A/N: I've been doing a lot of moving quickly through her young life, but the truth is that it's not that exciting. So, I've just skipped over all of Jex's training and bonding with her mentor. So, now her mentor and her are friends and she is a full time mechanic. Also, there will be quite a bit of skipping around in this chapter. And sorry I took so long with updating... I'm still trying to get the whole story line down and I'm lazy. Also, I had band camp in the summer and now I'm in high school..... so it might take a while....
Chapter 3
Jex and Zex both waked back into the medium sized mechanics shop and waited for their next customer. Over the years, Jex and Zex had become great friends. Jex was a full time mechanic in the shop and one of the best, under Zex of course. Jex loved working on machines and helping her customers. She was happy to turn broken machinery into something as good as new. Her favorite part was to see the customers eyes light up when they received their goods back, fixed.
This particular day, though, there was no customer waiting for her. There was a large ship and a pudgy Irken waiting for her.
"Excuse me, but do you know where I can find Jex?" he asked.
"I'm Jex. Why do you need me?"
"I am the official hirer for the tallests grand ship, the massive. I only hire the best, so you should be happy to know that you've been chosen to work there. This is a one in a lifetime chance, so you best take it now. If you accept, you would be working on the massive and if you're lucky, you may even see the tallests. This is a great honor."
Jex looked at Zex with large questioning eyes. Zex just nodded and mumbled something like 'take the job or you'll be sorry'.
Jex turned and nodded to the 'hirer', then started to go towards the ship. She then suddenly turned, ran back to her mentor and friend, and gave him a large hug. Then, she walked into the ship. She waved and smiled at Zex before she left. She hoped that she'd see him again some day.
- The Massive -
Jex arrived at the massive. It was just like it's name – massive. It was incredibly huge and it was larger than any city that she'd ever seen on Irk besides the planet's capital city. She'd have to say that there was a possibility that the massive was about the same size as the capital city.
The 'hirer' led her to another Irken who was about two and a half times as tall as Jex and about 2 times as tall as the hirer.
"Hello, I'm your guide. I'll be showing you around the massive. You can just call me Nit."
"Okay, Nit, show me the massive!"
- 2 Hours Later -
Jex had been shown all the areas of the massive that she needed to see. She had been shown her quarters and had been given a key card to her room. Then, Nit had taken her to the cafeteria, the engine room, the mechanics bay, the mall, and then he'd given her a MPW (massive positioning watch, kind of like a gps, but just for the massive and it's in a watch). The watch could lead her to anywhere she needed to go, and it had built in alarms that were automatically set for one hour before she needed to be at her work station. The watch also had a built in dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia. The last thing Nis gave her was her uniform, then he left. He had said that she could customize the style of her clothes, as long as she kept the colors of each piece the same.
She went into her quarters, then took a good look at her uniform. It had the same style as an invader uniform. There was a black undershirt, a blue over shirt with small black stripes, black tight pants, black gloves, and black boots. She found the outfit kind of plain, so she decided to go to the mall with some of the money that she had. She was going to get a new outfit. Actually, she was required to wear the plain outfit on the first day, so she'd wear her other clothes on the second day. She decided to keep her undershirt, pants, and gloves. They were fine. She just wanted new boots and a new overshirt.
As she searched through the mall, she found what she was looking for. She found boots with five buckles. These boots weren't pointy, but rounded and they stopped right below her knee. Then, she found a great over shirt. It was a plain blue and it was darker than her current shirt, but not by much. It had black shoulder pieces that pointed down and a black collar (like invader Zee's outfit. if you're an obsessive freak and have a picture of all the invaders including Zee, you might know what I'm talking about).
When she tried the clothes on, she sighed with happiness. The outfit mached her pak. (her pak is black with blue spots because she is defective. some defectives received different colored paks to warn other Irkens if they can't immediately see that the Irken in question is defective)
- The Next Day -
Jex happily skipped to work. It was her first day as one of the Massive's mechanics. She was extremely glad to be working again.
As soon as Jex arrived at the mechanics bay, she waited for her to be assigned to something. After waiting for 10 minutes, an Irken who seemed to be in charge told her to work on all of the personal spacecrafts that came in the bay. She was enthralled. Working on spacecraft was what she used to do all of the time! It was her favorite job! From now on, she was going to have so much fun fixing everything!
A/N: My whole point: she loves fixing stuff. It's kind of hard to put how much she loves fixing things in words.... anyways, review please! Constructive criticism is appreciated as well as other thoughts about my story! Flames will be chewed, thrown into the microwave, boiled in water, and thrown at the hornets nest that is right outside my room...
