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Chapter 2- Jen's Vow
10 years later......
"I hate Skool!" Jen cried bursting through the door of the small 3 room apartment/ dorm-room-type-thingy that Zim and Jen were forced to live in together.
The little place consisted of 2 small bedrooms that could just barely fit a bed and a desk in them. There was also one room just slightly bigger than the bedrooms. This room held one battered wooden table and two matching chairs. There were also a few small cupbords to hold their food.
Jen ran to her room and fell on her old worn bed which she just barely fit on any more. A few blueish-green tears fell from her large blue eye and ran down her light green cheek to rest on her tattered pillow. Her black atenae flattened to her head.
Zim shut the door to the apartment, shaking his head. Then he walked over and leaned against Jen's door frame. He crossed his arms and shook his head again.
"Oh Jen, Jen, Jen." He said. "When will you learn? You're suposed to want to invade planets. That's why you're an Invader and there's nothing you can do about it. Invader's blood runs through your vains! Why can't you be more like....oh say....Me?"
"SHUT UP, ZIMMY!" Jen screamed, useing the name she did when she wanted to annoy him. "I'm NOT like you and I don't WANT to be like you!" She through her pillow at him and cried into her matress. The pillow missed Zim and hit the wall on the other side of the door. Zim just shook his head and walked away, leaving Jen to herself.
On a planet where height desided where you ranked in popularity and leadership you can guess where Zim and Jen ranked.
Being the shortest Irkens in their class, let alone their age group, was something that provided them with constant mocking and ridicule at Invader Skool.
But it was worse for Jen. She, unlike nearly every other Irken, didn't want to conquer planets. She wanted to explore them. She constantly dreamed of finding a planet where height didn't matter, where she was free to explore, and where she could make a friend. Irk was none of these.
"I hate this planet." Jen mumbled into her mattress.
At skool everyone made fun of her and Zim for being so small, But their favorite thing was that Invader Jen didn't want to be part of an invasion.
"Ooooo! Look! It's little Invader Zim and his little cousin Invad- er I mean Peaceful jen!" or "Excuse me, but aren't you suposed to be in the beginer's course? Oh sorry! It's just Jen and Zim." That last one had a double meaning for Jen. Jen was just barely passing skool. The fact that she didn't always show up may have had something to do with that too.
Of course, Zim didn't help much either. He hadn't liked her from the start, and, she hadn't much liked him either.
Jen thought back to the day they had met in the white room. They had tryed to come up eith a way to break out, but Zim had hated Jen's idea and Jen had hated Zim's. They had ended up fighting about it untill the Lab Technitions came and brought them to the little apartment where they had lived ever since.
"I hate this place." Jen muddered. Most Irkens their age had their own, nice apartment. Jen and Zim had to share a small, broken down one.
"Some day I'm leaving Irk." Jen vowed. "And I'm NOT coming back!"
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1 week later...
"What are you doing?" Jen asked. She was sitting in her chair, at the small table, reading a book on Irken Ledgens and watching her cousin run from his room, grab something from the cupbord, stuff it in his mouth, and run to the door. Zim paused and looked at her.
"I just got word that the Great Assigning is today! My invitation must have been lost in the mail!" Zim exclaimed quickly. Then he turned around and slammed the door behind him. a few bits of plaster fell from the ceiling.
"The Great Assigning?" Jen asked the empty room. She knew what it was.....but......it was today? "Hmmm........ whatever." She sighed with a shrug and returned to reading her book. She didn't want anything to do with it.
The Great Assigning was held on a near-by planet called Conventia. This was where all Irken Invaders went to be assigned a planet to go to then conquer it. Not exactly Jen's favorite hobby.
It was the Allmighty Tallest Red and Purple's dream to conquer the intire universe and rule it all. They didn't care what they had to destroy or who they had to step on to get there either.
"Jerks!" Jen muttered under her breath. She knew she wasn't suposed to talk about the leaders of Irk like that but she really didn't care. She didn't like them and they hated her.
Infact, they hated her so much that sometimes when they were bored they would have Jen come to their giant ship, the "Massive", just so that they could make fun of her and tell her what a disgrace she was and that she "would never amount to anything". These visits usualy ended with Jen running out of the room in tears. They did this to Zim too some times but he was stronger and never cried, so they never had as much fun. Zim had actualy made himself believe that these were just tests to make him stronger and that they didn't mean any of it.
Jen wasn't sure why Zim had gone to the Great Assigning, Red and Purple would just keep him on his job on Foodcortia.
"I'm not even gonna waste my time." Jen said to herself.
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"I have to get ready!!" Zim cried excitedly as he burst through the door. Jen was sitting at the table again reading her book.
"Ready for what?" Jen asked only paying half atention to her cousin and not looking up from her book. Suddenly a little silver robot with blue-green eyes came running through the door and ran circles around the table, screaming the whole time.
"What on irk?!?!" Jen exclaimed, watching the robot run. Her blue eyes flew open. "Who is this?!"
"That's Gir!" Zim replied from his room.
"HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!" The robot cried in a high-pitched robotic voice.
"A S.I.R.? THEY GAVE YOU A S.I.R.?!" Jen asked in surprise.
"Of course they gave me a S.I.R.! You can't go on a "special mission" without one!" Zim replied smuggly as he draged a large suitcase out of his room.
"They gave you a mission?" Jen asked skepticly thinking that Zim must be joking. "To where?"
"Uhhh..... They didn't give me the name but they did give me directions!" Zim cried excited. "Come Gir!" The little robot turned and ran tward Zim.
"You're leaving now?" Jen asked.
"Yes." Zim answered shortly then turned around and ran out the door, forgeting the suitcase, Gir following close behind. Zim slamed the door again and a big piece of the ceiling fell to the floor. Jen didn't notice.
Jen bit her bottom lip gently, trying to make sense of everything, Zim was gone. She might never see him again. They had given him a mission? What was with that S.I.R.? Zim was gone. Zim was LEAVING Irk.
"Maybe I should go talk to Red and Purple." Jen said to the empty room. "Tomarrow." She said desisively. If there was any chance that she was leaving too then she would take it in a second! "Tomarrow." She repeated with a smile.
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Wow! any one still awake out there? well if you are please review this! if not then sleep well my friend! I know that was boring but I promiss the next chapter will be much better! at least I hope You think so! Thanx!
~HelgaGP
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Chapter 2- Jen's Vow
10 years later......
"I hate Skool!" Jen cried bursting through the door of the small 3 room apartment/ dorm-room-type-thingy that Zim and Jen were forced to live in together.
The little place consisted of 2 small bedrooms that could just barely fit a bed and a desk in them. There was also one room just slightly bigger than the bedrooms. This room held one battered wooden table and two matching chairs. There were also a few small cupbords to hold their food.
Jen ran to her room and fell on her old worn bed which she just barely fit on any more. A few blueish-green tears fell from her large blue eye and ran down her light green cheek to rest on her tattered pillow. Her black atenae flattened to her head.
Zim shut the door to the apartment, shaking his head. Then he walked over and leaned against Jen's door frame. He crossed his arms and shook his head again.
"Oh Jen, Jen, Jen." He said. "When will you learn? You're suposed to want to invade planets. That's why you're an Invader and there's nothing you can do about it. Invader's blood runs through your vains! Why can't you be more like....oh say....Me?"
"SHUT UP, ZIMMY!" Jen screamed, useing the name she did when she wanted to annoy him. "I'm NOT like you and I don't WANT to be like you!" She through her pillow at him and cried into her matress. The pillow missed Zim and hit the wall on the other side of the door. Zim just shook his head and walked away, leaving Jen to herself.
On a planet where height desided where you ranked in popularity and leadership you can guess where Zim and Jen ranked.
Being the shortest Irkens in their class, let alone their age group, was something that provided them with constant mocking and ridicule at Invader Skool.
But it was worse for Jen. She, unlike nearly every other Irken, didn't want to conquer planets. She wanted to explore them. She constantly dreamed of finding a planet where height didn't matter, where she was free to explore, and where she could make a friend. Irk was none of these.
"I hate this planet." Jen mumbled into her mattress.
At skool everyone made fun of her and Zim for being so small, But their favorite thing was that Invader Jen didn't want to be part of an invasion.
"Ooooo! Look! It's little Invader Zim and his little cousin Invad- er I mean Peaceful jen!" or "Excuse me, but aren't you suposed to be in the beginer's course? Oh sorry! It's just Jen and Zim." That last one had a double meaning for Jen. Jen was just barely passing skool. The fact that she didn't always show up may have had something to do with that too.
Of course, Zim didn't help much either. He hadn't liked her from the start, and, she hadn't much liked him either.
Jen thought back to the day they had met in the white room. They had tryed to come up eith a way to break out, but Zim had hated Jen's idea and Jen had hated Zim's. They had ended up fighting about it untill the Lab Technitions came and brought them to the little apartment where they had lived ever since.
"I hate this place." Jen muddered. Most Irkens their age had their own, nice apartment. Jen and Zim had to share a small, broken down one.
"Some day I'm leaving Irk." Jen vowed. "And I'm NOT coming back!"
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1 week later...
"What are you doing?" Jen asked. She was sitting in her chair, at the small table, reading a book on Irken Ledgens and watching her cousin run from his room, grab something from the cupbord, stuff it in his mouth, and run to the door. Zim paused and looked at her.
"I just got word that the Great Assigning is today! My invitation must have been lost in the mail!" Zim exclaimed quickly. Then he turned around and slammed the door behind him. a few bits of plaster fell from the ceiling.
"The Great Assigning?" Jen asked the empty room. She knew what it was.....but......it was today? "Hmmm........ whatever." She sighed with a shrug and returned to reading her book. She didn't want anything to do with it.
The Great Assigning was held on a near-by planet called Conventia. This was where all Irken Invaders went to be assigned a planet to go to then conquer it. Not exactly Jen's favorite hobby.
It was the Allmighty Tallest Red and Purple's dream to conquer the intire universe and rule it all. They didn't care what they had to destroy or who they had to step on to get there either.
"Jerks!" Jen muttered under her breath. She knew she wasn't suposed to talk about the leaders of Irk like that but she really didn't care. She didn't like them and they hated her.
Infact, they hated her so much that sometimes when they were bored they would have Jen come to their giant ship, the "Massive", just so that they could make fun of her and tell her what a disgrace she was and that she "would never amount to anything". These visits usualy ended with Jen running out of the room in tears. They did this to Zim too some times but he was stronger and never cried, so they never had as much fun. Zim had actualy made himself believe that these were just tests to make him stronger and that they didn't mean any of it.
Jen wasn't sure why Zim had gone to the Great Assigning, Red and Purple would just keep him on his job on Foodcortia.
"I'm not even gonna waste my time." Jen said to herself.
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"I have to get ready!!" Zim cried excitedly as he burst through the door. Jen was sitting at the table again reading her book.
"Ready for what?" Jen asked only paying half atention to her cousin and not looking up from her book. Suddenly a little silver robot with blue-green eyes came running through the door and ran circles around the table, screaming the whole time.
"What on irk?!?!" Jen exclaimed, watching the robot run. Her blue eyes flew open. "Who is this?!"
"That's Gir!" Zim replied from his room.
"HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!" The robot cried in a high-pitched robotic voice.
"A S.I.R.? THEY GAVE YOU A S.I.R.?!" Jen asked in surprise.
"Of course they gave me a S.I.R.! You can't go on a "special mission" without one!" Zim replied smuggly as he draged a large suitcase out of his room.
"They gave you a mission?" Jen asked skepticly thinking that Zim must be joking. "To where?"
"Uhhh..... They didn't give me the name but they did give me directions!" Zim cried excited. "Come Gir!" The little robot turned and ran tward Zim.
"You're leaving now?" Jen asked.
"Yes." Zim answered shortly then turned around and ran out the door, forgeting the suitcase, Gir following close behind. Zim slamed the door again and a big piece of the ceiling fell to the floor. Jen didn't notice.
Jen bit her bottom lip gently, trying to make sense of everything, Zim was gone. She might never see him again. They had given him a mission? What was with that S.I.R.? Zim was gone. Zim was LEAVING Irk.
"Maybe I should go talk to Red and Purple." Jen said to the empty room. "Tomarrow." She said desisively. If there was any chance that she was leaving too then she would take it in a second! "Tomarrow." She repeated with a smile.
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Wow! any one still awake out there? well if you are please review this! if not then sleep well my friend! I know that was boring but I promiss the next chapter will be much better! at least I hope You think so! Thanx!
~HelgaGP
