Hero vs. Defective

[zim]

Characters: ZIM (zim) and Ratchet (last_lombax)
Location: The park
Time: The day/evening after this thread.
Style: Whatever Tsumi prefers~
Status: Closed.

The Irken marched lazily into the park at about the time he himself had set. Challenges, really. Couldn't these inferior creatures just accept that Irken Galactic Conquest had reached them as well?

Oh well. This should be over quickly. And then he could go back to his snacks and plotting evil.

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[last_lombax]

It wouldn't be long before Zim would hear the roar of something coming towards him. The Lombax was speeding across the part, his hover boots on full blast. He came to a skidding stop a few feet from Zim, his armor on and Omni-wrench in hand. He smirked at the little green alien.

"You must be Zim. You're...not what I thought you would be."

[zim]

The Irken simply waved the comment off "Yes, yes. You are terrified beyond your porky self. Let's just get this over with, okay?"

Of course, this was Zim. No armor or weapon or space station aiming deadly lasers at him could ever impress this short invader. One of his antennae twitched and the alien smirked "Now show Zim what you have there!"

[last_lombax]

"Terrified? No. But yeah, let's just get this over with." And Ratchet moved his hand, his wrench vanished in in it's place was suddenly a rocket launcher almost as large as the Lombax with three missiles loaded and ready.

[zim]

"Oh, neat!" Zim commented, sounding happy at the displayed weaponry, yes, maybe even impressed in a somewhat childish way.

In response, the three lids of Zim's PAK slid open without so much of a sound and his four metal spider legs produced from it, tips glowing with already charged lasers. Not wasting any time, those lasers fire at the lombax in front of him right away.

[last_lombax]

Ratchet was used to this game. He activated the hover boots again and hit the thrusters. He zoomed to the side and fired the rocket launcher. All three missiles fired at once, one heading straight at Zim with the others took off in 30 degree angles on either side of the center one.

[zim]

Zim actually remained where he stood, looking at the incoming first missile and... Did nothing else. The alien just stood right there, staring, and ended up getting hit by the rocket right at his upper body, knocked off his feet and dragged off by the missile itself, screaming all the while.

Until the rocket plus Irken hit a tree. Naturally, rocket plus Irken plus tree exploded on impact and what remained was a charred piece of earth, minus tree and an equally charred Irken. Minus missile.

The Invader produced a strangled noise, coughed painfully and lifted a single finger in a warning gesture "You... Will pay for-"

And at that very moment, the other two missiles hit their target right on, sending dirt, dust and smoke up and into the air like there was no tomorrow.

[last_lombax]

Ratchet blinked for a moment as the dust, dirt, and chunks of grass flew everywhere. Was that really it? Did he just win with one shot? The Lombax continued to stare until a thought came to his mind. What if the little guy was dead?!

"Oh shit!" He ran through the dust, looking around frantically for the little green alien. "Hey! Zim! Zim?! Are you still alive?!"

[zim]

'REACTIVATING!' came the response from somewhere within the dust, declared by a clearly artificial voice that was followed by a set of electric sparks. The voice rang again, however, interrupting the process.

'ENEMY DETECTED: DEFENSIVE MODE!'

Before those words were even finished, two metal tendrils shot through the dust and straight for Ratchet's location, ready to either drive him away or get hold of the lombax if nevessary.

The artificial limbs ripping through the air also gave away the alien's location, however, as they cleared away some of the dust by their rapid movements. The irken's body was, indeed, on the ground, face down and motionless. But producing from his PAK was at least one more of those segmented metal tendrils as well as the whole set of laser tipped spider legs, charged and ready to fire if necessary.

[last_lombax]

Ratchet yelped when the tendrils came at him. He activated the hover boots and sped backwards away from the metal limps reaching out for him. He reached for his wrench and held it up. So the thing on his back could function while he was out cold? Damn.

"H-Hold on! I just wanted to make sure he was alive!"

[zim]

The tendrils only followed the lombax a short distance before they withdrew again and returned to the remaining metal limbs sprouting from the irken's PAK. For another moment they hovered next to the calm, yet threatening lasers before the tendrils withdrew entirely and the body attached to the PAK stirred back into consciousnes.

Groaning, Zim pushed himself back up to his feet, holding his head with one gloved hand. The spider legs withdrew themselves back into the PAK as well as Zim got himself back together mostly at last and set his eyes back onto Ratchet. There was the briefest twitch in the alien's antennae, one of them sporting a not quite natural bend while the rest of the irken looked just scorched enough for someone that has just been hit by a couple of missiles.

"HEY! That was cheating!!" Zim pointed out accusingly

[last_lombax]

Okay so the little guy wasn't dead. That was a relief. But wait...what?!

"Cheating?! How was that cheating?!"

[zim]

"It was! You cheated by cheating!"

The alien underlined his words with a fierce glare. Of course, this was Zim-logic, which, by default, lacked any sort of common logic.

[last_lombax]

"I didn't cheat! Rules were we'd fight and the winner gets what he bet. I won. This planet is free from you and your empire!" Ratchet returned the fierce glare and pointed at Zim. "Don't make me shoot you again!"

[zim]

Zim pointed right back "Won?! You actually think you've WON this?! HAH! You won nothing, mutant weasle-man!"

And out came the metal legs once more. Only that this time, Zim actually used them as the legs they were, lifting himself up from the ground to increase his own height - And to look down upon Ratchet, naturally.

"You want to shoot me again? Try it! But you will NEVER destroy ZIM!!"

[last_lombax]

Ratchet sighed and materialized a different weapon instead. It looked like a small satellite dish attached to a gun handle. He aimed it at Zim and fired, a beam of energy launching up at the green alien. If it hit him it wouldn't do anything, not yet. The Chimp-O-Matic was a much different weapon.

[zim]

"Oh, you horrible...!" The metal limbs that kept Zim up in the air withdrew themselves once more and dropped him back onto his own feet while the blast from the small gun went past overhead.

Zim fixed the lombax with his glare and pulled his own small laser gun forth, pointing it at Ratchet in return before firing several times in that direction while not bothering too much to aim "Now hold still, fur beast!"

[last_lombax]

"Oh crap!" Ratchet dove to the side and switched out his weapons again, pulling out his Combusto pistol. He fired a few small laser blasts. They wouldn't do a lot of damage but they would still burn the little green guy if they actually hit.

[zim]

The irken cackled at the sight of his opponent leaping away and kept firing wildly "Yes! YES! Flee. Run from me. RUN AWAY FROM ZIM! You will rue the- ACK!!"

It was Zim's turn to leap away just then when Ratchet returned the fire and the alien didn't even pay attention to that until one of the blasts hit his hand and he almost lost his grip around his own gun. He rather held on to it out of pure reflex as he rolled gracelessly behind a close tree for cover, nursing his burned hand with his unwounded one.

Solid colored eyes narrowed angrily. Zim hated admitting this, but he sure lacked the right equipment and proper weaponry for this foe and the fact was slowly sinking in to even him.

Growling faintly to himself, Zim looked up into the leafs and branches above his head. Trees... A single metal tendril snuck out of his PAK and up into those branches, pulling the alien body up and into the tree's crown. Maybe he could sneak up on that lombax after all...

[last_lombax]

Ratchet fired at the tree a few times before he ceased fire. He looked at his arm. One of the lasers had nicked him and he was bleeding. Dang. Looks like the little guy had some firepower after all. He hissed and held down the trigger, his gun charging its laser. He jumped around the tree, laser gun up but blinked when he didn't see Zim.

"What the-" He looked around, gun raised. Where could the little green guy have gone?