Chapter Two

The Beginning's End



"DEFCON FOUR!!" ZIM called out to his computer.

"Defcon 4 activated, Defcon 4 activated, please remove yourself from the building." ZIM's computer repeated.

"Good . . . very good." ZIM rubbed his hands together and started again, "If GIR can't get past Defcon 4, then no one can!"

"Intruder alert, intruder alert. Foreign body located on premises and locked on target. Commence removal procedures?" Upstairs many very large guns shot out and locked onto GIR as he enter the house.

"Ooo, guns, defcon 4. Whee!" GIR stared the guns in the face, oblivious that one command could remove him from the face of the planet.

"WHAT!! You let him get in! Defcon 4 should block the intruder from getting inside in the first place!!!" ZIM shouted. When he calmed down, he continued, "Well, lets see how far he can get. Just be sure he doesn't get to meeee!"

"HELLO ZIM!" GIR shrieked then tapped ZIM on the back, the Irken jumped into the air.

"COMPUTER!!! How did he get down here!!" He yelled, his voice rising and falling with each word.

"I was listening to you, sir." The computer sounded sorry.

"Don't let it happen again." ZIM started off, "Defcon 4 stays on for the night."

"Yes sir!" Computer did not want to let his master down again.

As GIR started to follow ZIM, the guns did too. For the rest of the night the guns followed GIR, and the little robot could not seem to shake them.

But a more important matter was starting high above the sky, on the bridge of the Massive. Soon ZIM's ultimate plan to destroy the planet would be obsolete.


~


Black stood in front of one of the many computers on the bridge of the Massive.

"Black, come back here with our armada right this instant!" Purple yelled.

"Umm, what if I don't want to?" She admired her fingers like a human woman would stare at her nails.

"But we command you. So do it now!" Purple yelled, Red was in the background nodding.

"But I am in charge of the whole armada, so I should be able to do whatever I want with them." She still did not look directly into the transmitter camera.

"Well, she has a point, she does have control over them" Red squeezed his way into the foreground of the picture.

"It's not the point that's the point. And the whole point is that we control her, so we should be able to tell her what to do with the armada. She should, in theory, obey us." Purple turned to Red.

"But if that is the point, couldn't we just tell the armada what to do, in theory, instead of going to her first?" Red wanted to argue now.

"Yes, yes we could, in theory, go to the armada and order them what to do, but what if she has brain-washed them into thinking that she is the Almighty-Tallest? What if..."

Purple was cut of by a strongly irate Black, "Listen! Your 'theories' are all well and good, but I haven't brain-washed the armada, and I will not go back to that planet! Nothing can make me turn this convoy around. I'm carrying out my mission!"

"And your mission would be. . ." Purple was again cut off by another's voice.

"Who told said you could a have mission!" Red pushed Purple out of the way.

"No one told me I could have a mission, I decide myself! And my mission is to follow through with what you lazy asses have not even lifted a finger for!" Black cut out the transmission.

On Irk, the two Tallest stood facing each other. Both had been shut out by a highly powerful Tall one, and they had no idea of what she meant when she said, "The mission that they have never lifted a finger for."

Purple rubbed his hand against his forehead. Both stood around for a few minutes before Red broke the silence.

"Umm, you think she's defective"

"Maybe, yeah that's it, defective, very defective."

"She'll probably change her mind and come back within a few hours." Red said unwittingly.

"No, no she won't."


~


The only sound on the bridge was the clicking of keys on a keyboard, and various other computer noise. Black stood still.

'Do they really think the can command me. They have no idea. Soon I will be the ruler of the universe. And they will be the first to go. She paused in thought. I need coffee

"BLUE!" She yelled out, hoping that he was around. It had been two hours since her last cup, she was getting annoyed.

"Yes ma'am. Right here, ma'am!" Blue came rushing in, his ear's were trained to hear even the slightest increase of decibels in his master's voice.

"Coffee, now!" She was indeed mad, the verblessness was an indication.

"Yes ma'am, right away." Blue started off to give his orders to Crimson. The stop and hesitated to ask, "Was that the Tallest, ma'am?"

"Yes, it was."

"What did they say?" He never he should have asked, but it called to him.

Black turned around to Blue and stared at him. Her stare could wear anyone down, and sure enough, Blue slipped out of the bridge.

Black climbed up the steps to the platform and observed her surroundings. The massive was approaching Pluto. It would only be a short time before they got to Earth. This pleased Black. Earth meant ZIM, and ZIM meant good. Soon, the earth would be under here control.

"Arrival time for Earth?" She turned and looked at the nearest Technician.

"About four days, ma'am!" He answered with a snap.

"Good, very good. Soon the Earth shall be mine!!!! But I need my coffee . . . NOW!"


~


Dib sat in his room, shaking. He was again listening to Black's transmission.

"They are very very very close. Four days, that's not very long either. Man, what am I going to dooo. No one will believe me." Dib said out loud.

He started pacing around. At the same time he though of what he could do. If this Black Irken was here to take over the Earth, then ZIM would have to know. But ZIM didn't let anything on at school. Maybe he didn't know. So should I go to ZIM? He could help. His rhetorical question pained him. Dib was still recovering from the dream he had. The less involvement of ZIM the better, but I'm afraid it's the only option left. The thought for a few seconds. I could destroy them all myself, but that's just pointless. I would be destroyed in minutes.

"So I guess ZIM and I will just have to put aside our difference as work as a team." Dib cringed at the thought. Alas, it was the only option left.