(As Zim's laboratory starts to darken, the scene from which we have just left fades, and is replaced by darkness.

A darkness, which is, later, illuminated, solely, by two, lonely, purple eyes)

~

It was cold.

As her lilac eyes surveyed the room around her, all that Tak could observe was no more than mere darkness. Emptiness. The last thing that she can recollect was that her Tallests had instructed her to pull the lever within her escape pod: interestingly, she had never seen that lever, before when she redesigned the old Spittle Runner that she found on that old, dirty planet, so long ago…….

However, Tak realised that she was no longer unconscious. It seemed obvious: she could actually feel the blast of cold air blowing on her smooth lime skin, and she could feel the hardness and the rough texture of the object her back and seat were resting upon: she could roughly guess that she was in an upright stationery position, her back being straight, but her legs bent. She groped around for the thing that she was sitting on, and felt it to be a smooth, uncomfortable, metal chair.

Had it been a dream, none of the few observations above would matter to her: everything would be somewhat more surreal. Also, if she had pinched her own hide, she would awoken from her own illusion: here, pinching, very hard, resulted only in a momentary discomfort.

This was not a dream.

"I'm awake."

But if, so… where was she ? Why was she made to sit on this metallic chair ? Was she to be interrogated ? For what ? The Tallests had just given her the promotion she had desired for a proportion of her life; being interrogated just after such a moment would seem rather… ironic.

But what was there to be interrogated about ? There's nothing much on Earth… oh wait, she did botch her job. But surely the Tallests would have overlooked that. And besides, it was Zim's fault ! He, and his pathetic human accomplices !

"This is all Zim's fault ! I'll get you… Zim !"

But, wait: why was she on Earth in the first place ?

Because she ran away.

From her own assigned duty.

And that was a crime.

As these thoughts passed by her head, a flash of light appeared, and soon centred itself on Tak.

"Where am I ? What is going on here ? Is anyone here ?"

That was all that Tak could blurt out, wary of the dark surroundings, as she remained in the uneasy sanctuary of the threatening light that shone on her.

As Tak was soon greeted, by a familiar visage.

~

(the scene quickly shifts to another place, back on Earth, where we find a young boy, with a swollen head, and swollen eyeballs, working on his latest finding, within the confines of his own backyard)

~

Swollen eyeballs watched the object before him.

A while back, Dib had used this control pad to manouver a nanobot within the depths of his body to chase away an alien. Now, he was modifying the pad, to control something that was actually alien in origon.

And, with the closure of the final screw, after a few hours of reconfiguration, and rewiring, it was complete.

As he placed the pad within the right pocket of his coat, he stared athe ship within his possession.

Dib was still amazed at the discovery.

It was an alien ship. ALIEN ! Yes !

Hah !

Those people that laughed at him would be sorry now. Dib gave a slight chuckle, as he started to envision the possibilities before him….

~

"And tonight, on Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mysteries, we present to you, for the first time, ACTUAL proof of alien technology !"

(we are then confronted with a scene from the supposed episode, where Dib would be showing off Tak's modified Spittle Runner to the host of Mysterious mysteries")

"And now for the latest headlines: It's been confirmed. Aliens DO exist. Apparently, a young boy, by the name of Dib, has found remnants of supposed alien technology in what appears to be what is described as a wrecked alien space craft…"

(just as the fake Mysterious Mysteries scene fades, it is replaced by an actual new report, with a female news reporter in usual, formal, garb, reading from her papers, and with a picture of Dib and Tak's ship just in the northern right corner, not far from her shoulder.)

"Dib, what do you have to say about finding this ship…."

Dib could see it now. He could picture an actual news reporter, with his hat, a pencil in hand, a memo pad in the other, all ready to take down information from Dib.

"All I can say is that, we are finally not alone !"

"True indeed, Dib."

As the reporter would say this, he would, like a proud peacock, bend his arms, and place them at both sides, in a noble gesture.

"Congratulations Dib !"

This time, that would be the voice of the scientific community. He could feel it, the slight heaviness of the trophy, which he would, after a few minutes of trying to balance, would prove impossible for himself to carry.

"You surely are a son worthy of the great Prof. Membrane !"

"Aaaahhhhh !"

As the trophy would fall on Dib's humongous (Hey! -Dib) head, he could still grin about, as he was basking about in the glory of making the greatest discovery known to Mankind.

"I am proud of you son ! If only your mother was here to see you…"

He could feel the tears of his father, dripping from those vaguely opaque plexiglass spectacles, falling oto his arm, and the warmth of his father's love, as he would embrace him.

"Thanks dad."

It was all there… it was all there….

"Where is Dib ?!"

~

His father did not say that.

In fact, he was no longer fantasizing.

He was still Dib, son of Prof. Membrane. He was still a normal, or rather, abnormal boy, all obsessed with the paranormal to his fellow students.

And he still had an annoying sister.

"You drank the last soda. Again."

Oh boy.

"Gaz, I can explain…"

Dib started to back away, his arms spread out, clutching the shell of his craft, as he sister menacingly approached him.

"No need to explain. I will destroy you."

She said that in a very calm, relaxed mood. This, however, still terrified her brother.

However, Gaz's attention towards her brother was, momentarily, diverted.

"I never seen that piece of junk before. Where did you get it ?"

Dib felt insulted.

"This is NOT junk ! It's an alien space craft ! "

"Yeah, whatever. As if ANYONE would buy that…"

"But it IS an alien spacecraft ! Really ! It came out from the sky…."

"And I still say it's junk."

"Fine !"

Dib decided to ignore his sister. He still had one more test to carry out, before he could safely say that he was successful.

~

"Cool. What game is that now ?"

"It's not a game Gaz: I'm using this control pad to move this ship around."

As Dib said this, he activated the controls.

This simultaneously brought the alien craft to life. It's headlights came on, it emanated an odd sound, and, slowly, started to hover.

Also, the pad, equipped with a screen, to give it a similar look to the Game Slave 2, allowed Dib from the perspective of the space craft he now owned. He could not only ride the ship within the cockpit, he could also control it outside, with the pad he now had.

"It works."

"Yeah. Now, let me try…"

Dib felt reluctant at first, until he realised a similar incident, a while back….

"Go ahead."

~

Gaz, with her eyes closed and her thumbs nimble, carefully observed the control pad within her.

The ship seemed rather easy to move.

Let's go for a spin, thought she.

~

"Hey Jimmy, have you seen an alien spacecraft pass by down 'ere ?"

The man that said this was sitting on a park bench, with his buddy. Both of them were drinking beer, until the younger of the two caught sight of a speeding object.

"Ya know what Joe ? You're been taking too much beer. Gimme that can."

~

(we then see Tak's ship, now owned by Dib, and controlled by Gaz by remote control, crusing around the city an breakneck speed.

Much to the alarm of the citizens)

"What's that ?"

"Is it a plane ?"

"Is it an alien space craft ?"

"No, stupid: it's a shooting star !"

~

"Aliens! ALIENS !!!!!

THEY'RE COMING !!!!!!!"

As the actor said this, the applause from the audience in the open air amphitheatre grew, in appreciation of the actor's good acting.

However, this applause died down, as the audience noticed the reckless ship in the sky, despite the continued frenzy of the dedicated actor.

"THE ALIENS ARE COMING FOR US !!!!!!"

~

As Gaz continued to move the craft, it soon came to rest, at exactly the same spot from which it began it's short stroll throughout the city.

Dib was in amazement at the capabilities of his new ship.

"Woah…"

"This game is stupid. Where's the weapons ?!"

"Um… I haven't found any, except for the stun gun I just added…."

Dib would regret he said that, as Gaz flicked a switch, a short burst of electrical energy erupted from a small cannon on the side of the gunship, and hit Dib in the leg.

~

(we soon return to Tak's position. She is still seated on her cold, metallic chair, as she is confronted by a familiar visage)

The creature before her was very alien, and yet, all too familiar, for she had numerous encounters with this type of being.

It bore numerous eyes, and had long, snake-like tentacles, capable of it's many duties. It's body was large and oval in shape, and had a number of eyes, all emerald in colour. It's body was a hard, metal shell, like that of a robot's, the same going for it's eyes, and it's tentacles.

However, for those that are not familiar with Irken society, this creature was not a robot. It was completely Irken, though how an Irken ended up being trapped inside a shell with many tentacles would delude many, although it was suggested that the being was nothing more than an Irken with an enormous head.

For it was the control brain.

And, to Tak, it was the same control brain that briefed her on Devastis.

And denied her the ability to retake her training.

~

"Greetings, Tak."

"Why am I here…"

"I'm not surprised you asked that question."

Tak turned round, and soon found, to her amazement, a tall figure approach her.

It was none other, than the Purple Tallest.

The room was now completely illuminated, upon the entrance of the Tallests, the Purple Tallest coming first, followed by the Red Tallest.

The room was of medium size, and featured only a large screen; that, being connected by a cable to the Control Brain in front of her.

The Tallests had their arms crossed, as they stared at Tak.

"What's going on ?"

~

"So, Operation Impending Doom 2 is not over yet ?"

"I'm afraid it's not."

As the Purple Tallest said this, an image started to appear on the screen.

It showed an Irken, a female, around about her age, but with crimson eyes, being pulled away by what seemed to be two flying aliens that resembled, interestingly, to a pair of Earthanoid footwear, except that it was flying, with it's shoe laces being it's wings.

Both aliens had a lace that dragged the Irken away, as she seemed to be crying out in vain.

"This, Tak, is Invader Tenn. She was captured by the Meekrob a while back, as a failed revolt resulted in a mistake in shipment. She received a faulty shipment of SIR units actually meant for Zim…."

"Yeah, and Zim blew up the Megadoomer he received !"

"You sent Zim a Megadoomer ?!"

"Um, no we didn't. It was for Tenn, but, well, let's just say the revolt caused a mishap."

The next image that appeared on the screen showed what appeared to be a large number of SIR units, all faulty, practically wrecking an Irken base. A female Irken, the same as the one in the previous image, had her mouth open in anxiety and fear.

"Oh my…"

"So, we are now facing the Meekrob on their home planet. Operation Impending Doom 2 is almost finished, except for two things: the Meekrob, and Zim."

"Earth ? But, why ?"

"I knew you would ask. Here's the reason."

~

The image shocked Tak completely.

It appeared to be an image of a Meekrob ship, heading straight for a large sphere, that was blue in colour, with patches of brown and green, and with white at the top and bottom.

It was the planet she was supposed to conquer.

"But… why ?"

"The Meekrob have found out a lot about our plans, and are now creating a fierce resistance for us, along with a number of our races."

"Yeah, it's been a hard time for our… big space ship gang !"

"The Armada !"

"Umm.. Yeah !"

"Anyway, the Meekrob now know about the planets that were involved in Operation Impending Doom 2, and are forming what they call, a 'Resisty'

And they want to add the primitive planet known as Earth to their resistance".

Tak realized that the reason why she was in her current position was not because she was being interrogated, but rather, because she was being briefed. On a VERY special mission.

"The big space ship gang…"

"ARMADA ! For the last time, it's called the ARMADA !!!"

"Okay, okay. Anyway, yeah, we've been a bit busy with the Resisty and all that, but, we need to also capture Earth first. The resisty would be making it's way there, and we can't let THAT happen !"

"Which is why we're promoting you, and sending you back to Earth.

Also, there a few other reasons why Earth needs to be conquered, but there is one main one."

"I know…"

"Zim."

~

To be continued…………..