Chapter 1
Me, Myself, and I
Falling
Zim was falling into eternal darkness
At least he thought he was.
But then... he hit cold, hard, unforgiving ground. As he sat up he could see the rows and lines of Irken Cloning tanks like the ones in the factory he destroyed. "Zim..." Zim shot around looking at the containers. "Ziiiiimmmmm..." Zim shot around looking for anyone, but then as he turned he saw a whole group of shadow like figures standing there, their glowing white eyes were watching in curiosity. Zim gulped down a bit feeling a little intimidated, "Um...hello?" They remained silent, just watching him intently. As Zim slowly backed up he bumped into another person, he quickly turned around to see it was Red. "Red!" Red grinned, the scar on his face shown well. As Zim moved back a bit he turned to see what was another Irken, wearing a completely black Irken stealth suit with Irken gas mask filtering out the atmosphere. "Well hello my child! Welcome to your womb...It has been a long time since your birth." Zim quickly stood up and raised his fists, "I'm not your damn child Red, and you are not my father!" Red chuckled obviously amused by the display, "My my, you are really tough aren't you Zim? To bad you didn't side with us...we could have used you Zim." Zim gritted his teeth, "I will never work with you, I will kill you when I have the chance!" Red chuckled once more as the other Irken in the armor slipped away, "Zim you are not seeing the big picture! You were meant for this, our struggle right now is meaningless and redundant. My goal is to make an Empire literally built on other civilizations. We will sustain the new generation of the Irken Empire and bring peace to everything we know. Zim in this Empire...you will not be a defect." Zim looked back at Red, "Red...it is you who is the defect, once people figure out you killed Purple, the Empire you so want to mold perfectly will crumble beneath you and let you go. It is you who is lost." Red was silent as he closed his eyes and sighed, "Zim...I wish you saw it my way."
*SLICE!*
Zim fell to his knees as a blade of an Irken sword pierced his chest. Some blood dripped from his mouth as the sword just as fast as it went through him, it was removed out of him. Zim turned his head slowly to see the armored Irken holding the sword. Then he slowly slide the sword around Zim's neck, "I just wish you saw it like us."
*SLICE!*
Zim sat up in his bed covered in sweat panting hard, he groaned a bit as he rubbed his neck still feeling the blade cut it. He shivered as he stepped on the cold metal floor with bare feet and rubbed his arms. He checked the clock: 5:36 AM. He sighed, "Might as well make this my day's start," he said to himself as he got up.
Going to the lobby of the SEN apartments he poured some milk into a cereal bowl and added some cereal. "Couldn't sleep?" Zim turned startled to see Dib sitting on the couch in a red robe watching TV. Zim sighed a bit then nodded. Did scooted over on the couch and waved him over. As Zim sat down he looked at the Tv, "War of the Worlds?" Dib nodded as he took a drink of his Dr. Pepper, "I saw all the versions of this movie, but when I was young in like 2005 I saw the first one I've ever seen and it was so..realistic...and it scared me," Zim looked over to Dib who drank some Dr. Pepper, "I never wanted that to happen...I vowed to protect Earth and all the people on it...I just knew from that moment on I would be meant for this." As Zim chewed some cereal and swallowed it, "Then you must be in a Nightmare right, because it has already happened." Dib looked to Zim and grinned, "No my nightmare was when you came to earth, dated my sister, and got her pregnant." Zim was about to speak but then he went back into thought. "You know that makes sense to me now that I think about it."
ONBOARD THE MASSIVE 70,356 MILES FROM EARTH
The Irken stood in the dark holding the handles of his swords in their sheaths, then a computerized voice called out
"ACTIVATINE LIVE BOT TRAINING, SENAIRO 2235"
As a red light flashed and a Alarm sounded the swords whipped out and where swung in the air with such skill not even an Irken elite had enough knowledge to learn. Soon the robots came out, at least 4 robots a every 3 seconds was produced and the Irken sliced and hacked his way through the robots tearing them to pieces. As one robot jumped over him, he held his sword up to slice it in half. When he tuned around there were two robots with giant subatomic blasters. He grunted as he threw one sword into the robot blinding it. Then as he was running the other robot fired at him but missed just as he ducked under the first robot and knocked on the front of it's metal hull. Then robot still blind immediately fired at the other one not knowing where the enemy was. Then once the other one was destroyed the Irken pulled the sword out and swung it underneath at it's legs crippling it. He then raised his sword up high and skewered the robot right through it's main processing core. Then two elevators came down each carrying about 4 Megadoomers, each automatically piloted by the best A.I. Units the Irken Empire had. As they looked around the Irken was no where to be found but there were the bodies of the dead bots but there was something else. The Megadoomers walked on their giant chicken legs while a trap was being set. As they looked they found nothing but a pair of swords stuck in the ground. Then they heard a clang as a head of a bot rolled their way, as they looked up from it they saw the Irken waving while he held a detonator. Before they could fire the explosions around the pillars causing the ceiling to collapse on them. As the gas mask hissed the Irken stood silently but he slowly pulled out his pistol. Then out of the ruble 3 Megadoomers got up and fired their plasma mini-guns at him. As he dodged each of their projectiles it was like time slowed down for him and he saw the plasma batteries load into the mini-gun's barrel. Then time sped up again as he hide behind a pillar, the plasma batteries were really tearing it apart. Then as he took a deep breath he leapt out and with super skill fired three batteries into the Megadoomers' barrels. They all exploded and broke down. As he turned around again, the last 5 Megadoomers rose from the ruble and fired at him, the Irken aimed his pistol and managed to destroy another 3 of them but he had ran out of bullets and there were still 2 left. He then took a deep breath as he sprinted in between the Megadoomers each of which fired grenades at him. He then ran to his swords and pulled them from the ground. As they continued to fire ht cut a hole in the bottom of one of them, once inside he grabbed the controls fighting the A.I. And destroyed the other Megadoomer. Then he took out a grenade and pulled the pin from it dropping it in the cockpit and jumping out of the Megadoomer before it exploded. As he stood up a computerized voice said
"TRAINING COMPLETE."
Then a door opened and immediately he bowed as Red entered. "Well done, I watched the whole thing my Spy. You are clearly my most trusted besides Byron." The Irken lifted his head and a distorted voice came out because of the gas mask, "What of X?" Red grinned, "X is a very good solider...however he is only in it for money, not for a position or ranking in the New Empire. He cares nothing for the new goal, so it makes me suspicious. Keep your eye on him." The Irken nodded, "Yes my Lord." Red then handed the Irken a disc, "This disc is detailing what should happen if our plans fail, if Zim still feels strongly about his decision he might never help us rebound. Also when you are on earth your goal is to be unknown to everybody else, you must also kill all Irken forces. Purple has actually strengthened the Armada and unfortunately if I removed those new attachments it could bring about the solders' suspicion. Do what you can at all costs." The Irken nodded, "Will there be and specific individuals to kill?" Red looked up and grinned, "Tak."