Lolibeagle: Thank's for comparing Vixen to Midna from Twilight Princess. I actually didn't notice the similarities until I finished this chapter.
Also the OC that is featured in this Ta1ia made. Side note: I might have not made this too clear and I want to clear it up. Mimi and Gir are bigger than their cannon selves but not by much. Out of the main characters in their actual cannon sizes Tak was the biggest (yes I consider her as much of a main character as the others) and would be that size. That's may be about a foot or foot and a half size increase from the original. I did this because in my reasoning Mimi is an older form of SIR and older tech tends to be bigger and rougher looking than newer versions. Gir is made out of old SIR pieces and therefore follows the same rules. That is all now read on :)
Thanks to Vixen's unorthodox escape methods they got out just as police and firefighters got there. A few streets away from the school in an alley another small explosion came from nowhere and blew up a dumpster and the remaining trash fell in flames. Zim lay against the brick wall upside down uncomfortably on his neck. Tak lay flat on her face moaning in pain while Mimi sat on the ground crossing her arms like a little child throwing a fit while Gir was on top of her upside down with a look of confusion. "… What happened?" he asked dumbfounded
"Get off my head Gir." Mimi pouted not bothering to answer. Gir quietly obeyed and jumped off.
"Zim is experiencing amazing pain and whiplash." Zim moaned picking himself up. Tak painfully got up too and looked around. Jou was standing quietly her blank amber eyes scanning both ends of the alley while Vixen dusted herself off and grinned a toothed grin.
"You Irkens are so pathetic looking when you're caught off guard."
Tak looked around more curiously "Hey, where's Tenn?"
Zim did the same "And Skoodge as well." Everyone's attention was brought to a pile of junk where moaning was weird. Vixen, Tak, and Zim all went to check.
"Eh-hee-hee-hee! This is very interesting." Vixen laughed.
Zim and Tak just stared dumbfounded at what they saw as Vixen chuckled to herself. Tenn lay on top of Skoodge they both slowly opened their eyes and looked at the laughing girl and the two staring Irkens. "What are you three looking at?" Tenn asked and then her gloved claws felt underneath her and looked down. Skoodge and Tenn stared at each other for a time that, to them, felt like forever but was really only a few seconds. Tenn's green face blushed a deep blue as did Skoodge's and they both laughed nervously and awkwardly and Tenn quickly got off and stood up. The two turned away from each other not looking back at each other.
"…Ok moving on." Zim said after a few seconds and Tak agreed.
"Oie! I thought you two would be behind something like this!" an accented voice called out it sounded almost Irish. A tall red haired girl walked down from one end of the alley.
Jou turned her full attention to the person standing straight and upright like a soldier standing at attention to her commander. She was very tall. Taller than Tak or Jou and maybe even bigger than the Tallest. Jou waved to her "Hello Rathe, how have you been today?" Tak, Tenn and Skoodge turned on their disguises as did Mimi and Gir. Mimi's dent's translated as bruised and her one ruined eye translated as a swollen eye. Rathe looked at them frowning and crossed her arms.
"I was better before I saw the school on fire and a section of the school collapsed on itself… Who are these people? I'm assuming these are the people that helped you terrorize a bunch of humans."
Tak wasn't sure about these people but her Irken beliefs in height made her not too tempted to fight this freakishly tall person. She would fight her if she had too but it wasn't tempting to fight someone bigger than you. "Eh-hee-hee-hee, they got their butts kicked by Jou."
"I suspected that much by the fact they look like hell and Jou has only a few scratches. You do know that she looks just like Jou, right?"
"I've realized this and I'm not too pleased." Tak answered.
"Zim wishes to know what is going on!" Zim announced angrily. Jou, Vixen and Rathe turned their attention to him.
"So you're Zim, what a coincidence." Vixen then she looked to the others "So these are the other defects then."
Jou blinked staring at Tak for a little bit her glazed amber eyes just penetrated Tak like she was looking through her "That would mean that you are my sister Tak, yes?" Tak hoped that Jou wouldn't insist on calling her that. It was bad enough that Jou was such a freak on her own, but this freak was actually related to her?
This was immediately answered with Rathe's fist being swung at his face so fast he barely dodged it and he fell on his butt. "That's for causing the universe to be even more screwed up!" Tak grinned happily at the uncalled for act of violence towards Zim.
"We escaped to this planet because of the resulting chaos caused by your escaping. All Irkens in relation are now wanted for termination and your escape has encouraged rebellion and even encouraged imprisoned criminals to the empire to break out." Jou answered simply ignoring anything and everything happening.
"Shouldn't we maybe not talk about this here? Couldn't we talk about this somewhere where people can't overhear?" Skoodge suggested. Even though there was no one currently around or in sight they could be found out. It was bad enough that Dib was constantly tailing them. They don't want to bring any more attention to themselves than they already did
Vixen let out a sigh "Fine, we can show you to our base."
Tak glared at her "With all due respect, NO! I'm not stepping foot in your filthy base! That psychotic lookalike nearly killed us once and I'm not going into her base!"
Mimi agreed "She deliberately attacked my eye!" she answered pointing to her "swollen eye"
"It was in the heat of the moment." Jou answered calmly.
"Screw you, you psychopath! You did it because you wanted to gouge my eye out! You went out of your way to do it, I saw you aim right at it!"
Zim pulled himself up and dusted himself off and Glared at the one called Rathe "Zim suggests that we finish this at our base." Tak was silently happy that Zim was agreeing with her but wouldn't ever openly agree with the most annoying Irken in her miserable life
Rathe just growled angrily and Vixen refused to take orders from them, however Jou was the one that convinced them "It would be sensible to comply with their terms if we want to gain any kind of trust it would be right to enter their base instead, especially after the thorough beating that was given." Tak let out a deep growl at the memory.
Due to the events that took place everyone that was left school early. Dib and Gaz went home Dib ranting about everything that happened and Gaz tried to find a new way of ignoring him since her Game Slave was ruined. Where she as sensitive as the Irkens she would be throwing a fit right now but she wasn't and she quietly plotted her revenge on everyone involved. "Seriously it made no sense! That lookalike of Tak was fighting them all at once and winning but she clearly had alien technology. She never turned off her disguise but she obviously is a part of their race. But that other one with the green hair, she looks so human but she said she's not then what is she?"
Gaz gave a death glare "I'm walking with you because we live in the same house but that doesn't mean I have to listen to your stupid voice. Be quiet." If Dib bought her a new Game Slave then she would excuse him from her wrath but she'll make everyone else pay, even Tak.
(+~#)
Tak and the others were on the street that they live on with new company when Tak suddenly stopped and put her hands on her chest breathing heavy like someone that got the wind knocked out of her. "What's wrong mistress?" Mimi asked and the others gave a look of confusion or fascination and one neutral expression.
"I sense a disturbance in the charma." Just then they all saw Jou her hand off into the distance but there was no one around for Jou to greet… or were there? In the bushes Dib was holding a video camera and taking notes he ran off telling Gaz he'd come back in a little while with the game. He praised himself silently for finding a good place to hide. They would never see him here when he went back to the camera he focused on them he saw Jou wavering at the camera. His jaw dropped at the site. Meanwhile on the alien's side of things they were all scanning the direction Jou was waving at down the street but no one else was there except for them. They continued on until they came to the strange lime green house with grass that was too green and disturbing lawn ornaments that were too out of place. Vixen huffed crossing her arms taking in the strange sight "This is where you all live? I'm all for the color green but this is just too much."
"It is indeed a fascinating house." Jou commented in her emotionless monotone.
As the came in they saw only more strange sights. Like the fact that there were only two rooms on ground level. The walls had strange posters everywhere with strange phrases like "I eat food" or "humans are great!" as if a group of socially awkward Irkens would ever willingly let a human in their house. Rathe and Jou turned off their disguises again Jou looked a lot like Tak the only difference was eye color which was brown and that she didn't have a cord in her head like Tak did. Rathe on the other hand was very different. She looked mostly Irken but had dull green skin and had Vortian horns instead of antennas. She had normal pink Irken eyes though and had a PAK that matched the same color as her eyes. The Irkens were shocked at Rathe's appearance "Um, I didn't know I was asleep this long." Mimi spoke up "When did the empire discover this race? Just how long did I spend in that junk yard?"
"Wha- how…" Zim stammered in shock "You… you're a half-breed! A Vortian/Irken mix."
Rathe rolled her eyes "Thank you for clearing that up I hadn't noticed." Her words were dripping with sarcasm.
Just then Tenn put it together; she thought Rathe's name was familiar. She was a famous escapee, well known in the empire they gave up the chase many years ago after she just seemed to of vanished. It was assumed she was dead. Someone with her appearance couldn't stay hidden for long on another planet or any planet. Tenn told them this and it all made sense; maybe she was hiding here the whole time? "I was living a bearable life on a planet called Alpar. Plenty of different races live there so I didn't stick out much… but then these two came along asking for trouble!" She added pointing at Jou and Vixen. Vixen gave a nervous smile showing her teeth, and then Zim figured out what Vixen was.
"A Terran! The green hair-beast is a Terran."
Vixen put her hands on her hips and huffed "I have a name."
Terran's came from a planet that was like a bigger version of earth. They preferred a simple way of living. The planet was very well balanced with civilization and nature. They didn't care for technology like Irkens or even humans but they weren't Amish-like creatures either. They knew how to make things like trains and harness electricity. Although they didn't use electricity for everything they used in as a special condition item rather than a must. They liked lanterns over flashlights and the most advanced land travelling devices they used was a train. They like to ride other animals rather than cars. They knew of life outside there planet but most didn't care they were happy the way they were. It was a simple life. Although it was a mistake to ignore all alien species, especially when the Irkens discovered them. At first they didn't want the planet because they were so primitive and the planet didn't have any resources they wanted but then they discovered that some had special abilities to control specific pieces of nature. They burned their forests down and killed off anyone that didn't have the power. They're all enslaved now.
Jou stepped between them "Allow me to explain how we came to meet."
(6 months earlier)
On the surface of Judgmentia a storm was happening and panic was in the streets. Someone broke out from the holding area under the surface and many more along with it. A huge gaping hole was blown in the ground and many of the prisoners were released when the Prison Lord's underground lookout was destroyed in the explosion. It had been three days after the initial explosion and many had gotten off planet but some were still stranded on the planet without a way to get off. A green haired girl was hiding in an alley between two dumpsters. She was soaking wet and filthy with her knees brought up to her chin. She was in a grey jumpsuit with shackle braces on her wrists. She let out a miserable sigh "It seemed like a good idea at the time but how am I going to off the planet when I don't even know how to fly a ship? I'm so hungry and I'm lost and everyone's looking for me and to top it off its raining." She was so happy she could crawl in a corner and die. The rain had a heavy smell to it similar to the smell a swimming pool had and the obvious storm made everything smell chlorinated. She didn't want think about what would happen when the Irkens found her. A tall cloaked figure with the face covered by a hood came out from behind a corner.
"A Terran." The voice was monotone and distinctly female.
Vixen jumped to her feet and backed up against the wall "S-stay away!"
The figure didn't listen and took a few steps forward and reached into her pocket. Vixen's heart raced at the sight of the figure that was so much bigger than her. The figure pulled out some food it looked like a piece of taffy. The figure took off her hood and revealed and Irken face with dull brown eyes that looked almost bored "Huh?" Vixen muttered dumbfounded the Terran and crossed her arms looking at her defiantly "I don't need help from you, Irken. I'd rather starve then have help from you and your food that might of poisoned."
"… I see." The Irken still kept her face unreadable but there was vaguest hint that she was hurt from the comment. "You looked hungry so I thought I could give you my food, but if you don't want it-"
"No!" Vixen interrupted "I mean- I'll take it if you insist." She corrected twiddling her thumbs. "Why are you helping me? Shouldn't you be, like, trying to kill me or something?" She was confused as to why an Irken would help her but she was hungry and if she was going to die she would want to die on a full stomach so she took it cautiously. The food was really sweet that it almost hurt her tongue tasting it but it didn't really matter.
"You want to leave, yes? I wish to leave as well." Vixen turned her attention back to the Irken.
"Yeah? What of it? Who are you anyways?"
The Irken spread her arms out and took a bow "I'm Lord Jou. A former Prison Lord. I'm in relation to a defective named Tak so I'm on the run. Would you care to join me?"
Vixen didn't get a chance to answer before a group of armed Irkens came out from a corner "Look! It's Jou and the Terran!" Vixen's heart jumped and Jou simply turned her attention to them. Vixen was about to run before Jou stepped between her and the Irkens. Jou raised her hand and motioned with her finger for them to come at her. "Get them!" One with a spear weapon charged at her. Jou spun on one foot and kicked the female Irken that attacked her in the back of the head caught the falling weapon over her head and plunged it into the enemy's back. Jou pulled it out quickly and spun it in her hand shaking the blood off and then aimed it at the others. They were stunned by how fast she was killed. They all ganged up on Jou and Jou started to slaughter them Vixen just stood there stunned at how she was fighting and how she was winning. Her moves were as unpredictable as she was, you couldn't tell what she would do. To look at her it almost seemed like she was dancing and her bones were made of rubber. But more kept coming and even an obviously skilled fighter like her couldn't keep it up forever. Jou started to get overwhelmed and was getting beaten she was narrowly avoiding getting shot and danced away from the spears that were aimed at her.
"Stop!" Vixen screamed and large vines and roots exploded from the ground and grabbed and strangled the Irkens around they struggled in the grips of the plants as they squeezed them until they stopped moving. She was lucky that planets were here at all. Irkens tended to destroy that kind of thing. It was only by luck that she could help. Vixen grinned at the fact she just got rid of fifteen of Irkens in only a few seconds "Eh-hee-hee-hee! Irken scum!" Jou turned to stare at her then Vixen's triumphant grin turned into a nervous smile "Oh- but not you, you're cool." She turned her attention down to a fallen female Irken with a pair of goggles on her head and Vixen grabbed them and put them on. "Not bad." She commented and as she turned back a spear was pointed right at her face "Whoa-whoa-whoa! What's this about?" Jou didn't answer as she raised the weapon Vixen shielded herself with her arms and Jou swung the weapon down on the braces on her wrists. Sparks flew from the braces but they didn't come off.
"It's designed to never come off unless you lose your arm or you die… but I was able to disable the tracer on it. We must go." Then Jou pulled up her hood and walked off and Vixen followed
(Present day)
"So you saved her, Jou" Tenn summarized
Vixen interjected "I'll have you know that I didn't need saving, I just needed someone that knew how to fly a ship."
"You can control plant life. That is your Gift?" Zim inquired. The Gift as it was called was the term that Terran's used for those with powers. They can't control all of nature but each has a different element, they're own personal Gift. "You were only lucky." Vixen scowled and looked away from them upset but she knew he was right. In many cases Vixen wouldn't be able to take on the Irkens herself if she didn't get help. Usually that help came in the form of Jou. She was a skilled and unpredictable fighter but she wasn't invincible. In the short time they were together Jou had come close to death a few times.
When it was Rathe's turn it was more of a big blunder on Jou and Vixen's part with the story of how they had met. Jou found Alpar and decided to land for supplies after the last attack and happened to run into Rathe with a yellow eyed SIR unit with horns similar to her own named Rigging. Vortian's had collaborated with the Irkens when the SIR's were first invented and so they had some Vortian characteristics as a result, or at least the first couple did, like Mimi to a certain extent he was an older model but still worked Rigging was a third generation and the first generation of SIR capable of having a personality. After Mimi's which was the sixth they got rid of that program in SIR's. Anyways not long after the meet an Irken force showed up and the "dead" fugitive was found along with Jou and Vixen they escaped together and later discovered that Jou forgot to turn off her locator that was programmed in her PAK. Being the Prison Lord she knew how to turn it off easily so the thought never entered her mind until then. Her only response was a simple "oops." Vixen had heard stories from other enslaved Terran's about their home planet and all the things that used to live on it. most of the animals had been taken for Irken Zoo's, experiments and various forms of entertainment but this particular story she remembered was of a small crew of Terran's that once made a ship that could fly of their planet and went towards another planet that looked like their own and that's how the three aliens and the absent SIR made it to earth.
Listening to the fact that Jou was the main reason they were all together made the others question just what goes on in that seemingly insane head. Was she just stupid or was she really as careless as she was letting off or maybe even it was all an act. In any case she was a complete mystery. Jou moved to take a seat on the overstuffed purple couch when they heard the sound of squeaking and clanging of metal. Zim and the others looked at her curiously as she looked back with a neutral face. A few seconds went by before she broke the stare and took off her boots "I am very much surprised it stayed together this long after that fight." Jou said to no one in particular. At the same time Dib had come to the window and was looking through at them. Underneath Jou's boots was the one thing no one suspected.
Jou didn't have real legs they were robotic. That was probably how she got behind Tak during the fight and part of the reason she was so flexible. She pulled some tools out of her PAK and started to fix her legs "It's a good thing that only a few minor pieces came loose... I lost them while on Judgmentia." She answered knowing what the question would be "But that is a story for another time." Zim saw something out of the corner of his eye and saw Dib spying on them.
"Dib!" he hissed angrily "Computer! Destroy the boy!" the gnomes outside turned their attention to Dib and one quickly shot a laser bolt at his back and with a short scream from Dib he bolted off the yard as the gnomes continued firing.
"Shouldn't we do something about that boy, what was his name? Dib? He knows too much." Rathe inquired
"That would explain his head and why he is constantly putting a wrench in our plans." Tenn commented casually. Gir jumped up on the couch, grabbed the remote and turned on the TV to the Angry Money show. Jou watched with fascination and she continued to repair her screwed up legs placing important bolts in her knee joints.
Zim explained that despite how much Dib knows he just an annoyance and nothing more. Jou jumped into the conversation from her spot next too Gir. "Those things on his face, what were they?"
"Glasses," Skoodge answered "some humans have impaired vision and don't have the proper resources to constantly fix them, so instead use a second pair of eyes over the first ones."
"I was confused at first too." Tak admitted when she first discovered glasses. Rathe continued to talk with them so she could get a better understanding of this place while Vixen went over to Jou and sat down. Vixen watched the show along with Gir and Jou. The expressions from them watching the show was joy, neutral, and confusion.
Mimi looked at everyone and then screamed out "Did I miss something?" Everyone looked at her and she continued seeing that everyone got their attention on her "The psychotic clone sister nearly killed us, a Terran was about to help and a hybrid has it out for Zim and everyone's ok with this?"
Tenn looked around and then answered "Yeah, Looks like everyone moved on."
"Unbelievable!" Mimi growled and stomped into the kitchen "I'm going to get a new eye and fix these dents."
(Several hours later)
The Tallest sat in their chairs in the middle of the command bridge of The Massive. A worker announced to the Tallest that a transmission "Transmission from planet…" he looked at the unfamiliar name "Earth."
The two Tallest's antennas perked in interest "What is… Earth?" Purple asked.
When they saw who it was they grinned excitedly "Well look who it is." Red said "We haven't heard from you in so long we thought you might be dead."
Purple crossed his arms "Yeah… what a shame." He pouted
"I do not die that easily," The person stated simply "My Tallest the mission goes well. Those insufferable moron's, they don't suspect a thing. We encountered others and they seem just as gullible. When the time is right we can finally get them. I discovered that they too have no desire to hide forever."
"So we should go there now, right? Take them all out at once."
"No, I need to earn everyone's trust first. I'll make frequent calls to you my Tallest for you to prepare. You'll still keep your promise, yes?"
"Of course, we will." Red grinned "You just keep your promise and we'll get along."
"No one knows about these calls right?" Purple asked.
"No, they don't know what I'm doing and I've turned off the computers monitoring system so my calls aren't recorded. Until my next call my Tallest." Then the transmission ended.
That last part with the traitor scene was tough not to give any clues on who it was (Boy, Girl, OC or canon.) but it think I pulled it off. A long chapter and a fairly good comeback after being gone so long. This was pretty much a dialogue chapter (not too much action of any kind and a lot of talking.) Expect a bit of a wait for the next one I've got another story that needs some of my attention. For anyone that's thinking about flameing me for Irkens being out in the rain it's not normal Rain. The water Irkens can touch has special chemicals init that Earth water dosen't have but essintaly it's like pool water. There's more to it but i don't really want to go too deep into it right now and probably never will.
And now to answer a few questions. First off who is Gumi Megpoid and what's Vocaloid? Now Jou's name is pronounced like Jow. I just thought that a u in the name looked better than a w. Later people.
