Why do my animal cookies taste mint? *shrug* Well, since I just updated there are no anonymous people! Yeah, a few signed in, but I reply to them privately. Soooo... HERE WE GO! (I'm not going to do the 321 thing again for fear I may blow up something important)

Zim led the way in front of 'Deafy,' as Gaz had called her. His unnaturally keen sense of smell led him along the trail where he knew there may be some wild vegetables and some small rodents.

"So," he said after a minute of silent walking. "I'm guessing your name isn't Deafy."

"No," she said after a moment. "It's Kamaletanga. But you can call me Kama."

"Alright then." Zim wasn't one to be all that polite, but he couldn't stand the awkward silence, so he said, "What are you doing here, anyway?"

"I was about to ask the same thing."

"Er...you first."

"Okay... Well, do you promise not to tell Lord Gaz?"

"Are you kidding? I wouldn't tell her if the forest was on fire... That would be quite funny, wouldn't it?"

He suddenly realized that they had resorted to their own foreign language.

"You know Irken? I thought Gaz made the universal language English."

"See, that's the thing. I took an underground Irken language class. Some people try to preserve our culture without Lord Gaz knowing.

"Well, I was kind of stupid and got caught speaking it, so I got banished. I couldn't find a ship to use to get off of the planet, so I panicked and took refuge in the forest."

Kama looked down at her uniform. "I guess that wasn't the best idea I've ever had."

"Well, I would suppose not." There was a moment of silence.

"Can I just say you are the tallest Irken I have ever seen?"

"Well that's very kind of you to say."

"Not at all, it's the truth."

For an Irken, that was the greatest of compliments.

"We're nearly there." Zim said suddenly.

"Nearly where?"

In response, he pushed aside some leaves and let Kama pass through. She blushed and tried to hide it, but with Zim's keen sight, he saw it easily. He looked at her curiously, but just decided to let it go.

Kama gasped as she took in the scene. There was a small, glittering waterfall, surrounded by low-hanging branches full of fruit and the small rabbit-like creatures.

"Amazing," she said quietly. Zim nodded slightly in agreement. Kama manually opened her dysfunctional PAK and took out a small canteen. She went to the waterfall and started filling it with Irken water. Zim went around in super-speed, catching three of the small animals and killing them quickly.

Kama turned and almost dropped her canteen, but caught it in time.

"What... how did you...?"

"How did I what?" Zim replied, holding the dead animals in one hand while picking fruit with the other, being sure to avoid the purple ones.

"How did you catch them? They move so fast!"

"I guess I have a way with animals."

"Poor things had no clue you were going to eat 'em, huh?"

"Heh, yeah." he looked at the sky and quickly calculated how long they had been there. "We'd better get back. 'Lord' Gaz will be getting angry about now." he said her title mockingly.

"Why do you treat her like that?"

"Like what?"

"Like she's a nobody? She's the overlord of the universe!"

"Yeah, well, she's not the overlord of me, that's for sure."

"How is it possible that you can be so free?"

"Simple." he started walking out of the small area, Kama following behind.

"I just live by my own rules."

I was going to post this before school, but then I had to leave so I didn't have time to edit it. So, here it is, six hours later than it would've been! Yay! Also, is Kama a word? My internet-spell-checker thing says it's not spelled wrong...