Chapter Notes
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Author's Note's: So here's a nice long chapter for you guys! I plan to finish typing this story this weekend. After that I will post it weekly until it is done. I know it took a long time to finish the end of this series, but I thank you all for sticking with me.
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(Back with Zim...)
[Present Day]
The anticipation was almost to great…almost!
"Keep their attention on us!" Zim ordered as he dove back into the surge of battle. He knew it was risky, throwing himself into harms way, but he knew the members of the Resisty could not be made to fight this war alone.
The goal was to distract the Armada in hopes that they would forget about the two Sirs that had now disappeared from their sight.
Dib was also in the fray, and handling himself quiet well all things considered. It was moments like this that Dib was thankful for the few space battled they had engaged in together. Of course, they had been nothing like this, still it was better than no experience at all. Dib swerved left as an enemy fighter locked on to his position.
The blast from enemy weapons barely miss him, but Dib is quick to recover he dives and flips his ship around and fires. It works like a charm, though Dib can't help but feel like his success is partial due to the fact that the enemy was greatly underestimating him. Yes, it was obvious that the enemy scourge did not see a human as a worthy pilot. However, they were learning quickly that Dib was no opponent to take lightly.
(Back on the Massive…)
"How are you idiot's missing him!" Tallest Mookie screamed.
"It would appear the Dib is an exceptional pilot." A soldier said.
"Of course, he is." Emperor Nax said as if it should have been obvious. "An Irken's Mate must match them step for step. Zim would not be interested in a mate wow could not keep up with him on the battle field. "
"I don't care how good he is I want him dead!" Tallest Mookie demanded.
"Calm down and think fool!" Emperor Nax lectured. "It's obviously a distraction."
"A distraction from what?" Tallest Mookie asked.
Emperor Nax sighed, perhaps choosing a Nobel as Tallest was not the wises of decisions. After all, Tallest Mookie was stupid in the ways of war. He laughed. "I hate it when that bat proves me wrong."
"What do you mean?" Tallest Mookie asked as clueless as ever.
Emperor Nax shook his head. "Due tell me?" He said. "Where do you think those drones went?"
"The Sirs!" Tallest Mookie exclaimed, as if it suddenly clicked.
"They're most likely already aboard." Emperor Nax answered his own question. "Clever Son." He admitted.
"Find them!" Tallest Mookie ordered several soldiers, who hurried to do just that.
However, Emperor Nax doubted they would be found, and if so, the soldier most certainly would not be victorious. No, it was very obvious that Zim would make it on this ship, and why not? Zim had been an Irken solder for over a hundred years. He knew their methods, their strengths, and their flaws.
Emperor Nax squared his shoulders, his body preparing for the upcoming battle. Zim could always beat his brother easily when sparing. However, Zim had never once beaten his father, Emperor Nax of course, wanted them to be able to defend themselves against his enemies, both foreign and domestic. Yes, it was not unheard of for another Nobel to try and kill him or his heirs.
So, in short self-defense was necessary.
However, he never thought he would one day use it against Zim. True it was costumery for the son to kill his father, it was after all, the Irken way. And yet, Zim had made it clear along time ago that he didn't want the throne. He wanted to make a name for himself, and all things considered the boy was making quiet a name indeed.
Boy, the word didn't feel right in his head. Yes, surely, he son had matured beyond the limits of a mere child. Yes, there was no denying it now; Zim was a man, and had been for some time. He was ready to lead his people, and Emperor Nax had no doubt that he would execute the role as emperor perfectly.
Yes, leaving was perhaps the best thing Zim could have ever done for himself, and it only too unit for his father to realize the truth.
And the truth was simple: He wasn't going to win this war.
A new era of Irk had begun this day, and Nax would not live to see it's end.
The realization should have frightened him, and had he been a lowly swine like Mookie it just might. Instead Emperor Nax found himself full of pride, this was how a royal was supposed to feel in his last moments of ruling. Every Irken Emperor knew that one day their heir would end them and take their place. He remembered the day that he had done so, his father cursed him with his last breath. He said he was not fit to be king, that Irk would fall due to his carelessness.
It would appear that he was right.
And yet, Nax could feel not bitterness, for unlike himself; Zim was ready to be king. He had gone beyond what any normal Noble would due, he had lived among his people, fought with them, saw the world threw their eyes. He had a since of understanding for Irk that none of the other Nobles would ever know. And then to everyone's surprise he didn't stop there.
Next, he lived among the enemy, and saw the suffering his people caused. He saw just how destructive Irk had gotten. Yes, they were fools to think they could rule it all. Greedy and set in their ways, And now Zim was going to remold them into a new image, and Emperor Nax just knew that they would be great.
He smiled, all in all he knew he couldn't have asked for a better heir.
However, that didn't mean he was going to go easy on him. No, Zim would have to force the throne from him. It was after all the Irken way.
"Why are you smiling?" Tallest Mookie asked, breaking him from his thoughts.
"No reason." Emperor Nax assured him. "No reason at all."
(Back with Mimi and Gir…)
They were close now, Mimi was sure of it.
However, to Gir the maze of airducts looked the same to him and the threat of boredom was already sinking in. Gir wasn't very reasonable when he was bored, heck he was barely reasonable when he was entertained.
Mimi knew this and did her best to navigate the maze quickly. The soldiers below them in the Halls of the Massive had become more active now and she could only assume that this meant their presents was now known. Their target maybe well-guarded now, still the two had their orders and would press forward all the same.
"This way." She whispered to Gir taking a left.
"I see Dancing lights." Gir suddenly said.
Mimi shook her head, stupid robot there was no, she froze just seconds before passing the red light. "Sensing beams." Mimi whispered.
"I told you." Gir said. "The dancing lights!"
"Shhh." Mimi warned. "Gir quiet."
Gir giggled. "Are we gonna go dancing now?"
Mimi rolled her eyes as Gir gave her that goofy smile of his. She tried to ignore him and focus on the task at hand. Just pass the sensor beams was the vent to the control room. They just needed to get pass this and they would be in.
"Let's play limbo." Gir suggested.
"Limbo?" Mimi asked confused.
Gir squeezed passed her, obviously eager to demonstrate. His master Zim had taught him many games, of course Gir has no idea that these games are really a way of teaching Gir to be less defective during a mission. Gir's drive to win a game and receive a reward is so strong that he's actually beginning to contribute to a mission's success. In fact, changing Gir's Mind set had been one of the big factors that started making Zim a harder opponet for Dib to keep up with. Without Gir messing up his schemes Zim actually had heighten his chances of winning, and Dib had to scramble to keep up.
Mimi watched as Gir lowers his body until it's below the sensor beams, and then he shimmy's under them. She watches in amazement as he gets past them with ease, no alarms are triggered. And this act causes Mimi to realize something her master never noticed before. Gir was many things, Crazy? Yes! Mentally insane? Most defiantly, An annoyance? Without a doubt! However, if there was one-word Gir was not that her master often used was the word stupid.
Gir was not stupid, he was a deranged Sir unit who saw the world around him in a different way. And his master had picked up on this and found a way to work this into his favor.
"Now you try." He told Mimi.
Mimi does hesitate, but instead copies his previous moves with ease, and in seconds they are both clear of the danger.
"That was fun, now let's play another game." Gir insisted.
Mimi stopped thinking for a moment, there weren't any earth games in her programing, but she assumed it didn't matter. If she called it a games Gir would most likely follow her example. "Let's play Mimi says." She suggested.
Gir nodded vigorously. He knew this game, though master called it Master says, and Mary called it Dib says. It was one of his favorite games, though he did get confused on who he should listen to more when the two would use it in battle.
"Mimi says follow me!" Mimi whispered, trying to sound up beat and playful. It feels off to her though play was not in her programing.
Gir followed Mimi as she opened up the vent to the control room and jumped down to the floor.
There were no guards in view, but Mimi could hear them close by. The control room was a large room filled with control panels and large metal support column, blocking them from the soldier's view.
"Mimi says stay and cause lots of noise!" She ordered, and ran.
Noise? Now that's something Gir could do.
"Hi I'm Gir!" He screamed. "Look at me I'm a distraction!"
Mimi shook her head, could the moron be more obvious? Still it was having the desired effect several soldiers came to see what was going on. She waited until all of them were surrounding Gir and then she used her hand as a saw to cut a hole around them.
"Watch me do this dance." Gir said, and began as he sang a little song. "Doom, doom, doomy, doom, doom."
"I think the poor thing is broken." One soldier said.
Mimi smiled as she finished carving the floor around them. Gir was doing so well now was time to see if he remembered what game they were playing. Using her voice modifier, she change her voice to sound like Tallest Mookie. "Fools he's the enemy Sir attack him."
All the soldier suddenly draw their weapons and Gir laughs.
"You sillies She didn't say Mimi says." He mused.
"Wait what?" A soldier asked.
"Mimi Says jump to me." Mimi chuckled.
"Okay!" Gir jumped just as the floor fell beneath the soldiers.
The soldiers scream, but there is no stopping their descent and soon they disappear into the void below.
"Good work Gir." Mimi praised as he landed beside her.
"That was fun." Gir said.
Mimi smiled, yes she supposed that was enjoyable. "Now Mimi says find shield generator."
Gir nodded and set to work searching the control room.
Mimi does the same, and it isn't long before they find it.
"I See it!" Gir exclaimed. "Now what."
"We need to make it useless." Mimi said.
"Then just unplug it." Gir said. "Duh!"
"They could plug it back in." Mimi reminded him.
"Then throw it in the hole!" Gir advised pointing to the hole the soldiers fell through moments before.
Mimi scanned the generator and did the math, the descend into the hole would damage the generator, but not beyond repair. Still by the time the soldiers below managed to get back up her and do repairs her master and Zim would already be aboard.
Besides if the generator was damaged too badly it could blow up the Massive.
Still Mimi went ahead and took a conductor unit out of the generator, without it even if they managed to get it back up here and fix any damage the fall made. Without this conductor the generator could not power the shield. "Gir Mimi says throw generator in hole."
"Okay!" Gir exclaimed, and with one big heave pulled the generator out of the locking mechanism n the floor and threw it across the room. It fell into the hole with a loud CLANK!
"Now we need to do the same to the Super weapon generator!" Mimi looked around for it and found it with ease. She takes a conductor from it before lifting it up and throwing it as well.
"Mimi, Report." Tak's voice said from her communicator.
"Mission complete." She reported.
"Yah we win!" Gir declared.
"Good work Gir." Zim's voice followed suit. "Both of you retreat back into the vents and keep an eye on the place." He ordered. "Under no circumstances are they allowed to get that weapon back online."
Mimi understood. If Tallest Mookie got too angry, he could turn the weapon on the Earth, and destroy it! "Mimi says hide, and attack enemies. Sir who takes out most enemy soldiers wins!"
Gir clapped happily and ran to find a place to hide.
Mimi did the same.
"Mimi says?" Tak asked Zim confused.
"Gir performs better if he thinks the mission is one big game." Zim explained. "Mimi must Have picked up on that."
"Well what ever they did it worked." Skoodge said. "Their weapons are now showing off-line readings."
"We have to move now." Dib advised. "They can only keep them down for so long.
"Alright Lard Nar you heard him." Zim said. "Get us close, we should be able to get in through the docking bay." He knew this because it was often left open for Irken soldiers to come in and refuel before going back into the fight.
"They'll be expecting that." Lard Nar warned.
"It's the only opening we have." Tak argued. "Besides I have a plan." She then spoke to her Sir. "Mimi find the gravity controls." She ordered. "When I give the signal, turn them off."
"Yes Master." Mimi Jumped into action.
"Alright everyone stay close to me." Zim ordered. "We're going in."
Dib's heart was pounding in his chest, this was it. Everything depending on them making it to the docking bay alive.
"Resistys form a circle around them, use your shield to protect them as much as possible." Lard Nar ordered.
Everyone got into position, but even with the added protection Zim knew this was going to be a close one. However, he didn't hesitate as he dived into the fray of Irken rage and firing weapons. The others, Dib, Tak and Skoodge followed his lead as they swerved and dived to avoid any shots that managed to get past the wall of shielded ships.
Finally, docking bay came into view, and by some miracle all four of them landed inside safely.
Or perhaps safely wasn't the word to use.
"Freeze." A voice said as they exited their ships.
Dib and the others turned to see an army of soldiers all pointing weapons at them.
Tak raised her hands as if to surrender, the others follow suit.
"That's it, nice and easy." The soldier who spoke before said.
Tak smiled. "Mimi now!"
There was a pause, and in seconds the gravity in the docking bay shut off.
Soldiers screamed as the vacuum of space pulled them out of the docking bay and into the awaiting abyss. Without the gravity nothing was stopping everything from being sucked out into space.
Zim however, who knew this was coming activated his boots magnetics before they docked. He grabbed Dib as he fly by. Tak and Skoodge have also activated their boots magnetic option.
"Remind me to upgrade my boots." Dib joked.
Zim laughed.
"Mimi activate Gravity." Tak ordered.
Mimi obeys.
"That was fun!" Gir declared as he fell back down face first.
"That's better." Dib said as he landed on his feet, silence greeted him. "You ready for this?" He asked Zim.
"As ready as I'll ever be." Zim answered and with that the four treaded deeper into enemy territory with only one thought mirroring in all their minds.
Today this war was ending, and only one side would reign victorious!
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