The Smeet

The Visit

"I don't want to go, daddy!"

"Ilk, sweetie, it's only for a few days-"

"But whyyyy? I want to stay with you, daddy!"

Red sighed. "I know, sweetie, I wouldn't like you to go either, but it's too dangerous for you to be here. A space battle is no place for a smeet," He bent down on his knees to pull her into a hug. "I don't know what I'd do if something happened to you. Please, sweetie, for me."

After a few painful seconds of pondering, Ilk nodded her head. "Party when I get back?"

"Party when you get back," Red promised. "Now come on. The ship is ready."

Ilk picked up her primitive backpack-she needed something to carry her stuff due to not having a PAK of her own yet.

Her father led her to the hangar, where there was an automated vhook cruiser waiting for her. It would take her back to Irk for the duration of the conflict. What is the conflict about? Let's say the Resisty has 'inspired' other aliens to try and defeat the Empire. Poor idiots.

It wouldn't probably take more than a week to wipe them out completely, but the 'rebels' tended to somehow send assassins into the Massive to kill the Irken Leaders. Up to now they had always failed for one reason or another (mostly because of a blunder on their part), but Red wouldn't risk his daughter's safety anyhow.

Before departing, Ilk shared one last hug with her father and uncle Pur (who didn't stop crying the whole time) before she climbed into the cruiser and waved goodbye at them.

Being of the most recent models of the cruiser line, the Vhook could be put in autopilot and sent to any location with the proper coordinates even without a pilot. In this case, the vhook cruiser was cloaked and with coordinates to Irk.

Ilk stared at the Massive and the Armada as she got farther and farther. She hoped dad and uncle Pur would be fine, but then she recalled it was the Irken Armada, the strongest force in the universe. They would be fine.

Yet she couldn't help but wonder... how was Earth like?

It wasn't that she didn't want to see Irk, her people's homeworld, but she could go there anytime. The Academy was there, the Tallest Tower was there and she'd eventually be sent there to finish training.

But Earth? From what she had heard no Irken other than Zim himself had ever been there. In fact, Zim's presence there was the reason no one wanted to go near that planet. She had asked dad if she couldn't be sent there instead, but he nearly had a squeedly-spooch attack and listed off all the reasons of why she would not be put under Zim's care even if dad's life depended on it.

Well, Ilk had no intention of just being stuck inside the Tallest Tower and get bored out of her mind. She headed over to the console panel and started typing. If there was something she was good at, it was hacking into a system and making a few modifications. Thanks for your genes, dad!

System overrun. Changing coordinates...

Destination: Earth.

Well, now she better call Zim and tell him she was coming, the least thing she needed was him thinking she was a random Irken who wanted to 'steal his planet', like he put it when he mentioned Tak in one of their conversations. She dialed the number on the screen. A few seconds later the call was taken.

"Oh, Ilk-smeet! What a surprise!" the defective said on the other end of the line. He seemed gleefully surprised that she had called him. "Did you miss me already? Hehe, what can Zim do for you?"