Title: Irkens Versus Necromorphs Scene
Premise: Invader Zim. Zim, Tak, and Skooge are all sent on a mission in the far reaches of space on a mineral-gathering mission when they run into some nasty-looking aliens. They contact the Irken Librarians to learn more about them.
Date Posted: 12/11/12
Personal Comments: A while back, like two years ago, when Invader Zim was put on NickToons, I was going through a phase in which I was obsessed with the show. I had many ideas going for it, including some crossovers with Phineas and Ferb.
At one point, I imagined a crossover between IZ and Dead Space where the Irkens would have to battle the Necromorphs. In a lot of ideas, I also imagined Zim, Skooge, and Tak having forming a team together and working together for the good of the empire. I also imagined nine invaders based on the nine rag dolls from 9, two of which appear in this drabble.
I'm actually kind of surprised that there's no crossover between IZ and DS here. I really think their should be. There's a lot of franchises that I think should be crossed with DS that aren't. First TF2, and now Zim. DS is a really underrated franchise in fandom, isn't it?
I just realized that tomorrow is 12/12/12. The last day in my lifetime that the three slots will be the same number! I feel like I wanted to do something special that day, but it just so happens I got more important things to worry about with school. Still procrastinating from studying though...
At times, I feel like my writing here is getting sloppier or lazier, or less elaborate than when I first started. Sometimes I rush when I work here at school because I can't stay long before I need to get back to work.
In the asteroid field, Zim, Tak and Skooge had sent out GIR, Mimi, and Chipz to scout and collect from one side while the three Irkens examined the other side; the darker side where the sun was blocked out by the nearest planet.
Skooge and Zim were on one rock while Tak was on another somewhere. Their feet plastered to one large rock by their suits, they were drilling away at the rock with their packs.
"Man, hope we get paid well for all these ores we're getting here," Skooge chuckled onto his intercom.
"Forget the money," Zim replied. "What I'll want after this is a relaxing day-off at the spas of Vort!"
"Oh, yeah, that would be awesome!" Skooge nodded, "and maybe I can get Tenn to come with us too!"
Zim spoke into his intercom again, suddenly worried about Tak. She had be silent for a while.
"Tak, report," he spoke. "Everything okay at your end?"
"Yeah. I'm fine." Suddenly, there was a light beeping. Zim checked his radar. Nothing. Must have come from Tak's end.
"Tak? Is that your radar?"
"Yeah. Odd," She replied. "I'm- I just saw something jump across from one rock to another."
There was suddenly a screech, followed by an electronic sound and the sound of frying flesh.
"Tak!" Zim demanded. "What's going on over there?" Skooge must have been hearing it on his intercom too. He stopped drilling and bolted to his feet.
"There's these things!" Tak shouted back. "I may need some back-up!" The sounds of more screeching and growling and electronic sounds were blurring in from her intercom.
"En route to you!" Skooge replied as he activated his pak thrusters as he was propelled towards Tak's position. Zim followed.
They shortly arrived at Tak's rock, and found her pack arms out, as she used both light saber tentacles and her handgun to fight off the strangest and freakiest beasts Zim had ever seen.
They were naked beasts of sickly, rotting flesh, their bones poking through. Eyes had been plucked out and jaws missing. Large, blade-like bones were jutting out from their arms, bones they tried to slice Tak with.
Skooge and Zim leapt into action, using their own packs to impale and blast the creatures. Zim's pak was still not as fancy as Tak's or Skooge's, but it was good enough for him nonetheless.
"What the haploid are these things?" Skooge asked, his pack pressed against Tak's.
"I have no idea," She replied, "But hitting their bodies does not work. Cutting off their arms and legs seems to be the best way to kill them."
"Arms and legs, got it!" Zim nodded. He turned back to one large creature that had bones covering his colossal arms and body as armor.
"Behemoth," Zim hissed at it, "You and your accomplices have picked the wrong group of Irkens to attack! Now taste the mighty, laser powered wrath of-"
"Just cut him already!" Tak snapped.
"Oh, right. Of course!" Zim huffed.
The beast charged at him, but Zim's pak propelled him up out of the way. As the creature ran under him, Zim saw that his back was less armored, and drove one of his tentacles home into the back. The beast was impaled. But Zim did not stop there; he sent an electric shock through his pack and into the creature, barbecuing it.
Once the beast seemed to loose enough grip on the rock, Zim's pak arms pushed him off and sent him drifting through space.
Zim looked around at several more severed limbs and blood-covered rocks, and then back at his allies. They were covered in blood, but uninjured.
Skooge was actually holding one snarling beast in the grip of an kinesis gun.
"I say we take this guy back to the ship and get a closer look at him!" Skooge explained.
"Good idea," Zim nodded. "I would have come up with that myself!"
"Sure you would have," giggled Tak. Just then, she leaned in and took a closer look at the creature. "Actually, is it just me or does this creature seem somewhat... Vort-ish in origin?"
Zim looked it over. It had grey-ish rotting flesh, and one horn like a Vort. It was still hard to tell because the beast was so deformed.
Back at the ship laboratory, the beast was put inside a holding pen with electric forcefield walls. The Irkens had called back their SIRs to keep a better eye on them.
They had taken a sample of the creature's DNA. It was indeed a Vortian creature, but there was no pulse, meaning the creature was an animated corpse. They also found another trace of DNA that they did not recognize.
They asked the ship computer for answers, but it said that it could not fin such a creature in its archives.
"Unbelievable!" Tak hissed. "We don't have any files on THIS... thing?"
"Well, there's always the Twins," Skooge smiled.
"The twins?" Zim repeated. After a second, he remembered. "Ah, yes. The twins. Of course." He walked over to the computer and hit a few buttons on the panel.
The video chat screen popped up, and up came two Irkans sitting in a room of computers. Behind them was a massive shelf of computer CDs and floppy disks. They had large heads that curled backwards like rings. They were both sipping large mugs of hot chocolate before they noticed the screen.
"Huh? Hello?" One of them asked.
"Oh, Zim, Skooge, Tak," The other smiled. "Nice to see all of you again. What's up?"
"Loop, Hoop!" Zim smiled. "We demand your assistance! We are in need of your expansive knowledge!"
"Sure," What's up?" Hoop asked.
"See the thing in the pen back there?" Tak asked, gesturing the pen. "Can you tell us what it is?" The camera aimed up a little to give the twins a clear shot of the creature.
"Woah!" Loop gasped. "Um... okay-uh. Hold on. One sec!" They both zipped off to search through the files they had.
Invaders Loop and Hoop were the guardians of the Irken Super Library; the Irken center of all documents, recordings, and all forms of knowledge. If any alien could find answers about this unholy creature, it would be these two.
After a minute, they came back, looking over a holographic text. They both had grim looks on their faces.
"Where are you guys?" Loop asked.
"The far reaches of the chomazoa system," Skooge replied.
"Have you encountered any more creatures like that?" Hoop asked.
"Yes. Several of them attacked us earlier as we were mining asteriods," Tak answered.
"You've got to get out of there!" Hoop said. "Those things are necromorphs!"
"Necromorphs?" Zim repeated. "What are those?"
"They're closely related to the flood," Loop replied as he started reading the text. "Unholy offspring of the darkest forces in the universe, Necromorphs are zombified creatures under supernatural influences. Parasite-like creatures kill living aliens and then infect their dead tissue to use as their slaves."
"Says down here that the Forerunners could not control them, so they kept them locked away in the darkest parts of the universe, the ones uninhabited, to keep them from spreading.
"That really is a lot like the Flood," Skooge observed, "And some of those biochemical weapons that the engineers were trying to hide."
"Exactly!" Hoop said. "So listen! You... all... need... too-" The screen suddenly became static before it went to black and the lights went out. Most power besides the green emergency lights went out.
"Of course," Skooge exclaimed, evidently frustrated. "Happens EVERY time! Just when you're about to hear the important part, the power cuts out!"
"GIR, this better not be YOUR doing!" Zim shouted.