Author's Notes: Okay guys the next episode is up, and for those of you interested this episode covers Chapters 18-19 of my original story, Invader Zim Renegades, and is inspired by, The Disney movie: The Lion King: Simba's Pride all rights reserved. As always I Thank you all for reading and ask that you please review!
Yours Truly, RoxieDivine ;)
S01 Ep09: Exile and War
Episode Summary: It would appear the Tallest have the perfect advantage over their foes! Can the Swollen Eyeball help save the day or will our heros learn that their enemies lie with more than just the Irken race?
[Back with Zim]
(Later That Night)
Pain…
He had never seen such pain! Zim looked at the chaos around him and he felt his Squeedlyspooch lurch with guilt! How could he have been so blind? How could he let this happen?! Suddenly anger wrapped around his guilt, tightening its hold with every passing second. How could he?! Why couldn't he see through their lies?!
"We're here," Dib said. His words pulled Zim out of the ever-darkening world. "Listen, put this on." He held out a brown, dirty hoody. which he must have found on their way over. "You can hide in this," Dib offered.
"Dib, I can't hide from the truth. This is my fault! I have to face it," Zim told him. "They may not accept me for what I am, but I can live with that. I am used to having to earn respect, after all."
"But Zim…" Dib was begging him with his eyes. "Please put it on! They may shoot first and ask questions later!"
Zim sighed; the Dib did have a point. He slipped into the dirty thing and put on his human disguise for good measure and threw the hood onto his head. "Let's just get this over with then."
Dib led the way to the secret entrance of the Swollen Eyeball headquarters, which was nothing more than an old run-down building on the edge of a cliff. The place had definitely seen better days. After all, it didn't even have a roof anymore. Dib pressed on, knowing how his fellow Eyeball members would feel about this, but also hoping that they could look over the differences between them and Zim, and that they would help them in this dire time of need.
Zim found himself shaking as fear threatened to consume him. He knew what was coming; he saw as thousands of humans turned his way, each armed with weapons ready for war; a war they'd never win…
"Agent Moth-Man?" A man emerged from the crowd.
"Agent Disembodied-Head!" Dib ran up to him. "Please, you have to help us! They have my sister!"
The crowd grew silent, each feeling his pain.
"We will get her back," Agent Disembodied-Head vowed.
"They got Gaz?!" A female voice asked behind them.
Dib turned to see Rachel, Mark, and James. They were all a bit roughed up, but otherwise okay.
"What are you doing here?" Dib asked.
"The Swollen Eyeball brought us here. They're saving as many humans as they can, but some have already been captured." Rachel threw her arms around Dib as she spoke, tears flowing from her eyes. "I'm so sorry Dib! Your Dad, he led the first fleet into battle. He... he's dead, Dib," she sobbed.
Dib's world wanted to shatter around him at that very moment, but he knew there was no time to cry; no time to feel sorry for himself. Gaz needed him; he was all she had now.
"It's not safe here," Zim warned as he pulled off his hood. He could feel the enemy closing in; they had to get underground and wait it out. They wouldn't stand a chance in a war. At least, not yet; not now.
"How much longer do we have to wait?!" A man suddenly shouted. "How much longer will we allow these alien scum to walk all over us?!"
The humans all suddenly cheered.
"Let's take the war to them!" The man shouted over their cries.
No… Zim could feel the doom drawing closer! They wouldn't survive a war! They were not ready! Suddenly, he couldn't take it anymore! The world around him was spinning out of control. He had to stop them before they all got themselves killed! He pulled off the hoody the rest of the way.
"ALL OF YOU! BE SILENT!" Everyone looked at him and froze.
"Hey, aren't you my next-door neighbor?" A man asked Zim.
"Yeah, he lives down the street from me," a girl said.
"Why is he green?" A woman asked, raising her weapon, unsure of herself or of Zim. The crowd follow suit.
"It's okay, he goes to our school," Rachel said, pushing through the crowd to stand beside Zim.
Mark followed suit. "He's, our friend!" He said.
"They both are," James agreed as he ran up beside Zim and Dib.
"Listen! My sister is in trouble! She needs our help!" Dib shouted.
"The whole world needs our help!" A soldier spoke up. "We are not ready for war!" He told Dib; his head bowed. "We are all going to die…"
"We can help!" Dib said, gesturing to himself and to Zim, who glanced around slightly nervously.
"How?" A woman asked.
"Because, we have something; an advantage," Dib turned to Zim. "This is Invader Zim! He's the Irken Empire's BIGGEST enemy and threat right now!"
Zim sighed, took a deep breath to quell his fear, and pulled off his disguise. All the air around them seemed to be sucked out as a collective gasp filled the space. There was silence for a moment before…
"HE'S ONE OF THEM?!" Someone screamed.
"GET HIM OUT OF HERE!" Another person shouted.
"No! HE CAN HELP US!" Dib exclaimed. "The enemy of our enemy is our friend!"
Everyone started screaming at once, some voices full of rage and others full of fear, or both.
"My name is Invader Zim!" Zim spoke up suddenly, and all the voices fell silent, everyone listening to him intently with wide, scared eyes. "My name is Invader Zim, and… and I brought this upon you all." Everyone held their breath expectantly.
"Zim, you don't have to-" Dib began in a tense whisper, but Zim silenced him as well.
"No," Zim said. "They deserve to know the truth." Zim stood tall and addressed the still silent crowd once more. "I am an Irken Invader, and I come from the planet known as Irk; my previous home…" Zim stopped for a second in remorse before continuing. "My race uses deception to overcome a planet's defenses on a regular basis. That is how we've always expanded our empire… and now Earth is being taken over as well."
The crowd gasped again, all of them feeling even more helpless now that they knew this race of Irkens were experts at conquest.
"I was a part of what we Irkens call the Great Assigning, where certain Invaders were entrusted to go ahead of our army and gather intel on our targeted planets. I was assigned to your planet, and I hid among you. I learned your secrets, plotted against you, and reported everything back to my leaders."
"You; you did this?" Rachel looked at him with such horror in her eyes that it made Zim cringe.
"We… WE TRUSTED YOU!" Mark yelled.
"We all did!" James spat in his face.
"I know," Zim said, cringing and bowing his head in shame. "I wish I could tell you that I didn't know any better, that this was just the way I was raised, but that would be a lie. I was raised to believe that my race is better than any other race, that we are superior, and that we deserved to rule over all other races…. I came here to deliver Earth to my leaders in order to regain their trust and earn my place back among my people. But... I was wrong. So very, very wrong. They used me, they never planned to welcome me back into the collective..."
"Invader Zim, why have you come here?" A voice from the crowd suddenly cracked like a whip on bare flesh.
Dib's eyes widened. It was General Lee, the leading officer and one of the only military members of the Swollen Eyeball committee left alive.
"I have come for your mercy," Zim bowed his head respectfully as the humans around him began to whisper. "And to aid in Earth's defense…"
"My mercy?!" General Lee asked. "You should have never come back to the ground! You should have stayed with your own kind! You only taunt us with your presence! We don't need help from the likes of you! Earth is OUR home, and WE will defend it!"
The humans shouted their agreements.
"Please, I mean no disrespect," Zim fell to his knees. "I was wrong before; I see that now! No creature is above another, but without help, you will truly fail at saving your home world!"
"Please listen to him!" Dib pleaded. "He's only trying to help!"
"Help?! He's done enough!" A voice said, it was a middle-aged woman carrying a small child… "He is the reason this is happening in the first place!" She yelled.
"YEAH!" The crowd of humans roared with agreement.
"Give him judgment!" The woman with the child cried desperately.
"Judgment!" The crowd called. "Judgment!" They chanted.
"SILENCE!" General Lee ordered. Everything went dead-still. All Dib could hear was the sound of his own rapidly beating heart. "The people; you ask for my judgement? I pass it now, and my word is final!"
Zim looked up, eyes pleading. General Lee met his gaze with a fire of his own.
"Exile!"
The one word echoed around them. Zim bowed his head in shame.
"NO! You don't understand! HE'S ON OUR SIDE!" Dib tried to get to Zim, but the crowd held him back.
"Silence, you fool!" The woman cried. "He is not one of us, and he never will be! We can't let him stay here!"
The words cut deep, like daggers cutting through tissue paper. So easy to cut; oh, so very delicate. He was right back where he started… He was banished from everything he knew all over again, but this time the pain stung so much deeper. He was alone now; he was truly, truly alone now. There was absolutely nowhere he could go now…
"No!" Dib was still pleading. "We won't survive without him!" Dib pushed through the crowd and fell at General Lee's feet. "We know nothing about the enemy!" Dib still tried to reason.
"It's alright Dib." Zim rose; a stricken look clouded his face. "I'll go," he said as he turned to General Lee.
"Zim, no…" Dib grabbed onto his arm, preventing him from moving another step.
Zim turned and looked at his once enemy; now one of his only friends. "Be safe," he whispered, then he forced his arm free and began to walk.
"Zim!" Dib went to run after him, but a group of people soon blocked his path. He turned to Gir. "Gir, please, do something!"
GIR looked to his retreating Master and back to Dib. Did he stay with Dib or follow his Master?
He kept looking back and forth; what should he do?
Zim walked through the crowd with his head held as high as he could hold it; they parted like the Red Sea. He walked the road of shame as they spat words of anger in his face.
"Deception!" General Lee screamed. "Disgrace!"
The crowd answered his words with words of their own.
"Evil as plain as the scar on his face!" Zim couldn't help but self-consciously touch the scar that ran over his cheekbone from his brutal beatings on the Massive…
"Deception!"
"An outrage!"
"Disgrace!"
"For shame!"
"He asked for trouble the moment he came…"
Zim could feel the weight of every word, but he refused to crumble. He would show no regret; he would not let them see the scars they were making on his soul...
"Deception!" General Lee repeated.
"An outrage!" The humans cried out.
"He can't change his stripes!"
"Disgrace!"
"For shame!"
"You know these Outsider types!"
"Evil as plain as the scar on his face!"
"Deception!"
"An outrage!
"Just leave us alone!"
"Disgrace!"
"For shame!
"Traitor, go back with your own!"
"He asked for trouble the moment he came!"
Zim wished the torture would just end! He wanted to run, but his legs felt like lead; he wanted to scream, but he had lost his own voice… So, he marched on as the crowd screamed…
"Born in grief!"
"Raised in hate!"
"Helpless to defy his fate!"
"Let him run!"
"Let him live!"
"But do not forget what we cannot forgive!"
"No!" Dib struggled to break free. He had to get to Zim! Had to stop this before it was too late! The crowd held him back, repeating the same words as if trying to reason with him that this was the only way. Dib screamed in frustration, struggling to get through and wishing he could manage, but he just couldn't get through…
"And he is not one of us!"
"He has never been one of us!"
"He is not part of us!"
"Not our kind!"
"Someone once lied to us; now we're not so blind! For we knew he would do what he's done, and we know that he'll never be one of us!"
"ZIM!" Dib screamed as Zim got to the edge of the cliff. When he arrived at the edge, Zim noticed an Irken camera following him from several meters away. The Tallest must still be watching him. Once he saw it, he knew what had to be done. He looked back over the cliff; he had to make this look good.
Zim turned back to Dib; sorrow filled his eyes. "I'm sorry," he whispered. "I'm so sorry… for everything…" And then? He jumped…
"MASTER!" GIR ran after him and jumped over the cliff as well, not being able to let his Master leave him behind in such a manor.
"Zim, NO!" Dib screamed.
Up in the Massive, with screens still showing a live feed of Zim, Gaz cried. She looked away and shut her eyes closed tightly, no longer able to bear watching the horrid events taking place before her eyes. "No…" She whispered brokenly.
"He is not one of us!" The crowd spoke in unison.
"Deception!"
Dib bowed his head in pure defeat; there was no way Zim had survived that fall! Surely all was lost... Why would he jump?! Zim… Dib had never thought he'd see his ex-enemy driven so far into the abyss… and now he was just gone…?
"Disgrace…"
The Tallest and the Invader soldiers having seen Zim fall out of sight cheered in victory; their only threat was now gone forever! Gaz screamed in sorrow as the video feed was cut and she got what would be her last glimpse of her brother and the empty space where her true love Zim had stood seconds before… When did everything go so horribly wrong?
"Deception…"
Tears filled her eyes as her heart finally shattered. It was all over now; all hope was lost... Gaz was never much of an optimist, but now she could truly feel the cold grasp of pure loss and terror! Zim was gone…
"Disgrace…"
In the canyon, unbeknownst to any other soul, Zim slid on top of GIR down the canyon's side, remaining undamaged all the way down. How could he have let himself stoop so low?! After all he had done to save them, they had betrayed him… no. He had betrayed them, hadn't he?
"Maybe the Earth would be better off if I just died..." His face fell lower than he ever thought possible. His spirit felt six feet under the ground… how could he be so worthless?
Zim closed his eyes, one question on his mind: "Why?"
Words still echoed in the distance, sending vibrations down his antenna. He wished for the first time ever that he didn't have such a wonderful sense of hearing! He couldn't help but hear…
"Deception…"
"Master! You gotta get up!" GIR urged to Zim.
Zim laid in the dirt as the sun bared down on him. He wanted it to evaporate him; insides and all, taking him away from this cruel existence that he had known for so long.
"You have to help them! They need you!" GIR pleaded.
"They don't want my help, GIR. They don't need me," Zim groaned.
"They'll die! You have to stop them!" GIR was begging now.
"You heard them! They'll never accept me; I will never be one of them."
"Don't do it for them; do it for her. Do it for Gazzy…"
Zim's body suddenly filled with a new sense of urgency and determination. GIR was right. Gaz did need him, and he would not give up; not until she was safe, and sound and he had fixed the wrongs he had done. It didn't matter that the humans didn't want his help; he was doing this for Gaz. "Let's do this GIR."
GIR jumped for joy.
It was time to kick some evil alien butt.
[Back with Dib...]
"You just made a big mistake!" Dib screamed. "He was our only hope!"
"You need to decide whose side you're on," General Lee warned. "Troops, move out!"
"Please, you have to believe me!" Dib yelled as the armed men and women walked past him. "Rachel, please!" Their eyes met. "Please, you will die out there…"
"I have to do something; Gaz needs us, both of us." Rachel reasoned.
"All of us," Mark appeared to Dib's right, and James to his left.
"Zim… you were right about him, Dib." James spat the alien's name.
Dib sighed "Yeah, well, sometimes I wish I wasn't."
"Why defend him? He did all of this!" Mark yelled.
"Listen to me; Zim has his flaws, but you have to understand. He's changed. He really does love Gaz!"
"But he's an alien, and he did all of this!" James yelled.
"He only did this to survive! To prove himself to his people! But he was wrong, he finally understood that, and he just wanted to fix the damage he'd done! That's all he wanted…" Dib quieted, full of despair at the thought of Zim's death. Suddenly, a voice sounded behind him…
"And I will." They all turned to see who had spoken in that familiar, unforgettable voice…
"Zim! You're alive!" Dib was shocked.
The other three looked at him with distain, and he didn't blame them.
"Look, I know I lied to you, and used you, but I meant what I said, Rachel." Zim and her met each other's gaze. "I would never hurt Gaz."
"So, she knew?" Rachel asked Dib.
Dib and Zim both nodded.
"Yeah, she knew," Dib said.
"Why help us now? Because they betrayed you?" Mark asked, "Are you just on our side for vengeance?"
"No. I am on your side because I want to make amends for what I've done, and I will do just that, with or without your help."
"Not alone you won't," James clarified, nodding to Zim and Dib. "I'm in, so what do you need us for?"
"I cannot do this on my own," Zim admitted. "I know we don't see eye to eye on many things, but if we want to save Gaz and this planet, we have to work together."
Dib held his breath as the others seemed to take Zim's words under careful consideration.
Zim could feel the tension of judgment in the air. He knew this feeling all too well. He felt as if, no matter what he did, he'd always have to earn everyone's respect. Was this to be his life? Was he always going to end up breaking his back to prove his own worth?
Finally, the three looked to each other and nodded their agreement.
"Fine, but I've got my eye on you," Mark warned. "Make one wrong move and I'll-"
"I understand," Zim cut him off.
"So, what's the plan?" Rachel looked to Dib.
"They're all leaving to their deaths," Dib said grimly. "What do we do?" He looked to Zim hopefully.
"We will not win this war. Not today, anyways. We're not ready," Zim informed them gravely.
"So, what do you suppose we do, huh?! Do we do nothing?!" James yelled.
"Precisely," Zim nodded, thinking that they'd understood.
"What? We do nothing. Come on, Zim! You can't be serious! We're not listening to this, are we Dib?" Mark asked hopefully.
Dib shook his head. "Zim's right; if we hope to stand a chance we need to wait until the enemy thinks they're safe."
"And what about Gaz?" Rachel asked.
"The Tallest, no doubt, will keep her in captivity to use as leverage over the Dib." Zim told them.
"And you?" James asked.
"If we're lucky they only saw me jump over the cliff and did not stick around to overhear this conversation."
"So that's it? We just go underground or hide out on the streets?" Mark was frantic. "We can't live that way!"
"No, you're right. We wouldn't last," Zim agreed.
"Then what?" Dib asked the obvious question.
"The Invaded become The Invaders," Zim smiled evilly.
"What?!" The four of them looked at him in confusion.
"It's simple; we go underground for a little, show a bit of resistance to be convincing, and then we allow ourselves to get captured. Then we will wait patiently for the right moment to fight back."
"It's not a bad plan," Dib admitted, "but what about you? "You can't get captured; they'll know who you are in an instant!"
"Not to mention the fact that they're looking for Dib too," Rachel pointed out.
"That's why Dib and I will be in disguise."
"No offense Zim, but your human disguise isn't all that good," Dib pointed out.
Zim smiled his famous evil smirk. "You remember Tak's evil hotdog stand, Dib?" He asked slyly.
"Yeah…" Dib responded, completely not getting it.
"Did you ever wonder where it went?"
"We'll, I assumed that the government-" Dib froze. "You, you took it!" Dib stammered.
Zim nodded.
"All of it?"
"Yup!" Zim cackled. "I took the liberty of turning it into my backup base, and so that you would never find it I hid it where no one would ever expect an Irken's lab to be."
"Where?" Mark asked.
"5,000 ft. under the sea…"
[Back with Gaz...]
Chaos…
Gaz had never seen such madness! The streets of her once beautiful city was now flooded with a mixture of Irken and human soldiers fighting for every inch of land. Where was he? She was frantic; Dib was nowhere in sight! Part of her was thankful, but another part was worried sick. She had already lost Zim; she couldn't bear to lose Dib too! She couldn't believe he was gone…She remembered seeing the scene play out before her.
The Tallest had sent a spy drone to watch Dib's and Zim's movements. They went to the Swollen Eyeball and begged for their help. Zim come clean about who and what he truly was. But instead of excepting his help they turned against him and set him over a cliff!
She couldn't believe it...
They had been through so much together, but she still lost him… it was the incident with her mother all over again. She watched as the war raged on, and with every passing second her dread deepened. They were going to lose this war. Gaz watched as men, women, and even children tried to fight off the enemy, and she flinched with every blow struck against her fellow humans. Her hopes sinking further and further to the floor; how could she have hope now? She tried to keep holding on, but there was no longer anything to hold onto.
How could she have faith when there was nothing left?
[Back with Dib...]
"Wow; this is amazing!" Dib looked around Zim's secret lair in astonishment.
Zim had taken Tak's hotdog stand and turned it in to a fortress. Zim looked around the place with a sense of pride. What a lot of people didn't know about Zim was that he had quite the talent for inventing things. Tak's once base was now a large dome thousands of feet under water, equipped with its own high-tech computer and weaponry. In fact, it looked very similar to Zim's lab at home.
'It must have taken him months to finish this!' Dib thought to himself. The tension was noted in the air; Dib wondered if the others would ever feel at ease around Zim again, and he also wondered when he himself had started to trust the alien.
Zim was wondering the same thing; he knew he had a lot to prove, but he was used to it. He would show them that he could be trusted.
"So, this is where we're hiding out?" James asked. "Well, it's not so bad, I guess."
"There's enough space for everyone to have their own room," Zim told them. "There's a living room, a TV, and a fridge in the kitchen."
"So how long are we camping out here?" Rachel asked.
"Yeah, and how are we going to make it back here after we're captured?" Mark snapped. It was obvious to everyone that he and Zim had a lot of ground to cover before they saw each other as friends again.
"We only need to stay here long enough to prepare." Zim sat down in a chair, rubbing his temples in frustration. He was trying very hard not to snap back, and it wasn't easy. He sighed heavily and picked up a piece of technology. He held it up for everyone to see; it was a black computer chip. "This is a device that allows its wearer to teleport great distances at a time. We can use it to teleport here and back in record timing."
Dib took it in his hands. "We can combine this with my Dad's communicator watches, and then we'll be able to stay in contact with each other as well as have a means to escape, should the need arise."
Zim nodded and, without a word, he pressed a button, causing a high-tech holographic touchscreen to appear. "When we are captured, it is important that we always stay in character," Zim began explaining. "The Tallest will have spy drones everywhere, and we will constantly be watched."
Dib watched as several images of people showed up on the screen. "This is Tak's selection of disguises?" Dib asked.
Zim nodded. "Tak created her own from Irken technology and the database on human appearances her SIR unit created during initial recon. This device was actually originally designed by Vort Scientist." Zim revealed.
"So Irken technology; it's really just a bunch of stolen tech your people took from other worlds, isn't it?" Mark questioned accursedly. "Is there anything your race doesn't steal from others?" He snapped coldly.
"Come on, Mark! Zim is trying here!" Rachel yelled.
"If it weren't for him, we wouldn't be in this mess right now!" Mark screamed back in frustration.
"Yeah, and you've never made a mistake in your whole life!" Zim suddenly screamed. "Tell me, human! Because I am curious what it's like to have a life that's so perfect that you never have to regret anything!" The room fell silent at Zim's outburst.
"I am TRYING!" Zim yelled. "Now do you want to save your planet or NOT?!"
Mark glanced around as everyone look at him expectantly. He sighed in deep frustration. "Fine, but if you ever betray us even once, I will make you wish you were never even born!"
'It's too late for that,' Zim thought internally, but aloud he said "Deal."
Dib breathed a sigh of relief as Zim and Mark shook hands.
"Now," Zim said, eyes narrowed. "Let's get started!"
[Back with the Tallest...]
"Did you find him?" Red asked the approaching soldiers.
"No Sir; the human known as Dib Membrane has managed to bypass our every attempt to capture him."
"No one shall rest until him and Zim's body are found!" Purple screamed "They are a threat to our rule! The big-headed boy knows too much, and that SIR bot is a force to reckon with because of its erratic behavior! On top of that, until I see Zim's dead body, there is no proof that he is actually dead! FIND THEM!"
"Yes, my Tallest!" The soldier bowed deeply before turning to run away.
The soldiers departed swiftly, fearing the wrath of the Almighty Tallests. If there was one thing you never wanted to do, it was make The Tallest angry.
The Irken pilots prayed that their tempers would pass, but they were not so lucky. One of the pilots hid under his desk as he watched the Tallests' shadows transform into shadowy beasts.
The Irken trembled under his desk, closing his eyes tightly as a deep monstrous growl filled the air. He prayed the monsters would not find him, but his prayers were in vain. He screamed as a large green claw reached out and grabbed him by the head, and as he sees the monster before him, he wishes he could faint, but he cannot. The beast stared at him with glowing red eyes, with drool dripping from its mouth.
The Tallest held within their bodies a secret that many Irkens knew of by stories through the grape vine. Stories of frightening horrors done to Irkens who worked near the Tallest. Those secrets were exposed now as the monster stood there, wearing a red Tallest uniform that had been ripped from the transformation. The monster let out a blood-curling scream.
The beast consumes the smaller Irken pilot into the darkness of death in a matter of seconds, but it was not the murderous crime it truly wanted to commit. The beast screeched out one name into the darkness as another beast appeared beside him, covered in what was left of his own purple Tallest uniform. The second beast echoed the name of the Irken scum they hated with all their being.
With a heart-wrenching feeling. Gaz shivered at the sound of the murderous screech…
"ZIM!"
(Somewhere in Dib's hometown...)
[Days later]
He had to keep running! They could not catch him!
"Josh!" Joseph screamed as his brother was tackled by SIR bots. Part of him screamed to keep running, that every man was for himself, but then he remembered his promise to her, his promise to keep him safe, and he ran back to him.
Josh tried to fight off the SIR bots, but it was no use; his brother Joseph ran to his aid. He wanted to scream at him, to tell him to run for cover, but the words were overcome by his own scream as one of the SIR bots grabbed him by the hair and dragged him to an awaiting cage.
Women and children screamed around him, but Joseph did not let the fear overcome him. His brother was his only family left, and he would not lose him too!
"You'll never take me alive!" Josh screamed, but it was no use. He was thrown into the cage and his brother's pathetic rescue attempt earned him a painful shove into a cage next to his. "Joey I'm scared," He whispered.
"We'll be fine." Joseph tried his best to assure his brother, but deep down he too was scared.
The two brothers reach for each other through the bars of their cage, their hands grabbed each other, and squeezed tightly.
"It's going to be okay Josh, you'll see." Joseph said bravely as their cages were thrown into an awaiting vehicle.
Josh could only nod as the Irken vehicle they were in began to lead them into the unknown.
(Sometime later...)
The war raged on around the world; but Zim had been right. They would not win this war, and at exactly 3:00 PM that day, the last human was captured.
It was a girl with long brown hair and a perfect complexion. Her name was Rachel, and as the Irken scum shoved her into an awaiting cage she smiled to herself. She smiled because she knew the truth, and the truth was simple. The Irkens had only won the battle, but the resistance would win the war.
Of that she knew for certain.
Yes, it was only a matter of time….
End Notes:
The Earth has finally fallen to the might of the great Irken Armada and now our hero's must play the long game in order to save their home. But will they be successful and what secrets do the Tallest hide behind their monsterous forms? Find out next time on Invader Zim: Renegades.
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