Alien Deception, an Invader Zim Fanfiction
Part One:
Vex stumbled down the steep staircase, trying her best not to fall, but just as she had almost reached the lowest level of the palace the planet began to shake violently.
It had started with sporadic trembles, then pockets of smoke which giveaway to bursts of fire that shot up through the planet's gaping cracks. The planet was going to explode.
Vex tumble down the last dozen stairs, trying to will her body to move. She'd been badly injured during her unfinished battle with Diviant. He'd almost killed her. Had it not been for the planet quake that had torn the thrown room in half she'd be dead. If she didn't get up off the ground she would be dead.
With great difficulty and unimaginable amounts of pain Vex pushed herself up to her feet and ran down the dark and twisting tunnels, trying her best to keep her balance as the planet continued to shake, until she finally found her Voot Cruiser. It had been at least nine years since she'd hidden it. She prayed that it still worked.
She heard and explosion and many terrified screams that followed. If she didn't leave now she'd be too late.
She lifted her fragile body into the cruiser, feeling as darkness began to cloud her vision and senses. She couldn't give up now, not when she was so close to saving herself.
She punched in her personal identification code and the cruiser came to life. The jet thrusters turned on, causing the Voot Cruiser to hover in mid-air, just in time for the floor to cave in. The control consol flashed; it was waiting for Vex to key in the coordinates.
Vex fought to keep her eyes open. Using a great deal of strength to lift her arm and pressed in random coordinates; anywhere was better then this forsaken planet.
The Cruiser took off, breaking through several of the palace floors and shot into outer space. Just as Vex had broken through the planets ozone layer she watched as Tosna, the planet she'd resided on for the last nine years, imploded, killing off the entire race of Tosnonians. It was a sad day seeing as her mission was now considered a failure and her heart had been broken beyond repair.
The rocks, remains and debris of the planet flew through space in all different directions and at incredible speed.
Adrenalin rushed through Vex's veins as she grabbed the steering gear of her Voot Cruiser and began to weave the little space ship through the remnants of Tosna. The smaller rocks hit the cruiser denting it slightly but Vex was more concerned about the larger asteroids that were flying everywhere littering space.
Just as she'd managed blast away more of the rocks using her Cruisers duel laser canons and clear herself of most of the danger; she saw a large boulder flying towards her from the right. She tried to steer the Cruiser to the left but the boulder smashed along the right side of the ship. One of the engines went out. Landing would be impossible, she thought to herself as her body went limp from exhaustion and she fell to the floor of the cockpit. At least she'd managed to clear the asteroid field, which once used to be known as Tosna. She looked down and watched her blood slowly trickle down her arms, from some of her more extensive wounds. She didn't even care anymore. She moved her gaze to the open abyss that was outer space. This was the last thing she saw before she surrendered to the blackness of unconsciousness.
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Dib swivelled his computer chair away from the screen. He removed his glasses and rubbed his eyes. Homework had slowly begun to take over his life. College was harder then he thought. He assumed that paranormal studies would be easy for him, which it was, but it was very time consuming with all the required research. He hardly had any more time to spy or try to rid the Earth of Zim.
He placed his glasses back on his face and looked out the window. It was dark out. The streets were completely empty, seeing as it was just passed one in the morning. Suddenly he saw something flicker across the sky. Dib jumped to his feet and grabbed his telescope. This couldn't be an asteroid shower or a comet, he would have known about that in advance.
He looked through his telescope and when he had managed to focus in on the fast falling object his mouth dropped in shock. Another Voot Cruiser, just like Zim's! Maybe it i was /i Zim's- no, not even Zim was dumb enough to drive his Voot Cruiser around where humans could see him. Zim hadn't done that since they'd been in grade four.
Dib watched in breathless anticipation as the small alien ship crashed into the forest within the park.
He jumped off his bed, grabbed his long black trench coat off the back of his computer chair and ran out of his house and into his small black Honda civic, speeding towards the park, hoping that no one had seen what he just saw.
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The crash had woken Vex from her dreamless sleep. The first thing she noticed was the extreme amount of pain she was in. Where was she? She managed to move her head to the side to see the ships screen flashing in Irken symbols, 'DESTINATION REACHED! PLANET EARTH!'
Vex had never head of that planet. She tried to pull herself out of the Cruiser, not wanting to be found by the habitants of this planet. She had to hide her Voot Cruiser and make a disguise. If only she still had her SIR unit; it would have recorded all of this planets research for her, but she had to leave it behind on Tosna. She then realized that, as hard as she'd been trying, she hadn't been able to move. She was hurt and weakened from everything that had happened to her. She realized that this could very well be her impending doom. She'd tried her best and had failed her mission as an invader. She was sure that the Tallest were already aware of what had transpired on Tosna. There really wasn't a point to live anymore, so Vex closed her eyes and let the blackness roll over her and consume her once again.
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Dib ran through the field and into the forest. His heart was racing as the cold night air blew passed him, causing his coat to whip at the back of his legs. His boots pounded hard against the leaf covered ground.
He'd seen the ship land somewhere around here, he decided. He stopped running to catch his breath and see if he could hear anything. He panted heavily for a moment before he straitened his body and strained his ears. All he could hear, at first, was the cold autumn wind blowing through the trees and the sounds of a noisy owl over head- then suddenly he heard it! A very quiet hissing noise and a constant beeping sound. The ship was close.
He followed the noise and found the purple Voot Cruiser with the black symbol of Zim's race; the armada, painted on the side, although this ship looked as though it was in far worse condition then Zim's. Sure this ship had crash landed on Earth but that didn't explain the numerous dents on the exterior or the large scratch that ran all along the right side of the Voot Cruiser. The right engine also appeared to be badly damaged, seeing as it was hissing with steam and shooting off sparks.
Dib jumped into the crater of dirt the ship had caused during impact and began inspecting the contour of the ship. After a quick examination he'd managed to find a opening latch located just on the right side of the Cruiser. Before he opened it, however, he pulled a Shock Anti-Disrupter that he'd made, so that if the alien was still alive inside the ship Dib would give him several hundred volts of electricity. He also carried a small squirt gun in the pocket of his coat, knowing that Zim's alien race had an intolerance to water; it caused them to burn horribly.
Once armed with his weapons he deemed himself ready for whatever was in the Voot Cruiser and pressed the latch, causing the broken and cracked glass canopy that covered the top half of the ship to disappear into the rear of the ship.
Dib peered into the mass of broken computer panels, destroyed alien equipment, smoke and sparks.
"Er. . .hello?" Dib said weakly, not quite knowing what else to say. When no one answered him Dib decided to was safe to go in. He climbed into, what he assumed to be, the cockpit. As he began to sort through everything that had been jolted and thrown around during the crash Dib noticed a black gloved hand, with only three fingers, buried under several sparking cords and cables. They appeared to be the same kind of gloves Zim had.
Dib smiled to himself as he cautiously dug out the unconscious alien, carried her out of the ship and laid her down onto the forest ground. Once she was free from the wreckage Dib examined her. Her clothes were almost the same design as Zim's, only purple, much like Tak's had been. She appeared to be only slightly shorter then himself, he estimated her height to be approximately 5'4. She was thin and appeared to be in good physical form, for an alien, excluding the fact that she was badly injured from the crash or a potential fight before that. Dib also noticed that, much like Zim, she had no sign of visible ears, had green skin and two black antennas, one of witch appeared to be broken. She looked to be the same age as Zim, but even Dib had a hard time trying to figure out the difference between Zim's races years and human years. Dib had first met- or rather encountered Zim in grade four, when he was ten. At first Dib assumed Zim was the same age but once the stupid alien had let it slip that in human years he was 159 years old and that was already eleven years ago.
He carefully lifted the dead-like alien and quickly carried her back through the dark forest, the vast field and the empty park, lying her down in the back seat of his car. Tomorrow night he'd go back for the Cruiser but until then he felt confidant that no one would find it, considering that no one ever went into the forest. All that mattered, at the moment, was to get his newest test subject back to his lab and begin the experiments.
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"Foolish dirty humans!" Zim laughed evilly to himself as he flipped through his new text books. "For the last two years I've been attending that 'college'." Zim made air quotations as he said the world. "And every year the idiot pig-filth teachers tell me in more detail how to destroy the world and kill of their insufferable race." He threw his thick geography, psychology, human anatomy and political studies text books down to the floor of his underground lab.
"GIR, pick those books up and take them upstairs." Zim commanded his malfunctioning SIR unit.
"Only if you dance with me." GIR said with a big smile as his eyes glowed blue.
Zim glared at the small robot, being all too familiar with GIR's behaviour. "Forget it, GIR." He said warily.
"Aww." GIR cooed. "Please? I'll see a song." He persuaded.
"GIR, how many times must I tell you that the great ZIM has more important things to do then to dance with-" he was suddenly cut off my an incoming transmission from his leaders, the Almighty Tallest.
"My Tallest!" he yelled. "Why have you honoured Zim with your presence?" Zim saluted towards his huge wall length monitor.
Red and Purple were standing in the cockpit of The Massive, the largest of the Irken ships, in which they traveled. To Zim's great surprise they weren't eating any snacks, nor did he see any empty snack wrappers around them.
"This transmission is being sent to all of our Irken Invaders who are on missions for Operation Impending Doom 2 and 3." Red announced.
"This is ZIM!" Zim cried out.
Red rolled his eyes, "We're not just talking to you, Zim."
"Eh?" Zim questioned, scratching his head in incomprehension.
"Just listen, Zim." Red snapped. "Now we have some very bad news." He announced.
"Very, very bad." Purple added.
"One of our most promising invaders, who we'd sent out for Operation Impending Doom 3, on mission to invade and conquer over our races most dangerous enemy planet. . ." Red trailed off and slowly turned towards Purple, "Eh. . .what was I talking about?"
"You were about to tell them that Invader Vex is dead." Purple reminded him.
"Oh, right!" Red said with a smile as he smacked his own head with the palm of his hand. "Invader Vex is dead. It's a sad day for Irken's everywhere."
"Oh! But there is good news!" Purple cried out. "Although one of our best invaders is dead she somehow managed to blow up our enemy planet as well as herself, or so we assume!" he nodded happily as he took out a bag of Irken chips.
"We no longer have to worry about Planet Tosna or its evil inhabitants ever again!" Red assured.
"Although, if we had conquered the planet we could have used it as a place to store our snacks." Purple pointed out.
Red nodded in agreement. "It would have been so wonderful." He said dreamily, and then pulled himself out of his thoughts. "Anyway, that's all we had to say."
"Buh-bye now!" Purple said and the transmission ended.
"Invader Vex." Zim said out loud.
"Went KABLOOM!" GIR yelled out, running around in circles.
"Why does that name sound so familiar?" he asked himself, paying no attention to GIR. "Computer, bring up Irken records of Invader Vex."
"Data processing." The booming voice of the computer announced and the screen loaded to a picture of a short Irken girl with big round purple eyes and spiral antenna.
"Ah, yes." Zim muttered to himself as he read over her records. "Now I remember her. I was her superior while in training at the Irken Invaders Academy." He tapped his fingers against the computer consol. "She was a nice enough Irken girl. . .but that was her weakness, she was far too personable. Unlike me. ZIM HAS NO WEAKNESSES!" he yelled, his voice echoing through the entire lab.
"She's real pretty!" GIR pointed to Vex's picture on the screen.
Zim shrugged, "That holographic photo was taken a long time ago, GIR. She may look very different now." Zim informed.
GIR nodded enthusiastically, "She gone an' 'sploded now." The small robot began to chew one of the thousands of electronic cords underneath the console.
"Yes, GIR, a fellow invader is dead. It's sad but it happens. Now let's go upstairs. I need to do some minor repairs to the Cruiser and your stupid human show is on."
"Monkey!" GIR cried as he ran for the elevator, not wanting to miss a single second of 'The Angry Monkey Show'.
Zim followed closely behind, not bothering to exit of out Invader Vex's personal Irken Invader Academy file.
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Dib looked down at the alien who was now bound to his stainless steal autopsy table; her chest was arched considerably, seeing as her PAK was fused to her back, which Dib had realized earlier when he tried to remove it. He spun around on the heel of his boot and walked over to his computer, where he snatched up a stack of papers he'd just printed out. On each one of these papers was a different experiment he wanted to perform on the alien.
This was perfect! He thought to himself as he did a little dance. After he preformed his experiments he'd offer all of the results and the alien over to the Swollen Eyeball in return for re-admitting him into their network.
The Swollen Eyeball Network was a group of highly sophisticated people who devoted all their time to researching the field of paranormal study. Dib had once been apart of this network under the alias of Agent Mothman, but on his twenty first birthday, which was only a couple months ago, one of the head agents of the Swollen Eyeball, Agent Darkbooty, had told Dib, via video conference, that he was officially no longer an active member of the Swollen Eyeball Network, nor should he ever try to contact them again. When Dib asked why he was being thrown from the group Agent Darkbooty explained that it was because of all the false accusations he'd made in regards to Zim being an alien, seeing as Dib never had any solid proof concerning his accusations. The members had finally had enough of Dib's stories, so they kicked him out of their organization.
Dib had been furious. It was all because of Zim. Dib made a promise to himself that he would find solid proof that Zim was an alien and get re-admitted into the Swollen Eyeball but now he didn't even need Zim, he had his own alien.
First off Dib had to make sure that this alien was in fact the same race as Zim. He quickly wrote down her supposed gender and physical appearance. He then took off her black glove and reached into his coat pocket coming out with his squirt gun. He aimed the plastic toy at her green nail-less hand and squirt water on it. He watched the water for several seconds before he received the reaction he'd wanted. The alien's hand began to sizzle and bubble as though he'd just poured acid on it.
Dib was writing the effects down onto his paper when he heard the alien speak.
"It burns." She said meekly as she slowly opened her big purple coloured eyes.
"You can speak English, just like Zim." Dib stated as he continued to write.
She tried to struggle in her restraints. "Who are you?" she demanded. "Where am I?"
"I wouldn't struggle too much. You appear to be hurt quite badly, so putting more strain on your body probably isn't the best idea." Dib explained as he took his eyes off his notes and looked down at her. "And you are in my lab, which is located on the planet Earth."
"Earth." She repeated the world.
Her voice wasn't irritating and annoying like Zim's, it was more melodic and soft. She also didn't seem to have any different accent either, unlike Tak who sounded as though she had an Australian accent, Dib thought to himself.
"Yes, Earth. The planet Zim has no doubt called you to so you could assist him in conquering it." Dib said as he walked around her head and removed her other glove.
"Zim?" she questioned, trying to process all the information.
Dib gave her a sceptical look. "Yes, Zim." He moved to her feet and removed her boots. "I 'm almost certain that Zim called for help and now you're here." He voiced his suspicions.
The alien shook her head. "I have received no such transmission."
"Un-huh." He muttered sarcastically, choosing not to believe a word she said. "Now does this outfit have a zipper or will I have to cut if off?" he asked and watched as her eyes went wide in horror.
"Why are you doing this?" she asked.
"To figure out the female anatomy of an alien." He answered simply. "Now you have quite a few tears in your outfit as it is, so would you care i that /i much if I just cut of off?" he questioned, then before she had a chance to answer he spoke again, "Never mind, I found out how to get of off." He began to pull off her uniform as she struggled to free herself.
"Please stop." She said pathetically as she lay, now naked on the table.
Dib ignored her pleas. "I've already discovered that your alien body repairs itself faster then that of a human. I'm almost positive that you heal more quickly because of your blood. It's several shades darker then human blood. I'll need a sample, of course, to test my theory further."
"I heal faster because the Irken race is far more superior then your filthy Earthling race!" she angrily spat at him.
Dib stared her in the eyes, "You are definitely the same race as Zim." He said dully. He was used to being fed the same insults over and over again by Zim.
She struggled more against the restraints around both her wrists and ankles. "This has nothing to do with Zim!" she cried out in frustration.
"So you admit to knowing him then?" Dib asked with a half smile and an arched eyebrow.
"Yes, of course I know him, but I haven't had contact with him for a very long time- now release me!" she demanded
"I realize that you're probably feeling a little awkward, what with you being completely exposed and all, but don't worry, I'll put your clothes back on before I place you in the data containment tank." He said and saw her eyes close as her body began to tremble.
"This backpack thing of yours doesn't come off, does it?" he asked, changing the subject as he poked it with the dip of his pen.
"Unless you want to kill me I suggest you leave my PAK where it is." She hissed.
"I'd always wondered about Zim's. . .PAK, did you call it?" he leaned in closer to her body to inspect it.
Vex smiled to herself as the human got closer to her PAK. When he was mere inches away, with lightening speed, she released her spider-like mechanical legs, hitting the Earthling directly in the face. She smiled to herself as she watched him fall to the ground clutching the right side of his face. While he was down she used one of her mechanical legs to reach into her PAK and retrieve her Hand Held Communicator. She may not be able to contact her base or SIR unit, both had perished in the explosion, but if this disgusting Earth man was speaking the truth then she might be able to relay a message to Zim's base or his SIR unit.
Just as her message for help was being transmitted Dib snuck up behind her and threw his activated Shock Anti-Disrupter on her, causing her to drop her communicator as her spider-like mechanical legs retracted into her PAK, her body convulsed and then went limp.
Dib poked her arm lightly to make sure she was out. When she didn't move he slowly pushed himself up to his feet and reached a hand up to his busied eye. There would definitely be a mark in the morning. He let out a deep sigh as he picked up his data sheets and looked back to the alien, only to see that her PAK 's coloured spots had begun to blink red on and off.
"Re-animation complete." The PAK's charging cell announced as it stopped blinking.
Vex opened her eyes and glared at Dib, who in fright squirted her midsection with his plastic water gun, watching as she seethed in pain.
"If you try to call for help or try to escape one more time I will submerge you in water until you beg for death." He threatened her, meaning every word of it.
She glared at him and spoke, "Filthy Earthling." Her words were dripping with venom.
Dib ignored her and began his examinations.