Chapter 3
Raymond's Investigation
Two of Raymond's Resisty soldiers kicked down a door back on Locker 27. Two of them carried silenced infiltration rifles while Raymond still used his pistol. The two flanked the door while Raymond opened it. They entered, both of them slung the rifles and Raymond put his pistol in it's holster. He looked from the window with his binoculars to the Irken control building on the planet. This is where the sniper positioned himself to kill Darien. "Sir the area is clear, scanning for traces." As they scanned Raymond walked to the front of the window, deep in thought about who would take a shot at Darien and not shoot Purple. Whoever did this was not Irken or even Resisty. He wondered who it might be. "Sir!" Raymond looked over to them. "Any evidence?" The soldier replied "Rather the lack of it sir, it looks like whoever did this made the area sanitized." "Damn it!" Raymond cussed in anger, then opened his eyes. "Wait…wait! Sanitized?" The soldier nodded "Yes, some Irken militia have training on picking up loose ends." Raymond nodded then said "Let's get back to the ship."
In the training gym Zim was doing some push ups shirtless. Then Gaz came in with two mugs. Zim stood up and sat next to her as he grabbed a mug. "What is it?" Gaz replied "A little hot chocolate." Zim looked at the brown fluid which small white vapors hovered above it. He took a sip then choked. "Small sip Zim, small sip." Gaz taught him. Zim laughed rubbing his throat. "You could have warned me." Gaz said "Zim, its called hot chocolate for a reason." Zim shot her a look "Well I had a shake-and-bake corn and I realized it wasn't shake-and-bake in that order." Gaz laughed hysterically. "Funny Zim." Zim smiled then looked at the scars on his body then back to Gaz "What did it feel like, knowing I could die, or possibly not wake up?" Gaz stopped smiling then sipped her hot chocolate "Well I was scared, I didn't know what I would do. I mean…who would be the babies father?" Zim looked at Gaz's stomach, it was still as big as it had ever been, no major development. It would still be a long time before the baby was born, but how long. A human baby in a human womb would be 9 months, an Irken baby in a human womb could be years maybe? "Could Gaz handle that," Zim wondered , "years with a swollen stomach, maybe the birth might kill her." Zim looked back to Gaz "I don't know, you think it would be safe to be in a fight pregnant?" Gaz nodded "I'll be fine." Zim looked at Gaz again in thought "Should I tell her she's part Meekrob?" Before he could talk Raymond came in. "Zim, come in here a second." Zim looked at Gaz considering to tell him to wait or to tell her after what Raymond wanted. Zim got up and walked into the room. On a hologram it had a picture of the control center on Locker 27. "We scanned the sniper point and found nothing. It was sanitized so nothing was left behind. We believe this sniper was a former Irken military soldier, or maybe elite." Zim examined the picture closely. "We believe he was in that room aiming down sights to Darien, the reason is-" "He wasn't there." Raymond looked at Zim like he was crazy
"What?"
"The sniper wasn't there, you see the glass?" he pointed to the hole in the glass "The shards still attached are bent outside rather then inward. The sanitation was just trick to fool people and confuse them."
"Are you suggesting that the sniper was inside?"
"Well did Purple ever mind the battery?"
"Well no-"
"Then we check the control center."
Raymond and Zim entered the building, no Irken were there, if any attention was brought to Locker 27 it would be full of them. However it was abandoned. Zim and Raymond walked into the Tallest's executive lounge. Raymond looked down at Darien's blood that no one cleaned up. Zim looked at the hole and focused to the sniper area where Raymond investigated. Zim used his finger and traced it to an air vent. "There." Zim went to the air vent where the blinds were slightly open so Zim could see a little inside. Zim then grabbed the grate and pulled it off the wall. Inside the vent was a sniper rifle with a camera on it. Zim grabbed it and pulled it out. It was black and had a sensor camera on it. As he pulled off the camera he traced the cord into the vent. "Come on." He said to Raymond. As they went into the vent following the cord them came to a wall in the vent. Zim pushed hard and the wall popped off into a dark tunnel leading down. At the bottom was a strange room with a computer. Zim could see scratches on the floor meaning the sniper moved everything. "He was here alright." Raymond said. Zim replied "Looks like he set camp here and then killed Darien." Zim looked at the computer and saw a SMD (service memory disc). He picked it up and inserted it into the computer. The screen turned on to see a silhouette. "HELLO," said a distorted voice ",IF YOUR WATCHING THIS AND YOU DON'T WORK FOR ME YOUR PROBABLY ZIM." Zim looked up at the silhouette "YOU SEE YOU ALL KNOW ME, I AM DEAD TO THE IRKEN RACE, THE VORTIANS, THE HUMANS, AND THE UNIVERSE. BUT ALL OF THAT CHANGES. SOON I WILL APPEAR AS A SAVIOR TO THE IRKEN RACE FROM ITS INFERIOR COMMAND. I SHALL EXTERMINATE THE MEEKROB AND THE HUMANS. SOON I WILL BE A HERO AS THE OLD AND NEW TALLEST. BUT IF YOU WISH TO DEFY ME I'LL GIVE YOU A HINT: LOOK FOR CLUES IN CLUES." The disc ended there and Zim looked at Raymond. "Who was that?"
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