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Chapter 14 -Shippy Go Boom!—

Wren's P.O.V….

Zim and I were just finishing up the connections of the last wires to the main power cord. The fool amazingly had a small welding laser with him in his pak.

"Why didn't you escape with that?" I asked when we had started

"Let's just say I forgot I had it." He replied with a sheepish smile.

My answer to that was to roll my eyes and shake my head at him. "What? Ego got in the way of brain function?" I asked ginning afterwards.

"That was below the belt." Zim said mock glaring at me.

That only made me grin more and soon we had connection was finished. Only a split second after that the core blazed to life. It swirled with blue`s, greens, golds, and purples. Throwing light in every direction and splashed the walls with color. A soft comforting hum came forth from the core also sounding like heaven to my ears.

I started to purr with pure joy. "That is one of the best sounds to hear right now," I said softly, tail twitching lightly.

"I'd have to agree." Zim said glancing over at me. "Though I've never heard a ship sound like this."

Rouk pulled my hair, "We have to go. Peoples might come really soon. We have no clue how long the repairs actually took."

"I know, I know." I said swatting at her paw. "Let's head back to the bridge." Turning around I started toward the door at a jog. I heard Zim follow and soon he was right on my heels.

Getting to the lift I sighed happily. Instead of sitting on the floor to control it with wires I could use the controls. Which meant less sheets sliding off and revealing more than I want to show to even my closest friend. And well…. Zim really wasn't in that category yet. Soon we were off to the bridge cutting my line of thought just a bit short.

Rachel's P.O.V….

James and I stopped kissing suddenly when we heard a squeal from behind James.

"Awww! James and Rachel sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love, den comes marriage, den comes Rachy pushing a baby carriage." The same squeally voice sang.

James and I sprang apart quite quickly as I looked over and saw GIR singing and dancing to the song in his oh-too-chipper voice. I blushed a deep crimson when I saw Wren and Zim slide down the floor. Zim caught Wren at the bottom and looked a GIR with a confused look. Wren had about the same look on her face.

"Um….I think we can explain." I said still blushing.

Wren rolled her eyes, "Not now." She rushed over to one of the chairs leaving Zim's attention on us.

"But I gots them on video!" GIR giggled.

"What!" I yelped.

"I got yous tapedded." He said happily and the top of his popped open. A huge screen somehow came up and the image on the screen was of me and James making out.

Wren turned at the noise of the video and her jaw dropped. She covered her mouth with a hand as her cheeks flushed red, eyes wide. She stood quickly and walked over to GIR, whispering something to him. He screamed, grabbing Rouk while on the way, and shot up into the lift. We could hear him screaming all the way down the lift.

Wren looked at us and raised an eyebrow. "You really need to find a room to do that in you know." She smirked and crossed her arms over the chest, tail lashing lazily. "And you're lucky I'm not going to tease you about it." She turned about and went back to the panel she was working at.

I shifted nervously not even able to look at Zim to see what he was thinking. It was embarrassing as hell to get caught making out. Not only making out but making out when we really needed to escape. I never felt so embarrassed in my life.

"Everyone, hold on. This thing's going to wake up and it is not going to be happy." Wren said after a few minutes of tinkering. She moved to flip a switch with her foot.

Suddenly everything started to vibrate. The floor started to move and everything started to shift. The slant went the other way and everyone except Wren slid, hitting the opposite wall. Then everything shook violently like it was in an earthquake. I know several times I lifted off the floor and almost slammed back into the door frame before grabbing ahold of a bar that jutted out from the wall.

Wren's P.O.V….

The shaking continued until I pushed a few buttons and flipped a switch. Pushing what remaining bones were on the chair off after the shake I sat down. A low growling, groan sounded and resonated throughout the bridge. It ground through my bones and made my teeth ache.

"What the hell was that?" James asked helping Rachel to her feet.

"That," I said looking over my shoulder, "was the ship waking up. It is almost like those robots with AI's from those shows we used to watch Rachel. And I told you it was not going to be happy." I stood up then, shook my self and adjusted the sheet around me trying not to notice the blood stains all over my front. I moved over to another panel and pushed a few buttons causing the ship to move with only a little tremor.

"Alrighty," I said with fake enthusiasm, "say sorry to the nice pile of bones and push them off their chairs. Sit down at a chair and be prepared to take orders."

Everyone gave me odd looks but walked over to a chair without question. Unfortunately for us, Rachel sat at the middle one that controlled weapons. This was bad, because she really couldn't aim worth crap.

"Thank the gods it is not James though." I thought with a happy, barely audible sigh. "He could be a little too trigger happy."

Since there were only three chairs I had to stand. But by my calculations where were only supposed to be three control chairs at this stage. Each chair had a different station and function. James was in the pilot/navigation, Rachel weapons/communications, and Zim was at the system controls/defense.

Suddenly the ship started to shake again and I had to grab a hold of the back of Zim's chair. "Calm down!" I shouted at the ship. "We are not here to harm you! We need to escape or all of us will be killed."

The ship stopped shaking and gave another long growling groan. Inside my head there was something close to a flash and snap. It was like a breaker going off and I winced at the sensation, unsure of what really what had just happened.

(I trust before.) A child-like voice said to me. (They betray!) The shaking started again.

"We won't betray you. I won't betray you. I would never betray you" I said out loud clutching the side of my head with one hand while trying to steady myself with the other. "We just want to live. We want to find home."

(Then you use me!) The voice screamed. This time to all of us and causing us to wince. The ship threw its head back. Sending a roar forward and sending me flying back into the wall with a hard thud. I had a feeling I was going to have a fairly fantastic bruise on my back from this.

"It's not like that!" Rachel shouted.

(They betray everyone! They betray me!) Another bellow roared through and the head shook again.

"They betrayed you, yes, but not everyone is like that!" I thought quite loud mentally. "We want to help you escape! If these people outside of the ship get in you they will do worse than betray you."

Everyone winced as the ship shrieked mentally and physically, (How you know that?)

"Because they took us from our homes and captured us!" I hissed out between my teeth trying to calm the throbbing in my skull.

"I was betrayed by my own people too." Zim said quietly. "Just like you, but I trust these people. Even James, which should be enough to commit me to the Insane Asylum planet, but I still trust these people. Maybe you should judge us when you know us better."

The ship stopped suddenly. Everyone looked at Zim and he just glanced at us. "It's true though. Wren trusted me before we really knew each other."

I blinked and asked, despite the mood of the moment, "They have an Insane Asylum Planet?"

Zim never got to answer because the ship calmly stated, (You right. I learn more about you before I judge. But I will destroy if one of you betray.)

"Thank you." Rachel said, though a bit reluctant.

(No thank me yet. Your life rests on me.) it replied with a low, rumbling vibration.

The connections with our minds broke and the presence of the ship was almost completely gone except for a slight pressure in my mind. Everyone looked at me as if asking what I was going to do about what just happened.

"Ok," James said, "what was that?"

I sighed heavily and shook my head. "Oy…" I muttered standing up slowly while straightening the sheet around me. This sheet deal was getting old. I couldn't wait till I was in a real pair of pants again and a shirt. "That was a very cranky and distrusting bio-mech ship."

"Ah. And I'm guessing more of an explanation later, escaping now. Right?" James said and turned to the controls.

I just shrugged and headed toward the controls again. Then I gave them all a crash course in what the buttons and stuff did in front of them.

"Wow! So if I push this button…" Rachel said and proceeded to do so before I could say anything. The side of the other ship blew out.

Loose materials and many of the smaller ships were thrown out into the inky blankness of space. I only caught of glimpse of what seemed to be the bodies of those soldiers we had fought.

I smacked my forehead, "Oy…that happens…" I muttered.

"We are never letting her have weapons again." Zim said and glared playfully at us.

"Why not?" Rachel asked pouting. "I won't blow us up."

I started to snicker at her when suddenly, without warning, James pushed the ship's forward controls. I didn't expect it of course so I fell backwards onto Zim's lap. Rachel started to snicker at me as I glared at her. I glared at James too and snarled, "I will get you back for this James. You will pay for this so bad."

Suddenly I started blushing at completely realizing where I was. Tensing up I knew the color of my cheeks were at this point the color of Zim's eyes. I also knew I was so going to get teased for this later on.

I noticed as James slowed down the ship that we were clear of the slave ship. I noted a little bit of debris from where the ship was damaged but not a lot else. It seemed they had some sort of automatic field to protect against this sort of thing but it was hard to say from this angle. James swung the ship around so that we were facing our old cell and I got a better look at the damage.

James turned to look at me with a shit eating grin. "Have a nice trip?" he asked knowing he had done something crude and that I didn't appreciate it at all.

"I swear I'll get you back." I snarled resisting the urge to launch myself at him just to gnaw his head off.

"But I thought you'd like it." He said pouting.

I started to reply while shaking my fist but stopped when Zim suddenly moved the chair so he could look at the scanners. I grabbed the chair arm and his arm to keep from falling off his lap. I almost did fall off when suddenly a small alarm started going off, startling the crap out of me.

"Seems our friends wanted to give us a going away party." Zim said wrapping and arm around my waist to hold me still. His other hand hovered over the scanners.

Rachel looked at the window and clicked her tongue. "How thoughtful of them! I don't think we want it though."

"Most likely not." Rouk said dragging a hog tied GIR behind her. We jumped as we looked at her and she studied me with a steady look. "Not going to even ask. But anyway… If you don't want your guts to be frozen, shattered, and lost all over space, I'd advise getting our asses out of here. Or at least we should defend ourselves."

"I'd have to agree. I'm more willing to survive and get revenge than to die." I said with a Cheshire cat grin.

A tremor ran through the ship and Zim looked back to his monitors. "They are firing at us. Luckily, there is no damage yet."

"That's good." I said and started to push myself up out of his grip. He released me and even gave me a small push to get me up. I memorized the feel of his palm on the small of my back guiltily, knowing that this might be one of the few times I'd ever be this close to him again. I moved over to his right side and swiped my hand over a pentagon shaped crystal. A small part of the room behind us shimmered and a hologram appeared. It was like live TV, but just outside and we were in a life and death situation.

"Hm…" I said as I walked around the image studying it.

The ship shook again, but I steadied myself and glanced at the others.

Zim looked at his panels and pushed a small button. Suddenly the window darkened in front of us and it was pitch black on the bridge. Internal lights cut on and to our amazement the tremors stopped.

"What did you do?" James asked looking over at Zim.

Zim shrugged and replied, "Shields," as if it was nothing.

I giggled. "I forgot about those."

"How could you forget about them?" Rachel asked glaring and she threw a notebook at me.

I caught it and stuck my tongue out at her. Another notebook came out of nowhere and hit me. "What was that for?" I whined as James and Zim laughed.

"For catching the first notebook and then not remembering about the shields." She said.

"You're evil! I will black mail you big time!" I growled at Rachel.

"I have blackmail too."

"What?"

"Pictures of you in your pj's." she said.

"Hell no!"

"Then behave." Rachel chuckled.

"Fine. Let's just get back to the subject at hand and find out how to stop that ship." I said with a sigh. Looking back at the hologram and narrowed my eyes. I walked around it to the other side looking at that just as critically.

"I have an idea." Rachel said bouncing.

I rubbed the bridge of my nose. "Oy…any idea is better than none." I muttered. Looking up at her I asked, "What's your idea?"

"You'll see!" She replied and took the controls in front of her. She took aim at the enemy as her new pet chattered nervously on her shoulder.

"Oh crap…" I muttered, "I forgot to tell her that this ship has only two weapons at this stage of development and she's using the biggest, most dangerous one."

"And that is?" Rouk asked quietly as she watched me grab a hold of the back of Zim's chair.

"Remember the Giga-Sonic Cannon?" I asked nervously.

"Yeah…." She replied, "Oh shit…she's using that one?"

"Bingo. The one that could destroy a whole…" I started to say but was stopped when Rachel let the charge of the cannon go.

I could imagine when the ship looked like now with the wings of the ship extended to their full length. The webbing between them stretched to full stretch and started to collect energy from the space around us. The body grew ridged and the tail released small wings to collect more energy. Amazingly when the head pulled back no one moved an inch. A glowing, pulsing ball of light began to develop at the back of the ship's mouth. It grew with each pulse. The head then came down with a snap and straightened the neck like a poll releasing the ki like energy ball.

The ball hit the ship dead on. It entered one side of the ship and exited the other side.

"Good shot!" James shouted congratulating his girlfriend.

"My aim was off." She said blushing. "I really was aiming for just an engine not the main power source."

She stood up and pressed a button to draw back the fans and wings. She then looked out the main window.

I really hadn't been paying attention because I was looking at the sensors to see if she had hit what she had intended to. The words 'main power source' hit me like a wall though. I looked at the sensors panicked.

"Oh shit!" I yelped leaping forward to make sure I was right, but hoping I was completely wrong.

Everyone jumped and looked at me startled.

"Get us the hell out of here! NOW!" I shouted to James, "That ship is going to go and take us all with it if we don't move out of here now!"

James turned the ship with a jolt. He pressed two buttons and flipped a small switch like he had been flying the ship for years. "Hold on people, this is going to get a little bumpy." James said.

He carefully, but quickly pulled Rachel onto his lap as he flipped another switch. The ship shot forward causing me to begin to fall into Zim's lap again. And though I was quite unhappy with how it kept happening a little part of me was quite pleased with the events. The other ship exploded behind us and I completed my fall onto his lap. I grasped Zim's shirt as the ship shook with the force of the dangerous explosion. In pure, almost forgotten fear, I clung to Zim for dear life burying my head into his shirt. He hugged me closer as I began to cry. It was like, in that moment, we were waiting for our lives to end.

A little here and there added to this chapter. I know it doesn't seem like a lot but I do quite like redoing these chapters. I can't believe how much I've actually forgotten of the story.