ZADR Orange Chapter 153

Warnings: Extreme OOCness

Rating: M for later chapters

Disclaimer: We do not own Invader Zim, nor any of the characters from it. We do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Zim: Notgonnadie

Dib: Me

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Stopping at the room the Control Brain was located in, Purple entered it slowly once he had dressed himself, needing to retrieve something before he left for Earth again. The guard Dib had stabbed was no longer present, his body having been moved a while ago despite the pool of blood that still lingered on the floor there, a puddle of clearish-pink liquid.

"Is there something you were looking for, Tallest Purple?"

Purple nodded. "Yes, there is...Where is…uh…defective Zim's PAK?" he asked, trying hard not to let any emotion slip out in his voice.

Lowering two mechanical arms down from the ceiling, the Control Brain held out the PAK for Purple to take. "Might I ask why you are asking for this?" it then asked.

Purple shook his head at the question. "No reason." he said before taking the PAK and heading for the exit. "Thank you." he then thanked the Control Brain before heading for his ship again.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, Dib was by this point wandering the still-dark streets, not having had the heart to remain at Zim's base after he had been dropped off by the Irken guard. It was pouring rain out now and he was soaked through to the bone, but he didn't care. Nothing mattered anymore. Zim was gone and there was nothing left for him there. He couldn't sleep, in too much shock still to even try. So rather, he just cried his eyes out as he walked about town, not wanting anybody near him. Were it not for the fact that it had been so late and pouring rain out when he had gotten back to Earth, somebody probably would have stopped him by now, his clothes having been stained by blood. He didn't want any contact though. Not with Rose or Jack, not with Tak or his sister, not with anyone.

He shivered, having been out in this weather all night long. He knew what was coming. Morning would be upon him soon and with that, people going about their daily business. He knew he couldn't stay out much longer, had to find shelter somewhere where nobody else would be. Zim's base wasn't an option though. He couldn't ever go back there. So finally, he settled on the park, figuring that so long as the weather held up, nobody would even think about coming by there. If anything, the rain was only growing worse, a storm rolling in that he doubted would be over anytime soon.

He entered the men's bathroom there and scooted himself into a corner of the room just underneath the sinks. It would be a long while before he could will himself to move from there, the sound of thunder outside causing one of the smeets inside of him to jump, his only indication that they were even still alive after how those bastards had abused his body. He wrapped his arms around himself protectively, pulling his knees to his chest as he broke down yet again, his very spirit to even continue living broken now.

Making a b-line for his ship and blasting off to Earth, Purple, meanwhile, arrived back at Zim's base as quickly as he could before beginning his search for Dib. The hybrid was nowhere to be found however. "Oh no…They did bring him back, didn't they? COMPUTER?!" he addressed Zim's computer once he had finished searching the entire upper level of Zim's base.

"What?"

"Was Dib here?"

"Yeah, but he left a long time ago. I don't know where to. He just walked away and never came back."

Letting out a low growl, Purple made a dash for the door at that information.

"Umm...I wouldn't do that if I were yo-"

"Ah!" Purple pulled back with a yelp, his skin burning. "What?! What is this?!" he demanded, having never experienced anything like rain before in his life.

"That's what I was trying to warn you about. It's called rain. It burns Irken skin."

"Then how am I supposed to go out searching for him when there's acid falling from the sky?!"

"I don't know. Zim used to take paste baths down in his personal bathroom to prevent the rain from harming him."

"Paste baths?" Purple raised an antenna at that information before making a dash for the elevator. "Take me down to Zim's lab! I'm going to find Dib if it's the last thing I do!" he said, knowing he didn't have much time to find said hybrid.

"Whatever..." the computer started up the lift to bring him down into Zim's underground labs. "The bathroom he used to bathe in is down the hall and to the left." it then directed him once the elevator had reached the level Zim's personal bathroom was on.

Bolting out of the elevator once it came to a halt, Purple then started searching for the bathroom the computer had told him about. Stopping in his tracks when his antennae picked up on a loud banging sound coming from somewhere nearby, he then turned back around and followed the banging sound until he came to stand right outside what looked like a door with a jammed in key pad next to it. "What the-?" he pulled out his PAK legs and used them to pry the sliding door open.

Stumbling out of the room once the door had been opened, the medical drone from before fell flat on his face, his hands bound, eyes covered, and a gag preventing him from speaking. "Mmm! Mmm!" he sounded out, having been trying to break out from his room for close to 12 hours now.

"Oh, I forgot about you. Were you here the whole time?" Purple shook his head, needing to get back on track with his search for Dib. "Where is the paste room?!" he then ripped the gag off of him so he could speak again.

Coughing once the gag had been taken away, the medical drone gasped for breath before finally managing to squeak out a winded response. "M-My Tallest?" he recognized the voice, though he still couldn't see with the blind fold covering his eyes.

Noticing this, Purple reached forward to take the blind fold off of him as well. "Yes, yes. Now where is the paste room?" he asked again, not even bothering to ask the other Irken what had happened to him.

The medical drone was taken aback a bit by the question. "I...I'm sorry, my Tallest. But I don't know what on Irk you're talking about. I only just got here a few short hours before I was ambushed. Z-Zim only showed me where the medical bay was and then took me to my room to get settled." he said, looking rather confused by all the day's events.

Purple slammed his fist against the wall and cursed. "So you don't know anything then?" he whined, really not having time for this at this point.

The medical drone jumped a bit at the other's frustration. "N-No, my Tallest. I-I was just setting up everything I thought I would be needing in my room when two Irken guards burst in and demanded I tell them where Zim was. I told them I didn't know and so they tied me up and locked me in my room. I thought I would be stuck in there forever. D-Did something happen to Zim and his mate?" he asked, still struggling to pull his hands free from their confines behind his back.

Purple sighed out shakily at the question. "Zim is dead... I'm trying to find his mate right now. It's very important that I do so as soon as possible." he said, deciding not to go into detail about everything else that had happened prior to that moment.

The medical drone's eyes grew wide at that bit of information. "I'm...sorry, my Tallest. I wasn't aware...I-Is there anything you'd like me to do to help, my Tallest? I'll help in any way I can." he said, easily able to detect the other's grief in that moment.

"Keep an eye out for his mate. I want to be informed the instant he is seen. I need to find the paste bath now though so I can go out and look for him."

"Very well, my Tallest." the medical drone bowed his head a bit. "Umm...My Tallest...Might you be able to undo the binds on my wrists before you leave...?" he then asked when he couldn't pull his hands free himself.

"Huh? Oh right." Purple cut them off with a PAK leg.

"Thank you, my Tallest." the medical drone pulled his arms back in front of himself the moment he could so he could rub at his wrists soothingly.

"Whatever. Now help me find the paste bath."

"Yes, my Tallest." the medical drone stood up from his spot on the ground to help Purple search the hallway for said paste bath. After several minutes of searching, he then finally came across a bathroom with a large tub in the middle of it. "Umm...My Tallest? This wouldn't happen to be the room you were looking for, would it?" he turned back to glance at Purple, gesturing to a large, very clean-looking bathroom with light purple and pink tiles everywhere, a tub set in the middle of the room with several dials and settings off to the side of it.

"Computer, is this it?"

"Yessss." the computer groaned.

Purple glared at the ceiling but stepped inside despite, not having time to argue with the computer's defiant personality in that moment. "Let's see how this works." he said before stepping up to one of the dials and examining it closely.

The medical drone watched from the doorway as Tallest Purple walked up to the tub and started playing around with the different knobs a bit, pressing random buttons to see what would happen.

"Hmmm..." Purple pulled back when nothing happened at first before staring at the faucet in some shock when some sort of white goo began cumming out from it suddenly. "...Okay..." he stared at it a little uncertainly, not having any idea what a paste bath was supposed to look like.

"That's the paste Zim used to bathe in before going out on rainy days. It should work on you too." the computer then spoke up, breaking Purple out of his current uncertainty.

A/N: And there you have it for Chapter 153. =3 Until next time~