Shout out to anonymous reviewers: Thanks for finally joining Waffles of Doom and not letting him/her be the only regular reviewer! Thanks, Waffles! To Tazer42, I already have that planned out! You'll just have to wait and see! XD To the signed in reviewers, I already replied to you, so there ya go! Anyway, now to the story. Also, you know how the POV is 3rd person, but still kinda switches between focusing on Zim and Gaz? Well, today we have a guest star! Who is it? The first word of the actual story should tell you.
Gir watched his master and Gaz talk about being gay. For the few seconds he could actually manage to focus on something, he thought it was pretty funny. After a moment, he forgot what was so funny and started rolling around in his little bubble. It was really fun!
He liked being back on his home planet, though he really missed Earth. They had so many fun things, like tacos, and pigs, and burritos, and TV, and tacos, and doom, and tacos, and his little dog suit, and waffles, and tacos, and taquitos, and...stuff.
"WOOO! WOOO!" he screamed repeatedly as he found out how to make himself bounce around in his little ball, but his master didn't hear him, he was too busy being angry at Gazzy. He was always either angry or laughing evilly.
Actually, he had been angry at Gazzy for 1,000 years! Gir remembered the countless times Zim had told him he was going out for a bit. When Gir had asked him where he had been going, his eyes got all angry and he said that he had been training to defeat 'The Gaz-beast.'
Gir stopped bouncing and looked at them, grinning at each other. He grinned too, wondering why they were so happy.
Then, they suddenly jumped at each other. They were going so fast, Gir couldn't even see them half the time. He started giggling. Then his giggles turned into gentle laughter. That laughter got louder and louder until he was laughing so hard his head was coming loose.
By the time it fell off, his master and Gazzy both became distracted. Zim sighed. "Not again," he muttered. Gir kept laughing as he remembered laughing his head off during the six-month journey from Earth to Irk, making Zim stop on the nearest planet to get him fixed. He laughed harder.
"Gir, what is so funny?" his master asked, clearly annoyed. Gir saw his body feeling around the bubble for him, then once his head was back in his own hands, he turned to look at Zim.
"I dunno," he said, trying hard to stop laughing.
"Oh, come on," Gaz said, annoyed. "How many freaking interruptions will there be? It's starting to get really annoying."
"Just be patient, Earth-stink, I'm as annoyed as you are." Zim said, leaning over the side of the ship at the edge of the clearing. There were a few clinking sounds, then Zim appeared with a few Irken tools.
He walked up to Gir, who had calmed down, and held him, bubble and all, in front of his face to examine the damage. He sighed.
"Alright Gir, I am going to have to open the bubble to fix you, which means you'll automatically shut down because of the magnetic field."
Gir looked up at him. He didn't like shutting down very much. It was a lot different from just sleeping. It was like dying, then being reborn with his old memories in place. It was scary, because since he was artificial, once he shut down, he was just nothing.
He whimpered, thinking about what would happen in a moment.
"Don't worry, Gir, you'll be alright." Zim said, crouching down. "Are you ready?"
Gir hesitated, then held up a finger as a signal to wait a minute. The top of his head slid open, and he reached in and took hold of a rubber pig.
He held it tightly, then nodded, staring sadly into Zim's eyes. He could tell that his master was trying to hide his sympathy.
Zim nodded, pressed a button on the outside of the bubble, and Gir's world went dark.
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When he came to, everything was different, and everyone seemed to be in a panic. Despite the fear he felt, he grinned.
He knew his master would never let him down.
Another note: Sorry about the kind of short chapter. It went a litte different than I though it would, but I like it! Hope you do, too!