I don't own Invader Zim okay? I would like to thank Invader Johnny for help with the idea to get this off the ground. He helped me come up with some of the elements that got this going. I have always been curious about what would happen to the Irken Empire after the Massive was brought down in Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom. And yes I know that was virtual reality playback but come on, this is fanfiction. Anyway enough of this A/N, on with the fic!
"We've got to get out of here!" Tallest Red said as he floated along the hallways of the collapsing Massive.
"Wait up Red!" Tallest Purple said behind him.
"This is going down! We need to get out of here now!" Red yelled as he opened the door to the escape pod. He pushed several of the navigation crew out of the way as he dove inside.
"But... but... but... the donuts!" Purple floated around panicking.
"Miyuki damn it, this is not the time for that! If we are going to live through this, you are going to have to get in here! The Empire is not going to like this one bit!" Red yelled.
"But Red," Purple said, "Where will we go?"
"Somewhere. Now do you want to live or die in a horrible explosion?" Red said as Purple joined him in the escape pod and shut the door.
"Sirs!" The chief engineer said as he stared at his Tallest fleeing in front of him. "What are we to do?"
"Get the fuck out of here! You heard the stories of what the humans did to the Greys who crashed on their planet!" Red said.
"But why won't you let me or some of the naviagation crew in the pod? There's room for a few more, even with you in there my Tallest!" The engineer said.
"Because I said so!" Red said as he hit the detach button and drifted away, staring at the capitol ship of the Irken Armada as it crashed towards Earth. So this is it, the whole of Operation Impeding Doom II and maybe all of the Irken Empire brought down by a genetically modified pig smelly. Red thought as he watched the ship crash onto the planet.
"You know, we might get our revenge." Purple said as he looked out the porthole. "It wasn't called The Massive for nothing." He said as he opened a bag of emergency snacks.
"No. Last thing I did was turn on its Shrinky Self Destruct." Red said as he hit his head on the edges of the escape pod.
"That was dumb. You could have destroyed them and maybe the Control Brains won't hold us accountable for starting this operation, going to Zim's planet after we conqured the rest of the planets on the list and destroyed them for destroying us." Purple said looking at the blue orb.
"You don't think that I don't know that already?" Red said looking at his Co-Tallest.
"No." Purple said genuinelly.
"Well since you like playing the blame game, YOU were the one who suggested we go to Earth! I wanted to leave it alone. I mean we hadn't heard from Zim in years. I was happy for that peace and quiet. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you wanted to find out what happened to Zim of all the Miyuki forsaken Irkens out there!" Red said as he reached out to strangle Purple. Purple saw the intent in Red's rage filled eyes and jumped out of the way, throwing his snacks in Red's face. "If it is anyone's fault, IT IS YOURS!" He said as he made a fist and punched Purple in the face.
"You want to fight about it?" Purple said as he took ahold of Red's arm and spun him around, causing him to hit the wall of the escape pod.
"Yes I do! If I am going to be blamed for the collaspe of the Empire, I want to take you down with me!" Red said as he then grabbed Purple and threw him opposite him across the escape pod, hitting a monitor.
"Watch where you're fighting!" Purple said rubbing his shoulders. "You just destroyed the machine that monitors our snack supply.
"You won't need snacks where you are going!" Red said.
Meanwhile from a safe distance away, Lord Nar and the reminants of the Resisty were looking on with astonishment. The humans did what they could not. They toppled the Massive. They had been following the Irken fleet for years, with many of their number just defecting and settling into whatever role Irk had for their home planets leaving them to their own devices. Lord Nar had sworn to bring Irk down even if it killed him for what they did to Vort and his fellow Vortians and he was beginning to lose hope. Maybe we should open up talks with those humans. Although to be fair, I had never seen a human do what that pointy haired one did. Lord Nar thought as Irken ships sped past his, not even noticing one of the last Vort ships in the Universe. He turned to see two Meekrob floating in front of him. "Woah! What do you want! Last I checked you Meekrob wanted nothing to do with us, even though you had the same problem."
"Because you were fools thinking you could take the Irkens on. You can thank us for this victory." Chowfun, a Meekrob being said.
"You didn't do squat!" Lord Nar said. "It was the humans."
"We found the one who was watching the Irkens and gave him our powers." Lomein, the second Meekrob said.
"I knew something wasn't right." Lord Nar said.
"Yes. Now that we got that human to do our work, we can fill the void that is being left by the Irken Empire as we speak." Chowfun said.
"Yes, now that the Irkens are defeated we can- WHAT?!" Lord Nar yelled as he pulled a laser gun to fire at them.
"Yes. Now we can go take Irk and all the planets they conqured." Chowfun said as he disappeared into the void.
"No you won't!" Lord Nar said as he fired at the space the Meekrob had left wildly. "I fought too damn hard to let you guys just take Irk's spot." He looked up to find that the Meekrob were gone. Sighing, he sat down and looked around hopelessly. Most of the Resisty was gone and they were too fatigued from trying to defeat the Irkens to move onto another race that was going to rule their planets. This was not going to go over well. The Resisty was made up of civilians. He was a military scientist himself so he was used to warfare and life the military could bring but most of the few that were left would not be ready for what was going to need to be done. As much as he hated to admit it, the Irkens were the only other race that could keep the Meekrob in check. They were beings of pure energy after all. Sure, the Vortians developed the technology so Irk could do so, but they didn't have the rugged structure that Irk had in their culture that made them a civilization that could withstand warfare. The fact the Massive was defeated would not have been enough to topple the civilization, but the fact it was humans who did it would. They were inferior. They couldn't even travel the speed of light, let alone exploit black holes to cross thousands of light years in a realatively short amount of time. This would cause a loss of power in the eyes of the other races, making the Irkens volnerable
At the same time, Red and Purple were still fighting in their escape pod over whose fault it was. Insults going back to their time before they were made the Tallest can when Red jumped at Purple grabbing his snacks and shooting them out the airlock. This was the final straw. Purple could take the causual and sometimes harsh insults Red made towards his intelligence, how he was seen as the foolish leader and Red was the one who was really in charge of the Irken Empire but this act of him launching his favorite emergency snacks out into the void of space made Purple curl up his fist and hit Red right in the head, causing him to fall back and crush the navaigation ports.
"HA!" Purple said. "Who's the weakling now."
"Still you!" Red said when a siren rang through the pod.
"APPROACHING EARTH ORBIT. WE CANNOT PULL AWAY! INITIATING CRASH PROCEDURES! BRACE FOR IMPACT!" The alarm said as Purple sat down in one of the seats and began to buckle himself in and go limp.
"What are you doing?" Red asked.
"Didn't you hear the alarm?" Purple said. "I want to be able to get away! I don't want to be on a planet filled with water with no paste and a race of beings who want to cut us open and study us!"
"Oh come on!" Red said as flames appeared outside the ship. He looked over the his shoulder to see the inferno and began to take after Purple's example. "You may be right..."
"Let's just hope we crash in a desert. They don't have a lot of water." Purple said looking up from his limp position.
"I sure hope we do!" Red said as the ship crashed into the middle of the Mojave desert in a barren waste land. He then was thrown from the porthole of the escape pod at high speed into the hot sands and rocky terrain.
Chowfun and Lomein looked on at the reddish pink planet. This was their chance. The Massive was destroyed and the military was in chaos. Irk was ripe for Meekrob's taking. They just had to get to the control brains in the center of the planet who ran all the legal affairs and get them to make a treaty with the Meekrob Empire. "This is for our Grand Ruler. Irk will be ours." Chowfun said as he teleported himself to the planet's surface followed by Lomein.
"And we will be the ulitmate power in the galaxy." Lomein said. "Now, where do they keep the Control Brains?"
So how was that? I know it was shorter than my normal chapter lengths but this is just the opening. Chowfun and Lomein are the names of Chinese food dishes and since Meekrob is the name of a Thai dish I named them after Asian foods. They make appearances in my older works of Tak's Deadly Return, DIB: Dib in Black and mentioned in Tak's Deadly Vengance. And they are modified a little bit, but they are all high ranking Meekrob. But the collapse of the Irken Armada's capitol ship will weaken their military, leave a massive power vaccum in the galaxy and cause all sorts of strife. But this is just the introduction chapter. So remember to read (well you just did) and to review. Ciao for now,
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