This is actually a story I'm beginning to think that will do well . . . anyway, as well as my disclaimer, I have a claimer too.

All rights reserved of The Almighty Tallests, Zim, Dib, and GIR, by Jhonen Vasquez. The do NOT belong to me.

BUT . . . .. . . . . …. Kree and Ri belong to MEEEEEEE!!!!

Okay now . . . on with the story . . . . . . . .. .

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The Almighty Tallests took their seats on the throne. In both of their minds, they were confused and didn't know what they should do with this human girl. Should they dispose of her? Should they force her to be silent? Should they just let her go? Not many possibilities ran through their minds.

"My Tallests." The Commander stepped forward and bowed. He was an Irken maybe about 5'10'', a pretty good height to be at. He pointed to the doors and they opened. Five Irkens, FIVE Irkens, brought the girl in. She was struggling trying to escape, kicking them, but the Irken guards hit her with a shock spear so soon she became weaker and weaker.

She had long black hair in a ponytail. She had light brown eyes that showed every bit of spunk in her. She wore a vest like kind of jacket with no sleeves and an opening in the middle. She wore a plain blue shirt and long black pants. She wore black boots as well. She was about the same height as the Commander as well.

Purple stood up and motioned to the girl. "You need FIVE Irkens to bring her in?" Purple said in Irken to the Commander.

"Well, normally it would take ten humans to get me." She said in crisp Irken. "I guess, it's not that bad. You take just as half as many Irkens to get me." She smirked at the Tallests.

Purple's jaw dropped. "You can . . . you can speak Irken?!" he said in English.

"Irken?" She replied back in English. "Is that what it's called?"

"Clever girl." Red smiled at her. "Where did you learn to speak Irken?"

"I learned it by myself." She snickered.

"I never realized there were more *smart* humans on Earth." Red laughed.

"Well, I always though aliens were superior beings. I guess I was wrong. I wonder if you can *actually* understand me?" She smirked again. "Doi . . ." She imitated a demented retard.

Purple scowled. "We aren't stupid."

She put her fingers to her mouth. "Oh, I'm sooo sorry." She said sarcastically. "I hope that comment didn't make you want to run home to your mommy. Wait . . . this is your home . . . you mommy shouldn't be so far from here."

"Can't you at least assume who we are?" Purple questioned.

"I do know, but what difference does that make? So, you're the rulers of the planet! Big deal! You're no different than some bum off the street."

Red smiled, getting a bit of pleasure from her. He usually liked having a bit of rivalry and liked a challenger of wit. He stared into her eyes and smiled. She smiled back. His first sight of this human girl. Purple didn't seem to notice Red's attention towards the girl.

"ATTACK!!!!! THE GOROKENS ARE ATTACKING US!!!" A voice from outside screamed.

Purple stood up immediately. "We don't have time to settle this issue now! Everyone! To their vootrunners! We defend now!" He ordered.

Red looked at Purple and he looked back. They took each other claws and shook. Red pat Purple on the back and mouthed to him, "don't worry. Nothing will happen".

The Irken guards who were holding the girl let go of her and she was able to run outside. She too, jumped into a vootrunner, the one that just *happened* to be Red's. Red ran outside too and got into his vootrunner. It would be most unusual for a Tallest to fight in these battles if it was years ago, but now it was necessary. Purple and Red had agreed to it. She stood against the wall so that Red could just pass her by without noticing she was there. He sat down in a seat. He started the vootrunner and it began to lift.

"Interesting technology, but yet similar to ours." She calmly walked over to the seat that was beside him on the left and sat down.

"WHAT? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" Red questioned staring at her.

"Helping you." She grasped two controls and pressed the button in the back of them. A screen came up and it showed the enemy ships and an "AIM" circle. She steered the circle to a ship and shot it. Laser gun noises was heard and before them in the window, they saw a ship blow up. "You steer, I shoot."

Red shrugged, but he agreed. He didn't want to waste time arguing with the human, but for some reason, he actually trusted her.

"Over there." Red gritted his teeth in intensity.

She aimed it one and shot it. It kept on going on and on like that. They steered towards the enemy ships and destroyed them one by one. They were mostly silent, too much in concentration to notice anyway, but Red would turn and glance at her every once in a while. He watched her crinkle her eyebrows as she focused on a target and shot. Then she would release all her concentration, but look for the next target. He smiled.

"Wait, turn a little to right." She said firmly.

Red not knowing why, but didn't want to bother asking anyway, turned to the right. An enemy ship was right at the tail of another Irken ship, shooting, and the Irken ship was struggling to get away. For this target, she was more intense than any other of the targets. She shot carefully, but quickly, and hardly. The Goroken ship immediately blew up into flames. The Irken ship flew into view so that the driver could be seen . . . .

It was Purple. He waved and flew away.

Red stared at her, flabbergasted. "How . . . wha . . . how . . . why . . ."

"What?"

"How did you know that Purple was in that ship?" He asked first.

"I saw him fly by when he was being chased. He gave a signal, a motion for help." She replied as she kept her eyes on the screen and her hands on the controls, shooting another ship.

"Why . . . . Why did you save Purple?"

"WE." She corrected. "You steered to the right, I shot. Half and half."

"So, why?"

She looked at him for the first time they were on the vootrunner. "I'm not blind, you know. And I can lip read."

"What does that have to do with anything?" Red questioned.

"Okay, to put things simply, you both looked like good friends, or something like that." She said plainly, but somehow, she looked as if she were lying. He could just tell it in her voice and the way she looked away as she said it. "Does that satisfy you, my Tallest?" She sneered.

"Now I'm starting to hear some respect from you." He grinned, forgetting about the situation completely.

"Great! Now I just need to hear respect from you to me and we'll all be happy!" She rolled her eyes.

"But you're not happy . . . ." Red added along with the sarcasm. "How can I be happy, if you're not happy?"

"Face it; the enemies out there are not happy. The Gorokens who are blowing up are not happy. You're not happy, but then again, is your happiness any concern of mine?"

Red, speechless in defeat, couldn't think of another remark to the throw. He slumped back into his seat. He smirked at her. She smirked back. He was terribly furious with her. He wanted to get back at her. He wanted to something to her. He couldn't resist competition, but why was it he couldn't help smiling when he looked at her?

"So . . ." he started, trying to make conversation. "How did you learn the Irken language, anyway?"

"I'm fluent in language." She lied again and he could tell. Was it she wasn't good at lying, or he was excellent at knowing what was a lie, or was everything to him a lie?

Red decided to just continue with conversation anyway. "So am I. Purple too. We know all the languages ever known, including all your human languages. Cept for one. Purple doesn't know one of them."

"Oh? Which one?"

"French."

"French? That's kind of embarrassing . . ."

"Why?"

"It's a very popular language. Sometimes it's even a required language."

"Heh, I'll remember that. Something to rub on Purple later . . . ."

A scratchy voice spoke through the speaker on the vootrunner: "All cleared! They have retreated! Come back for landing!"

"All right!" Red said happily. The slapped hands. "So, let's go back in now . . . ."

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"So, what should we do with the prisoner?" The Commander asked.

"Well, we won't kill her." Said Red trying to make this go his way.

"For now, anyway." Purple interrupted. Red wouldn't get his way, Red saw that Purple was pretty much giving most of the orders. "Put her in the prison for now . . . ."

"C'était une réunion de plaisir vous, pourpre le plus grand tout- puissant." She bowed.

"God no . . . is she speaking French?" Purple slouched in his throne seat .

"Oui." Red smiled, just to mock him. "C'était une réunion de plaisir vous, mon ami humain, et remercie encore."

"La mine du plaisir." She stopped as the guards began to lead her away. She turned around once while she was walking. "Mon nom est Ri."

Red smiled. "Mon nom est Rouge."

Red kept his smile on his face, until Purple finally started staring at him, and hitting him a bit. Red didn't seem to mind anyway.

Her name was Ri.

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