Um…
(Walks on Stage meekly)
Hi guys… heh heh.. wow, it SURE has been a while… I almost feel… how do I say… OUT OF PLACE here…
Pleease don't throw rotten fruit…
But anyway, I've gotten better! And uhm… Frozen Core had nothing but positive reviews… so thanks a lot! Uh… YEEAH! So I really appreciate it… and I present…
Frozen Core, Ch. 2
Gaz tried to get as far away from her home as quickly as possible. The atmosphere was too much- her brother being all nice to her all the sudden, her father forgetting what day of the week it is, and, almost as if he was reading her thoughts, her brother bringing up Tak, the Zim look-alike with the almost gothic disguise and deep, purple eyes. She scowled just thinking about it. Had he found out? Or was he on the verge on finding out? Was this a test to see if Gaz could crack under pressure of holding a secret? And if it was, had she failed?
Or was she STILL the only one who knew about Tak coming back?
In a word, no.
She looked behind her, and seeing that the coast was clear, she stopped for a quick breath. She dragged her little black tennis shoes over the sidewalk now that she was far enough away from home so that Dib couldn't catch up to her, hanging her head low. The thoughts of Dib had took a place in and stuck too the back of her mind. What she started to worry about now was school. And Gaz never worried about stupid things like that.
The truth was, Gaz HATED the idea of going to the same school as her brother.
High school. She thought, rolling her eyes. I'll be just as accepted there as I was in Middle Skool, Elementary school, and that private school I went to a couple years back.
Her eyes sank, and her mouth dropped to a small, sad frown.
Not at all…
She knew what the kids said about her. And she knew why she didn't have any friends. She and her brother were both alike, she had to admit. It was hard when there were things in life you knew were real, but when you tried to prove them, every bit of evidence you THOUGHT would get you somewhere, just got you made fun of… and laughed at… and talked about…
For a minute she thought she might cry. But luckily, she didn't. Gaz didn't cry. Ever. And people knew that. She was too tough to cry. To goth and to scary.
She didn't deserve to laugh and have fun like everyone else. She was an outcast. And it wasn't that she wasn't willing to accept this, its just that…
It hurt.
It really, really did.
But she didn't have anyone to tell that to. How could she tell her brother? Why should she bother? He goes through the same things she did. And its not like telling him will make her feel any better.
Gaz stopped at the entrance to the woods behind someone's house. She sighed, and although all this thinking had brought her down, she managed to keep a straight face. The dark woods seemed calming to her, and although the bugs and spiders on the trees seemed to pose a threat of some sort, Gaz kept walking, until she was deep in the forest, where she saw the large data base disguised as a little cottage.
"Tak." She said to herself. "Why here? Why now?" she turned to look behind her, making sure she hadn't just humiliated herself by talking aloud to no one in particular. But who would be in the forest for any reason besides what she was there for?
"Why me?"
"Zim, what in the living HELL do you want?!"
Tak stood in the middle of her base, her hands balled into fists and her eyes aflame with fury, almost as if she was ready to pounce on her prey, which just HAPPENED to be her sworn enemy, Zim. She yelled across the room at him, not daring to get anywhere near him. How she hated him so, his dark red eyes staring At her, almost as if he hadn't expected to see her angry after he trespassed on her data base.
There Zim stood, dazed and motionless. Like he had lost it for a second. He raised an eyebrow and twitched his antennae, the rest of his face emotionless.
"I would like to THINK you would be grateful to me for coming to WARN you, buuuut…" Zim turned on his heels sarcastically. "You're obviously not happy with my presence…"
"Warn me?" Tak called, stepping closer to Zim's position, where he was standing with his hands folded behind his back and with his back turned to her. "I would have LIKED for someone to warn me that YOU were coming…" she called spitefully, but firmly. "There isn't anything I can think of that could be worse than THAT…"
"SILENCE!" He called, turning. He walked up to Tak and stood, glaring at her face with his poor excuse for angry eyes. "HUUUUMANS! HUMANS HUMANS!" He repeated, wincing. "One of those wretched beasts is coming towards your base!"
Tak rolled her eyes. "Really, Zim?" she said sarcastically, raising her eye brow and lowering her eyes. "THAT'S what you came to warn me about?"
Zim started to speak, but stopped himself, almost as if he couldn't really think of anything.
"She has no permission to be here!" Zim exclaimed.
"YOU have no permission to be here!" Tak replied angrily.
"She's our ENEMY!"
"You're MY enemy!"
"But how did she find your secret base?!"
"How did YOU find my secret base?!"
"It doesn't matter! She came here to destroy you!"
"Then what did YOU come here for?!"
"To warn you!"
The two bickered for a long time, until eventually Tak went on the verge of snapping.
"Well you've warned me! Go home now!"
"But I came to…
"ZIM! OUT!"
"The Koviettes, Tak!"
Tak stopped yelling to look at Zim and try to recollect what he just said.
"Wh-Wha…?" She mumbled, dropping her hands to her side. "How…?"
"Tak, we knew they'd come back somehow…"
Uhm…
Soo….
R&R?
Nothing exciting, I know, but…
Uhm.
Hope you liked it!