Battle For Irk
Chapter 2
The Gathering
By Ronin S. Oath
Zim returned home from skool early.
"What happened?" asked Skooge.
"Huh? Oh! There was some kinda horrible accident involving the Dib-beast and a mutant fishy thing, but oh well," answered Zim.
Just then, the top red light on Zim pak start flashing and an odd looking communicator emerges from it. A young female Irken invader appears on the screen of the communicator. "Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! Remember me, Zim?"
Zim stares at the hyper Irken invader for a moment, his nonexistent eyebrow raising. "Um… Who are you?"
"It's me! Tee! Well…" the invader pauses, thinking. "I guess now it's Invader Tee…"
"Who are you?!?" screams Zim into the communicator as Skooge peers over his shoulders.
"Um…" the invader seems to be thinking really hard.
"Who are you?!?"
"Oh yea! I'm Invader Tee!" the young Invader answers. "We went to Invader Academy together! Remember?"
Zim pauses just as he was about to scream again, and looks the invader over. After a few seconds of silence, a look of remembrance comes over Zim's face. "Oh yes, Tee… I remember now!"
"YAY!" Invader Tee cheers.
"I see you became an Invader," Zim interrupts.
"Yea… You were always my role model, Zim," Tee said, and Zim stood up taller in praise. "You were one of the best Invaders in our class! I was surprised to hear what you did in Impending Doom 1!" Zim shrinks back. "It was totally cool and wonderful… well… if it wasn't on our home planet… but it was still awesome!"
Skooge glances from Zim to Tee, then back to Zim. 'They're both insane!'
"Yes, yes… Zim is wonderful!" Zim screeches. "But why have you called?"
Invader Tee frowns as she answers, "Our fellow Irken, Tenn, has been taken prisoner by the hideous Meekrob… Invader Ronin, our leader, has told us all to get the strongest Invaders and report to the Massive ASAP! Whatever that means…"
An SIR Unit appears on the communicator behind Tee with an ax in its hands. The SIR Unit slowly walks up closer to Tee, raising the ax, ready for the kill! But Tee unknowingly moves to the side right when the ax falls, causing the SIR Unit to fall forward and drop the ax.
Invader Tee looks down at the SIR Unit, head tilted to the side in confusion, antenna bent forward with curiosity. "Hiiiiiiiiiii, Chip! I'm talkin' ta the Great Invader Zim!" Invader Tee turns back to the communicator and smiles once again as she look at Zim. "Your one of the strongest, smartest and bravest Invaders I know, Zim!" With that, the communicators return to the place of its origin.
"So Tenn has been captured…" Zim mumbles to himself.
"What are we going to do?" questions Skooge as he looks at Zim.
"Hmm… GIR! Mini Moose!"
GIR ran up to Zim his eyes glowing in duty mode, and Mini Moose floated in slowly.
"GIR, Mini Moose, I need you to come with Zim to the Massive…" Zim orders.
"YAY! We're gonna die!" screeches GIR as he ran to the ship.
Zim sighs as he and Skooge head towards their ships.
Invader Ronin quietly paced the short distance between the walls, his antenna laying flat against his head. He had already made a plan of attack, and the other four Invaders agreed to it without questions… well, most had agreed to it with out questions. Invader Jak wanted to go into battle 'like a true Irken' as he said. Anyways… His plan was to double the size of their group- each of the chosen Invaders were to call the strongest Irken they knew of, and tell them to meet him in the Massive as soon as possible! Then the ten of them would free Tenn, hopefully without the enemy's knowledge…
"Sir!"
Ronin stopped in his tracks, and turned to face Invader Heather. "Are they coming?"
"Yes… But are you sure we can trust the common ones?" Invader Heather questioned softly.
Invader Ronin frowned. "We have no real choice. Let's just hope that our mission will not be a failure."
Eventually, five other Irkens, six if you count Skooge, reported to the Massive.
Zim looked shocked, his antenna twitched as well as his eye. For you see, Tak and Sizz Lorr were also in the small crowd, scowling angrily at him when their eyes landed on him, Mini Moose, GIR and Skooge.
"Well, if it isn't Zim," Tak said angrily as she stepped closer. "I told you that you hadn't seen the last of me!"
"Zim..." was the only hissed word that came from Sizz Lorr as he glared at the small Irken Invader… uh… fry cook.
Zim started to sweat as he timidly laughed. "Hi… How ya doing?"
Tak and Sizz Lorr move towards Zim threateningly.
Just then, Invaders Heather, Jak, Jolene, Ronin, and Tee lowered down from the ceiling onto a platform.
"I hope no one is going to die off of the battle field," said Invader Ronin, staring down at Tak and Sizz Lorr. "Tenn needs us, all of us, and if one of us is killed by a fellow Irken… well, that would just be insane. Besides, you two still can't be holding a grudge on Zim, can you?"
"He left me stranded on Foodcourtia for twenty years, twice! That's forty years! Forty years!"
"And he not only ruined my chances at becoming an Invader, but he also stopped me from stealing his mission," added Tak.
Invader Jak stares at them, a creepy smile forming on his lips. "I say we kill 'em after the war!"
Invader Ronin sighs, hitting his hand against his head. Invader Ronin walks onto the stage. Camera drones surround him as well as microphones. "My fellow Irkens," he began, "as I have said earlier, Tenn has been kidnapped, and our enemies, the Meekrob, have declared war. We need all of you to be in top, physical condition-"
Dib sat down at his computers. "Alright," he said to himself, "it's time to spy on Zim's evil evilness!" Dib turns on his spy camera to reveal nothing but an empty house. "That's kinda odd... Maybe he's in his base…" Dib searches through Zim's base, but still finds nothing! "Oh, come on! There must be something here! His crazy, little robot? No, it's gone too! His ship? Gone! His- Wait a second! Zim's ship is gone! Maybe I can use Tak's ship to find out where he went… After all, I did put a tracer inside Zim's ship the last we battled… And once I do that, I'll stop talking to myself!"
To Be Continued…