Chapter 6 Escape

(It's funny, it's spelled just like the word escape!~ from finding nemo)

Zim woke up in a dark room. He was tied to a chair. His life clock was counting down from 5 min. His back was screaming in pain. (Figure of speech)

It must be another dream. He thought.

But wait, you can't feel any pain in dreams can you?

Zim moaned and tried to process what was going on. Suddenly a light turned on, revealing the doom.

Zim was on Tak's ship. (Still on earth, btw it is a bigger ship than the last one, like the one the tallest sent Zim in to crash into the sun in Hobo 13, but this one actually works)

"Good morning Zim." Tak hissed, "You're just in time to see me call the tallest."

Zim struggled to escape, but without his PAK it was impossible.

Tak hit a button on her control desk and started to call the tallest.

"Hello?" Purple finally answered.

"Greetings my tallest," Tak said, bowing, "I have successfully captured Zim. I have ripped off his PAK so he should be dead shortly. Say 'hi' Zim."

Zim murmured a greeting, which was more like a bunch of curse words brought together.

Red and Purple smiled evilly.

"Come on, is that anyway to great your almighty tallest?" Red said.

Zim made both antennae lie flat across his head. (A big sign of disrespect to irkens.)

The tallest gasped. No one had ever done that to them before.

"Tak," Red hissed "Teach the defective a lesson."

Tak smiled and made a fist.

"With pleasure."

Zim's clock was on 3:25. He had to hurry, but it was hard to think without his brain. Suddenly he had a crazy idea.

He pushed down hard on the floor with his feet, causing the chair to fall back and break on impact.

He quickly untied himself from the broken chair.

Tak lunged at Zim and wrestled with him on the ground.

Tak was good, but Zim was better. He threw her off of him and went for his PAK.

Tak retracted her spider legs and attacked once again. She managed to pin him down.

2:30

"Kill him already!" Red screamed. Tak smiled evilly and brought up a spider leg, ready to strike a killing blow.

Zim struggled to throw her off, but his body shell was already starting to deteriorate. (idk what that means, it was in Ten minutes of Doom) It was getting harder and harder to think. He needed his PAL.

He gathered the last amount of strength he had. Tak brought down her spider leg, but Zim dodged by moving his head to the side.

Then Zim punched Tak right in the face; knocking her out cold. 2:00

Zim reached for his PAK and put it back on his back. The clock in his eyesight disappeared.

He then got up and walked over to the computer screen where the tallest were shown.

He opened his mouth to talk, but nothing came out at first. He was weak from the fight and desperately needed to rest. His knees started to shake and the room seemed to sway beneath his feet.

Zim grabbed the controls for support. He stared at the tallest evilly. "You have invoked the wrath of Zim" he managed to choke out. "I will hunt you down and teach you a lesson. Then ZIM shall rule and you shall be the defectives MWAHAHAHAHA."

The tallest stared at Zim a little scarred. They were shocked that Zim could escape and beat up Tak without his PAK.

"Watch your back because ZIM WILL KILL you." Zim hissed and cut the transmission.

Zim was extremely weak now. He swayed a little then fell to the ground in a deep sleep.

….

Dib and Gaz had found Tak's ship. Gaz pried the door open and found Tak unconscious and Zim sleeping.

Dib decided it would be a good idea to tie up Tak. He and Gaz carried Tak outside and took some broken rope that they found in the ship and tied Tak up to the tree.

Then they went inside and tried to wake up Zim.

"Zim, wake up." Dib said, shaking the alien.

"Wha…What?" Zim stirred and opened his eyes. "AHHHH." Zim screamed, forgetting where he was. He started to panic and ended up punching Dib in the face.

"Aghh Zim it's okay." Dib said rubbing his face and checking to see that his glasses weren't broken.

Zim calmed down a little but still looked a little freaked out. Zim tried to sit up but screamed again.

"Oh GOD you're so annoying Zim." Gaz screamed at Zim. "SHUT UP and tell us what's up."

Zim struggled to keep himself calm. "I'm bleeding."

Zim hadn't noticed this before because he was too busy trying to escape Tak.

His cut on his back was deep. A pool of blood formed on the ground.

"Well that's what happens when you go into battle unprepared." Gaz said.

"Yeah Zim, what were you thinking" Dib agreed. "You could have died."

But Zim wasn't listening. He was still freaking out. "This is worse than the explosion." He murmured.

Dib sighed and ripped off a piece of his trench coat. He started to take off Zim's PAK so he could cover the wound when Zim sprang up and shoved him away. "What on IRK ARE YOU DOING!" he screamed.

"I'm trying to help you." Dib said plainly. "I can cover up the wound if I take off your PAK. You can trust me."

Suddenly all the events that has happened to Zim hit him again. He started to panic. It was too much. Zim was not sure why but he could not control himself. He felt terrible and was extremely scarred. He wanted to lash out and run but he couldn't move. He was having a panic attack.

Zim looks like a cornered animal. He must be in shock or something. Dib though.

"How can I trust you stupid earth pig. I can't even trust my own leaders; my own species! I can't trust you!" Zim screamed.

Dib backed up a little. Zim was going to hurt himself if he did not do something.

"Zim you're okay. Calm down. It's going to be okay. I can tell that you are scarred. Heck I would be too if I had almost died twice this week. But you're okay now." Dib said softly.

Zim lost it. He cried uncontrollably. It was too much. His life had changed so much in these few short days. He had tried to keep his emotions bottled up, but seeing his own blood had set him off.

Dib tried to move toward Zim to help him but Zim backed up.

"STAY AWAY FROM ME." Zim screamed.

Dib looked at Gaz for help. Gaz was staring at Zim, confused and a little concerned.

Zim tried to run but he was too weak. He collapsed on the floor with a thump.

Zim shivered and whimpered on the ground. "Stay away from me…stay away…stay…away…stay."

Dib walked toward Zim. He had to help even if Zim tried to stop him. His PAK was going to overload or something.

Dib carefully took off Zim's PAK and wrapped the cloth carefully around the wound.

Zim struggled but could do nothing.

Dib then put the PAK back in place and backed away.

"See you're okay; nothing to worry about." Dib said.

Zim eventually calmed down and actually fell asleep again. Dib and Gaz sat in silence. They had never seen Dib like that. It was almost…scary. They watched Zim sleep, not knowing what else to do.

After about an hour later, Zim's cut had stopped bleeding and he started to wake up.

"What happened?" Zim asked when he woke up. He looked around confused. "Where's Tak?"

"We tied her up…she's outside…are you okay?" Dib asked worried.

Zim looked confused, "Yes, why wouldn't I be?"

"You don't remember?" Dib asked.

"Remember what?" Zim asked impatiently.

Dib looked at Gaz. She shook her head as if to say 'he doesn't remember so just don't try'.

Dib helped Zim up to his feet.

"AHHH WHAT THE HECK!" a voice screamed outside.

"Oh I guess Tak is up." Gaz sighed.

Zim, Dib and Gaz went outside. Gaz was still carrying Mimi.

"REALESE ME AT ONE YOU FILTHY EARTH COWRADS!" Tak screamed, struggling to get out, but her PAK was against the tree and wouldn't open.

Zim kneeled down and got eye level with Tak.

She looked up at him with hatred.

"DO YOU HAVE BRAIN WORMS? I SAID REALESE ME!" Tak spat in his face.

Zim smiled. "You try too hard."

"What do you mean?"

"Be honest. You're only trying to do this to become the 'best invader' and impress the tallest."

"No…your wrong…I HATE YOU!"

"No…trust me…I was the same way. There is no way to impress them. All they do is try and put you down. They live in their own little world where everything is okay, but it's not. They are morons who need to be stopped."

Tak stared at him with wide eyes. "TREASON! NOT EVEN CRINIMALS TALK BAD ABOUT THEIR TALLEST! YOU DESERVE TO DIE!"

Zim laughed.

"STOP LAUGHING YOU IDIOT! IF THE TALLEST HEARD WHAT YOU HAD JUST SAID, YOU WOULD BE TORTURED!"

Zim stood up and looked toward Gaz and Dib, "What do we do with her?"

"Well," Dib said, "I got the keys to her ship and…"

"Wait." Zim interrupted, "Keys? Ships don't use keys!"

Just then a small beeping sound rang through the air.

Dib took the 'keys' out of his pocket.

"DIB!" They all screamed at him.

Gaz took the keys from Dib's hand and threw them as far as she could.

The keys exploded causing Gaz, Zim, Dib, and Mimi to go flying and Tak's rope to break.

"Haha, free at last!" Tak yelled victoriously.

Suddenly a tree branch flew toward her from the explosion. The branch hit her PAK, knocking it off her back and came crashing to the ground with a thud.

"NO MY PAK, MY BUETIFUL PAK!"

Sparks flew out of the PAK. It was broken.

A life clock appeared in her vision.

No, impossible.

…

When the explosion's wrath ended, Zim got to his feet and looked around to see if anyone was hurt.

Dib and Gaz were both unconscious. Ha, humans are so weak, that wasn't a huge explosion. Me and Tak are fine. No…wait.

Tak was holding a broken PAK in her hands and crying.

She looked up at Zim with pure hatred in her eyes.

"You did this." She said icily.

"Wait, no I didn't, actually you did."

Tak lunged at him and held him on the ground.

"YOU"VE RUINED MY LIFE!"

"But I didn't break your PAK!"

"You may have not broken my PAK, but you still have ruined my life." She started to cough.

"How?"

"OH IRK ZIM YOUR SUCH AN IDIOT! If you had not ruined my training, I would have been an invader and would have never had to meet you! My PAK would be fine and I would have conquered ten planets by now!"

Zim struggled to throw Tak off, but she had a tight grip on him. She was filled with rage.

Her hand moved to his neck as she started to choke him.

Zim struggled for breath. He tried to pry the furious irken off of him but her pure anger was making her strong.

"THIS IS FOR THE HORRIBLE LIFE, FOR EVERYTHING, FOR…meep."

Tak's eyes closed and her breath came fast.

She sighed and fell limp.

He looked down at the small irken. A small trail of purple blood ran down her mouth and from her PAK holes.

Her 10 minutes were up.

She was dead.

(WOW…just…wow…how is it possible that I can utterly fail so much in one chapter?...Tak sounds too much like Zim…leave it to me to pull of Zim's personality in Tak and utterly fail to get Tak's personality *humph* …NOT I repeat NOT ZATR…. Lol thanks for the reviews again, I hope you enjoy reading!)