Code: Realize - Guardian of Rebirth Toon Style

Chapter 12

Zim placed Frida's unconscious body on a platform that was under the chamber. She awoke when she felt a painful burning in her chest. Her heart was starting to join with the chamber.

"It's happening! Finally!" Zim laughed. "Father do you see? I have proven myself to be a useful son and now! Now you will finally love me!"

The pain in her heart was unbearable. It felt like knives stabbing her in the chest while flames engulfed them.

"Please stop! Please!" She screamed.

Zim then fell to the floor. His body was motionless but she could tell that he wasn't dead. The chamber started to glow and she heard Lamar's voice.

"Frida it is time." He told her. "Come to me my child."

She felt her body being grabbed and she started to merge with the chamber. She couldn't struggle, she couldn't move, it all just hurt too much.

"Frida do you hear my voice?" Lamar asked.

"I do Father." She answered.

Father? Was he her father? It had taken her awhile to remember it when she first woke up but Manny had told her that Lamar wasn't her father. That he didn't create her. Was it true?

She blacked out again. Her last thoughts wondering if what she knew was real.

"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine,

You make me happy when skies are gray,

You'll never know dear how much I love you,

Please don't take my sunshine away."

There it was again. The woman's voice singing that lullaby to her.

"The other night dear, as I lay sleeping.

I dreamt I held you in my arms

And now that you're here, my dreams are waking

And I'll keep you from all harm."

Who was that woman? How did she know her? And where had she heard that lullaby before?

Shapes and colors started to fill the darkness of her mind and she saw something.

She saw a baby girl lying in a cradle crying. She then watched as a beautiful woman with brown hair picked up the crying baby from the cradle and swaddle her in a blanket.

"It's alright Frida. There's no need to cry." She said gently before kissing her head. "Mother's here."

Mother? Wait that baby was her? That woman was her mother? No. No that was impossible. She didn't start out as a baby and she didn't have a mother.

"Oh is she being fussy again?" She heard another voice and saw a black haired man with a beard walk in.

He put his arms around the woman and kissed her cheek then smiled proudly and lovingly at the baby in her arms.

"She has your eyes Carmela." He said.

"But she has your stubbornness Emiliano." She said.

Emiliano? As in Dr. Emiliano Suarez? That was the man who had a vendetta against Manny. What was he doing here?

Once the baby had stopped fussing the woman called Carmela tucked her back into her cradle.

"So how is the research going?" She asked Emiliano.

"It's a slow process. The food shortage here is severe and lately all the children are starting to become ill. There's only one hope for us my love, science."