A.N.The bee was slain by my brother. Hoorah. Thanks to moose-muffins, helgoth11, warning live without warning, Mr.Girl (poor Johnny), Suicidal RuBBerDuckie, and Computer-slave for reviewing. I freaking love you guys! Glad I could make you laugh, and glad I could torment you with Pleecy. Mwahaha. . .XP
The Fourth Chapter of Doom
Eating Dirt
Breakfast is unusually silent. The only sounds to be heard are Gir, Mimi and Minimoose preparing eggs over the stove. Zim seems very interested in the table surface, Pleecy will occasionally glance at him, and then the two will blush quite a bit. Tak rolls her eyes. Their awkward silence is really starting to bug her.
"Zim," she says, annoyed (the other two jump at the broken silence), "Just wondering, but have you ever even seen a female's body before last night?"
Zim glances around, embaressed and looking quite distressed.
"Of. . .course, I. . . um. . . I. . ." he shrinks into his seat and squeaks, "No."
Tak snickers.
"Just as I thought," she says.
"Tak, be more considerate," Pleecy says, maturely for once. She turns to Zim and says solemnly, "I really do apologize for the shock I gave you last night. From now on, I'll be more careful. . ."
"S'okay. . ." Zim mutters, resting his head on the table, looking defeated.
Tak rolls her eyes again, and gets up from the table. No one even bothers to ask where she's going.
"My Tallest, I truly mean no disrespect," Tak says, "but. . . um, how do I put this... uh, Tallest Red, your sister. . . is kinda driving everyone here crazy."
Up on the screen, Tallest Red scratches his head in confusion.
"Sister. . .?" he says.
"Hm," says Tallest Purple. "I think she means that Pleecy thing that was here a week ago."
"Oh, her?" says Red. "Um, listen Tik-"
"It's 'Tak'."
"Yeah, listen Tak, I hardly know that girl. The only thing I know about her is that we were born from the same test tube-"
"Allegedly," Purple chimes in.
"Yeah, allegedly," Red echoes. "So if she's bothering you, there's kinda nothing I can do. . ."
"But you guys are the Tallest," Tak protests desperately, "surely there's something you can do-"
"Sorry, there's-"
"SHE'S DRIVING ME INSANE."
"Well," Purple says, "I'm sure you can handle it. You do live with Zim after all. . ."
"No," Tak says softly, "that's different. . ."
Red snorts.
"Oh yeah," he says, "isn't he your boyfriend?"
He starts to laugh, and Tak appears quite flushed and irritated.
"No," she says again, "could you just-"
"Ha!" Purple shouts, ignoring Tak. "Imagine, someone actually in love with Zim!"
"No, it's-"
"Yeah!" Red says, "In love with Zim!"
The Tallest start cracking up as Tak steadily becomes more and more red in the face. When it gets to the point where the Tallest have to support each other due to laughter, Tak clenches her fists and shouts, "It's not love!" so loudly, the Tallest instantly freeze. Before they can react, she continues, her eyes flashing, "Honestly! You two are worse then Joon!"
Then she cuts the transmission, leaving her leaders slightly shocked. But they get over it rather quickly, and go back to laughing.
Zim doesn't know what to do. Tak had only been gone for 15 minutes or so. And when she returned to the kitchen, she seemed pretty ticked to begin with. She had made her entrance by kicking the wall rather hard, muttering rapidly under her breath, something about the stupid Tallest, and how would the fools ever comprehend her situation.
But then, the moment she saw Pleecy and Zim, she froze in her tracks. And just stared. Zim couldn't make out her expression; it wasn't angry, or rejected, or even shocked. It was completely blank. And then she just left without a word.
It was the scariest Zim had ever seen her.
Because moments ago, when she walked in and saw those two, they were doing the one thing Tak and Zim had been about to do the night before; kissing.
Or rather, Pleecy was kissing Zim. She had tackled him to the ground, and was able to hold him down (she's much stronger then she looks, as Zim just found out).
Actually, it was more like she was trying to rape him, but whatever.
But now she sits up (though still on Zim), and looking in the direction Tak just left in, she says, "Hm. Wonder what's wrong with her."
"Get off!" Zim barks, and actually pushes Pleecy off, then stands up quickly, and without thinking, runs after Tak. Who only really got to the front door. "Tak! Wait!"
Tak turns and says, "Yes?", her face remaining expressionless.
"Um," Zim begins brilliantly, "that wasn't really, uh, it wasn't-"
Tak gives off a short laugh.
"Oh, that?" she says. She smiles sweetly. "It's no big deal Zim. There's no jelly, remember?"
Then she leaves. And slams the door behind her, kinda violently.
"Heh?" Pleecy calls from the kitchen. "What was that about jelly?"
"For someone who doesn't care," Joon says, "you sure seem pretty worked up over this."
Because Tak's connecting the transmission to the Massive through her wrist communicator, Joon's voice sounds a little mechanic, and the projected screen is small and fuzzy. Despite that, Tak can make out Joon's trademark smirk.
As she repostions herself on the tree branch, Joon continues, "Why were you calling the Tallest anyway?"
Tak rolls her eyes.
"Well," she begins, sounding exasperated, "my old roommate's here, and she's driving me insane, and apparently she's related to Tallest Red, so I wanted to see if he could do anything about it."
"Eh. . . this friend of yours. . . is her name by any chance 'Pleecy'?"
"Yeah, how did you. . .?"
"I saw her last week on the Massive. . .she kinda. . .stalked me. . ."
"Really? Well, she's stalking Zim now-" Tak stops. She narrows her eyes and continues suspicously, "Funny how she was able to track Zim down so quickly. . ."
Joon grins sheepishly.
"Heh, heh, well..." he says.
"Joon. . ."
"Whaaat?"
"You didn't send Pleecy here yourself, now did you?" Tak asks calmly (yet at the same time threatingly).
"It's not my fault!" Joon blurts out.
"Not your fault?" Tak echoes.
"She was stalking me," Joon explains anxiously, "I had to get her away from me, so I tried to get her to go after someone else."
"But why Zim?"
"Because it was the first name that popped in my head-"
"Liar!" Tak shouts. She stand up on the branch, which is hardly strong enough to support her. "I bet you did it on purpose, just to see if I'd get 'all worked up'! You just can't leave our relationship alone, can you? Well, let me tell you, you jackass, I will not waste a single moment of my life getting jealous over Zim, so you're wasting your time! Do you understand me?"
Silence from the other end.
"Joon!"
". . . do you really think I'm a jackass?"
"A little, yes."
"Tak?" This came from below. It's Dib. "What're you doing up there?"
"Making a call," Tak answers. She mutters a quick "good-bye" to Joon, and shuts off her wrist communicator. Then she looks down at Dib. "Can I help you?"
"Um. . .do you wanna go to Bloaty's?" Dib asks awkwardly.
"Dib, I thought I told you, I don't like you like that."
"No! Not like a date! Like. . .friends."
Tak raises an eyebrow.
"You and me?" she says. "Friends?"
Dib shrugs.
"In a way," he says.
"Whatever," Tak says, "I'll go."
She starts to climb down the tree, but then the branch snaps, and she crashes to the ground.
"Are you okay!" Dib asks, alarmed.
With a mouthful of dirt, her body unmoving on the ground, Tak somehow manages to mutter, "M'fine, fine. . ."
End of Chapter Four
Next chapter (this next one's actually good). . .'Tak, the Pizza-knapper', where there'll be:
-a head injury
-Dib, getting the worst end of everything, as usual
-stupid people
. . .wow, that doesn't give away a whole lot, does it?
Listen, the next chapter may not be up for awhile. Alot of family issues are going on now, and also, it's becoming more difficult to sneak on a computer. Sorry guys. Keep reviewing, I'll try my best to get it up soon.
