Zim had decided to start collecting as much material as he could from his base. He knew they needed some specific metals and equipment to build some of the parts for his new PAK. The idea terrified him, it really did, but he knew it was his only chance.
Zim had climbed up high to tear apart one of the machines he didn't use in his lab. He was stable on his PAK legs--they tended to work okay unless he was having PAK problems--and he threw the important parts and wires down into a bin he had set up.
What he didn't expect was his PAK to jolt into his spine like it did. Zim gasped in shock and tried to grab onto the machine he was on when his PAK legs failed and went back into his PAK. He couldn't grab hold and he fell down, smacking hard onto the ground, partially on his PAK.
Zim had the breath knocked out of him and he wheezed as he lied there next to his box of parts. He couldn't feel half of his body. He didn't know what was wrong, his mind was going in and out. Zim tried his hardest to reach a communicator to call someone for assistance, but he just... Couldn't move. He couldn't.
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