Chapter two is here! I really don't think I have any fans yet, so, if you want to make me happy, you will review my story. Just so you know, the character Kae is Katelyn, but if I refer to Kae, then she is out of her holographic disguise, and Katelyn is when she is in her disguise.
Now for my random Invader Zim quote of the Day! "Why? Why my Piggy? I loveded you Piggy! I loveded you!" ~GIR (Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy)
The Almighty Tallest just stared at the screen in front of them. It showed a human girl with her head down in her arms wearily.
"Kae said that humans don't know about aliens on Earth," Red said to Purple. "And that revealing that to be untrue would compromise her mission."
"Ok, so then why is there a human sleeping on the control panels?" Purple asked.
The girl picked her head up and looked at the monitor in front of her.
"Um, we're not aliens," Purple said to the girl.
"Huh?" The girl, known as Katelyn, looked down at herself. "Oh, sorry." She pulled off her silk choker and the image of her flickered and then disappeared all together, showing the Tallest that she was really Kae. "I apologize for not taking off my disguise before calling. I am not feeling very well but I knew I needed to report in."
"Wow, you look terrible," Red said to her.
"Yes, I know. I need to run a diagnostic on my condition and will do so as soon as this call has ended."
"Well, you had better do that now."
"Very well, my Tallest."
The transmission was cut. Kae shakily stood up and made her way to the medical bay, where she laid down on the table. Zim walked in.
"You look terrible."
"Well I don't feel so great either."
Hearing the venom in her voice, Zim decided it would be best to leave her alone. He left as quickly as her could.
"Computer, run a scan of my body and tell what is wrong with it," Kae ordered.
A red light moved up her body and then back down it again and a 3D image of herself appeared on the monitor. The computer sought out the problem and then the screen zoned in on a specific part of the image of her body.
"Problem detected," her computer said. A full diagnostic displayed itself on the monitoring screen in the Irken language. Kae took a moment to look it over.
"Something I ingested," she muttered. "What did I eat?" Then the realization struck her. "That stupid muffin!" The previous day at Midle Skool, someone had given her a muffin and she had eaten it to appear normal. When no serious conditions developed right away, she had forgotten about it and never took anything to make sure that it didn't hurt her. "Stupid, stinking, poisonous Earth food! Computer, develop a serum to reverse the affects of the muffin."
The computer made a few beeping and scratching noises and then produced a needle and injected the Irken with the muffin cure. After a few minutes, Kae was able to get up and go over to Zim's base.
"What are you doing?" she asked when she saw Zim fiddling with lasers and an Earth creature known as a rabbit.
"Trying to make this bunny-creature shoot lasers and destroy all of mankind for me!"
"Do you have a way to control it?"
"Heh?"
"A way to control the creature. To make sure that it doesn't run wild and destroy us as well as the humans?"
"Well, there goes that plan," Zim muttered. "You look better."
"Thanks for noticing. Hey, you were going to tell me about your previous attempts to take over the planet, remember?"
"Oh, yea."
Both Irkens went up to the house part of Zim's base and put on simple disguises, in case anyone should see in. Zim had on his wig and lenses, and Kae pulled out a wig of her own (simple long black hair) and some lenses. Hey, if it works for Zim, it will work for her. The two newly disguised aliens sat down on the couch. Zim began telling Kae of his many adventures here on Earth.
"And everyone thought he smelled horrible and called him Sandwich-Boy. And then Dib finally found out that he was turning into bologna, while he was in the Bathroom! You should have seen the look on his face when I told him there was no cure."
Kae was cracking up at the Bolognius Maximus story that Zim was telling her.
"And then this other time, I tricked Dib into thinking that a kid in our class named Poonchy was really an Irken Invader."
"He had an alien Death Machine!" shouted a voice in the room with them. Kae was imeadiatly on her feet with a small scary looking gun in each hand, aiming at where the voice was coming from.
"Computer! Intruder alert!" Zim shouted, and the house shut the window that neither Irken had realized was open while robotic arms came down from the celing and began grabbing at the air.
"I can't see the intruder!" the computer boomed.
"Then switch to Infrared!" Kae shouted. There was a beep and then the arms began grabbing at something they could now see. A metal arm held up a partially invisible Dib. Kae ripped the cloaking jacket off of him.
"I was right! There is another alien here!" Dib shouted.
"Well good for you. How did you get past the gnome field?" Kae asked, remembering her first night here.
"Your gnomes couldn't see me! My dad made my cloaking jacket!"
"Hmmm. I'll have to upgrade the gnomes."
"I'm going to stop you!" Cried Dib in a very heroic manner.
"Stop me from what?" Asked Kae. She was beginning to enjoy this.
"I don't know, your evil plan."
"I don't have an evil plan yet."
"Well, when you get an evil plan, I will stop you!"
"What makes you so sure?"
"I stopped Zim every single time!"
"Stopped him from what?"
"Taking over the Earth!" Dib shouted.
"Oh, well give him a break. This is his first planet."
"You act like you've done this before."
"I have. I have successfully taken 9 worlds in the name of the Irken Empire. 7 planets and 2 moons. I am trained both as an Invader and as a soldier. I have seen more carnage in one place than the entire population of your planet."
"Really?"
"Yup."
"Wow."
"Thanks."
"You need to get a life."
"I'm going to hurt you now."
Kae walked out of the room and when she returned, she was holding a cardboard box. She opened the box and took out some sort of mechanical device and set it on the floor in front of Dib.
"I'm going to torture you now." She said very calmly.
"Wait, is that what I think it is?"
"Probably."
"How is that going to-"
"You'll see." Kae smiled evilly. "Oh, GIR!"
Dib's eyes widened. "You wouldn't!"
"I would."
"Yes?" Gir asked, coming into the room. His eyes widened at the sight of the device in front of Dib. "Karaoke!"
"NO!" Dib shouted as Gir happily jumped onto the karaoke machine and grabbed the microphone. Kae pulled out a pair of ear plugs and left the room laughing.
"I'm gonna sing this one for Piggy!" Gir shouted into the microphone. Dib began to howl in agony.
"Now class, I am going to hand back your tests," Ms. Bitters said. It was the middle of the day, right after lunch, in the Classroom. Ms Bitters set a graded test down on each child's desk and told them what she thought of their grade. "Horrible, terrible, monstrous, acceptable (Zeta), bad, dreadful, hopeless, lousy, atrocious," She got to Katelyn. "Katelyn, you had the best grade in the class. You get an A." She went to Dib. "Dib, you failed. Again."
"I'm sorry, Ms. Bitters. I was tortured by an insane robot singing karaoke" (he shuttered at the thought) "and when I finally got loose, I had to investigate a Bigfoot sighting and got malled by a bear. So, I didn't study or get much sleep last night."
"No excuses. At this rate, you are going to fail the semester. I'm going to call your father and get you a tutor." Ms Bitters snarled. "Katelyn! You are going to tutor Dib."
"Yes Ms Bitters," Katelyn said, obviously surprised.
"Good, you'll start tonight." The bell rang. "Go home now."
As children ran out of the classroom, Katelyn caught up with Dib.
"Hey! Dib!"
He stopped and looked at Katelyn. "Hi," he said. Wow, she is pretty, he thought.
"I'll be a your place at 6:00," she said.
"Ok, see you there."
Back at the secret base...
"Are you really going to tutor Dib?" Zim asked. He knew that there was no way he would ever help that human.
"Of course I am."
"But why? You are helping the Dib-Thing! And just yesterday you were torturing him with Gir's karaoke! By the way, we did get that on tape, right?"
"Yes, we got it on tape, and I am using Dib. That's why. His dad is the greatest scientist on this planet, and without him, the Earth would probably fall into chaos! While I distract Dib, Ris will put on her cloaking device and download information from the scientist's lab. Anything we can use will be given to the Tallest to help build more advanced weaponry. And she will gather information on possible ways to easily destroy the planet and enslave all mankind. Understand?"
"Yea, I think so."
"Good. Now I have to get over there. Ris!" The small robot appeared holding a cupcake. Kae looked at Zim. "Gir's condition isn't contagious, is it?"
"I don't think so."
Kae looked back to Ris. "Put on your cloaking device and follow me. You know what to do when we get there."
Ris saluted and quickly ate her cupcake before turning completely invisible. Kae put her necklace on and tapped the green gemstone in the middle. She immediately took on the look of an ordinary Earth female.
"I shouldn't be gone too long. Don't blow anything up."
"You worry too much. I'll be fine." Zim assured her. Kae gave him a look that was anything but assured and left the room. Zim then happily grabbed a live wire and tried to tie it to a circular metal object and was almost electrocuted.
*Ding Dong!*
"The doorbell! She's here!" Dib shouted. He ran to the door and opened it. It was a pimple covered pizza delivery guy.
"Um, I think you have the wrong house. I didn't order any pizza." Dib said.
"Are you sure?"
"Yea, I'm sure."
"Oh, sorry about that, sir," the pizza guy said.
Dib shut the door and walked back to the kitchen. The bell rang again. *Ding Dong!*
Dib ran back over to the door.
"Hi Katelyn!" he said.
"Hi Dib. Is your dad home?" Katelyn asked.
"No, he had some work to do at the downtown lab."
"So we're alone?"
"No, Gaz is upstairs in her room, but she probably won't bother us."
"Ok, then lets get started." Kae lugged a few Skool books into the living room. She opened the Math book.
When Dib had opened the door, Ris had slipped through. She listened and learned that the scientist was not here. That was good. Now all she had to do was find the lab. Ris used x-ray enhancement to locate all of the rooms in the building and make a virtual map. She saw the three life forms in it and noted which rooms they were in: Irken and young human male in the living room and young human female in a room upstairs. She then activated her guidance chip and used it to search the house for the lab. There: below her. The entire downstairs basement was a lab. She ran to the stairs and went to this lab. Then she located the main computer and hooked herself up to it. It was easy getting past the firewall, password, and other ways to protect the computer from hackers. Her advanced Irken hacking systems made sure of that. The hard part would be making sure no one found her. After all, the wire she had used to attach herself to the computer was visible. So, with all of her senses on high alert, Ris began to copy and download everything off the computer.
It sounded like gunshots going off. Dib and Katelyn both looked up from their textbook at the noise.
"What is that?" Katelyn asked.
"Gaz coming down the steps. She must be really angry at something. I suggest you get ready to run for your life."
"DIB! Where is my Pizza? It should have been here half an hour ago!" Shouted the very scary girl.
"Pizza? Wait a minute, you ordered pizza?" Dib said, remembering the pizza delivery guy he had turned away.
"You know where it is! What did you do with my pizza! If there is a single slice missing I will rip your legs off and force you to eat them!"
Dib, now terrified, stuttered, "Well, you see, I didn't know that you ordered any pizza, and, well, when the delivery guy came, I um, thought he had the wrong address and, uh, turned him away. Please don't hurt me!"
"I am going to rain doom down upon you! You will suffer like no human ever has and ever will! I am going to rip your arms off and feed them to my robot dolls! I am going to-"
"Uh, Gaz, Bloaties closes in 15 minutes. I suggest you hurry over there and get some pizza while you can and destroy your brother later, when I'm not here as a witness."
Gaz made a noise that a lion would make if i saw a gazelle harassing its cubs. "You live for now, Dib. But let it be known that I will destroy you today."
Gaz than made for the doorway and left the house.
"Ok, back to studding. Dib, you seem very distracted. In class you always say you were too busy to do something. What's bothering you?" Katelyn decided to cut to the heart of the problem.
Dib looked at girl in front of him. "You'll think I'm crazy, just like everyone else."
Katelyn stared at him with her big eyes. "But what if I don't?"
"I'll show you something." Dib ran upstairs with Katelyn at his heels and entered the first door on the right. His bedroom. The walls were covered with posters of Bigfoot, UFOs, and other paranormal stuff. In fact, his whole room was covered in paranormal stuff. Spell drives, UFO schematics, a computer with a UFO background, everything.
"I am kind of obsessed with the supernatural. I raised the dead once, I've seen aliens, and I'm pretty sure this kid that used to be in my class is Bigfoot's baby."
"Cool."
"What?" That had been the last thing he had expected her so say.
"I said cool. I always thought this kind of stuff was pretty interesting."
"Really?"
"Yea, of course." Katelyn felt something brush up against her leg. She looked down and could just barely see the outline of Ris by her leg. She was confident that no one would be able to see her. Irkens had much better eyesight than humans. Katelyn looked back up to see that Dib was still staring at her in shock like she was an angel sent from heaven. "Hey, Dib, I have to get home now. I promised my parents I wouldn't be out too late."
The seemed to shake the human out of his surprise. "Ok, then. I'll see you at Skool tomorrow."
"Ok, bye!"
The disguised alien and invisible robot left the house.
"Well, Ris, find anything good?" Kae asked her robot companion. They were back at her base and ready to review the information they had stolen.
Ris nodded and a wire came out of her head and plugged into an access point in the wall. Human writing filled the screen above and scrolled past the top of the screen. Then all of the writing moved to the left side and was transcribed to Irken on the right. Kae knew that from there, it would be copied onto a disk that could easily be teleported to her Tallest. Kae walked over to another computer and sat down. This one was her personal status Log. After the first or second planet she had been assigned to, Kae had learned to keep the log as a way to keep track of the day's findings and accomplishments. In it, she wrote the following:
Earth, Day 9.
The human known as Dib now trusts me. He will give me any and all information I ask of him. Most of the Data from the Human Professor Membrane's home lab's computer has been copied and put on disk. I believe we will find something very useful in it. I am accepted as a regular Human in the Skool. The children there will also give me information I need. I believe that Dib is becoming atracted to me. He will be very useful. He will be the key to the human's resistance. Zim has given me much useful info. He knows a lot about the humans' life style.
Kae turned off the computer and went over to Zim's base. He wasn't in the underground part, so she went to the house. Zim was sitting on the couch watching TV next to the human Gaz. In fact, very close. At the sound of her arrival, both beings looked up.
"Is there something I should know about?" Kae asked suspiciously. Especially since the human did not appear startled at her alien appearance. After all, she wasn't waring a disguise.
"It's Ok, I trust her." Zim replied.
Kae was about to give him a speech about how he was jeopardizing the mission and their lives, but something in his face stopped her.
"SHHHHH! The scary monkey show is on!" Gir said. Minimoose squeaked in agreement. Kae just sighed and went back to her base to rest.
I like this chapter because it has a lot of different aspects to it. Torture, tutoring, Dib beginning to fall for Katelyn, but not knowing that she is really Kae, Zim and Gaz connecting, people getting sick from muffins. I wanted to add some humor to this story. I hope the Karaoke torture part added that. Just so you know, chapters are not necessarily right after each other. Notice how in Kae's log she says day 9. Anyway, the next chapter is going to be a very dramatic and fast paced one.
