Ch.IV - Remember Me?

Chapter.IV: Remember Me?

Story by: Andrew Vargas

"Shit shit shit shit shit shit! I'm going to be late for school again, Hexental, next time you do a maintenance check, be sure to re-set the alarm clock for me or at least wake me up!"

Opaque argued as he dressed up and grabbed any food he could find on his bedroom floor. It has been two weeks since he had arrived on Earth and already he has adjusted to the human’s ways. Having only made one ally and not been discovered by the other two Irkens, Opaque, with his human disguise as Andrew, lives a normal average human teenage boy life. As usual, Opaque and Dib walk down the same road to discuss their findings and a little more socializing. Though today was different, today something unexpected happened. Instead of the usual departure of Dib going to school and Opaque being left to walk alone to high-school, Opaque was caught up on thoughts of his past young life at Tinoch.

He wonders what has become of his friends and his mother. Why fate has chosen him to survive and not any other individual. In basic terms he wonders if his life will be nothing more than a mission. Opaque has a bad memory, like a loose string tied onto a puppet, his mind seems to drift on and off and suddenly switch feeling. As he arrived onto school grounds, Opaque thought today would be different; he would try to make a new friend.

During his first period class as a teacher aid, he was assigned to take over the classroom as the teacher went out on an important teacher errand, but Opaque knew that was code for stress relief therapy and 10 minutes in the janitor's closet with some random female faculty member.

"Well, since Mr.McSpanky has gone out on an errand, he has left me in charge. Mr.McSpanky has already left you an assignment on the board, you are to read chapter's 3-5 and write a quick summary of each chapter along with your thoughts of the chapter and what you think what will happen in the next few chapters."

Of course that’s how it would have sounded if Andrew said that. Instead he stood up in front of the class and panicked. Luckily the class wasn't paying attention, Andrew sighed in relief and walked his way over to the teacher's desk to sit down and grade papers as he was assigned to, but instead he just wandered off on the computer surfing the internet. About 4 minutes into the class without McSpanky in class, there was a knock on the door. The class got quiet and began to start on their work, as for Andrew, he walked up to the door to answer it. Behind the door was a skinny, tall female with cute big purple eyes and long light sky blue hair bangs with the remaining hair a deep transparent-like purple; on top of her head, a black top hat with a horizontal black and white checkered pattern right above the shade providing area. She wore a black shirt that would cover her fairly large breasts but not enough giving her cleavage. And under that shirt regular blue faded jeans with black sneakers. She held two books with her arms crossed around them that read English and History.

Andrew just looked at her like every other female human and asked her what her purpose was. The girl gave Andrew a quick angered glare and then smiled and handed him a transferal slip. Andrew grabbed the slip and read it, on the slip it read that this girl is a new foreign exchange student from Irkenania, a country he had never heard of; no surprise since he is new to the planet and didn't question it.

Andrew looked back up to the girl’s eye level and said, "Right, well the teacher isn't in right now, I’m just his aid. Follow me into the class and I'll introduce you to the other students." Andrew then turned around and walked back into the class with some of the students looking at the girl following behind him. Alright class, this is a new student by the name of," Andrew looked at the new student’s paper again to try and make out her name, "Kat.., well her last names seems to be smudged. Anyways she's a foreign exchange student so she may not know much of our language so welcome her as an ordinary student."

With that said, Andrew asked Kat if she wanted to let the others know a little more about herself, but they both knew it would be a waste of time since the whole class wet back to being destructive. Andrew thought to himself as he and Kat looked at the classroom.

"Stupid humans, but I don't blame them, they are primitive after all."

Andrew then told Kat to take any available seat and walked back onto the teacher’s chair. Just as he sat down there was another knock on the door, Andrew had an annoyed face and his right eye twitched. So he walked up to the door to answer it, as usual the class resumed their work that was assigned. It was Mr.McSpanky, he had come back from his errand and with him was a bottle of poop soda. Apparently he went out with other teachers to eat at the teacher's lounge. Andrew welcomed the teacher and notified him of the new student and pointed at her, but when he pointed at her she saw her looking out into the sky, as if she was looking into space. Andrew then walked back to the teacher's chair and started on his paper grading while Mr.McSpanky got into resuming his lesson for the day, the bell rang shortly after.

It was nutrition time, a breakfast for the school if you will, and Andrew sat as his usual isolated spot from the school eating his sandwich he had snatched before leaving the base. As he ate he also conducted plans on how he could expose the other two Irkens. As he drew down his plans, he saw someone at the gate, it was Dib. Andrew quickly got up and secretly approached Dib.

"Opa..er..Andrew! I have some important news you should know about." Said Dib to Andrew.

Andrew sarcastically replied back, "You mean important like the time you thought Dracula was hiding in the girl’s bathroom?"

Dib just glared at Andrew and continued with his rant, "There was this new student who checked into our class, but the weird thing is, she was tall and looked no where near our age, just about your height. She had light sky blue bangs and long purple colored hair. She was a foreign exchange student, but apparently she mistaken the elementary school with the high-school. What I don't understand is, how can a teenager mistake schools that easily?" Andrew looked at Dib and was surprised to find out the same person he was talking about was the new student that checked into his first period class.

"Dib! That same person checked into my first period class. So...nothing strange really, she was just misguided. Anyways, and new information on Zim or Galatica?" Andrew asked Dib.

"Nothing really except Galatica blew up the science lab and I threw a muffin at Zim." Dib replied with pride into his last few words.

The bell rang just as Dib finished his sentence, and Andrew said his goodbye to Dib and ran back to his spot to grab his things, but when he got there, his plans were gone, and his half eaten sandwich. Andrew was angry and assumed it was someone trying to pull a prank on him. So he let it go and rushed to his second period class. After another boring mundane day at school, Andrew decided to go to the schools lab and conjure some experiments of his own. Upon arrival, he saw Kat inside mixing chemicals, but beside her things, he also saw his papers.

"YOU!" Shouted Andrew directly at Kat, "You’re the one who took my papers! And my sandwich!"

Kat slowly turned around taking a final bite of Andrew's sandwich and turned back into her experiments. Just before Andrew could do anything, Kat's explosion erupted from the beaker and spilled onto Andrew's face and top section of his body burning is disguise. Andrew yelled in pain as the chemicals burned through him and a little of his skin. Kat quickly turned around in Andrew's cry of pain and saw him cover his left eye which revealed most of his disguise.

"That's what you get for not wearing any protective eye wear." Kat then turned around and again returned to her experiments.

"You...you...you..." Just then Andrew collapsed onto the floor unconscious. Kat turned around this time angered but found Andrew on the floor face first. She saw him and his green skin. She was worried the chemicals may have burned his skin cells or may have mutated them. With further inspection, she knew that Andrew was like her.

"Intruder alert, intruder alert! Seek and destroy!" Out alarmed the machines notifying the other Tinoch soldiers. The Intruder was a tall female Irken who had tried to sneak into the Tinoch's military base since the previous assigned Irken had failed to conquer the planet; she decided to find a weak spot but ended up triggering the defense system. Bzzt, squirsh, splish, were the noises the Tinoch's weapons made as they shot at the Irken. She was hit several times but still managed to escape. Injured, the female Irken did not know where to go; her ship was too far for her to get too and was being hunted down. She gave up all hope and collapsed on the floor in the abandoned laboratory in Tinoch's sector six areas.

Opaque's class was on fieldtrip that day and had wandered off just a little after the alarms were triggered. He was locked in the same room as the intruder though did not know. He walked around waiting for the doors to re-open when suddenly he heard a scratching noise. It was the spider legs of the intruder. They were scratching the floor slowly; they were reacting to the intruder's pulse. Opaque saw pool of blood all around the intruder; he knew she was in critical condition. Opaque was taught well by his mother to always help those in need. He approached the unconscious stranger slowly and began to heal her wounds. The intruder woke up to find she was inside a tube with her right arm and left leg gone and part of her right torso as well.

"Ah so you’re awake, you must be strong to recover quickly like that. I had to clean you up a bit, you were very bloody on the floor over there," Opaque pointed to the spot the intruder had fallen on. "Try not to move much, the tube your in is slowly trying to re-pair your organs cells. I'm not too good with these machines but it's the best I can do."

The intruder then fell unconscious again due to the pain. Opaque knew there was nothing he could do to re-attach her body parts, they were greatly injured and he had no idea how her body anatomy worked. He was still puzzled why she also looked somewhat similar like him. Green skin, big eyes, and antenna. The only thing Opaque could do was attach her mechanical parts onto her missing body parts nerves and use the skin from her detached body to disguise it. He knew this would be a hassle and decided to turn the abandoned lab in sector 6 into a small base.

There he spend a week making the body parts from Tinoch technology and attaching them onto the intruder. Opaque was very smart when it came to technology, he majored when it came to technological stuff. All the intruder could do was watch and speak to Opaque as she lied down on a bed. She had tried many times to escape but they all resulted into failure. Opaque would always be one step in front of her.

"Ok, it's done. I know you don't like me but I hope you appreciate what I’m doing for you. Now if you don't mind I need to inject this chemical into your blood-stream." Explained Opaque to the intruder, but the intruder tried to reject him. She was too weak and ended up being injected. She awoke up on the same bed again, but this time she felt as good as new, but also felt her new body parts.

"What did you do to me!?" Yelled out the intruder.

Opaque smiled and said, "I fixed you. See if you recall, you were shot down, bleeding in critical condition, I saved you and fed you and kept you alive. And as you can't see but feel, I've attached mechanical parts onto your missing body parts with the very same skin. Though you feel it now, I promise you won' notice in about a month or two. A very hard task but no thanks are needed."

The intruder stood up moving her new arm and leg, twisting her waist to get used to her partial new tarsal.

"Thank you, now release me, I must be going." The intruder said, but Opaque just laughed and replied to her.

"You’re not going anywhere. I hold here the remote to your new mechanical parts." The intruder was not surprised. "Here, this is yours." Opaque said to the intruder while handing her the control's to her mechanical parts. " I do not like controlling others. Not my style. As for your release you are granted to go. As for me, I think I’ll be going home."

The intruder was shocked. "You are a fool..."

"The names Opaque. And yours?" Opaque interrupted.

The intruder blushed in embarrassment. "You’re a fool Opaque, as for my name, I think I owe you so I’ll give you the liberty of living and knowing my name." The intruder jumped onto a small platform by the window, "The names Kat, be honored, and thank you." Kat then used her spider legs from her soldier-pack she had secretly gotten back while Opaque was speaking. "Heh, not bad, though I do wish she would have stayed."

"Wh...where am I?" A dazed and weak Opaque said.

"Your in my home." Replied Kat.

"You! Kat! Wait, my disguise!" Opaque panicked and jumped out of Kat's bed.

"Don't worry," Kat walked up to Opaque, "I know your an Irken, your the same one from planet Tinoch correct?"

Opaque had a shocked face, "Your THAT Kat!?"

Kat smiled and replied, "Yes. I'm so happy you remember me." Kat then sat next to Opaque and got close to him, "I never did get to formally thank you for saving my life."

Opaque blushed and stepped away, "Wait, why are you on this planet!? What's your purpose here!?"

Kat then got up and walked towards Opaque cornering him and got right in front of his face and answered him in a sexual tone, "To help you."

Opaque blushed even more and his shorts became tighter. He pushed Kat onto her bed with him on top of her. Kat blushed and closed her eyes awaiting a kiss. Opaque then used that opportunity to jump out of her window shattering it into small sharp pieces of glass. Opaque escaped and ran on home; Kat was tricked and grunted with a lovey dovey face. Opaque arrived at home still embarrassed, gasping for air, and shocked to see Kat here on Earth.

"What's going on here? What was she trying to do. She seemed a lot different from the time I found her. What could have possibly changed her?" Opaque began to think many more thoughts about Kat and what had happened while he was Unconscious. "Hexental, grab my cloak and ready the ship, I need some time to think." With the order's given Hexental did what he was asked. As Opaque slowly drifts in space he wonders what fate really does have in store for him.

+ Side Chapter, Ch.IV - Jackers! +

As he rested in his ship, wondering on what was going on, the alarms went off. "Hexental, why the alarm?"

"Opaque, a space ship from the planet Jackers are moving in." Hexental replied as he readied Opaque's battle armor and brought up a screen of the ship.

"Planet Jacker's you say. Well, technically my job is to protect the Earth from being conquered or some sort. So them destroying the planet for their Sun is also non of my concern, but still, the humans do have potential. All right, engage space combat mode and notify Dib."

Just then another space ship appeared already attacking the Jackeranian ship, it was an Irken ship.

"Now I wonder who that could be." Opaque asked himself as he approached the Jacker's ship.

Opaque helped battle the Jacker ship with their small army beside them. It was him and the other Irken ship against the small army. Opaque was hit many times but nothing Hexental could endure, as for the Irken ship that was shot down and crash landed onto the Jacker's main mother ship. Opaque finished the remaining ships and saw that the ship didn't really crash but landed recklessly. Upon closer inspection, Opaque saw it was a female Irken. He decided to land on the ship to help her. Upon landing he was ambushed by the female Irken with her spider legs.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! I'M HERE TO HELP YOU!" Shout Opaque to the female Irken.

"Sorry, I thought you were one of the Jacker's." She then let go of Opaque and dusted him off with her spider-legs. As she walked closer to Opaque she fell to her knees in forgiveness. "My tallest! I am so sorry. I did not know."

Opaque had a confused look on his face as he finished dusting himself off and remembered that Irkens were ruled by taller Irkens.

"Uh.., it's ok."

The small female Irken then stood up and smiled in relief. "Thanks for the help earlier. My names Galatica, are you a new member of the tallest?"

Opaque looked down at Galatica and was a little surprised to see her there.

"Uh...how about we stop the Jackers first?"

Galatica gave an embarrassed look, "Eek, your right!" So Galatica and Opaque entered the ship and managed to stop the Jackers from stealing the Earth.

"Hexental, ready the ship for a return to Earth." Galatica turned around as she finished tying up the beaten up Jackers.

"Earth!? Wait why are you returning to Earth, as in why are you there? If I may ask my tallest."

Opaque gave another confused look at Galatica because he forgot again what the tallest are and how they are highly respected. "Oh! Uhm, va..ca..tion? Yeah that's it, vacation! I'm on vacation after being assigned as one of the new tallest. Anyways, why are you here?" Said Opaque.

"Didn't the other tallest inform you? Well I was assigned to keep watch on Zim, a mess-up to the Irken armada, because.." Galatica paused.

"Because...why?" Opaque tried to get Galatica to finish her sentence.

Galatica knew that the new tallest did not know she was punished and had a bad record for trying to steal the Irken Imperial Gem, so she made up a lie.

"Because I volunteered." Opaque gave a questioning look at Galatica as he looked down on her. Galatica began to sweat as she thought he wouldn't buy it.

"Makes sense I guess." Said Opaque with a smile.

Galatica smiled as she got away with the lie.

"Well, you do your job as I relax here on Earth. I hear this planet is famous for its snacks." Hexental soon arrived outside of the Jacker's ship waiting for Opaque to board. "I'll set this ship to auto-pilot back to the planet Tinoch. At least this was we can somewhat repent for our past troubles. Nice meeting you soldier Galatica."

Galatica then bowed in front of Opaque and smiled, "My tallest, may I ask for your name?"

Opaque turned his head around as he just finished setting the Jacker's ship into auto pilot. "That names Opaque. Just call me Opaque when were not near the Irken Armada or on the planet Irk." Opaque smiled as he answered and soon walked to the hatch to board Hexental. Galatica soon also boarded her ship and gave her farewells to Opaque, then went in ahead into landing onto Earth as Opaque stayed behind.

"Hexental, get me Dib on visual."

"Yes sir Opaque. Dib is now on visual contact."

"Dib I have some important news, the female Irken Galatica, known on earth as Tica, is on our side. Apparently she volunteered to keep Zim from leaving Earth."

Dib had a crazed look on his face, "WHAT! You mean she’s supposed to keep Zim on Earth!? Well, I suppose we can do the same, until we find a way to expose him."

"Yeah I guess, well it's been a long day for me, I'll be landing on Earth shortly." Opaque replied and then ended transmission between him and Dib.

"Hexental, I think it's time I go visit planet Irk, but to do that, I'm going to need some help."