This chapter and all others after it take place after 'The Trial', an episode that was never made, but a script for it was. It's an awesome script and yes I am advertising it a little by saying you should read it. I don't know the exact site it's on, but I'm sure you can google it :P
Oh yeah...forgot to introduce them...RiKa is Ren's SIR unit, and Spiffy is a robot that's like a SIR unit. Mah made it herself...(She likes the word Spiffy and so used that for the name, for those of you who were wondering...)
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Invader Zim, or Ren and Mah or RiKa and Spiffy. Kai is my creation however
"It's the fairest way Kai, stop complaining." Purple commented as Ren held up the straws for the Tallests to draw from.
"Why are we even considering this treaty? I mean, we never even heard of these...Blorgarians...up until an hour ago." Kai asked.
"That's the point." Red replied.
"Yes. Exactly...Soooo….why are we drawing straws again?" Purple asked sheepishly.
Red glanced up at the ceiling for a few seconds before replying. "Don't tell me I'm the only one who sees the opportunity in this. These Blorgarians have obviously heard of us, and so to protect themselves they are propsing a treaty of sorts. What they don't know is that area of the galaxy was never marked for conquest. Sure, in a show of trust, the talks are being held on their planet, but that's even more of a bonus when you think about it..."
"Yes, yes, I get all that." Purple commented with a wave of his hand,"I just don't see the reason to draw straws.."
"Well, all of us don't need to go, especially with the operation in progress,but we have to decide on who is going. And since none of us will volunteer, this is the fairest way to decide." Kai explained, focusing on the straws.
"Who would want to go to some boring diplomacy thing when there are planets to be conquered?"
"My point exactly, so at the same time, we are going to chose one of the three straws that Ren is holding, the one holding the straw that is marked on the end, is the one that has to go. Get it?"Red asked.
Kai and Purple nodded, and at the same time, the three choose a straw and drew.
-Insert strongest Irken curse word here- Kai said, looking at her straw.
Purple and Red snickered. "Have fun Kai!" Purple said before they hovered off.
Kai frowned 'I've got to have the worst of luck' she thought...
-Few hours later-
Since the ship she would travel in would be the same size as the Scouter (1) Kai would only bring two other Irkens with her. Mah, as the technician and medic, and Invader Ren as a body guard.
Within a few days of travel, they arrived on Blor. "Stay with the ship Mah, Ren, come with me." Kai commanded, exiting the ship.
"Welcome Almighty Tallest to our humble planet." A Blorgarian said, bowing its head a little. As the race looked like walking frogs, Kai could not tell the being's gender. But were they short, the tallest ones seem to be at the most, three feet in height
"Well…" Kai started looking around, "I suppose this place is better than being cramped up in that ship. Let's get this over with."
The Blorgarian looked up and asked, "Only one of you came?"
Kai stared down at it and replied in a slightly icy voice, "We are sort of in the middle of something. Don't worry, I have consent of my co-leaders to do what I see fit here. We generally don't consider alliances." 'And almost never keep them.' Kai added silently to herself.
The Blorgarian swallowed nervously. "Of course, forgive me if I seemed intrusive. This way please." It said heading off.
Almighty Kai hung back for a second giving Ren a last minute command, "have your SIR unit gather data on this planet. Mah's unit will be doing the same thing from the ship, but as you are traveling with me, your unit should be able to gather more information."
Invader Ren nodded and relayed the command to RiKa, and followed Kai as she followed the Blorgarian…
-Many hours later-
"Well, that was a boring waste of time." Kai said as their ship left Blor's atmosphere.
"Actually, we managed to gather a ton of data on the planet, and you managed to convince the Blorgarians that they were allies of Irk. So it was not all that bad my Tallest." Mah replied.
Kai looked at her, "Yeah, well you weren't there listening to the Blorganians talk for hours on end..."
Ren nodded her agreement, for when the Blorgarian embassador and it's advisors talked, their voices just like grated against the brain.
-Next day-
"Okay, what is that smell?"
Mah turned from the controls and faced Kai. "What smell?"
Kai didn't reply right away, but instead threw aside the Vortian comic she was reading and got up, trying to find the source. "It's some sort snacky smell...It seems really familiar...Can't place my finger on it though...But I've been smelling it since we left the Massive...though it's stronger now..."
Mah took a deep whiff of air. Indeed, she could, just barely though, smell the hint of something. "Maybe Ren is making something in the kitchen?" (2)
"I'm right here." Ren replied from her position next to Mah.
"Oh yeah...you were helping me check the computer system..." Mah said.
"Besides, this ship doesn't even have a kitch-My Tallest? Where are you going?" Ren asked.
"To see where the smell is coming from..." Kai said as she left to wander around. 'Where is it coming from?' Kai thought. It had grown stronger as time progressed and now had that overcooked sort of smell to it.
"I smell it too now..." Ren replied getting up to also see where it came from. Mah followed her, for she could smell it really good now. Like something was burning...badly. They found Tallest Kai with her face near a vent.
"Where's this thing lead to?" she asked.
Mah studied it for a few seconds before replying "It's a conduct to the engine, I don't see-" She was interupted by a sudden sound. Like the cracking of something short circuiting...
"Uh-oh." Mah managed to get out before the ship gave a mighty shuttered and started accelerating out of control...
"MAH! Start up the boosters!"
"Why! We're crashing anyway!"
"Make the crash smoother!" Ren and Tallest Kai shouted at the same time.
Mah nodded and did what she could. RiKa was attached to Ren, as was Kai.
"Protect your Tallest!"
"I'll do what I can!"
Mah then latched herself onto Ren, along with Spiffy. They braced for the impact. Kai couldn't help but notice that the planet they were accelerating towards looked remarkably like a giant tasty yaeling berry (3)...
"What the–?" the boy was interrupted by a loud crash, he turned to look and then just shrugged and got back to staring at the grass. It was just a newly formed,non-descript giant dirt hill behind him. Nothing special there...
(4)
"Ugh! It's all...dirt!"
"Shut up! We need to stay discreet...to cover for that crash or something."Ren snapped to Mah.
Kai was already at a bush, peeking over it at the strange creatures.
"They're so...ugly..."
"RiKa, join with Spiffy and scan the planet. We need disguises and general information about this place."
The SIR units nodded and went straight to work. The two Irkens observed as Mah worked with the two SIR units.
"Hey...there's more Irken equipment here..."
"But...I don't recall this planet on the list..."
Kai looked through her clipboard and none of her scribbles looked like theyaelin berryshe saw from space.
"I'd remember such a yummy looking planet..."
"Hey...there's another Irken biosignature..." Mah reported, pointing to the combined SIRs.
Spiffy brought up a hologram, showing the basic structure of the Irken in a green hue. All three looked towards it, as it looked familiar...the shape...the height...So horribly familiar..
Kai's eyes were slowly growing wider. 'There's no freakin way...there's like billions of planets, there's no way that I'm on the same one with-'
"COME BACK YOU ALIEN SCUM!"
"Nonsense! I am huMAN!"
"I'll expose you, ZIM!"
Two boys passed the 'hidden' group of Irkens at amazing speed. The three sat wide-eyed in silence for a few seconds. Kai was the first to speak.
"Why? Why of all places? ANYPLACE but here!"
"Here. The SIRs have found suitable disguises for us, and have found a base for us to operate. My Tallest, with any luck, we can repair the ship and get out before he notices us." Rensaid tryingto calm Kai down...
"Repair? We have to STAY here?" Kai washorriedfied at the thought and went over to the ship, to where Mah was examining the ship's engine and power core,
"What the Irk is this?" Mah wondered outloud. She carefully pulled out some burnt,blackish-purplish stuff. It looked to be a sort of packaging of something or another...Sensing her leaders presence behind her, the tall technician turned saying, "This was stuff seemed to have caused some sort of reaction to the pow-" she paused as she notice Kai's experssion. It was directed at the burnt stuff in the compartment andit went from recognization to anger. "Purple is going to pay for this...Dearly..."
Mah and Ren looked at each other, confused, andthen shrugged a bit.
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Hidden in the night, the three worked to load the ship and themselves into an old home. Once inside they created an underground base, as usual for Invaders. Ren helped with this, being trained in how to work a base. Inside they were given a place to put on a well-made disguise. They also were taught about school and the process of a normal human day. Kai was about "high skool" height, or age, and Ren was about "elementary" "age". None of this made sense, but it was just temporary anyway.
(1) This was a reference to ch:3. The chapter that I apparently lost somehow...Basically, the ship that they are using is a small flagship. The same size of the ship that you would have been introduced to in chapter three. The ship can only hold about 6ish Irkens comfortably, and even less than if a Tallest happens to be riding in the ship.
(2) Hasn't really been introduced alot in the stories, but will later on. Ren happens to be a really good cook, and occasionally makes food for the Tallest. In RL, Rai is a much better cook then myself, and I think she's better than Link. Anyhow, just a little inside humor for us three. (To explain it would take a while and many stories, mainly of my failings, in a kitchen...and Rai, if you are reading this, I did not blow up the microwave freshman year...it merely short circuited...)
(3) Another reference to a conversation I had. I was asked what Kai's first imperssion of Earth from space would be, and I said that she would probably think of it as a giant, tasty, blue berry. So that was added in. Except I made up the name Yaelin berry cause blue berries didn't seem like an Irken snack item...
(4) This part of the story is actually an excerpt from Rai's chapter. I did some minor editing to it, but the brilliance is her's. (It actually starts at the little boy part in the park...)
Anyhow, we decided to change the setting for a few chapters, for we wanted a change in pace
I'm not going to explain what their human disguises look like. For one thing, it would be hard to do (for me at least) for another thing, I have a picture of them on photobucket. I just don't know if I'm allowed to post the link for it on here...anyone care to tell me? It would be apperciated, and the pictures are really good. The ones of Ren and Kai are edited screen shots from the show. The ones of Mah (There isn't an Irken in the show that's a foot shorter of the Tallest.) and the three's human forms, but Link drew herself. (Good artist...takes her about 40 seconds or less to whip out a drawing. I timed her for Kai's disguise and it took her about 35ish seconds. The great part about it, is that they are really good and she never erases for she never draws in pencil. How crazy is that?) Though I am going to say that I came up with Kai's outfit. I'm so proud of my self -gives self a pat on the back-
Hope you are enjoying reading this. I'm not too sure when I'll get the next chapter up...so you'll just have to guess at why Kai is suddenly ticked off at Purple
R&R if you want, it makes me happy knowing people are reading this : D