"No one can be left alive that could ruin my plans."
Red snuck quietly down the hall, pausing only to make sure he was alone. And then he ducked into the room.
His dear brother had been put here, in this hospital, after a PAK malfunction had left him unable to stand for a while. The nurses here had called Kay only an hour before to tell her of his amazing recovery, and how he would probably be released soon. And right now, Kay and her Hyuuuman mate were probably celebrating their good fortune.
Unfortunately, neither would ever see Purple alive again.
"Who's there?" Purple's voice asked as Red shut the door quietly. The former Tallest lay half asleep in a bed, plugged into a large machine that did the same job as a PAK.
Red remained quiet and stepped up to his brother's bed. Out of his PAK came one single leg, which he plunged deep into Purple's chest.
He gasped in surprise, and his hand reached for the nurses button. But Red picked it up and held it away from him.
"Goodbye, brother." He told him.
"R-Red…" Purple went limp.
He removed the leg, ignoring the green blood covering it's tip and left the room.
Kib came down the stairs to hear the sound of his mother crying. He saw his father sitting on the couch, with Kay curled up in his lap, sobbing. He ran down to them.
"Mother?" He asked. "What happened?"
His father sighed. "Your grandfather was murdered not long ago."
This news hit Kib hard. He had kinda liked Purple. There was only one person who could have done this…
He darted out of the room and back up the stairs.
"Zim?"
Zim remained quiet, just staring down at the computer. He felt Tak's arms wrap around him softly.
"Zim, what's wrong?"
He sighed and closed his eyes. "My brother was killed."
"Red?"
"No. Purple."
Tak became very silent too. All that you could hear was the soft breathing of their two smeets, Zak and Tim, fast asleep in the next room.
Finally Zim stood up straight. Tak let go of him and watched as he started to leave
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to go pay a visit to my Tallest." He turned to look at her. "Come on, lets go."
She nodded and followed him out.
Kib sat in fron of his desk, staring again at the letter his uncle had sent him. He could never, ever bring himself to hurt Day! Never! How was he going to do this…
"Bruder?" Day skipped into his room. "Can you play a game with me?"
"Sure." He sighed, putting the paper back into a drawer. "What do you want to play?"
"Hide an' seek! You count to ten, k?" Day giggled and ran off.
Kib shook his head, amused. He waited for a while, then went to find his sister.
Dib walked up to his old house. He needed some help from someone who he never thought he would ask for any. He pressed the doorbell and waited.
The door opened slightly, and there was a gasp. It them opened all the way to reveal Gaz. "What do you want?"
"Hello sister. I need a little bit of help."
She nodded and let him into the house, which had not changed very much in the time he had been gone. The room was still dark, with 'Professor Membrane' related objects randomly scattered everywhere. He sat on the couch, his sister still staring at him.
"What is it?" She asked her brother, slightly annoyed. "Hurry up. I want to return to my game."
"Someone killed Kay's father." He told her. "He was found dead last night with a large puncture wound in his chest."
"A puncture wound?" Gaz sat down, seeming actually quite interested. In fact, she was. See, when she had gone to college, she had decided to become a private detective. So she had studied everything about crime and laws and criminals that she could. So of course she would be interested in a potential case, whether or not it was in space. "What did it look like?"
"Very round." He told her. "And deep. Like a giant needle."
"Possibly an Irken's PAK leg." She commented. "Which means an Irken with a hatred of Purple did this."
Dib thought for a moment. "But… that means Red killed him.
"That's possible." Gaz nodded. "I would be careful- he might come after you guys soon."
"Thanks Gaz." Dib stood up and gave her a hug. "See you around."
"Bye brother." She showed him the door and watched him leave.
"Day? Where are you?" Kib had searched every inch of the house, but had not found her. He was now walking outside the house, hoping to see her out there somewhere.
"Day! I give up! Where are you!"
He heard giggling above him, and looked up. There- on the roof- sat Day.
"Hi Bruder! You found me!"
"Yes, I did." He was a bit nervous about her being up there. "Now, come down here, okay?"
"Okay!" She started running back to the window.
"Be careful-"
Day slipped on a shingle and fell screaming off of the roof. She landed in a bush, thankfully, instead of the cement. Kib gasped and ran to see if she was okay. Not caring about the thorns, he thrust his arms in to dig her out.
There were hundreds of cuts all over her from the thorns in the bush, out of which leaked red blood. Specks of both her blood and her brother's blood covered their clothes. Day was crying, and she couldn't seem to move her arm at all. Kib held her tightly to him and ran into the house.
"Mother!" He called, laying his sister down gently on a couch. "Help!"
Kay ran in and saw this, and she gasped. "What happened?"
"She fell off of the roof. We were playing hide and seek, and-"
Dib ran in and over to him, seeing the blood on him. "Are you okay, son?"
"I'm fine." He snapped. "Why don't you pay attention to my sister instead?"
"Well, Kay is taking care of her. But you look hurt too."
Kib looked down at his arms, which were covered in his blood. "I'm fine." He repeated. Then he walked out of the room and up he stairs.
Dib sighed and turned to the two girls. "Is she okay?"
"She's fine." Kay told him. "But she is asleep now. Come on, lets go hide her in my lab until she is healed. If what Gaz told you is true, we don't need my dear uncle killing our daughter too."
"Got it." Dib picked his beloved daughter up and followed Kay into the lab.