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Invader Zim Reborn

The Rites of Ascension

An Invader Zim FanFic

Chapter 1 - Reflections

It's been nearly 10 years since the day for this Irken. 10 years since his world was torn apart for him. 10 years since reality for him was shattered like a clouded mirror…

Zim could remember the day as if it was yesterday. It was normal day for him. He had just finished a new "foolproof" plan to finish off Dib for good and be well on his way to world dominance. But as always he had to communicate with the Tallests and inform him of his impending victory over the humans. He did so…homing in on the comms channel of the Massive as the Tallests came into view. Zim began his report, saluting them as usual.

" Good day, My Tallests! I Believe I have found a way to rid myself of the earth's enfeeble little defenses and end this wretched planet for good. In 2 days time the Massive could be here razing the population to the ground for the GLORY of the Irken people!, " He beamed proudly.

Red and Purple gave each other a sideward glance and smirked a little bit, hiding there ire for him as the reeled back in laughter of his plan.

" My Tallests…why do you laugh? I tell you this plan is certain! I will end the human in a fortnight!"

" No you won't, Zim…..I'm …I'm afraid I can't keep doing this any longer!" Purple said while trying to contain his laughter.

" Should we finally tell him?"

" Might as well…..I've had it up to here keeping up this appearance anyway…" Red said cruelly while looking down on Zim hard, hard like he was an insect to be squashed.

"Tell me? Tell me what! I demand you explain this to me at once!" Zim said in an outraged tone.

Once again, the two brothers reeled back into a roaring laughter, holding there middle and sides to contain the howling laughing they were expelling and trying hard not to fall over from the seer humor they felt for the whole ordeal.

" My, you really are stupid aren't you? You didn't see? You didn't see the truth of your 'Deployment' to Earth as a bit fishy at all?," Purple said mockingly.

" If you really were one of our mightiest Invaders, why would we send you to the ass end of the universe? So far away from the direction of the conquest? Not on the front lines of our more highly targeted worlds? It's simple really, Zim. We didn't send you to earth to take it over. You're a fool, and sham, and a thoroughly incompetent Invader," Red explained cruelly.

" We didn't send you to earth to be his destroyer. It's your exile! YOUR PRISON YOU IDIOT!," Purple explained, once again falling over in a bought of uncontrollable laughter.

It was at the moment that Zim felt a part of his mind snap in two. A mental crash, like the sound a millions of planes of glass shattering in pieces. His mind tried to make sense of it all, trying anything to make it not true. But the evidence was all there now laid out bare for him to see, and no save to hide it in. He couldn't ignore it any longer and he was no where near prepared to hear the truth.

" No….No…Y-you're lying….," He said weakly, looking up to the monitor and trying to make himself stay together.

"Hmmmmmm Nope. I'm am afraid it is all true…..from now on you are official banished from the Irken empire and all transmissions from you will be flagged and ignored.," Red said firmly.

" And should you attempt to fly back to Irk you will be targeted and destroyed!," Purple said gleefully.

" Good bye Zim. And for the record it was not nice knowing you and I hope you rot on that miserable blue ball you call a planet….," Red said finally before the screen turned into white noise, leaving Zim in the shadow of his shattered mind.

His mind was racing, all of his memories running before his eyes as the second go by he became more and more unstable. He didn't know what to do with it all. It was until Gir came up from behind and spoke that finally all of it was released.

" Master?"

With the sound of Gir's voice snapping him from the void, he turned around slowly. His eyes were glossed over and empty. He was wheezing and was barely coherent. Gir saw the state of his master and started to back away in fear. Zim started to silently ramble, getting angrier and madder by the second until his red Irken eyes turned a shade of blue and they began to glow.

And then his world Ended…..

" ARAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

Zim had snapped. His voice let out a scream so inhuman and full of rage and pain that the very floor beneath his feet shattered and cracked. The screens from his monitors fragmented into shards and busted in all directions. His body became enveloped with a burning blue Aura as the entire base rumbled. Gir screamed and ran away in fear, hiding himself in an escape pod to escape the noise, but to no avail. Zim's screams were so loud and filled with raw power and anger that nothing could silence them. The base buckled and explosions could be heard all the way to Dib's neighborhood. The young boy leaped from his desk to peer over in the direction of Zim's home and all he could see was a column of light bursting from the earth and the inhuman scream of his rival.

" What the hell!"

Dib ran from the window and grabbed a device from his desk and pointed it to the direction of the energy display. He primed the device and started to record energy signatures but the levels were going off the charts, so high that his device began to fry and burn itself out after a few seconds.

" Dear god…..what the hell is happening over there…"

At that second, Gaz, Dib's little sister, burst into room and trotted to her brother, looking very angry and displeased with him. From the clutches of her right hand she had her Game Slave, and from the looks of things it was also fried, just like his energy tracker.

" Dib….If one of your experiments ruined my Game Slave again I am going to rip you in two!" She exclaimed furiously.

" Gaz its not me…..LOOK!," He cried out, pointed to the direction of Zim's location.

" WHOA!…O_O What did you do did you finally kill him? Stop the presses my brother just 'Saved the World'…," She said mockingly while looking at awe of the energy column.

" No….this actually wasn't me. I saw the explosion and Zim was…screaming," He explained, feeling very shaken up.

" He was screaming like nothing I ever heard before….It was like he was dying….."

Gaz's face turned from a mocking smirk into a serious scowl while eyeing her brother. Normally the thought of Zim being dissected and killed for the glory of earth would send Dib into a giggling idiot state for a few hours. But this was different. Her brother looked shaken, even afraid. And she had to admit that she heard the scream too. At first she thought it was her brother being overly dramatic from one of his experiments gone wrong. This wasn't the case at all. She mulled over in her mind as suddenly the energy explosion subsided and Zim's neighborhood went dark.

" I say we go check it out…."

" What? Are you crazy? We don't know what just happened to that place!"

" Look…I know you. And I know that deep down you want to know what happened to him. You were going to go with or without me and for ONCE I'm interested in what happened too. Or are you coming or not?," She said sternly, giving him a chance to mull it over.

Dib sighed deeply and took on last look in Zim's direction. He did want to know, but something told him he wouldn't want to. But he didn't listen he ignored that little voice and grabbed a coat and a flashlight.

" Let's go….before Dad get's home…."

A few minutes later the sibling arrived to the cul-de-sac where Zim's house was, only see ruins. Zim's house was a wreck and was gutted to the core. It looked as if a giant beam bore through the house all the way down into the center of his underground base.

" Jesus Christ…I can't tell if he was attacked or some accident caused this…..," Dib said while surveying the damage.

" Only one way to find out…Down we go, Dweeb…"

Gaz instantly started to bound down the wreckage into the depths of the base. Dib being more careful began to do the same while called out to his sister.

" Be careful! If you get hurt I don't want to have to explain to Dad you got hurt while exploring the ruins of an Alien Command Post!"

" Shut it!…we don't know if the thing responsible is still here or not.," She said in a low tone, shushing her brother up while climbing down. The Base was truly in a razed state. Entire hulls and bulkheads were shatter and burst open while some of the metals looked superheated and melted down like they were cut with the world's biggest lightsaber. The damage was severe but consistent all they way down to the center of the base. The two began to survey the area until Dib looked over to see Zim's collapsed body at the base of the explosion.

" Look…there he is!"

Zim's body was badly tore up, deep lacerations and bruises and burn riddled his form and his PAK was nowhere to be found. Dib took a energy tracker from his backpack and turned it on to check his body for energy readings and radiation. The moment he did so the tracker spiked insanely high….reading off the same and the last one before quickly frying and burning out.

" Gaz…..That beam of light….it was coming from him!" He exclaimed.

" Don't be thick…There was no way that energy pulse could come from him. Alien or not no living being could house that kind of power," Gaz said in protest.

" Then how do you explain it…..I did the same thing when the Column showed up and it burned out just like this…."

" Maybe Zim was close enough to the explosion to get a residual charge from it and it lingered on his body…..That makes more sense than him being the source."

Suddenly the pair heard a set of tiny metallic footsteps and what seemed like crying. The two turned to see Gir, holding onto a pig plushie and crying while looking over at Zim's unconscious form.

" At least Gir's alive…..he can tell us what happened..," Gaz said while walking over to the little android.

" What happened here…"

Gir, through a heavy bit of crying, told them both all that happened. Zim hearing the truth from his leaders and his outburst. Gir told them about how his master's eyes turned and this his scream began to rip their home into nothing. At first the two looked at the little android with disbelief, but they say the emotional state Gir was in. It was a rare occasion to see Gir like this, if in fact Gir was ever in a state like this at all…..They had no choice but to believe what he saw with his own eyes. It was at that time the siblings picked up the unconscious Irken and carried him off to their home. It wouldn't be long before the police showed…

Well that's it for the first chapter. It's not bad for a start I would suppose but please tell me what you think. Rate and review as you see fit. Please try to be kind. This is my first FanFic.