Author's Notes:So, I know I said no changes, but I decided to add a bit more to the last chapter since it's so much shorter than the rest of the episodes. Don't worry I didn't make any earth-shattering changes I just added details that were originally left out of this chapter. So instead of starting the episode with the after math of the first attach on Irk I added their preparations time as well. So, consider it like a deleted scene of the pervious show that has been added for your enjoyment. With that said please enjoy it and let me know what you think. The next upload will be a brief summary of what is to come!

Yours Truly, RoxieDivine ;)

S01Ep10: The Revolution Begins

Episode Summary: Months have passed since the fall of Earth and human society has adjusted to their new way of life under Irken rule. However, deep in the bowels of the planet a hidden enemy has been preparing to make their presence known. Their time is now and with a single act of explosive violence the revolution begins!

[Westville, Snacks Factory-South Tower]

(6 Months Later..)

Time…

Some say it is something you can never get back. It is always fleeting, here one moment and gone the next.

Six years had come and gone since Invader Zim had set his sights on Earth. Six years the Tallest had sent said invader on a wild goose chase into space. And six years since he and Dib Membrane had first battled for the Planet's fate. six long years and much had change.

The once quiet peaceful streets where now wrapped in a hidden state of chaos and ruin. Everything might look in order, yes like the Rest of the Irken Empire The new norms of Human society were like a well-oiled machine. However, while the Tallest and their Irken follows saw a perfectly functional system the humans view it as broken and corrupt.

All humans; men, women, and children where now slaves to the Irken machine. Stripped of all free will and opinion they were now forced to gather resources to fuel the Irken empire.

The adults did the hard labor, while the children still went to school… But it was a very different world now.

Children of both the human and Irken race went to the same school. They were taught by the same teachers, learned in the same classrooms, but they were not given the same privileges. All humans had paperwork that they had to have on them at all times, and microchips where imbedded in their left palm, just under the skin. This chip stored their names, a list of their family members, everything about them; their whole life was stored on this one little chip.

Every day of every hour, children and adults alike had their chips scanned, and if a human was missing, the Irken soldiers also used the chip as a homing device, making it almost impossible to hide from the enemy…almostbeing the key word.

The Irken machine was a monstrous adversary, but not an unstoppable one. True, they had never been stopped before, but there was a first for everything, and this time one of their very own was against them. And despite everyone's efforts, Zim and Dib were nowhere to be found.

They had disappeared off the face of the Earth. Or so it seemed. However, things are rarely simply what they seem when it comes to Zim and Dib.

The once sole defender of Earth froze as another Spy drone flew overhead. The pesky little things patrolled the town like vultures in search of easy prey. Each drone was equipped with a camera which recorded everything it viewed. Usually, they would try to avoid being spotted, but this time getting caught was the objective.

"Dib, keep moving." Zim's voice hissed through his communicator.

"sorry force of habit." Dib grunted as he continued his climb, he and the others were currently scaling the Snacks Factory's south tower. This factory was where all the foods stuff was produced, it was these snacks that fed the enemy population. And with the current strain on the humans caused by the limited food rations it was the perfect first target.

Sweat trickled down his brow as he continued his climb stopping to stick a small explosive device along his side of the tower. Now that they had been spotted they were on a limited time frame.

Zim scaled his own side of the tower with the ease that only came with decades of rigorous training. Of course, he had started to teach his new comrades the best he could in hopes of preparing them to go toe to toe with the Irken elite. Sadly, their progress was slow; couple that with their ruthless impatience and it was a wonder they managed to wait a half a year to make their first move. He still thought it was too early to make the first move, but his opinion had been out ruled.

Now that Irk ruled Earth money was no longer a thing, the new currency also known as Moneys could only be obtained by Irkens. This left the human slaves to be paid with food rations. Which wouldn't be so bad if said rations were enough, sadly their Irken overlords kept the human population just above starving. Of course they did, a hungry slave was easy to over power and detain.

He places a bomb of his own before moving forward once more.

Mark wipes his own sweating brow as he places his last bomb. "I'm done" He states into his communications device as he starts to propel down with the aid of his climbing ropes. "I'll go back down and make sure our exit stays clear."

"Be careful." James warns as he forces himself to pick up his own pace. "How many more do the rest of us have?" He asked over the comms.

"One More." Dib answered.

"Same" Zim voiced.

"I have two." James said before placing one on the tower. "Make that one. Rach how's it coming?"

I have two more." Rachel answered.

"Pick up the pace." Zim hissed as another spy drone comes into view.

Rachel flinches as it flies past her, even though she is wearing a mask and is heavily covered in all black she fears discovery. The added adrenaline is all they need for an extra boost and soon the rebels have finished settle their charges.

A loud alarm sounds as they start the climb down the tower. Their only salvation seemed to be that the enemies response time was remarkably slow.

It was expected, Zim said no one had dared to challenge the Irkens so soon after a takeover, it would give them the element of surprise.

Mark watches as they others make it to the ground and run towards him, he sees the enemy soldiers as they start to close in from out of nowhere and from all side. However, he doesn't panic. The others meet him in record time as Zim presses a button on a hand-held controller.

It's not a detonator, they couldn't afford to blow the tower up now. No, the moment the tower blew every human would be caged and accounted for and if the five of them were missing when that happened it would be obvious that they were responsible. Instead, this remote activated the bombs camouflage capabilities and rendered them undetectable by anything. The spy drones could sweep the tower, and they wouldn't find bombs, not until it was too late.

The Irken soldiers close in ever still, but their efforts are futile, for in seconds the five rebels have vanished into the shadow of the surrounding trees.

[Deep in the halls of the Westville High]

(Hours Later)

A teenager moved forward in a large line, waiting to get his chip read so he could then proceed on to his 6th period class. Nothing about him set off any alarms, and why should it? After all, the boy showed no resistance as the Irken scanned him for his chip. He presented all his paperwork and was processed like so many times before. To the Irkens, he was just another filthy human, but they couldn't be more wrong.

Joseph Campbell smiled as he and his twin brother Joshua finished being processed. They stepped out of line to continue on to their next class. With their identical appearance, you could have mistaken the two brothers for clones. Both had brown hair, pale skin, and hazel eyes, but in reality, the two couldn't have been more different from each other.

Joseph being the older brother, had been forced to grow up after the mysterious disappearance of their parents. And while his brother, Josh wore his school uniform sloppily, Joseph's was ironed down, and his hair was brushed back respectively. While Josh's was spiked and messy. Joseph was always obedient and gave every Irken the respect that they demanded, while Josh hated the Irken scum and voiced it openly; he got in at least one fight every day with the Irken students.

Yes, surely anyone would mistakenly assume that the two were nothing more than brothers. Just two more slaves of the Irken machine, they couldn't have been more wrong.

'Our enemies are none the wiser.'Joseph took out a folded piece of paper and passed it to a girl as they passed each other in the hallway. Their eyes never met and neither slowed down in their brisk walks to class.

The girl had perfect tan skin, and her long brown hair kept wafting forward as she continued down the hall, inconspicuously stuffing the paper into her binder before passing her own pink folded note to the boy four lockers down. Again, their eyes never met and, just moments later, the boy in the blue sweatshirt by the lockers passed a gray folded piece of paper to another boy before stepping into his own 6th period class.

Five different humans, each entirely different in nature, received a piece of paper. They didn't hang out together during school, and they never sat by each other at lunch. To the enemy, they were separate pieces to five separate puzzles, but what the Irkens did not know was that these five kids would bring about the downfall of the entire Irken Empire.

Rachel Hearting sat down in her 6th period class and buried her face in her textbook, but she wasn't really reading it. Instead, she unfolded the paper she received from Joseph. Only two words stared back at her.

"It's time."

She smiled as she read those words over and over again, allowing them to fill her with strength and a new sense of hope. The five had been lying dormant for months, waiting for the search for the two who most wanted to die down a little before they made their first move. Now it was finally time; they were finally going to start fighting back…

(Back with Mark...)

'Meet at the secret spot after school.'The boy in the blue sweatshirt read the pink note, allowing every word to fill him with a sense of pride, and something even more mysterious, hope. He hadn't felt such feelings in a long time. Did he dare allow himself to feel them now? Could he even allow himself to feel such hope for a better future? He was probably better off sticking to his books. At least that hadn't changed; humans had been promised better living conditions if they obeyed their Irken slave masters. Also, they'd be given better jobs when they grow up if they did well in school. Now, if only the Irken brats would go away!

The boy in the blue sweatshirt looked out of the corner of his eye to examine the enemy from afar. They weren't allowed to look at any of the Irkens directly, and they could not speak in less they were told to. The Irkens say Earth is a rare jewel in the galaxy, so in order to protect it they turned it into their new training base, so that all the Irken soldiers past, present, and future would be here in case anything happened. The Irken trainees, or cadets, as they were called, were assigned to an Earthly class in order to learn as much about their new base of operations as possible. Something they wouldn't have to do if they hadn't been so hasty to get rid of Zim in the first place.

'Zim…'

The previous Invader's very name was forbidden for anyone to say, a complete taboo. Irkens and humans alike could never speak of him! He was nothing but a lie; a disgrace that should never have been brought to existence! At least as far as the Irken Empire was concerned. The Tallest decreed that Zim's death was the inevitable; and yet they were still frightened by the fact that there was no body to prove the defectives' death.

The boy in the blue sweatshirt was now smiling at the words written on his pink piece of paper, soon taking out a pencil to writing his own name.

'Mark,'the paper soon read. He smiled a little more; at least his own name was not forbidden. He sure would have hated for that to be the case!

(Back to James...)

James Strickland stepped into his 6th period just as the bell rang. He had already hated school before, but now heloathedit! He loathed it with such a burning passion of hate and anger that sometimes it scared him, but that anger; that hate gave him the strength to fight back.

"Watch where you're going, filthy earth child!" An Irken known as Scamooch said while he bumped into him on purpose.

"Oh, I'm so sorry," James said, but he really wasn't sorry at all. That's just how the world was now; everything was a human's fault.

James sat down and slowly opened the gray note he had received.

'Bring you know what, to you know where at you know what time.'James smiled broadly. It was time! These Irken scum were gonna finally get what's been coming to them! They'd all pay dearly for messing with his home planet!

And then? Then everything could go back to normal.

He regretfully let that daydream dwindle in his mind as he began another hour of this torture, they calledschool.He wished he had a reason not to be here, but there was no point in hoping for the impossible. For now, he was stuck here, and he'd just have to deal with it!

[Back with Gaz...]

(Location: The Massive)

Anger…

It filled her very being seeing her world turned into this! Gaz growled deeply. "You will pay for this! You will all pay! I warned you; Zim will stop you!"

The Tallest who had stopped by to torture her with their existence smiled at her attempts to threaten them.

"Your Zim will never win if he's even stillalive.And as for you, as soon as we have your brother, you will no longer be of any use to us." Red laughed.

"So, if I were you, I'd hope he stays hidden," Purple giggled. "It would be in your best interest."

She didn't care for her own interest, but she said nothing. They would all suffer dearly, and then Zim would pay as well for making her wait this long. She smiled at the thought; she wanted to kiss him, yet at the same time she wanted to beat him senselessly.

'I guess love's just funny that way,'she thought to herself as she continued to watch the screens. They were her only source of entertainment and with them the Tallest took the story of a governmental "Big Brother" a step further than anyone else before. With the help of thousands of spy drones the Tallest and their soldiers could watch her peoples every move. Every street, every room, every house, school, building, park; absolutely everywhere had spy drones that monitored everything!

However, even though there were thousands of drones all over the world, The Tallest still couldn't see everything that went on in their kingdom. Humans may have long work and school hours, and they may have to attend work and school all seven days of the week, with no holidays or breaks, but they still had five hours of free time before curfew every day to cause trouble, and they certainly did.

She wasn't completely sure why she was given access to the broadcast. However, her theory was that the Tallest wanted to torture her with the subjugation of her people.

On most days she was indifferent to it all, however, every now and then cracks would show in her armor. Still, she desperately clung to hope, she knew that Zim wasn't dead; they would have found his body and likely Dib would have been found as well.

Gaz could just feel it; she wasn't sure how, but she knew it was coming. The time was drawing near now, she was sure of it! Soon, Zim would come for her.

And when he did, the entire Irken Empire would wish that they hadn't crossedherZim!

(Back with Josh...)

Joshua Campbell groaned quietly in deep frustration, not because he was really frustrated, but because he had to play his character. He had to pretend to be the miss-fit brother who never did as he was told. He looked to his brother and smiled; he had thought that Joseph would have wanted to play this role. After all, Josh may hate the Irken race, but Joseph loathed them all. So, to watch him bow in respect every single day...it was agony for him. He could only imagine that it was torture for his brother.

"Brothers…" He laughed. If his past self, had told him that in just 6 short months he'd be calling his once greatest foe his own brother, he would have surely died of laughter. Both of them probably would have.

He wrote the word Josh on his worksheet. Oh, but how he wished he could write his real name! Three short letters; that's all it would take, but his name was forbidden to be said. Both of their names were secret and completely illegal to eventhinkabout if one could be proven of having such thoughts.

"Alright class, let's begin. Who'd like to answer the question on the board?" The teacher asked. "Hmmm… Joseph?"

Joseph looked up from his work and became immediately alert. That was another reason why he had the goody-two-shoes role. He knew the Irken race better then Josh; better than anyone.Especiallythe darker, more discriminant side of the creatures he once called'his people.'

Knowing the culture was very important, especially since all the human teachers were replaced with Irken soldiers and getting caught was an easy task if you didn't understand how Irkens thought.

Joseph folded his right hand around his left fist and bowed respectively. "Yes ma'am." Joseph rushed to the board and began writing out the answer, showing his work.

One of the reasons why Earth children still went to school was to learn discipline the "right way". They always said Joseph was the most disciplined young Earthling the Irkens had known. Joseph never talked back, never started fights, and he had gained the name Suck-Up for it. All the Irken children mocked the boy from afar, but something about him demanded respect. Every time he told the Earth children to do something, they immediately obeyed. Why? No one seemed to know; not even most of the humans themselves knew why they listened to him. Even the Irken children found their eyes would waver at his own stare. Unlike the other Earth children, Joseph dared to stare them dead in the eyes. Many saw him as the peacekeeper; he stopped every fight, got everyone out of trouble, and he would bat hits for them all, left and right.

Yes, Joseph was the balance of them all. Even the teachers were careful around him; he had an "Element of Greatness," the Irken personnel would say.

Joseph stared at the question on the board in pure rage. He knew the answer, but it was a high-tech question on Irken technology; something he wasn't supposed to know. The teachers did this every once in a while, to try and trick them into getting themselves into the dungeons for further investigation. They knew only two of their enemies could solve such problems Zim and Dib.

"I am sorry," he bowed respectively. "I do not know this one." He handed his teacher, Mrs. Rea, the chalk, his head bowed in shame.

"It's quite alright." The Irken know as Rea smiled.'If only all these humans were just as well behaved, things would be so much easier!'She thought, but she had no idea who she wasreallytalking to. "You may take your seat. Does anyone else want to give it a try?"

Joseph went back to his seat slowly, trying to keep his evil sneer off of his face. They were so easy to fool! He had told the Earth-Monkey Dib that hiding in plain sight was the only way, and he had been right, of course.

He smiled as he took his seat and Mrs. Rea began to copy a new problem on the board, something they should all know, but Joseph was no longer interested in the work. He pulled out a new piece of paper and wrote one forbidden word; three letters screamed back at him, demanding his attention. It was a word he had not heard for a long, long time…

'Z-I-M.'

He allowed those three letters to give him strength, and something more: a sense ofidentity. He put his hand in his pocket and let his fingers wrap around what was hidden there; it was a skull necklace.Herskull necklace.

'Gaz…'He thought wishfully.

Yes, it wouldn't be long now. He internally laughed to himself.'Enjoy your power while it lasts, my Tallest, because soon you will lose it all!'He balled up the piece of paper and stuffed it in his other pocket.

Yes, the time was finally upon them, today everything would change.

He held his breath as he counted down the seconds…

5…4…3…2…1….

An explosion lit the morning sky with red fire; chaos erupted all around him as Irken soldiers marched out of nowhere, grabbing every human they could manage to get their hands on. The ones that escaped their grasp began to riot in the street; all was at war. Everything was engaged into the madness; all but five human students, and each just sat in their seats with a smile on their face.

Mark, James, Rachel, Josh, and Joseph; the five didn't even flinch as another explosion rang out. They didn't care; it didn't matter to them that rubble from the celling was falling around them, or the fact that the ground was shaking as one explosion after another went off. They knew all too well what would happen next; all humans would be gathered up, and put on house arrest, and all humans that resisted would be questioned. They'd all wait patiently for the Tallest to make up some lie for the explosions, then life would return to normal. They would go back to school, the Irkens would still be in charge, would still push them around, and would still make their very existence all the more miserable; but that no longer mattered.

Joseph closed his eyes and breathed in the chaos and destruction around him. He smiled.

This very moment was meant to prove to the human race that the Irkens were not invincible; they could be knocked off balance! The resistance may only contain five now, but one day, hopefully very soon, it will containthousands.

"Don't worry Gaz," Josh whispered. "We're coming. Just hold on a little longer; please hold on… For me."

Yes, it was only a matter of time now. The five stood to attention as Irken soldiers barged into their classrooms.

"Do not resist!" The soldiers ordered.

The only five resistance members let themselves get taken away. Not one fought back; they didn't need to. The Irken race would be their own undoing…

Joseph smiled as the soldiers loaded him into his own individual cage; it wasfinallytime! The revolution had finally begun, and nothing,nothing,could stop them now...

Invader Zim Renegades: Season 1 END!