Chapter 12

The Cube

Zim and Tak were sitting inside a small white room, they were given rags or towels to clean up a bit and new suits because the old ones were worn. "Did you see what happened to Dib's father?" Tak asked. Zim looked up at her and nodded "He seemed almost barbaric. It's like he was going to kill those guards." Tak looked at Zim "You think It will be OK?" Zim said "It's gonna be fine, I'll check up on Dib once we are free of this box." Tak looked at Zim "I was here once myself, they put my in cryo for dissection. Do you think they will do that too?" Zim shook his head "Hell no, if Dib says we are OK, we are OK. Like it or not." Then a wall slide open and in stepped Darkbootie. "Hello, we are now allowing you to walk around the base, only because we have contacted the Resisty and we know your place against the Irken invasion. We will know go dig up some research about the object you wanted to know about. Please note that if you try anything guards will shoot you. Your firearms have been taken to reverse engineer." As dark bootie left Zim and Tak quietly went outside. As they walked a computer monitor turned on. "Zim? Tak? Is this thing on?" "RAYMOND!" Zim said as he ran over to it activating the camera. "AH! There you are, I guess you already heard about our communications with the SEN. Luckily they have plenty of information in their archives about the cube like object. How are Dib and Gaz?" Zim bit his lip thinking about his father but Tak said it for him. "His father was shot by sniper scope from a skyscraper and right now he is shell-shocked." Raymond looked concerned "Wow, how is her right now?" Zim stated "I was actually going to see him, he is in a room down this hallway actually." Raymond nodded "Well good luck." The monitor turned black as Zim continued down to his room he motioned for Tak to stay as he opened the door and closed it.

There on the bed was Dib without his boxers covered in sweat. "Dib?" Zim asked and Dib sat up, no glasses on his face. He turned to Zim with a blank expression showing no emotion. "Dib?" Zim asked again just as Dib brought his water bullet pistol aiming at Zim between the eyes. Zim could still see the sweat forming and dripping off his head. "I could have saved him…" Dib said, his expression unchanged, he wasn't groggy or tired but he certainty knew what he was doing. "Must be a sedative again." Zim thought as he pushed the gun away. "Dib please, he was shot there was nothing we could do. It was an Irken rifle, Irkens can withstand blasts like that including fire, that sniper was to dangerous for him." Dib aimed the gun back at Zim's face, he showed no reluctance to pull the trigger. "Please Dib, stop doing and start thinking." Dib reluctantly took the gun away before sitting down rubbing his eyes "It was all my fault." Dib said muffled into his hands. Zim blinked then patted him on the back. "It isn't Dib, also he is still alive." Dib looked up, still a blank expression with tears in his eyes. "How?" Zim pointed to Dib "You Dib, he is still alive in you. You are his clone, his exact replica. You may not realize it but you are already filling his boots." Dib nodded smiling a little "Your…your right…" Zim looked to Dib "Yes, you are Professor Membrane now. You can work through this." Dib nodded. Zim got up. "And Dib…puts some clothes on." Dib smiled wiping the tears from his eyes. As the door closed behind Zim Dib thought "Yeah…filling his boots." Then a blue spark appeared on his hand. "What the hell?" he said to himself quietly. As he concentrated again the blue spark appeared to be larger. Then it spread to his other hand shooting back and forth. There was blue lightning on him and it wasn't hurting him. He thought a little and saw a lamp. As He stopped the lightning he unscrewed the light bulb and set it on his lap before activation the lightning. He watched amazed as the lightning picked up the bulb and activated it making a yellow light. He gasped as the lightning stopped and the bulb broke. Dib shook it off before putting his clothes on.

Zim walked down the hallway to the simulation room to see Gaz sitting in the park. Once he entered he could hear her crying on the bench and joined her. "You OK?" She shook her head and Zim threw an arm over her shoulder. "Its OK." She shook her head "No its not, O never spoke to him often, I never said I loved him when I knew for sure he did love me." Zim threw an arm over Gaz "it's alright Gaz, he still loves you. Where ever he is now." Gaz sniffed as she hugged into Zim collapsing. Zim hugged back into Gaz comforting her. "Are you pregnant Gaz?" Gaz sniffed and looked up to Zim. "What?" Zim repeated. "Are you pregnant with my seed?" Gaz sniffed looked down nodding and Zim sighed. "Are you prepared for this?" Gaz sniffed nodding "I want the child Zim." Zim's eyes widened "I want to have our child." Zim looked into Gaz's serious eyes. He sighed sliding into the bench with her. "Are you sure? I don't know if this baby will even be born correctly, we will probably have to perform a c-section." She looked a little concerned "Will it hurt the baby?" Zim shook his head "No, if it is done professionally. Honestly I would trust Raymond of the Swollen eyeball Network to do it." Gaz was silent before speaking again "Are you sure it won't hurt her?" Zim looked in suprise to Gaz "Her?" Gaz shook her head "I don't know how but I think it's speaking to me." Zim was about to talk but he heard a overhead speaker. "Would Dib, and Gaz, and the Resisty fighters please come into the cafeteria for presentation." Zim looked at Gaz then smiled "Lets go."

In the Cafeteria as Darkbootie, and a hologram of Raymond, also on the stage was a podium with the cube on it under a glass box. Darkbootie began "We have no idea what the cube is made of, or who made it but is seems to be very primitive. But we have uncovered it's purpose." With this Dark bootie took off the glass box and started pressing the sides of it till the little lines that separated every small panel on it started to glow a deep red. Then all the doors in the cafeteria slammed and locked shut just as the cube made a giant red field of light and the hologram of Raymond was frozen, Gaz checked her cell phone and it too was frozen. Zim then looked over to GIR and he was also sitting in a very calm manor, very unusually. Then Darkbootie pressed some buttons and the red field disappeared in a flash and everything was still frozen. "It is an E.M.P device, strange how it shuts down any device but leaves it running like a printer. As he presses four more buttons a blue field appears then vanishes and all devices are running again. GIR shook his head and looked at Zim "Tacos?" Zim shushed him and they looked back to Darkbootie. "Whoever wanted to use this obliviously wanted to neutralize some kind of device to what, use it?" Zim raised his hand "Question. How did you get it to work even if 777 had taken it from you?" Darkbootie shook his head "777 didn't take it, another Irken did, also I have to say we had actually found the device in many pyramids on earth, there are quite many, the one that was stolen was the most preserved one even though it was broken. We did actually put a tiny camera on each one of them and we saw how 777 fixed it so we followed in suit." Skald then a hologram of Skald appeared. "After I fully decoded the delivery pad we had figured out the location it was sent to, it is a planet called Xuion." Zim's eyes widened, Xuion was so familiar to him, but he couldn't place his finger on it. Xuion was a neutral planet, it wasn't even a planet itself, it is actually a giant Irken ship that had been disposed off and aliens had made cities on it, it was a city of sex, booze, filth, crime, and disorder. There was no chance to fix it, because nobody cared to fix it. It would be the perfect place to do deliveries that could be illegal. "To be safe I will arrange a Resisty squad to investigate the whereabouts of the area the delivery was made. I will also go but we will only have to be armed with pistols, the inhabitants aren't exactly used to military." Soon the holograms faded and Darkbootie said "You all will stay here until he has results." Zim, Gaz, and Dib nodded while Tak asked "Why do you think the delivery was made?" Darkbootie shook his head "I don't know."

Purple sat at the chess table again staring at Red's empty chair, he was thinking of Red knew the risks when he was going to destroy the mini-bomber. He just couldn't wrap his head around why he did it anyway. Purple looked across the room to a mirror to look at himself. "look at me," he thought ",Red as been dead for at least few days now and I'm still obsessing over him." He then looked to the file Zim gave him and grunted "I have to know. He took the file and inserted it into the computer, soon he set it to decode the files for him to read. He then sat back down in the chess chair looking at the empty seat across from him.

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