Author: Harmony
Censor: PG
Genre: Angst
Chapter 3- He Will Rule The World Tonight
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"And I want you
And blessed are the broken
And I beg you
No loneliness, no misery is worth you
Oh, tear his heart cold as ice
It's mine
And I wait, praying to the Northern Star
I'm afraid it won't lead you anywhere
He's so cold, raining on the world tonight
All the angels kneeling to the northern lights
And I pray, begging to the Northern Star
I'm afraid it won't lead you anywhere
He's so cold, he will rule the world tonight
All the angels, kneeling to the Northern Lights
Kneeling to the frozen lights
Feel their hearts, they're cold as ice."- Hole, Northern Star
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Dib and Zim stood back to back. Gaz held two weapons in her hands, two relics of dueling pistols. Zim had scoured the world finding the perfect weapons for this fight. He took one and handed the other to Dib. "Are you ready?"
Dib held up his hand. "Wait. Gaz, I want you to listen to me. Please..."
She closed her eyes. "Save it, Dib. You cant know what I went through... I was the only one left here when the Irkens came to claim this area as their base."
Dib glanced at her sideways. "That's not true, Gaz, I was here-"
She spat on the ground. "You were at the edge of town, with your gun-toting band of vigilantes trying to shoot down saucers with double-barreled shotguns." She glared at him, eyes open to show the fire inside. "I was at home, waiting for you. Can you even begin to know what I've gone through over the years? What I thought and prayed? I waited for YOU, Dib, for you to come save me from the prisons for five long years." She looked to Zim, who took her hand and leveled his glare at Dib. "Then, when a hand came to hold mine, it wasn't yours but his. I wont reject it."
"But Gaz!" he plead. "I asked you to come with me to the edge of town! I begged you to!"
She shook her head. "You knew I wasn't going. You never came for me in the prison. I never heard from you, not ONCE."
Dib reached for her hand again. She reared back. He bit his lip, trying to stop the tears from coming down his face. "You don't know what I went through to find you... I looked everywhere. I scoured the prison system the best I could without getting caught. And to finally see you here, like this..." he choked a little. "Completely broken to his will..."
"Blessed are the broken, Dib. I am truly blessed." She turned to Zim, opening her squinting eyes wide. "You broke me so easily, Zim..."
He nodded. "Yes, Gaz, I know. I loved you, though, and I love you now. Your brother cant love you as much as I did, or he would have saved you..."
"Shut up! Just shut up!" Dib screamed, his voice piercing through the night. "Gaz, I'm begging you... just listen to me, give me a chance..." He reached for her hand a final time, and this time she did not reject him. I'm your brother. I'll be here for you always. I love you, Gaz..." the tears finally gave way. His shoulders shook as he sobbed for her, clinging to her trembling hand. "If only you knew how good it was to see you again..."
He started at a hand on his head. "Dib..." Gaz murmured, lightly stroking his hair. "Is that the truth? I-"
"ENOUGH!" Zim pulled out his pistol. "I will not allow you to take my wife from me, Dib! Prepare to die!" He fired his pistol.
The bullet penetrated flesh. A sharp scream pierced the air, as the magenta-haired victim fell to her knees coughing blood.
"GAZ!" Dib screeched, cradling his fallen sister.
She glanced up at him, eyes blinking madly. "Dib... all my loneliness and misery led to this moment... it wasn't worth it." She glared over at Zim. "It wasn't worth YOU."
"Oh, Gaz..." Dib rocked back and forth, holding his sister. "Why did you do that? Why did you have to do that? It was my fight, it was my fight, it was-"
"Shhh." Gaz put a bloody finger to his lips. He tasted the salt and wanted to die. "I won the battle for you, Dib, like a good sister should." She gestured to Zim, who was watching the scene with a shocked expression on his face. "I never thought I had you, Dib, not over all these years... I took his heart to substitute for yours. I only now knew it was so cold..." Her voice faded as she gave Dib a last week smile. "It was mine. It's yours now...break it." She rolled her head back in his arms. "It was... nice to... see... you... too..."
"GAZ!" Zim finally ran over and threw Dib out of the way. He landed roughly on the ground, watching Zim cradle his wife. "Gaz... my love... don't say such things..."
Her hand grew limp. He began to cry, an odd substance much resembling human tears that did not burn his flesh. His tears flowed profusely, dropping to the ground like rain an a show of nature's sympathy. He glanced around the clearing, first at Dib, then at the kneeling ANGELS, then finally back to his fallen love. "My child..."
"Zim."
"SILENCE!" He fell to his knees, waving his fists madly at the sky. "Why? Why did this happen?!? Why, on the eve of my greatest triumph, did the stars allow this?!? I will...I will..." Zim stopped. He pulled another bullet from his pocket and loaded into his pistol. "There are no answers in stars, Dib."
"I know." Dib turned to leave the clearing.
"But there are answers in a ruling class... and this world is still mine."
"Huh?" Dib turned in time for the bullet to catch him in the forehead. He fell backwards, blood pouring from the wound black in the darkness. His death was instant and painless.
Zim dropped the gun. "Cold hearts, Dib... the cold hearts of the ruling class are the only answers people like you and your rebels will ever receive."
At that moment, a girl rushed into the clearing an army camouflage, a heavy machine gun strapped to her back. She pressed a button on her heavy goggles to study the mound on the ground in front of her. She trembled, and an animal whine escaped her teeth. She then stopped and pointed her gun at Zim.
"What do you want?" Zim snapped.
"ATTACK!!" she screamed. The rebels flooded out of the trees, firing madly on the ruler of the world. The stars watched it all and said nothing.
END