Chapter 12………DOOOOM….gotta stop doing that.

A/N It took me so long to get around to writing this. And after I started, I couldn't finish cuz of how damn busy I am. I'm so f--in sorry guys. ok…Next chapter, I hope it can be liked by people. I also hope, know one hates me for not updating for a month! Unfortunately, one can only hope….+.+

The base was under attack. Everyone was almost too shocked to do anything.

There were large battle ships circling the base. The outer guns of the space station were exchanging fire with them. There were big dogfights between smaller ships, all over the place.

It seemed that the enemy had yet to penetrate the front gate, which was good. But they were trying, which was bad.

Zim was completely taken back. (How did they find the base?) He inquired to himself over and over again. His questioning was cut short by a sharp change in direction from the ship.

"Ahh! What the Hell?!" He blurted out, toppling over slightly.

"We had to scatter! The enemy ships were closing in on our position!" Tak yelled back at him. He made his way to the front.

"That's fine, just warn me next time you do that." He said sitting down in the co-pilot seat.

"Okay…Hang On To Something!" she advised. But before Zim could grab anything, the ship started to spiral in avoidance of missile fire. Zim was ready to retaliate again once he regained his stability, but Tak spoke before he could.

"So what do you want to do?" She said, raising her voice enough to be heard over the explosions and gunfire. Zim thought for a second.

"We should get Tenn to an escape route immediately." He told her.

"Not a bad idea, but you may have to go without me. I should stay out here and help weaken the battle ships for the Massive." She responded.

"Not a bad idea, swing around the back and drop me off by the secret entrance." He told her. He then turned his attention toward the soldiers in sitting behind him. "I'm taking all of the foot men. Technicians and gunners stay here, Understood?!" He ordered.

"Yes sir!" Came an obedient cry from the men.

"Good" He smiled. By now they were already at there destination. As Tak landed the carrier, several soldiers came pouring out of it. Zim got ready to leave too.

"Zim" Tak called him. He looked back at her.

"Yeah?" He asked. She got up, walked straight toward him, and kissed him on the cheek, which was followed by a long embrace.

"Good luck…" She said, arms still around him. He placed his hands around her as well and rested his head next to hers.

"You too…" And with that they slowly let go, and walked to their positions.

Zim jumped out of the ship, and it took off.

"Alright men--" He said to the soldiers. "--We need to move quickly through here and get to our leader." He spoke to all of them.

"Yes Sir!" They chanted altogether.

"Okay then, let's move!" He ordered. And they all rushed in through an old door on a rock some feet from the base. The inside of said rock, had a tunnel that went from it to the main control room.

They all ran inside to see a sight, almost too horrible for words. All of the staff in that room was strung from the ceiling…

Zim felt his lunch rise up from his squweedilyspooch. But he hastily swallowed it again. He looked at his soldiers, and could tell they were all doing the same thing.

"Well Zim, it's been awhile." An all too familiar voice spoke. Zims look of disgust quickly turned to rage, and he looked toward the one calling his name.

"Red!" He yelled at the tall Irken standing in the middle of the room.

"Yep, its Me Zim." Tallest Red spoke to him ever so evily. By his side, was an unconscious Tenn. Then Zim thought for a second. Red was standing there…by Himself! He turned around quickly.

"Men Lookout! We Don't Have A Visual On Purple!!" He yelled. Just then, Tallest Purple leapt from the shadows, with a large energy sword, and cut down Zims team in one foul swoop. He landed next to red and turned around.

"Hey Zim…" He spoke with a smirk. Zim looked at the dismembered bodies of his comrades. Then with lightening speed, He spun around with his spider legs out, set to combat mode. The tallest didn't react.

"Before I kill you both, for everything you did…tell me this...Why?!" He said with a silent fury growing inside him. They both laughed.

"Okay Zim, I'll humor you." Red started. "As you may know, our society has a law about emotions. We restrict them to Very, limited use. This can be controlled on Irk, but not on other worlds." Red stopped and purple continued.

"We monitor the emotion output of all the Irkens off of their home planet. About…3 years ago, we noticed that most of them were way above what they are supposed to be. So we scheduled executions for all who violated." Purple now stopped and Red picked up once again.

"After awhile, people started to catch on to this plot. Some survivors went and started a little resistance group. At first they were a nuisance, and over time they grew into a threat. So we are here to silence it once and for all." Red finished.

Zim had heard enough. "I hope you two know, that You're Both about to Fucking Die!" He spoke with anger leaking out of his voice.

"Even now Zim, your emotions cripple you. You're being a little irrational, dont'cha think?" Purple said.

Zim did'nt pay any attention to this and, flew directly for them both at top speed. He shifted in the air and his spider legs reached the targets first.

Red blocked the legs with his fore arms. Purple swung the energy blade in front of his face to stop the attack, and they both turned to let Zim slide by with his own momentum. As Zim passed by both of them, he let go of two grenades.

Red saw them and threw them back at Zim with lightening reflexes. They exploded in mid flight, knocking Zim even farther away.

BOOM!
BOOM!

Zim hit a Wall. He stood up and saw purple flying at him with some strange looking needle. Purple stuck the thing in Zims shoulder and injected him with a bizarre liquid.

"Ahh! What the Hell is That?!" Zim gritted through his teeth.

"This is a poison that will kill you if you manage to escape." Purple told him. "It's too bad that you wont get the chance to try Though!" He yelled and swung his sword at him.

Zim ducked and barely avoided the swing that almost cut off his head. He unlatched his last grenade and shoved it into Purples stomach with tremendous force. Then Covered his head as it blew.

BOOM!
Splat!
(…hehe)

Purple was dead. Zim stood up, covered in blood, and looked at Red with an aura of pure hatred radiating from him.

"Well, it seems my fellow Tallest has died. What a shame." He said barely showing interest.

"Your Next Red!" Zim responded with underlying malevolence in his voice.

"of course I am--" Red countered mockingly. "--Now let's see what you got." He taunted without so much as getting into a stance. Just then, Zim sprung into action, whipping his laser gun out, and rapidly firing 4 times with deadly accuracy. He watched in amazement as all four shots bounced off of Reds face.

"How is that possible?!" Zim said astonished.

"It's obvious isn't it Zim?…I have an energy shield with 100 reflection." Red retorted in a smug tone.

"Haha! No Irken energy shield is 100 without flaw. There is a weak spot for that shield, and I will find it." Zim spoke with valor.

"Hmmm, you know what Zim…You're Right! But since I'm such a nice guy, I'll tell you exactly where the weak point is." Red told him with a diabolical grin on his face. Then he slowly turned his body, revealing Tenn lying unconscious. He pointed to her.

"She has a little force field battery in her pak. The only way to destroy it, is to destroy the pak itself. Of course this will inevitably Kill your esteemed leader." Red spoke as though he was victorious. Zim gritted his teeth.

"I will not kill our leader, but I will kill you Red!" Zim replied.

"Okay, suit yourself." Red grinned as he shot at Zim with a series of lasers from guns that came out of his pak. Zim quickly dodged a few of them and tried to run for cover, but he was shot in the leg and went down.

"Ow! That looked like it hurt." Red seized fire for a second. Zim struggled to stand up, his leg was bleeding badly. Finally on his feet Zim searched for Red, but didn't see him. Right at that moment The crazy tallest popped out of the floor, and punched Zim in the gut sending him through a wall.

CRASH!

Zim looked around. He was in the quarters of another officer. He quickly rethought his strategy. Before long, he had an idea. He fiddled with his pak for a second. Then, he pulled it off. Promptly he pulled out a memory core, and his WARR chip. He climbed on to the ceiling while pushing a few more buttons.

"Oh Ziiiiiim!…Where you Hiiiiideeeeen!" Red teasingly called. He walked through the hole in the wall Zim went through. He looked around the room, and didn't see him anywhere. As he started to turn around, Zim dropped from the ceiling and connected his pak to Reds shield, which started to fluctuate wildly.

"Ahhhggh! Zim!,What Did You Do!" Red yelled.

"I set turned on the Emergency Home World Teleporter in my pak, then attached it to your shield with a disrupter. That Teleportation device is going to eat away at your shield until there's a hole that it can suck your body through. And That Red, will kill you." Zim told him with a smirk much like Reds from earlier. Then he turned away and began to walk back toward Tenn.

"Wait!...agghh, Zim! y..y-You Cant Leave Me Like This!" Red pleaded. Zim paid no mind, and just kept walking.

Once inside the control room again, he scrambled to find a new pak, he ended up pulling one off of a dead soldier, which he was against, but he had to do it. Soon it was sporting his memory core and WARR chip.

Now that he was in no danger of dying he could focus on getting Tenn out of this hellish place.

Meanwhile Outside…

"I'm Hit!" BOOM!

"Goin Down!" BOOM!

"Somebody HELP ME! AAHHhg.c.c.c..zzzz" BOOM!

"General Tak! They're dropping like flies out there!" Yelled Skooge from the communicator.

"I Know That! We need to regroup, and take on these guys in a formation. You and Slax keep taking out those battle ships with the Massive!"

"Yes ma'am!" He saluted. "Skooge out."

Tak flew around the remaining few pilots in a pattern that was designed to be Hard To Hit, and effective in focusing attacks. Soon the enemy vessels were dropping rapidly, and on the run.

"Alright, good job everyone! Now lets all take down the remaining battle ships together." Tak ordered. A moment later, she got a call from Zim on the communicator.

"Tak, I've rescued Tenn. She's alive but unconscious. I need Evac a.s.a.p."

"I'm on my way!" She said to him, then turned her attention to the fleet. "I'm Breaking off for a second, someone fill in my spot." She informed, and then made her way to Zims position.

Upon arrival, she helped Zim carry Tenn onto the ship. As Zim climbed in, she noticed the laser wound on his leg.

"You're hurt." She said to him.

"Don't worry about it, I'll be fine." He said to her, than changed the subject. "How are we doing out here?" He asked her.

"We've pretty much won. There are just a few remaining enemies that refuse to flee." Tak told him.

"Well, good. We should get Tenn to a Medbay on the Massive." He told her.

"Good idea. She said, and went to the ships controls. Zim watched her as his vision started to blur. He peered over at his shoulder where the needle hit him. Than just sat down.

Before he new it, they were boarding the Massive. He came too, and helped Tak carry Tenn to the Medbay door. He noticed Tak saying something to a soldier who greeted them at the door. It all sounded like garbled babble to him.

Once the soldier took Tenn from them, and laid her on a stretcher, Zim fell to the floor and his vision started to fade away.

"Oh shit! Zim! Zim! Get Up!" Tak yelled. Zim could barely hear her. As his vision faded, so did his hearing.

"Someone! Please...get some help! Zim!!...

End of Chapter 12

A/N It's not over Yet!...Don't Give up hope!…once again I would like to apologize for not updating in so long. I was busy. Sorry…sorry…sorry…sorry…my bad.