The Sickness

Part Eighteen

Zim sat alone in his cell, resting himself against the cold metallic wall. Hours had come and gone since he had been left behind by his captors. Still a bit weak from the pain and exhaustion, his head hung nearly lifelessly. There were faint footsteps coming from the outside of his cell, to which Zim refused to let himself look up. He refused to look the Tallests in the eyes. Never again did he want to see the very two who had done this to him. Still unable to move, hee young Irken continued to rest in his spot against the hard, cold metallic wall of the cell.
He let out a harsh cough, feeling something come up again and his throat began to burn once again.
He soon heard a faint voice from outside of his cell.

"Zim?" It said.

Zim kept his face toward the floor.

"Zim! C'mon, please be okay?"

This suddenly caught Zim's attention, and the young Irken soon lifted his head, the crushing feeling returning to his head as his vision blurred. Zim squeezed his eyes shut for a moment and blinked a few times to rid the blurriness.
Once his vision became clear, he was surprised to see a young twelve-year-old boy, wearing a black trench coat and underneath was a pale blue shirt, with a grey smiley face on the front with a neutral expression along with a large pair of glasses. His hair was black and was in a scythe-like style.

"Dib?" Zim asked in shock as Dib worked to get the door open with a crowbar he had found on his way there.

After some effort, Dib got it open and ran inside. Zim stared in shock as Dib ran to his side. He didn't know whether to be happy to see him or angry that he showed up before him. Soon he scowled.

"What're you doing here?" Zim hissed angrily.

Dib stared in shock at Zim's reaction.

"I... I came to save you, Zim." He replied. "Don't worry, I'll get you outta here." Dib assured him as he began to work on ropes on Zim.

"I thought... I thought you didn't care about me." Zim said, his voice a bit weak and tired. "Y-you said so yourself." Zim explained before Dib could reply. "The 'Stupid defective like freak', remember?" He finished bitterly, trying to keep his newly forming tears from falling as he kept his gaze at the nearby wall.

Dib frowned, soon remembering what he had said a few days before this had happened.

"Zim... I..." Dib started, his own voice dry. "I didn't mean what I said before." He said at last. "I never meant those things I've said. I just got really mad and I..." Dib stopped for a moment, taking in a shaky breath. "I'm sorry, Zim." He said finally. "I'm so sorry."

This caused Zim to turn around to face the young boy beside him.

"You really mean that?" He asked before letting out a violent cough. "After what you had said-?"

"Zim," Dib started. "I wouldn't have come if I didn't care about you." Dib replied. "And friends don't desert each other."

This caught Zim off guard.

"You..." Zim coughed. "You consider me a friend?"

Dib froze for a moment, but soon nodded.

"I thought you said-" Zim broke off into another coughing fit.

After a few moments, it ended. Zim moaned in pain as his eyes began to close. Dib felt Zim's forehead, pulling back shortly after; shocked at how hot it felt.

"Zim..." Dib whispered.

Soon, he began at work again. After some effort, Dib got the ropes off, letting the young Irken's arms fall down to his sides.

"Hang on, Zim," He whispered as he lifted Zim up in his arms. "I'm gonna get you outta here." He assured him as he made his out of the cell.

Dib soon froze as he heard a cold evil chuckle causing him to look up in awe.

"Well isn't that sweet?" Sneered the Tallest with red eyes. "You thought you could just come here unnoticed?" Red asked.

Before Dib could say anything, he saw the Tallest with purple eyes step aside as a few small Irken guards step forward with a young girl around the age of ten standing there. She wore a black dress, black boots and a skull pendent and had deep magenta purple hair that reached to her shoulders. Gaz. The guards around her seemed to have a few bad bruises and some minor cuts, indicating that Gaz had put up a pretty good fight, though she got captured in the end. Red chuckled evilly.

"I don't know who you are, but what makes you think you can just come here and take our prisoner?" He asked.

"Yeah, we're just taking him back to Irk so he can finally die and we can be rid of him forever." Purple added.

Dib scowled at them.

"How could you do this?" Dib snarled.

"Do what?" Red asked, not sounding interested.

"Zim's dying and you just lock him up and-"

"Look," Red said interrupting Dib."He's given us a lot of problems.

"Yeah and we think this is the best thing for everyone that he dies on the planet he had nearly destroyed." Purple added.

Dib stared at them. 'Zim nearly destroyed Irk?'

"And besides, he's only a defect." Red added.

Dib bared his teeth angrily.

"He's not a defect!" Dib snarled. "He's a good friend and a pretty nice guy... At least when he wants to be." Dib murmured the last part.

"Oh, so he actually means something to you?" Red sneered.

Dib gave him an angry look.

"Then you both must be defective!" Red snapped back.

Dib looked at them in shock.

"You see," Red smirked. "It is uncommon for our species or any type of Irken for that matter to show any emotion or act... Caring." He said the word as if it were a poison.

"Only defects and lesser creatures would ever feel that way about another creature would ever be that stupid befriend someone lesser than them."

Dib scowled at how cruel they could be. Just because of letting their emotions show, then they would be considered being defective.

"It's too bad you won't be making it off this ship alive." Red sneered.

Dib and Gaz looked on in awe as Red activated his PAK legs.

"Say goodbye." He sneered.

Just when Red was about to bring them down, he yelled out in shock as something latched onto his head.

"You leave Mary and Master alone, you big bully!" Screamed the little S.I.R. unit as he hit and punched Red.

Red screamed as Gir bit one of his antennas angrily growling as he did so. As Red tried to get Gir off his head, the Tallest turned, knocking Purple over with the PAK legs, nearly hitting Gaz and Dib who had just ducked in time so they would hit the guards, knocking them out.
After that had happened. Gir finally let go and the trio began to run down the hallway. Red gripped his injured antenna which had started bleeding. The Tallests snarled as he looked in the direction the trio had left. He turned to see Purple on the ground, knocked out from the impact.

"C'mon, Purple! You lazy lummax!" Red growled, and he dragged the other Tallests across the floor.

As this was happening, Dib, Gaz, and Gir continued to run down the hallway, not wanting to waste anymore time.

So, here's the next part :D I know I just updated ^^; But I just thought that since I'm leaving in two days, I thought I'd get as much of this done a possible :) Anyways, sorry if this part was kinda rushed ^^; But I hope you like it anyways :D Also, I hope to get more up soon :D:D I'll catch you later :) Cya! :D:D

PS- I might need some help with some of the next few parts ^^; So if anyone has any thoughts of what to do, please leave a review and tell me what you think I should do :) Thanks :D