Disclaimer: I don;t own IZ, even though I want to so I can make them air the unaried episodes.
So, happy non-denonimational christmas like holiday eve everyone!!!!!! And I know, and I'm sorry that I took so long to finish, but I've been done for a month or two, then I got the brilliant idea to give the gift of story to all my adoring fans by finishing my story for them. I love you all, especially my reveiwers, you make me feel even more loved that all my readers who don't reveiw (not to make you feel bad or anything, I still love you). So I hope you enjoy, no flaming at me for taking so long though, that would just make me sad.
"GIR, drop the knife." I ordered cautiously as the little robot as he swung it around, nearly cut many of my limbs off. Other than the fact that I almost died, and that many parts of the large building we were in, was on the ground beside me, GIR had managed to cut through the lock on the door. GIR's blue flash to red for a second while he executed a military "Yes sir!" and dropped the knife. Then he went back to fidgeting and mumbling to himself.
I pushed the door open quietly, hoping whoever was inside hadn't heard the racked GIR had made outside, I managed kept the element of surprise. Inside the room was most likely the scariest thing I had ever seen, but to my relief, Zim was there.
As I examined the room I saw Zim strapped to a gray table, by all the cut and bruises I saw on him, he appeared to have had a terrible ride here. I looked to the right and upon the rows and rows of empty large purple tubes, I saw a tall Irken with some dangerous looking cutty things in his claws. She walked towards Zim, whose eyes were wide with fright. She poked a button on the cutty tool of doom, and it started making a buzzing noise. Zim's eyes, don't ask me how, got even larger. I don't think they saw me, but I wasn't to sure, cause when I rushed in to save Zim, with GIR behind me of course, She didn't seem too surprised.
"Stop right there, or your friend gets killed." The female Irken threatened.
"But you were going to kill him anyways."
"Silence!" She yelled, "my name is Yuki, and my friend over there," she swept her clawed hand to the far corner of the room, "is Gorra. Why are you here, don't you know you're wasting your time trying to rescue your little friend?" she challenged.
"No, you can't do this, I will save Zim, and you, you will be punished, punished severely, now let my friend go," I threatened in a low intimidating voice.
"Ha! And what could you possibly do to me. You're weaponless, and even if you had weapons, look what I did to your little pet," she picked up a bundle that was situated on the floor by her feet. Now that I could see it properly, I could see that it was Kai. My poor chimera, which I had raised from birth, wrapped up in rope like a Christmas present in paper and ribbons
"You monster," I growled, "let him go, as of now, your grudge is against me, not him, or Zim for that matter. Why did you want Zim in the first place?"
"Ha! A monster? Moi? If anything I'm the opposite of a monster. The reason that I wanted this lame excuse for an Irken is because I'm not a monster. Zim here is a criminal, and by returning him to the Tallest, I am fulfilling my duties as a loyal Irken, which is why I can't be a monster!" Yuki tossed Kai to the floor in front of my feet, and was now laughing manically. "Here, have your little pet, as if that will help you in anyway!"
"Kai, are you okay?" I asked softly, he nodded in response. I took the laser knife that was still in my pocket, and used it to cut his bonds. As he stood, I noticed something different about him, a look of anger in his eyes, his teeth looked even sharper, as did his claws. A look of anger, not only that, but pity. He bared his fangs and cracked his knuckles, preparing for a fight that he knew wouldn't end well for anyone. He charged at Yuki, and it was that moment that I noticed it. Why wasn't Gorra helping her? He must be on our side, waiting for the opportune moment to strike and save Zim, like a ninja, watching their targets from the shadows, and why were Gorra and Yuki so tall compared to Zim? From what I interpreted from Zim and GIR's stories, they were all short, except for their leaders, who were tall.
"Kai, something's wrong. Don't attack yet, just wait," I advised. I wasn't one to be patient, but something was defiantly wrong here, and I didn't want Kai to get hurt if I could help it.
"What's wrong," Yuki taunted, "are you scared that I'll injure you and you're little pet?"
"Kai isn't my pet, he's my friend! And there's no way he'll like being called a pet. When you're ready Kai," I confirmed. That terrible feeling was gone for the moment, and I knew if we didn't act now, we wouldn't have the chance.
I aimed the laser knife at Yuki, and Kai ran to distract her for me. I pressed the button, but believe it or not, the knife was harder to control than it looked. The beam shot up towards the ceiling and cut a huge irregular pentagon out of it before I could take my finger off the button. The remaining ceiling groaned under the lack of support and threatened to fall. It was dark outside, it looked like rain, and as everyone recovered from the shock of the falling ceiling, Kai knocked Yuki over, pinning her to the ground. I seized my chance and rush towards Zim, but Gorra was already there. Zim's chains fell to the floor and he got up. All weak and bruised, he almost fell, but I caught him. Gorra, convinced that Zim would be safe with me, walked towards Yuki and drew his laser gun, a required weapon for all Irkens I later learned. Kai was thrown off of Yuki, but Gorra stepped on her arm, stopping her from getting up.
"Yuki, I hate to do this, after everything we shared together, but I hope, in doing this, you will come to find your morals again. I fill find you in the next life and everything will be as it was before the Tallest, when we still had the Tallest, started all this. Farewell Yuki, I'll see you again soon."
And with his heart full of remorse, he pulled the trigger. A short scream of pain echoed around the silence of the empty, destroyed building, and it started to snow.
How ironic this situation was. After the bloodshed comes the snow to soak it up, purging the room from this carnage. It's almost as if God was giving us forgiveness, and telling us to make a fresh start, a clean start, because it's better late than never.
Gorra took he laser gun and placed on the floor beside his fallen ex-lover. He turned away, fighting back the tears that forced their way to his eyes.
"Why did you do it? Kai would have held him down and we could have ran with Zim, Kai would have came and found us after."
"It's not that I feared our lives, it's that Yuki had to be stopped. The Tallest, had corrupted all the other Irkens. They were so power hungry that their warped minds thought that if they made all the other Irkens taller, they would have a better chance of victory in their third planned attack on the worlds. Operation Impending Doom III they called it, they aren't very original with their names. All the young Irks were taken from their mothers and put through a long stressful procedure to make them grow taller. All the Irks, the short ones, were killed, I was the only one to escape. They forgot about my existence, so a few years later, as they were just about to assign the Invaders their planets, I made my move. I snuck into the growing machine and grew myself. I came and joined the Invaders, but my skills were not good enough for them, so they teamed me up with Yuki and told us to find the renegade called Zim. The Tallest told us all about Zim, and told us that he needed to be killed so the Irks could rid themselves of all the short Irks. I was ecstatic; I didn't know that anyone else had escaped the slaughter. I agreed to go on this mission so I could save Zim. So when Yuki and I grew to know each other, I told her my secret. She's not really evil, she really did want to help Zim, but she was scared of what would happen if the Tallest found out about the treason, so she made me promise not to help Zim. I did, but only so she wouldn't suspect my betrayal. I fell so bad now, but I can finally let this life go knowing that I've helped save the only other survivor of the slaughter."
"No, Gorra, don't do it," I persisted. We didn't need his help anymore, but I couldn't stand by and let him kill himself.
"But I must," he reasoned, "I'm going to die anyways, the Tallest won't keep my alive after saving the one I was ordered to kill, and I rather die by my own hand then by theirs. That way I won't be giving in to them."
"I see," I replied, as much as I wish I could stop it, I had to let him die, "but please, could you wait until Kai, GIR, Zim, and I leave?"
"Of course."
"Come on Kai, GIR, we're leaving," I told them, GIR came rushing towards my side, but Kai didn't get up. He had survived the ordeal, and I felt rueful, it was my fault after all, for bringing him here. But I didn't have time to grieve, I had to get home and heal Zim's wounds.
A single white snowflake landed on my nose, and melted, leaving a small drop of water. I forgot it was still snowing. Thought I wasn't sure how it could snow in space.
I walked, GIR behind me, stopping occasionally to roll in the snow, out of the building, and towards the spacecraft that I had claimed as my own. I place Zim carefully inside, and got in, there wasn't very much room, and as GIR climbed in, Zim stirred and laid across my lap, not wanting to wake, or injure him, I left him there. He didn't wake up until we landed back on Earth. Not having very good landing skills, the ship was jarred about a bit when we arrived at my house. Zim woke up, startled, and as he noticed he was lying across my lap, he shot up, blushing.
"So you're finally awake," I noted.
"Uh, y-ya," he stammered. I gave a little laugh. Oh how good it was to be back home.
As the pain was re awoken as well, Zim groaned.
"Don't move too much, you've got some pretty bad injuries, I was hoping to be able to treat them before you woke up," I told him, "let me carry you into the house."
I lifted him against his will, it's not like he could do anything about it anyways. And I took him to my room. Everything was how I left it. GIR followed us and popped up beside his master once I placed him on the bed.
"So GIR, you're still around," Zim acknowledged.
"TACOS!!!!" The little robot pulled a greasy excuse for a taco out of his head and ate it in one bite.
The next few weeks were horror. Zim's wounds weren't getting any better, in fact they were getting much worse. I tried everything, even the plant that I used at the beginning of my narration. Three weeks later it dawned on me. The thing needed to cure Zim was blood. My blood.
I took a knife, and I cut the most efficient place. My wrist. The blood poured into the glass I had prepared for Zim, and I took it to him quickly. He woke up from his nap and saw my lifting the glass to his lips. He pulled his head back and looked at me, horrified.
"What are you doing?" he asked in a very scared voice.
"Saving you, I said faintly, "now drink this," I demanded, pushing the glass into his hand, and in doing so, having some of he blood from my still bleeding wrist fall on him.
"NO!" He threw the glass to the ground; it shattered into a thousand tiny pieces, my blood making a puddle on the creamy white carpet. But it was too late, my blood had spilled on him and he was already starting to heal. Zim sat up in a rush of adrenaline, and caught me as I collapsed from blood loss, my life was slipping away, but I didn't regret it at all. I didn't regret the searing pain in my arm, or Zim sadness, because I had done it for a good cause.
"Damn it Dib, why did you have to go and do it! Why did you have to go and die! In doing so you awakened feelings in me that I had gotten rid of, and never wanted back, in doing so you caused me to feel the love I once felt for you. And in doing so you caused me to realize the truth: we are merely puppets controlled by fate. And because of this you cause me to rebel against fate, and because of this I will give everyone a chance to live their own lives. And thus, I will return to the stars, and thus, I will die!"
My eyes, that had been slowly falling downwards, snapped open. Zim had figured it out. What that dream, or apparition, or whatever the hell she'd been had told me. What a genius.
"I'm not dead yet my friend, grab that piece of cloth over there and GIR, go to the fridge and grab the container labeled "therapeutic emolument" and some water," I ordered, I had a new found resolve to live. GIR rushed out to the kitchen and grabbed my needed ingredients, I, forcing myself to stay awake, talked them through the procedure that would save my life.
Once they were done, I allowed myself to fall asleep.
When I woke up, I felt a soft pressure on my hand and I saw Zim staring down at me with worry in his eyes, I glanced his hand upon mine and knew what he said as I was about to die was true, he really did love me.
"I love you too Zim," I whispered, and he gave a faint smile.
So using my genius writing skills and my uber ninja skills, I was able to write a fantastic ending for my fantastic story. I hope you enjoyed it. So as I said before in one of my other endnotes, I've decided that I'm going to write my own manga. Problem: I can't think of a freaking plot. I have the major characters, and I have people who are going to help me, but I can't think of a plot. So if you have an idea that you think I should use (the only thing is none of the characters are humans, there are Gods, Demons, Shapshifters, and Immortals, but no humans) then please let me know. I would appreciate it very much. And as I said before happy non-denonimational christmas like holiday eve, and tomorrow happy non denomintional christmas like holiday!! I love you all, see you in my next IZ fic, when I get around to writing another one!!