Well, here's chapter three. Still not on Earth, but getting closer.
Disclaimer: Conventia, The Almighty Tallest, The Voot Cruiser, they belong to Jhonen Vasquez. Cas and OIR, the plot? They belong to me.
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CHAPTER THREE-- ON CONVENTIA


I had never actually left the planet before in my life. I had seen screen caps of the different places in the Universe, but had never been allowed to visit them.

Now, I would be doing just that. I would sit in a meeting hall on the planet of Conventia, and then make a temporary home on a planet that would soon be taken over by the Irken Empire.

"Let's see. Where is Conventia?" I suddenly realized that I had no idea where I was going. "Computer, bring up a map of the Universe."

The ship's computer listened to my command and brought up a map of the Universe on the main screen. There were three screens in my Voot Runner. The main one was for looking in front of the ship (I had modified the ship to not have a window). The secondary screen was for transmissions and stuff that I wanted off of the main screen. The back screen was for seeing what was behind my ship.

"Focus on the course between here and Conventia." I ordered.

A red path became highlighted on the map, from what was apparently between Irk and Conventia. "Zoom in." It zoomed in to show only Conventia, Irk, the path, and the planets in between.

"Show my position and direction." I said, and a small ship appeared where I was. I saw that I needed to turn left to make it to my destination. It was almost a direct route from where I was to Conventia.

I turned the ship one-fourth of a circle to the left and started accelerating.

"Remove the map." I said, and the map was removed from my view. I now saw endless stars in a black sky. In the distance, many light-years away, I could make out what could be a planet: Conventia.

As I zoomed toward the planet, I noticed a decrease in the temperature. I could see in my back screen that I was heading away from Lyra; and that it was the closest star to where I was.

"Activate the heating sensors." I ordered the computer. Right away, the sensors adjusted the heat in the ship to that of a normal day in the Light Season on Irk.

The rest of the trip was uneventful. I saw nothing but endless stars and Conventia, which was becoming bigger as I got nearer. Soon, I was close enough to see the Irken Docking Bay which orbited the planet.

On the planet below, I would find the Almighty Tallest. They would have expected me to be there by now, and would be growing impatient. I had been slowed down by the fact that I had never been here before, and by the fact that I refused to use the Auto-Pilot.

I maneuvered my ship closer to the orbiting dock and pulled in to park it into on of the large ship bays. I turned off the power in my ship and exited, making a mental note that I had parked it in space five-hundred fifty-two. I walked to the entrance hall that was on the far side of the dock.

The entrance was comprised of three main parts. To my left was the part labeled "INVADERS", which was a few teleporters that I guessed would lead to the meeting chamber on the planet. To my right was labeled "TALLEST". It was two larger personal transporters that would take the Almighty Tallest wherever they wanted to go. In front of me was a large door labeled "OTHER". It would probably lead to the audience teleporters that would have taken other Irkens to watch the Great Assigning.

Seeing the other section made me think of the most recent great assigning. I had watched it on the Irken Universal Network, not able to get tickets to it. I had held my breath in the one moment when Zim had shown up, with the rest of the Irken population.

I stepped into one of the teleporters under the Invader section. The entrance hall melted from my sight, and it was replaced with a new room.

This room, the Meeting Chamber, was empty except for a single chair in the middle of the room. The Almighty Tallest stood in front of the chair, unreadable expressions on their faces.

"It's about time you got here, Invader Cas." Red said.

"Did you get lost on the way here?" Purple inquired.

"Something like that." I muttered.

"Well, anyway, down to business." Red said, motioning for me to sit down in the chair. I walked out of the teleporter and over to the chair, I sat down silently and waited for the Almighty Tallest to continue.

"You are a quite superior Irken-" Purple started.

"Not as superior as us, but still superior." Red interrupted.

"Yes, you are very superior considering your size and your gender, however." Purple finished.

"However, you're as short as the last Invader that failed us." Red added.

"But, that Invader didn't get one-hundred percent on the final Invader exam." Purple added more.

"When Invader Zim reached an actual planet with intelligent life on it, we decided that..."

"One, he should stay there; and...."

"Two, we should take over the planet...."

"But, we can't be guaranteed that Zim will leave us the planet in a good enough shape for us to make the humans our slaves...."

"And the Earth our territory."

"So," Purple continued, "You are going to go and make sure Zim leaves the planet in good condition for us."

"We figure that it would be a good position for your first assignment, because Zim has yet to be found out. All the Earth people think he's one of them."

"So if you, too, are not discovered, than you will be proved a true Invader."

All the while that they were talking, I sat there silently keeping a plain expression on my face. It had been taught in the Invader Acadamy that we were to mask our emotions from our enemies.

While my face looked blank, my mind was reeling. Sent to watch over another Invader? Sent to make sure the Earth was in good shape and that Zim didn't leave it? There had never been something like this before.

This was just too wierd. It didn't make any sense to me. Invaders never had others watch over them. Never in Irk's history had two Invaders been assigned to the same planet. I thought that the Almighty Tallest would at least realize that I could do better things for them if I was on my own planet.

"You're trying to get rid of me, aren't you?" I said, it was the only thing I could come up with.

"Of course not." Red laughed.

"This is just your first test." Purple started to explain.

"We don't know how good of an Invader you can be yet. We need to see your skills in action before you are given a real assignment." Red finished.

"Then, you don't trust me because I'm so short?" I summarized.

"Yes." Purple admitted.

"But, if you help in making Earth Irken territory, we will trust you enough to have your own planet to take over next time we do this." Red quickly added.

"So, when do I depart?" I asked eagerly. If Zim wasn't discovered yet, than I would never be discovered. I had a lot more brain-power than someone who could accidently almost destroy their own planet.

"You can leave right away." Purple answered.

"And, we did find you a SIR unit." Red remembered.

"Well, that's good. I am going to need one on Earth." I muttered.

"I'll go get it for you." Purple offered.

"I'll go retrieve it," Red said at the same time.

Purple and Red turned to face each other. Their eyes narrowed and they both opened their mouths. I sensed an arguement coming on.

"But, I made it's skeleton." Purple argued, jabbing his finger into Red's chest.

"I supplied its brain." Red retorted, knocking away Purple's finger.

"It was only half robot parts."

"I ran out of wires. I had to use my paper-clips and pennies to fill the rest of the space."

"Just get the SIR already." I spoke up impatiently.

Both of them left the room and came back a moment later with a SIR unit following them.

"Here is your OIR unit." Red announced.

"OIR?" I asked. "What does OIR mean?"

"It stands for Obedient Information Retreival" Purple informed me.

I looked at the robot. It looked like the general SIR unit, with its red eyes and loyal look. However, its electrically illuminated eyes suddenly turned green. It looked at me with its now green stare and giggled.

"Hello, master." It said playfully.

"Is it supposed to look like that?" I asked.

"Why, yes, it is." Purple said, giving Red a look that I couldn't see. "We- er- had to use makeshift wires for half of its brain."

"It wasn't my fault the supply wasn't big enough to make a whole SIR brain." Red countered.

"But it was your fault. You were the one that ordered the parts from Wireon." Purple replied.

While they continued arguing, I looked at my new robot companion. Only half of its brain was what it should be. I wondered how that would affect my mission. At least they had made it obediant.

"OIR, go and start my ship." I ordered the robot.

"Yes, mam." It said, its eyes snapped back to red as it stood at attention. Then, they turned green again. "What button do I push?"

I shook my head. "Oh, boy. We aren't going to get very far. It's the green button under the main screen.

"Okay, I'm on it, mistress." OIR's eyes turned red again and it left the room through the teleporters.

"I parked in space five-hundred fifty-two!" I called after it.

I turned back to the Almighty Tallest, who were still bickering about my OIR's poor brain power.

"It's your fault. You didn't do the math to see how many wires we would need!" Purple yelled.

"QUIET!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. "My OIR is a fine robot. She will be fine in my mission."

Both of the Almighty Tallest turned to look at me.

"Well, that's good. It's Red's fault if you dislike your OIR, though." Purple said, pointing to Red.

"You two are so immature." I said hotly. "I will be fine as long as you two stop arguing every second."

"Well, then, you should just go and start your mission if you are going to tell us how to run Irk." Red retorted.

"I've heard better." I replied, getting up and walking to the teleporter that I had entered from. "I'll contact you the moment I arrive at Earth."

With that, the Meeting Room dissolved from my view and was replaced once again with the Entrance Hall. I walked back to the landing dock and over to my ship. The engine was still off.

"OIR!" I called. "Didn't you manage to find the button?"

"Which one is the main screen?" Was the reply.

I sighed heavily and climbed into the cockpit. I hit the start button and started to pilot the ship out of the landing dock and away from Conventia.
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Well, there's Chapter Three. Chapter Four's coming up real soon!