Dib sighed and sat on the couch. "Tak, he overloaded his Pak. You know that could have possibly killed him."
Tak snorted and crossed her arms. "Who are you trying to fool, worm. Zim has more lives then a Slear."
"I have no idea what that is," Dib told her truthfully. "And I don't think it matters much. Be patient, Zim will be fine."
Tak cocked an antennae up as she widened a large amethyst eye in his direction. "You think I'm worried about him, meat bag?" she breathed dangerously.
Beast Boy and Cyborg glanced at Dib who seemed to be keeping his cool despite the fact that Tak looked about ready to launch herself at him and tear his head off. "I never said that," Dib snapped back.
"It sure sounded like…" Tak began as she advanced on the black haired boy but she was cut off by Robin stepping in front of her. "Move, worm."
Robin gave her a stone cold glare and shook his head. "I don't care what possible tensions you two may have. You're here now and so we'll all act like civil people to one another, understand?"
Tak and Dib shared one last hate filled glare before turning their backs on one another with a loud 'hmph' from both ends.
"Civil?" a rough voice said from the end of the hallway. Everyone turned to see Zim with a rather harried looking Skooge behind him. "You filthy worm beasts expect the mighty warriors of the Irken empire to be civil to such inferior beings as yourselves?"
"Zim you're still bleeding," Skooge said quietly.
Zim shook Skooge away from his bleeding arm and shook his head. "I'm fine, leave it alone…"
Gir popped out of nowhere and screamed loudly. "MASTAH! Yous awake! YAY!"
Zim stepped neatly to the side and allowed his hyper robot to fly past him into the darkened hallway. He looked vaguely annoyed and pulled on his antennae irritably. "We're…" he began again but was cut off by Cyborg.
"Superior to all living things and we should be lucky to even breathe the same air," Cyborg finished blandly. "Yeah yeah, we know. Sit down so we can sort all this out before I get a headache."
Zim glared at Cyborg furiously and opened his mouth to reply but Gir suddenly latched onto him from behind and a happy Minimoose settled onto his head. Zim let out a slow breath and walked to the couch dejectedly. "Whatever," he muttered.
Robin nodded and looked around at the odd assortment that had gathered around their table that day. Three supposedly 'evil' Irkens although the use of that adjective was a very objective use. A normal teen who had the brains to get into something like their current situation, although perhaps not to get out, and then his team. Certainly a new way of looking at his own eccentricities. "Okay, we're all here because we all want to know something from the other so why don't we sort out all our stories first and then talk it over."
Skooge nodded and stood up. "Okay, I'll start. I was sent by my Almighty Tallest to find Zim. They had um…" Skooge turned a dark green and Robin could have sworn he saw Skooge's little hand shake before he balled it into a fist. "They concealed the personality files in Zim's Pak and sent him back on his original mission. When he didn't report in I was sent here as a follow up mission. On the way here I met Tak and well… you know the rest."
Tak snorted and glared at Zim. "I was defeated and cast into space by that pathetic excuse for an Invader. I was biding my time until I could return and destroy him. Those are my reasons, humans."
Zim narrowed his eyes but didn't say anything and no one in the room was stupid enough to prompt him to talk. Instead Robin cleared his throat and nodded. "All right then, I'll say what we want. Currently this planet is in danger of being destroyed by a race of conquerors called the Vertians. We want to know how many there are up there."
Skooge blinked and frowned. "There wasn't anyone up there," he said slowly.
Tak smirked and shook her head amusedly. "You poor pitiful fools," she said with a sneer.
"Care to tell us what's so funny?" Dib asked curtly.
Tak's amethyst eyes flicked to Dib briefly and a short flash of respect could be seen. "The Vertians, here? They are a race of war loving morons. Unfortunately they stole technology belonging to the planets they conquered so they're stupid but strong. They're probably in a negative space to keep this putrid planet from detecting their ships."
"What are our chances of defeating them?" Robin asked earnestly.
Tak looked and him and blinked. "You're serious?" she asked. "How many do you have, filthy earth child?"
Robin looked around and then shrugged almost apologetically. "Us," he said simply.
Tak burst out laughing as Zim glared at her distastefully. "Oh, you poor deluded meat bag," she said in an almost gentle voice. "You have no hope of defeating the Vertian armada with your team, powers or not."
"How many are there?" Robin asked again.
"Last recon mission report I read," Tak said slowly, taking the data out of her Pak. "There's about 1000 soldiers to a ship and about 5,000 ships. Do the math," she said with a wicked grin. "This planet won't continue on for much longer."
"NONSENSE!" Zim yelled. "I'M the invader here and I will take down this pathetic excuse for a planet. NOT some filthy Vertian fleet."
Tak glared at him. "What hope can you give?" she snarled. "You're a moron and a defective. You couldn't follow your own programming out of a hole, let alone keep your own in battle."
Zim growled dangerously at first, but then his hate filled glare melted into a particularly disturbing smile. "Ah ah," he said. "Who said anything about battle, TAK?"
Tak blinked then shook her head. "Whatever lunacy you're planning won't be enough."
"SILENCE inferior being," Zim yelled at her. "My lunacy is my own business and it WILL work. Since we've all gotten the information we wanted I'm going to work. Come on Skooge."
Skooge blinked and stood silently as Zim marched towards the back room. When the green alien finally reached the door he turned around and glared at the short, wide Irken. "Come on SKOOGE!" he yelled.
"C-coming," the terrified Irken squeaked and quickly began to scamper after his friend.
Tak crossed her arms and scoffed. "He never did tell me why he didn't finish me off," she muttered. "It's a useless battle, you know," she told them.
Dib shrugged and stood up. "Tak, Zim's destroyed nearly half your planet before. You seriously don't think he can't destroy at least a third of those ships? He levels anything he touches."
Tak blinked, trying to think of a way to refute this logic but nothing came to her. She sighed and rubbed her forehead. "Shut up Dib. Your idiot babble gives me a headache."
"Better you then me," Dib snapped back. He turned on his heel and began to walk out of the room.
Tak shrugged and followed him. "I'll help for now, so I can have the chance to destroy that annoying moron again," she told him curtly.
Dib grinned wickedly and nodded. "You and me both."
Tak shook her head in an almost amused way and followed Dib out of the room.
Cyborg rubbed his head and frowned deeply. "What is going on here?"
"We're getting help," Robin told him. "Don't complain."
"I have to agree," Raven said. "If we're going to have any chance to survive this, we need the fire power."
"Then we'll have to deal with the powers of three Irkens," Starfire said quietly.
Beast Boy shook his head. "Better three then whatever thousand many over our heads," he exclaimed while flailing his arms about.
"Beast Boy's right," Robin said. "Let's focus on our current problem, then move on to the rest."
"What are your orders?" Cyborg asked with a grin.
Robin opened his mouth, but before he could continue the screen in the front of the room they were in began to flash red. "Nothing for now," he murmured. "We've got trouble in the city."
"Oohhh," Beast Boy said. "Who is it?"
Robin scanned the report and tapped the screen. "Control Freak. He's attacking a comic convention downtown."
"What about our guests?" Raven asked.
Robin sighed and then shook his head. "Dib can take care of them. We need everyone to take Control Freak down."
Beast Boy cheered. "Finally, some real action!"
Robin nodded and raised his hand. "All right, Titans. Go!"
Mmkay, all plot is laid and now really all that's left is a final battle. So now we go to some filler! Titans filler to be more exact. I want to write some battle scenes with them for now :3 Plus, I love Control Freak, he's probably one of my favorite villians on the show.
Hugs and cookies to all my reviewers, see you next time!