Chapter 9
Lar an Irkin guard aboard the Prison Ship walked down to the hanger to see the ship coming aboard. The ships transmission stated that they had more prisoners to load up for them so Lar was stationed to search the ships. As he entered the hanger bay the ships have just landed there. The ship that guided the other one into hanger was a red color and looked very Irkin in its design it made Lar a little less nervous. But the ship remained outside probably just needed to haul some cargo. He knew some of the prisoners were huge crime lords and just worried about their men trying to bust them out. The other ship was a Cargo ship which probably held the prisoners. Placing himself to the main hatch of the cargo as it opened. A huge pillar of smoke emitted from the open hatch way.
"Welcome to the Dirge register your prisoners to the reception desk over there." There was no response as the smoke cleared from the door opening.
A female with black and blue hair ran thru the smoke and placed a large weapon to the forehead of Lar.
"BOOM SHAKA LAKA…" Zita screamed as she pulled the trigger of the semi-automatic shotgun.
BOOM
Minutes before the Crimson Lament and the Resisti ship entered the prison ship Dirge everyone piled into the cargo ship as Todd's orders the Crimson Lament was being piloted remotely by Zim in the cargo ship.
Over the loud speaker came the voice of Todd from his ship.
"Revelon used his voice modifier to gain us access to the Dirge's hanger prepare yourselves."
Gaz was standing next to Zim her weapons were her stuffed animal robots that she used against Dib when he came in her room. Knowing this made Zim a little jealous Gaz's technical skill even rivaled his she made Gir act a little less stupid and she has a small army or robots. All in all Zim did begin to feel what Dib called love for Gaz but he better not show it to her for attachments to Zim are stupid.
Rest of the group was in the airlock looking out the window. Landing in the interior of the Dirge near a bunch of power converters it was a large hanger with several Irkin guards patrolling the area.
"Ok here we go guys, Zita are you sure you don't want to just stay here in the ship it may become a little too dangerous." Looking at her Dib knew that perhaps he said the wrong thing, drumming her fingers along the barrel of her shotgun.
"Baby I love you and I know you are looking out for me and I appreciate that but I will not sit on the sidelines anymore like the hopeless damsel in distress. Kicking ass and taking names is something I can do very well my husband." An Irkin guard walked up the airlock door and saluted it.
"Now Dib I will show you that I can be a badass like you guys any day." The airlock opened the smoke of the compression covered the Irkin as Zita rushed toward him with her shotgun and placed it on the forehead of the guard.
"BOOM SHAKA LAKA!" pulling the trigger everyone got the joke.
Purple blood flew through the air as the small Irkin fell to the floor. For the first time Dib got to see what he wanted to see for a long time a dead Irkin but for a only for a moment knowing his new friendship with Zim. Several guards on the opposite of the room came running toward their ship but to only to fall under the energy gun fire from Todd and his men. Todd signaled his men to move and cover the entire hanger as an intruder alert signal rang throughout the whole hanger.
Gaz stepped out of the ship as her robot minions ran out and headed for the air ducts to hide and attack in stealth.
"Having fun yet Irkin many of your kind are going to die." Todd said as he walked over to the group, Zim just looked at him like he was a piece of shit.
"So where to Todd, where do we go from here?" Dib said loading his AR15.
"I don't know ask your Irkin friend here he knows where to go from here." Zim stepped forward and trusted his face in Todd's.
"Look human I really don't care for you but reinforcements will be here any moment the quickest way to the cell blocks is through that door." Todd simply smiled and turned to his men.
"Boys cover our back we are going through the door right here." They acknowledged him and covered them as they went through the door.
Gir ran out of the ship holding a cupcake and ran to Zim's side and hugged him getting chocolate all over him. Just keeping to the mission and not yell at Gir Zim just ignored him and ran to the door.
"Gir bypass the door lock." Gir ran to the door.
The door itself was very large looked like a door to hold something very large on the other side. Running to the door there was a door code to open the doors. As Gir began to work on the door code there were probably 50 guards running toward them.
"Hurry up Gir there right on us." Todd said as he and the rest of the group turned and fired at the guards.
"THE DOOR IS OPEN RUN IN!" The whole group ran inside and the shut the door behind them and sealed it.
Beyond the door was a massive room that was filled with cages presumably the jail cells. Levels upon levels of cages reaching what looked like a mile high. The cages were situated in rows on cage pilled on another and left a space between for walking space between them with lifts to upper areas. At the center of the room in the distance was a single elevator. Currently the squad was at the very bottom the intruder alert signal still rang in their ears. Within the room there were doors opening and many footsteps presumably guards looking for them. Clearly there were no more than perhaps 29 hundred inmates.
"Great suns Casil there are so many of them, what's the plan on releasing them." Belax came to Todd side as he shrugged.
"Well to be honest I didn't plan to get this far. Thanks to the Irkin here I took access codes from his P.A.K while he was unconscious we got into the Dirge and meet very little resistance I knew that we no way to release them with just us. This is why I'm glad to be in company of my old friend here. With their help we can release our friends."
"Sir that is why I will follow you to hell and back you are a step ahead all of the time." Belax said saluting him.
"Yes Casil I plan for us to split up we can cover more ground that way." Lard-Nar said.
"Good idea there will be many guards here Lard-Nar accompany Dib and his wife Zita and take the east corridor, Belax take the Irkin here and Gaz to the west corridor, I shall take Nny and his wife through the elevator and locate the warden, and Relevon you will guard our exit and blow it when we are going to leave. Find a way to open these doors simultaneously, find a control panel." Saluting him they did as they were told and dispersed.
Running down the east corridor was Dib Zita and Lard-Nar. Being perfectly honest to himself it was a bit strange teaming up with another alien and refreshing knowing that they aren't alone in this. Making their way through the hall thousands of voices called out to them to free them. Just then a pair of guards turned a corner and ran down the hall not 20 feet away.
"PREPARE TO DIE TRAITORS!" Raising their guns they fired.
Leaping out of the way at last minute the groups were barely missed by the energy blasts. Panicking Dib pulled his AR15 cocked it and fired hitting one guard in the head killing him instantly and knocking the others gun out of its hand. Lard-Nar ran to the guard pulled out something shiny and jammed it into the guards' throat. Before Dib can rise 5 more guards came down the corridor after them.
"FOR THE TALLEST!" this time Dib was prepared leaning on his side he and Zita fired at the guards.
Out the corner of his eye Dib noticed Lard-Nar picking up the body and began to charge into the group of guards using it as a shield. Knocking a few away as he charged past gave Zita and Dib perfect kill shots.
"Nice one Lard-Nar that is a proper use of an Irkin if I ever saw one." Dib said helping Zita to her feet.
"YEAH KICK THEIR ASSES STRANGE ALIEN SAVOIRS!" said an inmate in the cage on their left the alien looked to be the same species of alien that Lard-Nar was.
"Thank you human we better get going and look for those release controls." Sounds of gunfire and Irkin screams were heard in the distance.
"Looks like Johnny and Devi have gotten to work huh Dib." Knowing the horror that faces any guard that comes across them made him fell a slight bit of sympathy but only for a moment.
"I know it Z come on lets go find that control." Dib said as they continued their search for the control panel.
Running through the corridor of thousands of cells Dib looked between the spaces to see the others running and fighting through several guards and soldiers. Something began catch Dibs attention as they ran most of the inmates were the exact same species as Lard-Nar.
"Lard-Nar why are all these cages filled with your species?" his face was filled with anger and sorrow at Dib's comment.
"My kind is spread throughout the galaxy ever since we gave the Irkins our technology. You see we created most of their weapons for them and refined their own. After they got what they wanted they turned our planet VORT into a giant prison and killed our most intelligent scientists."
"My god that's horrible…" Zita said.
"Yes and now we hold in all of our hearts responsibility for everything that our weapons help to destroy. Seven of your months ago the Irkin Empire began to gather our scattered people throughout the galaxy."
Truly this was a more horrific story than Dib could imagine. What befell this species is probably what would have happened to Earth. Hatred filled his eyes as he heard Irkin voices coming from behind them. Several more Irkin guards ran down the hall after them.
"KILL THEM ALL!" the guard yelled but something Dib threw at them caught their attention.
"FLASH BANG SHEILD YOUR EYES!" Dib Lard-Nar and Zita shielded their eyes as the grenade blinded the guards.
"FIRE they are blinded!" Zita said as she blasted the guards with her shotgun.
As the guards laid there dead Zita really began to notice that most of the aliens in the cages were the same species as Lard-Nar. Sadness filled her heart as she really took a moment to look at them all they stood there look back at her. Their eyes filled with hope for them to succeed in releasing them and sadness for what they done.
"Why are they taking all of your people away?" Looking back at her Lard-Nar just shook his head.
"So we can't create any other weapons for any other races to aid them for Impending Doom 2. This ship is heading for my home planet Vort to put them to work and create weapons for them."
"More the reason why we need to find that panel let's get to the second floor and call Todd and find out where he is going."
Zim, Gaz, Gir and Belax were currently running to also find a way to release the prisoners from their cages. Luckily for them no guards attacked them for Gaz's robots began to spread around and killed any pursuers of them. Along the way Belax was tormenting Zim the whole time as they passed thousands of cages.
"So Irkin how can you say that this is all about some greater purpose of a more advanced race conquering a weaker one?" Zim as he was running just turned his head back.
"I won't lie Repticon for a time I thought that this was doom in motion. Now that I am more aware of my surroundings this is a travesty." Belax began to chuckle at Zim but was silenced by a look by Gaz she had a look on her that can start or end wars.
"So where the fuck is this control panel I really don't feel like walking around like an idiot, Gir could you scan the area and tell us where the panel is?" Gir who was skipping around them suddenly stopped turned to Gaz turned a deep purple color and bowed to Gaz.
"MAM I WILL OBEY YOUR COMMAND MAM!" surprised by this Zim never seen Gir in this state his normal "duty mode" usually fails but this mode he looks like he can take actual orders.
Gir's head opened up to produce a scanner that did what else scanned the entire cell block. When it was complete Gir bowed before Gaz.
"MAM THERE IS NO CONTROL PANEL IN THIS ARE THE ONLY WAY TO RELEASE THESE PRISONERS IS IN THE WARDENS QUARTERS MAM." Turning back to blue Gir sat down and began to break dance.
"I'm cutting a rug master look at me."
Zim looked at Gaz she looked at him and they gave each other a very slight smile.
"I suppose I will contact your friends and tell them where we need to go." Belax contacted the others to tell them what is going to be happening.
Just then the alarms ceased and a voice came over the loud speaker the voice was loud and commanding. Several inmates began to boo and yell at the very sound of the voice.
"WELL WELL, IF IT ISN'T CASIL THE DESTROYER SO GOOD FOR YOU TO JOIN US YOUR TWO FRIENDS HERE ARE KEEPING ME COMPANY RIGHT NOW. UNFOURTUNATLY YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO JOIN US, I HAVE SEALED OFF THE ENITRE CELL BLOCK AND I'M PREPARED TO JETISON THE ENITRE AREA OUT INTO SPACE."
Todd who was just noticed that the guards have left the entire cell blocks stood next to Devi and Johnny holding a thermo grenade.
"Todd human how many Resisti are there besides you and your men here?" Zim said over the communication devices that they have. The entire group finally got together wondering the answer to the question.
"I know who that is over the loud speaker it's an Irkin Elite named Lar and he has the rest of my crew."
"You're saying that there are only six members to the Resisti?" Devi said getting angrier as each word came out of her mouth.
"In all honesty there was no way to help them and they knew that if they got caught you see they were undercover here to help release the prisoners but got caught I was messaged by Lar and he told me if I wanted them back I would have to come here. That is why there was hardly any resistance here."
"So you led us into a trap. Wow what a great leader you are." Zita said turning her back to him.
"CASIL I'M WAITING FOR A RESPONSE FROM THE MOST FEARED WARRIOR IN THE GALAXY OR ARE YOU REALLY A COWARD."
Todd simply looked up into the air to where the voice was coming from and began to laugh.
"WHAT IS SO FUNNY CASIL YOU ARE DOOMED THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM HERE."
Pulling out a small remote Todd turned to the group.
"You wanted to know why you left your ship miles before we even got close enough well check this shit out…REVELON BLOW THE DOOR." Simultaneously Revlon blow the door open and Todd pressed the button.
