"That thing is some sort of Earth creature?" Kor asked.
"I thought you said you were the dominant species on your planet," Daj commented.
"Yes and we are, but Earth moose aren't suppose to be like this! Earth moose are four-legged herbivores that only sometimes caused the death of beings, and they didn't talk also!" Dib said.
"So on Earth they're suppose to be peaceful beings?"
"No," Dib spoke in a low, mysterious tone, "I used to think so, but then I learned."
"What's with the low, mysterious to-"
"It was years ago, and my class and I were preparing to go on a normal field trip..." Dib froze for about five minutes, doing absolutely nothing while Kor and Daj stared.
"By the way, Kor, where's Kry?" Daj said.
"I sent him to go find the Dibship with one of my gloves," Kor replied.
"So he did land near you, but-"
"I saved everyone from the wormhole, but I still have nightmares about that moose, and the dimension made of pure dookie," Dib suddenly interrupted and was unfrozen.
"What?"
"I know the whole wormhole thing sounds ridiculous but it really happened!"
"What are you talking about?"
"Weren't you listening to my flashback?"
"Flashbacks don't work if you don't say anything," Kor said.
"Oh, right, then I'll start over!"
"No! Moose scare you, I understand, this thing freaked me out too. Which reminds me." Kor walked to the bleeding moose carcass and removed its arm-laser. She opened it and took out a vial with a small amount of green fluid from it.
"What is that?"
"The moose said it was a liquid that could kill Fefians."
"Really?"
"I don't know for sure since I was never hit with it." Kor kept the vial and threw the laser towards Daj, immediately he started fiddling with his new weapon.
"We should start moving," Dib said, "Gaz and Zim are still missing, and the best chance we have at finding them is by heading towards the Dibship, we just have to know where to go."
"I'm already working on that," Kor held her glove horizontally, "I used to get my limbs severed several times, which meant my gloves and boots would constantly disappear, so I made it so my gloves and track each other. It's similar to Daj's hands in that I can feel a pull in the direction the other part is located, except its probably less painful for the user."
"Great, but where's the other glove?"
"Kry has it, so at the very least we can find him."
"Then let's go-"
The familiar sound of a laser came from behind Dib and Kor, followed by a screech of pure agony.
"Command, we have confirmed the death of 001, body is in the custody of three beings assumed to be the targets, will continue to recon in position alpha-charlie, awaiting future orders."
"Why are you talking like that?"
"We're on duty, 004, it's protocol."
"Oh, okay. Who were you talking to?"
"Command."
"But Tak told us not to contact her ourselves, Two."
"Yes, so because of the absence of our commanding officer, leadership will follow the chain of command and since 002 comes before 004, that makes me the commander of this squad."
"So you were talking to yourself?"
"...Shut up, 004."
Two hunters stood atop the building that Dib, Kor, and Daj had taken shelter in. They were 002 and 004, part of Tak's scavenger squad that always worked together. 002 carefully watched the three hideous beings through binoculars, while also eying the bloody, dissected remains of the first hunter, 001.
"Look at the targets, 004, they're monsters, no wonder Tak wants us to hunt them down, look at what they did to 001's body, sickening, and they're ugly," 002 said.
"Oh, let me see, Two," 004 motioned for 002 to hand him the binoculars, "Ew, they're all so hideous, just like their pictures in the dossiers."
"Alright, enough recon, let's talk about our plan of attack. We're too far to attempt an accurate shot, and even if we could get a hit at most we would only kill two of them, allowing the third to easily escape."
"Oh, how about we drop down and shoot them!"
"No, no, that's much too simple," 002 pulled out a blueprint of the area along with a compass, a protractor, and several colored rocked to represent the figures; "First we'll position ourselves at point delta, then you head to point epsilon while I flank around to position fava bean, then you flank from charlie, but it's a fake flank, then I'll come in from omega to enact a sting maneuver where you circle the perimeter and scan for bugs, then we kill them, any questions?"
"...where did you get a blueprint of this building?"
"A good soldier is always prepared, thus I made it my duty to be precise and punctual to make my home planet proud of my achievements!"
"What is our home planet, Two?"
"I don't know, but it does not matter for I shall complete my mission for honor, duty, and pr-AHHHHHHHHH!"
"What the hell?" Dib turned around to see Daj holding the laser with a guilt-ridden look on his face.
"Uhh..." The Darvon was unable to say anything.
"Holy crap, Daj, I thought there was another hunter or something stalking us."
"Uhh, yeah, I mean... nope, no hunters I was just...uh, testing out the laser, yeah."
"Well, whatever, just don't scream next time."
"Scream? Woah, I don't scream, I thought that was you."
"No, that wasn't me, why would you assume it was me?"
"Well you do kind of scream a lot, and you're kind of..."
"What, Daj? Kind of what?"
"Well, squishy."
"What? I'm not squishy! Now tell me what squishy means!"
"Uh, green, untrained, faints at the sight of enemy innards."
"I do not faint at the sight of enemy innards! It was only that one time when I was fourteen! I grew out of it, mostly! Kor, can you believe he called me squishy?"
Kor just looked at both of them like idiots, then when she looked at Daj, she noticed something behind him.
"Hey, Daj, what's that behind you," she said. He turned around and moved aside. "Is that..."
"A dead hunter!" Dib said, "Awesome, we killed another one!"
"I killed another one," Daj said.
"You said you were testing the laser."
"I was testing my moose-killing abilities, obviously I get an A."
The trio started moving towards the body when suddenly something dropped from above them and next to the body of the fallen hunter. It was another one, looking at his fellow hunter, checking for vitals.
"T-Two?" He held the hunter in his arms and was certain of his death, "Twooooooooooooooooooooo!"
Dib and the others looked at him with a puzzled expression.
"I guess I'll just, uh, kill this hunter too," Daj said. He aimed the arm-laser but was having trouble trying to get it to fire again.
"Y-you killed him! Twoooooooooooo!" The hunter continued to cry, "I loved him! He was like a son to me!"
"Let's see, maybe if I just flip this switch, no, how about I press this, nope, that's just a sticker."
"I still remember all those times where we spied on the enemies and you would plan out one of your complicated maneuvers, and I would nod my head even though I couldn't understand!"
"Hey, hunter-moose-Earth-being...thingy, can you tell me how to work this thing?"
"I WILL AVENGE YOU!"
The hunter screamed in rage and fury. He held his fallen comrade into the air, then his helmet split horizontally, revealing a large jaw. The lifeless hunter then slid down his throat. The angry hunter started growing in size, his armor expanding, bulging bits of flesh peeked out his armor, his antlers broke through his helm and the structure of the antlers mutated into the shape of giant fists. Dib estimated his size to be about thirty feet in height and twenty feet wide.
"WHAT THE-"
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWRRR!" Dib's outburst of utter confusion was interrupted by the giant hunter's roar. Kor stood with open eyes, thinking the same thing Dib was going to say. Daj, meanwhile, was still fiddling with the arm-laser, completely ignoring the hunter in front of him.
"Hey, I think I got it!" Daj re-aimed the laser and it started charging, but was stunned by being in front of him. The laser went off, hitting the giant hunter in the face, leaving a scorch mark. The hunter looked at Daj, then sent him flying through the building wall with his fist antlers. Dib and Kor looked at the hole in the building that Daj just went flying through, and the pile of rubble where he landed. Fortunately, he quickly popped out of the rubble, but was sore all over.
"We should run," Dib said to Kor. The two started sprinting away from the hunter, grabbing Daj along the way. The hunter gave chase and crashed through every building and obstacle in his way. Dib didn't look back to see how close the hunter was, partly because he didn't want to trip because he wasn't looking forward, mostly because he didn't want to see a giant hoof stepping on his face.
"These cookies are really tasty."
"Yeah, I changed my mind, let's not shoot that Irken into a star, we need more cookies anyway, I'm pretty sure our cookie planet is gone."
"We had a cookie planet?"
"I don't know, but it's probably dead or something by now."
Red and Purple had been waiting to contact Earth for several Earth hours now. They had already commanded each Irken to send them all their snacks. In the meantime, they were using cookies to hold them over. As Red finished his cookie, the monitor started flickering, showing faint glimpses of something other than static.
He hoped that all this waiting was finally gonna pay off. Finally, the there was a clear image on the screen, and Red couldn't be more disgusted. On the screen was a pale creature with two white ocular orbs, with waste color specks in the center of the orbs. Several small antennae littered the northern hemisphere of the disgusting thing. There were several black spots on it, as if someone had tortured it in a deranged lab experiment and inflicted several puncture wounds with a drill. Red really wanted it to stop staring at him, he was about to toss his cookies. Purple beat him to it.
"What is that thing?" Purple yelled.
"Hey you, you aren't suppose to be there!" The Tallest saw two long robotic arms grab the human and pushed him away from the screen. The arms then faced the Tallests, "Oh, it's you guys, what do you want?"
Red and Purple recognized the room on the screen as Zim's lab, it was lacking of any actual Irken device but it was as purple as ever. They also noticed several other beings, similar to the hideous creature from earlier, walking around the room using some sort of device that flashed light particles. One of them even used the device on Red and Purple, they were taken aback by it.
"Um, who are you?" Red asked the arms.
"I'm Zim's computer."
Red sighed in relief and turned to Purple, "Good, his computer's AI is still there, Zim must still be there."
"Zim? He left this planet weeks ago," The computer said, "Or was it months? I haven't been keeping track of the time."
"What?"
"Yeah, said something about conquering Irk to prove he's an Invader or something. Hey! What did I tell you about touching things!" The computer grabbed the human who kept touching stuff and threw him down a chute into the abyss.
"But why would Zim leave behind his AI?" Purple asked.
"I don't know, I just came out of sleep mode and all of a sudden the house was empty. First, I enjoyed the peace, then I really enjoyed the peace, now I'm giving the humans a tour of the base for currency."
"What does an Irken AI need with a planet's currency?" Red asked.
"It fills the empty space in my circuits...it's quite boring by myself."
"Yeah, can you just locate Zim's coordinates or something?"
"Sure, just give me a sec," The computer started pressing buttons on a panel, "It's gonna take a while."
"Fine, I'll just eat another cookie."
"Uh, Red," Purple said, "We ran out of cookies."
"GONNA TAKE A WHILE? You want us to wait an indefinite amount of time after we were already waiting for the connection to reach you? We had to launched an Irken through several series of Deus Ex Wormholes towards your location in order to establish a connection to Earth as fast as possible!"
"Oh so that's what that loud thud was a few days ago."
"If you keep us waiting any longer, I swear by Irk that I will send a fleet to destroy that puny rock and I will personally salvage your remains, rebuild you as a blender, and have you make me juices for the rest of my lifetime!"
"...wow, you're starting to sound like Zim," Purple tried to calm his friend down.
"I just feel so...angry...and...disturbed, I can't take it much longer!"
"Yeah, I can't make this go any faster, buddy, I kind of have to search the infinite space known as the universe for a single Irken spaceship! You know how hard it is to find the right algorithms to even trace that little-oh, hey I found him. He's on Vort. Hey how'd you get out of the hole, I told you not to touch any-" Red and Purple watched as the human from before started attacking the screen before it went black.
"Hmm, I understand why we gave that AI to Zim now," Purple said.
"So he's on Vort. Quickly, we shall send our armada to obliterate Vort before Zim leaves the planet!" Red commanded.
"Great, how do you plan on getting the armada to Vort?"
"Through, wormholes or something, just launch them!"
"But we don't actually know where the wormholes will lead, we just randomly launched Irkens into wormholes to reach Earth. We could send our armada into a star!"
"Do it anyway!"
"Red, calm down, be reasonable, like your character is suppose to be!"
"Do you see this empire, Purple? I'm not gonna let it burn by the hands of some idiotic Invader reject! Again!"
"I know, I don't want to see Zim burning Irk also, again, but we can't act stupid about this!"
"On the contrary, Zim is the most illogical and stupid Irken I have ever met, but if he's overcoming our defenses then in order to overcome him, I must think like him!" Red stormed out of the room.
"Red, I don't like that idea! It involves stupid! I don't like stupid!"
Vort was once the technological center of the universe. The cities were clean and peaceful, the natives had only used their abilities for the betterment of beings. Then the Irkens came and ruined all that. The day Irk and Vort formed a treaty occurred before Zim's time. He did remember the day Irk voided the treaty and just enslaved the Vortians for the rest of the race's miserable existence, truly it was a glorious day.
Then Zim himself was stationed on Vort due to his proficiency in the mechanical and scientific fields, where he was suppose to develop the Irken arsenal of the future, but ended up putting the Irken future in jeopardy on several occasions. Returning to Vort made Zim reminisce about his past here, and seeing all the once shiny, and highly advance city in ruins only made him feel pure apathy.
He moved through the crumbled bit of technology and constructs as quickly and stealthily as possible, not once turning back to look to see if a body he stepped on was someone he knew. He was too focused on maneuvering and finding his target. Once he had it in sight, all that was left is to make it face it's destruction.
A laser was fired and the spherical droid fell to the ground, circuits fried and lenses shattered from the impact.
"Good shot, I'm surprised at your ability with a blaster," Zim walked out from the shadows to examine the damage done. He was followed by the being who had fired the shot.
"Eh, shooting just comes naturally to me," Gaz and Zim were both carrying supplies they looted from the detention center, including blasters, "I'm just surprised at how similar alien blasters are to Earth guns in design. Barrel, use of some sort of ammo, a grip, and a firing mechanic based around pulling a trigger, I'd have thought your tech would be weirder, like lasers controlled by your mind or something."
"The mind lasers became too sentient and tried to start a revolution after deeming us too stupid, we banned the making of such things shortly after," Zim finished examining the droid and activated a hologram map from his wrist, "That makes the fifth of Tak's cameras that we've destroyed."
"And the less vision she has of us the better."
"And the more it irks her that I'm doing this. Now according to this, both the Dibship and Dib are getting harassed by Tak's hunters."
"We have to save Dib."
"Forget the Dib-scum, the Dibship provides our only method of leaving and has valuable resources we could use."
"My dad would at least want me to bring home his body before it gets horribly mangled." Zim knew at this point that Gaz's stubbornness would prevent any type of coercion from working.
"I would need the meat-shields for future plans anyway. However, if we intend to head towards his direction we need to scale a cliff."
"Fine."
The two headed towards Dib's direction as the night fell on Vort. Upon reaching the cliff, they set up ropes they had looted from the detention center, and started scaling down the cliff. They were silent the entire time, never talking nor looking at each other, and it was getting to Gaz. Ever since they left the detention center, things between them had become very platonic. There was no anger when they did spoke, no arguments broke out while they were walking, it was just Zim making the plans and her executing them.
She didn't want to talk about what happened in the cell, but she was gonna go crazy from the apathetic attitude they currently had towards each other.
"Hey...Zim," she said.
"What?" He continued to slide down the cliff.
"About earlier...I...kind of...I-" She stopped talking and started staring at the area above them, then she pulled out her blaster, "I think Tak found us."
Zim looked up to see dozens of spherical droids with violet lights hovering, they were the camera droids they were destroying earlier. Then a large spike appeared from underneath the droids and they started flying towards them like angry hornets. Zim and Gaz started firing their lasers into the swarm of killer camera bots, but they would just maneuver around the blasts to avoid getting hit. Zim and Gaz would also swing left and right to avoid getting hit by spikes.
"That's impossible! Tak shouldn't have any vision of us! I constantly checked the map to make sure of that!"
"Maybe she traced us by checking all the locations where we destroyed her cameras." Zim stood frozen for a bit. "Did you seriously not consider that before we did this?"
"Of-Of course I did! Why wouldn't Zim think about that obvious possibility?"
"You're such an idiot."
"How dare you mock Zim's intelligence! Zim-AHHH-" One of the droids had cut Zim's rope and he started free falling. Instantly, Gaz let go of her rope, falling to catch Zim. Once she had him by one had, she used her shoes to try to brake against the cliff and grabbed the rope between her sleeve and shirt. They finally slowed down enough for Gaz to grab the rope with her hand, she felt the heat of friction through her clothes.
The droids were preparing for another attack, but Gaz couldn't fight back. She had dropped her blaster to save Zim, and now she had one hand holding onto him and another on the rope. She didn't think they could dodge anymore strikes, considering they barely dodged any fatal strikes and they had the cuts to prove it. She could barely moved while holding onto him. Since Zim was the only one with a blaster, they would have to rely on his firing skills.
"Any ideas?" Gaz asked. Zim looked up at the swarm then down to the ground that was still quite a distance away.
"Let go of the rope!" He said.
"What?"
"Falling is better than being stabbed to death!"
"Falling from this height would kill us anyway! I am not letting go!" Zim saw the droids start speeding towards them.
"I'm not giving you a choice!" Zim aimed his blaster at the rope.
"Zim, please, for once in your moronic life do not be stupiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-" Zim fired the shot and they were both sent falling towards a metallic surface faster than the droids were speeding towards them.
Gaz noticed that the droids stopped moving, apparently Tak also thought this was their certain doom. As she waited for the impact she closed her eyes and could only think about Zim, none of the thoughts were positive.
The fall was taking too long. The next thing she noticed was how she couldn't feel the force of the wind behind her. She definitely didn't hit any sort of surface, no broken neck or bones, then she realized that she wasn't moving at all. She could still feel her arms and legs, so she wasn't paralyzed.
"Zim?" She got no answer, "Zim!"
"Huh, wha-are we still falling?" Zim said.
"I don't know, I feel like we've stopped moving."
"Hmm, no feeling of falling, no damage to internal organs, still retaining free movement. Are we in a tractor beam?"
"Very observant, Zim."
"Yes, yes, my mind is vastly superior to yours, Gaz."
"I didn't say anything."
"No, I did." said the voice. It spoke in a bored yet whiny tone, striking the perfect balance between banality and annoyance.
"I don't know how you confused that voice with mine."
"Who are you? Reveal yourself to Zim!" The lights turned on as Zim gave his order, revealing a Vortian next to a control panel. They were in a large cubic room where three dish-shaped objects were emitting a pink light towards Zim and Gaz. They saw that they were held in midair by the lights.
"Hi Zim." The Vortian said flatly. He stood with his eyes half-closed and his mouth in a permanent and perfect horizontal. He was a few feet tall and wore a gray jumpsuit with for random digits printed on the front.
"...Who are you?"
"I was the one who always sent you tech from Vort."
"...Who are you?"
"I gave you that top secret Vortian Doomsday device."
"...Who are y-"
"Shut up already!" Gaz interrupt, "You, goat-thing, get us down from here already."
"Okay." The Vortian turned back towards the console and pressed a button, then pink light disappeared causing Zim and Gaz to fall to the floor. "Follow me, he would want to see you."
"He? Do you really have to be ominous and hide his identity?"
"Meh." Zim and Gaz followed the Vortian, noticing that wherever they were in, it was as flashy as the Vortian's personality.
"By the way, Zim," He said, "What happened to the Vortian Doomsday Device I gave you, you stopped contacting me after I sent it."
"I used it to build my greatest creation, Minimoose!" Zim held his hands in the air for emphasis, but quickly put them back down, "It blew up."
"What. That took me three seconds to find. I put in a lot of effort. It was irreplaceable. I can't believe it blew up."
"Oh, I wasn't at fault for Minimoose's sudden demise." Zim glanced at Gaz.
"You think I made your stupid toy suddenly explode?" Gaz said, "Are my stares suddenly imbued with the power of death gods?"
"I've heard many Earth-monkeys use that description when describing your stares."
Finally they reached a dead end in the tunnel, the Vortian just continued walking, disappearing behind the wall. At first Zim and Gaz wondered what happened, then the Vortian poked his head out and motioned for them to follow him through the hologram.
They walked through it to find themselves in a large room where there were several Vortians scattered everywhere, sleeping, eating, tinkering with random junk. Most of them were bandaged, some had crutches, and some had to rely on small wagons to move around. At the center sat a Vortian who had one horn face forward while the other faced backwards. He wore some sort of purple jacket with sleeves that extended far beyond his limbs.
"I'm back." sighed the Vortian that lead them. The other Vortian got up and turned around. There were four scars on his face going in random directions, and he smiled with a jaw filled with razor teeth.
"Thank you, Bill." He then turned to Zim, "Hello, Zim, it's been a while."
Zim was gonna give him his usual response but Gaz jab him in the side. Zim shot a glare a her before turning back to the Vortian. He focused on him, trying to search his mind for the identity of the being in front of him. He thought back to his days on Vort and realized who he was.
"Crax! You're still alive?"
"Of course I am, why wouldn't I be?" Crax replied.
"The last time I saw you the Vortian and Irken military was going to step on you with a giant robot."
"Yes, yes, they were, but I got away through a series of convoluted and random happenings and careful planning, it's a magnificent tale that everyone should hear," he paused for a moment, "You've certainly changed."
"Yes, I underwent a cruel and rigorous trial in order to gain this magnificent height! I wouldn't have lived if it weren't for my wit and Irken might."
"You were choking on cafeteria food everyday." Gaz said.
"A cruel test that only the greatest of beings can overcome!"
"Whatever, mind telling me who this guy is?"
"Remember in cell-" Gaz elbowed Zim this time, "Be...fore that..."
"Oh." Zim took a second to regain his composure.
"Remember when I told you about my crazy Vortian partner with whom I shared my living quarters at the Detention Center?"
"He's your friend?"
"Yes."
"And you're calling him crazy?"
"Yes."
"...dammit," Gaz muttered as she placed her palm on her face.
"Together we were brilliant! We created several of Vort's finest inventions!"
"I remember those days fondly," Crax said, "Like the Armored Battlizer Suit that blew up once the user said 'attack'!"
"A fail-safe for if enemies gain possession of the suit!"
"Bombs that looked like blasters that activate once a being pulls the trigger!"
"They were identical to all Irken weaponry so they could look superior!"
"And giant blobs that devoured all organic beings!"
"No being was safe from its squishy terror!" Gaz looked at them and put her hand on her face, again, letting out a deep sigh.
"Zim, I want to welcome you to the Secret Vortian Underground Hidey Hole! Where all Vortians go in times of crisis!"
"If every Vortian knows about this place then how is it secret?"
"The Vortian Underground Hidey Hole is named for the fact that Vortians come here to hide, the secret part is that I shut off all the entrances except for one, which was fortunately the one you found."
"You put an entrance at the bottom of a cliff?" Gaz said.
"Yes, sort of. The entrance is actually a force-field that cannot be passed unless one exerts an extreme amount of force, such as jumping from the cliff."
"That's so-"
"Brilliant!" Zim interjected.
"Yes, truly I am a guardian for my people," Crax said, "But enough of my brilliance, why are you even here, Zim? Even I can't think of any reason for your presence."
Zim stopped reminiscing about his past and thought about their current situation, "First, Crax, you have to tell me about what happened to Vort, how did it get destroyed so easily?"
"Of course."
It was same as any other day on Vort, the Vortians were enslaved into building all Irken tech, the Irkens stood guard and maimed all Vortians who were slouching on the job, and I was taking a stroll after escaping from the Detention Center.
As I was hacking into an Irken compound to grab a blaster for my daily recreational activity a dumpster-shaped ship appeared in the sky.
"Hello, hello? Can you hear me, if you can then please step outside," the ship's announcement came from a squeaky voice. A group of Irken guards came outside looking at the ship in the sky. I quickly hid myself and watched what would happen next. The guards were talking to each other, possibly at how a foreign ship got past their checkpoints, then they all brought out large bazookas and fired a series of lasers at the ship. None of the lasers touched the ship as they all bounced back mid-flight and killed the Irkens who fired them.
This got everyone's attentions and every being, both Vortian and Irken, stepped out. The ship continued speaking.
"Uh, yes, I am here at the Vortian capitol to offer you all a chance to live. Just the Vortians though, all you Irken scum can perish in your own taint!" The Vortians talked among themselves, I was pondering about how such a small ship could make such a threat to Irkens.
"My beings, I have come to free you from the bonds of enslavement! If you just side with me against the Irkens, I can guarantee you a future!" The ship was making bold statements, I was very intrigued by its promises, and apparently the Vortians thought the same since they were speaking even louder before. That's when an Irken decided to take command of the situation.
"Vortian scum," He shouted, "If you go against us, you go against the strongest military force in the universe and we Irkens will all slaughter you and hang your corpses as trophies, in other words, it would a every other third cycle for you. However, if you don't side with them, then we'll raise your break time by three seconds, triple of what you'd usually get!"
"How about horn wax!" shouted a random Vortian.
"Kill him." an Irken guard shot the Vortian in the chest, "Yes, we'll start supplying you all with horn wax in the community room."
The Vortians all cheered for the announcement of their horn-care product. Then they all chanted "Horn wax!" as they stood by their oppressors.
"No, wait, you don't understand!" The ship said, "Please don't do this, you'll all di-"
"Move it, Nar, they've had their chance!" The second voice also came from the ship, suddenly the two voices started arguing with each other.
"Tak, this is my enslaved planet! The Employer promised my beings' freedom!"
"The Employer allowed you to give a chance to your people, but you failed, now I get to take command."
"I won't stand for this!"
"Then sit down, shrimpy!"
"Tak, if you press that button then I-"
"Will what? If you so much as give a Vortian a bandage then I'll make sure none of your race lives to see the next star rise!"
"You can't do that!"
"Of course I can, the Employer placed me in charge of this armada, any command I say and they make it happen. I could even make them attack you and have you listed as a 'casualty of the invasion'."
"I...I-"
"If you shut up and sit in a corner then I'll spare some of your people, maybe a female Vortian so you two can repopulate your race."
The original voice remained quiet after that. The Irkens and the Vortians listening were very confused. The sound of a button being pressed was heard and a blue light shot straight up into the sky. It exploded and the Irken anti-Invasion shield dispersed, then the sky became polluted with large vessels, all as big as the Irken Mothership.
The Irkens and Vortians watched in horror like the idiots they are, I did the smart thing and quickly ran towards the Secret Vortian Underground Hidey Hole where I disabled all the entrances.
"Everything after that point I learn from the Vortians that reach here, and half of them were suicidal when they entered so the accuracy is debatable," Crax said, "They talked about warriors, though not unkillable, would be capable of slaughtering hundreds! Vessels with giant lasers that scorched the planet! Blood that tasted like jam! It made me wish I saw it, but I realized that I wanted to live."
"That's it?" Zim asked, "Vague and ominous descriptions about your planet's apocalypse."
"Well that and one of the warriors feel in here and died, we keep its body in the back."
"Oh, then let's see it." Crax led Zim and Gaz through to the room where Vortians were examining the hunter. On the way, Zim recounted his tale up to that point. From his arrival to Earth to his plans for invading Irk, somehow fitting in every detail in the span of eleven seconds.
"You've certainly had an exciting time and you're even planning on invading Irk now! Hahahaha, it almost makes me regret experimenting on you when you were still on Vort."
"Yes, I-wait, what?"
"Well the body is just behind this door. I apologize if it's unrecognizable, I dissected its body four times for research, then three more times for fun."
Crax opened the door and they entered a room where several scans were hanging on the wall, bloody and crude equipment were scattered on the counter, a bucket labeled "heads" sat in the corner, however the room was also very nicely lit. At the center of the room was a table, a bloody mess where Zim and Gaz focused their eyes.
"It's...an unrecognizable red blob," Zim said while trying to look away. Bones were jetting out of the blob in random places, pink tendons were the only thing holding the flesh together, several internal organs, or at least what looked like organs, were in pieces. Even Gaz couldn't help but avert her eyes.
"Oh, sorry, that's my lunch," Crax said. He quickly wrapped his questionable food and stored it in a cupboard. "Now where did I put that body."
He continued searching the same cupboard. Gaz wondered why he would keep his food in the same place where he kept bodies but decided it was best not to think to much about it.
"I bet that cannibalistic Vortian sneaked in here again, I'm gonna have to talk about him participating in some personal projects later." Crax closed the cupboard and instead brought out a bunch of files, "Here, Zim, these are all the scans of the body that I have."
Zim took them and started looking through at the pictures, then he became shocked.
"They're really tall!" He said.
"Yes, their height is intimidating. They also have strong leg muscles, their circular feet provide excellent balance, their mass makes them resistant to most elements, and their heads are aerodynamically designed, even including modules that allow for increased velocity. However, 90% of the warrior's power comes from the suit. The helmet greatly augments its brain waves, giving it the deadliest weapon in the universe, intellect! I also concluded that the specimen I found was very stupid."
Zim continued to looked through the pictures, all revealing that Crax was right. Gaz peeked at the pictures and noticed some extremely weird.
"Hey, Zim, doesn't this look familiar?" She asked.
"Yes, that is indeed a leg structure of some kind, this white area must be a bone." he said.
"No, you moron, there! It looks just like a hoof." Zim looked at it and started stroking his chin, Gaz took the files from him and starting looking through them, and she couldn't believe what she saw, "Zim, the body in these pictures, it's a moose!"
"What? That's incredibly stupid, Gaz," Zim took the files back, "Your feeble and unscientific mind would spout such a stupid claim. My genius will-EARTH MOOSE!"
"How the hell did a moose get into space!"
"I don't know!"
"I take it you can identify the being?" Crax asked.
"Yes, this body structure and bio scans are similar to my experiments on Earth moose, but they were not capable of even doing any of the things you described!"
"I did say that 90% of their abilities stemmed from their suit, including increased brainwaves that would be on par with the average being."
"Yes, that would explain a lot."
"But why is a moose even here?" Gaz said.
"My theory is that someone abducted all of the Earth moose and then constructed some sort of device to permanently augment their capabilities."
"That's stupid."
"Is it, Gaz? Is it really?" Gaz thought back to all the stupid things she saw from aliens through her life, most of them coming from Zim.
"Yes, it's really stupid, but that doesn't mean someone really stupid wouldn't do it. Why moose though?"
"Moose are the most terrifying creatures to ever chew on your planet."
"So what do you plan on doing now?" Crax asked.
"What? Oh, right, plans, uh, monkey crash ship, Tak takes us prisoner, we escape, Dib-monkey in danger-"
"Wait, Dib's still getting chased by one of Tak's hunters," Gaz said.
"And of what importance is this?"
"Zim!"
"Fine, just give me a sec." Zim turned to his wrist and tried to activate his map, "Hey, what's with this thing!"
"This place blocks all frequencies, absolutely nothing from the outside gets in, nothing on the inside gets out, apparently that's how your map works." Crax said.
"Then how do you know when it's safe to leave?"
"We launch someone through our only exit, if they don't return after a while then it's still dangerous."
"Isn't that a bit flawed?"
"I didn't design this bunker."
"Fine, just get us outside."
"No."
"No?"
"No."
"What is with beings saying 'no' to Zim all day?"
"At least, not until you do something for me."
"What?"
"You see, before this whole mess started I was working on a project at the main Vortian Research and Development."
"They let you work on something at VR&D?"
"No, of course not, I was stealing tech from there and was working on my very illegal project. Anyway, I left it there and from what I heard from the Vortians here, the VR&D building is still in one piece."
"You want us to retrieve your project?"
"Yes, it's on the twelfth floor in a green box, here's the key to open it."
"A box and key? That's how you hide a secret illegal project?"
"What was I suppose to use, a retina scan? You know how easy it is to bypass those? All you have to do is take the eyes of the owner, I've done it hundreds of times!"
"And if we don't agree?"
"Then I kill you here, I've been interested in experimenting on your pale friend over there, it's not everyday I meet a new species."
"Fine, we'll do it."
"Thank you for your willing cooperation."
"Wait," Gaz said, "What's to stop us from forgetting about your box after we get out of here."
"I'm glad you asked, look at your wrists." Zim and Gaz looked at their right wrists and saw a gray bracelet with a small screen attached to it.
"How the hell did you get these on our hands?"
"I wrapped it around your wrists then locked it in."
"Yeah but-"
"Once you leave, a timer will appear and start counting down from 3724. Once it hits zero, it will blow up and you will no longer have a right hand."
"But I use that hand!" Zim exclaimed.
"And if you wish to keep using it, you'll meet me at the Ship Dock. I'm certain you can recall your way there from VR&D, Zim."
"Fine, we'll get your box, just get us out of here already."
"Yes, just follow me to the exit."
"Wait," Gaz said, "Earlier you said launch, what did you mean by that?"
Crax just gave Gaz a smile before walking out of the room.
"Heboadians! Calm down already!" Tel was frantically screaming for his people to stop frantically screaming. He knew only more death would come if all they did was run around in circles while a metal monster gnawed on them.
"Sir, you might be more convincing if you weren't panicking," Skoodge was hiding alongside Tel beside the Dibship. He was calmly awaiting for some sort of attack orders from his temporary leader.
"I-I know but look at that thing! It's five times our size with teeth! On my planet that usually means run away!"
"But sir, we have nowhere to run to, during my perimeter check earlier, I found that the entire area behind us is blocked off by a chasm."
"When did you do a perimeter check? I assigned you to remove the bombs!"
"When I climbed on top of the ship, I looked behind us and saw a giant chasm."
"Oh."
"RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWRRRRR!" The beast's scream alerted Tel and he quickly poked his head out to see the exact same scene he saw five minutes ago, only bloodier.
"Haha! Yes, die you Irken loving scum!"
"Gee, boss, you're really getting into it."
The voices came from beside them, it was the Resisty group, still tied up.
"Hey, shut up over there!" Tel yelled, "Do you want that thing to kill us!"
"Us?" Nar said, "You mean you! You and all your shrimpy friends!"
"Shrimpy? I'm much larger than you!"
"With half the brain power!"
"What? I will come over there and-"
"Sir, now's not the time to be arguing," Skoodge interrupted before Tel got too distracted.
"Right, thank you, Skoodge. You, Nar was it? Keep your group quiet!"
"Or else what?" The Vortian said.
"Or else, uh, Skoodge, give me options for how we can threaten them."
"Sir, I am an elite Irken combat specialist," Skoodge said, "I have no training in the methods of thinking."
"That's not what I wanted to hear, Skoodge."
"And you won't like what you hear next also." Nar turned towards the rampaging hunter then started shouting, "HEY! YOU OVER THERE KILLING EVERY BEING! THERE'S SOME EASY TARGETS RIGHT HERE!"
"You stupid, idiotic, crazed, suicidal fool!" The hunter noticed Nar's shouts and interpreted them as taunts. This angered him and he started rushing towards the tied up Resisty.
"Yes! Yes! Yes!"
"Sir, I don't think this is a good idea," Spleenk said.
"You're always wrong anyway!" The beastly hunter lunged at the Resisty just as Nar turned to talk to Spleenk. Instinctively, Spleenk pushed himself out of the way, taking his tied up teammates to safety and leaving them un-maimed.
"You may have a point there, Spleenk."
Fortunately for the Resisty, the hunter turned his attention to the two small beings next to the ship. Tel and Skoodge looked at the monstrosity facing them and quickly ran on top of the ship. The hunter ran at them and they barely escaped the hunter's arm spikes and teeth. It backed up and repeatedly leaped at the Dibship, barely missing Tel and Skoodge each time.
Tel tried to think of what to do, he thought about his people who were probably still running in circles despite not being chased by the beast anymore. After seeing the hunter leap over his face again, he thought of an idea, but he really didn't like it.
"Skoodge, my people need an example in order for them to adapt," Tel jumped off the Dibship, "When you think I'm gonna die, please save me."
Tel stood on ground, facing the hunter. The hunter was a bit cautious at first, but charged at him anyway. He was incredibly scared of the beast suddenly increasing in size. He didn't blink, his legs froze, and once the hunter got close enough he raised he robotic arm. A jet of fire shot out and the hunter reeled back before the flame could touch him. However, Tel's flame stopped when his arm was getting overheated, making an opening for the hunter. It charged towards Tel again, and he was defenseless. Fortunately, Skoodge listened to his order.
Skoodge shoved Tel out of the way, leaving both of them on the ground, and a killing machine between them and the Dibship. Tel did what he wanted to do, and quickly the hunter was surrounded by robotic, monkey-like aliens.
"Use the firewall!" Tel gave the order and the Heboadians all raised their arms and shot flames out. The hunter was in the center of a ring of flames. It jumped straight up and outside the flames. It landed on on fours and immediately launched itself at the little beings. It was too fast for them to react and the circle of Heboadians broke.
"Uh, uh, do that one thing! Uh, Death Windmills or something like that!" Upon Tel's command, they stood side by side, half with their laser-blades drawn, then the other half used their robot arm to throw them at the hunter while spinning. Mid-flight they also shot flames, becoming spinning cyber monkeys with flaming laser-blades.
The hunter couldn't believe what it was seeing and tried to dodge them, while it avoided fatal hits its armor had several slice and scorch marks. Despite the visual damage, the hunter still moved around with the same speed as when he first appeared. It grabbed two Heboadians and killed them on his arm spikes.
Tel didn't know what to do now, it survived two of their best maneuvers. His plan was to just show his people another option than frantically running and hoped they would kill this beast. Tel needed something more to kill this thing, and fortunately he got what he wanted.
A second beast lunged at the hunter, knocking it to the ground and away from the Heboadians. Skoodge and Tel recognized the scaly beast that had come to aid them, it was Kry holding a black glove in his mouth. He dropped the glove by Tel and Skoodge and pounced on the fallen hunter, launching a flurry of bites on its body and limbs, shredding the armor. The hunter tried to slice Kry, but he rolled away before it could hit.
The hunter tackled Kry against the wall of the Dibship and pressed him there. It used its free hand to try to stab Kry, but his jaw caught the hunter's arm and was holding it there.
"Skoodge, get me a laser-blade, we'll slay this beast!"
"Yes, sir!" Skoodge grabbed two laser-blades from two dead Heboadians and gave one to Tel. "Hoo-ha!"
Skoodge and Tel charged the hunter and stabbed it in the back, causing it to shriek and let go of Kry. The hunter shook Tel and Skoodge off his back, but the laser-blades stayed lodged in its back. The hunter glared at them, Kry used the chance to leap on its back and crunched down on its shoulder, breaking the armor and causing it to leak red fluid. The hunter threw Kry off his back and into the Dibship, crashing through the metal casing of the ship. The hunter clutched his wound in agony, Tel decided to use this opening.
"Everyone Swarm!" Tel yelled and all the Heboadians that still had laser-blades leaped on the hunter and stabbed it while it was down. The hunter was in immense pain and ran around trying to shake them off.
"Everyone hold! Keep stabbing! We c-AH!" Tel turned to see cyan lights staring at him, he was standing there casually with his robot tongue sticking out, "Gir? What the Boad happened to you!"
"The moose made me fly and I landed inside the mean ship. Then it was dark so I took a nap. Then I woke up and walked out here. My dream had marshmallows in it," Gir spoke while ignoring the screaming death cyborg behind him.
"Moose? Whatever, Gir, you can...um, you can...Skoodge, what are Gir's combat abilities?"
Skoodge was one of the beings holding onto the hunter with a sword, he quickly leaped off to address Tel.
"Sir, I do not believe Gir has any capabilities that would be of use in the current situation."
"Right, okay, thank you, Skoodge."
"Yes, sir, hoo-ha!" Skoodge turned towards the hunter and leaped on it again, clutching the same spot he held onto before.
"Gir, just go back into the ship and get us some weapons or something."
"Okay," Gir cheerfully ran into the ship. Tel wasn't expecting him to come back.
"Heboadians! And Skoodge! It's time for the final strike! Use the Jet-Fire now!" Tel rushed towards the hunter and them all of the beings on it jumped off. The Heboadians formed a vertical pyramid with their cyber arm facing the hunter with Tel on top. While the hunter was still in pain they activated their flamethrower and engulfed the hunter in a stream of fire. The hunter let out one more shriek before collapsing to the ground and remaining motionless.
The Heboadians stopped their flame and saw the remains of the hunter. His armor was half melted and deformed, any organic part of the was revealed was charred and pure black. The Heboadians started celebrating their victory and congratulated each other for surviving.
Meanwhile, the remaining Resisty members peeked out from behind the rock where they hid, still tied up and in awe that they actually killed an SSS Unit.
"Uh, Nar," Spleenk said.
"Yes?" Nar said.
"We should probably leave."
"That's a good idea." The Resisty cowered behind the rock again, not witnessing the Heboadian celebration coming to an end.
Among the chatter and yells by his people, Tel heard a strange noise. At first it was faint, but it grew louder. It was similar to heavy breathing, but it was heavily distorted. The pattern of breaths was irregular and the length of each one would vary between long and short. Finally, what scared Tel the most, the noise was behind them.
A monstrous roar overpowered the shouts of the Heboadians, silencing them all. The origin was the beast they had supposedly slain, horrendously disfigured by the melted metal that it wore, and black from flames shot by its source of fury.
Freaked out by the beast after they threw all they had at him, Tel grabbed a piece of metal that had fallen from the monster. He threw it at its face and yelled a single order.
"RUN! EVERYONE RUN AND HIDE!"
The seconds while the hunter's vision was obscured were enough for the Heboadians to disappear from his sight. Slowly, it walked towards the closest and most logical place for them to hide, the Dibship.
"Shush, everyone be quiet. He'll find us if we're too loud. Why did we all decide to hide in the Dibship anyway?" The hunter heard the voice coming from the back of the Dibship.
"Hey, who's the one that's touch-"
"Monkey-face!"
"Wha-Gir? What are you doing?"
"I got the math thingy!"
"Math, wha-Gir! I can't handle you-wait, is that Daj's Fraction-"
The hunter ripped open the metal the stood between it and the voices. The hunter faced the monkey-like beings that burned him, a pudgy Irken, and the barrel of a giant blaster held by a small cyan robot.
Gir rapidly pressed the trigger, sending a charged laser shot at the hunter and sending it flying. Tel and Skoodge cheered for Gir but quickly noticed that the beam didn't stop. Gir had pressed the trigger so many times that the beam continued to fire even after Gir let go of it. The next thing they noticed, the force of the beam was causing to Dibship to move at high speed.
"Haha! We've got them now!" Nar and the Resisty watched as the ship rapidly slid away.
"Got them how?" Shloonktapooxis said.
"The bombs are still strapped on the ship, and we have the detonator! Spleenk, give me the detonator!"
"Uh, I don't have it," Spleenk said.
"...just our luck."
Dib, Kor, and Daj hid behind a piece of a broken building, desperately trying to avoid the giant, hulking hunter. They heard the sound of its heavy steps and the crunching of broken buildings as it lifted them up to search for its prey.
"Come out!" The hunter bellowed as he step closer to the their hiding spot. "You here?"
"No." Dib and Kor looked at Daj with a shocked looked at his sudden response. They questioned his mental stability in their minds.
"No? Then where go?"
"Uh, behind you."
"Okay." They heard the hunter lumbering away, Dib and Kor were in utter disbelief at what just happened. "Wait, who you?"
The hunter had returned, to the trio's fear.
"Uh...uh, I'm a rock."
"Rock?"
"Yeah. A rock. That's a lady. That's pregnant. With rock babies. My rock husband left me."
"Oh, thank you rock lady. You nice."
"Yeah, you're nice too."
The hunter left and once the coast was clear, they came out from behind the rock.
"I cannot believe for one second that that worked," Dib said, "Even if I did see it, I still can't believe it."
"Darvon psychology training at its best." Daj said.
"I would call out how stupid that training must be if I didn't see it work." Kor said.
"How long do you think it'll be before he realizes the truth?"
"Seeing as how he was stupid enough to believe you, not for a while."
"Then we should leave."
The trio started moving in the opposite direction as the hunter, but they didn't even get ten feet before stopping at a strange sight. It was a very tall building that they didn't notice while running in terror, and most surprisingly, it wasn't in ruins like the building that surrounded it.
Dib read the name of the building on the sign next to it, "Vortian Research and Development."
"Why do you think it's still in one piece?" Daj asked.
"No idea, but I think we should just avoid it, I don't have a good feeling about it."
"I disagree."
"I'm with Daj," Kor said, "We're very low on resources at the moment and a research and development center is bound to have stuff we can use, or at least junk we can salvage and repair."
"And I don't want to keep running from that thing, I want to find a weapon that can kill it."
"What? What if it's some sort of hunter breeding ground or something!"
"Which would we have a better chance against, a giant hunter we can't kill with this laser, or a hundred hunters that can die to this laser and your sword?"
"Both options really suck."
"I doubt this is a hunter breeding ground," Kor said, "This is a Vortian facility after all and hunters are Earth beings. They just invaded this planet, they wouldn't have time to set us some sort of breeding ground for them."
"Yeah, alright, fine. I guess we're going in then."
"I cannot believe I'm getting shot out of a cannon." Gaz was sitting in the barrel of a cannon with Zim, about to be fired at high speeds to the Vortian Research and Development center.
"The force-field required great force to be penetrated, it'll require great force to get out!" Crax continued to type on his console, "Okay, I've set the coordinates for you to land at the VR&D."
"This is so stupid."
"Crax, I'm finding this method more and more questionable." Zim said.
"Why aren't you coming with us, again?"
"I'm the only one that knows how to work the launch console." Crax replied.
"It's as if I'm forgetting about one important detail about this." Zim continued to ponder.
"Commencing launch."
"Something that would make me rethink this entire procedure."
"Hey, wait, if you're the only one who can use that console, how do you plan to meet us?" Gaz asked.
"That's what I'm forgetting!"
"Launch!" Crax pressed the button and fired Zim and Gaz.
They grabbed onto each other as they soared higher and higher, seeing as how Zim was the only one with a parachute. Once they were at the point where all the buildings looked less than a centimeter in size they started falling, at that point, they saw a strange object was spiraling towards them. They collided, causing Zim and Gaz to separate.
"Hmm, that looked like a dead, burnt moose," Zim said.
"ZIM!" Gaz yelled as she was now free-falling without a parachute. Zim and Gaz were separated by ten or fifteen feet. They started trying to move towards each other, "Just don't activate the parachute!"
"I can't anyway! It's on a timer!"
"Your stupid friend and his stupid timers!"
"Here, I'll check how much time we have left!"
"Just hurry up and catch me already!" They drew closer to each other as they drew closer to the ground, suddenly a beeping started from Zim's parachute.
"Uh oh," The chute activated slowing Zim down, fortunately Gaz was close enough to grab onto Zim's leg.
"When I see Crax again, I'm gonna kill him."
"I doubt whatever hit us was his fault."
"I don't care, I need someone to vent on."
Zim took her comment somewhat lightly and looked forward.
"We're gonna miss the building."
"Huh?" Gaz saw that as they got closer to the building they would miss their mark on top of the building, "Don't worry about it."
Gaz pulled out a blaster that Crax had supplied them and shot a window in the building. Gaz started swinging her legs and aimed at the parachute.
"What are you doing?"
Gaz shot the parachute as she swung forward, sending her through the opening she made and Zim slamming into the building before Gaz pulled him up.
"That's for earlier." Zim shot her a glare before turning to his wrist. He tried to activate the map but nothing came up, it was entirely blank.
"Well, we won't know if anyone is around us."
"Whatever."
"Whatever? Even if we end up getting swarmed by Tak's hunters?"
"Zim, in 24 hours I was in a ship crash, imprisoned, twice, fell from a cliff, and shot out a cannon. If, at any moment, I'm given any good reason to fire this blaster at any living target, I will shoot them several times, in non-fatal areas, so that I can see them suffer before I walk up to them and squish their head."
Gaz stormed off, followed by a cautious Zim.
Tak was growing increasingly frustrated. She lost SSS Unit X-001, 002, and 003 to Zim's stupid little group of idiots. She couldn't believe that Zim had slipped out from under her nose and she kept searching for any sign of him with her camera drones. She stopped the fall would've killed him but there was no body of either him or Gaz.
"Si, si, let's just leave them. We'll torture them later instead of executing them right now! It'll be fun! We're having so much fun, right Tak? Idiota."
Tak wished she had shut off the monitor a long time ago. She looked on the map and saw 004 walking away from Dib's group. She pulled out a mic and started yelling into it.
"004! Where do you think you're going!"
"Voices? In my head! They scare me!"
"004! What's wrong with you? It's me, Tak!"
"Tak? Tak in brain! Tak in brain!"
"Wha-no you-004, just turn around and go get those beings that killed 001 and 002."
"No, rock lady with babies said targets this way."
"Rock? 004! Just turn around now! They tricked you!"
"Rock lady lying? I kill everyone!" 004 cut off his communication link.
"What was wrong with him?!"
"He must of activated cannibalistic cyborg mode, increasing his mass and destruction capabilities tenfold after the consumption of cyborg material! Very experimental."
"But why was he so stupid?"
"The reason not every soldier has it is because the greater the strength gain the greater the intelligence loss."
"Great. Now the number of idiots I work with has increased."
"Have you realized what you've done yet?"
"What?"
"You just sent an enraged death monster towards the Vortian Research and Development."
"Yeah?"
"..."
"That's where I left my ship!"
"Idiota."
"That stupid moose will destroy that building and my ship with it!" Tak tried to connect to him but it wouldn't get through.
"What are you gonna do now?"
"Ugh, I'm gonna have to get 005 aren't I?" Tak started trying to establish a connection to the last hunter. "005, where are you?"
"..." There was no answer.
"You're still doing that stupid silent thing aren't you? When will you realize that hurts our operations more than it helps!"
"..."
"Ugh, just get to the Vortian Research and Development and kill everyone, including 004."
"..."
"And do not destroy the building!"
"..."
"My ship is there and if it gets damage I'll be stuck on this stupid rock with Zim and his band of idiots!"
"..."
"005? You understand that!"
"He cut transmission three sentences ago," The Employer said.
"I can't rely on anyone can I? I guess I'm gonna have to handle this myself," Tak shut off the map and readied her blaster, "Mimi, we're leaving!"
"Planning on stopping those insects yourself?"
"Insects, Irken, or hunter, I just really want to shot something right now."