Earth Invasion


As days passed, Zim tried calling the Tallests again innumerous times but they never answered. Six months passed, and Zim was growing more worried and inpatient by the moment. Zim sat alone at a table of the Hi Skool's cafeteria poking at his food. He wasn't feeling that great for quite a while now, but today he was particularly uneasy. A few tables away, someone noticed Zim buried in thought.

"Look at him, Gaz!" Dib turned to his sister who sat by his side. "Just plotting his next evil plan. I just know it!" Gaz only waved at Dib, signalizing that she was busy with her game and wanted silence, but Dib continued. "The Swollen Eyeball members said they were working on something behind the covers. When it's ready, oh I bet it'll be sweet! They didn't tell me what it was, because they wanted to make me a surprise, but…" Dib stopped mid-sentence as he turned his attention to the empty seat by his side, as Gaz walked away from the table. "Yeah, thanks, Gaz. I know I can always count on you." Dib rolled his eyes as the earth suddenly started to rumble.

The lights of the skool flickered, the sky went dark. All of the students ran under the tables of the cafeteria to protect themselves as screams could be heard out on the streets of the city. Zim himself only stayed in his place unmoving. Those were the signs of… No, it couldn't be. Zim ran out the doors of the cafeteria heading directly to the skool's front doors, but didn't go unnoticed. Dib ran after him. As the boys reached the double doors of the entrance of the building, Irken soldiers with laser guns burst in, followed by the Tallests themselves.

"Ha! Yes!" Dib screamed feeling victorious. Pointing at every student in the hallway, he continued… "Now you see that aliens actually exist?! Who's crazy now?! Huh?! Huh?!"

"Silence!" Tallest purple demanded. "We're here looking for someone. We received a transmission from Earth implying that the humans would attack our home planet, Irk."

"We need to know which one of you, Earthanoids, is Dib-head." Tallest red continued.

"'Dib-head'?" Dib asked confused. "There must have been some kind of miscommunication…" Dib stopped mid-sentence as he saw all the kids in the hallway pointing at him.

"Arrest him!" Tallest red demanded as the Irken soldiers grabbed his arms.

Dib started to struggle and fight to no avail before he spot his sister waving at him with a smile on her lips from a distance.

"Gaz! Listen to me! You have to go get help! Call the Swollen Eyeball members! Remember the phone number I gave you! It is 1-555-555-0199!" Dib kept screaming, but his sister didn't move. "Please, Gaz! Do something!"

"Silence!" Tallest red demanded. "Sweet mother of Irk! Your voice is even more annoying in person!" He then turned to Gaz. "Is that purple headed female affiliated with you?"

"No." Gaz quickly responded.

"She's my sister." Dib retorted.

"What? Dib!" Gaz protested.

"'Sister'? What is that?" Tallest purple asked Tallest red as they shrugged and demanded in unison… "Arrest her!"

Gaz backed off a little as the Irken soldiers approached slowly. She ran to the opposite direction, trying to escape through another exit, but her path was blocked by more Irken soldiers who appeared from the other end of the hall. Seeing herself trapped, Gaz tried to fight. Throwing a few punches, kicks and karate strikes on the soldiers, she was able to jump above their heads and head towards the main exit, but one of the Irken soldiers shot her from behind, making Gaz collapse on the floor as all her strengths evaded from her body and her body steamed from the laser. Two Irken soldiers grabbed her arms and raised her from the floor as they locked her wrists in handcuffs. Gaz growled and kicked one of the soldiers on his squeedly spooch with whatever strength was left in her, making him fall to the floor in pain.

"Whoa, this one's a fighter." The Irken who held her wrists said impressed.

"I suggest you to release me right now before I send you all to a nightmare world of no return." Gaz threatened.

"Whatever. Walk, you puny human." The soldier demanded as he made Gaz walk towards the Tallests as they prepared to exit the building.

"You'll pay for this, Dib." Gaz said to her brother when he was in ears reach.

The Irkens dragged the two teenagers out of the building when they heard maniacal laughter coming from behind. Looking behind them, they saw none other than Zim.

"AH HA HA HA HA HA! That's what you get for messing with the empire, fools!" Zim yelled out.

"Zim? Is that you?" Tallest red asked.

"Yes, my Tallest. It is I, the amazing Zim!" Zim said.

The Tallests exchanged looks before Tallest red spoke… "I almost didn't recognize you."

"Oh! Sorry. It must be my ingenious disguise." Zim then proceeded to remove his poorly-made disguise, exposing his true alien form.

The whole crowd in the hallway gasped as they saw the true Zim.

"You were right, Dib…" Zita spoke. "Zim is an alien!"

"Really?" Dib said sarcastically.

"And you got taller, too." Tallest purple pointed out.

"Ah, yes my Tallest, I have. I made some research on it. It may have something to do with Earth's atmosphere… Or something." Zim replied, smiling at himself.

The Tallests exchanged looks once again before Tallest red waved at the soldiers. "Yeah, arrest him as well."

"What?!" Zim exclaimed and didn't fight as the soldiers grabbed his arms. "But… My Tallests… Why?"

"'Why'?" Tallest red raised an eyebrow, directing himself to Zim. "I'll tell you 'why', Zim. You are a defective and shouldn't even be alive. You should've been deactivated years ago if the Control Brains didn't recognize you as an Invader after killing Tallests Miyuki and Spork, as well as a great amount of our kind."

"Plus, we don't like you." Tallest purple continued. "And, now that you're that tall we might as well continue with the initial plan of destroying you. Who knows what the Control Brains would do if they saw you. You could be the next Tallest." Tallest purple shivered at that thought before they both burst into laughter.

Zim was speechless. He couldn't believe what he just heard. He just bowed his head and fought back a tear as the Irken soldiers dragged the teenagers to the Irken mother ship by the Tallests' command.