(I don't own IZ Hmm I can't think of anything to comment, Hey Look! someone's making Doughnuts WHOOOOOOO!)
Dib shot down yet another Dhahmon fighter his lekku drooped tiredly, don't they ever end, he thought to himself.
He was flying a third generation Eagle, the second generations had a bit of a flaw where they would wobble and stall at high speeds in atmosphere, even with the advancements they never had enough Eagles they had more than enough pilots now, almost as soon as a pilot landed another was already waiting for the Eagle to be serviced to fly it out again.
Dib by Earth standards didn't have to fight, but by Irken standards he did, even the tallest were technically always in battle, they didn't stay on Irk they traveled with the fleet,
A few of the faster Irken fighters had arrived to join the battle, but the main fleet stayed with the Massive which was due in a week
That's why Dib was out fighting today the Irkens who had just arrived expected him to lead them out for the first joint battle. Zim was out also, happily destroying as much as he could and thankfully due to the battle conditions he was to far from his comrades to do them any damage. Dib had been out for several hours now and by his timer he should have been in half an hour ago. He sighed and completed his loop, and headed back for Earth platform one
He was a bit surprised not to find a pilot waiting for him but a full maintenance crew. "This is a third Gen, it shouldn't need a service for another 50 hours" "We have orders to paint all our fighters in the Irken fleet colors with the distinction of a blue and white logo to represent Earth."
"By whose orders, and why?" "Your Dad's him and a few of the other scientists noticed something interesting, even though the Irken fighters are slower than the eagles in combat the Dhahmons were having trouble hitting them and it wasn't because of shielding" Dib put two and two together, the paint job was the giveaway "Are they color blind?"
"Good work Dib. They have Protanopia, red and purple hues are near impossible for them to see." His Dad patted him on the back he had come in as Dib had been talking to the mechanic crew "Some Irken Scientists hopped a ride with the fighters, I've learned from them that most of the alien races they have come across have a red colorblindness of some sort, That's why their army's colors are pink and purple, they can see them clearly but their enemies cant, We are the first they have come across that can see pink the way they do." "So what stands out horribly to us" "Is just grey or black to others"
"And it's a show of support to the treaty, this is a great idea Dad" "Don't worry the Earth uniforms will remain blue, I just couldn't see our troops running around in pink and I'm sure they would revolt if we tried. Come on Son I'm sure you are starving lets go grab something to eat"
Even without the uniforms the troops weren't to happy about bright purple ships but the arguing stopped altogether when the casualties went down, even the friendly fire incidents dropped dramatically, it was a small step forward in the battle but with odds like they were facing every little bit helped a lot. The battle still wasn't anywhere near their favor yet
China wasn't the only country to have a troop carrier touch down Mexico, Africa and Russia was just to name a few. all the countries targeted were where it was easy to slip by defenses and hit large populations, they did however avoid metropolitan class cities, as when they tried the city's population would form a massive mob armed to the teeth, in this case the Dhahmons were outnumbered, a single troop carrier just didn't have enough Dhahmons to take a metropolis yet.
Ground troops had to not only deal with rampaging Dhahmons but with saving people from slavery, it seemed that the troop carriers had two purposes one to drop off troops the second to be loaded up with as much living cargo as possible, presumably going to feed the Dhahmon Armada. So their first priority when a carrier landed was to destroy or disable it as quickly as possible at any cost. Then they had to find all of the Dhahmons which was difficult as not all of them went on a killing spree, a few would try to slip unnoticed into the population. Dib was sure that they couldn't get them all after all even he rarely suspected Ms Bitters of being anything other than a creepy teacher.
Dib was loosing track of days his world had narrowed down to fighting, eating and sleeping, the fleet of Eagles had dwindled to half what they originally not including the Irken fighters, they were loosing badly, Today he was flying a double shift as he had to shift to Irken, the transformation always had given him a extra burst of energy and a fresh fighter was always needed, his Irken red brown eyes watched for any Dhahmons getting to close, they had improved the shielding but the Dhahmons still liked to use the swarm and bump technique. Suddenly the Dhahmons were trying another big troop carrier drop, six were dropping this time and no one was close enough to stall them. Ground weapons fired, someone had dug up old rocket plans, the larger explosive techniques like nuclear and hydrogen bombs were lost to time. The rockets equipped with anti-shield disruptors did prove more effective than energy weapons, still it took lots of them to bring a carrier down two of them exploded simultaneously the explosion took out a third which listed for a while before it exploded in a gratifying fireball. It looked like the other three were going to make it to the surface when a huge energy weapon took out one then another, the final troop carrier tried to abort entry but was caught by ground rockets, this was the first time since WolfWings took out the first one, that all were destroyed without fatalities.
For the first time in Days the Dhahmons withdrew. Without anyone to fight Dib turned his Eagle around to see where the energy weapon had come from. He whooped for joy the Irken Armada had finally arrived with the Resisty.
(Just because the Irkens are here it doesn't mean things will get easy just easier. Oh and if I described the Protanopia colorblindness wrong I'm sorry all I had to go on was internet references. Finally if my guess is right this chapter should push this fic over the 1000 word limit, Whooo Yay me!)