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Chapter two- What makes the Minky in the Moosh
"This course will teach you both stealth and agility and how to balance a rubber piggy on your head while dodging deadly lasers!" Zim says, pacing back and forth in front of the line of trainee soliders. "You WILL be timed, and most likely be in pain!"
"Um sir," one of the taller sliders says unsurely, with his arm raised in the air, "will you be assisting us in case we. . . you know. . .die?"
Zim stops and chuckles. He replies light-heartedly, "Of course not, you pitiful fool. I will be watching you from the safety of the observation room. Now-" he points to Tak, who's standing beside a large tube ejecting from the wall, "RETRIEVE YOUR PIGGY FROM TAK!"
So, one by one, the trainees line up, and Tak hands each of them a piggy that comes out from the wall tube. Once the last one's been given out, Tak and Zim rush to the door to the Observation room. Zim stops right before it, and punches a button beside him.
Once he does, the obstacle course begins, and lasers start randomly shooting at the soliders, causing some to fumble and lose balance, and a few even drop their piggys.
Zim and Tak watch them through the window and cackle at their expense for a few minutes, until they get bored of it. Then they kinda just sit in silence, until one of their fellow trainer drones enters, slurping a mud slush shake. He jerks his head upward as a form of greeting them, then sits beside Tak. After a minute, he says, "So. . . you guys hear about the attacks on the Irken bases?"
The couple's antennas both perk up, and Tak responds, "Yeah. . . we haven't heard much about it though."
"Well," the drone says, "you know who launched the attack, right?"
"Not really."
"Me neither."
"Do you know where the attack was?"
"Splorkia. Hardly know anything else. No one does really. Just that alot of soliders were killed."
"Then why would you ask us if we know who did it?"
The drone shrugs, and says, "Just wondering. . . rumors have it that the next attack will be at the snacking carnival. . ."
"How would they know?" Tak asks.
The drone shrugs again, then takes another long, loud slurp from his mud slush shake, and exits the room.
Tak looks to Zim, but before she can even open her mouth, he says, "We're going."
"What?"
"WE'RE are going to the snacking carnival."
"I know."
"Even if head smellies try to blow us up."
"Okay."
"I wanna eat."
"Me too."
"Okay."
"Alright."
"Fine."
There's a short pause, and then Tak says, "You're a dork."
Zim kinda gives an irritated jerk of the head, but before he can retaliate, Tak just laughs. And even though it's most likely directed at him, he decides not to get all worked up for once.
He just says, "And you smell funny."
Tak smirks, then sticks out her tongue.
"I happen to like my funny smell."
"And I happen to like being a so-called 'dork'."
"What about being an obnoxious, egotistical idiot?"
"Why, of cour- Hey!"
Tak laughs again, but then stops once she observes through the window one of the soliders in the course catching on fire.
She sighs, exasperated, and stands up.
"I'll go get the fire extinguisher. . ."
"Welcome to Irk's one and only Foundational Education plant for natural-born smeets!" an anonymous voice rang overhead as Zim led his daughter into the building.
Pin surveryed her surroundings anxiously and pulled closer to her father. They walked to a desk where there was a large computer, and beside it was a taller-than-average female Irken.
"I am here to enroll my DAUGHTER!" Zim pronounced grandly.
The female smiled at them and said, "Just let the computer download her PAK data, and she'll immediately be transported to her classroom!"
So Zim typed into the computer, and then a tube ejected from its side, and attached itself to Pin's PAK. A moment later, the same anonymous voice they had heard at the entrance announced, "Data accepted. Welcome Pin."
Pin and Zim then exchanged sweet, relieved smiles, and Zim gave his daughter a thumbs-up.
Then the tube sucked Pin up into the computer and on the way she gave a bloodcurtling shriek.
"PIN!!" Zim shouted in alarm, making an attempt to rush to his daughter's aid, but was cut off by the female Irken.
"Don't worry," she said, "she is merely being transported to her classroom."
"DADDY!!" Pin shrieked from inside the computer. "HELP ME!! HELP- OH MY IRK, WHAT IS THAT- AHHHHH!!"
Zim didn't waste another second; he whipped a laser shooter out from his PAK and blew computer up.
As the debris of the data processor fell around them, and as Zim rushed to Pin's side with medical aid handy in his PAK, the female educational drone spat resentfully under her breath, "Great. . . now until we get that fixed, we have to switch back to the conveyor belt. . ."
When Kacer gets in the car, she looks anxious, a little jumpy, but Dib doesn't pay much attention. He figures if he says anything, she'll have a spaz atatck, so they're quiet for most of the carride.
Until finally, when they enter their old neighborhood, Kacer's shoulders appear less tense, and she kinda grins unsurely.
"So," Dib says, looking ahead, "did you ever get rid of those ninjas?"
She jumps and sqieaks, "Urp," but recovers and says, "Er, yeah, only they, uh. . . got away with my phone. . ."
"So no more late-night calls?"
"Well, I bought a new phone, see? So. . ."
"Okay then."
Kacer relaxes again.
But then the car makes a sharp turn towards the curb, and comes to an abrupt stop.
"Um Dib, this isn't Gaz's house. . ."
He just leans in really close and says in a low voice, "What's going on?"
"We're going to see your sister-"
"No." He's less then an inch away, and Kacer tries to back up, but she just hits her head against the car door."I want the truth."
Kacer giggles nervously and says, "What do you mean?"
"Dad would never take the time to call me, let alone beg both you and me to convince Gaz, who hates us, to come to one of his conventions, which she wouldn't refuse in the first place. That's what I mean."
She can't respond. Apparerently desperate not to give an answer, she just pushes the car door open, and screams, "RAPIST!!" which causes quite a few people on the street to turn their heads.
Kacer attempts to jump from the car, but unfortunately for her, her seatbelt remains buckled, so she ends up falling back into her seat. Din grabs her arm and yanks her close to him, and he starts to demand, "What the hell is wrong with you?!" but then crowd has gathered around the car.
A rather large man steps forward then leans in, and says, "Hey buddy. You causin' trouble for this young lady?"
"W-wha-?" Dib sputters, instantly releasing Kacer from his grasp. "No! S-she's my girlfriend, I was just-"
"TAKING ADAVANTAGE OF ME!!" Kacer shrieks. "Now lemme outta here!"
She unbuckles quickly, then pushes past the large, scary guy. And then makes a run for it.
"KACER!!" Dib calls desperately. "COME BACK!"
He, too, unbuckles, however he's unable to get past the scary guy. He and several others advance threateningly on Dib.
And all he can do is brace himself for the upcoming pain.
Poor him.
"A-authentic mooshminky!" Clox exclaims, yanking Tak by the hand to one of the many, many food stands.
The whole family's here; Pin, who has Plix mounted on her back, follows her mom and brother, along with Mimi and Minimoose.
Zim, Gir, and JooJee slipped off together some time ago, last seen at a soup stand. Tak decided to let them dwell in their happiness for once and let them be.
There are Irken everywhere, so it's kinda hard to get through, but eventually they get to the right line.
Clox activates his spider legs so he can actually reach the counter, and says with his typical fanged grin, "O-one mooshminky p-please!"
The Irken at the stand hands him one, and Clox does not hesitate to taste it. The second he does however, it appears as though he wishes he hadn't.
With a grimace, he asks, "D-did you deep-deep fry this. . .?"
The Irken shrugs.
"I dunno," he says, "I just put it in the heaty thingy. . ."
"W-was this e-even, uh. . . saturated in-in butter first?"
"Um, no."
"Cause-cause that's w-what makes the minky in the moosh! E-every chef knows that!"
"I didn't make these things, I'm just selling them."
"W-well, don't you-don't you think you sh-should be selling food that's-th-that's actually w-worth eating?"
"Lusten you little twerp-"
"Mom," Pin says, tapping Tak on the arm, "Can me and Plix go to the explodey pie show?"
"Go ahead, just don't get lost," Tak replies, and once Pin and Plix, accompanied with Minimoose, have dissapeared from view, she turns back to observe Clox's argument with the mooshminky guy, which has gotten pretty out-of-hand in the past two seconds.
Clox is standing on the counter, forcefully shoving his mooshminky into the Irken's mouth, shouting, "You try eatin' this crap!"
Tak kinda snickers in amusement, but then stops once she realizes Clox might actually get in trouble for this, so she grabs him by the waist and is able to pull him away.
She looks to the mooshminky guy in apology, but then notes his sorry state, and just snickers again.
She takes her son and robot and walks away.
"Clox, you really shouldn't forcefeed anyone bad mooshminky," she tells him, only she doesn't really look that serious about it.
"But-but it sucked!"
Tak pats him on the head in understanding then says, "We should probably find Zim and-"
She pauses then looks ahead then smirks she points forward, then motions to Clox to keep quiet. He looks ahead as well, and grins and nods.
They slowly advance forward, and then Tak leans down to Mimi and suddenly orders, "MIMI!! ATTACK!!"
A few yards away, Zim, in the middle of chugging down some very hot soup, whips around just in time to face Mimi in her offensive mode.
She jumps in the air, all cool and action-like, her eyes glowing red, and she knocks Zim to the ground. He, at first, looks both terrified and caught off guard, but then he just appears as though he's preoccupied with the fact that he's choking on his soup. He flails his arms around, and pushes Mimi away forcefully.
This doesn't particularly please her, and she jumps in the air, only she'd caught midway by Tak who says, "You can stop now." She looks down to her husband, who's still choking. "Geez Zim, are you okay?"
He doesn't answer. He just keeps waving his arms frantically.
Gir suddenly pushes his way through the crowd, with JooJee close behind.
He shrieks insanely, "It was ME who stuffed da body under da floorboards!" and he jumps on Zim's stomach.
Once he does, Zim coughs on his soup, and he sits up, gasping for breath. Tak leans down and pats his back to help with his coughing.
Once he recovers slightly, he demands in a raspy voice, "What is wrong with you?!"
"What the hell, Zim-"
"You sent your stupid robot to attack me!"
"Oh, it was a joke, get over it. . "
"TAK-"
Everything comes to an immediate stop.
Before they can even hear anything, they know something's wrong, and then the ground rumbles and Tak falls into Zim, and suddenly, that's when they realize they did hear something. An explosion.
"What da hell was dat?" comes JooJee's voice from beside them, but she doesn't get an answer.
Tak's staring ahead, and there's a huge, dark cloud of debri coming toward them, along with paniced Irkens, running away from it and screaming,
"Zim!" Tak shouts over the chaos. "Isn't that coming from the direction of the explodey pie show?!"
"Are the PIES responsible for this?!" Zim shouts back, his eyes bugging out in alarm.
Tak doesn't answer; she's racing toward the explosion.
"TAK!!" Zim shrieks. "WHAT IN THE NAME OF IRK ARE YOU DOING?!"
She stops and she looks desperate.
"Get Clox and JooJee out of here!" she hollers. "NOW! I have to get Pin and Plix!"
She starts running again.
Zim looks from his children to the smoke, and in a quick second, makes a decision.
"GIR! MIMI! Take Clox and JooJee away! Where there isn't smoke or doom! Understand?!"
"I like doom!" JooJee announces cheerfully, clearly oblivious to their current crisis.
Zim ignores her and shouts, "GIR! Listen to me for once!"
The android's eyes flash red and he salutes.
With that, Zim turns sharply and follows after Tak, into smoke that's so thick, he can't even see anymore. All he hears is the roaring wind around him, and in the last second, just one more explosion.
And then he's lost.
End of Chapter two. . .
Weeeell, next chapter doth not have a title yet. But let's see what's in store, shall we, my dearies?. . . the next chapter will contain:
- Dib getting mad!!
- Clox contemplating on the events of next chapter
- something all you Minimoose fans will hate me for
Yeeeah. . . kinda rushed into serious/drama crud kinda quick, but uh. . . I dun wanna drag this out.
And Plix did not speak in this chapter, which is a shame. But next chapter he does. And in chapter four, he. . .well, I can't tell you, but it's funny. I like how JooJee swears, and she's only a smeet. I find it really funny, cause I'm demented. Like with the flashback. I was cracking up the whole time, cause I make myself laugh, and no one else thinks I'm funny. And that in itself is hilarious. I RAMBLE!!
Anyways, I'm soooo glad you guys reviewed, it really got me all less like, "eh", about typing it up. When I got feedback I want from that to more of an, "Ehhh. . . okay". So. . . yeah. Please review! Much love to you all!
