(I don't own IZ and yes I would try eating some weird squirming alien food, I figure eat it, before it eats me.)
The Great Devourer left the room to go back to the party, when they were positive she was gone Purple panicked "what will we do?! everything is going so wrong! Zim had done well which means he can come back to the empire! He will destroy us all! The great Devourer wants to raise humanity to the level of Irkens, did you see those politicians, to think that could be as good as an Irken!" Purple shuddered,
"Calm down I have a plan, after we defeat the Dhahmons we will send Zim alone to explore their old territory, hopefully he will find whatever home planet the Dhahmons come from and that will be the end of Zim. The great devourer we will be careful with, if she was telling the truth about being trooper trained she will have a hard time disobeying us, but there is no guarantees. As for the humans, most of the race is a write-off useless to us, Kim" he had a hard time using her name rather than title "has a point the fighters have potential if we could weed out the bad DNA strains, humanity could be a useful tool in the Empire" "but that could take generations!" "Indeed but right now the good ones are being used in the war, until humanity can equal us we will only admit fighter class humans as full Irken citizens." "What will we do with the rest until then? We will figure that out after the war, right now we have a interesting situation, look at Kim and Dib both have been influenced into joining the Empire and have proven that Irken brainwashing ahem training techniques works on humans, the one called Dib is somewhat resistant but he is slowly coming around. I would like to see what happens if we put him into a training module perhaps he might forget he was ever human". "But I think it will be more interesting to watch him slowly change, did you see him squirm a bit when his pak taught him how to show respect, that was funny." "Yes that it was, now let's rejoin the party before all the snacks are gone."
Dib poked at his food, the party was going well, the Irkens and fighters got along, the politicians however had left early, He poked at the food again not sure what it was, Kim had filled the plate for him assured him that it was safe to eat in ether human or Irken form, "That ones good try it" He jumped a little, his sited had come up beside him without warning "Glad to see you Gaz, I hope they didn't give you much trouble"
"They were pushovers" "The Tallest said you were busy playing a game"
"I finished it already; it wasn't as hard to get through as they claimed, now I'm bored" "Once the Dhahmons start attacking again things won't be boring"
"You sound depressed"
"I shouldn't be. Everyone on Earth now believes in aliens, I'm not called crazy anymore, one of my subordinates is a werewolf that scares Irkens silly if she smiles at them. It's everything I could ask for but I feel so empty."
"Perhaps it's because no matter what happens Earth will be ruled by a alien empire, neither will have it's best interest at heart, one you sold out to, the other will eat us all" "As usual you hit the target dead on Gaz. If we win Irk will rule Earth and I'm the one who gave it to them, Even if I hadn't I don't think I could disobey the tallest, the pack won't let me and I can't live without it anymore. I screwed up big time when I turned myself were-Irken"
"Quit whining. Where would we be if you hadn't? You wouldn't have known right away about the Dhahmons if the Tallest hadn't told you. You would have found out from Zim secondhand and by then I would have bet it was when he was well over his head and then we would have had to play catch up. You are the one that got the swollen eyeball network and the silent hunters to come onboard and you couldn't have done it without Zim helping by showing himself. Do you think that Zim would have helped if the Tallest hadn't put you in charge? It's all because part of you is Irken."
"Still I fought so long against Zim to save Earth from the Irkens; I know it was the only way to save everyone from being eaten by the Dhahmons. I still feel like a sellout"
"Don't be an Emo. You did what you had to do, and it was the best possible thing in a world of bad choices."
"You are right, I..." A siren blared "Sorry Gaz I've got to get to the bridge, you should get to your ship, we may need to scramble every fighter"
Dib rushed onto the bridge "What's going on?" "They are bringing in the big ships." "I thought those weren't battle ships, the Intel we got from the old explorers computers indicated that they were only transportation for the non fighters and storage" "Our scans say they are armed and powering up weapons, thankfully they can't charge their weapons as fast as the Massive. We are just waiting for the Tallest to get here before we can do anything."
"We are here. Have they attempted communication?" "No sirs, do you wish for me to try to open communication?"
"My Tallest! One of the big ones has reached full power!" another little Irken interrupted, just then the same Dhahmon ship opened fire on the Massive which rocked a bit from the impact, but the massive was built to withstand anything including the center of a small sun. "Return fire! Try to hit them in the weapons banks" the Massive's main laser cannon fired with a direct hit, the big ones shields flared and burned away, the ship took damage but it was clear that it could still fight. It raised shields again, but backed off as another big one that had fully charged its weapons moved forward.
"Hitting us all at once would be suicidal if it doesn't succeed that's why they are hitting us in sequence" Gaz commented "Gaz I thought you were going to your fighter" "I may be a better pilot than anyone here but you need me more as a tactician"
"Good to have you aboard but what should we do about their tactics" Red asked "Ignore the one coming up and bash the one that's leaving and if you can hit both, don't give them time to make repairs"
They did just that and managed to destroy the first one completely, the rest caught on quick and started moving in pairs one protecting the other as they fired, the Massive still managed to destroy one in about every fourth pair. The battle went on for quite a while with the Irken/Earth fighters harrying the Dhahmon fighters and taking shots at the big ones which they dubbed Scows as they resembled an overflowing garbage scow. The shields on the Scows seemed to be plasma based as when they were hit they burned bright colors, small fire from the fighters did little but light them up like Christmas lights. When the massive struck a hit the shields would literally burn away, this looked useless but it absorbed the majority of the energy from the hit by doing so, and it didn't take long for them to raise a new shield. The trick was hitting them in the brief time when the shield was burning or the moment before a new shield was raised, the Massive didn't always have enough time to repower for this so the fighters took the opportunity to hit them if they could, the fighter's weapons didn't do much damage but any hit counted.
"They aren't going to stop are they?" Purple asked worriedly
"No we figured it out before you got here, there is no going back for them, they decimated the last planet they were on. They weaken and gain control of planet before coming dinner. We happened to break their control when they were on their way here, so they have no where to go this is do or die for them now that you are here, that's probably why they have now brought their colonizing ships into battle where before they had them protected behind the lines. This won't stop until we have killed them all" Dib said grimly
The battle continued on, it seemed endless, the only way the could tell the time was by the planet below as it had rotated into night and brightened into day and the night horizon was becoming visible again. A large amount of troop carriers were heading towards Earth and they were firing endlessly on Earth defense one, Dib cried out as part of the defensive platform exploded "DAD!" Gaz and himself, watched in horror as the rest of it was destroyed. "He must have got out on the life pods, he must have" Dib had no answer for his sister he just held her and prayed. They could do nothing except finish the war.
(I had a hard time writing this chapter; thankfully I was out camping on the weekend with no internet connection and little for distractions)