CHAPTER 5: Answers and Questions
Okay, I'm finally back. Miss me? I didn't think so. Anyway, in this short scene, we get a little backstory on why Tak is on Earth in the first place. The characters of Bill and Iggins are also revealed a little more. So read on. Review. Tally-ho.
"I got more information on Irken Tak." Bill said, dropping a manilla file folder onto Iggins' desk, next to a cup of cold coffee. The younger man looked up.
"What, sir?" He asked, hoping for a miricle in the ever-growing mess of the case.
"Well, apparently, Tak was on Earth before the war. She left her post as a janitor, comandeered a derelict ship, and flew here on her own. She set up a base of operations disguised as a giant hot dog stand, and tried to destroy the planet." Detective Iggins blinked in confusion.
"But, sir, wasn't Earth Zim's mission?"
"I know. It was supposed to be. I did more research, and couldn't find anything in the Irken military record of General Zim having any mission before the war, especially as an invader."
"And Tak?"
"Here's where it gets interesting." Bill said. "Apparently, our Tak was trained by the Irken military, but never took her test. So her presence here was unsanctioned as well. It seems to be a mystery. Until..."
"What?"
"I figured 'I might as well check some old transmission records from before the war', right?"
"Right,"
"I found out that Tak was going to take Zim's mission."
"Shit."
"That's not all. Apparently, there was some sort of fight between the two, and Tak ended up losing. She went back to Irk, but the Tallest, being the kind, gentle leaders they are, sent her back to Earth to live as a human for the rest of her life."
"Jesus."
"Jesus has nothing to do with the rest of it. A couple years later, Tak's half sister Tenn gets finished with her mission on another planet, and comes to stay with with her big sis for a while. She finds that Tak has been romantically involved with a human, but I guess blood-love won out, and the three lived together for a little while. Then, the war starts. Tenn apparently was against the way the Tallest were treating their own kind on Earth, and joined a protest movement. She was arrested, and sent to a detention facility, and from there, she just...dropped off the face of the Earth. Tak's human boyfriend, A Dib Membrane was arrested as well, and when it was found that he had ties with known terrorist groups and the Swollen Eyeball resistance, he was tortured and killed. Tak was arrested as well, and they couldn't find anything on her. I guess she was the good girl out of the bunch. But they still kept her in a re-education school for two years, and forced to declare her allegiance to the Irken Empire before her release. She got the job at the IBN a few months later, and seems to have been a law abiding citizen up until now."
"Well," Iggins said. "This just puts a whole new spin on things, doesn't it?"
"Maybe." Bill said, rubbing his chin. "I don't know, Iggins. Something feels right, yet so very wrong with all of this. I...I don't know."
"Maybe she was working with V the whole time." Iggins said.
"I don't think so." Bill replied. "There's alot of records I couldn't get ahold of. I was trying to find more on the connection between Tak and General Zim, but I couldn't access that information. I could get very little on Dib Membrane as well, except that he held some rank in the resistance, and that he was killed by the Irkens during interrogation. Something is eating at me about this thing, though. The problem is, I think we're going to have to see more of V before I can figure it out."
"This is turning out to be like a bad dream." Iggins remarked with a sigh, running his right hand through his hair.
"We always wake up from bad dreams." Bill muttered. He stared at a black and white security camera's photograph of V and Tak. "Here, waking up isn't the problem..."
I felt this chapter was necessary. Is anything making sense yet? I promise, this won't be easy to figure out, and the entire plot will become a tangled web before it get's any simpler. Things aren't always what they seem, so it seems to be here. Well, reviews, please. I need them so bloody bad. Till next chapter, my loyal readers, cheerio.
