So ends my first serious Zim tale, I've had fun with it but the time is right and the opprotunity is too good to miss. PS For those wanting a laugh, read College Zim and my recently updated Invader Dib 2 (tell me what ya think!) And now, without further ado....
Invader Zim
The Reign
"Dib's log," Dib said aloud, talking into a tiny machine on his arm spawned from the nanomachines. "I would say the date but I'm not really sure what day it is. Zim has pretty much self appointed himself as emperor of his planet. Disposing of his leaders, he rules it tyrannically. Using my newly developed body, I've been able to blend into my surroundings using holographic imagery and things of that nature. Zim has truly gone insane. First by slaughtering all the criminal/violent figures on his planet and then by having the executions monitored by the general populace, trying to spur on a love of such sickness amongst the people. Once all the criminals had been eradicated, Zim began wiping out those deemed unworthy in his own eyes. Irken men, women, and children were wiped out without a second thought."
Dib stopped in mid recording, cringed, and clenched his fists.
"God, even they didn't deserve this. Uprisings were begun throughout the planet. Thousands stood together for a common good, the destruction of Zim. However, Zim controlled the machines and without their machinery, the Irkens were nothing more than rag dolls against my enemy. Despite my attempts to help along the way, knowledge of my existence absolutely could not be detected by Zim, in fear that my assasination attempt may go unfulfilled. I made myself known to various factions on the planet, helped get them resources, weaponry, things of that nature. One by one, however, they were struck down."
Dib stopped once again, finding himself leaning against the nearest rock on top of a large crevace, overlooking a bleak, large Irken city.
"The population has been reduced drastically, with the executions and the uprisings. Those loyal to Zim are sent out in droves to other planets so that they may be colonized and re-educated under the law of Zim. Zim himself has become a no show, never seeming to appear anywhere in front of the public. Only pictures and videos are seen of the all mighty emperor. Heh. Reminds me of Star Wars."
Dib laughed uneasily.
"I've made the adjustments necessary to work my new body, tinkering away at it and gaining a better understanding of the nano-technology that helped cure my injuries in my battle with Zim on his ship. Hopefully it will give me the advantage needed to bring him down. I pray that it is enough. Zim's citadal is in the middle of the city below, where I will take my last crack at him. It is only speculation, but rumor states that he never leaves the comfort of his fortress. Hopefully the rumors are true."
Dib looked up at the sky, noticing the thousands of billions of stars overhead.
"God...... I used to be so content. I used to look up at the skies and dream of things to come. I dreamt of a future I now realize will never come. I know now that I'll never see my 18th birthday. Never go to college. Never experience any of the things that make life worth living. Never father a family. Its sad when thought of in retrospect, all that I've lost."
Dib sighed, holding back the tears, still staring at the sky.
"I'm the last of my species. With me, humanity becomes a memory. I can only hope that whoever hears this will try to hear my words and think of a people who lived their lives day by day. Who, although plagued by wars and fear, tried their best to do right in their own lives. If you only remember humanity for one thing, please remember how we persevered, how our thoughts and hopes and religions and shortcomings, made us who we were. Please remember....because I know...."
Dib stood up off the rock and looked down at the city once more, a scowl growing on his face.
"I won't be coming back from this one."
Dib turned off the recorder, took out a small disc out of his arm, dug a hole in the ground and placed it in. Patching up the hole with dirt, a small laser grew out of the nanomachines on his arm. The laser sprang to life, firing at the rock nearest the hole in a steady beam. After two minutes of maneuvering the beam, Dib stopped and read what he had wrote.
"Here lies Humanity. Learn from our mistakes and hopefully God will smile on you more than he had on us."
Dib read the epitaph for his people and smiled.
"Worthy of Shakespeare. Hehehe." Dib forced out a laugh once again, then began walking away. His walking quickly changed into a sprint, as he ran full force at the edge of the crevace. His legs pounded down on the ground, and launched him high into the air, causing him to free fall over the lighted city. With no fear in his eyes, Dib fell faster and faster to the ground below. Right before impact however, Dib extended his legs downward as he careened toward Zim's fortress. He smashed against the ground with a large crash, the metal underneath giving way and cracking under his force. He knelt there for three seconds, right in front of Zim's door, smirking as a group of Irken military scrambled towards him.
"In the name of Zim, STATE YOUR BUSINESS!" A guard said, lifting a gun so close to Dib's head it was touching his scalp.
"My business? Well, death, destruction, retribution, you know how it goes." Dib grabbed the barrel of the gun with lightning speed, flipped it on his assailant and pulled the trigger. The force shattered the guard's body, splattering blood and entrails on a number of the other guards close to him. Taking the opprotunity at hand, Dib launched himself up into the air and backflipped his way behind the guards.
"There's this whole new thing I call mercy. Its something I used to know how to do, unfortunately, thats no longer part of the job description." Two tiny gun turrets appeared on Dib's arms as he began firing into the group, striking down all of the Irkens in the group swiftly. Once all the guards were down, the guns on Dib's arms melted back into the machinery from which they came and Dib turned, walking casually toward the door.
"FREEZE!" A remaining guard said, pointing a large blaster at Dib from behind.
"Consider yourself lucky," Dib said, putting his hands in the air as the guard began to shake nervously. "Put down the gun and just walk away."
"N..naa..nooo." The guard quivered, terrified out of his mind. His finger edged along the trigger as a large blast fired from the barrel of his gun. At the milisecond of the blast leaving the chamber, Dib flashed out of the guard's sight and appeared behind him.
"Stupid." The guard could barely mouth a scream as Dib's fist punched through his upper torso.
"SIR!" A guard said, running up to a shadowy section of a room deep within the heavily guarded fortress.
"What is it?" Zim demanded from the shadows.
"Our protectorate divion in charge of guarding the front entrance have been...."
"Have....been.....WHAT?" Zim yelled out, walking over to the messenger.
"Have been decimated."
"WHO? WHO DID IT?" Zim asked, gnashing his teeth. The messenger pointed up to the screen showing Dib bursting through the main gate, killing every guard that stood in his way. "Ahhhhhhh. Who else could it be but you?"
"Sir?"
"Turn off all the mechanical defense system and other machinery leading to this room." Zim smiled.
"But sir, that will leave you defenseless. With the way he's going through our security, there will be no way of stopping him without our systems."
"I'm counting on it." Zim looked out a window closest to him in his large fortress. "However, employ more troops, give young Dib a little food for thought on his way up."
Meanwhile, a few floors lower.....
"JUST...DON'T....KNOW WHEN TO QUIT DO YOU?" Dib cried out, running down yet another group of guards in his way. There was no second thought given by Dib as he dismembered, decapitated, and eviscerated every last being in his path, thoughts of everything gone to him echoing in his head.
"And so the wheel goes round." Zim's voice blasted over an intercom within the fortress. As the voice blared, Dib let go of an already dead guard in his grasp. "How are things Dib?"
"Still a self pretentious little prick aren't you Zim?" Dib said, continuing to run near stairs closest to him.
"Sticks and Stones Dib, Sticks and Stones." Zim laughed, Dib becoming more angry with each passing word. "Does it hurt? Thinking about them? Your family? Your world? Your life? How they're all gone because you could never come close to what I was?"
"Keep talking Zim, just keep talking." Dib yelled out, his pace moving faster with each step.
"But please, don't allow me to interrupt your path of vengeance. It suprises me that you're alive after all this time, sprouting with nanotechnology no less. An experiment I had long given up on. It will be interesting to note all the changes that you went through as I dissect your corpse."
"We'll see Zim!"
"Of course we will, after all you certainly have become an unstoppable killing machine haven't you now? Mowing down hundreds of guards at a time without a second glance. Your more of a vision of what I wanted you to become than I could ever imagine! HAHAHAAHA!" Zim laughed cruelly from the intercoms.
"DAMN YOU! SHUUUUTT UPPPPP!" Dib reached the top of the stairs and smashed through the door in front of him as if it were tinfoil. He stopped as he saw Zim standing, now in a completely different body. It resembled a suit worn by the former rulers of Irk, the Tallest. His face was now darker, his eyes a much darker red. His green complection was now much darker, obvioulsy showing from the time of isolation he had spent hiding on his throne.
"HA! Even after all this time, you still need to turn away from your worthlessness by hiding behind a mechanical suit that enhances your height! Never could take being short and insignificant could you Zim? Your still as pathetic as the first day we met, if not more so."
"Trying to break me down with psychological tricks Dib? I'm not that stupid, so give me more credit."
"I'LL GIVE YOU NOTHING EXCEPT A PAINFUL AND EXCRUCIATING..." Dib lifted his arms up at Zim and awaited the guns to appear. After a few seconds of waiting, Dib looked down at his arms confusedly. "WHAT THE HELL? NO NOT NOW!"
"When I made it clear to the populace that I had complete control over all the machinery on the planet, I MEANT IT!" With a snap of his fingers, all of the tiny nanomachines ripped themselves off of Dib. The young earthling screamed as the nanomachines departure caused a number of large rips in his skin to emerge.
"God...aakk...cough....." Dib coughed up a large amount of blood, as he hit the floor, trying to rise to his feet.
"You were never a challenge for me." One of Zim's mechanical legs stretched back, then slammed at full force into Dib's face. The blow knocked out three of Dib's teeth and sent him sprawling into a nearby wall.
"After all....aakkk..." More blood rushed out of Dib's mouth as he slumped against the wall, smiling. "thats happened....hhaaaakkkk.....it ends like this?"
"I'm afraid so." Zim smiled as his hand latched onto Dib's throat and lifted him up to the former invader's face. "Hear that? That's the sound of your windpipe collapsing."
Dib wheezed as he struggled to break free of Zim's grasp, getting tighter by the second. After a couple of minutes struggling out of Zim's grasp, Dib's body went limp.
"Garbage." Zim threw the apparently lifeless body to the far corner of the room. "Not even enough to.....What is....?"
Zim looked down at his body, noticing a tiny device which was flashing red on the lower part of his suit.
"Hey...Zim..." Dib tried to yell out, only to release a whisper. He waved a remote detonator in his hand, a smile came upon his face as more blood gushed between his teeth. "YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE!"
Zim frantically tried to remove the bomb planted on his suit, but to no avail. Dib pressed the button without hesitation, blowing Zim clear out of his suit. Zim almost ripped right through the wall as the explosion sent him hurdling from his now decimated suit. His body slumped against the wall, quivering and twitching slightly. His legs were totalled, torn apart and broken from the explosion, with large pieces of shrapenel protruding out of his body. Dib pulled himself off the floor, and limped over to the downed Irken.
"Still....alive?" Dib wheezed, poking the Irken with his foot. "GOOD!"
Dib kicked Zim hard in the stomach, causing the Irken to scream horribly.
"How does it feel now Zim? *Hack* *Cough* How does it feel?" Dib said, lowering himself to the still twitching Irken.
"Kill....you....." Zim whispered, reaching for Dib's throat. Dib slapped away the feeble attempt and placed his foot on one of the jagged pieces of metal sticking out of Zim. He pressed down hard on the shrapenel, causing Zim to scream out, green blood oozing out of the wound.
"After all you did *hack* to me and my planet, this is what you get. Your empire will fall with you, you son of a bitch *hack* *cough*. What do you have to say before you go to hell?"
"Well....first....off," Zim said, rolling over on his back, blood rushing out of him more rapidly. "Life's....a...bitch....Second...."
Zim reached into his suit and pulled out a small device.
"Contingency plans......make...all...the....difference." Zim pressed the large red button on the device. His grip let go of the device, as the life once in him left.
"Dead." Dib said as he spit on Zim's corpse. "Rot in peace."
Limping over to the window, Dib looked out on the city and smiled. He felt as the building begin to give way, explosions bursting around him. Zim had rigged his fortress with explosives in case the need ever arose for him to get rid of his tower and this was the perfect time to do it. Dib continued to smile as the explosions grew closer and closer.
"Guys." Dib said as fire began to run over him. "I'm coming home."
End "The Reign"
Invader Zim
The Reign
"Dib's log," Dib said aloud, talking into a tiny machine on his arm spawned from the nanomachines. "I would say the date but I'm not really sure what day it is. Zim has pretty much self appointed himself as emperor of his planet. Disposing of his leaders, he rules it tyrannically. Using my newly developed body, I've been able to blend into my surroundings using holographic imagery and things of that nature. Zim has truly gone insane. First by slaughtering all the criminal/violent figures on his planet and then by having the executions monitored by the general populace, trying to spur on a love of such sickness amongst the people. Once all the criminals had been eradicated, Zim began wiping out those deemed unworthy in his own eyes. Irken men, women, and children were wiped out without a second thought."
Dib stopped in mid recording, cringed, and clenched his fists.
"God, even they didn't deserve this. Uprisings were begun throughout the planet. Thousands stood together for a common good, the destruction of Zim. However, Zim controlled the machines and without their machinery, the Irkens were nothing more than rag dolls against my enemy. Despite my attempts to help along the way, knowledge of my existence absolutely could not be detected by Zim, in fear that my assasination attempt may go unfulfilled. I made myself known to various factions on the planet, helped get them resources, weaponry, things of that nature. One by one, however, they were struck down."
Dib stopped once again, finding himself leaning against the nearest rock on top of a large crevace, overlooking a bleak, large Irken city.
"The population has been reduced drastically, with the executions and the uprisings. Those loyal to Zim are sent out in droves to other planets so that they may be colonized and re-educated under the law of Zim. Zim himself has become a no show, never seeming to appear anywhere in front of the public. Only pictures and videos are seen of the all mighty emperor. Heh. Reminds me of Star Wars."
Dib laughed uneasily.
"I've made the adjustments necessary to work my new body, tinkering away at it and gaining a better understanding of the nano-technology that helped cure my injuries in my battle with Zim on his ship. Hopefully it will give me the advantage needed to bring him down. I pray that it is enough. Zim's citadal is in the middle of the city below, where I will take my last crack at him. It is only speculation, but rumor states that he never leaves the comfort of his fortress. Hopefully the rumors are true."
Dib looked up at the sky, noticing the thousands of billions of stars overhead.
"God...... I used to be so content. I used to look up at the skies and dream of things to come. I dreamt of a future I now realize will never come. I know now that I'll never see my 18th birthday. Never go to college. Never experience any of the things that make life worth living. Never father a family. Its sad when thought of in retrospect, all that I've lost."
Dib sighed, holding back the tears, still staring at the sky.
"I'm the last of my species. With me, humanity becomes a memory. I can only hope that whoever hears this will try to hear my words and think of a people who lived their lives day by day. Who, although plagued by wars and fear, tried their best to do right in their own lives. If you only remember humanity for one thing, please remember how we persevered, how our thoughts and hopes and religions and shortcomings, made us who we were. Please remember....because I know...."
Dib stood up off the rock and looked down at the city once more, a scowl growing on his face.
"I won't be coming back from this one."
Dib turned off the recorder, took out a small disc out of his arm, dug a hole in the ground and placed it in. Patching up the hole with dirt, a small laser grew out of the nanomachines on his arm. The laser sprang to life, firing at the rock nearest the hole in a steady beam. After two minutes of maneuvering the beam, Dib stopped and read what he had wrote.
"Here lies Humanity. Learn from our mistakes and hopefully God will smile on you more than he had on us."
Dib read the epitaph for his people and smiled.
"Worthy of Shakespeare. Hehehe." Dib forced out a laugh once again, then began walking away. His walking quickly changed into a sprint, as he ran full force at the edge of the crevace. His legs pounded down on the ground, and launched him high into the air, causing him to free fall over the lighted city. With no fear in his eyes, Dib fell faster and faster to the ground below. Right before impact however, Dib extended his legs downward as he careened toward Zim's fortress. He smashed against the ground with a large crash, the metal underneath giving way and cracking under his force. He knelt there for three seconds, right in front of Zim's door, smirking as a group of Irken military scrambled towards him.
"In the name of Zim, STATE YOUR BUSINESS!" A guard said, lifting a gun so close to Dib's head it was touching his scalp.
"My business? Well, death, destruction, retribution, you know how it goes." Dib grabbed the barrel of the gun with lightning speed, flipped it on his assailant and pulled the trigger. The force shattered the guard's body, splattering blood and entrails on a number of the other guards close to him. Taking the opprotunity at hand, Dib launched himself up into the air and backflipped his way behind the guards.
"There's this whole new thing I call mercy. Its something I used to know how to do, unfortunately, thats no longer part of the job description." Two tiny gun turrets appeared on Dib's arms as he began firing into the group, striking down all of the Irkens in the group swiftly. Once all the guards were down, the guns on Dib's arms melted back into the machinery from which they came and Dib turned, walking casually toward the door.
"FREEZE!" A remaining guard said, pointing a large blaster at Dib from behind.
"Consider yourself lucky," Dib said, putting his hands in the air as the guard began to shake nervously. "Put down the gun and just walk away."
"N..naa..nooo." The guard quivered, terrified out of his mind. His finger edged along the trigger as a large blast fired from the barrel of his gun. At the milisecond of the blast leaving the chamber, Dib flashed out of the guard's sight and appeared behind him.
"Stupid." The guard could barely mouth a scream as Dib's fist punched through his upper torso.
"SIR!" A guard said, running up to a shadowy section of a room deep within the heavily guarded fortress.
"What is it?" Zim demanded from the shadows.
"Our protectorate divion in charge of guarding the front entrance have been...."
"Have....been.....WHAT?" Zim yelled out, walking over to the messenger.
"Have been decimated."
"WHO? WHO DID IT?" Zim asked, gnashing his teeth. The messenger pointed up to the screen showing Dib bursting through the main gate, killing every guard that stood in his way. "Ahhhhhhh. Who else could it be but you?"
"Sir?"
"Turn off all the mechanical defense system and other machinery leading to this room." Zim smiled.
"But sir, that will leave you defenseless. With the way he's going through our security, there will be no way of stopping him without our systems."
"I'm counting on it." Zim looked out a window closest to him in his large fortress. "However, employ more troops, give young Dib a little food for thought on his way up."
Meanwhile, a few floors lower.....
"JUST...DON'T....KNOW WHEN TO QUIT DO YOU?" Dib cried out, running down yet another group of guards in his way. There was no second thought given by Dib as he dismembered, decapitated, and eviscerated every last being in his path, thoughts of everything gone to him echoing in his head.
"And so the wheel goes round." Zim's voice blasted over an intercom within the fortress. As the voice blared, Dib let go of an already dead guard in his grasp. "How are things Dib?"
"Still a self pretentious little prick aren't you Zim?" Dib said, continuing to run near stairs closest to him.
"Sticks and Stones Dib, Sticks and Stones." Zim laughed, Dib becoming more angry with each passing word. "Does it hurt? Thinking about them? Your family? Your world? Your life? How they're all gone because you could never come close to what I was?"
"Keep talking Zim, just keep talking." Dib yelled out, his pace moving faster with each step.
"But please, don't allow me to interrupt your path of vengeance. It suprises me that you're alive after all this time, sprouting with nanotechnology no less. An experiment I had long given up on. It will be interesting to note all the changes that you went through as I dissect your corpse."
"We'll see Zim!"
"Of course we will, after all you certainly have become an unstoppable killing machine haven't you now? Mowing down hundreds of guards at a time without a second glance. Your more of a vision of what I wanted you to become than I could ever imagine! HAHAHAAHA!" Zim laughed cruelly from the intercoms.
"DAMN YOU! SHUUUUTT UPPPPP!" Dib reached the top of the stairs and smashed through the door in front of him as if it were tinfoil. He stopped as he saw Zim standing, now in a completely different body. It resembled a suit worn by the former rulers of Irk, the Tallest. His face was now darker, his eyes a much darker red. His green complection was now much darker, obvioulsy showing from the time of isolation he had spent hiding on his throne.
"HA! Even after all this time, you still need to turn away from your worthlessness by hiding behind a mechanical suit that enhances your height! Never could take being short and insignificant could you Zim? Your still as pathetic as the first day we met, if not more so."
"Trying to break me down with psychological tricks Dib? I'm not that stupid, so give me more credit."
"I'LL GIVE YOU NOTHING EXCEPT A PAINFUL AND EXCRUCIATING..." Dib lifted his arms up at Zim and awaited the guns to appear. After a few seconds of waiting, Dib looked down at his arms confusedly. "WHAT THE HELL? NO NOT NOW!"
"When I made it clear to the populace that I had complete control over all the machinery on the planet, I MEANT IT!" With a snap of his fingers, all of the tiny nanomachines ripped themselves off of Dib. The young earthling screamed as the nanomachines departure caused a number of large rips in his skin to emerge.
"God...aakk...cough....." Dib coughed up a large amount of blood, as he hit the floor, trying to rise to his feet.
"You were never a challenge for me." One of Zim's mechanical legs stretched back, then slammed at full force into Dib's face. The blow knocked out three of Dib's teeth and sent him sprawling into a nearby wall.
"After all....aakkk..." More blood rushed out of Dib's mouth as he slumped against the wall, smiling. "thats happened....hhaaaakkkk.....it ends like this?"
"I'm afraid so." Zim smiled as his hand latched onto Dib's throat and lifted him up to the former invader's face. "Hear that? That's the sound of your windpipe collapsing."
Dib wheezed as he struggled to break free of Zim's grasp, getting tighter by the second. After a couple of minutes struggling out of Zim's grasp, Dib's body went limp.
"Garbage." Zim threw the apparently lifeless body to the far corner of the room. "Not even enough to.....What is....?"
Zim looked down at his body, noticing a tiny device which was flashing red on the lower part of his suit.
"Hey...Zim..." Dib tried to yell out, only to release a whisper. He waved a remote detonator in his hand, a smile came upon his face as more blood gushed between his teeth. "YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE!"
Zim frantically tried to remove the bomb planted on his suit, but to no avail. Dib pressed the button without hesitation, blowing Zim clear out of his suit. Zim almost ripped right through the wall as the explosion sent him hurdling from his now decimated suit. His body slumped against the wall, quivering and twitching slightly. His legs were totalled, torn apart and broken from the explosion, with large pieces of shrapenel protruding out of his body. Dib pulled himself off the floor, and limped over to the downed Irken.
"Still....alive?" Dib wheezed, poking the Irken with his foot. "GOOD!"
Dib kicked Zim hard in the stomach, causing the Irken to scream horribly.
"How does it feel now Zim? *Hack* *Cough* How does it feel?" Dib said, lowering himself to the still twitching Irken.
"Kill....you....." Zim whispered, reaching for Dib's throat. Dib slapped away the feeble attempt and placed his foot on one of the jagged pieces of metal sticking out of Zim. He pressed down hard on the shrapenel, causing Zim to scream out, green blood oozing out of the wound.
"After all you did *hack* to me and my planet, this is what you get. Your empire will fall with you, you son of a bitch *hack* *cough*. What do you have to say before you go to hell?"
"Well....first....off," Zim said, rolling over on his back, blood rushing out of him more rapidly. "Life's....a...bitch....Second...."
Zim reached into his suit and pulled out a small device.
"Contingency plans......make...all...the....difference." Zim pressed the large red button on the device. His grip let go of the device, as the life once in him left.
"Dead." Dib said as he spit on Zim's corpse. "Rot in peace."
Limping over to the window, Dib looked out on the city and smiled. He felt as the building begin to give way, explosions bursting around him. Zim had rigged his fortress with explosives in case the need ever arose for him to get rid of his tower and this was the perfect time to do it. Dib continued to smile as the explosions grew closer and closer.
"Guys." Dib said as fire began to run over him. "I'm coming home."
End "The Reign"