CH2
They hadn't been in the Voot cruiser very long before Zim noticed they were traveling over one of earth's vast oceans. "It just seems to go on forever," he quietly thought aloud as Gir steered the ship.
"Peculiar planet -this earth," Zim began to monolog. "Its sun is so bright, one of the hottest suns I've ever known and yet two thirds of it is covered in water, not to mention the environment can't even seem to make up its mind; mountains, grassy flat plains, barren deserts, artic glaciers and all this water!"
Gir looked down at the ocean as well, "I think it's boo-o-te-full."
"You would," Zim said meaning to sneer but for reasons even he couldn't explain it came out sounding more like he was agreeing with him. This sudden and unexpected moment of honesty made Zim feel quite uncomfortable and he eagerly changed the subject.
"Where is my anti-gravitation apparatus anyway?"
"Down there," Gir merely explained.
Zim looked down but saw only water; miles and miles of water. He squinted his eyes straining to see anything else and could just barely make out a tiny island with three palm trees. "You mean to tell me that 'the tallest' sent my package to that pitiful patch of ground stuck out here in the middle of the ocean?"
"What makes you think that Master?" Gir wondered. Just then Zim felt the cruiser was gradually decreasing in altitude.
"Gir," Zim cautiously began to ask. "My anti-gravitation apparatus isn't underwater is it?"
"Ugh-huh," the happy little robot replied. "O-o-h look, dolphins!"
"Gir, stop looking at the dolphins, we have something much more serious to worry about. Why didn't you tell me we would have to travel underwater to get my package?"'
"You didn't ask," Gir reminded him then immediately took a nose dive. "Now hold your nose 'cause we're going in!"
"No Gir, the Voot cruiser won't take the incredible pressure of the deep sea!" Zim yelled in a panic.
"We'll be crushed like a can of…of…of something or another; I even doubt its waterpr,oh no!" he interrupted himself as he saw sea water was slowing starting to leak in the cabin. "Gir, use yourself to protect me from that toxic earth ocean water!"
Girs eyes blazed bright red, "Yes sir, on it!" then in an instant his eyes were cyan again. "I'll just open the door and let the water out."
"Gir stop! Don't open that…" But Zim gave the command too late and the sea began to rush in flooding the cruiser entirely. The green alien quickly activated his invisible helmet allowing him to freely breathe while his spider legs began to whirl in circles like propellers.
'I'm doomed, doomed so very, very doomed!' he whimpered to himself as he desperately swam upward. He never noticed that Gir was swimming in the opposite direction and heading down to the ocean bed. He reached the surface and popped his head out of the water and he looked for that tiny three palm tree island and starting swimming toward it. Once on dry land he retracted his arachnid legs and waited for Gir to follow him.
"Gir!" he yelled into his comlink but got no response. Impatiently he began to pace back and forth on the beach which took only twelve steps in any given direction.
'What if this planet's toxic ocean water corroded his circuits?' Zim began to find himself worrying about the annoying little guy as well as his own horrific predicament.
"I can't believe this is happening to me," he began to rant to no one there. "I'm miles away from my tech; my cruiser is somewhere at the bottom of the ocean by now, Gir is missing, and I'm still without my anti-gravitation apparatus." He continued to call for Gir and pace the beach, waiting for some answer to this problem to present itself.
"I could just dive back in and look for the cruiser; oh but that would be suicide. I could drown, I could be eaten by a shark, a giant squid could grab me and drag me away to her nest and feed me to her squidlings…"
"…Squidlings?" he stopped his pacing and cocked his eyebrow tapping his chin as he thought to himself. "That doesn't sound right, does it? Hmmm, what do squids call their young? They do have young right? Of course they do; wonder if they have live births or do they lay eggs?" Zim quietly pondered this essentially useless question until he realized that he had wasted nearly all afternoon just standing there doing nothing. "…or I can just spend the rest of my life stuck here on this patch of nowhere."
Bravely he walked over to the edge of the beach to jump in but scurried away the moment a wave hit the beach.
"Aghh! It's gonna burn, I just know it will!" But his situation was dire so again he tried, and failed.
'That was just practice,' he told himself; so he tried again and again until he was finally ready to heroically complete this mission. Well that's how he remembered it anyway. What really happened was about after twenty times of running to and fro Zim slipped on the wet sand and was knocked out cold, the waves came onto the beach and dragged him off to sea. Now that he was already in he decided he might as well going looking for his cruiser, and maybe with a bit of luck find his anti-gravitation apparatus, and he supposed he could look for Gir too.
