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 11
"You realize that we have school in about an hour as of right now."
"Are you actually worried about one day of school when the world is in peril?"
"No. But I don't think that you'd like miss Bitters when someone misses a day."
Kim rolled here eyes. "I'm hardly worried about that old bat."
Tak was walking ahead of them. She had not engaged in conversation since they left. She had not spoken and she was so silent that she was like a shadow leading them. They walked along the street, Tak in her human outfit with her blue hair hanging close to her face and her usual stern face on, Dib and Kim following suit as they spoke to one another. Not one person suspected that the entire world was in peril and that they were all in danger of dying. They were completely oblivious to what was going on. There were not too many people on the street that day. Even if there were it wouldn't matter.
Tak abruptly turned back to Kim and Dib. She eyed them both. They froze and stood still. Although Tak was in her human disguise her eyes were just as ominous and menacing if they were in her alien state with their glowing purple. Tak looked up to the sky and then crossed in front of Dib. He stood perfectly still. She reached into his belt and he felt his face turn red. Then she retracted her hand with the activator to her ship. She clicked the red button on it and the humans peered into the sky as the ship flew overhead and came right towards them.
The people near by began to freak out.
Dib gripped Tak's arm as her Sir unit opened the shield for her to enter. He pulled her back and glared at her. "What the hell do you think you're doing? There are people near that don't know about Irkens."
She pulled her hand away. "They'll have to learn at some point! The entire planet, not to mention the universe, is in danger and if your species wants to stay oblivious to it all so that we have to do everything then fine. Just stay out of our way when we have to do what has to be done!" Tak deactivated her human guise and hopped into the cruiser with her robot. She looked down at Kim and Dib. "You'll find out why I'm doing this in a while. In the mean time I want you to find Zim and Gaz. Tell Zim that we have a lot of work to do. The cause is not yet forgotten." With that she closed the lib and the humans on the street stared in awe as the Irken flew away into the stars in her ship.
When Dib and Kim turned around they met the staring faces of many people that had come out to see the ship take off. They stared at the two teenagers. Kim gripped Dib's hand and pulled him in the direction of the river.
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Zim pulled his body out from underneath the ship. He stood up slowly, glad that he could do so, and then flung Gaz's jacket overtop of his head. The Irken starred at his own work and smiled. Gaz was sitting on the grass near the sand. She had gone to get some drinks a little earlier. Gir was happily drinking a bottle of diet poop and was sitting on the gothic girl's knee. Zim narrowed his eyes as he smiled. "I am finished!"
"Really? 'Bout time."
"What? Could you have done it faster?"
"Yes. And I could have done a better job on it too."
Zim frowned.
Beep
Beep
Beep
Zim looked into the shield of the cruiser. He pulled up the lid and glanced inside to the pink and purple control panel. There was a flashing dashboard with various Irken symbols strewn across it. His red eyes went wide and he leapt into the ship, flinging Gaz's coat off in the process. He sat down and began to press buttons as Gaz rose from her seat and crossed the warm with her bare feet. "What is it?"
Zim said nothing. He continued to stare blindly at the screen with both awe and shock. Gaz peered in at him and raised a brow. He was acting fairly stranger than normal and it was unnerving. She walked up to the very side of the ship's open shield and glanced down at the panel he was starring at. The main portion of it was a deep purple and there was a blue mark on it that was off to the side. A pink circle sat in the center and Gaz realized that the device sort of resembled a radar used on boats. The blue dot of the screen was steadily approaching them. Gaz watched with slight interest.
"Gaz!"
Both the human girl and the Irken boy came to attention. Gaz leaned to the side and glanced around the side of the ship while Zim put his hands on the opposing side and leaned out to see who was behind. He forgot to put Gaz's jacket back over his head.
Dib and Kim were standing not too far away from them. They both looked shocked and dazed slightly. Kim had her jacket sleeve pulled up and her watch was exposed. Dib's hair was messed and more unruly than usual. They looked as though they had just been in a fight or had run away from a mob. The two were both tired and distressed. Dib had dilated pupils and Kim just stood there, a strange expression upon her, usually, expressionless face.
Gaz stepped forward. "What are you doing here Dib? How did you find us?"
"It's sort of obvious where you would be seeing as Tak told us Irkens really like their ships. She said that Zim would try to get it back."
"Where is Tak?"
Dib shrugged.
Kim spoke up. "We have no idea. She left a while ago but I think that I have a theory of where she may have gone off to." The blond-haired girl pulled Dib over to his sister, the Irken and the robot close to the cruiser. She lifted her sleeve up a little more so that they could all see the holographic screen that appeared above her watch. It was not in a known language to anyone except Zim and herself so Kim flicked a few switches on the side. The hologram flickered, diminished, and then came back in English. She pointed to a blinking, red dot nearing closer to a blue and green orb that was supposed to represent the Earth. "You see? Something is coming towards Earth. The red on my meter detects that it's a foreign material and so it can't be a satellite. That's what I thought it was when my alarm went off as we were coming here. But you can tell now that it's not of human making."
Zim nodded. "Yes. A blue dot has appeared on my screen. It's of Irken making. That must be Tak."
"I have a wider range and I've detected Tak on this too." Kim pointed to a small, silver oval on the hologram. "But the approaching object is much larger than Tak's ship. I don't know what she plans to do once she gets up to it."
Dib snapped his fingers. "It's the ship that shot down Zim! They must have found out that he isn't really dead after all and are coming down to get him."
Zim grimaced at the though of the Bludgeons coming to get him, throwing him in a cell, and then eventually letting him fall into the sun that orbited the planet jackers' home world. However, as he remembered back to what he had heard on the ship he found that he could no longer keep track of what the humans were saying. He caught a few words but nothing too important.
What kept running through his head was what he had heard the Bludgeons on the star ship say. He couldn't really tell if they were stupid or if the twins had sick, twisted minds. Then again, neither of those options would have really surprised him. Bludgeons were known for their brawn, not their brains.
On the ship they had said:
"Why can't we just kill the Irken again?"
"Because it's not part of the plan."
"Which is?"
"To throw all of the invaders into the Planet Jackers' sun as the Tallest watch. Then we kill the Tallest and have a party."
"I like that party idea."
"Can we have one now?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because the Irken is loose on our ship."
"I wish he would come out of hiding."
"Me too."
"I want a party."
"Me too."
That was what they had said. The fact that they claimed that they had yet to kill his leaders, the mighty Tallest, was what bothered him the most. He had seen the wreckage of the ship. He had contacted them and ended up in the middle of the destruction on a broken holographic video. He had actually cried a tear for them and he had hurt a lot while doing so. The Tallest were dead and he knew that. He knew that he would never have the chance to call up on the fleet again and see Red drinking his drink or Purple eating some donuts. He found that he would never again have the chance to pretend to be dumb enough when they 'tricked him'. Zim was aware that his leaders found great amusement in taunting him without him knowing it. For a while he had been naïve enough to fall for their small, childish tricks. But as he matured on the Earth he found that he grew far too smart for this ridiculous thing they would always do with the puppets and how they would humiliate him in front of many Irkens when they were on a ship. But he didn't care. Zim had high confidence and so he didn't really care if a few thousand Irkens thought that he was a bumbling fool that would never be able to conquer a planet. It had gotten to him once. When he first found this all out he had taken a wire and had placed it to his pack. He was ready to jump off the many tubes of the house and he closed his eyes as he did so. But the tube attached had broken and he had merely fallen to the floor. Zim was glad that that had happened. He didn't want to die but he knew that he would have to deal with it for life was tough and he realized that he would have to get used to it if he were to ever conquer Earth. But in the terms of the planet's conquer and slavery to the Irken race… He would find that he had many ploys in the past to conquer the Earth. Nowadays he was lucky to have one a month. He didn't know what was wrong with him. He had many plans and he knew it. Lots of them had been stored in his computer and were waiting for him to put them into action. Yet for some reason near all of his plots had stopped and he had taken on the life of a high school earthling student with no will to destroy them at all really. His experiments had been left to gather dust and, although he would shoot a chicken into space for a quick bit of data, most of the experiments that he did now just seemed to be for fun. And it was mostly Gir that shot the chickens into the atmosphere. Zim had lost near all interest in that.
"Zim?"
He came back to reality. "What?"
"Are you ok?" It was Kim. She waved her hand in front of his face. Her hair was facing towards him and everyone was on the side. Gaz was on the sky.
"Why are you all…" He didn't get to finish. Zim looked at himself. He had fallen down. Now he was lying on the ground with them all around him. Kim was to his right, leaning over him with some sort of Vortian device in her hand. Gaz was face to face with him but their bodies were flipped so that her feet were by his head. Dib was on his left and was looking at him with a smirk.
"Fainted Zim? I thought hat Irkens were better than humans." He laughed heartedly.
"Why you…" Zim tried to get up. Kim pushed him back down with anger in her eyes. She wouldn't let him get up.
"Wait until I'm done." She scanned him and then took her hand off of his shoulder. "Ok… You can go get him now."
Dib's eyes went wide. "What?"
Zim rose to his feet and clobbered the human.
Gaz laughed.
Kim studied the sample of what she had taken from Zim after he had collapsed. It was very strange. The bond-haired girl looked back at the human boy and the Irken boy as they fought on the beach. Gaz was laughing and watching the fight with interest. Kim looked back at the data that she had collected and tucked it into the pocket inside her jacket. It was only a matter of time now. Soon Zim… I hope that you're ready… Because no one else will be…
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Tak looked at her screen. Her Sir robot stood at attention next to her. She had taken her human guise off and was speeding through space towards the accumulation of metal. She looked up from the radar. The mass was coming into view. Tak pulled on the power level and let her ship take her in closer.
There was metal and destroyed parts of something that she could not really see. Whatever was in the trash in space was alive but she had no way of telling what it was unless she went out onto the surface on her own.
Tak pressed the black button close to her left elbow and let the combatant, space suit slip over her form. The suction helmet coated over her face and she stepped out onto the metal after landing the ship. There was a thundering clang as her boot hit the metal for in space there was no sound.
The Irken female got to her knees and began to pull away at the metal. Usually she would have used her ship to do something like that but there was something wrong with it and she wasn't too sure what. Tak didn't feel as though she had all that time to get into the matter so she attended to the metal on her own with her sir unit waiting in the ship just in case.
Tak pulled away at a large piece of metal. She looked into a hollow part that she had just uncovered. "It… It can't… be…"
A heavily armored hand reached out and gripped the metal right by her foot. It was ripped from underneath her and Tak fell down on the metal because of her gravity jets. The armored body of a worrier rose from the fissure in the metal accumulation and the owner of the tall body looked in her direction as a second rose up and groaned with dislike.
Tak stared into those blood red eyes.
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Brooke: It looks like Kim knows more than what she's saying. And poor little Tak. Struck down in battle with those blood red eyes. BUM BUM BUM!!! Na. I'm pulling your chain. I'm not really going to tell you what happens yet. Suckers.
Zim: R&R my story. I COMAND YOU HUMANS!!
Brooke: Don't tell them what to do or I'll bash in that big head of yours!
Gir: Tacos! I need Tacos! I need them or I will explode! That happens to me sometimes…