Zim sat in his lab, bored out his mind. Nothing had really happened lately; he was kicked out of the Great Assigning, and now all he had to do was loll around in his base. He was still on Irk, stuck on his home planet without a mission. Ok, so he had scientist stuff to do, but otherwise there was nothing. In fact he was waiting to kicked out of that too, since the last experiment they'd let him do ate Myuki and Spork. Ever since then they'd just kind of made him lab helper or something. 'hey Zim, go grab me some xenon this thing needs to stay stable or it'll blow up in my face' 'Zim, I need a niobium rocket nozzle, go get it now' it was really boring and it made him feel sure that he'd get dumped out of the proper labs sooner or later. Really, the only lab he ever ran experiments in was his personal lab at home. That was it.
His antennae twitched when he heard a bleeping sound. He turned his head to his computer screen, where he had a foreign signal locating set up out of sheer boredom. He tapped the screen and focused in on the strange signal. It fizzled and throbbed a bit, and though it was garbled up a bit, he could make out some speech: "I'll crush those monsters like the insects they are! I'll- the transmission/recording got a bit fuzzy,- nothing!" the voice said. Then it garbled even more for a minute.
"what is this?! Who are they going to crush?" Zim yelled into his computer, leaning into it heavily. This was intriguing. He had to know who this was. The transmission became clear again; it made a loud bsshwooosh noise and then refocused, the sound of screams and objects flinging around something echoing through his lab room. Then the voice steadied itself, accompanied by whizzing noise that soon faded. "gah, where did that turbulence come from? Could they have some sort of field on this terrible planet?" it grumbled, annoyed about whatever had just happened.
"well, there it is. Stupid planet full of space bugs! I'll push them into extinction like they've done to so many other creatures!" it yelled, it's voice becoming filled with rage. The signal, and in turn the voice, had become much more focused. It was no longer garbled like it used to be…
"COMPUTER! LOCATE THE SOURCE OF THIS NOW!" Zim screamed up at his roof. He needed to know who and where this was and NOW.
"yeah yeahz, I'll get to it in a minute." Computer mumbled defiantly. Zim bared his teeth in anger and his antenna pressed against the back of his skull. He screamed back at his malfunctioning computer- "I WANT YOU TO FIND THE SOURCE AND FIND IT NOW! OR, OR- I'LL BLOW YOU UP OR SOMETHING!"
"pfff, fine." Computer said and then got to finding the location of the signal. It brought up a map on the screen. It depicted Zim's ringed home planet with a moving, blinking red dot. Above it in irken script it said 'SIGNAL SOURCE'. NOO! The source is a ship! It has to be- and it's heading straight for irk with it's deadly intentions! Zim screamed in his mind. Not only that but it appeared to already have entered Irk's atmosphere. He watched with a panicked look on his face as the dot came closer and closer to the planet's surface.
Zim couldn't take it anymore. He tapped the screen a few ties and it zoomed in on the dot's decent. He zoomed up to until he could see the exact location of it and everything around it. He read the names of the cities around it, all of which were written in Irken. After he'd read them all, already sweating from fear, he screamed at the top of his lungs(er, squeedlyspooch). "GAAAAAH! IT'S HEADED STRAIGHT FOR ME!" his voice then reduced itself to a whisper. "it's going to land in the same city I'm in it's going to land in Virrizzikon in Virrizzikon where I am right now I'm going to die holy shit I'm going to die!" his sentences merged into one, long one that he droned on and on, growing louder with each syllable. He dared to turn his head back to the screen and watched the dot approach Irk's surface.
Zim curled into a ball on his chair. He tucked his knees up to his chest and rested his head on top of them. He was scared out of his mind. He didn't even know what this being was; only that it wanted him dead along with his entire empire. His thoughts continued to revolve around this until he snapped them. He wasn't going to let himself get this worked about some dumb ship landing in virrizzicon. No. Never. Virrizzikon was powerful irken city; one that held triumphs of science and combat skills. He would not let himself believe that a silly ship was going blow it all up. Virrizzikon had walls; huge city walls that bared the inner city, outer city, and a few thousand years ago they bared it from war. A terrible war between the irkens and another species over claims on the right to live on the planet.
Dib leapt out of the hatch on his ship. It was an Earthenian one; built with some little engineering techniques from other planets but mostly stuff learned on his home planet. It was a pretty chrome white and shaped like the classic shuttle. But this one held a secret technology not previously used by man.
Dib pressed a series of buttons on it's side and stepped back. The shuttle morphed and shifted, and finally settled in a domed shape. Then, it put up a hologram to look just like structures around him; tall, angular and pink with purple marking. Dib walked up to his newly formed house and the slid down to let him. Now was his time to get prepared for tomorrow. He had a empire to destroy, and he had get to work immediately.