Invader Zim - Lost Chronicles of Doom! - Continuous Novel

Chapter Thirty-Six - Therium of Vort

Yayyy special chapter!!!! Eh I have a feeling you guys are gonna be like "Seriously you said this would be good, this sucks" but whatever. Just don't judge me *cry, cry*.

Fear slid down Zim's spine as he began to sweat, staring into the vicious pale eyes of the hideous Vortian. "Wh-whatever you want, I don't have it!" he yelled, putting his trembling hands up in the air. "Believe me." The Vortian only stared back, a grimace written on its face, idly stepping on a wire to make the floating platform lurch upwards and onto the roof of a building. Zim looked down the best he could without coming any closer to the alien. The metropolis of never-ending restaurants and useless gift shops seemed smaller and less crowded now that he was above the huge, luminous signs and crowds of people.

"Invader Zim of Irk," said the Vortian. His little, pale blue eyes narrowed into little slits. "Interesting. Are you still against your country's ways?"

"What are you talking about, Vortian filt--sir?" Zim snapped back. He had tried to say it with all due respect for such a Vortian (who was so smart, he could hack Irken technology), but he was so humiliated by having to sit there like a sad, poor zoo animal so his reply came out as if he were holding back some boiling anger.

"Apparently not... Very well," said he, nodding his head slightly, "Then we shall see to your extermination immediately."

"Wait a minute, WHAT?!" the Irken squeaked with so much fear you'd have thought that he was Courage the Cowardly Dog. Instead of replying, the Vortian made a series of taps with his miniature foot (which wasn't actually a foot, but whatever) on the control pad of the platform. Zim's squeedlyspooch almost burst when he saw tons of tiny eyes, all pale and glinting with hatred and disgust. He did his best not to cower in dread, but it was no use; the Vortians in the shadows crept forward and stopped before the one near his cage as they ran their Irken-like tongue over their carnivorous teeth.

"Well done, Therium," one of them said, stepping out. The Vortian's eyes were seasick green with lime green pupils and his skin was a common purple. Following shyly behind was a hodgepodge of aliens: a cone figure with a purple face, a skinny brownish alien with a dot on his forehead, and a hooded female. "Very well done, indeed."

"Lard Nar!" exclaimed this... Therium as he leapt off of the wires and saluted. "I didn't think you were coming. I would've had some banquet ready, or..." The Vortian thought a minute. "But anyways, why are you here?"

"Uhh... Spleenk, why did you suggest we come here?" Lard Nar questioned, looking at the slender brown alien.

"Ahhm.... I don't knoe."

"Oh, WHY DO I KEEP LISTENING TO YOU?!" screamed the Vortian. "Anyways, anyways! Ixane, show Therium to the dungeons where this piece of dung shall be locked up until extermination." He pointed to Zim, speaking as though he was something that came out of a dog's behind. Zim tried not to scream in rage and fire his Pak lasers at Lard Nar, head of the Resisty.

A soft growling noise came from Ixane's throat as she started walking away, just barely gripping a bar on the Irken's cage. You know, most of your troubles are self-inflicted, a soft voice said in Zim's head. His eyes went to Ixane in burning frustration. Who was she--or at least, he assumed it was Ixane who spoke--to tell him what caused his problems?! It was ridiculous, absurd! "How about you stay outta my head, filth?!" Zim snapped, hardly thinking about his current situation.

"We have a loony one, huh?" Lard Nar observed, peering through the bars intensely. "Ah, no matter. We'll be there in a minute or so."

He was lead into a large and random cave in an abandoned restaurant, and then they began to take a series of twists and turns, so many of them that he couldn't remember the way out. A hand unlocked his cage and on the other side was a small dungeon room. "In you go, boy," Therium said meekly, clearly having a twist of attitude now that the Resisty was present.