The Irken Assassin Ch. 8 - Tallests report
With Dib and Zim distracted with school and Gir being dealt with by her SIR units, Zelda headed off to Zim's home to make private use of his base. Upon arrival to the base, the single remaining lawn gnome backed off to avoid being blown apart like its comrades, remembering the over tall human who destroyed the others. She walks inside, momentarily assaulted by the sound of an explosion, soon followed up by GIR and Tsume popping out of a now on fire kitchen sink in the next room. Zelda shakes her head in minor disgust, though mostly in confusion. "I don't even want to know." she muses, before looking down at Jadoku. "Master, all seems clear." he reports. Zelda nods coolly, then becoming engulfed in red light, her skin dying green and eyes shifting from indigo to gold, spikes appearing on her shoulders and antennae replacing her hair, nose and ears vanishing, fangs seeming to grow out along with claws, and a red irken insignia appearing on her lab coat, all in seconds, though one thing remains absent - a Pak. "Good... Now since I don't have any irken technology stored in Dib's house, I'm sure there's no problem in using our 'ally's' transmission room." she muses, speaking to Jadoku. Zerg looks down at her wrist, still wearing Dib's holographic mapping watch, activating the map. With a moment of visual browsing, she closes it, then teleporting into the transmissions room, judging the location's co-ordinates by the map.
Zerg soon reappears within Zim's lab, standing before a large computer screen scrolling with countless 1's and 0's as it continues to run a search on some unidentified thing. Finding the manual controls for the screen, she boredly cancels the search Zim had started, soon calling the Tallests, though first working a new icon into the computer's database. On screen a red irken symbol appears, two bent in extra marks appearing like the antennae on the top of the symbol forming under the symbol, bent inwards instead of outwards, three long slashes appearing threw the symbol after them. Zerg slashes a slight smile at this, the Tallests soon answering the call. On screen, the Tallests were eating from a box of doughnuts, a large cup of soda sitting on a nearby table. In their background a few workers on The Massive work diligently on their controls.
"Hello sirs, just reporting I've made it to Earth and have all ready begun to deal with the target." Zerg starts. "Huh, that was fast. Took Zim twice that time just to reach the planet..." Purple comments, taking a bite out of a doughnut he was holding in one hand. "You're not trying to kill him all ready are you? Remember, we need you to bring him back to Irk first." Red questions. Zerg shakes her head. "You ordered me to take it slow. Way I see it, I'm going at a crawl." she muses. "Though the way things look, I'll be transporting him back to Irk within the next one or two weeks, provided nothing goes wrong." Zerg summarizes. She only had to gain the short Irkens trust, and fool him into thinking he was going to be honored for his work on Earth. Of course, she'd have to simultaneously keep up her human charade and give the disillusion of Zim taking over the planet. Considering he seemed to have given up, she'd have to pull him back into wanting the planet in the first place. "What if something does go wrong?" Purple inquires, breaking Zerg out of her thoughts. Zerg looks back at the screen, gold eyes narrowed and antennae pulled back. "Depends, but at worst, I'll have to execute here or I'll be terminated myself. The risk of any slow mission." she growls. The Tallests risk a glance at each other. "So that's why they cost so much..." Purple whispers into Red's antennae. Red just nods. "Well, I doubt that'll happen. Anyway, call us again soon with your next progress report. We'll need a better idea of when you'll bring the defect back to Irk." Red orders. Zerg nods, then salutes, retracting her claws to avoid accidentally threatening her leaders. The call ends and her symbol appears over the screen once more, then disappears under thirty seconds later.
Zerg teleports back upstairs, dropping to one knee as a SIR goes flying over her head. "Tsume, calm yourself down!" Zerg snaps, half closing one eye as she looks over at the clawed SIR unit. "But I was going to get nachos!" Tsume whines. Zerg stands back up, shaking her head. "Hope Zim's SIR isn't corrupting you further." she muses, then plucking the little robot off the ground with her left hand. Gir walks into the room with a plate full of cheese and a few scattered nachos. "Aww, you is going?" Gir chimes. Zerg looks down at Gir, and then decides to play friendly to the child minded robot. "I'll let him come back and play later." she coos, mentally gagging at the scene. At least she was good with acting. Gir squeals with joy, then running off for some unknown reason. Jadoku and Tsume engulf their selves in a red light, returning to their dog forms, Zerg similarly becoming Zelda once more, heading out of the base and back to the Membrane household.