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Chapter 27—"Save her, or I'll kill you personally"—

Wren's P.O.V….

"W-w-we…we…" Red started to stutter.

"Spit it out!" I roared.

"We aren't in this!" he whimpered.

James picked Rachel up in his arms. "You are in this," he hissed. He passed Rachel over to Zim with only a moment of hesitation. "Care for her as if she were your's," he murmured to him.

Zim nodded, "I will James." He adjusted her carefully in his grip as one of the spider legs from his pak took his weapon which was still trained on the Tallest Purple.

James' P.O.V….

I pulled my weapon from its place on my hip and brought it up even with my shoulder. The rod turned into a long bladed katana and as it grew the point came extremely close to Red's face. "You did this. Save her, or I'll kill you personally."

Red gulped nervously, his eyes going between me to Wren, "We can but if you kill me, she'll never live."

I narrowed my eyes, "She doesn't live, none of you will."

Red glanced at Purple out of the corner of his eye, "Purple, call the medics here quickly. Tell them to get here fast."

Purple nodded and motioned for one of the other Irkens to make the call. Only a few seconds later a medical team skidded to a halt into the room with a type of hover cart.

Wren shifted her weapon to point at the sudden entrance.

"Uh…sir?" a shocked medical Irken asked as a crackling blade came inches from his face.

"The girl in Zim's arms," Red said motioning carefully to him, "She needs a serum quickly."

The medical attendant blinked, "That's Zim?"

"Yes, yes! Quickly get the girl to med lab for the serum!" Red almost shouted.

"Yes sir!" the entire medical said as they rushed to Zim.

I kept my blade level with Red's face. "Good, Zim let them take her. We'll follow and if anything happens to her or the rest of us. I'll make sure your blood is spilt."

I watched out of the corner of my eyes as Zim place my Rachel on the hover cart. They started to move out the doors quickly. Wren, Zim and finally I followed them out.

Narrator….

The Irken medical team dashed Rachel to the med lab. Her breathing was becoming more erratic. It wheezed from between her lips as sweat beaded on her forehead causing her hair to be plastered to her face. James, Wren, and Zim were quickly following with worried looks on their faces.

"Damn, damn, damn!" Wren thought, "I should have never asked them to come. I could have come with Rouk and the two spheres, but nooo…"

The Irkens took Rachel down a long corridor and made a very sharp turn right. And Irken stood in the doorway before the other members of Bez's crew could step through to follow Rachel.

"Sorry, you cannot enter past this point," he said slightly nervously.

James growled as he stepped toward the smaller Irken, "If you don't let me pass, I'll make sure you will be the next laying on a bed in that medical bay."

The Irken gulped and side stepped to let them pass. "I'm going to be in a while bunch of trouble for this," he muttered to himself while wringing his hands.

As they entered into the room they saw that the medical team was in a panic to get the right serum to reverse whatever was wrong with Rachel. Tests and many other things were happening in just a few moments. A type of breathing apparatus was attached over Rachel's nose and mouth. That wasn't the only thing attached to her though, so were many other monitors. But it seemed she was slipping faster than anyone expected her to. Her face was much paler now and her breathing so much shallower than even before.

James thankfully hung back only to stay out of the way, knowing he couldn't do anything to help Rachel now. But the doctors seemed to hurry under his gaze afraid to know what would happen if they didn't save the girl on the table.

"I found it!" an Irken shouted after only a moment or two later, "I found the trace poison and we have the serum on hand!"

Several cheers were heard throughout the room. Wren and Zim let out a sigh of relief but James narrowed his eyes. "It's not over yet." He thought, "Even with the serum she has a long way to go."

A doctor came over with the serum and looked at Rachel a little confused, then panicked. "Where do we inject it?"

"You don't know?" a nurse asked eyes wide and fearful.

"No! Their anatomy must be very different from ours. I have no clue where to inject it!" she replied even more panicked.

Wren leapt forward without thinking and snatched the vile. Strangely Irkens had the same needles as humans and she filled the syringe with air. As the tip of the needle entered the vile she glanced at the nurse beside her.

"How much of this do I need?" she asked injecting the air into the vile.

"F-fi-five crest," she stuttered out a reply.

Wren looked at the syringe and then back at the nurse with a frown. "Fill to the fifth mark on the syringe? I'm not familiar with your measurements."

The nurse nodded and watched Wren filled it to where she thought it was supposed to be. She glanced at the nurse once again and found the nurse nodding to her. Wren took the needle out of the vile and walked to Rachel's side. She held out her hand and immediately a small container was placed in her hand. She looked up to the Irken that had given it to her.

"It's an astringent," he said.

She nodded as she sprayed the solution onto Rachel's arm.

"Wren, are you sure you know what you are doing?" James asked finally speaking up.

She chanced a quick look at James. "Pretty much, I've never done this on a human though."

"Hurt her any more…" James snarled.

"I know James, I know," Wren snapped, "hurt her anymore and it's my head."

"At least you know that if you kill her, I'll kill you."

Wren snorted and looked back to Rachel. One of the Irkens had tied a band around Rachel's upper arm and as Wren tapped to get the vein show itself she sighed. Quickly she slid the tip of the needle under the skin and into the showing vein. Nodding to herself as she knew that she had it in right she injected the serum slowly.

After removing the needle she held it out as someone took it from her hands. She took a piece of gauze that a nurse was holding out to her and placed it over where she had just removed the needle. Deftly she secured it with an adhesive and she stepped back.

"That was amazingly done," the nurse who had taken the needle and given the gauze said.

Wren scratched the back of her neck, "It really wasn't anything."

"Are you sure you've never done that before?" another asked with admiration.

"Yeah, never done it before and I hope I don't have to do it again," she replied with a weak smile and slightly pale complexion.

"Are we going to have to set up another bed for you?" someone asked. "You look like you might faint."

Wren gave a weak laugh. "I'll be just fine. Just have to catch my breath and calm my nerves a bit."

Wren watched as Rachel's breathing, heart rate, and brain activity dropped suddenly. She started to relax and managed to sigh around all the equipment as a steady bleep of a monitor showed that everything was going to be fine. She smiled weakly as the color started blossoming in Rachel's cheeks again.

Zim walked over to Wren and smiled, "A person of many talents?" he asked.

"Apparently," she replied shakily, "I never knew I could do that."

Zim frowned suddenly, "Are you ok?"

"I will be here in a few moments," Wren smiled softly up at him. "I just really hate needles."

He smiled softly at her and looped an arm around her shoulders to give her a quick hug. Both their attentions though were brought to James as he snarled.

"Someone's going to pay for this," he hissed as she walked to Rachel's bed side.

"I knew they would try something," Zim said frowning.

"We all did," Wren sighed resting her head on his shoulder. "I should have come alone."

"You should not have," Zim countered. "This isn't good but it might have been worse for you, would you have come alone."

"We don't know that," James said taking Rachel's hand in his. "If there is another attempt at this though, I'll make sure they feel it for generations to come."

"I'm not waiting for another attempt at this," Wren snarled. "I'm going to make sure they never do this again."

"You can't kill them Wren. We pretty much just finished a small treaty with them. If we broke it now we'd be worse than them," Zim said trying to sooth Wren's temper which had rekindled now that Rachel was in the clear.

"Oh, I'm not going to kill them, that would defeat the purpose," Wren grinned viciously. "I'm going to scare them so bad they'll never want to piss me off again and mess with anyone that has any connection with me."

She turned and started out of the room, sure that James would be enough to protect her incapacitated best friend. She stalked out the door with Zim following close behind. He wasn't sure whether he'd actually want to save the Tallest from Wren's wrath or not at this rate. But he wasn't below watching a good show. And curiosity was killing him with how Wren was going to scare the Tallests into submission.

The doctors and nurses looked at each other while those two left the room leaving James at Rachel's side.

"I almost feel sorry for our leaders…" one of them whispered to another as they walked through another door to the other side of the medical bay leaving one of the nurses with Rachel and James just in case they needed anything.

"I do too! These people are scarier than the Tallests ever have been! Even Zim seems transformed from the time he's been away," another whispered back.

"He's one Irken I wouldn't mind bedding with."

"Honestly! How can you say that? This is Zim we're talking about! He destroyed half of Irk!"

"I know, but look at him! So tall and yummy! I'd be exiled from the Armada with him any day!"

"Honestly?"

"Unless he's taken you know."

"Do you think he's taken?"

"You never know. He's been gone for ages. I mean, look how tall he is now."

"Who do you think he'd be with? He's definitely not with the two in the other room; they seem completely devoted to each other."

"How can you tell? She passed out."

"The way he's sitting by her side. It's total devotion."

"I wish I had someone that devoted to me."

"You and me both."

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