Chapter 19
Attack on the Lab
Zim rode his way on a small Irken four wheeler, it was out of date but usable. As he stepped off he could see the building on front of him, there were many lights flashing, steam rising and gears turning inside the building. Zim knew this was the place, he held his Irken rifle carefully, on him he had a few grenades, detonators, a missile launcher, his trusty shotgun, and 4 pairs of pistols. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath and barged at the door. However it wouldn't open. Zim then fired at the door which destroyed the computer on it. When the two doors opened he walked inside and saw what was an assembly line. It was almost like Vort's core, it was alive with the pods that each contained a Zim moving to and through on tracks around the whole facility. And there…were workers with helmets on working it. When one saw Zim he raised a pistol. Zim kicked his face so he flew back. When the worker got up he saw it was in fact Zim! All the other workers were Zim clones. As the Zim threw his fist at the Zim clone he caught it. As Zim was pushed back he saw something that made him growl. On the Zim clone's face…he saw his own cocky smile. Zim kicked the clone in the face catching some blood on his boot. As the clone got up he growled, so did some other clones. As they all jumped at him he fired his rifle spraying batteries all over the place killing the attackers. The one clone Zim attacked took a wrench and whacked him in the head with it. As Zim got back up he aimed the rifle and blew one through his skull. When Zim got up he looked around to see no more workers. He then threw a bomb under a generator powering the assembly track and armed it. Then Zim went through two double doors to see the Factory's whole interior. Inside the assembly tracks now left the ground moving up into space in the air, as Zim followed them to a machine he saw one pod go into a machine and after a few seconds it opened up to see a Zim walk out in a military suit. Now as he walked out a rifle was presented to him and he took it. Then Zim noticed many other machines were spawning more of him, all of them got different weapons. "Feeling out matched?," one asked, "Perhaps even out numbered," another one inquired, "Either way…we are the superiors," one with a giant missile launcher stated. Then one stood in front of the rest. "You must remember this: When the rooks fall, earth will be ours, once the pawns fall into the place the queen will have no choice but to assimilate." Zim reloaded his rifle, "what the Hell does that mean?!" The other Zim's grinned and spoke as one, "IT MEANS YOUR GOING DOWN!" As the clones advanced Zim used his rifle to melee combat them, to keep them away. As three charged he swung the rifle knocking the three out. As the other ran at him he sprayed the batteries at the majority of the crowd. But when he was trying to reload one threw the rifle from his reach, he then shot his leg in Zim's face making him fall on his back. However when he got up Zim took out two pistols and shot the Zim in the head. As he got up he fired two more batteries downing more enemies. Then two of them came up from behind and held Zim as another one from far away was aiming a sniper. Zim just in time pulled one over making the battery bust through the clones skull. Zim then pulled the trigger to the together ones and fired it at the sniper one. Zim then looked as more ran from the newly released pods. "I have to take them out," Zim thought as he looked to see his grenades he got an idea. He then threw 2 grenades to one of his side and one to the other side. The machines spawning the Zim's exploded.
As Zim continued to fire, he took off his missile launcher and shot at the giant tracks with the pods causing them to explode. Now the pods were falling, everything was exploding. Now Zim removed his shotgun and fired through the many Zims still alive. But then as he looked around he saw more coming. He took out his detonator and pushed the button. The generator blew up, the fuel inside of it caught fire to everything else. Zim no longer cared for the other Zims as he ran out the entrance before an explosion from the inside caused the windows to burst into shards. The Zims inside were burning, this Irken fuel fire was the only thing that could hurt them like fire besides water. As Zim sighed he breathed heavily, his new found lungs needed a break. Then as he heard a cocking he turned to see a rather scared Zim standing there with a pistol. "W-who are you?" Zim let the shotgun down a bit, he knew he must have had a malfunction in the process of coming out of the pod. Zim walked up to him and gently took the pistol, "My name is Zim, this place is Locker 26…your home. You are probably confused…well don't worry…" Zim reluctantly cocked the pistol and fired at the Zim killing him instantly, "…you no longer are confused. Then he heard footsteps and turned to see Tak, Dib, Gas, and Raymond standing in front of a giant ship. A tear rolled down Zim's eye as he laid the body on the ground and laid the pistol on his chest. "Red is going to pay!"