The Irken Assassin Ch. 11 - Time passes on
-- Data log --
Dib's discovered my true nature an earth week ago now. So far we haven't turned on each other, but keeping this a secret seemed to be tiresome on the human. His sister may suspect the truth, but it's difficult to tell. In this time, I've further surveyed this planet and studied its inhabitants while Dib remained away. From what I've learned of this world, I find myself concerned. This world seems to have a sort of intellectual cancer, slowly ebbing away the intelligence and capability of the humans surviving here. One could say this world has become host of defects. This membrane family however, seems to be three in ten million, the only non-defects left possibly. In a sense, this makes them the defects worthy of protection. Very unusual. This sparks my curiosity, so if I ever return to this planet after my mission is complete, I may do so to study this more closely.
-- End log --
"Computer, have you gotten any information YET?" Zim inquires, glaring at the computer screen of his base. "Search has been aborted. One file found." the computer informs, sounding only slightly surprised at Zim's ignorance of this. "Aborted? Well... Let's see that one file". The giant monitor pulls up a solitary document, a police record of sort. An image of a very normal looking irken appears on the screen beside the record as identification, the text mentioning something about illegal experimentation, but not much else which stood out.
Zim slams his fist into the metal dashboard of his control room's computer, frustrated at the lack of helpfulness presented. The idea that the search was aborted only added to that annoyance, since there could potentially have been more data than this. "Well, with this in mind I don't think our big ally is much a threat." Zim thinks aloud, then turning to the elevator to another section of his base. Skoodge remains in the room, looking at the single record still, apparently unnoticed by Zim all this time. Skoodge soon closes the page on the computer monitor himself, then heading back to the house part of the base.
Back in the house, Jadoku dramatically leaps in threw the open window, landing on his feet. Tsume crashed through a moment later, landing on his teammate as Skoodge arrived at the ground level of the base. Pushing Tsume off, Jadoku stands in salute to Skoodge. "Skoodge, we've come to check on Zim's status in planning out his method of conquering this planet." Jadoku reports, Tsume laughing behind him randomly, possibly only at Skoodge's shortness or a joke only held within his head. Skoodge takes no actual notice of Tsume. "Well, haven't seen what he's working on myself yet, but it's got to be good." He suggests. "Hey, when's your master coming here again?" he asks. Jadoku shrugs. "Possibly tonight or so." he estimates. "Alright."
The two SIR units leave the way they came, heading threw the window. Meanwhile Zim enters a room in the lower section of his lab, turning on a light and unveiling a large device, reminiscent of a quadruped megadoomer, having numerous missile launchers and laser cannons under construction on its centerpiece. Zim looks up at it with a critical eye. "Hmm... not good enough yet..." he judges, before picking up a wrench and approaching his device, ready to get to work on his machine, which could potentially work too well, or not at all. Time would only tell at this point.