Deserters Chapter 2

Chapter 2 Kollage


After a few weeks Maebh and Lan were finally coming close to their final destination. Normally a few weeks in space wasn't that big of a deal, but this time there was an Irk that kept on opening up her wound, and the other was becoming restless. Not to mention Bob annoyed both of them, causing Lan to remove his audio chip multiple times, with him finding or acquiring another one to replace the one that was removed.

"Planet Earth ahead." The ships navigation announced, both Maebh and Lan made their way to the cockpit of the ship.

"OOOoo, it's pretty." Lan commented as she stared in awe at the planet that was becoming bigger by the second.

"Yes it is, maybe you should slow the ship down. I don't know about you, but I don't want my goo to go everywhere."  Maebh suggested as she buckled herself into the seat.

"Right." Lan mumbled as she looked at all of the buttons, switches, and levers, with her hands flying across the console and making the ship to slow down. "Um, Maebh....."

"What?" Maebh crossed her arms across her chest, not liking how hesitant Lan sounded.

"Well....the landing might be rather....bumpy."  Lan quickly glanced over at Maebh, who had just placed her hand on her face.

"You never got the landing gear set up. Did you?"  Maebh stated as she glared over at the driver.

"Eh? Of course I did....kinda. Bob!" Lan shouted over her shoulder, and immediately the robotic unit was at her side.

"Yes Master." It spoke with a half salute. Of which Lan barely acknowledged before she started to give it orders.

"Bob, go to the control panel of the ship and be prepared to execute any kind of safety measures as we enter the planet's atmosphere and land."

"You did not finish the ship did you?" Bob asked after he processed her commands. Lan glared at the planet as she tried to keep the ship under control and going slow.

"No, Bob I didn't." There was a pause and some rather colorful Irken curses. "Now get to the control panel."

"Entering Planet Earth's atmosphere." Lan's eyes narrowed in concentration as she barely kept the ship in check, while Maebh was gripping the armrests with her eyes shut tight.


Meanwhile at a Semi-large Kollage campus.....

Zim was in the dorm room that he and Dib shared, when a screen to Dib's computer flashed to life. Interested in why the computer suddenly came to life, Zim abandoned his homework that needed to get done before his class that meet in a few hours, and went to see what was going on with Dib's computer. Cautiously one of the PAK's legs extended out of the PAK and gently tapped the Dib's computer, satisfied that it wasn't going to explode Zim sat himself down on Dib's computer chair and looked at the screen. Immediately understanding what was happening, he leapt up, quickly put in his contacts and pulled on his wig and ran towards the class he knew that the Dib would be in.


In Class......

Dib's cell phone vibrated in his pocket, awaking him from the stupor he was in, quietly and quickly he took a look at it thinking it was Zim complaining that he was yet again bored of his homework and wanted the 'hooman' to entertain him. But when it wasn't even a text message his eyes grew, he never thought that it would happen, well he couldn't even believe when Tak returned even though she did try to kill both him and Zim but that was beside the point. Glancing at the clock he saw that there was still 2 hours left of class. Unwilling to ditch class but yet unwilling to not know if it was actually happening or if the program was just malfunctioning. As he sat his eyes were moving all around the room as if he expected something to jump out at him from some kind of space and time rift. Surprisingly after a few minutes of Dib's 'paranoia' the Kollage Professor let them out for a 10 minute break, just long enough for Dib to run to his dorm room, check the computer and run back....maybe.

Dib got up and ran out of the class room, and down the hall, he kept on running until he ran right into Zim, of which was running to drag Dib out of his class room and over to the dorms so they both could freak out at what was happening.

"Zim." Dib gasped for air, as he looked up and saw who he ran into, "Whyareyouhere?Weren'tyoustudying." he sped talked  as he got up and helped the Irken up.

"StudyinghowcanIdothatwhenyourcomputersuddenlyturnedonsillyhooman.Itsaid...." Zim speed talked right back to Dib before glancing around to see if anyone was listening to their conversation. Of which there were none, who would pay attention to the freaks or even see them. "that a ship had entered the atmosphere, and it's some kind of an Irken ship. I think." He whispered into Dib's ear keeping his voice quiet enough so that if anyone decided to eavesdrop they would not be able to understand what was spoken.

"WHAT!" Dib hollered causing some of the few people that were somewhat near them to jump and look at him as if he was crazy. Zim almost started yelling at Dib, almost but he knew that there were more important things that needed to be done before they could start fighting with each other once again.

"Did I stutter Worm-Baby? I don't think so. As much as I dread speaking at her, we must tell Tak." Zim hissed after he said Tak's name, even though she was the one of the few Irkens on the planet, she wasn't one of his favorite people to be around let alone talk to. But it must be done, after making up his mind he grabbed Dib's hand, of which was still partially shocked that there was another alien on earth. Hoping that it was not another Irken bent on destroying the planet, Dib began to plan what needed to be done before they could confront the alien. "COME! We must talk at the TAK!" Zim pointed at the dorms before he drug Dib with him as he began to run back towards the dorms.


Entering the Atmosphere of Earth.....

As the ship began to enter the Earth's Atmosphere everything began to become unstable, and difficult for the Irken to pilot. Hissing as she kept on jerking the ship back on course towards the last known location of one of the three Irkens that had begun to call this planet home.

"Lan WHAT ARE YOU DOING! ARE YOU TRYING TO GET US KILLED!" Maebh shouted, as she covered her eyes not wanting to see what kind of Doom that was going to be rained upon them.

"No, Maebh. Now do me a favor and SHUT UP! BOB TURN THE THRUSTERS ON AND HAVE THEM POINT BACKWARDS HOPEFULLY THAT WILL HELP SLOW OUR APPROACH!" Lan barely glanced at Maebh when she told her to shut up, heh she might be hating the ride now but later it might spark a few ideas for a couple of new plans that would work for something. "Come on baby, come on. Keep together for me...." She glanced down at the gauges seeing a few that were completely into the red, biting her lip she continued to softly talk to the ship. "No, don't do that, don't fall apart. You can do it." Now they were within the range of Airplanes and other kinds of aircraft, unknowingly they got way to close to one.

"LAN!" Maebh cursed in Irken while Lan made the ship sharply swerve out of the way of the plane that they had almost hit.

"WHAT! I CAN'T KEEP THE SHIP UNDER CONTROL NEARLY EVERYTHING HAS OVER HEATED!" Lan shouted back at Maebh.

"WHAT! ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY BESIDES THE INITIAL FLIGHT TESTS IT HASN'T BEEN TESTED!" Maebh shouted back very unhappy at how the landing was going, and by the look of it she was most likely going to end up with her guts everywhere. Why did Lan have to pilot the ship?

"NO! EVERYTHING ELSE HAS BEEN TESTED EXCEPT FOR ENTERING AN ATMOSPHERE AND LANDING. THIS SHIP IS INCOMPLETE." Bob reported from the back of the ship.


Back at the Kollage Campus in the Dorms.....

"I'm serious there's a ship coming into the Atmosphere!" Dib ranted at Gaz, who was lying on her bed playing her Game Slave 5 and currently trying to ignore the two idiots that just let themselves into the dorm that she shared with Tak.

"Yes filthy hooman, and it looks to be of Irken make. Do you realize what this means! DO YOU!" Zim shouted at both Gaz and Tak. Sighing Tak got up from her computer chair and redirected her attention from the computer screen to the two people that were shouting in the room once again.

"Shut up, your voices are annoying." Gaz spoke up, not even glancing up from her game.

"Do you both think we are Idiots? Of course we know that an Irken ship has entered the Atmosphere. But you both probably don't know that there are two life forms aboard that ship. Do you?" Tak asked raising an eyebrow at the two who began to stutter and partially freak out, causing Gaz to pause her game and sit up glaring at the two of them.

"ENOUGH!" Gaz shouted, Dib and Zim immediately stopped what they were doing and watched Gaz nearly summon something from the depths of hell. "You both really are morons, don't you remember when Tak came here she told us that this planet became off limits to all Irkens and those under Irken rule? Because they do not want you to leave this planet Zim." Both Zim and Dib silently said 'oh' as Gaz laid back down and started playing her game again, expecting the two guys in the room to take that as a hint to leave, when they didn't she spoke up again. "Now get out." She growled at the two of them. Once they left and the door shut, Tak ran a hand through her hair as Gaz broke the silence in the room. "Morons."

"Agreed." Tak responded with a slight smile on her face.


Crash Landing.....

Maebh was trying her hardest not to yell and scream at Lan, but her limit was coming extremely close, just like the very hard looking ground. "BYTHETALLESTLAN!THE GROUNDISCOMMINGCLOSERSER!DAMNIDON'THAVEAPLANFORTHIS!!!!!!!" Maebh shouted at Lan, whose lekku flattened more so on the back of her head that they would normally while concentrating.

"MAEBH! SHUT UP!" Lan shouted back at Maebh. While pulling on the steering wheel trying to get the ship to pull up in a last ditch effort to get it to slow down just enough to make it land softer than what they were going to end up doing so.

"Master, put on the restraining belts, we're going to crash land." Bob's voice rang out from the back of the ship.

"SCREW YOU BOB! AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO......"  Lan was cut off as they hit the ground, leaving a huge skid mark in the ground. As the ship came to a halt a body flew right through the windshield that had taken quite a beating and was extremely weak.

Not too long after the crash Maebh was the first one to collect her wits and pull herself out of the ship. Knowing Lan as long as she had, she learned the hard way that no matter what kind of machine Lan operated if you were along for the ride be sure to strap yourself into the machine so that when something did happen you wouldn't end up like Lan did, thrown from the machine and most likely broke something.

"Bob, extract yourself. I'm going to see how badly Lan managed to beat herself up this time." Maebh hollered into the ship, before heading out towards the body that was curled up upon itself. There was a muffled 'Yes, masters smart friend.' And then a bunch of clanking as it began to extract itself. "Oh also check how badly the ship is." Maebh turned her head back towards the ship as she just thought of how they were going to need that ship, preferably in working order.

Once she got to the body, Meabh nudged it with her foot. "Hey, get up. You're fine....well minus the fact that your stitches re-opened, again." A groan came from the body as it tried to curl up into a tighter ball, then it sighed once it realized that the nudging wasn't going to stop.

"Can we do that again?" Lan asked quietly with a grin on her face. Of which angered Meabh enough to activate her PAK legs that grabbed Lan by the collar of her shirt and put her face inches from Maebh's.

"You pull that STUNT again, Lan. By Irk you will be stuck in a healing chamber for a very LONG time." Meabh threatened, and then dumped the crazy Weapons Developer that still had that stupid grin on her face onto the ground.

"Come on Maebh, admit it, you laughed when you saw me being thrown from the windshield!" Lan spoke as she slowly got up. "Ow...." Once she was fully up she ran on over to the ship where Maebh was. "Aw man. It's going to take a lot of work to make her pretty again.....Oh Maebh what are we going to do for disguises and a cover story?" Lan asked more worried about the ship more so than blending in with the general populace.

"I hate you." A robotic voice told Lan as it walked around the ship, it's 'eyebrows' in an angry look. Stifling a giggle Lan looked at the robot, then quickly away and then towards Maebh.

"Bob, we both hate her right now.  And Lan, get one of those laptops out, hack into a wireless network....if this is the correct planet, if not we're screwed until you can get that stupid ship working again."

"Hey, the ship is not stupid!" Lan shouted back, of which came out muffled since she was partially into the ship, trying to dig around for a working laptop.

"And then we'll create a disguise as some kind of students, and enroll in some kind of skool. Our cover story is that we're international student.....from.....Um, yea Lan a working laptop will be extremely useful right now."