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The Massive...

Commander Zarf stared out into the deep ink black space with his hands clasped behind his back. His dark red eyes were narrowed and his jaw set tight. It has been a week, and no one has come back with the Tallest... The wars must be growing rapidly.

Zarf sighed and ran his gloved fingers over his head and over his anntenae. With that, he turned around and began to walk down the long hallway inside The Massive. Just then, a couple of his own patrol soldiers came running down the hallway toward him.

"Commander Zarf!" yelled one of the soldiers. The soldiers slowed to a stop and saluted their leader. Commander Zarf snarled in frustration and balled his hands into fists. "What is it now?! The Irkens I have forced to send out better have found the Tallest!" he barked through clenched teeth. The soldiers flinched and took a step back.

N-no sir...th-the l-l-last Invaders y-you sent out are...m-missing...they're gone from our scanners-" Suddenly, the soldier who was talking, suddenly was smacked across the face, and fell backwards. His gun flew out from his hands as he collapsed to the floor. The other soldier gasped and bent down to help his comrad up. Commander Zarf breathed heavily through his clenched teeth as his fists began to quiver near his theighs.

The soldier helped his friend up as the first soldier lifted his hand up to the side of his pale green face and along to his mouth. He lifted his hand away and sighed with relief. No blood. The two soldiers looked up at the same time to their leader and began to tremble. Commander Zarf was really losing it. "Go!" yelled Commander Zarf as he took one step towards them. The soldiers screamed and ran away from their leader, down the hallway.

"Find more people to go out and search for the Tallest! I want him back alive, you hear? Alive!" Zarf screamed at the top of his lungs after the two soldiers. Commander Zarf breathed heavily. His red eyes were bulging out of his sockets as his upper torso gentlyrocked forward and back upright in a repeated cycle. His gloved hands were formed in a claw like mannner near his pale sickly green face.

To Zarf, without a leader...without a Tallest, chaos begins to take from. Everything to him becomes unorganized...uncontrollable. Commander Zarf gasped when the walls began to morph and change right before his hallucinating eyes. Zarf clutched his chest and leaned over as he continued to heave.

Long, thin strands of saliva began to slowly trail out of his mouth and lown his long, striped tongue that lolled out of his gapping mouth. He stared down at the floor. The floor. The only thing that didnt seem to move or do anything...

The only thing that knew what was right...

A wide, creepy smile formed on Zarf's face. Suddenly, a low chuckle came up from his throat, then it got a little louder as he stared down at the floor. The perfect floor. Yes... Zarf grinned at the floor as he laughed. He took a deep breath and exhaled. His laughing ceased. He slowly straightened up as the saliva was slurped back up and his eyes slowly went back to normal.

"The Tallest will be found...and order will destroy the chaos..."

Suddenly, a screen appeared in front of Zarf and he looked up. "Huh?" asked Zarf as he watched the screen finally focus. The huge flowting screen revealed four dark figures. They couldnt be seen, only their sillouettes. Their red eyes glowed in the dark. "Commander Zarf...are you going insane again?" one of them asked. Zarf gasped as he straightened up and saluted. "N-no, sir!" he said.

The mysterious members on the screen glared down at Zarf. Their narrowed red eyes seemed to glow a bit brighter in anger. "We dont want you to lose your grip on us, Zarf. We need you to command every single one of your soldiers and everyone else to hunt for the Tallest," said another. Zarf nodded. "Yes my Council members, I promise. The Tallest will me found," Zarf assured the Council. The Council members nodded. "Good, signing off," said one.

With that, the screen went black, and the floating screen flew up to the ceiling through a hole and was gone. Zarf sighed with relief and continued down the hallway...

The four members of the council turned, just as the screen came up to them. One of them turned to the tallest one. "Once the Tallest is found, we'll be able to continue to secretly control this planet, and the others combined," he said and started to laugh. The one next to him narrowed his red eyes and smacked him upside the head.

"Ow!" said the first one and rubbed the side of his face. The second one snarled. "I know that! Dont tell me something I already know!" he snapped. The first one looked down at the ground. "Ok...I'm sorry," he said. The second one sighed and rolled his eyes. Just watch the vessels fly by," the second one said as he turned to the huge glass window that stared out into space and down at the planet Irk...

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Earth...

Spleen stared up at Gaz. His expression changed to shock. He stared at Gaz, then over at Zim. "Y-you fell in love w-w-with a...Earth creature?" he asked. Zim narrowed his eyes a bit. "The proper term is human, or Earthling... and yes, I did fall in love with a human. Gaz, my Earthling," Zim said as he smiled and hugged Gaz. Gaz just rolled her eyes.

Spleen gasped and spluttered, but his words didnt make any sense. Finally, he began to form his words. "Y-you cant fall in love with an alien! That's illegal! You cant-" "I am Zim! I can do whatever I want!" he yelled.

Spleen stared up at his former Tallest. "What you are doing is illegal...not even a Tallest-" "Well I'm changing that then! If the citizens of Irk want me back that badly, then they can just go find someone else to rule them and leave me alone," said Zim angrily.

The suspense of Spleen and Zim giving eachother the death glare was interrupted when Gir allthe sudden came between them with a huge bowl of popcorn. "I made popcorn! mmmmm! who wants some?" he asked. Zim broke away from the death glare and began to eat handfuls of popcorn. "Ooh! popcorn! this human food is good and buttery!" Zim said through the popcorn in his mouth. Pieces of popcorn fell out of his mouth. Spleen glared at Zim as he ate the popcorn.

You stupid bastard! you have no idea what you have just done! Rather then helping your own kind, you lay low here, eating popcorn as your kind fight in a war for you! Well thats it! I'm going to figure out a way to get off this planet and you are coming with me! Just you wait Zim! Just you-

"You want some popcorn Spleen? Its really good Earth food," said Zim. "I made it myself!" said Gir as he poked his out from behind the bowl. Spleen hesitated before coming up to the bowl. Gir set the bowl down and dove right into it and ate from the inside out. Gaz grabbed handfuls and ate some popcorn from the other side where Zim was. Spleen picked off a piece of popcorn from the huge, looming pile and stared down at it.

The butter oozed out from it and began to trail down his gloved thump and index finger. Spleen winced and held his mouth to keep from throwing up. Finally, he squeezed his eyes shut and opened his mouth. He popped the piece of popcorn into hs mouth and swallowed. He stuck out his tongue for a minute, then slowly opened his pale pink eyes.

"...not bad," he said. Zim smiled. "It tastes better when a whole bunch are in your mouth," he said as he shoved a handful into Spleen's mouth. Spleens pale pink eyes bulged as his mouth was crammed with little solid Earth clouds. His eyes began to water as he choked down the popcorn smothered in butter. He coughed and held his stomach. "Ug...I dont feel good," he said as he stuck out his striped tongue.

Zim smiled and came over to little Spleen and slapped him hard on the back, almost making him bring back up all the popcorn he ate. Zim laughed and lowered himself down to Spleen's height. "Well then, I guess you are gonna have to get used to human food, since you're stuck with us," said Zim as he laughed an insane laugh.

As Zim laughed maniacally, Gir poked his head out from the top of the popcorn pile, then dove back in and continued to eat. Gaz stayed in her little section, eating away at the delicious treat, ignoring Zim's crazy laughter.