A.N. Special thanks to moose-muffins, YoYoMaaa1342, warning live without warning (please update your story!), Mr. Girl (you too), All Apologies, and Berserk1 for the reviews. I wuved dem. Alot. Phwee.
The Second Chapter of Doom
Heads in the Freezy Box
Zim slams the door quickly, a paniced expression on his face.
Tak looks up from the TV in mild interest and says, "Did you have fun?"
Zim pushes against the door, and pounding can be heard from the other side.
"Hardly," he pants.
"What in the name of Irk are you doing, Zim?" Tak demands.
Still pushing against the door, he mutters rapidly between each breath, "Girl...followed me home...crazy...chased me..."
"Did you provoke her?" Tak asks, keeping a straight face.
"No! She's insane! I don't even know her, but she says. . .well, Tak. . ." Zim looks up dramatically, "You may be devestated, but the girl on the other side of this door claims to be in love with me…"
He braces himself for the sight of a heartbroken Tak, but she just kinda laughs.
"Aw, how cute," she says, "a little human monster has a crush on you! You should turn her down easy though, Zim, unless you have feelings for her. . ."
"NO!" Zim shouts defensively, "I do NOT, and it's not a human, she's an-"
Suddenly, the door swings open, crushing Zim against the wall behind it.Tak stares at the doorway in disbelief.
"Pleecy. . .?" she says slowly.
Pleecy glances up in slight confusion, but then upon recognizing Tak, she gives off a girly shriek.
"Oh my gawd!" She says enthusiastically, "Tak! Oh my gawd, what are you doing here?"
She has her arms around Tak now and she's jumping up and down, and Tak's laughing awkwardly, and slightly nervously as she says, "Heh heh, uh, Pleecy, I live here. . ."
Pleecy begins giggling madly, then says, "No way!"
"Um, yeah, well. . ."
"You two know each other?" Zim asks, coming out from behind the door with a few battle scars.
"Oh my gawd, Zim, are you okay!" Pleecy shouts in a panic."I didn't see you behind the door!" She instantly latches onto Zim and he winces.
"Wait. . . do you two know each other?" Tak says in confusion.
Zim says, "No," at the same time Pleecy says, "Yes!", so then Zim turns to Pleecy and shouts, "I do not know you! Leave me alone! Get out of my house!"
Huge tears form in Pleecy's eyes.
"How can you say that!" she demands, suddenly hysterical. "After all we've been through, and you refuse to know me! How could you, Zim? HOW COULD YOU!"
She turns dramatically, and runs, crying, into the kitchen, jumps in the garbage can and dissapears from view.
Zim looks distressed.
After a rather piercing silence, Zim asks in intense dismay and confusion, "Who the heck is she?"
Tak sighs.
"Ugh. . ." she mutters. "She was my old roommate, back when I first moved to Irk... she's kinda. . .uh, a defective."
"Oh."
"Yeah."
More silence.
"But I don't know her," Zim says, defeated.
"Oh, I'm sure you've talked to her at some point in you life," Tak explains without much emotion, "whether you remember it or not. But Pleecy remembers every conversation, every contact made with any male, and usually she tracks them down and makes desperate attempts to commit them to a relationship, until another male comes along, or until the current one self-destructs."
". . . I don't wanna self-destruct."
Tak sighs again, and pats Zim's shoulder lightly.
"You won't," she says, "just tell her to get lost. But. . . don't be a jackass about it either. She's insane, but she means well."
Zim finds Pleecy later, still crying, in the equipment room. She's hiding behind a pile of broken robot turkeys, and when she sees Zim she begins bawling uncontrollably.
"Um. . ." he begins awkwardly.
Pleecy glances up in curiosity, in vague hope, but then Zim waves his hand and says, "Go away."
"How can you say that Zim! Why are you denying my love!"
More tears. Just perfect.
"I don't know you," Zim says, his voice strained in exasperation.
"How could you have forgotten me so quickly, Zim?"
Zim just kinda glares. And Pleecy rubs at her eyes angrialy.
"I thought you were different!" she shouts. "But you're just afraid to commit! And I bet you're just gonna kick me out, and I'll have noe where to go but to my brother, Tallest Red!"
"T-tallest. . .Red is your. . . brother?"
Pleecy stands up, that's when Zim realizes she's actually taller then him. She looks defiant.
"Yes, he's my brother," she snaps, hands on hips, "and he will not be happy when he finds out you wouldn't give me a chance, that you told me to go away-"
"Wait!" Zim shouts, alarmed. "Uh, uh. . . you can stay. . .uh, just. . . don't get the Tallest mad at me. . ."
"Oh Zim!" Pleecy says, all misty-eyed again. Once again, she throws her arms around him."Thank you!"
"Get off of me. . ."
A few days later.
Pleecy has been extra clingy to Zim, and Tak doesn't do much to stop it, mainly because she takes pleasure in seeing Zim in torment, and also she doesn't have much energy these days, thanks to the heat.
Everytime Zim pleads with Pleecy to tell him how she even knows him, she begins to cry and says he's horrible if he can't remember and she's going to go tell Red what mean ol' Zim did to her. In which Zim responds by freaking out and saying, "Uh! I'M SORRY! Don't tell the Tallest!"
Tak found all of this really funny at first, but now, today is particularly hot, and she can't really enjoy anything in the haze. Right now, she's standing in the kitchen with her head in the freezy box.
Pleecy is tormenting Zim in one of his labs, and Tak doesn't really care.
She breathes in the cold and rests her head against some crushed ice. And for the first time all day, she's able to get a few clear thoughts. One concerning Joon, for he has not contacted her since the last time when his transmission was cut off, and another is a vague thought, just wondering where Pleecy could have possibly met Zim. That vague thought sort of drifts into the subject of jealousy.
Tak smirks.
She can't really get terratorial over Pleecy and Zim, because she knows Pleecy's insane, and she knows Zim is. . .well, Zim. Plus, she found the whole thing amusing at first, and told them so, so it'd be pretty stupid if she randomly appeared jealous.
Her smirk remains and she snickers to herself, as she recalls how dissapointed Zim had appeared when she didn't get all overprotective...
"MELTY ICE! ON DA FLOOR!"
Tak jumps back in alarm, and sees Gir and Mimi at the entrance of the kitchen.
Gir is pointing at her, strained, and continues to shout, "IT'S ALL MELTY ON YOUR FACE!"
Tak blinks, then realizes all the ice in the freezy box has basically melted, and some of the remains are dripping down her cheek.
"Ugh," she says, wiping the melted ice away, "it's so insanely hot. . ."
"I likes insane. . ." Gir says, and before Tak can comment, he twitches and shouts, "BEACH!"
"Um. . .excuse me. . .?"
"Beach, we go to beach! They have sand, they have water, they have beach eaters, they have ice cream, they-" as Gir goes on and on, Mimi begins to clap in agreement, and Tak actually considers Gir's suggestion.
The beach might not be so bad, she thinks. It's usually cooler there anyway. . .
"Okay Gir," she says aloud, snapping her fingers, and even starting to grin, "the beach it is!"
Gir pauses, and there's a brief silence.
But then Mimi claps wildly, Gir jumps up in celebration and crashes into Tak, who slips on some melted ice, and slams her head into the open freezy bow.
She kinda gets knocked out for a little bit.
End of Chapter 2. . .
Next chapter . . . 'No jelly for Zim'. . . This chapter will contain the following:
-a brief appearance of Gaz
-a brain freeze
-the word 'naked'. . . XD
Random crap: Some kid hit me in the head yesterday with a paper airplane. I was pissed. And I felt compelled to flip him off, but I didn't. Cuz I'm nice.
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