Nodding his head to the general public, he raised his arms to indicate with his hands to let them know that they can be silent now. Smiling at everyone, he made sure to try to make them feel included in his gaze before and during the time he spoke.
"Greetings my fellow and loyal Irkens." He started. "I know we have been defeated by the Humans at this time, but thankfully the loss of life on our end was extremely minimal. I'm still not happy that we lost some since you all are valuable to me." He was greeted back by pride from them with his words.
"I want you to know that this doesn't mean we are failures. We have had few times in our history that this has happened and we have bounced back. Bounced back strong. Because all of us will not remain down for long."
Gaz watched how he spoke to them, how he stood, and she smiled with pride herself. There will be a day they will be linked together. She for once felt like a silly romantic girl at this moment.
Zim indicated with his arm to Skoodge and the rest beside him. "I'm proud that I have such trustworthy high ranking soldiers by my side as well. Ones that have proven themselves time and again in my eyes."
Walking a bit forward, he lowered his voice a bit. "There are some of you that weren't able to join us on Earth in the fight and had to remain either on Irk or in your respective locations, and honestly you as well are fantastic yourself. Yes, I do see your faces of the ones who haven't been there, please put your heads up high, you have already proven yourself." Seeing their hopeful grins, he nodded at them. "Excellent."
Falling into silence after that, he felt he could hear even the crickets on Earth making sounds. Giving an air of possible sadness or something else, he finally spoke. "Many of you don't know about certain things that have been pulled on us over the years. You got huge hints of it before I took over, but you didn't know the whole picture. Elders, please join me out on the stage."
This caused murmurs throughout the crowd. Never has any Elder been called here, so this had to be huge. Gaz pointed a weapon at them urging them forward. As they made their rotund bodies out, they tried to hide their nervous gazes under fake bravado as they lined up to the right side of, Zim. Zim waited for them to finish lining up before starting up again.
"Before I speak again, I would like to show you all some tapes I have obtained from the time of Red and Purple's reign to now." Zim said as a video screen popped up and started showing various screen shots of all the meetings and dialogue. The crowd started to talk even louder as more and more became clearer until that moment he had a flashback of the original elders, along with Red and Purple issuing for their deaths. That one caused an uproar.
Zim called the video to end, and indicated everyone to calm down. "I know you are all upset. I was as well as more became clear. I have been working on how to get this all straightened out and without doing something behind your backs, I am doing this all in front of you. These Elders are the fake ones that they put under their control in order to fool you all. To make you do more. To humiliate you more at your whim. You know I am not lying to you here, when one by one, including my highest rank to my left, have been victims of it many times over."
Walking a bit over to the Elders, he watched them sweat. "I am unsure how I can make them suffer for something that they have been made to do. There is many things for me to consider here, and for that reason I need to have my guards to escort you to our holding facility for further evaluation."
Eyes impossibly even more like saucers they tried to step back as many guards came forward and dragged them all away. Waiting for them to leave, Zim addressed everyone again. "There is unfortunately some more things that have been brought to light since this whole Earth invasion, things that made me completely unhappy, and had to evaluate. All this I will address to you as soon as I can. I promise you that."
"Right now, I have to inform you of the last Elder born. A true Elder that had to leave this planet. The one on that tape called Dai. She crash landed on Earth, was found by a Professor Membrane. During the time she was recovering they fell in love. Why I am telling you this is because..." Holding his arm out for Dai and Gaz to step out. When Dai came out there was applause, but when Gaz came out there was silence. "Gaz is half Irken and half Earthling. I know this is a shock from your silence and yes I found this out shortly after the invasion, even though I had suspicions about her alien nature because of how she was able to handle my equipment."
"Is this a reason why we failed on Earth?" Came a question from a random Irken.
Smiling down sincerely at that one responsible for that voice, Zim replied. "No, but she does come from a highly intelligent family. A family I have known since my arrival."
Gaz wasn't surprised about the voices asking questions and the stares. She just stood there as her fake mom held her hand in assurance.
"Gaz Membrane is a very strong willed and highly intelligent young woman who will always make informed decisions." Zim continued and had to stop once again to those voices.
At that moment the fake Dai let go of Gaz's hand to proceed a step forward. She smiled serenely to everyone. "I have to apologize for the shock that this causing everyone, but I don't apologize for falling in love with an Earthling who has been amazing to not only myself, but to my two children." Murmurs were raised at that remark. "Yes, I have two children, but the first born is a clone of his father with no Irken DNA, and while he may look like his father at a young age, he is still certainly his own young man." Looking back to Gaz and smiling. "As for my daughter, Gaz, this was a happy thing that happened between the both of us. While she does appear human, and will always pass as a human, she is also part Irken."
Gaz looked upon her fake mother and couldn't help that some of the fakeness was disappearing, and what was appearing was truly her mother reborn. For the first time seeing this facsimile, she didn't feel the slightest bit disgusted. She felt protective of her.
"I know it will take you time to trust her, but truly you won't regret ever doing so." Stepping back to Gaz's side, she placed her arm around her waist. "I was the last of the true borns before cloning took effect here, and while I am not knocking cloning." She placed a gentle kiss on Gaz's temple. "I'm not knocking natural childbirth either."
"Even if I hear it is painful." Gaz said so silently that only Dai can hear.
"It may be so, but one day," She looks to Zim then back to her." You will not be so quick to dismiss it."
Blushing, Gaz straightened herself up to look over to Zim who gave her a soft look before addressing everyone again. "I have been straight forward to all of you and Gaz is not a trick. What is a trick is that there is a traitor amongst my own crew at this time. And while I know it isn't any one of them." Holding his hand out to Skoodge and Tenn. "I do know it is someone I thought I could trust, but turned out I couldn't. Someone whom I found out released all the dangerous prisoners off our heavily guarded planet. Prisoners, I am having a hard time coming across except for a couple who had the nerve to try to capture Gaz and myself."
"There is someone else to keep a watch out of, Zim. An assassin by the name of Pressner." Gaz chimed in bringing up an image on the screen above. Examining the faces of every Irken, young and old, she had to assume, she did notice that they suddenly forgot who she was at that moment. "This assassin was not only on Earth to kidnap an Elder, which is me, but to use it to bring down your Almighty Tallest, Zim. These prisoners released and this assassin are here to bring your Tallest down." Standing suddenly at his side, she continued on. "I know I don't want that. I have been observing Red and Purple and how they not only treated him but others as well over the years, and I got to say, this has got to stop, and Zim is the way to stop all of that."
Looking up to him, she smiled. "I believe in him. Maybe in the beginning I had my doubts, but I no longer do." Focusing back to the quiet crowd looking up at her. "I want to not only be the best for him, but for you as well. I honestly hate politics. Too many brown nosers down on Earth. Possibly you have no clue what that is, and that is fine, but seeing how things were before seemed a lot better then the circus that Red and Purple created for all of you."
Smiling at her, he almost forgot himself and kissed her in front of everyone. "She may look like a human, but this one can be a demoness when it counts. She is what is needed for us."
"Does this mean we may be asking a allegiance with the Earthlings now?" Tenn wondered curiously, when every eye in the room focused on her, she opened her eyes wider and explained her question. "I only ask because they do seem pretty strong. I thought they were weak, but it turns out we were wrong."
"We could and it wouldn't be a bad idea if they wish it. We have technology that will be tempting for them, and I am certain they can help when they are most needed." Zim replied. This is what he wanted, his plan to come together, and he didn't have to do a long drawn out speech to them.
"How do you know they will help when we need them though?" One asked in the audience.
"Because we do seem to enjoy shooting weapons, even if most give speeches against violence." Gaz replied. When Zim gave her a teasing smirk, she said silently, "Come on, you seen our broadcasts."
"Excellent, now that we are all gathered here, we can discuss all of this now about them as possible future allies. I don't want to leave you all out." Zim spoke loudly.