Invader Kae Chapter 3: 10 Minutes To Doom, an invader zim fanfic

Chapter 3. I saw an episode online for Invader Zim that was never finished, and I got the name for this chapter and the basic idea for it from the episode. This is my version of the unfinished episode. I just said "episode" 4 times. Wow.

Now I want to talk about another episode that was never aired. It's called "The Trial." I read the script online, and wow, it was HILARIOUS! You have to read it! You learn about Zim's past, and it makes me wonder how he even survived this long! The script was so funny, I almost started crying when I realized it would never become a real episode. CURSE YOU PERSON WHO DECIDED TO CANCEL INVADER ZIM! CURSE YOU! (Yea, I know this has absolutely nothing to do with my story, but I laughed so hard when I read the script I just want to talk about it.)

I think I talk too much in my Author's notes. Then again, I'm not really talking. I'm typing. But you're reading. Man, this is confusing. EEK! I'm going it again!

Invader Zim Quote of the Day! "AHHH! The Hideous Mutant Squid has escaped again and has created an army of Cyborg Zombie Soldiers to do its Evil Bidding!" ~Zim (Zim Eats Waffles)

Zim was sitting at a table in his base. He was using his incredible brain power to come up with a new weapon to destroy the humans. If this worked, he would have an extremely destructive gun that could be not only used in the destruction of Earth, but of many other planets as well. However, unfortunately for Zim (but fortunately for the Earth), it didn't work. It blew up in his face. Literally. And destroyed his lab.

Kae came running in. "I heard an explosion. Did anyone die?"

Zim peeled himself off the wall he had been thrown against. "I'm alive. But my base! My beautiful BASE! Curse you, Explosion! CURSE YOU!"

"Um, Zim, where's you PAK?"

"Oh, its right over," Zim looked about the ruins of his lab. "Well, it was right over there" (pointed to where a table used to be) "but the explosion must have knocked it somewhere else."

"No duh. Computer, locate Zim's PAK."

"Cannot locate the device. Interference." Boomed the Computer's voice.

"Interference? Then it can't be in the base." Kae muttered. "It must have been blasted out." She looked up. the ceiling was riddled with holes. "Well, this is right below the house."

Zim was beginning to look about nervously. Kae had seen his look on Irken faces before. It was suppressed fear. Only someone who had seen many battles would be able to recognize it. And she had seen many. And she knew why Zim was afraid. An Irken's PAK was essential to their life. It held many life-support functions. And a person could only last so long without one.

"Zim, why did you take your PAK off?"

"I needed to upgrade it. And I was but then I got this idea for a super-weapon and just had build one, and since it wouldn't take very long, I just left my PAK plugged in to the upgrader. Then my weapon exploded and trashed my lab."

Kae sighed. "Computer, calculate how long Zim has before he, um, can't survive any longer." She tried to put it gently. Who's dumb idea was it to make PAKs removable? she thought.

"Calculated time is 10 minutes."

On the cracked monitor above, a time clock appeared at 10 minutes and began counting down. Kae saw the fluid drain from Zim's face.

"Ok, 10 minutes. We can find your PAK in that amount of time," Kae said, beginning to pace. She is obviously nervous. "Computer, run a simulation of the explosion and see where the PAK landed."

The cracked screen showed a picture of the Earth from space and an empty loading bar appears at the bottom of the screen. As the bar fills, the screen zooms into the Earth. It gets above the town Zim lives in and stops.

"Error. Simulation drive damaged in explosion. Cannot further simulate explosion."

Kae tried to remain calm. "OK, we can tell that the PAK landed somewhere in the town. That's a start."

Zim began to sway on his feet. Kae looked at the timer on the screen. 9:28, 9:27, 9:26,

She helped Zim stand and they both ran out the door of the room. Kae jumped into her ship and helped Zim in. She took off out of the top of her house at full speed. She touched a button her control panel. Some text appears on her small screen in Irken. Translation: Cannot lock on to Irken PAK signiture. Interference.

It was all Kae could do to keep from shouting and cussing and punching a hole in her ship's hull. She attempted to calm down. Then she pushed another few buttons. More Irken text. Translation: Searching for all Interference spots. Search complete. (End Translation) A map appeared on the screen with specific parts marked out.

"My ship must need an update," she muttered. "There are way to many interference spots."

Dib got into the Zim's house without any problems. He had found a flaw in the Irken's defense field. No one was in the house part. It was so eerily quiet it was creepy. Dib found his way to one of the entrances to the underground part of the base and began to explore it. He heard noises from on of the rooms and made his way over. However, no one was in the room. Only some mechanical arms reaching down from the ceiling to to clean up the destroyed room. And, man, it looked like a bomb had gone off in the place. On a cracked screen, Dib could see a map of his home town and a timer. There was about 8 minutes left on it. He wondered into another room, and saw Gir playing with a rubber piggy and some waffles. The robot looked up at his approch.

"Hi Big Head! Wanna play with Piggy?"

"MY HEAD'S NOT BIG!" Dib shouted his automatic response, but then immediately clamped a hand down on his mouth. But no green aliens with laser guns came running at the noise. "Hey, where's Zim?"

"I don't know. The orange girl took him someplace. She was really upset."

"Orange girl?" Dib thought for a moment, and then remembered Kae's orange eyes and clothing. "Oh, you mean the other alien."

"Yup. Kae's really nice. She gives me cupcakes and Karaoke machines. I'm gonna go make biscuits!"

"Wait! Gir, you said Kae was upset about something," Dib said. He knew how willing Gir was to obey and wondered if he could get any useful information out of him. "Do you know what it was?"

Gir stopped, and then pulled a taco out of his head and began to feast on it.

"No Gir, think. Think really hard. Why was the Orange-Girl upset?"

Gir thought really hard. You could actually see smoke coming out of his head and hear grinding. Then his head exploded from the effort. And that was the end of that conversation.

"Zim lost his PAK and needs to get it back in 7 minutes and 23 seconds or he'll die," stated a bored Computer.

"Zim's gonna die?" Dib exclamed.

"Only if he doesn't get his PAK back."

"WOW! All I have to do is keep Zim from getting his PAK and then I will only have to stop ONE alien from destroying the Earth! And if I can find his PAK and have a scientist analyze it, then I will have my proof! No one will call me crazy anymore! I'll be a hero!" Dib was practically bouncing up and down as illusions of grandeur filled his mind. "Ok, so, what's a PAK?"

"You're joking, right? You've only been fighting Zim for years, and you don't know what a PAK is? You've been in his base, studied his technology, and seen his insides, but you don't know what a PAK is?"

"Well," Dib started.

"Next you're going to tell me you don't know what a Smeet or a Control Brain is."

"Of course I know what those are!"

"You don't have a clue."

"Ok, I don't. Just tell me what a PAK is."

"No, I don't think I will."

"You stink."

"Actually, because I am made of metal and wires and am cleansed daily, it is impossible for me to smell badly."

"That's not what I, oh, never mind. I'm going home now." Dib left the way he came and stalked back to his house.

"Kae was right. Messing with humans' minds is quite enjoyable," the Computer stated.

Dib walked up to his house, but instead of going in the front door, he went to the garage. Inside, was Tak's stolen spaceship. He smiled (flinched a little) as he thought about everything that had happened between him and this ship. Ah, the memories.

Dib sat down in the cocpit. He had been able to disable the downloaded personality part of the ship, so neither Tak nor himself greeted/attacked him. Dib hooked his laptop up to the main system core of the spaceship and used its programming to decode the Irken text into English. He typed the work "PAK" into the search panel and read over the results.

"So, Zim's attitudey computer was telling the truth. Zim is going to die without his PAK. Let's see if I can track it down."

Dib typed a few things into his computer.

"Interference? What in the world could be causing interference?" Dib shouted at the results. "Well, maybe this is a good thing. If my Irken technology can't find it, then maybe Kae and Zim's can't either. And with very little time, Zim might not make it."

Dib smiled. This might just work out.

There's not enough time! Kae thought, glancing at her timer. She had just finished searching the third interference spot with no results. And her ship was almost out of fuel, because someone had filled her fuel tank with tuna. And Zim's ship couldn't fit both of them in it, even if it wasn't undergoing repairs at the moment. Which meant they would have to go the rest of the way on foot. Which wouldn't be so bad if Zim hadn't passed out. Life really sucked sometimes.

Kae pulled back into the roof of her house-base and grabbed Zim from out of the back. She was surprised at how light he was. To much time without nourishment from his PAK. Kae glanced at her timer. 6:23, 6:22, 6:21, 6:20. Things were not looking very good. She got down to her underground base and ran down the hall.

"Well, at least it can't get much worse," Kae muttered to herself. Famous last words, right?

Right. "The human was here again," The computer boomed.

"Which human and how much damage was done?" Kae asked. She was only half listening.

"The big headed Dib one. And he knows Zim's PAK is missing. And he blew up Gir's head."

Guess what? It just got worse.

"Ris!" Kae shouted. The red-eyed robot appeared and saluted. Then it exploded.

"Oh, come on!" Kae shouted at the smoking heap of metal that used to be her sidekick. She grabbed what looked like a floating table without legs and laid Zim down on it, his back facing up. She then set it to follow her and ran out of the room with the table and Zim right behind her. Minimoose floated into the room.

"Squeak!"

"I know how you feel, little guy," the Computer said. "I know how you feel."

4:47, 4:46, 4:45, the clock gave the doomed little green alien no mercy as he withered away.

Kae was beginning to be very frightened. So little time left! So many places it could be! In her rush she hadn't gotten into her disguise, so there were two exposed aliens running through the streets. Her one bit of luck was that it was night, so not many people were out, and those who were couldn't see well enough to tell that the person running like her life depended on it wasn't human. With 3 minutes remaining, Kae pulled out her blaster. If anything got in her way now, she would blow its brains out. An invader never left a fellow invader. Never.

She got to another interference point: the park. And wouldn't you know, there was a UFO convention being held there. Someone noticed her very inhuman eyes reflecting light. Chaos erupted as all of the humans came running at her. Kae gripped her blaster tighter. There wasn't enough time to get these freaks away from her. They weren't listening. And they got in her way. And she was a soldier. She knew how to fight. They never stood a chance. Blood soaked the ground and her clothes as Kae ran fast to search the area. Nothing. She ran for the woods.

A man stood in the shadow of a tree, waiting to mug the girl that was running at him. She had a wagon of some kind behind her, that almost looked like it was floating. But that's ridiculous. Just a trick of the light and shadows. She was fast, and very close to him now. As soon as she entered the forest, he jumped at her. The blaster didn't make much noise. His body crumpled to the ground, blood leaking out of the hole in his skull, his eyes still wide in shock of seeing green skin, antennae, orb-like eyes, and a blood covered gun aiming at his head. His mouth was still open and ready to scream. His blood soaked into the dirt.

Kae kept good on her promise to kill anything that got her way. She ran through the forest and the park. No one heard any screams, and no one stood a chance. She was a soldier in battle, trying to save her fallen comrade. And he had under a minute left in life.

She ran through the forest. There was so little time left! A glance behind her showed Zim fading away. His skin was almost brown, and was crumpling like a paper bag. He hadn't moved in a while. Kae couldn't tell if he was breathing. Sensors on the strecher she had put him on (yes, that's what the floating table thing was) showed that he was alive, but weakening by the second. Her timer showed that he had about 30 seconds left. And she still couldn't find his PAK. She searched. And she would search. Until the very last second, she would search. Even if he died, she would find his PAK. And if anyone had it, they would die in the most painful way possible. She would tear their limbs off and beat them senseless with them. Kae glanced at the Irken behind her. She had to find his PAK. No one should suffer as he was right now. Except for the person who had his PAK. But no one had it. And there were seconds left.

Seconds left. She could see the life draining out of her partner. Kae looked up to the top of the trees and saw something shiny. Something metal. Something vital to the survival of an Irken. And she ran.

0:10 seconds left.

Dib jumped in front of her. He could see Zim dieing, and he would make sure he would.