Zim was not exactly pleased to be spending his morning in a place like... this. Gaz ordered them to get whatever they wanted as her dad would be paying. She said this as she brandished a plastic card and stuck it back in her pocket.
Jack Lynn was going over the menu with Zim, explaining the things while Gaz waited impatiently.
"Just let her order for you. It's diner food, not that big of a deal."
"Okay, Jack Lynn, order for me what you order. "
She nodded and they placed their order. The servant brought them all coffee...Zim insoected his, the scent reminding him if something similar from Irk. He added cream and sugar like Jack Lynn did and took a sip. it wasn't terrible, he actually quite liked it.
"We need to talk, dont we Zim"
Zim nodded. He pulled a device from his pak and pressed a button. If they hadnt have watched him do it, the girls may not have noticed the bubble that popped into view around them then seemed to disappear just as fast.
"We have private now. " Zim said matter of factly.
"So...first of all... I'm stuck with you now aren't I Zim?"
Zim looked perplexed at Jack Lynn...he couldn't tell if she sounded sad or not...was it bad to be stuck with him?
"Not ...stuck... but yes, you must stay with me...does that disappoint?"
Jack Lynn sighed and stirred her coffee.
"Its just...I dont know. I'm not sad about it...its just, we barely know each other...and my plans for my future are probably shot now. Im not sure where to go from here."
"You gotta take it one step at a time Jack."
She nodded. Zim cleared his throat.
"Zim will take care of you Jack Lynn...Things will not be so bad."
She iffered him a small smile that didn't quite reach her eyes. " Thanks Zim...but what am I going to do when you go? If you're just here to collect information, you'll have to leave eventually. I'm not going to be able to have a normal life like...this..."
"What is a normal life to you Jack Lynn?"
"College ...work ...husband, kids... I dunno."
Zim pondered that...should he tell them?...if it went bad, there was always the memory wipe...fuck it.
"You have Zim."
Jack lynn and Gaz bith choked on their coffee.
"Zim...what?"
He sighed.
"My mission...not just to collect data. Zim's race is in danger...for over a thousand years Irkens reproduce using cloning...clonabke DNA was compromised... now we must reproduce biologically...but Irk has very few females..."
"Dude..." Gaz was glaring at him. "You said this was an accident !"
Zim put his hands up, his eyes wide.
"It was an accident! Splicing Jack Lynn's genes was never in plan! Irk wants hybrid smeets not females!"
Jack Lynn was staring into her coffee, her mint cheeks darkened in color.
"So...the dance, the flirting... you've already chise me, haven't you?"
Zim nodded slowly.
" Was it because I was the first human you saw?"
" That is why Zim started observing you, not why I chose you for mate."
Jack Lynn blushed harder.
"Then...then why?"
"As I said last night. You are beautiful, intelligent, strong, kind...Please do not take wrong way...but even moreso now."
"Because I look less human?"
"No, because you literally are Jack. The AI said so. " Gaz piped in.
Before long, they had their food. Jack Lynn ate ravenously, forgoing manners almost entirely.
"Damn Jack...you good?"
"Im just so hungry"
Zim slid his plate to her.
"Eat your fill...your body burnt much from your changes."
~~~~~~~~~Jacklynn
She blushed at Zims gesture...also with some embarrassment, she knew she was wolfing down her food, and she wasnt sure just how unattractive that was, but she knew it didn't get her any points.
Zim smirked and reached out to wipe some syrup off of her lip with his thumb...she gulped and licked her lips as she watched him lick it off.
She knew she was blushing...but an odd sensation was happening in her antennai...they were twitchy and itchy. She shivered as Zim stared at her intensley. She watched him sniff the air, and he emmitted a soft growl...that sound went straight to her loins and she became aware that she was...purring?
Clearing her throat she turned her attention back to her food, her cheeks burning. She was only too aware of Zim beside her...she could even smell him more intensely...and damn was it driving her mad.
~~~~~~~~Zim
Her reaction to such a small gesture...he wished that Gaz were not here...And was she...? She was! She was emitting those damn delicious pheromones of hers...he couldn't help but to sniff the air... instantly his groin was swelling...She must have been effected by him as well...he caught that little purr of hers...he wanted to hear it louder and deeper...
He cleared his throat...Time and place Zim. Time and place.
~~~~~~~~Gaz
She watched with a cocked euebrow at the PDA between her two friends...gross...ooey gooey and just gross. She was happy...or as happy as she could be given the circumstances...but...ew.
"Jack Typically I would say that this is all nuts... But given the situation, I think you need to consider Zims offer..."
"Huh?"
Jack looked shocked. Gaz shrugged.
"At the rate you're going, well, were going... Jack, you never had time for anything, let alone dating. Sure you would have gotten into college, but at what cost? It would have drained you dry...and finding a husband? You dont trust anyone enough ...I think...though this is moving way too fast...I think being Zims mate will be good for you. You guys clearly like each other...and Jack you are part Irken now...Im just saying think about it, y'know.?"
Truthfully, Gaz wasn't sure what the best move at this point would be...but Jack was really stuck between a rock and a hard place with this one.
~~~~~~~~~Zim
After their meal, Jack Lynn drove them back to the base. She parked the car behind her apartment building and they went around to the front entrance of Zim's. Zim went to check on Gir while the girls sat down.
"He is still downloading...what on Irk has he been up to?"
"What's wrong Zim?" Jack Lynn asked from the couch. Zim sighed and gestured over his shoulder in Gir's direction.
"Im having his data transferred from while we were at school. I came here to see he had brought all of this into the base." He gestured again to all of the products stuffing the shelves. "He should not have so much data... he's been downloading since I arrived back here with you Jack Lynn."
"Your english is really improving Zim..."
He smiled at her and nodded. "Thank you Jack Lynn."
"So, what do we do now?" Gaz asked, slumped into a half laid down position on the couch. " And what the hell is that thing?" She said pointing to the monkey painting on the wall.
"That...is a monkey... I think... As far as what we do...Zim needs to update My Tallests...Gaz, you need to continue like normal. I need to be advised on the next steps of my mission."
"Monkey huh...okay then. Ugh-" She groaned as she sat up. "So 'My Tallests' ...are those your leaders?"
"Yes."
"Can I stay while you talk to them?"
Zim paused at that...He wasnt sure that was a great Idea...
"Not this time...better they don't know that a human knows yet. Shakey enough letting Jack Lynn know so soon."
"Wait...so soon? when were you going to tell me?"
Zim faltered at that...he hadn't thought that would make her angry.
" Well...honest...I do not know. My mission was altered shortly before I met you Jack Lynn...nothing was planned yet."
Gaz sat straight at that.
"How was your mission altered?"
Zim sighed...this could make or break the situation.
"Zim is an invader... Irk seeks to add planets to the empire. Original mission was to invade and conquer Earth...travel from The Massive to Earth was six months...In that time, Irk was attacked by a resistance... our cloning was compromised...My Tallests informed me that my original mission was aborted, and my new mission was to breed."
Gaz and Jack Lynn sat in stunned silence. Jack Lynn was the first to speak up.
"So...you came here to take over the Earth..."
"Yes, but not now."
"And you need to breed..."
"Yes."
"So...the babies you have...what will happen with them?"
Zim faltered at this...he hadn't exactly been yold what would happen. The thought honestly hadnt crossed his mind.
"I do not know."
"Don't you think you should? They'd be your children. Can you guess at what they would do?"
Zim thought on it...and gave his honest answer.
"Well...there would be genetic testing...many samples and scans...studies will be done... endurance and tolerance tests...clones will be made...They will of course be trained in combat..." He stopped as he noticed the horrified looks on the females' faces.
"What is the problem?"
"Zim...do you hear yourself!?" Jack Lynn said shocked.
" You're totally cool with your babies being experimented on!? Cloned? Forced to become soldiers?" Gaz added.
Zim took it in...he wasn't sure how he felt about it.
"I...I do not know...I have not even seen a smeet since I was new...I know not how I would feel."
Jack Lynn looked aghast.
"What?...How do you not know?"
Zim shrugged.
"Irk has cloned for a thousand years...there are no smeets, no mates...barley any females...I have not had to know."
"So... you're a clone..."
"Yes."
Jack Lynn slumped into the couch.
"So...if I agree...and we have...smeets...all of that could happen to them..."
"Yes, it is likely."
"Then no. I won't do it." Jack Lynn said matter of factley. The air went straight out of Zim's squeedelyspooch...He had this sudden...crushed feeling inside of him. He watched without processing as Jack Lynn got up...and left. Gaz running after her.
He wasn't even entirely sure what he had done wrong...but he knew this was not good.