avatar: the big climactic clash starts in this chapter! Yay! Crazy! Now, a very scary girl here to do the disclaimer, Ms. Bitters!

Ms. Bitters: settle down, class, or I'll send you to the underground classrooms. avatarjk137 does not own Invader ZIM, but he owns Kloof, Reapir, and the Gamethrall. What's the point? We're all doomed. Doomed, doomed, doomed...

Chapter 10

Why Girls Are Scary

Zim couldn't believe his eyes. The shadowy aura lifted Gaz into the air, enveloping her, and began to form something solid. Legs stretched to the ground. Long arms, ending in long claws, extended from the sides. A bestial head formed, leaning forward and leering with long fangs. In the middle of this demonic incarnation, Gaz calmly floated, still playing her Gamethrall. "Wha… What is THIS? What are you?!" Zim yelled.

"Gaz… what's going on?" Dib asked. He had lots of questions, and he decided this would be the best way to sum them up.

"Shut up and stay out of the way," Gaz replied. She didn't seem in the least disturbed about being in the middle of a demonic shell of darkness.

"'Kay."

The demon-form dashed forward, raking its claws across the ground where Zim had been seconds before. Zim reappeared behind Gaz, and tried to shock the solid blackness around her. The electricity simply dissipated, and the demonic form waved its claw in Zim's general direction. The ground around Zim exploded, sending the screaming Irken flying across the room. He landed on his spider-legs, and charged the demonic aura, tackling it at full speed. Again, the demon took no damage, and flicked Zim away with its claw, destroying his mechanical legs. Zim rolled to his feet, used his newfound speed to zip between the Gaz-aura-demon's legs and grabbed Dib. "Stop, vile creature, or your HIDEOUS brother dies!" Gaz paused for a second, and Zim started to glow with power. This began to shock Dib, who screamed in pain.

"Bwahahahahah!" Zim laughed evilly. "Hey… why am I casting a shadow again?" Reapir answered Zim's question by leaping out of the 'shadow' and kicking Zim in the leg, causing him to drop Dib. Reapir followed up with super-fast punches and kicks while Zim was off-balance, ending with a strong uppercut that sent Zim flying straight up. Reapir then fired missiles from his shoulders, all of which connected with their target. The missile blast knocked Zim into the shadowy demon's outstretched claw. "Why Zim?" the small Invader asked as the demon drove him into the floor. "Gir… help…" Zim moaned.

Gir, who had been eating all of the pizza, stood up and flashed into Duty Mode. "YES SIR!" He jumped into the Gaz-demon's chest and swam thru the shadows until he reached Gaz. At that point, he reverted back to his 'normal' self. "LET ME PLAY!" he grabbed the Gamethrall, and a blast of energy rocketed him out of the monster's chest. He smacked into Reapir by sheer chance, who bounced off the wall and collided with Zim, who had just regained his footing.

"Maybe you want to talk about your feelings?" Kloof asked nervously. The small recon craft he had hastily grabbed was quite agile, but unarmed. This meant he was at Tak's mercy. She could shoot whatever the hell she wanted at him, and he had to dodge as best he could until he reached The Resisty's base.

After Kloof had destroyed the console, Tak had been unable to aim the lasers into the precise coordinates necessary to reflect off the mirrors and destroy Earth. The beams had mostly just destroyed the mirrors, and the only actual damage to Earth was the destruction of a small ice cream shoppe in southern New Jersey.

"No… I want to KILL YOU to channel my ANGER!" Tak had fired missiles until she ran out, and fired her Full Spectrum Cannon twice already (destroying an asteroid and a small planet inhabited by a magnetic lizard people). Now she was just lazily shooting smaller ion blasts at Kloof's ship until the FSC recharged. "By the way, betrayer, I hope you aren't THINKING of running back to The Resisty. I know where their base is, and I just sent the coordinates to The Tallest! They were so pleased, they decided to drive the Massive over RIGHT AWAY!" Tak's maniacal laughter flooded the speakers, so Kloof turned her radio link off and called up The Resisty. As he did, he flew into an asteroid belt to make it harder for Tak to shoot him.

"Lard Nar speaking." Lard Nar still sounded calm, so Kloof guessed that The Tallest hadn't arrived yet. His goggled face popped up onscreen, leisurely drinking stolen Irken soda. "Ah, Kloof. What is it?"

"Sir," Kloof began. "The MASSIVE is on its way to come wipe the base out. You have to evacuate. I'm on my way, but Tak is PURSUING me!"

Lard Nar spat out his soda. "I'll start the evac!" The communications screen went black. Kloof sighed, but then the whole ship shook as the Full Spectrum Cannon missed it by inches. It kept going and hit a large comet a ways away, which exploded in a blinding pyrotechnics display. Kloof turned Tak's communications link back on.

"I'M COMING FOR YOU, TRAITOR! YOU WILL DIE FOR THE GOOD OF THE EMPIRE!"

End of Chapter

Fic is on its way to ending! But cheer up, you can always check out my other stuff when it's over. If you don't like those topics, who knows? A sequel might come EVENTUALLY. in the meantime, enjoy the other decent Zim fanfics.