Author's Note: A curveball at the beginning. Chapter 3, enjoy!
Red stared at the Irken in front of him, purple eyes and uniform, squared curled antennas and that tailcoat she wore.
"Um, you are?" said Red, starting to regain his speech through it was not as clear.
The Irken stared at him in disbelieve.
"You looked afraid a second ago, I thought you'd remember me"
"Um, were you a service drone?"
The next thing Red felt was a punch into the face
"It's Tak, you know the one who tried to kill Zim? The one who offered you a planet of snacks?"
"Right I re-, nope never heard of you"
"Did someone say they tried to kill Zim?"
Reds antenna's perked up
"Zim?" he uttered
"REALLY! You remember him, but not me!?" yelled an outraged Tak
"Don't feel bad Tak" said Zim coming from behind
"It's clear the Tallest only remember true invader's!"
"What's going on" asked Red seeing the bizarre situation.
"Answer my questions first" yelled Zim
"You never asked" said Red nearly regaining his speech.
"I knew that!" countered Zim
"I'll ask, how are you alive?" said Tak with malice
"Yea I thought I incinerated you in your bed, wait, was that the other one?" questioned Zim
"Wait what?" said Red wanting to clarify what Zim just said
A SIR unit approached Zim
"Sir, DNA confirms this is the Almighty Tallest Red"
Zim and Tak stared at in in disbelief
"Well we can always kill him again" suggested Zim
"What! You can't do this to your tallest!" yelled Red oblivious to all around him.
"Greatest Superior Irken Invader of all of Irk and the Empire, greatest genius and fearless ruler of the galaxy, incredibility handsome and strongest Irken alive, Master Zim, I have something you may want to see"
Red became angered, not because of the fact he was still being chained to these SIR units, but the fact he never made such a title. It was just Almighty Tallest, too short!
"Well then show me"
"Sir, in the Massive, a group of Irkens came through a time machine not too long ago"
"The Irken Empire has never built a time machine! How did this happen. Tell me, tell me, tell me!"
"Well you built it as a gift to the Tallest three years ago"
Tak sent death glares to Zim before gripping him by the collar
"If any of our past self's come here, you know the risk it carry's?"
"Don't forget who is the leader here! SIRS!"
In a second, no millisecond, 20 SIRS randomly appeared, their eyes charged up, preparing to fire. Tak's brave face slowly disappeared as she released him, and the SIRs departed.
"Just take care of this before our enemies do" she said before marching from the room
"Yea, yea, computer, deploy the probes to guard the machine, and set up an energy field around it some no one will come in or get out!"
"Wouldn't be easier to just simply destroy it?" questioned the computer
"You dare disobey me! ZIM!"
"Ugh, find"
Zim then turned to Red
"Well my Tallest I must say, I thought you were back from the dead haha, but I knew you weren't"
"But you just said-"
"SILENCE! It's clear you're from the past" he said eyes narrowed, his hands clutching together.
"Listen Zim, how about you let me go, I'll, eh, give you a snack"
Zim broke into a fit of laughter
"My Tallest, you would like that, however I need to make sure your disappearance from the past won't affect the future because if you're not in the past, then the future won't exist, which means I wouldn't exist, which means I would never do this, meaning you would be here in the past, I mean future, which means I would do this, and…..I…..would….um"
It was Reds turn to laugh at Zim confusing himself.
"Errr, SILENCE! I am your leader"
"But you're so short" remarked Red
"My Tallest, a lot has happened in the last three years." He said with Malice
"Sure, sure, hey since I'm still your leader, can you get me some nachos?" he said
"I have research to do, so goodbye My Tallest" said Zim bowing before pulling a lever. The floor underneath Red shot downwards. As Red the downward tunnel, he swore he could hear Zim laughing. A good100ft before Red rammed into the ground. He got up coughing to see a SIR unit stand above him.
"Stand up Prisoner 120006"
Red felt offended. Was he just called a prisoner?
"I'm ordering you to the scrap yard, now go up there and detain Zim" he ordered
Instead Red felt a punch to the stomach.
"Do as your told!" it shouted
Red pulled himself up, his ego taking a blow. He was the Tallest, these SIRs should be obeying him!
He then felt something snap onto his throat and looked to see a collar.
"What the-"
"MOVE!" it shouted
"I'm not moving from this AHAHAHAHH"
A surge of pain shot through his entire body. His eyes watered to see the SIR unit now smiling creepily, wait a mouth? SIRs didn't have mouths!
"I said move Prisoner 120006"
Red finally moved, not wanting to feel another shock. He followed the SIR unit through a tunnel. He approached a doorway where two more SIR's stood guard
"Number?" one of them said
"120006" said the other SIR
"Occupation?"
The SIR looked back to Red before smiling again.
"Digger"
In no time, Red was thrusted through the doorway, given a pickaxe and shovel, and dragged to a random spot. He looked around to see a hundreds of thousands of different aliens, all digging within the underground hole. A SIR unit came to him, flying on a hoverpad. It took out a electro-whip before swinging it at Red.
"Dig!" it shouted.
Red hesitated for a second, trying to fight the beating pain within before starting to pick at the wall of dirt and stone in front of him. Of course never really working in his whole life, save for training, he failed miserably at it. One, struggling to pick up the pickaxe, the other, he was tapping the wall more than hitting it.
The SIR unit narrowed its eyes and soon Red felt an even worse surge of pain through his body.
"Work prisoner!" it yelled whipping Red once more.
Red was about to collapse, not able to take the pain and felt like falling before someone approached him.
"I'll help him out" it said
The SIR unit floated away and Red turned to see a very, very, very big, well-built Vortian.
"Names 714" he said with a ghost simile.
Red's Pak searched for that particular number before pulling up a file on him. The only reason this file was available was because this prisoner started a riot killing one Irken and leveling over 500 tons of snacks! Of course you could guess which was more important.
"Um name's…"
Red thought for a moment before deciding it was best not to tell his real name considering the value it held.
"Oh my name is, eh, Swiss" The only reason said Swiss was because he remembered one of Zim's plans to use Swiss, what it was, what it was for? He didn't care enough at the time.
Meanwhile the Vortian perked an eyebrow before speaking again.
"Well Swiss welcome to the Devil's Hole"
"Devil's what?"
"Devil's Hole, a nickname the humans gave this place, I don't know what it was other than it means something bad."
"Oh….ok, soooo…..what do you here?"
"Ha what does it look like, we dig"
"For what?"
"Don't know, last one to ask was grabbed by those SIR's" he said with disgust.
The SIR unit hovered back
"I said work!" it yelled
714 immediately starting beating at the wall.
"Just hit it upward and drag it down, don't hit it directly" he said
The SIR unit glared at Red before he followed 714's advice. As the unit left, Red felt like he was about to collapse, not used to this work.
"Man you got a long way to go" said 714
"I can't do this" said Red breathing heavily.
"Tell that to him" he said motion his head to a SIR and prisoner arguing. The SIR got its whip out before whipping around the prisoner's neck and chucking him off the cliff. This gave Red a burst of energy to hit the wall faster.
….
Dib was running with Kro behind his back. Currently he and the rebel group was fleeing from the Irken Probes, firing from above. As he ran he tripped hitting the ground hard. The mixture of Irkens and Vortians tried to save him before a barrage of shots rang around them.
"Dammit" thought Dib before an rpg from the near mountain brought down a probe. He turned his sister Gaz. Now a little taller, her purple hair, tied into a pony tail, wearing black combat boots, a black tank top with a black coat, and still with the same straight face she has mastered for years.
A probe appeared in front of her, preparing to fire at her. Gaz gritted her teeth before summoning fire all around and launched it at the probe, piecing its thick amour. The other's then scurried away.
She hoped down from the mountain walking over to Dib, piles of dirt covering him.
"So whose this" she asked looking to the fallen Irken.
"I don't know. I saw those probes Gaz, they were swarming the ship!"
"And you ran in there with no weapon?"
"Well…well I had to investigate-"
"Keep betting on your life you may be dead…..but it wouldn't be so bad."
"Hey!"
"Um guys shouldn't we get going" said one of the Vortians
"Come on Dib, they'll be back"
The group got up, quickly running to a group of worn-down cars. They loaded the wounded before driving off. As they did, a spy-cam caught them.
"DAMMIT! Those humans never die!" shouted Zim throwing the monitor against the wall. No sooner did Tak walk in.
"What happen now" she stated boringly
"Those humans escaped!"
"As always" she muttered
"I heard that!" he shouted
"Sir, another probe has arrived with another prisoner" said the computer
"Well send him to interrogation! I will deal with him later"
The duo looked to the bigger screen seeing the prisoner.
Krip was afraid more than ever, afraid that he was tied to a chair, bound, with a SIR unit staring into his soul.
What Tak and Zim working together? The Tallest dead. Dib and Gaz part of a resistance. Everyone enslaved! All will be explained in do time :)
