Chapter 16

The Real Enemy

A beeping woke purple up, he snapped to wake by suprise as the computer told him the data was finally decoded. He got up from the chess table and walked over to the computer. He tapped it and begun to read the files, the first interesting thing he noticed was notes about Vort's core. This interested him.

Zim was at Vort's core, all the other Irkens were dead by his hand. He stood motionless and then rose one hand with 777's disc in his hand. As this happened a panel rose from the floor and showed a larger disc which fit the door's lock. As Zim inserted it he could hear gears from at least 100 years old twist and turn.

Purple's eyes scanned the documents talking about the center of Vort, how Skald had been forced to design a door for it and 777 had helped with Green's twisted experiments.

As the doors opened Zim's eyes flashed as he saw the black Irkens reaching out for him. When he opened his eyes again he saw hundreds of pillars arranged on the walls, ceiling, and floor. As he stepped in a robotic arm lowered a remote device to Zim. It showed the numbers of cylinders which it had the choice of activating. As he chose what it read as: POD 87 it rose from the floor and lit up. Zim quickly crossed over to it's location and witnessed something happening. Two sides of it separated and then a quick rush of fluid came out and an Irken body.

Zim stepped back a bit looking at the body, it had two metal cords sticking into it's back.

Purple read about documents Tallest Green had taken himself, about things he did while he was right next to him as a Tallest. It read he created experiments altering an Irken's genes, well not altering…duplicating.

Zim turned over the body with his foot at that the cords released from it, a flush of fluid and they slowly sank back to the machine. Zim gasped looking at the Irken…it was him! Zim felt sick and quickly ran over to the corner to vomit, this was a horrible first experience for him, he just couldn't bare it. As he got up wiping his mouth he turned back to the empty pod and…the body was gone. He could see a few foot prints of the body but they trailed off when the slime was now on the floor. Then he heard a vicious animal yell and turn to see a sharp fist sent into his face. He flew back hitting the wall. There he saw himself, barbaric, unorganized, and very brutal standing there naked and drooling Irken blood. Zim was about to grab the baton but then the other Zim pounced repeatedly punching his face. The baton quickly formed into a machete and he sank it into the other Zim's head. The other Zim groaned and fell on his back after rolling off Zim. Zim got up dizzy and he vomited again before something happened. He looked around and saw he was at the entrance…only he wasn't seeing through HIS eyes. As the view looked over to 777 modifying one of the pods he said. "777! How is pod number 563?" 777 turned "Almost done sir!" then Zim walked up to the pod and patted it then the words he spoke after he touched it chilled him. "Welcome into the world Zim."

Zim screamed, he was standing inside pod 563 just as it opened and he fell on to the floor. He looked up in the puddle of Liquid to see a Tallest standing over him.

Purple looked over the documents and now read about Green's murder by Zim. The document read how Zim was a second copy after a failure with the original prototype. It read how the prototype went clinically insane when he was tested in the games known as the Bloodsports and was killed by Tak. Afterwards the people who even heard of Zim had their memories erased or any knowledge of Zim, including Tak except one who survived in the Bloodsports. He was a personal spy for the Tallest while he was still alive. However then the second copy went Rogue and killed Green after a malfunction. Later the copy went into hiding and grew, but very soon the trail brain found evidence of Green's work being used by the copy and was going to send a trail against the second Zim then assaulted the trail brain, coded the memory and then had the trail brain shut down. That was the end of the article, Purple knew if the second had died none of this would have happened that anybody could have been the second copy. Then it hit him.

Zim saw Red, standing over him smiling.

"I have to tell someone." As he got up a gun fired and his him in his shoulder. Purple fell to the ground, he held his bleeding wound and looked up to see Red holding the gun, his face was horribly scarred and his outfit was unclean still tattered from the explosion. "Tell someone what?" he asked with a grin on his face.

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