(I don't own IZ)
The final week seemed to go by so fast, the 5000 pilots were chosen despite Professor Membrane's prediction the highest scores were earned mostly by people who were already pilots in their own right. No sign could be found of the Dhahmons already on earth The Irken armada was still stalled and wouldn't arrive until much later than the Dhahmon armada. Earth's defense was up to Earth itself. Professor Membrane's scientists whipped up some orbital defense platforms. All they had left to do is train and wait.
It was at the launch ceremony when things went south, for Earth's moral it was decided that that the whole thing would be televised, STAVs were line up in their regimental formation glittering in their units colors, the pilots had nicknamed them Eagles and the name stuck, one lucky unit made a flyby turned around hovered silently over the awed crowd and touched down gently on the tarmac. The cheering of the crowd cut short when the big screen signals were hijacked, an ugly hunched over alien was on the screen it looked like a cross between a praying mantis and a uncooked lobster. Agent WolfWings
Who had been sitting on the platform stood up and growled "Dhahmon" She was about to go into a rant when Dib made a cut off motion he was in charge here, she subsided but took up position as body guard to glare at the broadcasted image.
The Dhahmon spoke first "This is our planet you have no right to stop us, we came in stopped your wars, made everything peaceful, you practically begged for peace, we set up your world government, your planet is ours" the rant of disarming and handing over the planet peacefully continued, Dib leaned back away from the microphones to talk with the glowering WolfWings "Is this true?" "I don't know it ether happened while I was captive or while I was hunting down Irkens, I wasn't quite sane at the time" "Tak can you gain access to WolfWings base we will need all of the records from that time" "There's stuff I'd rather not be known in there, but the planets safety is more important than my secrets, you have my permission" "All ready in, Hmm seems as though the Explorers did know about it and believed that the Dhahmons triggered a few gruesome wars to get what they wanted" "A contract signed under duress is not applicable besides the old government isn't in control anymore, we are" Zim supplied
"So be it, lets take control of this" Dib turned back to the cameras "ENOUGH! We know about you poising our minds, making us stupid to your presence, you probably forded the old governments to sign. We the people of Earth today are now in control and we won't be influenced by your lies, we know that the only reason you want Earth is so you can feed upon its people. We have made a treaty with an alien race that won't eat us, you old contract is finished leave peacefully and we won't destroy you."
The Dhahmon on screen chortled "Destroy us? Dib you always did make more claims than you could back up with proof, you precious Irken allies won't get here in time, those toys you are so proudly showing off are no where near enough to stop our swarms numbers, we will be feasting on your bones before the first Irken ship shows up in your galaxy expect us in two days"
With that the screen went blank. The silence was horrible.
"When have greater numbers ever stopped an Earth army?" WolfWings muttered but it was picked up by the microphones, a ragged cheer responded, Dib glanced at WolfWings "Bitters never taught us about the old Earth wars you will have to make the speech". She gave a nervous glance to the crowd and the cameras, she had been in hiding for so long making only contact with the swollen eyeball network, the silent hunters, and recently a few politicians to organize her sector, this was a whole different thing, being thrust into the spotlight without a prepared speech, she gulped and approached the podium
"Yes many times in many cultures we have won wars with but a handful of people, in Vietnam they held back US troops with gorilla warfare, 300 Spartan soldiers held off the massive Persian army, and more recently a handful of British pilots held off the German blitzkrieg, and many other examples abound, We have done it in the past we can do it again this is Earth it is ours and we will give it only to who we choose, FOR EARTH AND IRK!' She gained confidence through the speech and got bolder and louder, the last part was shouted, then it echoed back from the crowd "EARTH AND IRK! EARTH AND IRK! EARTH AND IRK!"
It continued for a while, Zim unnoticed shivered he hadn't known that this species had such a bloodthirsty streak, without the Dhahmon mind numbing signals emitting from cell phone towers the humans hungered after battle the way Irkens craved invasion, they would make worthy allies or a horrible enemy, he had seen what humans who were immune to mind control were like, the great devourer, Dib and his sister Gaz, he shuddered that was one scary human he would hate to be the one who went up against her.
Mean while:
The Irken Armada and the blockade of Resisty faced off, the tallest had the Resisty on screen trying to negotiate themselves past "We need to get to Earth to fight the Dhahmons otherwise they will eat us all can't you understand that" "Hah! You only want to subjugate another planet, will you break the treaty with them as well, the way you did with us?" "Sirs! A battle ship is approaching from Earths direction" "They'll never make it through the blockade" the little battle ship easily slipped past most of the ships the few that did offer resistance were ether blasted into oblivion or disabled, finally the ship made it clear it paused between the area between the facing ships, "Were being hailed" "Connect them into the conversation" A little purple haired girl with a sir unit came on screen "I came to stop this nonsense. You are to stop fighting immediately and get you alien green buts to Earth" "The Resisty wanted to save Earth from the Irkens and you are just inviting them in?" "You had better believe it, if you haven't heard there is a bigger menace that would like to eat us and once they are done with Earth they will be looking for more meals, then where would you be? Crying that you didn't help Earth is what! Now are you going to come with me? Or do I have to kick you asses!" "Even if we leave now we won't get there in time." "We will just have to do the best we can" the Resisty leader replied
(A note about my universe there is a world government which was nothing more than puppets of the Dhahmon, Countries still exist but they act more like provinces/states of the world government, it makes addressing mail easier.)