A/N 1: I'm kinda disappointed no one got the reference to 'Lost' at the end of the last chapter. Guess I'm the only fan here.
A/N 2: Now we see just how Prime went about getting his revenge. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: Prime is mine. Everyone else is the property of the Almighty Jhonen Vasquez. And most of the events in this chapter are from the unaired episode, "The Trial."
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Part Two
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Now, I know what you're thinking. Zim?! The most destructive Irken to ever live? Well, in all fairness to my pawn, most of what he's done over the years hasn't really been his fault. It's been mine. After all, did I not say I would take my revenge?
When he was first activated, he was taken to an Information Download Chamber- as all Irkens are- to have the full history of his people inserted into his PAK. This is where I decided to test my control over him.
When he had absorbed all the knowledge Irkens receive at birth, I implanted in his subconscious the desire to know more. To know all. This led to him refusing to leave the Chamber, which caused a backup of smeets, which led to the planetary blackout now known as Horribly Painful Overload Day.
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Satisfied, I waited for him to mature to a point where he would be of greater use to me. Several years later, I decided to test how much damage he could cause with only the slightest provocation by me. Just as I had implanted the desire for knowledge into his mind, I now gave him the urge- no, the need- to leave the underground Academy and see the surface of Irk with his own eyes.
He did rather well for one so young. When he was cornered by a Security Droid, he used his "friend" Skoodge as a decoy. That fat idiot led the S. D. right into a power generator, causing a series of explosions that led to what is now referred to as Horribly Painful Overload Day Part II.
On a lighter note, Zim did get to see Irk's surface right before it was plunged into another blackout that spanned several years.
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Eventually, Zim was transferred to Devastis for special Invader training. Right before the final exams, Zim tried to get a snack from a vending machine, but it got stuck. He got extremely frustrated, which made it so much easier to control him.
I reached into his mind and became the little voice in the back of his head, telling him what to do. I told him that the simplest way to get his snack would be to just blow the vending machine apart.
Which he did- with a Maimbot. As I expected, the damage caused by the resulting explosion led to yet another blackout (although this one only covered half the planet). This effectively cut the number of potential Invaders in half, as those in the blacked out parts of the planet were told by my Devastis counterpart that they would have to wait 70 years before they could retake the exams (fortunately for me, Zim took his exam in an unaffected sector).
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In any case, around this point leadership of the Empire passed to Tallest Miyuki. Miyuki was the closest thing the Irkens have ever had to a pacifist leader. She avoided war at all costs, meaning that she kept the WMDs my plans required out of the hands of the Invaders- more importantly, out of Zim's hands.
She had to go.
At this time, Zim (whose Invader skills weren't needed at the moment), was posted at the Vortian Research Station. I swear, the fools were making things too easy for me...
Once again, I implanted ideas in Zim's mind and let his imagination do the rest. In order to combat the energy-based Meekrob- whom I told him of- Zim created a creature that could absorb all that energy, thus effectively killing all Meekrobian opponents.
Perhaps you've heard of it- the Infinite Energy Absorbing Blob. Yes, I thought you had.
The day before Miyuki was scheduled to visit the station, I entered Zim's mind and altered the final set of the Blob's equations before they left his head and were placed in the machines that would create it. To him, everything seemed the way he wanted, but I had significantly changed the Blob's structure. Instead of waiting for orders, it would instinctively go after any large source of energy.
And lucky me, during Miyuki's visit Zim placed it right next to Lard Nar's Infinite Energy Generator. That much energy, all at once, warped the Blob even further. Reduced to a savage animal, it went on a rampage, killing Miyuki and eventually escaping the station, never to be seen again.
Except for a couple of years later, when it somehow made its way to Devastis and killed Tallest Spork. Even I'm not sure how that happened (if I had a head, I'd be scratching it right now).
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Finally, after years of waiting, the perfect opportunity presented itself. Tallest Red and Purple launched Operation Impending Doom, meant to give the Irkens complete dominance over the galaxy. I intended to ensure it failed.
So, when Zim assumed control of a Frontline BattleMech, I once again whispered in his antennae, telling him that the Invaders had been transported to their assigned planets- which, of course, they weren't. Zim went on a rampage with the Mech, destroying half the surface of the planet.
I've never laughed so hard in my life.
However, despite their stupidity, the Tallest were able to talk Zim down before he could damage anymore of Irk. Before I could calculate a new strategy, Zim was arrested and taken before the Control Brains that had taken my place in running Irk. They stripped him of his Invader status and sentenced him to spend the rest of his days as a Food Service Drone on Foodcourtia.
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With Zim now temporarily useless to me, I realized I had to once again bide my time. After another decade or so, the Tallest announced plans for Operation Impending Doom II. Hacking into the communications network, I redirected the news feed to Zim's room on Foodcourtia. Eager to prove himself, Zim "quit" his banishment and traveled to Conventia for the Great Assigning.
By the time he got there, the Tallest had assigned all the real Invaders planets to conquer. Zim begged and begged, and finally, the Tallest gave him his own mission- or so we both thought.
Unlike Zim though, when I heard the Tallests' story (a planet no one dares speak of, indeed) and saw the "advanced" SIR unit they gave him, I realized the truth. They were sending him into exile in the depths of space- making him completely and utterly useless to my plans!
Disgusted by the knowledge that all this had been a waste of my time, I severed my links with Zim's PAK. I delved back into Irk's subsystems, never expecting Zim to be seen or heard from again.
I was wrong, wasn't I?
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End Part Two
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A/N: Two parts down, one to go. Next time we see Zim's time on Earth through Prime's "eyes". 'Till then, R&R.