While Tak kicks the stuffing out of Zim, let's see what X is up to…
Zim: AAAHHH! QUIT BREAKING MY BONES! Lord Dread Raven owns nothing-AAAAHH! MY SPINE!
Chapter 6
Exiled in the Void
X leaned back thoughtfully in his chair. His brooding was casting an invisible form of tension that even the other hunters could feel. Eventually, Shadow plucked up the courage to speak; carefully maneuvering out of X's range of attack.
"…Sir?" He asked tentatively. "I know it's not my place in things, but I couldn't help but notice that there seems to be something wrong."
X blinked in surprise. He had been pondering for about an hour now, and he finally had a vague idea of what the problem was.
"Havel, turn off the records." Hydra kept a constant record of anything said on the ship.
"I am not going to tell any lies to you here, fellow Hunters. I am sick of this empire." A shocked pause followed the statement.
"There was a time when this empire had some honor, when the Tallest actually did things." X continued. "That honor is no more. The Irken name is feared and despised by the known universe. We Irkens are now parasites." He paused before plowing bitterly ahead. "No one would raise an arm to help us if we fell. We, as Irkens, in essence, are a bunch of jerks."
There was a pause. Then Havel spoke.
"When I worked as Almighty Tallest Miyuki's head engineer, I knew what honor was. We all knew a truly great race. Ourselves. But then, everything went down when that idiot Zim made that blob that ate Miyuki. Actually, some other Irken did supposedly put the energy generator next to the blob, but I don't know about any of that.
"At any rate, we as a race are falling into barbarism. We have fallen. I for one agree with X." Havel finished calmly.
"Well said," Shadow noted. "I am not Irken. My loyalties fall with X, not his empire."
Tina paused before speaking.
"To Hell with what's left of the empire."
"How… Eloquent." X noted, the sarcasm almost undetectable.
"And how traitorous!" An infuriated voice echoed about, as Red flickered into view.
"Wha- I never accepted any call!" Havel gasped.
"Which is why we merely hacked the com system. Fools!" Red spat. "Filthy traitorous slime! You have no right to exist. You have been exiled! We will see you dead you lot of defects!" He bellowed. "We-"
He was cut off by X who had slammed his fist onto the terminate button. The call flickered into static.
"I'm sick of hearing his voice." X said simply.
"And you just sealed our fates as well" Shadow snapped. "They'll kill us now."
X shot him a warning glance but it was too late.
"AAAAAAH! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" Tina screamed.
She continued on until X placed a hand over her mouth.
"Calm down. Breathe. Relax." He said flatly, but not unkindly. His words had an odd sort of soothing affect upon Tina, and she obeyed, still twitching slightly.
"We might make it. All we have to do is not be found. This is open space. This," He said, gesturing out one of the windows. "Is the void."
A single chill ran through the air.
Void.
Lost and exiled, alone in the empty void.