Chapter 9

Survivors

Dib woke up blinking, he sat up a little before a hand covered his mouth. "SSSSSHHHHH They'll hear you." Dib quieted as the hand removed, he turned to see a few human faces none of which were familiar. "You were right." They all said. Dib nodded "I know, I knew that for a while now." Then the helped Dib to his feet as they opened the door to what was the Cafeteria kitchen. Dib could see a few wounded kids crying silently in pain of sadness for the lack of their families. Then Dib saw one face, it was Dark Smacky's, he was holding a baseball bat covered with blood. His eyes were bloodshot, his face looked like he came from WW1. "Dib." He said, he no longer looked like the cruel thoughtless person Dib knew, he now looked childish, like he had no idea this was happening. "Dib!" someone yelled quietly trying not to attract attention. Dib turned to a girl named Zita, she once had blond hair, a pink skirt, little black sketchers. She never made fun of Dib but now she was in shambles. Her blonde hair was now partly white already telling of the horrors she seen. She seemed to have a mourning tone, her pink skirt was also covered in blood, and her sketchers seemed to be molded as if she was recently wadding through water. "Zita?" Dib asked as he crossed over to her. She was kneeling over a boy who was flailing about in pain. He seemed to be yelling too. "What is it?" Zita replied "He was bitten by one before we got here, it got some kind of venom into his system." Dib replied "Is it fatal?" She shook her head "No, it seems to vary in results, like for example Dementia, Hypoglycemia, Diabetes so on and so forth." As the student yelled Dark whispered at them "Shut him up or I'll do it for him." Holding his baseball bat menacingly. "Dark please, killing him is just going to cause more panic." Zita turned back to Dib as he asked "What's wrong with him?" Zita replied "He had been bitten, so far it's just made him angrier." As the student cried out again Dark said "Shut him up! He's gonna get us killed!" Zita turned to him "I can't." Dark walked up to her and yelled "He is gonna attract attention! The bad kind!" Dib cocked and aimed the Irken pistol at Dark's face. "Dark you are the only loud one here. You have been yelling so loud I think maybe the Reptoids outside can hear us." Then a rustling in the Cafeteria caught their attention. "I'll go out." Dib said. Dark stayed behind Dib but then followed without a sign of regret, must have been the venom in his system. As they both progressed to the Cafeteria Dib took out the Irken pistol and cocked it. Then two Reptoids came out from under a cafeteria table and attacked them. Dib aimed the pistol but the Reptoid knocked it from his hand and it slid under a knocked over chair. Dib and Dark struggled as they were closer to biting them when *BAM!* The Reptoid's blew apart. Dib sat up and saw an Irken soldier wearing a special suit holding a weird gun. "FREEZE! Don't move!" He spoke into his COMS "We have two humans! It may have been them who locked the door. Still No sign of any life that could have brought the Resisty COMS." Dib stood there motionless. He had been caught.

Zim walked down the hall with an Irken silenced pistol and his shotgun slung. He had been whispering into his COMS but nothing replied. "Come on, Gaz?" he asked again then he turned when hearing a loud noise. It was an Irken Reptoid soldier wearing a suit most likely used to keep rain off of him. "YOU!" he yelled, before he cold speak into COMS Zim kicked it from his reach. He slung the Reptoid Riot gun and took out a baton. He swung at Zim many times. Then Zim aimed his silenced pistol at the head of the suit and fired which did nothing. As he kicked the soldier off of him he saw a little outside: rain and Reptoids. Just rain and Reptoids. Then an idea formed in Zim's new brain. He unslung his shotgun and fired at the soldier. He fell back in such a mighty blow, outside the Reptoids were listening and two of them went in while the others continued to ignore it. The soldier stood up as he removed a piece of damaged armor from his suit revealing an Irken jumpsuit underneath. "You bastard." The soldier yelled as he aimed a pistol two Reptoids tackled him ripping through the jumpsuit to the Irken flesh beneath it. Soon their sharp teeth breached the skin and Purple blood flailed everywhere. Zim then noticed a gun on the ground from the spot he used to be standing. It was the Reptoid Riot Gun. Zim slung it over his shoulder as he ran off into the hallway to let the Reptoid's enjoy their meal.

Gaz was hearing at least four of the soldiers left in the lobby talking about something.

"What does Purple want with Zim so badly?"

"I don't know, he may just be trying to get Tak."

"He specifically said Zim."

"Whatever I don't really care."

Then Gaz was supprised as the shelf moved and a soldier said "Hey look at that! A human!"

"Yeah…wait its the Gaz human! Get her!"

Gaz sprang into the air in a green aura. As she hit the ground a green lightning sprang from her hand knocking one Irken soldier into the wall. Another one swung at her but as he hit her the lightning froze him and pushed him into the ceiling before falling down. As another aimed a gun at her she raised her hand and the gun seemed to spread apart in pieces. As the pieces floated into the soldier's reach before exploding all over piercing his armor and his flesh. As the soldier fell another came and tackled her. As he did she sent him flying into the wall. As he got up once again he charged just as she raised her hand and his armor seemed to have many dents. The soldier cried as a dent formed on his neck's armor now suffocating him. Then dents formed on his ribs now painfully hurting his skigglyspooch. Then he collapsed into a heap on the ground. Gaz looked from the body "Where are you Zim?"

Tak heard someone walking up the stairs on her hallway's end. She then went prone on the ground using the Reptoid's corpse to camouflage herself. She then saw through her sniper scope two soldiers walking up the stairs. They looked around in conversation.

"You really think they are here?"

"I doubt it."

Tak held fast, her finger on the trigger, if she had a heart it would be racing. Then a soldier looked at her under the Reptoid corpse. "Hey what-" he didn't finish, he couldn't finish, you wouldn't even be able to finish when an Irken plasma battery penetrates your neck. As he fell the other took a battery into the shoulder. As Tak was about to fire again the soldier kicked away her sniper and pushed her through a set of doors into a bloody bathroom. As she got to her feet the soldier punched her. She fell into a stall where a mutilated corpse hung from the stall doorway. As Tak stood up the soldier punched her into the wall making a few tiles fall from the wall. As he punch Tak kicked and sent the soldier into the mirror. Before he could get up Tak ran out of the room and retrieved her sniper. As he came outside the restroom Tak shot and killed him. Then she turned seeing a few Reptoids near the stairs getting closer.

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