Hola! Okay, things get a bit insane here. My twisted mind can't stop coming
up with monsters, so I'm letting some of that out in this chap. Hey! Know
what's even better? I just typed that entire sentence without looking at
the keyboard!
Kasakka: Oh yeah, you've got real skills.. *rolls her eyes* Eh, hush. Enjoy my fic! I just realized I haven't put in a disclaimer in in a bazillion chapters. So here goes. I don't own Invader Zim. I own Kith, Gaeldrisan, the Kalack, and two packages of instant Udon noodles. Mmm..that's breakfast. Good stuff.
And now, a word from our sponsor, a random hospital somewhere.
Kids, don't be stupid like the author of this story. She was making a model and sliced her knee open with a razor blade. Please don't be stupid. We have more important things to do than give people stitches for being stupid. Besides, we don't like you. Thank you, and enjoy the show.
Dib felt the fabric of his tunic catch painfully around his throat, momentarily cutting off his air. He gagged and gasped for air.
Air rushed past him at a furious pace, stinging his eyes and making them water painfully. Blearily and at the edge of his peripheral vision, he glimpsed Zim in a similar predicament. Something was holding them, he realized, even as the mad rush of air began to slow. He looked up and grinned weakly. "Hi Kith," he croaked.
Kith had a talon-filled fist clenched around the boys' tunics. She flapped madly, trying to hold them up. The ground was still coming up at them, but at a far more bearable speed.
Something roared in Dib's ear, and he craned his head to see Gaeldrisan still falling as a dragon. One of the great wings was shredded and trailing a spatter of blood. The other wing was flapping as hard as Kith's, but a one winged dragon can't fly, and Gally was pin-wheeling to the ground. She crashed below the tree line, and he lost sight of her. A moment later, Kith awkwardly back-winged and landed on her hind legs, depositing Zim and Dib on the ground and immediately shifting to Irkan.
For half a minute the three of them lay on the ground, gasping and overcoming the adrenaline rushes coursing through them.
Finally Zim managed to sit up. "Who DARED to shoot down the MIGHTY Zim?! They shall PAY for this! Oh, how they will pay!"
Dib rolled his eyes and stood up, bracing himself against a tree. "Wow.Kith, we owe you big time. I don't even want to think about what would have happened if you hadn't caught us."
Zim nodded grudgingly. "Yes.thank you.."
Kith smirked and patted his head. He snorted and jerked away.
"You know," she said, grinning widely, "You DID have your pods, of course.but I'm sure you knew that."
Zim turned a nice dark green. "Of course I knew! I.there was a bug in my mouth. I, uh.I couldn't talk."
"Uh-huh."
Dib shushed them and cocked his ear. "Do you hear that?" he whispered. "Over there?" he gestured in a northerly direction.
Zim frowned and listened intently. "What? I hear nothing."
Kith listened too. "Yeah, me nei-hey! I think I do.what is it? Oh no-"
Zim's frowned deepened. "That Dalzorian, no? Whiner."
Dib shot him a glare and listened again. "No, that sounds like a cry of.I dunno, not pain. Let's go help her."
Zim glared and picked at his glove. "She needs no help. Let her find her own way home."
Dib set his jaw and pushed his way through the trees in the direction of the cries. Kith glanced at Zim, shrugged, and walked after him.
Zim folded his arms and glared at the bushes through which they had left. "They'll be back," he told himself out loud. "Yes, any minute now, they'll be back."
He waited another minute or so and ran after them.
(A/N: Whee! Switching POVs!)
((Zim's POV))
After he caught up with them, Zim took the lead from Dib. The human hybrid rolled his eyes, but allowed the Irkan to lead them.
After a moment, Zim stopped, concern written on his face.
Dib almost ran into him, and let out an exasperated snort. "What was that for? I don't hear anything."
Zim glared coldly at his once-time adversary. "That is why I stopped in the first place, Dib-worm. Either she has fixed the problem, or something has.silenced her."
Dib's eyes widened. "Oh."
Zim took off at a dead run through the trees. "Dragon! Dragon, answer me!"
Kith and Dib shot after him. "Zim!" Kith yelled. "Zim, wait!"
Zim barreled heedlessly through the bushy undergrowth of shrubs and pine needles, with Kith and Dib in close pursuit. Something grunted in the greenery to the right, so he changed course and kept running.
Suddenly Zim burst through a particularly thick wall of trees and tripped.
"Oww." he growled. "Stupid tree will pay.." Then he looked up and forgot his vengeance.
Two creatures were in the clearing. One of them, obviously Gaeldrisan, was halfway between Dalzorian and Irkan form, tied to a tree, and babbling incomprehensibly. The other, a hulking monster that looked like a walking salad shooter, was grinning at Zim from a fang filled mouth-not quite the welcome the Irkan wanted to receive.
((A/N: Okay, if any of you have read The Animorphs series, this thing looks a lot like a Hork Bjar. Only scarier. And far more spiky.))
The Salad Shooter sauntered lazily up to Zim.
"So," it said in a deep gravely voice. "I see the Irkan plague has finally reached Earth. Too bad for them; I don't like sharing my territory."
Zim gulped, glared, and slowly pulled himself up. "This is not YOUR territory! Zim has landed here FIRST!"
Dib and Kith chose this moment to come crashing up behind Zim. "Hey!" yelled Dib. "Where'd you run off tooo...oh, fallen gods, what the hell is that?!"
Kith drew a sharp intake of breath. "I know what you are!" she accused the thing, pointing a shaky finger at it's sly face. "You're a Kalack! What are you doing on Earth?!"
The Kalack smirked again and gestured airily at Gally, who was still holding random conversations with herself. "This piece of Dalzorian filth was being kind enough to give me a ride to the local penitentiary.but I realized I really didn't want to spend the rest of eternity there. So I got out of the weak restraints. And crashed the ship. It was astoundingly easy to overwhelm the newest rookie law officer."
"But George!" Gally exclaimed. "You cannot play with that! It's charged with high currents of pinto power!"
"Zim!" Dib said suddenly. "When we were stitching up gaeldrisan, she had what looked like-"
"These?" The Kalack held up a fist, bristling with razor sharp claws. "Yes, evolution smiled upon my people when it equipped us with these. Made it easier than you would think for us to get anything we ever wanted."
Dib broke in. "But why can't you just learn to live here, on Earth, without being so.." He broke off.
"So mean!" Kith finished for him. "I mean, I know the Kalack aren't very nice people in general, but you could just as easily live a nice life without interfering with us."
The Kalack paused thoughtfully. "You know, I probably could make a nice living on this planet. Of course.." And his eyes hardened with barely suppressed evil. "It would be so much easier.and relaxing.if I just killed you all first. Then I could run this asteroid as I please."
"MILLIONS OF PEEEAACHES!!" Gally sang suddenly.
The Kalack rolled his eyes and took a step towards her. "First, please wait patiently while I shut her up first." Then, before any of them could react, it drove its fist into the invalid's face. Her head flopped limply to the side, and lay still.
Kith shifted smoothly into her draconian form. ~~You have made a stupid choice to oppose the might of the Irkan Empire, Kalack. ~~
"Yes, I can see where the entire Empire would be a problem," it mused. "But all I see is a couple of Invaders."
It lashed out at Kith with its tail with frightening speed. Swiftly she dodged, and clamped down on the attacking limb with her sharp teeth. The Kalack roared in fury and pain, and tore itself away from her.
Dib yanked Zim out of the way of the fighters and dragged him over to Gally, who was still comatose. Zim pulled a knife out of his pod and slashed at the knots tied cruelly tight around her wrists and ankles. Once she was free, Dib lifted her onto his shoulders and pulled her to a safer place.
Meanwhile, the two titans continued to clash in a whirling battle of teeth and shadows. Suddenly, Kith clamped her teeth down on the Kalack's wrist, effectively severing the hand with a jarring crunch. It howled and backed away, cradling the oozing stump.
((A/N: Fun image, ne?))
"This isn't the end of it, Irkan abomination!" it spat at her. "I will come back, and kill you in your sleep! You will not hinder me! As awfully cliched as it is, I'll be back!" With that, it melted into the shadows and disappeared.
Zim poked his head out from behind a thick, gnarled tree. "Ha! Just try it, Scissor Head! Our might is awesome! The Irkans are undefeatable!" He struck a triumphant pose.
Kith rolled her eyes and shifted back to Irkan. "And where was all your might when I was doing all the fighting, Zim?" she sneered.
He ignored the sarcasm in her voice. "Fool! You had a very good handle on the situation. I would not interrupt."
She sighed heavily and plopped on the ground. "Gee, thanks."
Dib dragged Gally over to the group. "Hey, not to be a party pooper or anything, but can we go home now? That thing isn't dead, and I'm kinda funned out."
Zim brought the microphone-thing out of his pod. "Gir, I need you, Hex, and MiKi to come get us."
"Okee dokee!" The SIR on the other end of the line giggled crazily before hanging up.
The little group sat in a tense silence while they waited for the SIRs to come pick them up. They didn't say much; no one was in a particularly good mood.
Finally, the SIRs arrived, carrying between them an improvised stretcher made from pizza boxes and duct tape. After positioning Gally on it, the three Irkans hopped aboard their SIRs and gave the command to go back to the base.
As the dilapidated trio, plus an invalid, rose into the sky, something rustled in the brush behind them.
A pair of eyes watched them go. A reptilian tongue snaked out and lapped up the blood collecting in a pool.
"Yes. Sleep well. You will die all the easier."
Okay, so that was a bit macabre. Maybe it's time to consider changing the rating. Besides, if you guys tell me whom you'd like to see coupled up with whom, maybe I can add some romance to this thing. Here are the possible contenders: Dib, Zim, Kith, Gally, Purple, and Kami. Yes, Kami, I'm going to add you to my story. You are surprised, no? Let me know if you don't want to join. Although I doubt that will be a problem.
Also, do check out my other fics. I'm putting in lots of work on a lot of them, so check them all for updates.
Kasakka: Oh yeah, you've got real skills.. *rolls her eyes* Eh, hush. Enjoy my fic! I just realized I haven't put in a disclaimer in in a bazillion chapters. So here goes. I don't own Invader Zim. I own Kith, Gaeldrisan, the Kalack, and two packages of instant Udon noodles. Mmm..that's breakfast. Good stuff.
And now, a word from our sponsor, a random hospital somewhere.
Kids, don't be stupid like the author of this story. She was making a model and sliced her knee open with a razor blade. Please don't be stupid. We have more important things to do than give people stitches for being stupid. Besides, we don't like you. Thank you, and enjoy the show.
Dib felt the fabric of his tunic catch painfully around his throat, momentarily cutting off his air. He gagged and gasped for air.
Air rushed past him at a furious pace, stinging his eyes and making them water painfully. Blearily and at the edge of his peripheral vision, he glimpsed Zim in a similar predicament. Something was holding them, he realized, even as the mad rush of air began to slow. He looked up and grinned weakly. "Hi Kith," he croaked.
Kith had a talon-filled fist clenched around the boys' tunics. She flapped madly, trying to hold them up. The ground was still coming up at them, but at a far more bearable speed.
Something roared in Dib's ear, and he craned his head to see Gaeldrisan still falling as a dragon. One of the great wings was shredded and trailing a spatter of blood. The other wing was flapping as hard as Kith's, but a one winged dragon can't fly, and Gally was pin-wheeling to the ground. She crashed below the tree line, and he lost sight of her. A moment later, Kith awkwardly back-winged and landed on her hind legs, depositing Zim and Dib on the ground and immediately shifting to Irkan.
For half a minute the three of them lay on the ground, gasping and overcoming the adrenaline rushes coursing through them.
Finally Zim managed to sit up. "Who DARED to shoot down the MIGHTY Zim?! They shall PAY for this! Oh, how they will pay!"
Dib rolled his eyes and stood up, bracing himself against a tree. "Wow.Kith, we owe you big time. I don't even want to think about what would have happened if you hadn't caught us."
Zim nodded grudgingly. "Yes.thank you.."
Kith smirked and patted his head. He snorted and jerked away.
"You know," she said, grinning widely, "You DID have your pods, of course.but I'm sure you knew that."
Zim turned a nice dark green. "Of course I knew! I.there was a bug in my mouth. I, uh.I couldn't talk."
"Uh-huh."
Dib shushed them and cocked his ear. "Do you hear that?" he whispered. "Over there?" he gestured in a northerly direction.
Zim frowned and listened intently. "What? I hear nothing."
Kith listened too. "Yeah, me nei-hey! I think I do.what is it? Oh no-"
Zim's frowned deepened. "That Dalzorian, no? Whiner."
Dib shot him a glare and listened again. "No, that sounds like a cry of.I dunno, not pain. Let's go help her."
Zim glared and picked at his glove. "She needs no help. Let her find her own way home."
Dib set his jaw and pushed his way through the trees in the direction of the cries. Kith glanced at Zim, shrugged, and walked after him.
Zim folded his arms and glared at the bushes through which they had left. "They'll be back," he told himself out loud. "Yes, any minute now, they'll be back."
He waited another minute or so and ran after them.
(A/N: Whee! Switching POVs!)
((Zim's POV))
After he caught up with them, Zim took the lead from Dib. The human hybrid rolled his eyes, but allowed the Irkan to lead them.
After a moment, Zim stopped, concern written on his face.
Dib almost ran into him, and let out an exasperated snort. "What was that for? I don't hear anything."
Zim glared coldly at his once-time adversary. "That is why I stopped in the first place, Dib-worm. Either she has fixed the problem, or something has.silenced her."
Dib's eyes widened. "Oh."
Zim took off at a dead run through the trees. "Dragon! Dragon, answer me!"
Kith and Dib shot after him. "Zim!" Kith yelled. "Zim, wait!"
Zim barreled heedlessly through the bushy undergrowth of shrubs and pine needles, with Kith and Dib in close pursuit. Something grunted in the greenery to the right, so he changed course and kept running.
Suddenly Zim burst through a particularly thick wall of trees and tripped.
"Oww." he growled. "Stupid tree will pay.." Then he looked up and forgot his vengeance.
Two creatures were in the clearing. One of them, obviously Gaeldrisan, was halfway between Dalzorian and Irkan form, tied to a tree, and babbling incomprehensibly. The other, a hulking monster that looked like a walking salad shooter, was grinning at Zim from a fang filled mouth-not quite the welcome the Irkan wanted to receive.
((A/N: Okay, if any of you have read The Animorphs series, this thing looks a lot like a Hork Bjar. Only scarier. And far more spiky.))
The Salad Shooter sauntered lazily up to Zim.
"So," it said in a deep gravely voice. "I see the Irkan plague has finally reached Earth. Too bad for them; I don't like sharing my territory."
Zim gulped, glared, and slowly pulled himself up. "This is not YOUR territory! Zim has landed here FIRST!"
Dib and Kith chose this moment to come crashing up behind Zim. "Hey!" yelled Dib. "Where'd you run off tooo...oh, fallen gods, what the hell is that?!"
Kith drew a sharp intake of breath. "I know what you are!" she accused the thing, pointing a shaky finger at it's sly face. "You're a Kalack! What are you doing on Earth?!"
The Kalack smirked again and gestured airily at Gally, who was still holding random conversations with herself. "This piece of Dalzorian filth was being kind enough to give me a ride to the local penitentiary.but I realized I really didn't want to spend the rest of eternity there. So I got out of the weak restraints. And crashed the ship. It was astoundingly easy to overwhelm the newest rookie law officer."
"But George!" Gally exclaimed. "You cannot play with that! It's charged with high currents of pinto power!"
"Zim!" Dib said suddenly. "When we were stitching up gaeldrisan, she had what looked like-"
"These?" The Kalack held up a fist, bristling with razor sharp claws. "Yes, evolution smiled upon my people when it equipped us with these. Made it easier than you would think for us to get anything we ever wanted."
Dib broke in. "But why can't you just learn to live here, on Earth, without being so.." He broke off.
"So mean!" Kith finished for him. "I mean, I know the Kalack aren't very nice people in general, but you could just as easily live a nice life without interfering with us."
The Kalack paused thoughtfully. "You know, I probably could make a nice living on this planet. Of course.." And his eyes hardened with barely suppressed evil. "It would be so much easier.and relaxing.if I just killed you all first. Then I could run this asteroid as I please."
"MILLIONS OF PEEEAACHES!!" Gally sang suddenly.
The Kalack rolled his eyes and took a step towards her. "First, please wait patiently while I shut her up first." Then, before any of them could react, it drove its fist into the invalid's face. Her head flopped limply to the side, and lay still.
Kith shifted smoothly into her draconian form. ~~You have made a stupid choice to oppose the might of the Irkan Empire, Kalack. ~~
"Yes, I can see where the entire Empire would be a problem," it mused. "But all I see is a couple of Invaders."
It lashed out at Kith with its tail with frightening speed. Swiftly she dodged, and clamped down on the attacking limb with her sharp teeth. The Kalack roared in fury and pain, and tore itself away from her.
Dib yanked Zim out of the way of the fighters and dragged him over to Gally, who was still comatose. Zim pulled a knife out of his pod and slashed at the knots tied cruelly tight around her wrists and ankles. Once she was free, Dib lifted her onto his shoulders and pulled her to a safer place.
Meanwhile, the two titans continued to clash in a whirling battle of teeth and shadows. Suddenly, Kith clamped her teeth down on the Kalack's wrist, effectively severing the hand with a jarring crunch. It howled and backed away, cradling the oozing stump.
((A/N: Fun image, ne?))
"This isn't the end of it, Irkan abomination!" it spat at her. "I will come back, and kill you in your sleep! You will not hinder me! As awfully cliched as it is, I'll be back!" With that, it melted into the shadows and disappeared.
Zim poked his head out from behind a thick, gnarled tree. "Ha! Just try it, Scissor Head! Our might is awesome! The Irkans are undefeatable!" He struck a triumphant pose.
Kith rolled her eyes and shifted back to Irkan. "And where was all your might when I was doing all the fighting, Zim?" she sneered.
He ignored the sarcasm in her voice. "Fool! You had a very good handle on the situation. I would not interrupt."
She sighed heavily and plopped on the ground. "Gee, thanks."
Dib dragged Gally over to the group. "Hey, not to be a party pooper or anything, but can we go home now? That thing isn't dead, and I'm kinda funned out."
Zim brought the microphone-thing out of his pod. "Gir, I need you, Hex, and MiKi to come get us."
"Okee dokee!" The SIR on the other end of the line giggled crazily before hanging up.
The little group sat in a tense silence while they waited for the SIRs to come pick them up. They didn't say much; no one was in a particularly good mood.
Finally, the SIRs arrived, carrying between them an improvised stretcher made from pizza boxes and duct tape. After positioning Gally on it, the three Irkans hopped aboard their SIRs and gave the command to go back to the base.
As the dilapidated trio, plus an invalid, rose into the sky, something rustled in the brush behind them.
A pair of eyes watched them go. A reptilian tongue snaked out and lapped up the blood collecting in a pool.
"Yes. Sleep well. You will die all the easier."
Okay, so that was a bit macabre. Maybe it's time to consider changing the rating. Besides, if you guys tell me whom you'd like to see coupled up with whom, maybe I can add some romance to this thing. Here are the possible contenders: Dib, Zim, Kith, Gally, Purple, and Kami. Yes, Kami, I'm going to add you to my story. You are surprised, no? Let me know if you don't want to join. Although I doubt that will be a problem.
Also, do check out my other fics. I'm putting in lots of work on a lot of them, so check them all for updates.