2:Runaways
"Dammit!" Chi screamed at the top of her voice. Sirens were going off in every corner of the room, red lights flashing, a computer voice announcing intruders on the roof level.
"Chi, hurry and plant the bomb, we've gotta go! Now!" The robot nodded her head and tossed the explosive at the control brain. It attached itself to the screen with a satisfying tick and began beeping a countdown. I grabbed Chi and leapt through the open hatch in the roof, where our stolen voot cruiser was parked on the deck of the Massive. It quickly scanned us as I pulled the windshield down.
" Identities confirmed: Wave and SIR unit Chi." I collapsed in the welcoming plush seats and kicked at the auto pilot button. The ship took off from the roof of the Massive, just narrowly avoiding the yellow-orange explosion. I stared back, hypnotized, at the product of our work. Rubble floating through the air, the huge crater, and the sparking remains of the computer that controlled the entire empire. Beautiful.
Chi's eyes paled to green.
"It asploded mistress!"
"Don't call me that again! You're with me, and I'm a fugitive, so that means you don't have to follow that stupid SIR code. That includes calling me 'mistress', 'master', or anything to that effect! Got it?"
"Yes! I mean, no! Yes? Hee hee!" Chi laughed hysterically and rolled off the seat onto the floor. Chi was a good partner, fifty percent of the time. The other half? She was just Chi. To call her hyper would be the understatement of the century. I leaned back in the seat and pondered where we would go next. As if reading my mind, Chi handed me a checklist, with the names of every planet in the universe, and check marks next to the ones we had already been to.
"Chi, where did you get this?"
" I been keeping it! Ever since we left Dirt!" The planet Dirt was where I had found Chi's remains. Needing a new SIR, I had decided to salvage them, and teach the robot to the best of my ability. The latter wasn't working out so well.
"Um, that's a little too convenient." I muttered.
"It's bad writing."
"What?"
"Nothing, Wave." Chi giggled. I ignored my robot. Sometimes she said the weirdest things. But, it was better this than to go a planet where I was wanted. I'm a fugitive. I might be Irken, but that doesn't mean I agree with what the empire does. They conquer planets, force people to do slave labor. They never think once that these are really people, with lives and feelings. So, I completed invader training, and took off with a voot, never regretting what I was doing. What do I do? I assist the conquered planets, stealing weaponry, armor, money, and food from the Irken military and giving it to those who want to make a difference, to break free. However, the authorities had a price on my head almost everywhere in the galaxy. I was running out of places to go. With that thought in my head, I scrolled a finger down the column that was titled 'Milky Way.'
"How about… Earth? It seems peaceful enough, and I really need a break." We had hit three planets in the last month, and running from Irken soldiers gets pretty tiring after a while.
"I'll set the coordinates!" Chi happily tapped away at the navigation screen, setting us on a course toward Earth. This was going to be interesting.
Dib gazed up at the night sky. Something was coming. He could feel it. Almost on cue, a pale purple comet flicked across the sky and was gone in a second. That was the first time he'd seen a purple tail since Zim came. Two aliens. Earth needed his help now more than ever.
Chapter 1 is officially up! R&R please!