And now!
Chapter Two… meh.
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Dib and Gaz were walking home from Skool, Dib was ranting about his psychotic Irken rival yet again, and needless to say that Gaz restrained her fury.
She was at the semi-last level of Vampire Piggy hunter XD on her new Game Slave Advanced and she needed to be fully concentrated.
That was the only reason Dib did not need a ride to the emergency room.
Unfortunately her brother wouldn't shut up, so obviously the scary girl decided that after the game was over and done, she would put him through a nightmarish world where he wouldn't wake up.
"Zim wasn't at Skool again, Gaz! Twenty bucks says he's at his base" The boy yelled at the top of his lungs "I bet he's readying some new alien device to kill us all!"
Gaz rolled her eyes "As if he could."
"He's always up to something, scheming and looking over his shoulder like some kind of space… shoulder-looker thingy..." Dib said as he moved his hands in a dramatic sorta way.
"Playing my game here Dib." Gaz said in a tone that clearly said to shut up of suffer.
The large headed child didn't register the tone and kept going with the whole being the saviour of Earth act "Today, I'll make him wish he were never born… in space… I know! I'll order a pizza and have it taken to Zim's house, then he'll have to pay for it!"
Dib laughs. Gaz stares.
"You really are pathetic, you know."
"Oh, you just don't see the brilliance in it is all. Maybe one day you'll understand, when you're older, and as intelligent as me."
Gaz growls to herself.
"Was it twenty bucks you said?"
"Yeah… why?"
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Meanwhile in the Hutt Space
A bunch of Irken ships have converged at the Rendezvous. Zim and Skoodge arrive. Inside a large Irken drop ship, an Irken pilot named Yogurt watches the final ships arrive. Yogurt holds up a list of Invaders on an electronic notepad. He crosses some names off the list.
"Okaaay, so that's Poot, Slacks, Slant, Skoo, Skoodge… Hmmm, who's in that old hunk of junk Voot Cruiser? Must be Pesto… Well, that makes everyone…. I guess"
A transmission from the Irken appears inside all of the Invaders' ships.
"Hiiii, I'm glad all of you could make it! This is Yogurt, your pilot speaking, please board my ships and we can proceed to part deluxe, okay?"
Giant tubes from four drop ships connect to the Invader ships and yup, that includes the voot cruiser.
Zim and Gir sit in the cockpit. Zim prepares to leave but before he does he talks to his SIR Unit in a very serious and deathly tone of voice that was almost as scary as Gaz's… key word being almost.
"We part here, GIR! Stay here until I need you. For now, you're in charge of the ship!"
"I'm a space piggy now." The robot yelled happily, and then he got a rubber pig of out his head and began to suck its head.
"Okay… Goodbye 'space piggy.'… Thing" The invader said in annoyance.
GIR waves good bye. Zim exits the ship through the section tube.
"Don't be scared of space, pig!" Gir said while hugging the rubber animal "I'm here to protect yooou. I said DON'T BE SCARED! SHUT UP, PIG!"
Gir throws the pig against the side of the Voot.
"WHY HAVE YOU BETRARED ME PIGGY I LOVED YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!! I LOVEEED YOU!!!"
As Gir was having another one of his nervous breakdowns, the Invaders on Yogurt's drop ship sit on benches in the main part of the vessel. Zim watches the Voot from a window on the strop ship. He sees his minion's bizarre antics and grunts in confusion. The invaders chatter amongst themselves until holograms of the Tallest appear.
"SILENCE!" the pilot commanded harshly "now I present you… my Tallest!"
"Okay, thank you everyone for being here on such short notice, yadda yadda yadda…" Purple said not really caring "Now, let's get this get this snafu over with!"
"Each ban of Invaders is going to secure a different area on planet Meekrob. All four targets is a suspected holding area for Invader Tenn." Red began to explain "The Meekrob have created an energy field that is blocking out her signal, so we can't pinpoint her."
"So remember, you must go unnoticed!" Purple said for once being serious "The fate of the galaxy is in your hands! FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION! Good luck Invaders."
The holograms disappear.
Zim began to rant to the closest Irken which so happened to be Skoodge "The Tallest made the right choice to send out us Invaders, especially ME, to do this job."
The fat alien was about to open his mouth but Zim slaps him before he says anything.
"Shut up!... Now as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted … I'll have Tenn before you can blink… DON'T BLINK! ... And then I'll laugh and say "boy do I have Invader Tenn!" and they'll be jealous of the Zim-like skills found in me, ZIM!!"
"Yeah, same here!" Skoodge said rubbing his sore check.
"Uhhh… okay, folks. We're heading into Meekrob airspace now." Yogurt said "I'm gonna perform a little headcount now, yeah… Flobee, Skoo, Larb, Pesto, Poot, Sklud, Skoodge, Spleen, Slant, Kim… Okay, now that we know everyone's here-
"Hey! Hey! That invader over there! Yeah! Yeah! He ain't Pesto!" Invader Flobee yelled accusingly "No, he aint! That's ZIM! Come to think of it, he's not even supposed to be here though!"
Zim jumps on the bench and strikes a heroic pose "It's true, I AM ZIM! And I am here, and that's all that matters! You shall all see my might as I do Zim things this day!"
"Can we launch him into space now?" Invader Larb begged.
"We're already in Meekrob's atmosphere," Yogurt responded in disappointment, obviously wanting kill the defective as well "That'd bring too much attention to us."
All the other Invaders go "Awwww"
"So we've got Zim, but where's Invader Pesto?" Invader Kim questioned as he rubbed his neck.
Pesto lies on the ground, swollen to a humongous size. The small aliens still cling to him. Pesto lets out a long, miserable groan.
"WHYYY?"
Anyways back to our heroes, Yogurt's ship lands on planet Meekrob… far away from the inhabitants… or so they believe.
In a Meekrob Temple which is glowing a bright purple by the way, two Meekrob are talking, obviously expecting company from the enemy.
"Oh ho ho, the Irkens are landing!" Herr said excitedly "Did they really think that they could get past us with their cloaking devices and technology? I mean, we are beings of light and nature! We sense these kinda things!"
"Yeah!" Fry agreed "Plus we've got this neat little super computer that can see past Irken cloaking devices!"
Fry pats the computer affectionately and kisses it.
"Yeah, I guess…" Herr responded slowly, having being taken aback by such a weird moment "But they will be in for a surprise, ho ho!"
The Invaders begin to exit the ship.
"Alright! Time to show these maggots the power of the Irken race!" Zim yelled, but as soon as he was going to be out of the vessel, Yogurt grabs him.
"Not you, Zim!" The pilot snarled "I'm taking you back into Irken airspace."
"But… the MISSION! The Empire NEEDS me! Who are YOU to stand between ZIM and his HORRIBLY WONDERFUL FIST!"
"And I suppose the Tallest meant something other than 'keep Zim out of this mission' when they said just that."
"EXACTLY!" The defective bellowed as if it made perfect sense"They always mean the opposite of what they say! Especially when concerning amazing ME!"
Yogurt got an idea and in a slyly tone said "Weeeell, why don't we just take this to the Tallest, huh Zim? Let's see what they have to say! They might even give you a secret mission to just BLOW UP Meekrob!"
"Now you're thinking! Zim explodes goood!"
The drop ship rises back up into SPAAAACE. The Invaders watch in relief.
"Phew. He's gone. That could've ended badly." Invader Skoo said.
"Let's get going. Sklud- what are the coordinates?" Invader Poot asked.
"10 shmillion microclicks thata way!" Invader Slud said as he examined an electronic map.
The band of invaders marches in the direction Sklud pointed.
"We need not worry much about armed sentries and the like; the Meekrob are a peaceful race with a primitive culture." Invader Zee thought out loud.
"This'll be cake! A couple of floaty glowy things are nothing after crossing the electric death barriers of Vort!" Invader Larb said arrogantly.
"You said it!" Invader Slacks agreed.
"Gee, I hope Zim gets back soon or he'll miss the whole party!" Skoodge said in worry.
All the invaders stop and stare at Skoodge. Skoodge grins sheepishly.
"Man… what is WRONG with you?!" Invader Spleen asked in disgust.
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Back on Earth
A large Bloaty's deliveryman which so happens to he Jhonen stands at Zim's front door. He knocks a few times, then sighs impatiently and turns to leave. Dib suddenly pops out of some nearby bushes.
"Oh, come on! Give him a second! He's probably just relieving his space bladder or something!"
"SOMEBODY is going to pay for this!"
Jhonen looms over Dib.
"Me!?!"
Jhonen growls menacingly. Dib sighs and forks over some cash.
"Alright, Zim. You win this round."
The deliveryman gets into his car and leaves. Dib runs up to the door and does a flying kick. The door doesn't budge and Dib falls to the ground, moaning in pain. He gets up and tries the handle and the door opens.
The robo-parents appear and say in a monotone voice "Welcome home son!"
"Get out of my way…ZIM! I know you're in here… you little…"
MiniMoose floats out from the kitchen and squeaks.
"Hey! You! Little purple moosey freak thing! Where's Zim!?!"
MiniMoose's eyes widen and he looks upwards, making frantic squeaking noises.
"Huh…"
Dib grabs MiniMoose and starts shaking him. "Where did Zim go!?!"
A computerized voice that from MiniMoose was soon heard "Accessing data logs…"
A hologram of the Tallest's message begins to play from MiniMoose's eyes. Dib's eyes widen as he watches.
"Wow… AWESOME!"
The boy ran out, he had to go home.
Just a few seconds later the computer yawned and asked the only other being in the house "So… what did I miss?"
"Squeak"
Once he's home, Dib bursts into his room and works at a frantic speed. He shovels his laptop into his backpack as well as other random notes and things. Dib pops his head into Gaz's room.
"Gaz! Something… BIG is happening… out there! Do ya wanna come with me to space? Huh? Huh? Huh?"
"Hmmm…. Nah!"
"But… alien planets, Gaz! ALIENS!"
"Aren't you sick of aliens yet?"
"Aren't you the least bit interested??"
"You can leave my twenty dollars outside my door." Yup that clearly says it all.
Dib grabs her arm "C'mon! This is a once in a lifetime opportunity! You're coming with me!"
The boy drags her out the door.
"I will destroy you." She says as her brother pulls her down to the garage,
Dib and Gaz enter. They get into Tak's ship and fires up.
The young paranormal investigator gets comfortable and in a tone that he thinks makes him sound all wise and mysterious says "Next stop: That place with the aliens I thought were shoes… and then I thought Zim made them up…. And now they're real and… Oh… whatever… we're goin' there!"
"Your voice is stupid."
Tak's ship flies off into space.
Back on planet Meekrob, the invaders hide in a jungle.
They spy on their target, an old Meekrob temple, from the safety of some foliage. Invader Spleen has his binocular helmet on, with the lenses curving to form periscopes.
"Spleen what do you see?" Invader Yuli asked frantically.
From Spleen's POV, we see the temple with several Meekrob guards floating around the entrance "The temple is relatively unguarded, except for five sentries around the main entrance."
"Okay, how shall we deal with them?" Invader Skutch turns to meet his fellow Irkens "Any ideas?"
Invader Flobee smirks wickedly "Hey! I know!"
Flobee tosses a rock to the side of the temple. The Meekrob glance at the rock but don't do anything about it. They turn to the bushes where the Invaders are and start to hover towards them.
"You imbecile! Now you've done it!" Invader Stink snarled.
"They're coming! They're coming!" Invader Grapa said as he hugged another Irken in fear "Don't hurt mee!"
"Get off me!" Invader Goorch ordered darkly.
"Quick! Someone needs to be bait for the benefit of the team!" Invader Poot said
All eyes turn to Skoodge.
"Uh... why are you all looking at me all funny?"
The poor fat alien is then hurled out of bushes and lands in the middle of the five Meekrob.
"Hehehe… Hi there…" He waves nerviously.
The Meekrob turn into various melee weapons. Skoodge runs screaming like a little girl and the Meekrob give chase. Once out of sight, the Invaders emerge and march into the temple.
"Shall we give a minute for our fallen comrade?" Invader Slacks says.
"Fallen comrade?" Invader Kim repeats "He's not dead!"!
"But he will be!"
Kim rubs his chin and says "touché."
Once they made it to the temple Invader Spleen's gets his binocular helmet out again and it shows the body heat in the room from his POV. Tenn's outline is seen through a wall.
"There!"
Invader Tim uses his spider leg power welders to blow through the wall. Invader Tenn looks up from the other side.
"My fellow invaders? I'm saved!"
"Come on, Tenn! We're in a hurry!" Invader Skutch bellowed "You can thanks us later!
"Wait! There's something all of you must see! Come in my cell!"
The invaders exchange glances and then walk inside. A blue energy field surrounds the cell. Tenn's eyes begin glowing blue, followed by her body, and then she morphs into a Meekrob.
"Nice try, Irken Invaders!" Herr mocked "It's a shame this will end up being your last stand!"
The Meekrob laughs as he exists through the wall. All the Invaders are speechless.
The same Meekrob comes back with Invader Tenn.
"I believe you were looking for this."
The energy field around the hole blown through the wall stops for a second and the Meekrob tosses Tenn in. The field immediately starts back up.
"Hey! We got Tenn! Success!" Invader Flobee makes a little victory dance.
He then gets slapped in the back of his head.
"Hey, ouch… that hurt!"
"You moron" Invader Kim mutters "We need a way outta here!
"I got an idea!" Flobee tries to run through the energy field and gets electrocuted.
"Eeeeee…"
"You ARE moron!" Invader Tenn yells icily "I've tried that already! Repeatedly! For hours! There's no way through. We are prisoners to the Meekrob!"
Flobee tries running through the energy field again.
"Eeeeee… heheheheheh."
Yup, that's it for chapter two… watcha think?
I thought about giving all the Invaders that we only saw "In the great assigning" and on "Hobo 13" their 15 minutes of fame… maybe not the best minutes but I like to speculate that just half of the 32 guys that got assigned for Operation Impending Doom II are just some lucky bastards that conquered their planets by sheer luck.. I mean just look at them! Heh.
Plus I liked the idea of making a few Invaders less intelligent than Zim… what?
Also I originally planned to make Johnny C from "JTHM" being the Bloaty's deliveryman but we all know he would have ended up killing Dib and that was not a good thing for this story.
So Jhonen ended up in the story… hope that if the guy reads this that he doesn't kill me for it, lol.
And yes the "Game Slave Advanced" bit was taken from the whole problem of the episode "GS2" heh heh heh Nintendo CAN'T sue me because I'm not using this idea for profit… just entertainment.
Also I just thought of naming an Irken after some sort of food, I mean look at the show… some characters are name after inanimate objects or other things… look at Tallest Spork and Invader Dooky."
So uh, just review, please?
Invader Johnny Signing Off.
