Living a New Life
I don't own Invader Zim but if I did I would have made those who cancelled it, eat my words and shove it down their sorry throats. This is my way of expressing my fantasies that I had for a long time, I am glad there are reruns and have grieved since it was cancelled. Please Review!"
Rejected
He stood with the others in the gathering of The Great Assigning, this was his second time he'd been here and he was annoyed because he had been through invader training and with no luck of him ever getting a chance to be assigned a planet. It made him sick was it because he took no crap from anyone and they were scared of him or was it because he was just too small.
After about four hours of standing there it was over when they insulted Skoodge of his tininess and sent him to Blorch, home of the slaughtering rat people.
"Help yourselves to some nachos, and well see you at the equipment station! One of the Tallest shouted with red eyes, known as Red.
"Yes, gorge yourselves, you mooches! The other yelled with the purple eyes, known as Purple.
He then heard someone quite familiar screaming "MOVE IT, YOUR IN MY WAY, OUT OF MY WAY! The Irken ran past him shoving him into another Irken two-times his size who he pushed off easily, the Irken backed up shaking quickly.
"Zimmm," he growled, he had nothing against him, it was just that he blew up his living quarters to dust in Impending Doom One which made him lose almost everything making him glumly walk the streets and glaring or literary punching anyone in particular who decided to say "Orak you owe me 4,000,000 monies for the damage caused by that explosion back there."
This made him receive a bad reputation that made the tallest not want to insult his small stature or have anything to do with him, so they tried to avoid him as much as possible making it impossible for him to contact them on whether he'd be assigned a mission.
Orak thought it incredibility stupid for the operating system to base them on height, he wasn't even sure if "the Tallest" were tall.
A small arm shot up waving "WAIT!"
There were a few grumbles, and which Orak was one of them, "STUPID!" he had shouted, but was ignored by Zim's main focus of getting on stage.
"Sorry I was late, my tallest," Zim said bowing his head "but I couldn't find my invitation," he looked up at them smiling "and you are lucky I've made it at all."
"You weren't invited at all," Red said.
"Hey, weren't you banished to Foodcourtia?" asked Purple "shouldn't you still be frying something."
Orak couldn't help but stifle a giggle at the mention of Foodcourtia a planet that Zim was forced and banished to work on serving other alien species fast-food.
"Oh, I quit when I found out about this," Zim said feeling proud of himself.
"You quit being banished?" Purple replied ecstatic.
"The assigning is over, Zim," Red said getting annoyed.
"But you can't have an assigning without me! Zim complained. "I was in Impending Doom One! Don't you remember?"
"Oh, yes we remember," Purple groaned.
That triggered Orak to remember how depressing it was after paying over 34,000,000,000 monies for everything he'd lost causing him to go into a deep depression. He closed himself in a rented building, found a corner and curled himself in a tight ball for days.
After that he was never the same, he was extremely hostile and either growled, ignored or sent anyone who approached him packing. But he also found more pleasure in taunting and insulting others and thanked Zim just for one thing, for at least hardening him.
Both of the tallest and everyone else remembered the moment too clearly since he destroyed the good half of the planet Irk and gave Zim cold and unfriendly looks.
"I put the fires out," Zim said as an excuse.
"You made them worse," Red replied annoyed.
"Worse or better?" Zim said cocking his head and raising an antennae smiling. Orak balled up his fist trying to stop himself from stomping up there and shoving his fist in his face.
"Uh," Purple groaned "besides no invader has ever been so…very small. You're very small, Zim. You're a tiny thing."
But, Invader's blood marches through my veins like...Giant radioactive rubber pants," Zim begged "Do not ignore my veins!"
Orak groaned and slapped himself on the forehead for Zim's comment on radioactive pants, but he was right about one thing the Tallest did discriminate against small Irkens, welcome to his world.
The Tallest glanced at each other and sighed, then Red pulled out a sandwich "as a show of … um gratitude for your services in the past, er, here's a sandwich."
"B...But-," Zim stuttered.
That was it, Orak burst out in laughter and punched the Irken nearest to him in the shoulder "A sandwich, a freakin sandwich they gave him a sandwich, you see that a sandwich!"
The Irken rubbed his shoulder "Uh-huh," he nervously grinned trying not to bring down the ongoing wrath of Orak upon him.
"Thanks for coming everybody!" the tallest Purple yelled ending The Great Assigning. "Goodnight!"
"NO, WAIT!" Zim hopped up and down waving his sandwich frantically to attract their attention.
"What, you got your sandwich," Purple said.
"My Tallest, I want an opportunity to prove I truly can be an invader is all that I ask!" he said hugging the sandwich "Gimme."
The two Tallest faced each other whispering and conversating amongst themselves "We see now that you are truly deserving," Red inquired.
"Yes, yes I am," Zim said still hugging the sandwich.
"You will be sent to a planet so mysterious, no one has ever heard of it!" Purple said.
"Right! And those who have heard of it dare not speak its name!" Red replied.
Orak couldn't believe it, they were actually going to give Zim a planet, Zim and not him, and if their was anyone deserving it would be him.
"What's its name?" Zim asked.
"Oh, I dare not speak it!" Red said.
"Where is it?" Zim said.
"Um…" Red went towards a map of the universe in the back of the stage to the very edge, and pointed where a sticky note with a drawing of planet with a question mark on it. "Here!"
When Red pointed to the sticky Orak then realized the Tallest true intentions that were in store for Zim, because anyone smart enough knew that sticky was used in invader training classes.
"A secret mission," Zim said.
"Happy now?" Red said hopefully to get Zim off they're backs.
"Yes," Zim said smiling revealing his sharp teeth.
Six months pasted with Orak struggling to pay his debts, all the time he was becoming more depressed and angrier.
He was glumly kicking the dirt with his boots and grumbling a few curses in Irken while he went to control a compacter for crushing the remains that was left on the long destroyed half of Irk and there would be some random idiot that thought it funny to walk in the middle of his job making it difficult to work.
He got so fed up that he didn't care, that random Irken got killed instantly as the walls of the impacter came upon him quickly, there was sickening crunch, Orak grinned at that and stopped when the blood hit him in the face then he wiped it off in disgust.
Orak couldn't take it any more he had to leave anywhere away from here, then he had an idea he could go where no one else would look, the planet Zim was banished to.
Everyone heard of and saw that Zim was given a Fake mission and he had a chance to get away from all of this maybe even settling down for a little, so Orak decide he was going to the mystery planet the Tallest referred it to, even now they learned it was earth, and at first he thought they were bluffing but know this is some place to look into.
He had sent a dozen messages begging for a mission, with a few threats since they decided to ignore him.
Orak went to his voot cruiser which looked similar to the rest and it blended in well in the Armada, this time he was happier than ever and couldn't care less what the Tallest would do or say, he also always wanted a SIR unit but he would have to go on without one unless he jacked another invader of theirs but they all would had left by now, he launched his ship out and away from the Irken Empire towards earth.