Chapter 9 Defeated
Author's note: Sorry if this chapter seems a little short…but I kind of like it!
Zim sat in his chair hunched over.
Of all the things to go wrong…we get the worse…We lose the element of surprise…
He sighed and rubbed his temples, trying to think of what to do.
By now the tallest have already tracked his ship and had sent an elite group of irken pilots to come blow him up.
Zim twitched his antenna irritated. The ship was completely silent.
Everyone stared at him expectantly; waiting for him to say everything was okay, and they could go on as planned. But he couldn't…He couldn't lie…
Zim stood up so suddenly, that he pushed the chair back, causing everyone to flinch.
He stormed out of the main room. He walked into the hallway of the small ship and went into one of the resting rooms.
He lay down on the small cot, feeling defeated.
"Zim…" Dib peeked into the room.
Zim turned on the cot, facing away from the door.
"I'm sorry…I didn't know…" Dib started but Zim put his hand up to stop him.
"Save it…" Zim sighed.
Zim sat up. "This is all my fault…I didn't need to drag you guys into this…you could be at home right now…Safe…I let anger blind me. It happened when I was facing Tak, and it happened now."
"What do you mean?"
"I didn't think about the consequences of my actions, I never do…that is why you defeated me so many times. When facing Tak, I thought I was just going to go in there, knock her out and take her ship to the Massive. I was so angry with the tallest…so angry at Irk and their rules that I didn't think about being caught…or hurt."
Zim removed his PAK, revealing the horrible X scar that had formed. "This is what happens."
He placed his PAK back onto his back and lay down.
"We are all going to die…I don't know the ship functions well enough to fight our way out of here."
Suddenly the ship lurched sideways.
"See…they've come…" Zim sighed and rolled onto his side.
Dib raced out of the room to the main room. He looked back and noticed Zim was not following. He walked back to where Zim was still lying down.
"Aren't you going to help?" Dib said nervously.
Zim waved dismissively. "Why bother…we're already going to die anyway."
Dib turned away and walked back to the main room.
"Where's Zim?" Gaz asked.
Dib sighed and looked up at her with teary eyes. "He's not going to help us…"