(A/N: i don't own anything. enjoy and review.)
Act 1: The End
The sky was growing darker with each passing minute.
The sprawling urban metropolis had grown dark and silent in preparation for the coming storm of bullets and bombs.
The small green skinned boy quickly ran down the street. He darted past ruined buildings and he ducked into side alleys to avoid military checkpoints. The boy weaved through small, human encampments in the park and he sprinted past more ruined buildings till he reached a small cul-de-sac.
The green boy sprinted to the only house that looked rather undamaged.
It was tall, with green walls and purple windows. The house looked rather crooked and it had large metal tubes coming out from the sides and had burrowed into its neighbors like a parasite. The boy sighed in relief as he ran through the front yard. He darted past the robotic lawn gnomes, plastic animals and through the large purple door he was finally home. The boy stopped and let himself catch his breath.
The green skinned boy was not an ordinary human being.
He was actually an alien from the planet Irk. He was a member of the proud Irken race and an elite soldier of the empire. An invader.
Well a former invader really, after the whole 'attacking his own home world' incident he was stripped of his rank and status but in his mind he was still an invader of good standing. He was Invader Zim, the future conqueror of Earth and future master of the Human race.
But all that may soon go up in smoke, very, very soon. Over the past few months' humanity was at war with itself, over trivial matters like natural resources and a few dead politicians.
Many have died in the first month and many more have been wounded in the following weeks.
Lately Zim had been refocusing his tactics in his conquest. He was planning on trying to stop the war because if he didn't, mankind might somehow end up wiping itself out, he would then have nobody to rule and he would become the laughing stock of the Irken Empire. He would fail his mission but Zim clenched his fist and promised himself that he will not fail his leaders, The Almighty Tallests.
Zim straightened himself and called out "GIR! GIR! Where are you!" a small green dog with big eyes came running in to the living room holding a rubber pig.
The dog was no ordinary dog, it was Zim's loyal robot minion GIR, a defective SIR unit that he was given before he started his mission on Earth.
Even though GIR was defective and disobedient, he was very loyal to Zim and helped him, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.
GIR shed his doggy disguise and asked, "Did you bring biscuits? Huh? Did ya?"
Zim scowled then said, "No, I was finishing my final patrol of the city, I didn't stop to get you biscuits. Besides all the supermarkets that have the ones you like were destroyed"
"Oh" said GIR, looking crestfallen.
Zim glanced out of a nearby window and saw that everything was still quiet "We don't have much time, we got to get to the lower levels" he pushed past GIR and rushed to the couch.
Zim pressed a button on his wrist computer and the couch rose from the ground revealing a small metal platform. Zim and GIR stepped onto the platform and the platform descended into the bowels of the house.
Once the elevator reached the bottom of the shaft Zim quickly sprinted down the metal paneled hall, passing dozens of laboratories, spare quarters and storage rooms till he reached the last lab at the end of the hall.
He punched in a code into the keypad, which beeped accepting his code and the two rushed into the spacious lab.
The room was lined with monitors and other assorted technology and at the heart of the lab was a pod that was made of violet glass and metal.
Zim pressed a button on his wrist computer and the door slammed shut, followed by a few loud thuds and clicks, sealing the two in the room.
GIR hugged the rubber piggy close to him saying "Why are we here again?"
"Enacting my most ingenious plan yet" said Zim as he was typing something in his wrist computer, the entire lab shook and there were some loud thuds, groans and grinding which faded quickly.
GIR cocked his head "You gonna stop the war?' Zim looked at him, looking taken-a back "Huh? Oh no, I stopped trying to stop this stupid conflict weeks ago, I'm trying save our lives".
GIR nodded "Uh huh, I had no idea what you just said"
Zim grumbled "I'm going to bury the entire base and leave up a disposable decoy in its place, then we're going to go into cryo-stasis. From there we will wait till this conflict has passed and as the humans rebuild their pitiful lives, we will return and take over"
"Oooh" said GIR finally understanding.
There was one last, loud groan then a thud that shook the entire base and the computer reported "Submersion complete" "Excellent" said Zim.
GIR asked "But what if everyone has exploded and there is only us?"
Zim looked at his robot minion and said confidently "That won't happen, these humans are like Vortian mud roaches, they're stupid, ugly, dirty and they are hard to kill, they'll survive somehow" Zim then said in a low tone that was filled with hatred "They always do".
Zim looked at his wrist computer and saw the time, from his spy probes in the human governments, he had only a few hours left till the assault was about to happen. Zim made one last check through his computer systems, checking his base of operations and saw that everything was perfectly buried. To be safe, he even buried the base even further into the earth to protect him from the radiation bombs and to reduce the risk of being accidentally discovered in the bombing.
Once all that was out of the way he turned to GIR, who was playing some game with the rubber piggy, he tiptoed to the small robot and said "Time to sleep GIR".
GIR stopped and began to weep "I don't wanna!" he began to wail and pound his fists on the floor.
After a few minutes of sobbing Zim grew impatient then growled, "You will go to sleep! I order you to sleep, now!"
"Only if you read me a story!" said GIR, Zim's antenna twitched in irritation then he let out an exasperated groan.
"And so the family of gnomes lived happily ever after" said Zim, he was sitting on the floor with a small storybook in hand and GIR was sitting beside him, completely enthralled by the story.
Zim flipped to the final page and said, "Except for the youngest whose head exploded because he lied a lot" he slammed the book shut then said "Now sleep!"
GIR jumped to his feet crying "I don't wanna!" but he collapsed and he went completely still, there was a soft hum then complete silence.
Zim sighed "Finally" he scooped up the deactivated robot and placed him in a small container besides the glass pod, he even tossed in the rubber pig knowing that GIR would probably annoy him till he find a new one.
Zim glanced at his wrist computer and saw that the assault was only minutes away, just enough time to do some last minute business but Zim just leaned against the pod thinking back on his time on Earth.
Even though he hated humans and he wanted to wipe out the entire, filthy race, he sort of grew fond of a few things. He gained a tolerance to some Earth foods and television programs, he enjoyed watching the Dib monkey squirm and fail at stopping his schemes.
Zim even liked taking advantage of the human's stupidity, like he did at the North Pole after the whole mutant Santa fiasco.
Zim snickered at the memory. Especially at the part where Dib was beaten to a pulp by the very people he saved.
But now everything was different, mankind's own stupidity and greed was going to be its downfall, not a glorious bloody slaughter at the hands of Zim or the Irken empire.
Zim snarled to nobody "Stupid humans" he opened the glass lid of the stasis pod.
As he got into the pod he felt just a speck of sadness that he was going to let Dib and everyone else die in a horrible bloody war. But all that evaporated when Zim just shrugged and said happily "Well good luck with that Dib, see you in a few years" he laid down and the lid automatically closed and sealed the Irken inside.
Zim's eyes grew heavy then closed and the Irken invader drifted off to a deep, dreamless sleep.
The computer's AI began its shut down, lights and life support powered down. The power generator darkened and then died, but suddenly there was a slight surge in power from a long forgotten device planted in the systems by a certain human boy.
The power surged to the main computer and the stasis pod's automatic timer was changed from a few years to one thousand years.
Somewhere miles away, in a secure bunker the human boy named Dib laughed for no apparent reason.
The clocks had struck midnight and alarms howled into the night signaling one thing. The time had come, zero hour.
Aircraft streaked across the sky, anti aircraft cannons roared and spat massive slugs of hot lead.
The sky was alight with flairs and the silence was replaced with gunfire and screams.
Soldiers flooded the streets and battled each other. Corpses began to pile up into mountains.
As the battle wore on a single object streaked across the night sky and it plummeted towards the earth, carrying only one thing. Death.
The object struck the heart of the city like a hammer and in a split second the entire city was engulfed by atomic light and fire.
For a few hours the world seemed to be on fire. Bodies, buildings, cars, trees, atomic flames engulfed everything.
All around the world it was the same, major city's and other population centers were the war was being fought, were cleansed by a singular weapon, in a single instant. In that instant the planet shined like the sun but soon the fires died and soon everything went silent.
Dead silent. The war was over.
End of chapter.
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