Chapter 6...doom'ish doomy doom thingy
A/N Thank you for the reviews. Your words, they hurt…but in a good way. I really feel like I'm learning something from all of this. I will try to break up the paragraphs some more, and use big bad words less often in my writing. The thing with the Caps, well that may be kind of hard. You may have noticed this already, but a lot of Zim characters don't seem to ever "talk." It's always yelling with Zim, Lard Nar, Membrane, and Gaz when she's angry. So that's why I had them speak in capitols so much. I thought that not putting them in caps would take away from the effect of their normal speaking voices. So ok, here's Ch. 6. enjoy…
Zim's communicator connected with Gir, who was still sitting on the counter of the clerk in the hotel lobby. The clerk himself however was cowering in the corner of the room, probably at his breaking point from the stupid conversations he was having with Gir while Zim was gone.
"Gir, report to me immediately." Zim ordered, and his SIR unit saluted.
"Yes Sir!" He responded, obeying. Minutes later Gir had arrived at the scene.
"Gir, our ship has been destroyed, and we have received intelligence that our drafting was fake." Zim told him.
"Sir, would you like me to declare a Mission Failure, and find a suitable carrier back to Earth." Gir said still saluting.
"Negative Gir." Zim said. Then a small compartment opened in his pak, and a thin wire floated out of it and connected with an outlet on Girs head.
"I'm uploading these new mission objectives to your brain." Zim told him. Girs eyes flashed as the new data was downloaded into his head. "Now tell me Gir, what is our new mission?" Zim asked to make sure the data transfer was a success.
"Sir! Our mission is to gather information on these so called (Allies) and decide whether or not to turn them in to the Tallest." Gir told him.
"Good" Zim said with an evil smile. He was then cut off by Tak who was now waiting in her ship.
"Hey! You guys coming or not?!" She yelled at the two. Zim looked at her, than back to Gir and gave a small nod. They both turned and walked to the ship. They got in, and immediately flew off. Tak saw the coordinates sent to her ships computer by Slax and told the ship to go there with the auto pilot. She then got up and walked into the back where Zim and Gir were at.
"Hey Tak! Thanks again for letting us hitch a ride from you." Zim said. She paid no mind to him and instead turned to Mimi who was still sitting deactivated on the work table. Tak walked over to her and unplugged the wires in her head, then flipped a switch in the robots brain. Mimi began to wake up, and Tak let a small smile creep across her face. She hugged her robot, and said…
"Welcome back Mimi. Come to the front of the ship with me. You have missed a lot in the past 5 years; let me fill you in." She told her companion. Mimi gladly obliged and walked to the front with Tak. Zim and Gir were now a little confused. They began to follow, but a large metal door shut abruptly in Zims face cutting them off from the bridge.
"Hey! What the hell Tak!" Zim protested. She ignored the cries from the other side of the wall, and started to tell Mimi all that has happened in her absence.
1 Hour later…
Zim sat with his back up against the wall. Oh how he was filled with anger, but it soon subsided. He couldn't stay angry at Tak for long. He never knew why, but ever sense they were children, oh say a good 200 Earth years ago, he didn't even think of getting mad at her for anything. (A/N o.k. I know Zim didn't remember Tak at all in the show, or know her at all for that matter, but for the sake of story development please turn a blind eye to this one.)
"Wow! What triggered that memory?" Zim asked himself. "Its been so long sense I was a child, how do I still remember that?" Zim was now in deep thought and didn't notice Tak walk through the now unlocked door.
"Zim." She said suddenly, waking him up.
"Huh What?!...oh, Tak. What do you need?" Zim asked coming out of his trance.
"You…you can come to the bridge now." She told him. Zim got up only to find Gir sleeping on his head. He was about to yell Gir off of him, but then decided not to wake him up. So he just gently picked him up, and put him down on the work table and plugged him to the wall.
"I guess I was in such a big hurry to leave, I forgot to let him recharge." Zim said, than looked at Tak. She had been leaning against the door frame, staring at the ground the whole time she was in here. "Hey Tak…" Zim said breaking the silence. She looked up. "…Why did you leave without saying anything?" He asked her.
"I…I don't know." She fibbed and started to walk away, but then stopped. "Zim, I want to know why you didn't just kill me when you had the chance." She spoke without turning around. Zim seemed rather perplexed at this. He then let out a sigh.
"Tak, do you remember when we were kids; how I didn't get mad at anything you did to me, ever?" Zim asked. Tak didn't say anything, so he went on. "You would get mad, if I ever bothered you in any way, even if I was trying to do something nice, but I would never retaliate." Zim told her. She turned around and stared for a minute.
"I guess so…" She finally responded. "What exactly are you getting at here?" She asked, confused. Zim looked over to her.
"I…can't really say, but my conscience won't let me fight you. I just can't do it. It's like, I…I don't want anything bad to happen to you." Zim admitted to her what was going on in his heart, but his head was still confused at his own words.
"But Why Not! If I was as bad as you say I was, than why is it such a big problem for you to fight back!" Tak raised her voice a little bit.
"Tak, You don't seem bad to me at all." Zim said. "I think you're…" He was cut off by Mimi walking up to them. She motioned for Tak to come to the controls. Tak looked back at Zim who was now staring at the floor.
"Zim…" His eyes didn't look away from the ground.
"Yea" he said back in a disappointed tone.
"I left because I started to develop friendly feelings for an enemy, and I thought I had to go get them under control." She admitted to him. Zim was a little surprised at her honesty.
"And also…I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you back then. When we were kids, I was always getting laughed at because of the CORD in my head. I guess I never distinguished friend from foe." Tak said with a nervous grin showing through. And no matter how hard she tried to get rid of it, it just wouldn't leave. So she promptly walked to the front, and dealt with whatever it was Mimi wanted as an excuse to hide her emotions.
Zim just stood there for a second, not knowing exactly what to do now. So he just sunk down next to the work table Gir was sleeping on and dosed off.
Meanwhile…
"Well, getting Taks old ship back from Dad and his army of Super People, was quite an adventure." Dib said to his brain fracture, who was floating around above him.
"It sure was. And getting the thing into space was another one entirely. Not to mention the ordeal of getting Zims destination from that homeless guy. In fact, if this were a story, it may have taken a good 3 chapters to properly explain the full ordeal." His brain told him.
"Hey! I just thought of something." Dib said.
"Yea?" Said the…thing floating around.
"What can I call you? Do you have a name already?" Dib asked.
"I don't know, how's about, Bid." He said.
"Bid? Why Bi…Ohhh, I get it." Dib responded.
"Yea, I'm a genius." Bid said in a fake smug like tone.
"No, I'M the genius. You're just along for the ride." Dib told him with a smirk.
"Yea Right! I'm just as much of a genius as you are!" Bid responded, annoyed at the insult.
"Oh Yeah! well you…wait, am I arguing with myself?...Damn-it I REALLY am crazy; aren't I?" Dib said out loud, not looking at his newly named traveling companion.
"Yes I suppose you are arguing with yourself…meaning you're insane, and I'm the genius." Bid told Dib. Logically, this made plenty of sense.
"Yeah, I see what you mea…Hey! Stop Doing That!" Dib commanded.
"Doing what?!" Bid yelled at him.
"You keep!...oh never mind." Dib just sunk low in his chair. There was a long silence which was broken by Bid.
"Hey! Do you wanna play 20 questions?" He asked. Dib looked at him like he was stupid.
"Are you serious?" He asked.
"Yup" he told him, sounding hope-full.
"No…"
End of Chapter 6
A/N Monkeygod…I did it again, and I'm sorry. The outside reference thing and mentioning of chapters in the story is old news now. I just wanted to express how lazy I was in the story. Any who, the Zim and Tak moment thing, was horrible. I really had no idea how bad I was at writing that sort of thing until I actually tried it once. So know one needs to bash me on that, I know it was bad. Also this chapter is pretty short, so I'm going to post the next one soon.
So tell me what you think, and I'll try to have the next chapter up by Sunday morning. Thanks
-Aag
