So, I'm trying guys, to get these chaps out. They're not getting typed up as I write it down but they are getting typed up. Sorry about the last chap, had it typed but I kept forgetting to post it. But of course it's up, or this one wouldn't be going up. Lol

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Chapter 6—Madness!--

Rachel's P.O.V....

"This is utter madness! I can't believe I talked you into this!" I exclaimed, my head hitting the tale in front of me.

"It's an organized madness though," Wren laughed at me.

"Organized? It's not organized! It's madness! Madness!"

"Madness you say?" Curt drawled as he came up to our table in the main dining hall.

"Yes. Madness!" I threw my hands into the air.

Curtis and Wren laughed as my hands thumped back down on the table as my head hit with a thunk.

"Is this any different than any other time we've taken on crew?" Wren asked after a while.

"We're actually more organized than the other time we took on new crew," I muttered, my head still on the table.

"So, don't worry about it," Wren chided. "This is a very well controlled chaos."

"There is no such thing as controlled chaos," raising my head to glare at her.

"We've coined the term here," Wren said patting my head as she stood up and stretched. "The chaos will calm down before you know it. Right now though, I'm over due for my bed. Who has duty on the bridge tonight?"

Curtis' hand went up and he wiggled his fingers at her to confirm he was. Wren nodded to him and said her good-nights before heading for the lifts. We watched her go before I sighed.

"Too much happening," I muttered looking at Curt for a few moments.

"I know Rachy," he said and held his hand out to me. "Come on. I have a couple of kakes before I have to be on the bridge. Let's go back to your room and we'll snuggle till then."

"Can we snuggle and watch a movie?" I asked taking his hand.

He smiled, pulling me up and into his side. "We'll even have popcorn and maybe I'll crawl in bed beside you after my shift."

"I'd like that," I sighed leaning into him and resting my head on his shoulder.

Wren's P.O.V....

I ran my brush through my hair amazed at how long it actually was now. It started out at my shoulder blades. It was almost mid thigh now and still going. It had thickened too almost to the point of being bushy. 'Not sure if I really want to cut it shorter," I thought, laying my brush down on the table beside my bed.

Leaning back to rest on my elbows on the bed I thought back the last few kakes and frowned. Things were getting much more difficult and this threw a wrench into the cog works. This new enemy was going to be had as hell to beat or even defend ourselves from. And even if they didn't attack us and were just going after the Irkens then it was still a problem because they were part of our crew.

I didn't want to scare anyone either, but Bez was angry and terrified after the video was reviewed. Flashes of memories not my own had flooded my mind. Memories of pain, loss and a feeling of failure.

Bez had been so young when the others were destroyed trying to get away from the barbarian creatures that thrived on the death and destruction of the others. They had destroyed not only the living ships that created Bez's family, but the fully symbiotic crew that originally grew with the ship. The symbiotic beings that were now extinct because of the attacks.

'I am so sorry about your past Bez," I thought to him caressing his mind with a mental hand.

(It's the past, gone and dead,) he grumbled.

'Never gone, never dead' I hummed and gave him a mental cuddle 'I'm not gone. And I'm not going to die until I'm old and comfortable. You're still here and we're family now. Not gone.'

He sighed and curled up within my hug only slightly soothed and mollified. He gave a caress back and I smiled.

Standing up from my bed I began to get ready for my shower. I was just hoping CADIE didn't mess with the shower head again. I'm not sure how she got peanut butter into it to block it, but I didn't want it to happen again.

Sighing happily under the spray of warm water, I relaxed each muscle one by one and hummed with pleasure. That is until there was a beep floating into the bathroom from my front door.

'Who is it?' I thought to Bez and I began wet my hair.

(Zim, he seems nervous.)

'Let him in, he's one that I like to see at any time of the day. Wonder why he's nervous?'

(Not sure, but are you sure you just don't want to give him a peek?) Bez teased.

"Shush you," I growled playfully out loud.

"Wren?" a very confused Zim called.

"Shower!" I called back, grabbing my shampoo.

Zim's P.O.V....

My mouth went dry. 'Shower?' I thought. 'Do I go in and talk to her or wait till she's done?'

"Get in here already. The glass is blocking from my shoulders down to my knees," she said almost like she read my mind.

I slowly made my way toward the bathroom. As I entered I swallowed thickly and spotted the shower right away where I knew she'd be. And, I admit, like the male I am, I scanned the shower door and was disappointed that she was right and I couldn't see more than her shoulders up and her knees down. But I was quite intrigued to see that the stripes that adorned her feet did travel faintly up the back of her legs. And I still wanted to know just how far those stripes went.

"What's on your mind?" she asked bringing my attention back to her face.

"I had an idea to increase space for the new arrivals," I replied as I watched her wash her hair. I was amused at how straight it was when wet. She definitely looked a lot different without her hair fluffy.

"Oh?" she started rinsing out the shampoo while looking over her shoulder.

"If you were willing, I could give up my room to Lak, Grace, Jace, Min and the two smeets. I t can be split to allow them more private space. They already spend enough time in each others' rooms now that it would free up just a bit more space."

Wren frowned in a cute, confused way. "Where would you move to?"

"In here?"

She looked a little more confused. "Move in here?"

"If you don't mind that is... I know we haven't been together for very long but.... I mean, if you're not ok with it..."

Her eyes lit up. "Mind? I'd tackle you if I wasn't nude and sopping wet!"

"Well, the wet part I would care about, but nude. Now nude, I think I could enjoy that. I could enjoy that a lot," I purred at her.

Wren stuck her tongue out at me and giggled. "You're not getting me nude buddy, not yet at least."

I just grinned at her as she continued to wash her hair.

"Do you think the others would mind?" Wren asked a slight frown on her face.

"Rachel and Curtis?" I asked myself, confused.

"No, the other four. They just got settled down in their rooms not too long ago."

"I can go ask them now if you want."

"Ok, that can work. By then, Bez would probably have everything of yours moved over here."

"You still want me to move in regardless?"

"Duh," she smiled as the shower turned off. She began to wring the extra water out of her hair. "We know our pace and moving in won't force anything between us." She shifted just a little and pointed to a towel on a hook as she opened the shower door minutely.

I reached over and handed it to her as she wrapped it around her hair after drying her face. She took the second longer towel from my hand after I offered it to her. She dried off as much as she could before stepping out of the shower and smiled up at me.

"Do you want to ask Bez or do you want me to?"

"I'll ask," I hummed, raking my eyes down her form. "I'll do it on my way to the others' rooms. That'll give you enough time to change and what not."

"Ok," she murred with a smile. "Off you go then. No time like the present. See you when you get back?"

"Of course," I said as I swooped in and gave her a quick kiss.

She began to purr and sighed as I pulled back. "See you soon."

"Mmhmm..."

I started out the door with a grin on my face.

Rachel's P.O.V....

I blinked as I watched Zim walk down the hall with a grin plastered onto his face. Curious, I tilted my head to the side then knocked on Wren's door to see what was going on.

"Wren, let me in!" I sang.

The door opened to reveal an almost mess of a room. "What the hell happened to your room?"

She was sitting in the middle of her bed with a blush. "Well..." she hesitated.

"Oooooo..." I giggled. "This is going to be good!" I walked in, missing and dodging CADIE and GIR moving things about. Some of the items looked like Zim's. Especially the boots on top of the pile of stuff CADIE was carrying.

I hopped up onto the bed and scooted toward her to sit across from her. "So.... might as well spill it!"

She sighed but smiled brightly. "Zim wondered if it would make things a little easier on a few people if he gave his room up. He asked if we could move in together."

"Nuh uh! You're kidding!"

She shook her head with a smile

I began giggling. "Finally! You two are so close! I can't believe you haven't moved in together earlier. He spends enough time in here to basically live here."

She stuck her tongue out at me and scrunched up her face. "Shush you. Has Curtis moved in with you yet?"

"Moving tomorrow actually. He gave his room to his secretary and his mate," I replied.

"Really?"

"Yeah, we talked about it today. And when he talked to Klarl he was actually speechless."

Wren laughed. "That's an accomplishment. He almost always has something to say."

"That he does," I laughed.

Wren and I jumped only slightly as GIR offered both of us a mug of a chocolate drink. Thanking him, he giggled and went back to cleaning and organizing.

"He kissed me," Wren said into her mug after a few moments of watching the two SIRs.

I blinked at her. "That was random."

"Yeah, it was," she smiled turning her gaze from CADIE to me. "And right now I feel so damned girly for gossiping."

"We haven't done this for a while though. And, never about things like this. You never had any before in school either. So that was your first kiss, huh?"

"Yeah...." She blushed scarlet.

I started to laugh. "You really have fallen for him, haven't you?"

"Yeah, I have. He makes me happy. I feel like I can do anything as long as I have him to back me up."

"Not a passing feeling is it?"

"How do you feel about Curtis?" she questioned back.

"You two are the weirdest couple," I said completely ignoring her question. I smiled broadly though and moved to give her a hug without spilling either of our drinks. "But I'm happy Wren. You deserve to be happy and have someone strong like Zim beside you. He needs someone just as strong but just as sensitive like you by his side. He's changed so much since he's been with you, that if I wouldn't have known him as the same Irken that we met at first on that slave ship so long ago. I'm sure your family would be fond of him if they knew him too."

"Do you think he and I are moving too fast?" she worried her bottom lip with her teeth. The odd canines that weren't visible majority of the time making their appearance now.

"Do you feel like you are?" I asked. "Because I don't think so. It's been a galactic year or however we measure years since the abduction and since we got to know Zim. So no worries." I added and gave her another hug. "Start worrying again and I'll hit you with my notebook, got me?"

She laughed. "Yes Ma'am!"

We both started giggling after and started talking about just about anything random. We watched GIR and CADIE as they put more things away and finished cleaning. They both flopped into a heap after they were done.

"Cookie?" CADIE asked after a minute or so.

"Cookie!" GIR confirmed.

They both leaped up and squealed. "COOOKIIIIEEEEE!" before running out the door. Zim peeking in after they left with a raised brow. "Is it safe to come in."

"Yep!" I grinned. "Just stopped by for some girl talk and a cup of chocolate something or other. I need to go and get ready for bed. I's has morning shift!"

Getting off the bed carefully I waited as Wren downed the last little bit in her mug and took it as well as mine into the sink. "We're going to have to do this again!" I said walking backwards toward the door.

"Definitely," she nodded with a smile. "Later Rachy."

"Later Wren. Night!"

"G'night"

"I skipped back to my room humming happily. I was extremely happy that Wren was going to be ok.

Narrator....

"GIR, CADIE, and Rachel all in the same room? I'm surprised it's not wrecked," Zim teased as he walked into the room.

"Rachel and I talked mostly and watched as the SIRs but things away," Wren smiled back at him, sliding to the edge of the bed with a yawn.

"Put things away?"

Wren stood revealing that she was wearing one of his shirts to sleep in. It came a little above her knees and she was blushing only slightly as Zim blinked at her.

"Yeah, putting things away. You're room arrived only seconds after you left. You don't mind, do you?" she motioned to the shirt she was wearing. She was nervously fingering one sleeve that came almost to her fingertips.

"Not at all," he replied a little thickly, mouth just a little dry. "I think it looks better on you personally."

She stuck her tongue out at him a little and made her way past him to go to the bathroom. On her way back out a few moments later, Zim was waiting with a towel over his should and a set of clothes over one arm.

He leaned down to give her a quick kiss. "I'm going to go ahead and take my shower before coming to bed. Go ahead and lay down."

"Okay," Wren smiled happily and kissed his chin. "Take your time."

"Won't be long," he said and caught her as she began to walk to the bed. "And Wren, you can wear my clothes at any time you want. You look beautiful in them."

Wren blushed, hiding a small smile behind a sleeve. Zim moved her hand and kissed it before kissing her cheek. He headed into the bathroom and she turned to the bed. Crawling in she snuggled deep into the covers. She smiled for what seems like the millionth time that day and sighed happily before dozing off to the sound of the shower running and Bez's random thoughts running through her head.

Curtis' P.O.V....

"Don't tell me," I said looking at the three Irkens who had invaded the Bridge from the Personnel Carrier. "You want a room change. Couldn't you have waited at least a day or flin or something?"

"There has to be more space on this ship to give us more room!" one Irken growled. He was of moderate size for an Irken with an almost puke color green for his eye color.

I groaned inwardly really afraid of what the hell he wanted. His stance already made me want to punch him. "You do remember that you agreed to take what room you were given and that you would wait patiently until other rooms were available, right?" I asked calmly.

"That doesn't mean a thing! There was supposed to be more room on this damn ship and there's less room than where we started!"

"You'll get space when we have it available. We do not force the expansion of the ship," I growled. "And if you keep it up, I'll ask Bez to take his grand old time expanding."

"Where's the Captain of this ship then? I want to speak with the Captain!"

"The Captain is sleeping right now."

"Then wake her up!"

"She will not be woken up unless it is an emergency," one of the crew men from helms said. "She worked a fourteen kake day today and will not be disturbed."

The Irken who was causing so much hassle turned to the helmsman. "And who asked you?" he growled. "And I don't care how long she's worked, wake her up or I will."

"You wake her up," Briaanaa, a Sharshan crew member said from her position at comms. "And the Captain won't have a chance to throw you out of an air lock because I will."

"And who do you think you are? Second in command?" he sneered.

"No," she said standing from her laying position. Briaanaa towered over him a good foot, foot and a half. "I am the acting comms officer and loyal crew member under the Captain. And I will not allow some unhappy prat, to wake her up just to bother her with something as trivial as there is not enough space."

I listened to them bicker and just sat back watching the two that had come in with him. They twitched nervously and fidgeted. "Do you two really care about space? Because if you do, you can gladly join dumbass over there with possibly getting tossed off this ship if it keeps it up."

"Not really sir, I just came in to ask when I could get on a duty roster. Followed him because he knew the way here."

"And I just wanted to know if I could continue my training in the medical field because I really didn't want to be an Invader," the other said. "Followed for the same reason."

"Which makes everyone's life easier," I sighed. "The roster should come out in the morning. Check then because it's a little more difficult to get a roster going than people think. And if you were to go to Med Bay now, and ask, I'm sure they're willing to start you at anytime you want to start. Even now if you really want to. I'm sure they will let you. The Med Bay is always happy to take on more help."

"Thank you sir!" they both gushed before hurrying out the door.

I turned my attention back to the fight between Briaanaa and the new idiot crewman. I was startled to see a few other bridge people holding her back. Which was quite a feat since she was quite a large, strong Sharshan. I stood, towering over the new Irken to the ship and came up behind him.

"Crewman Briaanaa, hold yourself like a Sharshan warrior," I commanded taking a stance of authority. "Do not disgrace your fighting record with this scum. His cowardice would tarnish your standing and shame would follow you."

She stopped and stood at attention for her race. She bowed to me. "I apologize for my behavior sir. I lost my head, a shameful act for a warrior of my status. I will return to my station now."

"Thank you Briaanaa. Your record is whole with no mark, no sign of a tarnishing will be seen," I nodded to her then turned my attention to the other crewman. "Now crewman," I growled.

He turned to me and looked started that only moments ago, when I had been sitting, he could look me in the eye. Now he was looking me in the chest and wasn't quite sure what to make of the situation."

"Now crewman. You are going back to your room or where ever you are staying to calm down. I will relay your wishes in the morning to the Captain, but I believe nothing will be done until the rosters for work are done. We will be sending crews out on scouting missions of the asteroid field and the ships will be fully manned so there will be space on the ship. Shifts will soon be acquired and you should be able to move with a little more freedom and a lot less crowding. That you for your visit and we appreciate that you brought your concerns to us. Good day crewman."

"But...."

"I said good day," I sat back down and watched as he stormed off the bridge.

"Should have let me throw him off the bridge," Briaanaa grumbled from her spot not even looking at me.

The helms officer beside her snickered and I just had to join in.

Next couple of days....

"Well," I said. "Good news last."

Wren smiled wainly. "Bad news it is. All hell is breaking loos on this ship."

"Like we haven't already noticed," Rachel muttered nursing her fist in the unharmed hand. She had punched one of the new crew for trying to attack one of our crew on board.

"Tensions are running high and our crew can only handle so much before they're going to snap," I said grimly. "And it's all because of that damned Irken who's been trouble from the start."

"I noticed that," a Sharshan officer said with a frown. "Questioned everything and refused to listen to any officer that wasn't Irken. And sometimes didn't even listen then."

"He demanded to see you every time I saw him," Grace said frowning herself. She was leaning against the table, chin resting on her fist and elbow propped again the table. Every once in a while she would tap her nails against the table with her free handle.

The four had started coming to the meetings after being asked by Wren to join. She wanted other opinions besides ours and we had no problem including them since they had helped in several cases and had taken care of a few things themselves.

"Should just kick his ass personally," Lak muttered with a huff, crossing her arms across her chest and leaning back in her chair. She looked as if she would have kicked her boots up onto the table if we wouldn't have been in a serious meeting. "Kick his ass then ask questions later."

I watched as Wren's eyes lit up in what could only be one of her brilliant ideas. "Uh, Oh...."

"I think that would be a great idea," she said slowly. "That's why I like having you in our meeting Lak!"

"Kick ass now? Ask questions later? Can I kick his ass?" Lak asked excited.

"No..... Let him challenge me for command with a fight."

"I don't think so," Zim said stepping into the conversation. "You are not fighting him for that."

"you think I'll lose?" she asked raising a brow.

"No... but he is an under handed fighter."

"Aren't all Irkens?" one of the Irken officers asked.

Zim frowned. "Damn you, did you have to bring that up? You have me there."

"I think it would stop all the hassle at the head. He's the main cause of all the problems," I said. "Knock him down and the rest will follow."

"Are you sure?" Min asked looking up from the vid she was writing on.

"I'm pretty positive," I nodded to her.

"Then maybe see about broadcasting it across the ship," she offered.

I nodded as I looked toward Wren. "That would help prove who's in charge."

"That's how we proved it with the Tallests," Rachel added.

"That and you scared the shit out of them," one of the head nurses said with a smirk and a slight shift in her chair."

"Quite literally," another officer chimed in.

"Then someone can set up a date or something after I throw the offer out there," Wren nodded to the table. "That is, if everyone's in with this. I want the truth too."

Several people voiced that they were concerned with her safety but if it was the only way that they were going to respect her then that's what she had to do."

"Now, who's ready for the good news?" Wren asked with a grin.

There was several murmurs and quite a few announcements that they needed good news.

"Well, first I'd like to say that the 'Raroduen' is halfway through with completion. I checked on her yesterday and was amazed how far they actually were done."

"Yes!" Lak whooped.

"Not only that but the 'Raroduen' has inspired them to create a new class of fighters for Bez using many of the techniques that they created with building the 'Raroduen.' Not the same floor plans mind you. The techniques to build it."

Several congratulations floated through the room toward Lak, Grace, Min, and Jace. And so did several questions of if they were allowed to see it after it was completed.

"And the second bit of good news was that our scouts have actually found something in the middle of that asteroid field. Something that was completely unexpected," Wren said gathering the attention back to her.

"Don't tell me!" Rachel falsely gasped. "It has a rich chocolatey nougat!"

"No more potatoes for you before meetings," Wren scowled as everyone laughed. "No chocolate. They have actually found a preexisting space station in the center of that field."

"Oh joy, don't tell me. There's also aliens on board too," I moaned. "One's that we have no clue about at all."

"Bingo," Wren said.

"What sort of aliens?" An officer asked hesitantly.

"Well, it seems to be the race has the exact same DNA as the skeletons we found when we escaped," Wren said seriously.

"The cat like skeletons," Rachel asked.

"We found the original race?" Zim asked.

"We'll find out soon," Wren said. "I'm to meet with the leaders within the next six kakes."

A little shorter than the others but that's ok. It's still a chap, right? I do have a surprise. Invader Lak (my reviewer and fellow author, not the Irken) has written a little snippet for one of my chaps that I will be using because it was just that awesome. It was going to be in chap 8 but I had to push it to chap 9 because I didn't want chap 8 to be so long. So chap 9 is the one that focuses on the snippet.

I also have a picture of Grace done (not colored because I'm horrible about things like that) and I do have a sketched out picture of what Wren would look like. Something like a character sheet or something..... Anyway.... I also have a picture of that creature they were describing in the last chap. And I will post if if I get reviews, or hell, just for the fun of it.

I really need a tablet for my pc so I can color my stuff on the computer because the colors are totally screwy when scanned.

That's it for now. Thanks!