[A/N - Ayyee... so.... many... PEOPLE!!! But then again, with so many Zim fans, I have no reason to be shocked. I did a little planning for this fic; it will have roughly 7 chapters, and an epilogue. Remember, that's just an estimate. There could be more or less depending on the number of guests, the amount of time I have to write, and how much homework my teachers decide to kill me with. --;]



Happy Birthday, Zim
Chapter 2: Invaders Galore!!


Sure enough, Ztar's ears did not fail her. 5 Voot Runners landed in the yard, 2 across the street, and 1 very big one in the tree. 8 in all, each containing one member of Irk, and possibly a SIR.

The two Invaders across the street hurried to the house. The first one introduced himself as Invader Mat. He was a 4.7 ft male Irken with purple eyes, dressed in standard Invader garb. "This is my SIR, Zir." He explained. "He is insane but he will obey."

"Great, thanks for coming," Ztar greeted. "Did you sign up for a job?"

"Uhm, I don't think so." Mat replied.

"Okay then, you can go to the hyper room." Ztar pointed to a door at the far end of the living room. Mat nodded and ran over there.

The other Invader stepped in front of Ztar. She was tall, about 5'7", had deep black eyes, and was dressed in standard Invader clothing, accented with a red bandanna tied Western-style hanging around her neck. "Good day, human," she said. "My name is Dark. I come for the birthday celebration. Now, I must have tuna," and with that she followed Mat into the hyper room.

Ztar blinked but said nothing.

At that moment, another figure landed, but she came by parachute. "HIII!!!" she yelled enthusiastically. She had really pale skin, she stood somewhere around 5' 5", and had long red hair pulled back in a pony tail. "I be Mirage DeDreamer, or 'De' for short." She landed and stood up, sliding off the parachute pack. "I am your greeter-person!"

"What about me?!" Cried another voice, dropping from the tree.

It was another human female, who hair was three shades of brown, pulled back in a ponytail. Her eyes were brown, with purple contacts. She stood 5'5", and wore a purple t-shirt, blue jeans, white and purple sneakers, and a silver chain necklace with a black crystal.

Ztar blinked between the two. "Uhm, you can both greet, uhm..."

"Candy," the stranger introduced herself.

"Okay, Candy." ztar frowned. "How did you get in the tree?"

"I couldn't find a ride, so I hitched on the back of the Voot Runner." She pointed to the tree-bound cruiser. "Why do you think it crashed?" Candy grinned widely.

Ztar nodded. "Okay, Candy? This is De. De, candy. Have fun," and she rushed back inside.

Another Irken climbed the porch steps. She had Triangle-Shaped Anntenne, green eyes, 5 feet, and wore normal Irken uniform, except that her outfit was black with red stripes, and her back pod was blue with black spots. She also carreid a double-bladed scythe, and wore a neckalace with the Irken logo on it. "Hello. I'm Zam." She held up her robot, who looked like Gir. "This is Lir, my SIR."

De smiled and welcomed the next Irken guest. "HIII!!! Can I take your coat if you have one?"

Invader Zam blinked. "Uh, no."

"What about the scythe?"

"Hell no!!"

Candy looked at De. "This is a coat check, not a gun check."

Zam nodded. "It's not a scythe check, either." She walked to the door again, but De stopped her.

"Please, let me have the weapon."

"I said no!"

"I said please!"

Zam glared. "Why should I?"

De sighed. "Because, we don't want anyone killed here."

Zam looked shocked. "I won't kill anyone!... unless they deserve it."

Candy glanced up again. "That's what the bouncers are for."

Bast came to the door. "I heard talk of me.... WOAH, BABY!" Her eyes flew open wide at the sight of the scythe. "Sweet! I could use this for guard duty!"She grabbed the scythe and ran inside.

"Hey!!" Zam cried and chased after Bast. "That's mine!!"

Candy greeted the next Irken. This one was female, with Dark Blue eyes and curly antennae. "I am Invader Jac. I am an Invader!" She held up her robot, a purple-eyes SIR. "This is Mir. Say hi, Mir."

"Moo."

"Good girl!!" Jac praised her unit and went to join Dib, who would be serving food.

This time, a male Irken walked up to them. He was a Tallest-in-waiting, having green skin, fairly long antenna, and dark green eyes. He was about six feet tall, and wore a black shirt, blue jeans, a black trenchcoat and black boots. "Greetings, earthlings..." he nodded and held his SIR up, which was standard issue, but black with yellow-orange eyes. ""I am Forester. This is Pooky, my SIR. We will be assisting Dib in his attempts at serving human food. Where may I find the big-headed one?"

De called in the house. "Hey Ztar! Where'd you put Dib!?"

"He's waiting in the dining room," Ztar yelled back as she rushed to and fro, gathering decorations. "He's waiting for the food to finish cooking so he can serve it." She ran off.

"What she said," De said to Forester, and he was off.

Inside, Bast's voice could be heard shouting. "Has anyone seen my cheese?"

"Whatever," candy muttered and turned to greet the next Irken, a female with primary blue eyes, and an outfit exactumently like Zim's only blue. She was 2'4 in height, and held up a standard SIR unit as she stepped up the porch. "HIIIIIII!!!!" she cried hyperly. "I be Invader Rhea!! This is my SIR, named....er...SIR. She's energetic but not insane. She's actually rather normal. OK, so she's pretty boring..."

"We don't mind," Candy grinned. "Just take her to the hyper room. That'll perk anybody up."

Rhea wandered across the main room and tossed SIR into the hyper room. She then walked up to Ztar and held out a bag of chips. "Hello, cyborg-person."

Ztar looked at the tiny Invader in front of her. "Uhm.... I thought I ordered *bingo* chips..."

Rhea laughed. "No no.... I have just come to inform you that I will be hiding in this bad of potato chips. I have even brought my own, to hopefully help you save on your expensives. Now if you'll excuse me, I have sugar to eat."

Ztar raised an eyebrow at the retreating figure. "That was... different..."

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Outside, De was preparing to greet another Irken. This female was clearly of great importance in the Irken society. She had the rank of an Ambassador. She had mint-green skin, a diamond-shaped mirror on her forehead, and large cyan eyes. Her pod was silver and turquiose instead of red and silver. She wore a dark-blue version of the standard-issue Invader Uniform except her gloves were attached to the sleeves. "Greetings," she bowed. "I am Trill."

"Hi." De answered back. "I'm De."

"I heard you have a have a hyper room."

"Yes we do."

"Can you tell me about it?"

"Uhm..." De frowned. Not having been in there yet, she was clueless. "Erm, hey Ztar," she called in.

"Ztar's a bit busy right now," FM said, coming to the door, munching on a piece of cheese. "However, maybe I can assist you in your troubles."

Trill nodded. "My name is Trill, ambassador of Irk, and I'm having a little trouble understanding the concept of this 'hyper room'..."

"*chewchew* Oh that. The Hyper Room is an oversized closet that Ztar set aside for those who either had no job or plain got bored."

"My cheese!" Bast yelled and grabbed it away from FM.

"It has several tables of sugar-coated, sugar-filled, and cheesy products, plus plain cheese and sugar by their own nummy selves. You can also serve yourself Code Red Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Pepsi Twist, Coke, and chocolate milk. I must have cheese now." And with that he ran after Bast to claim the American goodness.

Trill grinned. "I think I'm gonna' like this hyper room..." she slipped inside.

"So will I!" Candy grinned. "WAIT FOR MEEEEE!!!!" She ran after Trill.

"HEY!" De screamed. "Oh great. NOW who's gonna' help me?"

"Never fear, CryingChild is here!!"

De looked up to see a girl of 4'9", standing on the porch railing, with stringy, messy blonde hair and pen tattos, wearing ratty jeans, a green shirt, and a Dibcoat. By her side stood a SIR who looked like GIR, only lavender instead of cyan, and she had eyelashes Bugs Bunny style eyelashes.

"This is Rir. She eats wood."

"Hello..." the lavander one said and clung to CC's head.

"Wah! HEY! RIRRRRR---WAAAAAAHHHH!!" Unable to retain her balance, CC's fell into the bush behind her.

"WOO!" Rir cried. "Do dat again!"

De looked over at the tree-bound Voot Runner, the only one whose occupants hadn't emerged. "Candy made it crash," De told CC. "She should go greet them."

CC pulled herself up. "Too late for that. Look!"

The Runner began to light up inside, and voices could be heard shouting through a megaphone. "It's okay, people... in spite of my Right Hand Girl, I am alive."

"And ME!" another voice called out. "LAZERS!"

De and Candy stared wide-eyed at the Irkens coming out of... not a Voot Runner, but the Massive. "OH, MY TALLEST, IT'S THE TALLEST!!!" they cried in unison.

Bast jumped up and forgot about her cheese. "The Tallest?! MOVEMOVEMOVEMOVEMOVEMOVEMOVEMOVEMOVEMOVEMOVEMOVEMOVE!!!!!!!"

FM gulped the last of the cheese chunk and joined Bast.

The Tallest, having gotten in a kick war in their recent review, were releived to see the girl who was with them run ahead. She had long, curly brown hair, purple contacts, and she wore a purple tank top, biker gloves, black pants and Addidas.

She held up a bag as she ran. "I AM PURPLE'S RIGHT HAND GIRL!!!! I HAVE BROUGHT THE PARTY FAVORS!!!!!"

Ztar poked her head out to see. "Oh, goody. I was running low on a few things." She brought PRHG to the table and went back to the door.

Bast ran forward and happily glomped the Irken Leaders. "HimynameisBastI'myourbiggestfanandIloveyouSOOOOOOmuch!!!!!

"Red," Purple ordered, "Go check on my sidekick."

"But she's YOUR right-hand girl!"

Purple pointed to Bast, who fell asleep in his lap. "I'm a little busy right now..." he picked up the napping brunette.

Bast, who was not REALLY asleep, grinned in the back of her head. (Oh, yeah...)

Ztar turned back to go inside when another girl bounded up. She had blonde, shoulder length hair and blue eyes. She wore a long, baggy dark blue shirt, black jeans, and sneakers. She held up a SIR with pink eyes who looked like Gir. "HI!" she said. "I'm Megan. I can be a bouncer. And I think I will hide in the convenitly placed pile of clothes." She bounded inside.

Ztar nodded and went in the house, when another person mysteriously appeared. She wore a flame tank-top with a leather black jacket and black jeans with big boots. "I am TrueLocket." she introduced. "I take it I'm in the right place... the IZ party? And you're Ztarlight, I presume..."

The cyborg nodded. "You can call me 'Ztar' for short."

"I'll do that. In the meantime, I will join your bouncers. They will help me keep watch for Zim, the Almighty Cutest." She went outside.

Gir rushed into the living room. "WHERE ARE DA PEOPLE?!" He yelled.

Ztar tried to calm the tiny andriod. "Relax, they'll be here soon. Go back into the kitchen."

"Okie-dokie!" He dashed off.


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Meep. People, I'm sorry this took so long to get up. I had aimed to post it on Friday, but never took into the account of coming down with the worst head cold in the history of head colds that I've come down with. But I'm finally over that nasty thing (I hope.... o.0) and with any luck, I'll have the next chappie up, featuring the Gir helpers, sometime this weekend. Bai!!)