Heh, I'm at it again people. I think this is my main ficcy for now, as I know where I'm going with it..
Well, time is money, ON WITH IT
Chapter 6-It gets me through
"I'm not the kind of person you think I am..."
"I'm not the Anti-Christ or- the Iron Man"
"I have a vision that I just can't control.."
"I feel I've lost my spirit and sold my soul.."
"Got no control.."
"I tried to entertain the best I can.."
"I wished I started working before I ran.."
"But, I love the feeling I get from you "
"I hope you never stop cause it gets me through"-Lyrics from Ozzy; It gets me through
Dib's pov -The Massive, after the Denver raid
I must say, Tak's a brilliant strategist.
She didn't tell me how, but she staged the coup of the ages, she gained control of the Empire! Our Empire.
Now, we are the rulers of the largest Empire ever known, God, the power!
The power to turn planets to dust, kings to slaves , galaxies into our playground..
I admit I'm a bit odd looking for an Emperor, still wearing my trench-coat but over an invader uniform, with various royal insignia on it.
We had started with the Earth, but didn't have sufficient forces to devastate it, the humans are putting up quite the fight, so we got an entire Irken military to send reinforcements.
It will be our trophy, we will posses it! If not, no one will.
All this buzzes through my skull as I lie in our bed, next to my sound asleep Empress, finally I decide I need to get some exercise.
I throw my coat on and exit our chambers, to be saluted by every Irken present; I ask about the ship and how long it will take us to get back to Earth, which is a week, due to some solar storms near Meekrob.
Finally, I move to the empty observation deck and gaze out into the nebula near Slayin III.
I look at the beautiful sight, remembering all the deaths, suffering and pain this has spread, on everything, who I've hurt.
Zim, closest thing I had to a friend, dead, his robots orphaned,
Gaz, my little sister, now forced into my old role,
Dad, finally proved wrong, finally failing to save Earth.
Everything on Earth left to be discovered, wiped clean.
But, they caused me a fair bit of pain and suffering too.
I reach into my pocket and pull out a worn playing card, the King of Hearts..
A card I got what seems ages ago..
I note the sword through his head..
Ironic, the king of love is the suicide king...
But I abandon that thought and stuff the card in my pocket .
She's what gets me through.. I must live, for both of them.
Gaz's pov, after the trial
I storm into my quarters and throw myself into a chair, Gir and Minimoose in tow.
Great, my best killer in the nut house, I've got to speed up the bureaucracy as much as I possibly can. Castle is an insanely powerful fighter, but not a master thinker;
Let's kill the surrendering officer in a blood frenzy!
I look in the mirror and note how time changes you. I tell you I never thought I'd take my former brother's job..
My hair is cut shorter, I wear black armor specially made to resist plasma blasts, standard, but I still have my skull necklace. Goth to grunt, just add invasion.
Around my quarters is a cot and a couple pallets for me and my robots to rest on , a box full of personal affects, a desk and of course , Gir and Minimoose themselves.
Man, time changed them too: annoying but happy Gir is gone, replaced with a ruthless Irken hater and Minimoose rarely even peeps anymore.
Dib WANTED this job?
Well, he obviously changed his mind; maybe he was the smart one.
I look on my desk, the message light is blinking.
Great, I also have twenty-four hour work day! Guess that's what you get for being the boss.
I activate the speaker and get on with it.
"What is it? " I grunt.
"General, the fleet, they're gone except one dreadnaught!"Comes a Private's voice
"What?"I demand. The Irkens had three dreadnaughts and one destroyer orbiting Earth.
"What about ground troops?"
"As far as we can tell ma'am they're still here."
What are you playing at Dib? Tak make you abandon your trophy?
"Hmm.. Tell my advisors to meet me in the war room in twenty minutes time."
"Yes General!"he proclaims , then silence.
Hmm, what could they possibly gain by abandoning Earth with only one dreadnaught?
I open my personal locker and take out some stuff.
Zim's worn uniform and pak, as well as a small box.
"Mistress, what are you doing?"Asks Gir , eyes flickering red to blue.
Maybe Gir is in there somewhere..
"Looking at the things that should be Gir.." I say sadly.
Zim was buried in his dress uniform by the three of us, really now they're my only family.
I open the box and pull out a bunch of pictures I salvaged from my wreck of a house, showing me and my former brother as kids, with our parents, their wedding , a few of Dib's surveillance on Zim and one that makes my eyes open wide(rare occurrence).
This picture has me in a black dress next to Zim , who's wearing the black with red striped dress uniform we buried him in, and we both look murderous, well that was my default expression back then, then Dib is standing a bit to the right of me still wearing that coat but with a dress shirt, classy. And on his arm is Tak, in a dark blue dress. God, I hate them.
But, what could have been.
We could have grown up to be one happy, mildly dysfunctional hybrid family.
Heh, sounds like a sit-com.
Well, so much for that.
I turn to Gir and Minimoose, "Let's go, we're due in the war room."
past Dib's pov 12:25 , Zim's house
Me and Zim had a nice little shouting match when I got here, late, on who screwed up more.
My sister ended that.-shudder-
Anyway, now me, Zim and Gaz are sitting in his living room, while Gir and Minimoose are chasing each other around the house.
Now, we need to find out what to do now.
"Well, Earth stink, any plans?" Zim demands.
"One", I say, "she wants me to help her, I could pretend to and betray her; ironic end."
Zim glares at me, "How do I know you won't betray me?"
"Zim, I've been keeping your claws off the planet for years, why should I take it over?"
Gaz looks up for a minute, then goes
"You'll need to gain her trust, she'll know your up to something if it's an instant conversion; she needs to believe she's twisted you."
"How-"Me and Zim chorus
"Video games." Wow, they DO make you smarter.
Zim's COMPUTER now puts in its two cents,
"Master, the human's plan has merit; perhaps Dib could get himself captured-"
"NO WAY!" I snap, "I'm NOT being thrown at the mercy of a depraved female alien!"
"A depraved female alien who likes you," Gaz says bluntly as Gir and Minimoose run shrieking into the room.
Gir stops and looks at me, then gives an insane grin,
"BIG HEAD BOY LIKE GIRL THAT CHASED US " As he flung himself on me with a bear hug , Minimoose flies over and lands on my head, squeaking and patting it in congratulation.
Geez, compared to Tak's robot, these guys are wussies, in fact they'd be better as cartoon characters .
Heh, I'd watch it.
"Get off! " I say , removing them.
"There is no way I'm using that plan." I state firmly.
Gaz puts on an evil grin.. UH-OH!
-Later at Casa de' Tak- Dib again
My dear little sister can be very- persuasive.
Well, I at least have an excuse to go back , to see if my footage survived.
I creep slowly around the corner -hey! The entire junkyard is gone!
Jeez, it now has a rolling green lawn and large metal gate with spikes at top.
Peachy.
Well, better scale this thing; I pull out a grappling hook and hoist myself around the spikes, then rappel to the lawn.
I slowly creep around the lawn to where my camera- IS!
I run to my camera, only to see it flicker and fade, oh crap. Hologram.
The grass sends cables that wrap around me , then one jabs me; off to Lala - land.
I wake up cursing evil grass, and surprise, surprise shackled to a- bed!
Oh, boy this isn't gonna end well.
"Really my dear, you need to work on your espionage," comes the familiar accented drawl of Tak from behind me.
"You owe me three new cameras PLUS my dagger back," I demand.
She comes into view in disguise and a purple night gown, HUH?
"If that's a hologram disguise-" I begin.
"It's not. It's a polymer that acts as a second skin so I can change clothes, also it feels like human skin."
Neat.
"Oh, and your dagger," she says, pulling it out of her pocket and hurling it into the wall.
God, I am gonna die.
"You can have it back in the morning, in the meantime I'm going to bed."
"Great, so just send me home." I say hopefully, not wanting to be in this crazy woman's presence while shackled to her bed with a knife in her vicinity.
She smiles. "No, Dib. I insist you stay here tonight, I even sent a message to your sister.."
"Lemme guess," I say sarcastically "She's on her way to rescue her favorite big brother."
Me and Gaz are having a nice long chat about this tomorrow..if I live.
"Not quite." She smirks," And Mimi, search him."
The evil cat thing scans me and finds nothing, since it destroyed all my other cameras!
Maybe Gir and Gaz could drive it insane again.
"Well, those aren't very comfortable to sleep in" she says pointing to her alien cuffs.
"I'll remove them," she goes on" but you must not try to harm me."
"Give me one good reason."
"I didn't harm you while you were out."
Fair point., she coulda killed me, what, like four times already?
I decide to not try.
"Alright," I grunt, "you've got a point; I won't try anything unless you do."
The cuffs vanish, and her skin turns a translucent silver then it stops.
She stands about 5'3 , with a pale green complexion , luminous purple eyes ,odd little antennae(curly..) and some sort of implant on her head(psionic?).
She don't look that bad for an alien.
At least no acid blood, probes or eating humans.
Yet.
"Like my true form dear?"She asks.
I stay silent.
She chuckles and goes "I love it when they play hard-to-get."
She probably saw that in a movie.
She lies down next to me and gives me a peck on the cheek.
"G'night Dib"
"Night" I say.
My first kiss, after all this madness...
One thing about my life, never a dull moment.
A/N
So what you think?
And for your info, Dib isn't having an affair
"Both of us"means something else..
Like I said I know where this is going and I even have a sequel planned.
Well, what you think?
And this is the anti-romance I wanted to show how much pain and suffering two people will do for love.
PEACE!
-TFL