As you should know by chapter 8, I do not own Invader Zim okay? Sorry for the late update on this story. I will try to finish this fic by spring of 2011, so expect more updates here soon! Anyway, enough of this A/N, on with the fic!
"You do not have to follow them you know. Real leaders would take care of their soldiers." Dib said. "If you loved me, you would help me rid Earth of the Irkens."
"If I did that you couldn't live anymore. No one on either of our planets would accept us. You and I will be killed no matter what we do." Tak panted as she banged her fist against her desk, spilling her drink onto Dib. "Whatever happens to us, we are bound to die by the hands of the Irkens."
"WHAT?" Dib yelled.
"You heard me."Tak said. "By the end of this, whatever you want to call our little liaison, we will be dead. I cannot stand much more of this incompetence and all of Zim's threats to me and Gaz's sniggers. Someday, I can see Zim and Gaz getting in a fight with me. I know Zim is pretty well trained but still incompetent, but Gaz, well…" Tak faded off.
"Trust me, with Zim training her in the ways of Irken Elite fighting; she will be as powerful as you." Dib said rather despondent.
"You are seeing how ominous our situation is. No matter what, one way or another, we are going to die." Tak said.
"Yeah…" Dib said looking down. "Would my death prevent yours?"
"Doubt it." Tak said. "Zim and Gaz want to kill me anyway and I know they will anyway. Zim would do anything to have total control of Earth. Hell, if they get the bright idea, they will try and take the whole Empire from the Tallest."
"Wow. I guess I should have expected that out of Gaz." Dib sighed as he looked down at his feet.
He hated to admit his sister was no longer an ally. Dib wanted more than anything to have both Gaz and his father aid him against the Irkens. Now, Professor Membrane was captured and headed off to one of the highest security prisons Irk had on Earth to be tortured starved and his skills to be used for the bettering of the Irken Empire. Gaz had sold him and his father out to the Irkens for her love of Zim. Now Dib was seeing the reality of his impending demise and how he could not spare Tak from a horrible fate if he was not killed soon. I hate putting Tak into this position. She is going off the deep end trying to figure out what to do with me. All this started because of Zim though… this is his entire fault! Dib looked up at Tak and sighed.
"You ever try to take out Zim?" Dib asked of Tak.
"No." Tak said. "He's the governor of Earth. Our rivalry is well known in the Irken Empire." Tak sipped her drink. "I would be the first suspect and to the Tallest, the first suspect is guilty as charged. Why do you think you were wanted as quick and as unopposed as you were?"
Dib sighed. He knew that humanity knew well the power of the Irkens as well as how they would do anything that Irk told them to do. Humans were cowardly animals that part of Dib wondered why fought so hard to keep humanity safe in his darkest moments. However, a new desire to keep Tak safe was blooming in his mind and heart. She did not really want him dead, she was only following orders. She really would not torture him either. She was hoping to bring him in to use her power to protect him. Dib saw it all clearly now. Tak was under stress from her position of power.
"I wish I could rip my heart out and make this shit easier." Tak said as she downed yet another cocktail. "You know, you humans got something right. Cocktails make things easier to handle."
"No it doesn't. When you sober up, things will be double trouble." Dib said. "Why don't you help me rebel against Irk?"
"Why? I told you before, we'd be dead." Tak said. "Your sister would be the one to kill you. I can see that clearly now. Zim and Gaz would love that if we did. Zim would have Gaz in my position and he would have total control of Earth. Sometimes good intentions turn out horrible. That Old-balum- um or whatever is a perfect example."
"Obama" Dib corrected.
"Whatever. You see what happened to him even before Irk Invaded." Tak said. "We were merciful compared to your guys' GOP."
"I know…" Dib sighed. That made him really think of how humanity was not worth saving at times. Over the thousands of years of human existence, war was the main feature. Peace never lasted more than a generation if that. "We can change that!"
"Yeah, right. You know as well as I do that changing humans is like changing Irkens, it is not going to happen Dib. I know you want our love to prevail and I agree that in a world where humans had control, we could pull the wool over their eyes as me being a human and we could live a normal life but Irk will not let go of Earth so easily when we have aluminum power cores, paste, and oil." Tak said. "Irk doesn't have any of those and don't get me started on the Platinum fashion increase."
"I know!" Dib snapped. Tak was a hopeless drunk and he had to get her to see why he was willing to give up everything to free Earth from Irken rule even though humanity was often hopeless at times. "But we have got to risk it! It still could happen. We need to take a chance, roll the dice! If we win, we will have all the love we ever wanted and can have our happily ever after." Dib smiled to the frantically stressed out Tak.
"What if we lose?" Tak whispered looking away from Dib's passion for her.
"I'll take all the blame." Dib said. "You will go back to what you have now, and I will spare your life as best I can. You will be safe no matter what. I will pay your price for you if something happens to us."
"Really?" Tak asked looking up at him.
"Really." Dib said kissing Tak on the lips. "Whatever you were ordered to do to me, we can fake it. I fooled Larkz the first time didn't I?" He motioned to his frayed hair on top of his head. "We can make you look like you were captured. I know how to blame it on someone else. I learned these things well as part of my paranormal investigation skills. I set it so The Tallest themselves will think you and I have been captured. I can blame Larkz if you like."
"Nah, I already punished him good enough." Tak said. "He fucking hates Uto and now he and Uto are the same rank and have to work together."
"I bet he hates you now." Dib laughed.
"More than you will ever know." Tak smiled looking back to Dib's hopeful smile.
Page break to a rural pathway to the Maximum Security Prison.
Uto and Larkz were looking around suspiciously. Uto was seriously beginning to doubt Larkz was right about this pathway being a shortcut through the woods. Uto knew Larkz was out to get him and knew Larkz thought the woods and rural area was good enough to hide his body. Larkz will kill me and have the angry secluded humans in these rural areas will burn my body and act as if I never existed. I need Tak and the Tallest to avenge me if something should happen to me. If I die here, Larkz would get all the glory. Uto looked around. No houses were to be seen, so no angry people would kill them for merely existing and walking on a pathway by their house. Uto did not trust these rural people to keep out of the way and quiet when Irkens went by. These were the kind of people would defend to the death their homes.
"Turn this way." Larkz said walking closer to a barn with a bunch of chickens and pigs in the area.
"You sure?" Uto said waking closer to Larkz. Uto was only a tracker he was not a fighter. He actually feared unlike Larkz.
"Positive. It is nearly dark. No one would be outside now in this part of the country. People here fear snakes more than us and it is almost snake season. Besides we went this way when we found Dib remember?"
"Oh, oh, yes yes it was." Uto said as he followed along Larkz.
Your fear keeps your memory dull. I will have you killed and because these people will not tell anyone anything, your death will be quick, loud and no Irken but me shall know you were killed by an inbred hick with a 12 gage shotgun. Larkz smirked to himself as he carried along Professor Membrane's cart with his unconscious body in it. "Besides, no human uses barns anymore. They simply do not care unless they are a farmer and farmers are so stupid, they wouldn't care." Larkz said reassuring him to his doom.
"Of course!" Uto said. "Our firepower is better than theirs is."
"See, why are you so scared? Let's go." Larkz said, making sure to scare some of the chickens and the pigs to attract the farmer with his gun. He knew if he took one look at Uto, he would kill him. This may not have been deep in Southern Appalachia, as he knew a lot of the gun killings of Irkens were, but this was rural Pennsylvania in between Scranton and New York City, so a farmer would have a shotgun to kill anyone who messed with his livestock. He would be tough living so near to two major rules of Irken power. They had managed to resist so long, they were a force to be feared.
"STOP MESSING WITH THOSE PIG-SMELLIES AND CHICKENS!" Uto yelled over the chickens and pigs. Soon a light was seen and a door burst open.
"Who's out there?" The farmer called with a ratcheting of his shotgun. "I have a shotgun filled with .00 buckshot. I know an Irken scum is out there! You called my hogs 'pig-smellies'. You people do not pick up local lingo very well. Saying 'pig-smelly' here is like signing your own death warrant!"
"OH DEAR GOD LARKZ!" Uto yelled, frozen to the ground. "LARKZ?" he asked when he turned around to see him gone.
The farmer walked closer to Uto with an evil and menacing grin on his face. He had waited for since the Irkens had arrived about a year before this moment. He was going to get to bring down an Irken officer with old-fashioned lead. "I can see you are pretty valuable to the Irkens."
"How?" Uto asked in a panic.
"Because you are nearly as tall as I am. God, you fools don't think us country bumpkins notice that you scum are given rank based on height?" The farmer replied.
"Oh." Uto sighed.
"You scared boy?" The farmer laughed. "Well you should be. Your demise is now!" with a squeeze of the trigger, Uto fell to the ground dead.
Larkz could not help himself. His plan, the one that was so unlikely to work, had actually come to pass exactly like he had planed it to be. He burst out laughing at Uto's demise. The laughing had attracted the attention of the farmer with the shotgun. He rustled the branches of the bush Larkz was hiding in and looked down, ratcheting his shotgun again. "Thanks for killing Uto for me." Larkz said nonchalantly.
"No, thank you for sending him to me. You are going to join him." The farmer said as he fired into Larkz before he could pull out his laser rifle in defense. "You are the scum of the Irken scum." The farmer said as he turned away from Larkz's decapitated body heading back to his farmhouse. Not paying too well attention to what was around besides two dead Irken Generals. He never noticed Professor Membrane until he tripped over his unconscious body in a cart. "What the?" he asked when he looked around and saw that they were carrying a prisoner. "Why this guy looks familiar…" He said as he took the body back into the house to heal up. "I think this is that Professor Membrane fellow…"
Page break to Tak's Study.
"Ready?" Dib asked as he packed up the last of the weapons and supplies from Tak's Study. Tak was making sure that the place looked like she was captured and kidnapped by a big rebel band.
"Done." She said as she planted the last of the bullet slugs and laser burns. "Glass broken, faux blood both Irken and human and remnants of gun fights. All done."
"Nice. Now let us head to the woods. I know where some rural people may be able to help us. I did not ask when I was on the run because I did not want them hurt because of me. Now I am ready to fight. Be sure to turn on your disguise. Do you still have it?" Dib asked as he took Tak's hand.
"Duh." Tak said as she made it look like a girl of 18 who was traveling with Dib. "Don't think I forgot about it."
"Good." Dib said. "Let's go."
Well how was it? Larkz and Uto dead and Tak on the rebel's side. DATR rebel action on the rise and a fight getting ready to go underway. (God, I watched a little too much Terminator series I think for this kind of action going on.) Anyway remember to read, (well you just did) and review. Ciao for now,
Otherrealmwriter
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Realm
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