Researcher Zim? 1
I don't own Zim!
(((Just made this, not too many good Invader Zim fanfics out there)))
The crowed of Irken invaders stood crowding around the stage that held their two leaders, and another Irken. The two leaders were referred to as the Tallest Red, and the Tallest Blue, the other being on the stage was Zim, the third tallest Irken in history. The tallest Red raised his hand to quiet his people so he could speak.
"My fellow Irkens we are gathered here to witness the sending off of one of our best, Researcher Zim!" the crowd went wild at the name. Tallest Blue razed his hand to call silence back, "Dear Researcher Zim is voluntarily leaving the empire so not to bring war from pointless fighting over the right to lead our great empire, and prevent the come in of end that was foretold in the last empire of Irken," the crowd stated silent, none daring to interrupt the Tallests, "Researcher Zim will be leaving for the planet referred to by the galaxy as 'Earth' a planet almost completely made of the one poison to our great Empire, the chemical creation of X2U (H2O)!"
The crowd let out a collected gasp, no invader survived there, most would crash in to the deadly liquid as soon as they break the atmosphere, even if the landed on land they had to deal with the stuff falling from the sky in many forms. Zim took a step forward to the front of the stage.
"My fellow Irkens I leave to keep our empire as one, I leave so more will live, and I leave because there is nothing left for me to research here to help the empire. I hope that by leaving for this planet that I may find a way for the empire to reject the poison, and families may gain closure for their own who braved the challenge of the planet!" Many invaders cheered, some mourned for the loss of their parents, siblings and brothers in arms, but all felt the pride the Zim had given them. Zim raised his hand to quiet them, and they did so faster than they had for the Tallests, making them both realize that if Zim wanted to he could probably take power for himself with litter resistance.
"I will be leaving in my personal craft as soon as I gather my supplies for this journey, Good-bye my fellow Irken, may the Empire stand strong!" The Irkens all cheered at his words, many shouting in pride of the Empire's finest, of for having had the chance to see the Researcher one last time.
"You really put on a show, but did you need to dramatize it so much?" Blue asked Zim. "I didn't have to, but it does give us some insurance for the future." "What are you talking about Zim?" Red asked his younger brother, "There is change coming, something not even I was able to gain an understanding of, Irkens everywhere are evolving to match the planet that they are on. Some are getting stronger; others are gaining mutations that will most likely show up stronger in their off spring. Sooner or later a new way of thinking will take place on the planets that have been under the control of the empire for a while; they will notice the changes and think that it will make them above the rest of the Irken race and most likely fight." Blue and Red looked at their little brother before looking at each other, "What's that have to do with earth?" Blue asked this time around, Zim nodded his head, understanding that the two wouldn't be able to make a connection; he had played his cards so no one would.
"No matter what the change is Irkens can still die from X2U, possibly not as fast as originals would but die all the same. I will move to earth, not only to find a cure, but also as it is the greatest defense if war does come." Both nodded understanding what he had said.
Walking to the room that Zim had used as his storage/bed room the three entered and started to help pack Zim's gear. The whole thing only too about ten minutes due to Zim's mini-bots helping move equipment to the storage devices that Zim had invented by mistake when investigating Black-Holes. It only took about ten minutes to gather the supplies and another five to drop them into the little boxes and watch them bend and twist into the pocket dimension.
Zim stood outside his ship, it had been modified to hold his body and many more objects, some of the modifications would be able to level about half the empire at full power, but no one needed to know that. As he watched his two S.I.R. Units finish pre-launch checks he felt a senesce of detachment; only taking a few seconds to figure out where it came from, the fact that he was truly leaving everything he had ever known behind. Of course he was one of the top researchers, but due to him being related to the Tallests he hadn't been able to leave the planet's atmosphere, all the subjects he had needed had been transported to him. Pushing the feeling to the back of his mind Zim turned to look at his brothers for the last time in who knows how long "I will... miss you..." Red smiled at his youngest brother, he knew that little Zim found emotions a distraction to research and had locked most of them away somewhere in the back of his brain, just Zim doing this showed how much he would truly miss them.
"We know Zim, that's why we got you a last minute gift to help you on your researching." Purple said as he reach behind himself, and paused to watch Zim's eyes go wide, gifts from Red or Purple were far and few in-between, but when he got them they were of something that would amaze Zim. Red slapped Purple upside the head as a sign to hurry it up, not that he didn't enjoy seeing Zim look like a normal Irken his age should. Purple pulled out something that resembled a wrist watch, but more of a rectangular shape than the normal circle "Zim, what this is a genetic modifier that allows an Irken to change their bodies to match whatever DNA was placed into it." Purple paused to see if Zim understood what he was saying and seeing he did he let Red tell the rest.
Red shot a glare at Purple for pushing the history lesson that was coming up on him to tell, he hated history. "We have already put the DNA of the humans that had inhabited a continent on our planet eons ago." Zim nodded his head understanding what Red was saying until it registered that humans had once lived on Irk. "What, how did Humans live here?" Purple decided to stop annoying his older brother with the task of history teacher.
"Long ago Humans had evolved to the point where they had started to gain the abilities to do things that we could only dream of, bending the elements to their wills to destroy each other, they could bend their energy to create perfect body copies of anyone, or thing." Purple had a faraway look as he remembered the holo-tapes that their father had shown them in secret, long before Zim had even been a thought. "We had separated our own race from them, they had become too violent as a whole, not that many of them weren't kind, but too many had fallen and became bent on gaining power to rule the planet. One of our great-great-great-X4-grandfathers were one of these humans, but after mating with one of our own had fought against the last two of what was once a great clan, he had brought a calm to their lands, but it failed soon after his death, the nations soon started to start fighting each other again, and slowly they destroyed the lands, food became rare, water polluted by blood and rot of the dead. The last survivors we took pity on we brought them to us and let them pick, become like us, or go back and probably die..."
Purple went silent, his brain bringing back all the memories of the lessons, and holo-tapes that he had received on the subject, so Red decided to explain how to use the genetic modifier, "The only Irkens that can use this are the ones related to us by blood, if anyone else used it there is almost no chance of them surviving the change," Red saw Zim questioning look "the only reason that is because of our Great-(Add all the other greats here)- grandfather had the ability to use a greater form of the power the humans once had, and it stayed in our blood, that birth mark on our chest is the marking of our ability to use the power." Zim nodded his head, he had noticed the scar like mark on his chest, right beside his lungs, he had thought he had skewered himself when he was little because a smaller scar was on his back, exactly across from the one over his chest.
"Sir, the ship is ready." One of the few S.I.R. units Zim had reported after seeing the two had stopped talking. "I will be there in a moment Tir, please make sure Gir doesn't break anything." "Yes sir." the Red S.I.R. marched back to the ship. Looking back to his brothers Zim smiled lightly, "I guess this is it." "No..." Purple stated giving Zim a tight hug, "This is a new beginning, your new beginning." Red finished as he too gave Zim a hug.
After the emotional good-bye Zim entered his ship and activated the Ship's A.I. "Hello Master Zim, where will we be going today?" a soft smile traveled across his lips after hearing the soft voice of the ship. "We are heading to a planet called Earth; I have my full trust in your ability to get us there safely." A hologram appears over the controls, it is a female human shape but seemed to be a mix of Irken, Human, and a Cyborg, "I would be insulted if you didn't Master Zim is everything aboard or will we be waiting for more supplies?" Zim smiled softly, "As soon as Gir, Tir, and Lenz are aboard with the M-bots we will be ready to leave."
A low growl behind Zim notified him that Lenz was already aboard and becoming irritable due to her missing 'brothers'. A squeal, much like a new born would make, let him know that Gir was coming his way, and the grunts was more likely than not Tir dragging him to the ship. Zim didn't even look back when Gir came flying into the open hatch and slammed into a second chair, "Thank you Tir for bringing him," Tir nodded as he sat the container for the M-bots on the ground, "That's all of them, we can leave now..." Zim paused for a moment, "I never gave you a name did I?" the A.I. nodded, "I would like to be called Ino if that is alright?" "Alright, let's get going, Ino."
