(I don't own IZ. Darn It. It figures that my character got greedy and demanded more character development and a bigger role in the fic than what I had originally planned)
Interlude:
Agent Winged Wolf watched as the shuttle sped off in the growing dawn. Might as well get going, the little sir bot had already moved most of the supplies into the old explorer base, she passed through a hologram end entered into a dark tunnel the lights lit up at her presence. She entered into the main cavern to find a bit of a shock the new base was already up and running and it was fixing and powering the old explorer equipment. Shaking her head in amazement she set to helping organize things. "My names chaos what's you name?" the little sir bot piped, she stopped to think she didn't want to have the silent hunter code name everyday so she decided to give him her original name "My names Kim" "A good Irken name" "A common name, it seemed to have cropped up in two different Earth cultures as well as Irk" "Still a good name".
It wasn't long before everything was set to rights and Chaos had chosen his disguise, much to her disgust he had found a copy of Poe's The Raven and was now flapping around misquoting the poem at every opportunity
"Someone's rapping tap tap tapping at my master's chamber door" she translated it as ether someone was here or someone was calling, she guessed the latter. Ok who's calling "For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being would tap upon that chamber door" misquoted again but he meant it was a Irken calling, "The tallest?" "She shall press, nevermore" correct then "well put him on" "Nevermore"
Not one but two equally tall Irkens came on screen, they were obviously restraining giggles. "Ehem excuse us but we had to call the first Earth defender, you obviously impressed our young Irken invader. He thought that you were the Great Devourer isn't that silly" they both bent over laughing hysterically when they straightened up and cleared their eyes of tears, they no longer faced a earthen female but a monster out of legend who said in clear Irken "You two are obviously spawn of tallest blue. He rarely believed what his explorers told him. "Liquid that falls from the sky that burns? Nonsense you are Irkens nothing can harm an Irken; an experiment has escaped and is killing you all? I just think you don't have your report done on time any excuse for a delay." At least you're smart enough to not completely abandon your invader when an enemy armada approaches I'll give you that much credit"
"You, you swore the destruction of the Empire if we ever brought the armada to your planet." "As much as I hate Irkens I fear the Dhahmons, for they are true devourers eating all life, soul sucking demons they are" "what will we do with you?" they seemed to ignore her Dhahmon comments entirely so if they wanted to stay on that track she was going to have to jolt them out of it "Revel in the glory of course" "Say what now?" "You two and Zim will go down in history as the ones who enlisted the great devourer to help defeat the Dhahmons" "Why should we trust you how do we know that you won't go eating Irkens?" "I've had my revenge on those who did this to me and Irken blood sickens me. Now I have to contact the next prospective defenders if you'll excuse me I have to go to work"
She shut of the transmission and rested her head on the cool metal of the consul, she hated Irken politics it was allot of posturing and gloating, when this war was over she hopped she would be spared from having to interact with more Irkens otherwise she just might go on a killing spree, at least the tallest usually don't monologue they were the tallest after all, they didn't have to boast. But Kim had to posture drawing up to her full height lifting her wings high and be as much the threatening mighty devourer as possible just to get them to listen. Ugh if only Earth could have been left alone by aliens. "Master do you want a snack?" at least in his robot form he didn't babble Poe "thanks Chaos" she grabbed the bag of goodies without looking jammed in a mouthful then jubilantly ate the rest "Chaos is there more?" "Yes Sir follow me" Chaos led her down one of the new tunnels to a storage room filled with enough Irken snacks to last two Irkens many years and even with the appetite of a werewolf it would take her a long time to put a dent in it
"By Irk it's the motherload" she ran inside grabbing armloads full of her favorites and a few she didn't recognize, she was wandering out to the workroom with her arms pilled high and several bags stuffed in her mouth, the screen came back on suddenly it was the tallest again "We were going to ask just how we would explain how we tamed the great devourer but snacks seem to be the answer" Kim dumped the snacks on a nearby table "One of the Explorers got me hooked on them, he would treat me to a snack after particularly painful experiments much to Crav's dislike" "Crav was the leader of the missing far range expedition there's no doubt now who you are, He was reputed to be merciless and cruel. We can understand why you would have killed him but why kill the one who fed you snacks?"
"Ber was kind, not like Crav, or Ryt who was in charge of me. I wasn't quite what Ryt wanted, I wouldn't kill unless necessary "a useless ultimate killing machine if it refuses to kill" so Crav and Ryt would devise tortures trying to break my spirit, through the years Ber snuck me snacks, I had been captive for over a decade when one day Crav an Ryt tested a new devise out on me, I later gained consciousness covered in Irken blood everyone was dead even my friends but not by my hand the Irkens had killed them all. I then called Blue and threatened Irks destruction if the armada ever came, that didn't stop him from sending a second explorer team which I only had a hand in killing a Dhahmon got to them first. I wasn't quite sane in those years. I've had a very long time since then to come to grips with what I did and that's in part of why I'm going to help, I hope to atone for my actions."
"Well we need to atone to you as well, we will make sure you have a lifetime supply of snacks and we will have Earth a free planet in the empire. You would probably destroy Irk as promised if we didn't keep ours"
"Wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before"
Chaos muttered a correct quote for once.
"Dreams, heh Ber told me about Foodcourtia and some of the other Irken planets when this is over I would like to explore"
"You would terrify the populace!" "I promise to stay human my entire visit unless you wish to parade me around or something" "We'll see" this time the Tallest ended the transmission
(Note Agent Wolf Wing had spent nearly 20 years in Irken hands enough time to have picked up the language including idioms and a great love for Irken snacks. Poe's The Raven a good poem I figured that the Explores would research everything they could get their hands on and Chaos found it in an old database.
The next chapter will be back to the main characters)