Frylord Zim Chapter 9
Zim snored away on his makeshift desk, the plans from last night forgotten. He had his head balanced on his hands as a dribble of drool to spill from the corner of his mouth. His body leaned forward and he fell and smack his face on the desk and Zim was up in an instant.
"Reporting for duty, Sir!", the little defect paused when he realized he was at the restaurant, not Devastis. How long had he been sleeping? He scratched his cheek but found a paper stuck to his face when he peeled it off and read it he remembered. HE HAD WORK TO DO!
Zim barged out of the closet doors spooking Gashloog and causing him to drop the dishes he had in his hands.
"Gashloog, tell me what time it is!", he ordered.
"12:20 in the afternoon, sir.", the tall irken said hesitantly. Zim looked wild, his eyes had dark bags, he wasn't in uniform, and his antenna was very crooked. Overall he looked frazzled and crazed.
"Thank you, my fellow irken. You can go back doing whatever you were doing.", Zim hurriedly walked across the dining area ignoring everyone there.
"Hey there! Nice day we're having, huh.", Eric greeted the grumpy alien. Zim only spared the smelly blob a heated glance before passing him.
"Well, nice talking to you!", Eric went back to his family sized meal which he ate in one humongous bite.
Outside he immediately went to work on fixing cameras that will cover every side of the restaurant inside and out, and replaced the dinky locks with military grade ones, easy enough for the former scientist. That process took about 5 hours give or take. Zim decided to call it a day when he realized the sun was setting. Rush hour is coming soon and his crew would need him, but when he walked in the disgusting yellow alien of unknown origin greeted him again.
"Hello there! How's it been?", Zim ignored him again passing him without looking in his direction.
"I noticed you were putting up a security system out there.", Zim antenna's shot up and he immediately back up to Eric's table.
"Oh, so you've been spying on me? Tell me is this you plan all along? You know I will say you almost tricked me. Almost.", his eyes squinted with suspicion.
"Huh?"
"Don't play me a fool! Tell me are you a spy? Otherwise, how would you know I'm putting up a security system? Hmm.", Zim leaned closer in an attempt to appear intimidating.
"Because I saw you working outside before I came inside?", his voice unsure and confused.
"Acceptable answer. For now at least.", he hissed.
" Anyways, I install security systems for a living. I just found it interesting that you're installing the Setch-Ilt ver. 3. You know that version has been obsolete for a while now, right? It has a tendency to malfunction in terrible, unforeseen ways.", Zim's antennas flatten with irritation and growled.
"Did I even asked? I know what I'm doing! Don't you dare bother me again.", Zim walked away in a huff.
"Well if you need any help I'm always here!", Eric shouted. When the little irken left he ate the rest of his meal in one swift bite once again.
Qor was reading a book when Zim barged in the kitchen, a sight Zim did not appreciate.
"You're done with your "updates" already?", he flipped a page unaffected by the irken's heated glare.
"Quiet you insufferable worm! You're not on break so why am I seeing you slack off?!", Zim made a grab at his book but wasn't quick enough as Qor simply ducked.
"Guessing that's a no.", he shut his book and put it away in his pak. A distinctive rumble is heard in the distance which can only mean one thing.
"You should probably put on your uniform. You know you were in plain clothes the entire day.", the impassive employee pointed out. Zim tensed up at the statement shocked that he didn't notice the entire time he was working. He ran into the closet and a second later he stumbled out wearing his uniform.
"I'll take the cash register.", the defect leaped out of the window and collided with Gashloog.
"Gashloog, you're on cleaning duties for the rest of the night!", Zim ordered the poor employee below him.
"Yes, my substitute Frylord.", the irken said wearily. Right on time, the front doors burst open with customers flooding the front.
The next day Zim was up bright and early. The particularly bad food rush from last night still hitting him hard but he can manage. In his hands, he had several decommissioned signs and menu pads that Sizz-lorr always kept as a backup even though they had long worn out their usefulness; they were perfect for the purpose he has in mind. He headed toward a secluded part of the restaurant; the room looked unassuming with its dull gray door, stitch-like patterns, and a sign reading employees only. Zim stepped inside onto a pink circular platform that was just big enough to fit the big boss himself, after pressing the password in a keypad confirming he was an employee, the platform sank below the surface.
The way Shloogorgh's building structure worked was that it has 3 stories, the part where it's visible is only the first story of the building, the second story was where monies, equipment, and the main computer resides. The third story, however, was an area off limits to Zim completely because it was where the Frylord's personal chamber was located. When he reached the floor he walked over to the building's computerized central system. It was as basic as it comes with no automatic defenses, regenerative properties, or A.I to speak of. Zim would need to do a lot of upgrading to get it to work the way he wants it to. Zim estimated the process would probably take about a week tops to get it operational.
He pulled out the dashboard causing dust to spew out and suffocate the ex-invader, after waiting for the dust to settle began his work. Using the guts of the broken signs as material he wired, replaced, and added to the mainframe. Zim pulled out a rat's nest of wires and cables, something he would have to painstakingly sort out. This was going to take a lot longer than he expected.
A/N: I have no idea how computers work. So if it sounds like I'm speaking gibberish then I am.
Continuation of Super Size My Meal Pt 1. His ability to turn trash into weapons and crap is starting to get ridiculous but whatever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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