Warning! This story is going to be very long! If you cannot stand long stories then do not read. If you do not like stories about incompetent aliens that no one likes then do not read this. If you cannot stand reading about the imminent destruction of Earth and enemies having to unite to stop the greater threat then DO NOT READ!
Thank you, that is all…
Invader Zim- The End?
Chapter 3
The cafeteria was plentiful with the sound of children as they talked. The clicks around the room were grouped at their usual tables. The popular click at one table with a few differing around them.
One table in particular had always only had one child at it. Said child had claimed the table closer to the food nearly four years ago. He had a rare skin condition that caused him to have a green complexion and no ears. He always seemed very ashamed of it and some kids made fun of him due to his excessive odd intentions. Sometimes he would call out, "I will destroy you!" or, "Earth will fall to the Irkens!" Everyone thought that the poor boy was very strange.
Summer had just ended and so everyone was waiting in the cafeteria for him or her to be seated in his or her proper classes for the year.
A teacher walked into the room and selected a few students, including the green child, and led them into a small room with no decorations and mere rows of desks. The room was very bleak and showed no signs of love or hope at all.
"I feel as though I've been in here before…" The green child said.
"That's because we have…" A boy in a black coat and blue shirt walked up beside him. He had black hair that stood up on his large head and glasses that seated on his nose. His gray slacks and black boots matched his outfit completely.
"Dib." The green child scowled at the boy.
"Zim." The boy scowled at the green child.
"Losers…" A skinny, pale girl with long, purple hair walked in and stood beside Dib. She had a black shirt on as well as blue jeans and high metallic covered boots. In her hand she carried a purple game console known to all as the Game Slave 2. The girl tucked the console into her pocket and then blew out a large bubble with her gum.
"Gaz? What are you doing here?" Dib enquired.
"I skipped a grade last year."
Zim scowled and then took his seat. He remembered it being close to the same one he had when he and Dib first met. There were four rows in the classroom. Dib took the front seat closer to the window. Gaz sat down next to Zim.
"Gaz! Don't sit there! That's right next to the alien!"
"Oh no."
"Not him again!"
"He's still crazy?"
Dib looked around the room. There was every child from when the class first met Zim. Everyone except for the boy named Keef. He had been bitten by a rabid squirrel and was in the hospital ever since. He had kept claiming that the squirrel was his best friend, Zim.
"Ok class…" Everyone looked forward and screamed.
"Miss Bitters!" They all cried in unison.
"Yes. And it seems that you are all just as worthless as the year that I had you. Now… You don't need to introduce yourselves so to begin the lesson…"
Zim looked to Gaz at his left hand side. She had pulled out her game console and was playing on it intently. She seemed to be both listening and playing at the same time. He leaned over and took a peek at her game. It seemed pretty simple. Blast a baddie with your sword-gun and make it past the fortress of flaming pigs. He looked back up when she paused the game to find her raising an eyebrow at him.
He quickly sat up and eyed her. "You know… You shouldn't believe what Dib says. He may have a big head but he is quite stupid. I am not an alien. I am a perfectly normal human."
"Oh, you don't have to tell me about all that."
"I don't?"
"I already know that Dib's a freak. I have to live with him too you know."
Zim let out a breath.
"Plus, I already know that you're an alien…"
He held his breath again. "Y… you… do?" He shook his head. "No! I am a human. Born once and forever will be!"
Gaz slapped his head and his wig tipped. "I already know Zim. I was the one that rescued Dib when you were going to mutate him and I saw you when your head was busting from eating human food."
He sighed.
"Have you worked up an immunity yet?"
"It's a lot harder then you would think."
"Try chocolate. Anyone can eat chocolate. Even an alien."
Zim thought for a moment. "So… You don't care that I'm an Irken invader and that I've come to destroy all humans and conquer your planet?"
"Not at all. I don't like humans being on this planet. They make it so we can't breathe. I'd rather have them destroyed."
"But you are one."
She shrugged. "People don't think so most of the time."
A pointer was slapped down on Zim's desk and he leapt in surprise. Miss Bitters, the cold, old bat, stood in front of him with her glaring blank expression. "If you aren't going to listen Zim then maybe I should send you to the underground classroom. Hmm?" She slunk over to her desk in her ghostly fashion and raised her finger above a blue button on the control panel she had recently equipped.
Zim shook his head. "Uh, no ma'am. I'm listening."
"Good… Now, as I was saying, your lives are all doomed and so I want you all to write about what you did this summer and tell me what you plan to do this year. Then I will tell you what you will never be able to do which will most likely be everything on your list. Now… Begin!"
Zim took a piece of paper out from his binder and then a pen out from his pencil case. Everyone else in the classroom did the very same thing. Zim placed the pen to the paper and wrote 'My Summer and Future Goals by Zim'. Then he stopped. What was there to write about? I can't write about the flesh-eating squid escaping again or the fact that it was I that sent those rabid chipmunks all over France… I can't believe I was so far off in terms of co-ordinates… Well, Gir and I did go to the beach… And I am learning to succumb to the water… But I can't say that it ever hurt me… What is there to write about?
The door to the classroom burst open. A girl with her blonde hair in a ponytail stood in the hall. She had a short black jacket and a red shirt with the picture of an alien on it. She had black pants underneath a plaid skirt. She glared at the class behind sunglasses.
"Can I help you?" asked miss Bitters.
The girl removed the glasses to reveal stunning blue eyes. "Yes, you can. I'm the exchange student from Australia. Is this Miss Bitters' class?"
"It is."
"Where will I sit then?"
Miss Bitters looked around the room and stared at one kid in the front. "You." She pointed at him and cried. "I'm sick of you." She pressed the button on her desk and the teenager was sent backwards into a trapdoor.
The blonde girl took the seat.
"Wait. Don't you want to introduce yourself to the class? Because otherwise I never want to hear a sound from you again."
The girl sighed and walked up to the front of the class. "Hi. My name is Kim. I'm 15 and I like the abnormal such as aliens and ghosts. Monsters essentially…"
"She's like Dib!"
Dib looked up.
Kim pulled a gun out from under her jacket and pointed it at Kita. The weapon was not of man making. It had four barrels and a large green orb on the back closer to her hand. Kim's hand reached for a dial on the side with seven different settings. She selected one and then fired at Kita.
The weapon shot out a magnificent blue light before it struck Kita and rendered her motionless. She fell out of her chair frozen stiff. Kim blew on the four barrels and tucked it into the holster on her belt. "Don't worry. She'll be ok in an hour or so…" She walked back to her seat and sat down.
Gaz turned to attention away and looked back to Zim. "Do you know what that… Zim?"
Zim was sitting in his seat as still as Kita. He starred at Kim in a terrified manor with his mouth slightly ajar.
"Zim? What's wrong?"
"That… That's… That's a Vorken… A Vorken power blaster…"
Kim looked at the students in the classroom. Her eyes landed on Zim. He ducked under his desk. She turned away again. Gaz looked at them both and then at her brother who was still staring at the Australian girl with interest.
She looked back to Zim who had come up from under the desk. "I take it that her having that thing is bad for you huh?"
"That gun has seven different settings all ready to subdue a Irken. Wait… Why am I telling you this?"
Gaz shrugged and turned back to her assignment. Zim followed her lead.
Across the classroom Dib handed a piece of paper to Kim. "Australia huh? Say Kim, you said that you're into aliens right?"
She nodded. "What's it to you?"
"So am I. We have an alien in our classroom right now!"
She looked over at Zim. "Irken by my guess. Funny. I thought they only took planets as far as the Gamma solar system. It's strange to see one this far from Irk."
"Ya I… Wait… How do you know so much about Zim's race? Are you an alien too? Wait… Are you Tak in disguise?"
"Tak?"
"I guess that's a no. But still, how do you know so much?"
"I'm a professional alien hunter."
Dib smiled. "Really? That's great! I finally have someone to help me catch Zim and prove to the authorities that he exists!"
Kim gripped Dib by the scruff. "Are you crazy? This planet's so stupid and weak, who would really want to have it? This invader's no real threat. You can just tell from looking at him. Not a very good disguise and he looks like he's still not very familiar with human customs."
"But he's getting better day by day."
"How long has he been on Earth?"
"It'll be four years soon…"
"Four years! And you haven't caught him already? Although… that may be just as well. We shouldn't tell people that aliens exist. Humans aren't ready for that type of information just yet."
"But what about you and me?"
She let go of him. "We are an exception. Have you been into this since birth?"
"Yes."
"Then you're just like me. We're the select few on Earth that can actually tell who is and who is not an alien. It's our job to make sure that Earth does not fall to any other species. We can't let a planet so plentiful in life be destroyed by an invading armada. By the way… What's your name?"
"Dib."
Kim extended her hand to him. "Pleasure to meet you, Dib."
He took her hand and shook it. "You too. By the way… Do you have any more of those guns?"
"I have a whole stock of them in my garage along with a few others trinkets I've been working on over the years." She smiled.
Dib let out a breath. I think I'm going to like having a friend like her…
(After school)
Zim waved goodbye to Gaz and headed for home after placing his books in his carrying bag. He stepped down the road and flinched as a car slashed water onto him. It stung a little but he was slowly getting better at this Earth thing. He passed down the road and crossed at the pink fence. He was about a black from home now. As he walked he thought to himself. What was that I felt when I was around the human girl? She says that most people think she's not human. Does that mean I don't have to consider her an enemy or a threat like Dib? She said that she already knew and she mentioned when I first ate human food. Has she really known that long? He laughed. She's pretty smart. I guess when I replaced her appendix with her gaming console she must have found out. At least by then…
He stepped into the dead end circle road and walked to the tall house directly in the center. He passed by the guard gnomes and opened the door only to be greeted by a smiling green dog.
"Hello Gir."
Gir stood up and took the dog hood off. "Aw, how'd you know it was me?"
"There's only one green dog in this house Gir. I think I would know."
The robot hurried into the kitchen and opened the trash can hatch. "There's something that you might want to see…"
"What? Did you bake another cake?" Zim put his carrying bag on the couch and walked into the kitchen after his helper. He stepped into the trashcan and tucked his arms tight to his side.
The elevator programmed into the bottom on the can sent him down into the base he had built beneath his home. He landed in the observatory wing, as Gir had selected on a keypad for him, and looked into the telescope. For a moment there was nothing.
He scanned the section of space that Gir had been looking at and still saw nothing. "Gir. What ever you saw is gone now…"
Gir poked his head out of his little hole in the ceiling and looked at the alien in confusion. He shook his head. "No… It should be there…" (Gir has had a few upgrades since Zim came to Earth but he's still malfunctioning a lot) He leapt down from the hole and landed on the wall of the spherical room. The robot ran along the side once until he was at the very top once more and then dropped down onto the platform Zim stood on. He pressed a button on the side of the scope and turned around.
The screen in front of them lit up to show the view of the telescope at a wider range. There was still only space.
"You see Gir? There's nothing there." Zim went to the ladder and put his hand on the metal bar. "I have homework to do. Call me if you have some worthwhile news."
Gir frowned as his master climbed part way up the ladder. He turned back to the keypad and entered in a different code. The camera zoomed out and he frowned again. There was still nothing. He tried another code and once more the camera zoomed out and once more there was nothing but space.
Gir stood there for a second and thought. He rattled his mechanical brain until he had an idea. His eyes lit up red and he took on his battle-ready stance as he typed in the next set of co-ordinates. His guidance chip took effect and he searched an area of space.
A slight picture came onto the screen at a far off view. He locked onto it and zoomed in on it three times to enhance the vision. The picture came out clear and his eyes reverted back to their normal blue color. He pulled out a microphone from his arm and spoke into it.
Zim heard the voice from on his life pack. "Master! I found it! I found it! Hurry master!"
Zim sighed and headed back down the ladder. "This is going t o be a long night…"
He came out from the ladder and looked up at the screen. What he saw made him freeze on the spot. He stared at the screen in horror.
"I told you that you might want to see it… I never said that you would like what you saw…" Gir followed his gaze and looked back to the screening footage.
What the telescope picked up was not what Gir usually pulled Zim away from his studies to see. The mass of crumbling metal was twirling through space in separate groupings. They were placed together as though they had once been something of great importance.
Zim opened his mouth slightly. "The… the…" He rushed to the keypad and entered in the co-ordinates of the Massive fleet. The screen did not falter. "Computer show me video of the Armada!"
"Armada co-ordinates set."
The screen did not falter.
"No… It can't be…" He ran to another keypad and typed in a set of codes on the holographic projection. "My Tallest! My Tallest! My Tallest! My tallest can you hear me?"
A screen flickered online and he sighed with relief. He didn't look at the screen as he held his knees in thanks. "Oh… My Tallest. I had the most horrible thought that the Armada had been destroyed… I don't know why I was thinking so foolishly. I should have known that nothing could destroy the Massive let alone you…" He looked up expecting to see Red slurping a drink and Purple to be munching on donuts inquiring on how he could ever think that.
He did not see that.
Instead, Zim saw the inside of the massive like he had never seen it before. The metal plates that had once been on the ceiling were now on the floor whereas the walls had all switched places with one another. The computer terminals were completely destroyed; some still smoking (what a filthy habit!) and were damaged beyond repair.
Zim stepped back from the keypad and fell to his knees. He stared at the screen in fret. "The entire massive fleet… gone…" He looked at his hands and noticed that his vision was blurring. A single drop of water fell onto his glove. It hurt him to cry but he could no longer help it. "The Tallest… dead?"
He smashed his fists down onto the metal floorboard of his platform and cried out. "No!"