Arco VIII
As Gaz and Gir jetted out into space, Zim and Juelia were dragged into what looked like a command center. They were unconscious due to the tranquilizers that were shot into their systems.
"This is perfect," Qui purred as she entered the area. She walked around the now tied up pair and practically studied Zim. She smiled when she noticed that he was about to wake.
"Eh, what is this. Where am I?" Zim demanded, looking at the other irken soldiers square in the eyes. He failed to see Qui standing to his right.
"Who's responsible for this? Is it you? Or is it you? How about you, chubby?" Zim asked, receiving less than pleased looks from the guards.
"It was I, Zim," Qui responded walking into plain sight.
"And who are you?"
"I am sorry, we have not personally met. I am Qui," she said politely. She waved for the soldiers to untie him.
"I like you, Zim. Of course, who would not."
"What are you talking about? I want out of here, now! I want my friends too."
"Such a hurry, aren't you Invader Zim, the sole reason Earth will crumble."
"No, I am not apart of the Empire or Irk for that matter," Zim said hotly.
"Really. So the Tallest gave you the boot as well, huh?" she said sadly.
"Wait, the . . . you mean you're not with . . . well, what are you doing out here then?" Zim asked confused.
"Come with me Zim, and I will explain how your future should be," Qui voiced leading Zim, who was very wary of the female irken, to a separate room. Meanwhile, Red sat next to and tried to comfort an inconsolable Dib. He ran throughout the whole library, earlier, ripping out books and wiping them open, tearing out pages of pictures, and crying. Everything in the room was remotely related to his family. What disturbed him the most, however, were photos of his mother plastered all over the walls.
"We have to get out of here," Red said feeling dread entering the room. Dib nodded, even though he didn't want to leave. He had grabbed a few pictures, such as those of his mother. As they stood to go, three guards, marched in.
"Where do you think you're going?" one said. The two frowned and gave in without a fight due to Dib's emotional upheaval and Red's exhaustion. They were lead back to a room that didn't seem threatening, but they were still wary of their surroundings.
"Qui has important business to attend to, the testing will continue later, humans," one of the taller guards barked. He closed the door and activated the computerized lock, before standing at the entrance of the hall.
"This is wonderful," Red whispered, spitefully.
"There might be a way out of here," Dib said, pacing the floor of the cell. The girl followed suit, and both searched for a possible escape. None was found after hours of seeking and eventually, the long day took its toll. The two sat down and soon drifted off to a not so pleasant sleep. Meanwhile, back on Earth, Gaz tried to formulate the best plan to get everyone back safely. She would need help though if she wanted the outcome to be as planned.
"Maybe you should ask the yellow-headed human," Gir suggested from his seat on Gaz's bed.
"I don't know, he doesn't seem like the type who can handle this," Gaz said, "But it's that or dad." She looked at what needed to be done again. Zim had said to hit the control room, and she knew that even if the Vootrunner was larger, her, Dib, Zim, Red, Juelia, Max, Gir, Chris and her father, would be way too much for it.
"We're not all going to fit, but I can't be in two places at one time, plus Zim never tells anyone what to do in the control room," Gaz fumed. Gir danced over to where the girl stood, near the door, and screamed loudly before turning on his jets and zooming out the open window.
"Gir!"
"What's going on up there, you've been making noise all night?" Gaz heard her father's voice as he neared her door. She opened the closed entrance and looked up to see him looking down at her.
"Look, Dib's been captured by Irkens and now I have to go save him, I suggest we start now," Gaz said quite seriously and evenly.
"Not you too. What's all this nonsense?" As those words left his mouth, Gir slammed the Vootrunner through the window and wall of Gaz's room, sending a plume of concrete dust in the air. The Professor stared in horror at the at the spacecraft that was now nestled in the wall, with Gir waving back at him from behind the glass.
"Does that look like nonsense to you."
As Gaz tried to explain, Qui tried to convince Zim to come back with her to Irk and become distinguished. The tricky, female irken figured that Zim would come crawling back to the Empire if given the right circumstances. She had known the invader for quite a long time and heard of his blunders and mistakes in the past. He reminded her of herself when she started out. That's why she was in this predicament to begin with.
~ ~ ~ "I can't believe it, my own mission to the most serious threat to the Irken Empire," a younger Qui voiced in her newly assigned Vootcruiser. Her fully operational sir unit sat at her side as she neared a bluish planet. Once landed she performed her standard invaders' proceeders such as blending in with the life forms around her. To her surprise, the inteligentes weren't that different from irkens when it came to wanting universal conquest. Qui soon found herself caught in an event that was proclaimed as the answer to the 'Irken Issue'.
As she seated herself along with other inteligentes in her genius disguise, another being of this planet took the stage. The creature had blue, spheres for eyes like most had, and black skin.
"We have found a place where creatures are still primitive, but yet show potential," he spoke with a smooth voice. A small cart was pushed out with a small, pale being laying face down upon it. Everyone in the building leaned closer to get a better look.
"I, Lisher, have found the perfect weapon," he smiled as the little creature lifted it's head up to reveal it's large amber eyes.
"What are they," one inteligente asked. Qui started to become a little anxious. She didn't know if the Tallest knew about this and if it was a significant threat, but the more she listened the worse it sounded. Learning only so much about the creature, due to the fact others began cheering, she relayed the information back to her leaders. They ordered that she destroy the creature, so as an obedient soldier she snuck into the compound on a mission to destroy. What she found was more than she bargained for.
The irken discovered two of them, one obviously a baby compared to the other one who was a female. Qui looked at them, not seeing the damage that the infant, she saw earlier, could do. She was still shocked by how tall and odd these creatures were, with their eyes and mouths not to mention the bumps in the middle and sides of their heads. Humans are what they were called and so that's what she referred to it as.
"Human?" she said carefully. The older human looked up with tears in her eyes clutching the little one, bundled in a colorful blanket, closer.
"What do you want? You savage, you're not taking him again!" the human growled. Qui was shocked by the combativeness in the woman's voice, but then remembered she was still in disguise.
"No. I'm not who you think I am," Qui said fading back to her irken form.
"Are...are you hear to help us?" This question was soon to haunt her for the rest of her life. She rescued the woman and her baby from the imprisonment, taking them back to her home base. She never got the name of the purple haired woman, but the little boy's name came up once or twice as Dib. With the help of Qui's irken technology and some stolen inteligente equipment, she was able to build a teleporter.
"Thank you," the human woman said as Qui punched in coordinates. Before she sent them off, however, she took the liberty of erasing the human's memories of this whole incident to cover her identity just in case. ~ ~ ~
"Then what happened?" Zim asked, interested in the story being told to him.
"Then I was discovered by that teleportation, they knew there was an invader. I was chased off and returned home only to be punished for not following orders."
"So, you're the one. The irken who let the big one go," Zim said as if in awe to be in the presence of such a blunder. Qui looked ashamed. Zim quickly finished up with, "At least I wasn't the only one to screw up big time."
"Yes, but now I have him, and this time I won't let him go," Qui said coldly.
*~ All right this is Chapter eight, but I'm going to have to start using regular numbers for the title instead of the Roman numbers, for I only know up to ten. Anyway, I hope to enjoy.