Techno Doofus: Yeah, it's going to get a tad bit worse for her though :P But the stay on earth isn't indefinite : )

Ri2: Perhaps typing in the address would work? I'll look into though, wouldn't be surprised if I copied the link down wrong or something. I would describe them if I know that wouldn't make it all complicated and confusing. Which I probably would end up doing...hmm...if for some reason all else fails, then the next set of chapters I'll try to make a side note of descriptions.

As for Purple...well...you'll get the whole story in this chapter, so I won't say anything here : D

The frog people...don't really know...most likely...just look at how the alliance between Vort and Irk went.But really, the main reason forbringing in the Blorgarians, was just a way for me to have allthe characters inthe same place away from the Massive so that they could crash on earth.My friends and I had a few ideas we wanted to write out, and my friend had alreadywritten out the nifty crash scene in her chapter. So I did a short piece with the whole treaty thing. I may use the treaty thing later on...not sure

No offense taken : )And I'm sure Kai would agree with you. She would probably prefer to have crashed on someunknown planet. And that may happen later on.

Tallest Kai: WHAT?

ignores charrie But there were a few plots we wantedto write out that in order to work,the charactes needed to be on Earth. And that's the reason : D

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Invader Zim, Mah, Ren and their robots. Only Tallest Kai is mine.

The teacher whistled a happy little tune as she rearranged things at her desk, and then looked up at the class. "Hello students! Allow me to introduce the newest member to our little government induced family." Ms. Perky (1)said, indicating to the figure lingering by the door to join her in front of the class.

The students watched with little interest as the slightly tallish girl slowly made her way to the teacher.

"Her name is...T.K. T.K. would you like to introduce yourself?" Ms. Perky asked.

Tallest Kai (a.k.a TK) glared at the class. In order to keep their prescence here a secret, Kai would have to blend in somewhat. That meant coming up with some form of greeting.

"I'm new here." she stated.

Ms. Perky waited a bit to see if more was forth coming, but T.K. remained silent. The teacher cleared her throat and asked, "Is there anything else you want to add to that?"

"No."

"Come on, don't be shy."

Kai turned to glare at the teacher and said, "Anything else I might have to say does not concern you."

Ms. Perky, being the type of teacher that she was, remained oblivious to the bitterness and distaste that emanated from the new kid, and thought 'She is probably just nervous.'

"Okay then, choose a seat and class will begin."

Kai choose the back corner seat, the furthest one away from the teacher and the rest of the class. Originally, only Ren was going to have to go to the skool, because it seemed earthlings her height were required to go. But after staying at the base all day in extreme boredom, Kai figured it would a least be something to pass the time...but that didn't mean she had to enjoy it in the least...

'I'm a leader of the mighty Irken Empire, I should not have to suffer these indignities! Oh, how Purple will pay...' Kai silently vowed. She desperately hoped that Mah was well on the way with the repairs, she wanted off this stupid rock as soon as possible. For the longer they stayed the more likely that Zim would notice them. Kai shuddered at the thought. Something being placed on the desk brought her back to the present moment.

"What's this?" she demanded of the child that was passing them out.

He looked at her oddly and replied, "It's a worksheet." before walking off.

She glanced at the paper, it was titled "Major Events in History!"

"I'm not doing this." Kai said to herself, knocking the paper to the floor and dropping her head on the desk. She despised paper work, and could really care less about the history of the stupidplanet.

A little while later she heard someone stop by her desk, but ignored them.

"T.K, your paper is on the floor." The teacher said.

"Really? I didn't know." Kai replied her voiced muffled by the desk.

The bell rang, "Well, it seems that it is lunch time, you can take it home and turn it in tomorrow" The teacher said happily. Kai lifted her head and glared at the teacher, she had no intention of doing this assignment. 'Wait a minute, did she say lunch?' Kai thought suddenly seeing a flicker of hope in this horrible day. Kai got up and slowly followed the other children to the food court area. Which turned out to be loud and filthy, and the Irken leader was hesistant to consider the slop on the tray as food.

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but Purple's cooking is probably better..." Kai muttered to herself and pokeing the gruely stuff on the tray with one of the flimsy untensils.

"My Ta-" Ren started, when she found Kai in the cafeteria, but the Tallest shushed her. Oblivious as he was to things, even Zim would realize who they were if Ren adressed her that way while in public.

"Not here. I'm T.K."

"Alright, My Ta-T-...T-..." She was almost in pain. "T.K."

Kai nodded and continued to scruntinize the food. "Think it's edible?" She wondered outloud to Ren.

"I really don't know, my T.K." Ren replied, she noticed her leader's face which clearly said 'Well then, find out.'

Ren gulped, and Kai watched as the soldier slowly ate a bit of the food. "Yeah..." Kai replied slowly, as Ren soon went into convulsions on the floor, "I think I'll avoid the food here..."

A few seconds later, Ren, who had ended up on another table during her painful reaction to the food, came running back to where Kai sat and exclaimed: "My T.K! I have a solution!We can just bring food from the home base. Other kids here do it. We can remain normal that way!"

Kai nodded, That would have been an excellent idea, but the problem was that there was nothing to bring from base...

The rest of the day passed on, and due to the growlings in her stomach, Kai was in a somewhat foul mood.

While waiting for Ren in front of the Skool, under the overhang, drops of water started to fall from sky. 'Now what?' Kai thought annoyed.

"Look it's raining!" some dirt child yelled running out into it.

"Rain?" Kai asked herself quietly, she wondered if it was dangerous.

"My Ta..T.K. Sorry I'm late, the teacher drone held up the class because of the big headed boy."

"Huh?"

Ren shrugged, "It's this child in the class, he has a really huge head...my T.K?"

"Hmm? Oh, I was just wondering if this...rain... was dangerous some how. These humans don't seem to mind it much..." Kai let her sentence hang as a fresh new batch of human filth ran by the two Irkens, among them was a green skinned one. 'How ever did Zim pass the final test to even earn the Invader class? It's vexing.' Kai thought.

"He does not seem to be affected by it," Ren observed.

Kai nodded absent-mindedly, that was true...but still...

"You're the soldier." Kai said, before causally giving Ren a shove out into the rain.

Nothing seemed to happen at first, but then Ren started smoking, "It burns!" she said as she dove back under the covering.

"Indeed." Kai looked around, everyone else was almost gone, it wouldn't seem...normal...for them to stay after school for so long while waiting for this...rain...to let up. Already, they were getting curious stares from a few.

Kai looked out again, and notice a few of the earth monkeys were carrying strange black things over their heads, it seemed to be repelling the water away from them. 'We need one of those things...' Kai thought, she looked behind her and notice a small human about to open one.

Without really a second though, she took it from the human, and when he tried to get it grab it back, he backed away when she glared at him.

"Lets go." She stated, after managing to open up the contraption. They took a round about way back to the base, to ensure that they weren't being followed.

Entering the base, Kai threw the rain repellent thing in a corner.

"I hate this planet." She stated, and after making sure that the windows were closed, deactivated her hologram disguise and stretched.

"I understand what you mean." Ren replied deactivating her hologram as well.

"Now, to have a talk with…Mah?" Kai started, walking into the kitchen area. She looked at the table which was covered with various cans.

"What's this?" Kai asked.

"My Tallest! I didn't hear you come in, I went to the food place..."

"Pickled onions?" Red asked slowly reading a can label.

"And bought a lot of stuff, I don't know exactly what they are, but we need snacks." Mah continued, spooning out a mouthful from a can.

"Wait!" Kai and Ren started, but Mah already shoved it into her mouth, only to start gagging a few seconds later.

"Yuck!" Mah exclaimed, spitting and wiping at her tongue, trying to get rid of the taste.

"I don't think that there is much here that is edible." Ren said

"Mah, how much longer will it take you to fix the ship?" Kai asked.

Mah thought about it for a moment, "I don't know. Those thingsin the engine short circuited a lot of things. As well as damaged the power core, it may need to be replaced. It's a wonder that we ever made it to Blor without any problems…My tallest?" Mah hesitated a bit before going on, she could practically feel the growing rage and emanating from her leader. "We may be stuck here for a while…"

Kai had clenched her fingers and she glared at Mah, and then looked down at Ren, who gulped quietly to herself. Kai looked up at the ceiling and closed her eyes, taking in a deep breathe and trying to get a hold of herself. Mah and Ren were stuck here...

'After all, I'm an Almighty Tallest, I can deal with these situations with out losing my cool...' Kai thought. Breathing out again, she looked back at Mah and asked, "Long distance communications?"

Mah nodded, "Those are online my Tallest."

"Is it secured?"

"Yes, Zim should not be able to pick it up. Neither should anyone else except the Massive."

"Good…I need to yell at Almighty Purple for a while." Actually, she wanted to demand the Armada send someone over to pick them up, but Kai knew that would not really be possible. They were in one of the more difficult quadrants to conquer and needed all the ships (2) But she needed to report in what had happened, and hopefully yelling at Purple would do some good for her.

Mah and Ren both had strange looks on their faces as Kai made her way over to the huge screen that took up a great deal of a wall. After hitting few buttons, the panel flipped over to reveal a different set of buttons and controls. Kai entered a few codes and the "Please Wait" scene flashed on as the transmission went through to the Massive.

'This should be interesting...' Mah though looking on, but also moving away from the Tallest at the same time. Despite the fact thatMah herself couldn't really indentify the remains of whatever screwed up the power core, Kai had been able to, by merely taking one look at one of the lesser charred pieces. As far out as it sounded to the tall technician, Mah had to agree. The scent they all smelled on the ship did support it. And probably no one was a bigger expert on the subject than the Tallest themselves...

"What is it now Zi-Kai?" Red asked, his expression switching from annoyance to surprise.

"Hey! I thought you said the Transmission was coming from earth!" Purple yelled to someone off screen.

"It is sirs." The technician replied.

Red and Purple looked back at Kai. 'She seems really pissed off about something.'Red thought.

"Uhhh…I thought you were on your way back from Blor?"Purple asked.

"Indeed, I was. But due to the stupidity of a certain Irken, we had some technical difficulties and had to crash land on this horrible little rock."

"Zim." Red muttered.

"Oh no. For once it was not Zim related…" Kai started, and from a pocket in her robe whipped out a burnt,and almostunrecognizable snack packet. "This andabout a dozenothers are what cause it."

"Hey! Those are mine!" Purple exclaimed.

"I know. I know...I am just curious to find out WHAT THE HELL THEY WERE DOING IN MY SHIP'S ENGINE!" Kai yelled back, waving the snack at him threateningly.

Purple sort of shrank back from Kai's outrage, "But they've been missing for days now…" He started at the same time that Red said, "So that's where I hid them."

The technicians onboard the Massive and the two Irkens with Kai looked on curiously. Those nearest to the Tallests sort of stepped back from their stations. It was always interesting to watch the Tallest fight and argue, as long as one was watching it from a safe distance...

"What?" Kai asked, turning to glare at Red

"Excuse me?" Purple asked at the same time.

Red continued, seemingly oblivious to the fact that he was being targeted by his co-leaders. "All this time they were there. No wonder I couldn't find them, you had already left for Blor. And to think I set off the emergency alarm to clear half the ship so that I could search for them. Such a waste of time..."

"Wait a minute, that was you? I was in the middle of some very important inventory wor—" (3)

-Crunch-

Purple stopped at the loud noise, Kai had clenched her fingers so tightly around the bag that she had crushed the burnt snacks. She was still glaring at Red.

"Uhhh…" Red started, noticing exactly how mad Kai was. Her left antenna kept twitching and her eyes seemed to glow. "Think of it as a vacation?" he finished.

"Oh. A vacation?" Kai said through clenched teeth. "I'm stuck on this wretched dirt ball for who knows how long, having to blend in with the stupid inhabitants. The only things that seem to be edible are these stupid burnt snacks. And not only is Zim on the same planet, he is a mere few miles away. Yes. This is a wonderful change of pace from being on the Massive. Did I forget to mention that there's no snakcs in this wretched place?"

"Well, you know, that's not entirely true. Those snacks are good no matter how over-cooked they are." Red replied and then suddenly he thought of something, "Hey! If she isstuck there,who is going to do her share of the work here?"

"I don't think now's the time..." Purple said slowly, though it was a good question. He was not about to let Red dump that on him. He looked back at Kai and almost gulped. Her eyes were definitely glowing and she looked ready to kill something. 'She's going to lose it.' Red thought as Kai opened her mouth, but he almost fell down when insteadgoing into an angery tirade,she simply stated, "I'm going to sleep now." And without another word, hovered over and flopped, unceremoniously, faced down on some conveniently placed couch.

Face buried into a cushion, Kai blocked out the conversation between Red and Purple and Mah and Ren. She tried to think clearly through her situation. Shoving aside all the frustration and anger that came with having to go to the diplomacy thing, Red's stupidity, and crashing on this planet, she went through the situations.

One of the larger issues were scarcity of snacks... 'It will be like training for a soldier all over again…Irkens really don't need food to live…I can deal without going off the wall…I think…'

The next larger problem was Zim. No matter how Kai looked at it, there was not really a good side or a solution. 'Okay then…we'll just have to be sure he does not notice us…Though he has a horrible habit of finding out things that he should not. And if he does…well…he's not trained as a technician so that gives me plenty of reasons to keep him as far away as possible from my ship. And neither I nor Ren and Mah, can really be involved in his "mission" on Earth, because that is not the Invader way…yeah…that works as an excuse…so besides for presenting a major annoyance, and possibalylife threatening,Zim is nothing to worry about….'

Kai sort of jerked at the sound of Mah and Ren cutting the transmission with the other two tallest. She had not been aware that she had actually fallen asleep, but her limbs felt heavy and so did her eyes. She felt too lazy to move from her current position and so just half listened to Ren's and Mah's conversation.

"Did we wake her up?"

"Does not look like it"

"That's good...where are you going?"

"Back to the food place. Hopefully with RiKa's help I'll find something remotely edible. Or at least find things to make something to eat."

"Hopefully you'll have better luck than me. Oh, here. This is the monies that they use to get stuff."

"Where did you get it?"

"Spiffy found it…" (4)

Kai at this point had drifted back to sleep, diverging from examining various ways to deal with the current issues into a dream of sorts in which she shrunk Red and used him as the ball for ping-pong...It was a happy thought...

(1) First idea for a teacher. An insanely optimistic one. A contrast to Ms. Bitters. Hence the name.

(2) I'm aslight sucker for details. It would seem to me that had aTallest actually gotten stranded somewhere, the Armada probably would have done their best to get to their leader(s) This was just a lame, but effective way of avoiding this technicality : )

(3)'Very important inventory work'- A running joke. Basically means, he was sorting through all the snacks they had in the pods, trying to hoard the best ones for himself.

(4) A reference to the chapter Link wrote before I wrote out this one.A funny short ficlet in which Mah and Spiffy go to the supermarket. Chaos of course ensures, when Mah realizes that the earthlings have a different type of 'monies' than she currently has. She orders Spiffy (5)to get some...

(5) Completely forgot to write out how the robots are disguised. RiKa is a slightly large, black squirrel. An evil looking squirrel, but a normal looking one as well. Spiffy's disguise, however, isa teddy bear...a walking, sharp tool carrying teddy bear...at least if Mah isn't holding it, then it looks like your average tedday bear...with a tool...Anyhow...

Hope you enjoyed this chapter. I had a bit more free time then I thought I would and so was able to place it up.

R&R