Right smack-dab in the middle of a big project. Since I have a week to do all the pages I have left, I thought I'd take a short writing break! No, not break from writing...well... you know what I mean...

GREENis my fav color: Well I sure didn't know! Hmm... that reminds me about one time when I was little my mom, sister and I were driving and there was a slow car in front of mom and she yelled, "GET OUTTA THE WAY, YA OLD FART!" *Sigh* good times.

Quel: Hi, Steve! Hi, Cal! Hi, Quel! XD Ooh, cookies! *nom nom nom* Mm, good cookie.

After Zim got Kama to wake up, they walked along the path of broken twigs and crushed leaves that showed Gaz had definitely been stomping around there. Kama walked alongside Zim, staring up at him, and looking away quickly when he looked down.

Suddenly, they heard a loud cry.

"SHIIIIIIT!" It was definitely Gaz. Zim started to run, but stopped when he heard a gasp behind him. Kama, in that short time of trying to catch up to him, was completely out of breath and way behind him.

"How... do you run... so fast?" she said in between pants. Zim just shook his head and instinctively threw her on his back, then ran. He felt her arms cling around his neck for dear life and felt extremely glad he was almost indestructible now, or she'd have choked him to death for sure.

Kama felt her cheeks grow warm and she smiled dreamily, momentarily unaware of the danger they were most likely in at the moment.

Within 30 seconds, they skidded to a stop at the edge of a hole. Zim let Kama slide off his back, and stared wide-eyed at the scene before him. Then, as Kama looked horrified, he started laughing so hard tears came out of his eyes.

Gaz was suspended in mid-air by ropes tied to her wrists and ankles. She scowled intensely as her cheeks flared up.

"How... how... ha!" Zim couldn't even get out a sentence. Kama just stared on in horror for a moment, then said, "Gaz, my lord! How did this happen?" She looked around to see if there was a way to help, but the ropes were up much too high.

Zim calmed himself down forcefully. "Yeah...Gaz. How... how DID this happen?" he said in between giggles.

"Stop giggling like a school girl and help me."

"Can't... you get down by..heh... yourself?"

"Well I'd rather not be mauled by those spikes down there." Zim looked down in the hole and saw that there were sharp wooden spikes, sharp enough even to cut into their tough skin.

"I fell in that hole, which was completely hidden, by the way, Giggles." Gaz added. "Then before I knew what was happening, I was up here."

Suddenly, the bushes behind her rustled noisily and short Irkens walked out. Zim was surprised to see that they were clothed in leaves, grass, and feathers. Gaz grunted in annoyance.

"Who keeps putting these freaking PEOPLE in the FOREST?"

"Hmm..." Zim pondered something for a moment. He cautiously walked up to one of the people, who was dressed the most colorfully, probably the leader of the others. He spoke to him in Irken, and was glad to see that the leader understood and spoke back.

Zim nodded while listening, then raised a brow as if he didn't believe something the leader had just said.

"What?" Gaz said impatiently.

"He says that he set the trap for food and that at first you didn't land on the spikes because they didn't put those in until after you were caught by their ropes."

"Can you tell him to let me out?"

"Well, he said he wasn't willing to because..." he trailed off, then started laughing again.

"WHAT?"

"He... he said you... were a p...prize to his... village because you are so... soo..."

"What! Out with it!"

"BEAUTIFUL!" He burst out in heavier laughter. "AS IF!" He managed to say. Gaz scowled.

"Enough with this shit." she let a burst of her black flames run from her wrists and ankles to the ends of the ropes and started falling. She took hold of the rim of the hole, swung her feet into the wall of dirt, then turned over, doing a complete flip with her hands on the edge of the hole and her feet in the air. She landed on her feet by the rim of the hole, her arms crossed.

The villagers seemed mystified. They all got down on their knees and bowed to her. Kama joined them. Zim just laughed even harder.

"Shut it, Giggles, before I make you." Zim calmed down, wiped a tear from his cheek, and rolled his eyes. He stood up and asked something to the leader in Irken. The leader nodded eagerly, then started walking away, gesturing for them to follow.

"What?" Gaz said.

"We're going to their village."

"And WHY are we doing that, exactly?"

"Maybe they know their way around this forest. They can probably lead us out."

Gaz let her arms fall to her sides and walked after the villagers, head held high, refusing to lose her dignity.

Zim tried to hold in his laughter. Kama followed after them happily.

Yet another surprise to deal with.