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Skitt
slept for most of the ride, the set green glow of the control panel lulling her
into a deeper rest. Zoe stared out the window and every once in a while she
would go to the back of the ship and see what information there was about
Earth, but nothing was to be found; Just the transmission sent by ZIM and the
coordinates.
"Proximity
Warning: Destination Ahead," the ship announced in its male-sounding voice.
Skitt jerked awake and Zoe ran from the back of the ship, hopping onto Skitt's
head.
The
Irken narrowed her eyes with glee. "Finally…Earth!" she murmured.
Zoe
leaned over and looked into Skitt's eyes from her upside-down position on the
Irken's head. "Uhm…Master? What is our mission?"
Skitt
smirked sinisterly. "Before I didn't know. I just wanted to skip Blorch. But,
Zoe, a wonderful idea came to me. We will take over Earth before ZIM so that I
may have my revenge on that sorry excuse for an Irken!" she laughed.
"But,
Master, the Tallests don't want Earth! There's no point!" Zoe exclaimed,
staring at the mostly blue orb ahead of them.
"Zoe,
we can just take over Earth and then let all these 'humans' go after like a
week. I really don't want to rule them. This is all about getting back at that
short moron," Skitt explained, and Zoe nodded, not pursuing the subject any
further.
"Now,
Zoe, we must make a hiding place and disguises. Get ready to observe some data
that will help us," Skitt murmured, and took in the ship in closer to the
planet's surface, all the while tracking ZIM's location to the same city he was
in. Zoe was at the window, her eyes still aquamarine, absorbing data on houses
and such.
Skitt
stared down at the planet Earth, wondering just what was in store for them.
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"There
are no empty places to create our new home, so…" Skitt grinned maliciously at
the keys before her. She taped a few and a beam fired to a house below them. It
disappeared, but it was not destroyed – the family inside was wondering why
their house was in the middle of a cornfield.
"…We'll
just have to make room!" she finished, setting the ship down on the gray
dirt. She cautiously walked out into the street, not knowing what these humans
looked like, and drew back into the empty lot. Using the designer to fashion a
house similar to one she had seen that down the street, she let the tiny drill
make its way into the ground.
Skitt
turned to her SIR. "Zoe, while our home is being constructed, let us get our
disguises on." She and Zoe stood on a platform that rose up into the air with
her VootRunner on it. The disguise maker powered up, Skitt selected what she
thought was an adequate choice, and she stepped between the two pods. Ignoring
the pain the process caused, she waited for it to be completed.
Zoe
smiled and gave an insane little squeal at seeing Skitt in her new human 'form.' A
spiky mass of purple hair sat on her head with a single braid at the back of
her neck extending down to her knees ending in a brushy fluff. The contact
lenses she wore gave the impression of purplish-blue eye color. Skitt shifted
slightly and rubbed her eyes with the back of her right hand.
"Now
for you. Any suggestions, Zoe?" As Skitt asked this, the roof of their new home
closed around them, protecting and concealing the VootRunner. Zoe thought for a
moment.
"Humans
have pets!" Zoe stated, beginning to hop around for no reason.
Skitt
considered this. "Zoe, name the most common types of pet these humans have,"
she commanded.
Zoe's
antenna turned into a mini satellite dish and projected a picture of a cat.
"There
are cats,"
Skitt
scowled. "Too furry."
The
projection changed. "Dogs,"
"Hideous!"
"Birds-"
Skitt
smiled. "Stop right there! That one's pretty. What is it called?" she asked of
Zoe.
For
a moment Zoe searched her memory banks. "Uhm…Scarlet Macaw. Also know as
'parrot.' Some humans have smaller birds, called 'parakeets' and 'cockatiels.'"
"Zoe,
set your disguise at 'parrot,'" Skitt ordered, and Zoe saluted and did so. The
machine whirred and lit up, and seconds later Zoe was a parrot.
Zoe's
parrot disguise was mostly blue. The wings and tail with obvious stitches were
light purple. The feet were talon-shaped and faded orange, while the beak, with
even more stitches than the wings, was bright yellow-orange. The eyes were each
rolled to one side, and three royal purple feathers were on the top of Zoe's
head.
The
Invader cocked her head to the side. "Hmm…perhaps I will improve the disguise
machine later. That is pretty bad." Shaking off the negative impression
Zoe's disguise had given, Skitt remembered the reason they were on Earth. "Zoe,
can you get into ZIM's computer and tell me what he's done so far here on
Earth?"
A
moment passed with the 'parrot' just staring at her, but then Zoe snapped out
of it. "Okay!" she chirped, and the parrot head opened up right down the
middle. The tiny satellite dish returned, and Zoe projected, in Irken language,
the log of Invader ZIM.
Skitt
read the words speedily. "Ha! Just look at how he thinks of himself… 'secret
mission…' But let's see…he has gone to 'Skool' to learn about Earth.
Apparently, Zoe, there's a human boy who knows who he is and has almost exposed
him a few times…his name is 'Dib.' Pathetic Earth name." She was silent for a
time as her eyes darted back and forth, learning of everything ZIM had done.
"His VootRunner was nearly destroy by a human bee?! That's actually quite
funny! His VootRunner is a worthless pile of scrap metal after all.
…Well, this is interesting…water burns Irken skin, I must remember that." After
a few more minutes, Skitt turned away and a tiny elevator brought her to the
front room of her new home.
The
front room had a TV, a couch, and some various human items. Skitt glanced at
the kitchen, where she knew the entrance to her massive underground lab lay.
She wondered for a moment if any parts of her lab had crashed into parts of
ZIM's lab. The drain of the sink could widen when both the faucets were turned
on – the pipes weren't connected, however, so there was no water - and the
faucet was yanked and would yield the entrance to Skitt's lab which was
actually one entrance of many. Another was inside the TV.
Under
the blanket of night Skitt and Zoe had descended, and under the same cover of
darkness the Irken girl led herself and her SIR out onto the sideway to survey
their home from the outside. The front windows faced out, and the area near
them was covered with messily trimmed evergreen bushes with strange blue
flowers. The front door was on the right side with a porch complete with white
railing. The roof was abnormally big, built to house her larger-than-ZIM's
VootRunner. The front yard was covered with three-inch-tall grass, and two big,
mean, red Venus-flytrap-like plants moved around as much as their roots would
allow. They were loyal to Skitt and Zoe, but all life forms they would snap at.
As one suddenly sprouted up from the ground and devoured a squirrel on the
ground in front of it, clearly the notion was established that these plants had
a taste for earthen animals.
"I
am quite happy with our mission so far, although your disguise leaves something
to be desired, Zoe. Now, come, we have work to do." Skitt began to make up way up
a sidewalk to her front door, pausing only to stroke her carnivorous plants,
which made a gargled purring noise when she did so.
Zoe
bounced around, flapped her little wings, and turned on jets so in moments she
was once again resting on top of Skitt's head. "What are we gonna do tomorrow?"
she asked, her parrot beak opening and closing in sync with her words.
"We
aren't doing anything, Zoe. I am going to Skool."