Chapter, Doom, Zim, 9, Dooom!

(A/N ok, I'm gonna do the time skip and it's not because I have lost interest in the story. Right now I am working on a comic book with a friend of mine, which we intend on submitting to a publisher. On top of that, my school work is piling up. I could barely find time to write this. So now the intro to this chapter will fill in the blank spot.)

It has been five months sense the meeting, and Zim and Tak have gone on to be very successful. They have won every battle that was put before them. They became heroes of Tenns army, and they did it together. Eventually Zim and Tak grew closer, becoming more like good friends every moment they spent together. Everything from eating lunch, too blowing off heads, they had each others back.

Gir and Mimi have been very useful as well. When they work together, they're like little techno ninjas. They can reprogram other robots, deactivate missiles, and sometimes fix the weapons and armor of their allies.

Zim is currently on a ship, headed for a location he never wanted to go to. Tak is on a different ship headed to the same place. The ship itself is more like a carrier. It's only large enough to hold a handful of troops. This was normal. You usually travel to a mission in a carrier like this. One officer is given control over a division.

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About a day ago Zim was at home base, and was sitting in his work room, devising new battle strategies. Then suddenly, the emergency alarm went off. An announcement came over the loud speaker in Tenns voice boomed through the corridors.

"Every able bodied soldier must gather their respective company's and get to the hanger at once!" She spoke. Zim jumped up, and hurried to the hanger as fast as he could. Once there, he noticed Tak hustling some soldiers up into a ship.

"Hey, what's going on?" He asked her, looking around at all the commotion.

"I have no idea, I was in the War chamber, and looked over to see Tenn across the room with her jaw dropped. She turned on the loud speaker and sounded the alarm, telling us to go to the hanger." Tak replied, sounding confused.

Before Zim could respond, Tenn came in over the communicator. He, and Tak both lowered their heads, and focused in on what she was saying.

"Officers; I'm sorry for rushing you out without a moments notice, but this is urgent." She said. Zim made a motion to Tak, letting her know he was going to his battalion. She nodded, and he turned and walked away. Tenn continued…

"It's been about 2 and a half years now sense Conventi-uh was turned into an impenetrable fortress. But, we have just received conformation from Commander Solin-Vi, that the planet does have a weak spot in its outer defenses. We are planning on attacking that weak spot with everything we've got." She said.

By now Zim was already on his transporter, which started taking off. Gir came running to the ship, barely jumping on before it completely left the ground. He hoped over to the bench and just sat next to his master. Zim continued to listen to Tenn.

"If we can break through this small weak point on the planets outside, than we should be able to fight our way up through the surface and to the capitol. Once there we can set free any captives, and destroy the primary execution sight. We also have intel that the Massive has been stationary over Conventi-uh for months. So while most of our forces take out the planets surface, a smaller group must board the Massive and use its main gun to destroy the rest of the Armada." She told them.

"I won't lie to any of you. This may be our...last, stand." Her moral started to sink by the end of the briefing. But she quickly livened up with a shocking statement.

"So I will be joining you all in this battle." She admitted to them. All of the officers including Zim, perked up at this.

"Don't bother protesting, I'm already geared up and on my way." She spoke fast enough to stop the almost immediate flow of disagreements.

"Now…my officers. I want you all to brief your teams on the updated mission specks I'm sending you. Thank you all for your service, and…well, Gods Speed." She said to them. Only Zim new what the phrase meant.

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So here we are. About 25 hours after the briefing, and they are about to reach their destination. Zims orders were to front the assault, and use the gun on his ship to break through and lead the rest of the assault inside. Than he must fly everyone to the capitol, eliminating as much resistance as possible on the way. Once there, they have to fight their way on foot from the outskirts of the city to the prisons, and free/evacuate any captive innocents…………Piece of Cake.

Tak however had different objectives. They went as follows…

-Use stealth to get to the Massive.

-Fight your way to the bridge.

-Gain (control) over the bridge.

-Use the big gun to destroy opposing Irken Military forces.

….…Her job was even Cackier.

They both tightened up and mentally prepared themselves for the coming battle. Zim tried to clear his mind, but something kept knocking at the back of his brain.

Why didn't I tell her?... Why?! He then shook his head, trying to get rid of that thought…

…but he couldn't do it. He wanted to tell Tak that he wants her to get out of this alive. He wanted her to be safe. "I could easily call her on the communicator..." he thought. His face lokked hopeful for a second, before sinking down into a mope. "But shes probably trying to focus on the mission right now."

Tak started to shake her head in disagreement with the thoughts going through her mind, right before the battle. "This certainly wasn't the time to be thinking about how much I want Zim to be out of harms way…..Wait, What?" She thought to herself.

"Where did that come from?" Now speaking under her breath. But she wasn't sure if she knew what she was saying, or if she was lying to herself. She let out a sigh and continued trying to clear her mind.

End of Chapter 9

(A/N) O.K. that was pretty fun. This chapter was pretty short. The whole point of it was to fill the gap in the time skip. Speaking of which, the time skip is where most of the charactor development between Zim and Tak was supposed to take place. So bear with me on that one. I intend on rewriting this after I finish the comic book I mentioned earlier. When I do, there will be no time skip, and that will leave room for the other stuff.
So...please R&R.