Day 4, 11:53 with Dare!

It's almost midnight. Tomorrow, we're going to pack up our stuff and head home.

I still couldn't really sleep. I guess I just have insomnia or something. Or maybe... Is it that I don't know why Zim loves me?

It's a pretty logical debate; I'm human and Zim is Irken. I have NO IDEA why he's fallen for me!

I just don't know.

I sighed deeply in my bunk.

I scented something hostile, and familiar.

I got out of my sleeping bag and looked outside. Two red eyes flashed at me. It was the cat that I had treated last night, still bandaged up.

I went outside to say hi. This time, I put on my leopard print overcoat that I came in.

"Hey! I haven't seen you in a day, huh?" I greeted.

She tilted her head up, almost like she wanted me to follow her. "OK, but I'm not wandering too far," I said.

The cat led me through some trees and into a small clearing. I looked around but saw nothing that looked of any importance.

I looked down at her, but she looked at me with much sorrow and apology. I was about to ask what was wrong, but...

"I finally have a worthy hostage."

It was the voice from the cell phone.

Tak.

This cat that I had helped:

That was Mimi.

I had helped an enemy. And this was probably part of Tak's plan, too!

I couldn't hear where the voice was coming from, there was too much of an echo around me. Mimi sank back into the trees and I couldn't see her. But that night, that wound was for real! I could sense it!

From behind me, I felt a sharp needle shoot through my spine, electrocuting me. That's one of my pet peeves: being electrocuted like an animal.

And it's one of my weaknesses, too.

When I'm shocked with as much force as that, I fall onto my knees.

And can't get up until the shock is interrupted.

I would have shapeshifted, but I... Couldn't... Feel anything.

I crashed onto the ground, not dead, but halfway there. I couldn't move; the jolts was still scattering across my body.

Tak started laughing. Mimi looked up at her, trying to tell her to tone down the power. But Tak didn't notice.

That Irken reject took out something that looked like a throwing star, but she held it up to me, and it caught me in a net. It was made of some kind of Irken fiber and I couldn't break through it. I finally felt the shock leave my nervous system. I could move, but I can't get out now.

I turned around and tried to face Tak. Again, Mimi was acting mercifully to me, but she did and said nothing. All Mimi did was stand behind her master and lost her cat cloaking device.

Tak took out some kind of Irken weapon.

Oh wait, it was only a rusty metal pipe; like that ones you see in horror movies.

I closed my eyes and prepared for my murder.

It never came.

The pipe came at my face, and hit me upside the head. I lost most of my consciousness.

The consciousness I had left, though, made me listen to Tak commenting evilly to Mimi.

"You did it, Mimi," she said, "Now you've regained my love for you as a SIR; but I will never think of you any more than that."

Tak grabbed my net and dragged me onto a puny Irken ship. I looked at Mimi, but I'd never think of her as a traitor at all.

As I heard, she just wanted to be loved, like any living thing in the universe.

My eyes suddenly fell heavy and I drifted to full unconsciousness as the ship lifted off the ground.