a button. A soft beep filled the area and Purple grinned. He began to type in five different sequences. Twenty different tones of beeps filled the room as he typed. Red tensed before his form went completely limp. Purple held his finger above the last button and looked to Red one last time. Purple grinned and pressed the button. Red's eyes dulled and Purple watched as all his intelligence drained. Purple then turned his attention back to Zim.
Zim held Gaz to his body and was quickly talking to her. Her face was pale and her eyes were slightly glazed over. Purple frowned and figured that she was losing to much blood. Purple quickly turned on hover and raised his arm back to his face.
"This is Tallest Purple demanding immediate teleporting," Purple ordered as the link established with the tech officers in the Massive.
"Prepare to be beamed," the officer spoke.
"I need you to beam four to the Massive," Purple ordered.
"Yes my Tallest," the officer stated.
Purple turned his gaze back to Red's broken form and grinned.
"WHEEE!" Purple's head snapped up and he yelped as Gir lunged at him. The robot attached his face and they all vanished from the area.
Purple sighed and listened to the panic on board the Massive. Gir quickly dislodged from his face and ran off. They were panicking because Red was nonfunctional and there was a human on board. Purple reached out and grasped the nearest Irken by the antennae. He turned the small Irken to him and evilly grinned. Purple held the Irken out above his head and shouted.
"QUIET!"
Everyone froze and turned the usually calm Tallest.
"The next person to make a noise gets launched into space!" Purple threatened.
Purple scanned the crowd with his eyes and grinned. None were moving and they all remained quiet. He turned the smaller Irken back to his gaze and sighed.
"I want a status report," Purple calmly demanded.
"We've lost all communication with Planet Irk and the Control Brain is dead," The Irken quickly said.
'Good,' Purple thought.
"I want everyone back at their stations...except you and...that guy," Purple ordered as he pointed to another Irken.
Everyone remained frozen and Purple shouted, "NOW!"
Everyone quickly vanished and he sighed as he set the Irken in his grasp down. He floated over to Zim's shell and pulled red's PAK off. He handed the PAK to the Irken and then floated over to Red's shell. He pulled off Zim's PAK and attached it back to Zim's shell. Red's shell began to twitch as Zim's personality began to vanish from the form. Purple punched something into his arm and he watched as s tool fell from the ceiling and shocked Zim. Zim quickly sat up and stared at his normal three fingered hands. He felt his face and began to grin.
"I AM ZIM...AGAIN!" Zim cheered.
"Take Red's PAK and Shell and beam it to the Resisty's ship," Purple ordered.
The two Irkens looked to Purple in confusion. Purple scowled at them and they quickly got to work. Purple turned his attention back to Zim and found him pressing his hand to Gaz's wound.
"Why isn't that Omega stuff healing her?" Purple questioned.
"Most of it separated from her body when she was bleeding," Zim replied as he carefully moved his hand away.
"That's creepy," Purple stated as Zim nodded. "You better put something on that wound."
"The wound!" Zim shouted as his PAK opened. He reached behind himself and began to dig through it.
Purple questioningly watched as Zim pulled out some gauze. He quickly stuck it to Gaz's injury. Purple noticed that it was no longer gushing blood.
"Incoming transmission."
Purple looked around the room and sighed. He floated over to a control panel and quickly turned on a link. A screen appeared in front of him and he raised an antenna in confusion.
"Who are you?" Purple questioned.
"I'm hurt," Klavier sighed as he shook his head in disbelief. "You forgot that I was Klavier...and I thought I had a bad memory."
"What do you want?" Purple gritted out. Something about Klavier really irritated him.
"Alls well on this end, but Dib wants to know about his sister," Klavier explained.
"She's currently unconscious," Purple calmly informed.
"WHAT!"
Klavier yelped as he pushed out of the way. Purple winced as he heard the Irken's cry of pain. Dib appeared on the screen with a panicked look.
"Where's my sister?" Dib demanded.
Purple turned the screen and pointed. Dib's eyes widened as he watched Zim try to patch her up. Zim looked over and sheepishly smiled.
"Greetings Dib-beast," Zim greeted.
"What did you do to her?" Dib growled as he ignored the insult.
"Red attacked her," Purple corrected.
"Is she..."
"Gaz is alive, so very much alive," Zim assured with a frown.
"Moron," Gaz groggily hissed as her eyes partially opened.
"Gaz!" Dib shouted.
She turned her eyes in the direction of his voice and glared at him. Dib slightly paled and then she turned to Zim. She fisted her working hand and punched him in the gut. Zim wheezed as he released her and fell to his side.
"That's for taking so long to get back," Gaz grumbled.
"Young love, it's so cute," Purple spoke.
"Where are the Irkens loyal to Red?" Dib questioned.
Purple shrugged and Dib sighed. Gaz scoffed as she sat up. Her shoulder had finally gone numb, but her mind hadn't. Gaz subconsciously lowered her hand to her stomach. Zim sat up from his fetal position when he caught the slow movement. He reached out and gently grasped her hand. Gaz's eyes darted to him and then away. Purple raised an antenna in confusion.
'Humans...so confusing,' Purple thought before he floated out of the room. He had other things to do.
"Do you want to come aboard the ship we're on?" Dib questioned.
Gaz remained silent and Zim turned to Dib. He shrugged and then Dib shrugged. Gaz squinted her eyes and looked back at her brother.
"We'll call you in a little while," Gaz assured.
Dib nodded, but hesitated in turning off the link. He wanted to know what was wrong with her and why she was acting so strange. Gaz slightly opened her squinted eyes and he sighed. Dib sent her a worried look before the screen went black. Gaz reached out and took Zim's other hand in her own. She didn't know how she was going to do this.
'I slept with Red thinking it was you,' Gaz thought as she grimaced at the thought.
"Zim," Gaz grimly began, "I'm pregnant."
Zim froze at her words before he began to softly laugh. Gaz watched as he continued to laugh. She loudly growled at him and he instantly stopped. He blankly stared at her a few moments before his grip on her hands loosened.
"You're not joking."
"If I was joking then you wouldn't be laughing," Gaz growled out. No one ever liked her jokes.
"I thought...wow...how?"
"Your body is your body no matter who inhabits it...right?" Gaz stalled.
"Yeah..."
"So if PAKS switch then your body is still the same?" Gaz continued to stall.
"Yeah...oh...what!" Zim shouted.
"I didn't know," Gaz whispered.
"But with him...in my own body," Zim ranted.
"I would have never did that if I had known it wasn't you," Gaz assured.
"Well...oh well, at least it's mine," Zim mumbled as Gaz raised an eyebrow in question.
"That's it?"
"Yeah, nothing I can do and it was my body," Zim simply said.
"You're not mad?" Gaz pried.
"No, just don't do it again," Zim answered.
Gaz sighed and allowed him to pull her closer. Zim held her in silence and she closed her eyes. Too much blood had been lost and she found herself slowly slipping into darkness.
Purple sat upon his chair as he gazed at Red's body. Red's PAK was beside the shell. Purple had Mun repair the PAK quite easily. The memory chip within the PAK was fried; there was no way to save that. Mun had assured Purple that the chip would most likely never function properly again. Red's PAK was blank of a personality and memories. Purple stood from his seat and scratched as his bare PAK. His PAK was set upon his desk.
Purple walked over to Red's body and gazed down at it. He reached over and picked up the PAK. He held it in his hand and tested the weight before he held it to Red's back. Two thick cords extended from the PAK and attached to Red. Purple figured that all he would need to do is shock him back into reactivation.
'I could never kill him,' Purple thought.
Red was the first Irken that Purple had talked to outside the room Miyuki had kept him in. They had instantly become friends and ever since then, they were never separated. Purple liked to believe that they were friends, most Irkens had no need for friends, but Purple did. He wasn't created in those deep, dark chambers. He was never truly assigned a PAK and so his hormones ran rampant. Purple liked to believe that Red considered him a friend. It was a nice thought. Purple punched a code into his metal glove and watched as another wire extended from the ceiling. The room lit up as Red's eyes regained their shimmer of life.
Author's Note:
I didn't know what to make of Zim's reaction to the whole situation. It was his body, just a different mind…so the child would be his. I guarantee that this will definitely be on his mind latter on. The next chapter will be an epilogue.
