The Immortals Chapter 1: Prologue: Earth's End, a Sonic the Hedgehog + Invader Zim Crossover fanfic

WARNING!: This story does not contain much humor, for the plot is dramatic! Zim is also waaaay OOC! Impossible to keep him that way, again, due to the seriousness of t3h plot! This is not your average, humorous IZ based fanfic!

Song of Inspiration – My Dimension by Gigi D'Agostino

The Immortals
Prologue - Earth's End

This planet once bared a blue sky and plantation…but that was a week ago. Now it stands as a wasteland. The sky exists as a blood red dust cloud, while the land is nothing but dirt and rock. The days are unbearably hot and the nights are deathly cold. Water and plants seem to have disintegrated into thin air, which has been contaminated by a source unknown. Life itself seems to have vanished, leaving only reptiles and insects to survive...and one last life form...

With his vision beginning to blur, the Irken fell to his knees, weak and exhausted from the heat and his week-long travel. Unable to continue his search for signs of life other than snakes and flies, he laid flat on the ground, barely conscious. His mind raced with what was left of his energy, trying to make sense of what happened all those days ago…

Seven days earlier
Zim sat in his lab, scolding himself for his slow progress while trying to come up with a fool-proof plan to complete his mission. Scanning over previous blue prints, he gathered a few and compromised them into a new one, one that would surely bring him success.

"I am a GENIUS!" He exclaimed as he held the new plan up. Before he could praise himself any further, a loud bang deafened his hearing and sent everything in sight, including him, violently into the air.

Pushing debris off of himself, Zim stood up and gazed around. Everything lied in ruin. As his hearing returned he jolted around.

"Computer! What happened?!" No response. "Computer?!" He sighed in frustration as he grabbed a communicator.

"Gir!" Nothing but silence.

"Worthless! Guess I'll have to find out myself!" He walked over to the elevator and commanded for it to open. The doors didn't budge. He gazed at the blank panel.

"There's no power?!! Why does this happen to ZIM?" He questioned while clutching his fists in the air.

Zim removed a vent covering and crawled through, moving debris along the way into the house. Struggling to remove an object blocking his way into the kitchen, he thought over different scenarios as to what happened to his base that could've gotten it into such a mess. He would have never dreamed of what he'd find next.

Finally able to push the blockage out of the way, he crawled out in shock. Everything was in total ruin, not only his house, but every building in sight. Almost nothing was left.

"GIR?!" No sign of his robotic minion. His gaze snapped to where his roof once was.

"The cruiser!!" Zim back up in disbelief. "H-how? How did this happen?" Panicked, he ran off towards the city...only to find that there was no one, just ruins.

"Ironic…that Earth destroyed itself…before…I did…" He weakly stated under his breath as his vision slowly became engulfed by darkness.

The sound of heavy, metal footsteps came closer to him. And as metal claws slipped under his body and lifted him from the ground, he blacked out.

Written: February 2009

I've been meaning to post it here, but never got around to it. It's been up at DeviantArt for about a year...

Behold! The product of my lack of passion for writing!

Very, very, very short. Though this was just a short story to try and bring back my passion for writing. Helped a little, not much.

I'm not fully pleased with how the whole thing turned out (future chapters included). It feels quickly written, mainly because as of late I just cannot bring myself to write/detail anything worth ****

This story was mostly fueled on a single sketch of a demonic creature I drew while watching Glenn Beck.