Slight filler chapter. Short and sweet!
Tary taking advantage of her supposed Death Day and how that group camped outside Zim's Base got in for the raid.
I'm splitting up the next two chapters. Both can be read in either order since the events happed around the same time anyway.
One will be the Raid, the other is all hell breaking loose on the Resisty.
Enjoy!
Mary= Our Girl hiding in the Time Travel room
Clary= Red's clone Mary
Tary= Zim's clone Mary
Ruins
In the darkening skies of the storm, Tary and Stell easily co-piloted the Mecha through the storm.
Stell chanced a glance at her and saw Tary suddenly look up.
"Stell, radio Blue! I have an idea!"
Startled, she complied.
Bright high beams from behind, showed Blue in the Voot cruiser flying beside them. The two Gir's looking concerned.
Blue here, are you two ok?
"Blue! I have an idea!" Tary grinned. "Hear me out! So we know about what may or may not happen at the Resisty once me and Stell are captured. But we don't have to. The whole point is to keep the eyes on us while Zim and the others do their thing. Correct?"
Stell looked at Blue and nodded.
I guess… What do you have in mind?
Tary grinned.
"Let's have some fun today, shall we? I say we punk the Resisty further!"
He grinned the kind of grin you KNOW something is going to cause chaos.
I'm listening…
Stell, at first looked wary, until she thought about it. Then her grin matched theirs.
"First, Stell, put that tracker thing in me now so you don't have to worry about it later."
Nodding, Stell stabbed the thing in Tary's open mouth causing her to yelp. She waved off her concern.
"Good, do you both have me in your PAKs now? Okay, good. How about… Instead of getting captured… I say, WE raid the Resisty and make a big show over it! The Gaz's are going to show up soon right? If we're all going to the past, I say we bullshit our way through the Resisty. Do what we want, trash the place, hack the shit out of it, fight back, you name it. Get everything off our chests concerning them." She smirked. "You in?"
While dodging lightning, they stared in awe at her. Then, snickering from Blue joined by Stell. Followed by full-on laughing.
Oh, I am so in!
"Agreed. I think we all have a few things to get out of our systems with them." Stell grinned.
Blue watched fondly at the two girls bonding over causing chaos to their mutual enemy.
That fondness turned to sadness.
Tary just reminded him about Mary joining Zim to the past.
He and Stell will be left behind.
And this clone may or may not die tonight.
He gripped the controls with a shaking grip.
Looks like he has a lot to get out of his system tonight too, huh?
Tary's voice snapped him out of it. She told him to relay the new plan to Zim and to ask the others if they want in when they get here.
He has a feeling tonight's going to both be awesome!
...And the worst night of his life.
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He can't help feel like he's forgetting something…
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Clary
Clary was having both a panic attack and the time of her life dodging the storm! In the safety of her stealth ship- she screamed and cheered. She doesn't know or care of it's joy or fear.
Due to the cloak, she was safely hidden from radar and kept tight behind the Mecha blocking most of the wind causing far less drag for her smaller ship.
Out of nowhere, her gut was telling her to change course.
Is this her battlefield instinct kicking in?
If so, she's not questioning it.
Timing it right, she then got the hell out of dodge and changed course. Slowing to a stop on a flat roof, just hovering. The wind wasn't strong yet here, lightning still rang loudly in the sky, she looked around.
The Mecha is taking a straight shot back to the Resisty towards Red.
Oh… She just escaped there, so her gut recognized their position so she won't go back!
Whew!
Close one!
Be still my racing heart.
Ok, new plan.
Her apartment's out. She's Sooo~ not going back to the Resisty!
So…
Zim's place?
If she just up and asked him what's going on, would he tell her?
Shrugging, she figured why not. She has nothing to lose.
Starting the stealth ship again, she changed course to Zim's base for answers.
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Outside Zim's House
The storm decided when to start for them. However…
A ship flew to them, and out came…
"Red?!"
"What are you doing here?!"
Red all but stalked up to them, still in a foul mood from Clary's escape.
None of them noticed a second cloaked ship landing.
"What are you doing out here? I was unaware we had plans for Zim at this time?"
"Actually, sir. This was Purple's idea?" A Teen spoke up when no one else did.
"Purple?!" Red whipped around to face him.
"Y-yes, sir. He asked us to confirm if a specific device from before his take-over was still here. We wanted to go because no-one has been able to get in before."
"Also, that brat of a Dib could be in here." Mr. Galloway grumbled. Red sensed some sort of issue between him and the Dib. Interesting.
He can work with this.
"Gentleman." He spoke as if talking to children. "What species is Zim?"
They stared as if he's stupid.
"Irken..?"
"What species am I?"
"Irken?" Someone else spoke up.
Red smirked, before walking over to the edge of the walkway leading to the front door. He pulled out a datapad and typed in a sequence.
"As some of you may have noticed, myself and Purple are nearly the same age as Zim. Here's a hint: we also went to the same academy." He looked back at them, still typing.
He was mentally amused. Zim's sentiment will be his downfall! As the Tallest,Red and Purple both had to approve the specs for his Invaders' bases after all. Red can compress this back to its original hand-held size.
He can kill Zim right now if he wanted to...
His smirk got wider. Now he just needs to confirm whether or not he's inside or off-world.
Only Galloway seemed to catch on to what he was saying.
"So that means…"
"So that means…" He tapped the last button.
All the lights went out. He looked back with a grin.
"I can get you in."