(I don't own IZ. Now back to the main characters and their impending Doom!)
Things were quiet in the shuttler until Zim asked Dark Booty "Does the Great devourer have any Weakness? Tell Zim" "Plenty which she won't likely reveal around an Irken, she is but flesh and blood after all" "Tell Zim more" "No" "Then how is Zim to know that you are not lying, that this wolf wings won't destroy Irk" Agent Dark Booty sighed "Long ago a swollen eyeball member found her near death after she had fought a Dhahmon, that's why she works with us rather than being pursued by us, and the reason we won't reveal her secrets is that she gets better info than most paranormal investigators"
Despite Zim's prodding Dark Booty wouldn't reveal anymore and he spent the rest of the trip home in a huff.
The next week was spent getting everyone organized, the 15 bases came online rather quickly each one would be responsible for its areas defenses, and if the world woke up to the invasion, they would be in command of organizing the human armies so that Earth fought as a whole. And all 15 base members got together for training on everything from the bases weapon controls, to piloting the cruisers and of course discussing tactics
Agent TunaGhost had found something interesting "I've been studying the signals that the Dhahmons use and I found a similar signal being emitted on Earth, Here listen." "There are no aliens, there is no such thing as paranormal activity.." she shut it off "It continues on in that track, the signal is being broadcast from cell phone towers"
"Cell phone towers?! But we'll never be able to destroy them all in time there's millions in each country" Agent SpriteHunter whined,
"We won't have to we just have to find the source originators" Gaz said in a condescending voice, she typed madly away at her consul, "There" on screen dozens of little red dots started showing up on the world map
"Once we destroy these, everyone should start noticing what's going on?" agent BlueRobin asked hopefully
"Perhaps. We won't truly know until they are gone" Agent BlackStick mussed
"If they do wake up we can use them as an army!" Zim gloated.
"I wouldn't recommend a ground war; our best chance of defeating them is before they reach the planet. Their ships are slow and not very maneuverable however get them on the ground they are difficult to kill. A good marksman would have a hard time getting a bead on them and the best martial artist would have a hard time landing a punch" Agent Wolf Wings grumbled, she was staying strictly human for the meetings even around Zim who avoided her anyways.
"Ok then how about if we have an aerial defense?" Agent DestructiveBunny asked
"Not possible your current Earthen space ships are pitiful and absolutely useless in battle. The only Irken ships we have are the ones that came with the bases until the armada gets here" Tak replied
"We are getting ahead of ourselves here, let's destroy those source originators and take it from there, Ok everyone destroy the ones that are in your assigned areas if any fall out of an assigned area whoever's areas is closest will get it or whoever can get to it first. Dismissed" Dib commanded.
The destruction of the S.O.s went quickly despite them having heavy automated defenses, the Earth Defenders making a game out of how many they could take down in a day. The results of the controlling mind wave's destruction became apparent quickly when scientists finally spotted two approaching alien armadas, operation Take Over came into play, the dormant programs in each nations government computers seized control issuing curfews and populace restrictions, the military coming in to enforce the new rules. The real government leaders were unsure what to do as they hadn't issued the orders but they saw that it was necessary.
"Hey Zim it's time to broadcast! Are the tallest ready?" "Yes they are, let's do this. Finally Earth is Zim's! Ehem ours I mean"
The cameras came on and focused on Dib and Zim
"Greeting citizens of Earth, as you may have noticed two Alien armadas are approaching Earth, One is the Irken Empire and the second is the Dhahmons. We have negotiated a treaty with the Irken Empire to defend Earth against the Dhahmons". Zim's leaders took over "Greetings we are the Tallest leaders of the Irken Empire The Dhahmons intend to use Earth's populace as food and they threaten the Irken Empire as well, So we will include Earth in the Irken Empire in exchange for use of your solar system as a staging ground to fight the Dhahmons. We have appointed Earth Defenders who will coordinate with us in the upcoming battle, Earth governments will report to your local Defender. We will leave the rest to be explained By the Defenders leader Dib and our representative Zim"
The rest was just introducing the 15 defenders and informing which countries they would be watching over. Surprisingly the change in power went over with little fuss, amazing what waving a pair of armadas approaching can do, the governments still handled the day to day of the countries while the Defenders were left free to command the armies.
What surprised Dib the most was his Father came to say to him.
"Dib, Son I must apologize for not listening to you all these years, and calling you insane. I'm proud of you for sticking to your convictions. Now I wish to offer you my help as a scientist, My Lab has something you could use, bring your sister and little alien friend too"
It felt strange being out in public with Zim without his disguise on, and at first Zim was hesitant until people started calling out his name, waving and cheering. So of course his ego was inflated and he was strutting around. Soon they arrived at the appropriate area and had a few workers who were ether on break or didn't have a project running at the time gathered around his dad strode up to a large tarp covered object I give you STAV Space Tactical Attack Vehicle unlike Irken spaceships which seemed to have allot of curves this ship looked deadly like a great eagles head in profile the nose of the craft came down to a sharp point to touch the floor the "head" had the cockpit and at the back where it looked like the crest of feathers was the engines, the wings swept down ward to meet the floor as well, all along the edge of the wings front and back were small dots flush with the surface in the middle and underside had them as well giving the look of a stripe.
"What are these? Dad?" "The multi directional energy weapons array we haven't come up with a cool acronym yet, basically you can hit a target from almost any angle" "WOW Dad it's awesome but can we make enough in time? Plus we need to train pilots" "We can have about five thousand by the time the Dhahmons arrive, as for training enough pilots"
Gaz who had been sitting in the cockpit asked "Do you have a simulator program for it?" "Why yes. Why?" "Release it as a game; recruit the ones with the best scores." "But most of them will be children!" "Gaz and I have been fighting Zim for a long time before the truce." "It is true they have been worthy adversaries, Can Zim have one of these ships? Mine is not designed for battle" "I've been in contact with your supply officer Tak who by the way helped on the design, all of the defenders ships will be replaced by these, the cruisers are not much better than transports compared with this."
"Wait a minute Dad if you have been working with Tak you knew before the announcement! Why didn't you tell me?"
"Actually son I have always known, this is going to sound like a betrayal but I didn't want you going into the paranormal field of science it doesn't pay well so I pretended that it all was crazy nonsense. Your Grandfather was a paranormal researcher and we were poor because of it. Real science was going to pay for your university son; I had to work to pay for mine. However because of your paranormal interests you were able see the truth and establish a treaty with the Irkens. I Am Proud of you Son and can you forgive me?" "It will be hard to forgive the years of being called insane but I love you Dad and perhaps in time I can forgive you too"
"Awe, you going to hug and make all better?" Gir piped up, Dib jumped he had forgotten the Sir bots had tagged along, the tender moment ruined Professor Membrane rubbed the back of his head awkwardly Dib coughed, they both tentatively hugged, and both were shocked into startlement, the hangers on crowd had doubled without their noticing as they had been quiet until this point, it looked like the entire laboratory's staff had dropped their projects to see the Famous Dr Membrane, his now Famous Son and the Alien tour the labs Gaz and the SIR bots save for Gir had avoided the attention by hanging back.
"Don't you all have important work to do? There is an impending alien invasion and you are just standing around like a bunch of tourists. GO! For Science!"
Come Son we have much to prepare and so little time to do it in.
(sorry this one took a while new character development and ship design, I don't think I will name all 15 defenders and I probably won't introduce any more SIR units, a Raven that misquotes Poe is bad enough)