A/N: JESUS! I'm sorry this was so late, it was a mix of medical health problems, writers block and laziness...go me! SoOOO sorry everyone! I'm sick right now so the ideas aren't flowing as well through my head so I kind of rushed through this chapter...that and I gotta pee LOL. I HELD IT IN JUST FOR YOUUUUUU. Not much else to ! Ok so I'm Irish and have a accent but try to tone it down during school so when I'm sick I can't really help it so all over people are asking me "Dude do you have an accent?" ANd I just nod and mumble, "I'm Irish, the only other thing you should expect from me is to destroy you if you come any closer LOL" Then my friend asked why I was so violent. My Answer: "Hey I'm Irish, we're violent get over it" XD anyways If you have any questions PM me and sorry about the bad spelling/errors in this chapter. I didn't proof read it.
I OWN NOTHING HUMANS! Except for my deliciously amazing Oc's~~*shot*
Review responses: Pshycochicken (BB best budday): Those three are doomed 0.o' No worries though...they end up surviving LOL. Cari is a stubborn relentless girl...so we'll see about the rest issue. As for Mia she's quite the nervous Irken in this chapter but can you blame her? You'll see why =3 but at least she's conscious right LOL. OY! Save some of that Arm for Me YA HEAR! Moon must be cooked to just the perfect temp. lol. HOPE YOU ENJOY BESTEST BUDAAY.
Book Casanova! How is you? Well? GOod, Jax is pleased with you and wishes to hug you...just as long as you don't violate him like tabitha did XD. Naw we all know he lurved it, even if he won't admit it! Dat boi got da hots for TABBBYYYYYY. lol. No, jax is just freaking adorable. Like a giant...manly teddy bear XDD doesn't that put a pleasent image in your head? XDDD. Zim says he doesn't think of you as a lesser 'pathetic human' since you think he is funny and adorable. He'll tolerate you X3. I'll PM ya back tomorrow! Sorry it's been soOOOOOO long!~
IR (Incredible Reviewer!): No worries, Zim's just a drama queen =3 EVERYBODY LOVE DA ZIM AM I RIGHT! I could squeeze him until he pops, no joke. I'm glad you thought the last chapter was funny. This one doesn't have too much humor in it but enough to at least getcha ta crack a smile *Awkward smiley face* LOL. Hope you enjoy this chapter and I can't wait to hear what you think! SOrry it was so late!
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Zim's POV.
Smack!
"Uhh," I groaned loudly feeling the sun's rays lapping over my face, encouraging my eye lids to pry open and survive another day. My face felt warm and the sun wouldn't stop seeping through the darkness of my eye lids to tell me to get up already.
After another minute of internal complaining, I finally built up enough courage to pop an eye lid open and look around at my surroundings. What I saw was honestly shocking. I was surrounded by pillows! SO MANY PILLOWS!
I heard another groan coming from somewhere else in the room and soon realized someone's hand had slapped my chest, startling me out on my internal complaining. I shouted in surprise and shoved the hand off of me while cowering into the pillows. I knew Tabitha was out to get me, but this was just unbelievable! Where'd she get all these pillows for Irk's sake!?
"Wh...What happened last night?" Someone grumbled not too far away from where I was stationed, staring at the EVIL hand in front of me. I again jumped in surprise when someone slid down next to me, head first, "Oh…hey, Zim…" Jax grumbled while half his body hung in the air, resting back against the pillows.
"Morning…remember what happened last night by chance?"
"Not a clue, I'm going to blame, Tabitha," Jax yawned and flopped over onto his stomach, "I feel like I was hit with a cruiser."
"I do too, maybe it's jet lag from when you and Tabitha freaking woke me up in the middle of the night."
"Not my fault," Jax said simply and closed his eyes again, "Well…ok part of it was my fault; I told Tabitha to find the remote."
"What?"
"…Never mind."
I shrugged and continued staring at the damn hand. It even twitched a couple times as I was watching it, "Where's Tabitha?" I vaguely heard Jax asked.
"I think I'm staring at her hand but I can never be sure…let's poke it."
"Wait what?"
"ZIM SAYS POKE THE HAND! SO YOU POKE THE DAMN HAND BOY!"
"OK, ok, I'm poking the hand. Jesus." Jax said through a groan while reaching forwards to poke the EVIL hand. It twitched when he touched it making him flinch and try poking at it again, "Yup, it's definitely Tabitha."
"How do you know?" I asked curiously while Jax grabbed Tabitha's hand and held it gently.
"She has a scar on this palm, I remember that from before you were teleported back to us and murdered. That and I memorized the feeling of her hands, they're so soft…"
"And you're totally creeping me out. So…wake her up, don't just stand there holding her hand."
"Technically I'm sitting-,"
"Smartass," I grumbled making Jax punch me in the arm and glare at me. I just gave him a sinister grin back.
"As I was saying," Jax growled and shot me another glare, "I'm GOING to wake her up, but I don't want you to be around when I do."
"Ok…why?"
"Same reason you don't want anyone around when you're waking, Cari up," My eyes widened and my face fell into an "oh" expression. A smug smirk then worked its way onto my face as I grinned at Jax, "What?"
"Nothin…give her kisses for Zim! Or Zim will have to do it himself and that isn't as pleasant to Zim as it may be to you."
Jax rolled his eyes at me and sighed, "Ok, Jax will give her kisses for, Zim…now away with you!"
"Uhh, but I'm fat, I don wanna move."
"Don't make me beat you with a pillow," He threatened and cocked an 'eye brow' at me to give me a serious, oh so intimidating look.
"FINNNNEEEE." I groaned like a teenager and rolled over grumpily, "Zim knows when he isn't wanted." And with that, I was crawling through an avalanche of pillows, trying to remember how I'd even ended up there last night. I remember waking up to Tabitha and Jax shouting at each other, then banging on their wall telling them to shut up, then the pillow fighting and Oniumare coming up to stop us but…Oh wait…never mind.
'Sad, I didn't even get my beauty sleep either, Tabitha is going to have to pay for that later.' I thought grumpily while crawling father away. I heard a squeal and a bunch of laughter back where Jax was before things went silent, 'Keep it PG, Jax.' I thought with a smirk while pushing my head up through a layer of pillows and seeing I was nearing the kitchen. Good…Zim wanted food anyways.
Laughter once again broke the silence of the warm room before more silence, "Irk, they're worse than Zim and Cari are." I mumbled to myself while rolling into the kitchen and landing on my bum, "UUHGGG, foooooddddd."
I paused for minute and looked around, nothing at the moment looked necessarily appetizing, but it was early in the morning so food was still a hazy subject in my mind at the moment, "UHHH, Tabitha! Zim requires your assistance!"
I heard another squeal, then silence before… "Uhh…Tabitha isn't awake yet, Zim! I'll bring her over when she is." I rolled my eyes and sighed.
"Suuurrreeee, Romeo Suuurrreeee."
"Who's Romeo?" Jax called back. My face dropped and I face palmed about ten times, 'stupid, Zim, Jax hasn't been to Earth before.'
"Same person as Ironio," I shouted back. Ironio was the Irken version of Romeo, so it was easier to distinguish him in my native tongue rather than trying to teach Jax the way of the humans…those DISGUSTING…VILE humans.
Jax didn't respond to me and things were silent so I only assumed they were enjoying each other's company a little too much. Oh well, it didn't matter to me, just as long as I was fed. Zim likes his food.
"HEY! Stop making out!" Someone else shouted making me jump, and I was in the kitchen. I spun around to see Oniumare, looking pretty tired as well, sulking towards the kitchen. A frightened Jax and Tabitha followed her, "You!" Oni shouted and pointed to a startled Jax, "Make food."
"We can make our own breakfast, Oniumare, Jax is one hell of a cook but we can't just force him to cook every time we're hungry." Tabitha said with lowered antenna.
"No I can cook for everyone, I'll be just a little slower since I'm kind of sore but I can still make food. You all just have to leave and do your own thing for about half an hour. Like maybe clean up that mess out there." Jax said with a small smile while grabbing Tabitha's hand to reassure her that he was ok with such things.
Oniumare's face fell into a scowl and she snapped her fingers while yawning, "Done." She said in an eerily calm voice before walking out of the kitchen and back down stairs, "Wake me up when breakfast is ready!"
Jax shrugged and turned his eyes towards me. When we made eye contact a small, immature smirk wormed its way onto our faces. Irk we were such horrible people, "Your gift was delivered," Jax said cockily while smirking over at Tabitha whom was yawning and leaning into him for support.
I cringed in disgust before forcing a smile on my face and nodding slowly, "It better have been. Alright, I'm going to mope around because you aren't yet cooking food. So until then, ta ta!"
Jax laughed behind me as I scurried away to get out of range so I wouldn't have to be around anymore romantic love bird stuff. That was me and Cari's job, sheesh.
Cari's POV.
"How much oxygen left?" I asked quietly, trying to regulate my breathing while I was packing up everything I could find.
"Less than thirty minutes," Jeb mumbled. I gulped worriedly.
"That's thirty minutes we have ta pack up everythin', hey kiddo, how ya doin'?" Vex asked Mia as they entered the room, big black bags slung around their shoulders.
"I'm nervous," Mia said quietly.
"No worries, I won't let ya outta my sight," Vex promised while patting Mia on the back and guiding her over to where Minerva was hauling two bags over to the escape chamber.
I hurriedly shoved canned food into bags and grabbed any clothes within my reach. We made sure Rae had her computer, Jeb his research, Vex his hat, Sky her special carved bone knife, Mia's favorite necklace Vex gave her after he made it with some access metal around the house, Minerva was packing her favorite guns and I was making sure to have my picture of Zim and I wrestling in the training room.
"Are ya gonna be ok kid?" Vex asked and put a hand on my shoulder while I was trying not to panic, it'd take a little while to get everyone up the escape route so I was feeling rather claustrophobic right about now.
"Fine…I'll be fine," I muttered while shoving another can of food into the bag.
"Why don't I take that fer ya?"
"…I'm ok, Vex…I promise. You ask me the same question everyday…I'm fine," I answered knowing he was just trying to relieve some of the tension between the whole party. In the past week there had been nearly two arguments a day. Mainly between Vex and Jeb, then I get involved then Rae gets involved then the other's join in just for fun…yeah it's NOT fun.
Lately Vex and I have been kind of edgy around each other but in my defense he's NOT my dad yet he continuously acts like an overprotective father…it just gets a little tiring after a while if you know what I mean. I am 263 now, old enough to make my own decisions.
Vex sighed, feeling the tension growing between us. I knew he wanted to go on some fatherly lecture about how he likes to know if I'm ok or not and how I should appreciate the fact that he cares but this time…he held back, "Ok." He muttered before walking away without another word.
Now it was my turn to sigh, it seems like I'm pushing everyone away when in the long run, I'm just trying to protect them and myself.
"Twenty six minutes left!" Jeb called through the small house/hide out thing. I felt my stomach drop, in about five minutes I'd be sending people up the escape route.
That's something we argued about. Who was to go first up the escape route and who was to go last. We argued for hours-Jeb, Vex and I- finally ending around 1 AM. The decision was made. Vex is the strongest so he is to go up first and help people out of the route while also making sure there's no danger around. Jeb is to go up half way through to make sure things are ok and I am to go up last, after Jeb. To make this plan work we'd have to send people in small groups, it takes about five minutes to raise each party of two to the surface. That's five minutes I didn't have.
"Start the first group going up!" I called while hoisting my bag up over my shoulder. My antenna were low, this place had kind of become like another home to me so the fact that it was now going to be all gone was a little unsettling.
"I am not goin' up first!" I heard an angry shout come from the living room. I face palmed knowing EXACTLY who was arguing and who he was arguing with.
"It's already been settled, or are you scared?" Jeb taunted as I walked out into the living room. Mia had her arm wrapped around Vex's arm, more nervous than ever before while Vex and Jeb were going at it again.
"I'll show ya what scared really is," Vex growled as his eyes furrowed into a deep glare.
"Bring it, pretty boy."
"Excuse me? I'm not the one puttin' on make up every mornin' just ta look pretty!" Vex snapped back and cracked his knuckles threateningly.
"Break it up!" I shouted. The two males didn't stop hatefully glaring at each other but they did stop arguing. Vex stopped only because he felt Mia's hand gripping his arm tighter, letting him know she was scared.
"Yer not goin' up last, Cari," Vex said frustrated at the people around him.
"It's already been decided Vex," I said calmly and seriously. I didn't have time for this.
"You'll die," Vex defended with a hiss.
"Vex," I said with low antenna, "Stop worrying about me. You are not my dad so stop acting like you are! You are the strongest so we need you to go up first! And I don't have time to be arguing with you about it. So stop acting like you have to watch my every step and get up the escape hatch!"
Vex's eyes snapped wide open and a small hurt look wormed its way onto his face. The whole room was deadly silent, no one even attempting to breathe, "Go, Vex," I hissed while walking over and pushing open the escape hatch. It looked just like an invaders elevator but just pure white and no light.
"Fine, yer not my problem anyways," Vex spat while pulling Mia along with him and a few bags into the hatch.
I stayed silent, taking the anger Vex was radiating and ignoring it, "You're right…I'm NOT your problem." I muttered under my breath while shutting the hatch door tightly and pressing the button to make it start lifting them.
"Cari we have eighteen minutes left…" Jeb warned while checking his wrist watch, "That's not enough oxygen to get-."
"Stop talking," I said calmly knowing very well what he was intending to say, "I'll figure it out."
"But…"
"Just get the second group ready," I demanded while looking away from everyone. Jeb nodded feebly while rounding up Minerva and Sky, making sure they were all packed and ready to go.
The elevator came back down about thirty seconds later and I hurried Minerva and sky in there, hitting the button to go up before they were even giving me the thumbs up.
"Eleven minutes left," Jeb said as the elevator came back down again. They had the most equipment and stuff so it took about three minutes to get everything into the elevator…along with them, "Cari…"
"Quiet, Jeb I know what I'm doing," I hissed angrily.
"But there's only seven minutes left…"
"It'll have to do," I growled while slamming the button in, sending the elevator up once again. 'Well…better hope I can hold my breath…' I thought anxiously while grabbing all my bags and putting them next to the elevator.
Vex's POV.
I impatiently waited for everyone to hurry up while starring at the terrain in front of us. We had about a mile of jungle then complete desert for Irk knows how long. And it was dusky out there; I could only really see the movement of the people as they came up.
Surprisingly even though it was dark, it was quiet warm, I was already breaking out into a small sweat just standing around.
I heard the hatch ding symbolizing the next party was up, "Here these might help," Jeb said quietly while tossing all of us some glow sticks. Mia squeezed my arm, indicating she was nervous so I sat her down in my lap and put a glow stick in her hands…not that it'd help though.
"Can ya see any light from the glow stick? Any at all?" I asked comfortingly. Mia sighed and shook her head in response making my heart sink a little bit. Poor thing had only been blind about a week and a half. This must be terrifying for her.
"Where's, Cari?" I asked calmly even though I could feel myself worrying. No matter how much we argued she was still my 'niece' and I adored her.
"I thought she 'wasn't yer problem,'" Jeb sneered back, making my hands clench into fists. He knew every last Irking thing that annoyed me and someone imitating how I talk…usually pushes me over the edge.
"Jus cause she ain't my problem doesn't mean I don care, dumbass," I spat back wanting to go and strangle him.
"Vex!" Mia said sharply.
"Sorry kiddo," I apologized while glaring in the general direction of Jeb's annoying ass voice, "So where is she…it's been too long."
A small light came on as Jeb looked at his wrist watch, antenna drooping sadly as he looked over towards the escape hatch, "She's been in there three minutes without oxygen…"
"What!?" I snapped, Mia flinching in my lap, feeling how worried I was.
"You can't say you weren't expecting this to happen…" Jeb muttered while sitting down by his daughter.
"Why the hell do ya think I wanted ta go last! Ya motherfu-dger…" I looked over at Mia knowing very well she'd snap at me if I cursed too badly, "I'm goin' back down there."
"You'll never survive but…be my guest." Jeb called back.
"DAD!" Rae snapped and whacked him upside the head. Good the bastard deserved it, "You are 312, start acting like it!"
"I am still your father and you cannot tell me what to do," Jeb defended and nudged his daughter as his 'fight back'.
"Vex please don't go back down there, it's dangerous," Mia said quietly grabbing my arm with a shaky hand.
It was at this very moment that I heard the beeping and the hiss of the escape hatch opening up. My heart stopped when another situation popped into my mind. I really didn't want anybody seeing a dead body in the elevator.
"Stay right here," I said softly while popping her out of my lap and standing up.
"Wait, Vex don't leave me here! I can't see!" Mia howled like a scared baby cat.
"Mia calm down, I'll be right back. I'm only ten feet away kid," I said calmly while continuing on to the elevator. There was a bunch of bags inside the thing but no Cari, "Shit…"
However when something popped out of the bags I shouted in surprise and jumped backwards. It was Cari gasping for air with wide eyes, coughing and spluttering on her hands and knees. I lumbered backwards and fell on my bum after tripping on a big fallen branch. Jesus she scared the shit out of me.
"CARI!" Minerva and the other girls shouted. However I don't think either of us was listening, we were just staring at each other. Cari was staring almost apologetically while she was trying to get her breath and I was just staring in shock.
It only took me a few moments to regain my thoughts before I remembered stubbornly, 'she isn't my problem.' I stood up seconds later and walked off back to Mia without another word. The other girls were all tackling Cari shouting about that she had survived and everything was going to be ok.
I grabbed Mia's arm gently and let her coil around my arm while shaking like a leaf, "It's too hot out here," she muttered squeezing my arm tightly like she was afraid I was going to let go again.
"Hopefully it'll cool down jus a tad bit as we start movin'," I replied and grabbed a bag of supplies on my left arm.
"I'm just going to slow you guys down…"
"No yer not, I'm gonna carry ya on my back," She stiffened up, obviously not really thrilled with that idea, "Yer only going ta have ta have one supply bag on yer back and ya ain't gonna hurt me."
"Come on, we need to get moving!" I heard Jeb shout while everyone started grabbing their gear and throwing it over their shoulders.
"Come on kiddo," I said while sliding a lighter bag onto her back.
"I'm not so su-!" I didn't let her finish her sentence before I scooped her up and got her on my back, "I wasn't ready!"
"Too bad," I teased making her flick my face and wrap her arms around my chest, holding on like I was a life line, "Yer gonna have ta loosen up kiddo, can't have me suffocatin' on the job now can we?"
"No…" She mumbled, loosening her grip even though she was very much afraid. Hell I would be too, not being able to know what's going on around you, new territory, putting all your trust into one person you've only known for a few months…that's grade A fear right there.
I scurried after the rest of the group with Mia on my back, nervously gripping at my shirt every time I moved too quickly or came to a jerking stop.
We were moving dangerously close to the desert but something didn't feel right. I kept feeling like someone was watching us or following us, "Mia can ya hear anything?"
"I hear footsteps, but they don't match our groups' footsteps," I beamed proudly. I'd been working all week with her, getting her to remember the way we sounded when we walked and how we felt if we touched her arm so she could verify that it was us. Only problem was that that meant someone was onto us.
"A'ight, I'm gonna speed up ok? Just hold on," I said before taking off in a small fast walk. I passed the rest of the group easily, signaling to them that there was danger and we needed to hurry up and hide. Not go towards the desert where we'd be out in the open.
I spotted a large tree with a hollow cave like thing under its roots; that was a good enough place to hide if any. I turned to warn the group, "This wa-."
BAM!
A loud ringing shot through my antenna sending horrible pain through out my head, 'aw shit...not again...not now...'
"Vex!" Mia shouted as we fell to the ground.
A/N: Well...that escalated fast O.o. Anyways it was mostly diolgue...sorry about that... you can clearly tell I had writers block by the way I rushed through everything. I'm terribly sorry. Anyways...LAST TWO REVIEW RESPONSES! Also...ask your friends to read my book and fav follow anything, I feel like we have a shortage but I don't want to sound snobby or greedy. I would like more interested people though!
Fritter Critter: hahaha you know...typical Zim, can't even remember what he had for breakfast. Don't worry now that they're out of the 'base' things are about to go down! YAY! So no worries, Reth and Valenth will appear very soon =). I love our RPing session, it makes meh laugh =3 Well other than that I don't know what to talk about...I'm pretty tired so I think I'm just gonna crash. PM me! =3 I hope you enjoyed this chapter!
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Deathwish ready to crash and fall asleep finally! Hope everyone enjoyed~~