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Chapter 15 I'm Home.
"I'll…I'll try," Promised Zim, Closing his eyes before he felt something cold suddenly grab him from behind. Zim screamed into a cold hand as he felt his body being pulled through the mirror.
"NO!" screamed Zim, his voice muffled by the cold hand, "IT CAN'T END LIKE THIS! I WON'T END LIKE THIS!"
SET ME FREE!
Zim struggled against the strong arms that held him down, he wiggled and kicked with all his might, trying to set himself free, trying to live.
"Let GO!" he hissed as he successfully kicked his captor in the stomach. The captor let out a pained grunt as Zim kicked him again and broke free of his hold. "Who are you?!" hissed Zim, pushing the captor up against the wall of the hallway with a sudden strength he didn't know he had. His captor was small and black, his face hidden by what Zim recognized was one of the Other Mother's oven mitts. Disgusted, Zim reached for the mask and pulled it off, revealing the last person he thought he would see.
"Gir?!"gasped Zim, stumbling back in complete shock and horror. It was Gir, his little robotic companion. What was once a cheerful and bright silver robot was now a twisted shadow, black, dented, rusted and dim. An old and forgotten toy...and on his face was the one thing that terrified Zim the most, his mouth was sewn shut with thick black string.
"How...how did..." Zim said, clutching the sides of his head in complete confusion and awe.
Gir only looked up at Zim with the saddest face, his sewn lips curling downwards into a frown as if saying, "I'm sorry."
"Oh Gir what-"
Zim gasped and tensed as he heard something move down the hall way, a couple of footsteps heading his way.
Rats? The Other Brothers? The Other Mother? What?
Zim tensed and let out a whimper as a shadowy figure started to show itself in the dim lighting, Zim once again gasped and stared in horror.
"Gaz...Dib..."
The Other Siblings nodded at the Irken, their faces pulled back by black string, revealing horrible crooked and painful smiles.
"Did...Did she do this to you?" asked Zim, looking back at Gir. The small robot cried silently and nodded.
Having enough, Zim kneeled and picked at the strings on Gir's mouth,"This will hurt, just try to stay quiet,"said Zim, grunting a bit as he successfully broke one of the stitching's on the robot's mouth. Gir winced as slowly Zim undid the Other Mother's work.
"There,"sighed the Irken, the second he finished,"Please, tell me what's going on?"
The Other Dib and Other Gaz kneeled as well, pointing at their smiles in silent begs to have Zim free them from torture as well. Zim did so, wincing as the smiles were undone and the strings were pulled out.
So painful and horrifying. He didn't like seeing his friends like this...The wonderland was becoming a nightmare.
"I hope that feels beh..."
"Shh! Mother knows!" whispered Gir, his eyes wide with panic, "Come, quickly, you must flee!"
"Whuh..." Zim didn't protest as his friends dragged him down the hall, in the distance he could hear her, opening her bedroom door and heading for the stairs.
"Zim? Is that you?" she called.
Zim ran for the living room, his antennae on high alert as shivers crawled up his spine.
"She's angry, you must flee now! Before she captures you Zim!" hissed Gir, pushing the insect-like armoire that blocked the little door, the only means of escape. The Other Dib and Other Gaz joined in pushing in complete desperation until the armoire finally tipped over and fell with a loud crash.
Zim only stood frozen as the Other Mother called his name.
"Zim?!"
"Flee Zim! Flee where she can't find you!" hissed Gir, prying open the door, and revealing the hall. Zim gasped in horror once more as the hallway no longer glowed and swirled with colors. Now it was grey and filled with cobwebs, dusty and filled with old and broken toys.
"What are-"
"Lost toys of the children stolen before, mine included. Flee Zim. I can't resist her any longer, flee! Flee!" begged Gir, his voice sounding so unnatural to the way it was before. Now it sounded like a little boy, a lost little boy.
"Zim?!"
"Then Let's go!Come on, come with me or she'll hurt you again!" said Zim.
"We can't..." said Gir as the Other Dib pulled off his right glove revealing a hand of sand and ash. The Other Gaz blew on it and in an instant the sand and ash scattered, disappearing into the air, both the Other Siblings looking distraught as it did.
"No..." whispered Zim.
"Zim! How dare you disobey your mother!" shouted the Other Mother, who was already walking down the stairs and into the hall.
Cringing, Gir could no longer take it,"I'm sorry," he sighed as he pushed the Irken into the hallway and shut the door. Zim squealed in surprise as he was suddenly thrown in, "Wait!" he cried, turning back to the door, only to have it shut in his face.
"Zim!" cried the Other Mother, her angry voice muffled by the door, the hall way moving as her anger rose.
"I'm sorry," said Zim shaking his head and quickly crawling through the hallway, dodging old forgotten toys and pushing past cobwebs as he moved forward.
He felt sorry for his friends, for not being able to take them with him, for breaking his promise to the trapped children; but what they were asking for was too much for him alone, he had to live. He had to go back to the world that was his. To Merah, to Viola, to Dib and to Gaz, to his real Mother...Home.
He had to get Home.
With another push, Zim crawled into his real living room and shut the door behind him with a loud slam, quickly he locked the door and took the key from its place. Zim hissed as he put the rusty thing into his pocket.
He was dirty, tired and terrified.
But he was in his real house, with his real family and that was all that mattered at the moment.
Zim's antennae rose once again as he heard the pitter-patter from the rain outside...I'm home...I'm home...It seemed to sing.
Zim inhaled and thought of his friends of his little victory, his little chest puffing out as he turned and cried out triumphantly
"I'M HOME!"
Well there you go you guys. I'm sorry this has taken so long. I really am but I guess I just got a little to distracted with my other stories, school, work, my family and a whole other stuff that has kept me busy.
I'm sorry, but I will update this soon and I will finish this story!
Love you all for your support.
Love Sakiko of Soleana