A/N: Sorry for my delay, I've been battling personal problems, but here's a new chapter for you guys. Now sit down and read my stuff! JK. But seriously read on!
Chapter 3. The Horrible Truth of Reality
Zim called the Tallest to report of his progress, but once the signal establishes, the Tallest silence Zim to tell him something he never knew about his mission, or what is seemed to be called a mission.
Tallest Red: You see Zim, its about your mission...
Zim: Yes! Yes! The glorious mission ofZIM!
The Tallest become annoyed of Zim's arrogance for so long that its effects were coming in now.
Tallest Purple: Your mission is not...
Zim: Flawed? Of course not! I will do anything to please you, My Talle...
Tallests Red and Purple: ZIM! YOUR MISSION IS A LIE!
Upon those words leaving the two irkens' mouths, silence comes upon both sides of the transmission. This goes on for about 10 seconds until the silence is broken by Zim, who just chuckles and laughs.
Zim: Hehe..hehe..haha...haha...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *breathe* That's a good one sirs. Nearly fooled me again like when you gave me G.I.R. Hahaha!
Tallest Red: That wasn't a joke, Zim. Your mission really is a lie!
After that, Zim quiets down again, but looks at the Tallest with confusion etched on his face.
Zim: Wha...wha... What do you mean?
Tallest Purple: Its not real! A fake! A hoax! One big fib! There is no mission for you, because its all smoke and mirrors!
Zim could not believe his antennae. Was his mission a fake this entire time? He then remembered two moments during his time on Earth, where two people, told him the same thing, but he dismissed them as crazy lies.
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Flashback...
Zim saved the Earth from being hollowed out by another irken. A female named Tak. She was looking to take Zim's mission and finally be a true invader, planning to hollow out the planet and refill it with snacks as an offering to the Tallest, but her plan was foiled by Zim.
Zim: No one takes Zim's Mission. NO ONE!
What remained of Tak's ship lands on top of Zim's Voot Cruiser. She then has one last argument with him.
Tak: I don't know how you did this, Zim. You're not even an invader, you know? The Tallest lied to you! Your mission is all a big LIE!
Tak was looking to say more, but Zim pressed a button on his control panel, causing the Voot to detach itself from Tak's ship and lets her float away in the cold, empty void that is space. Zim then cackles evily.
Zim: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... Okay!
He then takes a sip of his irken soda before returning to his base.
Flashback switch...
Zim is abducted by another irken, one larger than anyone has ever seen. His name is Sizz-Lorr! He runs a snack store called "SHLOOOOGOORGH'S!" located on the irken owned planet, Foodcourtia. He comes to Earth and captures Zim, planning to take him back to Foodcourtia just in time for the second Great Foodening, the planet's biggest lunch rush that last 20 years, to begin. Zim then explains that he's an irken invader, sent on a special mission from the Tallest themselves, but Sizz-Lorr checks his PAK, which states that Zim is supposed to be a "Food Service Drone".
Sizz-Lorr: The Tallest lied to get rid of you! Don't bother calling them, Aal transmissions will be blocked!
He then tosses Zim into a cage which closes upon his entry, nearly splitting his face in half.
Return to the present...
Zim: You mean I'm not supposed to conquer this planet?
Tallest Purple: No, you're not supposed to conquer ANY planet!
Zim: But what about my rigorous training on Hobo 13?
Tallest: We sent you there in hopes of killing you!
Zim: Then explain the Megadoomer you once sent me?
Tallest Purple: Shipping error.
Zim: Well, what about my advanced S.I.R. unit?
Tallest Purple: Haha! That was just a robot we built from the trash!
Zim: Then if my mission was a lie, then why am I standing on a planet right now?
Tallest Red: About that, yeah, you were never supposed to even FIND a planet! You were supposed to die in space!
Zim was beyond shocked. All his life, he devoted his meaningless life to serving the Tallest, and all they did was lie to him. He remained loyal to them, despite all the harassment and insults from them. Now that his mission was just a plan for the Tallest to leave him for dead, he just can't handle the truth.
Zim: Well what can I do now? I can't go back to Irk a failure!
Tallest Red: We've thought of that, and we've decided that you'll be a threat to Irk's way of life. I mean, you killed half the armada, causing Impending Doom 1 to fail miserably, you sent half of Devastis into, a blacked out chaos for 25 years, and you've even killed former Tallests, Miyuki and Spork. No way you'll be walking the streets of Irk now!
Tallest Purple: Because you are hereby banned from returning to Irk, or any of the Irken conquered planets. If you ever come back to the empire, you will be executed!
Zim: Banned? But now what can I do?
Tallest Red: We don't care what you do now! Go on a rampage, blow stuff up, kill yourself! We don't care what you do, because its none of our concern! Goodbye forever, Zim!
The Tallest then permanantly deactivated all connections to Earth and tell the irkens manning the controls to delete any and all messages coming from Earth. The Tallest then look at each other before seeing a massive crowd before them. Remembering thet they werebin the middle of a party, Tallests Red and Purple smiled to each other and resume the party.
Tallest Purple: Were were we?!
The Massive breaks out in more cheers and celebrates not only the accomplishment of Operation Impending Doom 2, but the fact that Zim won't bother them anymore.
Back on Earth...
Zim was still sitting at the same spot he was when he heard about his "mission" being a fake. He sits with his eyes wide open while voices in his head repeat themselves.
You have no mission! Your mission was a lie! It was fake!
However, Zim's train of thought interupts itself by a loud crash and a sound of an explosion, coming from the outside of the base. He quickly puts on his disguise and goes outside to investigate. Once he makes it to the crash site, he sees a horrible surprise, a chunk of space rock with flames coming all around it. Zim sees a person coming from the space debris. The person speaks.
?: Hello, Zim! I have returned to reclaim what is rightfully mine!
To be Continued...
A/N: Ooh! Mystery identity. I wonder who he or she is. Find out of the mystery newcomer next time!