Disclaimer: Greetings once more. As I have said previously, and I don't know why I put in a disclaimer every chapter, it must be getting annoying, I own only Skitt, Zoe, the storyline, and all original ideas.
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ZIM
stalked angrily over to the picture of the monkey in his font room. This Skitt
was trying to destroy Earth before him, and she had distracted GIR
somehow!! He had been going off to skool without anyone to watch the house at
all, and so far nothing terribly bad had happened, but he had to do something
about this, this girl, and then it had hit him.
The
Invader touched a button on wall next to the picture. It slid up to reveal a
screen as big as the picture that had covered it. He looked up at the ceiling
and crossed his arms.
"Computer,
establish a connection to The Massive," ZIM commanded, and with a slight
processing sound, the computer complied. The screen turned pink and a big,
grinning Irken symbol filled up the left side, while Irken writing said on the
right 'Please hold, other reports are currently being sent in.
ZIM
went over to the window and looked out to make sure no one was watching him. As
he closed the blinds, he heard a voice.
"ZIM?"
The
Invader quickly slid into view and the Almighty Tallest both gave a soft groan.
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Purple,
of course, wasn't happy to see ZIM. It had been his personal hope that the
idiot had been destroyed and the computer was transferring his will or
something. ZIM saluted.
"Sirs,
I know I just reported in a few days ago, but I have something important to
tell you." There was a sound of a door opening and closing. ZIM cast a nasty
glance at whatever had just walked in the house. The Tallest waited
disdainfully. GIR came into view.
"GIR,
where were you?" ZIM asked, narrowing his eyes in suspicion.
The
robot jumped out of his disguise and tilted his head toward the door. "Over
thaaat way, at Zohz…" GIR wore a happy grin now. "We had a party!!"
Red
cleared his throat. ZIM whirled around.
"I'm
sorry, My Tallest. Now, a short while ago another Invader landed came to Earth
on an unauthorized mission. Her name is Skitt and--"
The
Tallest wore expressions of surprise. "Skitt's on Earth?!" Red
exclaimed. "Err…hold on a second, ZIM!" He flicked the hold button and turned
to Purple.
"She's
supposed to be on Blorch!!" Red growled. The Irkens at their nearby work
stations looked at one another and nervously continued on with their
tasks. Skitt was in for it, for sure.
"Without
an Invader on Blorch, who knows what could happen?" Purple turned to the
nearest Irken. "You! Go through the ship and tell the very first Invader you
that they're being reassigned to Blorch!" The Irken jumped up, saluted, and
dashed out the room.
Red
looked at the door. "That solves one problem. What to do about Skitt?"
The
other Tallest looked at the transmission screen. "Besides not having an Irken
on Blorch, this might not be that bad. Perhaps…" Purple didn't finish his
sentence; he leaned forward and turned off the hold, and ZIM straightened,
waiting for his leaders to speak.
"ZIM,
what has Skitt said or done since she arrived on the planet?" Purple asked,
ignoring the questioning look Red was giving him.
"She
said she was getting revenge for my ruining her work, and that she was going to
take over Earth before me." ZIM said this, and then fell silent.
Purple
thought for a moment, and Red waited, wondering what he had planned. "Defeat
her, ZIM. Get rid of Skitt and continue with your mission." The Tallest then
closed the link.
"Wouldn't
be smart to punish her?" Red queried.
"Perhaps,
but banishment and destruction end up in the same place – an annoyance out of
the way. This way, if ZIM ends up actually defeating Skitt, that's fine, but if
he fails, we can banish her to Foodcourtia or something." Purple explained, looking
over at Red.
The
other nodded. "Yes…that makes sense."
"It's
agreed then."
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Zoe
walked into the front room, holding a cookie in her hand. Her parrot disguise
was discarded on the floor near the couch, and the SIR was looking forward to
sitting on the ground and eating her cookie. But, as she sat down, one of the
cables flew down from the ceiling, bringing a large television screen with it.
After a few milliseconds of static on the screen, ZIM appeared.
"Hey!"
he said, catching sight of Zoe. "You're the one who's always distracting
GIR!!" The SIR bounded up and her eyes became purple for a few seconds – the
closest color Zoe could get to red – and jumped backward into a hole in the
floor that had just opened up.
The
SIR slid down cables, jumping from one to the next, her expression one of
complete seriousness. As she landed next to Skitt, who was working on an
upgrade for the spider limbs in her backpack, Zoe pointed upward, indicating
the front room upstairs.
"Invader
ZIM transmitting a message to you, sir!" Zoe said, saluting.
Skitt
whirled around, her backpack floating up and becoming one with her again as she
did. "ZIM? What does HE want?!" she exclaimed, and instantly a tiny elevator
came out of the floor and whisked them both back up to the front room where ZIM
was still waiting, glowering.
When
Skitt and Zoe appeared from the floor, ZIM grinned. The girl narrowed her eyes.
"I
have just contacted the Almighty Tallest, and their instructions were clear."
Skitt's widened with fear at this. "Destroy you and get on with my
mission. My wrath will be swift, so prepare yourself for--"
ZIM
was interrupted as a mighty earthquake shook the ground. All three of them –
ZIM, Skitt, and Zoe – were thrown to the floor as the tremors continued. As the
two females stood up, ZIM moved out of range of his camera and seconds later
his shrill cry was heard.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
Skitt
wore a quizzical expression as ZIM ran past the camera again and pulled GIR
into view. Zoe and GIR exchanged waves as a platform in ZIM's house rose up out
of sight.
"We
have to see what's going on. Come on, Zoe, let's get into the VootRunner and
follow ZIM," Skitt said, moving toward her platform that led up to the gigantic
attic.
Zoe
followed her master, but wore a questioning look. "What's goin' on?"
Skitt
shook her head. "I don't know, but Invader ZIM clearly does. We'll follow him
in the VootRunner, since he's taking his somewhere. He keeps it in the top
floor of his base like we do."
As
the two got into the VootRunner, another tremor shook the Earth.
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Next
Chapter : Jackers Return!
(As
if you already didn't know!)
Ack,
what an unoriginal idea for the next chapter!! Don't worry, I'll rap it up
quickly and then get to the **real** fun, in my opinion. I like doing battle
scenes, and the next chapter is just an excuse to do so.