Author's note: This is part two of my IZ fan fic! Good news for all of you
who enjoyed the first part (not very many, but hey, I'm grateful to ya!)
Anywho, read on and enjoy!
~The Fist Conquers All~
~Part 2~
While Purple ate the leftover food and watched TV, Xiz went to her room, still holding the curly fry. She put it on the block beside the bed and looked at it. She sighed. Wow, Kligg had given it to her and now she was going to a planet with him. She wondered what other invaders were going too. She didn't need to pack or anything because Kligg's Voot Runner would have all the.what a minute, Voot Runners are meant for one Irken and one SIR, so how would other soldiers fit in there too? He must be taking a Tooz Ship. They were designed to carry 5 soldiers and 5 SIRs.
She lay on her back and thought about Kligg. Purple came in.
"I'm going over to Red's place, he should be back from the party. We're gunna banish someone! I love banishing! Oh and stay here while I'm out, I'm expecting a delivery."
"Ok." Xiz nodded and closed her eyes, imagining Kligg was with her.
Purple took a teleporter to the main hall where Red was sitting waiting for him.
"Wow that was one of the best parties I've ever been to!" said Red leaning back.
"Where was it?"
"It was on Parteria, the party planet. They throw the best parties!" replied Red. Purple grinned.
"So, who are we gunna banish today?"
Red looked at his list.
"Oh, there's no one on it this week. Oh well, we'll banish Zxor."
"Zxor?? But who will we amuse ourselves with?"
"Oh, we'll find someone. Besides, Zxor's a threat. What if he grows? We'll send him out in a Crash Pod so he can die or something" replied Red.
"Ok" said Purple and called for Zxor.
Zxor was woken up from his rest. "Not again" he said to himself. "What is it this time?"
He accepted the incoming message from the Tallest.
"Zxor, report to the main hall now!!"
"Coming sirs" replied Zxor with a sigh.
Soon he was once again before the Tallest looking pathetic as usual.
"We have decided we've had enough of you. As from today you are banished from Irk!" said Red.
"You are banished from the Massive!" said Purple.
"And you are banished from our lives!!" they said in unison.
Zxor looked relieved. "You mean I can go?" he asked.
"Yes.in a Crash Pod!" said Purple. "Come with us."
They lead him to the ship's vehicle bay and opened the door of a Crash Pod. A crash pod is a small ship programmed not to have any steering what so ever. So it's fired out of a pod cannon and flies until it crashes into something. Then it explodes.
They got one last kick of Zxor as they kicked him into the pod. He yelped in pain and fell in crookedly.
"Comfortable?" sneered Red and slammed the door on Zxor before he could reply.
"Load it up!" yelled Purple and a robot arm came down from the ceiling, gripped the pod and inserted it into the launcher. Red pressed a button and outside the ship, Zxor's crash pod fired out of the mouth of the cannon. The Tallest watched as it disappeared from view, flying very fast. It sparkled like a star and vanished.
"Well that's the last we'll be seeing of that poor mooch" laughed Purple.
"Yeah" said Red, "lets go eat some snacks!"
Xiz turned the curly fry Kligg had given her over in her hands. Wow, it's perfect just like him! She thought to herself. Some techno Irken music played in the background. She barely heard the door open in the main quarters.
Purple poked his head round the door.
"Uh Xiz.XIZ!"
"Huh?"
"I told you to listen out for my delivery, I found it outside the quarters! You shouldn't have listened to music until it had come and what's with that curly fry??" Purple scolded her.
Xiz blushed and put the curly fry down. "It's uh, its lucky!" she said with a grin.
"A lucky fry? Ok then." Purple looked puzzled. "Come in for dinner" he said and disappeared.
Xiz groaned and sat up.
At the dinner table, which was really the couch in front of the TV, Xiz asked Purple who they'd banished.
"That Zxor guy" he replied. "We put him in a crash pod and fired him out the cannon."
Xiz looked mortified. "Zxor?" she repeated.
"Yeah, remember him? That retard wimp of an almost Tallest?" Purple shuddered on the last two words, hating to think of Zxor as almost as tall as him and Red.
Yeah, I remember him, the one who hung out with me when I had no friends, the one who gave me a band aid when I hurt my knee thought Xiz. My friend, Zxor.
A small tear ran down her cheek.
"What's wrong?" Purple asked her.
"Oh, nothing, just got some salt in my eye" replied Xiz.
After an evening of watching TV, with her dad, Xiz went to bed. She updated her electronic Irken Diary.
"Log: Zxor was banished by dad and Red today. I don't know why they did it, he was so kind to me. Dad never noticed him though, I wish he wasn't such a jerk sometimes. Tomorrow I am off to a planet called Earth with Kligg, WIR and some others. I can't wait! We're going to be going in a Tooz ship. I wonder how many others there are going to be. I hope not many because I really want to be alone with Kligg. He's so hot! I don't know how long we'll be gone but the record will be kept in here. ~Xiz.
She turned the log off.
"Lights off!" she said and immediately, the room was plunged into darkness. Xiz rolled onto her side. Yes, tomorrow would be the beginning of a great adventure for Xiz. The start of the journey to Earth!
The next morning, Xiz was up bright and early. She threw her uniform on and dashed in to have breakfast. Purple was still in bed. Xiz rushed in and threw the covers off him.
"Dad! Dad! Get up and start doing stuff! I wanna go right now!!" Purple who had no clothes on, shuddered as the blast of cold air hit his skin. He sat bolt upright.
"Aaaarrgghhhhh!!!" he yelled. "Xiz, don't do that!!" He hugged himself. Xiz threw his armour on the bed, laughed and ran out. Purple picked up his armour, sighed and got dressed. When he went in the main quarters, he found Xiz had had her breakfast and was waiting by the door with a small metal case. It held a spare uniform, her electronic log and the curly fry Kligg had given her.
"We're not going yet" said Purple and went to get a soda.
"Aww, come on!" moaned Xiz.
"You'll be sent off at the Great Meeting and it's too early for it yet" replied Purple. So Xiz had to wait.
When the time finally did come, she was so excited that when she saw Kligg she nearly hugged him. He was standing on the platform with WIR, waiting for the Tallests' dramatic arrival.
A huge congregation of other Irkens had also arrived, including the soldiers who were going with Kligg to Earth. Kligg had picked them out and brought them along for the Tallest to check and confirm he could take them.
First up was Smee and his SIR, SIR. Smee was a really thick invader with really, really long antennae, one of which had an earring in, the right one. His SIR clung to his leg and spoke gibberish on account of because the silly so and so had dropped it in water and short-circuited it. SIR was practically useless just like its master. The only reason Kligg chose him was because he was half a foot taller than Kligg and thus respected because of that.
Smee looked around, focused on the lights above and murmured "Preeeteeee!!"
Next to him was Invader Duf. Duf had been fitted with faulty ocular implants, so he wore glasses. He was a pretty regular looking Irken with a cute smile but was often teased by other Irkens because of his glasses. The Tallest had never given him a SIR, they like the others, didn't like him much. Kligg had chosen him because of his intelligence. He could fix and program anything.
Finally on the end was Invader Rast. Rast looked around, eyes glinting evilly and fingers twitching. He had a huge head in comparison to his body and an Irken symbol tattoo on his forehead. His uniform was normal colour but every other band on it was black, making it look as though he'd escaped from an Irken jailhouse. He had sharp pointed teeth and his tongue hung out over the side of his mouth. He'd dislocated it a while back in a fight and although he could still talk properly, when he relaxed it, it hung out. Rast was a destructomaniac. He'd destroyed everything, his SIR, his house, his Voot Runner. Even the ID Pac on his back. The only things he still had were a pair of guns although today he didn't even have those-Kligg had confiscated them. He didn't destroy his SIR or his ship on purpose though, that had been an accident although the Tallest wouldn't give him new ones. He stood glaring at the audience. Kligg had chosen him because he would be good at dooming people.
Xiz stood in the pod with Red and her father. She'd never been in it before. When it landed, they got onto the presentation platform and it lowered them down to the waiting audience below. Smoke surrounded the whole platform for dramatic effect. The Tallest took it in turns with lasers and smoke machines now. Today it was Purple's choice of smoke machines because his daughter was going to be the main star there. Purple was very proud of Xiz.
They finally landed and the audience cheered. Red, Purple and Xiz stepped out and Kligg walked up to them.
"My Tallest, I have chosen three likely soldiers to accompany me to the enemy planet" he announced and waved his hand at the Irkens who all stood to attention except Rast who looked at the Tallest and panted demonically.
"Very good, we will confirm them now" said Purple.
They walked over to the soldiers leaving Xiz standing next to Kligg. She inched closer to him and watched the Tallest examine the soldiers. First they looked at Smee.
"Hmm, his height is impressive" said Red.
"Yes, but he lacks smartness" replied Purple who was trying to shake SIR off his arm. The robot was clinging to it and mumbling gibberish. "Well he could always annoy the enemy to death or get his SIR to cling to them" said Red, noting SIR's clingyness.
Purple pulled a face. "Why do you think you're suited to the job, Smee?"
Smee thought for a bit then replied "Am I on TV?"
Red rolled his eyes. "Smee, do you have any experience at all?"
"Oh yes, I'm good at cooking!" said Smee looking proud.
"Well at least that's one thing" said Red, "moving on!"
Next they came to Duf. He waved shyly.
"Invader Duf?" asked Purple.
Duf nodded.
Purple said aside to Red; "him? Look at him. He's a geek. He'll be no good! His oculars are faulty for one thing."
"What can you do?" Red asked Duf.
Duf smiled and said, "Well, I.I can.I can fix and program stuff" stuttering in the very presence of the Almighty Tallest.
"How boring! You're not going with them," said Red.
"Aw let him go with them, the ship will hold 5 Irkens and 5 SIRs anyway" said Purple.
"Very well" agreed Red. Duf beamed with happiness.
Finally they moved on to Rast. Rast grinned up at them, biting into his tongue in a rather unpleasant manner.
Red shuddered. "And who are you?" he asked.
Rast saluted. "Invader Rassst!" he yelled, emphasising the "s" in his name for reasons best known to himself.
"And what do you do?" asked Purple.
"I destroy stuff! YEH!!" Rast collapsed into manic laughter.
Red rolled his eyes. "Well you should be able to destroy the inhabitants of the Earth planet then."
"Ok!" announced Purple, "the invaders are ready to go! We all wish you luck on your journey, oh, and if anything happens to Xiz I will have you all fed to the Digestor! Ok, enjoy your journey!"
Red whispered to Purple, "There are 5 Irkens and 2 SIRs, what about when they bring Zim back? There'll be no room for him on the ship."
"That's what luggage compartments are for!" grinned Purple and Red chuckled.
Now they were ready to go. All their equipment had been packed into the Tooz ship by WIR and they were ready to set off.
Kligg waved to the audience and he and Rast got into a transporter with WIR. Smee, Duf and SIR followed also waving and entered another transporter. Both transporters were headed for the docking bay where the Tooz ship awaited them.
Purple went with his daughter in a third transporter to see them off. The Tooz ship stood ready to go. It was like a larger, roomier version of the Voot Runners Irken soldiers used. It had a main bridge with several different rooms leading off of it. The bridge was at the centre and had comfy couches and a table in the middle. Two vendor machines stood opposite one another and on the ceiling above the table, there was a large skylight. There were five quarters, each with a SIR recharge unit for the Irken's robots built into the wall. Each room also had a vendor, a bed and an Irken TV as well as fold out closets and built in lighting systems. One of the doors leading off the bridge lead to the control and view centre for the pilot and another lead down to the cargo compartment where things could be stored. The exterior of the Tooz ship was red and black and the interior, shades of purple. It stood with the step platform out, ready for its passengers. Smee and SIR were the first ones to go in, followed by the inquisitive Duf and Rast looking around and chuckling at his own destructive thoughts. WIR stood by Kligg, awaiting commands.
Purple stood before Kligg, his shadow towering over them. "Ok, Xiz, be good and no annoying the soldiers. Kligg, protect her with your life. I want a transmission from you every day, Kligg to tell me how it's doing. Xiz, don't forget to write!" said Purple and Xiz ran forward and hugged him. Purple picked her up and cradled her in his arms for a moment, now frightened deep inside she might get hurt.
Kligg sniggered a little.
Xiz kissed Purple and he put her down.
"Don't worry dad, I'll send a transmission every single day!" she said. Purple smiled. "Good" he said. He only hoped she wouldn't find it all too exiting and forget him.
He waved to her and Kligg as they boarded the ship. The step platform pulled up into the ship and disappeared. Purple sighed and took a transporter back to his quarters.
Red was with the other Irkens watching the Tooz ship on the big viewer as it departed from the Massive. They were off to planet Earth!
Kligg was driving while the others checked out their quarters. The door of Kligg's quarters had a star on it with the word "Kligg" in the middle.
Smee dragged SIR along by its aerial and rushed into his quarters making ooing and aaahing sounds. Duf ran into his quarters and looked everywhere to make sure everything worked ok. Sounds of explosions and loud crashing noises came from the direction of Rast's quarters. Xiz went into her quarters and looked around. Like everything else on the ship, her quarters were also in shades of purple, much like her own back on the Massive. She opened her case, which had been placed on the bed by WIR earlier. She got out the spare uniform and hung it in the fold out closet. She put her log under her pillow where she normally kept it as well as her beloved curly fry. She hadn't bothered with the photo of Kligg, because she'd be seeing enough of him around the ship!
Suddenly her door flung open and in trotted SIR, Smee's demented robot slave.
"Oh, hello!" said Xiz. SIR made some incomprehensible noises and rushed over, clinging to her leg. Xiz looked down at it. It just stood there holding onto her and speaking gibberish. Xiz giggled as the door opened again.
"Banana apple trees! There you are SIR! Yes SIR! Come here SIR! SIR don't cling! The piggies will punish you again!!" It was Smee and he was yelling at his unruly mechanical mate. SIR ignored him defiantly. Well, what do you expect? You would if you were a robot that was dragged around, stepped on and placed in water on a regular basis!
Smee waved enthusiastically to Xiz, grabbed SIR and ran off. SIR had let go of Xiz when Smee had grabbed hold of it, which was probably just as well or Xiz might have been dragging along the floor behind it at that very moment.
Getting bored, she grabbed a Snack from the vendor and went to sit in the lounge on the bridge with it.
Kligg was still in the cockpit setting the co-ordinates for the 4-month journey that lay ahead. A Tooz ship has the ability to go into hyper drive and travel at speeds way faster than Zim's more primitive Voot Runner, so they would get there quicker than Zim ever did.
Xiz sat eating her Snack and Rast came and sat down next to her, his tongue dangling over the edge of his chin. Behind him, smoke seeped out around the door of his quarters. Evidently, his case had contained a spare pair of laser guns.
He looked at Xiz who only half noticed him there. She loved Snacks and was busily eating the one she had now. Rast leaned towards her and flicked his tongue across her cheek to get her attention.
"Hiii!" he hissed, grinning at her and biting into his tongue again in doing so.
Xiz, with a disgusted look on her face wiped his drool off her cheek and hurriedly finished her Snack.
"Who the grik are you?" she asked him with a look of distaste.
"I'm Rassst! Didn't you see me at the Great Meeting?" Xiz had to admit she'd been paying more attention to Kligg than the other soldiers they were going to travel with. She shook her head no. Rast inched closer.
"Daughter of Purple are you?" he asked knowing already what the answer would be.
"Yes. Yes I am!" replied Xiz importantly. Rast grinned again and a look of excited hunger flashed across his eyes.
"I like destroying stuff" he said thinking this would interest her.
"Good for you" said Xiz. Rast's eyes flashed.
"I know! Destroying stuff is really interesting!" he chuckled eagerly. Xiz felt sick just looking at him.
Whenever he stopped talking, his tongue fell out over the side of his mouth and dangled there, occasionally dripping a little. He watched her wordlessly. Xiz looked back at him and started to feel uncomfortable so she turned away.
Looking across to the other side of the lounge she saw Duf getting a snack from the vendor with SIR hanging onto one of his antennae. She felt a tug on one of her own antennae and looked round. It was Rast.
"Hi!" he purred.
Xiz got up and went over to Duf.
"Hi!" she said.
"Oh, hello!" replied Duf wiggling his antennae (or at least the one that didn't have a robot attached) in salute.
"I'm Xiz, who are you?" asked Xiz.
"D.duf" replied Duf stuttering as once again he was in the presence of a superior. Soon Xiz had met everyone on the ship and they'd all met each other too.
She finally got bored and in an attempt to make up an excuse as to why she couldn't have destruction demonstrations by Rast, she went to the cockpit to see Kligg. WIR was with him.
"Have you nearly finished setting the co-ordinates yet?" she asked him.
"Yeah, I'll be able to bloody well put the damn thing into auto pilot soon" he replied.
"Wwwwwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrrr.my Lord needs rest" said WIR.
"Shut up you fuckin' tin can!!" yelled Kligg.
"See??" said WIR. Luckily it didn't take Kligg much longer to finish setting the co ordinates so finally the Tooz ship had enough information to take them to Earth automatically.
Kligg came and sat on the couch next to Xiz. Rast and Smee were playing a computer game competitively against each other. Duf was reading.
The computer game blew up.
Yep, it was gunna be a very long journey!
What has happened to Zxor? Does Rast have a thing for Xiz? And WHY do the piggies punish SIR?? Find out in the next exciting part of The Fist Conquers All!! Coming soon to a computer near you!
~The Fist Conquers All~
~Part 2~
While Purple ate the leftover food and watched TV, Xiz went to her room, still holding the curly fry. She put it on the block beside the bed and looked at it. She sighed. Wow, Kligg had given it to her and now she was going to a planet with him. She wondered what other invaders were going too. She didn't need to pack or anything because Kligg's Voot Runner would have all the.what a minute, Voot Runners are meant for one Irken and one SIR, so how would other soldiers fit in there too? He must be taking a Tooz Ship. They were designed to carry 5 soldiers and 5 SIRs.
She lay on her back and thought about Kligg. Purple came in.
"I'm going over to Red's place, he should be back from the party. We're gunna banish someone! I love banishing! Oh and stay here while I'm out, I'm expecting a delivery."
"Ok." Xiz nodded and closed her eyes, imagining Kligg was with her.
Purple took a teleporter to the main hall where Red was sitting waiting for him.
"Wow that was one of the best parties I've ever been to!" said Red leaning back.
"Where was it?"
"It was on Parteria, the party planet. They throw the best parties!" replied Red. Purple grinned.
"So, who are we gunna banish today?"
Red looked at his list.
"Oh, there's no one on it this week. Oh well, we'll banish Zxor."
"Zxor?? But who will we amuse ourselves with?"
"Oh, we'll find someone. Besides, Zxor's a threat. What if he grows? We'll send him out in a Crash Pod so he can die or something" replied Red.
"Ok" said Purple and called for Zxor.
Zxor was woken up from his rest. "Not again" he said to himself. "What is it this time?"
He accepted the incoming message from the Tallest.
"Zxor, report to the main hall now!!"
"Coming sirs" replied Zxor with a sigh.
Soon he was once again before the Tallest looking pathetic as usual.
"We have decided we've had enough of you. As from today you are banished from Irk!" said Red.
"You are banished from the Massive!" said Purple.
"And you are banished from our lives!!" they said in unison.
Zxor looked relieved. "You mean I can go?" he asked.
"Yes.in a Crash Pod!" said Purple. "Come with us."
They lead him to the ship's vehicle bay and opened the door of a Crash Pod. A crash pod is a small ship programmed not to have any steering what so ever. So it's fired out of a pod cannon and flies until it crashes into something. Then it explodes.
They got one last kick of Zxor as they kicked him into the pod. He yelped in pain and fell in crookedly.
"Comfortable?" sneered Red and slammed the door on Zxor before he could reply.
"Load it up!" yelled Purple and a robot arm came down from the ceiling, gripped the pod and inserted it into the launcher. Red pressed a button and outside the ship, Zxor's crash pod fired out of the mouth of the cannon. The Tallest watched as it disappeared from view, flying very fast. It sparkled like a star and vanished.
"Well that's the last we'll be seeing of that poor mooch" laughed Purple.
"Yeah" said Red, "lets go eat some snacks!"
Xiz turned the curly fry Kligg had given her over in her hands. Wow, it's perfect just like him! She thought to herself. Some techno Irken music played in the background. She barely heard the door open in the main quarters.
Purple poked his head round the door.
"Uh Xiz.XIZ!"
"Huh?"
"I told you to listen out for my delivery, I found it outside the quarters! You shouldn't have listened to music until it had come and what's with that curly fry??" Purple scolded her.
Xiz blushed and put the curly fry down. "It's uh, its lucky!" she said with a grin.
"A lucky fry? Ok then." Purple looked puzzled. "Come in for dinner" he said and disappeared.
Xiz groaned and sat up.
At the dinner table, which was really the couch in front of the TV, Xiz asked Purple who they'd banished.
"That Zxor guy" he replied. "We put him in a crash pod and fired him out the cannon."
Xiz looked mortified. "Zxor?" she repeated.
"Yeah, remember him? That retard wimp of an almost Tallest?" Purple shuddered on the last two words, hating to think of Zxor as almost as tall as him and Red.
Yeah, I remember him, the one who hung out with me when I had no friends, the one who gave me a band aid when I hurt my knee thought Xiz. My friend, Zxor.
A small tear ran down her cheek.
"What's wrong?" Purple asked her.
"Oh, nothing, just got some salt in my eye" replied Xiz.
After an evening of watching TV, with her dad, Xiz went to bed. She updated her electronic Irken Diary.
"Log: Zxor was banished by dad and Red today. I don't know why they did it, he was so kind to me. Dad never noticed him though, I wish he wasn't such a jerk sometimes. Tomorrow I am off to a planet called Earth with Kligg, WIR and some others. I can't wait! We're going to be going in a Tooz ship. I wonder how many others there are going to be. I hope not many because I really want to be alone with Kligg. He's so hot! I don't know how long we'll be gone but the record will be kept in here. ~Xiz.
She turned the log off.
"Lights off!" she said and immediately, the room was plunged into darkness. Xiz rolled onto her side. Yes, tomorrow would be the beginning of a great adventure for Xiz. The start of the journey to Earth!
The next morning, Xiz was up bright and early. She threw her uniform on and dashed in to have breakfast. Purple was still in bed. Xiz rushed in and threw the covers off him.
"Dad! Dad! Get up and start doing stuff! I wanna go right now!!" Purple who had no clothes on, shuddered as the blast of cold air hit his skin. He sat bolt upright.
"Aaaarrgghhhhh!!!" he yelled. "Xiz, don't do that!!" He hugged himself. Xiz threw his armour on the bed, laughed and ran out. Purple picked up his armour, sighed and got dressed. When he went in the main quarters, he found Xiz had had her breakfast and was waiting by the door with a small metal case. It held a spare uniform, her electronic log and the curly fry Kligg had given her.
"We're not going yet" said Purple and went to get a soda.
"Aww, come on!" moaned Xiz.
"You'll be sent off at the Great Meeting and it's too early for it yet" replied Purple. So Xiz had to wait.
When the time finally did come, she was so excited that when she saw Kligg she nearly hugged him. He was standing on the platform with WIR, waiting for the Tallests' dramatic arrival.
A huge congregation of other Irkens had also arrived, including the soldiers who were going with Kligg to Earth. Kligg had picked them out and brought them along for the Tallest to check and confirm he could take them.
First up was Smee and his SIR, SIR. Smee was a really thick invader with really, really long antennae, one of which had an earring in, the right one. His SIR clung to his leg and spoke gibberish on account of because the silly so and so had dropped it in water and short-circuited it. SIR was practically useless just like its master. The only reason Kligg chose him was because he was half a foot taller than Kligg and thus respected because of that.
Smee looked around, focused on the lights above and murmured "Preeeteeee!!"
Next to him was Invader Duf. Duf had been fitted with faulty ocular implants, so he wore glasses. He was a pretty regular looking Irken with a cute smile but was often teased by other Irkens because of his glasses. The Tallest had never given him a SIR, they like the others, didn't like him much. Kligg had chosen him because of his intelligence. He could fix and program anything.
Finally on the end was Invader Rast. Rast looked around, eyes glinting evilly and fingers twitching. He had a huge head in comparison to his body and an Irken symbol tattoo on his forehead. His uniform was normal colour but every other band on it was black, making it look as though he'd escaped from an Irken jailhouse. He had sharp pointed teeth and his tongue hung out over the side of his mouth. He'd dislocated it a while back in a fight and although he could still talk properly, when he relaxed it, it hung out. Rast was a destructomaniac. He'd destroyed everything, his SIR, his house, his Voot Runner. Even the ID Pac on his back. The only things he still had were a pair of guns although today he didn't even have those-Kligg had confiscated them. He didn't destroy his SIR or his ship on purpose though, that had been an accident although the Tallest wouldn't give him new ones. He stood glaring at the audience. Kligg had chosen him because he would be good at dooming people.
Xiz stood in the pod with Red and her father. She'd never been in it before. When it landed, they got onto the presentation platform and it lowered them down to the waiting audience below. Smoke surrounded the whole platform for dramatic effect. The Tallest took it in turns with lasers and smoke machines now. Today it was Purple's choice of smoke machines because his daughter was going to be the main star there. Purple was very proud of Xiz.
They finally landed and the audience cheered. Red, Purple and Xiz stepped out and Kligg walked up to them.
"My Tallest, I have chosen three likely soldiers to accompany me to the enemy planet" he announced and waved his hand at the Irkens who all stood to attention except Rast who looked at the Tallest and panted demonically.
"Very good, we will confirm them now" said Purple.
They walked over to the soldiers leaving Xiz standing next to Kligg. She inched closer to him and watched the Tallest examine the soldiers. First they looked at Smee.
"Hmm, his height is impressive" said Red.
"Yes, but he lacks smartness" replied Purple who was trying to shake SIR off his arm. The robot was clinging to it and mumbling gibberish. "Well he could always annoy the enemy to death or get his SIR to cling to them" said Red, noting SIR's clingyness.
Purple pulled a face. "Why do you think you're suited to the job, Smee?"
Smee thought for a bit then replied "Am I on TV?"
Red rolled his eyes. "Smee, do you have any experience at all?"
"Oh yes, I'm good at cooking!" said Smee looking proud.
"Well at least that's one thing" said Red, "moving on!"
Next they came to Duf. He waved shyly.
"Invader Duf?" asked Purple.
Duf nodded.
Purple said aside to Red; "him? Look at him. He's a geek. He'll be no good! His oculars are faulty for one thing."
"What can you do?" Red asked Duf.
Duf smiled and said, "Well, I.I can.I can fix and program stuff" stuttering in the very presence of the Almighty Tallest.
"How boring! You're not going with them," said Red.
"Aw let him go with them, the ship will hold 5 Irkens and 5 SIRs anyway" said Purple.
"Very well" agreed Red. Duf beamed with happiness.
Finally they moved on to Rast. Rast grinned up at them, biting into his tongue in a rather unpleasant manner.
Red shuddered. "And who are you?" he asked.
Rast saluted. "Invader Rassst!" he yelled, emphasising the "s" in his name for reasons best known to himself.
"And what do you do?" asked Purple.
"I destroy stuff! YEH!!" Rast collapsed into manic laughter.
Red rolled his eyes. "Well you should be able to destroy the inhabitants of the Earth planet then."
"Ok!" announced Purple, "the invaders are ready to go! We all wish you luck on your journey, oh, and if anything happens to Xiz I will have you all fed to the Digestor! Ok, enjoy your journey!"
Red whispered to Purple, "There are 5 Irkens and 2 SIRs, what about when they bring Zim back? There'll be no room for him on the ship."
"That's what luggage compartments are for!" grinned Purple and Red chuckled.
Now they were ready to go. All their equipment had been packed into the Tooz ship by WIR and they were ready to set off.
Kligg waved to the audience and he and Rast got into a transporter with WIR. Smee, Duf and SIR followed also waving and entered another transporter. Both transporters were headed for the docking bay where the Tooz ship awaited them.
Purple went with his daughter in a third transporter to see them off. The Tooz ship stood ready to go. It was like a larger, roomier version of the Voot Runners Irken soldiers used. It had a main bridge with several different rooms leading off of it. The bridge was at the centre and had comfy couches and a table in the middle. Two vendor machines stood opposite one another and on the ceiling above the table, there was a large skylight. There were five quarters, each with a SIR recharge unit for the Irken's robots built into the wall. Each room also had a vendor, a bed and an Irken TV as well as fold out closets and built in lighting systems. One of the doors leading off the bridge lead to the control and view centre for the pilot and another lead down to the cargo compartment where things could be stored. The exterior of the Tooz ship was red and black and the interior, shades of purple. It stood with the step platform out, ready for its passengers. Smee and SIR were the first ones to go in, followed by the inquisitive Duf and Rast looking around and chuckling at his own destructive thoughts. WIR stood by Kligg, awaiting commands.
Purple stood before Kligg, his shadow towering over them. "Ok, Xiz, be good and no annoying the soldiers. Kligg, protect her with your life. I want a transmission from you every day, Kligg to tell me how it's doing. Xiz, don't forget to write!" said Purple and Xiz ran forward and hugged him. Purple picked her up and cradled her in his arms for a moment, now frightened deep inside she might get hurt.
Kligg sniggered a little.
Xiz kissed Purple and he put her down.
"Don't worry dad, I'll send a transmission every single day!" she said. Purple smiled. "Good" he said. He only hoped she wouldn't find it all too exiting and forget him.
He waved to her and Kligg as they boarded the ship. The step platform pulled up into the ship and disappeared. Purple sighed and took a transporter back to his quarters.
Red was with the other Irkens watching the Tooz ship on the big viewer as it departed from the Massive. They were off to planet Earth!
Kligg was driving while the others checked out their quarters. The door of Kligg's quarters had a star on it with the word "Kligg" in the middle.
Smee dragged SIR along by its aerial and rushed into his quarters making ooing and aaahing sounds. Duf ran into his quarters and looked everywhere to make sure everything worked ok. Sounds of explosions and loud crashing noises came from the direction of Rast's quarters. Xiz went into her quarters and looked around. Like everything else on the ship, her quarters were also in shades of purple, much like her own back on the Massive. She opened her case, which had been placed on the bed by WIR earlier. She got out the spare uniform and hung it in the fold out closet. She put her log under her pillow where she normally kept it as well as her beloved curly fry. She hadn't bothered with the photo of Kligg, because she'd be seeing enough of him around the ship!
Suddenly her door flung open and in trotted SIR, Smee's demented robot slave.
"Oh, hello!" said Xiz. SIR made some incomprehensible noises and rushed over, clinging to her leg. Xiz looked down at it. It just stood there holding onto her and speaking gibberish. Xiz giggled as the door opened again.
"Banana apple trees! There you are SIR! Yes SIR! Come here SIR! SIR don't cling! The piggies will punish you again!!" It was Smee and he was yelling at his unruly mechanical mate. SIR ignored him defiantly. Well, what do you expect? You would if you were a robot that was dragged around, stepped on and placed in water on a regular basis!
Smee waved enthusiastically to Xiz, grabbed SIR and ran off. SIR had let go of Xiz when Smee had grabbed hold of it, which was probably just as well or Xiz might have been dragging along the floor behind it at that very moment.
Getting bored, she grabbed a Snack from the vendor and went to sit in the lounge on the bridge with it.
Kligg was still in the cockpit setting the co-ordinates for the 4-month journey that lay ahead. A Tooz ship has the ability to go into hyper drive and travel at speeds way faster than Zim's more primitive Voot Runner, so they would get there quicker than Zim ever did.
Xiz sat eating her Snack and Rast came and sat down next to her, his tongue dangling over the edge of his chin. Behind him, smoke seeped out around the door of his quarters. Evidently, his case had contained a spare pair of laser guns.
He looked at Xiz who only half noticed him there. She loved Snacks and was busily eating the one she had now. Rast leaned towards her and flicked his tongue across her cheek to get her attention.
"Hiii!" he hissed, grinning at her and biting into his tongue again in doing so.
Xiz, with a disgusted look on her face wiped his drool off her cheek and hurriedly finished her Snack.
"Who the grik are you?" she asked him with a look of distaste.
"I'm Rassst! Didn't you see me at the Great Meeting?" Xiz had to admit she'd been paying more attention to Kligg than the other soldiers they were going to travel with. She shook her head no. Rast inched closer.
"Daughter of Purple are you?" he asked knowing already what the answer would be.
"Yes. Yes I am!" replied Xiz importantly. Rast grinned again and a look of excited hunger flashed across his eyes.
"I like destroying stuff" he said thinking this would interest her.
"Good for you" said Xiz. Rast's eyes flashed.
"I know! Destroying stuff is really interesting!" he chuckled eagerly. Xiz felt sick just looking at him.
Whenever he stopped talking, his tongue fell out over the side of his mouth and dangled there, occasionally dripping a little. He watched her wordlessly. Xiz looked back at him and started to feel uncomfortable so she turned away.
Looking across to the other side of the lounge she saw Duf getting a snack from the vendor with SIR hanging onto one of his antennae. She felt a tug on one of her own antennae and looked round. It was Rast.
"Hi!" he purred.
Xiz got up and went over to Duf.
"Hi!" she said.
"Oh, hello!" replied Duf wiggling his antennae (or at least the one that didn't have a robot attached) in salute.
"I'm Xiz, who are you?" asked Xiz.
"D.duf" replied Duf stuttering as once again he was in the presence of a superior. Soon Xiz had met everyone on the ship and they'd all met each other too.
She finally got bored and in an attempt to make up an excuse as to why she couldn't have destruction demonstrations by Rast, she went to the cockpit to see Kligg. WIR was with him.
"Have you nearly finished setting the co-ordinates yet?" she asked him.
"Yeah, I'll be able to bloody well put the damn thing into auto pilot soon" he replied.
"Wwwwwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrrr.my Lord needs rest" said WIR.
"Shut up you fuckin' tin can!!" yelled Kligg.
"See??" said WIR. Luckily it didn't take Kligg much longer to finish setting the co ordinates so finally the Tooz ship had enough information to take them to Earth automatically.
Kligg came and sat on the couch next to Xiz. Rast and Smee were playing a computer game competitively against each other. Duf was reading.
The computer game blew up.
Yep, it was gunna be a very long journey!
What has happened to Zxor? Does Rast have a thing for Xiz? And WHY do the piggies punish SIR?? Find out in the next exciting part of The Fist Conquers All!! Coming soon to a computer near you!