Chapter 13
Planet Xuion
Raymond and a few other Resisty soldiers had landed in Xuion's docking bay, pretty much the only thing working on there. As Raymond got out he stared up at the clouds that separated ground from space, the clouds were purely made of pollution. All Raymond had on him was a standard Irken pistol, all of his teammates had Irken pistols, the individual's of the planet didn't take kindly to Irken military, even Resisty militia. The planet had no sun the only light to go by was the lights from bars, floodlights from buildings, mood lights from behind blinds, and many various Christmas lights that hung from one building, over the street, to another. Raymond walked with his four teammates in the middle of the street, despite the fact there were no cars, everybody walked. Xuion had rain too, but it was red and didn't affect anybody, even Irkens. As they walked, screams could be heard past a few blocks, cries of agony could be heard to the right. In the flock of moving people in the middle of the street Raymond hoped he could one day do something to save them. Then as he passed an alley he saw the sight of one Irken beating up a Vortian. He was using some kind of lead pipe swinging it down like the hammer in a carnival ring-the-bell game. Raymond couldn't stand to watch it, he ran up to the Irken and sucker punched him in the face, as he fell back he beat him with the pipe in the face for a whole minute. Then he threw the Irken and Vortian blood stained pipe down. Then he heard a cry and turned to see the Vortian smiling evilly and sinking his knife into the Irken's throat. He turned back to Raymond looking astonished and ran not even leaving a thank you. "Why?…" the Irken asked "Why…did you let him do that?…now I'm dying…he stole from me my wife's life and you let him kill me? Why…." Then the Irken's eyes went pitch black. The only evidence something had happened was the fact Raymond saw it. Feeling guilty he turned and began walking to the location once more again.
On Earth Zim walked in to Gaz with hot chocolate. "Carefully, don't want to hurt the baby." Gaz gave Zim a look "Zim, don't be a father figure, especially not now. In the future you'll have plenty of time for that. But for now don't get protective over me…that's Dib's job." Zim plopped in a few marshmallows into the cup as he handed Gaz her cup "I know but I'm a little excited you know? It's not really an Irken's job to have offspring and if you do get an offspring as an Irken it is considered a privilege. Never a curse, but it still as a responsibility. But the baby may have some of your Meekrob powers like you and Dib." Gaz looked up from her drink "Dib has powers too?" Zim nodded "I think, he hasn't been out of his room all day today but I hear no weeping.
Dib concentrated as the lightning sparked again and he managed to pick up a pencil holder before it dropped to the ground scattering the pencils across the ground. Dib always had a scientific curiosity, when he learned he could do this his mind exploded with the possibilities. He concentrated again and looked at his torn jacket, he grunted and the lightning went to the jacket and something happened.
Soon Raymond and his team were now in a dark corner of Xuion, you see part of it is sex, booze, and drunkenness but here, there is very little light, here most murders are committed but silently. Raymond looked around, through most blinded windows he could see some people staring out between the gaps looking at them. Raymond also looked around, they were the only ones in the street. Then a rumbling came from above and he saw lightning. "I know this rain doesn't affect us Ray but I don't wanna get wet." One of the soldiers said, and Ray felt the first red drop on his neck. "I agree," Raymond replied ,"the location isn't far from here. In face it's right-" he then looked at the apartment building that had various debris around it. "Here." He finished and then the red rain began to pour down on them all, Raymond and the soldiers ran inside the main lobby of the apartment. It had Irken blood on the walls and a few pistols that are empty scattered the floor. "What happened here?" one soldier asked. "it may have been a gang hang out until some one came here, another replied. "Question is who." Raymond said quietly. As they climbed the stairs every apartment door was open, revealing dark rent rooms where one or two bodies were in each. Then they found one that was closed with a special computer keycard lock. Raymond smirked and pulled out a jammer and confused the computer into letting the door open. Inside there was a single lamp still on, but it was knocked over on the floor, across from it in the kitchen Raymond saw more dead bodies, each with a pistol in there hand. As one soldier went to investigate them Raymond looked on the small table in front of the couch, on it were files about the weapons and the cube, quickly Raymond stuffed them in his coat. "Hey Ray! Look at this!" Raymond ran over into the kitchen to see the soldier looking at the dead body. "You see this?" the soldier then yanked off a necklace from the body's neck. It was a necklace of the Irken symbol, like Zim's…like Raymond's. "It's an Irken military necklace." Ray breathed and he took out his lantern to inspect it. "It looks brand new, which is strange considering he's dead. Then the body came to life as he plunged a knife into Raymond's shoulder grabbing back the necklace. The Resisty soldier tackled him only to be shot in his chest. As the Resisty soldier fell back the Irken aimed his gun and shot him two more times in his chest making sure he stayed down. Raymond took out the knife and threw it at the Irken causing him to lose his weapon. Raymond then sucker punched the Irken which made him hit the metal wall. As the other two Resisty soldiers came in the Irken had kicked Raymond out the screen door on to the patio, the red rain made it look like the sky was bleeding. From the inside he saw the Irken snap one Resisty's neck, while he plunged the knife he found into the other's eye. Leaving Raymond and him, he stepped over the broken glass into the red rain, Raymond could see him look up and close his eyes, inhale, and exhale before opening his eyes again with his gun in his hand. He aimed and fired, hitting Raymond in his other shoulder. Raymond cried out but jumped out of range of the last battery that flew out at him. While the Irken was reloading he tackled him back into the apartment, the red rain covered them both, Raymond then yanked the necklace off of him again and then repeatedly stabbed him in the chest. Raymond stood up looking at all of his Resisty soldiers and the Irken on the ground "He kinda looks like Zim." Raymond thought studying his features. Then Raymond went into the bathroom and turned on the light, his face was covered in the Red rain which reminded him of Zim when they found him on Locker 26. He wiped it from his face and pulled up his communicator and said "Skald, get me out of here."
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