chapter 2
birthing
(narrative)
Gaz woke up in a med lab bed with the computer assessing the internal and external damage. Zim was standing next to her looking rather worried. "Gaz-human are you alright?" She only groaned and sat up in response. "Gaz-human, please. Take it easy. The birthing is not finished yet." She looked at him in confusion. "What do you me-AUGH!!" She screamed and fell back to the bed as another contraction wracked her body with pain. Zim helped as much as he could, following the computer's instructions on how to make the process run smoothly. After a few painstaking hours the birthing was complete and Gaz lay back exhausted and in pain.
"Well Gaz it looks like a girl. I'm having the computer confirm it's gender." Gaz held out her arms and made a gimme gesture. Zim knew what she wanted right off so he handed her the little four eyed alien. It had the face of an anteater, the ears of a house cat, four yellow irken eyes, the body of a ferret, the feet of a gecko, and the tail of a rat but with a long sickle-like claw growing from its tip. It was covered in purple and green zebra striped fur and it licked it's long sticky tongue up Gaz's cheek when it laid eyes upon her.
Seconds later the computer confirmed that the alien was indeed a girl and began ticking off the little creature's vital stats. Gaz stroked it's little furred head fondly. "So, this is all they wanted me for? To be surrogate mother for this little thing?" Zim nodded. "It looks like a new species to me. Possibly a hybrid of some sort, maybe even a genetic experiment." Gaz looked down at the little beast in her arms and frowned with a sudden thought. "What will we feed her?" That stopped Zim in his tracks. "Zim could make her some nutrient shakes." Gaz smiled up at him with the alien in her arms. "Go do that, I think she'll be hungry soon."
Zim sent Gir to get a meal shake from the fridge and the little robot ran screaming things about baby vomit. Zim meanwhile, began checking over the vital stats and decided everything was normal for the creature. He then took some x-rays of it's organs and screamed. It had changed slightly. Instead of an anteaters face it was now sporting a rather fox like head with rows of sharp teeth. It was baring it's teeth at Zim and would bite him every time he went to pick it up.
Gaz finally got tired of waiting and tapped it's snout in reprimand. "Be nice to uncle Zim he's helping me take care of you." It whimpered and held it's forelegs up and made the gimme gesture. Zim's jaw nearly hit the floor. She was learning fast. Gaz grinned and picked the little alien up. "You need a name." Zim made a few suggestions all of which were discarded. At long last Gaz decided to name the little alien after her favorite little demon, Reiko. Gaz called her Rei for short.
Suddenly little Rei began thrashing and wheezing. Zim began screeching questions at the computer. The computer simply lowered a tiny pak onto Rei's back which attached itself instantly and began burrowing into her flesh. Rei screamed but stopped writhing and finally started breathing normally again. Not everything was as it appeared though, Rei's eyes flashed red momentarily, signaling danger, before the pak attached itself.