Chapter 5: See Tak Play

“Creepomon Invasion?” said Tak, puzzled, “No… it can’t be… those SCUM!” yelled Zim… suddenly, a quake rocked the whole base… outside, as the monitors showed, a large, smouldering crater had appeared in the yard.

“I thought the Tallest had taken care of those fools!” said Zim, shocked. “Who are they?” said Mimi, “It’s the mouse people!!” said Gir, excited, “They… they’re…” Zim started… “Why hello there!!” said an unfamiliar voice…

“Commander Cripanchu… we meet at last” said Zim, looking at a monitor with scorn… there, splattered big, yellow, was a tiny, mouse-like being with a blue uniform and matching hat. It was short and stout, and had two, red nipples visible through its shirt.

“So, you must be Invader Zim now, are you?” asked the little being, “that’s right, the greatest Invader of the whole Irken armada!” declared Zim grandiosely… however, he was soon smacked out of the way… “You, who the hell are you?” said Tak, abruptly.

Cripanchu recoiled a bit, and then said “Who are you to speak to me like that, you fool? Do you not know who you are dealing with here?” he added, and suddenly, the camera switched… and showed a bunch of blue airships over the whole of the city.

“This is an invasion of Earth!” declared Cripanchu, “AND YOUR ASSES ARE OUR FIRST TARGET!” he yelled, and then he laughed maniacally… “Well, see ya” he added, and then the screen went dark… “Whoo, asses of fire…” said Gir, quietly, before starting to roll around…

“Oh boy…” said Tak… “HOW DARE YOU STRIKE ME!” yelled Zim, in Tak’s ear, which left her a bit shaken and stunned, “but never mind that now, we must prepare for the Creepomon invasion!” he added… though he felt a little tug on his shirt… “But sir, where did the Creepomon appear before?” said Mimi, looking puzzled… “Well, I don’t really remember much,” said Zim, “but I remember it had something to do with a gigantic pig balloon that got lost in the sky for about a month and a Wall…”

However, an enormous explosion irrupted through the base… and everyone was knocked into a stupor as it became obvious the Creepomon had stormed into the base… “Damn it! We’re going to defend the base first… then we can go after the main force!” said Zim…

He headed for a drawer in his desk… and pulled out a bunch of laser rifles and blasters, and handed them to his wife, Mimi, and Gir… but then thought twice and took the gun away from Gir (“Aww… I wanted to shoot someone” said Gir). “Alright, wet your sights… it’s gonna get dirty…” said Zim…

“Right then, what’s the plan?” said Mimi, looking at her gun sceptically… “Just shoot any Creepomon SCUM (Zim said this in a scornful, low tone)” “Excellent plan” said Tak sarcastically, rolling her eyes, “SHUT UP! Lock and load!” yelled Zim, as he felt the sucking of the trash can… and then the sound of Creepomon scum being shocked and cocking their guns…

Zim felt a few laser blasts whiz past him, so as soon as he felt ground, he upturned the kitchen table and threw himself behind it. He heard Tak yell, and Mimi yelp as he heard a cupboard door slammed open… and Tak throw herself next to Zim… “Damn Creepomon Scum!” yelled Zim.

“What are we going to do?” yelled Tak, “I can’t get ONE shot off at these guys!” Tak saw Zim think for a second… and then, she saw him raise his antenna up above the table… “There’s a Creepy-Lizard in the corner… a KoftoTon behind the couch… HEY!”

Suddenly, Zim sat up and pumped a Creepomon, who was approaching the table with a knife in its hand, full of laser. Tak heard a thud… and then the rush of air as the Creepomon left unloaded their rifles on them…

“Nice trick… but you shouldn’t try it again!” said Tak, “Pff, nonsense!” said Zim, again peeking the antenna over the table… laser fire whizzing around them, “I do this all of the time…” suddenly, Tak heard a sizzling for a bit… Zim sniffed the air for a bit… “HEY, WHAT’S COOKING?!” he yelled…

Tak looked at his antenna, which were once again singed and shortened, one on fire. “Zim, you’re antennas are singed!” yelled Tak, “oh shit…” she said, repenting she had said that… “WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THE LASER FIRE!” yelled Zim…

“Zim, keep your voice down…” said Tak, afraid for a bit… “WHAT?” said Zim… suddenly, Tak saw something creep over the table… a red, horned, ugly Creepy-Lizard, his rifle about to blow Zim’s head off… “ZIM, WATCH OUT!” yelled Tak, and she shot the scum… the laser hit him in the head, pulverizing his face… but his rifle fired off by reflex… and it hit Tak in the arm…

She yelled from the searing pain… the laser had managed to sear all the way into her arm muscle… “TAK!” yelled Zim, after looking behind him at the dead Creepomon… he peeked over the table… he saw the last Creepomon struggling with his rifle… it was over-heated…

“You Creepomon scum!” said Zim, upset over his wife being damaged… “I’ll have your squeedly-poodge for this!” and he aimed his rifle at the scared Creepomon… he pulled the trigger… and watched a cloud of steam erupt from the barrel… “Over-heat” he heard an electronic voice come from the gun…

“Um… well… that is a marvellous gun!” said Zim, brightly… suddenly, he was knocked on his ass as the Creepomon jumped on him and pulled a knife on him… They struggled on the ground for a bit… Zim made sure the knife was nowhere near him… however, this was a Creepo-Tails, a big, strong and bovine-looking mass of lumbering and furry muscle… and he started to sweat as he noticed he was slowly being overpowered…

BOOM!

Zim suddenly felt weight being thrown off of him as an explosion shook the very foundations of his base. He looked over his head and he noticed that Mimi, looking rather ferocious and her eyes glowing red, had a tiny cannon sticking out of her back (“ Doo-doo-doodoodoo! ” Gir tooted triumphantly).

“Mimi… EXCELLENT! Blast them! BLAST THEM ALL!!” Zim roared in triumph…

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“Well, I guess that old signal wasn’t such a bad idea!” emerged the voice of general Cripanchu from his favourite gunship, looking rather proud with himself, his yellow body glowing, “yeah, but we shouldn’t put our guard down… it could be a trap, you know” said colonel Creepy Vine, a tiny little green dog with vines growing out of his uniform, “Oh, relax!” said Cripanchu, “what could possibly go wrong? Zim is an idiot, and I bet his stupid girlfriend won’t help him either!”

However, Creepy Vine was looking very worried, and Cripanchu he was bound to get into his pouts again, “Oh, and that signal was rather reliable, don’t you think? Why should we be worried about it? Now enough! Your silly little pouts are making my beautiful round body sulk…” “SIR!” yelled one of the privateers, a Fubat, “there’s an unknown energy wave coming from inside the base!”

“Stand by, soldier…” said Cripanchu airily, as though he didn’t really care, “General, you’re spacing off again!” pouted Creepy Vine, “I hate it when you do that!” “Oh, would you shut up?! You’re so annoying!” said Cripanchu, loudly, “Grr… you’re worse than at the battle of the three Pigs…”

gasp and Cripanchu noticed Creepy Vine’s look of surprise… “What the…” and Cripanchu turned toward the front of his ship… “SAYS HELLO TO MY LIL’ FREN’! WHA-HA-HA-HA-HA YES!!” was heard very faintly, coming from a tiny little robot in a dog suit… and, suddenly, like lightning, there was a flash… and a big, yellow bolt of concentrated electricity was heading straight at the ship… “Oh, Pika-shit…” said Cripanchu….

BOOM!