avatar: the first battle ends tonight. The second battle begins. Who will win these battles? You'll seeee. TAK!

Tak: avatarjk137 does not own Invader Zim, except for Kloof and Reapir. He owns a few non-character things in this fic, too, but those aren't important. What is important is that you build me a-

avatar: Tak go bye-bye now!

Chapter 6

Battles By Moonlight

"That's decidedly odd." Kloof was sure Earth's moon should be on the other side of the planet right now. Yet here it was, looming right in front of his spaceship. If that wasn't unusual enough, parts of the moon were glinting. There were normally not many shiny things on the moon's surface. Kloof decided to increase his orbit and get a better look. When he reached high orbit, he was in for a shock. "TWO MOONS! THAT wasn't there when I landed. Ship, scan the moons."

"Scans show one of the moons is artificial in origin," the ship's computer replied smoothly. "Both moons have had mirrors installed in geometrically precise locations. More mirrors are orbiting the Earth, also precisely placed."

"What the hell is going on?"

"I'LL answer that!" Tak's sneering visage appeared on the screen of Kloof's control panel. "It's part of my newest plan to DESTROY the Earth! I'll fire a laser array into the mirrors at the PRECISE angle to make the lasers encircle Earth constantly! Next, I'll tilt all the mirrors at the same time and fire the beams through the Earth! The planet will be sliced… like a pizza!" Tak began to laugh eerily.

"That's a pretty complicated, over-the-top plan," Kloof observed.

"Thank you, Betrayer. Before I do that, though, I'll shoot you down." A ship flew from behind one of the moons and began to approach Kloof.

"You must really, really, REALLY want revenge!" Kloof exclaimed, charging the weapons on his ship.

"IT'S NOT ABOUT REVENGE!" Tak screamed at the top of her Irken equivalent of lungs. "I'm killing YOU for the good of my EMPIRE! I'm destroying Earth because, if Zim is DEAD, I can take his mission!"

"Really? It looks a lot like revenge. Killing me, I can understand that. However, you said yourself that Zim's mission is a lie. The Tallest just want him out of their antennae. If that's true, revenge is the only reason you could possibly have to destroy Earth. You should stop lying to yourself and accept that this is about revenge."

Tak's craft was fully in view now. It consisted of a violet, torpedo-shaped main body. 6 lavender pods were arranged around the front window. A fin, marked with Tak's modified Irken emblem, adorned the top-center. On each side, a large red wing floated separately from the main craft. At the back of the craft, several tentacles like the ones on Tak's old ship were arranged around the jets. They rippled behind the craft, making it look like some sinister, metal giant squid. After a moment of silence on the communications link, Tak quietly responded, "Yeah, it is about revenge."

"Don't you feel better with that off of your squeedlyspooch?"

"Much!" The pods around Tak's cockpit opened up and sprayed dozens of missiles at Kloof's ship. "By the way, this ship is my best creation yet. There is NO WAY you can beat it!"

"Ahahahahahaha!" Zim laughed evilly, hurling bolts of electricity at Reapir. He wasn't hitting his target, but Reapir was too busy dodging to get close and attack. Rummaging through his garage, Dib found a large water gun. He began to fire at Zim.

"No, you don't!" Zim was enjoying Power #6, and he didn't want to be doused with painful water. He shot a bolt into the stream of water, which evaporated into steam inches from his face. He charged another shock, and took aim at Dib. He didn't notice Reapir until the small robot tackled him. Zim pushed Reapir off of him, and threw Kloof's robotic buddy high into the air. Reapir responded by firing the spikes out of his shoulder pads, which revealed themselves to be missiles. As Zim tried to attack Dib again, the rockets rained down upon him. "NO! OW! AUGHH!"

"What happened?" Dib ran into the blasted part of the lawn, searching for Zim. As the smoke cleared, Zim arose from Dib's shadow, a nefarious grin on his face, and pinned Dib from the ground with one hand. He charged an electric blast in his hand… and screamed in agony, his entire body coursing with the electricity. Dib was shocked a little too, even through Zim's gloves. As Zim fell to the ground, almost unconscious, Dib got to his feet shakily, and saw Gaz. A single cable extended from the Gamethrall into Zim's Pak. Purple-black, sinister-looking energy was being sucked up the cable into Gaz's game system. "Gaz… you hacked into Zim's Pak?"

"It wasn't hard at all." Gaz's hair stood on end as the power pumped into the Gamethrall, but she barely seemed to notice.

"Gaz, are you… alright?"

"I've never been better. Now Zim, GO AWAY!" she screamed. "I WANT TO GO TO SLEEP!" As Zim got up, moaning, she kicked him back to the ground.

"Heh? O-okay! ZIM will r-retreat for now!" Zim crawled into Dib's shadow, knowing that, weak as he was, he couldn't defeat Dib, Gaz, and Reapir, who had landed two houses down, and had just arrived. Gir dropped off the roof, landed on his head, and began to walk home, humming a tune which followed no pattern, and shooting sparks from the damaged parts of his body.

"Yeah, some sleep would be nice." Dib and Gaz walked into their house, only to find their father standing at the top of the stairs.

"SON!" Professor Membrane exclaimed. "The front yard looks like a battleground! Have you been testing your anti-werewolf silver hand grenades again?"

"…nooooooooomaybe."

End of Chapter

HAND GRENADES! Next chapter will have stuff with Kloof and Tak shooting at each other, a break from the whole 'Zim, Gir, Reapir, Dib, and Gaz' thing (they'll be back in Chapter 8, I think), and a side thingy involving the Irken most wanted list. BYE-BYE!