Invader Iza- Glad you liked your waffle :) I don't think it's my space bar, I think the reason is because of my spacing in story, if I double space between words, it does not do that. When I'm typing out chapters again, I will have to remember that.

DrIvoRobotnik- Glad you are liking the story so far, the ending I have thought of is greatness.

Tallest Kai: Not for me it's not.

Me: It's not like I killed you off

Tallest Kai: You might as well have

Me: Don't be so dramatic...

One-Black-Balloon- Thank you! I will try my best to not let the new chapters lack the effort and such that are in current ones : )

Disclaimer: Don't own IZ characters. Do own Kai and Ni though.

"Secret Inspection Trip..."Kai said slowly, settling into her chair on the command deck.

"Hey, we had to come up with some reason as to why you were missing for so long" Purple replied.

"Yeah, we couldn't really let on that you were actually stranded on some backwater planet." Red added.

"No thanks to you."

"Listen, if I had known you were going to be taking that ship, I would have hidden them somewhere else. I mean, do you know what I had to go through to get them? And I didn't even get to eat the stupid snacks because your power core incinerated them." Red seemed oblivious to the fact that both his co-leaders were more or less glaring at him now.

"Snack thief." Purple stated before shoving a nacho in his mouth.

"Like you've never done it." Red retorted, before devouring his own nachos.

"I don't go around hiding them in some random ship's engines though."

Red snorted. Like hiding the snacks there was really his first choice of places. It wasn't his fault that while he was making his way to deposit the ill-gotten snacks, Kai and Purple chose to walk in on him. Rather than get caught in the act, he had no choice but to dump them quickly. It just so happened that the place he chose was in the engine compartment of the ship that Kai was going to take later on.

"Anyhow," Purple started "The incident is behind us, right? Red has apologized for the matter."

"So we're even?" Red added.

Kai glanced at him.

-Insert flashback of 10 minutes earlier-

"So those are Red's nachos?"

"Yes, my Tallest." Service drone Ni (1) answered, somewhat confused at being stopped.

"Okay, wait a moment." Kai pulled out a little tube like container and shook its contents onto the nachos. Luckily, the stuff blended in well with the cheese.

"Errr...seasoning?" Ni asked, a bit nervous.

"Yup. But don't worry. It's not deadly. Won't even make him sick. Even so, he still can't know about it." Kai said the last part in a happy voice that also carried along the threat 'And if you warn him, you'll be sorry'
"Erm..whatever you say my Tallest." Ni said, a bit unsure. He would still serve the nachos with the special 'seasoning', but afterwards he planned on staying out of sight for a bit, so that Tallest Red wouldn't remember that he had been the one that served the nachos. Kai waited a moment for the service drone to get a ways ahead of her, before entering onto the command deck herself.

-end flashback-

Careful not to smirk as he ate his last nacho Kai replied, "Yeah, I suppose we are even...now..."

Red looked at her suspicously, 'she's up to something...' He thought, licking his fingers. Sure, it had been a week since she got back to the Massive and nothing had happened, but Red was still expecting some sort of revenge. It wasn't her style to let something like that slide. He sure as wouldn't if he had been in the same situation.

-Two hours later-

"And that's phase one," Zim said, not skipping a beat. "Phase two is even more ingenious. More EVIL!" And he continued explaining his latest plan for the earth's demise.

"How does he still manage to contact us even though we change the tansmission codes amost every day?" Kai asked under her breath.

"I don't know," Purple replied "But it's creepy."

Zim had gotten around the latest communication lock, and had been talking for the past hour and a half. But only Kai and Purple had the misfortune of being there. Red had left a few minutes, to get a something, before Zim appeared on the screen. He had of course since come back, but seeing who was on the screen, he didn't bother with going back into the command room. Instead, he smirked and waved at the other Tallest, who could see him in the doorway, and left for his chambers. They could suffer through this Zim transmission.

"Do you have any idea what he is saying?" Kai asked Purple

"Not really. He lost me at the dancing gopher of doom. What's a gopher?"

Kai shrugged, "I don't know."

"Weren't you on that planet for a few weeks?"

"What's your point?"

Purple just stared at her.

"Look, the planet was disturbing enough with the few details I had to learn to blend in. Why on Irk, would I have any interest in learning more about it? Besides, it's more of an Invader's job to do all that..."

"GIR! What are you-Don't touch THAT!"

The Tallest turned their attention back to the screen as Zim's SIR unit grabbed something out of Zim's hand and exclaimed, "Scary Monkey Time!"

"NO! That's not the tv re-"

"MONKEY!" GIR interrupted, giggling as he pressed some large red button on the remote.

There was a decent sized explosion right before the transmission was cut. The Tallest stared at the blank screen for a moment, before Purple spoke up.

"That was...interesting."

"Yeah...though I have to rate it a 6. The last explosion was at least twice as big..."

"An 8, for it's probably going to set off a chain reaction."

"Really? It didn't seem that it was strong enough to set off a chain reaction..."

"10 monies to say it did"

"Okay, you're on. You," Kai said pointing out a random technician, "Restore the communication line."

Within a few seconds the screen flashed on again, though only for a few seconds before the feed was lost, but it was enough to prove a point.

"Drat" Kai said, reluctantly giving Purple the 10 monies.

"Think Zim got destroyed?" he asked, pocketing away the cash.

"Nope."

"I suppose if that black hole didn't do it, then a mere explosion would hardly be expected to. Pity though."

Kai shrugged and replied, "At least he provides some entertainment every once and a while."

"Yeah, that's true..." Purple said slowly as something caught his attention. He looked at his and Kai's basket of nachos

"What?"

"Nothing...I'm just wondering why Red's basket is glowing..."

"Finally, I was starting to wonder if it was going to work."

As if to confirm that, there was a muffled, girlish sound of Red screaming.

Purple looked at Kai, who had this remarkable evil smirk. She quickly got up and made her way to view her handy work.
Purple followed right behind her, "What did you do?" he asked Kai, but she just smirked even more.

They got to the door that lead into the lounge area just as the door opened, revealing a more than slightly ticked off Red.

Purple's mouth dropped open in sheer surprise.Red was now...well...pink. If that wasn't enough, his skin wasn't the settled sort of pink either. Red glanced quickly up and down the hall before he yanked the other two Tallest into the lounge and quickly closed the door.

"What is this?" Red exclaimed, indicating his discolored skin. "How the Irk did I wake up to being pink?" He asked, though he knew Kai was behind it.

"Well, I was trying for a different color. But this is...much better..." Kai said trying to keep a straight face, even his eyes had a slight pinkish tint to them.

"Maybe we should have some pink added to his uniform so that it matches better." Purple added almost losing it.

Red turned and glared at Kai, who was starting to snicker. "If this is permenant..." he threatened

"It's not...give or take two or so weeks, it should wear off." She managed to reply between snickers.

He was trying so hard not to laugh hysterically, that Purple placed a hand on the wall for support. As luck would have it, he hit the switch that turned off the lights, and Red was seen in all of his pink glowing glory. The sight caused both Kai and Purple to lose it completely.

Red growled and left in a huff to his quarters, muttering about something less than complimentary. A few minutes and many puns (2)later, Kai and Purple calmed down enough to leave the lounge and head back to the command deck.

"That turned out far better than I thought it would." Kai said.

"I hope this doesn't start off another type of prank war between you two." Purple said, remembering such an event happening a few years back.

Kai glanced at the violet Tallest, "Doubt so. There are like specific unspoken rules for this sort of thing. Red is pretty good at following them, as am I."

"He's also good at finding ways around rules."

"True that may be, I don't see how he could with these rules. They are pretty cut and dry. It's not like there's some sort of holiday that just allows random pranking for no reason."

Purple shrugged at that comment, you just could never tell with Red.

(1) I got tired of writing just service drone. So I gave him a name. Which, in case some of you haven't seen the show, I got from the Holy Grail movie. Service Drone Ni...Got to love it : )

(2) My original plan for this chapter was to write in a ton of puns. The problem is that I hate puns, and so I could not bring myself to intentionally place them in my story. It was just too painful.

This chapter may seem quite short, but this is only about half of the original chapter. The rest of it was an introducing of the plot that would take over the next two chapters after it. But I didn't like how the very last chapter came out too much. Because the outcome of it rested heavily on Ren. Well, my friend has not finished that chapter, it's sort of where we all stopped with the group fanfic. And so I just gave a very vague ending because it bothered me thatit was unfinished. I'm highly doubting I'll be posting those chapters. But if it seems the majority of you want me to, I will.The general idea was that Zim accidentally infects the Tallest with the earthen flu. If this sounds familiar it's because this idea has been/is being done by another fanfic author, in the story 'The Favour of Doom' I liked the idea so much that I emailed the author to ask permission to use it. She said yes : ) Anyhow, her story is really good. She just has not updated in about a month or two...(Yes...I am advertising her fic a little : D )

I have thought up an ending for this story. It is pretty cool if I do say so myself. But I realize I have quite a bit of half baked plot ideas strewn thoughout this fic. So if you, the reader, want me to expand on one of them, email me or say so in a review : ) (If you email me, say fanfiction or something like that in the subject line. Otherwise, I'll put it off as spam and delete it.)

The ending itself is going to take a while to do, cause I have to introduce two other main fan characters somehow, as well as do some major expanding on the one that is to be the villian, so to speak. Yes, I'm being very vague, cause I want it to be a surprise.

Finally, the current plot I am working on, I sort of need help with some details.And I'll let you all decide. If the Tallest were going to shrink, would it be better for all of them to do so at the same time, or to have only two of them shrink? Or only one of them? If so, choose which one(s). I have ideas for any combination, but I'm too indecisive to pick out one of them, eventually they are all going to be short, but it need not be till near the end of the plot idea.

Pardon for the long author's note, hope you enjoyed, read and review : )