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 Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:32 pm
Alrighty! Here we go, my fanfic baby's first internest debut! Are you ready?
Rated PG-13 for language and thematic elements (even though this isn't really theater... ah well...)
THE STORY THUS FAR:
As explained in the fanfiction sticky forum, this story is actually the fifth of a series (the first four stories were written a long time ago, so the grammer's horrible and the dialogue sucks, I just don't have time to go through the other 150 pages and edit everything, and this story is really the only interesting one). The stories are kinda like Harry Potter books, having reoccuring characters and backgrounds, but completely different plot. Here's a summary of what happened in the first four stories...
Book One:
Ros (the main character, a fancharacter of mine...) is introduced. She wants to get a job as a kind of police type officer, but runs out of luck when they only offer the job to boys, even though she's better than all of them. She goes back out to the parking lot and meets an Irken who gives her a few words of encouragement before going into the police thingy office building. Ros, feeling better after this talk, goes back home. The next day she goes to the unemployment line, and is given the job as a Sender, or an Irken mail deliverer, if you will (one of the lowest jobs on the chain)... There she meets some new and interesting people, but is still left in a miserable rut. Later that week, as she turns on the TV, she finds out that Tallest Miyuki had died, and that two other equally tall Irkens would be taking her place, one named Purple, and another named Red, the same Irken who talked to her after not getting her police job.
Surprised that this Irken never bothered to tell her that he was a Tallest-in-Training (because Ros has serious trust issues, all which will be expressed later), Ros is furious. Later that week, she gets a package that has to be hand delivered to the Tallests themselves. Ros makes the long trek from her Shipping planet to Irk, and finds them with much difficulty. Finding Red, she tricks him into following her down a dark hallway, and then 'kidnaps' him by accidently knocking him unconcious and taking him to a nightclub.
When he comes to, he finds Ros, who keeps trying to remind him on a past he can't remember. Once he became a Tallest, his memory was wiped of any information not needed to fulfill his mission. While she keeps trying, an incredibly drunk Irken at a bar (in almost every story I right, there's some kind of bar scene in it... in this on, the drinks are actually venomous alien bugs who heads are chopped off. You drink the weak venom which had no hazardous effects except that it leaves you with a small buzz) comes out with a gun, and he and his friends take over the nightclub, taking hostages. After much deliberation, Ros takes herself in charge, disguising herself as one of the drunken alien's friends. When she confronts him, he takes a drink from one of the bugs, and dies promptly. The venom from the drinks he had were too much. The hostages are freed, and Ros and Red go back to her cruiser. Red demands to be taken in home, and in their fight, he suddenly remembers who Ros is. They catch up with each other, and everythings happy and lovey-dubby for about a few seconds. While in her cruiser, the hyperspeed directional chip fails, and sends them into a whopping crash corse to Earth.
When they land, they are knocked unconcious, and Dib finds them. When Ros wakes up, she finds herself binded in chains in his room. She'd be out all night, and Dib was getting ready to go to school. He told her that his friend was dead, and left a tape recording of his last words open so she could see him, however most of it was just a cryptic message she couldn't understand. As it turned out, Dib had Killed Almighty Tallest Red to dissect him. Over on a table on the opposite side of his room were his remains, covered by only a thin blanket. Ros, controlling the urge not to throw up, uses her PAK to break the chains and escape. It's wintertime on earth, and she's found out that snow hurts. A lot.
She calls one of her friends (named Lan) at the Shipping planet, and he tells her of an Irken Invader who was sent there. She goes to find him, and it's... ZIM!!! Zim reluctantly takes in the Irken girl, and hears of her adventure with Tallest Red and the snow. In the meantime, Ros is wanted all over the galaxy for being responsible for the missing of Red. After a call to Lan, her PAK is traced, and the Armada comes to Earth.
Purple is pissed off when he finds her, but turns sad when he sees the message he left for her, which was in and old Irken language, long since dead. In his last words, he explains how much he loved her from the first time he saw her, and that he was sorry he ever forgot about her. In his last minute, he made a declaration that if he died, he wanted her to take his place. Ros, wanting to stay on Earth now that she was used to it, was forced to leave in order to become a Tallest (even though she was rediculously short). Zim doesn't want her to leave, either. Dib, seeing Zim's leader face-to-face, gave a formal apology, and his life was spared, thanks to Ros, who didn't want to see anymore people dead. She's taken aboard the Massive, and the story ends there...
Book Two:
This was a rediculously short story. It's more like an epilogue to Book One...
Ros is taken aboard the Massive, her memory is erased, her training for becoming a Tallest begins. Purple, being paranoid, erases everyone's minds so an angry mob doesn't start at the news of Red's death a short Irken taking his place, and the story ends there...
Book Three:
Several years later (about 60), Zim is feeling depressed over the missing Ros. Dib had grown out of chasing him and had become a successful children's doctor, now retired. Feeling miserable, he goes to an old pub and sits. He sent a message to Dib, telling him he wanted to talk. Dib arrives, old and wrinkly. He and Zim talk and have a long conversation about how Ros's training was almost done, and she would be a Tallest soon of they didn't do something. Dib, extremely unwilling, drank some water that Zim had spiked. The drug made Dib become physically younger, back to a teenager. Zim had changed it so Dib would age at the same rate he did. Dib, knowing that he couldn't change the effects and that Zim wouldn't stop pestering him, agreed to allow him to use Tak's old cruiser to go to Earth (Zim's had crashed a long time ago on an early attempt to fly back to Irk and get Ros back).
Back on Irk, Ros is having significant trouble in her training. While she's supposed to be practicing hand-to-hand combat, she sees visions of a tall Irken with Red eyes. He tells her he has something important to say, but the vision dissappears before he has a chance. While Ros, forgetting how she was in the past and now spunky and charismic beyond Purple's wishes, runs away from her training to take a walk down some of Irk's more suggestive streets. Going down an ally, she gets attacked by two muggers. While fighting back, the vision comes again, only this time the Irken steps out of the white cloud she always saw him in and starts beating the other muggers up. He introduces himself as Red, a spirit of a dead Tallest. He says that Hell is conspiring against Heaven, and wants to take over it's territory. It's up to Ros to get help and try to find an army strong enough to fight in the afterlife. In her trips to her visions in back, she finds out she's a Visionary, or an Irken who can old a world inside their brains. Ros's Visionary World is the combination of both Heaven and Hell. She's given the choice to go into her Visionary World and fight, but if she does, she can't go back to her deminsion ever. Making the right choice, she fights in the other world.
Zim and Dib, making it to Irk and finding out about Ros's condition, find her and try to help her. They use an experimental machine that connects to the brain and sends the Irken to the other's Visionary World. Zim and Purple both go, and fight side by side with Ros.
Long story short, they win.
Afterwards, after all of them wake up, Ros doesn't remember a thing. In minutes, her Tallest ceremony would begin. Purple brought Zim aside, and told him that it would be best if he didn't stay near Ros or talked to her at all, now that she was going to be one of his leaders. Zim and Dib, feeling sad, walk outside and go back to the cruiser. Surprised, they see Ros there. She said that she saw them in a dream she had (dream being their fight that she didn't really remember) and felt like she should follow them. She was beginning to remember bits and peices of her time on earth with Zim, and was able to convince Purple to let her go back, and the story ends there...
Book Four:
I'll try to make this one short...
Ros, Zim, and Dib are settled on Earth. Dib has opened a crummy little coffee shop that all three of them work at to earn Earth monies. A bunch of boring stuff happens, then the plot THICKENS!!! As it turns out, you aren't allowed to leave your Visionary World once you're in it, but somehow Ros did. It's because Zim was the closest Irken nearby when she woke up, and since Visionary Worlds don't just dissappear, they all got jolted into his brain.
Zim starts having conversations with Red. Fun fun. And Ros, finally getting a chance to act human and be with Zim, finds out that being human isn't all it's cracked up to be. She starts having anxieties and goes on a crash diet, almost killing herself. Zim gets worried, and starts to find out bits and pieces of Ros's past. As it turns out, every person that Ros was ever emotionally attatched to was murdered in some way. Zim gets a feeling that he's next, and finds out that a Hellish demon, the spirit of another dead Tallest, Orange, is out to get her since she had always thwarted Hell's uprisings in her subconcious. Orange takes on a material form and starts to attack Dib and Zim. During the final fight, Orange was about to kill Zim, but Ros stepped in front and got killed instead in the initial blast. Zim, heartbroken, kicks Orange's a**.
Other important tidbits in the story are that Zim got sent to his Visionary World because Red forced it on him. He wanted to see Earth and make sure Ros was okay. When he got seriously hurt by Orange, he was sent back and Zim replaced his body. So the Visionary World now rests in a different Irken...
And the story ends there...
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:34 pm
Here's the first chapter! Hope you enjoy!
To Hell and Back
“G’morning,” Dib called as he walked up to Zim’s stoop. The small alien, not-so-cleverly disguised as a human, looked up.
“Morning,” he replied, sporting a weak smile.
“Are you okay?” Dib asked, sitting down on the front step as Zim leaned against his door. His small robotic companion was running around the yard in an insane fashion, sniffing the lawn gnomes to find a proper receptacle to drop the decaying food in his metal belly.
“You ask me that every day. I’m fine,” Zim answered numbly.
“Damn it, Zim, I’m serious this time!” Dib gave Zim an angry eye as the latter just yawned. “I’m your only friend on this stupid planet… except for him,” he said, pointing to the robot. “What’s the point of friendship if you won’t even tell your friend what’s wrong?”
Zim didn’t reply, but instead pretended to be far more interested in his SIR unit dispensing its waste behind a pink plastic flamingo. He turned and looked longingly at the sky.
“Friendship is for the weak,” he answered.
“Don’t give me that pathetic crap,” Dib said. “I know what this is about. It’s about her, isn’t it?”
“Shut your pie hole, brain monkey,” Zim seethed. “I got over her a long time ago!”
“Ros is in the past. She’s dead. You can’t change it, so don’t dwell on it.”
It was true. Ros died over 75 years ago in a tragic fight against a dead Tallest. In Dib’s opinion, he hadn’t been the same since. Ever since she left, it seemed like all connection to other worlds was cut. They used to be able to talk with other dead people, such as Miyuki and Red, but not anymore. Zim was distraught about having to live the rest of his life alone, even before he met Ros. To get rid of his loneliness, he gave Dib a drink that gave him the ability to live as long Zim could. As far as Zim was concerned, Dib didn’t mind.
“I just worry for you. Do you want to… talk about it… or something?” he asked.
“I’m not a bratty female humanoid,” Zim said, mockingly. It gave Dib at least some sense of relief that he still used his corny names for people from earth. For a while, he quite using them, and tried to act more like a human. Since Ros died he began to embrace is Irkenhood. “I believe I am fine right now. The horrifically superior Zim will pull through!”
“Horrifically something,” Dib grumbled. The robot came back to the stoop and Zim let him in along with his human friend. “Wanna play a videogame?”
“Sure,” he sighed.
“Okay, class! Class, settle down! I know we’ve been in optimal transport for… how long was it again?”
“Five months, three hundred and sixty four days, twenty three hours, and fifteen minutes, Harin” a monotone voice answered.
“Oh, yes, thank you Nami. Where was I?” She paused for a moment. “Of course. We’ll be arriving at our planned destination very soon. Shall I debrief you on your mission?” There was a long awkward silence as Harin waited for an answer. “Okay,” she sighed, “you’ve been sent here by our gracious Tallest Purple to research life on other planets. We start with this system…” She paused for another moment as she read a lit-up clip board. “I think it’s called the ‘Meekly Way.”
“Milky Way!”
“Thank you, Jin,” Harin sighed. “It’s a place near the outer edge, far away from the nearest sun, so it’ll be very cold. I think it’s called… Pleutone…?”
“Pluto!”
“Thank you, Jin,” Harin repeated with a more condescending tone. “Yes, we are visiting Pluto in the Milky Way.”
“Three thousand and seventy two degrees north northwest on the standard Irken plotting system! Or, if you use the Syao plotting system, it’s-”
“That’s quite enough, Jin.”
“Harin, there is something wrong with the navigation system.”
“What was that, Tauq?” Harin asked. She turned a small Irken sitting at the front control panel.
“I think the last meteor we hit cause some wires to get crossed. Everything will be okay once I stop this bus and fix them,” she said numbly. She pulled a crank and pressed the brake on the floor with her foot. “Unless the breaks are out as well,” she replied with little or no surprise.
“No breaks? And the navigation system is gone?” Harin dreaded. “Okay, nobody panic!” She tried to calm the twelve Irken girls riding the bus. They stared at her with little emotion. All of them had significantly pale skin, and their eyes were all fazed, too. They all turned to the same girl, Vettle.
“It will be okay. We will land on a planet close to Pluto.”
“Will we be safe?” Harin asked nervously.
“Yes,” Vettle said. “The planet supports a healthy stream of organisms. The dominant species, humanoids.”
“Humans? That planet is earth,” Jin stated.
“I heard they have flowers there,” a girl named Tronk commented. “It would be nice to smell their enchanted beauty.”
“Earth?” Harin asked. “Isn’t that where-”
“The fake Invader resides. By the name of Zim. He caused the death of millions on his useless rampage. He is also friends with the human who killed Tallest Red,” the smallest girl in the back said. None of the girls seemed really upset except for Harin
“Zim? I don’t like the sound of that,” Harin grimaced.
“Estimated contact with Earth, three minutes,” Tauq said, pressing more buttons causing an emergency siren to go off. Harin started screaming and she quickly sat down and buckled her seat belt. The only thing she had was Vettle’s word that they would be okay.
“Gah! For the love of God, Zim, why won’t you DIE?” Dib shouted. He impatiently pressed various buttons on a black controller. His warrior moved down a faded dirt sidewalk in the middle of a grassy meadow. Then he got blown up by a grenade. “Dammit! Zim, you weren’t even on my radar! Where the hell are you?”
In reality, Zim was sitting right next to him. His red warrior was playing capture the flag with Dib’s blue warrior. Apart from Dib’s blatant outbursts of frustration, Zim could be heard laughing calmly to himself every time Dib ‘died.’
“Spork, I love this game,” Zim muttered.
“What was that?” Dib asked angrily, turning towards Zim. There was instantly a large explosion. “I died again!”
“Pitiful earth-slug,” Zim hacked. “You cannot win in BLOOD GULCH!!! I know this territory like the back of my glove!” Dib moaned as his counter went down from three and he was regenerated into a different area of ‘Blood Gulch.’ There was a small rumble and another crash.
“I died!” Dib shouted. However, Zim seemed a little less than triumphant.
“But… I didn’t do anything,” Zim stated. They stared at the screen while Dib was replaced into his station. They saw a small character standing on the opposite side of his large, white fort. It was a small, extremely pale alien. It looked like she had electricity running through her pale, blue eyes.
“God, Zim, is that an Irken?”
“What’s it doing in the game? I didn’t program this!” The two boys inched closer to the screen. The little girl stared at them, as if she could see past the screen.
“Zim… she’s looking at us,” Dib whispered creepily. In the flash of a second, the girl on the screen pulled out a gun and killed Dib’s character. There was a knock at the door. Zim and Dib slowly got up and made their way to the entrance. Zim opened the door and was greeted by a small girl. An Irken girl. The same one in the game. “Ahh! It’s her!” Dib cried, jumping behind Zim in case she decided to pull out a gun again.
“Hello,” she said dully. “Our bus crashed outside your… lovely home.” Zim looked up and noticed the large spacecraft in front of his home. It was rather small, but it seemed to have more room on the inside. It was the standard pink and purple colors, along with the Irken symbol tattooed on its rear.
“So you are Irkens,” Zim said. He turned back to the little girl in front of him. “What do you need? I have my entire lab downstairs, in case you need any tools. The lawn gnomes will bring it down.”
“Actually-” the girl began to explain, but she was cut short when a flash of electricity in her eyes. She turned back to the bus. “Everyone, it would be in your best interests if you come out,” she said softly. One by one, a trail of eleven small Irken girls and their teacher came out. Only seconds later, the bus imploded. The girl sighed, “I hate it when that happens.” She turned back to Zim. “I’m sorry, but nothing you have could help us now.”
“How… How did you know that the bus was going to crumble in like that?” Dib asked, stepping out from behind Zim. Before the girl could answer, she was taken by her teacher and put with the other girls.
“You must excuse her,” she explained. “She’s not used to being in the sight of other Irkens, and likes to show off.”
“Zim,” Dib whispered into his antennae, “what’s wrong with them? They look sick.”
“They’re albinos. Characterized by light skin and eyes, they have special abilities that other Irkens don’t. There are only twelve of them in the universe. It’s an honor that all of them happened to crash here.”
“So that’s why you were being so hospitable,” Dib sighed. “They can’t stand out here like this. Invite them inside.” Before receiving Zim’s permission, the girls already filed in through the door, the teacher holding a small metal cube that was once their bus. Zim eyed the neighbors across the street staring at him carefully before shutting the door.
“Lookit that,” one of the neighbors exclaimed dully.
“I don’t think my house is big enough to support all these girls,” Zim told Dib.
“What are you talking about? Your house is big enough! You have the entire lab downstairs.”
“By ‘house,’ I meant ‘patience.’ I’ve heard rumors that the girls sport little or no emotion, and they walk around reading your mind all the time.”
“Actually,” the teacher explained, “that’s a common mistake made amongst those who are unaware of the albinos. They can’t actually read minds.”
“Well, what can they do?” Dib asked.
“Girls, line up, please!” she called. The twelve little girls lined up and stood straight and tall. She walked up to the first girl in line. “Allow me to introduce myself first. I am Harin, the teacher to these girls. I’m teaching them about different styles of life, that is until our bus broke down,” she sighed. She placed her hand on top of the small girl in front of her who had pale pink eyes. “This is Nami. She can tell the time from anywhere, at any place. She can remember dates and numbers from any point in the past.” She moved to the next one with slightly yellowish eyes. “This is Jin, of location. She can find any place in the universe.” Next was a sullen looking girl with light purple eyes. “This is Wem, or sadness. Her ability is to bring sadness to the heart.”
“What’s the point for her?” Dib asked extremely quietly to Zim so the others wouldn’t hear.
“Sadness is an everyday emotion. If you don’t feel it, then happiness is sadness, bored is entertained, the balance in life is taken away.”
Harin moved to the next girl, who had bright pink eyes. “This is Ibby, of happiness. She makes the sad creatures of the universe happy again.” The next was a girl with eyes so light, it was probably pure white. “This is Tef, of light. She uses her powers of illumination to bring light into any place, even the deepest depths of a black hole.” Harin moved to a girl with dull gray eyes. “As well as sadness and happiness, there is also light and dark. This is Ria, of dark. She takes away the light to any certain extent.” Next she moved on to a girl with green eyes. “This is Tronk, of organics. She knows anything about plants and wildlife of any planet. She is also the cook.” The next was the girl Zim first talked to. “This is Tauq, of electronics. She knows everything about anything that requires electricity and can even smell it in the air.” Next was a girl with light red eyes. “This is Dox, of the past. Basically, she can remember any major event that happened.” The next was another girl with light red eyes, but her antennae were bent differently. “And this is her sister, Vettle, of the future. She can see any major event that will happen.” Harin swallowed as she came to the next one, with pale purple eyes. “This is Vola, of life. She can sense whenever a new spiritual or natural birth will take place, and gives life back to the dead.” She hesitated for a moment before coming to the next one, who had skin paler than all the others with purple eyes as dark as obsidian. “And last, there is Ros, of death.”
Zim caught his breath. This girl, she had the same name as a girl he once loved, one that died for him. She looked like her, too, except a foot or two smaller.
“She has the power to sense when death will arrive, and can kill by a willing touch.”
On a closer look, Zim noticed something hidden in her eyes. Stitches traced across the gleam of her eyes as she stared at him blankly.
“I see you notice her condition,” Harin commented. “The reason why her eyes are darker than the others is because she’s blind.”
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