A/N: I don't own Invader Zim, anyone who thinks I do is an idiot. xP Please enjoy and all that stuff.
Purple relaxed in his chair and stuffed his mouth with a handfull of curly fries. Red sat next to him, sipping his soda. They were both looking out the window at the void of space.
"Have we reached Foodcortia yet? I want to try their new Flozzo rings!" Purple exclaimed, licking his lips with his serpent-like tongue and completely forgetting about his curly fries in his hands.
Red raised an imaginary eyebrow. "No, don't you remember? We had to cancel that trip so we could have our scheduled doctor's checkup." He reminded and sucked the last bit of his soda.
Purple groaned, "We get those every fifth year! Can't we just reschedule or something?"
Red set his soda ontop of a Table-headed Service Drone and shooed him away. "I know you're scared of doctors," he grinned, "but we have to." Red reached his arm across to Purple's lap, grabbed a few curly fries, and stuffed them in his mouth.
"Hey! Those were mine! And I'm not afraid of doctors!" The purple-eyed leader protested and shielded the last of his food with his hand. Ok, so he had a bad experience with a doctor when he was a smeet and now doctors made him a little uneasy, not that he'd ever admit that in a million years.
Red ignored his protests and reached his arm over again to grab some more of Purple's food. Purple, desprately tried keeping it as far away from Red as his arm length would go. Red grunted and reached over, pulling his whole body over the chair.
The techincians around them just looked at them with an imaginary eyebrow raised in seeing their leaders in such odd behavior, but they were used to it by now and continued to work in silence.
Red used one final jerk of his arm and grabbed the box of curly fries, causing both Irkens falling over Purple's chair in the process and landing on the floor with a loud thud. The precious curly fries flew into the air and landed right on top of a middle-height technician's head.
"Look what you did now! Those were my curly fries!" Purple scolded, pushing his co-ruler and the fallen chairs off his body.
The crimson-eyed leader lifted himself off the ground and stood up. "I was hungry!" He protested, dusting himself off and checking his arms of any scratches. If he found any he would blame it directly on one of the guards and say they weren't protecting their leader.
"You should of gotten some yourself then," Purple grumbled and stood up as well.
Red looked around through space and spotted Irk. They were almost home. "How about we get some special shocolax flingers while we're at home?" He grinned.
Purple's eyes lit up. "I thought shocolax was found extinct!" Everyone knew that shocolax was a pure delicacy for Irkens. However, it was only available for one Irken month every year, and today was not that month.
"We're the Tallest, we'll get some."
They both grinned at eachother in a sort of evil smirk. They both knew what the other was thinking on how they would get the shocolax.
Purple tapped his two claws nervously on his knee as he anxously waited for his co-ruler to walk out of the doctor's office alive. He was currently in the waiting room just outside the door to the office.
Finally after what seemed like decades, the door swung open and Red and a female doctor walked out.
"Are you ok, Red? Are you sick?" Purple asked, jumping to his feet. He wasn't afraid that the doctor had found something wrong with him during the checkup, but had done something wrong herself.
He never did trust doctors.
"Tallest Red is in perfect health, I can assure you. Now if you'll follow me, we can start your checkup." She gave him a warm smile and motioned for him to come inside.
The purple-eyed Tallest bit his lip but followed.
"I am Doctor Krie. Please stand on the scale." She motioned for her patient to step onto the scale and he did. She wrote down the weight and motioned for him to sit. He did. Dr. Krie then took out her gloves and examined his antennae, careful to not miss any imperfections that could effect his sense of hear or smell. When she was done she opened up his PAK and began examining it, after all, the PAK was what was keeping him alive, and if something was wrong with his PAK, who knew what would happen?
All this time Purple was silently wishing this would all be over with. He never liked doctors and wasn't going to start any time soon. He wanted this all to be over with so he could go back to snacking and bossing shorter Irkens around with his Tallest companion.
Dr. Krie smiled when she found nothing wrong and continued with the rest of the checkup, checking his heart, ocular implants, and reflexes.
"Now, I just have to do one more thing," She said and held out a small measuring device, "I just need to measure how tall you are."
"But I'm finished with all my growing. Why are you measuring me if it was impossible for me to grow anyways?" He asked.
"We just want to make sure you don't have any diseases. Surely you must know that if you are Irken and you shrink, you have a very fatal disease?"
"Uh, of course I knew that! Oh, alright, go ahead." Purple couldn't admit that he didn't know something, and just allowed her to do whatever she needed in order to get this over with.
Dr. Krie smiled warmly and measured him. Purple had to turn off his hoverbelt so he could stand on the ground, and he had to stand straight and still so the doctor could measure him to his fullest height.
After a few minutes, the plum-eyed ruler became impatient. "How long does it take to measure my height anyways?" He asked, irritated.
The doctor stepped off the stool that she was using to measure him, and put the measuring device away. "Forgive me, my Tallest," she bowed. Her voice sounded different this time, as if there was a hesitance in it. "Please sit down, I will only be a minute," she said before rushing out of the room. Purple raised what would be an eyebrow and sat down. He wished this wouldn't take so long. How long could it possibly take to find out you were your exact height since the last time you were measured anyways?
It seemed like hours before Dr. Krie came back in. "My Tallest," she bowed, "I have important news I must share with you," she was very hesitant this time.
"Well what is it?" He demanded. He wanted to get this over with already and get some of that shocolax him and Red were going to get after this was over.
"...It seems you have grown one fifth of a centimeter." She said, showing him his height status.
Purple raised an imaginary eyebrow. A fifth of a centimeter? Such small growth? That was worth nothing! Well, maybe to a very short Irken, but he was already the Tallest, so what did it matter to him? "Yea, so?" He asked.
"My Tallest, you are now taller than Tallest Red."