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Invader Zim- The End?

Chapter 28

Dib sighed lightly to himself as he stared out into the vast, open, black of space. It was calming to look at it but he couldn't help but move about and wrestle with his mind. Staring into something that seemed so lifeless to the rest of humanity was strange, especially since he knew the truth about space. But now he was in a ship, flying to the very planet that his mortal enemy had come from. He was going to the very place that he had wished to blow up in a war, secretly.

Kim was next to him, quietly working away at the keyboard. Idu was at his feet, sitting on the ground and sipping some vanilla coffee. Then there was Tak, who had taken up the hobby of walking around the ship and talking with Kai. She'd left about one hour ago and she hadn't come back since that time. So Dib had stayed in the room, fearing that he would run into Tak if he were to leave far too much to bother budging.

Bored with what he was doing, Dib looked down at the robot beneath him. She'd been there for a while and he was starting to think that she was warming up to him. Idu seemed like a pretty fun person, so to speak, and she seemed to be able to control herself well, which would have been uncharacteristic for Zim's robot, Gir. No, Idu seemed very kind and very smart, just like her mistress, Kim.

Dib felt himself lean back a little as he thought about it and he closed his eyes for a moment to just wallow in what happiness he had at that moment. It felt really good to just relax. He hadn't been able to do that in a while, what with his constant worrying about Zim taking over the Earth and enslaving the human race. No. Dib was always on alert. But now he could relax for a while and just drift through space in the ship. He could just sit back now and enjoy the peace that was around him.

"What the?" Kim began to fiddle with wires and circuits. "Idu, Dib, we have a problem."

Well that didn't last very long, Dib thought to himself. He stood up and crossed to where Kim was seated. "What's going on? What's the matter?"

Kim pressed a red button in front of her and the wall in front opened up to a large, transparent, pane of glass. A large planet that looked to be coated in strange technology hid the black that could have been there. Dib was sure that he had seen it but he couldn't be sure where of, for that matter, when.

"That," said Kim. "That planet shouldn't be there. It's not on any of my planet maps and, according to the scanner, it isn't anywhere near us. But then it's right there. None of this makes sense!"

"Can you determine what planet it is from here?"

Kim shook her head, eyes closed. "No. I'm afraid I can't. I don't have very advanced tech like some species. I've only got what tidbits I can build or collect. I'd need a planet detection distinguisher but I don't have one. There's no way that I can know for sure with the simple star maps that I have on computers."

"Bummer."

"If you want to put it into laymen's terms, then yes. Bummer." Kim sighed. "If the planet's are this far different from what I know then we might have drifted off course when Kai was taken over by that Bludgeon device. There's only one thing that we can do now."

"And that would be…?"

Kim turned around in her chair. "Idu."

The tiny robot stood at attention, saluting her mistress. Her eyes glowed a bright red as they lowered to where her nose could have been, had she had one. "Yes, Mistress Kim."

"I want you to go down to the planet's surface. If we can ask one of the locals what planet it is then we should know where we are and I'll be able to plot a newer course to Irk. Can you do that for me, Idu?"

"Yes, Mistress Kim!"

"Good. Go get suited up."

Idu rushed from the room in a hurry, her tiny feet pattering against the metallic floor in a type of rhythm. Dib watched her go and then turned back to Kimberly, a smile on his pale face. "I'll… uh… go help her out. OK?" Kim nodded to him but Dib didn't see because, even if she had shaken her head, he still would have run. He needed to get out of the room and this was a good time to do so.

Although he was afeard fro meeting Tak in the hallways he was more afeard for his sanity after staying any longer in that room with such boredom. Plus, ever since the kiss he'd been a little bit strange when around Kim, especially if they were alone. Tak hadn't made the situation any better and neither had Idu when she had asked about the romance that he and Tak might have had. So getting away was good for now at least.

He followed Idu to the hatch that they had entered through. He watched as she opened locker, which ejected from the wall in the same matter of how Kai created his facial features. Then the small SIR unit took out a suit of armour. There was a set of gloves that stretched all the way up her arms to make them looks bulky with coatings of heavy, black metal at the base as well as a white dot in the middle of each palm. Dib assumed these were weapons. Then she put on a belt, carrying an assortment of strange gadgets and two shoulder pads, purple in colour, which hung a black cape over her shoulders and down to the base of her feet. The last thing that Idu put on was a kind of headband that covered her strange eye. It covered over the gap and highlighted the orb inside in such a way that it actually looked smaller than it really was. This could have been for targeting purposes.

"Why do you need to wear such heavy armour?" Dib inquired.

"Unlike most SIR units," said Idu as she flexed her hands to check the gloves for rust, "I am not equipped with the ability to shoot lasers from my face. Other than my ion beam," she pointed to the eye on her chest, "I don't have any weapons of my own to use against enemies. And for all we know the people of this planet could be hostile."

"Good point. But then what's with your eye?"

"Broken. We haven't been able to find replacements parts without having to go to Irk."

"I see… What with the cape?"

Idu smiled, spun around once and showed it off. "Oh, it doesn't really have much of a purpose. I just like that way it looks on me. What do you think?"

"Very… uh… stylish?"

Dib watched as Idu opened the hatch door, walked in and then closed it behind her. There was a window that he was able to look through and so she watched as she pressed a series of buttons of varying colours of differing keypads. Then, as the second hatch opened, Idu was sucked into the black of space. Dib could see her tap her feet together hard and then he watched as fire spouted from her base and she blasted outwards towards the planet's surface. It was only when she was a good far way away that the hatch closed again and he was left alone in the hallway.

The boy sighed and walked back down the hallway to his doom on the bridge. How he wished that Tak wasn't conversing with Kai. Right now he really needed another man to talk to. But, since he didn't have one, he would have to deal with this on his own.

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Idu watched as the planet's surface came up faster and closer. She skimmed over the surface for a moment and then dove through the toxic clouds to the ground that was so far beneath it. As she went she watched the world pass her by so quickly. It was an amazing sight to behold and she really enjoyed it. She always enjoyed flying and right now she couldn't help but enjoy it most of all out of any other day. It had to be one of her favourite flights and yet she didn't know exactly why.

She flew over some very strange plants and trees, or at least that's what she hoped they were. If they were anything else she thought that she would upchuck. There was a very desert type of landscape that coated the planet. The sand was a sort of orange-brown colour but from so high up, she could see portions of the sand that were different colours. For example: about 20 meters ahead of her the sand was a bright purple and it looked to be glowing.

Curious, she landed close to the patch and calmly approached it. The small robot leaned over, one foot still on the orange sand, one foot in the air. She looked into the purple colour of the sand and wondered why only some patches were different. The majority of the desert was orange and yet there were the patches of purple that struck out so much.

She leaned over so very far that she thought that she would fall in at any moment. Unfortunately for her that was exactly what happened to her. Idu fell over and landed in the purple sand. She was so surprised that she thrashed about and tried to get back up and onto her feet. She desperately tried to free herself from… Nothing.

Idu stopped and looked around. Nothing was gripping her and nothing was holding her and nothing was trying to rip her apart piece by piece. The Sir unit sighed and plunked her head down and onto the purple dirt. She smiled and then started to laugh to herself. She'd been so scared that something would happen to her and nothing did. She'd been so afeard for something to just come up and grab at her but nothing had and so she was fine. Idu laughed at her temporary stupidity. For all she knew this planet was deserted. There was probably nothing here at all…

Four tentacles of varying sizes shot up through the sand on each side of her. Idu sat up as quickly as she could and she struggled to free herself but the tentacles wrapped around her arms and legs and then began to pull her down. Idu struggled and she kicked and she thrashed and she even bit but the creature wouldn't let go of her.

At one point she found it possible to reach into her belt and she was able to swipe something. The Sir unit hadn't seen what she had actually taken out but she was hoping that it would help her somehow to escape the beast that held her. Continuously, she beat the tentacle with the orb, trying to free the pin from its place. When she heard that familiar clinking sound she tossed the orb down and into the sand.

It turns out that she had picked a grenade. She became aware of this when one of the tentacles was blown up and out of the sand. Idu became coated in a thick, sticky kind of blue blood and she grimaced as the other tentacles sank back into the sand and let her go. She sat up, once on the ground and began to wipe the blood from her metal casing and her cape. Then she shook her hand at the sand below her and yelled out, "that's what you get for messing with me you overgrown squid!"

There was a growling and a rumbling from underneath her feet.

Idu gulped. "Crud."

This time hundreds of tentacles shot up from the sand. They wiggled and swirled and curled in the air around the small robot, which stood there completely scared out of her mind. Around twelve tentacles shot out towards her and held her tight wherever they could. They gripped her cape, her legs, her arms, her wait, her head and the device she had on her eye.

Idu struggled to free herself and she pulled away several times but then another tentacle would always be there to replace the one that she had broken away from. And with each time she tried to bit the tentacle would move away and then she would slip and another would replace it. It was near impossible for her to break away now and Idu immediately regretted taunting the beast after it had sunk away. A mouth rose up beneath her, hundreds of rows of sharp teeth were shown. The throat went right down and she was sure that she could see into its stomach where all of the acids swished and ebbed. They would melt her down until she was nothing more.

She was so terrified at that very moment that she did the only thing that she could think of. It was something that she hadn't ever really needed to do before and she was surprised that she did it.

Idu screamed.

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He sat up and looked at himself with the eye that he still had. He was a little bit frustrated about how he had lost his eye yet again, but it made sense since it wasn't his to begin with. He still only had one arm and he still had his one leg but he also still had the one that his master had made for him from the machine on earth.

Gir stood up as best as he could and rubbed his aching head. He felt really light-headed and he sort of wondered where he was exactly. Gir looked around him and glanced at the area that he was standing in. He was in a desert but he couldn't remember how he got there and he also couldn't remember why he was there in the first place. In fact, he had a hard time remembering his own name. But he thought hard and was able to determine that it was Gir.

He looked at himself and examined his body. It was hard and made of metal and he wondered if he was born like that or if he had been in a few accidents before now. Then he looked up and touched where his eye should have been. But it wasn't there and he was sort of worried about that. What if he had done something and been kicked out of his home? What if he had been killed and he was in hell, a barren wasteland with no people to comfort him? What if someone had tried to kill him and had then dumped his body here? He wasn't dead as far as he knew but he couldn't pinch himself to find out because he was made of metal.

Gir decided that he would take up a walk to see if he could find any people to talk to. Maybe he could find out how he got here and if they knew someone that knew him. But as he began to walk he fell dome instantly and smashed his chin on a rock.

As he sat up he grimaced and rubbed his chin. A strange little casing that he had tripped over caught Gir's attention. He outstretched his hand and took it as his own. As he pulled it towards him he examined it to see if he could remember what it was exactly.

The casing was smaller than his head and looked like a circle cut in half. There were strange little blinking lights all over it and markings that he didn't know. But he somehow knew that he might need it later on so he kept it and then stood up, this time watching out for anything on the ground. So Gir then began his journey across the desert to see if he could find anyone.

His quest didn't last very long because it was interrupted by a very high-pitched, very scared, scream. Gir's head whipped around a little bit and he saw tentacles. Hundreds of tentacles. They were everywhere and they looked to have a little captive in their clutches. He couldn't see who or what was screaming but he knew that the person needed help and now. And although he was scared he charged. During this time he also had the urge to eat chicken covered in lard. Whatever that was.

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Idu thrashed and screamed again but she didn't think that anyone would be able to hear her at all. She was doomed to be eaten by a giant sand monster and never complete the mission with Kim. Now she would die and now she screamed the last time before the monster's mouth closed around her.

But the creature never got the chance to chew and as Idu listened to what was going on in the open air she heard a voice call out to the monster.

"Hey you!" it said. "Stop trying to eat people! It's not nice!"

Idu was tossed around the monster's mouth as she tried to hold onto the folds of teeth. She feared cutting herself but she also feared falling into the pit of stomach acid that was at the base of the throat. So she held on for dear life as the monster was rocked and tossed and beaten by somebody outside.

She heard the monster scream several times and try to swallow her, maybe in a way to heal itself. A lot of good that would do it anyways. Then, suddenly, the rocking stopped and the monster let out one last gurgle before it stopped moving all together. Idu opened her eyes a little bit and looked to the mouth's opening where light was now shining through.

A hand reached in and outstretched towards her.

"Take my hand," said the voice from before. "I'm here to help you."

Idu, obediently, took the hand of the person. It felt really cold. Then she was pulled out of the monster with such force that she and the person that had saved her went flying in the same direction. They landed in a heap and Idu grimaced at the monster slime that coated her entire body. She felt so grossed out that she nearly gagged. But she held it back and got up and off of her savour.

She began to wipe herself off but she stopped dead when she saw who had saved her.

It was a robot, much like her but different in so many ways. From what she could tell it had once been a Sir unit as well. But now it wasn't much of one. One of the eyes was missing and there looking to be a piece of a broken bulb inside of the head. One of the arms was missing and the one that remained there looked so beaten up. There were two legs that were still there but one of them shouldn't have been there. No one of them was part of something that Idu didn't know about. Then entire robot looked beaten and broken and utterly disfigured beyond what she could have imagined, not to mention the dents and scratches that coated its form.

Idu placed her hands to her mouth in horror and fear. She took a step back for a moment and then tripped over a rock. Then she just sat there. She wasn't sure if she should fear the robot or feel pity for it. After all, she was dressed in hard body armour with a really cool cape and headgear. Whereas this robot looked like he had been through so many battles that he was lucky to be alive.

Eventually she noticed that the ocular orb that looked to still work wasn't activated. That meant that the robot was no longer in working condition. She sighed to herself, placing her hand where her heart could have been, and then looked back up to the robot. Idu tapped his head lightly and nearly jumped out of her metal case when her savour leaned over and clanked on the ground, lifeless. She relaxed and then sat on her knees, examining him more.

Never had she seen a Sir unit in such bad of a condition. Sure she'd seen the occasional dent of whatever but never this much damage. Whoever could let their Sir unit take so much damage and then repair it so horribly was either stupid, poor, or a horrible master. Desperately wanting to believe that no one could do this to their servant Idu went ahead and believed that the person that had done the repairs had had insufficient funds and could do a proper job.

Idu sighed and hung her head. It was only then that she noticed the disk in his hand. Carefully she pulled it out and, instantly, she knew what it was.

It was a Sir unit memory disk.

As she turned it over in her hand she found something etched into the back. It had been carved with, what she could only guess was. A waffle spatula. And she read it aloud to herself. "Gir." Idu though for a moment. "Gir… The robot in which Dib was referring to when on Kai." She looked down at the robot beneath her. "So you're Gir…?"

The last thing that she had been expecting was an answer but the little guy gave one anyways. He sat up with such speed that she leapt back again. Gir's remaining eye light up a bright blue, like the sky on Earth. He turned and he looked at her, head cocked to one side. Idu sat up straight and remained calm, seeing that he was no threat.

Then he said something that caught her completely by surprise. "Gir… yes… do you know me? Do I know you? Do you know where I am?"

"Uh…"

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Brooke: Sorry I took so long to update. I've been editing my book a lot for varying reasons. Most of which is I might be relied on to save our house and not move. Eek! Ok, moving on. Jack, give me the first review please.

Jack: Our first review is from IWasTheTurkey.

Brooke: hello to you too. Yes, here's your chapter with Gir. I might make the next one with him too so you get to wait and see about that. Either another Gir chapter or I'll move onto Zim and Gaz. I'm still debating.

Impmon: Now we've got a review from The Illustrious Crackpot.

Brooke: Don't sorry about taking a while to review. And thanks for the best wishes on exams. I think you gave me good luck because I passed with flying colours. So thanks for the luck. Glad you like the Redrui(x) thing. I don't know what ElfQuest is but ok.

J5: EB, bwana EB. Dlbn is next on our reviewers list.

Brooke: Thank you for your word son my chapter. And yes, the plot thickens. We now know of a secret that the Bludgeons have! Whoooooaaaa!

Zim: Zim speaks! Now to recognize the, slightly less doomed, human being to submit… Or bug… hmmm…

Brooke: While Zim thinks that over I'll answer. Yes! I tried to make Gna sort of girly but also tough and firm. Like, she can hold her own in battle but she likes hanging with her friends and those wired bright colours that I hate… You get it. So, glad you like her and here is your 'more' as requested.

Fiendmon: Cake!

Batty: Milk!

Both: For everyone!