Chapter 10
KABOOM
Stumbling in his office Irkin invader Lar from the blast the entire ship began to sway back and forth for a bit until it settled. Running to his computer screen that was on his desk needed to see what happened. On the screen it showed the entire hanger bay destroyed many of the guards there were killed in the explosion that were waiting for him to blow the door and leave. Apparently Todd placed a bomb on board his ship as an insurance policy just in case he would be trapped. Strategic brilliance was something that Todd has plenty of also which caused him to elude capture. Fury filled the body of Lar looking closely at the group running through the hanger and killing a few of the remaining guards.
"Yeah it looks like Casil really through you for a loop Lar you are doomed now." One of the tied up members of the Resisti said as the other cheered.
"SILENCE THEM!" Lar ordered the guard as he knocked them unconscious.
Something caught his eye an Irkin was on their side and what really disturbed him was what looked like a S.I.R unit flying around following them. Only Irkin Elite have an S.I.R unit, who was this Irkin traitor.
"Computer I need you to zoom in on that Irkin right there." The computer acknowledged him and zoomed in on Zim.
Lar's eyes bulged at the sight of who this invader was and what that meant. Invader Zim was no longer an invader and according to the Tallest Zim went rouge and ordered Invader Tak to kill him. Not being clear to as the reason why Zim defected but it didn't really matter Zim was always trouble. But why was he still alive and what was he doing with Casil and the rest of these aliens. Once one of his guards came to his side he turned his attention to him.
"Sir, we have incoming." The guard set some anger through Lar's mind at this stupid question.
"No kidding we are down 90 percent of our guards and there is an Irkin with them that should be dead." Fuming with anger Lar reluctantly began to listen.
Pointing toward the door the guard armed himself.
"There is something coming this way sir whatever it is it got past our sensors for it has no heat signature finally our motion detectors picked it up."
"What the hell is it?" just as Lar was finishing his sentence he heard banging at the door as it grew louder and heavier Lar pulled out his laser pistol and fired upon the door.
Blasting the lead door open only to reveal nothing. Nothing was behind the door this filled Lar and his guard with a bit of fear. Suddenly Lar heard a scratching coming from the air vent behind him but before he can pull out a gun the vent burst open. Several robots looking like stuffed animals flew into the room. Unfortunately the guard was too slow all of the little robots swarmed on him.
"AHH NO HELP ME SIR HELP MEEEE!" but it was too late Lar just stood there as the robots ripped the guard apart.
Quick thinking Lar blasted the robots with his P.A.K lasers as to kill them all at once. Calculating in his mind each blast he willed each robot leg of his P.A.K to fire. After they were destroyed he went to look at his screen to see where the intruders were.
"That's it they are DEAD prepare to face a real Irkin Elite." Lar said as he ran to meet the Resisti.
Finding themselves in what looks like the guards barracks Zim, Gaz, Johnny, Devi, Dib, Zita, Todd and his men kept running following Zim and Gir to the warden's office. Zim said that there was another way to the warden office for the elevator in the cell block was sealed off.
"I'm so sorry for doubting you Todd." Zita said.
"Accepted, perhaps you should learn to think before you talk next time." Todd said immediately making Zita regret the apology.
Seeing the main service elevator ahead they entered a large room and pressed the button to call it.
"Squee what happened to you what happened to the little kid I once knew." Johnny asked Todd as he walked to his side as they waited for the elevator.
"Don't call me that Johnny and to your question you should probably that yourself for that my childhood was filled with nightmares from what you used to put me through." Looking at Johnny out of the corner of his eye he gave him a look of disgust.
"That was a terrible thing I did to you I am so sorry for what I did." Todd said nothing not even giving him a nod.
"HE IS GIVING YOU AN APOLOGY YOU PRICK!" Devi screamed in his ear.
Belax walked up to her and shoved her back to the floor. Johnny's eyes went immediately to insane mode but resided almost as soon as it happened for Dib came to his side to calm him.
"Relax Johnny we don't need another fight on our hands we need them and they need us." Todd turned back around to face Dib and got right in his face.
"We don't need you here it was by happy chance that you crossed our paths and this pointless mission of yours to save your planet is foolish. Invader Tak is almost invisible with her tech skills and weapons skills and you want to not only kill her but to take on the entire Irkin Empire yourselves HA (laughing a bit before he continued). Now you need our help not the other way around. Consider yourselves tools to help me and my men grow in numbers so that we can destroy the Irkin Empire you are members in the Resisti fine that's good but don't EVER think that I and my men need your help." Spitting on the ground at Dib's feet made Dib realize what Todd was basically not only just a colossal asshole but he is emotionally detached from everything that involves his humanity.
Devi got back on her feet and walked over to Dib and Johnny.
"Overpass this asshole babe let's just do what we need to do and go the fuck home."
Bringing up the rear of the group was now Zim and Gaz who just stood there also waiting for the elevator to arrive and just marveling in the arguments. Grinning Gaz and Zim just stood there bumping each other's shoulders.
"What's your bet on who would win in a fight my idiot brother or that fuck head Todd." Zim smiled at Gaz and she gave him a slight smile back.
"I don't know Gaz human I think they would just kill each other."
"That would be something to see."
"Your brother does have traits in him I learned that during my time in your house I have seen him do almost anything for his family and his mate. Perhaps you can say that I have grown to tolerate him like a pet or something. Strange, that you don't care for him like he does for you."
"Shut up Zim."
"He cares for you Gaz human such an emotion is still kind of unknown to me but why do you feel so distant towards him."
"Later Zim I don't feel like getting into this now."
"Very well Gaz human and on to more pressing subject I am very impressed on your progress with Gir here your mastery with Irkin tech is a very admirable trait in a frolicking dirt child such as yourself."
"Thank you?"
Gir who was looking up at the elevator shaft suddenly began to squeal.
"OH BOY WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A NEW FRIEND TO PLAY WITH I HOPE HE LIKE WAFFLES…I MADE WAFFLES!" producing a series of waffles out of his head went unnoticed to everyone as the elevator door opened to revel Irkin Elite Lar.
Currently Lar was the warden of the Dirge ship preparing to transport new inmates to planet Vort. Lard-Nar's eyes meet the Irkin as he walked out of the lift.
RAGE
Lard-Nar charged him with every bit of hate there was to produce in a being. Vort was Lard-Nar's home world now turned into a giant prison. All of its former beauty erased in a since rotation (a day) all that is left is lifeless rock.
"DIE YOU IRKIN SCUM DIE!" Lard-Nar screamed rushing toward Lar as he pulled out an ohm-blade out of his wrist utility.
Seeing the blade in his periphery Lar moved in fluid motion dodging the blade. As the blade passed by him Lar noticed that it was in fact an ohm-blade an electrical weapon that will shut down his P.A.K killing him instantly. Of course that isn't happening Lar willed his P.A.K's robot legs to knock Lard-Nar away.
Vaulting himself into action with a push of his P.A.K's legs Zim joined the others in unison to attack Lar. Extracting his Smith and Wesson 50 out of his side holster Dib aimed and fired at Lar missing his body but hit one of his robot spider legs blowing it in half. Unfortunately the Smith and Wesson 50 has a shit ton of recoil giving Lar the second he needed to strike, like a scorpion his shot a robot leg at him but only to have Dib tumble out of the way. But to only get hit by another leg sending him into the air and tumbling to the ground with a thud.
"OOF…"
Zita a bit enraged at this fired her shot gun at the same time Devi threw what looked like small daggers but only to produce them as sharpened metal paintbrushes. Apparently Johnny did not only have weapons at his disposal.
Jumping into the air at the last second Lar barely dodged the blast but got hit in the leg by a spike of Devi's. Landing behind them Lar pulled out the spike out of his leg a let out a groan of pain.
"FOOLS YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE DEALING WITH I AM IRKIN INVADER LAR AND NOW TIME FOR SOME WELL DESERVED DOOM!" Pressing buttons on his wrist computer something happened that made Johnny feel like he was seeing things again.
A series of holograms generated from Lar and surrounded the entire group. Lars holograms poke in unison.
"These holograms are made of hard particles making them very real indeed, now where was oh yeah PREPARE FOR SOME DOOM!" The clones then charged in and began to attack the group.
Zim and Dib were fighting back to back against their own clone. Dib was using a mix of judo and close quarters gun play. While Zim was just using Irkin CQC with his P.A.K tentacle leg strikes.
BLAM PUNCH BLAM PUNCH PUNCH BLAM
Every time Dib landed a punch it felt like he was hitting a wall every punch hurt more than the last. Needing a way to end the fight he decided to switch things up a bit. Strafing to his left gave Dib the angle he needed to blast the clone as the bullet hit the clone it was like it was of glass and someone threw a rock at it. Exploding in a million pieces looking like the scene in Terminator 2.
"Hasta la Vista baby." Dib said finally happy that he was able to say that line he always wanted to fine a moment where he was able to.
"What does that mean Dib human?" Zim said leaping into the air and blasting the clone as it also began to charge up a blast but was too slow.
"Never mind I'll tell you later if we get out of this."
Devi and Zita were kind of overwhelmed 3 to 2 but held their own. When one of the clones shot a blast at Zita but she dodged it by doing a power slide under the blast and fired her shot gun making the clone shatter into a million pieces.
"Nice girl that was the shit." Devi said as she stabbed her own clone in the neck with a brush spike also shattering in a million pieces.
"Thanks."
"SHIT BEHIND YOU!" Before Zita turned around she was shot by a concussive blast sending her into Devi.
Blood began to fill Zita's mouth as she got up its copper like taste sickened her as she spit it out onto the floor. Devi looked at the clone that was approaching then it had its robot tentacles pointed at them ready to fire again. Just before it fired a flash flew across the neck of the clone stopping it in its tracks then shattering in a million pieces.
"Blood there is no blood in these things they are a mockery of life and all of its putrid bodily fluids." Johnny said standing there with one of his trademark knifes.
"Thank you honey…"
"Appreciation is not needed now rise and let us share our violent tendencies with our enemies." They ran into a group of more clones.
On the other hand Todd and his men were not having any problems with any of the clones especially Lard-Nar. His blood lust was growing after every kill of a clone hoping that eventually he will get to the real one. Belax was having fun too his scaled skin was hard enough to resist the laser blast so he was able to grab the clones and rip them apart. Revelon had a device on his suit that was able to short circuit the clones making them fall apart. Todd was scanning the area looking for Invader Lar while fighting several clones at once.
"RELELON USE YOUR DISRUPTOR AND WIDEN THE BLAST NOW!" as soon as he finished his order Revelon pointed his blaster arm at the group of the remaining clones and fired.
Collapsing in a pile of glass looking material all of the clones was destroyed. Looking back to Revelon everyone smiled but their smiles soon change to horror as Revelon's brain exploded.
Falling to the ground with a loud clank the lifeless body laid there in a hump of metal. Emulating smoke from where the brain was everyone knew what just happened turning their attention to where the blast came from stood the real Irkin Invader Lar.
"REVELON NOOOOO!" Belax screamed as he charged the Irkin with all of his fury.
Pressing a series of buttons even more clones materialized around them.
"Hold them down me's I want some answers first." Holding them down Lar walked up to them.
"At last I have you right where I want you Casil and what are you doing here with him Zim?" Giving Zim his full attention Zim looked up at him.
"In case you didn't get the memo Zim is no longer an Invader Lar I might as well not even be an Irkin." Zim said attempting to engage his P.A.K but to no avail.
"But why join the Resisti Zim why not just keep your pride and vanish in the void as a disgraced Irkin should do." Very slightly Lar began to laugh at Zim.
"First of all Zim joins no one I am here out of preservation of my own life. To your second question to answer it you need to look at most of the planets we have conquered have you ever even looked at the potential that we destroy (Lar began to laugh). Very well laugh if you must but I have seen things that no Irkin has seen something that these humans call HOPE. Hope seems to be what drives beings to do things that are pointless. What we do is destroy hope to make what… more shopping malls more giant parking lots. This is an exercise of extermination we need to stop this and let evolution take its course and not doom any budding civilizations." Continuing to laugh Lar finally began to speak in his laughter.
"Ha ha do you honestly believe that Zim your disbarment from our ranks have really taken a toll on you, you are insane Zim. (Walking a bit closer to Zim) Now I will kill you and your comrades…wait where that other one, the one with the purple hair where is she?" Gaz was disappearance was also completely unknown to the group not to mention Gir but that was to no surprise.
Suddenly Gir came out of the shadows and jumped on Lar's head laughing and giggling.
"MASTER LOOK HIS HEAD HIS HEAD IS EVEN BIGGER THAN DIB'S WEE HEE HEE!" With his arms flaying around trying to knock the little robot off his head Lar was completely helpless.
"GET OFF ME YOU MALFUNCTIONING PIECE OF SCRAP!"
"Ok, my friend Gaz here wants to play anyways." Gir's words filled Lar's hearts with terror.
Positioning himself around slowly Lar came face to face with nothing there was nothing there. Feeling a bit confused but also relieved he decided to take his anger out on the little robot. But as he turned around a small blade pierced holographic-controls and entered his wrist. All of the clones were instantly vaporized leaving only the real Lar cowering on his knees in front of Gaz.
"PLEASE DON'T KILL ME I WILL OBEY YOUR MIGHTY FIST!"
Looking down at him Gaz said only "your voice is stupid" and walked back to the group. Todd walked up to Lar holding something in his hand.
"Do you see this Irkin this is a Thermo Grenade I was planning on making this mission a one way ticket when you ordered you clones to hold us down. Not a preferable outcome to this but it was the only thing I could think of at the time. Without the help of these new members here I think we would all be dead now. Thanks to your mono-logging you can thank these new members of the Resisti here for causing the probable destruction of the Irkin Empire." Pointing his ray gun at Lar's trembling head Lar began to scream and cry.
"PLEASE OH PLEASE DON'T KILL ME CASIL I WILL GO AWAY AND NEVER BOTHER ANY RACE AGAIN THAT IS AN IRKIN PROMISE." Contemplating it in his head Todd decided what to do.
"I'm not going to kill you Lar that would be a waste of my time you are nothing now." Relief filled Lar's heart as Todd lowered his ray gun.
Pointing to Lard-Nar Todd got his attention.
"Lard-Nar, kill this piece of shit." Todd said walking away to the group.
Lar pleaded and begged but came to deaf ears when Lard-Nar stood before him.
"With pleasure." Firing his ray gun into Lar's face killed him instantly but also made Lard-Nar filled with closure for killing his plant's invader with his own hands.
Standing in silence for a moment Zim finally spoke.
"So what now we just killed an Irkin Elite his death will not go unnoticed for very long what are we going to do?"
"The Dirge is now ours, Lard-Nar take Belax up the elevator and release our fellow teammates, Irkin I want you to go with them and deactivate the cell block doors and release all the prisoners. After that we will go to Vort and take that planet down.
"Wait a fucking second here did you say we are going to conquer an entire planet?" Devi said.
"Vort is controlled only by a small force and a single master controller. There is no way off the planet and here is no way out of their cells so the entire planet is run through a series of computer interfaces. Best part about all this no one has ever even dared to do this so the guards are basically glorified mall cops." Todd replied
As the members of Todd's assigned group went to do their work and Todd decided to walk around the room patrolling the area Dib wanted to know if everyone was alright.
"Guys you all alright nothing broken?"
"We are fine Dib it's just I knew Squee here since he was like 7 the last I saw of him he was in an insane asylum. I don't know what happened to him I would like to know." Devi placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Perhaps its better that we don't." she said kissing Johnny lightly on his cheek.
"He is a bit of a shit head though but I do like his tactical skills." Gaz said walking past them slapping Dib in the face.
"Ow, what the fuck Gaz what was that for?"
"It's the grand opening of Bloaties Pizza Hog Mega Pizza Fun Time Hut and this stupid shit made me miss it, as for the slap in the face well I was angry and your face is stupid." Johnny Devi and Zita kind of giggled at this as Dib just sat there in frustration.
"Well Dib you gotta say she is getting better now that she and Zim are like friends now." Zita said but again it made feel like something else was going on between them.
Gir who was sitting on the floor looked up at the humans. Reaching into his head Gir pulled out a very dirty looking lollipop and presented it to the humans.
"Have a lollipop human they are filled with juicy goodness." Gir said holding it out in front of them.
"No thanks Gir." Completely the wrong thing to say Gir began to scream very loudly.
"JUST TAKE IT FROM IM FOR FUCKS SAKE." Zita said as Dib snatched the lollipop out of Gir's hand and popped it into his mouth.
"It's great Gir thank you." Lying to the little robot Dib grimaced at Johnny and Devi who were about to burst out laughing.
"I'm going to roll around on the floor ok?" Gir said and he did exactly what he planned to do.