Okay, to clarify some stuff- I said I wouldn't put any more characters in- that only meant actually confronting Jhonen. Tak, Tess, Keef, Lard Nar… they're all back at the JCV Rebellion base, but only the main characters are there, fighting for what they want. And any other characters I might actually show don't count unless they fought. Also, I never said I won't add more main characters, I just said that, for Invader Zim, there were already two, so I can still use Anne or Wobbly Headed Bob or someone. Muhuhahaha, quail at my twisted logic.
Jhonen stared as Nny began to grind his teeth, concentrating hard. Nothing happened for a moment. Sickness squinted. She suddenly realized that her screw was lying in the goo, where Gir'd thrown it up. She wiped off the stuff and pushed in her socket. Bored by Nny's mind games, Jhonen let himself be distracted and glanced at the doll. Just then, almost subconsciously, he noticed that his finger twitched. He blinked and glanced at his hand. Nny opened his eyes.
"It worked!" Piñata Monster clenched his nubs in victory.
"Of course it did! It was chosen by the most elite scientists in the galaxy!" Zim did his dopey little teeth-out smile.
"Actually, I think it was Tess's idea," mused Shmee.
"Never mind whose idea it was, it works!" Filler clapped his nubs.
"What works?" asked Jhonen impatiently.
"We are part of your mind," explained Nny.
"So?"
"So… we can do this!" Nny clenched his fists and squinted at Jhonen. Jhonen's fingers suddenly curled loosely.
"I still don't get it…"
"We are part of your mind, you lizard!" Shmee said, irked. "We can make you do stuff!"
The rebels bent their heads and concentrated. Jhonen slugged himself. "Oh, I get it!" He said, catching on. "But that was only because I didn't know what you were doing! You all are so proud that you can never win- your plans are always just waiting to spill out!" He laughed.
The rebels again took on their mind-controly pose: fists clenched, eyes half open, teeth gnashing… But now Jhonen was ready. Two against six, the parties matched minds.
"I… will get you," Nny growled. "The weakest mind fails first, and we're a greater force…"
"Never, Johnny… I am… so amazing…"
In his peripheral vision, he noticed that Sickness was looking almost happy. She must be thrilled to finally invade someone else's mind again. But that didn't matter now, all that mattered was…
Noodle Boy suddenly punched himself in the head. He fell backwards. Distracted, the minds all relaxed, retreating back into their respective heads.
"Okay, so it would have worked," Filler said, trying to be optimistic.
"Well… there's always plan B!" Zim said, in his usual dauntless way.
"Yeah, MY plan B!" Shouted Jhonen. "Take this!" In one leap, he landed ten feet behind where he was standing. The ground quaked and a skull-like robot reared up. A pipe slithered out and lifted Sickness up besides him. Grinning manically, he grasped two control sticks and began pushing their buttons.
Two more coiling pipes rose up, aimed at the rebels, and drenched them all in thick, green goop. There was a chorus of 'ew's and Jhonen spun the robot around, where it went bounding off.
"After him!" Nny shouted, wiping goop from his eyes.
Jhonen's robot was moving very fast. "You see, Sickness?" He asked, cackling, "when I invented this thing, I knew that I could someday use it if a host of rebels showed up demanding comics."
"Mm-hmm. That's great. But they're following us now."
Jhonen glanced back. A giant, red robot was trotting towards him. It was a Megadoomer. The two robots drew level, both mechanical, two-legged thingies. He wondered why it wasn't invisible. He swerved his own mech around, lifting powerful lasers to strike his opponent- probably Zim or Gir. The Megadoomer exploded in a fiery ball. Jhonen jumped out of his craft, triumphant. To his surprise, it was Filler Bunny who crawled from the smoldering wreckage. He laughed twice, coughed up blood, and moaned.
"Why are you laughing?" Sickness had hopped down besides him. "Your robot is destroyed and you never even hit us."
"That's cause the Megadoomer was just a distraction!"
Jhonen frowned. "Alright then, what was it distracting us from?"
The ground shook, and the two spun just in time to see a Frontline BattleMech's massive 'foot' crush the skeleton-walker. Jhonen cussed. A coiling pipe shot out of the Mech and sucked up Filler. Jhonen watched as it raised its gun to aim. He called on his amazing, ever-present Jhonen-computer. "Activate Super-Painful Mega Combat Ridiculously Massive Battle Mech!"
A huge metal tube flew out of the Earth and clamped over Sickness and Jhonen. It receded into the ground and a huge robot erupted out. It was as tall as the Frontline, but thinner, with pinscher arms and clawed boots. It looked a lot like Zim's old Nanoship, actually, but not as spiky. More compact and sturdy. The two Mechs seemed to tense, ready for a really cool battle. The kind that gives your TV shows good ratings. That kind. Inside the Frontline, the pilots were working furiously, powering up projectile weapons and stuff. The Vortians had helped remake one so it only took a few pilots.
Zim was sulky because he wasn't driving. Nny had that job. He was the only one they all trusted not to screw up. Still, the crazed Irken wanted the new comics enough to submit for once.
Inside the SPMCRMB Mech Jhonen and Sickness were also twisting knobs and pulling levers. The two super-weapons were ready.
StarSeal: Mm, Megadoomer. Yep. Stop acting like they can't rebuild their robots. And the Halloweeny Goo- the stuff that doesn't hurt them, they just don't like it. I love that stuff... Filler got to use a dangerous weapon!
