Invader Iza: A waffle parade, huh? That's interesting...but hey! Free waffles!

Invader Sideos: Hmm...I'll try to change the lack of action thing, but am glad you like the characters. I haven't stopped writing, it's just that now I have to start from scratch to upload more chapters on here. So it's going to take me longer to update than it did when I already had the chapters typed up and could just edit and then upload them.

Pardon for the long time in updating. I get easily distracted and so typing out the chapter took longer than I thought it would. Iwas thinking about waiting till I finishedtyping out the current plot before updating, but I also told someone I would update beforeThanksgiving. Well, I'm going to be without a computer for about a week, so I highly doubt I would finish typingbefore I left

Disclaimer: Don't own the characters of IZ, Mah, Red, or Zene. I do own Kai

"Red? What are you doing here?" Kai asked, hovering into the lounge, surprised at seeing the crimson Tallest enter through the other door at the same time.

"I could ask the same of you, Kai. It's yours and Purple's turn to deal with the quartly report stuff."

"Nooo...it's yours and Purple's turn to deal with the reports. I had to do them last time."

"So did I."

"Well, yeah. That's because it was Purple's turn to skip. The time before that you didn't-" Kai stopped mid-sentence and thought about that. "Wait. Yes you did. That was the time you got mad at the computer clipboard for not working correctly, threw it on the table and caused it to explode, setting the other documents on fire. And then we had to order more copies and start over. Real smooth by the way. It took the rest of the day to finish them...and then there was the table that had-"

"Hang-on." Red jumped in, having just realized something. "If you and I did the reports last time and the time before that..."

"So, Red. What are you planning to do with your free day?" Kai asked, flopping into a chair.

"I don't know. I'm thinking, lounging and laughing at the thought of Purple having to do all those reports himself." Red replied, flopping into his own chair, and picking up a platter of cookies that had been set on the table.

"Wow, what a coincidence. I planned on doing the exact same thing." Kai said, snagging a few of the cookies for herself.

-In another part of the Massive-

Purple whistled to himself as he hovered down the hall. 'Pity I can't skip again. But skipping four times in a row would be sort of obvious. Even to those two.' he thought idly entering into the convention room. He paused and looked around.

"Where is Red and or Kai?" He asked one of the advisors that were scurrying around.

He paused to answer: "They called a few minutes ago to say sorry that they wouldn't be able to come in to do the reports, because there seems to be exceedingly important inventory work on sector 12.." He said the last part a bit unsure of himself, for if memory served, sector 12 was one of the Tallest's lounge areas. Not any sort of storing room.

It took half a second for that to process in his mind and when it did, he let out a huge sigh and reluctantly took his seat at the table. They apperently figured out what he did and now he was going to have to pay for it. 'I wonder if I could fake being sick...' He thought, as he pulled the first stack of reports to him.

-Many hours later-

'I swear...He's going to be the downfall of us all.' Purple thought darkly. That Irken had been a thorn in the Empire's side since day one. And the violet Tallest had just spent the last few hours dealing with the most recent Zim related problem. Sometime ago, the self-proclaimed Invader had contacted Vort and requested and received a file download from one of the imprisoned scientist. That in itself was not the problem, for that was normal. But apparently, Zim did not bother to do a secure download or even run any sort of scan on the file. Long story short: A bundle of technical problems that the Empire had been experiencing the past few months were traced to that incident. If the paperwork and reports associated with that weren't head ache enough, there was the fact that a few scientists from the prison planet may have had escaped unnoticed, because of the security leak that was found a few weeks ago. Which was could also be traced back to Zim.

'This has been a very looong day...' Purple thought wearily. He was on his way to see what the other two Tallest were up to. Not once had either of them come and gloat about not having to do the reports. Which was just plain weird to begin with. Add that to the fact that no one else on the Massive had seen them all day. Not even the service drones in the food court had seen a trace of them, nor had they been called upon to deliever snacks to Red and Kai. For all Purple could tell, they never left the lounge and didn't call anyone into the lounge all day.

Which caused Purple to worry a bit. Despite being 7 feet tall, Kai still had the attention span of a smeet at times, getting her to stay in a room all day (unless snacks and some form of entertainment was provided) would be like trying to push Sizz-Lor out a porthole. Sure, it could be done, with alot of pain and hardwork, but it was near impossible.(1) The similiar thing applied to Red, though it was to a lesser degree and stemmed from the fact that he got bored easily.

"What are you two do-" Purple started to say as he opened the door and entered. He paused, more than a little confused at what he saw. The other two Tallest were no where to be found, instead the only signs of them were their uniforms that were strewned a little on the floor. 'What the?' Purple thought, trying to comprehend this strange turn of events.

"That's good." Came a voice that sounded alot like Kai's. "We were worried that you were one of the shorter Irkens. Boy, would that have been really awkward."

Purple looked around the room, trying to find Kai. There was a huge sigh, and then Red's voice said, "Look closer to the ground."

Purple dropped his gaze and noticed the two really short Irkens that stood there staring up at him. One was a blue-eyed female, the other was a red-eyed male. Both wore standardized red, black striped, black pants uniforms that were a bit big on them. Height wise, it seemed like they should both still be in the education plug back on Irk. How did they wind up here? Purple stared at them.

"Red? Kai?" He asked, very confused.

"No...It's just a huge coincidence that we are two Irkens who have two fingers and happen to share the same voice, eye-color, pak design, as them...Of course it's us!" Kai snapped. She wasn't happy with the fact that she suddenly lost 5 and 1/2 feet in height.

Purple sat down in a chair stunned. "You're..."

"Don't say it." Red warned.

"You're..."

"Purple..."

"Short...really, really short...really, really, really-"

"We know!" Red exclaimed, throwing up his hands, "Trust me. We know"

"How?"

"I don't know, one minute we were talking about the newest shipment from the Cythlean Republic, the next I suddenly wake up, trapped inside my own uniform. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to open those chest armor things from the inside." Kai muttered the last part to herself.

"Wait, there was a shipment from the Cythlean Republic? Why wasn't I told?"

"Because the last time the snacks arrived here, you took all the flaens."

Purple was about to reply to that, but Red interruppted. "As interesting as this conversation is getting, there's a more pressing matter at hand. Like how I went from being an Almighty Tallest to being..."

"An Almighty Shortest?" Purple ventured, grinning a little.

Kai started snickering, but stopped when Red simply stated, "Don't know why you're laughing."

'You know? This could actually be a good thing...' Purple started to think to himself. Afterall, he was now the only Tallest. No longer did he have to share power with Kai and Red. Though that also meant, no longer did they divide up the work that went with the position. Days like today, where he would be stuck doing paperwork and whatnot all day would be more common place. Then there was the fact that he would have basically no one to converse, joke around, goof off or really anything like that. But then again, with all the extra work, it's not like he would have a ton of free time to begin to miss that.

Purple started to smirk, but then stopped as another thought popped into his brain. He would be the only one who would have to deal with Zim. The annoying little defective that some how managed to contact them at least once every few days. And with depressing frequency, sometimes 2 times in one day. No matter what they did in trying to block him, he somehow always found a way to get through. And then there was the incredible amount of paper work, reports, and meetings that were also tied to the Invader whenever he did something incredibly stupid. Which was about once every week or so. As it stood, they shuffled the various Zim issues between them so that they could all keep their sanity. But if Kai's and Red's condition was permenant, Purple would have to deal with it all...by himself. The very thought made him shiver.

"Okay. If you're done with thinking about how this incident may be beneficial to you, can we move on with trying to reverse it?" Kai asked suddenly.

Purple looked at her, "Huh? What makes you think that I was thinking about that?"

Red and Kai stared at him pointedly and Red replied, "First off you had that smirk for a few seconds and then it changed into a grimace."

"So?"

"So..." Kai replied, "Do you really think you are the first one of us three to have thought about what it would be like if the other two Tallest somehow...lost their positions?"

Purple didn't really know how to reply to that. After a brief moment of silence he said, "Well, I suppose we could go down to the fourth level and have the scientist run a few tests on you to figure out what the cause of your downsizing is."

Red crossed his arms and stared at him.

"What?"

"Oh, he's against that idea. I brought it up earlier." Kai replied.

"If you worried that no one will believe that you are...well..you, I will be there to vouch." Purple said.

Red snorted, "That's not the point. It would be devasting for our image for word of this mishap to get around. Especially for you." Red replied indicating to Purple.

"Yeah...That is true. It would look pretty bad for you Purple." Kai agreed. And Purple had to nod.

"Oh! I got it. I'll take a sample and then take it down there myself."

"Right, and just how do you plan to do that?" Red asked.

Purple looked around. "Here, I'll just use this to scrap off a skin sample or something."

"Wha? You aren't coming near us with that!" Kai exclaimed when Purple held up the slightly sharp object.

"Do you want to know what's wrong or not?" Purple asked

"Well, yeah. But really, you only need a sample from one of us...So thanks Kai for volunteering." Red added suddenly, moving back behind her.

"I'm not goin-Hey! Don't come any clos-AHH!" Kai yelled turning to run away. Red causally stuck a foot out and Kai, of course, tripped and crashed head first into the desk. When she came too a minute later, she noticed Purple leaving the room.

"You jerk." She stated to Red, as she got up.

"He only need a skin sample. It's not like you can tell." Red replied, pointed to her arm and she looked. Indeed, there was only the faintest indication that something had been scraped there.

"Well then, why didn't you volunteer?"

"Like I was going to let him do that to me. Do you not remember the incident at Devastis?" (2)

Kai muttered darkly under her breath.

-30 minutes later-

"So, it's some sort of chemical compound is responsible?" Red asked, when Purple had returned and handed him the report one of the scientist made.

Purple popped another cookie in his mouth and shrugged. "The only thing that the scientist found interesting was the presence of some unknown chemical. So yeah, I figure that is what caused this whole thing. The deal is, how would that have been introduced into your bodies?"

Kai shrugged and said, "Working on that. We have a theory, but it hasn't been proven yet."

"Oh?" Purple said, about to ask what that theory was, but the sound of someone knocking on the door made him pause. Kai quickly hide, and Purple stood up and shoved Red into a drawer, for the other 'Tallest' had been too busy reading the report to have noticed the noise, and quickly closed it before Red realized what happened. Just in time too, for the Irken who knocked entered the room.

"Mah, what do you-" Purple paused more than a little surprised at what he saw. The Irken was a red-eyed male. And he was taller than Mah. And only 6in shorter than Purple himself. The Irken seemed equally as surprised to see Purple.

"You?" The Irken asked confused at something.

"Yes. Me. You...Who are you?" Purple replied equally at a lost.

The Irken recovered himself. "Oh, pardon me, my Tallest. I'm Zene(3) I was just transferred here, and umm..wanted the honor of meeting all of you. I heard that you were in here. If you don't mind me asking, where are Tallest Kai and Tallest Red?"

"Oh, they're busy at the moment. In anycase, nice to meet you, but next time wait for a reply before barging in. That's liable to get you imprisoned." Purple replied.

Zene nodded sheepishly, "Thank you sir." and left.

Purple fell back into his chair, for he was a bit at a lost. But mainly because he felt a bit woozy.

"You should have intarrogated him." Kai said as she left her hiding place. There was a slight banging noise from the drawers but they both ignored it.

"Huh? Why?"

"Right. He just...just transferred here and wanted the honor of meeting us."

"You've lost me."

"Did you see how tall he was? Mah is the only Irken close to us in height, so where did he pop up from?" Kai asked.

Purple shrugged, not catching on and really starting not to feel well now.

"Trust me. I would have noticed this Zene before. I beat he's somehow involved in this."

Standing up to see if it would help, Purple asked "How often do you check for that sort of thing?" (4)

"Oh, only a couple of times every mon-Hey, are you okay?"

Purple was about to answer but collasped, unconscious, as a sharp pain ripped through his body...

(1) I have not clue why I thought up that analogy. But when I typed it out and looked at it again, I started cracking up. Because Purple sounds like he knows this from experience and that got me thinking (Porthole is a small circular window for those who might not know the word)

(2) Surely in Devastis they had some lessons or another similiar to ours in biology. How else would they know how to experiment on a specimen? Anyhow, let's just say Purple wasn't the best student...

(3) My online rp friend, created this character for a plot we were doing. I liked him so much, I asked if I could use him in my fic. She agreed, thanks Amazon

(4) Yes. Kai keeps tabs on any Irken thatseems to have a height advantage over the general population... Wouldn't surprise me if Red and Purple did that as well...

The next chapter will probably be up a week after Thanksgiving. Notice I say, probably. I make no promises...()