"I'm going to kill you!"

     Kyt screamed, slamming her fist into the wall of glass in front of her for the millionth time. A sob escaped her throat, choking her. She laid back, the pain in her hand was unbearable now. She began to calm, trying to think quickly of how to escape a metal box. The glass side wouldnt break, and certainly the metal wouldn't...

      She was pulled out of thought as there was an explosion from nearby. Then a bunch of shouts, followed by agonized screams. Kyt jumped, her heart stopping for a moment as she felt her crate jostle. She felt like some sort of animal.

     "Kyt!"

     She let out a shriek of surprise as Ari's face was now plastered on the glass of the box. "Kyt! Put your hands on the metal."

      "The metal?"

       Ari banged on the sides of the crate, and she placed her hands on either side of her. She put her hands on it feeling heat that would burn human skin immediately. But it didn't burn her.

"Kyt, I need you to focus on breaking this! Hurry!"

"I can't when you say hurry!"

"Kyt!"

     At the sound of desperation in his voice, Kyt closed her eyes. She pressed her palms deeply into the scalding metal focusing. She imagined it breaking, shattering at her touch. Nothing happened.

       "Come on!"

       She screamed in frustration. What the hell was going on?! What did she need to do that was so damn important? This was getting her nowhere! She pressed against the metal more, ignoring that the temperature was rising dramatically, until the next thing she knew, white flames engulfed everything and a loud explosion enveloped her body in its very sound.

      Then all she felt was the rush of air and pull of gravity calling her back to the Earth's surface.

       She couldn't make a sound as the ground rushed towards her.

    Well... Goodbye..

     Kyt closed her eyes tightly at the thought, tears streaming down her cheeks and up into the sky. She hadn't gotten to make up with Zim. She didn't even get to go out on an official date with Dib. She didn't put an end to Tak. She wouldn't get anymore surprises from Gir. At least she would be with her mother...

       Then she felt her body hit something that wasn't quite like the ground. The beating of wings roared in her ears, and through her eyelids she felt a bright light. She didn't want to open her eyes to find she was hallucinating the feeling of arms cradling her to ease the panic of death. Although that may be very well what was happening... She didn't know.  After a few moments her eye peeked open above her. Her eyes immediately popped open.

        Ari looked was looking down at her, descending towards the ground still.

       Except he wasn't quite Ari.

       His body was still the same build and color. And his hair. And his eyes. Except he gave off a heavenly light, almost like he was a fire. From his back were two large, translucent wings with swirls of light pulsating from them. Like the rest of his body, but the wings gave off more.

      "Ariël."

      He stopped at the name, and looked down at his younger sister. She had said his real name. Did she remember? He opened his mouth to speak, only to feel his body be jerked back. Kyt let out a scream as she was yanked from his grasp. She couldn't let this happen.

     She didn't want to be torn away from everything. Her green eyes darted around frantically for a to escape as she struggled.

      Then the world disappeared around them in flames.

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      A high, rumbling sound jerked Dib and Zim from their thoughts. Thoughts of Kyt. Both wondered where she was.

     Dib hadn't been unable to focus all day. Supposedly there had been blood in one of the rooms. She can't have died. She can't have been hurt. He tapped his pencil impatiently, sick with worry. His muddy eyes glancing at Zim. He must know, that dirty creature.

     Then the thought hit him. Where was his sickly friend, Tak? She was gone, too.. Was she in on it? Those jackasses... Dib tightened his fist, feeling a snap in his hand. He looked down at the halved pencil in his hands.

     Zim cast a glance at the idiot earthworm. He had broken his pen-cel. The idiot. He looked down at his paper, thoughts of precious Kyt floating by. He didn't understand. What had gone on without him knowing? He knew very well this was Tak's doing. Had she known he was going to help Kyt? She couldn't have... He had been careful of concealing everything he felt for the beautiful creature.

      The explosion was the only thing to distract their minds.

      In that instant, everyone's head snapped towards the window to see fire a ways away in the sky, raining down. Zim got up, recognizing a shape in the sky. The shape of a ship. An Irken ship. Dib, noticing the alien as he ran out, chased after him. The two ran through the halls, almost like they were racing. They ignored the pack of students behind them.

     The human boy looked up at debry falling from the heavens. And the pulsing golden fire.

      "The actual what?" He narrowed his eyes, unable to see very well. He felt a tap on his shoulder. He blinked in surprise as Gir handed him binoculars, a goofy grin across his face. "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"

      "What? It's only April..." Dib frowned, but took the binoculars from him. As he looked through them, he let a gasp, his heart pounding. He immediately dropped them down.

       He had seen her ghostly hair. No one could have such hair. And there had been another fuzzy figure, with beautiful radiant wings. He looked like Ari. But he couldn't be? What the hell was he? Both had been falling towards the ground in fire and smoke.

      The next thing he knew, he felt his legs moving beneath him and his lungs burning. Then grey rushed up to meet his face. He let out a painful groan as he hit the cement, then rolled onto his back to look up at Gir. He felt something wet and sticky trickle from his nose.

       Gir smiled, his eyes red. "I don't think so."

       The humanized robot picked him up and dragged him back to the crowd of students. Before them was Zim, sick metal legs coming out of his PAK, and lifting him up. Gir pushed Dib back to the throng of frightened students. He began to laugh madly, pointing at Zim. "I told you! I told all of you!"

      Zim stared at him coldly. Then his gaze shifted to everyone, taking a few steps forward to kick Dib in the head. His body fell like a rag doll's to the ground.

       Zim looked up with a cold smirk.

"You will comply. Or meet your doom."