Sorry for it being so long in updating this story...sort of forgot that I had one up here. Until someone asked me about it over aim...and then they whacked me with a digital waffle when they found out the reason why I haven't updated...Anyhow, on the threat of being pummeled again with a breakfast item, I promise to have the next two chapters up by this weekend : D
Invader Iza: Glad you like it : )
Ri2: Glad the link works, I added Mah and the human disguise of Ren to it. Not sure if you saw them, but for some dumb reason or another, I completely forgot to paste them into the picture. Anyhow...yes it's so much fun to have them trapped on earth, though I'm sorry to say it's only for two more chapters.
T.K: And then I get to carry out my revenge...MUHAHAHAHAHA!
Me: And then you get to wait in limbo until I get around to working out some basic details of a few plots I have thought of.
T.K:...
Disclaimer: I do not own and IZ characters or Ren, RiKa, Spiffy, and Mah. Or pocky, or cheeze-its. I do own Kai though.
Almighty Kai woke up to the smell of something. It was not a wonderful smell or even a horrible one. It was just…foreign. Curious as to what it could be, Kai got up from the chair and stretched. The earthen chair was alright she supposed, but Kai still preferred to use the one that some how survived the crash. For it was, after all, custom built for her body structure. But it was also in the underground base, and with Mah pounding around and causing various things to explode and sizzle, well...Kai really didn't want to be sleeping down there...
Entering into the kitchen, she stopped and studied the items on the table.
"What's that?"
"Waffles, my Tallest." Ren replied.
"Uh-huh…"
"It's one of the foods I've found that didn't seem to have any sort of compound that would sicken us."
"Uh-huh…"
"I also got something called Pocky that doesn't seem to need any special preparation, and another thing called Cheeze-its, and this other crackery thing that seems to be like the first except it's more of a brownish color than orange."
"Really?"
"Yeah, and these other things…" Ren continued, and for a few minutes started to list and explain the various food items she found. In truth, Kai had stopped paying attention after the first sentence. Something that became apparent when in the middle of Ren's explaining she interrupted with "So. These…Waffles…edible?"
"Yes…" Ren said slowly, "Mah had someyesterday and todayand sheis still alive and walking around."
"Okay…" Kai said, sitting down. She tore off a small bit of the food and placed it into her mouth, chewing slowly. After about a minute, she swallowed. There was a stretch of silence as Ren nervously waited for a reaction.
"Kind of bland, but they're okay I suppose."
Ren breathed a sigh of relief and busied herself with darting around the house, preparing for another horrible day at skool, while Kai ate waffles.
Finishing, Kai sat there and wondered what she was going to do today; she started to think that being here bored was better than being in that educational plug; when the sound of something ringing caught her attention. RiKa held up the device for her.
"…" Kaiwas a bit unsure as she held it up to her ear. Ren had a few days ago,explained the concept of a phone, but Kai had been too busy fuming at Purple at the time to pay attention.
"Yes?" She asked
"Is the mother of T.K. there?" asked the voice of Ms. Perky
"Mother?" Kai asked herself, all the while frowning at the thought of that teacher knowing how to contact this dwelling.
A screen popped out of RiKa's head and showed a picture of Mah in disguise.
"Hello? You still there?"
"Uh, yes. Mah is working." Kai replied. (1)
"Oh. Is this T.K. I'm speaking to?"
"Errr…yes?"
"So you are better and coming to skool today? Because if you don't the truancy squad at the skool is going to come over to your house and ask a ton of questions to the other house occupants to see if there is a good reason for you to be missing so many days out of your education. I realize you've probably been sick, but you sound well now, so I'll expect to see you today, good-bye!" Ms. Perky had said all of this in one quick sentence and in her typical up-beat manner. Muttering a string of curses, Kai handed RiKa the phone back and made her way to the front door, activating her disguise along the way.
The day at skool went much like the first time Kai was here. Though there was some entertainment at lunch as Zim made a spectacle of being normal. He even had some dance number this time. 'It still eludes me as to how he passed that test.' Kai thought, while eating another waffle for lunch.
As the afternoon progressed in the classroom, Kai spaced out like normal. She had years and years of experience in that matter. However, an hour or so before the day normally ended, the sound of all the dirt children exiting the classroom snapped Kai back into attention. She hoped that meant that skool was ending early, but it was not so as Ms. Perky explained it to her. Apparently, to get use to their lives of working for a faceless corporation, it was decided that the students in Ms. Perky's class would spend the last hour and a half as an aide to another teacher, janitor, or lunch lady. As the students chose the person they would aide for during the time that Kai decided to miss skool, there was only one teacher left. The one that no one wanted. (2)
As Kai opened the door to the classroom where this teacher was, she stopped and stared at the kid who sat next to the door. It was not a kid at all, but Zim. 'Oh. Of course. There's what? A hundred or so classroom in this facility? It only seems natural that I get the one that Zim is in.' Kai thought, trying not to let her distaste show. She scanned the rest of the class and noticed Ren in the back. They shared a brief glance, and then Ren got back to doing whatever it was she was doing and Kai finished her scan of the class. Which was abruptly stopped when a shadow suddenly appeared out of no where in front of her.
"You must be T.K. That's your seat." The figure stated pointing to a desk that sat to the left of the bigger desk. 'Great. I have to sit in facing the lot of them.' Kai thought sitting down. Ms. Bitters sat back down at her desk, and the class took no more interest in Kai. Apparently the reason for her being here had been explained. She sighed and looked out the window. Her mind wondered around as she thought of various ways to get back at Red. Kai was sure she could convince Purple to help her, she just needed to think up a plan.
After a while her mind was stuck on sending Red on some fake diplomacy thing to the planet Zythe. She knew it would never work. For one thing, Red would never go to a diplomacy meeting. And he was not as gullible as Purple was. For at the sight of the planet, even if Kai gave him a false name, Red would recognize it as Zythe, and would turn back. The last reason why she wasn't really considering it was because Kai thought sending him unprepared to Zythe was a bit over the edge.
(3) Zythe was one of the few planets that the Tallests were hesitant about sending Irkens to, they even thought about removing it completely from the list for Impending Doom III. But that would look bad for the Empire, so Zythe was placed on the list, but the Tallest planned on going about its invasion in a different manner. The planet itself was not bad, from what Kai could tell from the pictures they had of it, it possessed some interesting landscape. The race on the planet could be easily handled by a some what experienced Invader. No, the problem was the creatures that lived in certain places there. When spybots had been sent there, they stopped working after only a few hours. From what the technicians could tell from the data they managed to get, the energy had been taken from the bots. Later, a small team of three Irkens had been assembled to retrieve the bots, but they never came back. When a slightly larger team of soldiers had been sent, only one of them survived long enough to send a secure transmission back to the Massive. From what could be told there was some sort of species there that fed on energy. They had some how latched unknowingly onto the paks of the Irkens sent there and over time sucked the paks dry of any energy. How the creatures did that without alerting the Irken was unknown. What the creature looked like, where they came from, how big they were was unknown. Everything about these creatures was unknown. The only known thing was the fact that they absorbed energy, and managed to feed off of the pak without alerting the owner. Which was definitely a threat. Luckily, the only ones who know about those creatures and were still living, were the Tallests themselves, and the control brain. Which was good, for it would not do for word of these creatures to get out to the general public. All evidence that the Irkens had even visited the planet had been destroyed, including the stuff on the planet itself.
Kai cringed slightly, partly because of the thought of some unknown thing sucking the life out of her pak, but mostly because of a stale, foul smelling wind that kept blowing against the right side of her face. Waving it away with one hand, she wondered some more about what those creatures could possibly look like when she heard a growl. She turned and came face-to-face to a snarling, shadowy visage with white, reflective eyes.
"AHHH!" Kai yelled, leaping back towards the windows.She had almost brought her spider legs to bear befor it dawned on her that she was still in the skool room and the growling shadow was in fact, Ms. Bitters. In the back of the class, Ren settled back down in her seat. She had been busy sleeping when she heard Kai's yell, and well Ren was glad that no one had seemed to notice that she had lept on her desk, ready to jump in and defend her leader.
"What?" Kai asked, as her heart rate slowed and the robotic legs in her pak settled back down.She went back to her desk...more than a bit annoyed at herself for having been startled so easily.
Ms. Bitters pointed to the desk. Kai was surprise to find that amidst the time she had spaced out, piles of paper had appear on her desk.
"Grade them."
"Grade them?"
"If they pass place them in this box with a 'P' If they fail, as I'm sure a lot of them will, place them in this box with 'F'."
Ms. Bitters left Kai to her task and went on lecturing the class on the various ways the world would end. Kai looked at the stack of papers, 'That's easy enough.' And with that thought, Kai shoved all the papers into the 'F' box.
(1) hehe...when Link chose the name for her character, we never realized how well it worked. It's pronounced 'Ma' . We didn't realize the implications of that until we decided on what roles the characters would play on Earth, and decided that since Mah did need to stay at the base to repair the ship, she should be the parent. And then we cracked up because her name fitted so well with her role.
(2) The reason I had it so that Kai was a student aide for Ms. Bitters was so that Rai could use my character if she wanted to in her chapter.
(3) A fluff paragraph. The whole thing was to set the mood so that Kai would have a reason to freak out when she saw the lurking shadow of Ms. Bitters right next to her face. It may serve the purpose of a foreshadowing of a future chapter. Who knows, I'll probably end up using the planet again later on. Haven't really thought that far ahead.
After this chapter, I only have about 3 more made. You see, Link stopped writing her chapters after the grocery story. She prefers drawing up comics to writing. Rai stopped writing her chapters after the three leave earth. Her last chapter she has written is only half-way done. She seems to have lost interest at the moment in the writing of the fics. I enjoy writing, (it gives me something to do while my professors drone on about one thing or another) but since we don't really bounce around ideas for plots anymore, I've sort of stopped after I wrote 'Kai's Revenge.' Anyhow, sob story aside, hope you have enjoyed this chapter : )
Reviews are appreciated : P