Scape Part I: Star Scape Chapter 1: Star Scape, an invader zim fanfic

Scape

by Leki

Invader Zim. Tak/Dib. Rated K. Genre - Romance/Angst

He saw her blown away in front of his eyes. He just doesn't want to believe it.

Disclaimer - Leki owns no Invader Zim or characters! The crazy person, Jhonen Vasquez, does. Leki only owns this storyline, and wants to tribute Tak and Dib.

In case you don't know, Tak is from Season 1 of Invader Zim, episode appearance - 'Tak: The Hideous New Girl'.

(dictionary(dot)com) - scape (noun) - a scene; a view.

Part I: Star Scape

Tak's Point-of-View

'This is forever

But it won't last long'

-'To Die For' by The Birthday Massacre

The last thing that I could remember was being pushed away by metal arms, and sent plummeting into the vastness of outter space, stars flying by. All while the laughter of victory grew fainter the farther I flew.

Time has stretched for me, and I can no longer think of how long I have been here. I can only know that I have been here for a long time, almost enough time for my life-support pack to run out of fuel and go offline.

For my pack to go offline would be unthinkable. It would instantaneously end all of my goals and missions. I must not allow that to happen.

That is what made me push the EJECT button on the console. It was very chancy, to volunatarily throw yourself into space where there's nothing to steady your body or mind on, but it was better than resigning myself to an almost certain doom. I was forced to leave my custom ship and my custom SIR, Mimi. My suit had room only for one, and that was for me. Tak. The Invader.

-/-/-

Thank the stars that I was still in the range of the gravitation of Earth. By taking advantage of the ship's ejection powers and using a grapler on moving space junk and chunks of broken off stars, I managed to pull myself close enough for the gravity to pull me in and down. And using an inkling of the precious fuel I had left, I shielded myself for the crash. To weak to navigate, I had to let myself fall by chance, at the beck of the forces around me.

As best as I could, I aimed away from cities where those stupid, filthy humans would disturb my repairs and rebuilding. They have never done nothing good for me. For a minute, my mind went off track.

"Do you want some meat Tak?" Right on Valentine's-

"..." Slowly, I blinked my true, dark purple eyes, shaking away the memory. My pack must be more severely broken then I thought to waste my time thinking about humans. They couldn't, WOULDN'T, help me now. With a sigh of tiredness, I rolled myself onto my side, rolling onto my elbow. I looked around, looking at the small crater I had made. I stared at the steep climb with distaste. I was exhausted, but already the first move was hard.

With moves that were gradually getting weaker, I began to drag myself up the side of the crater's cliff, crawling as fast as I could. The longer I spent here, the less likely my fuel would remain. I'd spend to much of the precious stuff trying just to cling to the nasty smelling soil so I wouldn't slide down, which would make me restart all my grueling efforts. Stupid earth, did not a single good thing for me. Well, maybe, if I was lucky, and the heated, firey blast from the impact didn't scorch everything...

Eureka.

Around, just a few feet from the rim of the hole, there were plants. As fuel substanence went, it wasn't very potent, but they would do.

My long fingers curled around the stems of the flowers, and wrenched them from their earthy resting place. Pickily, even though I didn't really have the energy to be, I flicked the clods of earth away before letting my pack ingest the energy from it. The blast would have warned any potential bugs for energy to scurry away, and the earth was even less of worth than the plant. I didn't want my pack smelling of the stagnant air bubbles that were trapped in there.

Even though it was small, the boost was less than a second delayed, and I felt small slivers of adrenaline boosted into my system. With that, I managed to grab the neighbors of the last plant, and supply myself further with energy, energy that would be put towards finding something abit better, besides flowers.

Garlands and braided ropes of flowers adorned most of the classroom, little colored, construction paper hearts crammed in amongst the braids, definitely not Ms. Bitters' style. Some hyper-active child had probably persuaded her with a new book, as I could well see from where it was on her table. And probably aided by as good a mood as she could be in, a student, more likely a she, had gotten their wish of holiday decorations. The sleek black of that book cover did more for my eyes than the obnoxious brightness of the flowers and hearts. Flowers, a sign of love, affection-

"Hm." I couldn't figure out why those Valentine's Day memories were in my head. Probably forcefully recycling in some twisted circuit. I'd have to fix that right away.

-/-/-

Very quickly, I found myself a home. For now, I hypnotized some unlucky worms to give me parts needed to build my home and the small lab I would need to keep myself going. It would do, until I had what I need to make my own, more dependable, things. It all came together very quickly, in days. It wasn't the high-technology I would have had in my original base, but it would do for now, this basic design upon which to start my world domination yet again. Of course, I hadn't started out expecting to much from the human technologies, even since round one. All I could depend on was my own creativity and skills. It was against the grain for me to wish for things that weren't practical, or unachievable, but I wished sorely for my old equipment.

Damn that infernal Zim for restarting my Earthly conquest. And Dib hadn't been any help, either. They would both pay.

I ignored the fact that Dib had in fact been the only student that talked to me at Skool, the only one that was intelligent and brave enough to start a conversation. Of course, the fact that he had talked to me at all put is very intelligence and bravery into question. Perhaps it was only stupidity and misunderstanding. A hope for a friend that had no reason to be hoped for.

Dib had only been curious about what a person such as I was doing in such a low leveled Schooling Faculty, about why I had suddenly blown in, in the middle of the school year. He was curious about his friend... No, his class mate. Definitely not a friend. You didn't thwart your friends. Although my victory would have meant his demise.

With a swift shake of my head, I kept from that line of thought. The blame rested solidly on Zim and Dibs' shoulders. I continued to weld my new tools together. Making even more tools, a new computer, stabilizing and reinforcing my base... And even though I couldn't bring myself to replace my old partner SIR, Mimi, and put valuable time into the advanced circuitry needed... the chore list was endless.

My thoughts wondered again. Oh stars, would I ever need to take some more time to fix my own circuitry...

It wasn't his fault that my holographic disguise was so perfect, he hadn't a clue until he stumbled upon the truth, or that Zim had given him a clue; something no Irken should ever do to ANY other species that was going to be decimated or conquered. It gave them a chance to fight back. Even if, in the very end, it really wouldn't matter if they tried. They were all brought to their knees.

But it didn't matter.

Either way, whether Dib was innocent or guilty, he was in my way. He had to be removed.

I silently cursed that I had happened to fall so close to the city I had originally landed in, and started my operation. I ignored the fact that it would indeed be a better strategy to get out of that city, away from the two likeliest beings to stop my plans, and I somehow managed to convince myself that I knew this city. I knew where parts could be obtained, where to get money. I knew where I could set up base. I ignored the fact that Dib was only a few miles away from my current position.

I turned my back on the beautiful light shining from the stars over head, through the glass of my windows, where just days earlier I had been floating helplessly. I settled down to plan my plans, to gather my resources. I forced myself to restart. I forced myself to forget my only friend. He was no use to me now.

'This is a memory

That fades away in never ending'

-'To Die For' by the Birthday Massacre

All lyrics (at the beginning and end) belong to the song 'To Die For' by The Birthday Massacre. I thank them for giving me inspiration for this story.

Hope you enjoyed this. Later chapters, peeps!