My Only The Only One

Chapter 16

Red cried out as he was tackled to the floor, laser missing Zim's head by a good five inches.

"How about you shut the hell up!" Dib yelled, punching Red in the face before being pulled off by Purple and his impressive looking mechanical spider legs.

"Dib!" Zim shouted in surprise before quickly looking around and finding his laser. He picked it up and aimed, shooting at Purple's pak.

Purple gasped, the laser leaving a burn on the metal but leaving it otherwise unharmed. The legs dropped Dib and Purple whirled on Zim who fired again. Purple guarded with his gauntlets and fired his own laser on the defect.

Dib grunted when he fell, staring at an angry looking Red, now standing, his height towering slightly over the human's standing height.

"We're going to wipe out your entire RACE!" He hissed, pulling Dib up by his hair and holding him out at arm's length to prevent the human from swinging at him. "It's a shame really. You human's make such good slaves. Maybe we'll keep just YOU alive so at the very least you can witness your race's fate. Then you can serve us for the rest of your miserable life, with the knowledge that YOU are the reason there are no more humans."

Dib grunted, holding onto the alien gauntlet. He put his weight on it, almost hanging from the thin arm that should not be able to support the human's weight, so he could bring his foot up and kick the taller in the stomach.

Dib dropped once more, Red doubling over. It was not an overly disarming move thanks to all the armor, but the force pushed him back and gave Dib just enough time to draw a gun of his own from a holster on his hip. He aimed it at Red's head, but the tall irken dodged just in time. The bullet shattered on impact with the floor, releasing a burst of water from inside.

Zim ducked behind one of the computer consoles as Purple fired at him, narrowly escaping the blast.

"Why couldn't you be a good defect and stay BANISHED!" Purple shouted, glaring and firing again in rage, though he knew it couldn't hit its target and that he was only causing damage to his computers.

Zim grit his teeth, avoiding old feelings of pride that just caused pain. Instead he peaked out from around the computer, aiming his laser and firing. Purple was too slow this time, and screamed as he dropped to the floor, a hand going to hold his face in pain.

"Purple!" Red shouted, distracted, turning to his partner. Smoke was billowing from a hole in his face where an eye once was. That beautiful violet eye!

"You disgusting defect!" Red yelled, enraged that his partner had been marred so and turned his attention away from the human.

Red's spider legs sprouted from his pak, tips lighting up in a dangerous looking red. Zim managed to dodge in just enough time to avoid the large, square shaped laser that completely destroyed the terminal he'd been hiding behind.

Dib gasped, eyes widening for just a moment before he fired his gun, a bullet piercing through the flesh of thin legs and exploding, the acidic water dissolving green flesh and alien muscle.

Red dropped to the floor as well, Dib aiming his gun at the Tallest's head, yelling, "Give up! You can't win this!"

Purple was still crying out in pain for his lost eye, Zim getting up and pointing his own gun at that Tallest's head.

"Don't SPARE them Dib!" Zim yelled, antennae back in a show of extreme anger. "Let me kill them RIGHT now!"

"That's not going to solve anything!" Dib yelled before pausing to think about that. "Okay, that'll solve SOME things, but we will never gain control of the overall irken problem if we just kill them!"