The Tallest Betrayal

By thesuperdot

Chapter 7: Green's Interest.

Author's Note: I've just realized that I've never told you about a very unique trait in Green's and Jaz's physiology. I'll try to squeeze it in here, but if not, I'll just tell you at the end.

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A pair of jade green eyes (That was easy!) looked at a giant screen on board a massive ship appropriately title 'The Massive'. Two fingers gently massaged the upper lip of the green eyes. Every so often, the fingers would depart and touch a control panel to make the screen change.

The subject of Tallest Green's interest was rather odd, as most would rather forget him. Off to the left of the screen, a picture of Zim was displayed, complete with physical spec on him. To the right, a timeline from when he was activated right up to the time spent on the Earth. The main screen itself gave more detailed info on Zim's life.

Green was currently looking at the IEAB that ate Tallest Miyuki and Spork when he heard an all too familiar voice. "Heeeey Green!"

A singular collective gasp escaped the room and a number of technicians and pilots looked at the door way where a sapphire-blue eyed Irken walked in.

"Jaz! Hello again!" Green cried out. He turned to look at the people staring at Jaz and him. "Back to work, people!" He said clapping his hands. "I told her she could say that! But you all can't!"

Jaz glanced at the screen. Zim? Why was he learning about that defect?

Green smiled politely. "Jaz, what do you remember about Zim?"

Jaz looked incredulously at him. "You're joking, right? He's a nightmare! What else can be said?"

Green waved his hands. "No, no, I mean besides the obvious."

"Okay, he was the worst case scenario for a defect. High on himself, unstable, criminally insane, completely raving mad!"

Green looked thoughtfully at her. "What about, genius?" He said.

Jaz looked at him as if he were insane. "G, genius? What do you mean?"

Without so much a glance, Green tapped the control board and brought up a split-screen with two different pieces info on it. On one half, the IEA device. On the other, Zim IEAB before eating the IEA. "Do you remember the Infinite Energy Absorber?"

Jaz and half the crew on deck shuddred. You almost never used that phrase without talking about Zim beast afterward. "Yeah, who could forget?"

"We made it, you know."

"Yeah, so what? We weren't the direct cause of Tallest Miyuki and Spork's death!"

"True. But didn't you wonder how Zim's beast was made?"

Jaz looked at him with shock. Was he serious? "I make it a point NOT to even think about it."

Green once again called up a new screen without looking. Jaz took a brief look and was stunned. "Whoa…"

"Yes, amazing isn't it? In theory, he couldn't even get to live, much less stay together. But, as we all saw and, had burned hideously into our memories, he managed it."

Jaz shook her head. "Pure coincidence. Chance! That doesn't prove he's a genius."

"Oh? How about this, have you been able to create a 'temporal object replacement' device yet?"

"Ha! That can't be done. Most of our scientists went in…sane…" She bit her lip. Zim was most definitely insane. Green brought up a camera recording of the device. "No way."

Green said nothing but instead went through all the devices Zim made through the years. With each new screen, Jaz's look of disbelief was growing bigger and bigger.

"Do we have specs and blueprints of these things?" She asked timidly, clearly ashamed of being proved wrong. "I am amazed, to be honest, but I still stand by the fact that he's an insane genius defect!"

"Oh, no need to state that! I firmly believe that as well. But, yes, we do have the files. They are classified and can only be accessed by you or me."

Jaz began to say something when the 'Call Waiting' alarm went off. The main screen switched to the call and a voice rang out through the deck. "GREEEEEEEN!" Red yelled.

Red looked like he had just been in a brawl. His face was scarred and had scabs in many places, even an eye was black like tar and he was steaming slightly. Purple, on the other hand, was worse off.

He, like Red, was scarred and scabbed in many places, but his eyes were still purple. He looked, however, sick. The beautiful green sheen of his skin was very pale, he was wobbling slightly, his mouth was drooped and drooling and one of his eyes were twitching in pain.

Green made a small effort to look like he heard nothing.

"GREEN! I know you can hear me!" Still nothing. Green examined his hand in admiration. Everyone went about their business, they knew what Green wanted.

"Answer me!"

Green picked a piece of lint off his suit, and then placed his hand on his stomach, or rather, where it was on a human. "I'm hungry..." He said. Three techs answered him immediately.

"May I get you something, sir?" "Yes, My Tallest, how may I serve you?" "Whatever you desire, I shall get you!"

Red's eye began to twitch as Green dictated what he wanted. He pointed to the first one, "You, get me two corndogs!" Then to the second, "Get me a slurrpee." Then to the third, "You, eh, er…" He looked up and drew a circle with his pointing finger. "Ah! Dance for me!"

The tech nodded. "Freestyle, sir?" Green nodded.

As the tech danced an alien version of the robot ("Put more hip into it!"), Red groaned, sighed and said through clenched teeth, "My, Tallest, may I have a word?" You could hear the teeth grind together.

Green smiled. "There we go, was that so hard? Now what is it?"

"Take us back! We can't take it anymore! Zim's going to eventually kill us!"

"Oh, darn. Would you rather I kill you myself?"

"YESSSS!"

"I see. No can do, buddy."

"Bu, whu, yhu, guh…"

Zim's shrill voice bled through at that moment. "Purple! Come here! I think the Meat Antidote is perfected!"

In the space of one second, Purple sprang to life and latched himself around Red. He then began to bawl like a baby. "NOOO! Not the antidote! Not again! It burrrrns! I can't feel my organ!"

Red, his humility gone, did nothing but wear a scowl. "Do you SEE? Do you see the horror we have to go through?"

Green shrugged. "Nope."

Red's scowl grew and he simply clicked the transmission off.

Jaz looked skeptical. "Meat Antidote?"

Green shrugged again. "You're guess is as good as mine…"

A tech hailed Jaz. "Ma'am, you have a package."

"A… Package? From who?"

"Zim. The message enclosed say to be careful with the clear liquid. It's toxic to our health. The yellow liquid helps in neutralizing it."

Green shrugged yet again. "Huh. Well, see what you can do with it."

Jaz nodded and left. The tech still danced. "No, no, no! I said more HIP, not arms!"

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Next chapter soon!