Chapter 10

           To space!

                The next day Tip and Zim packed a few bags for their trip into space. Tip could hardly wait.

                               "Now GIR," Zim said sternly "I trust you can stay home on your own for a few days?"

                               "SIR YES SIR!" GIR said in a deep voice

                               "Good! Because if not I will personally dismantle you!"

                 That thought made GIR get a chill down his circuits. 

                               "He'll be fine! He's smart now remember?" Tip said

                  Zim walked over to her and wrapped his arm around her.

                               "Yes, but sometimes Zim wonders," Zim said as he lifted her into the Voot Cruiser

                               "Come on!" Tip said and held out a hand to Zim

                  Zim took her hand and she helped him in. Zim sat in the main seat and started up the ship. He cloaked it to look invisible instead of some random object. Tip's design of course. Then he closed the glass door and opened the roof of the house. The ship slowly rose up. GIR waved as they flew off. The roof of the house closed behind them. Tip looked down at the world below in the seat next to Zim. Everyone looked like tiny bugs that could easily be squashed. 

                   Zim chuckled at Tip's amazement. Tip took out a camera at took what looked like the most beautiful picture of the sky. The ship got farther and farther away from Earth until all they saw was a blue, green, and white surface. Tip took a picture. She got really excited. The ship went far away from Earth until they could see the whole of it and not just the surface. They were still getting farther from it. Zim obviously had a plan to go somewhere.

                                 "Are we going to Irk?" Tip thought to herself "No. It would be waaayy too dangerous! Also we aren't in that direction,"

                                  "You're thinking about where we are going," Zim said while looking at where he's driving

                                  "Where are we going?" Tip asked

                                  "To a place that used to exist thousands of years ago,"

                                  "Used to? What happened to it?"

                      Zim didn't say anything.

                                  "Not up for conversation anymore I guess," Tip mumbled to herself too low for Zim to hear.

                       It was quiet for a little while then Tip got up and walked over to Zim and wrapped her arms around his neck. 

                                   "Mmm...," Tip went as she buried her face in the curve of his neck

                        Zim chuckled a little as her nose began to tickle him. 

                                    "What are you doing?" Zim smiled

                                    "I don't know. I felt like hugging you," Tip's voice was muffled

                                    "Haha I meant why are you tickling me with your nose?"

                                    "What? This?" Tip began to tickle him with her nose again

                                    "Haha! Yes that!" 

                          Tip then reached her hands over to tickle his sides

                                     "Hahaha! Stop haha that! I hahaha command yoouu!"

                                     "Oh! You command me huh?" Tip said a tickled him harder

                                     "OKAY! STOP! PLEASE!"

                            Tip stopped and laughed all the way back to her seat.

                                      "Haha! The great Irken Invader! Weakened by a little tickling!" Tip laughed

                                      "Oh yeah?" Zim said playfully and put the voot in auto pilot, "I'll show you! I am a GREAT INVADERRR!!"

                              Zim tackled Tip out of her seat and pinned her to the ground. He started to tickle her in her side while his legs held her down.

                                       "Alright STOP! YOU WIN! YOU WIN!" Tip laughed "I'VE BEEN DEFEATED!"

                                       "The great Time Traveler! Defeated by a little tickling!" Zim smirked while pinning her down with his hands now

                                       "Shut up," Tip smiled

                                The two of the stared at each other for a few minutes before the ship started to make a beeping noise. 

                                        "We're here," Zim said and got off Tip. He walked to the big glass window and stared out for a few minutes. Tip walked up beside him. 

                                        "What is this?" Tip asked

                                        "It's whats left of a planet called Kantounia. It was uh my f-favorite planet," Zim struggled to say the word favorite. That was an obvious lie. He hated the planet because after all his planet was at war with Kantounia for years! 

                                   Tip took notice of the way he sputtered out the word 'Favorite', but she soon forgot about it.

                                         "What happened to it?" Tip asked

                                         "Got destroyed by a meteorite," Zim lied

                                         "So why are we here?"

                                    Zim looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

                                         "Maybe your mind isn't so open today...look closely," Zim said

                                     Tip wanted to scold him for what he just said, but instead she just looked and Zim was right. She wasn't keeping an open mind. When she opened up her mind she saw pretty orange, pink, and purple lights swirled around in a big circle. It looked like a nebula. There were shiny blue and emerald colored rocks that floated around the nebula. It was truly beautiful. Too beautiful to be photographed! Tip stared in awe then looked over at Zim who looked at her. 

                                       Zim took Tip's head in his hands and kissed her firmly on the lips then stopped to look deep into her bright, red eyes. Tip smiled. 

                                             "I have an idea," Zim smiled. He walked away from Tip and went over to the controls. He typed some stuff in and all of a sudden Tip started to slowly float up into the air. Zim did too. 

                                              "W-WHAT THE-?"

                                              "I turned off the gravity," Zim cut off Tip and pushed himself over to her. He held her in his arms and shifted to where he was floating on his back and Tip was laying on top of him. 

                                       They just floated around looking at what was left of Zim's "Favorite" planet. Occasionally they kissed from time to time. It was peaceful. Silent. Nice. Tip felt warm in Zim's arms. Everything was well. 

                                        Eventually after a few days of what only seemed like hours they had to return back to Earth, but there was one thing they seemed to have forgotten. Time speeds up in space.