How To Totally Rock!
AN: Yeah, yet another chapter in this sorry excuse for literature! Huzzah! Anyway, joking aside, I'm happy so many people are enjoying this. I'm thinking of doing another Zim fic in the near future, which will be a black comedy. I've also got some songfic ideas I'd like to use. This next chapter will focus own the DATR part of the story which I've been neglecting lately and as an added bonus, Tak's story on how she got back to Earth and befriended the group. Plus, surprise cameos! By who? Read and find out. NOW ENJOY OR ELSE!
Disclaimer: ME OWN NOTHING! OKAY!
Chapter Name Reference: From Autumn to Ashes song name
Chapter 11: We Are Always Searching
It had been two weeks since Zim, Gaz, Dib, Tak, GIR, and Mimi had begun their revenge plan. It had been going along well without a single hitch. They had hit up various areas looking for information on possible leads on Jessica and Marshall. They had also been prepping for their attacks on the casinos. They had spent pretty much all night devising their plans on how to make their attack that night on the first casino, the High Roller. It would be very difficult as the casino had a huge amount of security and would need skill and cunning to access it and expose the drug running underneath the casino façade.
It was 6 o'clock in the morning and everyone was just getting to bed after a long night of planning and training. Everyone had been sleeping at Zim's house since Gaz got shot. Dib and Gaz only periodically went back home to get things they needed. Tak had an android clone made for herself, Dib, and Gaz to go to their jobs for them while they themselves helped Zim. Everyone had their own room in the depths of Zim's base. Tak and Dib's rooms were pretty much bare bones except for the essentials. Gaz on the other hand brought over most of her stuff saying she just couldn't sleep without her Murderdolls poster above her bed. Or her Meatwad plushie, or her Foamy alarm clock, or her Fullmetal Alchemist action figures, or…well you get the idea. She said it made her feel more at home having her stuff with her. That and she liked looking at her Murderdolls poster. Mostly because Joey Jordison was in the band and she thought he was cute.
Anyway back on topic, the group was going to sleep one by one. Zim, Gaz, GIR, and Mimi were already resting leaving Dib and Tak as the only people awake. Dib was currently getting ready to go to bed in his room and was interrupted by a knock at his door. He walked over and opened the door. Tak was standing right outside his door in her pajamas, which were a baggy t-shirt and pajama pants. "Tak?" Dib said with a slight tone of shock in his voice. "What's wrong?" he asked her. She looked to the side for a moment and sighed. "Dib can I talk to you about something?" she asked. "Sure, come on in" he invited. She walked in slowly and he shut the door behind her. "What seems to be the problem Tak?" he asked the female alien in the room with him.
She sat down on the bed and he decided to sit down next to her on the bed. "Well it's kind of complicated" she said. He put his hand on hers causing her to blush slightly. "I'm here for you. You can tell me anything" he said to her. This caused her to blush even more. "Well" she began nervously. "I'm worried about what might happen on these missions. I mean I'm dedicated to my friends and I want those scumbags who hurt Gaz to receive justice. But at the same time I worry that when everything really begins to go down, will I live to see tomorrow? It's silly really considering I never worried about things like that before. But then again…that's before I had any reason to live other than conquering and destroying. After I was banished I considered just letting myself float in space until I died. Yet I didn't and by chance I ended up back on Earth." "And you befriended us." Dib added. "Yes." Tak said.
"But recently I've been feeling differently about someone in our group" she said. Dib felt his heart leap into his throat. "Really, who?" he asked simultaneously craving the answer and fearing it. She looked up at him with her violet eyes and a blush on her face. "You" she said. "Me?" he said in both shock and joy. "Yes you. Even back when I first met you when I was trying to take over this planet I felt…complete around you. I felt angry at first when you, Zim, Gaz, and GIR stopped my plan to destroy your race. But as time went by I felt different and I realized something." "What?" "I love you Dib Membrane." Tak told him and without a word of warning kissed him. "I'm sorry Dib" she apologized as she pulled away from him. "I just…" But her sentence was cut short by his lips upon hers. "Don't be" he assured her. "I love you to Tak."
The two then wrapped their arms around each other as they begin to kiss each other. First softly and tenderly, then as their cravings for each other grew they kissed more passionately allowing their tongues to explore each other's mouths. As they continued to kiss their passion grew and they both began caressing each other. Dib began kissing Tak's neck and she groaned in pleasure at the feeling. As all this was happening she remembered back on when she was exiled and everything that led up to her befriending the others.
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Emptiness. That's most likely the best way to describe the vastness of space. Basically in its purest sense space was a void pure and simple, with planets, asteroids, moons, stars, black holes, and beings just happening to be in it. It was strange really. That on every planet there was most likely someone who at the beginning of their life believed that their planet was massive. But as they grew older they realized that the planet they called home, was nothing more than a speck in comparison to the massiveness of space. Like the universe is some divine creators science project and we're all just the bacteria in the fluid under the microscope, an odd feeling that all intelligent beings have felt at some time in their life. It was the kind of feeling one might have if they were floating in space. Which is exactly what Tak was doing.
She had been floating in the escape pod of her ship for a few days now. There were no hospitable planets or moons around for what seemed like miles. Though in space, things like feet, miles, or just about any unit of measurement for space traveled were practically useless in space. She could only guess that she had been floating for days as she had to turn the engines off to conserve energy and turned everything else off except her ships air supply. She had no idea where she was, what time it was, or how long she had been trapped in this accursed thing. All she knew was that she was tired, cramped, and depressed. She would sometimes think about just turning the ships air supply too and just slowly suffocate to death. Morbid, yes, but better than an eternity spent floating in space alone.
She knew Irkens had no need for things like friendship and company, but at the same time still felt lonely. As she was sitting there though something caught her eye. It appeared to be a docking station of some sort. Its origin though was a mystery to her, as she had never seen this kind before. It was close and she could refuel and maybe find out where she was. She started up the engines and flew towards it. She activated the ships holo-disguise and her own to make herself look like a Vortian, just in case it was inhabited. As she approached, her ship received a message. She answered and was greeted by the face of an odd looking alien. He appeared to look like an upside down cone with a smiley face on it. "HI!" the face on the cone said. "I'm Shloonktapooxis and need identification please!" he said. "Umm, I'm Deji from Vortia." Tak lied to him. "Cool! We got a guy here from Vortia too! I'll open the docking bay right now."
The transmission ended and Tak noticed that the nearby docking bay was opening. She piloted her craft into it and it closed behind her. She exited her craft and was immediately greeted by a loud "Hello". She turned around to the source of the voice and saw a Vortian male standing behind her. "My name is Lard Nar, and welcome to my docking station" he said to her. "Hello" she replied hesitantly unsure of what to say to the newly introduced person in front of her. He was short at about 4 feet tall though that was about the same height as herself so he wasn't all that short to her. "I heard a fellow Vortian had come aboard and I had to see for myself if that was true" Lard Nar stated. "I don't normally greet people when they come aboard but I made an exception for this occasion" he stated proudly. "Okay" Tak said slowly. "Umm, what kind of space station is this?" she asked. "I'm glad you asked. Come with me and see." Lard Nar invited her. They both walked into an elevator and ascended several floors. "Here we are" the guide said to Tak.
When the doors opened up she saw out onto a walkway suspended above what appeared to be a city. What's more all the citizens were members of races the Irkens had enslaved. As she looked out at the city from the walkway they were on, the cone creature, Shloonktapooxis joined them. "Pretty awesome huh?" he asked Tak. "What is it?" she asked. "It's the last bit of safety we have. It's a space station for people whose lives were ruined by the Irken menace when they enslaved their people." "Who built it?" Lard Nar beamed before answering, "Why only the most elite anti-Irken guerilla group, THE RESISTY!" Tak just sort of stared at him for a while with a "WTF" kind of look on her face. "Your group is called The Resisty?" she asked. "Yes, well I didn't name it myself." Lard Nar admitted. "I wanted to call it The Pirate Monkeys." Shloonktapooxis added in. Both Lard Nar and Tak turned and stared at him. "What? Issa awesome name" he said.
"Yes well, this was created as a sort of haven for both travelers and refugees. It's a place where people of all races can live without fear of the Irken menace. It's in every meaning of the word, a utopia." Tak continued to look out at the city and its magnificence as the three continued down the walkway. "We have created a place where there is freedom from war, hunger, pestilence, crime, murder and all the other flaws of the universe." Lard Nar continued. "It seems so peaceful here." Tak commented. "Yes, well we owe that to are newest recruit here." Lard Nar said as they reached the end of the walkway. "Really? Who is it?" Tak asked. "Oh he's a really cool guy." Shloonktapooxis said to her. "Yes he is quite useful. Oh in fact that's him right now!" Lard Nar said. As they approached a person hunched over something. "New recruit! How comes our new plan?" Lard Nar asked the hunched over recruit.
"It's coming along well sir" the recruit said. 'That voice, why is it so familiar?' Tak thought. However her question was quickly answered when the recruit stood up to reveal green skin and antennae. But when he turned around she was astonished to see…Skoodge. "This is our new recruit Skoodge." Lard Nar said. "He's an Irken I know but apparently he himself was fed up with the way the Tallest treated him and he decided to join up with us." Tak could not believe this. Skoodge was in league with an anti-Irken guerilla group? Had the Tallest really treated him so badly that he decided to join these fools? No, the Skoodge she knew was loyal to the Tallest to the very end. If anything this was most likely an undercover operation. "Nice to meet you." Tak said to the Irken in front of her. "Well okay then, Skoodge help this new arrival to get some fresh supplies and to help her with anything she asks." Lard Nar commanded to the young Irken. "Yes sir, commander!" Skoodge said saluting.
After this Lard Nar and Shloonktapooxis turned around and left the two. As soon as they were out of sight and earshot Tak turned to Skoodge. "So you're a Vortian too like commander Lard Nar, eh?" he asked her. "Okay Skoodge drop the act" she said to him. "What are you talking about?" he questioned. She deactivated her holo-disguise and Skoodge gasped in surprise. "Tak! What are you doing here? Have you come to help the rebellion?" he asked her. "No you dunce! I'm here because I need refueling so I can get to the Massive." "But why?" "Because I need to report in with the Tallest Skoodge. And you can drop the act, those two buffoons are gone." Skoodge looked at her puzzled. "What are you talking about?" he asked her. "What do you think I'm talking about? I'm talking about your little undercover scheme to undermine these pathetic losers." "Tak I'm not undercover. I'm actually working for these guys. My eyes are open now to the truth. I've seen how the poor people of the planets we've conquered have been treated. Except for the people of Blortch who were just crazy rat people. But still I'm not on the side of the Armada anymore. I'm a changed person." Tak reactivated the holo-disguise and turned away from her. "Yes you are a changed person Skoodge, but not for the best." She then began walking away but stopped and turned back to him from now on Skoodge. We're enemies."
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A couple hours later Tak was back in space with her ship completely refueled. 'Stupid Skoodge, he must be fucking insane to turn his back on the Armada. Joining forces with that ridiculous "Resisty" group. He should have been deactivated years ago.' Tak thought as she piloted her ship towards where the Massive was. She had found it using her escape pods computers. Within a half hour she was at the Massive and had received permission to dock. After docking she made haste to the bridge where the Tallest were. "My Tallest" a guard who protected the entrance to the bridge said to them. "An Invader Tak is here to see you" he told his leaders. "Send her in." Tallest Red said to the guard. Shortly afterward Tak entered and bowed to her Tallest. "So Invader Tak, how was your time on Earth?" Tallest Red asked her. "Miserable, my Tallest" she told them. "So why have you come to see us?" Tallest Purple asked this time. "Well it's about my mission my Tallest" she told them.
"Oh we know all about your mission Tak." Red said to her. "Y-you do?" she asked stuttering in slight fear. "Yes, apparently that idiot Zim contacted us and told us that he had defeated you and stopped your plan." "But it was not my fault my Tallest." Tak told them. "He had help from…" "Humans, yes he told us." Red finished for her. "Tak the fact that you have failed to accomplish your mission and were bested by a defect, his retarded robot, and a couple of humans is proof enough that you cannot possibly be an Invader." "Yeah and you let him stop you from filling the planet with snacks!" Purple added in. "That's kinda what I'm talking about Purple." Red said to his co-Tallest. "Well yeah but I like snacks." Purple added. "Yes I know that. Anyway, Tak?" Red said to Tak. "Yes?" she replied fearfully. "You are hereby banished from Irk as of right now." Red told her. "You are to leave this ship immediately and never make contact with us again" he told her. She could not believe this was happening to her. "Do I make myself clear?" he asked her. "Yes" she said to them and left the room. "And guards bring us some snacks." Purple ordered as she walked out.
Back in space Tak was flying through the stars. However she wasn't just going through them aimlessly like she was before. No, she had a destination this time. It was a destination she knew she had to return to get her revenge: Earth. 'This is all Zim's fault. And those annoying pricks who helped him' She thought to herself. 'But,' she also added. 'I need to exact vengeance on one person who deserves it more than Zim.' She then brought up a holographic picture of a bespectacled large headed human with a long scythe of hair sticking out of the rest of his hairdo. 'I thought you'd be different Dib' she thought. 'After all the ridicule from your peers, I'd thought you'd want revenge. To destroy everything that they had created, I was hoping,' a tear then began going down her cheek. 'We could be together forever.' She then put the ship on autopilot and awaited her arrival on Earth. 'I'm coming for you Zim, and you too Dib' she thought before activating the ships cryogen system.
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A red light began to flash in the ship and the cryogen deactivated. Tak's PAK was then given a jolt of electricity to awaken her. When she fully regained an idea of where she was she looked out at the beautiful blue and green planet before her. 'Finally I've arrived.' Tak thought. However her small ships calendar attracted her attention. "What the hell!" she said in amazement. The calendar said it had been several years in Irken time. However only one year in human time. "Well no matter. It's time to exact my revenge" she said to herself. However when she tried to regain control of the ship she realized that the autopilot would not disengage. "What's the matter with this stupid piece of shit?" she asked no one in particular. She then realized that if she did not disengage the autopilot soon the Earth's atmosphere would pull her in and she would crash. "Disengage! Dammit disengage!" she shouted as she tried to deactivate the system. It was too late though. She felt the gravity begin to pull the ship in. She fastened he belt and prepared for the impact that would come.
Down on Earth in the city that Zim, Dib, and Gaz lived in Dib was busy looking through his telescope for any alien activity. Ever since Zim and he had become friends he had become less and less interested in the paranormal since he was, now best friends with something considered paranormal. However he didn't want to give up on the paranormal that easily and was busy checking the sky for paranormal activity. 'C'mon there needs to be some kind of paranormal activity out there' he thought to himself. 'I just need a sign. Anything at all.' However he saw what appeared to be a glinting in the sky. 'I wonder what that could be?' he thought. However it appeared to be growing and coming right for him. "Oh for Christ's sake not again" he muttered before the fireball crashed into their backyard sending him flying back from the shockwave sent out. "What the hell was that?" came Gaz's voice from inside the house. "I don't know Gaz." Dib replied.
He peaked over the edge of the roof and looked down into the yard. He couldn't see much at first due to all the smoke and fire. He decided a closer look was in order and quickly got down from the roof and ran to the site in the yard, he was quickly joined by Gaz who stood next to him in front of the crash site in their backyard. "What do you think it is?" she asked him. "I don't know. This is weird. The last time this happened was when Tak's ship crashed landed here a year ago." Dib said. However after the smoke cleared a little they could see it a little better. "Holy crap! It's another ship!" Dib exclaimed. He immediately jumped into the crater created by it crashing. "Dib you idiot! What do you think you're doing?" Gaz yelled at her brother. "It's okay Gaz" he assured her. "Uh, no it's not. That thing could be radioactive for all we know! And I don't want any weird irreversible shit happening to me!" she said to her brother. "It doesn't appear to be dangerous" he said. "It seems familiar somehow. Like I've seen it before." As he was saying this he got up to the cockpit. The glass on it was cracked making a spider web design on it.
He then wiped some of the dirt and grime off of it so as to see inside. He then jumped back in surprise. "Oh my God! Gaz get down here!" he said. His sister came down into the crater after him and stopped next to him. "What is it?" she asked him. "Look in the cockpit" he said to her and pointed to the ship. She walked over to the ship and looked in the cockpit. "Holy shit!" she exclaimed as she backed away from the ship. "It's Tak!" "I know. But she seems unconscious." Dib said as he walked over to the ship. "Gaz help me pry this fucking thing off the ship." Gaz and Dib then grabbed some debris and used it to pry the glass off. It came off with a pop and the two siblings peered inside. The ship was damaged pretty badly and Tak looked pretty bad. "Shit, she doesn't seem to good." Dib said as he looked at her. "Gaz help me get her out!" Dib commanded his younger sister. "Help get her out? Why? She tried to destroy humanity the last time she was here and as we both know that is my job." "Just get over here and help me with her." The two then carried her out of the ship carefully and the two carried her into the house placing her on their couch.
"We need something to stop the blood flow." Dib said as he looked over her. "Gaz call Zim we're going to need some help with this." Gaz stared at her brother in disbelief. "Call Zim? Dib he's not gonna help out, he hates Tak's guts and would rather watch her die." "Look Gaz, just call Zim, tell him we need his help." Gaz looked at her brother as he brought out some gauze and wrapped it around her various wounds. "Dib does this have anything to do with any feelings you might still have for Tak?" Dib blushed slightly as he finished applying gauze. "No, of course not I just don't want her to die is all" he lied through his teeth to her. "Whatever" she said as she went into the kitchen to contact Zim. "Don't worry Tak it's gonna be okay" he whispered to the unconscious Irken in front of him.
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'Oh my head. Feels like I had the Massive land on me.' Tak thought as she slowly and groggily awoke. 'Wait a minute. Where am I?' she questioned in her mind. 'This looks like…Oh please no.' She sat up and looked around quickly. She recognized this place. It was Zim's laboratory. 'What the hell am I doing here?' she wondered as she sat in the bed she occupied. "Hey Sleeping Beauty. How you doing?" She heard a familiar voice say. She turned to the source to see Dib sitting in a chair next to her. She jumped out of the bed and tried to activate her PAK's spider legs to attack him. However she felt no response and when she felt her back she realized her PAK was gone. "My PAK? Where is it?" she demanded/asked him. "It's been removed Tak." Dib told her. "Removed? Then why am I not deactivated?" Dib smirked. "Zim discovered that removing an Irken's PAK does not kill them. Instead it frees them officially from any stranglehold the Armada might have on a Invader" he explained to her.
"Why did you bring me here where is my ship?" "I brought you here because your ship crash landed in my backyard Tak. I hope that answers both of your questions." "Why did you help me out? Shouldn't you have left me to die after what I tried to do to your species the last time I was here?" "I just can't bring myself to see someone die when I could have stopped it." Dib responded. "Even if it's an alien?" Tak asked. "Even if it's an alien." She looked at him. "So you helped me?" "Yes." "You have changed a lot Dib Membrane. A year ago you would have exposed me for the alien I was. But now you'll help me? What happened to you?" "I changed Tak. A lot can happen to a person in a year that can change them. The same seems to have happened to you too, as I see the Tallest have banished you like they did to Zim." "How did you?" "I read it on your ships log before it died from the extensive damage done to it."
"What about my other technology?" "The technology I could find was mostly damaged beyond repair or operational. However I found very few operational ones." "Did Mimi survive?" Dib smiled at her. "See for yourself" he said before allowing a little red-eyed robot in. "Master?" it said to her before running over and hugging Tak. Tak hugged her back and looked over to Dib. "Thank you Dib" she said to him. "Your welcome Tak" he said before leaving the room.
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Shortly after the group grew to include Tak and Mimi and they all got along very well. She and Gaz turned out to be very good friends and the two hung out very much. Her feelings for Dib also grew which led her to the point in time where she was now. They were currently still passionately kissing each other in Dib's room until the two had to stop to catch a breath. "Wow Dib, you're a damn good kisser" she commented to him. "You're not to bad yourself" he said to the girl in his arms. "Um, Dib?" she asked. "Yeah?" "Do you really love me?" she asked him. He smiled and kissed her cheek. "Of course Tak" he assured her before the two went back to their heated make out session.
AN: Yeah! DATR goodness! And backstoryness, plus appearances by Skoodge, the Tallest, and The Resisty. I hope you all enjoy
