Well, this is my first story. I had the idea for it for a while now, and it feels to to be able to put it into real words. The chapters might be pretty long. Or they might be short. I am still deciding. I am not going to put in descriptions of characters from the show. Only new ones. If you see any mistakes in spelling, grammar, or anything else, let me know. I'll try to fix it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Invader Zim or any of its characters. Nickelodeon does. I only wish I did. Cuz that would be so incredibly cool. This disclaimer goes for the entire story. I am just to lazy to put it in every chapter. So, just remember, I do not own Invader Zim.
"What! But why?" Zim shouted at the large screen in front of him. He was sitting in one of his secret base's underground chambers. The room was made up of only a command chair, a keyboard, and a large screen that currently showed the very annoyed faces of the Almighty Tallest Red and Purple.
"New issues have come to our attention, and we feel that this is necessary," Red said with a sigh. He did not like to have to explain himself to Zim.
"Zim, whether you like it or not," Purple began explaining. "Another Invader is coming to Earth to, um, aid you in conquest of the planet."
"But," Zim began.
"Your progress has been, well, you haven't made any progress, and we decided that we need this planet, I mean, need it sooner, and, well, you might need some help," Red interupted. It was obvious that the little Invader was getting on his nerves.
"But," Zim began again.
"No buts. You're just going to have to deal with it," Purple announced.
"Now, she is leaving Irk in only a few hours, so be prepared for her arrival," Red told Zim. "Oh, and remember Zim, she is your superior, so show her some respect and do as she says. We don't want a repeat of the Tak invasion-"
"Hey! Tak was trying to invade my assigned planet, so that gives me the right to kick her off of it!"
"Yes Zim, we know," Red said sarcastically, suggesting that he had heard Zim's argument before.
"I still like Tak's snack plan," muttered Purple under his breath.
The Almighty Tallest then cut the transmission before Zim could have a chance to annoy them further.
"Another Invader on Earth! The Tallest think that I, ZIM! am incapable of correctly taking over this puny planet!" Zim muttered to himself. "Computer! Search Invader Kae."
The blank screen in front of Zim sprang back to life and showed a picture of an Irken and a lot of writing that was in the Irken Language. Zim took a few moments to read over the text.
"Interesting," Zim mused. "Well, it took me 6 months to get to Earth, so I have a while before this Kae gets here."
A loud crash yanked his thoughts away from the coming alien. "GIR you incompetent robot! What did you break this time?" Zim ran off in the direction of the crash.
"Class, you have a new student, again. I am going to call the office and complain about all of these unwanted children."
Although the children were a few years older, they were still stuck with the same teacher: Ms. Bitters. The creepy teacher then picked up the phone and dialed the main office, leaving the new child to introduce herself.
"Hi!" she said cheerily. "I'm Katelyn! My family and I just moved here from Washington."
She was tall with yellow-blond hair that was short and spiky in the back but a single lock of hair on each side of her face was long and braided. Her eyes were large and a light amber color. She wore a short green dress that had thin straps and that went over her shoulders and side-straps on her upper arms. Up to her elbows were matching green gloves that did not cover her fingers. Identical knee socks could be seen on her long legs. She wore a simple light brown backpack on her back and a silk chocker with a green gem on it around her throat.
Another new kid, Zim thought. We seem to be getting a lot of those these days.
Dib just stared silently at the girl, his mouth open.
"Hello, Katelyn," the class mechanically said.
"WELL FINE THEN!" Ms. Bitters shouted into the phone before slamming it back down onto her desk. A small spirit was seen leaving the doomed phone. Spooky, huh?
Ms. Bitters turned to Katelyn, who was still standing awkwardly in the front of the classroom. "You're going to need a seat," she said. The teacher then pointed to a random child in the class. "You! You are being transferred to the underground classroom." The poor child was then dropped out of his seat and into a hole that appeared right below him. Katelyn sat down in the desk that used to be his.
"Now I will continue the lesson on your futures. You will all amount to nothing. In other words, no matter how hard you try, you are all doomed, doomed, doomed, doomed, doomed…"
With Ms. Bitters occupied, the class began to chat with each other. Dib turned around in his chair to face the new girl, who was sitting in a desk diagonal to his. "Hi! I'm Dib."
"Hi, Dib," she said. "Two questions: is class always like this, and are there really underground classrooms?"
"Yes, and I'm not sure. Ms. Bitters says there are underground classrooms, but when the floor caved in during a breakout of lice, I didn't see any."
Katelyn gave him a startled look, but was pulled away by another girl sitting next to her.
"Don't talk to that freak. Dib is crazy," she said.
Turning back to Dib, Katelyn asked, "Is that true, Dib, are you crazy?"
"What? No, of course not!" he exclaimed.
"Don't listen to him. He still thinks that the green kid over there is an alien."
"And he told me my dad is a yeti!" yelled the child behind her. "My dad is not a yeti!"
The whole class then began into a debate on different things Dib had done that made him crazy.
"And his head is so big!" someone cried.
"MY HEAD IS NOT BIG! Why does everyone keep saying that?" Dib shouted making everyone quiet down and look at him.
"Denial," muttered Katelyn, which immediately boosted her popularity status.
"Doomed, doomed, doomed," Ms. Bitters droned on. The bell rang. "Go to lunch now."
The class filed out of the room and into the cafeteria. Kids began to take their seats according to their social status and interests. Popular, jocks, nerds, geeks, social outcasts, the works. The only ones who didn't join a group were Zim (who sat by himself and poked at his food with a spoon), Gaz (who played her game the whole time), and Dib (who talked to himself and stared menacingly at Zim). The new girl took a seat in the popular table and began chatting away with the rest of them. Dib continued to stare at her. Gaz looked up from her game for a few seconds to look at Zim. Their eyes locked. She smiled and looked back to her game. The bell rang again and the class went back to their classroom. The rest of the day was uneventful.
Zim began work on his latest evil scheme in one of the rooms of his underground base after skool. It involved mutant bunnies that shot lasers. So far, it wasn't turning out so well.
"Incoming message," Computer stated boredly.
"Who could that be?" Zim wondered to himself. "I already contacted the Tallest."
Zim pushed a button and the screen above him turned to a picture of a female Irken. She had orange eyes and a matching orange dress similar to the one Katelyn wore. Long antennae that had a slight curl at the end of them adorned her green head.
"My name is Invader Kae," she said. "Send me the coordinates of your base."
"I need to know all of the data you have collected on the humans," Kae said. She had tunneled over to Zim's base after he sent her the coordinates and was now trying to get as much info as possible out of him.
"Um, OK, like what?" Zim replied.
"Their military status, how smart they are, if anyone has noticed you yet, anything that can help with the mission. From what I have gathered, humans don't know anything about life outside their own planet, but that Dib-Human seems like he suspects that your an alien."
"Yea, Dib kind of knows that I'm an alien, but he can't prove it. Say, how do you know about that. You just got here."
"I was in your class at Skool today. Katelyn." Kae answered.
"But that doesn't explain how you knew how to disguised yourself so well. And fit in with the other filthy children so well."
"This planet has something called the "Internet", which anyone with a computer can get to. It hold most of the knowledge of this planet and has social "websites." Spend a few hours on one of those websites and you know exactly how to look and act. And nobody knows who you are so if you act really weird in the beginning, no on cares. It's really quite helpful."
"Oh."
"Can I ask you one more question?" Zim asked.
"What?"
"How did you get here so fast? It took me six months to get here, but it took you less than a weak."
"I took a wormhole. So, back to this Dib person," Kae said, getting strait to business.
"He's kind of like my arch nemesis. He knows I'm an alien, but can't get proof. And everyone else thinks he's nuts. You heard the class. However, he has stopped me several times, which is really getting on my nerves."
"Why don't you just capture or destroy him?"
"I already tried that! And every time something gets in the way!"
"But I heard you got a Megadoomer once."
"It didn't have any batteries and I couldn't get enough power for it to fire its weapons and it just ended up draining the city. And then Dib could see it as well as everyone else on the whole planet and then he pulled out a camera and I had to make it self destruct." Zim remembered the day all that happened. At least he had managed to destroy a few of the cities blocks.
"Wow. You will have to tell me about your other attempts sometime."
"Sure, I would love to show you the many genius plans of ZIM! There was this one time-"
Zim was cut off by the sound of an explosion.
"GIR! Minimoose!" Upon seeing Kae's confused expression, Zim said, "My evil henchmen/sidekicks. Gir is a crazy SIR unit and I built Minimoose, who is an unstoppable death machine when he wants to be. I just have trouble making him be one when I want him to."
Both Irkens ran up into the house and watched as Gir, Minimoose, and a pig destroyed it using some sort of giant bread sticks. Another SIR Unit was sitting on the partially destroyed couch watching the show, and enjoying it.
"AHHH! GIR! MINIMOOSE! Stop this infernal ruckus at once!" Zim shouted at the robots.
"We gots Bread sticks from the Bread Person at the mall!" Gir cried out. He then began to repeatedly beat himself in the head with bread stick.
"Squeak!" agreed Minimoose.
"Ris! Stop them before we're noticed!" Kae shouted.
The other SIR unit suluted and flashed its eyes at Kae and then grabbed Gir, Minimoose and the pig and shoved them in a pile on the floor. It then snatched away the bread sticks and shot them with one of its lasers, turning them to dust. The SIR grabbed the pig from the pile on the floor and chucked it out the window before going back to Gir and Minimoose and restraining them.
"Ok, I'll see you later, Pig!" Gir called after the animal. Minimoose just squeaked in defeat. Kae turned to Zim and cocked an antenna. Zim just stared in astonishment.
"Unstoppable death machine, huh?" Kae said, motioning to the restrained Minimoose.
"Tacos!" Gir randomly cried out.
"How come you never tried to fix him?" Kae asked, looking at the very malfunctional looking robot.
"I did once. It almost cost me my life and my mission. But I, the great ZIM! won the battle and put him back to the way he was. And switched out a Police Officer's brain with that of a squid."
Kae lifted both of her antennae at that. "You seem like you have been keeping busy," she commented.
"Yes. I have. Nice robot, by the way."
"Thanks. Ris is usually pretty good, but a few months ago she got infected with something that causes her to randomly explode."
"Randomly explode?" Zim repeated, just to be sure he had heard it properly.
"Yep. I let the scientists at her, but all they could do was make it happen less frequently. I have tried everything, but nothing works. However, when she does explode, its really easy to put her back together again. And we have been working together for a while now, and I've become pretty attached to the little robot, so I'm not going to get her replaced."
"I kind of know how you feel," Zim said looking back at Gir. By now, Ris had released the two other robots and they were all aimlessly looking about the room.
"Ima gonna make me some waffles!" shouted Gir and then for no apparent reason, the malfunctional robot pulled a rubber piggy out of his head and started playing with it.
"Then again..."
A commotion was heard out side. Both Irkens and all of the robots ran to the window in time to see Dib attacked by Zim's gnomes. Dib threw something inside the house, breaking the window in the process. Gir picked it up, but Ris took it from him and handed the devise to Kae.
"Its a camera, and its turned on," Kae stated. Zim and Kae both stared at the small spy camera for a few seconds curiously before it was ripped from Kae's hands. Everyone could now see that the camera was attached to a string that was being used to quickly pull the camera back out the broken window.
"Ha! Success!" Dib cried from outside. "Now I can prove to the world that you exist!" Dib looked down at the footage he had captured as he ran down the road. "Wait, is that another alien?"
Back at Zim's house, Kae wasted no time in stopping Dib.
"Ris, follow that human and destroy that camera. And feel free to hurt the human in the process," Kae ordered.
The SIR unit saluted and then jumped out of the broken window and onto the street.
"Is it always like this here?" Kae asked Zim.
"Yea, pretty much an average day in the amazing life of ZIM! Well, except for another Irken coming to the planet. That only happened once before."
Kae shrugged. "Wanna go get some snacks?"
"Oh, sure. I could use some right now."
"Yea! Snacks!" Gir shouted as he followed them out of the room.
"Squeek!"
"Computer! Clean up this mess!" Zim shouted, motioning to the still-destroyed house as the four crowded into the elevator below the sofa.
This is probably going to be one of the most boring chapters of the story. I promise, it will pick up speed in the next few chapters. I just needed to introduce the characters and show how everything got started. Now I can start to have some fun. The series is going to play out like episodes of Invader Zim, but with a few cliffhangers. *Laughs Evilly*
Oh, and just in case you didn't pick this up from the story yet, this is set a few years in the future from when the actual show happened. However, the kids still go to the Skool (Well, its really the Midle Skool now) and they are still stuck with Ms Bitters because I am too lazy to come with another teacher, and I personally really like Ms Bitters. Hoary for doom.
As the story goes on, you will learn more and more about the characters. And, after I complete my story, I will make a few alternate endings, cuz I have a few in mind, and I think you will like them. I'll get the next chapter up ASAP! Thanks for reading!