-1The Other Invader- Chapter Six: Worse to Come

Author's Note: Wahey! I'm updating! Again, I am so incredibly sorry! I didn't mean to take so long!

Anyways, without further ado, here's TOI, Chapter 6!

Disclaimer: No, I don't own IZ. sigh

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Zim looked around, realising just now that Gir was gone. He stood up and turned around, not saying anything. Within a matter of seconds he had disappeared. As he ran towards his Voot Runners, thoughts were running his mind. Questions he didn't have the answers to:

But why would my Tallest do this? What have I done to them?

Obviously he couldn't remember operation Impending Doom I.

With a sigh he eventually reached the Voot Runner he wasted no time getting into it, taking off almost as soon as he was in. Only when he was in the air did he realise though; he'd forgotten Mynx.

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Mynx watched Zim go, and was just in time to see the Voot Runner taking off into the distance through the window of the house.

What the…? She walked to the door, double checking. She was right. He had gone. And without her.

'Now what…?' She mumbled, gazing around. Now that Zim had gone, she was on her own, and she didn't see using her won Voot Runner as an option, seeing as Gir's "jus' lookin'" had badly damaged it. It would take a while to repair it manually, and even though Zim had his computers working on repairing it, it was still taking a while.

What am I going to do? She asked herself silently, trying to think of a way of helping Zim out.

And as if things couldn't get any worse back on Earth, Dib saw Mynx- and out of her disguise.

'Oh no.'

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As easy as it might seem to find some spaceships which had only taken off, Zim was having a spot of difficulty. Searching around the vast amount of space for his leaders wasn't going to well.

He gazed mindlessly ahead of him, watching as a group of smaller ships flew past. Double taking, he realised where it was they were headed as a familiar ship loomed closer and closer. The Massive.

Bracing himself for whatever would happen next, he moved closer to The Tallest's ship.

Trying to find an easier way of getting onboard without being spotted he gazed around, trying his best to stay hidden. But that wasn't one of his strong points either. Somehow he found himself standing in front of the Tallest, without quite knowing what had happened.

'Ah, Zim!' Cried Purple, obviously looking pleased he'd shown up. Which, with the way the Tallest felt about him, meant that he was in trouble.

'But…hang on…' Red interrupted, turning to Purple. 'I thought there was another one? Where is she?' He questioned, obviously confused.

'I know!' Purple cried. 'Maybe there was only Zim!'

'No, there wasn't!' Yelled Red, becoming frustrated.

Sensing an opportunity to make a break for it, Zim turned on his heels and ran as fast as he could to get away from his bickering leaders.

Still annoyed that the Tallest had done this, he continued his search for Gir and Nuk, trying to fathom how he had managed to forget Mynx.

Deploying his spider legs so as not to make too much noise, he crept past as many guards as he could, entering and exiting countless rooms in his search for the kidnapped robots.

Sighing, he entered what he told himself was the last room, assuming the Tallest had them. He looked around the room, which was almost pitch black, before seeing a cage-like object towards the back of the room, almost like prison cell he had seen on TV on Earth. Gir's fault he knew, he told himself.

As he got closer, he approached a pair of small, lifeless objects- SIRs, to be precise. Nuk and Gir. At long last.

As proud with himself as he was, his happiness was short-lived, as the voices of Red and Purple neared him he tried to find a halfway decent hiding place.

Apparently behind a mop bucket wasn't even half-way decent.

'So you thought you'd run away, did you Zim?' Red questioned, glaring at the small Irken before him.

'Like that'd work.' Purple snorted.

'Well, technically, my Tallest, it did.' Zim retorted. Somehow the Tallest didn't find him funny.

Without bothering to talk to him, they threw him into the cell behind him, walking out of the room, laughing about something to do with donuts.

Zim sighed. So, why did he forger Mynx?

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'I knew it!' Dib yelled. 'You are an alien!'

'Oh boy.'

Mynx was having a little trouble of her own back on Earth. Activating her disguise as quickly as she could, (although she knew that wasn't going to do her any good now) she made a break for the labs, Dib hot on her tail.

'Leave me alone, big head!' The Irken shouted, using her spider legs to cover more of a distance than the human boy could.

Heading for the repair bay, she found the computers which were trying to fix her Voot.

Banging her fist on the keypads, and managed to turn the computers into some kind of override mode, which somehow made the machine act pretty quickly, repairing her Voot in much less time. Doing a few little repairs herself, she took off, completely forgetting she had left Dib in the labs- alone.

'Finally.' She muttered as she found herself in space, headed straight for the Massive. All those years training to be an invader were finally paying off for her.

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Zim stood in the cell, looking at the two dead-looking robots lying in front of him. The Tallest had deactivated them. Sitting alone for a couple of hours in almost total darkness had given Zim some time to think. (Plus, it had given him some time to ponder why that mop bucket was in an otherwise empty room in the first place.)

After some time, he had finally come to his own little conclusion as to why the Tallest had merely deactivated the SIRs instead of destroying them.

It wasn't Gir and Nuk they wanted…It was us.

In other words, it was all a trap the Tallest had set up to capture them and most likely, destroy them somehow. He shuddered at the thought. This wasn't good.

But still, as least Mynx would be here soon…wouldn't she?

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Although Mynx had found the Massive and gotten aboard it without being seen, she knew there was still going to be guards everywhere. Sighing heavily she continued walking, checking every way she turned for guards…or Zim.

One hallway she walked down was very dimly lit, and so were the rooms she walked into. This wasn't easy.

An hour passed and still no sign of anyone. Which was good in a sense, because she hadn't ran into the Tallest yet either. Room after room contained nothing. What were the point in these rooms anyway? Something right now she couldn't quite suss.

Towards the end of the corridor she passed the smallest room yet. Inside she could barely see, but she could only pick out what looked like a small cell. She walked towards it, her eyes gradually adjusting to the darkness of the room.

As she got close enough to see it, she saw something she never thought she was going to see- Zim, Gir, and Nuk.

Zim gazed ahead, and when he saw Mynx, his usual cocky self returned.

'Took you long enough.' He smirked.

'Would've been faster if someone didn't let their robot destroy my Voot.' Mynx replied, nodding in the direction of Gir. Deploying a laser from her Pak, she cut through the bars of the cell, allowing Zim to escape with Gir and Nuk in his arms.

Grabbing Nuk from him, she ran towards the open door. Not needing to be told, Zim followed her, wondering where his Voot was.

Before they could get much further, a pair of Irken guards entered the room, stopping the pair in their tracks.

'Okay, so now what do we do?' Mynx sighed, turning to face Zim, who was still by the cell.

'Uh…improvise?' Zim asked, picking up one of the bars which Mynx had cut from the cell.

Mynx glances around, grabbing the closest thing to her; that damn mop.

'Ready?'

'Ready.'

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Author's note: Oh my gawsh. This is my longest Chapter yet! dies It took me forever. Then my sis deleted it- almost.

Also, incase you were wondering, that mop bears no importance in the story. I just thought it's be funny to put in .

Anyhow, happy reading and sorry again!

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And to all new readers ((if there are any XP)) Thanks for reading!