I do not own Invader Zim okay? I know I haven't updated like I had before but I got a lot on my plate until the end of April. But I got a chance to have some free time and I am going to try and get some updates done. But enough of that, enough of this A/N, on with the fic!
Sizz-lorr stood with his back to the door, panting slightly looking at Ceus with concern as she looked at him with appreciation but slight annoyance and confusion. "Okay, I don't hear them, but I'm not going to head out of here for awhile. It's going to be a blood bath in there."
"And just what is going on, how do you know Meekrob burns? I mean those things wouldn't be very likely to be on Foodcourtia much, would they? I mean they're pure energy. So how would even a highly skilled Food Service Irken know about..." Ceus said as her eyes widened. "You weren't always in Food Service were you?"
"You're smart." Sizz-lorr said. "Smarter than our current Tallest. Never been more certain that you'd be better than them."
"Compliments aside, what the hell is going on? And why do you know what you do?" Ceus said annoyed.
"I wasn't always a food service drone." Sizz-lorr said.
"I wouldn't dare call you something so degrading like that." Ceus said honestly.
"Well before I was manager of Shloogorgoh's's, I used to be a member of the explority scout squad. The one who decided what planets to add to an Operation Impeding Doom. And I was sent to Meekrob to study it." Sizz-lorr said.
"So why do we send Invaders to a place if you did a job similar to that?" Ceus said.
"Well, it was similar but different." Sizz-lorr began to explain. Ceus wasn't part of the military so she wouldn't know anything but the show that the Tallest put on and parade the Invaders around like toy soldiers. Much of how the powerful Irken military was structured was buried in layer upon layer of secrecy surrounded by a loud and pompous vernier. "The Tallest don't want to waste an Invader on a planet that has little to no use to Irk."
"Then why the hell in the name of Miyuki did we put Blorch on Operation Impending Doom II?" Ceus pondered.
"Wasn't my squad. I think that might have been one of Purple's picks. You know how those two can be less than lacking in judgment." Sizz-lorr said.
"Well that makes sense. But how does you and Meekrob play into this?" Ceus asked.
"I was leader of the squad sent to evaluate Meekrob's general worth. Location, resources, current Empire, political status in the galaxy, that kind of thing. When we go to a place, a squad would appear to be as civilian as we could. No one would think too much of a bunch of Irken tourists acting like we do wherever we go while we send scientists samples to determine the value of a planet. The Invaders them go and blend in and find their weaknesses so we can take them over." Sizz-lorr explained. Ceus looked on as she could tell that something really bad had happened to him and possibly his men on Meekrob if he would give all that up. Sizz-lorr's height told Ceus that whatever he did was pretty important because former military hardly ever got Promotions when they were thrust into civilian life.
Ceus reached out and tried to put her hand on Sizz-lorr's shoulder to comfort him. "What happened?" She asked softly.
"The Meekrob are beings of pure energy and are suspicious of anyone coming to their planet for any reason. They're a race that evolved so far they have no need for physical bodies but their minds haven't evolved much more than an Irken's in some ways. They know they are a formidable enemy and damn near immortal because of their status. And the knowledge they possess! One of my men found his way into a temple and every known fact about almost everything in the universe was there! And they knew others would want it." Sizz-lorr began. "Their planet had good supplies of resources that we could use. Pleasant climate for a tourist resort planet. Close enough to justify a vacation but far enough away for some peace and quiet. But what we wanted was their knowledge on damn near everything. I knew once my soldiers reported about this that that was why we would need to take them and their planet."
"So that's why Tenn was sent there. She is one of the taller Invaders. And she did well in the exams so she'd be good at trying to get intel." Ceus said.
"With Meekrob's knowledge we'd hardly need an Invader class. Only on places where they didn't know much on! They even knew about Earth before we did! I mean the Tallest thought they were banishing Zim to the great unknown. They didn't know it was more than a myth at best!" Sizz-lorr said.
"And the burns?" Ceus asked, trying to be caring but she craved more information.
"We were in the temple where they had the index of all they knew. What is on the other side of black holes, human evolution, is there some sort of superior being, the meaning of exitance, it was all there and we couldn't belive it! This had to be a trap!" Sizz-lorr recounted, the faces of his comrades in arms coming in clearer and clearer.
"Was it?" Ceus asked.
"Nope. They had cracked those mysteries. But they had gotten a bad vibe about us being on their planet. So as we headed into the temple, they snuck up behind us. One of my men had started turning the pages, eyes growing wide and glowing at what he was reading. Then they attacked and killed him. We saw them glowing red and knew we fucked up hard. They're normally a greenish blue and we took that as our signal to get the fuck out of there and call for back up. Well as we got to the evac ship that came our way, the guards attacked and killed off all the squad but me. I made it out but I told the Control Brains to reencode me. I was not about to have something like that happen again. But I wasn't trained as a scientist and I was too tall to be an orderly bringing them what they need. How Zim got that job before I'll never know. So they sent me to manage a restaurant on Foodcourtia and I was fine with that. I was not about to have someone killed like that again that didn't deserve it. Now if it was Zim, I'd hand him over to the Meekrob on a silver platter..." Ceus laughed. "What?"
"You don't want soldiers killed but you'll offer that defective to one of our worst enemies like that." Ceus smiled.
"You manage a Foodening on your own for 20 years." Sizz-lorr said.
"Point taken. I'd hate someone for doing something like that too." Ceus said. "But what do we do from here?"
"Well, they're on Irk so they're making their move. You know about the rumors about the Massive and that human they made their pawn. Poor guy doesn't know it I'd bet. Give a human, a species that unevolved that powerful a gift, they'd worship the fucker. Then tell that human who thought he was hot shit that 'no you're not, you're our sacrifice in our power struggle'" Sizz-lorr said as he placed his ear to the door to see if he could tell if they were anywhere nearby.
"That's just cruel." Ceus sighed.
"Yeah." Sizz-lorr said as he opened the door and held his hand out for Ceus. "It's alright, they're gone for now."
"You sure?" Ceus said.
"As sure as I can be. Miyuki help me if I'm wrong." Sizz-lorr said as he took her hand and headed to the lower, less important rooms of Tallest Tower.
Dib drove in a fast fury to where his labs at Area 51 had been established as the Massive made their way to Earth. God I've never been so pissed off in my life. How does Gaz handle it 24/7? He thought as he pressed his boot the pedal, pushing it to the floor. His hands glowed with Meekrob energy as he drove down the gate, causing the watchmen to jump out of the way and salute him as he got out of his car, and headed to the guards who were on shift the night before. In less than 24 hours he had gone from hero of humanity who defeated a superior alien menace, to pawn of spirit shoe aliens to a scion for some rebels to the most angry man on the planet. He had what he had worked so hard for taken from him because of some guards who thought to hit the sauce instead of doing their job. He had been up since the early hours of the morning being begged by a Vortian to join their Resisty movement and to hear that this had happened was the exact last thing he would have wanted to hear. He walked over to the head guard who had to reported it to him and he stared him down, eyes narrowed much like his sister's and looked him in the eyes. "Just what the fuck do you think you were doing?"
"I'm sorry..." The guard panicked. He was used to seeing Gaz's rage but normally Dib was almost a complete opposite of his sister who had programmed training simulations and drones before the Massive came.
"No, I'm sorry." Dib said as blue sparks flew from his hand and he grabbed the guard's neck and threw him on the ground.
"DIB!" Gaz said as she walked onto the scene, ready to start her work reverse engineering anything that could be of use from the Massive. "What is going on?" She said with genuine fear, never having seen her brother so angry.
"These fucktards were partying and one of the Tallest came in and broke Zim free. They let a 7 foot 5 alien in a hat and jacket come in and take what I had worked so hard for! And you're asking me to stop? You'd be doing much worse." Dib yelled.
"You're right." Gaz looked over at the guards who were cowering. If Gaz had gotten in on the punishment, it was going to be a nightmare from hell. "But this isn't you. Anger is my thing. You're the savior of humanity now. You kind of have an image to uphold."
Dib took a few deep breaths and looked around. "Thanks Gaz."
"Besides, I'll handle the punishment and firings." Gaz said and with this the guards gulped. This could mean literal fire. "You just get to your labs and figure out where they are. They can't have gotten too far. The Massive is horribly crippled and there's sightings of fleeing Irkens around Saturn and Neptune."
"Yeah." Dib said as he punched a rock in front of the labs with his Meekrob powers, causing it to shatter into a million pieces. "Thank Gaz I did that to the rock and not you." He said as he headed to his office to figure everything out.
So how was that? Good? Bad? Long? OOC? Well sorry but think how you'd feel if everything you worked for was ruined by someone else's carelessness. You'd be furious. So yeah. I don't know how much I'll be updating on this before the spring but once work lets up I'll have more time to do a lot more than I am now. Things can be crazy. Anyway remember to read (well you just did) and to review. Ciao for now
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